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Chapter 191 Chapter 187: Japanese pirates attack the city
Ling Yun nodded, a hanging heart was finally let go.

As long as the people take food and evacuate to the rear of the city defense, it will be useless even if the Japanese pirates come, unless the Japanese pirates capture Taizhou City.

This is the strong wall clearing the field strategy.

Ling Yun roughly estimated that there were four to five thousand officers and soldiers in Hu Dazong's governor's mansion, and three thousand soldiers in the Qi family army, plus the six hundred elite soldiers he brought, the total should be around eight thousand.

Although there are as many as [-] Japanese pirates, it should be difficult to capture the [-] defenders of the Ming army in a short period of time.

What's more, he personally sits here.

"Lord Hu, did you send an urgent report asking General Qi to return to Taizhou for rescue?"

Hu Dazong said: "Your Imperial Envoy, don't worry, the lower officials have already sent fast horses to Haizhou to report to General Qi."

Speaking of this, Hu Dazong was a little worried again: "We are going to Haizhou for more than 1000 miles. Even if General Qi rushes to Taizhou day and night, Gong is afraid that it will be ten days later. I am worried that the thousands of soldiers in Taizhou will not be able to defend like this." Long"

However, Ling Yun was full of confidence: "Master Hu, don't worry, as long as the army and people in Taizhou are united, let alone ten days, even a month can hold it."

Just kidding, with him here, so what if there are tens of thousands more pirates?
Hu Dazong cupped his hands and said: "The imperial envoy personally sits in command, and I believe that the morale of the Taizhou officers and soldiers will be greatly boosted, and they will bravely defend the city and kill the Japanese pirates."

Hu Dazong's words were not entirely flattering. Morale was extremely important when the two armies were fighting.And when a heavyweight on one side goes to battle to kill the enemy in person, it will greatly boost morale.

"Master Hu, did you send someone to inform General Yu Dayou in Quanzhou, Fujian, to lead his troops to attack the Japanese pirates?"

Hu Dazong showed a look of surprise: "The imperial envoy means that we want to wipe out these tens of thousands of Japanese pirates in Taizhou?"

Ling Yun's eyes showed a cold murderous look: "This time the Japanese pirates have dispatched all their nests, thinking that they can take Taizhou in one fell swoop, but this imperial envoy wants to let all these tens of thousands of Japanese pirates die here! Completely avoid future troubles!"

"Master Imperial Envoy, I'm afraid it will be difficult to wipe out these tens of thousands of Japanese pirates in one fell swoop, right?"

Hu Dazong secretly sighed in his heart!It seems that the imperial envoy is still too young, thinking that with a burst of enthusiasm, these tens of thousands of Japanese pirates can be wiped out?

Ling Yun naturally guessed what Hu Dazong was thinking, and did not argue with him.

"Master Hu, as for whether you can wipe out these tens of thousands of Japanese pirates, you will know at that time. Now, Lord Hu only needs to notify General Yu Dayou in Quanzhou to order him to lead his elite troops to Taizhou immediately, and General Qi who came from Haizhou Attack from the north and the south, and wipe out the Japanese pirates in one fell swoop."

Hu Dazong thought to himself: Even if the [-] soldiers in Taizhou can last until Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou lead troops to attack the Japanese pirates, if the Japanese pirates fail to win, wouldn't they board a boat and escape from the sea?

However, Hu Dazong didn't say what was in his heart, but cupped his hands and said: "My lord, don't worry, I will send a letter to General Yu as soon as possible, asking him to come to Taizhou for rescue."

After finishing speaking, he immediately took out the governor's token and handed it to the two guards around him, and asked them to rush to Quanzhou, ordering Yu Dayou to lead the Yu family army to rescue Taizhou.

Three hours later, more than 100 Japanese warships finally sailed to the coastal pier of Taizhou.

More than 100 warships lined up by the pier, and the Japanese pirates left thousands of people guarding the warships. The remaining nearly [-] Japanese pirates rushed into the homes of the people in Taizhou like a group of demons dancing with Japanese swords.

Originally, I thought I could grab a good one this time, but what made the tens of thousands of Japanese pirates collapse was that not only could the people along the coast of Taizhou see no one in their homes, they couldn't even find anything to eat.

"Bage!" Matsuura Takashi yelled angrily, knocking down a family's table with a knife.

He is the leader of the [-] Japanese pirates, and also the most powerful general under Wang Zhi, the general leader of the Japanese pirates.

Since everyone has run away and the food has been taken away, the only option is to attack the city directly.

Matsuura Takanobu rushed to Taizhou City Defense with the [-] Japanese pirates full of resentment.

However, what awaited these Japanese pirates was Yaqian's well-prepared defenders.

Ling Yun had already dispatched at this moment, the 4000 defenders were divided into two squads to defend the city, every [-] people were in one squad, and the squad changed every two hours.

The purpose of this is to allow the defenders to get enough rest in turn, unless the Japanese pirates have already attacked the city.

The [-] soldiers in each squad were divided into three groups, one thousand were archers, one thousand were dedicated to throwing stones down from the city wall, and the other two thousand guarded the crenels of the city wall to prevent Japanese pirates from climbing up the city wall.

In addition, Hu Dazong recruited tens of thousands of men and civilians to transport stones from all over the mountain to the city wall.

Matsuura Takanobu brought [-] Japanese pirates to the base of the city. He looked up at the top of the city, but he couldn't see a few guards from the Qi family army. He was overjoyed and immediately ordered to attack the city and hit the gate.

However, what he didn't expect was that all the Qi family's troops were huddled under the crenels of the city wall at this moment, just waiting for the Japanese pirates to rush under the city wall defenselessly.

Immediately, the thousand archers aimed at the densely packed Japanese pirates under the city without even taking aim, and just shot one at a time.

At the same time, the thousand strong soldiers who were dedicated to throwing stones picked up the stones sent by the people on the city wall and smashed them down towards the city wall.

These stones are not very big, basically weighing about a few kilograms, but when smashed down from the city wall more than ten meters high, the acceleration force is enough to smash the heads of those Japanese pirates.

And the [-] Qi family soldiers who were in charge of guarding the crenel waited for the Japanese pirates to climb up, and directly stabbed them down with long spears.

All of a sudden, the Japanese pirates screamed endlessly, causing countless casualties.

Ling Yun led a hundred officers in black clothes and five hundred imperial guards to patrol around the city wall. When they saw where the Japanese pirates climbed the most, the officers in black clothes and the guards immediately stepped forward to assist.

But Ling Yun picked up stones from the ground at any time, kneaded them to the size of pebbles with both hands, and shot them at the Japanese pirates climbing up the city wall.

"clap clap"

As the stones in Ling Yun's hand flew out, they hit dozens of Japanese pirates who were about to climb up the wall in a row, and all of them screamed and fell down the city.

The Japanese pirates attacked from noon until sunset, and did not attack a crenel, but were shot and smashed to death by the Dawu defenders who defended the city thousands of people.

Matsuura Takanobu had to retreat temporarily.

In the next few days, Matsuura Takanobu led the Japanese pirates to launch a more violent attack, but they were all repelled by the Wu Dynasty army commanded by Ling Yun.

On the fifth day, however, things changed.

Because the Wu army has no arrows.

Archers without arrows can only serve as crenel guards, and only the thousand stone-throwing soldiers are left for long-range attacks.

Without the shooting of bows and arrows, the morale of the Japanese pirates was greatly boosted, and the siege became even crazier.

Ling Yun sneered, and pulled out the scimitar, people flew around the edge of the city like phantoms, where the shadows passed, the lights of the sword were like a rainbow, and the heads of Japanese pirates fell one after another.

(End of this chapter)