Tang Dynasty: Father, if you don't rebel, I will!

"Weapon arsenal, take out the arsenal, and we will win if we take the arsenal."

"灌らないで、みんな自と一素に (Don't be afraid, everyone comes with me!)"

The barbaric yet clearly fearful shouts of Japanese curses came from several entrances to the mine, amidst towering flames and shouts of battle.

"Pfft!"

Before the short Japanese samurai could even get close, the gleaming saber was swiftly struck by the Tang soldier's foot as he stomped forward, before the Japanese samurai could even make a move.

They took the initiative and cut off the other person's head first.

"Put on your armor immediately!"

Li Chongyi urged them on coldly. Behind him, in the tent, several Tang soldiers were quickly and efficiently putting on their armor. In the firelight, the heavy and solemn armor was put on layer after layer.

Arm guards, shoulder guards, breast protectors, helmets...

The fact that Hou Junji was willing to leave such an important mine here, whether it was Cheng Yaojin's eldest son Cheng Chumo or Li Chongyi, the eldest son of Prince Li Xiaogong of Hejian, was a result of his careful consideration.

Although they are young, their years of experience and battles have made them qualified generals.

The military discipline and training were quite strict.

Now, Japanese samurai have suddenly colluded with outsiders to cause trouble in the mine. After the initial chaos, Li Chongyi and Cheng Chumo quickly regained their composure and began to lead and integrate the soldiers, using their personal guards as the basis.

Li Chongyi's weapon was a long spear. Although his strength was not as abnormal as Cheng Yaojin's sons, his spear skills were so sharp and decisive that no Japanese soldier could withstand more than a few blows from him.

His personal guards, some armed with knives and others with crossbows, moved in orderly fashion, obeying his commands without question...

As the Japanese pirates were wiped out in the surrounding area, more and more squad leaders and sergeants gathered around Li Chongyi, and soon they successfully formed a force of several hundred men.

He arrived at the armory, where Tang soldiers were fiercely fighting against Japanese samurai.

His armor had clearly withstood a lot of blows.

Some people had already fallen to the ground, their fate unknown.

Li Chongyi flew into a rage: "Kill! Leave no one alive!"

Soga no Kuramaro's face changed drastically when he saw the person behind him. However, the other samurai leaders of the Japanese nobles beside him were even more horrified.

The Tang soldiers guarding the armory numbered only a dozen or so.

Yet he withstood the attack of over a hundred men without breaking down in the slightest. His armor was slashed by their swords, leaving only a few marks.

They paid the price of dozens of lives to manage to kill three or four Tang soldiers.

Looking again at the hundreds of people behind him, all of them were fully armored, wielding sharp blades, and were tall figures resembling black bears.

Some people with poor mental resilience immediately screamed and tried to flee in all directions.

However, how could the Tang soldiers, who were already furious, let them go?

"Dang Dang Dang!"

"Away! Away!! (Get away! Get away! Don't come close to me!)"

The Japanese samurai retreated in panic and despair, shouting warnings with bluster but no substance, his samurai swords slashing wildly, but Cheng Chumo easily blocked them with his long sword.

"Wow!" Cheng Chumo grinned maliciously and suddenly let out an exaggerated, threatening shout.

The Japanese samurai was so frightened that he stumbled and fell to the ground.

"Hahahaha!"

A chorus of laughter and mockery erupted from the surrounding area.

The soldiers that Cheng Chumo had gathered each had at least three Japanese slave heads hanging from their waists. Among them were former mine slaves, but with the outbreak of this uprising, these people were no longer mine slaves.

They all became Japanese samurai, radiating the golden light of military achievements.

The bloody and horrific scene terrified these self-proclaimed fierce Japanese samurai, their pupils dilating in shock, their longswords, riddled with nicks and chips, trembling so badly they could barely hold them...

As Cheng Chumo approached with his sword, the terrifying, demon-like shadow, along with the two dead heads of samurai leaders hanging at his waist, stared wide-eyed, finally terrified the Japanese samurai into losing his will to fight.

With a thud, he knelt on the ground and repeatedly kowtowed, begging for mercy.

"Please, general! Please don't kill me, General! Please don't kill me!"

Cheng Chumo's lips curled into a sinister smile: "What kind of gibberish are you spouting!"

"Pfft!"

The sharp steel blade encountered almost no resistance. The Japanese samurai who was begging for mercy a moment ago was now a headless corpse with blood splattering everywhere.

He lay half-prone on the ground.

"Hahaha! Congratulations, General, on beheading another bandit leader!"

The surrounding soldiers shouted and cheered in congratulations, and Cheng Chumo laughed loudly.

The uprising, from beginning to end, lasted only a little over an hour, and took place in this mining area.

The three thousand Tang soldiers who remained behind were all adorned with numerous military achievements, while the Japanese samurai, apart from the dozen or so who were surrounded, had all had their heads chopped off by the Tang soldiers.

"Tsk tsk tsk, you want to take my head? You Japanese devils, you're something else~" Cheng Chumo looked at the leader with a mocking expression. He had just learned about this group's plan from Li Chongyi.

While he was leading his men to "have some fun," Li Chongyi was surrounded and attacked by over a hundred people.

These people were considered formidable fighters even among the Japanese invaders.

Soga no Kuramaro had lost an arm, and his face was deathly pale.

Lips quivering.

"How is this possible? How could you be so strong...?"

He shouted in disbelief and despair, saying that they had used almost all the troops they could mobilize in an emergency for this operation, along with the advantages of surprise attack and internal and external communication.

With a total of seven or eight thousand people, they were unable to inflict any significant casualties on these people.

He stared intently at the armor and weapons on Cheng Chumo and the others, his heart filled with jealousy and resentment that almost consumed him.

"If, if we also had such weapons and equipment, the victor today would surely be us!" He seemed to want to give his death a reason that would be praised by future generations.

however.

Nobody cares...

Li Chongyi and his men weren't even in a hurry to take over these people. After glancing at the soldiers around them, Li Chongyi and Cheng Chumo exchanged a look.

With just a glance, they both revealed a sinister, savage grin.

Cheng Chumo shouted to the soldiers around him.

"Gentlemen, the King of Japan has rebelled and dared to attack our Great Tang Dynasty! His country should be destroyed! His head should be cut off and sent to Chang'an to apologize!"

"Is there anyone among you who dares to join me in claiming the glory of conquering this nation?!"