Rise From the Humble

"They are marching in unison, but what's the use of marching in unison?" The Japanese pirates looked at the Zhejiang army marching slowly and orderly from the slope where they were ambushing, and said in a low voice with disdain.

"It's useful." The Japanese pirate next to him said seriously.

"What's the use?" The Japanese pirate chuckled and complained disdainfully, "Can his neat march kill me?"

"Haha, they are walking in a row, which makes it convenient for us to shoot them to death. Do you think it will be useful?" The Japanese pirate next to him laughed.

"Haha, so it is indeed useful, hehe." The Japanese pirates immediately laughed, stretched their frozen hands, slowly pulled out feather arrows from the quiver, and inserted them diagonally into the ground close to the ground.

When the leader gives the order later, he will be able to immediately pull out the feather arrows stuck in front of him from the ground and shoot them one by one.

Saving time and effort, this is the experience he gained from many years of archery career.

The Japanese pirates rubbed their hands in anticipation, watching the Zhejiang army slowly passing by them on the slope with burning eyes, holding their breath.

The Central Army is passing slowly

"We'll soon reach the rear army, and we'll start killing people. Brothers, are you ready?"

The Japanese pirates slowly tightened their longbows, looked at the Zhejiang army's central force passing by, pricked up their ears, and waited for the leader's orders.

Just when the Zhejiang Army's central army was about to pass and the Zhejiang Army's rear army was about to arrive, something strange suddenly happened.

"Bang!"

The sound of a musket suddenly rang out, followed by a scream from the ambush hillside.

"What the hell?! Who opened fire! Are you looking for death?! Didn't I tell you to wait until the rear troops of the Zhejiang Army arrive before opening fire?! Also, didn't I tell you not to fire the muskets first, but to shoot arrows first and then fire the muskets?!"

"Also, who is yelling?!"

"Damn it, now that we've been exposed, we have no choice but to act in advance!"

When the muskets sounded, the Japanese pirate leader was so angry that he wanted to draw his knife and chop the idiot who fired and yelled into pieces, but it was useless to be angry now. Since he had been exposed, he could only launch an attack in advance. He could not give the Zhejiang army time to react, otherwise things would be bad.

The pirate leader was also an old veteran who had experienced many wars. The moment the musket sounded, so many thoughts flooded his mind, and he finally came to the most correct conclusion that he must launch an attack in advance!

Thinking of this, he stood up suddenly and was about to give a loud order when he heard a neat and dense burst of musketry behind him.

Then, a sharp pain came from his chest, abdomen and other parts, and his body fell backwards suddenly as if it had been hit by a mad bull.

The view was all blood red. The moment he fell to the ground, he saw a group of Zhejiang soldiers appearing on the high slope behind their hillside. They had branches stuck on their bodies for camouflage, and were holding muskets in their hands with flashing flames, firing at the people below.

Zhejiang Army?!

How did they get up there? When did they get up there? Damn, we're in an ambush! Uh, why do I feel like I'm floating? Uh, what's down there? I seem to see my body. Am I dead?

In the remaining field of vision, his body, which had four or five bloody holes in it, fell straight to the ground, splashing wet mud.

He was dead, completely dead, with four or five holes on his body. It would be strange if he wasn't dead. The fact that he could stay alive for such a short while already showed how strong his body was.

"Is that Japanese pirate stupid? He actually stood up. He deserves to be shot into a sieve." The Zhejiang Army soldier holding a musket on the high slope spat, tore open a gunpowder bag and poured it into the musket.

"put!"

At the command of the Zhejiang Army's sentry leader, a row of Zhejiang Army soldiers opened fire in an orderly and intensive manner, and the air was filled with smoke.

The Japanese pirates on the slope below screamed and fell down.

After this row of Zhejiang soldiers finished firing, they retreated to the back and reloaded their muskets.

The next sentry came up from the gap between them, raised his gun, aimed, fired, and then stepped back to reload his musket.

"Enemy attack!"

"Zhejiang Army, the damn Zhejiang Army is up there!"

"Brothers, be careful! Damn it! The Zhejiang Army is too cunning and treacherous. We don't know when they will ambush us!"

After the first row of neat and dense musket fire sounded, the Japanese pirates lying in ambush on the slope below discovered the Zhejiang army lying in ambush on the high slope behind them and shouted in panic after the pirates around them fell to the ground with screams.

"Look, damn, the Zhejiang troops down there were well prepared, otherwise where would they get so many shields?!"

"There are so many newly made improvised shields. Damn it, I understand. They did it on purpose. They had already discovered us a long time ago. They sent people to ambush us up there, and made shields in the tents, just to deal with us!"

"Bah! How shameless! I've heard that Zhu is sinister and cunning, but I didn't expect him to be so sinister!"

Some Japanese pirates discovered that after the first musket fire from the Zhejiang army below, they almost simultaneously raised their shields and faced the hillside to guard against the pirates' arrows and muskets.

Many of the shields they raised were newly made, made of simple wooden boards and looked very rough.

But it is enough to deal with feather arrows.

Now it was clear that the insidious Zhu Ping'an had discovered them long ago, but pretended not to notice them. He sent people to the high slope above them to ambush them, while also making shields to guard against them!

The ambushers became the ambushed; the predator became the prey. On the brink of life and death, how could they not be afraid!

"Where is our leader? What should we do? We have been ambushed by the Zhejiang army!" the Japanese pirates shouted in panic.

pity!

No one answered them!

Their heads were targeted as soon as they stood up, and were taken away by a set of damage!

Leaderless!

Ambushed again!

The Japanese pirates are in complete chaos!

Some pirates fought back upwards, while others shot arrows downwards.

It was too difficult to shoot arrows from below. It was laborious and hard to aim. With the wind behind them, the arrows shot by the Japanese pirates had almost no effect on the Zhejiang Army above. As for shooting arrows downwards, the Zhejiang Army had prepared shields in advance, and their cotton armor had an astonishing protective area. Therefore, the feather arrows shot by the Japanese pirates did not cause much damage to the Zhejiang Army below.

The Japanese pirates had been attacked by icy rain in the freezing cold wilderness for so long that their hands were frozen. After only shooting a few arrows, they could hardly pull the bows.

Only a few of the Japanese pirates' muskets caused some damage to the Zhejiang Army below, but these musketeers were given special attention by the Zhejiang Army and were killed by the Zhejiang Army's concentrated fire as soon as they fired a shot.

The Zhejiang soldiers below cooperated in pairs, with one holding a shield and the other holding a musket at the back and firing at the Japanese pirates above.

"Bang, bang, bang"

The dense fire from above and below made the Japanese pirates lying in ambush on the hillside scream in agony, and suffered heavy casualties. (End of this chapter)