Following Li Mansion's killing cry, the sound of fire cannons being fired quickly alarmed the entire Zhangjiawan town.
Because it was too early, the sun showed up, and most people were still asleep.
At this time, the shopkeepers of various shops kicked and beat the shopkeepers. Some anxious shopkeepers yelled: "You pigs who kill their heads and short-lived their lives, why don't you get out of here? The Li Mansion is ruined and the thieves are in trouble." , if the Li Mansion makes mistakes, watch your heads carefully."
Every shop is basically controlled by people from Donglin. Except for some small traders in the most prosperous wharf in the north, there is no good and profitable business that can be done by people without a civil service background.
People with no background here can also make a living, such as the coolies at the dock and the itinerant sellers of chaos. A street juggler. But as long as the transaction is slightly larger, there must be a backer. This is almost open to the public in Ming Dynasty.
Even if you do small business, you will be extorted by gangsters. And the gangsters who can gain a foothold in the local area must be protected by government officials. Otherwise it would have been over long ago.
At this time, the whole town was boiling with people's voices everywhere, and every yard was full of people's voices.
"Hurry up, get dressed quickly, Li San, go to the warehouse and bring all the knives. There are a lot of thieves."
"Hurry up, be quick with your hands and feet, load all the three-eyed guns, hurry up."
"Bring me my big gun and let these thieves see my majesty."
Groups of shopkeepers led their waiters out of various courtyards, gathered on the streets, and rushed towards Li's Mansion.
At the same time, the surrounding farms saw the thick smoke rising over Li's house, and they also struck their bells and rang their gongs.
clang! clang! clang!
"There are strong men from each family, and they have gathered at the threshing floor. Those who are armed with spears and Dapu knives, and those who are good at archery are carrying bows and arrows. The master's house has been destroyed by thieves."
Under the contact of Kuai Ma, dozens of Zhuangzi were summoned by the martial arts instructors and the armor chiefs who had been arranged in Zhuangzi in advance, and they immediately took action to summon the strong men of the tenant farmers.
When we first rented the land, we agreed that the land rent would be reduced from 50% to 20%, but each family would have to provide a strong man to train during the off-season. The owner would be dispatched to the rescue when something happened to the family, and the thieves would need to be beaten.
Soon more than a thousand people gathered in the town. These people were not as well-equipped as the servants of the Li Mansion. They all brought their own weapons and equipment, which were naturally of various kinds. There were chainmails that could be worn inside, but there were no. It's just a piece of cloth.
It's not like the Guan Ning army in that battalion, which is equipped with Lumi guns. Wearing full armor.
They hold all kinds of cold weapons. Basically, use whatever comes to hand.
More than a thousand people marched along the early morning streets to Li Mansion.
Along the way, these people bowed and arched to each other, bulging their bellies, rolling up their sleeves, shouting and rushing towards Li's Mansion without any queue.
In the distance, at the end of the street.
In the dark area, there stood a group of thin people. From a distance, these bandits were generally a head lower than the gangsters who were born bandits and horsemen.
But their clothes are neat, with black and brown as the main colors, and their family crests and various Chinese characters are painted on their chests with white paint. Exquisite Japanese-style armor was exposed under the cloak. There is a Japanese sword stuck in his waist.
They had small flags on their backs, and some warriors were holding flagpoles with black flags flying on them.
Mr. Chen Sanye, who was walking in the front of the commercial street, had a sudden feeling in his heart.
He is the head of the merchant guild in the entire town.
He usually has the final say on everything in the Chamber of Commerce. An uncle in his family is an important elder in Donglin.
Chen Sanye is from Zhejiang. When he was in Wenzhou, he also climbed the city wall to resist Japanese pirates and saw the battlefield. When he looked at these people, they looked so much like Japanese pirates.
It's just that these people are so well dressed. The Japanese pirates are all in rags, many of them are barefoot, and except for a pretty good Japanese knife, they don't have anything decent.
As for these people, they wore uniform styles of clothing, the materials looked very good, and they wore long leather boots on their feet. And they were all armored. This is a bit scary.
In this era, armor was not cheap. In the Ming Dynasty, only the border troops and the Beijing camp were able to achieve the level of full armor. There is no doubt that these people are Japanese pirates in appearance, figure, and temperament, but the equipment is also too good.
The five hundred Japanese pirates on the opposite side, about a battalion in strength, saw a thousand armed men coming in a huge crowd, and they immediately started howling in Japanese dialect.
Honda Kita, who was appointed by Momoko as the battalion commander of the Hirado Battalion, immediately issued the order in a hurry. The Japanese pirates quickly changed their formations. It turned into ten formations of fifty people.
Then each team turned into a small formation of ten people, forming a five-petal layout.
In these small formations, three people in the front hold aluminum alloy shields, and three people in the back hold fire door guns. There are two groups on each wing, holding naginata and jumonmon spears respectively.
Mr. Chen's eyes almost popped out of his head. This was clearly a variation of the Qi Family Army's Mandarin Duck Formation.
The world is so crazy, the mouse is the cat’s bridesmaid.
Are these still Japanese pirates? How come they learned the Qi Jiajun's formations?
That's right, it's a variant of the Yuanyang Formation.
Yang Fan planned to support these believers to fight against the shogunate. The most effective way to fight against the Japanese army was the Yuanyang Formation, which was extremely powerful in team combat.
When the Japanese iron cannons were firing, three shields were blocking the front, and everyone hid behind them. When the Ashigaru rushed up, they would use the nine-shot pyrogun to hit the lake face at close range. Then he protected the two wings with long weapons, assassinated the approaching warriors who were knocked down, and bought time for the musketeers to reload.
After the musketeers loaded their ammunition, they fired back and forth.
"Go first" Honda Kita gave the order to move forward.
This street is very wide, because it is the main street connecting to the dock, and a large number of horse-drawn carriages need to transfer the goods unloaded from the dock.
The Japanese pirates were arranged in fifty formations and walked slowly.
They walked in very neat steps, and the sound of their landing footsteps shook the roof tiles on both sides of the street. Waves of pressure surged toward the opposite side like substance.
Suddenly these guys were a little panicked. Although they were all bandits and horse bandits, they had all seen blood, and they were usually very brave and aggressive people.
But facing the regular army, they are far from opponents in terms of courage and training. Suddenly there was a commotion.
When Chen Sanye saw that this was not going to work, he shouted loudly: "Brothers, go ahead and kill one of them. You will be rewarded with ten taels of silver. Cash it in immediately."
These guys usually only get five silver coins a month, which is still relatively high. Ordinary workers only get two or three silver coins a month.
Ten taels of silver was a windfall, and everyone immediately became angry, their morale immediately increased, and they rushed towards the shield array in front of them, shouting.
The Japanese pirates seemed to have no reaction to them. They still maintained their formation and advanced slowly.
As they watched, the guys rushed to a distance of about twenty meters in front of the shield. Honda Kita shouted: "Fire cannon! Fire can be cut."
Suddenly, the shield in front tilted and lowered, and the three gunmen in the second row were revealed, the black muzzles of their guns pointed at the guys who were rushing over in disorder.
Bang bang bang!
There was a burst of smoke and fire, and the portal gun opened fire.
Master Chen was so frightened that these Japanese pirates had so many firearms.
In a dense formation, the nine-shot firing rate of the Huomen Gun exerted its devastating power. In street combat, the two sides meet on a narrow road and face each other directly. Both sides are in dense formations and are very thick arrays. Moreover, there are houses and shops on both sides, so there is basically no place to hide.
This is the complete queue-to-shoot mode.
Because it was too early, the houses and shops on both sides had locked their doors and had not yet opened their doors. Now that there is a fight, they will not open their doors.
The dense muskets exerted their greatest power, because the men had no place to find cover. They were not regular troops, they had no shields, and nothing that could withstand the muskets.
Row after row of workers were knocked down by lead bullets. Those behind were pushed forward, while those in front seemed to retreat. The whole thing was in chaos.
When Chen Sanye saw the musket exposed, he knew something was wrong. He was cunning and cunning, and he fell to the ground. He was almost seventy, and he had eaten more salt in his life than they had ever seen rice. His body is very nimble, and his reactions are very quick at this time.
"Quick, shoot at them with the three-eyed gun, quick," Mr. Chen yelled while lying on the ground.
