The Various Ming Armies took the opportunity to attack with all their might, and in the blink of an eye, the sound of killing behind the Wokou position was tremendous, and it turned out that Lu Kun and others had already led the crowd to attack the top of the mountain from behind the mountain.
As a result, the Ming army attacked up and down, attacking left and right, and Wu Kou was powerless to resist, and indeed escaped from the sea route left by Qi Jiguang, and the Ming army ambushed.
The Ming army surrounded and attacked it, and the Wukou fell into the water and died countless people. Those who were too late to escape fell to their knees and begged for forgiveness, and the leader of the Wokou bowed down and surrendered.
The remnants of the Wokou rushed to Wenzhou, and Qi Jiguang pursued them all the way, destroying them in The Panshi and Guantou in Wenzhou, and the Wokou of Wenzhou were also driven to the sea by Qi Jiguang's troops.
On May 18, Qi Jiguang was ordered to march north and cooperate with other Ming armies to suppress the Wukou who were occupying ninghai, the capital of Taizhou. When the Wukou who were entrenched in Ninghai heard that various Ming armies had gathered, they were afraid and fled to the sea by boat.
Qi Jiguang led the boat division, rode on the wind, chased the enemy with the admiralty led by General Ren Jin, and sank 6 ships at Maotouyang; qiu Hong, who commanded the naval division, sank 5 warships at Qingmenyang, burned 4, and rescued more than 5,000 captured civilians.
Wu Kou had no way to fight against the Ming army at sea, but instead landed and gathered, seized the people's house, and held the building to the death, and was completely annihilated by the Ming army led by Dusi Niu Tianxi.
At this point, the Wukou who invaded Wenzhou and Taizhou in 38 years by Jiajing were completely wiped out, and the situation along the coast of Zhejiang was temporarily calmed down.
In just two months, Qi Jiguang galloped on the front line of the anti-Japanese war in eastern Zhejiang and made outstanding military achievements. He fought bravely in this war of peace and command, and has become a well-known brave general.
Plan to recruit and train the new army
As early as the thirty-fifth year of Jiajing, Qi Jiguang suggested in the book that soldiers be trained. However, at that time, only barracks were re-created, training was highlighted, and the selection of soldiers was mainly selected from the existing Zhejiang Guards and militia volunteers. Later, Hu Zongxian allocated 3,000 troops from Cao Tianyou's army to Qi Jiguang for training. After a year and a half, the team looks like the military is still neat.
Because Qi Jiguang was a pioneer in the war, had good command, and had serious military orders, he also fought many victorious battles. However, despite Qi Jiguang's strict education, this army still has many unsatisfactory aspects in terms of military discipline.
Qi Jiguang deeply knew that the road to sweeping away the Wokou was still very long, and the task was still very arduous. It is unlikely that such a team should be allowed to undertake such a big mission.
Qi Jiguang clearly saw that the root cause of this contingent was the common vice in the Ming army. This army has long been tainted with vices and is deeply rooted. These vices are very contradictory to Qi Jiguang's principle of governing the army, and it is difficult for the old army with such vices to really train well.
The composition of these armies is rather complex, and some of them are soldiers who have eaten military food for generations, and when soldiers eat only for mixed food, they are unwilling to contribute to the war.
Some are urban hooligans, greedy, striving for success, cunning, and unenterprising.
It is very difficult to rely on them to accomplish the task of defending coastal defense and ensuring border security for the people.
Considering the above reasons, Qi Jiguang was determined to train an anti-Wu brigade with peasants as the main body, and he believed that only by building a brave and good-fighting army could the Wukou be completely defeated.
In order to train a well-disciplined and brave army, Qi Jiguang decided to start reforming from a military background.
Qi Jiguang decided to put forward another proposal for training troops, select a new army, and train from scratch. Qi Jiguang has been paying close attention to the situation of the War of Resistance Against the Uighurs over the past few years, and he has profoundly realized that recruiting indigenous soldiers is not only a "long-term plan" and a "comprehensive plan," but also the basis for victory in the War of the Imperial Uighurs.
Because they have suffered the most from the Wokou, the people who hate the Wokou the most are the people who resist the Wokou the most resolutely, and the people who are the most heroic in killing the Wokou.
Especially when the ming army could not play the role of the imperial government, the masses of the people often took the initiative to organize themselves to fight against the Wokou and won victories.
In Qi Jiguang's mind, vivid deeds of the masses of the people heroically resisting the Wokou emerged: In the thirty-first year of Jiajing, the Wokou invaded Nanhui in Shanghai County on a large scale, and min Yun, the common people of Nanhui, automatically organized a militia of about 1,000 people and killed many Wokou.
Although Min Yun died heroically because he was outnumbered, the people of Nanhui were not intimidated by the Wokou.
Once the Wokou besieged Nanhui City, and most of the militia in the city were transferred to other places.
There was a good man whom people called Li San, and two other militiamen guarded a corner of Nanhui City.
Seeing that the walls were not high and the lime clay between the bricks had been loosened by weathering, wokou erected a ladder to climb the city.
Li San tried desperately to push away the ladder, but unfortunately, there were few people with little strength, and there were more than 10 Wokou pressed on the ladder, and they couldn't push it.
While li san called a militiaman to report the news, he wielded a knife and slashed and killed the two wokou who climbed up first. One of his remaining comrades was killed in a fight with the Wokou, and Li San desperately guarded the city.
When the Wokou attacked again, Li San, seeing the danger of the situation, was in a hurry and pushed the battlements on the city wall downwards.
The bricks, the dirt, and so on, suddenly pressed against the ladder, and some of them hit the top of their heads, shook their bodies twice, and fell under the ladder; some of them were fascinated, screamed, couldn't hold the ladder, and fell down.
Annoyed and ashamed, wokou set up artillery and fired them. Li San unfortunately and heroically sacrificed. However, the militiaman had already brought in reinforcements, and the brave men were furious, avenging Li San and the others, killing many Wokou, and finally failing to let the enemy succeed.
It was also in this year that the Wokou invaded Baoshan. Baoshan has five brothers of the Huang family, known as the "Five Tigers of the Huang Family". Named Da Long, Big Tiger, Big Leopard, Da Biao, and Da Cheng respectively, they organized a "Huang Family Soldier" and killed the enemy.
At that time, the person who was in charge of the military armament of Suzhou and Songjiang was a patriotic general named Ren Huan. Ren Huan always took the lead in battle, and was brave.
Ren Huan also wrote his name on his body, his limbs and body in many places, saying: "It is the duty of a military general to die in battle. My body was left behind by my father and mother, and if it was broken into seven pieces and eight pieces, the descendants could pick it up and bury it together, and it would be worthy of them. ”
Ren Huan heard that the Huang family soldiers were brave and capable of fighting, and incorporated them into his own troops.
When more than 1,000 Wukou occupied Wuxiang and attacked all the way to Jiading City, Huang Dalong led the Huang family soldiers to attack with wind and fire and defeated the Wukou.
Thirty-five years after Jiajing, under the leadership of Ren Huan, Huang Jiabing participated in the Battle of Hushuguan and made great achievements, and as many as 50 people were killed by the five huang family brothers in this battle alone! Really did it to one to ten.
Later, Jiadingzhi County established 13 forts to defend against the Wokou, and asked the 5 brothers of the Huang family to each guard a fort. When Wu Kou heard the prestige of the Huang family soldiers, he was too frightened to approach Jiading.
Why did JiadingZhi County build forts to defend against the wu?
Not long ago, the Wukou invaded Jiading, and due to the resolute resistance of the people of Jiading, the Wukou attack could not be achieved, so they had to surround the county town. More than 10 days passed, and the militiamen guarding the city were exhausted, leaning on each other and closing their eyelids.
There was only one boy who guarded the lamp, and although he had not slept in bed for many days, he watched the movements of the city vigilantly in order to let everyone rest and then go into battle.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew out the lantern fire in his hand. Just as he was about to catch fire from another lantern, Wokou climbed up the wall with a ladder.
The boy heard the noise, turned his head and looked, not good! He was about to shout when wokou put a knife to the back of his neck and shouted, "If you want to make a sound, I'll kill you first!"
The boy slammed the lantern in his hand toward the wokou and shouted, "Wokou has climbed the city!" Wokou climbed the city! ”
The militiamen rose up, slaughtered the enemy, and annihilated the Wokou who had climbed up the city. When the battle was over, everyone looked around for the boy who was guarding the lamp, and found that he had died.
After the people of Jiading repelled the Wokou, between the west gate and the north gate of the county town, a stone statue of a boy was carved, and this stone statue watched the outside of the city vigilantly day and night, cold and hot, cloudy or sunny.
People didn't know his name, so they called him "Stone Boy."
The Songjiang River, near Jiading, was also invaded by the Wokou. At that time, there happened to be a businessman from Shandong, named Sun Zhen, who came to Songjiang to do business.
Sun Zhen, outraged by the Wokou, took the initiative to go to the sheriff and requested that all the money be donated to the public and used as food for the troops of the Imperial Guards.
The sheriff said, "You're a foreigner doing business, and you've donated all your money, so how do you do business?" He replied, "Thieves are so rampant, it's okay not to do it."
"Then even if you don't do business, you'll always have to go back to your hometown!"
"I don't go back to my hometown."
The sheriff was curious and asked him what he was going to do.
Sun Zhen said, "I will donate myself to the public and kill the thieves in the army, this is always okay!"
The sheriff then recommended him to the army. The officer wanted to try his martial arts. This Sun Zhen danced his double knife like a fly, and it turned out that he had practiced martial arts when he was young.
The officer said, "You're not a native, and you can only be an ordinary soldier if you want to join the army, would you like to?"
Sun Zhen promised, "As long as you kill a thief, you can do whatever you want."
After Joining the army, Sun Zhen bravely killed the enemy and made many achievements in battle. On one occasion, the general Ren Huan hit more with less and was surrounded by wokou.
When Sun Zhen heard the news, he wielded his double sword, killed the enemy, and then together with Ren Huan, he beat the Wokou and fled.
Sun Zhen not only donated money and money himself, killed Wokou, but also wrote a letter to his family to sell all the fields and houses, and all the men in the neighborhood of relatives, friends, and neighbors also came to Songjiang, donated money and money, and the boys joined the army, leaving no money behind, sparing no effort, and throwing themselves into the War of the Imperial Wo.
The people of Songjiang relied heavily on Sun Zhen and regarded him as if he were the Great Wall. Unexpectedly, once, Sun Zhen charged into the battlefield and went deep into the Wu group, and the reinforcements did not arrive in time, and finally they were outnumbered and died heroically.
Chongming Island at the mouth of the Yangtze River, because the original county seat of Chongming County was washed away by the tide, the county seat was newly moved to a place, and the city wall had not yet been repaired.
Wu Kou found an opportunity to take advantage of it and invaded the county seat of Chongming. Tang Yicen of Zhixian personally killed more than 10 Wokou, and he himself was seriously injured and died.
The militia took the initiative to rally and vowed to retake the county seat and avenge the deaths of the people and the heroic sacrifice of Tangzhi County.
They divided their troops into four routes, and at the same time launched an attack on the gates of the east, south, west, and north, and with the response of the people in the city, they attacked the city in one fell swoop, and after fierce fighting, they wiped out all the more than 200 invading Wokou.
Nantong, on the north bank of the Yangtze River, also produced a militia hero. His surname is Cao, and because he has 3 spinners on his head, people call him Cao Xuan.
Cao Xuan was a salt-based salt farmer who had practiced martial arts since childhood and learned the skill of sailing on a boat.
When Zhang Jing led the War of Resistance against the Wo on the southeast coast, Cao Xuan was recruited into the water army and put into battle.
Once, when the Ming army and the Wukou were engaged in a battle on the water, when the warships of the two sides were approaching, Cao Xuan first stabbed the Wokou who was at the helm of the enemy ship with one shot, and then jumped on the enemy ship.
Encouraged by Cao Xuan's example, the Ming generals also jumped on enemy ships and fought with the short soldiers of the Wukou army. Cao Xuan ran to the enemy ship's cabin and set a fire.
When the ship was full of ships, they saw the cabin on fire and became even more panicked, some of them dived and drowned, and some became ghosts under the sword of the Ming Army.
Wokou did not get a bargain in the water war, and went to attack the county town. Cao Xuan and the Ming soldiers took the offensive as a defense, and took the initiative to attack again and again, causing the Wukou to lose their armor and armor.
The battle lasted for more than twenty days, and wokou decided to concentrate their forces for a final battle. Nantong military and civilian weapons, including bricks, stones, teapots filled with boiling water, are used to fight the enemy.
The fierce battle lasted from early morning to noon, and Cao Xuan killed more than a dozen Wokou alone.
Wokou was disappointed and had to retreat in the direction of Wolf Mountain.
At this time, the northern Soviet side rushed to a Ming army and joined forces with the troops defending the city to pursue. Cornered, wokou fled in a dozen boats.
Kunshan, east of Suzhou, is a military stronghold. The Ming army, which was defending the outskirts of Kunshan, learned that Wukou had invaded Kunshan and fled in the face of the wind.
Kunshan County's Zhixian surname Zhu was a patriotic and good official, and while sending warriors to the Suzhou side from the waterway to ask for help, he also mobilized the military and civilians to guard the city.
There was a reader named Chen Huai, who took the initiative to sign up for the battle. Everyone saw that the students had all picked up their swords and guns, and whoever was willing to fall behind, they all went to the city. Archery that can shoot arrows, knives, guns, sticks, sticks, sticks for those who can't shoot arrows.
Once, a group of Wokou climbed the city on a ladder, and climbed to the front and was about to go up to the head of the city, and a warrior who was guarding the city stabbed him in the forehead, and the Wokou endured the pain and climbed up, and the warrior held his head and did not let go.
The other Wokou shot arrows at the defending warrior, and the warrior was shot on the body, on the hand, and even in the face, but he was still dead.
Finally, the leader of the Wokou rolled down, knocking the next few Wokou off the ladder and breaking their heads and bleeding.
After a few days, the Wokou launched an even more ferocious attack, and they first set off a burst of fireworks, so that the defenders of the city could not open their eyes and expose themselves, and then they climbed the city.
But when Wokou climbed close to the head of the city, the soldiers and civilians in the city immediately appeared and slashed and killed. Just as the night battle was fought, Chen Huai and some other militiamen on horseback suddenly opened the city gate and rushed towards the enemy army.
Wokou were hit by this and hugged their heads one after another.
After another ten days or so, the Wokou attacked again. This time, the cunning Wokou was no longer just setting off the cannon ladder. They dug up graves on the outskirts of Kunshan, pulled out coffins, and nailed them into something like a mobile house with several layers of thick boards, and then a few layers of cotton wool, and watered them.
Thirty or forty mighty wokou, hiding in this mobile house, carried it up, and gradually approached the city walls.
The defenders of the city saw it, and they were strange, and they threw rockets downwards, which were useless, because there was wet cotton wool covering them, and they smashed large stones, and they didn't stand up to things, because there were thick wooden planks covering them.
Everyone hurried to report to Zhuzhi County. Zhu Zhixian rushed to see that the wooden house was already at the foot of the city wall, and The Wokou were digging the city wall with iron chisels, iron rods, hammers, and iron pickaxes under the cover of this big guy.
Zhuzhi County, while calling on the military and the people to resolutely defend, if the city wall is opened, it is better to plug the gap with flesh and blood, and never let the Wokou enter the city to poison the people, while mobilizing everyone to find ways to deal with this wooden house that is not afraid of bows and arrows and stones.
One of the old men came up with a way to get every family to take out the oil candles, melt them on the walls, and pour them down, and the oil and wax kept flowing down, and at the same time, the lit torches were constantly thrown downwards, and in a moment, the wet cotton wool on the roof of the wooden house burned dry and caught fire.
Lamp oil, candles, cotton wool, all things that burn when they are on fire, the more they burn, the more vigorous the fire, the bigger the fire, and soon the wooden house is also burned.
Some of them burned and jumped, and some of them shot arrows on the walls of the city or smashed them to death, and some of them burned alive along with the wooden house.
The actual struggle of the masses of the people has frustrated the fierce edge of the Wokou and dealt a considerable blow to the Wokou. This proves that the great power of the Imperial War does exist among the people.
Although Qi Jiguang could not understand this very deeply, he really realized from the people's partial victory against the Wokou that in order to put an end to the rebellion of the Wokou, he must draw on the strength of the people.
Moreover, from a military point of view, because the civil struggle is mostly carried out in a scattered manner, the goal of the struggle is only to defend one city and one village, and there is no unified deployment and command, nor does it lack a comprehensive and long-term combat plan.
Moreover, because the spontaneous people's armed forces did not undergo formal military training, the organization was not well organized, and they lacked sufficient understanding and vigilance against the tricks of the Wokou, they often suffered serious defeats.
Therefore, they must be organized in order to really play the role of the battle and finally defeat the Wokou. How is it organized? In Qi Jiguang's view, the most ideal way is to recruit. Once recruited, rigorous military training is available.
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