There was no suspense in the battle of Qingliu Pass.

After all, there are only 200 pirates, to be precise, a small half of them are Japanese people, and the vast majority of the others are Ming pirates.

This is the standard configuration for coastal Japanese vessels, and it is also the standard configuration for merchant ships in the East Asian Seas.

Obviously, Donglin Qunxian just found a group of pirates who were also merchants and thieves nearby, and then transported them over to carry out this extermination mission, and the original plan was nine out of ten, and there would be no accidents, not that these pirates crushed the Qingliuguan defenders with combat effectiveness, but ......

"The surname is Lin, Lao Tzu fought with you!"

He Shoubei, who was lame on one leg, let out a sad and angry roar.

Then, as if he was going crazy, he shook off the two soldiers of the Swinging Army who controlled him, rushed to Li Sancai's nephew among the messy corpses on the ground, and knocked this guy down at once.

"You madman, I don't know you!"

The latter screamed.

Then the two of them scuffled together, and soon their bodies were covered in blood.

Yang Xin waved his hand to the soldiers who were about to step forward and pull away, signaling them to leave it alone, just let these two fight!

"This scholar's heart is vicious!"

He looked at a furlong machine in front of him with emotion and said.

A piece of wood was forced into the inside of this Furlong machine, which completely blocked the barrel, and all the cartridges that had been loaded on the ground were filled with water, and the powder keg next to it was also filled with water, and the bird gun in the hand of a dead corpse of the Ming army under his feet, the fire rope was also poured with water. The corpse even had a fire breaker in its hand, and it was clear that it was trying to light the arquebus before dying, and all the firearms of the two hundred soldiers were like this, not even just firearms, but also cold weapons.

They were completely disarmed.

These soldiers who woke up in the sudden attack of the Japanese had to fight with their bare hands, and there were even many who didn't wake up at all because they drank too much, if it wasn't for Yang Xin who happened to arrive at the same time, facing these fierce pirates, none of them would be left.

More than fifty people died in this way.

"Lord Admiral, their swords and guns are in the woods outside."

Huang San walked over with dozens of soldiers, holding a hug of cold weapons, which they found in the forest outside.

He Shoubei, who was beating Li Sancai's nephew, turned his head in astonishment.

Then he turned his head and punched again.

"You dog, let's get drunk and pour water on our firearms, not to mention, and take away our knives and guns, why are you so vicious, I'll kill you!"

He scolded as he beat up.

The other bound officers and soldiers cursed.

"Okay, just hit it a few times, kill you to testify!"

Yang Xin said impatiently.

"Yang Yanshi, Master Yang, the little one testified, last time it was he and Ye Maocai, the former secretary of the Nanjing Taifu Temple, who hired me and these brothers to kill you for 200,000 taels, but I didn't expect that your old Ji people were in heaven, and it was Ye Maocai who instigated Ye Maocai to kill all those Jinyi Wei brothers. This dog thing also killed an injured Jinyi guard with his own hands, and as for Yan Shenggong, who was injured by our cannonball, as for why he testified to these people that he was a bandit, the little one doesn't know......"

He Shoubei said without hesitation.

"What don't you know? It was Ye Maocai who threatened to kill Yan Shenggong, and Yan Shenggong had to succumb to his obscenity! ”

Yang Xin shouted.

"Huh? Yes, yes, it was Ye Maocai who put the knife on Yan Shenggong's neck and forced Yan Shenggong to do what he said, and he also said that if Yan Shenggong dared not say so, even if he entered Nanjing City, he could kill Yan Shenggong. ”

He Shoubei immediately changed his words and said.

"I'll just say, Yan Shenggong is so jealous and hateful, how can he hide the truth, he endured humiliation and deliberately waited for me to come back, and then wiped out these rebels, what else do you know about these rebels? It can't be just two, right? Such a big thing can already be said to be a rebellion, and colluding with the Japanese is also considered treason, this rebellion and rebellion is a raid on the house, and there are two people mastermind such a big thing? ”

Yang Xin said with satisfaction.

On the ground, Lin Gongzi stretched out his hand angrily to shout.

"Dog thing!"

He Shoubei unceremoniously punched him in the face again.

Lin Gongzi screamed and spat out a tooth.

"Back to Yang Yanshi, then Ye Mao is the teacher of Donglin Academy, and he has a close relationship with Gao Panlong, the head of Donglin Academy, and the little one thinks that Gao Panlong must have a part."

He Shoubei said.

Lin Gongzi struggled violently.

But I couldn't move at all when I was pressed by this guy.

"Think?"

Yang Xin said sternly.

"No, no, I heard Ye Maocai say that Gao Panlong asked him to do it."

He Shoubei said immediately.

The officers and soldiers who were caught echoed one after another, describing in vivid language how they heard Ye Maocai say that it was Gao Panlong's instructions.

"You thieves!"

Lin Gongzi on the ground finally let out a cry of grief and indignation.

"You're still called, you thief with a thousand cuts!"

An officer next to him stepped forward and stomped on his chest and cursed.

"Since You Are Being Deceive......"

Yang Xin said with satisfaction.

"Yang Yanshi, the little ones were really deceived, they lied to the little ones and said that you are a traitor, we are traitors for the country, the little ones were confused for a while, and they were stunned by the silver, so they did this kind of thing, the little ones are really loyal to the emperor, you can do whatever you want us to do, just ask Yang Guy to spare our dog's life."

He Shoubei immediately threw himself at his feet and cried.

"It's up to you to do it in the future!"

Yang Xin said gloomily.

"Take them all, you go to Guangwuwei and let them wash the floor!"

He then said to one of the brocade guards.

This is directly under Guangwuwei, the acropolis is more than ten miles away in the west, Qingliu Pass is only the last line of defense of this defense system, after Qingliu Pass can directly attack Chuzhou, after Chuzhou on the Yangtze River, but the main battlefield is set in the mountains west of Qingliu Pass, the entire Guangwuwei subordinate fortresses are in this mountainous area, and later Lu Xiangsheng is here, blocking Li Zicheng who originally tried to smash Nanjing.

"Forget it, don't go!"

But then Yang Xin withdrew the order.

It suddenly occurred to him that he could raid again, and that Guangwuwei's men would definitely report to Nanjing.

Then he went to try the would-be robbers.

In fact, more than a dozen of his men died in this battle, and the combat effectiveness of these pirates or pirates is actually not weak, but fortunately, they are in a melee with the Ming army, and the soldiers of the Dangkou army are accustomed to using crossbows, and they don't care about accidentally injuring officers and soldiers, and most of the pirates are directly shot to death.

"Who are you?"

He asked very directly.

This war captured more than 50 Japanese pirates, but there are only a dozen real Japanese in it, these guys are too easy to distinguish, especially when mixed with the Ming pirates, the height difference between the two sides is clear at a glance, and there are four faces here that are more like North Koreans, and one is more weird, it should be a Southeast Asian, it is estimated that it is from the Philippines.

I have to say that at this time, the source of the pirates around Daming was already very complicated.

One of the Wako immediately fooled him there in the Wakan language.

"Kill him!"

Yang Xin said.

Without hesitation, the soldier behind the widow stabbed him in the back.

"I'll kill one if I say something!"

He said.

Then he looked ahead.

One soldier immediately understood, and simply stabbed another one to death.

"Who are you?"

He continued.

The widows looked at each other, but one of them answered him in the Japanese language.

So this one was also stabbed to death.

"Then let me ask in another way, are you Li Dan's people or Yan Siqi's people? Or Chen Xinji, Yang Tiansheng's person? Don't let me hear the Japanese language again, I know that most of you can understand me, and I know that you are hired, and answer me honestly, I may not kill you, and I am also very interested in cooperating with the merchants of Kyushu. ”

Yang Xin changed to Hokkien dialect and said.

Several people who were obviously not Japanese looked at each other.

"The owner of the villain is Li Dan, who is this official master?"

One of them, also cautiously asked in Hokkien.

"Li Dan? Not Yan Siqi? Forget it, I don't care who you are, and I don't need you to confess anything, you can leave now, and then find a way to go back yourself, and tell your master, if you are interested in doing business in the north, send a ship to Dagukou, which is my territory, and find a Jinyi Wei Qianhu named Huangzhen there, and he will talk to you about something that is beneficial to us. ”

Yang Xin said.

At this time, the Ming merchants of the Wa Kingdom were headed by Li Dan, who is said to have a close relationship with the Tokugawa family, and there are legends that he is also the patron of Tokugawa Ieyasu, but it is by no means that Li Dan controls trade, in fact, there are many large and small maritime merchants, including Yan Siqi. They not only operated the line of the Ming Dynasty, but used the Kyushu Island of the Japanese Kingdom as a base, radiating to the whole of East Asia, and even trading to the South Seas, in fact, they were completely thieves for the Ming court, but these thieves were the real East Asian maritime controllers.

Even the European colonizers did not dare to provoke easily.

If he wants to do maritime business, he has to start with these people.

"Master, it's a dead end for the villain to leave like this!"

The man said with a sad face.

", do you still want me to give you the fare? Don't think I don't know your ship must be downstream! ”

Yang Xin shouted.

At this time, the Yangtze River Yangzhou is basically defenseless, Jiangyin Fort did not begin to be formally built until the Chongzhen period, the defense of the Yangtze River is from Zhenjiang, to be precise, Sanjiang Yingkou begins, down is all free in and out, and even at this time even Yangzhong has not been formed, it is a vast water surface plus countless sandbars. Jingjiang is still an island to be precise, and the key to the defense of the river is only to rely on this sandbar area that stretches all the way to Zhenjiang, protect the canal passage from Jingkou to Zhenjiang in the middle, and then go down without defense unless the Japanese invaders land.

Then the ships of these pirates must be downstream of Yangzhou.

"Master, can the villain bring a few brothers with him."

The man pleaded.

"Kill him!"

Yang Xin said.

Without hesitation, the soldiers in the back stabbed the guy to death.

"And who else?"

Yang Xin said.

"Villain go, villain go!"

A pirate pounced at his feet and shouted.

"Get out!"

Yang Xin kicked him out.