Sometimes, when people feel despair, they will become more and more depressed. Obviously, this is the case with Tokugawa Hideyoshi at this moment.
His ups and downs were so sudden. He first jumped from a small guerrilla lieutenant general to a general in name only to the grand marshal, with tens of thousands of troops under his command. Just as he was about to carry out his grand plan, he was beaten by the Ming army to the point where only a hundred people were left around him.
Now that things have come to this, it is really difficult for someone like him to make the choice of abandoning his soldiers.
However, Takeda Nobuo did not think so, because no matter what, he wanted me to be alive. Only by being alive would there be all kinds of possibilities. If I died, it would be the end of everything.
Nobuo Takeda first washed his face with stream water, and then gritted his teeth and called Tokugawa's personal army aside.
Obviously, Tokugawa knew what he was going to do and wanted to stop him, but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back.
Takeda Nobuo said: "My fellow soldiers, you are all the general's personal soldiers. The general is a god, our sky, the sun in our hearts, and as indispensable as our Amaterasu."
"But today, the general is in trouble, what will you believers do?"
These personal guards of Tokugawa Hideyoshi had been running for several days and nights. When they heard what Takeda Nobuo said, they just thought he was talking nonsense.
One of them said, "Takeda, we have followed the general for as long as you have. It's already this time. What exactly do you want to say? Can you please speak frankly?"
"Do you want us to die, or what?"
They were all soldiers who had killed people. Even though they had suffered a defeat, they still had fighting spirit. What's more, they had been chased like dogs for so long, so Takeda Nobuo's nonsense finally annoyed them.
However, Takeda Nobuo was not angry. He sighed and said, "Soldiers, I'm afraid we are at the end of our rope. We can die, but the general must go alive. Therefore, in order to escape the pursuit of the Ming army, our best way now is to ride two horses."
"Therefore, half of the soldiers will be disbanded on the spot, and you will hide in the mountains for the time being, but you must also be careful. Once you hear that the general has made a comeback somewhere, you must continue to follow the general at all costs."
After hearing this, the remaining one hundred or so Japanese soldiers felt a chill in their hearts.
Anyone could hear that in the current situation, even with horses, they might not be able to escape the pursuit of the Ming army. Without war horses, it would be almost equivalent to death.
However, after looking at the embarrassed expressions of more than a hundred people present, Takeda Nobuo suddenly raised his voice and said, "Is your loyalty to the general fake?"
"Now half of the people need to disband on the spot. You can decide for yourselves. We can't wait too long, otherwise, once the Ming army catches up, no one will be able to escape."
Suddenly, one of the guards laughed and said, "Takeda, you underestimate us too much. Dying for the general is no big deal."
"But if you say we should disband on the spot, I will just treat it as nonsense. Now that things have come to this, it would be better to delay here for a while for the general."
"The Ming army's cavalry will surely stop here to rest. We won't lose if we kill one, and we'll make a profit if we kill two. We also want to let those Ming people see that our Japanese men are also brave."
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In this way, half of Tokugawa Hideyoshi's personal guards stayed, while the rest continued to flee like stray dogs, riding two horses each.
About a quarter of an hour later, Yang Xiao's cavalry also arrived here. It must be said that Tokugawa Hideyoshi had suffered casualties, and Yang Xiao's side would suffer even more casualties.
"Soldiers, take a rest here, feed the horses some grass and give them some water."
Yang Xiao was also exhausted: "Damn it, he was right in front of me, and I almost caught him several times."
A young general handed the dry food he carried with him to Yang Xiao and said, "General, the horses are the same, but the Japanese are short and not as strong as our men. All their abilities are used in running away, so it's not surprising that we can't catch up with them for the time being."
Yang Xiao sighed, obviously agreeing with this point of view. However, just when he wanted to eat some dry food and take a short rest, his years of battlefield vigilance still made him frightened: "There is an ambush, be careful."
In an instant, the soldiers who dismounted to drink water all drew the steel swords at their waists, but at this moment, countless arrows flew towards them.
At this time, the Ming army was not wearing armor, and the arrows hit their bodies directly, killing or injuring them. Therefore, in just a moment, the Ming army lost twenty or thirty people.
After a round of arrows, the Japanese who had been lying in ambush raised their swords in both hands and rushed out from the corners with strange cries. There were even a few who could burrow into the ground and jumped directly out of the ground and then ran straight towards Yang Xiao.
Seeing this, Yang Xiao immediately drew out the steel knife from his waist and joined in the fight. However, it was obvious that the two ninjas hiding underground could not be Yang Xiao's opponents. This time the Japanese ambush, or active attack, was no different from a moth flying into a flame.
The group of people who ambushed Yang Xiao and his men were Tokugawa Hideyoshi's personal guards, about seventy or eighty of them. They did catch the Ming army off guard, but after the Ming army reacted, they were left at the mercy of others.
Finally, Yang Xiao suddenly felt that this ambush was a little strange, so he ordered to leave a few people alive first.
A moment later, a dozen or so Japanese who were still alive were escorted to Yang Xiao by the Ming army soldiers.
Yang Xiao pointed at a person and asked, "You are ambushing me here. It seems that there are not many people around Tokugawa, right?"
"How could he bear to let so many of you die? What is his plan?"
The Japanese man who was questioned raised his head proudly: "Baga, I am General Tokugawa's..."
Yang Xiao quickly waved his hands and said: "Your answer is wrong. Come here, cut off his hands and feet, and then pull out his tongue."
"Be careful, there may be Japanese ninjas in here, and they can breathe fire."
In this way, the Japanese who said the wrong thing had his hands and feet chopped off and his tongue pulled out and cut off in front of other Japanese.
I have to say that the scene was a bit cruel and bloody. The Japanese who had his hands and feet chopped off was wriggling in front of the other Japanese like a maggot. However, his tongue had been cut off, so he couldn't scream and could only stare at Yang Xiao with vicious eyes.
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