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In the early morning of April 26, 1561 (Ming Jia Jing), in the backyard of the Qi Mansion on the Xinhe River.

Li Yunmeng and Guan Yue were sparring in the courtyard. In the recent days, Li Yunmeng had a faint feeling that he had the opportunity to break through. He felt that his Four Seasons Spirit Art would soon reach the great circle of the eighth level.

The two were in the midst of a lively fight. Suddenly, the sound of horns rose and fell, and the sound of drums and thunder could be heard. The two were shocked, knowing that the enemy was coming. He hastily went to close the door and saw Madame Qi, Lady Wang, Jiang Hui, as well as two maids guarding Tang Yao and the rest of the military's elites all gathered at the top of the city gate tower. Looking down, one could see flags fluttering in the sky. The swords and halberds were like a forest, and the pirates were like a sea of people, galloping at full speed. There seemed to be thousands of them all over the place. The pirates had surrounded the city as if it were covered in sand. When the crowd saw this momentum, they were overwhelmed with shock.

Lady Wang was waiting at the top of the city. Seeing that Guan Yue and Li Yun had arrived, she was overjoyed and hurriedly stood up to welcome them. As everyone discussed the matter of defending the city, Tang Yao led his troops and guarded the four gates. Guan Yue and Li Yunmeng looked over and saw the pirates were running around like wild beasts as they screamed. The pirates had invaded Taizhou several times, but this time, they were the most powerful, due to their scale and strength. Fortunately, everyone in the Wang family was already prepared. No matter how the enemy attacked the city with bows, firearms, stones, and ladders, the soldiers guarding the city were able to break through them one by one. The battle continued until the sun set. The pirates had lost more than two thousand men, but they still fought valiantly.

At this time, in New River City, other than the thousand or so soldiers guarding the city, there were still over a hundred thousand citizens. Everyone knew that once the city was destroyed, no one would survive. Therefore, it was true that Ding Zhuang had risen up to defend the city. Even if the women and children were old and weak, they would still have to shoulder the burden to resist the strong enemies together. The sounds of the battle outside the city could be heard everywhere. There were arrows flying in the air, and the sound was like locusts flying in and out of the sky.

Li Yunmeng held a fish gut sword in his hand as he stood before Supreme Commander. Jiang Hui stood beside him and watched as the sky was covered with red clouds. The scenery was magnificent without end, and the enemy army was galloping in and out of the city. When he looked at Yun Meng again, he saw him standing at the top of the city, looking valiant and formidable. Jiang Hui thought to himself, "This guy is extraordinary and powerful in martial arts. If we were to marry each other, we would be able to meet each other in the future. We can ride on horses and travel together in the martial arts world. This life will not be in vain." With a glance, he saw that Li Yunmeng was also looking at him. He could not help but blush and lowered his head in silence.

Holding the red flute in her hand, Guan Yue rushed to Li Yunmeng's side and said, "Brother Yunmeng, the pirates will not retreat from this onslaught. We'll lead our troops to open a path to kill them." Lady Qi Wang said, "Alright! You have to be careful when leading five hundred and fifty people out of the city. "

These five hundred and fifty people happened to be the columns of fifty Lovers Formation. All the soldiers answered in unison, "As you command."

Guan Yue and Li Yun Meng flew down to the city. Soon after, the war drums began to thunders. At the opening of the city gates, Guan Yue and Li Yunmeng led five hundred and fifty soldiers.

The pirates outside the city gates were in a hurry to attack the city when they suddenly saw someone fighting their way out from within the city. They turned around and walked away. Guan Yue and Li Yun had caught up with them.

Two thousand-man squads came up from the left and right, surrounding the five hundred and fifty men led by Guan Yue Li Meng.

After going through a period of formation array practice, they were already full of fighting desire. At this moment, they quickly formed a formation, forming fifty mandarin ducks formation. Each battle formation had an impeccable combination of positions and weapons. One of the eleven was the captain, who stood in the center of the line, and the other ten stood behind him in two columns.

Although there were only ten of them, they held four different weapons and formed five coordinated attack lines. Behind the captain, there were two shield-bearers with javelins. They used their shields to cover themselves and their comrades behind them, and were the first to throw their javelins and attack.

The shield soldiers were shielded by the Wolf Bearer standing behind them, the so-called Wolf Bearer. It was a special type of weapon with a peculiar shape, made mainly of a long iron rod and covered in iron branches and barbs. It stood straight forward like a barbed wire fence, and no one could get through it.

Behind the wolf-men were four spearmen. They were the main offensive force of the team. When they saw the enemy, they would use their spears to stab them. At the end of the formation, there were two short-bladed players protecting the gunner from the flank, preventing the opponent from going around in a roundabout way.

This was a flawless formation. The eleven of them worked together to form a perfect killing formation. Even if you were a Japanese Sword Saint, you still wouldn't be able to sing a song. Although they were surrounded, they were not afraid at all. Lady Wang and the others looked down from the top of the city wall, but saw that the military formation was not in a state of chaos, it was unstoppable, and it was full of cheers. Everyone fell to the ground, their torches flickering in the darkness like thousands of silver snakes.

Before the pirates had even taken a few steps, many people were already shot down by the javelins that had flown over. If they were lucky enough to continue charging, they would have been blocked by the shields, or be caught by the wolves and pulled back a few times by the thorns. Even if they didn't die, they would at least lose a layer of their skin.

The pirates were killed off by the javelins, wolfhound, and pikes before long. Guan Yue and Li Yunmeng had also charged into the group of pirates. With their swords in hand, Guan Yue's attacks were akin to bloody shadows. Li Yun Meng activated the Rice Sword and performed the Xue Clan's sword technique. The moon shone like a blade and the blade glowed like the moon. The sword light looked like a blade and it looked like it was shining like the moon and the sword light. The two of them dashed left and right in the middle of the battle formation with unstoppable might. Arrows rained down at him, but they were all pushed aside. The leader of the pirates waved his left hand, stopping the beating of the drum. He turned around and asked, "Do you know who these two are?" The first from the left said to the people who came here last time, "Reporting to the leader, one of these two people is Li Yunmeng, the one who killed Tian Zhong and scared Sima Chao away. The other person was the famous Scholar Guan Yue from the martial arts world! "The leader cried out involuntarily," Ah! So it was them! This is indeed a well-deserved reputation! "

Although they were in front of the leader, they did not dare to go up and fight him. The leader saw the two of them rushing around recklessly, and when he saw that there were less and less people around him, he could not help but frown and give the order: "Send the order to retreat, retreat to Flower Street, meet up with the main forces there, and then attack and destroy Sea Gate together." Under the order, the pirates immediately retreated.

"When Guan Yue heard this, he immediately felt the urgency of the situation and hastily shouted towards the city gate:" Lady Qi, Master Tang, the situation is urgent, the two of us will go to the gate of the sea to meet up with Wu Shutian to eliminate the enemy's power. When Lord Qi has eliminated the enemy forces in the direction of Ning Hai, the three of us will gather together and completely annihilate the enemy. With that said, he ordered the soldiers to return to the city and dashed towards the Sea Gate together with Guan Yue and the other two.

Seeing the two of them walking away, Jiang Hui also stood up to leave. Lady Qi, Lady Wang, quickly stopped them and said, "Lady Jiang, you are the only martial arts expert left. If you leave now, Xinhe will be in danger." Jiang Hui had no choice but to give up.

As for Li Yun Meng and Guan Yue, they performed their movement techniques and quickly flew towards the Hai Gate. Their movement speed was not fast, they arrived at the bottom of Hai Gate City early in the morning, only to see Qi Jiguang leading Wu Shuang, Yu Xiang, Xu Qing and the rest of the soldiers, preparing for battle.

The two were overjoyed. They quickly went up to pay their respects and Guan Yue said, "Why is General Qi here and how is the battle at Ning Hai?" Qi Jiguang said, "From the direction of Ning Hai, the pirates have only sent about 1000 men, but we were all annihilated by Xu and Yu, the two chivalrous warriors and our soldiers. I originally planned to lead our troops to the Xinjiang River, but I heard that it had been a great victory, so I led my troops here and prepared to fight the enemy to the death."

Li Yunmeng replied, "The two of us have already learned that the New River enemy forces have joined forces with the enemy forces on Flower Street, a total of more than five thousand people. We are already on our way here, and after two failures, the enemy will definitely be enraged this time. We must work hard to move forward and prevent the enemy from succeeding."

Before he could finish his words, he heard the noise of people in the distance, and the sound of rapid footsteps approaching. Qi Jiguang ordered everyone, "The enemy is here, get ready."

Suddenly, all the pirates started shouting, "Kill them all!" Their voices came from afar, like the tide. In the end, thousands of people started shouting in unison, as if the sky was falling and the earth was cracking. A huge flag was raised high in the sky, and under the crowd's protection, it was as if there were stars holding up the moon. A huge group of people was rushing towards them. It was none other than the leader of the pirates, Liu Sheng, Jing Hong.

Qi Jiguang focused on the five thousand soldiers and began to pay more attention to them. He turned around and said to the soldiers, "According to the usual practice, we will just change formation at random. Brothers, let the pirates have a look at the abilities of our Great Ming soldiers." His shout was full of energy, and everyone could hear it clearly amidst all the shouting.

When the crowd heard Qi Jiguang's shout, they were immediately enlivened. They all thought, "The pirates have bullied us for too long. Now we have to teach them how powerful we are!" At that moment, everyone was eager to give it a try.

When the leader of the pirates gave the order, the pirates started to gather up their men and charge forward with all their might. Qi Jiguang Ming and his men set up a formation to resist the enemy, but this time, the pirates were smarter.

Thus, although the Ming army gained the advantage and killed many enemies, they were unable to quickly defeat the enemy as per usual.

Qi Jiguang saw this and waved the flag. He shouted, "Transform!" In the blink of an eye, the Ming army's Lovers Formation began its first change.

The two columns behind the captain split up to form a five-line formation, using five units to set up the formation. The wolf-man soldiers stepped forward and stood side by side with their shields, forming the first line of defense.

The pirates could neither attack nor defend as they faced the Five Elements Formation. As long as they were caught by the wolfhound, they would be pierced through in an instant by the spears. Although many bandits were holding onto their sabers and shouting loudly, they would not retreat in the face of the battle, but what they received in return was more and more casualties.

Seeing that the pirates were retreating, the leader of the pirates shouted for his troops. He called for a messenger and whispered something to him. The messenger hurriedly rushed to the front of the formation and shouted, "General Qi, please stay. We have something to say."

Qi Jiguang heard this and urgently ordered the troops to stop, to see what the other side had to say. He then heard the messenger shout out, "General Qi, you are indeed training your troops, to be able to produce such a strong force in such a short amount of time, we cannot refuse, but you would have never thought that we still have a hidden card. Take a look."

The pirates opened up a gap in the formation. Within a large hollow area, a group of people from the Ming Dynasty were tied up. There were about a hundred of them, and all of them were being chased away as dozens of pirates held their weapons and bows in their hands.

Qi Jiguang and the others were infuriated. Qi Jiguang shouted, "The two armies are fighting each other. Why are you persecuting these civilians? Quickly release these innocent civilians. We will fight to the death."

The leader of the pirates, Liu Sheng Jing Hong laughed out loud, "Qi Jiguang, don't you claim to love your people like children? I advise you to surrender your weapons quickly, otherwise I'll kill all these civilians."

Qi Jiguang obviously wouldn't agree. The two sides were in a deadlock in front of the formation.

When Li Yunmeng saw this situation, he recalled that when he was fighting in the New River, his Four Seasons Divine Art had suddenly broken through to the Great Perfection Stage of the Eighth Layer. Li Yunmeng's movement technique had now reached the speed of Soaring Through the Void.

Seeing the current situation, thinking of the strength of the four experts, Yue Tianxiangqing, he suddenly had an idea and quickly called the four of them to gather. The five of them gathered together, and Li Yunmeng told them his thoughts, and the four of them happily agreed, and the five of them walked up to Qi Jiguang and bowed deeply, "General Qi, there's no need to worry. Leave this matter to the five of us."

Li Yun Meng and the other three looked at each other, then suddenly flew up into the sky, like two eagles spreading their wings, quickly flying towards the people, quickly arriving in front of the people, before the guards could react, Li Yun Meng and Wu Shutian had already taken action, only to see dozens of white and dozens of azure lights flying towards the bandits, dozens of people had already died. By the time the remaining pirates reacted and were about to pounce, the remaining three, Scholar Guan Yue of the Blood Flute, and Yan Qianyin of the Fleet, with their beautiful hands, Xu Yunyun, had already rushed up. The five of them stood in five different directions with concealed weapons and weapons constantly being used.

When Qi Jiguang saw this, he was overjoyed. He waved the flag and the Five Elements Formation turned into a three-pronged formation, attacking the enemy troops at full power, causing the pirates to lose their lives, and not long after, the pirates only had a few dozen people left. Liu Sheng and Jing Hong hurriedly fled, but just as they were about to escape, they saw a sword light flash, and Liu Sheng Jing Hong was unable to dodge in time, and was nailed to the ground by a short sword. The remaining pirates fled in all directions, and the Ming army emerged victorious.

Li Yunmeng flew forward and drew his Intestine Sword. He wiped it on Liu Sheng Jing Hong's body and laughed loudly, "Pirates, you don't know that other than flying knives, I can also use flying swords, right?"

Qi Jiguang walked forward with a red face and cupped his fists towards Li Yunmeng, "Little brother's qinggong [1], this is a rarely seen skill of several chivalrous men. I, Qi Jiguang, will remember the kindness rendered by these few chivalrous men, if there is a chance in the future, we will definitely repay you with your kindness. However, there are still remaining bandits in the rest of the Taizhou region. If we do not clean them up, it will bring trouble to the people. I will lead the troops to clear it up now, and I will ask a few chivalrous warriors to stay here for a few days to wait for me to clean up the pirates in the Taizhou region before coming here to thank you. "

Qi Jiguang led the army to continue the battle. Li Yunmeng and a few others rushed over to the Xinhe Qi Mansion to report the news to Lady Qi and Lady Wang. Both sides then bid each other farewell.

That's right: it's a good idea to chase after the poor and let the common people enjoy peace. See how things turn out after that.

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