"How's it going, has the news come back?" Lian Zining sat in the tent of the big camp and asked.

Below, Shi Dazhu gave two orders to one, and the pro-soldier went out, and after a while, he turned around, just shaking his head.

Shi Dazhu said: "If you go back to your lordship, Deputy Yang Qianhu has not sent anyone back. ”

Lian Zining snorted, his eyes staring at the direction of the tent door, his face was as cold as a piece of ice.

Shi Dazhu thought for a while and comforted: "My lord, you don't have to worry too much, in this cold winter, even if there is an enemy coming, the number of people must not be much, how can we say that we can fight with more than 100 elite soldiers from 100 households?" ”

Even Zining's face didn't change much, even Shi Dazhu knew that he was talking nonsense with his eyes open.

Lian Zining, the town guard of the six counties, was not as easy as he imagined, but he clearly remembered that his duty in the original decree was to take care of food and coastal defense affairs, that is to say, the coastal defense line of more than 300 miles from Huanghua to the mouth of the Yellow River and then to Yongbu was his responsibility.

More than 40 years ago, when Emperor Zhengde had just ascended the throne, it was the internal strife of the Wa, countless daimyo fought and attacked each other, and tens of thousands of daimyo and samurai were defeated on land and were driven out of their own territory to invade the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the rebellion of the Japanese invaders, killing people in Yingye, north to Shandong, south to Fujian, and coastal provinces, were all places of invasion by the Japanese invaders. I don't know how many cities and towns were breached, tens of thousands of people were slaughtered by the Japanese invaders, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced, which was the first Japanese rebellion in the Zhengde year.

However, later, Li Dongyang, the deputy assistant of the cabinet, was ordered to rectify the armaments of the six southeastern provinces, restart the Longjiang Shipyard, and in three years, built more than 2,000 warships of all sizes, such as giant ships, fortune ships, centipede ships, and clippers, trained 60,000 soldiers, and rebuilt the incomparably powerful Daming Naval Division. It is also open to the sea and trade, inside and outside the traffic, the Ming Dynasty Guangdong Navy, Fujian Navy, Jiangsu-Zhejiang Navy, Yangtze River Sailor dispatched together, and contacted the Governor of Luzon, together to encircle and suppress pirates, sink countless pirate ships, kill 37,000 pirates, until the time of Kyushu Island, if it is not for the Emperor to write, I am afraid that even Kyushu Island has been defeated.

In the forty-fifth year of Zhengde, there was a civil strife in the Wa Kingdom, and the Daimyo of Kyushu Island, Tachibana Michiyuki, was determined to unify Kyushu, and waved his troops to beat the other daimyo to the ground, and the wolf ran to the pig. The defeated daimyo and their samurai had nowhere else to go in the Wa Kingdom, so they were stranded at sea, and naturally became pirates, often plundering and harassing ashore. Since these Japanese are all regular armed forces in the past, their combat effectiveness is quite strong, and the scourge of the Japanese is far from the previous life. This was the second scourge of the Zhengde Dynasty.

This time, it was Tachibana Michiyuki, the daimyo of Kyushu Island, who took the initiative to contact Daming, and the two sides surrounded and suppressed the pirates, and finally eliminated this trouble.

For more than 40 years, Shandong's maritime frontiers were safe and sound, and even the Shandong naval divisions were withdrawn and merged into the Jiangsu and Zhejiang naval divisions, leaving only a small fleet in Dengzhouwei. But Lian Zining didn't dare to slack off, at this time it was the time for him to be steaming, so he naturally didn't dare to make a little mistake, besides, at this time, I don't know how many people in the court, how many pairs of eyes are staring at him, waiting for him to make a mistake, waiting for him to make a mistake, and then it will be a ruthless blow immediately!

However, the strength at hand was too weak, and it was impossible to put too many troops on coastal defense, so he only put a hundred households in Jiushan Town. However, there are a lot of beacon towers built along the way, and each beacon tower has a small flag stationed, once something happens, light the beacon fire, and you can know it immediately.

The last thing he wanted to happen happened anyway, and Lian Zining knew in his heart that this was definitely not a trivial matter, the leader of the hundred households in Jiushan Town was Feng Yan, this was a very stable young man, and he looked very inconsistent with his age. Lian Zining knew him very well and knew that if it weren't for the fact that there was really a matter of life and death, he would not have ignited the wolf smoke that alarmed the whole army.

So he came to the camp as soon as possible, and ordered Yang Husheng to lead the five hundred cavalry of the cavalry Qianhu to gallop to Jiushan Town, which is about two hundred miles away from Leling County.

All the soldiers, whether new or veterans, were given weapons, undressed, and ready to go. Such preparations are necessary if a large number of enemies are coming.

Then all that can be done is to wait anxiously.

All the hundreds of households were waiting in the big tent, looking at Lian Zining's gloomy face, no one dared to speak, and the entire handsome tent was as silent as a tomb.

When it was dawn, the sound of horses' hooves finally came from the distance, Lian Zining suddenly stood up and walked out of the handsome account, and the others quickly stood up.

In the faint morning light, more than ten knights rushed to the gate, and as soon as they stopped, the knights on the horse rolled down, and they were unstable, and the surrounding soldiers hurriedly went up to help them up, and walked towards this side. And those war horses shook, and most of them fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth, apparently after a night of galloping, they had exhausted their horsepower and could not live.

The small flag of the leader was erected in front of Lian Zining, his face was covered with dust, his face was blue from the cold, and his lips had been cracked by the cold wind, oozing blood.

He is also a veteran of Wu Yijun, and when he saw Lian Zining, his eyes immediately turned red, and he cried on the ground: "My lord! It's miserable! The brothers of the entire hundred households in Jiushan Town were all killed by the Japanese Bandits! ”

Lian Zining's eyelids jumped, it was really a widow! He personally lifted the small flag up, and said in a deep voice: "Don't be in a hurry, say slowly, how many people have we died?" How many people died? How many of the Wakos died, and did they continue to march this way or had they retreated? ”

The little flag calmed down his mood and said: "We are about the time to arrive in Jiushan Town, you can see the flames in the distance, on the way to meet a large number of refugees, are the people who escaped, from their mouths to learn that Feng Yan Baihu in order to protect the people of Jiushan Town evacuated, abandoned the Bancheng built by the mountain, outside the town to meet the enemy, and when we arrived, we saw a place of dead bodies, Jiushan Town was burned into a white ground, our brothers, all dead!" ”

As he spoke, tears fell again.

"That's right!" He shouted, hurriedly ran to a horse behind, and picked up a person from above, the person was unconscious, wrapped in a quilt, his face was pale, and his face was covered with blood, it was Feng Yan.

"We picked up Feng Baihu in the pile of dead people, and there is still a trace of qi!"

Without waiting for Lian Zining's orders, Wang Dachun on the side summoned a medical car, sent Feng Yan up, and instructed: "Check what injuries Feng Baihu has first, and if it is serious, send it to the city to find someone for treatment." ”

"Those enemies are gone, we are also good, Lord Yang, forget it, the enemies who came to attack are at least five times as many as ours, and our brothers have pulled more than 120 people to accompany the burial!" The little flag sent a long knife to Lian Zining: "My lord, this is what we found there, Lord Yang deduced that this is a sword." ”

Lian Zining took it and took it in his hand and looked at it twice. This knife is more than four feet long, and when it is pulled out, it emits a crisp and long dragon groan, the blade is narrow and long, and the arc is very small, which is very similar to the Miao knife. The body of the knife is a fine chrysanthemum pattern, and Lian Zining's thumb lightly departed from the blade, only feeling extremely sharp. He nodded and said, "Yes, this is the Japanese sword, and only the middle and high-level samurai of the Japanese can use the sword." This time, it was the Japanese who committed. ”

Lian Zining looked around at the generals and said, "What do you think?" ”

Lian Zining's heart was excited: "This thing is strange, Shandong has not experienced the Japanese rebellion for a long time, why did it suddenly come by boat today?" Shandong and the southern provinces must have been barren on the seaside, and if these pirates were pirates, there was no reason for them to come here! Moreover, they only care about killing, and after killing people, they do not rob or rob, but they retreat, so it seems that they are clearly here to kill people - no, it is more accurate, to create a crime against coastal defense for me and someone! In winter, the sea is extremely cold, so this is what it is for, how much benefit does it have to pay? ”

A sneer appeared at the corner of Lian Zining's mouth, he was thoughtful, and he had already made a conclusion in his heart at this time. It's just that although he has basically deduced the cause and effect, he doesn't have a solution in his heart.

The small flag came to Lian Zining, took out an arrow and handed it to Lian Zining, and said in a low voice: "My lord, this is what Lord Yang told him to mark that must be secretly given to adults, and it was taken down from our brothers. ”

It was the upper part of a broken feather arrow, three inches long, with a blood-stained arrow, Lian Zining took it and took a closer look, and suddenly there was an uncontrollable violence surging into his heart, and there seemed to be a fire burning madly in his heart, and the anger rushed to the extreme, and the blood penetrated the pupils in an instant, and the eyes were about to erupt with fire.

This arrow cluster, he is very familiar with, it is clearly the feather arrow of the Ming Dynasty!

Lian Zining flicked his teeth and said sharply: "Generals, follow me to Jiushan Town!" ”

Racing all the way, Lian Zining finally led the officers to reach the outside of Jiushan Town in the middle of noon.

In the distance, you can see a town that has been burned to the ground, and the smoke is still billowing, and a foul stench of burnt smell enters the end of the nose. And outside the ruined town, there are dilapidated shacks all over the roadside, and it looks like there are hundreds of them! These shacks were obviously just erected, all of them were short and simple, leaking air on all sides, and their warm surnames can be imagined.

The soldiers of Wu Yijun were cleaning up the ruins, moving the burned broken wood, bricks and stones outside the town, and clearing out the streets, and many townspeople were also working together, while some women and children were stunned and crying as they looked at their burned homes.

There was a gloomy cloud.

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves, everyone turned around, and when they saw that it was their own head of the family, the soldiers of the Wu Yi Army immediately gathered, and the faces of those people instinctively showed fear, and the Wu Yi soldiers told them that it was our Wu Yi Army President Lian Lord.

"How's it going?" Lian Zining got off the horse, took a sip of spirits, warmed his cold body, and asked Yang Husheng, who rushed over.

"The corpses of our brothers have been placed neatly under the mark, and we have counted one hundred and eleven people killed in battle, and one hundred and fifty-seven people have died in the war. There are also those weapons and arrows that fell on the battlefield, and so on, all of which have been put together. Yang Husheng was also full of exhaustion.

Lian Zining patted him on the shoulder and said, "Thank you for your hard work." ”

"Don't dare to be an adult!" Yang Husheng hurriedly said.

Lian Zining and others walked all the way, and the people on the side of the road knelt on the ground, and they didn't know how many people were shouting.

"Thank you Lord Lian for living me, thank you Wu Yijun for living me, little old man kowtowed to your old man!"

"We're sorry for Wu Yijun's military master, if it weren't for us, you wouldn't have died......"

"In the future, I will offer Wu Yijun's tablet at home, and I will say that I will offer ......."

I don't know who cried first, and then cried into a piece, and the sound was shocking.

Lian Zining looked at them, and he was very resentful of them in his heart, if it weren't for them, with the elite soldiers of a hundred households in Feng Yan's hands, they would have defended the Bancheng and lit the beacon fire to ask for help, they would definitely not have suffered so many casualties!

(To be continued)