The noon sun shone hotly on his body, making Ah Er feel very sleepy while being hot. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

He had now become a full-fledged member of the Holy War Battalion, but he had no other weapon than a short knife a foot long at his waist and a spear in his hand—he was frustrated, why didn't the other veterans have that long iron cannon himself?

He was sleepy because he had not slept the night before, and had been walking since the end of the night when he had been out of camp, and he had walked along the forest mountain path in the dark; He didn't know how far he had gone, but when it was dawn, he realized that the direction of the jihadist camp was due west—the rising sun had been chasing their butts.

In addition to the direction, Ah Er also found that his team seemed to be missing many people - in the past, the holy war camp and the cultists and the infidels were in parallel, but now only the former remained.

Ah Er is an ordinary soldier, of course, he didn't know that at the suggestion of the Maori Katsuya, Amakusa Shiro Shizhen made a turning decision last night.

According to the analysis of the Mori Katsuya, the total stone height of the Shimazu family is 800,000 koku, that is, the ashigaru they can normally mobilize is about 40,000 people; Now, in order to encircle and suppress it, the Shimazu family has deployed more than 20,000 people around the West Capital Castle in the east, so the rest of the country must be empty; In that case, why not venture into the densely populated valley of the Kawauchi River? (Crab note: In the Edo period, the daimyo levy was generally based on 5 people per 100 koku)

This has two advantages: first, it can jump out of the siege of the Shimazu family by surprise, and second, it can also follow the Kawauchi River valley to the west coast of Kyushu Island, where it will be easier to get supplies from Kinoshitamaru.

His suggestion was reasonable, so Shiro agreed to the plan almost immediately; In order to confuse Shimazu Iehisa and to travel lightly, Shiro left all the more than 4,000 pagans behind, and only brought the jihadist battalion, the Kinoshita battalion, and more than 3,000 baptized Chechi Dan disciples to quietly open overnight; They first bypassed the pursuers in the southwest, then rushed west after daybreak, and arrived at Kobayashi Castle on the banks of the Kawanachi River in the morning; Since the city lord of Xiaolin City didn't expect that a pinch that was dozens of miles away would suddenly appear, he was swarmed into the holy war camp before he even had time to close the city gate.

Ah Er's group didn't even enter Kobayashi Castle, so they were sent to the east to sweep - this is also the practice of the holy war battalion, and after taking down a walled city, they quickly swept the surrounding villages, and the leaders of the ashigaru group were already familiar with the road. (Crab note: Ashigaru group head, which means infantry captain)

"Yaga! Let go! ”

A roar woke up the drowsy Ah Er, and he saw a veteran in the same group dragging a deflated rice bag with both hands, and at the same time kicked the villager who was crying and screaming and not letting go to the ground.

Seeing a trace of unbearable expression on Ah Er's face, his ashigaru group patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry about them, don't look at them crying and making trouble now, when they get to the camp, they will understand God's mercy in a few days!" ”

Ah Er picked at his head and asked puzzledly, "Why?" ”

The head of the group pointed to the rice bags that had been piled up on the wheelbarrow and said, "They are all bitter people who can't even eat rice haha, give such a little thing to the holy treasury, we have to make sure that they don't starve to death...... If you can truly repent of your sins and be baptized as our brothers, and eat and clothe them every day, do you think it is a good thing or a bad thing for them? ”

Ah Er's brain is not very bright, he thought about the words of the group leader for a while before coming back to his senses, isn't this just talking about himself? ――Wasn't the reason why he took the trouble to take the initiative to defect to Yiyi in the first place because he was afraid of starving to death?

Looking down at the thick cotton armor on his body, Ah Er couldn't help but puff up his chest proudly, raised his legs and walked towards the villager who was sitting on the ground and weeping - he wanted to show up and persuade this fool.

Behind him, puffs of black smoke were rising from the verdant valley, and the mountain roads were filled with loaded ox carts and wagons, followed by a long line of pagan jihadist battalions.

――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――

"Found it...... We've found it! ”

Just as the holy war camp ignited the wolf smoke on both sides of the river, in a remote valley near Ryokari Town, one of the Taoist priests of the gold-seeking team rushed out of a small cave like a rolling monkey, raised a stone in his hand and roared like a madman.

This valley is located next to a small tributary of the Kawauchi River - it is this small tributary that was almost missed, so that Lingxuzi and they ran back and forth for several days before finally determining that the golden sand in the Kawauchi River was washed down from here; In order to confirm the ore vein, Lingxuzi opened several caves in the mountain where the tributary originated, and finally dug the coveted gold mine today.

The rough stone in the hand of the mud monkey Taoist priest was about the size of a fist, and the gray-black stone base was covered with silver-white scars, and the scars were dotted with golden scales.

"Gold and silver together!" Another Taoist priest who was next to Lingxuzi widened his eyes and whispered, and involuntarily stretched out his fingers to touch the golden scales, "Oh my God! We're rich! ”

His words, as well as the pair of excited bloodshot eyes around him, made Lingxuzi, who was also ecstatic, chuckle in his heart, and suddenly sobered up a lot—before he came, Chu Fan had repeatedly emphasized that gold was the easiest thing to confuse people's minds; It may not be difficult to find the gold mine, but it is rare how to get these invited Taoist priests to keep secrets!

Thinking of this, Lingxuzi gathered all the Taoist priests together, and then glanced at those Ye Buzhi, who quietly scattered around, faintly forming a circle, and Lingxuzi began to talk about what he had been preparing for a long time.

"Fellow Daoists, you have worked hard to run around in the past few months, and today you have finally achieved positive results, thank you for this." After the opening remarks, Lingxuzi Tuan Tuan made a joke, "Fellow Daoists also know that this gold mine is said to have been found by us, which is a bit exaggerated, if there is no prince who is like a god, how can we know that there will be this in the deep mountains and old forests of the Wa Kingdom?" ”

When he said this, several Taoist priests had already heard his voice, and in the corner of their eyes, they also saw a few hands that were not put away at their waists, and they were suddenly so frightened that they couldn't say anything.

"You fellow Daoists must have heard of the benevolence and righteousness of the prince, and you will never forget this great achievement...... This gold mine has been opened, and all of you are naturally indispensable...... This is not counting, the prince has already said, after returning to Jeju Island, the prince who is willing to return to the vulgar will arrange an official and a half-position, and the best position in Yingzhou City, which is not willing to return to the vulgar, will set up a Taoist temple for you, and the incense offering will definitely be indispensable," Lingxuzi paused when he said this, glanced at the trembling group and said slowly, "But there is a little bit of a poor road to talk about, and you must not have any bad intentions in the twilight!" If anyone is blinded by lard and leaks the news, don't talk about the son, even if I am Lingxuzi, he won't be able to get by! ”

After speaking, he slowly stretched out his hand, and in the palm of his open palm, a pebble had been shattered into foam! (To be continued.) )