Chapter 238: Great Victory
Qi Jingtong led Yun Zhongwei and other soldiers without stopping for a moment, and rushed directly to the nameless island where the Japanese were stationed.
The widows left on the nameless island did not expect that their leader would lead the main force to attack the Ming Junwei and destroy the entire army.
For two or three days, the widows left behind on the island were still carrying out their daily lives in an orderly manner.
This is defenseless, but it also gives Qi Jingtong an opportunity.
Qi Jingtong took advantage of the darkness of the night to lead the Cangshan boat close to the nameless island, so he directly sent someone to set fire to the two dozen or so small boats left by the Japanese invaders.
In the vast sea, if these small boats are burned again, then these widows will have no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth.
The light of the fire that burned the boat was unusually bright, and the unsuspecting widows were asleep at this time, except for those who were on guard.
The sky-high flames finally woke up the sleeping widows.
"It's on fire, it's on fire..."
Awakened, the would-be would-be came in the direction of the fire with pots and pans.
Even though there is water everywhere next to the sea, there must be something to hold it, right?
When a large number of Japanese robbers came towards the beach with their hands in their hands, Qi Jingtong did not have the slightest politeness, and directly ordered the archers who were ambushed on the shore to fire ten thousand arrows.
The bows and arrows were all sailors drawn from the various sailors' guards.
Although the armaments in those water division guards are deserted, it is still possible for so many guards to transfer more than fifty elites.
These people's archery skills are also superb, and in the night, if they don't have a hundred shots, they can still hit ninety if they shoot a hundred.
Those would-be robbers were not stupid, and when they watched their companions fall, they also realized that the boat was not caught on fire by accident, and they did not dare to go any further to put out the fire, so they began to retreat and flee.
After escaping, Qi Jingtong still did not miss the opportunity, and immediately ordered to fire firearms at the soldiers in the clouds.
The range of the firebolt is longer than that of the crossbow, which is perfect for this kind of follow-up fire after escaping.
Beyond the sound of the firing of the firebolt was the screams of the struck pike.
Although I don't know how many of them hit in the middle of the night, I can still roughly judge some of them based on this scream.
However, there were only less than two hundred men, and they had been hit by a crossbow without defense, and now they had been killed by a firebolt, and the casualties must have been at least more than a hundred.
The remnants of the defeated army, one-on-one, are by no means the opponent of the Ming army, let alone not enough one-on-one now.
After a moment of effort, after Qi Jingtong gave the order to stop shooting, he drew the sword at his waist and shouted: "Brothers, the opportunity to kill the enemy and make meritorious service has come, and I will rush over to avenge the people who died in vain under the butcher's knife of the Japanese invaders." ”
Qi Jingtong was the first to rush to the front, and the soldiers behind followed.
The Japanese had never expected that an island, which did not exist on the map, would be discovered by the Ming army, and they never thought that this place would be attacked by the Ming army.
Unexpectedly, they were attacked by the Ming army and suffered heavy casualties, and the surviving Japanese were killed by the Ming army without even exerting their usual combat effectiveness of 150%.
After a fierce battle, when Qi Jingtong led people to search for the scattered house, only the women and children who were trembling with fright were left.
If the widow encounters the old and weak women and children of the Ming Dynasty, he will never show mercy, but the Ming army cannot be beasts, Qi Jingtong did not order to embarrass these unarmed women and children, "First take care of these women and children, and wait for the will of His Highness and the Governor to make a decision." ”
After that, he ordered an inventory of the battle situation, and said: "Order, go down, and count the battle situation immediately." ”
The number of casualties on his side, the casualties of the Japanese pirates, and the resources of the Japanese pirates must be counted in detail before they can be reported to the top.
Soon, a specific number was told.
"One hundred and twenty people were beheaded, thirty-two people were captured, in addition, more than 500 women and children, fifty-eight children, three people were sacrificed and five were wounded on the side of the Ming army."
As long as there is fighting, there is no guarantee of zero casualties.
The eight casualties are counted as a total number of the peacemakers, and only at the cost of eight casualties in exchange for the plague that plagued the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years, this can definitely be called a classic case that can be engraved in the history books.
With such a victory, Qi Jingtong was not very satisfied, and blamed himself: "It was a foolproof battle, but it still caused eight casualties, it really shouldn't be, send someone to report the battle situation to the governor, and a certain person will take responsibility." ”
Soon, the battle situation of the great victory was reported to the Pingwei camp.
This kind of battle situation can be regarded as expected by a few people, and after hearing about it, a few people were just a little happy.
Xie Zhi opened his mouth and said: "Since this is the case, then report the situation of the first battle to Your Majesty, and wait for Your Majesty's further will." ”
Although they had to wait for Emperor Hongzhi's will, they had to attach their own opinions.
Immediately afterwards, Xie Zhi said: "Let those women and children go, if you are willing to return to China, send them back, if you don't want to go back, first temporarily arrange for them to live on that nameless island, it is estimated that they do not want to go back, and there is no way to live if they go back. Soon it will be back again. ”
The solution to the problem of the Japanese invaders permanently, Xie Zhi has been thinking about it all along.
This method has only recently come to mind, and it is not realistic for the Ming court to take advantage of the civil strife among the Japanese to completely absorb it.
After all, there is also a distance between the Wa Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming court's control over it will naturally not be sufficient.
It's just the Ming Dynasty, and the magistrates below are all doing small things in violation of the yang.
Then the Japanese country is even more insecure, engaging in small actions is one thing, I am afraid that from time to time there will be people who will rise up in the scourge of war, rather than bothering to deal with these problems, it is not enough to change the method.
After Xie Zhi's method, several people thought about it for a while, and finally agreed.
Since Xie Zhi's method has been agreed, this matter will naturally be sent to Jingshi immediately.
It was already three days later that he was sent to Jingshi by 800 miles of expedited delivery.
At this time, Emperor Hongzhi was getting up, and Xiao Jing took the military newspaper to Emperor Hongzhi.
"Your Majesty, the news from the Pingwei army."
In the past few days, the ministers of the court and the central government have finally stopped for a few minutes, and after receiving the news again, Emperor Hongzhi was obviously a little nervous and asked, "What's the matter?" ”
Xiao Jingmei smiled, and said with a smile: "It's good news, a big victory." ”
After hearing Xiao Jing's answer, Emperor Hongzhi opened the fold boldly with confidence.
The excerpt was written by Zhang Mao, with the war situation and achievements of the Ping Wa, and then he asked the imperial court to send troops to help the Wa State solve the problem of the current civil war.
Looking at the first half of the excerpt, it is enough to make Emperor Hongzhi happy.
"All the pirates have been wiped out?"
Although Emperor Hongzhi was delighted, he also couldn't believe it.
This has to be taken care of, and the eight casualties will eliminate the Japanese who have been harassing the Daming Sea for a hundred years.
Xiao Jing only knew about the great victory, but he didn't know what the content was, and after listening to what Emperor Hongzhi said, he immediately arrested it.
After seeing it, he was also incredulous, and said: "It seems that it was really destroyed, and now it seems that the treasure ship is really powerful." ”
It can be suspected that Xie Zhi and Zhu Houzhao falsely reported their achievements, but this is Zhang Mao's excerpt.
Zhang Mao has always been stable in his work, and he is not a person who is greedy for merit, and he will never make false mistakes.
So from beginning to end, Emperor Hongzhi and Xiao Jing had all kinds of emotions, but they never doubted the authenticity of this excerpt.
After a while, Emperor Hongzhi said excitedly: "Immediately report the news of the great victory, this is a matter of celebrating with the whole court." ”
In this battle, I am afraid that I will not have 10,000 yuan of money and food, and I should be happy that I have won the greatest victory at the smallest price.
After being happy, Emperor Hongzhi said: "Zhejiang Dusi, Taizhou Wei commanded the military equipment, and even five Cangshan ships could not be gathered, so such a person was left to do nothing." ”
Zhang Mao's excerpt is to report good news, but the worry also has to be reported.
Some of the shortcomings in the army have reached an imminent problem, and if it weren't for the help of this treasure ship and the guards in the clouds, this victory or defeat would not have been certain.