When Xu Shiyang arrived at his private house in 153, a messenger from Ertun was drinking warm water, at this time, spring had just arrived, and the weather was still cold, but the messenger was as if he had just been fished out of the water, and he was soaking wet.

Obviously, in order to get the news to Xu Shiyang as soon as possible, he ran very quickly, which is enough to see the seriousness of the situation.

Seeing Xu Shiyang enter the house, the messenger put down the water bowl and was about to speak, but was stopped by the other party as soon as he stretched out his hand.

"Lady, go make a bowl of broth and put a few more pieces of fat." Xu Shiyang turned to Zhao Shan who was following behind and said, "Go and prepare a new jacket and let this strong man change into it, this weather is not good if you catch the wind and cold." ”

Then he said to the messenger: "It has already happened, so do not be in a hurry to eat and drink enough, put on new clothes, and explain the matter to me as it is." ”

"Lord Thanks!" The messenger almost knelt down for Xu Shiyang.

I really didn't expect that the messenger who delivered bad news would also be rewarded, and I thought it was a chore.

"Not a reward, you deserve it."

Xu Shiyang replied casually, but the messenger was stunned for a long time.

Deserved?

After more than half an hour, the messenger drank the broth, put on new clothes, and looked much more energetic, and during the meal, he had obviously thought about how to report the news, so he quickly described what had happened in the fleet, with almost no pause in between:

The Xu family's fleet set off for Jiangnan from the private port under the jurisdiction of Rizhao County in the past last year, loaded with the family's belongings.

In the past, I had to run several times a year, and I was familiar with the road, so the journey was quite smooth, and I entered Quanzhou Port in ten days.

Here, the fleet rested for a while, and then sold the goods of little value in the north, and then bought all kinds of supplies according to the requirements of the castle owners.

The trouble is at this stage, the account room of the second room - in fact, Xu Muze, the former castle owner of the fifteenth tun, accidentally leaked money, causing pirates to watch, but he failed to find ...... at the first time.

When everything was ready, the fleet set sail from Quanzhou in early February, and they sailed along the coastline without any danger, but as they were about to reach home, they were bitten by several pirate ships.

In this year, the people drifting on the sea, none of them are easy to get along, the two sides had a round of cordial and friendly exchanges, the pirates left 5 lives and retreated, and the Xu family fleet took the opportunity to enter Rizhao Port.

I thought that this matter would pass like this, but I didn't think about it, and two days later, the goods bought by the fleet from Jiangnan had just been unloaded and ready to be loaded and transported to the Xu family, and the owner of the private port panicked and reported that the Japanese were coming .......

Outside the harbor were the sails of the ships, and the land was full of guns and knives, and even if you didn't count the enemies on board, there were as many as 1 or 2 thousand pirates besieging the harbor on land!

Fortunately, Rizhao Port itself is also a large dock fort, or rest here, or the fleet with Rizhao as the home port, gathered about a thousand sailors, plus the militia of the port owner's family Ding Zhuang, there are almost 2,000 people, everyone worked together, desperately resisted, and finally temporarily withstood the offensive of the Japanese invaders.

After that, the fleets that had connections outside Rizhao Port tried their best to send messengers to ask for help, and the messengers of the Xu family's fleet were lucky not to be stopped by the Japanese and arrived at their homes smoothly.

The one in front of Xu Shiyang was sent by the three masters of the Xu family to gather the lords of the dock fort and prepare to rescue Rizhao Port.

The above is the general process of the matter, and then Xu Shiyang specifically asked a few questions he was concerned about:

First, why didn't the Japanese attack Rizhao Port before?

The reason is very simple, the northerners are poor, Rizhao Port is just a private port in the final analysis, and those anchored here are either the small boats that the poor dock forts in Qi Province have managed to save, or the passers-by who just stop here.

Whether it was a Han pirate or a Fusang widow, they were not very interested in a place like Rizhao Port that could not make any oil and water, but they themselves liked to rest in this kind of lawless port.

Second, in this case, why did so many Japanese invaders come to besiege Rizhao Port this time?

The owner of Rizhao Private Port was also very strange about this, he grabbed a few widows and asked them, and the answer he got was: Xu Muze was jealous with people in Wanhualou in Quanzhou, took out gold on the spot and pretended to be rich, and slapped people in the face to .......

After that, the Japanese went to the top of the Xu family's fleet, and they learned that the Xu family bought a lot of grain and spent a lot of gold, silver and jewelry (most of which were Xu Shiyang's trophies).

Therefore, the Japanese cobs mistakenly thought that Rizhao Harbor was hidden and was a big piece of fat rather than chicken ribs as previously believed.

After that, it naturally attracted a large group of Japanese robbers to do this.

Fortunately, the Japanese invaders seemed to want to catch them all, and did not kill the Xu family's fleet at sea, but only tried to test the catties and taels a little, so the goods and ships had not been snatched away.

It's just that if you don't rescue quickly, I'm afraid that these things won't reach the hands of the castle masters of the Xu family.

"The eldest lord has an order, each family will draw one, prepare ten days of food, and immediately go to Yitun to gather."

The messenger secretly opened his eyes and glanced at Xu Shiyang's face, this small castle lord has made a lot of noise in the past few months, and almost the entire prefecture and county in the southwest of Qi Province know that the Xu family's fifteen tun is desperately messing around, and the family funds that have been saved before are about to be empty.

Now that the farmers are busy, it is extremely dissatisfying to send so many people and grain to fight in other counties.

And whether this little castle owner can come up with so much food is a big question.

"The second master knows that the young master is in trouble with you." The messenger from Ertun lowered his eyebrows and said obediently: "His old man asked the little one to tell you that Ertun can provide you with food for 5 days." ”

"Oh?" Xu Shiyang asked in surprise: "I draw more than 300 soldiers, and my father gives five days of food?" ”

"Yes." The messenger replied, "Just ......." ”

"Just what?"

The messenger whispered: "It's just that the lady is making a lot of trouble, and the second master is also very annoyed. ”

Ha, he can also know this kind of backyard news? Don't be funny, it must have been my dad who deliberately made the messenger say that.

Xu Shiyang waited with a smile, waiting for the messenger to convey his father's request.

Sure enough, the request followed.

"The second master said that this time the fifth young master will go out with the third young master to make a praise painting for you, and you will take the lead in this battle."

The so-called fifth young master is Xu Shiyang's half-brother Xu Shiliu, a child who is just 13 years old this year, and the biological son of the lady who made trouble with his father in the messenger's mouth.

The so-called praise painting, in the Great Zhou, is actually the meaning of assistance and planning.

Obviously, Xu Muhe is very confident in his eldest son's combat effectiveness (no wonder, it seems that Xu Shiyang won easily against bandits and Tartars), so he plans to use Xu Shiyang's combat power to make a propaganda for his favorite second son.

He seems to want to fix Xu Shiyang's external image as a fierce Zhang Fei, and let the second son be a wise general like Zhuge - after all, according to the last plan of the father and son, Xu Shiliu's future is in Jiangnan, he wants to go to Jiangnan to study, gain fame, and live there as an official.

The Jiangnan literary style is extremely prosperous, and promoting Xu Shiliu's wisdom is of great benefit to him to gain a firm foothold in Jiangnan.

"Hehe, this is my dad asking me for a deposit. ’

Xu Shiyang laughed in his heart, and said to the messenger a little helplessly:

"You go back first tomorrow morning and tell your father that I agreed, let the fifth brother prepare early, and I will lead the army to arrive later."