Seeing his companion kneeling down and shouting, a dark-skinned fake widow also fell to the ground and shouted.

Hearing the name of the two people, Li Nan said with a displeased face: "Fight, who asked you to call me master?" ”

The white-faced fake widow noticed the anger on Li Nan's face, and hurriedly explained: "We have been widows, although we have not done evil with our own hands, but if the government and the people know about it, we will either be beheaded or beaten to death." The master is invincible, and he wants to be a person who wants to do great things, please have mercy on us, and let me serve you as a dog! ”

Li Nan looked down on these two fake widows, but thinking of the task in his own world, he hesitated for a moment and nodded, and accepted these two guys.

After the two got up, Li Nan asked, "What's your name?" ”

The white-faced fake widow replied, "The little one is called Zheng Wen." ”

The fake widow with a slightly dark complexion also hurriedly reported his name: "Villain Liu San." ”

"Hmm." Li Nan nodded, looked at the corpses of the Japanese invaders everywhere and said, "Since you two are being held hostage by these Japanese robbers, you must know where their ships and nests are, right?" ”

"Yes." Zheng Wen stretched out his hand and pointed to the Japanese who were killed by Li Nan's cannon shot, and said: "The leader of his gang of Japanese is called Sakai Taro, because he likes to cut off other people's heads, so those Japanese people call him "one sword". We came from the mouth of the Yangtze River by boat, and our nests were all on the island of Zhoushan. ”

"How many pirates are there on the island?"

"I don't know the manpower of the other islands, but the Shuanglong Island where we are located has about a thousand people, but because there are always people coming ashore to plunder, the number of people is not fixed."

"Thousands." Hearing the number of pirates entrenched on the island, Li Nan couldn't help but frown.

As soon as there are more people, it will be troublesome, and Li Nan has no extra manpower to use now. Even if these thousands of pirates are allowed to be killed by him, it will take a long time, not to mention that the other party still has legs and feet, and if it alarms the pirates on the nearby islands, it will be even worse.

For a while, Li Nan couldn't think of a good strategy against the enemy, so he had to put the matter aside for the time being, and instead asked about the situation of the Japanese ships.

Zheng Wen seemed to have really been surrendered by Li Nan, so he had to answer all questions: "We were led by Sakai this time, and we took a Cangshan ship, and there were a few sailors left on the ship. ”

Li Nan glanced at both ends of the road, estimating that the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty would come here sooner or later, and he would not be able to say clearly when the time came, so he said to Zheng Wen and Liu San: "It is not appropriate to stay here for a long time, take me to see your ship first." ”

The two did not dare to disobey Li Nan's orders, and immediately respectfully waited for Xiao Qingyan and Li Nan to get into the car, and then Liu San drove the ownerless carriage, and the four of them took the car to the river.

Perhaps it was because he was worried about the attack of the officers and soldiers, so Liu San, who was driving, kept urging the horses to gallop, but fortunately, because of the large-scale attack of the Japanese invaders, no one intercepted them along the way, and when it was about to dark, he saw a two-masted sailing ship moored by the river.

Seeing that the target appeared, there was no need for Zheng and Liu to make a move, Li Nan took advantage of the twilight to touch the boat and easily subdued the four Han sailors.

Li Nan originally thought that such a sailboat, which could only carry forty or fifty people, was mainly used to transport personnel, but he did not expect that there were two thousand catties of artillery on board.

This was the first ship that belonged to Li Nan, and he was curious to use the plundering technique given by the system, and quickly got the relevant hint: "The two-masted warship is relatively fast, with a full crew of thirty-seven people, and the cannon range is one hundred and twenty meters, without any special parts. ”

At this time, the sky was getting darker and darker, and today was in a hurry and an enemy, even Li Nan felt tired, and saw that there were some food prepared by the Japanese on the ship, so he ordered Liu San and others to bake some.

After eating, he washed up in the river water, Li Nan put the sleepy little Qingyan on the bed in the cabin, and after a while, the little guy fell asleep soundly with the slightly undulating waves.

Seeing that the child was asleep, Li Nan walked out of the cabin and asked Zheng Wen and the others, "Is there a place in this neighborhood that has not been invaded by the Japanese invaders now?" ”

Liu San is not good at words, this kind of thing is completely unknown, fortunately, Zheng Wen often pays attention to various news, and after listening to his answer, Li Nan has some understanding of the current situation.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, ordered that 'the pieces of the board should not go to the sea', and then the Ming Dynasty cut off the official tributary trade, and the prices of raw silk, cotton, ceramics, and medicines in China skyrocketed, and a smuggling ship full of raw silk sailed to Japan as if it were a gold ship.

Because the daimyos, samurai, and wealthy merchants along the coast of Japan were naturally tempted, or directly involved, or provided funds for bases and weapons, they joined the ranks of pirates one after another.

As the so-called fame and fortune are moving, the regulations of the Ming Dynasty not only banned overseas trade, but also made the inhabitants of the country's coastal areas miserable, so a large number of maritime merchants also joined the ranks of the Japanese invaders, and their number was several times more than that of the island country.

These would-be robbers took advantage of the Ming Dynasty's undefensible coastline to sneak ashore.

After repeatedly fighting with the Ming Dynasty army, these true and false Japanese found that the combat power of the Ming army was low, and often a dozen ronins could defeat hundreds of Ming Dynasty troops, so this also led to a sharp increase in the number of Japanese invaders, and the scale of the invasion became larger and larger.

Every year, when the Japanese invade on a large scale, there are thousands of ships that come to the sea, and the coastline of Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and other thousands of miles is alerted at the same time.

In the beginning, the Japanese were afraid of the Ming army, so they had to bypass the city and plunder the villages and towns outside the city. But as time passed, the Ming army, which had been defeated in successive battles, gave the Japanese a boundless emboldenment, and they began to attack various state capitals.

This large-scale attack by the Japanese invaders is said to be a joint operation, whether it is Taicang, Haining, Shanghai, Daozhou, Taixing, Haining, Jiaxing, Yangzhou and other places, all the coastal state capitals have Japanese pirates from various islands to attack.

After hearing Zheng Wen's words, Li Nan looked back at Xiao Qingyan who was sleeping in the cabin, and said angrily: "Could it be that the Ming Dynasty is not a stable place?" If it doesn't work, I'll send her to Nanjing! ”

"Master." Zheng Wen asked tentatively, "Do you want to send the little master to a safe place?" ”

"Hmm." Li Nan confirmed his head.

"That's... Then you should exclude Nanjing and send the little master to Shudi. ”

Li Nan was quite surprised: "Nanjing is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, why are you not optimistic about this place?" ”

Hearing Li Nan say this, Zheng Wen, Liu San and several sailors all looked at him in surprise.

"What's wrong?" Li Nan asked puzzled.

"Ugh." Glancing at the others, Zheng Wen said with some hesitation: "A few years ago, there was a big incident, dozens of Japanese robbers hit Nanjing City, don't you know about this?" ”

"What!" Li Nan was stunned.

Li Nan first came to this world, so he didn't know that in July of the 34th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, a major event occurred that brought shame to the Ming Dynasty.

Sixty or seventy Japanese invaders from Hangzhou plundered She County (now She County, Anhui), Jixi (now Jixi, Anhui), Jingde (now Jingde, Anhui), Jing County (now Jing County, Anhui), and trapped Nanling (now Nanling, Anhui); He also invaded Nanjing in the west, but went to Moling Pass (now Nanjing, Jiangsu).

Defeated in Hushu Pass from Nanjing, robbed Liyang (now Liyang, Jiangsu), Yixing (now Yixing, Jiangsu), arrived in Wuxi, stationed in Huishan, and ran more than 180 miles in a day and night to reach Hushuguan (now northwest of Suzhou, Jiangsu), and was defeated by Cao Bangfu, the governor of Yingtian.

In the battle, there were only 60 or 70 Japanese soldiers, but they traveled thousands of miles, killed and wounded 4,000 people, and began to die after more than 80 days. (All of the above are historical records)