Chapter 500: A Famous General
The city was covered with blood, but there was a desk that I had gotten out of nowhere.
Shen Mingchen and Wang Yin were working hard to write, Zheng Ruozeng and Mao Kun accompanied Hu Zongxian to watch the battle with a telescope, and commented a few words from time to time.
Thick official documents were already stacked on the benches and chairs next to them, and two scribes were holding large seals and stamping them up.
"Prepare with both hands." He Xinyin explained to Qian Yuan, who had climbed to the top of the city, in a low voice, "If Qi Yuanjing successfully breaks through Xu Hai and orders Wu Weixi and Yuepuhe to send troops to intercept it, Liu Xian has just sent a military report and has led 4,000 soldiers to the north. ”
Qian Yuan didn't say anything, took the telescope handed by Liang Sheng and looked carefully, the northeast direction was full of smoke and dust, but it was generally clear that the Japanese should have rushed into battle several times, but the outpost of the Qi family army held on, and the ground between the two armies was full of fallen corpses and discarded ordnance.
Different from Qian Yuan and Qi Jimei, Qi Jiguang's way of arranging the formation did not pay attention to concentrating troops to contend with it, and the whole army was divided into five parts, the outpost, the left outpost, the right outpost, the rear outpost, and the middle army, which were not far away or close, with the mandarin duck array as the main body, scattered all over the mountains and fields, and the momentum was quite large.
"The sound of the cannons?"
"It's a trumpet." Mao Kun glanced at Qian Yuan in surprise, this is common sense, before engaging in battle, light the cannon to order the whole army.
Qian Yuan frowned and looked again, and faintly saw dozens of generals on horseback under the banner of the Chinese army, the leader of whom was holding a horse whip and shouting.
"The Japanese have already charged for two rounds." Zheng Ruozeng said in a low voice: "Qi Yuanjing does not let the Chinese army move forward, but only sticks to the outposts and left and right posts, is it too careless?" ”
"There are thousands of outposts, guarding like a rock." Mao Kun licked his dry lips and smiled reluctantly: "It's in the same vein as Zhancai." ”
It is rumored that Qi Jiguang learned the art of war from Qian Yuan...... Well, whether it is Qi Jiguang or Qian Yuan, they have never admitted it, the former thinks it's nonsense, at most it's just a wolf's tooth, and the latter feels shameless......
But the fact is that with the wolf's tooth as a cover, Qi Jiguang and Qian Yuan's corporal often have a very strong defensive force in battle, and they have never been broken by the Japanese invaders.
Hu Zongxian pressed the city wall with both hands, and his always stiff face couldn't help but show a little nervousness, from the perspective of combat strength, Qi Yuanjing's command was not weaker than Qian Yuan, Qi Jimei's more than 1,000 soldiers, and Hu Zongxian had inspected Ningbo several times in the past few months, and he also praised Qi Jiguang's military training...... But on the battlefield, anything can happen.
"Here we go again." Mao Kun shouted in a low voice: "Is it the whole army pressing? ”
Everyone saw that the black-pressed Japanese were squirming forward, and at the forefront were hundreds of real Japanese who were wearing gowns, but no trousers, wielding long knives, and roaring and rushing.
"Xu Hai's old tricks are repeated." Zheng Ruo once judged, "Last year, it was to break Lu Boring's front with real Japanese, and then followed by three consecutive waves of Japanese robbers, Lu Boring was unable to mobilize troops for a while, resulting in a big defeat." ”
Qi Jimei on the side nodded again and again.
Hu Zongxian, who took a telescope and looked closely, soon found that the Japanese were almost pressed by the whole army, but they did not rush forward in one go, but divided into several shares with clear boundaries, hundreds of people per share, mainly concentrated in the middle, once the outpost was broken, it could reach Qi Jiguang in front of the horse.
"Is the meal ready?"
The sudden question quieted down the city, Wang Yin looked at Qian Yuan speechlessly, and the ink dripped from the brush in his hand to stain the letter paper, but Zheng Ruozeng, Mao Kun and Hu Zongxian's expressions moved slightly, and they all understood Qian Yuan's words.
"Huh?" Qian Yuan turned his head to look at Qi Jimei.
As soon as Qi Jimei opened his mouth to say the word "zongzi", the rumbling cannon rang out violently, followed by the crackling sound of bird guns.
Everyone looked fixedly, and the smoke of gunpowder blocked the outpost and could not see anything, but the hundreds of real Japanese who rushed in front of the formation were like weak grass blown by the strong wind, and although the Japanese in the back did not stop, their momentum was greatly reduced, and their morale was greatly depressed.
The drums gradually sounded in the Chinese army, louder and louder, more and more urgent, Qi Jiguang moved forward, and the banner did not go straight to the sky, but slightly tilted forward.
In the smoke-filled outpost, a tall man in iron armor took the lead in the battle, raising his sword and killing several widows in an instant, and dozens of wolf tooth wrecks stabbed out of gunsmoke at the front end, facing the enemy head-on.
"It's Wu Weizhong!" Liang Sheng let out a low sigh.
Hundreds of short spears flew out of the smoke of gunpowder, easily tearing through the bodies of the rushing pirates, and then a large number of soldiers armed with various ordnance stepped out of the smoke of gunpowder, and the whole team marched forward, the front section was a sharp wolf's tooth, rattan cards, shields, spears, palladium, and long knives.
Unlike Qian Yuan and Qi Jimei, the Qi family's mandarin duck formation is more flexible, and the captain only needs to command less than ten people around him, which is more efficient.
The wolf's tooth and shield resisted the blades in the hands of the pirates, and the spears, which were much longer than usual, pierced out from behind, easily stabbing the pirates down.
Hu Zongxian and Qian Yuan at the head of the city clearly saw through the telescope that while the Chinese army was pressing and the outposts were attacking, the left and right posts that were not covered by gunpowder smoke were like two sharp swords stabbing out diagonally.
The stalemate lasted almost for less than a stick of incense, and the front of the Japanese was already riddled with tigers and cannons, and the outposts of the officers and soldiers effortlessly reversed into the Japanese formation, and the pressed Chinese army bypassed from the left and right sides under the command of Qi Jiguang and smashed diagonally into the Japanese formation.
Although it has not yet collapsed, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Japanese are about to be defeated, Hu Zongxian vigorously pounded the city wall, and shouted: "Spread the message that Liu Xian cut off the way for the Japanese to retreat, and Wu Weixi and Yuepuhe sent troops to capture the town of Uranfeng and Lihai. ”
Zheng Ruozeng added: "Qi Jimei can be ordered to immediately lead his troops west to attack Zhanliang Lake. ”
"Not bad." Mao Kun nodded in agreement, "In the past few days, the Japanese have been stationed in Lianghu, and Lianghu is connected to the Cao'e River, the Yao River, and the Longshan River, which can reach not far from Ufeng Town. ”
Qi Jimei glanced at Qian Yuan, and then hurried out of the city, muttering in her heart, in the words of my brother and sister-in-law, you kid climbed up to Qian Zhancai, then don't get too close to the governor, and don't be too obedient.
From beginning to end, the telescope in Qian Yuan's hand has not been put down, and it has been five or six years since he came to this era, and he finally saw the famous mandarin duck array in history.
The left post led Ding Bangyan to climb to the top of the hill, swept his eyes, divided into two teams on the left and right, and personally led a team to rush straight to the north, and the left and right spearmen mechanically stabbed out and retracted, and the steel knife in Ding Bangyan's hand flew up and down, and in a moment he led the team to kill the Japanese army.
At the same time, the right outpost commander Chen Dacheng led the army to attack, and the Japanese who could not echo before and after could neither escape nor parry, so they could only desperately go back, and the long knife in his hand poked at the accomplices, trying to kill a way out.
The distance between the left and right outposts and the Chinese army is about 200 paces, and they fight forward and then attack from the flank, stirring up the Japanese army into a mess in a short time...... Xu Hai, who wanted to turn the tide, finally couldn't support it anymore and led the rear army to slowly retreat.
The flag of the Chinese army swayed, and there were heralds to enter the horses, and the left and right posts dropped the Chinese army, turning into a three-talent formation, with wolf fangs, pikemen and short soldiers in the center, shields protecting the two wings, and killing Xu Hai from both wings.
Qian Yuan at the head of the city noticed the change, and couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, it's really good, in such a situation, Qi Jiguang can still play micro-!
Xu Hai, who was pale, knew that if he turned around and fled, he might not be able to escape with his life, but he saw that the strength he had accumulated over the years was lost...... If you run away, there is nothing left.
Xu Hai, who still had a thousand and five Japanese in his hand, still tried to fight, and hurriedly commanded more than a hundred true Japanese to come out of the battle, but just like a rushing flood hitting a fragile embankment, more than a hundred true Japanese disappeared without even rolling up a wave.
Unlike Qian Yuan, who concentrated the bird guns to form a team, Qi Jiguang not only used the bird guns and tiger squat cannons in a centralized manner, but also arranged bird guns in the mandarin duck array.
The left outpost only slightly put five or six shots, the real Japanese were in chaos, Taizhou warrior Zhu Jue took the lead in breaking the formation, beheaded several Japanese invaders, and the right outpost launched an attack at the same time, in a big chaos, Xu Hai led less than a thousand Japanese to flee north.
Everyone at the head of the city watched this scene in amazement, from the battle between the two armies to the defeat of the Japanese invaders, Xu Hai fled...... Ordinary people don't have a good lunch!
Zheng Ruozeng praised: "Really sick like the wind, Xu is like a forest, plundering is like fire, immobile like a mountain, Qi Yuan Jingshi is a famous general for a while!" ”
From quietly defending the defensive line, to the surprise attack of firearms, the left, center and right armies pressed up, and broke the formation in just two quarters of an hour, which is indeed worthy of Zheng Ruo's praise.
Mao Kun, whose face was flushed, coughed twice, glanced at Qian Yuan out of the corner of his eye, and muttered: "It's the same line......
When everyone heard this, they either nodded in agreement, or turned their heads to look at Qian Yuan.
Indeed, the corporals under the command of Qian Yuan and Qi Jimei have strong combat power, and they can be called Xu Rulin and immovable like a mountain.
Shortly before this victory, two hundred armor soldiers raided, rushed wildly, swept outside the city, and greatly defeated the Japanese invaders, which can also be called as fast as the wind and aggression like fire.