Hu Lin, the patrolman of Qiancang Qianhu Station in Xiangshan, heard the movement and quickly took a horse from the forest and galloped for more than ten miles to arrive at Qiancang Qianhu Station.
Yi Shaozong was reading at night by candlelight. Hearing that someone came to report, he quickly walked out of the room.
Hu Lin looked panicked and quickly reported: "Sir, something bad has happened. A large number of Japanese pirates have landed ashore. They are heading towards Tang'ao and Panjiakan. There are about seven or eight hundred people. It can't be seen clearly." .”
"Japanese pirates? The wait is finally here!"
After Yi Shaozong heard this, he was not surprised but overjoyed, and shouted loudly: "Go, pull Yang Liang, deputy Qianhu, out of his mother-in-law's bed, and calm Wanbiao. In addition, call all the sergeants to gather at the martial arts training ground." !”
Hu Lin looked at the tall Hunan man in front of him, and saw no fear or shrinkage in his eyes. He couldn't help but feel certain, and replied loudly: "I obey my orders!"
Yi Shaozong looked up at the sky. The stars were not bright that night.
In the 30th year of Hongwu's reign, he was transferred to Xiangshan and took up the post of Qianhu in the Qiancang Qianhu Office. Commander Chang Guowei once issued a death order. Here is the only thing to do here:
Kill the Japanese pirates!
In the past three years, Yi Shaozong saw that the coast of the Ming Dynasty was constantly being invaded by Japanese pirates. Battle reports came from time to time, which were mixed with the power, cruelty and terror of the Japanese pirates.
In order to fight against the Japanese, the imperial court not only sent the elite of the Ming Dynasty Navy to cruise the East China Sea day and night, but also set up more than 40 guards, stations, cities, and villages along the southeast coast, and sent additional sergeants.
Since Xiangshan was self-reliant, it had never encountered Japanese pirates. Now, they are here!
Yi Shaozong knew that the Japanese pirates were ferocious, and he also knew that he only had 1,120 people at his disposal. Facing a considerable number of Japanese pirates, Qiancang Qianhu Station did not have an advantage.
but!
I have no way out!
Even if it is a fierce battle, even if it is a life-and-death battle, you must move forward!
There was a noise in Qianhusuo, and Yi Shaozong's wife, Li, came out wearing clothes and asked: "What happened? Why is there such a noise that the children are woken up."
Yi Shaozong turned to look at his wife with a stern look on his face. He pondered for a moment and said, "Go and prepare a table of food and wine. Also, wake up the children."
Li was puzzled. Seeing Yi Shaozong's seriousness and Qianhu's movements, she knew something might have changed. She swallowed the words as they reached her lips and turned around to prepare the food and drinks.
Yang Liang and Wan Biao came over in a hurry.
Yi Shaozong called Hu Lin and asked about the location where the Japanese pirates landed. He found a wooden stick, drew a mark on the ground, and said: "According to what Hu Lin said, there are seven or eight hundred Japanese pirates. Let's make eight hundred." Let's talk about it. Qiancang Qianhu is located in the northeast of Xiangshan, and Tang'ao and Panjiakan are in the southwest of Xiangshan. They are seventeen or eighty miles away. What do you think we should do?"
Yang Liang looked at it, patted his chest and said, "Give me five hundred brothers to ambush the Japanese pirates on the way to retreat from Tang'ao and Panjiakan, so that they never come back!"
"I disagree!"
Wan Biao quickly expressed his position and said seriously: "Don't rely on too much. Japanese pirates are difficult to deal with. If you underestimate the enemy, you will easily suffer losses. And using an ambush means letting the Japanese pirates burn, kill and loot. It is too passive. I think we should use all our efforts." , defeat each one!"
Yi Shaozong looked at Yang Liang and Wan Biao who were arguing endlessly, shook his head, and said in a deep voice: "You must have heard about Zhang Fu, right?"
"Zhang Fu? The Zhang Fu who won the battle in Annan?"
Yang Liang looked at Yi Shaozong doubtfully.
The current enemy is not the Annan rebels, but the Japanese pirates. There is no Zhang Fu here, only us.
Yi Shaozong waved the wooden stick in his hand, pointed to the location where the Japanese pirates landed, and said: "Zhang Fu had the courage to cross the mountains, sacrifice his own life, surprise attack on Zhennanguan, and lock the Annan army's retreat in one fell swoop, which led to the victory in Guangxi. Today there are Japanese pirates who are causing chaos in our Xiangshan Mountain.
We should also have the courage to completely sink the Japanese pirate ships and cut off their retreat! "
"Now, I give an order: Yang Liang will lead two hundred sergeants, led by Hu Lin, to burn and sink the Japanese pirate ships. I will personally lead the remaining sergeants and go straight to Tang'ao and Panjiakan. When the Japanese pirates want to retreat, You can only stay and fight us to the death!"
"Sir, our troops are already insufficient. If we divide our troops again..."
Wan Biao said worriedly.
Yang Liang said with a stern face: "We don't need two hundred, we only need one hundred people. We will definitely complete the mission! I am willing to issue a military order!"
Yi Shaozong did not agree, so he dropped the stick and said solemnly: "Act according to my arrangement, order all the sergeants to be ready in a quarter of an hour!"
When Mrs. Li heard the news about the Japanese pirates, she couldn't help but become nervous and worried secretly. She prepared simple food and drinks, and then called her two sons and a little daughter.
Yi Shaozong sat in front of the wine and food, looked at his children, and said in a deep voice: "Take two steps back and kneel down!"
The children didn't know why, but they knelt down obediently.
"rise!"
"Kneel down!"
"Kowtow again and get up!"
"Kneel down!"
"Kowtow three times and get up!"
"Kneel down!"
"Kowtow four times, get up!"
Li's face was pale, and she couldn't help but shed tears when she looked at Yi Shaozong sitting on it. This is not an ordinary etiquette. It is an etiquette when paying homage to deceased relatives and genealogy!
Needless to say, Yi Shaozong was ready to die as a farewell to his children!
Li was choked up and speechless.
Yi Shaozong stood up and walked towards Mrs. Li, looked seriously at the woman who had given birth to children for him, and said in the gentlest voice possible in his life: "I will leave my children to you in the future."
Mrs. Li couldn't hold back anymore and cried out, but suddenly thought that it would be unlucky for her husband to cry when he went to war, so she could only grit her teeth and let the tears roll down.
Yi Shaozong hugged several children, gave some instructions, then put on his armor and sword, and walked out majestically.
In the training ground, one thousand one hundred and twenty people lined up neatly, and a solemn atmosphere swept the sky.
Yi Shaozong climbed up to the high platform and looked at the faces of everyone under the torch. Yi Shaozong could call out the names of these people. Everyone was his brother!
Now, I want to send them to the battlefield to kill the enemy!
Maybe, they will die.
But this is their duty, their destiny!
Yi Shaozong took a step forward and shouted loudly: "Raise troops for a thousand days, use them for a moment! Now the Japanese pirates are killing my people, plundering my wives, and doing many evil things. As a soldier of the Ming Dynasty, if I can't kill the enemy to serve the country, who am I to be a human being?! Take it! Come with pen and ink!”
Someone on the side took the pen and ink. Yi Shaozong held a thick brush and dipped it full of ink. He turned to look at the wall behind him and walked over. In a few strokes, there were only eight sentences, thirty or twenty words:
"It is unkind to set up generals to defend the enemy and armies to protect the people. It is unkind to allow the enemy to be unfaithful and to abandon the people. If you are unfaithful and unkind, how can you be a minister! If you are a minister without duty, how can you be a human being!"
Dropping the brush, Yi Shaozong shouted three times, followed by the sergeant shouting three times!
The sound shocks the world!
"Set off!"
Yi Shaozong raised his sword and gave the order.
Yang Liang took people to the coast, and Yi Shaozong took more than 900 people and went straight to Tang'ao and Panjiakan.
Due to the severe shortage of horses in the Ming Dynasty, there were only more than thirty war horses in the entire Qiancang Qianhu Station. Although Yi Shaozong urged the horses to go quickly, he could not leave the large army behind, so everyone could only run forward.
Wearing armor, carrying a bow and arrow, holding a shield and a sword and gun, the total weight of the large and small weighed more than twenty kilograms. It can be said to be a veritable long-distance run with heavy loads.
Zhang Liang is closer to the coast,
It took half an hour to arrive with the troops. Everyone was hiding behind the hillside. Hu Lin pointed carefully in the direction of the coast and said: "Right there, the Japanese pirates have extinguished the lights. You need to get closer to see clearly."
"Prepare for battle!"
Zhang Liang ordered them to go down, and the sergeants began to prepare muskets and rockets. Some people prepared gunpowder and straw, and under the cover of night, they cautiously approached the beach.
"My lord, there is not much defense."
Hu Lin looked at the beach nervously and said softly.
Zhang Liang nodded slightly. This is the way Japanese pirates behave. Once they plunder, the main force will be used up, leaving only a few people on guard.
This is related to their plundering ambitions, madness, and their bestiality.
"Destroy all ships in one fell swoop!"
Zhang Liang gave the order seriously, and then quickly led people over.
When the people on the Japanese pirate ship heard the noise, they jumped out and shouted something. Zhang Liang couldn't understand the bird's language. The bowstring trembled and the arrow flew out.
"kill!"
Zhang Liang charged forward, and rockets soaked in pine oil flew out and were nailed to the wooden ship planks. With the gunpowder cans, pine oil cans, and straw thrown out, the fire suddenly became bigger.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the Japanese pirates jumped into the sea to survive.
But Zhang Liang, Hu Lin and others had already changed their spears and pierced the Japanese pirates who jumped into the sea and wanted to go ashore.
Some of the ships that survived the disaster quickly fled to the sea, and some sergeants swam over quickly. Fortunately, the southeast wind prevented the ships from retreating quickly, and they were caught up by the sergeants.
The Japanese pirates frantically slashed and killed the Ming troops who wanted to board the ship, but when more Ming troops arrived, they were completely desperate.
The more than one hundred Japanese pirates on board the ship couldn't figure out why they became the target of robbery when they were clearly here to rob.
Zhang Liang watched the fire burn the coast red, turned around and said to all the sergeants: "Leave a dozen people to escort the injured brother back, and the others will follow me to support Lord Qianhu!"
Before Yi Shaozong arrived at Tang'ao and Panjiakan, he saw the red fire on the coast, which could be seen even though it was far away.
And it was not only Yi Shaozong who saw this scene, but also the Japanese pirates.
The Japanese pirates who were looting Tang'ao and Panjiakan noticed that the ship was destroyed, and quickly organized the personnel to retreat. It didn't matter whether they grabbed anything this time. There were still some goods brought from Nanyang on the ship, which could not be lost.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
The Japanese pirates rushed to the coast and met Yi Shaozong and his army halfway.
Yi Shaozong went straight forward to fight, swung the sword in his hand, and killed five people in a row. When the Japanese pirates saw this, they were even more panicked and had no fighting spirit. They frantically fought their way out and ran towards the beach.
Yi Shaozong led his men in pursuit for several miles. On the way, he met up with Zhang Liang's sergeants and attacked and killed the Japanese pirates. However, Zhang Liang had too few men and could not stop the Japanese pirates.
The Japanese pirates fled to the beach and felt heartbroken when they saw the burned ships and cargo. In order to prevent the Japanese pirates from escaping into the water, Yi Shaozong drove his horse straight to the beach. Unexpectedly, the horse's hoof fell into the sea flat.
When the Japanese pirates saw this, they gritted their teeth at Yi Shaozong and came back to kill him.
The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty fought against the Japanese pirates on the beach. On the one hand, they were defending their country and sacrificing their lives for righteousness. On the other hand, they could not survive unless they killed the Ming army and had to fight tooth and nail.
The battle was extremely fierce. Yi Shaozong rolled down from his horse. In order to boost his morale, he rushed towards the thickest place where the Japanese pirates were thickest. He killed more than ten Japanese pirates in a row. His morale increased greatly and he killed the Japanese pirates until they were retreating.
But at this moment, a cold arrow flew out of the darkness and pierced Yi Shaozong's head.
Soon, the Japanese pirates swarmed up and chopped Yi Shaozong into pieces.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Liang shouted "Revenge for Qianhu" with red eyes, and his angry murderous intention surged out. By daybreak, the beach was covered with blood red...
