If there are several bridges on the moat outside Qingpu City, they are all drawbridges that can be raised, then just put away the bridge deck, and the Japanese will immediately retreat in difficulty and choose other cities to attack.

However, Qingpu is a commercial city that has benefited from the merchants of the north and the south, and the four bridges do not need to be built as suspension bridges for military fortresses, but four stone arch bridges that can be used for carriages and horses and navigable ships below.

Therefore, the Japanese chose the west gate of Qingpu and concentrated their forces to attack day and night, wanting to capture the Qingpu city gate and then enter the city to loot.

The notoriety of the Japanese invaders spreads far and wide, and the people in Qingpu City know that once the Japanese invade the city, they will inevitably be ruined, so the fighting spirit is very high, guarding the West Gate Tower, constantly throwing rolling stones downward, pouring boiling water, and being stunned for seven or eight days.

However, after all, Qingpu is a small city, the wall is short, and the road is narrow, after nearly ten days of continuous attacks, although the Japanese have not been able to destroy or occupy the west gate, they actually pile up a pile of corpses several feet high outside the west gate, and the Japanese can stand on the top of the corpse pile, and can hold the top of the city wall with a stretch of hand, as long as they are working harder, a few more people will die, and they can climb the city wall and attack the city.

At a time when Qingpu County was in danger, Qiu Yizhi finally led the township to kill behind the Japanese invaders.

In fact, Qiu Yizhi had long known that the Japanese were gathering in Qingpu and attacking the city urgently, so he immediately sent several cronies such as "Tietou Jiao" to inquire about the situation.

"Iron Head Jiao" is a fierce general under Qiu Yi's hands, his martial arts are already extraordinary, and he has a rare and good water nature, he rode around Qingpu County and concluded that this city is guarded by a wide and turbulent moat, with the existing siege ability of the Japanese Kou, it is by no means possible to capture it in a moment and a half.

After listening to the report, Qiu Yizhi put his mind at ease and led his elite soldiers to slowly move closer to Qingpu, but he was not in a hurry to send troops to relieve the siege, but sent people to observe the battle situation at all times. However, the Japanese in other places did not have such patience as Qiu Yizhi, and only heard that the city here could be taken down at night, so they gathered under the city of Qingpu from other places.

Seeing that the small county town of Qingpu was about to be overwhelmed by the gradually increasing number of Japanese pirates, Qiu Yi saw that the time had come, and finally waved the flag and ordered the whole army to march.

In fact, Qiuyi's headquarters is stationed in a mountain temple in the northeast of Qingpu County, which is only half a day's journey from the county seat. It was only because this place was far away from the traffic arteries, and the soldiers and horses under Qiu Yi's command were very stealthy and cautious, so the Japanese who came from all directions did not notice it at all, until they suddenly appeared behind the Japanese invaders, it was like a divine soldier descending from the sky, and the Japanese were startled.

On the other side, more than 500 people had gathered, more than twice the strength of Qiu Yi's troops.

However, Qiu Yizhi knew that when his subordinates were full of soldiers and high morale, they had mastered overwhelming weapons and time-tested tactics and battle formations, and at the same time, there was also the support of the soldiers and civilians in Qingpu City who shared the same hatred of the enemy, so he did not fancy such a great opportunity to kill the Japanese invaders by surprise, but calmly lined up the formation behind the Japanese and waited for the two armies to face each other.

There are also veterans who have survived the battlefield of the Japanese kingdom, and many of them have fought bravely with Shanyin Township under the city of Jinling.

Qiu Yizhi didn't know how many times he had fought with the Japanese Kou, today there are soldiers and generals under his command, and the previous panic and uneasiness have long disappeared, he asked Zhao Chengxiao to hold the line, don't let the Japanese Kou catch the slightest flaw, and he beckoned to call the "black-necked toad" and said to him: "You kid has a loud voice, I will say a word, you follow and shout to the opposite side." ”

The "black-necked toad" immediately agreed, but asked suspiciously: "The other side is full of Japanese people, and the little ones don't understand the Japanese language, so I'm afraid they won't understand." ”

Qiu Yiyi smiled and said, "You don't care about this, just follow me." He paused, then continued, "You tell them: this official Shanyin Qiuyizhi has been ordered to come and exterminate the Japanese Kou!" ”

The "black-necked toad" nodded, and then shouted: "This official Shanyin Qiuyizhi has been ordered to come and exterminate the Japanese Kou!" ”

He lived up to the nickname of "black-necked toad", and when he shouted out, it was really loud and bright, which provoked the "iron-headed Jiao" standing in front of him to turn his head and scold: "Your kid's eyes are bright, the adult is going to tell you to shout at the widow, what are you calling in my ear?" Are you afraid that Lao Tzu's ears are not deaf? ”

Qiu Yizhi immediately stretched out his slap and slapped it the smooth head of the "Iron Head Jiao". The "iron-headed Jiao" thought that it was the "black-necked toad" beating him, and he was about to scold when he turned his head, but when he saw that it was Qiu Yizhi staring at him coldly, he immediately closed his voice and stood in the queue with a bald head in peace.

So Qiu Yizhi asked the "black-necked toad" to shout: "This official has always known that not all of the Japanese are Japanese, and many of them are my Han people. According to the laws of the Han Dynasty, anyone who commits a traitor on the territory of the Han Dynasty, whether you are a real or a fake Japanese criminal, must be convicted and punished in accordance with the law. However, this official Nian'er and others are just forced by life for a while or the wisdom of the order is faint, if they abandon the darkness and turn to the light now, they will treat each other with sincerity on the battlefield, and all the sins and past will not be blamed. If you resist stubbornly, I am afraid that you will burn all the jade and affect your parents! ”

After shouting the parroted words of "black-necked toad", there was obviously a commotion in the Japanese array, and many people looked at each other, and there was a faint whispering sound.

Although Qiu Yizhi didn't understand the content of their scolding, the hysterical tone of these few sentences of Japanese language was guessed to be the words of extreme restraint and discipline.

But this angry rebuke obviously had the opposite effect, and I saw several people lined up in front of the formation, throwing down their swords, and running out of the ranks as if flying, shouting: "Don't kill!" Don't kill! We are Han Chinese! ”

Seeing that they had been disarmed, Qiu Yi ordered two of his own soldiers to take care of them.

Seeing that Qiu Yizhi's words were really true, the Han people in the Japanese Bandit array did not kill or tie up the two people who had escaped, but there was a commotion, and immediately more than a dozen fake Japanese Kou threw their swords and ran forward.

Seeing that the situation was not good, a few Japanese robbers suddenly drew their swords, and cut a few Han people who wanted to flee on the spot, but they could not play a role in stabilizing the front at all, and in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen people fled to Qiu Yizhi's side.

Qiu Yizhi called a clever fake widow and asked, "How many Han people are there over there?" ”

The man looked around for a moment, trembling and said, "My lord, spare your life." Almost all of the people I recognize have run over, and there are several who didn't run over and were killed by the pirates, and now there are only one or two left on the other side, right? ”

On the battlefield, you live and die, Qiu Yizhi's care has reached this point, it is not easy, so he called Zhao Chengxiao, instructed a few words, and then retreated to the back of the battle, still commanded by Zhao Chengxiao.

Zhao Chengxiao was not ambiguous at all, riding on the back of a black horse, raising the command flag in his hand, and commanding loudly: "Jin crossbow step forward!" Pull the strings and arrows! ”

The Seventy Lives crossbowmen agreed in unison, squeezed out of the gap between the middle foot soldiers, stood between the huge shields in the hands of the shield-wielding man standing at the front, and struggled to unbreak the crossbow string with their feet, mounted the crossbow arrows, raised the crossbow, and carefully aimed at the Japanese in front of them.

The Japanese Bandits' tactics are simple, only paying attention to frontal charges and short-handed encounters, where have you ever seen such a tactic?

Just when they were falling into the fog, Zhao Chengxiao suddenly waved the order flag in his hand and ordered: "Volley!" ”

The crossbowman had already taken aim properly, and when he heard the command, he immediately released the trigger, and the arrows on the crossbow machine shot straight forward with extremely strong potential energy.

The Japanese were only a hundred paces away from the crossbowmen, and as soon as the "buzzing" sound of seventy crossbow machines was heard, the arrows were already fired at the front row of the Japanese invaders. Crossbow arrows are different from arrows, short and sharp, and the rate of fire is several times that of ordinary bows and arrows, and when shot at such a close distance, all the Japanese who are hit by the arrow immediately lose their combat effectiveness, and a few who are hit by an arrow in the head immediately have half of their skulls removed, and their brains are sprayed everywhere.

When did the Japanese see such a weapon, they were immediately frightened and stood in place, not to mention immediately lying down to hide or looking for cover, or even forgetting to scold.

Sanyin Xiangyong's side was merciless, and in an instant, he had opened the crossbow machine, loaded the crossbow arrows, and shot at the crowd of Japanese soldiers again.

Not surprisingly, this burst of shooting was like a storm, knocking down a piece of the front row of would-be robbers like wheat stalks.

At this time, the Japanese could no longer be calm, and some of them wanted to rush forward into the opponent's formation, so as to take advantage of the melee combat, so as not to be shot to death without any backhand. Some of them slowly moved backwards, thinking only that they could use their companions as their shields and take over the danger in front of them.

In the blink of an eye, the third rain of arrows struck again. This time, due to the confusion of the formation, more people were killed and wounded. By this time, most of the pirates had realized that if they continued to crowd the half of the bridge in front of the city gate, they would undoubtedly be harvested by the constant influx of arrows.

However, he saw that one of the would-be robbers was bold, and took advantage of the gap between the two shots of the crossbowman on the opposite side, and suddenly rushed forward with a sword, wanting to kill the opponent in order to fight in close combat.

Seeing this, Qiu Yizhi did not wait for Zhao Chengxiao's order, and immediately ordered the two personal soldiers around him and asked them to kill this person immediately.

The two pro-soldiers listened to the order, clamped the horse's belly, and the Bohai horse under the crotch immediately rose up and galloped wildly. The two men came out from the left side of their formation, circled around for half a circle, and in an instant they were behind the rushing Japanese robber, and before the Japanese could react, they leaned down and split it in half with their swords.

The two men struck a blow, without any fighting, and after slowing down their horses a little in front of the Japanese and calmly passing through the demonstration, they urged the horses back to their own phalanx.

Qiu Yizhi was proud to see that his subordinates had effortlessly cleaned up hundreds of Japanese robbers, but his mind was still calm, and he suddenly realized that these Japanese robbers still had the morale to resist stubbornly, and I was afraid that they would collapse in a moment and a half.

You must know that this group of more than 500 people gathered together with great difficulty, and if they disperse, I am afraid that this group of Japanese robbers will be frightened by Qiu Yizhi, and they will never risk attacking the city again, so they will no longer find a chance to gather and annihilate them. These escaped pirates were left alone, and soon after, it was another uncontrollable trouble for the security of Jiangnan.

So Qiu Yizhi called Zhao Chengxiao and whispered in his ear.

Zhao Chengxiao nodded, waved the command flag and ordered the crossbowmen to stop firing and retreat to the end of the formation, while the heavy infantry of the Dangya battalion slowly advanced forward, and the two wings were covered by the sword and shield men. In a short time, when the Yaying had advanced to the head of the arch bridge, it completely forced the Japanese to a dilemma.