Dozens of wooden boats covered with iron sheets were struggling to move forward against the wind and waves on the sea.
Originally, staying close to the coast could reduce wind and waves, but it might be discovered by the Ming army patrolling the shore, causing unnecessary trouble.
Although the Ming army along the coast is not very brave and good at fighting, since Yu Dayou took office, with the support of Zhang Jing, he has carried out some rectification of the Ming army guard posts along the coast. At least now, the phenomenon of turning around and running away when seeing Japanese pirates has been greatly reduced.
As this Japanese pirate force was heading towards Taicang, they naturally did not want to clash with the Ming army along the way, slowing down their journey.
Luo Wenlong stood at the bow of the boat, frowning, looking at the wind and waves ahead with mixed emotions.
According to Xiao Qin's information, he hurried to Dengzhou Guard and prepared to attack Xiao Feng. However, when the boat was halfway, the local informant caught up with him in a small boat and said that Xiao Qin's news had changed again and Xiao Feng was leading the team.
Nanjing, and threatened to go straight from Nanjing to Shanghai.
Xiao Qin hoped that Luo Wenlong would rush to Taicang because he had to pass through the Taicang Guards when going to Shanghai. Xiao Qin said that he would dispatch the White Lotus Sect forces near Suzhou and Shanghai to work with Luo Wenlong to attack Xiao Feng in Taicang.
Luo Wenlong is not cold towards Xiao Qin. He is willing to listen to Xiao Qin's opinion entirely because of Yan Shifan.
When Luo Wenlong was a gangster, he was arrested by the court and sentenced to death. It was Yan Shifan who took a fancy to his good looks and spent a lot of money to rescue him.
Originally Yan Shifan took a fancy to Luo Wenlong, but after some exchanges, Yan Shifan really took a fancy to Luo Wenlong!
He realized that Luo Wenlong was more than just a handsome person, he was not only a capable person, but also a capable person!
So Yan Shi
Fan plans to upgrade the relationship between the two people from a gay relationship to a gay relationship!
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He decisively gave Luo Wenlong a sum of money to stay away from the capital and develop outside. After all, Luo Wenlong was rescued from death row. No matter how arrogant Yan Shifan was, he did not dare to let him wander around the capital, so he could only fly away.
As a result, Luo Wenlong flew too far and flew directly across the sea to the Japanese country. In the Japanese country, Luo Wenlong studied abroad for two years. With his good looks and courage to fight, he gained a foothold and an industry.
But Luo Wenlong kept in mind that his trip was not to immigrate to Japan, but to help Yan Shifan cultivate a force and prepare a final retreat.
So when Luo Wenlong discovered that the village wars between the generals of the Japanese country were very lively, and the samurai of the defeated side were all running to the coast of China to work, he sensitively realized that an opportunity had come.
Luo Wenlong had been in various Japanese pirate squads and gained a lot of contacts and information. Then, under the operation of Yan Shifan, officials from the Yan Party along the coast prepared an undercover plan, stating that Luo Wenlong was ordered to be an undercover agent and could clear his name at any time.
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This plan was Yan Shifan's escape route for Luo Wenlong. Yan Shifan was indeed very interested in Luo Wenlong. The two of them worked together to leave each other with an escape route.
Luo Wenlong kept messing around, and finally relied on his ability to switch from the pirate group to the pirate group, and joined Xu Hai's entrepreneurial team.
At that time, Xu Hai and Wang Zhi fell out and started their own business. Although the development was smooth, there was a shortage of talents. Luo Wenlong looked
Like a talented person, he also speaks well and quickly gained Xu Hai's appreciation.
When the two of them had an in-depth exchange, they found out that they were still fellow villagers. When the fellow villagers saw the fellow villagers, their eyes burst into tears, and Xu Hai immediately regarded Luo Wenlong as his adopted son.
Later, with the assistance of Luo Wenlong, Xu Hai's power developed even more rapidly, becoming a pirate gang second only to Wang Zhi's group.
At this point, it is necessary to talk about the difference between pirates and Japanese pirates. Strictly speaking, to the Ming Dynasty, these two were the same thing. But if you distinguish them carefully, there is still a certain difference.
Japanese pirates are definitely pirates, but pirates are not necessarily Japanese pirates. The composition of pirates is more complex than that of Japanese pirates, and they are more interested in looting and fighting at sea. Although Japanese pirates also plunder at sea, they are more interested in activities on land.
Moreover, the pirates along the coast of the Ming Dynasty at that time still had a strong commercial atmosphere. Their main profit point was not robbery, but smuggling! Robbery was just an auxiliary action!
The Japanese pirates are different. The Japanese pirates have relatively small brain capacity and do not have commercial awareness. Their main profit point is robbery, and they have no technical content.
Therefore, whether it is Wang Zhi or Xu Hai, they are generally not annoyed when they are called pirates, but if they are called pirates, they will definitely fall out like a model being called a peripheral.
Luo Wenlong had Yan Shifan as his internal support and Xu Hai as his support outside. He became very popular in the world of pirates and Japanese pirates. Some people even called him "Little Zhuge on the Sea". He basically took advantage of every action he took.
But the last time he cooperated with Xiao Qin, he was designed by Xiao Feng. He lost his troops and was in a state of embarrassment. For this reason, when Xiao Qin proposed cooperation again, Luo Wenlong also held a breath in his heart and planned to give it to him.
Xiao Feng clicks on the colors to have a look.
This time Luo Wenlong brought out 300 of Xu Hai's elite men, and contacted three Japanese pirate teams along the coast, each with about a hundred people, to form a team of 600 people.
Xiao Feng dispatched 3,000 soldiers, plus the soldiers of Taicang Guards, there were 5,000 people. Luo Wenlong dared to attack Taicang with only 600 people. Is he crazy?
In fact, Luo Wenlong felt that these 600 people were a little too cautious. In the long-term battle along the coast, the generally accepted comparison of combat power was that one Japanese pirate could defeat at least thirty Ming soldiers.
Don't think this is a bit unbelievable, the actual situation is like this. And the records in real history are even more outrageous than this.
"History of the Ming Dynasty. Biography of Japan" records that on June 7, the thirty-fourth year of the Jiajing reign, a group of Japanese pirates landed in Shangyu County, Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province and occupied a house. Liu Xi, the prefect of Shaoxing, led his troops to surround the group of Japanese pirates, but they were
The enemy broke through at night.
Not only did he break through the siege, he also met a very unlucky censor who returned home in fine clothes. The censor was killed by the Japanese pirates before he could slap the fellow villagers in the face who said he had no future.
After that, this group of Japanese pirates went rampant in Hangzhou Prefecture, plundering Yuqian and Changhua counties. They even took the initiative to intercept and kill the fleeing officers and soldiers. Finally, they fought all the way to Nanjing!
So how many Japanese pirates were there in this group of Japanese pirates who were so powerful that they swept across the Jiangnan coast? There is a lot of controversy about this, because there is a huge gap in the results of research. One said there were fifty-three, and the other said there were seventy-two.
People, the difference is a full 40%...
Calculate it, and
The total number of Ming soldiers who fought against the Japanese pirates was at least 5,000. The approximate ratio was one to one hundred, and each person was half a Chu Overlord.
What is certain is that the Japanese pirates were fighting for themselves, while the Ming soldiers were running for their lives. Only in this way can all this be explained.
Most of the guardsmen at that time did not receive training and did not even carry weapons. They were almost no different from ordinary people except that they could run faster.
The most critical difference between soldiers and ordinary people is not their fighting skills, but their willingness to fight. This requires hard work to achieve!
Therefore, both Luo Wenlong and Xiao Qin were full of confidence in this attack on Xiao Feng. However, Xiao Qin's confidence was somewhat shaken now. After all, if a person's home was stolen, he would lack confidence in the jungle.
At this time, Luo Wenlong didn't even know that Xiao Qin's home had been stolen, so he was still confident and headed towards Taicang in spite of the wind and waves!
Xiao Qin and Gu Yue'er rode horses, followed by a few local church members, and ran towards Taicang full of rage!
Xiao Feng took Yu Dayou, Zhang Wuxin and 300 cavalrymen, who were lagging behind, and also ran towards Taicang!
Three thousand Nanjing mixed infantrymen escorted the princess's large RV. They walked at sunrise and rested at sunset, slowly and leisurely heading towards Taicang!
Finally, Luo Wenlong landed in Taicang! As expected, the soldiers of the guard station who could not eat enough for two thousand meals immediately wanted to start the battle mode of turning back and running as soon as they saw such a large number of Japanese pirates appearing.
But this time, the commanders of the guard station took the lead in making changes. They ordered
The guards formed a formation to meet the enemy and shouted shocking slogans.
"Although the imperial court didn't let us have enough to eat before, and even though the big local households didn't support our fight against the Japanese, we still can't retreat!"
The guardsmen looked confused: "Sir, why? When did we become so aggressive?"
"The new governor of Jiangnan, General Xiao Feng, the great tomorrow's master, will give you gold and silver if you win the battle. If you dare to escape, you will be shot to death!"
"Sir, I heard that Sir Xiao once led General Qi Jiguang to defeat the Tatar cavalry. Is it true?"
"Is there any lie? Master Xiao and General Yu have sent troops from Nanjing this time and will arrive in Taicang soon!
If we retreat and are hit head-on by Mr. Xiao, it will be a dead end!
Haven't you heard that Mr. Xiao came here killing people all the way? When he saw us running away, could he not go on a killing spree?"
"Sir, can we run along another route?"
"Stop dreaming. Is there any other way here in Taicang? If we hold on to the county seat, at least we still have a city wall to use. Reinforcements will arrive soon. Even if we die in battle, there will be compensation!
If we retreat and run away, we will also die, and we will end up in the military law, and our families will not get a penny! We are all military households, and if we die, our family will have to have men to replace us, and we will continue to die!"
"Sir, the last question is, is it true to give gold and silver? The imperial court has said it before, but in the end, no matter how hard you try, you can't see the silver reward!"
"This is what Mr. Xiao said. Do you know how rich Mr. Xiao is? Do you know how much each of the two telescopes issued in our guardhouse can be sold for on the black market?
The soldiers who went to fight the Tatar soldiers with Mr. Xiao, regardless of life or death, their families
Mr. Xiao is already supported! Are you worried that Mr. Xiao will default on your debt?"
Therefore, when Luo Wenlong led 600 Japanese pirates and approached Taicang County with an unprecedentedly powerful lineup, he was surprised to find that the two thousand soldiers of the Taicang Guard did not abandon the city and flee!
This is simply unreasonable! In the past, a hundred Japanese pirates could defeat a county and flee, but now it is six hundred, six hundred! Do the people of Taicang not know how to count?
Originally, Luo Wenlong planned to chase after the two thousand guardsmen, and kept chasing them to meet Xiao Feng's team. This was not arrogance, but a mature tactic commonly used by Japanese pirates.
For example, when Japanese pirates attack a county town and learn that there are officials and soldiers nearby to rescue them, they will try to drive a group of defeated soldiers to meet them. These defeated soldiers will be defeated like a mountain, and when they run into reinforcements, the reinforcements will be in chaos.
Not only will the situation be in chaos, but morale will also be severely affected and hit. Human beings are social animals, and they always carry the characteristics of social animals in their bones.
When most people in a group move forward bravely, the timid ones among them will also be inspired to have courage and move forward bravely. This is called group courage.
When most people in a group break up and flee for their lives, the brave ones among them will also be trapped, and their courage will quickly collapse and they will just run for their lives. This is called a group collapse.
The camp soldiers were not as timid as the guardsmen, and the Japanese pirates were also a headache to fight, so they took advantage of the defeated guardsmen to disperse the camp soldiers who came to rescue many times, and won a great victory.
But since the Taicang guards did not abandon the city and flee this time, his sheep driving tactic would not be used. Not only would it be useless, if he bypassed Taicang and attacked Xiao Feng's team on the road as originally planned
, maybe you will be attacked from both sides and make dumplings.
So Luo Wenlong decided to capture Taicang first, since it wouldn't take much time anyway. So he sent a few Japanese pirates to report the news to the local White Lotus Sect branch, and at the same time led his men to attack the county seat fiercely.
The soldiers of the Taicang Guard once again surprised Luo Wenlong. Although they were still very frightened, and even their legs were trembling when they lifted the stones, they still did not delay them from shooting arrows and throwing stones at the bottom of the city.
The words of those two Mr. Qian were deeply engraved in everyone's heart: "Master Xiao killed everyone who came here! Master Xiao is extremely rich and will never default on his debt!"
In the past, it was common practice for guardsmen to flee as soon as they were beaten. Even the imperial court had no choice but to punish them, otherwise all the military households in the world would be wiped out.
Anyway, if you escape with your life, then after the enemy retreats, you can return to the guard station and continue to serve as a soldier. If you don't let me become a soldier, that would be great. You can do anything these days, but being a soldier is the most painful.
But this time Xiao Feng killed everyone along the way, and the deterrent effect was too great. These guards firmly believed that if they were deserters and were hit by Xiao Feng, Xiao Feng would definitely kill them even if the court did not kill them.
Since death is always on the left and right, whether you die on the way to earn money for your family or die on the way to get your family punished, this choice is like studying or becoming a monk, there is almost no need to choose.
After wiping away tears and confronting the Japanese pirates for an hour, the legs of these guardsmen no longer shook so much, and they suddenly found that they also had strength in their bodies. Lifting stones did not seem so strenuous anymore!
People's confidence is built by fighting hard.
I originally thought that there were more than a dozen Japanese pirates who were half the Chu Overlord per capita, lying under the city wall. They did not carry siege weapons. Although the county wall was not high, it was not something that a samurai sword could split!
The guardsmen's confidence suddenly increased, and they shouted to each other to support the weak points on the wall. Of course, the gap in combat effectiveness still existed objectively. The guardsmen shot arrows from a high position, but few of them could hit.
The Japanese pirates bent their bows and set up arrows, and as long as there was an outcrop on the wall, they almost hit nine out of ten. For a time, the people on the city were so overwhelmed that no one dared to stand up. The Japanese pirates took the opportunity to set up human ladders, which was their unique trick to attack the county town.
First choose a position with the shortest city wall. Under the cover of bow and arrow, one Japanese pirate rushes to the wall, squats slightly, and braces his horse. The second Japanese pirate rushes up, jumps on the first Japanese pirate's shoulder, and also braces himself.
Horse step.
The third Japanese pirate must be a selected master. He holds a short knife in his mouth and a long knife on his back. He accelerates and sprints, steps on the shoulder of the first Japanese pirate, jumps up, and then steps on the shoulder of the second Japanese pirate.
, the second Japanese pirate fought hard in one fell swoop!
The city wall of the county town is relatively short, and this Japanese pirate can climb up the wall! When he rushes to the top of the wall, it is really one against ten. He can quickly chop and kill an open space on the top of the wall, and then the second, third, etc.
More and more Japanese pirates will use this method to climb onto the wall.
When they gather about ten people, they can fight their way to the city gate, open the city gate, and the county has fallen. Of course there is a gap in personal combat power, but also a gap in weapons.
Japanese knives are hard and sharp. The knives used by guardsmen are basically ordinary iron knives with very low steel content. They can be easily cut or twisted, which greatly affects
The psychological state of the soldier.
And the Japanese sword is still long! Fighting on the battlefield is not a competition between martial arts masters, it is definitely an inch longer and an inch stronger. Based on these factors, once the guardsmen come into contact with each other, they will basically be defeated.
At this time, the first Japanese pirate wall has been set up. Two Japanese pirates stacked up on top of each other, and the third Japanese pirate climbed up the wall. Success! The posture is very handsome!
The two generals, brandishing steel knives, rushed over desperately and slashed wildly at the Japanese pirates who were climbing up the wall, causing sparks to pop out of the city bricks.
As Mr. Qian, their swords were serious steel knives. Although they were not as good as Japanese knives, they would never be cut off at once. The Japanese pirate was not on a stable footing. Faced with the crazy output of the two Mr. Qian, he was really in a hurry and almost killed himself.
He was cut off from the city wall.
With a whooshing sound, an arrow from the bottom of the city hit one of Qian Zong's right arms. The Qian Zong's steel knife fell to the ground, and his leg was also stabbed by the Japanese pirate's short blade, and he turned over and fell to the ground.
The remaining President Qian shouted loudly, and several guardsmen around him came to help fearfully with spears, but the handles of the spears were made of wood and were broken by the Japanese pirate's long knife. President Qian faced the Japanese pirates alone.
The long and short swords were obviously at a disadvantage.
Just as the Japanese pirates were cheering, the Japanese pirate's legs on the wall tightened and he could not move, and then there was a sharp pain. The guardsmen took the opportunity to stab the Japanese pirate with their spears, but the Japanese pirate could not dodge and could only protect himself with two swords.
Got shot.
Taking advantage of his injury, Mr. Qian stepped forward and slashed his head with a sword, cutting off his head. The cheers of the Japanese pirates in the city suddenly stopped and turned into furious yelling.
Mr. Qian, who was lying on the ground, hugged the Japanese pirate's leg tightly and bit his leg. He didn't even know what happened to the leg.
The master had already split up. When he saw his companion reaching out to pull him, he let go and spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Damn it, when the bounty comes, I want to take the big share!"