The Prosperous Era of Longwan

"Bang bang. Bang bang."

After the sound of a dozen bird cannons, the sound of bow strings being tightened and then released followed by arrows. Several arrows were shot from the cavalry, targeting the group of Japanese pirates.

Several of the remaining Japanese pirates fell to the ground during this round of attacks. The remaining 20 or so people were completely panicked. They watched the Ming Army cavalry pass through from the front, and several arrows shot in the direction failed to hit a single target.

"Dong dong dong"

The war drums finally sounded in the Ming army formation, and the Ming army clearly divided into two teams, outflanking the Japanese pirates from the rear and sides.

At the end of the military formation, a Ming army with dozens of flags ran directly towards the route of the Japanese pirates. The first two rows held blunderbuss, and behind them were a sword and shield player and two spearmen.

Now they were surrounded on three sides, with only Taihu Lake as an option, and there were more than 20 cavalry in the diagonal thorns watching eagerly.

The three groups of Ming troops gradually approached, and the Japanese pirates surrounded in the middle were really unable to escape. The only thing that escaped from the group at this time was a small general cannon carried by about ten soldiers.

Wei Meng and Wu Zhankui each led two teams of hundreds of households to approach the Japanese pirates, and at the same time asked the sergeant with a loud voice in the formation to shout that the Japanese pirates had surrendered.

But there was no response, maybe because they didn't understand the language or they knew they were going to die and didn't bother to pay attention at all.

Seeing that the Ming army's encirclement was about to succeed, the Japanese pirates ignored the Ming armies in other directions and rushed directly to the Ming army with the smallest number. They still planned to break out to the north and catch up with the defeated troops there.

Now, the group of broken soldiers had stopped under the gathering of the general flag and the small flag, and they were just watching the battle situation from a distance.

The Japanese pirates attacked the Zhenfu General Flag Team, and Zhang Hongfu immediately urged his mount to attack the Japanese pirates from the diagonal thrust.

"Puff puff"

Under the command of the flag officer, the first row of gunners fired their guns and then retreated to the rear of the gun formation. The second row of gunners stepped forward and fired again.

At this time, most of the cavalry rushing towards the Japanese pirates put on their sabers and charged to kill the infantry. The sabers were easier to use than the lances.

At this time, Wei Guangde was already in line behind his brother, surrounded by brave soldiers. Wei Guangde felt that this position was very safe.

When the cavalry rushed behind the Japanese pirates, there were only a dozen or so Japanese pirates who rushed towards the Ming army. However, they still rushed forward bravely, slashing the Ming army's shield with swords and axes, and spears passed through the gaps in the shield to kill them. It wasn't until the sound of horse hooves hitting the ground became louder that the Japanese pirates who were staying behind turned around and prepared to engage the cavalry.

Zhang Hongfu did not give them a chance, and led the cavalry to draw an arc behind the Japanese pirate formation, still stabbing diagonally through the Japanese pirate formation.

Wei Guangde followed the cavalry. When the cavalry formation approached the Japanese pirates, Wei Guangde's nervous hands were sweating. He was relieved until the knight in front of him rushed out of the formation smoothly without being blocked.

When his horse passed by a Japanese pirate who was obviously injured and about to fall to the ground, Wei Guangde quickly swung his saber and slashed the Japanese pirate's back, which was already bent over and about to fall to the ground, helping him fall faster.

After all, there were not many Japanese pirates left, and their formation could not stop the charging cavalry at all.

There were only a few Japanese pirates left, and they seemed to know that the end was coming, but they still didn't stop. Maybe they just wanted to have someone to support them before they died.

Wei Guangde slashed a Japanese pirate with his hand. Regardless of whether it was a follow-up blow or not, the guy didn't fall to the ground before being hit by Wei Guangde. At this moment, his heart was pounding and he followed Zhang Hongfu to turn his horse's head and charge towards the remaining Japanese pirates again.

This is an opportunity to beat the dog in the water. If you don't seize it, you will be sorry for the education at home.

When the last Japanese pirate fell on the battlefield and the small-scale battle stopped, Wei Guangde felt the autumn wind blowing away the murderous aura that seemed to be absent from the field.

"Wonderful victory, ten thousand victory"

The Ming soldiers roared again. The last time they cheered like this was in Dinghai County three years ago.

The cavalry returned to the formation and joined Wu Zhankui and Wei Meng.

Wu Zhankui just glanced at Zhang Hongfu and didn't say anything. He probably went back to tell his father-in-law if he had anything to say. What to say to the younger generation, the battle was over.

In fact, regardless of whether Zhang Hongfu charged or not, this group of Japanese pirates were destined to die. The only difference was the size of the casualties.

Even if the Japanese pirates really mix with the soldiers of Qianhu Station of the rear army, Wu Zhankui will not hesitate to use artillery to completely eliminate them.

One battle results in thousands of bones being wasted.

No one will have mercy on the soldiers on the battlefield. All they want is victory.

Wei Guangde had not yet calmed down from his excitement, and soldiers had already begun to clear the battlefield.

Several soldiers were injured in the close battle between the Zhenfu Banner Team and the Japanese pirates just now. There were also soldiers who fell to the ground but were not dead when they were being chased by the rear army. They all needed treatment.

Fifty-one Japanese corpses were collected together. Based on their body shape and swearing, it is estimated that more than thirty of them are real Japanese, and the remaining ten or so are probably fake.

But at this time, no one cared and reported it as a real Japanese.

Jiujiang Wei has taken the lead this time.

The cavalry team sent by Wu Zhankui had been recalled. After writing a brief battle report on the spot and sending it out, the team returned to Zhongxi Town after finishing the battlefield.

Zheng Yixiang, a member of the Qianhu Station of the Hou Army, was shot to death by Japanese pirates during the battle. The Hou Army lost dozens of people, and detailed battle reports had to be written and sent to them when they returned.

Zheng Yixiang's body has been found and will be sent back to Jiujiang together with other fallen soldiers.

However, at this moment, Zhang Hongfu, Wu Dong and Wei Wencai were still in the excitement of participating in the war. They took Wei Guangde and a group of soldiers and ran around for two more times before returning to the town to rest. They were not at all like before. Wei Guangde had seen the symptoms of nausea and vomiting that Brother Chu had on the battlefield.

Wei Guangde followed behind. Thinking of the wound he made, he could only guess that maybe it was the inheritance of a military family.

"I cut two."

"I cut one."

Zhang Hongfu and Wei Wencai were talking happily in the bathtub.

"The waiter also cut down one. I heard from my family's soldiers that it's good. It didn't disgrace our old Wei family."

Wei Wencai boasted and then talked about his brother. He didn't expect that this little man could kill him at a critical moment.

Wei Guangde just smiled and turned to ask Wu Dong, "Cousin, have you killed the Japanese pirates?"

"No, the location is not good. There is no one in front of me. There are soldiers next to me, but they are separated by soldiers."

Wu Dong was a little depressed. He was on the left side of Zhang Hongfu, so naturally there were no Japanese pirates to kill. However, Wei Wencai on the right found the opportunity to kill him, and even Master Wei Guangde who was following Wei Wencai took action.

"Haha, it doesn't matter. We are all heroic men. If we don't cut it this time, we will continue to cut it next time."

Zhang Hongfu said with a smile.

"Next time, I estimate that the Japanese pirates will not dare to invade the interior again. As long as our Jiujiang Guards are dispatched, no matter how many we come, they will not be enough to kill them."

Wei Wencai laughed along.

In their eyes now, the Japanese pirates really don't seem to be a formidable opponent. Once the military formation is set up, the Japanese pirates are hopeless.

"Zheng Yixiang is still the killer who is disgraceful. There are more than 200 people in a rear army station with thousands of households, but they have all been trained into rubbish. The Japanese pirates collapsed in one charge. If he hadn't been shot to death by the Japanese pirates, I would have killed him when he came back."

Zhang Hongfu was still talking nonchalantly, but Wu Dong next to him opened his mouth to interrupt, "If you die, stop talking. Death is the most important thing."

"Yes, my uncle's battle report still said that he died fighting hard, so giving him a better title would be worthy of him."

Several people were chatting, but Wei Guangde was the only one who giggled and said nothing.

Wei Guangde felt like he had figured out what Father Wei was thinking.

On the way back, Wei Guangde remembered that when he first came here, his father and his mother were discussing whether to spend money to buy an official position.

It seems that the decades spent in Bengshan Fort have been suffocated.

The two battle reports were sent out continuously after the war and after returning to the town, reporting the victory to the Jiujiang Guard commander in the rear. This was also the rule.

After the Jiujiang Guard commander received the battle report, he reported the victory to the Nanjing Ministry of War and the former military governor's office. Before the new order was issued, Wu Zhankui brought his men to stay in Zhongxi Town, Wujin County.

Several carriages were borrowed from the town to haul the dead bodies. News that the Ming army had wiped out the invading Japanese pirates soon spread in the town.

The district chief arranged for someone to report to Wujin County overnight the news of the Ming army's arrival last night, but no other information has been received yet.

While helping to find the carriages and horses, the village chief saw the battlefield and the bodies of the slain Japanese pirates, and immediately sent his son to the county to report the victory.

The news that the Japanese pirates had been wiped out would naturally not be transmitted so quickly. In fact, at this time, a large number of Ming troops were stationed in Changxing County and Wuxi County, waiting for the Japanese pirates to surrender.

Historically, this group of Japanese pirates safely passed through Wujin County and arrived in Wuxi. In the end, they were annihilated in Wuxi Taozhai Port by the Suzhou Guards and Taicang Guards led by Su Song Governor Cao Bangfu.

In order to eliminate this group of Japanese pirates, Taicang Wei commanded Zhang Gang to die in battle.

This was the second first-level military attaché of the Guard Command to die in battle, but it didn't happen in this life, and Cao Bangfu's career path to promotion was interrupted.

Therefore, the record of this group of Japanese pirates in the official documents of the Ming Dynasty ends here: "This bandit could not escape more than sixty or seventy people from Gaobu, Shaoxing, and robbed Hangzhou, Yanhui, and Ningtaiping. Thousands of people traveled there until they were detained. Here, four to five thousand people were killed and wounded without hesitation. Every one of them killed one censor, one county magistrate, one commander, two commanders, and entered two counties. It took more than eighty days before the Jiujiang Guard Right Army was completely wiped out in Zhongxi. .”

The next day, the magistrate of Wujin County came to Zhongxi Town with two carts of pigs, sheep and fine wine to reward the army.

When he first received news from Zhongxi Town that Ming troops were stationed to exterminate the Japanese pirates, the Wujin County Magistrate was really scared to death.

The troops are here, which means that the warning above is true and the Japanese pirates are really coming.

Later, I received news that the Ming army had wiped out the Japanese pirates. In the evening, the son of the chief of Zhongxi Town came to report the news. He kept saying that he saw the bodies of the Japanese pirates who were killed. They were all short adult men. Listen to some Military men who fought against Japanese pirates in Zhejiang said that these were the real Japanese pirates.

Unsurprisingly, the county magistrate visited several large households in Wujin County that night to collect labor supplies. This was also a tradition. The local government would send pigs, sheep, chickens, and ducks to the officers and soldiers who helped eliminate the bandits.

Although civil servants are arrogant when they meet military generals, this is not the time to be proud.

The county magistrate also knew a little bit about what this group of Japanese pirates were doing under Nanjing City. At this moment, the adults in Nanjing City wanted to kill all these people. As a junior official below, he would naturally not act like a civil servant.

In the next two days, the squires from Qili and Baxiang sent several carts of wine and meat to reward the army. The soldiers of Jiujiang Wei gave a good tooth sacrifice.

The day after the Japanese pirates were wiped out, scouts came from the direction of Yixing and Wuxi. Only then did they know that the Japanese pirates they had been guarding against had been wiped out in Zhongxi Town, Wujin County, and they immediately rushed back to report the news.

On the same day, a messenger from Wuhu also arrived. Upon learning the news of the great victory in Zhongxi Town, the commanders of the Jiujiang Guards immediately flew to Nanjing and ordered them to continue to garrison in place.

After Wu Zhankui led his troops into Lishui from Wuhu, he left manpower in Wuhu and reported their actions to the Wei commander and others.

The messenger sent out to deliver the good news went directly to Wuhu. Immediately after receiving this order, the brigade chose to garrison in Wuhu and wait for instructions from Nanjing.

At this time, in the Fengtian Hall of the Forbidden City in Nanjing City, a large group of civil and military officials stationed in Nanjing were kneeling in the room, although the throne on the stage was empty.

At the bottom of the steps, a eunuch had finished reading the imperial edict, but he did not hand it to anyone. Instead, he put it away and handed it to the following eunuch.

"My lords, the imperial edict has been announced. The Zajia family will be waiting for the news in Nanjing City. Your Majesty also wants to know how long it will take you to wipe out all these Japanese pirates."

The unique duck voice of the eunuch spread throughout the hall, and the ministers who were kneeling in the room slowly stood up and spread from the back to the front, as if they were playing with human waves.

However, it was indeed very difficult for the ministers in charge to stand up. Perhaps only Wei Guogong, who was first in the honorable queue, seemed a little more relaxed.

At the beginning of the year, Emperor Jiajing dismissed him from the garrison position in Nanjing due to fault. At that time, Xu Pengju was very dissatisfied, especially when the Marquis of Funing, Zhu Yue, took his place at the top of the martial arts class. He looked like a villain and couldn't help but want to go up when he thought of Xu Pengju. Slap him twice.

It's all right now. The Japanese pirates went to the city of Nanjing to show off their power. It's true that "misfortunes and blessings rely on blessings and misfortune lies behind them." Who knew that such a thing would happen again.

If he hadn't lost his position as a guard in Nanjing, the current man's anger would have been directed at him.

Duke Xu Pengju of Wei State felt indescribably happy when he looked at the guy who was trembling all over and couldn't get up.

When he gets up, he will go over and ask him to hand over the Nanjing Guard Seal, and he will be angry to death.

Xu Pengju was overjoyed that Funing Marquis Zhu Yue had been dismissed from his post, but other ministers looked sympathetically at Nanjing's Minister of War Zhang Shiche and Minister Chen Zhu.

Especially Zhang Shiche, who was quite unlucky enough to encounter this kind of thing before he even took up the position of Minister.

"Mr. Xu, I would like to congratulate you first."

At this time, the eunuch who announced the decree walked up to Wei Guogong Xu Pengju and smiled. However, although his face was smiling and even his body was exuding a strong fragrance, the chill in his bones could not be hidden.

"I don't dare to trouble Eunuch Chen. It's hard work for Eunuch-in-law, who came all night from Beijing. I would also like to ask Eunuch-in-law to come to my humble home tonight. I'll prepare a small amount of wine in the house for Eunuch-in-law to wash away the wind and dust."

Duke Wei did not dare to let the eunuch in front of him feel that he was rude, so he invited him quickly.

"It's a small matter of drinking. The Za family is going south this time, but it has something to do with it. My father-in-law, please issue an order as soon as possible and let the guards from all over the country eradicate this group of Japanese pirates as soon as possible, so as to quell the thunderous anger of the Holy Emperor."

"Yes Yes."

Xu Pengju first agreed repeatedly, and then said in a slightly confident tone: "To be honest with Mr. Chen, with the approval of the Ministry of War a few days ago, I have already issued an official document in the name of the Former Military Governor's Office to transfer Jiujiang Guards from Jiujiang and Xuanzhou Guards. , Zhenjiang Guard, Suzhou Guard and Taicang Guard jointly encircled and suppressed this group of Japanese pirates, I think there will be good news in the near future."

"That's good, come here, bring me some medicine. My legs hurt so much now."

Chen Hong ordered loudly. After riding fast for several days, the inner thighs had been bruised for a long time, and now they were in excruciating pain.