Chapter 459: Battle Formation

As early as after the Huang estate incident in Fukang County, Mei Qinghe had already sent word back to the capital that Li Miao was coming to the Dengzhou Garrison.

The reason Li Miao's group of three never encountered any villains on this journey was that as Li Miao moved forward, his subordinates were sweeping the ground ahead of him. Not to mention inferior gentry and local tyrants, even a mad dog passing by would have been beaten to death and dragged away.

Not to mention those greenwood heroes and evil sects...

What? You spat on the ground in the capital twenty-eight years ago?

Tie him up and take him away!

If you stick phlegm to the soles of my Commander's feet, I'll kill your whole family!

What? You stole a child's candied hawthorn thirty-two years ago?

Tie him up and take him away!

If you don't change your ways and make the child cry, disturbing my Commander, I'll kill your whole family!

Therefore, it was impossible for "framing the loyal" to happen in the Dengzhou Garrison, because for months, the eyes of the entire Embroidered Uniform Guard had been fixed tightly on this place. Senior Grand Secretary Zhu Zai and the Emperor himself asked every three days; if not for the many affairs in the court, the two would have liked to go on an eastern tour and move the imperial court to this Dengzhou Garrison to wait.

Precisely because of this, Li Miao didn't go to the Dengzhou Garrison prison to rescue people immediately.

Things were exactly as he had expected.

The "wronged" Qi Jiguang and the empty Dengzhou Garrison were all traps set by An Ziyang and Qi Jiguang in collusion, specifically to lure these Japanese pirates who had long harbored evil intentions and were eyeing Qi Jiguang.

At this moment, the dagger was finally revealed from the bag.

"Kill!!!"

After Qi Jiguang shouted this, without waiting for the Qi Family Army and the Dengzhou Garrison troops to follow, he jumped off the execution platform like a tiger that had been hungry for months, drew a Japanese sword a full six feet long from its scabbard, threw away the scabbard, and charged forward.

Passing the stunned Wu Mingxiao and Ming Wanhai, in the eyes of countless weeping commoners, he crossed a distance of several dozen *zhang* and intersected with the Japanese pirates at the very front.

*Swish!

A dozen Japanese swords slashed toward his face!

Qi Jiguang just pulled his right hand downward abruptly, and the exaggeratedly long Japanese sword tilted up with his shoulder as a pivot, deflecting all the slashing blades.

His palm spun on the hilt, switching to a reverse grip.

The killing intent accumulated for months erupted.

"Qi Family Blade—Ding Character Second Kill."

The blade lying on the ground swept horizontally, from bottom right to top left, and when it reached the peak, the reverse grip changed to a forward grip, and it slashed back abruptly!

*Clatter—*

Blood splashed open.

The exaggerated length of the blade was born for killing in battle formations. With just one move, he cleared the area in front of him!

However, this was not a sparring ring, but a battlefield.

"Totsugeki desu (Charge)!"

Before the corpses could fall, the human tide surrounded him. The next moment, more blades slashed from every direction within his line of sight! Even Japanese pirates who had been cut in two but were not yet dead lunged at his legs, intending to lock his movement!

"Heh, beasts are beasts."

"They don't even change their way of dying!"

Qi Jiguang's gaze froze, his blade swept along the ground, breaking several legs while his body retreated abruptly.

"Qi Family Blade."

"Ding Character Return—"

When the blades in front missed, his long blade also swept behind him.

*Woo—*

The long blade swung straight from behind toward the front, and at the same time, he stepped forward abruptly!

"—Kill!!!"

A roar, like a lion's howl or a tiger's roar, exploded! Instantly suppressing the circle of Japanese pirates in front of him!

The blade slashed down toward the top of the Japanese pirates' heads; Japanese swords, scalps, bones, and flesh were split open one after another, splashing to both sides!

The Japanese pirates had just recovered from the roar when they were drenched in scarlet, their vision blocked. In panic, they slashed blindly, trying to stop the enemy who was like a demon god.

Suddenly, a chill and heat at the waist.

A voice without a trace of emotion recited.

"Qi Family Blade—Three Swings and Advance."

A figure rushed past from the side, and dense roars and screams came from behind.

The Japanese pirates just wanted to raise their hands to wipe the blood off their faces, but their arms fell off; they wanted to turn around, but their upper bodies suddenly slid off their waists. The severed arms twitched on the ground a few times, crawled a distance, and then fell silent.

This nineteen-year-old General Qi opened a bloody path in just a few breaths, constantly widening and extending it.

At the same time, the Qi Family Army hiding under the execution platform rushed over.