Yang Cong stood under the banner of Shuai, silently watching his soldiers form a formation, seemingly calm on the surface, but already angry in his heart.

He finally understood why he was a dignified Ming, with a territory of thousands of miles and a population of hundreds of millions, but he was repeatedly bullied by small forces like Dongying and Beiyuan Yuxi, and finally even died in the hands of a Houjin with a population of less than one million.

Because many people have surpassed the bottom line of being a human being, and have completely lost their humanity in order to compete for power and profit!

Yan Song, Qiu Luan, and Zhao Wenhua are not good at dealing with foreign enemies, but they stab them in the back and frame their own people.

Historically, Zhu Kun was also so angry that he committed suicide when he just broke the pirates and won the victory of Zoumaxi.

and Zhang Jing and Li Tianzhong were framed to death as soon as they defeated the Japanese and won the victory of Wang Jiangjing.

and Zeng Milling was also, just after the defeat of the Tartars, he was about to recover the Hetao, he was dismissed and cut down, escorted back to Beijing and beheaded.

This is what the Ming Dynasty is like in the middle and late stages, and many people in the court don't want faces, they just want power, and they just want to make profits.

This time the Japanese invaded Yangzhou, obviously there was an internal response, because this Li Guangtou came too "timely", at this time it was the weakest time for Nanzhili's defense to "seize the opportunity" to rush over, will this be a coincidence?

Yan Song, you wait for me, if you catch Li Guangtou this time and send it to Jiajing with his confession, I don't believe you can still fool me.

Thinking of this, Yang Cong said coldly: "Shixian, wait a minute, you must find a way to catch the bandit leader Li Guangtou." ”

Qi Jingtong fainted when he heard the wrong words, what kind of joke did he make to catch the bandit leader Li Guangtou?

It's not certain who catches whom!

This time, they obviously fell for the trick, otherwise they would not have been blocked by the Japanese before they arrived in Tongzhou City.

To be honest, he was really a little panicked at this moment, he was really afraid that something would happen to Yang Cong.

He knew very well that since the Japanese dared to intercept them, they must have gathered all the horses, twenty or thirty thousand horses, and that was no joke.

If his subordinates are all the elite of the border army or the elite of the Shenji battalion, if the more than 10,000 people and horses under him are all fully equipped, he is still confident, and even if there are 20,000 or 30,000 Tatar cavalry rushing from the opposite side, he is not afraid.

It's a pity that at this time, he only has 1,000 elites of the Divine Machine Battalion, and the rest are ordinary guards who have been trained for less than two months, and these guards are not fully equipped.

In this case, he felt that it would be good to be able to repel the enemy, and it was a dream to catch some bandit leader Li Guangtou.

Qi Jingtong didn't know the power of the Mandarin Duck Array, so he was worried, after all, in history, this Mandarin Duck Array was carried forward in the hands of his son Qi Jiguang, and no one had ever used the Mandarin Duck Array to fight with the Japanese Invaders at this time, who knew that a formation would be so powerful.

Yang Cong is different, he is quite confident in the power of the Mandarin Duck Array, you know, in history, Qi Jiguang led 3,000 people to beat 20,000 or 30,000 Japanese robbers, he has more than 10,000 horses, although the battle array is not very proficient, it should be more than enough to deal with 20,000 or 30,000 Japanese Bandits.

Now, I just don't know if this robber is going to block the road, or if he is going to come up directly to make dumplings for them.

If the Wako is going to make them dumplings, then it will be easy to do, what his men lack at this time is long-range attack, and there is no problem with melee combat, as long as the Wako dares to rush up, they will definitely not be able to eat and walk around.

If it is a blockade, it will be a bit troublesome, because he is not very familiar with the terrain ahead, and rashly leads the army to rush up, if he falls into a trap or an ambush, it is difficult to say the outcome of the battle.

He was thinking nonsense there, when another scout appeared in the southeast, and the scouts came to report that tens of thousands of would-be robbers had rushed over!

Good!

When Yang Cong heard the news, he was so excited that he almost didn't jump up from his horse, it's good!

He thought for a moment, and then ordered without hesitation: "Order, the mandarin duck formation moves closer to the middle, the shield wall is defended, and all muskets and artillery are aimed at the southeast direction, ready to fire." ”

When Qi Jingtong heard this, he could only say to Hu Zongxian: "Lord Hu, please keep you and Lord Shen on the side of the adult, if the situation is not right, you can escort the adult away." ”

With that, he rode his horse and ran to the battle formation in the southeast direction, and his expression was almost as if he had gone to righteousness.

When Hu Zongxian heard this, he couldn't help but sigh secretly, and then hit his horse and came behind Yang Cong, holding the handle of the knife, and silently staring ahead.

When Yang Cong saw this scene, he couldn't help but have black lines on his face, these two guys, what are they doing, are they so terrible?

To tell the truth, Hu Zongxian also thinks that the Japanese are very terrible, because until this time, the Ming army has not really started a big war with the Japanese invaders, in the past, the Japanese invaded everywhere, and the coastal guards were passively defended, and the coastal guards have been in ruin for a long time, and they can't do the Japanese at all, in order to shirk their responsibilities, they will naturally boast about the Japanese invaders very much.

Therefore, now the Ming Dynasty and the opposition all think that the Japanese are very strong in combat and are basically not under the Tartars, and Hu Zongxian has never fought with the Japanese Kou, so he naturally thinks so.

So, how terrible are the pirates?

Soon, they knew that before half an hour later, there was a large number of black pressure on the heads of people in the southeast direction, and they didn't know how many Japanese people were holding Japanese knives and bows and arrows, and they rushed over with their swords, all over the mountains, and it was indeed quite scary.

At this time, Qi Jingtong, who was commanding in front of the formation, did not need Yang Cong's order, and as soon as the Japanese invaders rushed to about a mile in front of the Mandarin Duck formation, the artillery of the Shenji Battalion rang out.

"Boom, boom", accompanied by a roar of artillery, dozens of shells smashed into the group of pirates.

However, there was no change at all in the charging formation of the Japanese invaders, because their charging formation was already very chaotic, even if it was "chaotic" after being smashed over dozens of people, it was nothing if 20,000 or 30,000 people fell dozens of them, and dozens of shells smashed into it naturally did not see any effect.

Although these pirates and pirates are messy, they have a common characteristic, that is, they are not afraid of death, you know, the pirates are basically samurai and civilians who have experienced wars and are cornered, death is not terrible for them, what is terrible is that they can't grab things, because they can't grab things, not only do they have no way to live, but their families can't survive, let alone pirates, how can people who are afraid of death be pirates.

Therefore, an artillery bombardment had no deterrent effect on these guys, and they still shouted and rushed over in a frenzy.

Qi Jingtong had no choice but to order the artillery to continue the bombardment, after three rounds of artillery bombardment, the Japanese had already rushed to a place less than two hundred steps away from the mandarin duck array, these guys, rushing forward is like a wild horse on the loose, fast and scary!

Of course, this alone can't scare Qi Jingtong, the speed of the Tatar cavalry rushing forward is not slower than the wild horse that has escaped, he has seen it when he was in Xuanfu Town, and how to deal with him is quite clear.

"Papapa", the battlefield remembered the roar of muskets, and this time the formation of the Japanese finally changed a little, because the people in the front row fell a large piece, and most of them did not die, they all rolled on the ground in pain, and the people behind were blocked by them, and this formation was even more chaotic.