A small opening appeared in front of the entire array, and the shield bearers of the front army saw this qiē, causing a small commotion.

Before the Ming archers could send out the second arrow, more than sixty Japanese soldiers had already rushed into the small opening, and the billowing sword light with the reflection of the sun's light was constantly flashing everyone's eyes, but soon, the white light turned into red light.

The wooden shield of the shield bearer is completely unable to resist these sharp Japanese knives, and even the hand with the shield is often halved by a knife, and these people's knife skills are never dragged in mud and water, the knife is ruthless, or horizontal slashing, or jumping and chopping, all of which are to find the weakest point of the enemy's defense, and kill the enemy in the most rapid way.

There was a gap of more than twenty steps between the shield bearers and the sword and axe hands in the central formation, and the sword and axe men in the middle didn't know what was happening in front of them, only to suddenly see a group of killing gods wearing ghost masks pouring in from the small opening in front.

In the flash of the sword, the screams were repeated, and the sky was full of fragments of shields and human stumps, and those knives brought out a rain of blood in the slashing again and again, accompanied by the death wails of the dead and wounded on the ground, impacting everyone's heart.

I don't know who started, threw down the weapon in his hand and turned around and ran, Li Cangxing was surprised to find that the Ming army, which was as slow as a snail when advancing just now, became rhinoceros when they fled, lost their armor, threw away their weapons, and rushed to the city gate one by one, rushing to the city gate like a tide, and the general couldn't even suppress the two deserters, but was knocked off the horse by the rout, and was suddenly drowned in the surging crowd backwards.

The rangers on both sides saw that the situation was not good, but did not run, but tried to launch a counter-assault on the enemy, but these Japanese robbers had already mixed into the Ming army, killed in a group, and the cavalry impact could not be exerted at all. In the melee, people became a burden on the horses, and these people were not martial arts masters, and in less than a moment, most of them were cut off their horses, and only seven or eight horsemen were left to desperately flee back.

At this time, most of the shield bearers and cavalry of the front team of the Ming army were killed, while the sword and axe men and pikemen in the center, who were supposed to be the main force in hand-to-hand combat, were deserters with the archers, but more than 1,000 people were crowded together, and most of them were old and frail, so they couldn't run fast at all.

Those would-be robbers divided into more than forty men to pursue the routers, as long as they caught up. A knife down, or chop or stab is a killing, many people directly split in half in the back, internal organs flow all over the ground, many people watching the battle in the city are already as white as dirt. Their legs were shaking like chaff, and some people were already vomiting.

Li Cangxing's eyes seemed to be about to erupt into flames. I just want to jump off the city to fight the Japanese invaders. Just moved forward a little but was pulled by Qian Guanglai, only to see tears hidden in his eyes, and said: "The defeat is like a mountain, and it is useless to go again at this time, so I am afraid that I will not be able to kill the widow and trample the defeated soldiers to death first, so bear it first." ”

Governor Li Cang sighed. He slammed the battlements of the city wall, and one of the battlements flew directly out of the city ten zhang away. The Japanese swordsman who had not moved seemed to sigh, looked in the direction of Li Cangxing, and looked at each other. Li Cangxing saw the divine light in his eyes, and the whole person was stunned for a moment, and instantly realized that this person was the one who killed his compatriots, and immediately hated him, and stared at him viciously.

At this time, the screams of the city gradually faded, and after the pirates chased after them were about a hundred paces away from the city gate, the defenders of the city began to fire arrows, and they stopped.

One by one, the victorious pirates turned around and stabbed to death the wounded soldiers who were dying and wailing on the battlefield one by one. Li Cangxing saw that his heart was like a knife in the city, and he couldn't wait to eat these beasts alive one by one, but Qian Guanglai's painful voice came from his ears: "It's strange, none of these gangsters are dead." ”

Li Cangxing woke up from his great grief and indignation, looked carefully at the battlefield, and found that none of the Japanese were dead, and seven or eight people were slightly injured, but they were all able to move around.

This gang of Japanese robbers returned to the place where they started, and there was another wild shout, mixed with triumphant laughter, although Li Cangxing could not understand the Japanese language, he could also understand that these people were laughing at the incompetence of the Ming Dynasty, and thousands of officers and soldiers actually killed these dozens of people like this.

In the afterglow, the swordsman who had not made a move was still holding his arms with his hands and eyes, wandering away from this world, and the leader who sat on the horse kept talking to him, but this man didn't even bother to look at him.

At this moment there was an urgent sound of gongs in the city, and hundreds of soldiers rushed to the top of the city, and the routs who poured into the city were taken elsewhere by a new officer, while hundreds of new soldiers were gathered at the gates of the city, all with bows and swords, and wearing heavy armor and steel helmets.

Qian Guanglai whispered: "See, these people are all powerful, well-equipped, and murderous all over their bodies, they are definitely not the fish belly troops like the guards just now." If I'm not mistaken, this should be Jinyiwei's man. ”

Li Cangxing's heart froze, and after a closer look, these people really didn't carry any spears and big knives, except for bows and arrows, only the long swords in their waists, and then looked at their faces, most of them had slightly bulging temples, obviously practicing their families. The leader rode a tall horse without saying a word, and all the people stood still like statues, but Li Cangxing knew that this army was full of elite killers, and as long as an order was given, it would be like thunder.

Li Cangxing whispered: "Fatty, I think these people are at least equal to those Japanese robbers, why do you want to send that kind of fish belly just now when there are such elite troops?" ”

Qian Guanglai shook his head: "I don't know about this, but according to common sense, Jinyiwei is not under the command of the local government in Nanjing." You see that the leader, although he is motionless, but even the horse he rides neighs from time to time, which shows the weight of his murderous aura, it is obvious that this man wants to go out and kill now, but he has not received the order to attack. ”

Li Cangxing remembered that the White Camel Villa was destroyed overnight, he had seen those guards of the White Camel Villa, none of them were weak, even if the news of the organ was destroyed, even if it was attacked by the enemy, it should not have been lost so badly, he was puzzled at the time, and now he saw these taciturn but murderous Jinyi guards, he believed it.

There was a burst of gongs and drums under the city, and an envoy on horseback shouted loudly while galloping: "Lord Zhang, the secretary of the military department, has an order, the whole city is under martial law, all the thirteen gates are closed, and all the young and strong men in Nanjing City go to the city to assist in the defense." ”

Li Cangxing and Qian Guanglai were each given a spear full of rust by the soldiers in the city, and the head of the spear was still bald. The two of them looked at each other and smiled bitterly at each other with this kind of tattered thing that might not have poked the enemy before they poked the enemy.

Suddenly, Qian Guanglai saw something, poked Li Cangxing at once, and said in a low voice: "Look, Tan Lun is here." ”

I saw Tan Lun, who had seen him in Beijing that day, riding a horse, this time he was wearing civilian clothes and no armor, but the long knife was still in his hand.

I saw him dismount and walk to the officer in charge of the gate, and whispered a few words, but the officer hesitated slightly, and was reprimanded by him with a straight face, and could not hear the content from too far away, and the officer saluted him and put him on the wall.

Tan Lun came up to the city under the gaze of all the people in the city, cleared his throat, and his voice echoed in the air: "In the lower Tan Lun, he is the head of the Nanjing Rite Department, and now the thieves are here, and the princes who defend the city, can anyone who is willing to go out of the city with Tan to kill the thief?" ”

Voices rang out one after another from the city: "How much money do you give?" ”

"I want to go, but who will raise my wife when she dies?"

"Tens of thousands of troops in the city are not going to fight, why do we people want to go with you?"

Tan Lun and the other boiling voices calmed down a little, and said loudly: "Although the Japanese are fierce, there are only dozens of people, it is not worth using a large army, what Tan has recruited is a master of the rivers and lakes with martial arts, and ordinary people don't have to die in vain, each person will be twenty taels of silver per day, and fifty taels of silver will be rewarded for killing a Japanese robber." Tan is an official of the imperial court, and he is not a lie. ”

There was a commotion in the crowd, and soon some sturdy guys rushed down to the city, and the annual income of ordinary people was only ten taels in this year, although there were some fierce gods and evil spirits outside, but for this reward, there were still many brave men who dared to gamble their lives. (To be continued......)