Now the outer city wall has completely turned into a fierce battlefield.
Fierce fighting can be seen everywhere.
Soldiers of the Aizu Army and warriors of the Red Moon Fortress could be seen fighting everywhere.
Naturally, there were many generals and soldiers of the Aizu Army around Kamo.
And Pu Sheng's screams naturally reached the ears of the surrounding generals and soldiers.
Many generals and soldiers around naturally saw the scene of Kusanagi being stabbed in the face.
"Lord Kasumi!"
"Master Kamo, are you okay?"
"Hurry and protect Lord Gamo!"
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"I'm fine!" Pu Sheng covered his left cheek with his left hand, "It's just some superficial injuries!"
While shouting this loudly to reassure his subordinates around him, Gamo took a few quick steps back to put some distance between himself and the old man.
Just now, he was lucky enough to survive.
Seeing the Japanese sword emerging from the broken cane, Gamo was stunned.
Not only did Pu Sheng not expect that there was such a hidden secret inside the crutch, he also did not expect that this old man, who was almost old enough to be his grandfather, had such agile skills.
He had just witnessed exactly how the old man inserted the strange-looking knife into his left waist, then used the sword-drawing technique to chop at his head - it was totally unlike an old man 's action.
Faced with the sword-drawing technique used by the old man, Kabushige relied entirely on his body's conditioned reflex and leaning back in time to narrowly avoid a fatal injury, with only a cut on his cheek.
When the general was attacked, the generals and soldiers around him naturally couldn't sit still.
They rushed towards the old man from all directions, holding weapons.
Most of the soldiers were intercepted by the warriors of the Red Moon Fortress, and only a small number of people - statistics show that only 4 soldiers managed to kill the old man.
Facing the four soldiers attacking from different directions, the old Japanese adopted a posture that Gamo had never seen before.
Gamo assured that he had never seen such a strange posture. Although he tried hard to identify it, he still couldn't tell which sword style it belonged to.
When the old man got ready, the four soldiers happened to launch an attack.
The old man first used his knife to deflect the spear on his left side that was about to pierce his body, then bent his waist and finally slashed fiercely from the lower left to the upper right. This knife was done in one go, directly splitting the soldier's head in half.
Then, the old man jumped to the side nimbly, dodging the other three spears, and then jumped into the middle of the three soldiers like a hungry tiger pouncing on a sheep. He first chopped one man's head diagonally, then raised the tip of the knife slightly and pierced the throat of another guy behind him. While retracting the knife, he chopped off the last man's head with a horizontal slash.
It took the old man less than five breaths to deal with these four soldiers from beginning to end.
And in these short 5 breaths, Kasumi noticed 2 things.
The first thing: he still didn't understand which style of swordsmanship this old man used.
The second thing: He noticed that the sword used by the old man did not seem to be a katana or a katana.
The handle of the knife in his hand was in the style of the Tang sword of the Tang Dynasty, and there was a beautiful white sword tassel at the bottom of the handle, which was very characteristic of the Tang Dynasty.
As the blade flips, the tassel dances with it.
Although Pu Sheng did not recognize which school of swordsmanship the old man used, he could see that the characteristic of the swordsmanship used by the old man was that it had a sense of "elegance" and "agility".
This sword technique, combined with the sword with a white tassel, makes the old man's sword-wielding posture more beautiful.
After not being able to tell which school of swordsmanship the old man used, Gamo no longer worried about the issue.
He put down his hand that had been covering the wound on his left cheek.
It was a blessing in disguise - although there was a vertical knife wound on his left cheek, which directly disfigured his face, his left eye was not injured and Kasumi could still see normally with both eyes.
Most of Kasumi's face was now covered in blood, making him look extremely terrifying.
He didn't have the time to slowly bandage the wound on his face, so he could only let the blood flow.
However——Kumio doesn’t feel much pain now.
Because - now he has put all his heart and soul on the old man in front of him.
There was a strong fear in his eyes.
Pu Sheng himself was an expert swordsman, so just from the few moves that the old man had just used, he could tell that the old man was no ordinary person.
Ordinary generals and soldiers are probably no match for this old man.
If they ignored this old man who was obviously on the side of the Red Moon Competition, they would probably suffer countless casualties.
No matter what, Pu Sheng would never see this scene happen.
Therefore, Kamo took the hilt of the sword with his left hand, which had just been removed from his cheek.
The moment he clenched the thunder in his hands, Kasumi rushed towards the old man at a flying speed, like a spring that was stretched tight and then released.
Pu Sheng knew very well that at this moment, he was probably the only one who could deal with that old man.
The old man also immediately noticed Kamo who was rushing towards him.
He did not retreat, but gripped the hilt of the knife tightly with both hands, stepped on the ground with his hind feet, and rushed towards Kasumi like an arrow.
When their bodies were about to collide, they both drew their swords at the same time.
Kasumi's knife went from top to bottom.
The old man's knife goes from bottom to top.
Kasumi aimed at the old man's shoulder, intending to cut the man in half by stabbing him through the shoulder.
But when Lei Zou was about to cut into Lao Heren's flesh, Lao Heren nimbly turned sideways, allowing Gamo's sword to brush past Lao Heren's body.
The old man's attack was the same - the blade swept upward from the bottom, but because of Gamora's timely avoidance, it only created a few sparks on Gamora's side armor.
The two of them took advantage of the momentum of passing each other to run forward a few steps, then stopped almost at the same time, turned their heads to look at the opponent behind them, bent their knees, gathered strength, turned around, and swung their swords to chop at the person behind them - their movements were almost identical.
clang!
The two swords collided heavily in mid-air, making an extremely sharp sound of metal clashing.
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Tang Shen felt a refreshing feeling filling his whole body.
He was clearly in the "meat grinder" that he had been avoiding.
He was clearly engaged in a fierce battle with the sword-wielding expert in front of him, and if he relaxed even a little, he would be killed instantly.
But it's just strange, I feel a different kind of joy in my heart.
Tang Shen himself doesn't understand why.
In the final analysis - ever since he rushed towards the city wall holding the crutch with his precious sword on it, Tang Shen had no idea what he was thinking or doing.
——It’s been a long time…
Thompson himself couldn't remember the last time he had such an all-out fight with a strong enemy.
The guy in front of him who was wielding a katana was undoubtedly a master, and his physical functions were far superior to those of the older Tang Shen.
Tang Shen felt his body was very hot.
The blood in every part of my body seemed to be burning.
This is the body's instinctive reaction when fighting a strong enemy.
Although his body was extremely hot, Tang Shen did not feel uncomfortable.
Because he was fully immersed in the fierce battle with the powerful enemy, Tang Shen did not realize that his sword swing was becoming more and more sharp and his steps were becoming more and more agile.
This is the memory accumulated by the body from past bloody battles that is slowly reviving.
At the same time, not only did he not notice that his movements were becoming more and more sharp, but Thompson also did not notice that the corners of his mouth had unconsciously curled up slightly in an arc of joy.
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A violent storm of attack and defense.
For both Kamo and Yushin, a moment of relaxation is enough to decide the outcome.
The breath of the blade, the coldness of iron - the cold light reflected by the katana and the Japanese sword was dazzling, but also made people feel a chill in their hearts.
call--!
The sword once again attacked Tang Shen's head with a sharp sound of breaking wind, but Tang Shen dodged it swiftly.
After dodging, Tang Shen launched a counterattack without hesitation, swinging his sword at Gamo's thigh which was not protected by armor, but was blocked by Gamo.
The two of them kept repeating the above process - after someone's attack was dodged or blocked, he would definitely be met with a sharp counterattack, and the two of them kept alternating between offense and defense in this way.
The katana and the Japanese sword collided in mid-air again and again, flying sparks.
Their confrontation was so fierce that people around them could only stand by and watch.
Many Aizu soldiers wanted to go up and lend a helping hand to their general - but a battle of this level was simply not something they could intervene in.
The Japanese sword is graceful and swift.
The sword has great power and is heavy.
Gamo's sword technique is a martial art used in horseback combat, and its main moves are heavy and powerful chopping.
But the only result of his proud strike so far was just touching some of Thompson's clothes.
As a result, Pu Sheng became more and more frightened as the battle went on.
This was the first time he had met a strong opponent in a long time - and this strong opponent was an old man who looked like he could be his grandfather.
As the confrontation intensified, Pu Sheng's mentality gradually changed.
Originally, he simply wanted to get rid of this troublesome old guy who was hindering the attack of their Heijin army.
But gradually, towards the old man in front of him who was holding a completely unfamiliar sword and using completely unfamiliar swordsmanship, a strong desire to fight began to emerge in Kamo's eyes.
His competitive spirit was aroused.
He longed for it.
Eager to defeat this old fellow who used a sword technique he could not recognize.
After countless rounds of battles with Tang Shen, Pu Sheng gradually discovered a fatal weakness of Tang Shen.
And this weakness is precisely that - due to his old age, Tang Shen's physical strength is far inferior to that of the young and strong Kamo.
Kamo had noticed that Yushin's breathing had begun to become a little rapid.
Once you discover the enemy's weakness, why not seize it and pursue the victory?
Based on this weakness of Yugami, Kamo quickly changed his tactics.
It changed from "taking Tang Shen's life with one blow" to "forcing Tang Shen to make larger evasive and defensive movements, consuming Tang Shen's physical strength."
The atmosphere between the two changed because Gamo changed his fighting style.
After the two fought for more than ten rounds, Kasumi's fighting method began to gradually take effect - Tang Shen's breathing became obviously more rapid than before.
Due to the weakening of his physical strength, Tang Shen's attack and defense began to become slightly sluggish. The originally evenly matched battle situation turned into a situation where Gamo had a slight advantage.
When Pu Sheng saw this, although his expression did not change, he was secretly happy in his heart.
However - he did not notice that at this moment, Tang Shen was narrowing his eyes and looking at Kasumi in front of him with a thoughtful look.
clang!
Another huge sound of metal colliding was heard.
Tang Shen once again blocked Kamo's attack with one sword.
But - this time, Thompson did not fight back.
Instead, he blocked Kamo's attack with one sword and turned and fled.
Seeing Kasumi suddenly turn around and run away, he was stunned for a moment, then shouted in his heart in frustration:
——He actually ran away!
In the battle just now, Gamo had the upper hand, so when faced with Yugami's sudden escape, Gamo naturally subconsciously thought that Yugami ran away because he felt he could not beat him.
Kasumi doesn't have the bad habit of letting the almost cooked duck fly away.
He held the katana in his hand and chased after the fleeing Tang Shen.
Because he started late and Tang Shen was very fast, when Kamo went to chase him, he was already far behind Tang Shen.
Gamo is a very traditional kind of samurai - one who values ​​honor more than life.
In his eyes, Tang Shen's behavior of deserting the battlefield was extremely shameful.
With great contempt for this extremely shameful behavior, and at the same time trying to use words to force Tang Shen to turn back and continue fighting with him, Gamo shouted:
"You actually deserted the battlefield! You..."
Unfortunately, he had only said half of his words before he could no longer say the remaining half.
Because - he saw a hint of coldness.
Tang Shen, who was originally running in front of him, suddenly bent down at an extremely fast speed and picked up a spear left by an unknown soldier on the ground with his left hand.
Tang Shen held the knife in his right hand and the gun in his left hand. The next moment after he grabbed the gun in his palm, he suddenly tilted the gun behind him in a very strange but quite sharp posture.
The tip of the gun was tilted back and stabbed straight into the chest of Kamo who was chasing after Yushin.
Looking at the cold light that was rapidly enlarging in his field of vision, Pu Sheng's pupils contracted violently.
He recognized this gun technique.
This is a very famous move in Tang Dynasty spearmanship.
He had once learned Tangtu spearmanship from a warrior who had traveled to Tangtu and learned Tangtu spearmanship - that warrior had demonstrated this move.
Because of the great power and practicality of this move, it left a very deep impression on Pu Sheng, so Pu Sheng instantly recognized that the move that Tang Shen was using now was the gun skill that had left a deep impression on him.
Pu Sheng remembered that the Tang natives named this spear technique:
A sudden counterattack!
There was no time to dodge, so Gamora swung his sword at the tip of the spear that was stabbing towards his chest, trying to block the spear.
He moves very quickly.
But this gun is faster.
clang!
Puff!
The sharp tip of the spear pierced through Kasumi's armor and penetrated into Kasumi's flesh.
Although Kamo's Thunder Walk failed to completely block Yugami's spear, it successfully deflected the direction of the spear's attack, so that it did not hit his chest but only hit Kamo's left shoulder socket.
But the severe pain still made Pu Sheng groan in pain and his legs went weak.
Tang Shen threw away the spear in his hand that was still stuck in Gamo's body, leaped in front of Gamo, and slashed at Gamo's head.
Faced with the approach of death, Pu Sheng's desire to survive turned into strength. He gritted his teeth and raised the knife in his hand with all his strength, trying to block Tang Shen's horizontal slash.
Another deafening sound of blade collision was heard.
Kamo's sword failed to block Yugami's sword, but it did offset the power of Yugami's slash.
The slash, whose power was neutralized, hit the left side of Gamo's head, which was protected by the helmet.
Gamo's helmet saved Gamo's life - Gamo was not killed by the slash, but the helmet that saved his life was hit hard and flew high, then drew a beautiful parabola and fell to the ground not far away.
Although Pu Sheng was not dead, the huge impact made him feel as if his head was hit by a hammer. His eyes turned black and there was a "boom boom boom" sound in his head.
The strong feeling of dizziness made Kamo use all his strength just to hold the knife in his hand tightly.
Tang Shen raised his sword high again, ready to kill Kasumi who was no longer able to resist.
But at this moment, he suddenly noticed out of the corner of his eye that several dark shadows were rushing towards him quickly - they were the generals and soldiers of the Aizu army.
Pu Sheng's love for his soldiers like his own sons has finally been rewarded.
Seeing that their general was about to be killed, the Aizu soldiers who happened to be nearby did not care about anything else. In order to save their respected general, they all rushed towards Yushin with all their might.
Although they were all intercepted by the warriors of the Red Moon Tournament, seven of them successfully broke through the blockade and reached Tang Shen.
Several spears stabbed at different parts of his body, forcing Tang Shen to leap back and dodge.
Taking advantage of the moment when Yugami dodged, two soldiers carried the half-conscious Gamo, one in front and one behind, and fled. The remaining soldiers stayed where they were, intercepting Yugami and buying time for Gamo to escape.
The soldiers who stayed behind to buy time were all determined to die and were bent on delaying Tang Shen, so they were particularly difficult to deal with.
When Tang Shen killed all the soldiers who were trying their best to hold him back, Gamo had disappeared from his sight and disappeared in this chaotic battlefield.
"...What a pity." Tang Shen's face showed a hint of regret and unwillingness.
But the regret and reluctance did not stay on Tang Shen's face for too long.
Although he failed to cut off Gamo's head, fortunately, he succeeded in keeping Gamo's helmet.
Quickly putting away the regret and reluctance on his face, Tang Shen quickly dodged to the helmet of Kamo that had just been knocked away and fell not far away.
Tang Shen used a spear he had picked up from somewhere to lift the helmet high up, and then shouted at the loudest volume he could:
"Your general has been defeated by me!"
Tang Shen kept repeating this sentence loudly, trying to make sure that all the enemy soldiers on the entire city wall could hear his shouting.
His loud shout naturally attracted the attention of the surrounding soldiers.
"Look! It's Gamo-sama's helmet!"
"Where is Lord Gamo?"
"Did Lord Gamo die in battle?"
"Impossible! How could Lord Gamo die just like that?!"
"Where is Lord Gamo? Has anyone seen Lord Gamo?!"
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After focusing their attention on Tang Shen and seeing him holding up a helmet that looked very familiar to them, panic immediately spread among the Aizu soldiers at an extremely fast speed.
Some people cried out in grief, mistakenly thinking that Kamo was killed in the battle.
Some are anxiously looking for Kasumi.
Some people had no idea what was going on. When they heard people wailing around them, they looked around in confusion.
If Kasumi were here and shouted "I'm fine", he would be able to calm the morale of the army immediately.
But unfortunately, Kasumi, whose consciousness was already blurred, had been carried away.
No matter how powerful an army is, once its morale is shaken, only one tenth of its actual strength can be exerted.
Chanup on the inner city wall keenly sensed the changes on the battlefield on the outer city wall, so he quickly shouted:
"The general of the Japanese army has been defeated! Drive all the Japanese away!"
The fluctuation in the morale of the Aizu soldiers and Chanup's timely shout instantly changed the atmosphere on the battlefield on the outer city wall.
The situation on the battlefield took a 180-degree turn.
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The main battle of the whole army——
"What's going on?!" Inamori widened his eyes and stared at the battle situation on the outer city wall in the distance through the telescope.
At first he wondered if he had seen it wrong.
But no matter how hard he stared, the scene before his eyes did not change at all—the Aizu army, which had just had the upper hand, was suddenly suppressed and beaten...
The battle line was shrinking backwards at an extremely fast speed, and it seemed that in a short while, the Aizu soldiers on the city wall would be driven down.
When Inamori was about to send someone to the main camp of the Aizu army to inquire what had happened, he saw a samurai general running towards him in a hurry with an anxious look on his face.
"Sir! Master Pu, Master Pusheng was seriously injured! He has been carried back by the soldiers!"
"What?" Inamori's eyes widened in shock, "How did Gamo-kun get hurt? Where did he get hurt? How serious is the injury?"
"I only know that Lord Gamo was stabbed in the left shoulder by a spear, bleeding a lot, and his head was hit hard. I don't know anything else!"
Inamori gritted his teeth.
After learning that Gamo was seriously injured, Inamori instantly understood why the originally favorable battle situation on the city wall was suddenly reversed in one breath.
Inamori turned his head and looked at the fortress in the distance with a gloomy face.
"... Pass the order down." Inamori said in a deep voice, "Tell the Aizu army - retreat!"
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The sound of the horn calling for the troops to retreat covered the entire Red Moon Fortress.
Upon receiving the order to withdraw, the Aizu soldiers, who had already lost their fighting spirit, immediately retreated from the city walls and from under the walls in panic like wild dogs on break free.
Due to the disorderly retreat, many people died during the retreat, being pursued by the soldiers or trampled by their own people.
After the Aizu army's generals and soldiers completely withdrew from the shooting range of their muskets and bows and arrows, the soldiers who had just been fighting bloody battles stared at the retreating Japanese soldiers in a daze.
Finally, someone shouted, "Fight them back!"
This shout was like the flame that ignited a powder keg. Huge cheers immediately rang out from the inner and outer city walls, as if they were going to crush the front wall.
“Win!”
"Fight them back!"
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Nearly half of Yushin's clothes were dyed dark red by blood. He held a sword in his hand and stared expressionlessly at the Aizu soldiers who were retreating outside the city.
"Why are you here?"
At this time, a hesitant male voice sounded beside Tang Shen.
Tang Shen turned his head and looked at the owner of the male voice - Chanup.
Chanup led Retannoe, Lin Ziping and others and walked slowly towards Tang Shen.
Chanup had a complicated expression, while Reitannoe, Lin Ziping and others had relatively uniform expressions - they looked at Chanup with confused eyes, and then looked at Tang Shen.