Chapter 717: Soft Persimmon

There were such soft persimmons in Zhejiang. The main force of the Japanese pirates was in Fujian, and there were few on land in Zhejiang, but there were some on the islands. There were many Japanese pirates occupying the Zhoushan Islands in later generations, but it was easy for Qi Jiguang to train land soldiers, but it was difficult to organize and build a new navy. The imperial court's navy, whether it was the Dengzhou Navy or the Zhejiang Navy, had already rotted into a mess. It was okay to let them fish and smuggle, but it was definitely not possible to take them to fight.

Qi Jiguang didn't have that much money—mainly because Bai Lang knew that the water was too deep if he built a navy. He could force the quality of the weapons and armor of the land army to be considered excellent, but excellent warships for the navy were definitely not possible, at least not something he could get in a few months or even a year and a half. Just the matter of supporting Qi Jiguang in training soldiers and allocating money, grain, and military weapons had offended a large group of people. It wasn't just one person who submitted a memorial to impeach him for disturbing the people and corruption.

If it weren't for the fact that he was an Innate expert and quite feared, this impeachment would have been equal to his height. Precisely because he was an Innate great expert, they could only secretly say that he had the possibility of disturbing the people and corruption, and they didn't even dare to refuse Bai Lang's request on the surface. He wanted the Southern Zhili Armory to send the best military equipment, so they had to give military equipment. According to the rules of the Hongwu era, Bai Lang didn't give any "drifting" loss.

The eunuchs and managers of the armory wanted to drift a little, but they were afraid that Bai Lang would take their heads silently, so they could only satisfy his request and add another 10%.

So Qi Jiguang's new army was formed very quickly. When Bai Lang returned to Wenzhou, Qi Jiguang was about to discuss preparing to send troops—they had already investigated clearly that there were hundreds of Japanese pirates in Zhejiang, and they were ready to touch them first. Bai Lang also followed the army. His responsibility was logistics management and march planning, which was the category of civil officials—however, this guy pushed the matter to his deputy and Qi Jiguang, and ran to the front line himself.

Bai Lang wore relatively simple chain armor, and the helmet was more stylish. The weapon in his hand was also carefully crafted by the craftsman—this thing was not the same as the Cloud Water Spear of the past, more like a three-pointed double-edged knife. His dress was purely a killer team dress. At this time, there was no complete cavalry formation in Qi Jiguang's troops. The warhorse under Bai Lang's crotch was also very short—it was completely impossible to pull out a complete cavalry battalion in Zhejiang.

Qi Jiguang had only a hundred or so cavalry for communication and personal guards. Bai Lang's warhorse was bought with the silver he collected as bribes. It cost a lot of money. "Thinking carefully, it's not worth it. Sigh, my head was hot and I bought it. I thought that a general should have his own warhorse..." Bai Lang sighed. His three-pointed double-edged knife was not brought, it was on the personal guard cart behind. This person now had a two-handed knife and a bow and arrow.

The whole army marched urgently. When they were about forty miles away from the Japanese pirates' den, the whole army began to rest, and scouts were constantly sent out to scout. At this distance, if the other side hadn't discovered the army's arrival, it would be difficult to escape. When they rested for another thirty miles, even if the other side had seen the army's arrival, it was too late to run. If they ran, they would definitely collapse, and if they collapsed, they would just be head merits.

At this time, Qi Jiguang's new army of 4,000 people had already lined up, while the 600 or so Japanese pirates were still in a mess. Bai Lang rode alone to the front of the Japanese pirates' formation, with only a dozen soldiers behind him—also the kind of fierce "desperate" ones. Bai Lang rode left and right, holding the three-pointed double-edged knife, jumping and shouting in front of the Japanese pirates' formation. It was just that this horse was a bit dragging, and it was almost the same as a mule, so it couldn't show Bai Lang Bai Yuzhu's prestige.

Bai Lang glanced slightly and found that the new army had moved forward slowly. He couldn't be commanded by Qi Jiguang, and Qi Jiguang also knew that such a fierce general civil official would usually not listen to him. Besides, the correct usage was not wrong, that is, to invest Bai Lang to break the opponent's cluster at this time, and then the army would press on and cover the kill. Although he hadn't seen Bai Lang charge into the formation with his own eyes, he thought that the government reports wouldn't lie.

Even so, even if Qi Jiguang and the others knew that Bai Lang was an Innate expert, he was so reckless to charge into the enemy formation, which made these people worried—really let the fourth-rank Wenzhou Defense Commissioner die, and everyone present would probably be unable to eat and walk around. Bai Lang jumped on his horse and charged into the formation. Hundreds of people in front of him were shouting. Bai Lang held up the three-pointed double-edged knife and swept it horizontally. The Japanese pirates' heavy arrows had almost no effect on him, and the long knife blocked them, making these arrows bounce off one after another.

Bai Lang glanced at it. The three-pointed double-edged knife was wider and didn't care about curling the edge, and it wouldn't stab too deep. With Bai Lang's strength, he could easily pierce a person and use him as a projectile weapon to throw him out, but this kind of method would make the horse unable to bear it...

Bai Lang slashed, the air waves surged, and more than a dozen people in the front formation were beheaded, and dozens of people in the rear formation were thrown away. Afterward, Bai Lang cursed and dismounted, kicking the warhorse to the back. This was done with soft force, not hurting the warhorse. He held the three-pointed double-edged knife and killed his way into the enemy formation like this. The so-called "one-knife slash" of the Japanese pirates was broken by Bai Lang, and the man and the knife were shattered. The three-pointed double-edged knife was longer, thicker, and heavier, easily shattering the Japanese sword and the Japanese pirates outside the effective attack distance.

Among them were Japanese pirates using naginata. When this knife slashed down, Bai Lang didn't dodge or block at all and slashed at the head—the opposite side was broken into two, and Bai Lang was unharmed. This hard training skill was most suitable for battle formation. Bai Lang killed a bloody path in the Japanese pirate formation in just a few breaths, pointing directly at the main formation. At this time, Qi Jiguang also beat the drums to advance, and the whole army pressed on and attacked fiercely. Like soup pouring on snow, just as they fought, the Japanese pirates' front army disappeared immediately.

"Enemy general! Already taken!" Bai Lang wanted to shout "Enemy shame, I'm going to take off his clothes," but in the end, he shouted a Chinese slogan that was not Chinese or foreign. Just as Qi Jiguang's front army engaged in battle, he had already advanced to the front of the enemy's general. Before that, he killed three or four people in one step, and the general was not fully armored. In Bai Lang's view, he wore a torso, and the top of his head was a helmet, but the front was decorated with a V-shape pointing upward to represent that he was the general, and he wore a haori outside.

This guy carried a knife at his waist and held a fan in his hand. When Bai Lang killed him, he also drew his knife to prepare for resistance. It was hard to say how his martial arts were, because Bai Lang's slash directly broke his katana, and the man was slashed from the left shoulder to the waist and crotch, and he was split into two pieces. Then Bai Lang added a horizontal slash to take his head and picked it up on the three-pointed double-edged knife and shouted.

He didn't need to shout, because the Japanese pirates had already collapsed... Just after Bai Lang charged into the formation, the Yiwu soldiers attacked, and the Japanese pirates entered the situation of complete defeat. ===== CHAPTER 718 =====