Hatano Eijizu is familiar with Chinese culture and can read Chinese books, which makes his career in Annam go smoothly, and these free ports in Annam do not matter whether you are from Annam or not, as long as you can bring enough taxes to the emperor, the emperor can appoint you as the lord of the city. Three years ago, he took advantage of this east wind to greatly show his ability to use official words to form sentences in front of Ruan Fuyuan, and then smoothly became the county magistrate of Wenshan Port.

Leaving Japan didn't bother him at all, and he didn't feel even a bit homesick for the past few years. Japan was almost the first country to experience a population explosion, reaching 100 million in the 16th and 17th centuries. Because Japan was mountainous, less landless, more populous, and did not have high-yield food crops, they suffered a famine. The Japanese daimyo also collected very heavy taxes on the peasants under their jurisdiction, and often only half of the harvest was already a Ming dynasty, and the vast majority of the daimyo at that time collected six or seven percent of the output as a tax. Such heavy taxes and the never-ending increase in population have slowly become pathological in Japanese society, for example, the son cannot get married without leaving home, or the younger brother cannot get married after the elder brother gets married, and the elder brother can only work under the command of the elder brother and sister-in-law to eat. Eiji had two older brothers, and the reason why he still believed in foreign religion and participated in the rebellion was just to be able to eat enough. Because the output of Japanese land could not support such a large number of people at this time, many Japanese pirates gathered to attack the cities along the coastline of the Wu Dynasty to seize food and silver to live, and they could still live by plundering, and if they didn't loot, they could only starve to death at home.

The total population of Wenshan Port at this time was simply staggering, the total population of the city was only more than 3,000 people, of which nearly 2,000 were Japanese, although it was not easy for them to find jobs and do small business in the local area, but they were not threatened with starvation at any time. Usually the Nanban also came, but on weekdays they plundered under the city, robbed some food and property that did not have time to transfer and the population who did not have time to hide in the city left, but this year is completely different, these Nanban are full of energy, it took six days to divert the river to cut off the water source in the city, outside the city wall is clear, all the people with weapons caught cut off their hands and feet and throw them at the gate of the city, and then divide the corpse and eat it after they die, and the human bones are built into a hill near the city wall in a few days.

Although the people in the city were terrified, the people in the city were even more afraid of the man-eating beasts outside the city, so they could only redouble their efforts to defend it. Yingji, who had been observing the castle tower for a few days, also discovered the clue at this time, and the main force of the Nanban was not here. When they came, there were thousands of them, and after capturing the population, the slaves dug up the river, and then about two hundred barbarians escorted the slaves back to the south. The remaining more than 800 Nanban camped in the north and south and west of the city respectively, and the Nanban appeared less and less in the past few days, and it is estimated that they are trapped in this Wenshan Port with a small force, and the main force has moved to other directions.

But even so, Yingji didn't dare to let the villagers in the city go out of the city to fight, these Nanban were not only fierce, but the mounts they brought were also fierce. Some are two-legged, some are four-legged, and there are very few horses, not to mention the fast running thief, the individuals are still very large, and it is no problem to bump into a dead person or something when charging. Although he estimated that there were only about 200 brutes left at this time, he still did not dare to send Xiang Yong out to expel these brute soldiers. This is a barbarian soldier sending a messenger, it is nothing more than to persuade him to surrender or something, just rely on the following barbarians to eat prisoners alive, and they cannot surrender no matter what.

When Yingji asked the messenger to come over, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a glimpse of several barbarians in the distance, holding two naked women standing outside the range of bows and arrows, looking at this side proudly. He thought it was strange, but when he saw the messenger, it dawned on him, "My lord, the messenger has been brought." ”

A man dressed as a dejected scholar was taken up to the castle tower, and the man trembled and stepped forward, knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Yingji, and said, "Xiaomin is a villager from Yishan City, and his whole family has been looted here, and the adults of Klovhan have asked me to persuade you to surrender." ”

"What?" Several magistrates stared at the man with Inghi. No matter how you look at this man, he is an ordinary person, is he preparing to assassinate me and others?

"Xiao Min had already taken a medicine before he came out, and if he didn't go back within three quarters of an hour, he would have a seizure and die. And the two women in the distance are the wives and daughters below. The man hung his head and wept. Since the villain is here, the whole family will definitely die, even if the persuasion is successful, I am afraid that it will be difficult to escape death, I only hope that the adults can continue to stick to this city, but also make it possible to make it not unjustly killed. As he spoke, he stood up and gestured at his wife and daughter.

Then he turned to a few people and said, "Your Excellency, you must hold on, I have heard in the Nanban camp that an army has marched south from the port of Champa. Although I don't know if we can relieve the siege of Guicheng, with more than 500 people mobilized by the Nanban to intercept it, it must be a strong army. So, please stick to it! As he spoke, he walked slowly towards the battlements.

The man didn't speak loudly, but the people next to him looked at him with great reverence, he was coerced to come over to persuade him to surrender, but he didn't say a word of persuasion, but provided an important piece of information to himself, and even encouraged himself to stick to it.

"I haven't asked my husband yet." Ingie bowed at him.

The man turned his head to look at Yingji, with a strange look on his face, hesitated slightly, smiled and said: "People are dying and their words are good, villains are usually rich and unkind in the township, but in front of the Nanban, it is useless at all, but the whole family has been taken captive here." If you fall into the hands of these Nanbans, I am afraid that the outcome will be the same as below. Therefore, I would like to advise you that there is only one way to fight to the death with Nanban. So saying, he jumped straight down from the tower, and in a moment his head touched the ground, and blood splattered in all directions on the spot, and he never moved again.

At this moment, his wife and daughter in the distance saw him jumping down from the castle tower, screaming and running towards him. The two brute soldiers in charge of escorting were all the time up and down, and their attention was not on these two women at all, and they heard these two women running forward with a scream, and they didn't understand what was going on at all, until they remembered that they had come to escort these two women, and when they saw that the man who persuaded them to surrender had fallen to death in the city tower at this time, they suddenly came to their senses, and quickly pulled out the iron blade in their hands and chased after them quickly.

However, these two brutes were destined to have cups today, and their original position was about a hundred paces, and both sides could see each other clearly at this distance, but neither could hit the other. But although these two women were not fast runners, they also ran to a distance of more than seventy steps. They were chasing after them, and no matter how fast they ran, they would have to be within sixty paces to catch up with the two women. The two women, though naked, could not pose a threat to them, but they ignored the angry glaring soldiers on the city walls.

Soon, several Japanese natives with longbows began to put their arrows on the bows, slowly pulled them apart, and aimed at the two barbarians who were chasing them. The villagers near the city tower in front also hurriedly fell down the hanging basket and shouted at the two women who ran over. At this time, the two women did not pay attention to whether they were wearing clothes or not, although their little feet caused great trouble to running, they still ran towards the position of their relatives with all their strength in pain.

With the sound of the bowstring, the two brutes were hit by arrows almost at the same time, and the guy on the right was shot through the head on the spot, and fell to the ground and convulsed twice. The brute on the left was shot in both thighs at the same time, and the two arrows were shot very accurately, and the brute usually fell to the ground at once, and the shaft of the arrow was squeezed by the ground and poked out from the other end, and he turned around and tried to climb back as he screamed.

Then another arrow struck the brute in the left forearm, causing him to scream. Everyone hurriedly looked up, only to find that the person holding the bow was a leader of the village warrior named Yebi. He had previously served as a samurai under a certain daimyo, and when the Meideno rebellion was revolted, he was implicated in the rebellion of the foreign religion in his family, and was expelled from the ranks of the samurai. After arriving here, his experience as a samurai made him a leader of the village warriors in this Wenshan Port, and he stood aside when the person who persuaded him to surrender just now, and he heard the reason clearly, and he happened to meet these two barbarians running into range, so he immediately used his own arrow technique of piercing Yang in a hundred steps.

"Don't shoot, everybody!" Ingichi ordered loudly, and at the same time he pointed at Nobi and ordered loudly: "Shoot through his right hand so that he can't climb back!" ”

Nobi bowed to Eiji, then drew an arrow from the quiver and drew the bow away. With another soft sound of the bowstring, the arrow flew sixty paces in an instant, piercing the brute's right forearm and pinning him firmly to the ground.

The townsfolk on the city wall cheered, there were so many companions who had been cut off their hands and feet and wailed in the distance in the past few days, and now it was finally the turn of the brutes. Although the cry of this brute soldier was terrible, it did not reach his barracks, and when his barracks heard the cheers from the castle tower, he found that the two soldiers sent out had run to the range of bows and arrows at some point, and they had already been killed and seriously wounded.

"Boss!" A captain of the Nanban squad wearing chain mail asked a leader beside him who was wearing a piece of plate armor with a meaty face, "Are we going to rescue him?" ”

"Don't go!" A cold light flashed in the leader's eyes, and he said to the squad leader: "Bring twenty dingkou from behind, escort them to the city tower, and cut off their limbs, and see who screams worse!" ”