The 'calf array' put forward by the Wang family was not something she came up with on a whim. In fact, since she knew that the Japanese were coming, she pondered the spirit of giving them a blow to the head and killing the Japanese invaders.

Since the day before yesterday, she led people carrying cans of explosives on their backs, quietly went out of the city late at night, buried them in the pine forest on the mountain, and then sprinkled fire oil on the ground, and used calves to lure the Japanese into the pine forest, and then launched a rocket to detonate them, blowing them up to the ground.

Sticking her head out of the bunker at the edge of the pine forest, she felt some tinnitus, and she didn't bother to pat away the dirt that had fallen on her body, so she drew her bow and shot at the widow who had escaped from the woods.

Under the leadership of his wife, the veterans of the Qi family's army also bent their bows and arrows one after another, and began to shoot the Japanese cowards comfortably. Seeing that the leader was dead, and his companions were bombed and shot with heavy casualties, the natural army was in a state of confusion and fled one after another.

Mrs. Qi knew that she couldn't fight, so she put the iron tire bow on her back and led her team down the path on the side of the back mountain.

Looking at this group of remnants with a pale face, Xu Hai ordered people to count the number of people, but more than 200 people did not come back, and the rest were all injured and shocked.

He Xinyin said depressedly: "General, I should go to the temple to worship, and any unlucky thing can be done." Everyone saw him screaming hoarsely to stop those people from going up the mountain, so not only did no one blame him, but he also cleared his previous suspicions.

Xu Hai held back his sulk, and comforted him in turn: "Don't talk nonsense, it's a coincidence, if you don't feel right, let's rest for a while." ”

He Xinyin nodded, retreated, and said in his heart: "Finally, I can justifiably not participate in the siege." ’

He felt comfortable, but Xu Hai's stomach was stuffy but he still had to vent, and ordered people to step up the construction of the ladder so that he could attack the city as soon as possible.

And Wang led her small detachment, went around in a big circle, and entered the city through the northwest gate, and when they entered, the Japanese were not even aware of it.

The people all greeted the triumphant Mrs. Qi and her party with incense pots, and they all said that she was a heroine among women, and they did not let the eyebrows be bearded, which made the Wang family secretly happy for a while.

Shen Mo also personally set up a banquet to celebrate the warrior Song Kai, the wine was not three lines, the alarm bell rang at the head of the city, Shen Mo had to put down the wine glass and said: "It seems that the Japanese are attacking the city, you are here to use it slowly, and the official will go to the city to take a look." ”

Mrs. Qi raised her eyebrows and said, "Let's go with the adults." ”

"The general's heart has been received." Shen Mo got up and said with a smile: "But what you need now is to rest, and when you have enough spirits to go to the city, it will help us even more." Only then did he persuade the tireless Mrs. Qi.

Before Shen Mo approached the city wall, he saw long arrows like raindrops shooting in from outside, and Tie Zhu hurriedly led people to hold shields to protect the adults.

Shen Mo pushed away a guard beside him, and said angrily: "Is my life worth anything?" He lowered his voice and said, "Everyone is watching me, don't make me ugly." ”

Tie Zhu and the others had to disperse slightly, staring at the long arrows that fell beside them from time to time, silent but calm, and calmly walked to the base of the city wall in the eyes of everyone...... He himself secretly breathed a sigh of relief, only to find that his back was already soaked with sweat.

The bow used by the Japanese was seven or eight feet long, and the arrow was four or five feet long, and if it hit the houses in the city, it would penetrate the roofs and enter the houses with great force. The soldiers and civilians were suppressed and hid behind the battlements, and dozens of people were still shot.

When Shen Mo was at a loss, he heard a coquettish cry not far away, but it was Mrs. Qi who led her own soldiers up, only to see that she was not afraid of arrows and stones, stretched out her bow and arrows, and each arrow would shoot a small leader. Her own soldiers also followed with bows and arrows, the same arrows were not missed, under their encouragement, the five hundred Qi family soldiers also got up one after another, saw the gap and opened their bows to shoot, and shouted loudly to their militiamen, with bird guns to shoot the enemy, although the hit rate was low, but the victory was dense in the projectiles, and it was condescending, so that the Japanese who were close to the moat to shoot had to hide behind the cart, and the shooting naturally slowed down.

When Xu Hai saw this, he blew the conch, and the Japanese pushed all the carts that were used as bunkers into the moat, and when the hundreds of carts full of earth and stones all retreated, the five passages were filled.

The silence in the city couldn't help but gasp, it seems that after several years of training, the Japanese are no longer as helpless against the siege as before.

Xu Haiqiang ordered the crossbowmen to suppress the head of the city, and at the same time blew the conch of the siege, and the siege team that couldn't wait for a long time held a shield and a shovel, howling and rushing up the passage, but was blocked by the attached wall on the inner side of the moat, and suddenly stopped.

Then some of the would-be robbers raised their shields against the arrows that fell from the city, and the rest dug up the earthen wall with all their strength under their cover. Xu Hai's eyes were very poisonous, he found that the wall that seemed to be open teeth and claws was actually made of river mud mixed with glutinous rice, and recently it was hazy and humid, and this wall was only erected yesterday, and it must not be as strong as it looked, so he directly sent someone to dig it.

The silence in the city looked at it, and said to the Wang family: "It seems that this wall can't stop them." ”

Wang nodded and said, "I underestimated that Xu Hai." But he sneered again: "This wall will not be built in vain, adults will know later." He ordered his subordinates to use more intensive fire to prevent the enemy from attacking the city. The attached wall was much lower than the city wall, so there was no obstacle to shooting on the city, and the Japanese were concentrated on a few narrow and uneven passages, which could not be moved back and forth, which greatly reduced the difficulty of shooting on the city, and even if they held a shield, they could not avoid huge casualties.

Since Xu Hai had made up his mind, how could he give up halfway? He ordered the axemen to press the line behind the team, and if he retreated from the latter, he would be killed. In the case of death in advance and retreat, the siege team found that those who were digging under the base of the wall were safe, so they rushed forward and dug desperately.

Around the time of Shen, with a cheer from the bottom of the city, a hole was dug in a section of the wall, and then the rest of the area was also dug up, and the Japanese invaded the hole excitedly, and then ...... They were dumbfounded.

I saw a three-zhang high city wall and a one-zhang high attached wall, sandwiching out a road less than one zhang wide, which was the siege area they could stand on.

The would-be robbers who rushed into the attached wall looked at each other and said in their hearts, what should I do? You can't even bring in a ladder, so do you have to climb up like a monkey?

The defenders of the city were not polite to them, and the rolling stones and trees that could not wait for a long time poured down, and many of the would-be robbers could not dodge, and were slapped into meat pies on the spot.

These are the other two benefits of the attached wall, which allows the enemy to have no room to attack the city, and allows the rolling stones and trees on the city to be smashed in the pit without aiming.

The Japanese were beaten to the point of flesh and blood, and had no choice but to retreat. The soldiers and civilians in the city cheered in unison, and when they saw that the sky was getting dark, they all felt that the day had finally passed, and they were all excited.

Silently ordered the people to carry wine and meat to the city, rewarding the soldiers and civilians, and for a time it was full of laughter and laughter, and everyone praised it. But Wang remained calm at all times, and she said to Shen Mu, "The Japanese are likely to attack at night. ”

Shen Mo smiled and said, "The general doesn't have to worry, I have already arranged the night shift." Although he commanded the defense of the city for the first time, he had watched countless battles to defend the city...... It is said that in the thirty-third or fourth year of Jiajing, the Ming army could only defeat the Japanese in the battle of defending the city, but in other battlefields, they were all defeated.

It is said that after several years of tempering, the Ming army at least dared to engage in field battles with the Japanese invaders, which cannot but be said to be a kind of progress...... Although in most cases, it is still impossible to beat.

When it was completely dark, he silently ordered the city to raise fire like day, illuminating the city for half a mile outside the city.

But he knew that the city was too big, and even if he was so fully guarded, it was inevitable that he would be taken advantage of by the Japanese robbers. Rather than that, it is better to deliberately leak a flaw and lure the Japanese to attack. He ordered the torches to be extinguished in several remote parts of the city wall, so that the outside of the city looked as if there were holes in his defenses. In the dark, he hung the timber outside the stack with a rope, and quietly waited for the Japanese to come.

In the second half of the night, sure enough, there were Japanese pirates who secretly entered the city from these places, and they were about to climb to the battlements, when they heard a strange laugh from the defenders of the city, let go of the ropes, and those logs with countless long nails burst down, directly smashing the sneak attack of the Japanese pirates into the city and dying.

After tossing all night, the Japanese did not take advantage of it at all, and they were tired and their morale declined.

Xu Hai knew that he had encountered a hard idea, and he knew that his subordinates were not afraid of fighting a tough battle, but they were afraid of fighting a long-term war of attrition, because the former could survive with that fierce spirit; But the latter requires a spirit of sacrifice...... Those who come out to mess with the gangsters are all bandits who want to make themselves happy, but they don't want to be just cannon fodder for their lives.

After thinking about it, he decided to storm for another day today, and if it didn't work, he would retreat first, summon Xu Hong, Ye Ma, and Xin Wulang to come over and attack the city from all sides. In fact, at this time, he had already realized that the fat of Suzhou City could not be swallowed alone, but the greed of the pirates made him unable to make a decision immediately, but wanted to try again.

This attempt made him lose nearly a thousand people...... After the initial nervousness, Shen Mo quickly adapted to this kind of siege, and his genius brain was finally able to work flexibly, and he came up with many fantastic ideas to stop the Japanese from attacking the city. For example, he ordered someone to take a stone of 1,200 catties and put it on the battlements, and when the Japanese climbed up, they pushed it down, and often killed a column, and the power was very amazing. And he ordered the battlements to be put on top of them, and to be made of broken bricks several feet high. When the Japanese climb the stack and climb on the broken bricks, they can push the broken bricks and the Japanese at the same time with just one palm, and they can also smash one piece.

In this way, he completely transcended the passive defense of the troops to block the water and the earth, and made full use of the favorable conditions such as condescending, abundant materials, and sufficient manpower, and took the initiative to kill the enemy, but minimized his own casualties.

Seeing that Shen Mo's face was pale with nervousness yesterday, he had already swayed freely and commanded freely today, and couldn't help but sigh 'the future is terrifying', and he also put away his contempt for this weak scholar.

In the afternoon, Xu Hai suddenly blew the conch of the troops, and Wang said with a smile: "Congratulations to the lord for holding on again." ”

Shen Mo shook his head and smiled: "No, the battle to defend the city is over here." ”

"Oh, you mean?" Wang was surprised.

"That's right," Shen Mo nodded, looking south, "General Qi, they should have triumphed." ”

Shen Mo estimated it well, but said that Xu Hong was confused by false news and completely fell into Shen Mo's mischief. He led his subordinates and took advantage of the vast fog to go straight south. If Xu Hai was there, he would definitely not let him go, but unfortunately in the battle of Wang Jiangjing, Xu Hai lost too completely, and few of his subordinates survived, and no one around Xu Hong experienced that fiasco, and no one could tell him that Wujiang was a ghost place, but he must not go.

Therefore, Xu Hong went straight south to Jiaxing with a heart full of merit, and that night he went to a big river with a very wide river but a very shallow river. Xu Hong asked his subordinates to lie down by the river in their clothes, and when it was dawn, they would either find a boat to cross the river or swim over.

They had been running wild for two days and two nights, and even though they were all born with iron feet, they were tired to death, and in a short time they were snoring, and they all fell into a deep sleep. Xu Hong had a nightmare when he fell asleep, he dreamed that Qi Jiajun killed all his men, and in the end he was the only one left, and he was pointed at by countless blades, which frightened him to sit up all of a sudden.

Hearing the snoring sound of a group of frogs around him, he breathed a sigh of relief and said to himself, "It turned out to be a dream." Listening to the snoring sound getting louder and denser, it was like thousands of horses rushing to the ground, Xu Hong couldn't help but scold: "The snoring is so loud!" In a blink of an eye, he suddenly woke up, and suddenly looked up, and saw a white line upstream, and the water suddenly came!

"It's a big flood, run away!" Not only did he see it, but some of the would-be wokes who had not fallen asleep noticed it, and they all jumped up and ran desperately away from the riverbank. But most of the people who slept soundly, when they were quarreled and heard that there was a lot of water, they ran around, but they ran around like headless flies in all directions, trampling on each other, and chasing the waves, countless.

Xu Hong woke up early, surrounded by a group of guards, retreated to a distant place to avoid the water, at this time the sky was bright, he raised his eyes to look around, only to see that the water was full of floating corpses, and thousands of people under his command were separated by the water on the high ground that had become an isolated island.

"What's going on!" Xu Hong shouted angrily.

Before the words fell, the sound of war drums sounded upstream, and the warships took advantage of the water to go down, and the Ming soldiers with bows and arrows standing on them were full of Ming soldiers armed with bows and arrows.

But Wang Chonggu and Liu Xian both hated these gangs to death, and they didn't even want a single prisoner, so they ordered them to be shot.

As soon as they saw that there was no way to live, the fierce surnames of the Japanese were aroused, and they jumped into the water one after another, swam to the big ship of the official army, and angrily engaged the Ming army.

The Ming army was self-defeating at this time, and hurriedly shot and killed, but once the Japanese invaders entered the water, it was much more difficult to aim than on the shore, and many boats climbed on the Japanese invaders, and the Ming army had to fight hand-to-hand with white knives.

Two flowers bloomed, one on each side, but said that Xu Hong led more than a thousand widows around him, and he didn't care about being trapped in the water, so he hurriedly turned around and fled, but he met a strong team, and saw the big banner of the word 'Qi' waving in the wind, a trace of despair rose in his heart, and he said secretly: "It seems that the dream is a bad omen, and I am going to be finished today." ’

All of a sudden, he lost his fighting spirit, and said to the left and right: "Then we are in high spirits, and we are not the opponents of this army, and today we are like a lost dog, so we are even more helpless." ”

Both left and right complained: "At the moment of the great enemy, the second general is too unlucky to speak. ”

"No matter how auspicious it is, it can't be beaten." Xu Hong smiled bitterly: "Forget it, it's always a brother, you tied me up, go and surrender." ”

"Second general, those brothers are about to surrender, you can see what will happen." The people on the side said: "It's not like that, why don't you have a good time." ”

"Let you have nothing to read, none of you will listen." Xu Hong pointed to a big banner on the opposite side and said: "It has four big words written on it: 'Surrender and avoid death'." ”

"I see." Everyone suddenly said: "Then the second general will be wronged." "He was no longer polite, tied up his five flowers, pressed them to the front of the opposite formation, and said, 'Grandpa spares his life.'"

Qi Jiguang really did not order the slaughter, but ordered someone to unload their blades and tie them up with a long rope.

He stared at Xu Hong, who was gray-faced, and sneered: "You are Xu Hai's younger brother." ”

"Yes." Xu Hong nodded.

"You brothers are no more than that." Qi Jiguang pouted and said, "It's actually difficult to live up to the fame." ”

"You are talking nonsense," Xu Hong has always regarded his brother as an idol, and shouted: "My brother is much more powerful than me, none of you can beat him!" ”

"Awesome? I think it's bragging, right? Qi Jiguang laughed and said: "I'm not afraid to tell you now, Xu Hai has betrayed his relatives and left, and the words of destruction are just around the corner!" ”

"Impossible! No one will betray my brother! Xu Hong said angrily.

"Then may I ask," Qi Jiguang sneered, "How could we know your marching route in advance?" What about setting up an ambush here in advance? ”

Xu Hong's face turned pale, and he thought of several terrifying possibilities: "Could it be that Ye Ma and Xin Wulang are turning against the water?" ”

(To be continued)