Smelting and Exploding the Heavens

Chapter 37 Falling Curtain
Under the urging of everyone, Emperor Kameyama had no choice but to drive himself to the battlefield and rushed to the battlefield by land.

It was already dark when there were still twenty miles away from the battlefield ahead, so they had to camp in place.

The Sawara Family Company arranged for the ninjas to go to the battlefield at night, originally to contact Hojo Tokimune, who was in power in the shogunate.

However, when the ninja rushed to the battlefield on horseback, what he saw was a doomsday-like scene.

The countless corpses everywhere, together with the shogunate stragglers who were being hunted down, made them forget to speak for a while.

The leader, Koga Jonin, was the first to react, and with a wave of his hand, they rescued the two deserters and took them to the nearby woods.

The two deserters had run to the point of collapse, and only after the ninjas fed him a few sips of water did they gradually regain their senses.

"We are defeated...we are completely defeated!"

Seeing the terrified and painful tears of the samurai, Koga Jonin asked, "What's going on? The shogunate has an army of 40. How could it be defeated so quickly?"

"Yuan Kou's armor is excellent, and there is that evil spirit rushing forward, no one can stop us! The Patriarch also died in his hands."

"What?! The head of the shogunate has also been killed?!" Knowing the seriousness of the situation, the ninjas returned to the barracks with two samurai, and met the emperor and the leaders of the rich clan directly.

When everyone learned about the battle during the day from the defeated army, it was like the sky falling apart.

Emperor Kameyama panicked: "What should I do?"

The Zuoyuan Family Company was elected as the representative of the wealthy families at this time, frowning and said: "The Yuan Kou and the shogunate's hundreds of thousands of troops fought fiercely for many days, even though they won a decisive battle today, they must have lost a lot.

Don't panic, His Majesty the Emperor, we will send people out to collect the defeated army, and wait until dawn to see the situation before taking action. "

That night, countless people lost sleep over it.

At dawn, Fan Zhuoyuan's troops regrouped and consolidated their forces.

After Fan Zhuoyuan was exhausted from killing, he took a light sleep on the battlefield with his head on the dead body. After waking up, he ordered soldiers to check the losses in the battle.

Zhang Xi approached, sat next to Fan Zhuoyuan, and said, "Night battles are not good for both parties. Last night chasing and killing the routs was not ideal. I see that many people fled back to the county seat. war."

Fan Zhuoyuan said: "Hundreds of thousands of troops are gathered in a battlefield area of ​​tens of miles. No one can chase death and north in such a large battlefield area."

As he spoke, he picked up the head of Hojo Tokimune, "The enemy commander is dead, and the core of the shogunate has been lost. Even if there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses gathered in the isolated city, it will be defeated in one battle."

While speaking, Fan Zhuoyuan glanced at the task progress on the system.

"Mission: Destroy Japan within four months!

Achievement conditions: 1. Capture the whole family of the Emperor (not completed);

2. Eliminate the Kamakura shogunate army (not completed);

3. Kill Hojo Tokimune, the ruling shogunate (completed).

Reward: Task 11 has been completed, reward [-] proficiency points, complete the other two, reward [-] proficiency points. "

The two sat on the corpse and ate some dry food to replenish their strength. Half an hour later, the subordinates reported the situation of the troops to Fan Zhuoyuan.

Originally there was an army of [-], but now there were only about [-] troops left to fight, and all of them were exhausted and unable to continue.

Fan Zhuoyuan saw it, and now he could only patrol the various armies, promise rewards, and encourage the morale of the army, so that the morale of the army was lifted.

In yesterday's battle, as many as [-] soldiers were directly killed or unable to be rescued. The rest of the wounded soldiers gathered on the high ground.

After the whole army was assembled, they headed to the abandoned fort ahead, repairing it before attacking the county seat.

At this time, the emperor's troops took advantage of the night to gather [-] defeated troops, including the retreating powerful troops of the shogunate and the elite directly under the shogunate.

At this moment, no matter whether it is the soldiers and horses of the powerful clan or the elite directly under the shogunate, they all have the same dull eyes, like a frightened bird.

Someone in the emperor's subordinates wanted to comfort them, and a careless noble samurai patted a shogunate samurai on the shoulder.

Unexpectedly, this person shivered for a while and then screamed hysterically, and the scream stimulated the other defeated soldiers around him to panic and howl, some of them even drew their knives and slashed at random.

A small joke actually caused a moderate howl, and it took a long time to completely suppress it.

This kind of morale naturally also affected the soldiers and horses of the emperor's troops, making them hesitate to move forward and dare not enter the battlefield at this time.

Emperor Kameyama called a meeting, "Everyone, now that the shogunate has been defeated and the Yuan Kou are invincible, we...we..."

Seeing that the emperor looked wrong, a wealthy family immediately got up and shouted: "Your Majesty, you don't want to surrender!"

Emperor Kameyama was taken aback, and the Sahara family handed over a ladder and said, "How could His Majesty surrender, you are just frightened by the defeat of the Shogunate, right?"

Emperor Kameyama could only reluctantly nod when he saw that the expressions of many wealthy families were wrong.

"But Yuan Kou is so powerful now, what else can we do?"

Everyone was talking about it, but they couldn't come up with an effective solution.

In Himeji County, this was originally the core stronghold of the 20-strong army of the shogunate.

It is with this city as the core that the vast walled fort defense system is formed along the broken mountain terrain.

This defense system is extremely large and heavy, and even Fan Zhuoyuan will take at least half a year to slowly wipe it out.

It is a pity that Fan Zhuoyuan's three strategies were defeated, and the shogunate army had no choice but to seek a decisive battle. However, the first battle was defeated, and the three armies were completely lost. This also broke the courage of the entire Japanese Anti-Yuan forces. .

The defense system of this fortress was left behind. Hundreds of years later, although most of the wooden fortresses have decayed, there are still many bases left for the Chinese people to visit. As a cultural tourist attraction, it is very popular. Popular all over the world.

In particular, Fan Zhuoyuan's inscription on the stele at this moment after the war will be remembered by later generations and preserved in the local museum.

In history books, this battle is called the Battle of the Fallen Curtain.

After this battle, although the anti-Yuan forces in Japan came and went one after another, the fear of the Yuan has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow. Whenever the Yuan army advances, the battle will be defeated, the attack will be discouraged, and the defense will be broken.

Gradually, under the ban on armed forces and hunting with swords, the class of warriors was completely replaced by the class of landlords and literati in a few decades, and became a historical term.

Of course, at this time, Fan Zhuoyuan couldn't think of such a far-reaching future. His original intention to destroy Japan was just to find a way out for the [-] Southern Song soldiers and to seek development.

But at the moment, the shogunate removed those who died on the battlefield, and those who fled to the mountains and completely lost their fighting spirit.

There were about [-] remaining defeated soldiers, and they all returned to Himeji County one after another during the day.

But now they are facing a more important problem. The power of the shogunate is dead, and the major families under it are not convinced.

Originally, the elders with the highest status in the shogunate should come out to give orders to the three armies, but yesterday the shogunate forced each family to smash before the formation of the Yuan army, which offended all the powerful families. Naturally, no one would follow the orders of the rest of the elders in the shogunate.

At the end of the day, the remnant army of the shogunate, the army of the Fan family, and the troops of the emperor maintained an eerie silence, and no one moved.

However, the scouts under Fan Zhuoyuan's command had already detected the Emperor's Army twenty miles away, so all the cavalry was left behind. If the Emperor's Army dared to attack, the cavalry would continue to harass and slow down the marching speed.

One day later, Fan Zhuoyuan led all the infantry to the base of Himeji County.

As soon as the troops were stopped, envoys came out from the city, wanting to negotiate with Fan Zhuoyuan.

Fan Zhuoyuan didn't see the envoy, so he ordered his head to be returned to the city, and then ordered the soldiers to present a sentence under the city: "Keep the city and surrender within an hour, if not, the city will be destroyed and slaughtered!"

(End of this chapter)