Chapter 379: The First Battle
The howling sea breeze blew the bushes on the top of the island, and a few heads poked out a little to look at them, and immediately retracted.
The huge fleet is heading northwest, its ships connected like mountains that cover the sky, and its sails like clouds floating in the sky, which is terrifying.
"The momentum is quite scary, and I don't know how many will be left when I turn back!" Zhang San pretended to be calm and scolded a few words in a low voice.
"Third brother, look!" The guards beside him cautiously pointed in the other direction, and three large ships docked on the edge of the island, and dozens of pirates tapped ashore.
"It's all hidden." Zhang Sanyi lowered his head, curled up on all fours and lay on his stomach in the bushes.
Even Qian Yuan didn't expect that Zhang San was so bold that he was not in Sanmen Town, but ventured out of the town as early as two days ago, leaving five people in a small hidden fishing village on the shore, and personally took four people out to sea on this island.
Zhang San has been with Qian Yuan's guard for the longest time, his mind is simple, but sometimes he thinks too much, and now in the escort team, his status is not as good as Wang Yi and Yang Wen, and Liu Hong and Zhou Ze, who are relatively young, have gradually emerged, Zhang San is not willing to do this, so he made this risky choice.
Lying in the damp grass, it seemed that it had been a long time before Zhang San dared to raise his head, he did not look at the shore, but looked straight to the northwest, the three big ships hung up their sails and were speeding towards the fleet.
"It's time to go." Zhang San gritted his teeth, "Take the good guy and follow me." ”
The five of them went down the mountain tremblingly, got out of the dense forest and looked carefully for a while, only to confirm that the Japanese had left, Zhang San quickly climbed halfway up the mountain and drilled into the cave.
A string of numbers was drawn on the wall of the cave with sharp stones, and Zhang San pursed his lips and smiled, these are Arabic numerals, which were taught by the young master himself...... I still don't know why it's called Arabic.
"Third brother, how is it?"
Zhang San was in high spirits and waved his hand: "Go back, this time you are all lucky, after this battle, find a matchmaker to marry you a good mother-in-law!" ”
Just when the big stone fell in Zhang San's heart and was about to return, Qi Jiguang outside Sanmen Town ...... That is, it is good to cultivate qi, otherwise you have to be angry and scolded.
It's just three or five hundred widows, and in the face of the thousand and five Qi family troops led by Qi Jiguang, it is naturally a rout without resistance.
This is the first time that Qi Jiajun has officially stepped onto the stage of history, and Qi Jiguang hopes to have a perfect appearance.
Unfortunately, there is only a perfect start, but not a perfect ending.
At the beginning of the battle, the ferocious Japanese were blocked by the wolf's fangs, and the javelins, bows and arrows caused the Japanese to suffer repeated setbacks.
When the two faced off, even if the Japanese could avoid the sweep of the wolf's fangs, they could not break through the defense line composed of two rattan cards, and four spears that were much longer than normal pierced the chests of one after another.
With the crowd outnumbered, the situation is very good, Qi Jiguang naturally will not go into battle in person, and the most relied on generals Wu Weizhong and Ding Bangyan did not go into battle, and the command was Lou Dayou of Yiwu Lou.
"That Qian Hanlin's method is quite useful." Wu Weizhong said with a smile: "A first-level reward of thirty taels of silver, even if it is a recruit, there is no one who flinched and retreated!" ”
Wu Weizhong is a native of Yiwu, a martial artist of Jiajing for 31 years, familiar with reading military books since childhood, skilled in martial arts, and strategic, and relied on by Qi Jiguang.
Although the Qi family's army discipline is strict, once they flinch and flee, cut off their ears, and after returning to the camp, those who do not have both ears will be beheaded, but sometimes, no matter how strict the military discipline is, it cannot guarantee that the soldiers will not flinch.
Therefore, Qi Jiguang announced before the war that a head is exchanged for thirty taels of silver, and there is no arrears, which makes the Yiwu soldiers who have no silver in the whole family all the year round scream, and after the war, they only know how to move forward desperately, and never look back.
"Three or five hundred widows...... Ding Bangyan rolled his eyes, "If you cut off all your heads and get ten thousand taels of silver, where can you get so much silver...... You have to know that the Qian family's guards are so many people, how many heads can be cut off? And Qian Hanlin...... That's not only the broom star, but also the God of Wealth! ”
Ding Bangyan is also from Wuju and is skilled in bows and horses, but the difference is that he is quite literate, can sing and sing with Qi Jiguang's poems, and is also good at accounts.
Qi Jiguang didn't seem to react, just staring at the battlefield that was still killing not far away, but he was beating a drum in his heart, did he say something too much...... A first-grade thirty-two lines of silver, this is the specification set by Qian Yuan when he won the victory of Chongde, although Qi Jiguang's hands and feet are not clean, and there is still a lot of silver in his hands, but he can't hold up such a spending.
In fact, in history, the reward of the Qi family army is a first-level thirty-two pieces of silver, but today's Qi Jiguang ignores the fact that after Qian Yuan's first battle in Chongde, the escort team fought in the form of a squad, and the reward for killing the enemy was also issued in the form of a squad, and it was not that whoever grabbed the first level could exchange it for thirty taels of silver.
And this overlooked point made the first battle of the Qi family's army, which was officially formed, have a disgraceful end.
After a quarter of an hour of confrontation, the Japanese finally collapsed after leaving more than a hundred corpses in front of the mandarin duck array set up by the Qi family's army.
Lou Dayou, who was in command of the formation, proudly brandished his waist knife, and was about to order his own soldiers to change formations to pursue, but at this time, the soldiers at the front of the Qi family army suddenly chased forward directly, accompanied by the shouts of "don't run" and "thirty taels".
You really can't blame them for being too greedy, you must know that a soldier of the Qi family army only has eight taels of silver in a year, and a head of thirty taels of silver...... Do the math, four years of military salary!
Yiwu people are poor, the eyes of the soldiers who rushed to the front are red, in order to speed up, the wolf hand actually threw down the wolf tooth and rushed forward with a short knife!
Qi Jiguang's face turned pale with anger, he shook the reins and rushed out of the horse, and with a knife he knocked down a soldier who had dropped the wolf's tooth grief, and shouted: "Those who abandon weapons are all killed, and those who abandon weapons are killed!" ”
The generals who caught up behind shouted with their own soldiers, and only then did they stabilize the situation slightly, but rushed through the front line at the corner of the hillside...... He was actually driven back.
Without the wolf's tooth to protect the portal, under the hand-to-hand combat, the fierce counterattack of the Japanese invaders made dozens of soldiers retreat again and again.
"All slashed, all slashed!" Qi Jiguang shouted sharply: "The order is not good, the ban is not stopped, all of them are beheaded!" ”
Lou Dayou's face was pale, and he kicked down the dozen or so soldiers who ran back one by one, and personally raised his waist knife to slash down, and the blood sprayed out splashed on him.
"Weifeng!" Qi Jiguang held a horsewhip and pointed to the building, "You lead the team to follow, you must not rush in, you must not retreat." ”
Seeing that Lou Dayou personally walked in front of the corner with a wolf tooth whisk in his hand, Qi Jiguang gritted his teeth and stared at the blood on the ground, "Those who are suitable for entering, those who abandon weapons, are all killed!" ”
Wu Weizhong and Ding Bangyan on the side didn't dare to speak, Qi Jiguang was very easy-going on weekdays, trying his best to supply soldiers with rice and meat, and he loved soldiers like children like Li Guang; But the strictness of governing the army is like Zhou Yafu's fine willow battalion, which is often tied up and beaten, and beheaded in battle.
The hillside in front was quite narrow, and the Qi family army circled around the corner in a queue of mandarin duck formations, and there were faint shouts and screams drifting in the wind.
Wu Weizhong was about to ask if he wanted to come forward to watch the battle, when his eyes suddenly froze, and several people rushed around the corner, led by Lou Dayou.
"Weifeng...... What does he want to do! Wu Weizhong and Lou Dayou knew each other in their early years, and they hurried forward, and just as they were about to speak, Qi Jiguang had already shaken the reins and moved forward.
Qi ...... Qi ...... "Lou Dayou, the man behind him was out of breath and speechless, bending over and holding his knees with his hands.
"Zhang San, why are you!" Qi Jiguang turned over and dismounted, "What's the matter!" ”
Zhang San's shirt on his left shoulder was torn and covered with blood, his hair was in a loose bun, and his slashed left arm was still bleeding.
A personal soldier came over to wrap Zhang San's wounds, Zhang San calmed down, looked back at the hillside, and said hatefully: "Damn it...... Lost four brothers. ”
Qi Jiguang didn't speak, staring at Zhang San suspiciously.
"These brothers are all wounded, and I hope General Qi will take them in." Zhang San moved his left arm slightly, took two steps closer and said in a low voice: "Prepare the horse, I will rush to Shangyu immediately." ”
"Your ...... Wounds"
"Let's go." Zhang San's face turned pale and he insisted: "Military intelligence report." ”
Qi Jiguang immediately reacted, maybe it was related to last year's Chinese New Year's Eve, "I let the pro-soldiers rush to go, you stay." ”
"No, it's a message." Zhang San shook his head, "Send ten people to follow, and there is no room for mistakes." ”
"Okay." Qi Jiguang immediately arranged it.
A moment later, a dozen horses galloped to the northwest. (Recommended reading: Reading Files 2013)