You have truly caused me great suffering!

The rain in Japan lasted for three days, so to be on the safe side, Li Yanqi did not continue his advance.

They sought shelter from the rain inside the Fuji River defense line, where they stayed for three days.

Later, various departments began to have some concerns, feeling that the head coach was too conservative.

At this rate, when will this be over?

Some of the younger military officers who had followed him for a long time even vaguely mentioned the time when they marched through the torrential rain in Weizhou.

When Guo the Pharmacist was killed, it was also raining heavily.

Seeing the soldiers' eagerness for battle, Li Yanqi stopped hesitating and ordered them to continue their march.

"General, the firearms are damp and unusable," the officer from the firearms battalion said, jogging over and wiping his sweat.

A while ago, when they attacked Fujikawa, Li Yanqi treated the artillery like a prostitute, showing no concern for things that weren't his own.

The cannon barrels were all black and hot, and some were even deformed.

So when the firearms were unusable, the officers were worried that Li Yanqi would get angry.

Fortunately, the Jing army was very pragmatic and did not blame them. Instead, they nodded and said, "Understood. Unload all the gunpowder and have the cavalry pull the cannons at the front."

The officer was taken aback when he heard this, but everyone else realized that this was Li Shuai's plan to lure the enemy.

But the Japanese might not fall for it.

Because it's too obvious.

After Li Yanqi finished speaking, he ignored what the firearms battalion members thought and began to command the cavalry again.

The enemy had nowhere to escape to; this was their own land, where could they possibly flee to?
Are we going to the territory of the Ainu people?
In fact, the Ainu people were also to be included in His Majesty's plans.

Japan's land area is only so big, so they can only defend it step by step.

The Kwantung Army had already lost two main forces, but since they were not subordinate to each other, they did not collapse.

Hatakeyama Yoshi was their leader, but that was all.

Everyone is actually trying to protect their own territory.

For these powerful families, their territory was their lifeblood, a family fortune passed down from their ancestors, which they absolutely could not afford to lose.

Further east lies Kamakura, the territory of the Chiba clan, and Chiba Tsuyoshi's expression was extremely grave.

A large army moving eastward passed through Kamakura Castle, but did not enter.

Chiba's expression darkened as he watched them leave; this group clearly wasn't planning to help him defend Kamakura.

A warrior marching below asked the mounted general, "General, when will we die?"

The general said, "It will be soon."

The samurai lowered his head and remained silent. Everyone was pessimistic; the enemy's strength exceeded their ability to resist.

They can't win even a small battle.

Last time, they encountered a seven-man scout squad from the Jing army. More than a thousand men were killed, but they couldn't capture a single one. In fact, the Jing army turned around and shot more than a dozen dead.

"Heavy rain fell from the sky, which stopped Jingjun, but there may be even heavier rain that will wash them all into the sea."

"If I could, I would be willing to die with them."

The Japanese samurai spoke the most defiant words in the most dejected tone. Their will had not yet surrendered, but their bodies had given up first.

Suddenly, a "clattering" sound came from the west. The sound was rapid and varied, the sound of countless horses' hooves pounding on the mud.

From their vantage point, the Japanese could already see the surging figures and iron helmets.

On the southwestern land, a dark mass of people and horses appeared to be Jing army cavalry, but the horsemen were leading their horses and walking slowly in the distance.

They soon saw that it was a mule pulling a cannon.

The artillery battalion was positioned at the front, firing cannons at anyone they saw, completely disregarding the Japanese soldiers and believing they had no chance of a surprise attack.

Sure enough, the leaders were furious when they saw it.

This is blatant contempt, without the slightest attempt to conceal it.

"They placed a dozen or so cavalrymen in front, confident that our men wouldn't be able to get close to the firearms!"

A military officer from the Kwantung Army looked around at the surrounding troops and shouted, "I am willing to destroy their firearms!"

Chiba clicked his tongue and said, "Could this be a trap to lure the enemy?"

"What are you afraid of!" Like Hatakeyama Yoshi, Chichibu Kiyomoto, the head of the powerful Chichibu clan who also came from Musashi, shouted: "We have a high vantage point and can see everything clearly. There are only about ten of them. If you're afraid of this, then we shouldn't fight! I'll go destroy their cannons!"

"Banzai!" A large group of samurai on the castle wall, sensing Chichibu Kiyogen's courage, shouted wildly.

The samurai who were preparing to leave the castle, seeing that the Kage army was about to arrive, chose not to flee but to turn around and fight alongside the Chiba clan to protect Kamakura.

This group consisted of about two thousand samurai, which greatly encouraged the allied forces in Kamakura Castle.

Moreover, the Jing army that came to pursue them was not many, only about a thousand men. The Japanese saw the scale of the attack and their hopes were rekindled.

Besides the central army that was using cannons to lure the enemy, the Jing army also had two other forces that spread out from the north and south flanks respectively, aiming to surround Kamakura.

As the Jing army marched south through villages outside Kamakura, some Japanese archers suddenly emerged from behind several earthen walls.

The archer stepped out from the corner and immediately drew his bow and aimed at the Jing army.

The sound of the strings snapping was followed by Jing Jun's shouts and curses.

They weren't cursing the Japanese, but rather the scouts for failing to spot them.

These archers who climbed out of the well and behind the wall had decent aim; it was clear they had really practiced.

But its power was simply not enough to break through armor.

Some people angrily pounded on the earthen wall. They had been hiding in the well for so long, just for this one strike, but they hadn't expected that it would only injure two or three people and not kill them.

Despair, resentment, and fear enveloped them.

A few dozen steps away, the Jing army troops made a commotion and quickly changed formation, forming a horizontal line.

At this moment, the Japanese archers resurfaced, nocked their arrows, and suddenly, "bang bang bang..." a series of loud explosions occurred. The archers trembled all over, screamed, and fell to the ground.

But other archers stepped forward, quickly drew their bows, aimed, and released their arrows.

These people were like suicide squads; they had no intention of living, only of killing as many Jing soldiers as possible.

Just then, shouts of battle came from the side and back of the village, and a group of Japanese auxiliary soldiers surged up from behind.

Two samurai outside the house drew their katana, brandished them, and shouted as they led several foot soldiers to meet them.

However, these Japanese auxiliary soldiers were armed with shields and armor. As soon as their ranks shrank into a dense formation, they quickly killed the charging Japanese allied forces.

The archer leader, glaring at the Japanese auxiliary soldiers before him, cursed them as traitors. He accused them of aiding a foreign race in slaughtering their own people. The auxiliary soldier's commander, a short man named Shōni-ō (now renamed Shō-ō), roared in fury, "Bastards! Do you take me for slaves from Tsukushi or Iwami? I'm from Ise Province! We Ise Province have long since joined the Great Kage Kingdom! We are citizens of Dengzhou Prefecture, East Route of the Great Kage Kingdom!"

The archers lying on the ground cursed loudly, while the auxiliary soldiers on the other side stabbed and cursed back. Both sides used very foul language.

Some archers ran out of the village, but the sound of arrows piercing the air came from not far away, and several archers screamed and fell to the ground.

To the west, several hundred Japanese cavalry charged toward the cannons.

Seeing that they had actually come out of Kamakura Castle, the Kage army drew their swords to meet the enemy.

The men from the artillery battalion watched from behind, thinking to themselves that these Japanese were truly brainless.
How could they fall for such a simple trick?

Those who rushed out were probably suicide soldiers, not planning to return alive, but to perish together with Jing's firearms and destroy their great weapon.

The shouts rose and fell, and many people were still calling out "Your Majesty the Emperor".

Li Yanqi, standing in the rear, observed through binoculars that the Kwantung Army had a great many flags. In addition to the family crests of clans such as the Hosokawa clan, there were also flags with Chinese characters and swastikas, and slogans such as "May your military fortune last forever" were everywhere.

They charged straight at him, intending to destroy the firearms. Even Li Yanqi, the one who used this tactic, couldn't help but sneer.

This also confirmed his guess that the Kwantung Army was already on high alert and would try to seize any opportunity that came its way.

In the future, we may be able to use similar tactics to mobilize more of them.

In war, strategies are not ranked in terms of superiority or inferiority; the main thing is whether they are effective.

If it works, it's a good plan, no matter how simple it seems.

Throughout history, countless people have perished because of extremely simple schemes.
Just then, the Jing soldiers responsible for dragging the cannons mounted their horses.

A rough and powerful sound of horns came from the horizon; the desolate, unified sound was terrifying, like the howling of evil spirits emerging from the earth.

The horn's sound was so awe-inspiring, perhaps because of the following sound of horses' hooves. The thunderous sound of hooves was overwhelming, like an earthquake.

Jing Jun's horse galloped faster and faster, rushing towards the Kwantung Allied Army that was launching a surprise attack, like a dark, spreading flood.

Once cavalrymen charge, their momentum is terrifying. Even though it was only a thousand cavalrymen galloping, the scene was as magnificent as if the sky were covered.

As for the scene of ten thousand cavalry charging, there is a specific term to describe it: "completely overwhelming the earth and sky".

The soldiers on the walls of Kamakura Castle watched the approaching herd of horses, many of them turning pale with fear.

What kind of monster is Jingren?!

In today's world, the Song, Liao, and Xia dynasties were once considered to be weaklings fighting each other.

But try bringing troops from other places to the Song-Xia battlefield or the Liao-Song battlefield!

Try it and you'll see.

It's fair to say that 99% of them are cannon fodder, and they can't even last a day.

Later, the battles between the Dingnan Army and the Jin army increased in intensity and strength tenfold.

The victors who emerge victorious in this way become an invincible force in Japan, able to win no matter how they fight.

To be honest, the current strength of the Japanese is not yet sufficient to match such an opponent.

The warriors and monks of the Kwantung Army, who were all-powerful but lacked the strength to match their will, were defeated even faster than those who had no will at all.

Because if you back down right away, you'll hide in the mountains to avoid the fight and keep running away.

Jing Jun is short-handed, so the pursuit could be very troublesome and could even take a long time.

But if you have the will to fight, you will be able to stop Jing Jun, which will actually save us the time and effort of searching for you.

Jingjun's sudden action was swift as the wind and aggressive as fire. Cavalrymen from all directions shouted in Chinese and immediately began to accelerate and surge forward.

Amidst the billowing dust, the tall, undulating figure resembled rolling steel, its momentum unstoppable.

Such speed is beyond human capability to withstand.

The rumble of hooves echoed in the air, and in the gray dust, the shadowy shadows of black arrows appeared and disappeared, mixed with the whooshing sound of the wind.

The Japanese soldiers, riding their 'Japanese stallions,' were also shouting and neighing, brandishing their swords, ready to fight to the death.

A moment later, a group of Jing soldiers rushed forward at an astonishing speed.

Warhorses galloped past, and the spears, positioned high above, pierced the bodies of the slow-moving Japanese cavalry.

Blades flashed in the air, their cold light radiating outwards, and screams filled the surrounding area.

The horseback fighting skills were on a completely different level. In the instant the two horses passed each other, Jingjun could make a decisive move, while the Japanese soldiers often raised their swords without even knowing how to strike.

They usually help their masters oppress the common people; they are the private soldiers of the manor economy, or in other words, farmhands and guards.

A Japanese horse was grazed by a cavalryman who was too close. The short horse was knocked to the ground and struggled on the ground, its hooves kicking desperately into the air.

The warrior on horseback rolled on the ground and disappeared without a trace.

The group of leaders watched the battle below, but none of them spoke; instead, they fell silent.

Jingjun's cavalry swept past the less than a thousand-strong horse formation, and with a single charge, they cut down dozens of enemy soldiers.

More cavalry columns followed, and after being repeatedly penetrated by the Jing cavalry, the number of Japanese cavalrymen decreased sharply, as if they were swallowed up by the herd of horses.

A Japanese samurai struggled to roll over on the ground, and a white bone was clearly visible inside his right arm clothing.

He could only support his body with his left arm, staring wide-eyed at the ever-surging iron cavalry, his mouth agape as if he were uncontrollably shouting "Wow...", his legs kicking wildly at the ground.

A large number of cavalrymen quickly reached the outskirts of Kamakura.

Just a few years ago, Kamakura had no walls, not even permanent fortifications.

However, the mob uprising led to the construction of city walls in most parts of the Kanto region.

After all, the tragic state of Heian-kyo was right before their eyes.

After that, the Great Jing Dynasty did not wage war for three years, giving them time to build the city walls.

However, this city wall, built in less than three years, naturally had no defensive capabilities.

Because the people who built it were just local powerful families in Kamakura, and their manpower and financial resources were quite limited.

Fortunately, Kamakura is surrounded by mountains on three sides (north, east, and west) and faces Sagami Bay to the south, naturally forming a "bag-shaped terrain" that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The only drawback is precisely this city wall.

The mountain paths here are narrow, and the Japanese set up wooden fences, deer antlers, and outposts to block them, but there were no stone walls, arrow towers, barbicans, or other Central Plains-style city defenses.

In the Central Plains, these troops were going to attack important cities like Youzhou and Yunzhou.

So Li Yanqi didn't take them seriously at all.

Reaching the gates of Kamakura Castle, he shouted, "Send word to the auxiliary troops of Tsukushi Province to ram the gates, and to have the cavalry on both flanks suppress the enemy with arrows. After the castle falls, swords will not be sheathed for five days!" (End of Chapter)