Chapter 379 The first battle
The whistling sea breeze blew the bushes on the top of the island, and several heads poked out slightly and looked at them, then immediately shrank back.
The huge fleet is heading northwest, with its ships connected like mountains covering the sky, and its sails like clouds floating in the air, which is terrifying.
"The momentum is quite scary, and I don't know how many ships will be left when I look back!" Zhang San pretended to be calm and cursed a few times.
"San brother, look!" The guard beside him pointed carefully in another direction. Three large ships docked on the edge of the island, and dozens of Japanese pirates kicked and stepped onto the shore.
"It's all hidden." Zhang Sanyi lowered his head, curled up his limbs and lay in the bushes.
Even Qian Yuan did not expect that Zhang San was so brave that he was not in Sanmen Town. Instead, he ventured out of the town two days ago, leaving five people in a hidden fishing village on the shore, and personally took four people to the island by boat.
Zhang San is the guard who has been with Qian Yuan for the longest. He is simple in his mind, but sometimes he thinks a lot. Now in the guard team, his status is not as good as that of Wang Yi and Yang Wen. Liu Hong and Zhou Ze, who have relatively low qualifications, have gradually emerged. Zhang San is unwilling to accept this, so he made this risky choice.
Lying in the wet grass, it seemed that after a long time, Zhang San dared to raise his head. Instead of looking at the shore, he looked straight to the northwest. The three large ships hung their sails and were speeding towards the fleet.
"It should be gone." Zhang San gritted his teeth, "Take the guy and follow me."
The five people went down the mountain tremblingly, crawled out of the dense forest and looked carefully for a while before confirming that the Japanese pirates had left. Zhang San quickly climbed up the hill and entered the cave.
A string of numbers was drawn on the wall of the cave with sharp stones. Zhang San pursed his lips and smiled. These were Arabic numerals, which were taught by the young master himself... Although I still don’t know why it is called Arabic.
"Three brother, how about it?"
Zhang San was full of energy and waved his hand: "Go back, you all have good luck this time. After this battle, I will find a matchmaker to marry you a good wife!"
Just as Zhang San's heart fell and was about to return, Qi Jiguang outside Sanmen Town... That is, his qi cultivation skills are good, otherwise he would be furious and cursed.
However, only three or five hundred Japanese pirates were only defeated without resistance in the face of the Thousand Five Qi family army led by Qi Jiguang.
This is the first time that the Qi family army has officially entered the historical stage. Qi Jiguang hopes to make a perfect debut.
Unfortunately, there was only a perfect start, but no perfect ending.
At the beginning of the battle, the brutal Japanese pirates were blocked by wolf teeth. The javelin and bows caused the Japanese pirates to suffer setbacks.
When the two confronted each other, even if the Japanese pirates could avoid the sweeping of the wolf-toothed pirate, they could not break through the defense line composed of two rattan cards. Four long spears that were longer than normal were sharply pierced into the chests of one Japanese pirate after another. The hard training for nearly half a year was rewarded, and the Japanese pirates fell one by one.
With the masses and the situation is very good, Qi Jiguang naturally would not go into battle himself. The most relied on the general Wu Weizhong and Ding Bangyan did not go into battle either. The commander of Lou Dayou of Yiwu Lou family.
"That Qian Hanlin's method is quite useful." Wu Weizhong smiled and said, "A head-level reward of silver with thirty taels of silver, even if it is a new recruit, there is no one who winces back and retreats!"
Wu Weizhong was from Yiwu and a martial artist in the 31st year of Jiajing. He has been familiar with military books since childhood. He has a skilled martial arts and has a strategy. He is highly valued by Qi Jiguang. Before this battle, what he feared most was that the new recruits shrank and even fled.
Although the Qi family's military discipline is strict, if they shrink and flee, they will cut off their ears and return to the camp, and then they will be killed after they check, sometimes, no matter how strict the military discipline is, it cannot guarantee that the soldiers will not shrink and move forward.
Therefore, before the war, Qi Jiguang announced that a head-level 30 taels of silver would never be deducted. This made the Yiwu soldiers who had no money in their family scream. After the war started, they only knew to move forward desperately and never look back.
"Three or five hundred Japanese pirates..." Ding Bangyan rolled his eyes, "If all the heads were cut off, they would get ten thousand taels of silver. Where can I get so much money... You know, the Qian family guards had only a few people, how many heads could they cut off? And Qian Hanlin... that was not only a broom star, but also a God of Wealth!"
Ding Bangyan was also a martial artist and skilled in archery and horses, but the difference is that he is quite literary, able to sing poems and essays with Qi Jiguang, and is also good at accounting.
Qi Jiguang seemed to have no reaction, and only stared at the battlefield where the killing was not far away, but his heart was irritating. Did he say this too much? A head-level 30 tael silver pattern was set by Qian Yuan during the Chongde victory. Although Qi Jiguang was not clean and had a lot of money in his hands, he couldn't stand it.
In fact, the reward for the Qi family army in history was a thirty-two-patterned silver at the head level, but now Qi Jiguang has ignored the fact that after the Battle of Chongde, Qian Yuan fought in the form of a team, and the reward for the enemy was also distributed in the form of a team. Not anyone who grabbed the head level could exchange for the thirty-two-patterned silver.
This overlooked point gave the first battle of the Qi family army, which had officially become an army, a disgraceful end.
After a quarter of an hour of confrontation, the Japanese pirates finally collapsed after throwing more than a hundred corpses in front of the mandarin duck formation set up by the Qi family army. They threw away their armor and cried and shouted at their parents, and they wanted to put on their wings and flew away.
Lou Dayou, who was commanding the battle, waved his waist knife proudly and was about to order his personal soldiers to send orders to change the formation to pursue him. At this moment, the soldiers in the front of the Qi family suddenly rushed forward, accompanied by the shouts of "Don't run" and "Thirty taels".
We can't blame them for being too greedy. We should know that a soldier from the Qi family only has eight taels of silver in a year, while a head of thirty taels of silver... Let's count it, four years of military pay!
The people of Yiwu are poor, and the soldiers who rushed in the front are all red in their eyes. In order to speed up, the wolf's hand actually threw the wolf's teeth and rushed forward with a short knife!
Qi Jiguang was so angry that his face was pale. He shook the reins and rushed out, and chopped down a soldier who had dropped the wolf teeth with his sword, shouting loudly: "All those who abandon weapons will be killed, and those who abandon weapons will be killed!"
The general who caught up behind us led his personal soldiers to shout repeatedly before he could stabilize the situation slightly, but he rushed past the front line at the corner of the hillside... he was actually driven back.
Without the wolf-toothed siege that protected the portal, the Japanese pirates' fierce counterattack caused dozens of soldiers to retreat in a row.
"Everyone is killed, all are killed!" Qi Jiguang shouted sternly: "If the order is not implemented, if the order is not implemented, all are killed!"
Lou Dayou stepped out of the line with a gray complexion, kicked down the dozen soldiers who ran back one by one, raised his waist and slashed it down, and the blood spurted out splattered all over him.
"Weifeng!" Qi Jiguang pointed at Lou Dayou with a horse whip in his hand, "You lead the team to follow you, you must not advance rashly or retreat."
Seeing Lou Dayou walking in front and around the corner with his wolf-toothed litter in his hand, Qi Jiguang gritted his teeth and stared at the blood on the ground, "Those who have just advanced and those who have abandoned their weapons will all be killed!"
Wu Weizhong and Ding Bangyan on the side did not dare to speak. Qi Jiguang was very easy-going and tried his best to provide soldiers with fine rice and meat. He loved soldiers like his sons, just like Li Guang; but his strictness in the military was like Zhou Yafu's fine Liuying camp, and he was often tied up and beheaded in the face of battle.
The hillside in front was quite narrow. The Qi family army was circling around the corner in a row of mandarin duck formations, and there were faint shouts and screams drifting with the wind.
Wu Weizhong was about to ask whether to come forward to watch the battle, but suddenly his eyes narrowed, and several people rushed towards him around the corner, and Lou Dayou was the leader.
"Weifeng...what does he want to do!" Wu Weizhong and Lou Dayou were familiar with each other in their early years. They rushed forward in a hurry and were about to speak, but Qi Jiguang had already shaken the reins and moved forward.
"Qi...Qi..." The man behind Lou Dayou was panting and couldn't speak, bent over and held his knees with his hands.
"Zhang San, why is it you?" Qi Jiguang turned over and dismounted, "What's going on!"
Zhang San's left shoulder was broken, covered with bloodstains, his hair was scattered on his head, and his left arm, which was cut, was still bleeding.
A personal soldier came to wrap Zhang San with his wound. Zhang San calmed down, turned around and looked at the hillside, and said hatefully: "Damn it... I lost four brothers."
Qi Jiguang didn't speak, staring at Zhang San suspiciously.
"These brothers are all injured, so I hope General Qi will take them in." Zhang San moved his left arm slightly, walked closer and whispered: "Prepare the horse, I want to rush to Shangyu immediately."
"Your injury..."
"Go to set off immediately." Zhang San's face was pale and insisted: "Military information report."
Qi Jiguang immediately realized that it might be related to New Year's Eve last year, "I'll ask my personal soldiers to rush there, you can stay."
"No, it's a message." Zhang San shook his head, "Send ten people to follow, and there is no way to lose."
"Okay." Qi Jiguang immediately arranged the arrangements.
Chapter completed!