Chapter 266: Captive

"How could there be nothing, charred corpses everywhere, burned houses. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Falling debris from the sky, that's the dust after burning. Hua Jin spoke.

A simple statement that caught everyone's attention.

Zhang Pu and Ning Hao realized that since they came to this village, the expressions of the Hua Jin sisters and brothers were a little special, and listening to them at this time, it was as if they had really seen a completely destroyed village. So they all looked at the two sisters and brothers, "Have you ever seen each other before?"

Neither Hua Jin nor Hua Cheng answered their questions, but the desolate expressions on the faces of the two people represented everything. They had only heard that the Hua Jin siblings had traveled for a few months before settling in Suzhou City, but the Hua Jin siblings rarely talked about what they had experienced along the way, and only occasionally revealed them between words. They just didn't expect that the sister and brother had experienced this cruel reality before.

At this time, they finally understood that what Hua Jin said before was not to let Hua Qi experience this cruelty, but to each of them. They have seen the cruel reality in the world so early, and they have not seen it, and even a long time ago, they were still doubting Huajin's statement.

"Okay, you can't see anything, let's go, let's go back!" Li Zhiyuan couldn't help but laugh when he saw the stunned looks of these scholars, how could these literati know the cruelty of war? Even the prefect of Suzhou was just a civilian official on paper.

"We plan to go to other villages to have a look!" Hearing that Li Zhiyuan was going to tell them to leave, Xu Shen subconsciously said their plan.

"What's there to see? This kind of disaster is enough for one village, and the other villages are just a little better than this, or worse, or disappear. There's no need to waste time, as long as there are still people alive in the village, we will send people to send food and warm clothes, and you can't help in the past!" Li Zhiyuan said lightly when he heard them say that he wanted to take a second look.

Faced with the current scene, whether it is Li Zhiyuan or Hua Jin, they no longer laugh at each other in the past, they are facing the most cruel reality at this time, and they do not allow a trace of jokes. Li Zhiyuan is also rare to have such a serious appearance now, unlike before, he is always like a cat who has been amused.

After hearing Li Zhiyuan's words, Xu Shen looked at Zhang Pu, the itinerary of these people was decided by Zhang Pu, Zhang Pu was also shocked, and now when he heard Li Zhiyuan say this, he knew that what Li Zhiyuan said was not a lie, so he nodded, "Let's go back first!"

"Can you go back and tell me what kind of combat style the Japanese are adopting now, where they usually go ashore, what time of day they go ashore, and where do you know how often they hide during the day?" Hua Jin turned his head to look at Li Zhiyuan and asked about these things.

"Let's talk while walking on the road!" Li Zhiyuan listened to her question, and did not argue with her, but nodded and asked them to go with him.

Hua Jin, Ning Hao and Xu Shen followed together, Hua Qian fell behind slightly, and glanced back at this small fishing village, before walking quickly to Hua Jin's side and reaching out to hold Hua Jin's hand. Hua Jin felt Hua Qian's slightly cool skin, and then lightly tightened the strength of his hand, as if to give him encouragement.

"These pirates live on small islands by the sea all year round, and they take advantage of the high tide to sail small boats ashore. Most of them will choose the early morning time when everyone is sleeping soundly, and after these Japanese people go ashore, they will rush into the village as fast as possible to rob the villagers of their belongings and food. If the villagers resist, they will slaughter the village after the capture, and if they do not resist, they will selectively spare the villagers, but basically they will choose to set fire to the village after plundering the property and young boys and girls. Therefore, the villages that were basically looted by the Japanese were often destroyed by houses and scorched corpses everywhere!" Li Zhiyuan introduced to them the fighting style of the Japanese invaders while walking outside.

"So where are these pirates during the day? If they choose to go ashore quickly, they will not be very far from the shore, otherwise they will not have enough time. Ning Hao asked after hearing this.

"That's right, these widows are at sea all year round. They are very familiar with sea warfare, and during the day when the tide is low, they will live on some islands, those small islands are not far from the shore, and once the tide rises, they will be flooded by the sea, but when the tide falls, they will come out of the water, and they will rest there for a short time, or continue to plunder, or turn back to the big islands, or send the plundered goods to Wuniu Island!" It has not been a year or two since the Japanese were plagued, so after a long period of confrontation, Li Zhiyuan and the others also have a certain understanding of the Japanese invaders, but the naval strength of the Yan State is too weak, so they will always be passively beaten.

After hearing Li Zhiyuan talk about the high tide and the time of the activities of the Japanese people, Hua Jin's eyes flashed slightly, and he had some calculations in his heart. It's just that it still takes time, and she has no confidence, so she chooses to be silent.

As for Ning Hao and Xu Shen, including Zhang Pu, after hearing that the Japanese were so cunning, they were just silent, they were not geniuses, and there was no way to solve the problems that the army had not solved for so many years.

Several people got on their horses and galloped back to Changshu. When passing by the guardhouse, he saw a bunch of soldiers gathered at the gate of the guardhouse, Li Zhiyuan saw this chaotic scene, frowned, his face was serious, and he got off the horse, "What are you doing here?"

Li Zhiyuan's reputation as a little general is still very good, and after hearing Li Zhiyuan's voice, this group of soldiers all spread out and stood up straight, and then revealed the person they had been surrounding. Four soldiers were escorting a young man in his twenties, dressed as a widow.

"What's going on? Who is this?" Li Zhiyuan didn't expect that this commotion actually came from a widow, so he asked loudly.

"This man's name is Li Gang. Two years ago, he said that he went to the sea to beg for a living, and he once wrote back, saying that he was mixing well outside, and we pretended to be his mother to write a letter to him and deceived him back. He just came back, and we took him back. The soldier who pressed this Li Gang said this to Li Zhiyuan.

Hua Jin They all stopped their horses when they saw this kind of scene, and got off their horses, they had heard before that many of these would-be robbers were impersonated by the people of Yan Kingdom, and they didn't expect to let them see them today.

"Well done!" Li Zhiyuan praised after hearing how they caught people. (To be continued.) )