Chapter 21 The Same Moment

"Oh, in the mountains, I see it. This thing is really useful."

In the rear of the Ming army formation, Zhao Muzhi, a Vice General, and Yang Dengshan, a Mobile General, were ordered to transport a batch of strategic materials from Haizhou City to Kaicheng. Before departure, they had learned that the Japanese army would ambush and intercept them along the way.

According to the plan, the general leading the team in front was actually a soldier disguised as an officer, while the two of them did not follow the main force. Instead, they occupied a hidden place and moved behind, each holding two strange small cylinders in their hands.

"These Western gadgets are really interesting. They can see so clearly from so far away. That Westerner who bought the ominous land of the Dongyue Temple, is he called Matteo Ricci?"

Zhao Muzhi fiddled with the telescope in his hand. Westerners had many strange things, although many of them existed in China in earlier times, but those were just things that existed in documents. There was no need to dwell on lost things.

"That Japanese pirate general must be getting impatient. Let's force him out quickly."

Zhao Muzhi said this, and then sent a squad leader to tell him something.

As a result, the Ming army's transportation speed suddenly increased.

In the silent mountains, a sudden shaking and commotion occurred. Three different forces rushed out from three directions like hungry wolves descending the mountain, cutting the entire transport team in front, behind, and in the middle, trying to cut it into two pieces with one blow!

The sounds of charging and killing, and the sounds of bird guns were endless. Along with it, three roads appeared out of thin air. The Ming army's arrows and musket shots all fell into empty space, twisted by a strange force and unable to hit their targets.

At this moment.

Katakiri Katsumoto was excitedly charging and killing. In the midst of the chaos, he came to a transport vehicle and ripped open the tarpaulin!

His joy turned into fright in an instant!

Inside the tarpaulin were not cannons, but bundles of straw tied into shape!

"We've been tricked! Retreat!"

Katakiri Katsumoto reacted, but before he could run away, suddenly, signal cannons roared from the mountains in front and behind. From all directions, the originally silent place echoed with earth-shattering shouts of charging. Countless soldiers emerged from ambush, surrounding the Japanese troops!

"Here they come!"

Zhao Muzhi and Yang Dengshan led their troops out of a mountain road on horseback, and several other teams suddenly appeared from different locations. Katakiri Katsumoto shouted loudly, gathering the remaining soldiers: "Run into the mountains! Retreat into the mountains!"

He possessed divine power and could create roads where there were none. It was absolutely impossible to figure out his escape route!

The Ming army fired cannons, and arrows and firearms rained down. Several thousand Japanese soldiers were immediately routed and began to flee into the mountains. A large road appeared out of thin air in the western mountains, leading all the retreating people into it.

Seeing the enemy using divine power to escape, and in the direction of the sea, Vice General Zhao Muzhi could not help but think that it was indeed as the intelligence had said, that it was a combined land and sea attack. Then the other places transporting grain should also have been ambushed.

"No need to pursue. Let's wipe out that thousand-man team in the rear!"

Zhao Muzhi stopped others who wanted to pursue, and looked at the fleeing Japanese army. He didn't show any intention of stopping them, only ordering other soldiers to wipe out the 1,500 rear troops who had fallen into the Ming army's camp. Those 1,500 people were as good as dead.

The harvest was quite plentiful!

Katakiri Katsumoto and Kasuya Takenori led the remaining men to retreat. They lost several hundred men in the battle, and the Ming army's vanguard also suffered many casualties. The two sides exchanged lives, but in the end, 1,500 rear troops were abandoned, which was a considerable loss.

Nearly five thousand people retreated in a large group. With the help of divine power, they arrived at the location where the ships had been placed half an hour later.

However!

At this moment, under the dark sky, the sea was ablaze with raging fire!

Whoosh—

Warships appeared on the sea. Deng Zilong, a veteran admiral of the navy, wearing armor, led his 20,000 sailors like heavenly soldiers descending from the sky, appearing on the sea, and Deng Zilong was holding a red command flag in his hand.

Kasuya Takenori looked into the distance and was shocked: "Katakiri! Those aren't our naval forces, are they!"

Katakiri Katsumoto's expression also changed drastically. The distant fire was dense, like a river of fire, and it was especially dazzling in the night. He could not see the flags clearly, but he could see the formation of the other side. This was not a formation to meet them, but an encirclement to wipe out the enemy, preventing them from escaping!

"How could this be! We crossed the sea and climbed the mountains from here, how could they know this place!"

From Kaicheng to Haizhou, there were countless ports and coastal cliffs along the way. Starting from the Suwon Port of Wangjing, they used the power of the demons to quickly arrive here. Even if the Ming Dynasty had scouts searching day and night, it was impossible to have a complete picture of all the terrain, and the movements of enemies in every location.

This was absolutely impossible!

But it was happening before his very eyes!

"Baga Yarou!" (Idiot!)

Katakiri Katsumoto trembled uncontrollably!

He had brought several thousand men, and they were almost caught in a trap. He originally thought that at most, the enemy had guessed his strategic intentions and made special arrangements, but now everything he was facing was as if the other side had an accurate prophet....

A prophet?

It was that immortal!

"It must be that Ming Dynasty immortal, he has the ability to predict the future! How could we have forgotten this, damn it!"

Katakiri Katsumoto was angry and annoyed. Kasuya Takenori was a little confused: "Onmyoji (Japanese diviners) can also predict the future, but it's impossible for them to calculate our newly decided strategy and the coordinates of our surprise attack so accurately!"

"I remember that the secrets of heaven are not something that ordinary immortals can understand!"

Because the Japanese fake immortals did not dare to calculate the secrets of heaven, fearing that it would damage their lifespan and spirit, and even in China, only those who followed the Taiyi Dao and had achieved success in cultivation could calculate it. If they were not successful in the Taiyi scattered numbers, the secrets of heaven they calculated would definitely be ambiguous. In this ever-changing great war, each calculation would consume their lifespan, who would dare to calculate it for you casually?

This was not calculating someone's birth date!

It was not calculating a person's life and death!

But the lives and deaths of thousands or tens of thousands of people!

Kasuya Takenori's expression became paler and paler. The warships in the distance had already closed in!

"Fight them! I'll lead the way, you follow me and break through!"

Katakiri Katsumoto's divine power surged, and he was going to make a desperate fight. Kasuya Takenori's expression also gradually became fierce, knowing that if he didn't fight desperately this time, he probably wouldn't survive!

As a result, a large number of battleships began to rush towards the center of the Ming army's encirclement!

Seeing the Japanese troops boarding ships and rushing towards their own camp, the old general Deng Zilong raised the red command flag and waved it forward with force!

This command flag was the Fire God Flag in Ji Xiang's hand!

滔Heavenly fire appeared out of thin air, burning forward along the sea, until the entire mountain turned into a sea of fire!

And a Japanese warrior appeared beside Deng Zilong, just watching Katakiri and Kasuya in the sea of fire.

"Nabeshima Naoshige, it's you! You actually betrayed Lord Kobayakawa!"

Katakiri Katsumoto saw the Japanese warrior wearing heavy armor, and he cried out in his heart, damn it!

This guy was actually an inside agent!

However, another person turned out from behind Nabeshima Naoshige, who was another member of the Ikoma Chikamasa team, which completely confused Katakiri Katsumoto. Of the four army commanders who came to cut off the grain supply this time, two were inside agents?

He rushed towards the opposite side like a madman, opening up a road on the sea, but giant cannons appeared on the Ming Dynasty's large ships!

Deng Zilong waved the command flag to set fire, and at the same time shouted:

"Warship God! Fire!"

The Five Armies Headquarters, one of the Eight Great War Gods, the Warship God who dominates warships!

A god position emerged from the warship, and at the same time stimulated vast divine power! And in the next moment, dozens of divine cannons were fired!

The collapse of mountains and the torrential downpour, the prestige of the red-clothed cannons pierced through the sky, and its power was terrifying. After being blessed by the Warship God, and supplemented by the Five Thunder God Curse, it instantly riddled Katakiri Katsumoto's divine power with holes!

The Heavenly Narrow Earth God fell to the curtain with a bang!

At this time, Kasuya Takenori's eyes were bloodshot, roaring to come to the rescue!

"Sanbō Kōjin!" (Three Treasures Wild God!)

The armor on his body turned into the pattern of a kasaya (Buddhist robe), with three faces and six arms, one of the guardian deities unique to Japanese Buddhism. Protecting the Three Treasures of Buddhism, Dharma, and Sangha, disliking impurity. Because of punishing violence, he presents an angry appearance with his hair standing on end. He can remove impurity and disaster, and also exists as a kitchen god.

The cross spear in his hand stabbed forward fiercely, following the sea road opened up by the Heavenly Narrow Earth God, unimpeded all the way to the Ming army warship! At the same time, those soldiers who had not yet been burned to death by the flames or blown up by the cannons also made a desperate fight forward!

It's not to say how heroic and regarding death as home!

But at this time, there was basically no possibility of surviving!

Killing one was one, even if they rushed to the very front of the encirclement, it would be a great victory!

If they were lucky, if the other side needed prisoners...!

It wasn't that no one thought that way, first showing fearless courage, and being valued when they were recruited, but all of this required surviving the sea of fire and shelling in front of them!

"I'll kill you!"

Kasuya Takenori waved his spear, splitting open those cannonballs. His own divine power and the national prestige on his body were also riddled with holes, and the Ming army organized a strong counterattack here. He rushed to a warship, and soon four divine generals came to meet him!

Si Zhi Gong Cao (Four Duty Officers)!

Four innate realm divine generals!

The four divine generals suppressed Kasuya Takenori, and then several soldiers took out a strange firearm, with six black long tubes in front and a shield in the middle.

It was the Xunlei Cannon (Swift Thunder Cannon)!

Under the dense barrage of fire bullets, accompanied by the power of the Five Thunder Talisman, Kasuya Takenori was completely riddled with holes!

The naval battle came to an end in the滔heavenly flames.

However, strange changes occurred in the seawater.

After killing those Japanese pirates who wanted to surrender, in the seawater, two shadows gradually began to wriggle, seemingly replicating the two people who had rushed over before. In this way, they slowly stood up from the sea, and after a burst of transformation, they were fixed into the appearance of Katakiri Katsumoto and Kasuya Takenori.

Deng Zilong looked at Nabeshima Naoshige beside him and exclaimed: "The changes in these shadow soldiers can be so perfect!"

"Nabeshima Naoshige" laughed: "However, shadow soldiers basically have no combat power. Even with a surprise assassination, it is difficult to have enough killing power. But standing in place to bluff people is possible."

The shadow soldiers said, "I'll take care of the appearance, you go fight, I'm responsible for the gags, you're responsible for the killing."

Of course, this shadow soldier couldn't tell Deng Zilong that Ji Xiang had immortal-level sleeping pills. Some things that the imperial court didn't know would reduce their fear.

Deng Zilong took the other two shadow soldiers onto the ship, and then ordered a group of people to put on Japanese armor. The navy immediately set off for Suwon Port in Wangjing!

"Very good, let's seize the port and take down Wangjing in one fell swoop!"

......

In Kaicheng, harassment and siege had already begun, but Uesugi Kagekatsu had a strange feeling in his heart.

"No, that immortal, he shouldn't be in the city!"

Uesugi Kagekatsu seemed to have thought of something, and asked the two fake immortals: "Could the Ming Dynasty immortal who appeared in front of us that day possibly be a Yang God incarnation?"

"No, we can be sure that it's not. You can rest assured about this!"

One of the fake immortals immediately replied: "Yang God incarnation is a trick that can be used from the Nascent Soul stage. There is a difference between the incarnation and the true body. This difference lies in the flow of qi. The qi in the Yang God incarnation is fixed because it is just an incarnation."

"The immortal we saw that day, his qi was flowing. It's definitely his true body!"

"Mr. Uesugi, are you afraid that the immortal is not in the city and went to attack other cities?"

Uesugi Kagekatsu nodded: "That's exactly what I'm thinking.... I'm afraid...."

"Don't worry, there's no problem on the western front. On the eastern front, there are several army commanders, Onmyoji (Japanese diviners), and swordsmen guarding it. Not to mention that sending an incarnation would consume a lot of energy from the main body, if he sent an incarnation to the eastern front, it would be a good opportunity for us."

"Moreover, wasn't there a battle report from the eastern front yesterday? There's no problem there. You can rest assured that in this critical confrontation, this Ming Dynasty immortal would never dare to separate his strength and run to the eastern front. Otherwise, we could drive straight in and take back Kaicheng directly."

"If he leaves, the Ming Dynasty army here is vulnerable. Even if we don't take action, just a wave of our sleeves will be enough to rout them. After all, His Majesty the Emperor has also given us some Zhenqi magical treasures. When we use them when necessary, they are definitely not something that ordinary cultivators can resist."

Uesugi Kagekatsu listened to their explanation, and the uneasiness in his heart decreased a little.

But.....

"But what if the battle report that was sent was fake? Or, what if the eastern front was destroyed after that battle report was sent out?"

The two fake immortals looked at each other, and then couldn't help but smile, almost laughing out loud:

"We know your worries!"

"But! This is also absolutely impossible! Attacking some strongholds is one thing, but as the saying goes, there are several army commanders and many generals stationed on the eastern front. For a true immortal to fight so many experts at the same time, and to have the national prestige weaken him, leaving the coverage area of the Ming army's national prestige, fighting against our country's national prestige with one person, plus the encirclement and suppression of the demon king army commander swordsmen, if he really goes...."

"I'm afraid someone will get great credit and gain the prestige of 'Slaying an Immortal'!"

The two fake immortals laughed loudly, and Shimazu Tadatsune also gave Uesugi Kagekatsu very considerate advice:

"These villains are not worth worrying about! We just need to attack this city with all our strength, and even if that true immortal isn't here, he will come back to help sooner or later!"

"We just need to wait for him here!"

These "steady" words made Uesugi Kagekatsu feel quite reasonable.

And at this time, the horn for the first general attack had already sounded.....