Zhang Ying, the commander of the Taizhou Mansion, Xuanyuan Longfei, the chief soldier of Wenzhou Mansion, Zhou Cong, the governor of Taizhou Prefecture, Du Ge, the chief soldier of Taizhou Mansion, and Zhu Dayou, Zhang Qiang's housekeeper, stood in the lobby and listened to Zhang Qiang's roaring voice tremblingly.

"Five estates of the squires of Taizhou Mansion were attacked by pirates, the whole village was slaughtered, and women and children were taken captive,"

"In the entire territory of Taizhou and Wenzhou, forty-one villages were attacked, the population was plundered, the villages were burned down, and no one dared to approach the sea within fifteen or sixteen miles of the coast of the two prefectures."

"The population of Quanzhou and Fuzhou was taken captive, 13,000 people were taken captive, 11 villages were slaughtered, and 43 villages were forced to move to the interior,"

"Thirty thousand people were killed, taken captive, and coastal ships looted,"

"What are you going to do?"

"Why are so many troops unable to intercept a group of pirates, check for me, send scouts, spies, and meticulous work, no matter what method is used, check the situation for me."

Zhang Qiang was furious, counted in the lobby, roared, and turned around.

Zhang Ying glanced at the others, sighed, and took a step forward, "Your Excellency Governor, it is the lowly duty that is ineffective, causing the coastal pirates to attack the territory of the land rebels, and the lowly duty asks the lord to release the lowly position." ”

"Are you useful?" Zhang Qiang pointed at him and roared.

Zhang Ying lowered his head, if Zhang Qiang hadn't allowed them to kneel down again, his knees would have weakened, and he would have to bow down.

Zhu Dayou stepped forward, "My lord, nine times out of ten it was Zheng Cai who did it, and it is also possible that other pirates saw Zheng Cai's success and also took advantage of the fire to rob, according to the information held by the villain, it was Zheng Cai who harassed the coasts of Taizhou and Wenzhou, and it was Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Tai and others who harassed the coastal areas of Fujian, of course, there are some small pirate groups, but these information are just rumors, and there are no specific witnesses and examples." ”

Glancing at Xuanyuan Longfei and Du Ge, Zhu Dayou said: "But according to some of the information we have, it is possible that the people in our army, as well as the coastal people and gentry, are providing information to the pirates, otherwise, our army will run over, and the pirates will always be able to escape in time and avoid our pursuit, which is very suspicious, we have the enemy's spies inside." ”

Zhang Qiang squinted his eyes, walked around these people, carefully examined the expressions on everyone's faces, not that he didn't believe these people, but that he needed to see surprises on these people's faces, hoping that someone could jump out and solve these things for him.

He can't lead them alone to conquer the world.

But it is very disappointing that none of these people have such courage and ability.

Xuanyuan Longfei and Du Ge were very dissatisfied when they saw Zhu Dayou glancing at them and saying the above words, as if there were people in the Jinhua Righteous Army they controlled colluding with pirates.

Just as he was about to refute, he saw Zhang Qiang's chilling eyes, swallowed the words into his stomach, and stood there not daring to speak.

Zhang Qiang turned his back, looked at the wall behind the lobby, and said coldly: "No matter who it is, in short, we have been attacked by the sea, and the ones who can pose a threat to us are Zheng Cai and Zheng Hongkui, we don't have to identify who it is, and we don't have to be afraid of making mistakes, let's get rid of their nest together, I want Zheng Cai's head, we can't let the threat at sea become a thorn in our back." ”

Zhou Congee asked in a low voice, "Lord Governor, what should I do then?" ”

"Mobilize the army and destroy them."

Zhou Congee asked puzzledly: "But, Lord Governor, they are on the island, we can't get close, and according to the intelligence, many squires or fishermen along the coast may be the eyes and ears of pirates, and we can't get close to them at all." ”

"Many scouts infiltrate the coast to spy on the enemy, and when they are always relaxed, we will first crack down on the pirates who have entered the coast."

"You all go down, Zhang Ying stays." Zhang Qiang said.

After everyone else went out, Zhang Qiang asked Zhang Ying to sit down, and then asked, "Admiral Zhang, do you have any henchmen who can break into the interior of Xiamen Island, where Zheng Cai is located?" ”

Zhang Ying thought for a while, "My lord, most of our sailors are composed of fishermen and old pirates or maritime merchants, but there are many people who have been in the Zheng pirates, and they can send these people back to penetrate the enemy and collect intelligence for the adults." ”

"Well, you must be loyal to your henchmen, those unreliable can only make the enemy laugh at our incompetence, send reliable people to infiltrate the enemy, deliver news for us, and create some false news to confuse the enemy." Zhang Qiang leaned over to Zhang Ying and whispered.

"Yes, my lord, don't worry about it, the pirates and the court sailors, or between the pirates and the pirates, everyone knows that there must be enemy spies inside." Zhang Ying said very easily.

"No, Lord Zhang, I mean those who can work, or who can be loyal to us, spies. Don't sway from side to side, I need to be able to keep him out of the enemy's time until our army lands on the enemy's island and destroys the enemy, so that the enemy can't detect our movements. ”

"There is no problem with this, my lord, I am personally responsible, and I will send my henchmen to find out all the information on the enemy's activities." Zhang Ying said resolutely.

After sending Zhang Ying away, Zhang Qiang began to dispatch troops, and the troops on the seaside were unreliable, because many of those troops were spies infiltrated by the enemy, or the family members or relatives of these soldiers were pirates.

And the troops trained by Zhang Qiang himself do not have so many spies, and they are more loyal.

Within a few days, Zhang Qiang's 3,000 musketeers and 1,000 cavalry troops were transferred from Jinhua Mansion to the mountains along the coast of Taizhou County to hide in the mountains.

And Xuanyuan Longfei and Du Ge received an order to strictly control their soldiers and not to leave the camp without reason.

For a time, the coastal Jinhua rebels seemed to have disappeared, all shrunk back, and no one cared about the lives of the merchants or people along the coast, which made Zheng Cai's pirates ecstatic, they had robbed a lot of passing merchant ships in these days, and all the fishing villages along the coast of fifteen or sixteen miles were all plagued, and all the people who were not harmed were their own relatives or the fishing villages of their hometowns.

There was no chance to attack at all, and now the Jinhua Righteous Army no longer patrolled and arrested them, leaving a lot of gaps, making them feel that they could go deep inland and rob the squires and people in the interior.

And many Ming squires who were dissatisfied with the Jinhua Righteous Army also took the opportunity to make trouble, and for a while, even the villages and county towns thirty miles inland were also in chaos.

When they took advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, they did not notice that there was a pair of eyes staring at them in every corner, and recording their words and deeds and actions.

The detective horses hidden everywhere gathered these pieces of information, pulled out the horses from the secret location, and sent the information to the camp of the elite troops of the Jinhua Righteous Army led by Zhang Qiang who were hidden in the mountains, and handed them over to Zhang Qiang.