Chapter 29 Xingjun (Part 2)
Seeing that Qi Jiguang was about to go to Yiwu to recruit soldiers, Wu Dengke and others cheered immediately. The others on the field were also very happy. After all, Qi Jiguang wanted to kill Japanese pirates, but he was not as excited as Wu Dengke and others.
"In September of the 38th year of Jiajing, Qi Shaobao brought Hu Zongxian's official documents to the recruitment of soldiers and Chen Bofeng, Qianzong, to Yiwu County, to meet with Zhao Dahe, the magistrate of Yiwu County. After launching a list of recruitment, the first day was not very smooth. However, on the second day, I was moved by Qi Shaobao's reputation, famous heroes in Yiwu County such as Chen Dacheng, Wu Weizhong, Wang Rulong, etc., all came to the election with their neighbors."
When Wu Weizhong's name was heard, Wu Dengke felt happy and felt as if his eyes were about to erupt magma.
"At the same time, Qi Shaobao recruited 1,000 Taizhou Township Warriors, including Zhang Yuanxun, the later acting general of Guangdong, from Taizhou, with a total of 4,000 troops, and began training. In February of the following year, the court transferred Qi Shaobao to guard the three prefectures of Taizhou, Jinhua and Yanzhou. It was also during this period that Qi Shaobao invented the world-famous Mandarin duck formation."
The origin of Qi Jiguang's first recruitment soldiers was said to be from later generations. Some said to be 3,000 Yiwu people, some said to be 4,000 Yiwu people, some said to be 1,500 Yiwu people, 1,500 Chuzhou people, and one thousand Taizhou people, and some said to be 3,000 Yiwu people and one thousand Taizhou people.
Chen Wen didn't know which one was the truth, so he chose to tell the last one because it was more in line with his current interests.
"Qi Shaobao fought with the Japanese pirates for many years, and knew that he was good at using two-handed Japanese swords and was good at bravery. The guards were also a farmer and could not be able to fight. Therefore, the mandarin duck formation designed by Qi Shaobao cooperated with long cards, rattan cards, wolves, spears, boring and palladium and other long weapons. Each person only needs to do his job well. When the twelve people were in the array, they were like one person. Even if the Japanese pirates died bravely, they would never be the enemy of the twelve people."
Hearing these words, many of the Jinhua people present, including Wu Dengke, Yin Ergou, etc., showed thoughtful expressions.
"In April of the 40th year of Jiajing, more than 20,000 Japanese pirates divided their troops to invade Taizhou. Qi Shaobao changed his former strategy of division of troops and defending and took the initiative to attack. The direction of the first Japanese pirate attack was Ninghai, and Qi Shaobao immediately supported him. But just halfway through, Qi Shaobao got news that another Japanese pirates were heading to Xinhe at this time."
"This news immediately caused shock in the army, because Xinhe is the old camp base of the Qi family army, and the families of the generals and soldiers are there, and most of them are women and children. If Xinhe is captured by Japanese pirates, the consequences will be unimaginable."
Hearing this, everyone in the field became nervous. Although most of them felt that Qi Jiguang could not have lost Xinhe, they still became nervous as Chen Wen told him.
"But at this time, Qi Shaobao was calm and calm. He just calmly ordered the guerrilla general Hu Shouren who stayed at Haimen to lead his troops as reinforcements, while he himself led the main force to continue attacking the Japanese pirates in Ninghai. Why is he so calm? This is very simple, because there is a person in the new city who can't afford to offend even if he is brave enough to him. That person is his wife, Qi Wang."
As soon as these words were said, others were fine, but the faces of several Jinhua people led by Wu Dengke and the Taizhou people in the front row began to become unnatural.
Seeing this, Chen Wen continued: "Wang's family was born into a general, and his father was a general officer. He married Qi Shaobao in the 24th year of Jiajing. Why is it said that Qi Shaobao cannot afford to offend Wang? Because Wang himself is a heroine. We know that Qi Shaobao has excellent martial arts skills and rarely has opponents. He has turned the situation around on the battlefield with his own strength, but when he competed with Wang, Qi Shaobao was no match at all."
"Ah?" Everyone grew up their mouths, as if their chin was about to fall off the next moment, while those who had previously become unnatural showed a look of course.
Chen Wen immediately laughed out loud when he thought of the topic he was about to talk about.
"I have heard a story before. Once, Qi Shaobao and Wang quarreled, and they started fighting. Qi Shaobao couldn't beat him and ran back to the military camp. When they arrived at the military camp, the generals and schools immediately expressed their intention to stand up for Qi Shaobao, so they followed Qi Shaobao back home. When they got home, Qi Shaobao asked the maid to call Wang out, but Wang came out directly, ignoring the fully armed generals and schoolmen, and asked Qi Shaobao: Why are you looking for me? When Qi Shaobao heard this, the khan immediately came down and replied with a clever inspiration: Please ask the wife to parade!"
This is a story about a very famous wife Guan Yan in later generations. There are many versions, but basically the hero and heroine are Qi Jiguang and Wang.
After hearing the last sentence, the audience burst into laughter. After the laughter, Chen Wen continued to speak.
"Perhaps some people think that Wang is too powerful, not that kind of virtuous woman, but it is not. Although Qi Shaobao has a hereditary military position, everyone knows that if the military officers in the garrison do not exploit the military households, they will be very poor. However, Qi Shaobao is not that kind of person, so his family is not rich."
"Once, my family bought a fish to improve my life. When I served it on dinner, I only had the most plump middle section of the fish meat. When Qi Shaobao was having dinner, Wang just sat next to me and watched. After asking, I found out that Wang had eaten it. She ate the fish head and tail without meat and kept it for Qi Shaobao. Not only that, Qi Shaobao has always been a poor general. In order to make Qi Shaobao rich and get a better position, Wang even sold her jewelry."
"How can such a woman not be called virtuous?"
Originally, Chen Wen was planning to tell the story of Wang's infertility, Qi Jiguang taking a concubine, and Wang's husband. Think about it carefully, let's forget it.
"Back to the point, on April 25, 1940, the Japanese pirates invaded Xinhe. The Wang family made a quick decision to distribute the military uniforms and weapons in the arsenal to the old, weak, women and children in the city, and then took them to the top of the city to shake flags and shout. The Japanese pirates were unclear, so they decided to wait until the top of the city was quiet before siegeing the city."
"At dawn, the Japanese pirates realized that they had been hit by Wang's bluff, so they immediately attacked the city. At this moment, General Hu Shouren's reinforcements also arrived. When General Hu saw that the Japanese pirates were indeed under Xinhe City, he greeted him without saying a word. Wang also brought people out of the city, attacked them from both sides, and the Japanese pirates were defeated. In the Battle of Xinhe, more than 280 Japanese pirates were killed and injured, and only three of the Qi family's army was killed and three."
"At the same time as the Battle of Xinhe, Qi Shaobao defeated the Japanese pirates in Ninghai in one fell swoop. More than 200 Japanese pirates were killed or injured, while only one of the Qi family's army was slightly injured. But at this moment, Qi Shaobao learned that a group of Japanese pirates had arrived at Jingjin Temple, twenty miles away from the capital city."
"So, the Qi family army immediately prepared and rushed to the Japanese pirates one hundred and ten miles overnight to reach the capital city. At this time, the Japanese pirates had already appeared in Huajie two miles away. Qi Shaobao made a quick decision to order to cook, and then told the soldiers to defeat the Japanese pirates and come back to eat."
"The military orders are like mountains. The soldiers of the Qi family's army endured hunger and rushed to Huajie again. When they saw the Japanese pirates working directly. In this service, the Qi family's army beheaded 308 people, captured two people alive, drowned countless people, and rescued more than 5,000 people. However, only three of them were killed on their own side. The most exaggerated thing is that when they returned to the city, the food was still hot."
"After this battle, Qi Shaobao won consecutive battles. By May 27, the Qi family army captured and killed 1,426 Japanese pirates, and more than 4,000 people were burned and drowned. However, the total number of them was less than 20, which was known as the great victory in Taizhou in history."
Looking at the cheering crowds off the court, Chen Wen took a sip of water and continued to speak after quiet again.
"After the Taizhou victory, Qi Shaobao was promoted to commander-in-chief, and the Qi family's army recruited 2,000 people, reaching 6,000. After the Japanese pirates found that Qi Shaobao was not easy to mess with, they immediately turned to Fujian."
"In the 41st year of Jiajing, Qi Shaobao was ordered to go to Fujian to fight against the Japanese. After arriving in Fujian, he realized that the situation there was worse than that in Zhejiang. Dozens of Japanese pirates in Fujian dared to invade the local area, but the local army was helpless. In view of this, Qi Shaobao decided to capture the thief and the king. The general army attacked the three major Japanese pirates' nests in Fujian, and the first target was Hengyu."
"Hengyu is a small island in the northeast of Ningde County, Funing Prefecture, about ten miles away from the shore and is separated from the mainland by shallows. When the tide rises, the sea water separates the island from the mainland; when the tide goes down, it is full of mud. Japanese pirates build fortifications on the island and have occupied it for three years."
"Seeing this, the Qi family army laid hay in the area where they were passing by, and crawled forward with the drum sound of Qi Shaobao. After reaching the shore of Hengyu, the Qi family army formed a formation to attack, and the Japanese pirates were defeated. In this battle, they beheaded 348 levels, captured 29 people alive, and rescued more than 3,000 people, but only thirteen people were killed on their own side."
"After the Battle of Hengyu, the Qi family army attacked Niutian at night, defeated tens of thousands of Japanese pirates, beheaded 688 levels, and no one was killed or killed. Then they attacked Lin Dun forcibly, and beheaded 960 levels, captured 26 people, drowned and burned more than 3,000 people, and killed 90 of them on their own."
"After the three battles, the Qi family army was famous all over the world, and the Japanese pirates in Fujian stopped fighting. In October, the Qi family army returned to Zhejiang. In December, the court appointed Qi Shaobao as the deputy general of the branch guarding Tai, Wen, Fu, Xing, Funing Middle Road and other departments."
"After the Qi family army returned to Zhejiang, the Japanese pirates became angry, Xinghua Prefecture fell, and Fujian was shocked. In February of the 42nd year of Jiajing, Qi Shaobao went to Yiwu to recruit another 10,000 soldiers, including Wu Weizhong's younger brother Wu Weixian. In April, Qi Shaobao led his troops to Fujian. In May, Fujian Governor Tan Lun used the Qi family army as the central army, Yu Dayou as the right army, and Liu Xian was the left army to attack the Japanese pirate stronghold Xujia Village, beheaded more than 2,000, and only 16 people were killed."
"In the following years, Qi Shaobao cooperated with generals such as Tan Lun, Yu Dayou, Liu Xian, and Tang Kekuan to fight. After more than fifty battles, the Japanese pirates who invaded Fujian and Guangdong and the pirates of Wu Ping who colluded with Japanese pirates were completely eliminated. By the first year of Longqing, the Japanese riots on the southeast coast were quelled."
After telling Qi Jiguang's suppression of the Japanese pirates, Chen Wen breathed a sigh of relief. This story was prepared since the first day he planned to tell the ancients. During this period, he borrowed books everywhere and thought hard, and finally prepared the manuscript.
He could not remember much of the data after Ping Haiwei. Fortunately, under the impact of a lot of data, he played the Spring and Autumn style and wrote it over, and everyone in the field did not ask him to continue in detail.
After a moment of rest, Chen Wen began to tell the story of Qi Jiguang going north to guard Ji Town.
"In the first year of Longqing, Altan, who had previously caused trouble during Qi Shaobao's military examination, invaded the border areas several times, and the Tuman barbarians also invaded Jizhen at the same time, and the situation in northern border began to be severe. In December, Qi Shaobao was ordered to go north to train troops. Shortly after arriving in the capital, he wrote the "Four Events of Requesting Army to Defeat the Capitols"."
"In February of the second year of Longqing, Qi Shaobao became the deputy general of Shenji Camp. I don't know if you still remember it. At the beginning, I said that Qi Shaobao's father had served in this position, and it was also considered that his son inherited his father's business."
"In May of the second year of Longqing, the court appointed Prime Minister Ji and Chang to protect military affairs and to control the three towns and the governor. In the first month of the third year of Longqing, the court made an exception to use Prime Minister Qi and Shaobao as the general of Ji Town, guarding Jizhou, Yongping, Shanhaiguan and other places."
"During this period, Qi Shaobao wrote letters repeatedly to repair the Great Wall and add more than 3,000 hollow enemy platforms, greatly enhancing the Great Wall's defense capabilities."
"In February of the third year of Longqing, at the request of Tan Lun and Qi Shaobao, General Hu Shouren, who had been promoted to deputy general of Jizhou East Road, was ordered to bring three thousand Yiwu soldiers to Jizhou. The next day, the military parade suddenly rained heavily and all the troops dispersed. Only three thousand Qi's army stood in the schoolyard. At that time, the heavy rain was like a waterfall. The soldiers of the Qi's army stood in the rain and did not move at all, and the northern border troops were shocked."
"In the same year, the Qi family's army's troops northwards increased to about 10,000, and by the sixth year of Longqing, it reached 20,000. Qi Jiguang used this group of troops as the backbone to train Ji Town officers and soldiers, effectively improving the combat capabilities of the northern border troops."
"In the second year of Longqing, Dong Huli, the chief of the Duoyan tribe, led 30,000 Tartars to invade. Qi Shaobao resisted with a chariot camp, and personally led 8,000 gun cavalry to raid Dong Huli's tooth tent, wiped out 30,000 people from Duoyan tribe, captured Dong Huli's nephew Chang'ang, and Dong Huli was only exempted from his own life, forcing Dong Huli to detain the prison and apologize."
"The Duoyan tribe here is the Duoyan whom Emperor Chengzu borrowed from King Ning during the Jingnan period, Fuyu, and the Duoyan guards of the three guards of Taining."
Chen Wen always felt that the act of Zhu Di, the Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, gave the Beijing Xingdusi to the three guards of Duoyan, was one of his limited mistakes in his life. Because of the loss of the Beijing Xingdusi, Ji Town changed from the mainland to the border wall, and Beijing City was also exposed.
He could not understand how could Zhu Di fights with the Mongols all year round, so how could the Mongols who trust Duoyan's three guards be loyal to guard the walls for him and his descendants?
"In the fifth year of Longqing, the grandson of Altan, the chief of Mongolian Tumot, surrendered Hannaji. Altan wanted to return his grandson, but also took Qi Shaobao's reputation as the famous one and did not dare to invade. So the peace talks began. The court appointed Altan as King of Shunyi and opened a mutual market. Since then, there has been no danger of using troops inside and outside the Great Wall for more than 40 years, and all the land along the border have been cultivated."
"In the first month of the third year of Wanli, Dong Huli's younger brother Changtu led 50,000 iron cavalry to invade. Qi Shaobao once again led 8,000 gun cavalry out of the frontier to encircle, wiped out 50,000 Mongolian Tartars, and captured Changtu alive. Then, Duoyan's troops apologized for surrender, and never invaded again during Qi Shaobao's days in Jizhen."
"When the Northern Barbarians saw that Qi Shaobao was in Jizhen and did not dare to provoke him, they turned to Liaodong. In October of the seventh year of Wanli, Qi Shaobao was ordered to support Liao. At that time, the Northern Barbarians attacked Shanhaiguan. Qi Shaobao lured the enemy to fight, defeated him, and chased Baili. In October of the eighth year of Wanli, Qi Shaobao once again supported Liao, cooperated with Liao commander Li Chengliang to fight, and defeated the Northern Barbarians again."
"In the tenth year of Wanli, Qi Shao was guarding Jizhen for 16 years. He strengthened the Great Wall, built stewed platforms, rectified military farms, trained the army, formulated tactics for combat between vehicles, sieges, and cavalry, formed a defensive system that closely connected walls, platforms, and trenches, and defeated the Northern Territory many times. He was praised by people at that time as a famous general in Zhengu, and was worthy of the Great Wall of Thousand Miles."
Looking at the excited crowd off the court, Chen Wen decided to modify the previous ending.
"In February of the tenth year of Wanli, the chief minister of the cabinet, Zhang Juzheng, died of illness. Qi Shaobao was influenced by the internal liquidation of Zhang Juzheng of the court and was transferred to Guangdong as the general officer. After Qi Shaobao was transferred to Guangdong, the Duoyan troops who had previously requested surrender entered Jizhen again, and the court was furious."
"In November of the 13th year of Wanli, Zhang Xigao, the chief officer of the Ministry of War, impeached Qi Shaobao again, and Qi Shaobao was dismissed. Finally, he died of illness in Dengzhou on December 12th of the 16th year of Wanli."
"Decades have passed. Some people say that Qi Shaobao once bribed Zhang Juzheng heavily, and some people say that when Zhang Juzheng died, Qi Shaobao once used soldiers as his guard when Zhang Juzheng died. Even Qi Shaobao's friend Wang Shizhen also said that he had given the beautiful girl to Zhang Juzheng."
"I have no interest in whether these things are true or not. I only know that Qi Shaobao has driven out Japanese pirates, fought against the Northern Territories, and rescued the people of China in danger. I only know that he is a real hero. Even a hundred years later, the army he established and promoted generals were still defending the dignity of my Ming Dynasty."
"In the 20th year of Wanli, Japanese Guanba Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent 150,000 troops to invade North Korea, and planned to invade our Ming Dynasty after annexation of North Korea. After receiving a request for help from the King of Korea, the Emperor Wanli issued an order to dispatch the royal army of Liaodong and Qijia Army and other troops to aid Korea."
"In the first month of the 21st year of Wanli, the king's army besieged Pyongyang, a major Korean city that had been occupied by Japanese pirates. General Wu Weizhong was ordered to lead the Qi family army to attack Mudanfeng, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. During the battle, General Wu was shot in the chest and fought to the death, and made a strong restraint for the king's army that attacked his way. In this battle, the king's army beheaded more than 15,000 levels, while General Wu's troops, who were responsible for restraint, beheaded more than 2,000."
"In February of the 25th year of Wanli, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was unwilling to fail, and mobilized 140,000 troops from the local area to invade North Korea again."
"In December of the 25th year of Wanli, the commander Yang Hao concentrated 23,000 royal troops and 7,000 Korean troops besieged Ulsan. By the 23rd, he attacked Ulsan City, most of the Japanese pirates were killed and injured, and the remaining troops retreated to Daoshan. Then, the Japanese pirates had 50,000 troops to support, and the royal troops turned to attack and defended."
"On the second day of the first lunar month of the 26th year of Wanli, the Japanese pirates sent more than 10,000 reinforcements again, and attacked the Japanese pirates in the city on both sides. The commander Yang Hao escaped at the battle, and the Wangshi was defeated. General Wu Weizhong and the guerrilla general Mao Guoqi, who led Henan soldiers, were cut off the rear, and the rest of the Wangshi were spared."
"In November of the 26th year of Wanli, the king's army attacked the island mountain. General Chen Can, who was ordered to aid Korea, led the newly arrived Zhejiang army troops to arrive. The Japanese pirates were unwilling to fight and were defeated by the king's army, and more than 10,000 people were burned and drowned."
"In April of the 27th year of Wanli, the remaining Japanese pirates fled to the island, and the king's army returned to the court with the order. Emperor Xian accepted the congratulations of all officials and paid homage to the Taimiao. The next month, he issued a decree to the Japanese to announce to the world, saying: Yiwu and martial arts are strong, even those who jumped into the beam will be killed! At this point, the Wanli Korean War ended with the great victory of the king's army."
"In the 46th year of Wanli, the old slave of Jianzhou, Haci, rebelled, and the whole Liao was shocked. In the first year of Tianqi, General Qi Jin, the nephew of Qi Shaobao, led the newly compiled Qi family army to aid Liao. He fought with Jiannu on the bank of the Hunhe River in Shenyang. He was very killed and injured. In the end, the entire army was wiped out because the reinforcements were not arrived, and no one surrendered to the captives."
Seeing that everyone in the field showed anger, Chen Wen raised his arms and shouted loudly: "Qi Shaobao, how might it be! Qi's army is so magnificent!"
"Qi Shaobao, how might it be! Qi's army, how might it be!"
"Qi Shaobao, how might it be! Qi's army, how might it be!"
"Qi Shaobao, how might it be! Qi's army, how might it be!"
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Everyone in the field followed Chen Wen's appearance, waved their arms and kept shouting, raising the mountains!
At this moment, Sun Yu, who was in the crowd, suddenly remembered the last sentence Chen Wen said when he told him the story of Pojun Xingjun.
"This dynasty has been established for a hundred years. Wuqu Xingjun came to the world and wiped out the Japanese pirates and Tartars, and left a book of war formations and soldiers passed down. However, the people who led the troops in later generations were mostly greedy and shameless people, who ate empty salary and drink soldiers' blood to support their families. Therefore, the war formations left by Xingjun were no longer useful, and the invincible heroic troops established by Xingjun will no longer be seen in the world."
Chapter completed!