Just when Xinjing and Zhenzhi Bao changed from a few days to an almost daily newspaper, the Literary Newspaper still maintained the rhythm of publishing one issue every five days and serialized the story of "Rebirth" unhurriedly.

Now only a few people know that Chi Fei has returned to Beijing, and most people still think that he is still presiding over the epidemic prevention work in the northwest.

In the past few months since Chi Fei left the capital, the plot of "Rebirth" has gradually entered.

In the First War of Resistance against the Japanese, 2,000 Japanese invaders came ashore, all of whom were outlaws.

On the other hand, Jiang Ming's side only has 3,000 militia recruits who have been trained for less than half a year.

Although there are more people than the Japanese Bandits, they are still far from the same in terms of combat effectiveness.

Not to mention one-on-one, even two-on-one may not be able to beat the fierce and warlike Japanese robbers.

Now the biggest hole card is Jiang Ming's self-created Mandarin Duck Array.

If this formation is feasible, then there is still the power to fight.

If this array is just a useless thing on paper, then there is only a dead end.

Jiang Ming selected 800 people from more than 3,000 militiamen to be responsible for defending the city, and the other 2,400 people were divided into two by an integer and ambushed on the slopes on both sides of the main gate of the county seat.

For many years, because the officers and soldiers of the city defense did not dare to fight head-on, the Japanese pirates had long been accustomed to running rampant.

This time was no exception, and after going ashore, he rushed directly to the county seat.

Although the county town was protected by walls and gates, the Wako had known how to deal with it for many years.

The pirates first used the long ladders they brought with them to climb the gates, and also used giant logs to strike the gates.

Underneath it, the covering Japanese were bending their bows and arrows, shooting at any officer or soldier who was ready to resist.

The so-called siege battle does not depend on how high the city walls are, but mainly depends on the strength of the defenders. If the defenders don't even dare to fight, then what's the use of the high walls.

However, this time, the soldiers defending the city did not flee, but actively responded to the battle, which was somewhat unexpected by the Japanese pirates.

The soldiers, dressed in a way that did not look like regular officers and soldiers, were divided into two parts, some holding shields to protect their colleagues, and most desperately throwing stones or pouring boiling water down the city, or using bamboo poles to pry over long ladders.

As for the city gate, there were thousands of young and strong people who were desperately resisting the city gate, preventing the pirates from breaking the city gate open.

This is a battle of life and death, and if the Japanese invade the city, they will surely suffer heavy casualties. Therefore, the young and strong people of the whole city were gathered by Jiang Ming to assist the militia in defending the city together.

Just when the battle between the offensive and defensive sides was fierce, Jiang Ming saw the opportunity and ordered the ambushed 2,400 militia to attack the Japanese invaders together.

With a rush of killing, more than 2,000 militiamen rushed out of the roadside at the same time, and then pounced on the Japanese who were besieging the city.

The Japanese robbers never expected that there would be ambush soldiers, so they hurriedly responded to the battle.

The more than 2,000 militiamen did not attack indiscriminately, but separately launched an attack in the form of a mandarin duck formation.

Jiang Ming's self-created Mandarin Duck Formation is a team of twelve people, each team has a captain, and the entire team attack is commanded by the captain.

The first to attack were the two wolf wielders.

Each wolf is about 3 meters long, and the so-called one inch is long and one inch strong.

They took advantage of the length of the wolf whizz and took the lead in using the sharp blade at the front of the wolf while to assassinate the wolf.

This trick really worked, and immediately stabbed the front of the wolf and screamed, causing dozens of deaths and injuries in an instant.

However, the Wakos were not fools, and they immediately avoided the wolves and rushed over to engage in the melee combat they were best at.

In the face of the enemy's attack, four pikemen with spears in their hands immediately made up for it and counterattacked the rushing pirates.

As the old saying goes, an inch is long and an inch is strong, and under the combined attack of four pikemen, many of the rushing pirates were stabbed or stabbed to death before they even had a chance to get closer.

Even if the occasional fish slip through the net, not only are long and vine players in the formation responsible for protecting their teammates, but short soldiers with short knives can rush forward to slash and kill incoming enemies, and they work together seamlessly.

Where have they seen such a battle formation, and they were beaten in a hurry and dizzy for a while.

Seeing that panic began to appear in the enemy's formation, Jiang Ming, who was supervising the battle in the rear, immediately ordered people to beat gongs and drums and shout loudly, creating the illusion that there were still a large number of ambush soldiers.

Sure enough, hearing the sound of gongs and drums and rushing and killing all over the mountains, the Japanese suddenly began to panic, and the more they fought, the more timid they became.

On the other hand, the militia is becoming more and more courageous, because everyone can see that this mandarin duck array is really useful and can indeed effectively hit the enemy, so the morale has soared.

The battle lasted for more than an hour, and finally the Japanese invaders could not stand it anymore, leaving behind the corpses of countless companions and fled in a hurry.

The so-called poor do not chase, Jiang Ming did not send people to pursue, but began to treat the wounded soldiers and count the battlefield.

When describing this battle, Chi Fei revised it three times before finalizing it.

From the early deployment to the actual start of the war to the end of the battle, more than 50,000 words were written.

Because he rarely writes such war scenes, he needs to be revised repeatedly to write that sense of urgency and scene of life and death.

Fortunately, he had watched some classic ancient war blockbusters such as "Red Cliff", "Thorn Qin", and "Ink Attack" before, so he could know more or less by heart.

In other authors of this era, the war scenes are only mentioned in passing by at most.

However, he will focus on detail, which is what sets him apart from other writers.

In this battle, the Japanese suffered thousands of casualties, while the militia suffered only 200 casualties, which can be said to be a complete victory.

Because the Japanese are very cunning, once they are besieged by a large army, they will flee in all directions, and usually will only attack small counties with weak troops.

As a result, for many years, the imperial court has lost more than won in the struggle against the Japanese invaders, and even if there were occasional victors, they only annihilated one or two hundred people.

Now this battle has caused thousands of casualties, which is definitely a great victory.

After the matter was reported to the imperial court, many officials felt incredible, and many people felt that the matter was very suspicious, suspecting that Jiang Ming, the new magistrate, must have falsely reported the results of the battle and wanted to take advantage of this to invite credit.

It is indeed very suspicious that a new science and technology jinshi, who has only served as a local magistrate for less than half a year, has made such great contributions.

In order to find out the truth, the emperor sent a messenger to investigate the matter.

On the county side, the whole city celebrated, and everyone was extremely excited to celebrate this big victory.

Many of the people who had been killed by the Japanese had their family members killed by the Japanese even wept out loud with joy.

When Jiang Ming appeared, the people of the city were even more joyful, and they automatically and spontaneously knelt down together to thank this heroic and selfless parent official.

Jiang Ming hurriedly asked them to get up and gave an inspiring speech.

This battle not only made Jiang Ming a veritable anti-Japanese hero in the eyes of the coastal people, but also made his reputation more and more famous.

It can be said that it became famous in the first fight.

When many readers see this, they feel their blood boiling, and it is difficult to calm down for a long time.

As soon as this part of the chapter was published, it was immediately well received, and many readers wrote to express their affection, but they did not know that Chi Fei had left the capital and was studying the method of vaccination in the northwest.

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