prosperous age

Chapter 84
On a wilderness not far from the village, the Ming army that had just set up its formation and began to slowly advance encountered the Japanese pirates' team.

For such a confrontation, the Ming army was already prepared, and there was no farce where the soldiers of the Ming army turned around and ran away. After all, the general's personal soldiers were behind them, and whoever turned around at this time would definitely beheaded.

Facing the Ming army oppressed by Wu Yangyang, the Japanese pirate team inevitably experienced a little commotion, but the dwarf Japanese pirates in front quickly stabilized after a series of Japanese words.

After confirming that there were really many Ming soldiers, the leader of the Japanese pirates turned around and gave instructions, and someone turned around and ran quickly to the town.

Amidst the sound of the horn, the Ming army formation that was advancing slowly stopped, and the two sides began to confront each other.

"It's similar to the news about Tanma. There are only a few hundred people. They should be able to win."

Wei Meng rode his horse and stood beside Wu Zhankui, whispering to his uncle.

"As long as we can withstand the impact of the Japanese pirates, we will win."

Seeing the whole picture of the Japanese pirates in front of him, Wu Zhankui nodded with a relaxed smile on his face.

I heard yesterday that Guanhaiwei and Dinghaiwei retreated disastrously after being besieged by thousands of Japanese pirates, and lost Dinghai County.

There were only a few hundred people in front of them, and facing nearly five thousand Ming troops, not only Wu Zhankui and Wei Meng thought so, but most of the generals had already begun to be optimistic.

"They actually still have Japanese pirates in armor. Dinghai's defeat is not unjust."

The dozens of dwarf Japanese pirates in front of the pirate queue are too obvious, and their equipment is also very obvious, all wearing black armor, Wu Zhankui's eyes are very keen.

Just kidding, I can scrape together so many armors from the Qianhu Office of the Right Army, and the rest can only get cotton-padded jackets. Although the defense is not so-so, it still doesn't feel as strong as iron armor when worn on the body.

With the sound of the conch horn in the distance, the Japanese pirates who were absolutely outnumbered actually rushed to attack before the outnumbered Ming army.

Dozens of small Japanese pirates led the way, leading hundreds of Japanese pirates to rush towards the central army of the Ming army, but the speed was not fast. When the distance was about [-] steps, some Japanese pirates pulled away Longbow began to sell bows and arrows to the Ming army.

In this regard, the Ming army seemed a little underprepared, and no one thought that the Japanese pirates would take the initiative to attack.

A few scattered bows and arrows shot into the formation, although some people were injured and howled, but the lethality was limited, but it was definitely a blow to the low morale of the Ming army.

As the drums sounded rhythmically behind the army formation, the Ming army's army formation also began to slowly start. Hundreds of archers in the back row began to draw their bows and arrows. Following the order of a small flag in front of the team, the bows and arrows broke through Shoot out of the sky and shoot at the Japanese pirates.

"It's so far away, it's hairy."

Seeing that the Japanese pirates were still far away from the army, the archers on Anqingwei's side had already started to shoot arrows, Wei Meng couldn't help scolding.

Indeed, the arrows shot by the Ming army are the real rain of arrows. Hundreds of black arrows flew over the heads of the Ming army in the front row and flew towards the Japanese pirates rushing in the distance. Most of the arrows failed to hit the Japanese pirates. In the team, it fell to the ground a dozen steps away from the Japanese pirates.

"An Qingwei is in a bit of a mess."

Wu Zhankui turned his head to Wei Meng and said, but he turned his head inadvertently, and what he saw was his two soldiers from hundreds of households who seemed to be trembling at the moment.

As the Japanese pirates charge and kill, the distance between the two armies is getting closer and closer to a distance of a hundred paces, and the voices of the Japanese pirates shouting to kill gradually come into their ears clearly, all of which are Japanese words that they cannot understand.

"Master Qianhu, the semaphore behind tells us to move closer to the Chinese army."

At this moment, the soldiers behind Wu Zhankui whispered to him.

After Wu Zhankui and Wei Meng heard this, they both turned their heads and looked at the central direction, where the command flag was constantly waving, and orders were being issued.

Although the official position is a thousand households, Wu Zhankui at this time is actually a hundred households, and only two hundred people came under him.

With the military order, as the outermost unit, according to the formation of the Qianhu Office of the Central and Former Army, the two wings of the Ming Army began to slowly gather forward, trying to form a pocket formation to surround the charging Japanese pirates.

As for the hundred or so unmoved Japanese pirates who were still far away, no one cared.

Such a small number of troops will not have a great impact on the war.

When necessary, as long as the left and right armies each send one or two hundred households to take care of them, this group of Japanese pirates can be defeated.

Everything is developing in a favorable direction for the Ming army. If the Chinese army can withstand the impact of the Japanese pirates, a perfect pocket formation can complete the encirclement of the main force of the Japanese pirates and then annihilate them.

As the Japanese pirates were a hundred steps away from the Ming army, the archers of the Anqingwei and Luzhouwei of the Chinese army began to shoot arrows at the rushing Japanese pirates. There were bursts of white smoke, and the current Japanese pirates also quickened their pace. Many people have already taken out their long cards to block in front of them, blocking the Ming army's arrow rain.

At this time, the group of dwarfs who ran at the front had gradually shrunk into the formation, and the Japanese pirates appeared in the front row, all of whom were holding long cards in their hands, but they could still see those exaggeratedly long spears and shooting at the Ming Dynasty from time to time. Army arrows.

After entering the shooting range, the archers of the Ming army began to have a record. From time to time, some of the Japanese pirates fell down with arrows, but no one cared about them, but still rushed over enthusiastically shouting Japanese words that the Ming army could not understand. Dozens of corpses of Japanese pirates were left behind.

Closer, closer.

The archers who continued to shoot before have generally released more than ten or twenty bows and arrows at this moment. At this time, their arms were sore and weak, and they all retreated. After that, there was no time to reload again, and they all retreated one after another.

There was a little commotion in the tight military formation as they retreated, but it quickly recovered.

At this time, the Ming army on the two wings is also close to the central army, and the gap between the guards is being narrowed. The encirclement tactics on the two wings are basically completed, as long as the Ming army on the two wings continues to gather pocket formations.

When the Japanese pirates rushed to a distance of more than ten steps from the Ming army, those dwarf Japanese pirates hidden behind the shields finally appeared in the front row of the Japanese pirate team again. At this moment, there were no long-range weapons to attack, and they could rush to the front of the battle without any worries. Charged.

"Speed ​​up and surround them."

At this moment, Wu Zhankui's troops at the farthest edge had to move the farthest among all the teams, and only the guards at the edge of Chuzhou Guard were similar to them.

Seeing that the Japanese pirates were about to be surrounded and meritorious service was in sight, Wu Zhankui couldn't help urging the soldiers to speed up their pace.

At this time, the central army of the Ming army also confronted the Japanese pirates head-on for the first time, but the result was a bit beyond their expectations.

Before these guards from Nanzhili and Jiujiang Guards, they only knew that the Japanese pirates charged fiercely, and it was a completely desperate way of fighting, but no one told them what weapons the Japanese pirates used.

At this moment, the first Japanese pirates that Anqingwei and Luzhouwei encountered were stabbing with those ridiculously long spears. The spears in the hands of the Ming army gunmen have no parents, so naturally they are very disadvantaged, even if they have shields on top of them. , but it also caused the formation to be chaotic.
(End of this chapter)