Chapter 4 fourth quarter

Yi Zhong lost! The appearance of the Kamakura Army was too fast.In fact, Yizhong thought: ——The battle may be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow! Because at the north gate of Kyoto, on the other side of the Eseta River, Fan Lai's army began to be seen in one or two days.Fan Lai's military discipline was lax, and he went southward from Jinjiang Road in a mess with the patriarchs, as if he was going to the scheduled route to Setachuan. (no big deal!) Yizhong thinks this way because Fan Laijun has no control, which makes Yizhong feel at ease as a soldier. Moreover, Fan Laijun's starting troops are probably waiting for the main force behind, and it seems that they don't plan to cross the Seta River first.

This morning was Yi Zhong's preordained morning—the 20th day of the first lunar month in the first year of Yuanli (the third year of Shouyong).Before daybreak, he strengthened the defense of Seta, appointed the first general of the Kiso army Shiro Kanhei Imai as commander, gave him 300 soldiers, and sent about the same number of soldiers to his uncle Shida Yoshihiro to defend the Uji River. (I wish Higuchi was here!) Yi Zhong regretted it.He sent Higuchi Jiro Kanemitsu to Hanoi to attack the Xingong expert.If his three hundred soldiers were here, what a booster it would be to defend the capital now!

— Beast!Beast! Yizhong has been cursing since the morning.Due to the distribution of soldiers among his subordinates, he had only thirty soldiers left on hand. (Thirty?) Even he himself was surprised by this embarrassment.However, Yi Zhong withdrew the existing soldiers from the suburbs and gathered around him, not asking them to protect him.This is his advantage. What he values ​​is not victory or defeat, but the vigor and vigor of the battle. A man must be vigorous, Yoshinaka believed so.This is also the spirit of men in this era. However, when Yoshinaka heard that Ujigawa's defense had been broken by Yoshitsune in one fell swoop, he was helpless.

"Has Kuro appeared yet?" The reporter's bloodstained corset is proof.After questioning, I found out that the guard of Uji River, his uncle Yoshihiro Shida, had also fled to Ise. "No ambition!" For Yizhong, this is the second defeat. At this time, Nei Koyata, who grew up with Yoshinaka and lived in the Shinano country, was wearing a large chest armor and star white helmet, approached Yoshinaka and said: "Hurry up and wake up, take the courtyard (Emperor) to Hokuriku!" He kept urging Yizhong to escape from Kyoto.There are many supporters of Yoshinaka in Hokuriku. If you take the Emperor with you, you can spread the word in the lower house and recruit soldiers.

But Yi Zhong hesitated. "I'm going to die in Kyoto." He believed that since the current situation has gone away from him, the only way left is to let himself die vigorously. "We won't be so unlucky all the time. Hokuriku is now snowing, hiding in the snowy mountains, all streets are cut off, waiting for the opportunity, good luck will soon be our turn." "yes?" Yi Zhong also began to want to escape. That being the case, the most important thing is to arrest the Pope. "Go to the hospital!" Yizhong rode on his horse and galloped away.There were thirty soldiers behind him, and there was a loud clap of hooves.

The gate of the temporary palace in the courtyard was closed heavily. "Open the door!" they shouted.But there was no answer inside, and there was silence. Inside the gate, Fujiwara Narutada, a close minister of the courtyard, was running around on tiptoe, directing the servants. "Don't open the door! Don't open the door!" The servants also lost their blood in fear, and each bolted the door tightly. "I'm General Asahi Yoshinaka!" Yi Zhong in front of the door anxiously rode his horse around in circles, reporting his name to the door, but no one answered.

"General Xu" was the official name given to him by decree of the emperor in the gate five days ago.The Pope should have heard Yizhong's cry, but he didn't respond at all. What's going on? "I'm Yoshinaka!" Yizhong raised his fist and slammed on the door.The door still wouldn't open. Yi Zhong was desperate.Every time he slammed on the door, something inside him seemed to come off, and eventually, his knees began to give way, and his armor suddenly became heavy. (Fate is over.) Yi Zhong stopped beating. At this time, the sound of horseshoes came from Kamo Kawara in the east.

"What's up?" When he turned his head, he saw six or seven cavalrymen rushing in disorder.It was a warrior I had never seen before, not Kiso Hei. "Could it be..." Yoshinaka was very surprised. Was it the vanguard of the Yoshitsune Army that defeated the Ujigawa Defense Force?Only six or seven soldiers dared to break in, so brave, they should not be warriors near Kyoto or Kinki. "Archery!" Yizhong returned to his horse, drew an arrow from his back, and shot while running.However, he backed away immediately.On the other side of the six and seven riders, there were ten and twenty riders rushing down the river.

"Go to Seto!" Yizhong took a completely different course of action from the morning's policy.He is going to Seto to join the defense captain Imai Kanpei, and if he wants to die, he will die with Kanpei.Jianping is the son of Yizhong's wet nurse, and he grew up like a brother with him since childhood. However, Yi Zhong ran a little bit timidly.He also has another concern: Songdian's daughter.He ran across Gaocang, entered Wanli Xiaolu, and reached Santiao. "You wait for me here!" Yizhong got off his horse and entered the house.The subordinates fell silent.Among them, Guitouci, who has followed Yizhong since he was a boy, even grabbed the hem of his armor.

"My lord, why are you here?" The ghost ran to the yard for the first time and shouted repeatedly: "My lord, my lord!" But Yizhong turned a blind eye to it and never came out. His hand wearing a wristband suddenly hugged the woman tightly, and the woman had given up any hope. (He will take me to Hokuriku.) Such fear paralyzed her whole body.The joints of her hands and feet couldn't be controlled, and her whole body was limp in Yizhong's arms. However, from Yoshinaka's staccato Kiso accent, she knew that Yoshinaka was not coming to take her away, nor would he flee to Hokuriku.

Yizhong told her that he would die in Seto as the end of his life.He took out a Nianji Buddha the size of a little finger from the armor and put it on the woman's small palm, asking her to hold it tightly. "what is this?" "It's my soul." Yi Zhong said. In fact, that should be something more important than the soul.As the head of Genji's school, Yoshinaka put the statue of Genji's clan god Hachiman Daibodhisattva on the Hachiman seat of the armor, as his patron saint of martial arts.He left this statue to her as a relic, representing the meaning of leaving the glory of blood to her. "Is it God's punishment?" very scary!The woman said that giving the statue to a foreigner is tantamount to giving up her martial arts. Yi Zhong was silent, and then said in a very cheerful voice: "I gave up a long time ago!" Then, he reached into the woman's skirt and touched her private parts.Yizhong's fingers were covered with leather, so the woman almost jumped up in pain, but she endured desperately.For her, if she endured it, this storm-like fate would be as if it never happened at all. (This is it……) Yizhong thought so.His action was not for women, nor because of lust, but to confirm this actual feeling.Yoshinaka felt that the private parts of this young lady were the symbol of his longing for Kyoto when he was in Kiso. (This is Kyoto.) He thought about his short-lived prosperity.After entering Kyoto from Hokuriku, it was only a year and a half. The ghost yelled in the yard for the first time.Yizhong couldn't stand his noise, so he walked out of the corridor by the house. The ghost is dead for the first time!He removed the corset to expose his stomach and was stabbed three times before dying with a final stab in the throat. (Is he encouraging me?) Yizhong knelt down beside his corpse, cut off his hair and put it in his arms, and went out without looking back at the woman. Later, he came to Sanjo Heyuan and wanted to go to Awataguchi, but he encountered the Yijing Army and was defeated.He passed through Kaguragaoka, left Kyoto, passed through Shinomiya, Kanna no Mori, Sekimizu, Seki Myojin, and before arriving at Sekiji Temple, he arrived at Awazuhama on the shore of Lake Biwa, where he met Kanhei Imai in the pine forest. Fighting with the Yoshitsune Army who was chasing after them, the two finally decided to commit suicide.While looking for the location, the sun was setting in the west, and when running through the pine forest in the deep twilight, the horse's foot was injured in the deep field and he was unable to move.In an instant, he was shot by another arrow by Ishida Jiro's subordinates of Sagami's Miura party. He couldn't block it with his sword, and was shot deeply into the helmet, dying of breathlessness.