Chapter 45: Helpless
Lin Zhennan didn't know what to do at this time, and the Annan man who acted as a spy for the Nanban was also very anxious at this time, he was captured by the Nanban near Wenshan Port, and his family was also in the hands of the Nanban at this time, so he had to be forced to blend into the port of Zhancheng to be a spy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info At this time, this spy didn't know if he could trust the big shopkeeper in front of him, Zhancheng Port was now full of evacuees, and he, a native of Annan, mixed in effortlessly, and it didn't take any effort to find Lin Zhennan, who was the first on the list, but now this Lin Zhennan has been sitting there stupidly for almost half an hour, and he doesn't know what he is thinking.
The Lin family immigrated from the Wu Dynasty and did business in Wenshan Port in their early years, and moved here a few years ago after Princess Ji took charge of Champong Port. The concept of the Chinese is family first, not to mention the current clan industry. He violated Annan's decree and secretly did business with Nanban, which he did not discuss with the patriarchs, and after making a lot of money for the Lin family, he only claimed to have made money from trading with the Maidno people. What's more, in the later cool oil business, although the monopoly was ruthlessly cheated by Qian Longzhou, he shrewdly sold these cool oils bought at a high price to Nanban. Nanban's tropical jungle islands are hot and humid all year round, mosquitoes are rampant, and the smell of jungle plants ** for thousands of years is permeated all year round, and the miraculous effect of cooling oil was quickly discovered by them, and then began to be popular in the entire territory of Nanban, in many places the cool oil has been fried to more than six to seven times his shore price, if it wasn't for the amount he ate before was too large, he could have obtained a bigger harvest.
Lin Zhennan only knew at this time what was called the momentum of the tail that could not be dropped, and the business that made him a lot of money back then became a lifeline at this time, and Nanban actually hit the idea directly to Champa Port. The spies said that the tens of thousands of barbarian troops had arrived at the city at this time, and they were about to attack the city tomorrow. With the might of the barbarians, it must be easy to capture the port of Zhancheng, but the barbarian army does not want to suffer too many casualties, so these "fifth columns" in the city are needed to act as internal responses.
"How is it possible for me to act as an insider?" Lin Zhennan, who had been thinking for a long time, suddenly came up with such a sentence. "Although there are many slaves in my Lin family, it is okay to bully the government, if it is against the official army, I am afraid that there is no chance of victory, not to mention that the official army at this time has been equipped with a new type of firearm, and the momentum of the attack is like a tiger descending the mountain. If it is only my Lin family, the attack on the south gate will definitely fail, sir, please don't mention it again. ā
"Shopkeeper Lin, please don't categorically refuse, there are dozens of people entering the city this time, although I don't know the detailed contact list, but there are dozens of them. Champa Port is a place where large households live, and once a fire starts, it will inevitably cause chaos in the city. At that time, the officials and soldiers still can't take care of the firefighting, where will they have the heart to intercept these families? Before I came in, the leader had already told me that you should tie a white cloth on your right arm, so that after the Heavenly Army entered the city, you would not accidentally injure the family members of the families, and hang a blue cloth at the door of your house, so that you would know that it was your own people and would not go to plunder. But the leader also confessed that if the Celestial Army suffered too many casualties, then it would be allowed to plunder for three days, killing all the men, the old and the young, and taking all the women away. Speaking of this, the spy smiled strangely and said, "Shopkeeper Lin wouldn't want this kind of thing to happen, would he?" When I came in, I also saw that the Lin Mansion was on a grand scale, and it must have been painstakingly operated for decades, right? If it is plundered by the heavenly army, wouldn't it be very worthless? If it is to assist the Heavenly Army, with the Lin family's status in Zhancheng Port, it will definitely be easy to gain the trust of the leader and a large number of rewards. If the shopkeeper Lin is unwilling, when the Annan Imperial Court settles accounts in the future, the Lin family will have nowhere to escape...... At that time, it will be a big crime to rob the family and exterminate the clan. ā
Lin Zhennan couldn't help but feel nervous when he heard this, what he said was right, if he helped the barbarian army, it would definitely be his great achievement to open the city gate. At that time, not to mention rewards and trust, you can also use the ship of the Maidno people to move their families south, where is not to do business? If you don't help the barbarians this time, there are just two possibilities, the officers and soldiers can hold it or not. If you can't hold it, the barbarians will enter the city, and your whole family will suffer, which is equivalent to beheading all the doors; If it is held, there will be more than one spies sent in by the barbarian army, and the matter of his deal with the Nanban will inevitably be exposed, and it will definitely be a full house at that time. In comparison, at this time, there is only one way to help the barbarian army.
He couldn't help but let out a long sigh, "Okay, it seems that I can only assist the Celestial Army to open the city." After thinking about it for a while, he then asked: "When it comes to attacking the city, I am afraid that my Lin family's family Ding Kaicheng will be insufficient, and I am afraid that there will not be enough manpower to light the fire." ā
"Don't worry about this, Shopkeeper Lin!" The spy couldn't help but let out a long breath, "Naturally, other people will do the arson, and Shopkeeper Lin only needs to ask the family to open the city gate." ā
In fact, he was also very worried that the shopkeeper Lin would rather die than make a move, there were only a dozen or so people who entered the city this time, and when he entered the city, he had already seen three people who had entered the city before him swinging on the city tower - I don't know how they could reveal their identities, these officers and soldiers who occupied the city port were really ruthless, and they were hanged on the city tower when they were caught. He found the Lin Mansion in fear, and saw a spy being pulled out along the way, only then did he find that all the people in Champa Hong Kong were touching their stomachs to greet each other, and he hurriedly learned to greet others by touching their stomachs, so he avoided the red-clothed officers and soldiers patrolling a few roads.
This is Qian Longzhou's idea, since the text message from Dongfang Port yesterday mentioned that there may be Nanban smugglers in Champa Port, he used a more bizarre method to simply distinguish the spies who mixed in - ordered that everyone in Champa Port must touch their stomachs to greet each other, and anyone who did not do so must be new to the city. The newcomers to the city will be asked about the more famous and interesting things in the port of Zhancheng in the past few days, and once they can't answer, they are already very suspicious of being a spy, and they must say the destination and guarantor of the city. As long as it is impossible to provide either of the two, it can almost be confirmed that it is a spy and can be executed on the spot, but those who can provide a destination and a guarantor will not be counted as such, and the guarantor must live in a cell with the guarantor until the siege is released, or the guarantor can provide a security deposit of three hundred and fifty taels.
Qian Longzhou knew very well at this time that there were not only internal enemies in the city who fornicated with the Nanban, but also spies of the Nanban, and these people combined would be able to bring huge losses to the port of Zhancheng in the upcoming siege. The princess has been depressed every day since she was raided, and she has often been frightened to wake up at night, screaming and scratching, and it is estimated that the psychological shadow will not get better in the short term. The princess herself knew that it would definitely not be possible to command the defense of the city with such a mental state, so she handed over the command to Qian Longzhou, at least this "American" who dared to fight in a raid and could lead an army to defeat the enemy had more experience than her.
At this time, Qian Longzhou was on the tower of the south gate, not far away was the camp of the Nanban, and he was taken aback when he saw it at first glance. As the saying goes, there is no shore when people are full, and at this time, the camps of the southern barbarians in front of them stretched for several miles from east to west, and the barbarians walking between the tents were like ants, cutting trees, collecting firewood, and picking wild fruits everywhere. There was a brute force of about 500 men and made a breakthrough in the direction of the port to the east, but the port area had been destroyed, everything that could be burned had been burned, and it was useless for them to take this desolate and materialized port, so the brute army searched for a while and withdrew to the departure camp.
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"What? Total destruction of port facilities? "Bogdan is going mad, there are no port facilities, what is the use of occupying this port of Champa? Isn't that as slow and dangerous as following and finding a beach to unload supplies?
"Yes! Leader! The centurion saluted him, but twitched the wound from the previous fight for the official position, and couldn't help but grin and take a deep breath. We have already gone to the port area to reconnoitre, the trestle in the port has been smashed, the pier has also been destroyed, and the artillery of the gun emplacement has also been removed. And ......"
"And what?" Bogdan slapped on the table in the camp tent in annoyance, "If you want to say it, just say it, and if you delay the military situation, I will kill you." ā
"Yes, Leader!" The centurion hurriedly knelt down and said, "The little one found that they had sunk several ships at the entrance to the bay, and they could see a lot of mast trees in the sea, and if these shipwrecks were not cleared, our ships would definitely not be able to enter." ā
"What?" Bogdan was so angry that he couldn't breathe for a while, and coughed several times before he recovered, "The harbor was also destroyed? ā
"Yes, Leader!" The centurion did not dare to raise his head, for fear of annoying the leader and being dragged out and beheaded.
"You shit!" Bogdan angrily looked left and right, and finally found only a porcelain teacup on the table, raised it and smashed it at the centurion, "You shit, what would you say other than say yes?" Get the hell out of here! ā
"Yes! Leader! The centurion bowed his head as if he had been pardoned.
Bogdan stood up angrily, looked around left and right, and couldn't help but be deflated again. He still vividly remembered that the beautifully decorated tent had been filled with the chiefs of the various tribes and the staff officers of the more than a dozen Medeno, and as soon as he proposed to fight, a large number of people would immediately start to act to add to his ambitions and perfect the plan of attack. However, at this time, in this tent, which was almost indistinguishable from other tents, there were only three or four tribal leaders sitting sparsely, and they were all depressed at this time, whether it was before setting off for the north or before deciding to set foot on the port of Zhancheng, the look of ambition was completely missing at this time, and he couldn't help but sit back on the chair again.
At this moment, the feeling of being on his back suddenly came to him, and he hurriedly ran out of the camp while gesturing at the few surviving leaders. At the moment when several leaders ran out with their heads down, they heard the sentry from the north shouting, "Strange bird! Strange birds are here again! āā¦ā¦