Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Star Monarch (II)
Seeing that Qi Jiguang was about to go to Yiwu to recruit soldiers, Wu Dengke and other Jinhua people immediately cheered. And the other people on the scene were also very happy, after all, Qi Jiguang was going to kill the widows, but he was not as excited as Wu Dengke and the others.
In September of the 38th year of Jiajing, Qi Shaobao came to Yiwu County with Hu Zongxian's official document approving conscription and Chen Bofeng, the general manager of Qian, and asked to see Zhao Dahe, the commander of Yiwu County. After Zhang Bang recruited troops, the first day was not very smooth, but on the second day, feeling the prestige of Qi Shaobao, famous heroes in Yiwu County, such as Chen Dacheng, Wu Weizhong, Wang Rulong and others, all came to apply with their neighbors. ”
Hearing Wu Weizhong's name, Wu Dengke was overjoyed, and his eyes seemed to erupt magma.
At the same time, Qi Shaobao recruited 1,000 Taizhou township warriors from Taizhou, including Zhang Yuanxun, the later acting governor of Guangdong, and began to train the troops. In February of the following year, the imperial court transferred Qi Shaobao to guard the three prefectures of Taizhou, Jinhua and Yanzhou. It was also during this period that Qi Shaobao invented the Mandarin Duck Array that shocked the world. ”
The origin of Qi Jiguang's first conscription of soldiers has been said in many later generations, some say that it is 3,000 Yiwu people, some say that it is 4,000 Yiwu people, some say that it is 1,500 Yiwu people and 1,500 people from Chuzhou plus 1,000 Taizhou people, and some say that it is 3,000 Yiwu people and 1,000 Taizhou people.
Chen Wen didn't know which one was the truth, so he chose to say the last one, because it was more in his current interests.
"Qi Shaobao has been fighting with the Japanese for many years, and knows that he is good at using two-handed Japanese swords, and is known for his martial bravery, and the guards are also farmers and are incapable of the enemy. Therefore, Qi Shaobao's design of the mandarin duck array with long cards, rattan cards, wolf whisks, spears, boring palladium and other long and short weapons to cooperate with each other, each person only needs to do their own work, when the formation of twelve people is like one person, even if the Japanese are brave and dead, they are by no means the enemy of the twelve. ”
Hearing these words, Wu Dengke, Yin Ergou and many other people in Jinhua Mansion who were present showed thoughtful expressions.
"In April of the 40th year of Jiajing, more than 20,000 Japanese invaders invaded Taizhou in several ways. Qi Shaobao changed his previous strategy of dividing troops and defending, and instead took the initiative to attack. The direction of the first attack was Ninghai, and Qi Shaobao immediately responded. But just halfway through, Qi Shaobao got the news that the other part of the Japanese Kou was heading to Xinhe at this time. ”
This news immediately caused a shock in the army, because Xinhe was the old camp base of the Qi family's army, and the families of the generals and soldiers were all there, and most of them were women and children. If Xinhe was captured by the Japanese invaders, the consequences would be unimaginable. ”
Hearing this, everyone in the audience also became nervous, although most of them felt that it was impossible for Qi Jiguang to lose Xinhe, but they still became nervous with Chen Wen's narration.
However, at this time, Qi Shaobao was calm and calm, and only calmly ordered Hu Shouren, a guerrilla general who stayed behind in Haimen, to lead his troops as reinforcements, while he himself led the main force to continue to attack the Japanese in Ninghai. Why is he so calm, this is very simple, because there is a figure in the new city that he can't afford to provoke even if he is as brave as him, and that person is his wife Qi Wang. ”
As soon as these words came out, others were fine, but the faces of a few Jinhua people led by Wu Dengke and a few Taizhou people in the front row began to become unnatural.
Seeing this, Chen Wen continued: "The Wang family was born in Jiangmen, and his father was a chief military officer, and he married Qi Shaobao when he was twenty-four years old in Jiajing. Why does Qi Shaobao can't afford to provoke the Wang family, because the Wang family herself is a heroine. We know that Qi Shaobao is strong in martial arts, has few opponents, and has turned the tide of the battle on the battlefield with his own strength, but in the competition with the Wang family, Qi Shaobao is not an opponent at all. ”
"Huh?" The mouths of the people grew as if their jaws were about to fall in the next moment, but those whose faces had become unnatural before showed a look of course.
Chen Wen, on the other hand, immediately burst out laughing at the thought of the topic he was about to talk about.
"I heard a story before, saying that once Qi Shaobao and the Wang family quarreled, and they quarreled and fought, and Qi Shaobao ran back to the barracks after he couldn't beat it. When they arrived at the barracks, as soon as the generals heard about this, they immediately said that they wanted to give Qi Shaobao a head, so they followed Qi Shaobao home. When he got home, Qi Shaobao asked the maid to call Wang out, but Wang came out directly, ignoring those heavily armed generals and asked Qi Shaobao: What are you looking for me? As soon as Qi Shaobao heard this, the sweat immediately came down, and he replied with an idea: Please Madame, please parade! ”
This is a very famous story of strict wife control in later generations, and there are many versions, but basically the heroes and heroines are Qi Jiguang and Wang.
After listening to the last sentence, the audience immediately laughed. After the laughter, Chen Wen continued.
"Some people may think that this Wang is too strong, not such a virtuous woman, but in fact, it is not. Although Qi Shaobao has a hereditary military position, everyone knows that if the officers of the guard house do not exploit the military households, they will be very poor, but Qi Shaobao is not that kind of person, so the family is not rich. ”
"Once, the family bought a fish to improve their lives, and when it was served to dinner at dinner, only the fattest middle of the fish remained, and when Qi Shaobao was eating, Wang just sat next to him and watched, and when he asked, he knew that Wang had already eaten, and she ate the meatless part of the head and tail of the fish, and kept the middle part for Qi Shaobao. Not only that, Qi Shaobao has always been a poor general, and in order to let Qi Shaobao have money and run connections to get a better position, the Wang family even sold his jewelry. ”
"How can such a woman not be called virtuous?"
Originally, Chen Wen also planned to tell the story of Wang's infertility, Qi Jiguang's concubine, and Wang's Hugh husband, but if you think about it carefully, forget it.
"To get back to the point, on April 25, the 40th year of Jiajing, the Japanese invaded Xinhe, and the Wang family immediately distributed the military uniforms and weapons in the arsenal to the old and weak women and children in the city, and then generously took them to the city to wave the flag and shout. The Japanese did not know why, so they decided to wait for the castle to stop before attacking the city. ”
It was only at dawn that the Wakou realized that they had fallen for Wang's bluff, so they immediately attacked the city. At this moment, General Hu Shouren's reinforcements also arrived. When General Hu saw that the Japanese were really under Xinhe City, he greeted them directly without saying a word, and the Wang family also led people out of the city to kill, and the two sides attacked, and the Japanese were defeated. In the battle of Xinhe, more than 280 Japanese were killed and wounded, and only three of the Qi army were killed. ”
At the same time as the Battle of Xinhe, Qi Shaobao defeated the Japanese in Ninghai in one fell swoop, and the Japanese killed and wounded more than 200 people, while the Qi family army only suffered minor injuries. But at this moment, Qi Shaobao learned that a group of would-be robbers had arrived at Jingjin Temple, which was twenty miles away from Fucheng. ”
So, the Qi family army immediately regrouped, and rushed one hundred and ten miles in one night to reach the capital city in front of the Japanese invaders. At this time, the Japanese had already appeared in Huajie, two miles away, and Qi Shaobao immediately ordered to cook, and then told the soldiers to defeat the Japanese and come back for dinner. ”
The military order was like a mountain, and the soldiers of the Qi family army endured hunger, and rushed to Huajie again, and saw the Japanese invaders working directly. In the battle, the Qi family army beheaded three hundred and eight, captured two people, drowned countless people, and rescued more than 5,000 people, while only three people were killed on their own side, and the most exaggerated thing was that when they returned to the city, the meal was still hot. ”
After this battle, Qi Shaobao won a series of battles. By May 27, the Qi army had captured and beheaded 1,426 Japanese soldiers, burned and drowned more than 4,000 people, and killed less than 20 of their own casualties. ”
Looking at the cheering crowd in the audience, Chen Wen took a sip of water and continued to speak after it was quiet again.
After the victory in Taizhou, Qi Shaobao was promoted to the commander of the capital, and the Qi family army recruited 2,000 people, reaching 6,000 people. After discovering that Qi Shaobao was not easy to provoke, the Japanese immediately turned to invade Fujian. ”
"In the forty-first year of Jiajing, Qi Shaobao was ordered to go to Fujian to fight against the Japanese. After arriving in Fujian, I learned that the situation there was worse than in Zhejiang, and dozens of Japanese pirates dared to invade the place in Fujian, while the local army was helpless. In view of this, Qi Shaobao decided to capture the thief and capture the king, and the handsome army attacked the three major pirate nests in Fujian, and the first target was Hengyu. ”
"Hengyu is a small island in the northeast of Ningde County, Funing Prefecture, about ten miles offshore, separated from the mainland by a shoal. At high tide, the sea separates the island from the mainland; When the tide recedes, it is full of mud. The Japanese built fortifications on the island and occupied it for three years. ”
Seeing this, Qi Jiajun spread hay on the section of the road and crawled forward with the sound of Qi Shaobao's drums. After arriving at the shore of Hengyu, the Qi army attacked in formation, and the Japanese were defeated. In this battle, 348 people were beheaded, 29 people were captured, and more than 3,000 people were rescued, while only 13 people were killed on their own side. ”
"After the Battle of Hengyu, the Qi family army attacked Niutian at night, defeated tens of thousands of Japanese invaders, beheaded 688 ranks, and no casualties. Then he stormed Lin Dun, and when he was betrayed by traitors, he beheaded 960 people, captured 26 people, drowned and burned more than 3,000 people, and killed 90 people on his own side. ”
"After the third war, the Qi family's army was famous all over the world, and the Fujian Japanese invaders died down. In October, Qi Jiajun returned to Zhejiang. In December, the imperial court appointed Qi Shaobao as the deputy commander-in-chief of the garrison of Tai, Wen, Fu, Xing, and Funing Middle Road. ”
After the Qi army returned to Zhejiang, the arrogance of the Japanese was revived, Xinghua Mansion fell, and Fujian was shaken. In February of the 42nd year of Jiajing, Qi Shaobao went to Yiwu to recruit 10,000 soldiers, including Wu Weizhong's younger brother Wu Weixian. In April, Qi Shaobao led the army to Fujian. In May, Tan Lun, the governor of Fujian, took Qijia's army as the central army, Yu Dayou as the right army, and Liu Xian as the left army to attack Xujia Village, a stronghold of the Japanese Invaders, beheading more than 2,000 people and killing only 16 people. ”
"In the following years, Qi Shaobao cooperated with Tan Lun, Yu Dayou, Liu Xian, Tang Kekuan and other generals, and after more than 50 battles, completely eliminated the Japanese pirates who invaded Fujian and Guangdong and the pirates of Wu Ping's Department who colluded with the Japanese invaders, and the Japanese rebellion on the southeast coast was quelled in the first year of Longqing."
After finishing Qi Jiguang's pacification of the widows, Chen Wenchang breathed a sigh of relief. This story has been prepared since the first day he planned to tell the ancient world, during which he borrowed books from everywhere and meditated, and finally prepared the manuscript.
And a lot of the data after Ping Haiwei, he himself can't remember clearly. Fortunately, under the impact of a lot of data, he played a spring and autumn penmanship, and the people in the audience did not ask him to talk in detail.
After resting for a while, Chen Wen began to tell the story of Qi Jiguang going north to guard the town of Yuji.
"In the first year of Longqing, I answered a number of border lands who had come to make trouble during Qi Shaobao's martial arts examination, and the barbarians also entered the Kou at the same time and invaded Jizhen, and the situation in northern Xinjiang began to be grim. In December, Qi Shaobao was ordered to go north to train his troops, and soon after he arrived in Beijing, he went to "Invite Soldiers to Break the Four Things". ”
In February of the second year of Longqing, Qi Shaobao was appointed deputy general of the Shenji Battalion. I don't know if you remember it. At the beginning, I said that Qi Shaobao's father once sat in this position, and it can be regarded as a son inheriting his father's business. ”
"In May of the second year of Longqing, the imperial court appointed Qi Shaobao, the prime minister, Ji, Chang, and Bao to train the military affairs, and control the three towns and the governor. In the first month of the third year of Longqing, the imperial court made an exception to take Prime Minister Qi Shaobao as the chief soldier of Jizhen to guard Jizhou, Yongping, Shanhaiguan and other places. ”
"During this period, Qi Shaobao repeatedly wrote to repair the Great Wall and add more than 3,000 hollow enemy platforms, which greatly strengthened the defense capability of the Great Wall."
In February of the third year of Longqing, at the request of Tan Lun and Qi Shaobao, General Hu Shouren, who had been promoted to the deputy chief of the Jizhou East Road, was ordered to bring 3,000 Yiwu soldiers to Jizhou. The next day of the military parade, heavy rain suddenly fell, and all the troops were scattered, but only 3,000 Qi family troops stood in the school field. When the torrential rain was like a waterfall, the soldiers of the Qi family army stood in the rain without moving, and the northern border army was terrified. ”
In the same year, the strength of the Qi family army in Jizhen increased to about 10,000, and it had reached 20,000 in the sixth year of Longqing. Qi Jiguang used these troops as the backbone to organize and train the officers and men of Jizhen, which effectively improved the combat capability of the northern border army. ”
"In the second year of Longqing, Dong Fox, the chief of the Duoyan Tribe, led 30,000 Tartars into the Kou, Qi Shaobao resisted with a car camp, and personally led 8,000 horsemen to raid Dong Fox's tooth tent, annihilating 30,000 people in the Duoyan Tribe, and capturing Dong Fox's nephew Changang, Dong Fox only escaped with his body, forcing Dong Fox to detain and plead guilty."
"The Duoyan Department here is the Duoyanwei of the Duoyan, Fuyu, and Taining cavalry that Emperor Chengzu borrowed from King Ning when he was martyred."
Chen Wen has always felt that Ming Chengzu Zhu Di's act of ceding the Beijing Xingdu Division to Duoyan Sanwei was one of the limited failures in his life, because of the loss of the Beijing Xingdu Division, Jizhen became a border wall from the mainland, and Beijing City was exposed.
He couldn't understand how Zhu Di could trust the Mongols who had fought against the Mongols all year round to faithfully guard the border wall for him and his descendants.
"In the fifth year of Longqing, the grandson of the Mongol Tumut chieftain Altan surrendered Hannaji. I replied that I wanted to return to my grandson, and I did not dare to enter the Kou in the name of Qi Shaobao, so the peace was opened, and the imperial court named me the king of Shunyi, and opened a mutual market, after which the Great Wall was useless for more than 40 years, and the open land along the border had to be cultivated."
"In the first month of the third year of Wanli, Dong Fox's younger brother Chang Bald led 50,000 iron horsemen into the Kou, and Qi Shaobao once again led 8,000 horsemen to outflank the Sai, annihilated 50,000 Mongolian Tartars, and captured Chang Bald alive. Then, Duoyan surrendered, and Qi Shaobao never entered the prison again during his days in Jizhen. ”
Seeing that Qi Shaobao was sitting in Jizhen and didn't dare to provoke, Beiyu turned to Kou Liaodong. In October of the seventh year of Wanli, Qi Shaobao was ordered to aid Liao. When the northern captives attacked Shanhaiguan, Qi Shaobao lured the enemy into battle, defeated him, and chased and killed a hundred miles. In October of the eighth year of Wanli, Qi Shaobao once again aided Liao, cooperated with Liao Shuai Li Chengliang, and broke the northern captives again. ”
"To the tenth year of Wanli, Qi Shao guarded Wei Ji Town for sixteen years. Reinforcement of the Great Wall, construction of stewed platform, rectification of Tuntian, training of the army, the development of vehicles, foot, cavalry with combat tactics, the formation of the wall, the platform, the trench close contact of the defense system, many times to repel the northern captives, by the people of the time as the famous general of the ancient Zhen, worthy of the Great Wall. ”
Looking at the excited crowd off the field, Chen Wen decided to revise the previously formulated ending.
In February of the tenth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng, the first auxiliary minister of the cabinet, died of illness, and Qi Shaobao was affected by the internal liquidation of Zhang Juzheng in the imperial court and was transferred to Guangdong as the chief military officer. After Qi Shaobao was transferred to Guangdong, the Duoyan Department that had previously surrendered entered Kou Ji Town again, and the court was furious. ”
"In November of the thirteenth year of Wanli, Zhang Xigao of the Ministry of War impeached Qi Shaobao again, and Qi Shaobao was deposed, and finally died of illness in Dengzhou on December 12 of the sixteenth year of Wanli."
"Decades have passed, some people say that Qi Shaobao once bribed Zhang Juzheng heavily, and some people say that when Zhang Juzheng went to his father's funeral, Qi Shaobao used a sergeant to protect him, and even Qi Shaobao's friend Wang Shizhen also said that he gave Mei Ji to Zhang Juzheng."
"I don't have any interest in whether these things are true or not, I only know that Qi Shaobao has driven out the Japanese in his life, fought against the northern captives, and rescued the Chinese people from danger, I only know that he is a real hero, even after a hundred years of him, the army he established and the generals he promoted are still defending the dignity of my Ming Dynasty."
"In the twentieth year of Wanli, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Japanese Guanbai, sent an army of 150,000 to invade Korea, and planned to invade our Ming Dynasty after annexing Korea. After receiving a request for help from the king of Joseon, the emperor of Wanli ordered to dispatch Liaodong and Qijia troops to aid the dynasty. ”
"In the first month of the 21st year of Wanli, Wang Shi besieged Pyongyang, an important Korean town that had been occupied by the Japanese invaders. General Wu Weizhong was ordered to lead the Qi army to attack the Peony Peak, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack. In this battle, Wang Shi beheaded more than 15,000 ranks, and General Wu, who was in charge of containment, beheaded more than 2,000. ”
"In February of the 25th year of Wanli, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was unwilling to fail, and mobilized 140,000 troops from the mainland to invade Korea again."
"In December of the 25th year of Wanli, the commander Yang Ho concentrated 23,000 Wang divisions and 7,000 Korean soldiers to besiege Ulsan. By the 23rd, they attacked Ulsan Castle, and most of the Japanese were killed and wounded, and the rest retreated to Dosan. Then, 50,000 troops came to help, and the king's division turned from attack to defense. ”
"On the second day of the first month of the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, the Japanese invaders sent more than 10,000 reinforcements again, and the Japanese in the city were attacked on both sides.
"In November of the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, Wang Shi invaded the island mountain, and General Chen Silkworm, who was ordered to aid the dynasty, led the newly arrived Zhejiang army to arrive.
"In April of the twenty-seventh year of Wanli, the remnants of the Japanese escaped to the island, and Wang Shi was ordered to return to the dynasty. Emperor Xian accepted the congratulations of hundreds of officials and offered sacrifices to the Taimiao. The following month, the edict of Xia Ping announced to the world, saying: Righteousness and martial arts, those who jump off the beam, although they are strong, will be killed! At this point, the Wanli Korean War finally ended with the complete victory of Wang Shi. ”
"In the forty-sixth year of Wanli, the old slave ** Hachi rebelled in Jianzhou, and the whole Liao was shaken. In the first year of the Apocalypse, General Qi Jin, the nephew of Qi Shaobao, led the newly trained Qi family army to aid Liao, and fought a bloody battle with Jiannu on the bank of the Hunhe River in Shenyang, killing and wounding very seriously. ”
Seeing that everyone in the audience was angry, Chen Wen raised his arms and shouted loudly: "Qi Shaobao, strong!" Qi Jiajun, strong! ”
"Qi Shaobao, strong! Qi Jiajun, strong! ”
"Qi Shaobao, strong! Qi Jiajun, strong! ”
"Qi Shaobao, strong! Qi Jiajun, strong! ”
“……”
Everyone in the audience followed Chen Wen's appearance, waving their arms and shouting non-stop, vibrating the mountains!
At this time, Sun Yu, who was in the crowd, suddenly remembered the last words that Chen Wen said when he told him the story of Breaking Army Xingjun that day.
"In the 100th year of the founding of this dynasty, Wuqu Xingjun came to the world, swept away the Japanese and Tartars, and left a war battle book to pass down. It's just that the people who led the army in later generations were mostly greedy and shameless, eating empty salaries and drinking the blood of soldiers to support their families. Therefore, the battle array art left by Xingjun can no longer be used, and the invincible heroes established by Xingjun are no longer seen in the world. ”
At that moment, Sun Yu, who suddenly realized, was a little stupid.