There are only more than 10,000 guards in Hangzhou Mansion in total, and compared with the pirates licking blood on the knife and the well-armed Wang Zhi troops, the southeast guards who have not fought for a long time have rotten to the point of home in terms of combat effectiveness and equipment on their bodies.

It is impossible to have armor, and there are several sets of tattered armor in the general banner, and there may be rare things such as cloth armor in hundreds of households, and most of the soldiers have a set of mandarin duck battle jackets, and the biggest advantage of the regular army over the rebels is virtually eliminated.

Firearms and the like are all old objects from dozens or hundreds of years ago.

Not to mention the combat effectiveness, that is, complete peasants, who have never fought at all.

Moreover, even with these more than 10,000 people, there is still moisture.

Zhao Wenhua's Beijing army, nominally 4,000 people, actually only 3,000 people, the rest of the Hangzhou Mansion guards, carefully calculated, he almost fainted.

Theoretically, there should be tens of thousands of Hangzhou avant-garde and Hangzhou rearguard stationed in Hangzhou, and even if there are a few thousand households stationed in the county seat, according to the six thousand households in the city, the number of troops should be nearly 7,000.

But in reality there are less than four thousand people, and the rest, all empty! It was these 4,000 people, many of whom were already in their seventies and eighties, and there was no way to fight.

There is no way, in the heart of the south, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there has been almost no war, and the generals are naturally desperate to make money, and now the catastrophe is coming, and they are all dumbfounded.

Zhao Wenhua was also frightened, and in the face of the Japanese robbers who looked like they were building ladders and bringing artillery, he couldn't help but tremble.

He urgently ordered Tang Shunzhi to lead the army back to the division and rescue Hangzhou.

However, in addition to the 6,000 Beijing troops under Tang Shunzhi's hands, the rest of the guards were also under the combat power, although they had undergone a certain amount of rectification and training, they were far from being able to go to the battlefield.

But Zhao Wenhua was in a hurry, and Tang Shunzhi had no choice but to lead the army to the battle.

But Wang Zhi was originally thinking of encircling the point to send reinforcements, and at this time, Tang Shunyi came, which was exactly what he wanted, he left 10,000 people to besiege the city, and the remaining 20,000 people to fight directly.

Tang Shunzhi himself has the ability, it is really useless to endure the army under his command, Wang Zhi's elite several rounds of artillery bombardment and muskets are finished, the Ming army has begun to be unable to bear it, when the Japanese began to charge, the guards took the lead in fleeing, and the Beijing army was also led to escape, and finally Tang Shunzhi could only follow and escape.

fled all the way back to Shaoxing, and more than 3,000 people have been lost.

Hangzhou became an isolated city, and the Japanese invaded in earnest, and in just a few days, the city was already crumbling.

It seems that a tragedy is about to happen.

Surprisingly, however, the city was saved.

Because the wealthy merchants in the city gathered and prepared 300,000 taels of silver to buy the Japanese robbers.

All of a sudden, the pirates stopped attacking.

What are they plundering for? It's not for the money! But the rich have the protection of the city wall, and they can't easily attack it, and the harvest is not big every time, and this time the purchase of money is already comparable to the previous ten invasions, or even more!

Wang Zhi certainly had his own plans, but looking at the leaders' bright eyes, he knew that he had no way to persuade them to continue fighting.

Otherwise, he can't say it, he was reversed first, he is just an alliance leader after all.

It wasn't until he saw the Japanese robbers collect money and leave the sea area of Daming that Zhao Wenhua finally breathed a sigh of relief, but the excitement of the rest of his life after the catastrophe had not yet surged into his heart, and even greater depression had spread throughout his chest.

His life was saved, but his official position was not certain.

Such a defeat brought more than half of the casualties of the Beijing army and the local guards, the Japanese invaders rampant in the prefecture and county, and many villages were plundered, and the emperor would not let him go.

Sure enough, when the news reached Beijing, Jiajing was furious.

"Old Xia Ge, take a look!"

He threw Song Shu down in front of Xia Yan, and his tone was full of coldness:

"This is what you recommended to me, this is what you said, talents who are not under Hu Zongxian!"

"Okay, it's really a good talent! I almost lost my Hangzhou! Ge Lao is really discerning! ”

Jiajing was really angry, and there was even a little irony between his words.

Compared with Yan Song, who recommended Hu Zongxian next to him, this gap came out in an instant.

One performed his military exploits and expelled the enemy within a few years; One was defeated by the enemy, his men suffered countless casualties, and he was trapped in the city, which almost led to the loss of the important town in the south of the Ming Dynasty......

Why is there such a big gap between people?

Jiajing thought so, and his face became even worse.

Obviously it's just a group of pirates, but they were made to this point by Zhao Wenhua!

Xia Yan's face turned blue, and he was speechless.

How did he know that Zhao Wenhua was such a waste! At that time, I saw that he was still talking about the truth, why did he pull his crotch like this as soon as he got started?

Hanging his head, he understood that after going through this incident, his status in the emperor's heart had fallen greatly, and he had fallen out of favor.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at Yan Song with jealousy.

How can this guy be so lucky, as soon as he looks for it, he can find a genius like Hu Zongxian......

"Herald." Jiajingcai didn't care what Xia Yan's reaction was, he instructed the eunuch to himself:

"Order Chen Guogong to lead 30,000 troops in Beijing, governor Jiangnan military affairs, and exterminate the Japanese invaders!"

Jiajing finally plans to throw out his own king bomb!

……

Yan Yuanmo soon led a large army to his hometown.

The first thing he did when he came here was to meet Yan Ling.

"What is your strategy for pacifying the widows?" Yan Ling sipped his tea and asked.

Next, Yan Yuanmo was sitting in danger. He thought for a moment and replied:

"As far as I know, the strength of the Japanese is not in the combat power, but in his mobility. But on the southeast coast, the Japanese could land at any place at any time, harassing the place, and it was even more difficult to deal with than the Tatar Varat. ”

"This is not the same as on the steppe, Tatar Varat went south, not that it would not divide its troops, but it was basically twisted into a rope."

"My initial idea now is to demarcate a defense zone along the coast, garrisoned by different generals, and once the Japanese invaders land, they will immediately meet the attack, stabilize the situation for the time being, prevent them from becoming so rampant, and then slowly plot the root cause."

"It's just that those veterans under my command have followed me for many years, and the cavalry fighting the Tatars is very experienced, and this Japanese ......"

Yan Yuanmo was a little hesitant, after all, the two were completely different combat methods, and he was really afraid that his generals would not be able to adapt to it.

Yan Ling touched his beard and said with a smile:

"I've been expecting this for a long time, so I've already found several candidates for you."

"Who are they?"

"The first, Dengzhou Wei commanded the servant and Qi Jiguang; the second, the prefect of Taizhou, Tan Lun; The third one is in the Dongqian Academy, Xu Wei, Xu Wenchang! ”

"Use these three people well, and the Japanese will be peaceful!"

Yan Yuanmo left Yan Ling's house with curiosity.

He knew the power of his ancestors.

What kind of arrogant person should be the person who can enter his eyes?

He's already looking forward to it.

(End of chapter)