I am a temporary worker in Jinyiwei, how did I become a powerful official?

Chapter 111: I will not become a Buddha until hell is empty. I came here only to send the Japanese pirates to see the Buddha (-character chapter)

When he encountered the assassin in Tiaoji Mountain, Lin Shisan was as timid as a rabbit.

This time, when he followed Tang Shunzhi to attack the Japanese pirates at night to avenge the people, Lin Shisan felt brave all over and had no fear at all.

The descendants of Yan and Huang have two qualities in their blood: one is bravery, the other is fearlessness.

At the right time and in the right place, blood can awaken.

When the hero leaves, the wind is cold and the water is chilly.

After marching for an hour in the dark, the ten anti-Japanese teams took up their combat positions according to Tang Shunzhi's arrangements.

There were several fires in the pirate camp. More than fifty pirates were dancing around the fires in a strange way. They looked like a group of wild dogs with their tails chopped off, jumping up and down.

From the tent next door came the heart-wrenching cries of a Han woman.

Lin Shisan tightly gripped the hilt of his sword.

Tang Shunzhi waved his hand, and the captains pulled the crossbow strings and put the crossbow arrows into the crossbow slots.

The Beisi brothers were not carrying the short-range, easy-to-carry scorpion crossbows on their trip south, but the enemy-killing crossbows.

The Ke Di Crossbow was made by Feng Jing, the most famous craftsman among the military craftsmen of the Southern Pacification Division. It is also called the Three-arrow Crossbow. It is three feet long, has a force of two stones, and can shoot up to a hundred steps. The most powerful thing is that it can shoot three arrows at once, or three arrows in succession.

The Scorpion Crossbow is used for assassination, while the Enemy Crossbow is used for fighting.

Tang Shunzhi waved his hand for the second time. All the captains pointed their crossbows at the Japanese beasts seventy steps ahead.

The Japanese pirates were about to go to hell and didn't know it. They sang a very ugly song: "Sala, Sala. Auntie Taiyo, Auntie Yada. Aunt Junni, Auntie Sugu, Auntie Taiyo."

Shen Weijing is fluent in Japanese. Lin Shisan lowered his voice and asked, "What are these beasts singing?"

Shen Weijing replied: "It's probably about their father having an affair with their aunt and uncle, giving birth to these beasts. And they also had an affair with their own mother."

Lin Shisan was shocked: "No wonder they have no humanity. It turns out they are all bastards without ethics and moral principles."

Tang Shunzhi whispered, "Shut up."

After a while, Tang Shunzhi waved his hand.

A small team of anti-Japanese soldiers beside him first pulled the trigger on the enemy-killing crossbow. They all fired three arrows at once. Thirty crossbow arrows flew towards the Japanese pirates in an instant.

The Japanese pirates were illuminated by the fire and were very conspicuous in the dark, making them sitting ducks for crossbow arrows.

A small team of Japanese killers fired a volley of shots, and seven or eight Japanese pirates fell down.

The Japanese pirates were horrified, and their leader shouted, "Give me the enemy!"

The other nine Japanese-killing teams saw Tang Shunzhi taking action and fired their crossbows, causing the Japanese pirates to flee in panic.

The Japanese pirates, holding their Japanese swords, looked like enraged wild dogs, looking around for the enemy.

Some Japanese pirates armed with muskets fired aimlessly.

Tang Shun ordered: "Throw the crossbows and hold the guns! Light the ignition cord!"

The Jinyi officers temporarily threw aside their enemy-killing crossbows and took down their muskets from their shoulders. The muskets were already loaded with gunpowder and lead bullets. They could be fired by lighting the fuse.

Tang Shunzhi shouted, "Fire!"

"Bang, bang, bang!" The flames from the muskets shattered the darkness like thunder.

A hundred men suddenly attacked, firing three hundred crossbow arrows and another round of hundred-shot muskets. More than thirty of the fifty Japanese slaves fell.

The remaining twenty Japanese slaves, holding Japanese swords, ran around in the dark like headless flies.

Tang Shunzhi shouted loudly: "Draw your sword! Use the formation I taught you before, and kill!"

Tang Shunzhi taught the Jinyiwei a formation of ten people in a formation in the shape of an "N". This was the Mandarin Duck Formation that would later dominate the southeast.

The Jinyiwei had only swords, and lacked spears, rattan shields, wolf-whips, etc., so the power of the formation was greatly reduced. But it was more than enough to deal with a group of stunned Japanese pirates.

The ten mandarin duck formations were like a huge pocket, tightly covering the Japanese pirates.

Tang Shunzhi held a Tang sword in his hand, and Lin Shisan, Shen Weijing, Sun Yue and seven other comrades followed closely on his left and right, forming a mandarin duck formation and engaging in combat with the Japanese pirates.

The Japanese pirates rushed towards us like running into a hedgehog.

Tang Shunzhi inherited the style of Han and Tang literati. He hacked and chopped left and right, and knocked down two Japanese pirates with his own hands.

Lin Shisan also raised his sword and fought with the pirates. After a while, the remaining twenty or so pirates fell to the ground one after another.

Lin Shisan had a question in his mind: The Japanese pirates were not as powerful as the legend said! How could they have reached Nanjing with only 53 men last year?

The more than fifty Japanese pirates we encountered tonight were like tofu that would break if poked.

Within two minutes of this small-scale night raid, most of the Japanese pirates fell to the ground, and four or five prisoners were captured.

Tang Shunzhi picked two prisoners. The two prisoners knelt on the ground with expressionless faces.

Tang Shunzhi said nothing, raised his Tang sword high, and cut off the head of one of the captives with one stroke.

Lin Shisan was stunned and thought to himself: This is the gentle and elegant first-place scholar in the second class? How come he looks more like an executioner?
Tang Shunzhi picked up the head and placed it in front of another prisoner.

Then Tang Shunzhi told Shen Weijing: "Ask him."

Shen Weijing was fluent in Japanese and could speak the dialects of the Sixteen Domains of Japan.

He cleared his throat and said to the captive in fluent Japanese: "We have an old saying in the Ming Dynasty, called the Xixi Dancer Wei Junjie. I think these swords and guns in front of us are enough to pry open your mouth."

"You, just tell the truth honestly, it's a lot of money."

"If you don't tell the truth, you're dead!"

Lin Shisan was amazed in his heart: General Shen is really a hidden talent. He speaks Japanese very well and I can understand it.

Tang Shunzhi drew out his Tang sword and placed it across the prisoner's neck.

The prisoners kept saying, "It's so boring, it's so stupid."

The more Shen Weijing listened, the more solemn his expression became.

After a moment, Shen Weijing said, "This group of people is a scout under the command of a big Japanese pirate named Nohara Mitsuharu. They landed this time, burned, killed, raped and looted all the way to Huai'an. There are a total of 1,800 people."

Tang Shunzhi frowned: "These fifty people are just scouts of a large group of Japanese pirates?"

Shen Weijing nodded: "Their main force is just ten miles away. The sound of gunfire should have alarmed their main force."

One hundred against one thousand eight hundred, even Wang Xue's disciple, the "Little Soldier Immortal" Tang Shunzhi, was not sure of winning.

If they encounter it, they will probably be in great danger.

Shen Weijing asked: "Doctor Tang, there are still seven or eight Japanese pirates lying on the ground who are still alive. In addition, there are these four captives. What should we do with them?"

Tang Shunzhi cursed: "It is said that the Jinyiwei are cruel and ruthless. Why are you asking me about such a trivial matter?"

"Whether dead or alive, all Japanese animals were beheaded and impaled on bamboo poles."

Shen Weijing and Lin Shisan were stunned: he was indeed the first place winner of the second class of the Jinshi, who was well-educated, gentle, respectful, frugal, and refined. How cruel!

Tang Shunzhi then spoke a few words, each word was sonorous: "I will use these fifty Japanese beasts' heads to tell their accomplices that this is the land of the Ming Dynasty! It is the execution ground for robbers! It is not a place for them to do whatever they want!"

Lin Shisan clasped his fists and bowed: "Mighty Sir!"

All the Jinyiwei said in unison: "Mighty Sir!"

Sun Yue came out and said, "There are five or six Han sisters in the tent. Doctor Tang, what do you think?"

Shen Weijing said: "There are nearly 2,000 Japanese pirates nearby. It is inconvenient for us to move with five or six women."

Tang Shunzhi said, "It is our duty as men to protect women and children. We must not abandon them."

Lin Shisan ordered: "Let them follow us. Don't leave any of them behind. Otherwise, the Jinyiwei's face will be stuffed into the crotch of the pants!"

Tang Shunzhi said: "Let's hurry south at night and enter Xuyi County first. As long as we enter the county, even if 1,800 Japanese pirates attack the city, I can hold it for more than a hundred days."

Lin Shisan nodded.

In the darkness, fifty bamboo poles were erected, and on each pole was placed a Japanese pirate's head.

This is Tang Shunzhi's attitude towards the Japanese pirates: Those who offend China will be punished no matter how far away they are. Those who act rashly will be killed no matter how strong they are.

Tang Shunzhi then ordered everyone to collect the spoils, mainly the bamboo spears of the Japanese pirates.

This time, the Jinyiwei went south without a spear. Tang Shunzhi's mind was full of formations, which required the cooperation of a spear. Bamboo spears could replace spears.

At midnight that night, everyone headed south and headed straight for Xuyi County.

At dawn, Lin Shisan and his companions were only five miles away from Xuyi County. Lin Shisan could even see the smoke from the people in the city cooking breakfast.

Then they encountered Japanese pirates, large numbers of them!

This group of Japanese pirates numbered nearly 2,000 people, and they should be the main force of Nohara Mitsuharu mentioned by the captives last night.

Nohara Mitsuharu heard the sound of gunfire last night, but he thought it was the sound of scouts using muskets to kill the people of the Ming Dynasty, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

His purpose of entering Huai'an this time was to attack Xuyi County.

So he ordered the Japanese pirates to rush to the county town overnight and prepare to launch an attack at dawn.

As luck would have it, they ran into a hundred Jinyiwei led by Tang Shunzhi and Lin Shisan.

One hundred Jinyiwei encountered 1,800 Japanese pirates. The two sides were too close, less than half a mile apart. They couldn't escape. They had no choice but to fight to the death!
Tang Shunzhi shouted, "My fellow Jinyiwei. Even if the fire guns and crossbows in your hands are very sophisticated. Even if I, Tang Shunzhi, use the formations perfectly, one hundred people will never be able to defeat one thousand eight hundred people."

"We will all die here today! The only difference is the way we die."

"Should I die gloriously, as a hero defending my country? Or should I die timidly, as a coward?"

"Please choose!"

In an instant, Lin Shisan felt very cold in his heart. After a moment, he thought to himself: splendid clothes, splendid flowers, splendid clothes and delicious food.

But whether it's the flowers on his body or the delicacies in his mouth, in the final analysis, they are all provided by the people.

If today is really the day I die, let me be a hero who fights against the Japanese pirates and protects the people.

Anyway, I had a great time in Beijing for eight months, and it was all worth it!

Thinking of this, Lin Shisan shouted: "I am willing to follow Mr. Tang until death, to kill the Japanese, protect the country, and protect the people!"

At the critical moment, Sun Yue did not act like a coward. He shouted: "The dead are hanging upside down! We cannot let the King of Hell laugh at us for being cowardly rats when we enter the palace of Hell!"

"Brothers, if we kill one pirate, we will break even. If we kill two pirates, we will make a profit!"

The comrades of the Northern Pacification Division often committed despicable tasks such as assassination, frame-up, and kidnapping.

They fought bravely against the Japanese pirates. They said in unison: "We are willing to follow Mr. Tang until death!"

Tang Shunzhi shouted, "Everyone, listen up! Divide into three rows, load gunpowder and lead bullets!"

As for the Japanese pirates, the Japanese leader Nohara Mitsuharu was about to order an attack on the city when suddenly a Ming army of a hundred men appeared behind them.

Nohara Mitsuharu didn't take them seriously at all.

In his eyes, 1,800 of his men could easily defeat more than 5,000 Ming Dynasty garrison troops.

What are a mere hundred people?
Nohara Mitsuharu only sent two hundred foot soldiers, one hundred archers, and fifty samurai to attack the one hundred Jinyiwei in the rear.

He will pay the price for his arrogance.

Two hundred foot soldiers led the charge, with one hundred archers providing cover from behind, and fifty samurai following at the end. They launched an attack towards Lin Shisan.

Tang Shunzhi remained calm and shouted, "First row! Fire!"

"Bang bang bang", more than thirty bullets flew towards the Japanese pirates.

The Japanese pirates were desperate men. They charged forward with guns in their hands.

The second and third rows of guns followed. After a round of firing, more than 20 Japanese pirates fell.

At this time, the Japanese pirate archers had already rushed up, and Lin Shisan's group was within their shooting range.

The Japanese archers stopped and drew their bows. The arrows pointed to the sky. They did not want to shoot straight, but to use the more powerful projectile tactics.

Tang Shunzhi shouted, "Team one, raise your shields! Guard against arrows! Team two, team three, fire your crossbows! Don't fire three arrows at once! Fire one arrow at a time!"

More than twenty rattan shields were seized from the Japanese pirates last night, and they came in handy now.

The comrades in the first row raised their rattan shields high above their heads, ready to meet the arrows falling from the sky.

The comrades in the second and third rows half-crouched on the ground and fired their crossbows to defeat the enemy.

More than sixty enemy-killing crossbows and one hundred and eighty arrows are enough to give the Japanese pirates a hard time.

But the Japanese pirates also had shields! After the first round of crossbow arrows were fired, the Japanese pirates in the front raised their shields to defend themselves.

At the same time, the arrows shot by the Japanese pirates also fell on the rattan shield one by one.

Some arrows lost their momentum and sank deeply, actually penetrating the rattan shield and killing the Jinyi captain.

The two sides are like this, you use a bow, I use a shield. I use a crossbow, you use a shield. Attack and defend each other.

The enemy-killing crossbow still has an advantage over ordinary bows and arrows. After a round of shooting, more than a dozen Jinyiwei were killed or injured. More than fifty Japanese pirates fell.

The Japanese pirates had rushed to within ten steps of the Jinyiwei, and it seemed that the two sides were about to engage in close combat.

Tang Shunzhi shouted, "Change formation!"

The Jinyiwei divided into eight small mandarin duck formations according to the formations Tang Shunzhi had temporarily taught them.

In each mandarin duck formation, two shield soldiers guarded the two wings, and two bamboo spear soldiers were behind. Two sword soldiers followed the bamboo spear soldiers. Behind them were four crossbowmen on both sides. The captain of the squad stood in the center to command.

It should be said that this is a simplified version of the Mandarin Duck Formation. And because Tang Shunzhi only gave them a general idea and they had never practiced the formation in detail before, the power of this formation was greatly reduced.

The Japanese pirates rushed forward with a roar, thinking that the enemy before them would collapse at the first blow just like the ones they had encountered before.

They never expected that this time they would encounter eight prickly iron hedgehogs.

As soon as the two sides fought, the Japanese pirates realized the power of the Iron Hedgehog.

The Yuanyang formation coordinated long and short weapons, long-range weapons with shields, swords, and spears. The foot soldiers fell one after another in front of the formation.

Tang Shunzhi shouted, "Well done! Pay attention to your formation and don't let your guard down!"

A moment later, only fifty Japanese pirates were left. The Jinyiwei had more than ten casualties. Although there were casualties in each formation, the formation was not disrupted.

The Japanese pirates' archers fired another volley of projectiles.

Tang Shunzhi shouted: "Raise your shields to protect yourself from arrows!"

"Swish, swish, swish", arrows flew all over the sky. One arrow almost brushed Lin Shisan's cheek and fell straight into the ground.

Fifty Japanese pirates rushed forward.

The fighting power of the samurai is far better than that of the ashigaru. These bastards have been practicing bamboo swords since they were six years old. They are always accompanied by swords. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are martial arts masters.

Fortunately, the Mandarin Duck Formation is specifically designed to counter Japanese swords!

Moreover, all the Jinyiwei comrades were determined to die, and no one was afraid of the enemy. The two sides fought, and the Jinyiwei relied on the mandarin duck formation to not lose the upper hand.

A Japanese pirate warrior swung his sword at Lin Shisan, but was blocked by the shield soldier in front of Lin Shisan.

Lin Shisan grabbed the bamboo spear and stabbed the warrior through the heart.

This was the first time Lin Shisan had killed someone in his life. His eyes turned red for a moment.

"Come on, damn pirates, bring more of them! Let Grandpa Lin kill a few more before we continue on our journey!"

Sun Yue had been stabbed twice, but luckily they were only flesh wounds. With his thick skin and flesh, he was still able to fight.

Sun Yue shouted, "There should be garrison troops in Xuyi County, right? Why don't they come out to rescue us?"

Tang Shunzhi shouted: "It's good that the garrison troops didn't surrender the city. They are busy with their own affairs, so how can they save us?"

In the distance, Mitsuharu Nohara saw the power of the Ming army behind him.

He waved a big honey in his hand and ordered: "Send another 200 foot soldiers, 100 archers, and 100 samurai. We must completely wipe out the Ming army behind us and eliminate the trouble for us to attack the city."

The big fan was called "military round fan", which was equivalent to the command flag of the Ming army.

Four hundred Japanese pirates rushed out of the main camp and headed straight for the Jinyiwei.

Two fists cannot defeat four hands. Although there is the support of the Mandarin Duck Formation, there are too many Japanese pirates.

At this time, after a bloody battle, only about fifty people were left out of the hundred Jinyiwei.

When these four hundred Japanese pirates arrive, the Jinyiwei will be completely wiped out.

By then, Lin Shisan would die for his country, Biyun and Xiaoyun would become widows, and Huer would become an orphan.

But Lin Shisan did not regret it. Even if he had been a slick person for half his life, he still wanted to be a hero once, even if it was only for a moment.

Four hundred Japanese pirate reinforcements were approaching.

Tang Shunzhi, with a bloody face, smiled at Lin Shisan and said, "Lin Chuanfeng, let's meet at the Martyrs' Shrine."

Lin Shisan panted and shouted, "Okay, see you at the Martyrs' Shrine!"

In no time, the Japanese pirates' reinforcements will rush over, and the remaining fifty Jinyiwei comrades will all die for their country.

Lin Shisan’s story of finding a favorite comes to an abrupt end here.

Suddenly, the gate of Xuyi County opened.

Lin Shisan looked far away and saw something shining in the direction of the county gate. When he looked closely, he saw that it was a bunch of bald heads!

More than three hundred monks rushed out of the gate.

Lin Shisan cursed: "Why did those monks leave the city to die?"

He looked down on those monks. They were not ordinary monks who ate vegetarian food and chanted Buddhist scriptures, but Shaolin monks who used to belong to Yu Dayou's army!

The monk soldiers, each holding a long stick with iron sheets wrapped at both ends, rushed into the Japanese pirates' formation.

The Japanese pirates sent nearly 800 people to attack the Jinyiwei from behind. Their frontal army was insufficient and unstable.

The Shaolin monks seized the opportunity and rushed towards Nohara Mitsuharu's main camp!
Lin Shisan was surprised: "Those monks are quite good at fighting!"

Nohara Mitsuharu had no choice but to wave his big fan again, oh no, the military fan, and recalled the 400 Japanese pirates who came to support him.

I will not attain Buddhahood until hell is empty. Buddha, have mercy on me.

The Shaolin monks traveled thousands of miles from Henan to Jiangsu and Zhejiang with only one purpose: to send the Japanese animals to see the Buddha and feel the Buddha's compassion!
(End of this chapter)