The name Ofiwu originates from a legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a person who was very filial, after the death of his father, he buried his father he refused the help of others, buried his father with his hands, touched the crows, they helped this person with their mouths. The monarch of the Kingdom of Yue was very touched to hear this story, and named this area Wuzhi County.
After Qin Shi Huang unified the whole country, he divided the Wu wound area into an independent administrative region, which is the prototype of today's Yiwu City, and he did not expect that Qin Shi Huang's casual stroke would actually change the fate of the Ming Dynasty.
Qin Shi Huang assigned it to the unified management of the administrative region, but unexpectedly almost changed the history of China, if there is no conscript, Daming will not be so easy to continue life, may have finished playing long ago. Qin Shi Huang's inadvertent act made Daming stay up some more of the grandeur and glitz, and soaked in wealth for a period of time.
During the Jiajing period, due to the dictatorship of Yan Song, the Ming government was very corrupt, and the army also lost its combat effectiveness, just at this time, the Wukou invaded the Ming Dynasty on a large scale, occupied the coastal areas, burned and plundered all the evil, and even attacked the city of Nanjing with only a few hundred people, although this Force of Wukou was eventually annihilated, but the Casualties of the Ming Army reached several thousand, which shows that the Ming Army is very weak, and the real Wukou is also increasingly rampant.
Qi Jiguang, on the other hand, was a general with great ambitions for the country and the people, he was not accustomed to the incompetence of the Ming Dynasty army, and he hated the Wukou even more, although he was far away in Shandong, he always had the ambition to sweep away the Wukou.
At his initiative, the Jiajing Emperor agreed to send Qi Jiguang to the coast of Zhejiang and Fujian to fight against the Wukou. In the early days of arriving at the coast of Zhejiang and Fujian, they were very worried, because at that time, the Ming Soldiers lacked effective training, and even had a situation of empty pay, how could this defeat the extremely fierce Wokou?
So he decided to recruit new soldiers, first of all, Qi Jiguang valued Shaoxing soldiers, because Shaoxing people are also very brave. But reality slapped Qi Jiguang in the face.
In the first large-scale battle, Qi Jiguang faced attacking the Wukou who were entrenched in Qiangang, and his Ming Dynasty army plus Yu Dayu reached tens of thousands of people, while the Wukou only had a few thousand, so Qi Jiguang was full of confidence, but the result was unexpected. This battle, fought for half a year, suffered 3,000 casualties, and annihilated only 1,000 Wokou, although it forced Wokou to retreat, but it was also a tragic victory, for which Qi Jiguang was also punished.
After the Battle of Qiangang, Qi Jiguang realized that although the Shaoxing soldiers were strong, they lacked the spirit of seeing death as a homecoming, because the commercial atmosphere of the Shaoxing people was relatively strong, and if they wanted to truly build a combat effective army, they must recruit new soldiers. At this time, the Yiwu people were engaged in a large-scale armed struggle for the right to mine minerals.
And Qi Jiguang personally saw the bravery and strength of the Yiwu people in the process of armed struggle, and immediately realized that this was exactly the new recruit he wanted to recruit, and under Qi Jiguang's generous statement, the people of Yiwu enthusiastically joined the anti-Wu team.
Yiwu Recruitment Office
Qi Jiguang realized that the Wokou was brave in combat, but there were also shortcomings, that is, excessive emphasis was placed on the ability to fight individually, while the ability to cooperate was relatively strong, and the knife had advantages such as long length and great lethality, but there was a deficiency in defense capability; although the Wokou had firearms, the ability to cooperate with firearms and cold weapons was also defective.
In response to this problem, Qi Jiguang invented the Mandarin Duck Formation, that is, with 12 people as a group. To carry out coordinated operations, this can be a set of formations in which the Qi family army forms a situation in which more fights are fought more and less in parts, and this set of formations is practiced.
Because the Yiwu soldiers themselves were very brave, and Qi Jiguang himself was very good at training soldiers, and Qi Jiguang had already trained into a very mature formation against the Wokou, the Qi family's combat ability was greatly improved.
In ordinary battles, the Wokou often won more with less, so they did not pay attention to the Ming Army, even if the Ming Dynasty army was superior in numbers, but the Wokou still dared to launch an active attack. However, the Wukou soon paid the price for the light enemy, and when they once again faced Qi Jiguang's Zhongzhong, they still took the initiative to attack, and the Qi family army did not collapse as the Wukou imagined, but methodically met the enemy.
At the same time, Qi Jiguang also showed his excellent ability to use firearms, and the Wokou had already suffered heavy casualties before they rushed to the front, and the Wokou who rushed to the front of the line were no better, and in front of the Mandarin Duck Array, the knives they were proud of had lost their effect. Under the strong power of the Mandarin Duck Array and the courageous resistance of the Qi family army, the Wokou were quickly defeated.
After that, Qi Jiguang always paid a small price to obtain huge casualties from the Wukou, for which the Wukou were very afraid of the Qi family army, believing that the Qi family army would inevitably be destroyed. With the efforts of Qi Jiguang, he finally completely swept away the Wokou that had been entrenched in the coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujian for hundreds of years. Qin Shi Huang could not have imagined that an administrative region he had casually planned would actually change the fate of China.