Qi Jiguang repeatedly made military exploits in the Anti-Japanese War to fight against Japanese aggression

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Japan was in the period of division between the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The feudal princes were divided and attacked each other. The feudal lords who lost the war organized warriors, merchants, and ronin to carry out armed smuggling, robbery and harassment in China's coastal areas, and were known as "Japanese pirates" in history. In the early Ming Dynasty, the country was strong and attached great importance to coastal defense, but the Japanese invaders failed to cause catastrophe. After the orthodoxy, with the political corruption of the Ming Dynasty and the relaxation of coastal defense, the scourge of Japanese pirates became more and more serious. The heinous crimes of the Japanese invaders brought serious disasters to the Chinese people. The angry people of China organized themselves against the Japanese invaders and carried out a self-defense struggle. Among them, the "Qi Family Army" led by national hero Qi Jiguang cooperated with other Ming armies and defeated Japanese pirates many times. In the autumn of the 34th year of Jiajing's reign, Qi Jiguang was transferred from Shandong to the Yuwo front line in Zhejiang and served as Zhejiang Jinshu. The following year he was recommended to join the army and guard Ningbo, Shaoxing and Taizhou, which were soon changed to Taizhou, Jinhua and Yanzhou. These areas are frequented by Japanese pirates and are also the places where Japanese pirates suffer the most. At that time, most of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were old, weak, sick and disabled, with no combat effectiveness, and their military equipment was worn out. The soldiers' armor was all made of paper, and they didn't even have a camp for marching and fighting. They could only stay in roadside hotels. The shortage of military food made the soldiers hungry for a long time. Who would want to fight like this? After a winter, Qi Jiguang's people were almost gone. Qi Jiguang, who grew up in a military family, knew this very well. He has been considering reorganizing the army and establishing a brave and combat-effective new army. He has repeatedly suggested recruitment and training to his boss, but he did not receive the attention he deserved. It was not until 1559 that his superiors allowed him to try selecting and training soldiers. Qi Jiguang believed that farmers and fishermen with strong bodies and skin as dark as dirt were ideal soldiers; on the contrary, unscrupulous people with light eyes and delicate skin would never be recruited. Once, Qi Jiguang passed by a fishing village on horseback, where a gunfight broke out. On one side are miners, big and thick, and on the other are fishermen as black as loaches. Harpoons and clubs flew up and down, many people were killed, but no one begged for mercy. Qi Jiguang grabbed the reins and was about to stop him when he had an idea: Isn't this the best opportunity to select troops? When the miners and fishermen who were fighting saw a high official, they gathered together to complain to him, and there was chaos. Qi Jiguang learned that they were fighting for the loot they had snatched from the enemy. One side said the pile of clothes was taken from them by the enemy, while the other side said they were captured from their fishing boat. There was no way to argue, so we had to use force. When Qi Jiguang heard this, he couldn't help laughing: "Don't even think about it. If the Japanese really called, this kind of thing would not exist. Why are you fighting?" At present, we should unite to deal with the enemy! "Qi Jiguang took the opportunity to tell everyone about the brutality of the enemies along the coast, which aroused the indignation of everyone present. A young man named Yaya pushed through the crowd and came to Qi Jiguang and shouted: "General, let me join your team. I will follow you to destroy all Japanese invaders! As soon as he finished speaking, several young people stood up and said, "General, take me away!" "And me, take me with you!" "The arms were raised high, and the shouts were mesmerizing. Qi Jiguang was even more excited. He accepted hundreds of young people participating in the duel on the spot and brought them back to the army. Five people one, five people one, five people one, Five people per team. He trained according to his "Mandarin Duck Formation". On this day, Qi Jiguang took a boat trip and saw a small boat on the sea in the distance, drifting with the current. Is it an unmanned spacecraft? The captain said: "General Qi, come up and take a look. "Qi Jiguang waved his hand: "Wait a minute! "He suffered a loss once. Once, he went out on a boat and encountered such a strange boat floating on the water. Just as he was about to lean up, the boat exploded with a bang. Now, you have to be careful.

Qi Jiguang sent a sailor to inquire. The sailor swam towards the strange ship and glanced at him. I saw several naked bodies on the deck. Judging from their skin color and clothing, they were fishermen from the coast. The sailor plucked up the courage to climb onto the side of the ship, only to find several corpses of the enemy in the cabin. Sailor Qi Jiguang was asked to board the ship. Qi Jiguang took a closer look and found one in the cabin. The wooden box was full of venomous snakes with triangular heads. Some crawled out of the box, sticking out their red tongues and staring with green eyes.

Qi Jiguang pondered for a moment and said: "The enemy must have dug out the venomous snake that the fishermen caught from Snake Island when they were rummaging through the boxes in the warehouse." The sailor pointed to a bearded corpse at the bottom of the warehouse and asked, "Then how could he What about suicide?" Qi Jiguang looked in the direction of Shui's finger and saw that the bearded enemy had punched a hole in his forehead with a gun. He was troubled by all the thoughts. The sailor was still muttering to himself, "Strange thing, how could he shoot himself?" Qi Jiguang bent down to take a closer look, and suddenly understood, pointing to a snake wrapped in a gun trigger. "The snake must have caught the gun in the Japanese pirate's hand and pulled the trigger with its tail, so" everyone looked at each other and had to admire Qi Jiguang's reasonable analysis. Qi Jiguang paused and said, "Look, even the snakes don't want their enemies to enter the territory of the Ming Dynasty. They are willing to die with them. How can we stand by and watch?" This wisecrack made everyone laugh. Then, Qi Jiguang analyzed, "Although this area is calm, there must be a large number of Japanese pirates on the move." He asked people to drag the unmanned ship back to the port and hide it, which would be useful in the future. Sure enough, within three days, a Japanese pirate team of more than 2,000 people crossed the sea from Japan and entered Taizhou. I heard that the enemy was coming, and so many people came. Among the newly recruited soldiers, some turned pale with fright, while some left behind their newly issued armor and ran away overnight. Qi Jiguang sent reinforcements and deployed more than 800 soldiers on the coast, ready to fight at any time. When the enemy's mast tip appeared on the sea, Qi Jiguang raised his arms. Several soldiers understood the situation and ran to the bay to drag out a boat. It's still that strange ship with no one on it. The corpses on the ship had long been blown dry by the sea breeze, and the blood stains on the deck had condensed into pieces of eggplant. Wei Guang stood on a high place and said loudly: "Come on, come and see this ship!" The team was in chaos, with people from behind and in front of them. Qi Jiguang waved his hand and said, "Don't squeeze, don't squeeze, you can see it!" When the soldiers saw the corpse, they sighed. Suddenly, someone in the crowd shouted: "Oh my god, this is my boat!" They immediately made a way to let the person squeeze in. Qi Jiguang took a closer look and saw that it was the stubborn child. He cried and ran about to jump up, but Qi Jiguang held him back. Listening to the sea breeze accompanied by Masako's heartbreaking cry: "Dad, Mom, eldest brother, second brother, you died so miserably!" Only then did people know that Masako's parents went fishing a few days ago and unexpectedly met enemy. He stamped his feet, cried, and shouted. His cries tugged at everyone's hearts, and many people sobbed along with him. Qi Jiguang comforted him again and again, but he still kept crying. Qi Jiguang pointed to the sea: "Don't cry, the Japanese are right under our noses. We must fight hard to drive these bandits back to the sea!" The soldiers were ready to go and shouted: "Kill all the Japanese invaders!" "For our father and brother." Revenge!" Seeing that everyone's emotions were aroused, Qi Jiguang shouted again: "In the past, we fought with more, but today we are outnumbered. I only ask you to do three things. . First, don't hit the enemy on the head! Second, don't covet the enemy's baggage. Third, don't kill the coerced followers easily. If you defeat the enemy, all the loot will be distributed to everyone. The defeat was all for grabbing guns and property, so don’t blame me for being heartless!” The soldiers replied: “Don’t worry, everything is under the command of the commander-in-chief!” “We will not embarrass the prince!” The enemies on board were surprised to see many swords and guns on the coast, with flags and banners flying. They did not dare to land from the front, but climbed up secretly from another place.

As expected, Qi Jiguang sent troops to surround the path. He ordered the soldiers to hold a bunch of pine branches in their hands, disguise themselves as a pine forest, and ambush at the edge of the mountain forest. The enemy's ship was anchored on the shore, and they scrambled to crawl to the shore. Spears gleamed, each other pushed and embraced, and the serpentine procession marched for miles. The soldiers on the hidden slope did not move. From a distance, they could not see a single figure, but the mountains were covered with green pines and trees. Cyclops Saburo Taiyoshino is here and he brings these enemies with him. He looked around and saw no movement, so he shouted for the large team to move forward. When the enemy team was halfway through the march, the sound of conch shells was heard from behind the cliff. The hidden soldiers threw down pine branches together and launched an attack from above. At the moment of the tilt, the sound of killings, cannons, and swords and guns shook the valley; when the enemy saw the ambush, At this time, they screamed and fought to the death. Then, Qi Jiguang raised the flag with one move and arranged the team into a "mandarin duck formation" that could fight front, back, left and right. Although these recruits were not familiar with the "Mandarin Duck Formation" of the Qi Army, they were enough to scare off the enemy. The enemy's formation was in chaos and they fled for their lives.

When Qi Jiguang saw that the enemy troops were defeated, he rolled up the white flag he had made in advance on the mountain and asked his subordinates to shout: "Those who surrender to their subordinates can avoid death!" Following this call, hundreds of enemies ran under their flags and lowered their flags. Weapons, begging for life. Saburo Tayoshino left the team, stumbled forward, plunged into the valley, and was stoned to death. More than two thousand Japanese invaders were quickly wiped out. The people of Taizhou heard that Qi Jiguang had won another great victory, so they beat gongs and drums to welcome Gu Jun led by Qi Jiguang. Later, Qi Jiguang led the new soldiers to fight several great victories in Fujian and Guangdong, beating the enemy half to death. Even people on the Japanese island stuck out their tongues when Qi Jiguang was mentioned: "Qi Jiajun, great! Amazing!" Later, the Japanese rarely showed off their power along the coast of China.