Pinghu County.

The scorching sun was shining, and Lu Tong, who was under the banner, was a little dizzy and his mind was a little dizzy. He snatched the water bag on his personal soldiers' backs and pounced on his face, and finally woke up a little.

"Did you see clearly?" Lu Tong shouted sternly.

"I can't see clearly." The personal soldier who was barely standing on the saddle jumped down and shook his head and said, "It's too dazzling, you can only see the darkness."

Lu Tong felt a deep heart, greeted him, climbed up the saddle himself, straightened his body and put his hand on the awning to take a closer look. A large number of Japanese pirates three or four miles away were lined up, and they did not look like scattered soldiers at all.

"Not much, it's only three thousand." Lu Tong jumped down and said casually, looking quite relaxed, but he was cursing his mother in his heart... he was scolding Ruan E's mother.

After receiving the official documents from the Governor's Office, Lu Tong did not want to go to war. The official documents clearly stated that he would defend the city and not advance rashly. The leader of the Japanese pirates Xu Hai may attack Jiaxing Prefecture.

But unfortunately, Ruan E was the governor of Zhejiang... Although the status of military generals rose slightly due to the Japanese riots in the southeast, in general, civil officials were still superior, and it was difficult for military generals to disobey them.

Now, all the four thousand soldiers were lured out... Lu Tong cursed a few swear words. He was also a veteran of the battle formation. You could tell at a glance that the Japanese pirates on the opposite side were quite elite and would all be able to set up serious formations.

However, Lu Tong did not think he would lose. He felt that he could at least escape unscathed... Despite the backlight of the Japanese pirates, the official army was in the sun.

In the past two years, Lu Tong has traveled around the southeast and made great achievements. He was promoted to deputy general of Zhejiang. His youngest son Lu Bin was also given Hu Ruzhen and Xinzhong to recruit soldiers in Yanzhou Prefecture. At the beginning of the year, Zong Li died in battle. After Lu Tong and his son were stationed in Jiaxing, Jiaxing Prefecture was rarely attacked by Japanese pirates again.

But Xu Hai on the opposite side didn't think so. He went around in a big circle and even divided his troops to invade Shaoxing and restrain the official army. He sent Japanese pirates to attack Chongming in advance. Jiading led Yu Dayou away in order to defeat Lu Tong's main force in one fell swoop.

"The right time, place, people and people..." Xu Hai smiled while playing with the horse whip: "It's all here!"

Yesterday morning, hundreds of Japanese pirates landed in Haiyan. Lu Tong led 4,000 troops to fight, but the Japanese pirates fled north. Xu Hai led 3,000 Japanese pirates landed in Pinghu County and appeared openly on the front of Lu Tong.

He came prepared but did not attack and chose to take advantage of the territory. Xu Hai was bound to win this battle.

The sound of trumpets sounded, and the old subordinates left by Zongli under Lu Tong were all border troops brought by Zongli from the north. The desolate trumpets sounded in the southeast. The front of the official army was full of shields and headed in front, behind them were archers, swords and shield soldiers, and spearmen arranged in sequence.

The Japanese pirates were still the same. The front line was full of strong men holding long swords. They ran back and forth seventy or eighty steps away from the official army formation, and threw a few javelins from time to time.

Every successful general has his own unique secret. For example, among the famous founding generals of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Da was a versatile talent, Chang Yuchun was good at trapping battles, and Li Wenzhong was good at attacking quickly, and all had his own characteristics.

Lu Tong's characteristics are stability, and he can't make mistakes. He has a good control over the combat rhythm and can get the right amount of every order.

Xu Hai is different, cunning and wise, and because he is a wild path and is bold and brave to take risks, he often makes people feel helpless and sudden actions.

Someone in the Japanese pirate formation behind them roared several times. The Japanese pirates began to attack with their swords in the front, shouting loudly and rushed forward, and lowered their bodies to avoid the long arrows shot by the archers behind the official shield, and hit the shield regardless of their lives. Once there was a gap, they rushed in and slashed the sword and killed them.

Lu Tong, who was riding on the horse behind, shook his head. Although the front was shaken, he quickly stabilized. The sword and shield that rushed forward made up the gap, and the spearmen surrounded the Japanese pirates who rushed in and kept stabbing them.

Although Xu Hai has a very famous reputation in recent years and has caused a stir in both invasions in the Southeast, he has almost never fought with the official army seriously. Defeating Yu Dayou and Ren Huan were ambushed. The only dignified battle was in Wangjiangjing, and only thousands of direct descendants escaped.

Lu Tong was a little surprised. Why did Xu Hai lead the Japanese pirates to face each other today... But judging from the battle, the Japanese pirates did not have the upper hand.

"Sir, here we are again."

The personal soldiers next to him reminded him that Lu Tong squinted his eyes and looked carefully. Another Japanese pirate of two or three hundred people rushed up, without armor, holding long swords, and even shirtless.

"No hurry." Lu Tong shook his head again, "You can hold on to the front line, and the central army will take a break for a while."

A large army of 4,000 people rarely enters the battle at the same time. Each part needs to be used in different places. Some need to defend and some attack. Lu Tong knows this well and accurately controls the rhythm, so that the thousand people in the middle army will remain nervous but not tense.

But Xu Hai's next choice surprised Lu Tong.

Before the second Japanese pirates could fight with the official army, the third Japanese pirates had already rushed out of the array with their swords. The fourth Japanese pirates and the fifth Japanese pirates followed closely. At the end, Xu Hai personally took the sword and shouted to rush into the formation.

Unlike Lu Tong's precise control of the rhythm, Xu Hai has been pushing all the chips since the first wave of attack.

When the two armies face off, there will generally be small battles back and forth as a test, and gradually increase the attack strength one after another.

But Xu Hai went against the rules and launched the fiercest offensive when the battle just began, without temptation or backing up, and ranked the most deterrent and combat-powered real Japanese in his hands in the second sequence.

The hideous face, the strange bun, and the incomprehensible roar had already made the formation of the official army slightly loose. With a bang, three hundred real Japanese were inserted into the official army array like sharp blades. A large piece of shield was pushed to the ground, and the archers behind him threw down the bow and arrow and ran away.

The sword and shield hand that was added, the spearman was about to rush forward to maintain the formation, but the third wave, the fourth wave, and the fifth wave of Japanese pirates swarmed in, blood splashed in the air, screaming endlessly, and several heads were thrown out by the Japanese pirates and smashed into the spear array.

Lu Tong's face was pale and called him to the left and right, leading the central army forward, but the front line had collapsed. The officers and soldiers who were abandoned with armor rushed back under the Japanese pirates. Xu Hai's unexpected tactics made a good show of rolling the pearl curtain.

There was a huge chaos, and the control rhythm of the formation set up by Lu Tong became a weakness. He failed to make up for the gap as soon as possible, failed to withstand the first wave of Japanese pirates, and was also the strongest wave of offensives. The battle situation was irreversible.

Under the leadership of Xu Hai, three thousand Japanese pirates broke through the front line and took the central army. Although the official army had the advantage in its military strength, only the thousand people in the central army could fight with the Japanese pirates, and the formation had been messed up by the deserters who rushed back.

Xu Hai, who was riding on the horse, danced with a long sword, shouted loudly, and Sanbai Zhenwu rushed straight towards Lu Tong and his personal soldiers who were also riding on the horse... The Southeast official army had few horses, and the ones riding on the horse must be the generals.

The official army did not fight with the Japanese pirates on both sides of the left and right sides. The guerrillas led the army did not think about fleeing and were trying to attack the Japanese from the side, but the central army had completely mixed up with the Japanese pirates. In close combat, the officers and soldiers could not resist the crazy Japanese pirates who were afraid of death.

Lu Tong, who was over 40 years old, had abandoned the horse and strife and stabbed three Japanese pirates in a row with a spear in his hand. His vaguely white bun was a little crooked and stained with blood. The personal soldiers around him shouted that they were fighting fiercely, fearing death... but they were powerless to turn the world around. Under Xu Hai's command, nearly a thousand Japanese pirates surrounded Lu Tong and attacked wildly.

Soon, with the shining sword light, the flying flag fell to the ground, and the official army completely collapsed. Not only the central army, but the official army on both sides rushed to flee everywhere. Lu Tong was caught by his personal soldiers and rode his horse to escape to death.

In just over half an hour, the four thousand army fell apart, and Xu Hai's adventure was successful again, and Jiaxing Mansion would suffer the misfortune of two years ago.

He glanced at the big banner with the word Lu embroidered on the ground, Xu Hai smiled and put the sword flower back into the sheath, shouting loudly: "Let someone release the wind, Jiaxing, Songjiang, Suzhou... are all food from the mouth, so that those who are waiting to take advantage of the goods are hurry up!"

"Now, follow me and kill me!"

The unorganized official army was no longer able to resist. The Japanese pirates all over the mountains calmly used their swords and spears to kill officers and soldiers who did not dare to look back from behind.
Chapter completed!