After hearing this, Musashi was so angry that he was fuming.
It would have been fine if he had just run away, but he actually killed his own soldiers: "Baga, Baga..."
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After cursing a few times, Musashi barely regained his sanity with the comfort of his generals.
He looked at Sakagami Kojiro again, and then at the two thousand soldiers who were preparing to launch a surprise attack on the Wei army's camp.
"My fellow soldiers, I had wanted to give you the heads of Xiaoquan and Kameda as a farewell gift, but unfortunately, those two bastards ran away."
"But fellow soldiers, don't worry, those two bastards can't run far. It won't be too late to catch them after we defeat the hundreds of thousands of Wei troops."
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After Musashi enthusiastically boosted the morale, he patted Sakagami Kojiro on the shoulder and said, "General Sakagami, you are my lucky general. This time, you will definitely succeed in the sneak attack. If you fail, Xiaoquan and Kameda will be your fate. However, I don't believe that you will have as good a fate as them."
"Just go without worry. After we defeat the Wei army, I will not only commend you for your achievements in front of the emperor, but you can also choose two geishas to be by my side."
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The geishas that Musashi kept were of very high quality. If anyone could get a geisha rewarded by Musashi when he was still in Japan, it would be a great honor for his ancestors. But now he is in a foreign country and doesn't know when he will die. What's the point of having a geisha?
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A quarter of an hour later, two thousand Japanese soldiers slowly approached the Wei army camp.
There was no trick at all. They just took advantage of the darkness and headed straight towards the Wei army camp.
They lowered their bodies and took every step carefully. Sakagami Kojiro was very nervous. He didn't believe that things would be so simple.
The Wei army of more than 100,000 people wanted to win by a surprise attack and even use fire. Maybe they have heard too many stories about the burning of Red Cliffs? This is Middle-earth, it is very dangerous.
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At this moment, in the central tent of the Wei army, Xu Da, Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, Lan Yu and other four people were gathered together.
The soldiers outside the tent were still arguing, and the sounds of clinking cups and drinking cups could be heard one after another.
But the four people present knew that all this was fake. Xu Da was a veteran general, but he had never been so complacent when Chen Youliang was trapped in Poyang Lake, let alone today.
Lan Yuyan said: "General, do you think the Japanese will come tonight?"
Xu Da said: "Maybe. If the Japanese don't come, all the wine and drinks I distributed will be wasted."
After Xu Da finished speaking, the other three people present all burst into laughter.
But after the laughter, Xu Da continued: "Generals, the war has begun. Today's battle between us and the Japanese army is just an appetizer. Small-scale contact will not play a decisive role even if we gain the upper hand."
"The real battle will be at the moment of great roar and tsunami. Within two days, I will see the Japanese army defeated like a mountain."
"Report", a young general of the Wei army broke into Xu Da's central military tent.
"Reporting to the commander, the Japanese are approaching, but it is dark and we can't see how many people there are."
Xu Da smiled slightly: "Okay, you're finally here."
Fu Youde quickly said: "Marshal, you and General Lan should step back, and leave this to me and Lao Feng."
Xu Da nodded, and before leaving, he only instructed: "Try to make as much noise as possible tonight, and do your best to flatten the last two large fences in front of the Japanese formation. If the last two large fences can be flattened tonight, I will lead the entire army to charge immediately in less than two days."
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Musashi was thinking of a sneak attack, and Xu Da was also looking forward to Musashi's sneak attack.
Xu Da's idea was to first defeat the small group of Japanese who were attacking by surprise, and then take advantage of their defeat to follow them into the Japanese camp. As long as two or three hundred people could stand their ground in the Japanese camp, they could expand the results of the battle little by little. After the last two large fences in front of the Japanese formation were torn apart, they could order the entire army to charge.
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The two thousand Japanese soldiers who were launching the sneak attack were already very close to the Wei army's camp, but the commander, Kojiro Sakagami, was becoming more and more nervous. What he was worried about now was not whether the sneak attack would be successful, but whether he would die in this operation.
The closer he got to the Wei army camp, the more Sakagami Kojiro felt something was wrong.
Although people were still toasting each other in the Wei army camp, the noise of eating, drinking and having fun seemed a little too loud. Moreover, apart from the sounds of eating and drinking, no other sounds could be heard. Although the Wei army camp was brightly lit, even if they were drinking to celebrate, they should not have let their guard down so much.
How could a camp with hundreds of thousands of soldiers be attacked so easily?
One thought came to his mind one after another, and just when Sakagami Kojiro was overwhelmed by the tense atmosphere and felt breathless, suddenly, countless torches flew out from the Wei army camp, and thousands of torches crossed the night sky, as vast as a sea of stars.
Kojiro Sakagami knew that he had fallen into a trap, or rather, it was Musashi who fell into the trap.
The moment those thousands of torches landed on the ground, it seemed as if they had set the entire earth on fire, and the two thousand Japanese soldiers were instantly exposed.
And it was at this moment that Kojiro Sakagami's heart finally calmed down, and the previous feeling of suffocation caused by tension no longer existed.
In Kojiro Sakagami's eyes, this is the only normal result.
At this moment, Sakagami Kojiro showed unprecedented calmness. He raised the command knife in his hand and shouted loudly: "Soldiers, the time has come to be loyal to the emperor. Press the machine..."
Sakagami's shout brought many Japanese soldiers back to reality from their shock. Although they had been discovered, they still had to continue with what they were doing. However, just as the 2,000 Japanese soldiers were about to launch a charge, they found that thousands of Wei soldiers had already rushed out of their own camp.
In an instant, the two armies were in a fierce battle.
Wei army general Feng Sheng was sitting on a tall horse watching everything here. He was commanding this small-scale battle in an orderly manner.
Logically speaking, Kojiro Sakagami should be doing the same thing as Feng Sheng at this moment, but unfortunately, Sakagami is nowhere to be found at this moment.
The two thousand elite Japanese troops were at a loss as to what to do. Although they had some fighting power, they were afraid that they could not hold out for even half a quarter of an hour under the attack of the Wei army.
Sakagami Kojiro ran away. At such a critical moment, he did the same thing as Kou and Kameda. The sneak attack had failed, and eight or nine out of the two thousand elite Japanese troops were likely to be killed. If he returned to Musashi with such a crime, he would definitely be sacrificed. In a situation where he was going to die anyway, he chose to be a deserter.
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