Yang Cong stood under the coach's flag while riding a horse, silently watching his soldiers forming a formation. On the surface, he seemed extremely calm, but in his heart he was already furious.

He finally understood why the Ming Dynasty had a territory of thousands of miles and a population of billions, but was repeatedly bullied by small forces like Japan and the Northern Yuan Reign, and finally died in the hands of a Later Jin Dynasty with a population of less than one million.

Because many people have surpassed the bottom line of being a human being and have completely lost their human nature in order to fight for power and profit!

Yan Song, Qiu Luan, Zhao Wenhua and others are not good at dealing with foreign enemies, but they stabbed their own people in the back and framed them very well.

In history, Zhu Wan also defeated the pirates and committed suicide by being so angry that she had won the victory in Zoumaxi.

There are also Zhang Jing and Li Tianchong who defeated the Japanese pirates and won the great victory in Wangjiangjing and was framed to death.

Zeng Xian was also the same. He had just defeated the Tartars and was about to recover Hetao, so he was dismissed from office and removed from his post and escorted back to Beijing to behead him.

This was the case when the Ming Dynasty was in the middle and late stages. Many people in the court didn’t want any faces, just wanted power and profit.

This time, the Japanese pirates invaded Yangzhou, obviously there was an internal support, because Li Bald Head came too "timely". At this time, when Nanzhili's defense was weakest, they were a bit distant and rushed over "seize the opportunity". Could this be a coincidence?

Yan Song, wait for me. If Li Baltimore is caught this time, he will be sent to Jiajing with his confession. I don’t believe you can fool him.

Thinking of this, Yang Cong said coldly: "Shixian, I must find a way to catch the bandit leader Li Bald."

Qi Jingtong fainted after hearing this. What a joke, he caught the bandit leader Li Baitou?

It’s not certain who catches whom!

This time they were obviously trapped, otherwise they would have been blocked by Japanese pirates before they arrived in Tongzhou City.

To be honest, he was really panicked now, he was really afraid that something might happen to Yang Cong.

He knew very well that since the Japanese pirates dared to intercept them, they must have gathered all the people, 20,000 to 30,000 people, that was not a joke.

If his subordinates were all elite border troops or elite Divine Machinery Camp, if all the more than 10,000 troops under his command were fully equipped, he would still be confident, and he would not even be afraid of 20,000 to 30,000 Taurus cavalry rushing over from the opposite side.

Unfortunately, at this moment, he only had a thousand elite soldiers in the Shenji Camp, and the rest were ordinary guards who had been trained for less than two months. Moreover, these guards were not fully equipped.

In this case, he felt that it would be good to be able to repel the enemy. It would be a dream to catch the bandit leader Li Baldhead.

Qi Jingtong didn't know the power of the Mandarin Duck Formation, so he was worried. After all, in history, this Mandarin Duck Formation was only developed by his son Qi Jiguang. No one has ever fought with Japanese pirates with the Mandarin Duck Formation at this moment. Who knew that a formation would have such great power?

Yang Cong was different. He was quite confident about the power of the Yuanyang Formation. You should know that in history, Qi Jiguang led 3,000 people to fight 20,000 to 30,000 Japanese pirates. He had more than 10,000 troops. Although he was not very skilled in the battle formation, he should be more than enough to deal with 20,000 to 30,000 Japanese pirates.

Now, I just don’t know if the Japanese pirates are going to block the road or to come up to make their dumplings directly.

If the Japanese pirates were preparing to make their dumplings, it would be easy to deal with. What his men lacked now is long-range attacks, and there is no problem with melee combat. As long as the Japanese pirates dare to rush up, they will definitely not be able to take advantage of it.

If it is blocking the road, it will be a little troublesome, because he is not very familiar with the terrain ahead, so he rashly leads his army to rush forward. If he falls into a trap or is ambush, it is hard to say what the outcome will be.

He was thinking about it everywhere, and another cavalry appeared in the southeast. The scout came to report that tens of thousands of Japanese pirates had rushed over!

good!

When Yang Cong heard the news, he was so excited that he almost jumped up from his right away. It was so good!

He thought for a moment, and then ordered without hesitation: "Transfer the order, the mandarin duck formation moves closer to the middle, sets shield walls to defend, and all muskets and artillery aim at the southeast direction and prepares to open fire."

Upon hearing this, Qi Jingtong could only say to Hu Zongxian: "Master Hu, please help me and Lord Shen stay by your side. If the situation is wrong, you can protect yourselves."

After saying that, he ran towards the battle formation in the southeast direction, and his expression was like he was going to die.

Upon hearing this, Hu Zongxian couldn't help but sigh secretly, then rushed to Yang Cong, holding the hilt of the knife in his hand, and silently stared forward.

Seeing this, Yang Cong couldn't help but look dark. What are these two guys doing? Are Japanese pirates so scary?

To be honest, Hu Zongxian also thought that the Japanese pirates were quite terrible, because until now the Ming army had not really fought with the Japanese pirates. In the past, Japanese pirates attacked everywhere, and the coastal garrisons were passively defended, while the coastal garrisons had been decommissioned for a long time and could not defeat the Japanese pirates at all. In order to shirk responsibility, they would naturally boast about the Japanese pirates very much.

Therefore, now the Ming Dynasty and the opposition all believed that the Japanese pirates were very powerful in combat and were basically not inferior to the Tartars. Hu Zongxian had never fought with the Japanese pirates, so he naturally thought so.

So, how terrible are Japanese pirates?

Soon, they found out that half an hour later, a large number of heads appeared in the southeast. I don’t know how many Japanese pirates were holding Japanese swords, holding bows and arrows, rushing over, and they were all over the mountains and fields. That was indeed quite scary.

At this time, Qi Jingtong, who was commanding in front of the formation, did not need Yang Cong to order. As soon as the Japanese pirates rushed to the front of the Yuanyang Formation, the cannons of the Shenji Camp fired.

"Boom boom boom" accompanied by a roar of artillery, dozens of shells smashed into the Japanese pirate group.

However, the Japanese pirates' charge formation has not changed at all, because their charge formation is already very chaotic. Even if dozens of people are smashed over, they are still "chaotic" after being smashed. It is nothing to fall down by 20,000 or 30,000 people, and dozens of people are nothing. They naturally cannot see any effect when they hit dozens of shells.

Although these pirates and Japanese pirates are in a mess, they have one common characteristic, that is, they are not afraid of death. You must know that Japanese pirates have basically experienced warriors and civilians who are desperate. Death is not terrible to them. What is terrible is that they cannot grab things, because they cannot grab things not only have no way to survive, but their families cannot survive, let alone pirates, how can those who are afraid of death become pirates?

Therefore, a bombardment of artillery did not have any deterrence to these guys, and they still shouted and rushed over frantically.

Qi Jingtong had no choice but to order the artillery to continue bombardment. After the three rounds of artillery bombardment, the Japanese pirates had already rushed to a place less than two hundred steps away from the Mandarin Duck Formation. These guys rushed forward like wild horses, which was so fast that they were scary!

Of course, this alone could not scare Qi Jingtong. The Tartar cavalry charged forward at all was no slower than the wild horses that had broken away. He had already seen it when he was in Xuanfu Town, and he was quite clear about how to deal with him.
Chapter completed!