The combination of shield-extended weapons was designed by Yang Cong based on the reminder of the Qi family army's Yuanyang formation, and it does have a strong restraining effect on the Japanese pirates who are mostly short-blades in their hands.

However, this simplified Mandarin Duck Formation does not have long-range support for muskets, nor does it have the weapons like Wolf Vultures that are difficult for Japanese pirates to advance. Therefore, it does not have the overwhelming restraint effect of the real Mandarin Duck Formation against Japanese pirates.

In fact, there are only five groups of people in this direction, and there are only twenty-five spears in total. Although the spearmen are standing behind the shield and sprinting desperately, the effect is far worse than the weapons with large-scale damage like the wolf squid.

Kojiro Harada soon discovered the flaws. He quickly cleaned up a spear, then shouted and took the lead in rushing towards the shield in front of him.

He wanted to go up and knock the shield player over or knock him back to the side and open a gap in the shield array.

Unfortunately, he had just turned sideways and wanted to hit the shield, but suddenly two more harpoons stretched out from behind the shield. If that guy hadn't been dodging fast, he would have almost become a dead fish on the harpoon.

He had just dodged the harpoon and before he could breathe a breath, two long sticks suddenly stretched out from behind the shield and swept his feet.

Now, he was finally hit because the long stick swept from both sides, so he couldn't hide at all, and he could only block one side.

"Puff", with a muffled sound, Harada Kojiro felt that his left leg was almost swept off by a stick. He quickly tapped the ground with his right foot and quickly jumped out the attack range of the spear, stick and harpoon.

This formation is even harder to break than the turtle formation!

Harada Kojiro swept around quickly. Fortunately, the Ming army's formation is mainly based on defense, and as long as it doesn't forcefully rush up, it's still nothing.

He thought about it and simply waved his hand, "Aoaoyao."

After saying that, he took the lead in rushing to the left.

This shield formation cannot rush over, and at most it is a detour. There is no need to fight with Ming Jun here.

Unfortunately, it's too late again.

At this time, a bunch of Ming troops rushed out silently on both sides, and the retreat routes on both sides were also blocked.

Seeing the rapid formation of a semicircular shield, Harada Kojiro was a little stunned. These Ming troops clearly squeezed them towards the city wall!

Can the city wall pass through?

What a joke, there are archers on the city wall, and they almost fell into the trap.

If you retreat now, you have to guard against the spear below and the arrow above, how can you guard against it?

There was no way, he could only rush left and right with his subordinates, hoping to break out of a gap.

Unfortunately, their Japanese swords are too short and cannot reach others at all. Moreover, even if they rushed to the shield, there were countless long sticks and harpoons waiting there, and if they were not careful, the Japanese swords would be disturbed by the harpoon. If they did not let go, there would be a few more transparent holes on their bodies.

He led his ronin to rush for a few waves, but he couldn't rush out at all. Instead, the Ming army took advantage of the situation to surround them.

He had no choice but to face this thorny turtle formation. Ming Jun didn't seem to be in a hurry. He relied on the protection of the shield and slowly squeezed into the middle, which made their movement space smaller and smaller.

In desperation, he could only cut off a few spears at the risk of being stabbed into a hornet's nest. However, at this moment, the Ming army's spears were in total, which was more than twice as many as their number, and cutting off a few spears was useless.

Finally, he could only wave the Japanese sword in his hand in despair and sweep away the increasingly dense spear to ensure that he was not stabbed. The ronin under his command did not have the best skills as he did. In less than two quarters of an hour, all thirty ronin and one guide were stabbed to the ground, and he was the only one left in the field to resist tenaciously.

Fortunately, the Ming army seemed to be taking the lead in three attacks. Although everyone was stabbed over, no one was stabbed to death. All the ronin had just had a few holes in their legs and fell to the ground and kept wailing.

At this time, Yu Dayou had already brought Yang Cong and others down from the city wall, and the city gate had already been opened. Seeing that the Japanese pirate leader was still resisting, he couldn't help but shout: "Get out of the way."

Then he picked up the iron stick and rushed up.

Harada Kojiro had already been stabbed in despair by the Ming army's gun formation. At this moment, he saw a man dressed in a Ming army general rushing up and seemed to be trying to fight him one-on-one. He couldn't help but say excitedly: "Soga, it's good to fight one-on-one."

If you talk about your horse, Yu Dayou didn't even bother with him, he just threw it on his head.

This black-painted Kojiro Harada didn't know that Yu Dayou's hand was a long iron stick. He just thought it was a relatively strong wooden stick. Moreover, judging from Yu Dayou's speed of using the stick, he was definitely a master. If he dodged, he would definitely lose the opportunity. Therefore, he chose to raise the Japanese sword to block Yu Dayou's long stick.

With a crisp sound of "博", the Japanese knife in his hand was directly smashed into two pieces by the sperm iron stick. He was so scared that he quickly shrank to the side, and then he barely avoided the stick.

He didn't understand what was going on. With a "click", a sharp pain suddenly came from his right leg. Then, he was swept to the ground by Yu Dayou. His right leg turned into a nunchakus. The lower half and the upper half were all connected with some flesh, and the bones in the middle were broken into pieces.

"Ah!", he couldn't help screaming, and then he held his right leg and flipped it on the ground.

Yu Dayou looked at the Japanese pirates rolling all over the ground and couldn't help but curl his lips: "The Japanese pirates are just like this. They are all tied up. The injured ones sprinkle some medicine and wrap them up."

Seeing this, Yang Cong couldn't help but say curiously: "Brother Zhifu, why aren't any of these Japanese pirates dead?"

Yu Dayou said with a little excitement: "Of course they can't let them die. These are all rewards. One hundred taels of silver is one, and more than thirty, it's more than 3,000 taels. Now you're getting rich."

When there was a saying in the Ming Dynasty that military merit rewards were rewarded, Yang Cong knew that in order to encourage soldiers to kill the enemy bravely, they usually had corresponding rewards for killing or capturing the enemy. At the beginning, they were still rewarded with ten taels. However, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army later became worse and worse, and the rewards for the enemy were killed less and less. The rewards gradually increased to fifty taels or even one hundred taels.

The Japanese pirates were the most powerful among the foreign enemies of the Ming Dynasty at this time, so the reward of silver was 100 taels per one.

However, the reward for military merit seems to be no matter how alive it is. Yang Cong was curious and said, "Why do you need to catch the alive? It seems that the dead are the same?"

Yu Dayou shook his head repeatedly and said, "It's different. These days, there are more people who have taken advantage of military merits. Generally, whether it is pirates or Japanese pirates, officers and soldiers will dress up their heads as Japanese pirates. After the imperial court investigated and dealt with several times, the heads will not be divided into pirates or Japanese pirates. The heads will be calculated as pirates, fifty taels, and only the living Japanese pirates are counted as one hundred taels."

So that's the case. Yang Cong had never heard of these. It seems that Yu Dayou's head is quite flexible. He is too honest and wouldn't have been bullied by those civil servants repeatedly.
Chapter completed!