Chapter 167: An Uninvited Guest

In the cold wind and rain, everyone snuggled up to the fire and fell asleep, but the silence was still immersed in the memories...... In the past three months, there have been too many scenes like the Battle of Haiyan.

He still remembers that when he was in Haining County, he found that although it was in the hardest-hit area, it was almost never visited by Japanese pirates. After inquiry, it turned out that half a year ago, Zhang Tie, the city guard, mobilized the whole city army and civilians, first dug the moat deeply, and then took soil to build an earthen wall attached to the city one zhang and five feet high, and then placed cat bamboo sticks, iron water chestnuts and other objects on the earthen wall, so that the Japanese invaders attacked several times and hit their heads and blood, so they had to stay away and did not dare to try again.

Here Shen Mo knows what it means to 'be good at fighting, and there is no great feat.' ’

He still remembers that when he was in Jinshan, a group of Japanese robbers who were surrounded and suppressed by the official army hid in a cave, and the righteous man Wu Shouzhi rushed into it alone, and with a knife of autumn water geese, he executed more than ten Japanese robbers in a row, drove them out of the cave, and captured them one by one for the officials and soldiers outside the cave...... But Wu Daxia was also wounded several times and died after returning.

Here I silently know what it means to be 'a man who is a man of arson, and he is not ashamed of the world's heroes. ’

He still remembers that when he was in Chuzhou, he commanded Ding Wei and his son Yao, who were extremely good generals, and had many warriors under his command, and the equipment was fine, and they wrapped their heads with red cloth, and they were called 'Red-headed Army'. Ding's father and son were different from the general generals of the Ming army who guarded the city, they always took the initiative to attack and smashed the thieves' nests, not only killing many enemies, but also making a lot of profits.

When Shen Mo arrived, when the Red Head Army attacked again, Ding only invited him to go with him, and Shen Mo happily went. On the way, Ding only assigned 60 people to guard the boat, but the 60 people knelt down together and said: "I am willing to kill the thief, and I don't want to guard the ship and suffer cowardice!" Silent and arrogant, he offered to defend the ship instead of them, and Ding only sent him to kill the enemy. As a result, during the battle, these sixty men were brave and unmatched, charging forward, and the rest of the people followed, and they returned with a great victory.

Here Shen Mo knows what 'the will of the puppet is unwinnable'.

Shen Mo still remembers that the general has a personal soldier Huang Meng, who is extremely powerful and bravely crowns the three armies. First from Lu Gong to defend the east of Zhejiang, and the thieves fought in Putuo Mountain. Huang Meng was surrounded several times, and was shot dozens of times, immortal, and stood out from the encirclement. The thief also knows his name, so he avoids it. Later, Huang Meng continued to serve with injuries, and he still killed six thieves and died...... In him, I silently knew what it meant to be 'a man to die like iron'!

He still remembers that when the Japanese invaded Wenzhou, the government adopted a strategy of 'guarding the city behind closed doors and abandoning the countryside', so that 'the people in the wilderness alone abandoned them like abandoned grass'. However, Lu Zhengbin, a member of the student, resolutely led dozens of his brothers and classmates out of the city to organize the people of the township to defend their homeland. Taking advantage of their familiarity with the terrain, they lured the pirates to a swamp, where they were trapped, and then they were shot with bows and arrows.

After returning to the city in victory, Lu Zhengbin gave Shen Mo the most exquisite Japanese knife he had captured, and Shen Mo thanked him with a poem: "Who is the one who gave me the knife?" The head of the broken widow is taken from the waist. The first accumulation is like a knife, and scholars can also be horizontal. ’

This touching story, there are soldiers, civilians, officials, soldiers, businessmen and Confucians, thanks to the crazy ravages of the Japanese in the past six months, the blood surnames of the Ming army and civilians began to recover. This made Shen Mo firmly believe that Da Ming did not have no medicine - so where is the medicine?

Thinking of this, he took out the sword given by Lu Sheng, the shark skin scabbard was very comfortable to hold, and under the reflection of the firelight, the whole blade was like a pool of cold water, which made people shudder.

The quality of this kind of knife is extremely excellent, and he silently remembers that once the officers and soldiers blocked a widow in a dead end, and more than a dozen officers and soldiers stabbed him with guns. I thought that I would be able to succeed with one blow, but who knew that the would-be robber slashed and cut off more than a dozen spears together, and the Ming army suddenly became empty-handed, and was injured several times in vain...... Fortunately, the soldiers were brave enough to fight, and rushed over to hold the wolf, and it took five or six people to subdue him.

Shen Mo heard that the production of this katana was very complicated, and it required the use of many different materials, and the cost of refining it was very expensive. But with both toughness and hardness, each one can be called a treasure knife...... On the other hand, the weapons used by the Ming army were all manufactured and delivered by various prefectures and counties, and the specifications were uneven, and the quality was extremely poor...... For example, in the tenth year or so of Jiajing, the armies in the south of the Yangtze River actually used the bird gun as the main weapon, but after the real all-out battle against the Japanese invaders, the bird guns and pipes made in various places often exploded, so that the soldiers were afraid and did not dare to hold the guns with both hands, and its accuracy can be imagined. Therefore, in this year's anti-Japanese war, the officers and soldiers would rather use bows and arrows again than use the much more powerful birds.

In fact, this dynasty is not without skilled craftsmen in this area, but they are all squatting in Yanjing, specializing in making exquisite armor and weapons for the emperor's Praetorian Guard. As for the border guards who really needed these things, they could only wear cotton jackets lined with small pieces of iron, or 'paper armor' made of paper tendons, and hold knives that were dull for cutting vegetables, to fight against such sophisticated katanas. Therefore, if you talk about why the Japanese are always outnumbered, you can push it as the second element. ’

While he was thinking wildly, he suddenly heard a soldier outside shouting, "What person? ”

There was chaos in the hall, and the soldiers got up one after another, half of them ran to the side of the silence, surrounding the inspector in the middle, and the other half rushed out under the leadership of the iron pillar.

After a while, Tie Zhu turned back and said, "My lord, a woman has fainted outside. ”

Shen Mo whispered, "Are you dead?" ”

Tie Zhu scratched his head and said, "It should be dead." ”

"What words!" Shen Mo frowned and said, "It's not clear whether it's dead or alive?" ”

At this time, He Xinyin brought the hat and said softly: "I'll take a look." In a few moments he came in with a mass of things, and laid down the futon by the fire, which turned out to be a woman in rags.

Seeing He Xinyin standing aside with his hands in his hands, he asked silently and helplessly, "Are you dead?" ”

"It's coming." He Xinyin glanced at him and said, "Put it on the edge of the fire and roast it, maybe you can come back." As he spoke, he continued to say in his non-salty tone: "But the top priority is to send the pursuers behind her first." ”

Tie Zhu suddenly said: "Yes, looking at her, she looked like she was chased here, and she fainted due to lack of physical strength." ”

Shen Mo glared at him angrily and said, "Then you are not ready to meet the enemy?!" ”

Tie Zhu sneered and said, "Don't blame me, my humble mind is not sober. Then he yelled, "Go out and form a formation!" And twenty guards went out after him.

Shen Mo said to He Xinyin: "Mr. He, please take care of them." ”

He Xinyin nodded, and then drifted out.

Surrounded by the guards, Shen Mo went up to the top floor, pushed open the window, and looked down against the cold wind.

Sure enough, I saw five black shadows rushing straight from a distance, and the iron pillars had already formed a formation, waiting for the Japanese to step forward...... Over the past few months, they have been following the Inspector from place to place, and they have seen countless battles, and even participated in several battles themselves. is no longer the rookie of the past, and in the face of the sudden encounter, the soldiers are very calm...... However, before they could draw their swords, they saw a figure wearing a hat sweeping out from behind, and the rabbit had already killed the Japanese in the array, and a long sword like autumn water appeared out of nowhere, and it was able to defeat the five Japanese invaders.

Seeing this, Tiezhu waved his army forward and joined the warband with his men. Those would-be robbers were already struggling to deal with one He Xinyin, and these were even more unsupportable, two died in an instant, and the remaining three turned around and ran. He Xinyin flew out of the sword in his hand, hitting a person in the back; Iron Pillar also threw out the ghost-headed broadsword, knocking down the other one.

And the last of the widows, who ran away desperately, he was extremely fast, and his kung fu had already run far away.

Drop the phrase 'I'll chase it!' He Xinyin unfolded his body and chased him out without touching the dust, and in a blink of an eye, both of them disappeared into the night.

In the attic, Shen An smacked his lips and said, "It's too fast, it's over without seeing it clearly." ”

"Standing and talking doesn't hurt your back." Shen Mo laughed and cursed, turned around and went downstairs.

When I got downstairs, I saw that the woman by the fire seemed to move. He then looked at the woman, and saw that her clothes were torn apart by the branches and thorns, and her bare calves were also scarred, and although her face was covered with dirt, and her hands and feet were trembling, she could see that she was a woman of good shape.

"Whoever has old wine, feed her a bowl." Shen Mo commanded, and seeing that Shen An volunteered, Shen Mo kicked him and said, "Go and clean up the table." Shen An muttered in a low voice, and obediently went over to collect the son's notes and a few pages of experience, and packed them into the bamboo tube.

Then one of his soldiers poured out a bowl of old wine from the wine bag, heated it on the fire, and opened the woman's teeth and poured it down. After a while, the wings of her nose seemed to start gasping, and her face was a little red, but she hadn't fully woken up.

Shen Mo stopped caring about her, and asked the iron pillar who came in, "Is it a wolf?" ”

Tie Zhu said in a deep voice: "Yes, there is also a confession that they are the widows who plundered Cixi, and there are thousands of them." Glancing at the woman by the fire, he lowered his voice and said, "This woman ran out of their captives, and the five of them chased them for more than ten miles to get here. ”

Shen Mo nodded and asked softly, "Where is the nearest official army?" Who is the defender? ”

There was a personal soldier who specially carried the map for him, and quickly checked it and said: "If you go back to your lordship, it is the army of the new Ning Shaotai staff general, Lord Qi." ”

"Qi Jiguang?" Shen Mo muttered softly, "If it was him, it should be nearby...... Let the sky fire fly and see if there is a response. And the pillar of bitterness went out again.

At this time, Shen Mo heard a mutter, and cast his eyes on the woman.

(To be continued)