At dawn, Zhu Ping’an and Mao Haifeng led their troops to Jiwu Village. The houses in the village were all in Japanese style, completely different from Ming architecture, clearly not of our race.
Originally, they thought that with the main force of the wokou in Jiwu Village annihilated, the village had already fallen apart. Unexpectedly, upon arriving at Jiwu Village, they saw men, women, old, and young all with white cloth strips tied on their heads, holding sharp blades, with ferocious faces guarding in front of the low wall at the village entrance. On the low wall were inserted Japanese war flags, inscribed with words like “Takeda”, “Jiwu”, “Jade Shatter”.
Obviously, they already knew the news of the main force’s destruction, and had chosen to resist desperately, to fight stubbornly to the end.
“Damn it, the bastards in Jiwu Village didn’t escape, and they’ve even prepared to resist to the death! They’re really seeking death!”
Mao Haifeng, seeing this, flew into a rage.
Couldn’t this group of bastards just obediently surrender with their hands tied! Your main force has been wiped out, so what are you still struggling for!
“Since they’re seeking death, then fulfil them!” Zhu Ping’an narrowed his eyes and scanned around, saying expressionlessly!
According to the interrogation results, the wokou in Jiwu Village were full of heinous crimes, their sins piled up. Even exterminating nine generations wouldn’t be excessive!
Burning, killing, looting, committing all kinds of evil. These wokou, to improve the combat power of Jiwu Village, trained their children in killing skills from a young age. The wokou tied captured common people to pillars, using them as live targets for their children.
Those children standing on the village wall, each one stained with the blood of Ming people, their deaths would not be regrettable!
“Ming people, why invade our homeland? Retreat now, and we can still avoid clashing with swords. Otherwise, in our village, men, women, old, and young can all wield knives. Everyone has seen blood. If we ten thousand shatter like jade, you too will suffer heavy casualties. I advise you to retreat at this moment, and things can still be calm as if nothing happened. In the future, we won’t interfere with each other!”
An old wokou with yellow-white hair, wearing leather armour, stood behind the low wall, shouting in broken Chinese to Zhu Ping’an and the others.
“Your homeland?!” Zhu Ping’an, hearing this, couldn’t help but laugh in anger. “Hehe, since when do robbers dare to claim themselves as masters?! Since everyone of you has seen blood, then everyone deserves to die!”
“Old thing, you really don’t deserve pity in death. And you still say why invade you, as if you’re so wronged. It was your people who ambushed us first! As a result, your skills were inferior, and you were killed by us instead! Serves you right! Now, we’re here to take revenge. If you’re sensible, obediently tie your hands behind your backs, kneel at the entrance, and this old man can still spare your lives. Otherwise, when we break the寨 door, men, women, old, young, chickens, and dogs will all be spared none!”
Mao Haifeng then rode forward, pointing from afar at the old wokou behind the low wall, cursing and reprimanding.
“Baka! Ming people, it seems you won’t shed tears until you see the coffin! If you want to die, then come! We’re not afraid! This is our homeland, we will defend it to the death. If you come to invade, you must be prepared to leave your lives behind!”
The old wokou said, suddenly drawing his bow and releasing an arrow. A cold arrow shot towards Mao Haifeng.
In his view, Mao Haifeng was older, spoke more arrogantly, obviously the enemy army’s main general. The Ming had an ancient saying: shoot the horse first when shooting a person, capture the king first when capturing thieves. Since there was only one chance, then shoot a big fish!
“Young master, be careful!”
Seeing the old wokou suddenly release a cold arrow, Liu Dadao desperately rushed in front of Zhu Ping’an, acting as Zhu Ping’an’s human shield.
Mao Haifeng had also crawled and rolled in seas of blood and mountains of blades. As soon as the old wokou raised his hand, he immediately made an evasive action.
Before the feathered arrow was shot, Mao Haifeng had already made a sideways movement. The wokou’s cold arrow flew past his neck, hitting a wokou behind him. This wokou had no time to dodge. One second Mao Haifeng was blocking him, the next second he saw the cold arrow shooting towards his face. With only 0.01 seconds, his eyes saw it, but his brain couldn’t make an evasive action at all, and he was hit in the face by the arrow, dying instantly.
“Thank goodness.”
Seeing that it was the wokou behind Mao Haifeng who was hit, Liu Dadao breathed a sigh of relief. Anyway, they were all wokou, their deaths not regrettable.
“Fuck your mother! Old thing! You actually shot a cold arrow at this old man!” Mao Haifeng flew into a great rage, waving his hand, ordering the wokou behind him, “Charge for this old man! Break the寨 door, spare none of men, women, old, young, chickens, and dogs! Gold, silver, jewels, whoever grabs them owns them, but the Takeda family’s belongings belong to me and Lord Zhu!”
Mao Haifeng’s wokou underlings immediately howled and charged forward, each one as if injected with chicken blood.
The wall of Jiwu Village wasn’t high, only a little over three metres. With a strong jump, they could grab the wall edge and climb up.
Behind Jiwu Village there were only a few hundred people, among them many old people and children, very easy to deal with.
Inside Jiwu Village there were the riches they had accumulated from burning, killing, and looting for decades! Burning, killing, and looting for decades, how much wealth must that be? The leader said he and Lord Zhu only wanted the village chief Takeda family’s belongings, the others’ homes, whoever grabbed them owned them. So they had to charge quickly, if they ran slow, others would grab first.
The wokou behind the low wall, seeing Mao Haifeng’s wokou attacking, those with bows drew and shot arrows, those with firelocks opened fire.
The wokou of Mao Haifeng’s unit charging at the front screamed and fell to the ground. The wokou behind immediately hesitated a bit.
Although behind the low wall of Jiwu Village were mostly old and young, but no matter how old or young, the crossbow arrows shot out were still deadly.
“Tiger crouching cannons forward, assist Mao Haifeng in opening the寨 door! After breaking the door, any resisting, refusing to surrender wokou of Jiwu Village, kill without mercy!”
Zhu Ping’an ordered.
Immediately, the more than ten tiger crouching cannons brought by the Zhe army were all pulled to the front of the寨 door, beginning to load gunpowder.
“Hahahaha, old guy, just wait for death!”
Upon seeing the Zhe army’s tiger crouching cannons in action, the already well-coordinated wokou of Mao Haifeng’s unit all held shields forward, helping the Zhe army’s tiger crouching cannons block stray arrows.
“Get out of the way, we’re about to light the fuse!” The Zhe army’s tiger crouching cannons were quickly loaded, and the gunners shouted loudly.
The wokou of Mao Haifeng’s unit in front quickly moved aside.
“Boom boom boom”
A burst of firelight and thunder, more than ten solid cannonballs roared towards the寨 door of Jiwu Village.
Boom!!!!!!
The iron-clad寨 door of Jiwu Village was不堪一击 in front of the solid cannonballs, like plywood, blasted apart.
The wokou behind the door also screamed and were torn apart.
“Charge ah!”
Seeing the寨 door of Jiwu Village blasted open, the wokou of Mao Haifeng’s unit skillfully scrambled forward towards the breach.
Whoever grabs first owns it. Under the encouragement of this sentence, the wokou of Mao Haifeng’s unit were like fierce tigers descending the mountain, bravely competing to be first.
How could the old and young wokou of Jiwu Village, only a few hundred people, be opponents to the numerous wokou of Mao Haifeng’s unit? Despite their fearlessness of death, despite each having seen blood, after one round of life-and-death fighting, the wokou of Jiwu Village were scattered and in disarray.
“Set fire, better to burn it all than let the wealth fall into the Ming dogs’ hands!” The white-haired old wokou, seeing the situation hopeless, shouted loudly.
Immediately, several wokou raised torches and turned to set fires everywhere.
But at this time, setting fire was too late. They had just lit the fires, the flames hadn’t even risen yet, when they were extinguished by the wokou of Mao Haifeng’s unit and the Zhe army.
“Regret not doing it earlier, regret not doing it earlier ah! I should have set fire long ago! In death, I have no face to see the Takeda family head ah!”
The white-haired old wokou was furious, his hair dishevelled covering his face. He reversed his Japanese sword and stabbed into his own abdomen, forcefully cutting left and right horizontally, committing seppuku and dying.
