Chapter 78: The power of Japan-pacifying formations
Qi Jiguang was ordered to pacify the Japanese, and he thought hard about how to restrain the Japanese swords. When he saw the moso bamboo in the south, he took an old and solid bamboo, cut it three meters above, and left the sharp branches around it to make a wolf trap.
During the battle, the wolf soldiers were at the front, followed by the shield bearers and spearmen, taking care of each other.
The advantages of the Japanese sword are "one is long, two is sharp, and three is versatile". The wolf sword is more than twice as long as the Japanese sword, which can widen the distance between the enemy and ourselves. The dense layers of twigs on the wolf sword can offset or block the Japanese sword. The powerful slashing of the knife can form a large defensive area, which just restrains and limits the Japanese pirates' changeable knife skills, making it impossible for them to get close.
When Xi Xingchen decided to take the villagers to Dafa Rice Store to grab food, he thought about how to win against the bandits. He happened to see a bamboo forest behind Yangjia Village, and he came up with the idea of imitating Qi Jiguang's battle with Japanese pirates. .
In fact, Xi Xingchen's current situation is somewhat similar to Qi Jiguang's at that time.
Qi Jiguang was leading a group of soldiers who had been away from the battlefield for a long time, and Xi Xingchen was leading a group of villagers with no combat experience.
The soldiers led by Qi Jiguang were afraid of the Japanese swords wielded by the Japanese pirates, and the villagers led by Xi Xingchen were also very afraid of the broadswords in the hands of the bandits.
The first thing Qi Jiguang needs to solve is to get the soldiers to overcome their fear of Japanese knives, while Xi Xingchen wants the villagers not to turn around and run away as soon as they see the bandits charging towards them with big knives.
Qi Jiguang's soldiers were of higher quality, but they faced Japanese pirates who were highly skilled in martial arts and well-trained; Xi Xingchen's villagers had no combat experience, but he also faced just a ragtag group of bandits.
Comparing this, the two people's situations are indeed somewhat similar, and the common problem they have to face is to find a way to protect themselves and kill at the same time.
Qi Jiguang came up with the idea of using a wolf whisk to restrain the Japanese swords. Xi Xingchen followed suit and also used a wolf whisk to restrain the bandits' swords.
Due to time constraints, Xi Xingchen did not have time to train the villagers, so before going to Zhuma Town, he explained the key points of cooperation to Yang Liusheng and others. Yang Liusheng also knew that it was a matter of life and death, so he immediately organized a drill for the villagers who were holding langzhen.
Its general combat idea is that when the bandits rush over, the villagers holding the wolf chopper use the advantage of the wolf chopper to fork the bandit, and others will rush forward, using hoes, poles, and fire sticks to attack the bandit. Killed.
Yang Liusheng is indeed a talent. He was afraid that the villagers would be in a hurry when fighting bandits. During the drill, he divided the villagers into groups, with ten people in each group. Two villagers held wolf spears, two villagers used pot lids as shields, and the others The six people were armed with hoes, poles, fire sticks, harpoons and other agricultural tools, and the camera pounced on them and beat them severely.
In this way, its fighting style is somewhat similar to the mandarin duck formation used by Qi Jiguang when he fought against the Japanese.
In order to adapt to changes, Yang Liusheng asked the villagers to use the terrain and practice over and over again on the way to Zhuma Town.
The fighting style designed by Xi Xingchen was not difficult to understand, so when they arrived at Zhuma Town, the villagers already had a simple tacit understanding of the fighting skills.
Soon, the bandits tasted the bitterness of this tacit understanding.
When the villagers saw the bandits rushing out of Dafa Rice Store, the villagers holding the wolf chops immediately stood in front, leveled the wolf chops, and led the team members to charge towards the bandits.
Each wolf thorn is three meters long and full of branches. When it is erected, it looks harmless to humans and animals, and even a little funny.
But when hundreds of wolf thorns are laid flat, it will be spectacular.
Ma Erbao was at the front, so he was the first to see a sea of bamboo moving toward him, and was stunned.
"Damn it, is this still a war?" Ma Erbao looked at the sword in his hand and felt that it was too short for the first time in his life.
You must know that the horse-cutting knife in Ma Erbao's hand is only one meter long, but the wolf's sword is three meters long.
Ma Erbao rushed over with all his strength. It turned out that he was just like Ma Gaoyi, imagining that he would rush into the middle of the victims, brandishing his saber, and kill one against a hundred.
But when the two armies fought, Ma Erbao sadly discovered that he could not kill anyone at all.
What about the promised close combat?
This is cheating and does not follow martial ethics.
Ma Erbao lives up to his name, and his brain is a bit off, but he is really ruthless in fights, so ruthless that he would even beat himself up.
So when Ma Erbao saw that he couldn't kill anyone, he vented his anger on Langzhen. He roared angrily, brandished his sword and killed Zhuhai with undiminished momentum.
Ma Erbao was so powerful that he cut off a section of the wolf bamboo stick held by the villager he was fighting against. When he wanted to cut a second time, the remaining bamboo branches on the wolf bamboo rope immediately wrapped around his neck. hands and feet.
Ma Erbao covered one end of the wolf bamboo, and when he was about to snatch the wolf bamboo away from the villagers, another wolf bamboo came up.
Sorry, there are two wolves in a group, just to make up for it and hold the person down, and then the people behind will swarm up and beat the drowned dog.
Because the range of movement was restricted by the previous wolf sword, Ma Erbao was immediately stabbed into his ribs by the sharp bamboo knife at the top of the second wolf sword. The pain only made him tremble all over, and the horse-killing knife in his hand also fell to the ground.
Just when Ma Erbao didn't understand why the battle was going like this, a fire stick came down from an angle and hit him in the forehead.
The villager holding the fire stick really hated these bandits who stole all their food, so he beat them down with the stick with all his might.
"Crack!" The fire stick immediately broke into two pieces.
However, after Ma Erbao ate this stick, his condition was not much better. He only felt the sound of gongs and drums in his head. Before he could figure out what was going on, countless wooden sticks and hoes hit him all over his face. In the blink of an eye, In the meantime, Ma Erbao was beaten into a pulp.
Ma Erbao, who had the highest combat power in the company, was beaten to death by the villagers with sticks in just one round. The bandits who were far inferior to Ma Erbao were even more unbearable. More than 200 bandits were drowned by the overwhelming sea of bamboo after only one encounter.
When Ma Gaoyi, who was watching the battle on the watchtower, saw this situation, he was so frightened that he could no longer care about anything else. He jumped down from the watchtower, jumped on a fast horse, and walked out of the warehouse without any sense of loyalty. The back door disappeared in a flash.
Xi Xingchen was also stunned by this result.
Xi Xingchen knew that the tactics created by Qi Jiguang were extremely powerful, but he did not expect them to be so powerful.
In Xi Xingchen's expectation, this battle would at least be a back-and-forth battle. After a fierce battle in which both the enemy and the enemy suffered casualties, he and Jin Bo took the opportunity to sneak into Dafa Rice Store, capture the bandit leader, and then order the bandits to disarm. Surrendered.
Who knew that the battle would be over after just one meeting.
Although there were indeed a lot of people on his side, these bandits were too vulnerable. As a result, he and Jin Bo didn't even take action, as if they weren't watching the fun.
"Captain Xi, we won!"
Yang Liusheng ran over happily, followed by several leaders from each village. Each of them, like Yang Liusheng, looked at Xi Xingchen with stars twinkling in his eyes.
Xi Xingchen has seen this kind of little star in his previous life. Those little girls who are chasing stars are like this when they see their favorite idols.
"What are the casualties?" Xi Xingchen asked.
"There were no casualties, but the two of them hit the bandits too hard. They fell and broke some skin." Yang Liusheng said excitedly.
"Captain Xi, you are so powerful."
"It's not that I'm great, it's that everyone works together." Facing the overwhelming praise, Xi Xingchen had to be humble.
"Captain Xi, the granary of Dafa Rice Store is full of grain. What should we do with the grain?" Yang Liusheng asked.
"First send someone to transport some of the grain back to Yangjia Village. Everyone was destroyed. The others stayed to guard the granary to prevent bandits from robbing it again." Xi Xingchen ordered. "After eating, please invite Li Zheng from each village to come to Dafa Rice Store, and let's discuss together what to do with the grain."
"Okay!" Yang Liusheng admired Xi Xingchen so much now that he would do whatever Xi Xingchen asked him to do.
After Yang Liusheng left, Jin Bo said, "Brother Chen, isn't this too easy?"
Xi Xingchen nodded and said, "Yes, there are less than three hundred people guarding the granary. The main force of Huangfeng Village is not here."
"No matter what, there can't be any mistakes in the food of Dafa Rice Store, as it affects the lives of tens of thousands of people." Xi Xingchen said.
Xi Xingchen said: "I want to go to Wan County to meet and inquire about the bandits."
Facing the mountains of food, although the villagers' eyes were starving with hunger, they still controlled themselves and did not grab food.
It was obvious that after this battle, the villagers in Zhuma Town had recognized Xi Xingchen, and no one dared to touch the grain without his order.
Xi Xingchen immediately ordered: "Some people cleaned the battlefield and collected the bandits' weapons. Some people took some food from the granary, set up stoves, and made fires to make food."
Half an hour later, piles of bonfires were quickly lit up in Zhuma Town, and the aroma of rice filled the sky above Zhuma Town.
What people didn't expect was that Li Zheng in Zhuma Town came faster than Xi Xingchen imagined.
Xi Xingchen thought that everyone would come here after eating. Who knew that as soon as Li Zheng from each village received the message, he immediately set off for Zhuma Town, regardless of the fact that he was so hungry that he was so hungry.
When everyone arrived at Dafa Rice Store, the rice cooked by Xi Xingchen had just been served.
The reason why these Li Zheng came to Zhuma Town without eating is that they had already taken this step.
Seeing the Li Zhengmen arriving, Xi Xingchen immediately ordered the villagers to bring stools and invite the Li Zhengmen to eat together.
To say that the Li Zhengs were pretty lucky, when Xi Xingchen was attacking Dafa Rice Store, Ma Gaoyi was preparing a table of delicious food. After taking down the Dafa Rice Store, the leftover chicken, duck and fish meat that Ma Gaoyi ate naturally became cheaper for Xi Xingchen.
The local officials in each village were also very hungry these days. When they saw the rice being served, they were not polite. They picked up their rice bowls and started to eat happily.
Although these old men were in their seventies or eighties, they were no less good at eating than young men like Xi Xingchen. They swept away all the delicious food on the table like a whirlwind.
