Chapter 219: Taizhou's Great Victory
After eating, recovering some physical strength a little, the Qi family army set off again, the Japanese are still far away, and they are ready to go to the place where the Japanese must pass, two miles outside Taizhou City, Huajie to intercept; The speed of the Japanese army was indeed not comparable to that of the Qi army, and they had not yet arrived until the Qi army arrived at Huajie and was ready for battle. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Therefore, Qi Jiguang even has enough time to observe the terrain of this place to study the tactics of the next stage, "The terrain of this place is narrow, if you open the mandarin duck formation, you can't use it at all, and you can't quickly defeat the Japanese invaders." ”
"Now it seems that it is better to divide the Mandarin Duck Array into two waves, and change it to the Five Elements Array." These days, he has studied the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness", visited the training of the Qi family army, not to mention personally seen how the Qi family army fought against the Japanese invaders, Li You also had some experience in the application of the Mandarin Duck Array, and tried to put forward his own views.
"Wen Yang is right, in a place with a narrow terrain like this, it is more suitable to use the Five Elements Array than the Mandarin Duck Array." Qi Jiguang was quite pleased with his rapid progress, for the general must know astronomy and geography, and the use of different tactics according to the terrain is a necessary quality of a qualified general, Li You's suggestion is a good reflection of this.
"Pass the order down, change the formation!" The heralds ran in all directions, and soon sent Qi Jiguang's order to Wu Weizhong, Zhu Wenda and other generals, and they immediately commanded the following Mandarin Duck Formation team to change formation according to Qi Jiguang's order. The number of people in the team is reduced by half, and it is more suitable for fighting in a narrow place like Flower Street.
The Mandarin Duck Array is what Qi Jiguang learned from the secret warfare taught by Tang Shunzhi, and this kind of Five Elements Array is an improvement he made according to the topography of Taizhou, where there are walls and houses everywhere, and the streets in ancient times are not as wide as they are now.
First use the Five Elements Array to defeat the Japanese Invaders, and then when they escape, they will be replaced by a more conducive to the pursuit of the Three Talents Formation, whether it is a large-scale frontal battle or a street battle in such a small space now, or a pursuit battle, the Mandarin Duck Formation can find the most suitable formation change to deal with, this is like a martial arts master's move, the enemy who does not reach a certain level will not be able to compete with the Qi family army, and the Japanese Kou are obviously not qualified to compete with them.
"The Wokou are coming!" The sentinels at the front hurriedly came back to report that the Qi family army was not like the Ming army in other places, trembling when they heard the word "wolf" and were in a hurry to escape. On the contrary, they showed excited expressions one by one, no wonder their Qi family's army did not have a low reward for the head of the Japanese Bandits, in their opinion, these people were sending silver to themselves, worried that these Wouldn't it be too weak to escape too quickly and too late, so how could they be afraid?
"The whole army is ready to meet the enemy, Wu Weizhong, you lead people to block the front, Zhu Wenda, you cover the flanks......" Qi Jiguang skillfully issued an order, in his opinion, these Japanese robbers were already the turtles in the urn and could not escape, and finally turned his gaze to Li You, "Wenyang, you and Ben will deal with those Japanese leaders together." ”
"The last will obey." On the battlefield, Li You also changed his name to a more formal title, and immediately took off the sky-shaking bow from his back, and quietly waited for the arrival of the Japanese Kou.
After a while, thousands of Japanese robbers carrying thousands of Ming people rushed to the flower street in a chaotic manner, screaming in their mouths, like beasts.
"Archer, put!" At the sound of an order, the archers in the Qi family's military camp drew their bows and opened arrows, and the arrows rained down on the Japanese robbers, who had few armor on them to block the arrows, and left hundreds of corpses behind after a few waves of arrow rain.
But these casualties have not frightened them, taking this opportunity they braved the rain of arrows and muskets to attack in front of the Qi family's army, judging from their past experience, the Ming army may still have a little courage in long-range attacks, but if they are forced to come forward, they will immediately collapse, I think it should be the same this time, right?
Then the result was completely beyond their expectations, before they arrived in front of the Qi family's army, they were blocked by the wolf, the short katana was completely unable to compare the attack distance with the wolf, the three-meter-long wolf's sword could assassinate them to their heart's content, but they could not attack the Qi family army behind, even if someone could get away with the wolf, the move was also blocked by the long card player, there was such a delay in kung fu, two spearmen shot at the same time, stabbed the person to death on the spot.
The wolf sword, the spear, the long card and the short knife worked closely together, and a famous and skilled Japanese warrior became vulnerable and fell under the attack of the Qi family's army.
Ignoring the samurai in front of him who wielded a sword and shouted for a ride, not to mention that no one could understand his Japanese, even if he could understand these soldiers, he didn't mean to fight with him, we have been practicing the Mandarin Duck Formation for so long just to fight more and less, and now it's not brainless to fight with you?
Before he could shout a few words, Li You, who was impatiently argued, hit him in the chest with an arrow and shot him on the spot.
Just like the Battle of Ninghai and the Battle of Xinhe, these thousands of Japanese were easily defeated by the Qi army, leaving nearly a thousand corpses to flee in disarray, and those people who were plundered by them were also rescued by the Qi army.
In this battle, the Japanese suffered thousands of casualties, the whole army was defeated, and the Qi army rescued more than 5,000 Ming people, and only three people were killed or wounded, and once again won an undisputed victory.
Then Qi Jiguang took advantage of the victory to pursue, and successively defeated the Japanese in the battle of Shangfengling and Changsha, more than 20,000 Japanese robbers wanted to go ashore to rob, but they did not expect to hit their heads in front of the Qi army, and were defeated by the Qi family army in five battles, and finally had to flee into the sea in embarrassment.
By May, the whole territory of Taizhou has been wiped out, Qi Jiguang's top boss Hu Zongxian happily gave Emperor Jiajing a letter, "The Imperial History of the Right Capital of the Imperial Palace, the Governor of Zhejiang and the Military Affairs Hu Zongxian played, (Jiajing) 40 years in April and May, the Japanese thieves invaded Taizhou land and water, Taijin Yan General Qi Jiguang, a total of 1,426 Japanese heads were captured, and more than 4,000 people were burned and drowned. ”
In this month's time, Qi Jiguang led his 4,000 Qi family troops to fight against 20,000 Japanese invaders, won five battles and five victories, annihilated more than 5,500 enemies in total, and suffered less than 20 casualties. (To be continued.) )