Chapter 285 Chapter Two Hundred and Eighty Five

Zhao Guan accompanied Li Huamei to see Li Sibiao and asked him to temporarily withdraw from his marriage with the Zhang family.Li Sibiao agreed wholeheartedly, he knew his daughter's concerns very well, seeing Zhao Guan personally accompanying her to see him, although he didn't propose marriage, he kept silent, so he didn't ask. Li Huamei had been working in the Green Gang for a long time, and she was able to do things well. The next afternoon, she had prepared a large number of winter clothes, and set off with Zhao Guan to the Yuhang Barracks.After the two arrived, they deposited the clothes in the Qinggang's local storage warehouse, contacted the military head to sort out the delivery matters, and then returned to the Qinggang's residence to rest.It was midnight at that time, Zhao Guan brought Li Huamei outside Zheng Baoan's room, but Zheng Baoan was not in the room.Zhao Guan thought to himself: Bao'an went to see Chuo off for a while, so it's time to come back now.Where is she going so late?So Li Huamei was asked to rest first, and went to find Ling Haotian.

Seeing the lights in Ling Haotian's room from a distance, he approached and looked in from the window, but saw three people in the room, Ling Haotian sat with his head in his arms, sitting at the table with the lamp on and thinking hard, muttering to himself, holding hands. Qi Jiguang was leaning on the chair beside him and dozed off; Zheng Baoan was sitting beside Ling Haotian, slowly rubbing the ink with one hand, resting his chin with the other, staring intently at the paper on the table. Shi pointed out his fingers and discussed with Ling Haotian in a low voice.After Ling Haotian had filled a piece of paper, she took another piece of paper and laid it on the bed.

Looking at her expression, Zhao Guan was moved: Is there a partner who is more considerate than Baoan in this world?Xiao San'er was concentrating on thinking about countermeasures against Japanese pirates, and only she would patiently accompany him to stay up late at night and organize his thoughts.He didn't want to disturb, so he left quietly and returned to his room to rest. At dawn the next day, Zhao Guan got up and opened the door to go out, feeling the morning chill hit his face.When he looked up, he saw that the lights in Xiaosan'er's room were still on.He came outside Ling Haotian's room, knocked on the door, Baoan came over and opened the door, and said happily: Brother Zhao, you are back.Zhao Guan saw that Ling Haotian had fallen asleep on the table, but Qi Jiguang had woken up, standing by the table, staring at the blueprint on the table, muttering to himself, with a very excited expression on his face.

Zhao Guan said with a smile: "Little San'er has worked hard all night, but what good idea did you come up with?"Also go up to see.However, the picture shows a group of ten villains, each holding a different weapon. The first two are holding round and rectangular pentagonal rattan tablets, and the latter two are holding wolf whisks, that is, sticks and belts. Ye's big moso bamboo; after that came four soldiers with spears in their hands; the last two held extremely long sticks with a mountain-shaped head, I don't know what they were for. Qi Jiguang pointed to the two people behind, and asked: What weapons are these two people holding in their hands?Zheng Baoan said: These two are rocket soldiers.Xiao San'er thought that Brother Qi's idea of ​​using rockets was very good, so he arranged two rocket soldiers here.What they hold in their hands is iron gold palladium, and the recess on the top can be used to place arrows equipped with firecrackers. When they are lit before the battle, they can go straight to the enemy's line.Qi Jiguang nodded again and again, and said: Good, good!Make, make!

Zhao Guan suddenly said: So this is a formation, when facing the Japanese pirates, the troops can defend in front and attack in the back, echoing each other, isn't it?Zheng Baoan said: Exactly.The Japanese pirates were divided into small teams, and this formation was mainly flexible. A team of ten people covered each other and had both offensive and defensive capabilities.Brother Qi will command later, and he can even combine five teams or ten teams to operate together, which can be combined and divided as needed, increasing the army's adaptability to the situation of the terrain. Zhao Guandao: These ten people must be familiar with each other, get along with each other for a long time, trust and help each other, advance together and retreat together, this formation can be effective.Qi Jiguang nodded and said: You are very right.I'm going to let the soldiers practice!Grab the paper, turn around and run out the door, order people to beat the drums and light up the soldiers, ready to start the training.

Zhao Guan and Zheng Baoan were very excited, and they went out to watch together.When Zheng Baoan came to the door, he turned back and entered the room, took a robe, and put it on for Ling Haotian who was lying on the table. Zhao Guan looked in his eyes and said, "Sister Bao'an, you haven't slept all night, aren't you tired?" Zheng Baoan smiled slightly and said: Xiao San'er likes to be accompanied when he thinks about ideas.He is exhausted. Zhao Guan looked at Ling Haotian and said in a low voice: How can there be such a lucky person in the world?Zheng Baoan didn't hear clearly, and asked: What did you say?Zhao Guandao: Nothing.What happened to Miss Wen and Dort?Zheng Bao'an said: "I sent them into Hangzhou City, where there are people from the Dragon Gang to meet them, so their safety should be safe."

Zhao Guandao: I also went to Hangzhou the night before, and I only came back in the middle of the night last night.Miss Li Huamei came back with me, I let her sleep in your room last night.Sister Baoan, you should take a break too.General Qi is going to train today, so I'll go and help him. Zheng Baoan nodded, couldn't help yawning, looked at Ling Haotian, and said: Brother Zhao, please take him to bed and fall asleep. Zhao Guan nodded and agreed, watched Zheng Baoan go out of the house, then hugged Ling Haotian to bed and slept well, and sighed softly: There are many people in the world who don't know their blessings when they are blessed.I said little San'er, wake up quickly!

On the same day, Qi Jiguang first let a hundred soldiers try out this formation.Zhao Guan once fought Japanese pirates and knew that they were quick and agile in combat, so he helped Qi Jiguang to practice and improve the positions and cooperation methods of the ten people.In the evening, Ling Haotian, Zheng Baoan, Li Huamei and others also came to the school field to watch the practice. Qi Jiguang was full of joy, and said to Ling Haotian: "Brother Ling, this formation is very good, we will not be afraid of Japanese pirates' skirmishing tactics in the next battle!"Li Huamei said: "What name should this battle be called?"Zhao Guandao: Echoing back and forth, looking at each other from left to right, let's call it a mandarin duck array!Qi Jiguang clapped his hands and laughed: Good!It's the mandarin duck formation!

With a smile on his face, Ling Haotian went to practice with the soldiers. He was in the formation and taught the soldiers how to coordinate their footsteps, how to sprint at the same time, how to turn, how to advance and retreat, etc. In the next few days, Qi Jiguang asked 8,000 soldiers to learn the mandarin duck formation, and organized the soldiers into groups of twelve, with a captain, a cook, and the remaining ten soldiers.Half a month later, all the soldiers were familiar with the formation, and they were extremely flexible in advancing and retreating.Seeing that the soldiers were well-trained, Qi Jiguang began to deploy to attack the Japanese pirates' base camp.

At this time, it was the late Jiajing years of the Ming Dynasty, and the arrogance and boldness of the Japanese pirates had reached their peak.In the autumn of that year, Japanese pirates mobilized thousands of people to plunder Taozhu, Qitou and other places in eastern Zhejiang.Qi Jiguang knew that this was the right time to strike head-on, so he immediately led his troops south from Yuyao to Ninghai in Sanmen Bay, defending Taozhu, and started a fierce land battle with Japanese pirates at Dalong Mountain in Ninghai.Relying on the mandarin duck formation and the Sancai formation and Liangyi formation based on the mandarin duck formation, Qi Jiguang defeated the Japanese pirates and went straight to Yanmenling.This was the first big victory in the Anti-Japanese War, and it successfully defeated the Japanese pirates' forces, thus establishing the prestige of the Qi Family Army.

The Japanese pirates then turned to Taizhou, south of Ninghai, and the Qi family army pursued them and intercepted them in Xianju.After a great battle, Qi's army killed the leader of the Japanese pirates, and the remnants of the Japanese pirates fled to the Gualing River and boarded a boat.When Qi Jiguang learned that the base camp of the Japanese pirates was on Dachen Island outside Taizhou Bay, he decided to go to sea to hunt them down and completely eliminate the base of the Japanese pirates.He ordered 700 officers and soldiers to board the official boat and the sea boat of the Green Gang and sail to Dachen Island.