Volume 2 Chapter 23 The History of the Qi Family
If you want to say who knows the Qi family army best at this time, it is definitely Qi Yin, because he grew up with the Qi family army, although he left the Qi family army because he was seriously injured, but he has never given up paying attention to the Qi family army.
It is also quite easy for him to inquire about the news of the Qi family's army, because there are many people in Qijiabao who have served in the Qi family's army, those who come back to visit relatives, those who are injured and come back to recuperate, those who are old and retired, etc., and even his brother Qi Jin has gone home to recuperate for a period of time due to injury.
At this time, Qi Yin was obviously very excited, and with the strength of the wine, he used a strong and fierce tone to tell the Qi family army he knew.
In the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing, Qi Jiguang was transferred to the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division and served as a general, responsible for garrisoning Ningbo, Shaoxing, and Taizhou.
In the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing, Qi Jiguang was almost deposed because he failed to completely annihilate Wang Zhiyu's party in the Battle of Cen Gang.
In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing, Qi Jiguang returned to Zhejiang to continue to garrison Ningbo, Shaoxing, and Taizhou, summing up the gains and losses of the Battle of Cen Gang, he found that the combat ability of the soldiers in the guard station was very average, while the people of Jinhua and Yiwu were relatively strong, so Qi Jiguang went to Yiwu to recruit 3,000 people, and under his guidance and training, these 3,000 people soon grew into an elite army, which was later known as the "Qi Army".
In the 40th year of Jiajing, the Japanese invaded Taozhu, Qitou and other places in Taizhou, Qi Jiguang led the army to hold Taozhu, broke the Japanese in Longshan, and pursued all the way to Yanmen Ridge.
After the Japanese escaped, they took advantage of the weakness to attack Taizhou, Qi Jiguang led the army back to help, and took the lead in slashing the leader of the Japanese invaders, and the rest of the party was cornered, and all fell into the Gualing River and drowned.
Then the Qitou Japanese invaded Taizhou again, and Qi Jiguang led the army to annihilate it in Xianju.
This battle was the glorious beginning of the Qi army, known as the great victory of Taizhou.
Taizhou was victorious, and the Qi family army experienced a total of 13 battles, killing more than 3,000 Japanese robbers, burning and drowning.
In the forty-first year of Jiajing, the Japanese invaded Fujian and successively captured Shouning, Zhenghe, Ningde and other places, while the Japanese invaders from Guangdong and Nanao united with the Japanese in Fuqing and Changle to capture Xuanzhongsuo, and invaded Longyan, Songxi, Datian, Gutian, Putian and other places.
The Japanese were so powerful that the local officials and soldiers did not dare to attack, so Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang, ordered Qi Jiguang to lead the army to suppress the thieves.
In the Battle of Fujian, the Qi army experienced a total of 16 battles and killed more than 5,000 Japanese soldiers.
In the forty-second year of Jiajing, the Japanese invaded Xinghua, and the imperial court took Tan Lun as the right capital of the imperial history, and the governor of Fujian came to support, preparing to collect Fuhua, but the initial battle was unfavorable, and the Fujian capital commanded Ouyang Shenzhong to ambush and fight to death, and the Japanese invaders then occupied Pinghaiwei.
Then, Qi Jiguang was ordered to lead the Qi army to support, after Qi Jiguang arrived, Tan Lun immediately prepared for a general attack on the Japanese invaders, he first set up fences on the sea lanes to block the return of the Japanese invaders, and then Liu Xian was the left army, Yu Dayou was the right army, Tan Lun led the Chinese army, with Qi Jiguang as the vanguard, besieged Pinghaiwei, and broke it in one fell swoop.
After recovering Pinghaiwei, the Japanese invaders fled in embarrassment, Qi Jiguang was ordered to lead his troops to pursue, but because the sea route was blocked, the Japanese could not escape back to their lair, and they were all annihilated.
In the Battle of Pinghaiwei, the Qi army killed more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers.
In the forty-third year of Jiajing, the remnants of the Japanese invaders gathered more than 10,000 people to besiege Xianyou, fought for three days, Qi Jiguang led the troops to relieve the siege, the Japanese invaders were defeated and left, Qi Jiguang led the army to pursue all the way, more than 10,000 Japanese invaders, almost completely annihilated.
In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, the pirate Wu Ping entangled more than 20,000 pirates and plundered Chaozhou, Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang led the army to encircle and suppress, Wu Ping was defeated, and fled, and the Qi army killed more than 10,000 pirates and pirates in this battle.
In the first year of Longqing, Qi Jiguang led 3,000 Qi troops to Beizhili, supervised Jiliao, and trained 30,000 chariots and cavalry battalions.
In the second year of Longqing, Dong Fox, the chief of the Duoyan Department, commanded 30,000 Mongolian iron cavalry, Qi Jiguang ordered Qi's army to resist with a car camp, and personally led 8,000 horsemen to raid Dong Fox's tooth tent.
In this battle, Duoyan's 30,000 iron cavalry were completely annihilated, Dong Fox's nephew Dong Changang was captured, and Dong Fox was only spared.
In the third year of Wanli, Chang Bald led 50,000 Wuliang Ha Iron Cavalry into the Kou, Qi Jiguang led the Qi family army and the musket cavalry team out of the Fortress and outflanked, annihilated 50,000 Mengyuan Iron Cavalry, and captured Chang Bald alive!
Qi Yin did not elaborate on other small battles, in short, from the formation of the Qi family army in the 38th year of Jiajing to the departure of Qi Jiguang in the 11th year of Wanli, the total number of enemy troops defeated by the Qi family army exceeded 150,000, and the casualty ratio exceeded 1:200, which has to be said to be a miracle.
However, a famous general like Qi Jiguang did not get the treatment he deserved, and Qi Yin's hatred of the literati began with the injustice suffered by Qi Jiguang later.
In the tenth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng died of illness, and the courtiers who opposed him in the court began to desperately smear him in order to turn over and seize power, and even Qi Jiguang, who was promoted by him, was implicated.
In the eleventh year of Wanli, Zhang Dingsi impeached Qi Jiguang in the matter, and Qi Jiguang was transferred to Guangdong.
In the thirteenth year of Wanli, Zhang Xigao impeached Qi Jiguang again, and Qi Jiguang was dismissed from his official position by the imperial court.
On the eighth day of December in the fifteenth year of Wanli, a generation of famous generals Qi Jiguang fell.
However, the Qi family army did not sink with Qi Jiguang's loss.
In the twentieth year of Wanli, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the white of Dongying Pass, tried in vain to attack the Ming Dynasty with North Korea as a springboard, he mobilized nine legions with a total of 200,000 people to cross the sea to invade Korea, and captured the Korean king Beijing in one month, expelled the Korean king Li Hao, and the Ming general Li Rusong led more than 35,000 Liaodong troops and 3,000 Qijia troops into the DPRK to support.
Subsequently, a major battle ensued between the two sides in Pyongyang.
The bravery of the Ming army in this battle can be described as earth-shattering, crying ghosts and gods.
The artillery arrows of the Dongying army were like rain, and the Ming army was not afraid and moved forward bravely.
The main general, Li Rusong, was first killed by a cannonball on his mount, changed his horse and entered the battle again, and then accidentally fell into a trap, his nose bleeded, and he crawled out and rushed again.
When the guerrilla general Wu Weizhong led the Qi army to attack the northern fortress Peony Peak, his chest was unfortunately swept by a cannonball, and he was seriously injured.
In the first battle of Pyongyang, the bravery of the Ming army terrified the entire Korean Peninsula Dongying army, and the Dongying garrisons in Pyongan Province, Gangwon Province, Hwanghae Province, Hamgyong Province, and Kaesong abandoned the city one after another, and fled southward, rushing all the way to the whole line and retreating more than 400 miles.
Subsequently, the main general Li Rusong led 5,000 iron cavalry and 40,000 Dongying troops to fight the Bihu Pavilion, the two sides suffered heavy losses, began peace talks, Dongying was forced to abandon the Korean king's capital, and the first Wanli Korean War ended.
In the twenty-fifth year of Wanli, Toyotomi Hideyoshi again mobilized an army of 140,000 people to invade Korea, and the general soldier Ma Gui was ordered by Xing Jue, the secretary of the military department, to lead 30,000 Ming troops as the vanguard to support, and the 4,000 Qi family troops led by Wu Weizhong and Qi Jin were also among them.
After the great victory of Jisan, the Battle of Ulsan, the Battle of Myeongyang, and the Battle of Luliang, the Ming army and the Korean coalition army finally drove the Dongying army out of the Korean Peninsula completely.
In the end, it was the bloody battle of the Hunhe River in the first year of the Apocalypse, which was the only defeat of the Qi family's army, and it was also the last swan song of the Qi family's army.
The reason for the defeat, Qi Yin didn't want to say more, in short, in the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, the 3,000 Qi family army and the 4,000 white pole soldiers encountered more than 30,000 Houjin Iron Cavalry siege, and successively defeated the three main forces of Houjin Zhengbai Banner, Zhenghuang Banner, and Zhenghong Banner, killing more than 10,000 enemies, and finally being outnumbered and the whole army was annihilated!