López came up and shook Gan Tang's hand and said, "My lady is right, people like me who can come to this great country from thousands of miles away are enlightened people, and they welcome His Excellency the Prince to visit the humble house often, and they can learn more from Your Excellency." ”

"I heard that Mr. Consul has a large collection of Western and Middle Eastern books?"

"Yes, all the way east, everywhere I go, I try to collect local books, and I collect more of your Oriental books." López replied.

"I hope to see the writings of these sages from all over the world next time."

López happily replied, "Welcome." ”

Entering November, the weather is already very cold, although the winter in Lingnan is not as cold as the north, but the cold and biting sea breeze seems to be unstoppable by the armor, fortunately Gan Tang has the foresight, led by Zhang Yan, the two hundred troops who attracted the main force of the Haikou have each issued a new jacket to wear on the outside of the armor, otherwise this day is really not easy.

In particular, the soldiers and people on duty on the city wall at night are young and strong, and they wake up every day when their jackets are stained with moisture and feel slimy, but they can't wring out the water, which is very uncomfortable.

People have thought about war 10,000 times in their hearts, made 10,000 mental preparations, and when war comes, they will still be like headless flies scurrying around.

According to the scouts, there were only 100 Japanese invaders who invaded Shantou. When Zhu Fu climbed to the top of the city and looked east, he saw even fewer Haikou bandits, for Zhu Fu, who was seconded from Xiangfan inland, he was facing the regular army of Yan State, and this was the first time he had seen Haikou with his own eyes.

It's not the same as he imagined.

"Go out of the city to face the battle, if you are attacked by the pirates into Shantou City, you know what the consequences are!"

Liao Yunze, your ancestor was a commander, but that was your ancestor, not you! It's not your turn to call the shots! ”

The county order and Liao Yunze argued over what Zhu Fu couldn't hear, and he wasn't interested in listening. Seeing that there are so few pirates, the generals want to make meritorious contributions, and the civil servants are afraid of being defeated and take responsibility, and every dynasty and every place will be staged as long as there is a war.

It wasn't their turn to make a decision on this matter, and he wanted to take a closer look at the pirates in the distance.

The weather on Guangzhou Road in late autumn and early winter was already very cold, but the Haikou who were raging in the fields and villages in the east of the city seemed to be unaware of the cold, some of them were wearing jackets snatched from the homes of the Xia people, some were wearing iron pockets of the Japanese people but their backs were bare, and some were wearing rice mats tied up on their bodies - Zhu Fu looked at it a few times before he reacted, it was not a rice mat, it was a cloth.

Of course, there are also those who wear belly armor, and it can be seen from the armor that they did not have a high status among the pirates in the past, because they were only naked and wore simple belly guards to protect their chest and abdomen.

Most of the pirates are barefoot, with their hair shaved with a funny and special moon head, shaved off the middle of the top of their heads, which is about a typical sign of pirates, and it is obvious that this wave of people is from the east of the day. The weapons in their hands are also varied, including short knives sandwiched under the ribs, small knives held in their hands, wild knives that resist on their shoulders, and large naginata knives with long handles. These weapons accounted for about forty percent of the pirates, and more of them used spears and bamboo bows, and Zhu Fu also found that there were two Xia Guan Tong.

In Zhu Fu's opinion, these pirates were already arrogant and didn't know who their surnames were, and it was just that there were three or five widows scattered around kicking the door to carry food, and there were still people who had no time to flee in the future, gathering in one place, dancing around the people who were kowtowing and begging for mercy, and looked at Shantou City from time to time.

Looking from the city, there are at most more than 30 people one or two miles to the east, where are there more than 100 of the scouts, and it is impossible for the scouts to falsely report the news they get?

Zhu Fu found the reason for Liao Yunze's anger, just such a poorly armed pirate, he insisted on letting them be arrogant outside the city, this is simply a problem with his head!

Just such a brick and stone Shantou, even if it is a small city nine feet high, let the Haikou fight, and these dozens of people can climb up?

Liao Yunze is right, this is a wreck.

"If the city is broken, Liao will bear it by himself, Lord Zhu, Liao is willing to make a military order."

"Lord Zhixian went to find Lord Wang Mingzhi to sue Liao!"

Zhu Fu also wanted to know what tricks Haikou was playing, and it was impossible to let these dozens of stupid ronins come to die like this, so he instructed: "Haikou is afraid that there are ambushes in the distance, and if Liao Dutou finds out that something is wrong, he will immediately retreat into the city." A certain answered at the gate of the city. ”

The dispute had a result, Liao Yunze didn't even say hello and walked down the city wall, and when he arrived at the city, he saw Liao Yunze shouting, and summoned the township army and said: "The Japanese are outside the city, the number is not more than a hundred and ten, Liao is determined to go out of the city to face the battle, and those who go out of the city with a certain person will share life and death and prosperity!" Is there a brave man? ”

Liao Yunze's personal soldiers took the lead, and everyone behind them enthusiastically followed. But even so, when the hanging gate was raised and the suspension bridge was lowered, Zhu Fu, who walked out of the city gate, looked at the crowd that came out, and there were only more than 60 people.

There are more than a dozen Bai family soldiers in this, which means that there are still more than 20 people under Bai Yuanjie's command who dare not follow the battle.

Zhu Fu said to Liao Yunze: "Liao Dutou, I will assign you eight more forbidden soldiers, and you will engage in the battle later, you are optimistic about the conch, gold fan, and flag bearer in the enemy formation!" The widows rely on these orders, they have ambushes on both sides of the forest, be sure to pay attention to my command flag, listen to my orders, do not act without permission, otherwise you will die without a place to be buried! ”

More than 60 people fought more than 30 Japanese robbers, Liao Yunze already felt that it was too much, and now Zhu Fu said conclusively that there were more ambushes on both sides of the forest, and there were really hundreds of people, Liao Yunze smiled very stiffly on his face.

What's going on?

What else is there to fight here?

For the first time, the villagers were in the middle of the formation, and they were wrapped up and walked forward, and in the face of the huge enemy that was as invincible as a shadow in their hearts, my hand for weapons trembled uncontrollably.

I don't know how far I walked, Zhu Fufa ordered them to stop behind him, and the noise of the Japanese could already be heard in front of them, and the Japanese sword waving not far away reflected a piece of snow, Liao Yunze saw that someone among the Japanese robbers raised a golden fan, jumping while walking.

The jumping figure of this widow was within the range of his crossbow arrows.

With trembling hands, he pulled his crossbow arrows, and before attacking the enemy himself, he saw that he was the commander of these sixty people, and did not order his companions to attack.

Started Liao Yunze's anti-Japanese war.

After seventy or eighty steps, Liao Yunze didn't have the confidence to aim at the head at all, but chose between the chest and abdomen of this widow who was walking and jumping, which was the most likely position to hit. But at the moment when he released the crossbow, Liao Yunze felt that his hands were shaking all the time, and he knew that it was bad.

Unexpectedly, there was a good cry in his phalanx, and he saw that the hand of the Japanese with the golden fan was still held high, and his body had slowly fallen backwards.

I couldn't see where the crossbow was, but Liao Yunze felt like this crossbow was hitting the door of the wolf's head.

The blind cat meets the dead mouse!

This crossbow boosted the morale of his own military formation, but there was no shock and panic in the Japanese formation, more than 30 Japanese soldiers were divided into three teams for a moment, and some people on both sides picked up long bamboo bows and released arrows to this side, and seven or eight Japanese robbers jumped in the middle with Japanese knives and naginatas, and there was not much noise in the whole process.

On the contrary, his own reaction was a little slower, and more than a dozen feather arrows fell in the formation, most of the feather arrows missed, but they injured a few people, but one of them shot straight towards Liao Yunze, getting bigger and bigger in front of his eyes.

'Ding! ’

Frightened, Lord Liao was covered in cold sweat, and a long arrow was stuck in the middle of his iron helmet, and then slowly fell.

Followed by the sound of two crossbow arrows on the left and right, four old Xiangfan soldiers shot at the Japanese archers with crossbows, Liao Yunze didn't care about whether it hit or not, because the personal retinue had already handed over the good crossbow arrows, and the other personal retinue also took the empty crossbow and loaded it.

No one knows what kind of ups and downs Liao Yunze's heart experienced in just three or four seconds after killing the first Japanese robber to being hit by an arrow in the head, and the incomparable familiarity made him raise his hand and raise his crossbow to hit a Japanese man with a large nagina knife again, and the crossbow arrow hit the chest and abdomen at close range, passing through the robes without hindrance, and the thief immediately spilled blood on the spot.

At this time, Liao Yunze had the opportunity to look around the battlefield, the nearest Japanese Kou in front of him had already jumped thirty steps away while walking, most of the Japanese Kou who rushed here were hit by several arrows, but obviously the hard bow of the guards was not of good quality, and the arrows shot were light and weak, if it was a little farther away the Japanese Kou archers, they could still rely on the weight of the throwing arrows to cause them casualties, but the thirty paces of the Japanese Kou had several feather arrows inserted in their robes, and they still jumped as before, and they were not angry to see it.

The big naginata also fell aside, and the fallen Wako Wawa screamed and knelt on the ground holding his injured leg and shouted loudly, trying to stand up but not being able to, and another crossbow arrow hit the back of the abdomen, killing him.

Most of the village soldiers under Liao Yunze shoot arrows without aiming, and this kind of archery action is like the African black uncle in later generations shooting guns.

When Liao Yunze wanted to aim again, several would-be would-be warriors had already rushed to the front of the formation, and Lord Zhu's order sounded behind them, and the spearmen on both wings followed suit, because the sword and shield men had already jumped into the battle circle and met with the short-handed soldiers of the would-be robbers who were charging forward.

Several dozen or so villagers also ignored the order, shouting one after another to throw away their weapons and leave the line, their shouting momentum was very strong, but their morale was very low - some ran to the left, some ran to the right, and some simply fled backwards.

Liao Yunze thought about it in his head for a while before he realized that this was an escape!

The sound of whining conches sounded in the enemy formation, and the trees flickered on both sides.

"Whoosh!" The sound sounded, the arrows kept flying, the screams sounded one after another, and several villagers were shot, and they heard an earth-shattering cry in their ears: "There is an ambush!" ”

Everyone was in a panic and shouted one after another: "Bandits, it's ...... bandits."

Liao Yunze shouted: "Guard!" ”

However, there is no use for eggs.

With a swing of his sword, he fired a few sharp arrows at him, and there were only two soldiers and eight veterans of Xiangfan left behind him, who were worthy of well-trained soldiers, and they all rushed to gather together, and several of them also raised their shields to block the sharp arrows shot from the mountain.

A shout, from the dense forest on both sides, rushed out of the crowd, they lined up a neat attack formation.

Zhu Fu, who was in command, could see the panicked and frightened expressions of the Shantou township soldiers.

The smoke and dust were billowing out, and the pirates on the left and right sides divided their troops into three routes, chasing and killing the villagers head-on all the way, and rushed towards the city gate on the left and right, trying to take the city gate in one fell swoop.

Zhu Fu also rushed out of the city gate with a spear in his hand.

Behind him, the soldiers he brought from Xiangfan, the sword and shield soldiers and the pikemen also followed behind Zhu Fu, and everyone shouted loudly and slaughtered into the enemy formation.

Since receiving Pu Shougeng's message, Du Zhen led the main force of Shuangqi Island to attack the coast of Guangdong Road according to the master's instructions.

Sure enough, as he expected, the Shantou township soldiers were vulnerable, and when Zhu Fu's more than 200 veterans of the battle entered the enemy formation, Du Zhen's whole body was shocked, and his whole body suddenly became cold, and the last thing he wanted to see happened.

The combat strength of these imperial army is obviously not the native soldiers of Shantou that they know, and the strong troops they have trained for many years are not the opponents of the other party.

Before, he wondered where the officers and soldiers came from were so sharp, and when he saw Zhu Fu's banner clearly, this was clearly the strong army of Southern Xia and Northern Xinjiang.