After leaving Pinghu, Shen Mo walked along the coastline and watched, along the way the city guarded the civil and military all the way to welcome, wholeheartedly hospitality, I really hope that this young adult who patrols on behalf of the heavens can tell the heavens about his exploits and difficulties.

Shen Mo didn't know if his report was useful, but at this time, his heart was full of supreme responsibility. Even if it was just a skirmish of dozens of people, he recorded it in detail. And so it was not until September that he finally saw a real big battle...... On the seventh day of the first month of September, there were nearly 100 Japanese ships, Haiyan County, Kou Jiaxing Prefecture, and their ships were connected like mountains covering the sky, and their sails were like clouds floating in the sky, and the soldiers and civilians in the city were terrified. Before this time, although Shen Mo had seen a lot of pirates, most of them were tens or hundreds, so that he habitually thought that the pirates were all small groups of raiders, and they could not be gathered into a large-scale force, so they could not pose any threat to the city.

But looking at the widows who came down from the ship like ant colonies, there were two or three thousand people, at least, he realized that he was very wrong.

At that time, Su Song's general Tang Kekuan was the guard, and he silently listened to him say to the army and the people: "Don't be afraid, I am responsible, I am guarded; The first observance of our covenant: no stalk, no laziness. Then he began to move the military and civilians in an orderly manner.

Shen Mo saw that under his command, the soldiers and civilians of the whole city were like commanders, and he couldn't help but be curious. After careful observation, it was found that Tang Kekuan had divided the city wall into pieces...... There are 2,000 battlements on the entire city wall, and each battlement is in charge of one officer and soldier, two villagers, and one gentleman and wealthy merchant's family, a total of four people. Every five stacks are supported by an experienced and powerful Pi soldier, and every two blanks are supported by a captain.

These were fixed defensive forces, and General Tang stationed 50 soldiers and civilians in various city towers and Tibetan caves, and led them with 100 households, as a mobile reserve force. Finally, the four city walls were divided into four parts, east, west, north and south, each of which was guarded by a commander, a thousand households, a county bureaucracy, and three people.

The corresponding punishment is also very severe, and if something goes wrong, the corresponding person in charge will be severely punished. If this is clearly divided, everyone knows and understands their responsibilities, and the military and civilians perform their duties in an orderly manner. When the war began, the gentlemen and gentlemen in the city were also on the city, surrounding Tang Kekuan's left and right, ready to be dispatched at any time, and working together to resist the strong enemy.

These organized thieves, under the banner of 'General Tiancha Pinghai', swaggered to attack the city at noon.

Shen Mo was watching from the city, but was invited into the city gate tower by General Tang Shen. He was dissatisfied with the obstruction of his view, but he saw that it was raining down in the city.

The lieutenant who forced him into the building introduced him: "The bow of the Japanese is seven or eight feet long, the arrow is four or five feet long, and the iron of the arrow is like a flying tail, and the bamboo of the arrow is like a spear, compared with the bow and arrow of our army, the bow and arrow of our army are far behind." ”

As he listened, he was silent and observed from the lookout, but he saw that the Japanese were shooting from outside the city through the moat into the city, and those long arrows were shot at the city wall, and the arrows were all submerged, and their strength was far greater than he imagined.

Fortunately, the soldiers and civilians defending the city have been trained for a long time, and they all honestly hide under the battlements, and no one moves. Although arrows rained down, only a dozen people were killed or wounded under the arrows.

At this time, the city began to return fire, and Tong Ke took the lead and stood at the head of the city to shoot with his bow, and his direct troops, the billet soldiers scattered on the city walls, also drew their bows, and the condescending and dense Japanese were so dense that the Ming army had no arrows and shot many people.

Encouraged by the commanders and elites, the rest of the army also fought back, firing a volley at the pirates with bird guns, each time sweeping down a large area...... Although there were many of them, they were all quite selfish and held back.

Shen Mo saw a general riding a black horse and black armor jumping out of the Japanese army's formation, and slashed several Japanese robbers who escaped from the battle one after another, so as to stabilize his position. The black-armored general personally organized the attack again, and finally reinvigorated the offensive.

Seeing the black-armored wolf, the adjutant general beside Shen Mo turned pale, and kept trembling: "He actually came?" ”

Shen Mo asked who it was, and the adjutant general told him that that person was the great leader of the Japanese Kou, named Xu Hai, known as the 'Great General of Tiancha Pinghai'.

For the name 'Xu Hai', the silent ears were almost able to hear the cocoon. This person is a native of Huizhou, who once had the same profession as his grandfather - a monk, and then went to the sea to become a maritime merchant, and later became a Japanese monk.

He had an astonishing talent for piracy, was highly organized, and was very adept at naval warfare. It definitely stood out among the Japanese people, so it didn't take long for them to stand out, and the team grew bigger and bigger. and united Chen Dong and Ye Mazi to form a joint robbery force...... It is one of the most troublesome Japanese in the imperial court.

The city intensified its attack, and the city also gave up its life...... They all knew very well that the siege of the city by 5,000 Japanese was heavy, and the entire Haiyan County was like a fish trap. If you don't work together and swear to protect it to the death, and your parents and wives will survive?

Although the combat power is inferior to the Japanese Koukou, but we have a geographical advantage, relying on the condescending, the Ming army took advantage of it, rolling stones, sasswood, bows and arrows poured down without stopping, until late at night, the Japanese could not attack the city.

Xu Hai under the city was furious, and he decided to dispatch his trump card, a death squad composed of five hundred true widows. In fact, compared with his command ability alone, he is not necessarily stronger than Tang Kekuan and Lu Bo, the elite generals of the Ming army. The reason why he can always win, in addition to coming and going like the wind and not having the risk of defending the land, is a very important reason is that he has a group of people who charge ahead, never afraid of death, and don't want to die when they fight.

At this time, the islands were in the legendary era of chaos, divided into thirty or forty small countries, and you have been fighting for hundreds of years.

It is said that it was such a big place, so a large number of defeated warriors and civilians fled to the sea, continued the glorious tradition of their ancestors, and began to burn and loot along the coast of the Ming Kingdom, doing all kinds of evil, they were experienced, strong in martial arts, and well-organized at the lower levels. Compared with the Jiangnan Ming Army of Chengping 200 taels, it can be described as extremely combative.

But they also have a big flaw of their own, that is, they are basically still in a semi-civilized state, and their heads are not very bright. Of course, the strength of killing people and setting fires is not a problem, but it is too difficult for them to use their brains and play tricks. Therefore, before Jiajing, although the Japanese invaders kept harassing the southeast coast, because of the serious lack of organization and coordination at the upper level, they were no different from ordinary sea bandits.

It wasn't until a powerful and brainy Chinese pirate like Xu Hai appeared that those real widows could be regarded as finding an organization...... Because with Xu Hai, a Chinese pirate who is familiar with the inland environment, good at organization and coordination, and good at commanding operations, can always get the most loot at the least cost.

Didn't I just want to grab more gold and silver treasures and spend them with my head as a pirate? Now that they have finally found a leader who can lead them to achieve this goal, it is natural to regard him as an authority and swear allegiance to the death...... Yes, the guards around Xu Hai mostly use themselves, because they are very relieved to use.

In Xu Hai's opinion, these true widows were the most powerful weapons in his hands, so when the attack was blocked, he did not hesitate to concentrate most of them himself, and ordered them to mix in the crowd and attack the city at night.

Thinking of this, Shen Mo continued to write on the paper: "Although the number of true Japanese is small, it is the main battle force of the Japanese robbers!" Although it lacks unified leadership at the top, the organizational strength at the bottom is jaw-dropping. These words were written by him to the leading generals, so he wrote them as plainly and meticulously as possible: "I have personally seen in various places, no matter whether they are fighting or camping, the small leaders of the Japanese can impose extremely strict discipline and control on their subordinates, and they advance and retreat together, cooperate closely, far beyond our army." If you talk about why the Japanese are always outnumbered, I recommend it as the first element. ”

Writing and writing, he returned to that murderous night...... Tang Kekuan, who was very experienced, had long expected that the would-be would-be would-be attacked, so he ordered the city to be as bright as day, and the city as bright as day. He also ordered the commanders to hold the gongs in their hands, and when they found that the Japanese were attacking the city, they sounded the gong, and the whole city shouted in unison, and the guns were fired.

The soldiers and civilians defending the city also hung on the outside of the battlements with ropes, and once there were those who climbed the wall, they immediately loosened the ropes, and the huge trees smashed down, even if the Japanese were agile, they could not dodge...... After smashing, the rope is tightened, and the giant log is hung again, so that it can be reused when the thief returns.

But after all, there are not enough of these giant trees, and there are still many places that cannot be taken care of, so there are true widows who are not afraid of death and are attached to them from all over the place.

General Tang has a strict order, and those who are lost and survived will fight! The soldiers and civilians also fought desperately, they stabbed most of the Japanese with a long penny, and even fell into the city and died holding the Japanese who had not yet gained a firm foothold. Finally, when the reserves came up, they narrowly repelled the attack of the Japanese invaders.

When the Japanese invaders come to attack, they bear the door panel to prevent arrows. Tang Kekuan also ordered the soldiers and civilians to take a large stone of 1,200 catties, put it on the battlements without sassal wood, and then pushed the stone down when the Japanese climbed the wall more than halfway, and the effect was the same as that of the sassal wood.

The soldiers and civilians fought bloodied all night, and finally Xu Hai's idea of taking the city wall overnight came to naught. After that, the attack was not as good as the next, although he was helpless to kill several leaders.

After all, the Japanese were not an iron army, so they boarded the ship and set sail three days later, left Haiyan, and went to Zhapu.

(To be continued)