In order to try not to attract attention as much as possible, Cai Wei ordered the more than 3,000 people who followed her to all dress up as ordinary people, and three or five boats as a team, moving forward in batches, and when asked, they said that they were refugees who had escaped from the villages and towns near Jinling.

Because it was inconvenient to wear that hideous mask on the road, she took another skin mask and put it on her face under the pretext that she was afraid of being recognized by her dragon chapter style. Many of those soldiers had seen the true face of His Royal Highness King Linchuan before, and they all felt that His Royal Highness's appearance was really like a heavenly person, too eye-catching, and it was better to be low-key than to look easy, and seeing that her voice and body had not changed, they were not suspicious.

Fortunately, the journey was quite smooth, although they had encountered a few interrogations, and those sentries saw that they were in tattered clothes, and they had stuffed silver coins, so they were not so embarrassed. After asking a few words if the Tartar soldiers were as numerous as locusts, and whether they really killed people without blinking, he let them pass.

Seeing that the boat has traveled to the section of the waterway between Jiangyin and Jingjiang, and a few miles further is the place where the Yangtze River enters the sea, as long as it enters the East China Sea and then goes to Quanzhou by sea, the road will be much safer, and there is no need to be so worried.

After passing the last sentry, Cai Wei gave the order to go, and ordered the dozen or so ships in front to slow down, and when the ships behind caught up, everyone lined up and entered the sea together, and it was night at night, which was not very noticeable.

But just as their ship was about to sail to the mouth of the sea, they suddenly saw from a distance that the harbor of Jingjiang Mansion on the left was actually in flames, and dozens of big ships seemed to be parked on the seaside.

Cai Wei hurriedly walked to the bow of the boat and took out a telescope to look at it, only to feel that the flag on the ship seemed to have been seen somewhere before.

She suddenly remembered that when she went to sea with Qin Fei in Quanzhou before, she had seen this kind of strange flag on the sea ship of the Japanese people, could this be the pirate ship of the Japanese people?

She was hesitating in her heart, and on the boat that sailed here first, a Bai Zong named Takeo came to report to her: "Your Highness, when we sailed over, we heard some unusual noises over there, and then we saw that there was a fire, and my subordinates sent two brothers with good water skills to swim over to investigate, and found that it was actually a sudden attack on the harbor of Jingjiang Mansion at night. ”

Cai Wei hurriedly asked: "How many people can be found out, and how many Jingjiang defenders are there?" ”

"The two of them said that there were at least two or three thousand Japanese soldiers, and they were well-armed, and they fired artillery on the ship towards the harbor, killing many of our defenders, and the situation was very unfavorable to us. Therefore, the little one came over and asked His Highness, I don't know His Highness-"

Cai Wei looked at him and said, "Do you want to come and ask me, are we going to help the Jingjiang defenders repel the Japanese or ignore them and continue to drive our way?" Let me ask you, how did the brothers react when they knew that it was the Japanese who were attacking? ”

Takeo said: "In the past, the Japanese plagued us for nearly a hundred years, burning, killing and looting, and doing all kinds of evil, and many brothers' hometowns were in the seaside state capitals, and they knew the pain of their harm, and they all gritted their teeth when they saw the Japanese invaders, and they couldn't wait to rush over immediately and help the Jingjiang soldiers to repel the Japanese invaders. It's just that we are His Highness's soldiers in the end, and we all listen to His Highness's orders, whatever His Highness says, we will do anything, whether we fight or leave, all up to His Highness's decision! ”

It turned out that the Fusang Island in the East China Sea, where the Japanese people lived, was only a few hundred miles away from the Great Qin, and during the previous Western Qin, the Fusang Kingdom was defeated by the Western Qin because of the battle at the mouth of the Baijiang River, and surrendered to the strength of the Western Qin, and invited itself to be a vassal state. Moreover, because of the Huatianbao and prosperous things of the Mutian Dynasty, a large number of Qin envoys were sent to the Central Plains to learn from the West.

It was not until after the Battle of Qishan that the attitude of the Japanese towards Daqin became a little subtle, not only was it no longer as submissive as before, but also it was repeatedly taken by boat to burn, kill and loot along the coast of our country. In the past 100 years, the invasion of the Japanese has become more and more complicated, from Shandong in the north to Fujian in the south, all of which have been plagued by their plunder. It wasn't until decades ago that Yan Qin produced Qi and Yu, two famous coastal defense generals, who defeated the Japanese and suffered heavy casualties, and never dared to attack on a large scale again.

Cai Wei looked at the sky-high fire in front of her left and the ships of the Japanese Invaders, and secretly hated in her heart, now Yan Qin has both internal strife and foreign enemies, and even the sea is not peaceful, this Japanese people also want to take advantage of the chaos to enter the river from the sea to rob.

She raised the monocular and looked over again, and saw that the red uniforms of the Qin army were dotted among the black Japanese people, and there were fewer and fewer of them.

Cai Wei didn't hesitate any longer, and immediately ordered: "Takeo, you immediately go find a few brothers with good water skills to swim over quietly, and first scuttle the bottom of the Japanese Kou's boat, I remember that there are still a few underwater dragon king cannons we built, all of which are used by the Japanese Kou, first sink their boat, cut off their firepower, and then we will outflank them in two ways." The order is that all these widows will be wiped out, and they must not be allowed to occupy Jingjiang Mansion. ”

The red lady watched Takeo jump to the boat next to him in good spirits to give orders, and couldn't help frowning: "I said Your Highness, do you really want to fight with this widow again?" Aren't you afraid that we'll show our whereabouts? ”

"I'm afraid, but no matter how scared I am, I have to fight this battle with the Japanese Bandits. Since the two generals Qi and Yu repelled the Japanese more than ten years ago, although the Japanese still occasionally come to our sea to harass and plunder, most of them burn and loot at sea, and they do not dare to go ashore. ”

"Like tonight, two or three thousand Japanese were dispatched at once, and they also brought artillery on the ship to attack at night, using so many manpower and material resources, I am afraid that these Japanese will not simply burn and loot and leave. I'm afraid that they are wolf ambitions, taking advantage of our country's internal and external troubles, and also want to take advantage of the chaos to get a piece of the pie. ”

They chose Jingjiang Mansion to sneak attack, that is, they took a fancy to the geographical convenience of Jingjiang, surrounded by water on three sides, facing Jiangyin across the river on one side, and communicating with Taixing on the other hand. If they can use Jingjiang as a stronghold and send more Japanese people, not to mention the three prefectures of Songjiang, Suzhou, and Changzhou, I am afraid that even Zhenjiang Mansion can go up the river and occupy it. ”

"Now a single Tartar is already extremely difficult to deal with, and there must be no more external trouble. Therefore, even if we have to take some risks, we must fight this battle with the Japanese invaders, and we must not let them have some delusions. ”

Therefore, she made up her mind that this move would expose her team, and she would let herself see Qin Fei a few hours later or even a few days later, and she would also give an order to fight, because this battle must be fought.

But what she didn't expect was that in order to keep Jingjiang from falling into the hands of the Japanese invaders, the price she paid was much greater than she thought before.

Just when her men had destroyed all the ships of the Japanese and joined forces with the defenders of Jingjiang and gradually gained the upper hand, and had surrounded the Japanese and saw that they could be wiped out after another half an hour of fighting, the leader of the Japanese suddenly aimed the muzzle of a small cannon he had brought ashore at the boat on which Cai Wei was riding, and fired three rounds in succession.

Although the first two shells missed, the third shell hit the side of the ship, and the hull shook everyone unsteadily. Cai Wei saw that Gantang was about to fall off the boat, so she hurriedly reached out and pulled her, but the force of Gantang's fall was too great, and before the red lady ran over and grabbed the two of them, she was taken by Gantang into the water.

When the red lady ran to the side of the boat, the dark night was heavy, the wind and waves were high, and she could still see the shadows of the two of them. She only hated that she couldn't water, so she couldn't jump in to save people immediately, so she hurriedly ordered the person on the boat who knew how to water to quickly go into the water to save His Royal Highness King Linchuan.

But the seven or eight men jumped into the water and searched for a long time, but they found nothing, and they didn't know where the two of them were washed away by the river at the mouth of the sea.

When Cai Wei woke up again, it was more than twenty days later.

She thought that she had no physiology, and when she didn't want to open her eyes again, what she saw was not the scene of the underworld, it was still the Qiongwu Yuyu in the world, and there was a good maid of her on the side of the bed.

As soon as Gan Tang saw that she was awake, she cried, "Girl, you are finally awake, if it weren't for saving me, you wouldn't have fallen into the sea with me, if you really have three long and two short, I don't need His Highness to break my body to pieces, I will cut myself off first......"

Cai Wei wanted to comfort her for a few words, but her throat was as sore as fire, so she had to call: "Water, water......"

When she drank half a glass of water and her throat was no longer so sad, she asked Gan Tang, "Where are we?" ”

She saw that the furniture in this house was not an ordinary house, and the layout was very elegant, but it was a scholarly family, but she never imagined that this was actually the mansion of Qian Muzhai, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, in his hometown in Zhenhai.

It turned out that after she and Gan Tang fell into the sea together that night, they were immediately washed out by a turbulent current at the bottom of the water because of the rapid surge in the estuary. Fortunately, she and Gan Tang are both water-savvy, and they can struggle to float in the water at first, showing their heads from time to time to change their breath. Later, when his strength was exhausted, he could only drift with the tide in a groggy manner, and when the last huge wave hit, he lost consciousness.

After listening to what Gan Tang said, I realized that the two of them were washed away by the current to the boundary of Zhenhaiwei in Suzhou Prefecture, and were rescued by a fisherman couple who were fishing on the beach.

Both of them were wearing human skin masks, Cai Wei had lost the human skin mask on her face because she had fallen into the sea before, and this time she saw that she was drifting farther and farther away in the sea, and there was no hope of being rescued, so she hurriedly took off the mask on her face and hid it in the secret bag in her arms. She wanted to take off the mask on Gantang's face and keep it for her, but when a wave came, she couldn't hold it steadily, and the black and ugly mask of Master Zhou disappeared in the sea.

Therefore, when the fisherman couple saw the true faces of the two of them, they were really shocked, and felt that they were fairies in the sea.

The fisherwoman has two sons, because the family is poor, so far has not married a daughter-in-law, at this time saw two big girls caught in the sea, and one is better than the other, I think this is the two daughters-in-law specially given to her by the sea goddess, and she is so happy that she can't keep her mouth shut. took good care of the two of them, and planned to let their sons marry her two at once when they woke up, which could be regarded as repaying them for saving their lives.