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By chance, Qi Jiguang went to the mine in Yiwu to adjust the fighting between the miners and the mountain people, but he was surprised to find that these miners and the mountain people were extremely bloody, and they would not die at all when fighting with weapons.

Qi Jiguang's eyes lit up.

He knew he had found the best source of soldiers.

In the next few months, Qi Jiguang selected [-] miners and mountain people from various mines in Yiwu to form the prototype of Qi's army.

In order to train a strong army with hundreds of battles, although Qi Jiguang gave these sergeants much higher salaries than ordinary sergeants, he also formulated a harsh military law, with seventeen bans and 54 cuts.

After several years of hard training, Qi's army finally possessed real combat power.

Qi Jiguang is a military genius.

During his military training, he created a new battle formation according to the terrain characteristics of mountains and swamps along the coast of Zhejiang and Fujian.

Because this formation is very similar to mandarin ducks walking together, it is named mandarin duck formation.

The mandarin duck formation has 12 people as a fighting team.

There is a captain, a large shield player, a rattan card player, two powerful wolves, four spearmen, two on each side, a short swordsman, and the last one is a fireman who is in charge of food.

This kind of combat team closely combines long and short weapons to give full play to the effectiveness of various weapons, and the formation changes are extremely flexible, and can be converted into a big three and a small three in battle at any time.

In this combat team, the Wolf Soldier is a brand new unit, which was created by Qi Jiguang specially to restrain the Japanese pirates.

The so-called wolf-whip is the common moso bamboo in the south. The old and firm ones are selected, and the ends of the bamboo are sharpened, leaving sharp branches around them. Each wolf-whip is at least three meters long.

The power of the Wolf Whip is that it can use the tip to kill the enemy, and use the sharp branches around it to delay the Japanese pirates' charge.

At the same time, in order to restrain the Japanese pirates' long swords, Qi Jiguang specially created a Yanling sword.

This kind of Yanling Dao weighs nine catties and six taels, slightly longer and heavier than the Japanese Dao, and it is also more powerful.

The first battle after Qi's army was formed was the Battle of Taizhou.

In 1561, four thousand Japanese pirates attacked Taizhou.

Qi Jiguang led the army to guard Taozhu, Longshan and other places.

The two sides took up positions on a gentle place in the mountains.

The Japanese pirates, who had never paid much attention to the Ming army, were as usual. Hundreds of ronin warriors with high martial arts skills, armed with Japanese swords and heavy arrows, charged forward.

Trying to defeat Qi's army in one fell swoop.

These samurai, who are only about 1.5 meters tall, roared and danced with sharp Japanese swords, and they jumped as far as one foot.

When they reached the front of the battle, these warriors even danced the Japanese sword into balls of white light.

However, these miners from Yiwu were dumbfounded by Qi Jiguang's training, and they didn't know what fear was at all.

Facing the Japanese pirates rushing to the front, the wolf whisk took the lead in dancing the wolf whisk, using long branches to intercept the Japanese pirates' attack.

If the Japanese pirates want to rush into the small formation, they must first cut off these hard branches with a Japanese sword, otherwise they will not be able to rush in.

Just as the Japanese pirates screamed and cut off the branches on the wolf's whisk, other soldiers began to attack.

The spearman stabbed with his gun and knocked the Japanese pirates to the ground.

Afterwards, they did not cut off the heads, and continued to rush forward stepping on the corpses of the Japanese pirates.

The task of chopping off the head was handed over to the short swordsman behind.

Although it was the first time to fight the Japanese pirates head-on, facing the blood flying everywhere, the Qi's army showed the demeanor of an elite soldier in all battles.

Half an hour later, all the brave Japanese pirates who rushed to the front were all beheaded.

The Japanese pirates behind were stunned.

Did the Ming Dynasty have such an army capable of fighting?
Terrible, go elsewhere.

In this way, thousands of Japanese pirates were defeated by the fledgling Qi family army in one fell swoop.

Unwilling to fail, the Japanese pirates pretended to retreat to the sea, but quickly returned to the carbine.

However, waiting for them is still Qi Jiguang who is ready to fight.

Qi Jiguang, who knows that the military spirit is available, also showed his own high-strength martial arts in this battle.

As soon as the two sides fought, Qi Jiguang was the first to rush into the Japanese pirate army, and chopped off the head of the Japanese pirate leader who was as tall as 1.6 meters (this was considered a giant in Japan at the time).

Qi's army formed a strict formation, advanced gradually, and defeated the Japanese pirates again.

This time the Japanese pirates lost even worse.

Many Japanese pirates jumped into the Gualing River because they were desperate and couldn't even take off their armor, and became food like fish and turtles.

Another group of Japanese pirates was very dissatisfied with the news of the defeat of the Japanese pirates. They organized more than 2000 horses and rushed to Taizhou to give away their heads.

Qi Jiguang wiped out all these more than 2000 Japanese pirates in the First Battle of Xianju, and none escaped.

This is what later generations called "the Taizhou victory that destroyed the arrogance of Japanese pirates in World War I".

Because they couldn't beat Qi Jiguang, the Japanese pirates moved to Jiangxi and other places.

Hu Zongxian, governor of Jiangxi, did not have elite soldiers and could not suppress these pirates, so he asked Qi Jiguang to lead an army to reinforce them.

Qi's army rushed to Jiangxi, easily defeated these Japanese pirates, and drove them back to sea.

The more battles were fought, the more skillful the Qi's army's mandarin duck formation became.

In the next few years of battle, it can be said that he was invincible and invincible.

The most awesome time was when more than 3000 Japanese pirates were wiped out in the Battle of Xinghua, and only two of them were killed. This created the record for the fewest casualties in the history of cold wars in hand-to-hand combat.

From 1561 to 1566, in less than six years, the Japanese pirates who had plagued the southeast for decades were defeated, and the few surviving ronin also rolled back to the Japanese country, never daring to come to harass the coastal state again county.

The southeast was pacified, but the Tatars in the north were gaining momentum.

Emperor Longqing, who had just ascended the throne, very wisely transferred Qi's army, who had been invincible in the south, to the north to serve as the deputy general of the Shenji Battalion.

Later, Qi Jiguang was appointed as the right governor, responsible for the war defense in Jimen area.

Qi Jiguang did not think arrogantly that his mandarin duck formation could cope with all terrains.After all, the fighting style on the northern grasslands is completely different from that in the south.

On the grassland of Yimapingchuan, foreign cavalry come and go like the wind.

It is naturally difficult to suppress these nomadic cavalry with the flesh and blood of the Qi family army alone.

In order to restrain these nomadic cavalry, Qi Jiguang restarted the car camp system in the Spring and Autumn Period, and used the car camp to restrain the invincible ability of the cavalry to break the formation.

Every four people push a chariot.Horse repellents and firearms are placed in the chariot.When fighting, the chariots are formed into a square formation.

The horse infantry used chariots as cover, and first used firearms to attack from a long distance.

After the enemy's cavalry approached, the infantry used horse repellents to line up in front of the formation, and stabbed the enemy with long spears.When the enemy is defeated, send cavalry to pursue.

Behind the chariot formation, a heavy battalion was set up, and Yiwu soldiers were selected as the vanguard to support the town's soldiers and be responsible for defense.

After the Cheying was completed, Qi Jiguang broke the Tatars and attacked them several times.

In the spring of 1573, the little Tatar prince Dong Huli led thousands of cavalry into Xifengkou, burning, killing and looting the local area.

Qi Jiguang led thousands of soldiers to quell the chaos.

In a big battle between the two sides, the Tatar cavalry was restrained to death by Qi Jiguang's chariot camp and was defeated.

Dong Huli was almost captured alive, but in the end he led only a hundred people to escape.