481. The Wounds of War

Escaping from Wangjingcheng, we headed south, joined the musket team and the special operators who managed the horses, and galloped south at full speed.

Along the way, the nine ghosts were a little sullen, and I didn't know what was wrong with him, so I opened my mouth to train.

The Nine Ghosts were first Chen Ou, and then told me the reason: "That woman, I mean Kim Anshun, who went in for us to assassinate Shibata Katsuchung, I promised her that I would tell her family about her martyrdom. ”

I hummed and asked, "Where does she live?" ”

There was a trace of unbearability in the eyes of the Nine Ghost Zhengxiao: "It should be not far from the front, she told me that she lives in Jinjia Village, which is not far from the front." ”

After speaking, he thought about it for a while, and then said, "Sir, I want to apply to leave the team, go to Jin Anshun's house, and tell her parents the truth." ”

I smiled and said, "Why leave the team?" Just say no? It's not a matter of one person. ”

The Nine Ghosts shook his head and said, "Thank you for your understanding, but Jin Anshun went to assassinate Shibata Katsuzhong, no matter whether they succeed or fail, they will rush to her hometown to find out if there are any comrades who are in trouble." So it's not safe to go, I guess...... I'm going alone, and if the situation is not right, it's better to hide and hide than to take the danger together! ”

"It's nonsense!" I smiled, "I sent you on the mission, there's no reason for you to take the risk yourself." Let's go! Let's go and get back quickly! ”

What else did the Nine Ghosts Zhengxiao want to say, I waved my hand and said, "This is an order!" Let's go, lead the way! ”

Nine Ghost Zhengxiao's eyes were red, and he bit his lip hard, and then shook the reins, and the horsewhip was whipped on the back of the horse, and he shouted several times: "Drive!" Drive! Drive! ”

The horse was in pain and immediately rushed forward at full speed. When I saw this, I understood that he was afraid that everyone would be affected together, and he wanted to hurry as soon as possible. So I also got up and chased with all my might, and the team behind immediately followed, kicking up a high cloud of dust all the way.

The horses were fast, and as the roosters were crowing, a few wisps of smoke were finally seen not far ahead. I glanced at each other with the Nine Ghosts Masataka, and he immediately picked up speed again and went to the village to ask for directions.

When we entered the village one after another, there were dozens of village names standing opposite the nine ghosts and filial piety, all holding knives, forks and farm tools, and pointing directly at the nine ghosts and filial piety, it seemed that there was a conflict!

We hurried over and tried to raise our guns, but I stopped him, but I didn't let him get too close, and waited for us fifty paces away, ready for the unexpected.

"What's going on?" I walked up to the side of the Nine Ghosts and asked in Chinese.

The Nine Ghosts replied helplessly: "They thought that we were in the same group as the one who came to rob the girl before, so they were very angry and asked us to release them!" Where do we put it? ”

I nodded and said, "Let me tell you, if they really don't believe it, let's hurry up, and you have done your best, which can be regarded as benevolent and righteous." ”

Nine Ghost Zhengxiao nodded, retreated behind me, and stood quietly, I was just about to speak, but an old man on the other side asked, "My lord, are you a rescuer from the Ming Dynasty?" ”

He spoke in Chinese, albeit in a strange tone.

I nodded, "Exactly!" I am Sun Qilan, the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty, and I was ordered to come to check on the enemy this time, but I disturbed the villagers. ”

The old man's face was excited, and he said something to the back in the local language, and the Nine Ghosts Zhengxiao said softly: "He is telling these people that we are the reinforcements of the Celestial Empire of the Ming Dynasty. ”

I remained silent, waiting for the old man to speak, and sure enough, after learning that we were not Japanese invaders, but the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty, these people's attitudes were much better, although they were still a little uncertain, but their expressions and movements had eased a lot.

The old man coughed and said in a hoarse voice: "It's not that the old man believes you, if you are really an official of the Ming Dynasty, can you give us a look at the waist card!" ”

I said in my heart, this old man is really cautious, but it is also excusable, during the war years, cautious will encounter disasters in the end, if you are careless, I am afraid that a few lives are not enough to die.

So I took off the gold-inlaid jade waist card and handed it to the old man.

The old man knew the Chinese characters, and when he boarded, he read out the words on it: "The Great Tomorrow Son Imperial Seal of the Northern Expeditionary Water Division is the Second Rank Admiral", and my surname was written on the back - the big word "Sun".

After the old man finished reading, he immediately shouted to the villagers in the local language: "This is the great official of the Ming Dynasty!" It's here to help us! ”

There was an immediate burst of chanting among the crowd! The crowd was excited and rejoiced.

I hurriedly pressed my hands against them, asked for the waist card, and then said to the old man: "Old man, I came this time to tell you something urgent, if it is over, I am afraid that the village will be ruined!" ”

When the old man saw that what I said was serious, he immediately asked, "I don't know why the adults are here?" ”

I immediately turned to the crowd behind me and asked, "Do you know a girl named Kim Anshun?" ”

As soon as I said this, the crowd immediately talked again, and after a while, a middle-aged couple walked out with each other's arms, and the man said to me in broken Chinese: "I am Anshun's father, have you seen my daughter?" ”

But the woman burst into tears and shouted something at me in the vernacular. The man had been comforting his wife, but he couldn't help but cry.

The Nine Ghosts Zhengxiao was behind me, and his voice was a little choked: "She said that Jin Anshun was going to get married next month, why didn't she have this life, and be a woman who lived in peace." Alas! ”

I sighed secretly and saluted Jin Anshun's father, and then said in a deep voice: "Anshun was captured by the Japanese and was indeed insulted. ”

Jin Anshun's father immediately lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "I just don't think I gave birth to this daughter!" Don't let her enter the door for the rest of your life! ”

I shook my head and said, "No, you're wrong!" Jin Anshun is not a shame, but the pride of the Jin family! ”

Everyone looked at me and wondered why I said that. I shouted at them: "After Jin Anshun was insulted, she was so humiliated that she poisoned the man, and then committed suicide by taking poison!" She used her death to be martyred, and she deserves to be raised high in the archway of chastity! ”

"Roar!" The villagers let out an earth-shattering roar, and Jin Anshun's parents were in pain at the same time, but also with a smile under their tears, and nodded vigorously: "Set up a memorial arch!" Standing torii! ”

I motioned for everyone to be quiet again, and said the point of our visit: "I came to tell you that Anshun is not ashamed, but the Japanese will definitely not let this matter go like this, and it is the big man who she poisoned!" So I'm here to tell you, leave quickly, the farther away the better, it's too late! ”

I thought that after saying these words, the villagers would be panicked and in a hurry to leave this place, but they were stunned for a moment, and immediately someone shouted: "I will not leave!" ”

This voice represents the hearts of the majority of the people, and more and more of them are shouting: "We are not leaving!" "We're going to fight the Japanese to the end!" "The rebels are coming, and the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty are also coming! We're going to fight to the end with the Japanese Bandits! ”

For a time, the anger of the villagers was completely ignited, and Kim Anshun's death inspired them to decide to fight to the death against the Japanese invaders.

I looked at each other with the Nine Ghosts Zhengxiao, Mo and the others, and could only look at the old man who had just spoken.

The old man wiped away his tears before he spoke to me: "Official, on behalf of Jinjia Village, I thank you for your great kindness!" There are no men who surrender in our Jinjia Village, and there are no women who are afraid of death! Anshun is a good girl, and those of us who are elders are not bad seeds! ”

The villagers shouted again, and I was deeply infected, and I only felt tears in my eyes, but I still persuaded: "Everyone, I know that you are all righteous people, but the Japanese are powerful, and I am afraid that I will hit the stone with an egg!" As the saying goes, if you stay in the green mountains and are not afraid of no firewood, why do you need to compete with it for a while? ”

The old man laughed, but there were tears in his eyes: "Official, you don't know, although our court is incompetent, the people are not afraid of death!" Recently, all the rebels who have withdrawn from Wangjing City are stationed near here, don't worry, we will go and inform them to gather men and horses, even if they die, they will bite off a piece of the flesh of the widows! ”

I almost burst into tears, nodded, and said, "I admire your pride, and I will do my best to kill the enemy and help him retreat." But what about the kids? Anshun is gone, what about her sisters? She told us to leave with her sisters, and that was her last wish. ”

Hearing the word child, everyone fell silent. Yes, fighting a war is a matter for adults, but what does it matter to children?

"Let the child go!" Kim Anshun's mother was the first to cry out. She has already lost a daughter, and if she fights again, I'm afraid that the old Jin family will be extinct!

Many people sighed and didn't speak, and finally the old man spoke: "The child should go, but not all of them." It's all gone, and when we die of old age, who will collect the corpses? Do it! If you have a child at home, you decide whether to go or not. For two or more children, go one. How? Comments? ”

"No comment!" "No comment!" The villagers were very positive.

I nodded silently, although some things will affect the main thing, but after all, we are human beings, and we can't die without help.

Think of it as accumulating virtue for yourself!

The villagers were in a hurry, and the old man suddenly remembered something, took my hand and said, "Official! If you have a child, please bring it with you! ”

I was puzzled and asked, "What child?" ”

The old man turned around and shouted to the village, and after a while, a half-sized boy ran out.

The old man grabbed the child's hand, pushed it in front of me, and said, "This is the child." Fu Da has a great life, he shouldn't stay here and live with us anymore! ”

I looked down at this child, eleven or twelve years old, with a tiger's head and a tiger's brain, his eyes were shiny, dripping and turning, his small body was not fat, but it was strong and tight, and his skin looked like he had been at sea for a long time, healthy and dark.

I asked him, "Son, what's your name?" ”

The boy was not timid, and replied to me loudly, "Official! Are you from the Ming Dynasty? My name is Zheng Shibiao! Fujian Nan'an people! ”

I'm shocked, Fujianese? How did you end up here?

So I asked again: "Zheng Shibiao, you are a good fellow, you tell me, how did you come to Goryeo!" ”

Zheng Shibiao replied crisply in his southern accent: "I followed my father to the sea to trade, and I have been running to Goryeo, Dongying, and Malacca!" The last time we went to sea, we met Li Zhongwu Gong in a big battle at sea, and as a result, our ship ran aground in order to dodge! I drifted here with my father, and it was Grandpa Jin who took us in! ”

I asked, "What about your father?" ”

"It's gone!" Zheng Shibiao replied: "Tuberculosis, Grandpa Jin and they have already helped me bury my father." ”

I was silent, this kid, it's really not easy, so I said to him: "Do you want to go back to the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Zheng Shibiao replied: "Yes! Official, I heard that you are the Admiral of the Navy, can you take me with you? I can steer the sails, and I can steer the steer! ”

I laughed with Jin Laohan, and I touched the child's head and smiled, "Okay! Good! I will take you to sea, take you back to Fujian, take you to Hangzhou, and take you to Taiwan Bay! ”

Speaking of Tai*wan, my heart suddenly chuckled, and I suddenly remembered something, so I hurriedly lowered my head and asked again: "Child, what did you just say...... Your name is Zheng Shibiao? A native of Nan'an, Fujian? ”

The boy raised his head, looked at me suspiciously, and said, "Yes, official, my name is Zheng Shibiao, a native of Nan'an, Fujian." ”

I took his hand and froze because I remembered who he was in history!

Zheng Shibiao has a son named Zheng Zhilong, and his grandson is named Zheng Chenggong!