However, it was said that Zhao Wenhui's boat followed the thief ship half a mile away, and it was indeed heading in the direction of Pinghu. Seeing that the shore was getting closer and closer, Zhao Wenhui's heart rose to his throat, and he hurriedly ordered to speed up, bypass the thief ship, and rush back to Zhapu to report. At this time, the thief ship suddenly stopped, and after shouting for a while, the ship turned its bow and headed south towards Haiyan County, which is adjacent to Pinghu.

Zhao Wenhui was worried about the slightest reduction, so he landed from Zhapu and told Zhou to be careful. Then he borrowed a fast horse and galloped back to the county office, woke Li Xianzhi up from his sleep, and showed the thief's feelings. Li Xianzhi knew that it was too late to report to Haiyan, and in order to prevent thieves from entering Pinghu again, he hurriedly gathered more than ten horses in the county and sentry into all directions. He also ordered the county officials to be strong and the officials to stand by with their ordnance to prepare for rescue. Prepared all night, fortunately, the pirates did not violate the border, which was a false alarm.

The next day, news came out that the pirates looted villages in Haiyan County, killing and wounding dozens of people before retreating. The situation of the governor of Futai was serious, and he did not dare to wait for it to be ignored, so he hurriedly gathered all the officials to discuss. The officials were still silent as before, lest this unfortunate messenger fall on them, and the only deputy envoy of the military reserve was the main force to send troops to suppress it. This deputy envoy's surname is Hu, and all the officials are called the deputy envoy of Zhejiang according to the inspection of the province's military equipment, and he is very thoughtful, which is extremely rare in today's officialdom of Zhejiang.

Although the military gate is timid and afraid, they also know that in today's world, everything can be chaotic, but the use of thieves and soldiers cannot be perfunctory. If raising thieves is a problem and causes a catastrophe, not to mention the court's condemnation, just the chapter table of the old man in the capital can bury him alive. It's just that his own ability is limited, he is unfamiliar with military affairs, and he is really not good at fighting affairs, so he doesn't dare to move lightly. Now seeing Hu Bingbei's generous statement, he was naturally overjoyed, and relied on it as a pillar, that is, he was ordered to act as the commander on his behalf and coordinate military affairs. He also transferred one member of the general, two guerrilla fighters and prepared 1,000 Japanese troops under his command, and all the prefectures, counties, forts, and villages along the way were under control.

Hu Bingbei took over the errand and immediately took office, selected soldiers and horses, prepared food and salary, and did everything in order, but he did not swear an oath for a long time, and still read official documents in the yamen every day. In this way, public opinion has been turbulent. Up to the capital, cloth, and according to the three divisions, down to the provinces, and the prefectures, all accused Hu of preparing for delaying military planes and raising thieves to play with cowards. The noisy military gate could not be cleaned, and he asked a few questions. Hu Bingbei replied every time that "the time has not come". How can the officials be willing to believe, make trouble in the Fuyaguan Hall, and force him to fight in front of the military gate, especially the most urgent for the political envoys and the grain road, saying that the army is gathered, the food and salary are consumed, and the wealth is difficult to support.

In the end, he was in a hurry, and Hu Bingbei pulled his face and said: "The use of soldiers is not child's play. If you feel that the lower officials are not doing their job effectively, you can take off the official seals of the lower officials, and choose another meritocracy, and there will be no complaints in the lower ones. The official seals and officials also brought them. After that, he untied the seal from his waist, ignored everyone, only held the seal in both hands, and bowed deeply to the Lord of the Military Gate.

It was easy for the military gate to find someone to help him, but seeing that he had come to this step of the field, he didn't know how to end it for a while, so he only sighed from his seat. Seeing that the Lord of the Military Gate did not move, Hu Bingbei said to everyone again: "Which lord took this Laoshizi, and the lower official is thinking about living a few days of brisk life!" As soon as Vice Envoy Hu said this, everyone was silent again. The military lord barely reconciled with a while of mud to calm down, and the military affairs were still undertaken by Deputy Envoy Hu, and everyone had to give up.

It turned out that Deputy Envoy Hu was a veteran of military affairs for many years, and he knew how to use soldiers. Knowing that the military gate ordered the use of soldiers, the thieves on the island will also know. If the army is suddenly dispatched, the thieves will inevitably flee early. Therefore, Deputy Envoy Hu deliberately delayed in order to paralyze the thieves. Secretly, he had ordered the coastal forts to collect the ships, and ordered a guerrilla leader with 300 soldiers to patrol the sentry posts, so that the plates could not go to sea.

When the pirates first learned of the news of the imperial court's military dispatch, they hurriedly packed up their looted belongings and prepared to hide. But later, another spy came to the island, saying that there was no movement of the officers and troops. Sure enough, for more than ten days, neither the officers nor the troops came to the island, nor did they see any more spies on the island, thinking that the officers and troops had no intention of attacking, so they still stayed in the same place and did not care.

Deputy Envoy Hu expected that the pirates had slackened, and suddenly raised troops to Haiyan County. The camp was completed, and a letter was issued ordering the civil and military officials of Haiyan and Pinghu counties to meet in the camp to discuss the strategy of suppressing the thieves, and Li Xianzhi was naturally among them. When they arrived in the camp and asked about the thief, everyone either kept silent or answered what they asked, and after a perfunctory while, Deputy Envoy Hu saw that he couldn't ask anything, so he sent the guest away.

Li Xianzhi saw that Deputy Envoy Hu was quite worried about the thief, and knew that he was actually in charge, so he didn't go far, so he turned back and asked for a meeting. When Menzi entered, Deputy Envoy Hu was quite puzzled, so he called "please". Li Xianzhi entered the house and said: "The lower official has important military affairs to tell you." Deputy Envoy Hu asked: "Shicai has repeatedly asked, why didn't Your Excellency say anything?" Li Xianzhi said: "It's a matter of confidentiality, don't dare to say anything!" Deputy Envoy Hu hurriedly ordered the statement. Li Xianzhi then explained in detail how he sent people to the island to spy on the thieves, and then took out a white cloth from his sleeve and unfolded it, which was the map drawn by Zhao Wenhui on the island. It turned out that Li Xianzhi planned to send this map to the military gate, but Haiyan was looted again, so he thought that he might send troops above, so he was a little selfish, so he stayed and did not report it.

Deputy Envoy Hu looked at the map carefully, and saw that the residence of the thieves, the roads in and out, and the bay where the ships were hidden were clearly marked, and he saved himself a lot of things, and he could not help but be overjoyed and praised again and again. Li Xianzhi said: "This was painted more than ten days ago, I don't know if the thief is still there at this moment?" Deputy Envoy Hu said: "It doesn't matter if you are there or not, as long as you attack the thief's nest and destroy it, it is also a great achievement." After speaking, he called people outward, and the general who led the troops called in and prepared to set off with the whole army. Li Xianzhi said again: "It's better to set off at night, surround the island, and wait for the dawn to attack, and don't let him get out." Vice-Envoy Hu was convinced, and ordered the ships to be inspected in preparation for the expedition.

In the evening, the soldiers were feasted on the war meal and boarded the ship and set sail. The leading general led the army in dozens of large and small boats, with Zhao Wenhui and Chen Sentinel as guides, and sailed towards the island and reef. Deputy Envoy Hu followed behind in a large boat. Li Xianzhi's dedication to the picture was very meritorious, and he was valued by Deputy Envoy Hu, so he also invited him to accompany him on the ship.

Although the night was calm, in order not to alarm the thieves, the boat sailed very slowly, and the island was surrounded by the fourth watch. The commander of the army sent a guerrilla leader with dozens of warriors, led by Zhao Wenhui, went to the island in the dark, and sneaked to an ambush dozens of steps away from the thief's nest. Before dawn, all the soldiers went to the island, and the ship fired three horn cannons, and the whole army struggled forward together, and the sound of killing shook the sky for a while.

The thieves on the island did not escape, but were in a dream at the moment, and when they heard the sound, they made a mess, grabbed their weapons and rushed out. At this time, dozens of ambush soldiers got up together, picked up the birds, bows and arrows in their hands and shot indiscriminately, and the thieves were hit by this blow, thinking that the official army had descended from the sky, and the chaos became more and more chaotic, and they threw away their armor and fled in all directions. The officers and troops besieged on all sides, except for some of the Japanese who resisted very fiercely, most of the rest of the rebellious thieves looked to the wind, and before noon the battle was over, all the thieves who fled were captured. In this battle, more than 70 people were beheaded, nearly 100 were taken prisoner, and more than dozens of captive women and children were rescued.

After the victory, Deputy Envoy Hu invited Li Xian to go ashore with him to inspect the results. As a result of the excitement, Deputy Envoy Hu personally lit a torch and burned the thief's nest clean. Then all the prisoners and baggage were loaded onto the ship and returned to the ship, leaving a puff of smoke behind him. On the way, he wrote a good news on the ship, wrote Li Xianzhi's credit for investigating the thief's situation in detail, and then sent a fast boat to the governor's yamen. That night, Deputy Envoy Hu was overjoyed, and after landing on the shore, he requisitioned cattle wine in Haining and Pinghu counties and feasted on the soldiers. After staying overnight, the Overseers set out for Hangzhou at dawn. Follow the waterway, and it will be there in one day. Stationed outside the city, prepared early the next morning, to the gate to sacrifice prisoners.

When the military master received the good news from Deputy Envoy Hu, he was naturally overjoyed, and he deliberately got up early, put on a new court uniform, and gathered a group of civil and military officials to wait. At sunrise, the conference was held in the school field, and Deputy Envoy Hu led his subordinates to participate in the battle and worshiped the school soldiers outside the gate, and then pressed seven or eight first offenders to kneel down in front of the steps. The military gate counted his crimes, and ordered him to be beheaded on the spot, and immediately embraced a team of sword and axe hands, and in the blink of an eye, the knife fell, and seven or eight human skulls rolled down on the spot. After killing people, the military gate inspected the whole army, and it was very encouraging to disband. The generals returned to their respective camps, and the officers also returned to the yamen. The military gate did not get on the sedan chair, and pulled Deputy Envoy Hu to walk in front, and as he walked, he kept complimenting him with good words. As a result, the rest of the officials did not dare to get on the sedan chair, and they all followed each other on foot. A group of sedan chair drivers had no choice but to carry the empty sedan car and follow from afar. The people of the city had never seen such a spectacle, and they couldn't help but look around, provoking the guards to keep shaking the bright knives in their hands to drive them away.

After returning to the Yamen, it was almost noon. The military gate and the adults walked out of breath and sweating profusely. The servants hurriedly came up to bring the basin of water, handed the handkerchief, and asked the adults to clean their faces and wipe their sweat. There was a fuss, the adults washed their faces, returned to their seats, and the servants brought tea to eat. The military gate also consulted with the lords on how to play to the court. All the adults said in unison: "It's all up to the military gate to decide." After a while, the servant came in and replied, "The banquet has been prepared, please take your seat." "The victory of the thief is indispensable, and the celebration is indispensable. The Lord of the Military Gate beckoned everyone to the table, and the officials of Hangzhou were all invited, even the capital and the county were also invited, and the room was full. On the banquet, there is nothing more than eating and drinking, talking and laughing, complimenting each other, pulling and pulling, there are old and not old, there is hatred and no hatred, all of them have changed their smiling faces.

After the banquet, the military master retreated to the back hall, and he didn't feel sleepy for a while, so he thought about it for a long time, and ordered someone to invite the old master. At this time, the old master was sleeping soundly, and he couldn't afford to invite the military gate, so he had to struggle to get up and come to see the military man.

Junmen said: "This time the thief wins, how to report to the court, I can't make up my mind for a while, so I specially invite the old master to discuss and discuss." ”

When the old master heard this, he knew that the military gate did not want the credit to be taken by Deputy Envoy Hu, and wanted to get a piece of the pie, so he said: "This matter is easy, the lord is the boss, the central dispatch, and the use of the strategy, only this big victory, naturally the credit is the first; Deputy Envoy Hu personally commanded in front of the battle, and the soldiers used their lives, and the merit was secondary; The rest of the cloth, press and various Sasuke's military affairs, and prepare for the transportation of grain and grass, are also meritorious. It will be unbiased to report it like this. ”

Junmen said: "There are only hundreds of victories in this battle, and I am afraid of provoking criticism if I report to these many people." ”

The old master said: "This is simple again, adults only need to exaggerate and exaggerate a little in the song, and write dozens of people into hundreds of people, and a small victory is a big victory." ”

Junmen said: "In this way, it is a false report of military merits, and once the news leaks, it is a serious crime for the ministry to discuss it." ”

The old master said: "Now the imperial court has repeatedly suffered defeats in the north, and the people are disappointed. ”

The Lord of the Military Gate had already had the idea of making a false report, but he hesitated in his heart and couldn't make up his mind. He has always believed in this old master the most, and when he saw the old master say this, he immediately made up his mind and said, "In this way, the old master of labor is a big driver, and he will write this letter for me." ”

The old master wrote even on the bookcase of the military master. first wrote Long Live the Holy Emperor, and then held Wei Zhongxian to the sky. Later, he boasted that the Zhejiang military gate used soldiers like gods, and the officers and soldiers were mighty, and they won a good battle, and they won nothing, and sprinkled thousands of words. After writing it, I handed it to the military gate to read, and after reading it a few times, it was really a wonderful pen, and the flowers were full of flowers, and I couldn't change a word.

The old master of the military gate landed and sent the chapter, and a stone in his heart fell to the ground.