Chapter 414: The Creator of Horror Legends (5k Chapters)
When Hu Zongxian led the army to arrive, he saw such a scene.
The more than 300 Ming soldiers led by Wang Shun were busy collecting the bodies of those innocent villagers at the moment, Wang Shun saw Hu Zongxian's arrival, hurriedly put down the work in his hands, came to a place not far in front of Hu Zongxian, knelt on one knee, and reported respectfully.
"Your Excellency the Governor, when the last general arrived with his army, the villagers here had already been slaughtered by this group of pirates!"
Hu Zongxian followed Wang Shun's gaze, and at this moment, the more than 50 corpses of the widows on the ground who had no one to collect were piled up together.
Hu Zongxian retracted his gaze and immediately asked Wang Shun.
"Do you have any news from the mouths of these wits?"
When Wang Shun heard this, his expression immediately turned grim, and he immediately told Hu Zongxian all the news he had heard from those Japanese robbers.
After listening to Wang Shun's narration, Hu Zongxian's face suddenly turned cold, and he said in a deep voice after a while.
"This group of brutes, this official must peel them and cramp them, and eliminate them one by one!"
Immediately afterwards, Wang Shun asked Hu Zongxian for instructions.
"Lord Governor, the corpses of the villagers are almost finished, what to do with the corpses of those widows?"
When Hu Zongxian heard this, he responded after pondering for a while.
"In this way, hang their bodies from the surrounding trees with ropes, and then put up a sign, just write their identities!"
After receiving Hu Zongxian's instructions, Wang Shun immediately responded respectfully.
"Yes, Lord Governor!"
This task ultimately fell to Makoto Tsunoda and his companions, and when they hung bloodstained and unrecognizable corpses upside down from a tree with ropes, they were also deeply shocked by the brutal methods adopted by the Ming army.
They didn't dare to imagine how they would respond if the Ming army also took such measures against them.
"These Ming troops are so terrifying, they are even more vicious than the evil ghosts that crawled out of hell!"
Makoto Tsunoda looked at the Ming army not far away and thought so.
Next, more than 2,000 Ming troops led by Hu Zongxian himself, without the slightest intention of concealment, formed a tight military formation, covered each other, and marched towards the Japanese camp on Emu Mountain.
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At this moment, in the camp, Matsushita Toyotsuna had already learned from the eyeliner laid in advance that there was a Ming army of more than 2,000 people marching towards the camp.
"What a bastard, how can there be so many Ming troops here?"
At this moment, Matsushita Toyotsuna was quite puzzled about the specific origin of this Ming army.
In his opinion, Jingning is a place that is not around except for the only way to enter Zhejiang, and even the strength of the local government is very weak, and it can only barely hold the county seat of Jingning.
After the first few tentative attacks, Matsushita Toyotsuna has already figured out all the defense situation in Jingning County, and the next thing is to take down the entire county in one go!
It then serves as a nest, and once it has accumulated its strength, it can continue to expand around.
Just as Matsushita Toyotsuna was planning to launch a general attack on Jingning County in the near future, he suddenly learned from the eyeliner laid out earlier that there was a Ming army of more than 2,000 people approaching the camp.
Thinking of this, Matsushita Toyozuna's mood became even worse, and he said to himself: "Could this be the official government of Jingning County, asking for reinforcements from their imperial court?" β
However, Matsushita Toyotsuna is not very afraid of this Ming army, because there are more than 5,000 troops in the camp, relying on the dangerous terrain of the camp, it should be able to barely resist the attack of this Ming army.
At that moment, there was a rush of footsteps from outside, and a samurai dressed as a Japanese coward entered the room and immediately reported it.
"Chief, a lot of Ming troops suddenly appeared outside, surrounding the camp, and these Ming soldiers, each of them is wearing armor!"
"Bastard, what do you say, say it again!"
When Toyotsuna Matsushita learned the news from his subordinates, he couldn't help but exclaim.
No one knows better than him that there is a gap in combat effectiveness between the armored soldier and the soldier without the armor, and when all the conditions are equal, a soldier in armor can kill at least three soldiers without armor!
All the current situations are telling Matsushita Toyotsuna that this time it is the elite troops of the Ming Army who are coming!
Then, I saw Matsushita Toyotsuna forcibly suppress the panic in his heart and instructed the previous subordinate.
"Take me over right away to see what's going on!"
"Yes, Chief!"
When Matsushita Toyotsuna came to the wall of the camp to check the situation, he suddenly found that the previous subordinate was right, and each of these Ming soldiers in front of him was wearing armor.
Moreover, not far from the camp, countless Furlong cannons had already been erected.
Seeing this situation, Matsushita Toyotsuna's scalp suddenly tingled, what he didn't expect was that in this wilderness and where birds don't, there would be such a well-equipped elite of the Ming army, not to mention, they also had a Franc machine gun!
At this moment, the second king of the camp saw the arrival of Matsushita Toyozuna, as if he had found the backbone, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, with a humble look on his face that could not be concealed.
This Wang Fang was the second leader of the Evil Wolf Gang, and after the death of the big boss, it was he who led the remaining bandits to negotiate peace with Matsushita Toyotsuna, and the two sides were united.
"Leader, what should we do next, at the moment, this Ming army is obviously an elite army!"
Wang Fang looked at the Ming soldiers who were neatly arranged not far away, exuding a solemn aura, and couldn't help but ask Matsushita Toyotsuna.
Matsushita Toyotsuna glanced at Wang Fang, and a trace of disdain flashed in his heart, and he immediately responded in the half-baked official words of the Ming Dynasty.
"What are you afraid of, we have more than 5,000 people, and the Ming army in front of us only has more than 2,000 people, 5,000 against 2,000, and the advantage is mine!"
At this moment, I saw the Ming army in the distance, and suddenly there was a move, only to see Hu Zongxian riding a jujube red war horse, outside the range of the enemy's firing, revealing his figure, looking in the direction of the camp, and said loudly: "This official is Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang and the governor of Zhejiang. β
After that, Makoto Tsunoda and others translated Hu Zongxian's words in Japanese again.
As soon as Hu Zongxian's words fell, the camp where the widows were located was as silent as death.
"What...... What, Hu ...... Hu Zongxian! β
After Wang Fang heard Hu Zongxian's declaration, his face suddenly turned pale, his whole body trembled, and he couldn't say a complete sentence for a long time.
If the bandits and robbers in the entire Zhejiang were to vote for an official they didn't want to meet, Hu Zongxian would definitely be elected with the highest number of votes!
There is no other reason, Hu Zongxian's title of "Ming Killing God" was not obtained in vain, it was countless bandits and robbers who used their own lives to achieve Hu Zongxian's title!
At this moment, even Toyotsuna Matsushita, who had always been extremely calm, suddenly changed his face after hearing Hu Zongxian's name, his brain was blank, and he didn't know what to do.
The two leaders of Matsushita Toyotsuna and Wang Fang are like this for the time being, and the soldiers under their command are even more unbearable, and some even abandon their weapons and start fleeing in groups.
And in the midst of this chaos, the Furlong cannon erected earlier by the Ming army opened fire.
Countless cannonballs slid in a perfect arc in the air and fell straight into the camp, each of which set off a puff of dirt, and if you were lucky enough, along with the dirt, countless stump fragments!
The artillery shells of the Ming army, as if they did not want money, were frantically dumped in the camp, and the defense line that they had worked hard to build also collapsed in the artillery fire of the Ming army, and the defense line collapsed along with the determination of this group of Japanese robbers to resist.
The previous rout of the small number of people triggered a chain effect, causing the morale of the Japanese to drop to the lowest point!
Although there are still a small number of people who want to resist to the end, there are more and more people who can't stand the rout, so this small number of people are soon carried by the wave of rout and drowned in.
When Matsushita Toyotsuna and Wang Fang reacted and wanted to rebuild their morale, it was already too late, and more and more people fled without a fight, even if Wang Fang held a knife and killed a few soldiers who fled, it was to no avail.
"Don't retreat, don't retreat, keep it for me!"
In the crowd, Wang Fang was seen wielding the blood-stained long knife in his hand, looking crazy.
Seeing that the time had come, I saw Hu Zongxian pull out the short sword at his waist and give an order.
"Kill all these bandits!"
"Kill, kill, kill!"
Next, in response to Hu Zongxian's deafening shouts of killing, more than 300 former troops led by Wang Shun rushed into the enemy camp and began to slaughter wantonly.
Because there were so many people who had fled before, the morale in the camp was so low that the morale in the camp was outrageous, and the remaining people, facing the more than 300 Ming troops who rushed into the camp, were not thinking about how to resist, but how to flee for their lives.
Wang Shun looked at a widow in front of him who had no time to escape, and stabbed the Yanling knife in his hand hard, only to hear a 'poof', and the blood with temperature splashed out, splashing Wang Shun's face.
Wang Shun licked his chapped lips, and the smell of rust spread in his mouth, and this sensory stimulation made him even more excited.
Subsequently, I saw that he pulled out the Yanling knife cleanly, and participated in the fierce battle non-stop, the Yanling knife in Wang Shun's hand flew up, and every time he swung it, he would take away a life.
Gradually, more and more corpses piled up on the ground, and there was a lingering smell of blood in the air.
With the further increase in the number of dead and wounded, the phenomenon of those Japanese invaders fleeing is even more serious, and those Japanese invaders cannot have any resistance to these Ming troops in front of them, in their perspective, these Ming troops, as if they are messengers sent by heaven to try their crimes, invulnerable and fearless!
With the arrival of the Ming army, the ensuing battle turned into a one-sided massacre!
Those Japanese robbers may be good at robbing homes and houses, but if they are allowed to fight with the regular troops of the Ming army, then they are definitely not the opponents of the Ming army, and there is a huge gap between the weapons and equipment, fighter skills, and even the will to fight.
What's more, the Ming army in front of him, led by Hu Zongxian himself, is a division of a hundred battles that has gradually grown up after countless battles and tempered by blood and fire!
At this moment, in the camp, the Ming army has already killed the red eyes, whether it is those who have already laid down their arms and surrendered, or those who want to fight to the death and resist to the end, all of them fell under the indiscriminate butcher's knife of the Ming army.
Gradually, the number of pirates became smaller and smaller, and fires quietly lit everywhere in the camp, and the smell of charred corpses filled the air.
Matsushita Toyotsuna and some of his remaining personal guards couldn't help but look desperate when they looked at the Ming soldiers who were holding long knives in front of them and surrounded them.
Not far away, Wang Fang's horrible corpse, his hands had been cut off, and his body was covered with wounds.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Wang Fang planned to take the wealth he had accumulated over the years to slip away, but when he packed his package and was about to sneak away, he unfortunately encountered the Ming army head-on.
The guards in charge of guarding Wang Fang, where were the opponents of these Ming troops, were quickly hacked to death with random knives.
After solving the guards, those Ming soldiers stared at the package in Wang Fang's hand, and came up to snatch it without saying anything, who knew that Wang Fang was unwilling to let go, and those Ming soldiers were angry, so they cut off his hands.
Perhaps in order to vent their anger, those Ming soldiers cut an unknown number of knives on Wang Fang's corpse, and it was not until the resentment in their hearts was vented that those Ming soldiers stopped and immediately began to look for the next target.
And this scene was seen by Toyotsuna Matsushita, who was hiding in the dark.
After carefully observing the situation at the scene and confirming that it was safe, Matsushita Toyotsuna took his personal guards and revealed his figure, but just as he was about to sneak away, he was discovered by several Ming soldiers.
Immediately, under the shouts of these Ming soldiers, more and more Ming troops gradually gathered around here, and Matsushita Toyotsuna had no way to escape!
Just as he was about to lead the remaining guards to fight to the death, those Ming soldiers stopped their movements as if they had received some order, and just surrounded them.
Just as Matsushita Toyotsuna was still speculating in his mind about what tricks these Ming troops were playing, he saw Hu Zongxian leading the army to arrive, and beside him, he was followed by Makoto Tsunoda and his companions.
Seeing this situation, a hint of ominous premonition suddenly flashed in Tsunoda's heart.
Sure enough, seeing Hu Zongxian's arrival, those Ming soldiers moved aside one after another and said respectfully: "Your Excellency the Governor!" β
I saw Hu Zongxian nodding to Qi Jiguang on the side, and the latter quickly understood, and immediately signaled the soldiers on the side to throw the weapon in his hand on the ground.
Subsequently, Hu Zongxian's voice, which did not contain any emotion, sounded in the ears of Makoto Tsunoda and others: "Now pick up the weapon and kill them!" β
Listening to this order, Tsunoda Cheng fell into the ice cellar, just when he hesitated, the Ming army on the side had already looked at them with a tiger's eye, if they did not obey Hu Zongxian's order, then there was only one fate waiting for themββββ that was death!
Helplessly, Makoto Tsunoda had to pick up the weapons on the ground, and the companions behind him did the same, and also picked up the weapons, and then, the Ming army, which originally surrounded Toyotsuna Matsushita and others, also tacitly gave way to the position, leaving a space for enough fighting.
It was only at this time that Matsushita Toyotsuna reacted, and couldn't help but feel a chill: "These Ming troops want to let them kill each other, what a bad taste!" β
Subsequently, I saw Matsushita Toyotsuna's face showing eagerness, and he said comfortingly: "We are all the people of Amaterasu, and we shouldn't kill each other!" β
Seeing this situation, the hesitation on Tsunoda Cheng's face was even worse, and at this moment, the Ming army who was in charge of supervising the battle on the side had quietly clenched the weapon in his hand, and the eyes of Kanoda Cheng and the others became more and more unkind.
Just as the Ming army and others who were in charge of supervising the war were impatient and planned to dispose of them together, Makoto Tsunoda seemed to have made up his mind, only to see him turn his gaze to Matsushita Toyozuna and said in a deep voice.
"I want to live too, I'm sorry!"
After saying that, Makoto Tsunoda rushed forward with a knife and slashed down one of Toyotsuna's personal guards with lightning speed.
Seeing this situation, the Ming troops who were in charge of supervising the battle on the side couldn't help but applaud in unison, after all, there is no more interesting activity than the two sides fighting each other!
After this, Matsushita Toyotsuna's expression became gloomy, and he saw him look at the remaining guards under his command and commanded.
"Samurai, kill those Mingren lackeys!"
Soon, the two sides fought together with their own knives, and since both sides had no armor, this battle could be said to be extremely fierce, reaching the point of blood splattering and flesh flying!
Even at the height of the battle, a severed arm flew out.
Due to the advantage in numbers, in the end, Makoto Tsunoda's side, after paying nearly half of the casualties, killed Matsushita Toyozuna and several of his personal guards.
Soon, everything was settled, Tsunoda Makoto, there were seven or eight knife wounds on his body, but fortunately none of them hurt the vital point, at this moment, he was sitting on the ground dejectedly, blood oozing down the wound, dyeing most of the clothes on his body red.
At this moment, he didn't care about this, and in his mind, he kept replaying the resentful eyes of Toyotsuna Matsushita before he died and the curse he cursed him: "You and your descendants will not die well!" β
At this moment, only Hu Zongxian's ancient sound sounded in Tsunoda's ears, pulling it back to reality: "Well, yes, from now on, you have the qualification to work for my Daming!" β
After Hu Zongxian finished speaking, he was ready to take Qi Jiguang and turn around and leave.
At this moment, I saw Yu Dayou with a few Ming soldiers coming to inquire: "Your Excellency Governor, the current Japanese in the camp are about to be killed, what should be done with those corpses, should they be piled up and burned, or ......?"
When Hu Zongxian heard Yu Dayou's words, he withdrew his gaze and immediately commanded.
"Let's pile them up and burn them!"
"Yes, Lord Governor!"
Next, after the Ming army cleaned up the battlefield, they immediately set fire to the entire camp.
The fire is getting bigger and bigger, and there is a 'crackling' sound from time to time, and everything will be extinguished with this fire!
All the Ming troops who participated in this battle were full of harvest, and everyone's faces were filled with smiles that could not be concealed.
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After this, Jingning County returned to its previous calm, one day, a woodcutter who chopped wood, into the wood mountain to cut wood, when he saw dozens of corpses hanging on the tree, he was immediately frightened.
Later, after hearing about what happened to the woodcutter, the people of the Jingning County Government also sent people to the scene to check the situation, and when they saw the wooden signs standing next to the dozens of corpses, they also had a clear understanding of the identity of these bones, they were all robbers who slaughtered innocent villagers!
However, after that, strange things happened frequently on the mountain, often woodcutters or hunters in the process of entering the mountain, heard the cry of nothing, and even some people, near the camp where the Japanese were once entrenched, saw a lot of ghosts.
For a while, the whole thing spread loudly, and the local people thought that it was the ghosts of those would-be robbers!
Later, I don't know who proposed to build a shrine for Hu Zongxian on Emu Mountain to suppress the ghosts of those Japanese robbers.
With the attitude of a dead horse as a live horse doctor, the local government agreed to this proposal, and immediately set up an ancestral hall for Hu Zongxian on Emu Mountain.
Since then, nothing strange has happened on Mount Eki.
(End of chapter)