Of course, Mrs. Qi didn't expect to train these waste firewood into elite soldiers overnight, if she could really do that, then her husband would not have to train his subordinates.

But she is now the defender of the city, occupying a great geographical advantage, and has a complete weapon to defend the city, as long as these guys are trained to be obedient, they can play a certain role...... Even if you don't know how to shoot guns or shoot arrows, it's always okay to push the stone rafts down the city.

And if you take 10,000 steps back, just if the city walls are stuffed with people in armor, you will definitely be able to choke the other party enough, and as long as you encounter a little setback, you will think of retreating...... Because they will subconsciously think that the city has enough troops and it is difficult to break through.

Early the next morning, when the Japanese who had also been busy all night, carrying the ladder built overnight, preparing to attack and take the prosperous city of Suzhou, they were surprised to find that the city was full of banners and murderous sounds, full of soldiers in neat armor, and then looking at their hands, most of them were muskets, crossbows, and the small cannons of the Franco, which made people look frightened.

Seeing such a posture, the Japanese robbers all stopped and looked at the leader behind them, a guy wearing a Japanese warrior costume and a five-short figure with a big head. Although they are not afraid of death, they still won't do such a thing as an egg touching a stone.

The big-headed ghost angrily said to a man in a wheelchair next to him who was shrouded in a black robe: "Lu Sang, didn't you say that the soldiers in the city were all transferred to Taihu Lake?" ”

The man in black in the wheelchair is the Lu Ji who Shen Mo couldn't find, although he was lucky enough to slip through the net in the battle of Zhouzhuang, but he found that he had become a lost dog with nowhere to go, and he didn't reflect on why he fell into such a field, but he put his resentment on Shen Mo, thinking that all his misfortunes were caused by this person.

He also knew that he was in Daming, and there was no hope, so he moved his mind to defect to the Japanese Kou...... In fact, he has long cooperated with the leader of the Japanese Invaders, and his level is not low - it is Xu Hai's partner, the real Japanese Shingoro.

Huang Jin's batch of silk was robbed by the two of them, which shows that the cooperation between the two sides has been more than a year.

Of course, with his arrogant surname, even if he wants to defect to the enemy, he can't go in disgrace, and he has to prepare a big letter of surrender, so that they don't dare to underestimate themselves. Almost without thinking about it, he set his eyes on Suzhou, which is rich in the world, excluding personal emotional factors, this paradise on earth is also attractive enough to the Japanese Kou.

If it weren't for Cao Bangfu first, and then Yu Dayou, who stood guard in Suzhou like a door god, Xu Hai and they wouldn't know how many times they robbed Suzhou! Now it is time for Suzhou to suffer this catastrophe, Yu Dayou was convicted for no reason, was dismissed and sent to Yanjing for trial, his "more than enough defense, not enough progress" of the navy, suddenly leaderless, demoralized, so that the Japanese Kou saw the opportunity to take the city of Suzhou.

So when Lu Ji's invitation came to Xin Goro, the two sides hit it off and began to prepare for the offensive in full swing. In order to show his ability, Lu Ji did not hesitate to mobilize all his old capitals and put the diehard loyalists he cultivated on the table, and the first of them was called Tuesday. He asked these people to pretend to go to Wujiang to participate in the regimental exercise, and then took the opportunity to fan the flames, fooling the gang of 'evil young heroes' to kill officials and rebel, and then mobilize the defenders of Suzhou City.

He also provided Shingoro with a safe and concealed route to march...... Under the condition that the Qi family's army was temporarily paralyzed and the coastal defense line was no longer tight, as a dog man who was familiar with the terrain and had deep connections, he could do this.

As a result, Xin Wulang, with more than 2,000 widows from his descendants, rushed to the city of Suzhou at night, wanting to pick up a fallen peach, but who knew that he saw a heavily armed hedgehog!

"It's impossible to ......" Looking at the city full of soldiers and armor, Lu Ji hissed: "There are a total of 3,000 soldiers and horses in Suzhou City, and now they are all wandering around in Taihu Lake, Suzhou should be an empty city!" ”

"What's in the city?" Xin Wulang pointed to the head of the city and said, "Grass man? It's too realistic, isn't it? As he spoke, the ghost laughed, apparently not thinking that at all.

"Eighty percent are ordinary people, and when they wear the clothes of a soldier, they are actually no different from scarecrows." Lu Ji hissed: "I don't believe you can attack it." "Otherwise, Han Jian is the most hateful, they can always guess what their compatriots think.

Xin Goro was suspicious, but he couldn't stay here all the time, so he called one of his samurai and ordered him to organize an offensive and test it.

The samurai, dressed like a flower and a butterfly, drew his katana and led five or six hundred vakos and rushed down the city with a ladder.

Halfway through, the bowstring sounded at the head of the city, and a sharp arrow burst through the air. Before the samurai could react, he was shot through the throat and fell to his death on the ground.

Although Lu Ji could guess what his compatriots were thinking, he couldn't guess that the female compatriots guarding the city were stronger than Mulan, and I am afraid that only Mu Guiying, who was taught by the gods, could be compared. An arrow killed the leader, and Mrs. Qi did not stop, shooting out an arrow. Each arrow would surely knock down a pirate and cause cheers from the city.

As soon as the leader was killed, the small leaders with the katana also fell one after another, and the rest of the Japanese hesitated, not knowing whether to advance or retreat. At this time, the city was shot with a sparse number of bows and arrows, as well as firecrackers and small cannons, and although the hit rate was pitiful, it was better than the crowd, and it overturned twenty or thirty widows. The rest of the widows rushed to the bottom of the city, and were about to erect a ladder, but they were smashed by the boiling oil and the receding sassalwood from the city, and they left thirty or forty corpses behind, and fled back in embarrassment.

The city erupted in cheers, but Xin Goro's face was as green as a cucumber, and he was now sure that those in the city were regular Ming troops...... Although at first glance they are all negligent in battle formations and have poor skills, it is not surprising that most of the Ming army is so virtuous.

"Lu, your intelligence is wrong." Xin Wulang glared at Lu Ji and said, "I only have more than 2,000 people here, and I can't defeat this well-guarded city." ”

"Then we'll have to wait here." Lu Ji said unhurriedly: "At this time, the Ming army should have arrived at Taihu Lake, Shen Mo and the families of those officers and soldiers are all in the city, and they must be in a hurry to rush back, once our ambush is effective, the head of Shen Mo will be mentioned to the city, and the city will lose hope, and it will naturally be defeated without a fight." ”

When Xin Wulang heard this, he felt that there was some reason, so he agreed: "Okay, besiege but not attack." ”

So he ordered his subordinates to bluff and make it look like they were going to attack the city, but in fact, they were not close to the shooting range of the city. That night, Lu Ji's internal response in the city also tried to attack the city gate from the inside, but they were all ordinary people who were more capable of fighting, no different from those who were temporarily serving in the army.

Moreover, those family members have been bullied by Mrs. Qi, and they have accumulated full of anger, and their mentality is close to the edge of getting out of control. When those who were in charge stormed the gates, they suddenly realized that their chance to vent their anger had come!

The result is very tragic, more than 200 Lu Ji's internal responses are surrounded by ten times their family members, and more than a dozen feet kick one, how can there be a time when the kick is not bad? As a result, they were not only completely annihilated, but also thrown from the city. The next morning, the would-be robbers got up and looked, "Oh, why are there so many dead people?" Knowing that the plan to steal the door failed, he waited more and more at ease for the friendly forces that had eliminated the silence to come to rendezvous, and then find a way to attack the city...... The words were divided into two ends, and it was said that Qi Jiguang persuaded Shen Mo and was not in a hurry to go back for reinforcements, but to send scouts and battalions step by step, so as not to be ambushed by the Japanese invaders.

He sent scouts to reconnoiter at a distance of twenty miles, and in order to maintain the combat effectiveness of his troops, he would order his troops to stop and rest every fifteen to twenty miles of march, with a level of caution that would drive any superior insane.

But Shen Mo didn't say anything, he just watched silently, and comforted the anxious officers and soldiers, Suzhou City actually has to be arranged, and there is no need to worry about the safety of his family.

This kind of unreserved trust touched Qi Jiguang very much, and he once asked Shen Mo in private: "Why do adults believe in me so much?" Shen Mo looked at him and said with a smile: "Because you are Qi Jiguang." "This is the truth, if someone else was in command, Shen Mo might have gone crazy a long time ago, but since the other party is a famous general who has only been produced in five hundred years, then trusting him seems to be the right choice.

But in Qi Jiguang's view, Shen Mo is 'employing people without suspicion, suspecting people without suspicion', and he couldn't help but be secretly moved and deeply impressed, which was an unexpected gain for Shen Mo.

Facts have proved that the reason why famous generals are called famous generals is because they can always make the right choice - at noon the next day, the scout reported: "Some people have reported that there have been some widows on the Jilong Mountain thirty miles ahead!" ”

"How many are there?" Qi Jiguang asked.

"The pirates are all in the woods, and we can't investigate." The scout replied, "But there are traces of ambushes on both side of the mountain road. ”

"Map!" Qi Jiguang let out a low shout, and his own soldiers unfolded the most detailed and accurate map of Suzhou, and as soon as he found the mountain, he looked at the nearby terrain and groaned.

After a while, he looked up and said to Shen Mu: "My lord, we may have encountered the main force of the enemy army." Saying that, the chicken coop mountain said: "Since the enemy is really ambushing, then he must know our details and will send enough troops...... The mountain capital of Suzhou is too short and peaceful, and the advantage of the ambush side is not as obvious as that of the mountainous area, so more troops have to be dispatched...... According to the previous comparison of strength between the two sides, they sent at least four or five thousand people to complete this battle of annihilation," he paused and said, "Of course, it may be more." ”

"What is Brother Yuan Jing going to do?" Shen Mo asked softly.

"Count, count." Qi Jiguang pointed to Phoenix Mountain near Jilong Mountain, and said in a deep voice: "Set up an ambush here, lure them over, and fight them back." ”

"Didn't you say that the geographical advantage is not very useful?" asked with a silent smile.

"If you don't know it, there are still some psychological effects." Qi Jiguang looked at his subordinates and said softly: "I don't have confidence in them yet, this is the first time they have really fought hard, so let's fight for some favorable conditions if we can." ”

The disadvantage of playing away is that you don't know when, and you will be sold by the local people...... The Japanese who were ambushed on Jilong Mountain, under the leadership of Xu Hai's brother Xu Hong, had been lurking for more than a day, and they thought that they were well hidden and could not be discovered by the Ming army.

This time, he brought 3,000 battle-hardened descendants of the Xu family, as well as 3,000 miscellaneous troops. When fighting, the miscellaneous army rushed up first, scattered the opponent, and then picked up the weak link to attack, and finally when the other party was defeated, the miscellaneous army followed to pick up the leak and beat the water dogs, so 'perfect' combat method, so that he didn't disdain to fight the ambush of the Ming army, the reason why he hid there was just to avoid exposure, and it was not good to recruit other Ming troops.

So when he saw that a Ming army was hurrying through the mountain road and running in the direction of Suzhou City, he didn't hesitate at all, so he led his men to kill them.

As soon as they saw the Japanese robbers all over the mountains and fields, the Ming army's reaction was fast, and those who had already passed ran forward, and those who had not passed turned around and ran backwards, which was completely a posture of 'flying separately when the catastrophe came'.

Xu Hong looked down on the Ming army even more, so he urged his subordinates to chase and kill him, so as to end the battle as soon as possible and turn back to Suzhou City to have a good time.

Thinking of the endless bustling Suzhou City, Xu Hong felt feverish, and shouted excitedly: "Duck to ......" Hearing the second master's passionate command, his subordinates ran even more happily, chasing those deserters who turned around and ran, and soon went out of Jilong Mountain and ran to the foot of Phoenix Mountain in the neighborhood.

Qi Jiguang's troops were hiding behind the peaks and ridges of Phoenix Mountain, so he naturally would not be as big as Xu Hong, but ordered his subordinates to hold a bunch of pine branches, looking at it from a distance, like a jungle, and he couldn't see the clues at all if he was not close, so as to avoid premature exposure.

In the blink of an eye, Qi Jiguang took the lead in drawing a bow and arrow, shooting an arrow and putting down a samurai in red clothes and yellow cover! This sharp arrow also caused a sudden burst of fire on the upper peak, and a group of Japanese robbers were killed immediately.

But this gang of pirates was worthy of a long battle, and after the initial panic, they quickly retreated outward - but not to flee, but to meet the enemy as a whole group!

Before the white smoke emitted by the volley of fire guns dissipated, there was a sound of killing on the upper peak, which was Qi Jiguang waving the command flag, urging his subordinates to rush down the mountain to attack the enemy.

Seeing the Ming army rushing down, the Japanese were not alarmed, but saw them arranged in a neat column, with thirty people as a team, among which there was a captain holding a folding fan, wielding a folding fan as a signal, commanding the Japanese with long and short knives and bows to wait for them.

There has long been a saying in the Ming army that judging whether the Japanese invaders encountered are elite or miscellaneous, as long as there is a dancing fan. If not, they will celebrate with their foreheads, boost their morale, and rush up to pinch the soft persimmons; If there is, they will be silent and their morale will be sluggish, and if it were not for the absolute superiority in numbers, they would have fled and would not dare to be hostile to it at all.

Because the person holding the folding fan is the commander of a kind of formation - the Ming army called this kind of revitalization the butterfly array! Every time the two sides clashed, the Japanese would form such a formation, and the captain would wield a folding fan to command, and the movements were uniform...... When the two sides began to make contact, the captain swung the folding fan upward, and his subordinates pointed upwards with the blade. When the opponent was slightly sluggish, they suddenly reversed the blade and slashed head-on. Suddenly, there was a sword light, and the top and bottom were white, and there was no one in sight, and the other party was already dead and wounded.

And as the fan sways from side to side, the pirates will jump from side to side - in fact, they will take a zigzag route to approach each other. Such a change made the Ming army confused, just watched a wall of knives turn over and cut it, and they were killed and wounded, and before they came to their senses, they cut a wall of knives from another direction.

Every time this happens, there is no way to compete, and it can't be blamed entirely on the Ming army.

In wartime, the fan is waved, and the team flies like a butterfly, the so-called 'butterfly array'.

As the elite of the pirates, these pirates not only form formations, but also between each butterfly formation, the distance is not more than half a mile, and there is a captain who blows the conch as a trumpet to command the formations to cooperate with each other. The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who marched in as a whole could not deal with such an elite surprise attack force at all, so Xu Hai's reputation as 'invincible' was achieved.

However, no matter how powerful the formation is, there are also its flaws, after a genius's painstaking research, the weakness of the butterfly array was discovered, and a new formation that can restrain the butterfly array was created, which he called the 'secret battle method'!

That genius's surname was Tang, his name was Shunzhi, and his name was Jingchuan, and he wrote it into his book "Wu" and passed it on to his nephew.

His nephew's surname was Shen Ming, and he transferred the book to his general, Qi Jiguang.

After Qi Jiguang saw the book, he studied it seriously for several months, inherited it critically, and transformed it into a realistic formation that was both offensive and defensive, called 'Mandarin Duck Formation'!

The birth of this Mandarin Duck Array is to restrain the invincible 'Butterfly Array', but what is the effect? You have to compare it with real knives and guns!

If you win, you will no longer be afraid of the Japanese and rewrite the embarrassing record of five times the strength of the opponent and thousands of people being chased around by hundreds of people; If you lose, you will continue to be embarrassed and fail......

(To be continued)