Chapter 26: Five Ronin
That day, a few of them were whispering in the palace about Sophie's heroism in capturing Boss Zhu, and I was just about to go over and eavesdrop on it, when a person walked in outside the palace gate, this person was burly, with a majestic face, dressed in a red official robe, wearing a big red black gauze hat, a black beard up to the bust, and a dragon and phoenix among the people.
I saw his eyes quickly sweep towards our faces one by one, and two eerie cold lights shot out of his eyes, I was touched by his gaze, and my whole body trembled, and I thought about falling out of the ice hole.
There was a feeling of coldness all over my body, and I said to myself: "This person's eyes are so powerful, he can kill people!" I thought I was the only one who felt this way, and when I turned my head to look, Sun Fei and the others standing beside me were the same, and even their teeth chattered in their mouths.
The person who came quickly swept the faces of the six of us, and suddenly said loudly: "Today, this official is here, and I would like to ask you to complete a special task with this official, after this task is completed, you will be more reused, I hope you will take advantage of this opportunity!" When I saw someone say that there was a task, everyone was happy, and said in their hearts: "I can't imagine that there will be a major task in three days after doing the catch, I don't know what kind of task it is this time?" Could it be that there is a Qingfeng Village, Green Peak Village, and Red Peak Village? The visitor seemed to see through the doubts in my chest, stretched out his right hand to me, and shouted, "You, come out for me!" My heart trembled, and I said aloud, "Yes!"
My lord! He stepped forward with his legs and stood still in front of the comer. The visitor glared at me like lightning, and asked loudly, "What's your name?" I said loudly: "The villain's surname is Tang, and his cheap name is Godless!" The person who came withdrew his right hand and stroked the long beard on his chest, and muttered to himself: "Tang Tianyou, God bless!" Good, good name! When I saw him complimenting my name, I smiled slightly and thought, "This adult called out my name to study my name?" Suddenly, someone shouted and said, "Tang Tianyou, take the order!" I was startled, and then I was stunned and said, "Yes!" The person who came stroked the long beard on his chest and said loudly: "Tang Tianyou is the captain of this special mission, and the other few catchers will let you pay for it, there must be no mistake!" I was stunned for a moment, and then I rejoiced in my heart: "It seems that this name can sometimes really help people, a heavenly blessing made me the captain, if a heavenly blessing does not know what to sit?" The five people behind him immediately took a step forward and said loudly: "The Hangzhou City Government Capture Fast Team members have come to report to the captain!" I said with a hippie smile: "Everyone is a brother, don't be so polite!" Oh, by the way, my lord, you haven't told me about this special mission captain, what is our special mission this time? The person who came quickly glanced at me, and said loudly: "As a fast catcher, it is my duty to obey orders, don't ask more if you shouldn't ask, let you know, I will tell you!" I felt a little in my heart and said loudly, "Yes, my lord!" The person said: "This time your mission is to rescue two people, the identity of these two people is very important, you have to go into every way to love you and rescue the two of you, this is your special mission!" I said loudly, "Please rest assured, my subordinates will live up to your trust!" The visitor nodded and said, "Then hurry up!" I excitedly exclaimed, "Yes!" My lord! According to the regulations of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang back then, as long as the Zhu family is still in the world, the throne surnamed Zhu will always exist, and it will be passed down from generation to generation.
By the time this grandson arrived, the Ming Dynasty had passed almost two hundred years. This prince is named Zhu Xianhuojie.
It's a strange name, and I dare say it's unprecedented, unprecedented. Because none of us have ever heard such a strange name.
And our mission this time is to rescue this prince and his princess. It turns out that in the 34th year of Jiajing, more than 40 Japanese invaders entered from Pinghu, Zhejiang, forced Hangzhou, and fled to Chun'an after looting.
After robbing, these more than 40 Japanese robbers, even did not go, in the big tomorrow turned around for more than half a month, actually transferred to Nanzhili, in Changzhou, Suzhou near the burning and looting of all evil, and finally ran to the city gate of Yingtianfu, this is not trivial, the imperial court immediately organized a large army to suppress the Japanese, but these forty Japanese robbers are very powerful, they slashed all the way to the Ming Dynasty more than 3,000 soldiers before being suppressed by the army, strange is that in the final inventory of the corpses of the Japanese invaders, it was found that there were five bodies missing!
The army immediately launched a search, but after half a month, the soldiers died dozens of times, but the five Japanese robbers did not have a shadow at all, the army continued to investigate, after chasing for a month, there was a little eyebrows, after the five Japanese robbers escaped, they went all the way down the river from Yingtianfu to the boundary of Jingzhou, and burned and looted everywhere they went, making people panic in Jingzhou.
The army wanted to continue the investigation, but when the border war was surprised, the imperial court immediately ordered the army to quickly support the border war.
The county government of Jingzhou and local officers and soldiers organized several encirclement and suppression, but each time they were either escaped by these five Japanese robbers or a large number of officers and soldiers were killed.
Later, for some reason, these five would-be robbers broke into the palace of the King of Liao and held the King of Liao and the princess hostage.
Jingzhou boundary of the fast organization of the number of people, not only did not succeed, but also a large number of fast arrest was killed, local officials can not do anything, immediately reported to the imperial court for support, Jingzhou boundary and Jiangsu and Zhejiang border, the imperial court received the Jingzhou boundary rescue line report, ordered Hangzhou city to catch fast rush to Jingzhou, be sure to rescue the king of Liao!
And it was Yu Renjie, the prefect of Hangzhou, who gave us the order. We went all the way down the river, and soon arrived at the boundary of Jingzhou, Jingzhou has been a place where soldiers must fight since ancient times, so the folk customs are fierce, and the generous chivalrous spirit of ancient tragic songs comes from here.
Perhaps under the influence of the five pirates, a large bazaar of seven or eight hundred was silent at this moment, and a few children's cries were occasionally heard, and the adults tightly covered their mouths with their hands to prevent them from making any sound.
I was afraid that there would be a little noise that would alarm the five widows in the Liao Wang's Mansion. We swaggered all the way down the street to the Liao Wang's Mansion, and we were greeted by an old man wearing the same clothes as us, with his surname Zhao Dan and an inscription.
As soon as he saw us, his face showed joy, ran over, hugged his fist at us, and said tremblingly: "Everyone, you are finally here, if you don't come again, the old man really doesn't know what to do?" I clenched my fists slightly and asked loudly, "Zhao Zhutou, what kind of widows are they?" Why is it so powerful? Zhao Ming's face changed slightly, and he whispered: "I don't know very well, but one thing is very clear, these are not ordinary widows, but a group of ronins!" Sun Fei repeated loudly: "Ronin! Is there any difference between this and the Wako? Zhao Ming shook his head in frustration, indicating that he didn't know.
Sun Fei saw that Zhao Ming didn't know, he didn't know whether he was anxious or worried, and kept saying, "Ronin, who is the ronin?" "If you want to ask me, it seems to be talking to yourself.
I smiled and said loudly, "Is this ronin?" It's the samurai of the Wa Kingdom who lost their land! Sun Fei looked surprised and said loudly: "The warrior of the Wa Kingdom who has lost his land!" I nodded and continued: "During the Warring States period of the Wa Kingdom, the nominal supreme ruler was the emperor, and the actual controller was the major princes, also known as the daimyo, and the samurai were the subordinates of the daimyo, as samurai, they received strict training since childhood, most of them practiced kendo, and in the long run, they developed the ability to kill, and what is even more terrifying is that some of them also practiced
"Yin Flow", this is a stunt in the sword art of the Wa Kingdom, passed on from the top masters of Japan,
"Juggernaut" Nobutsuna Kamiizumi. I think these five Japanese robbers have practiced this stunt, otherwise they would not have escaped from the encirclement and suppression of the army, these few Japanese robbers are definitely first-class masters in the rivers and lakes!
It's not easy to kill them! As soon as Zhao Ming heard what I said so evilly, he immediately asked nervously: "Tang Zhutou, what can I do about this?" They are so powerful, won't we send them to death if we go like this? I sneered and said loudly: "Although the martial arts of the Japanese Kingdom are powerful, they are not invincible, the reason why the Japanese warriors are so powerful is not that their martial arts are much stronger than ours, the most important thing is the katana in their hands!" When Zhao Ming heard that there was a play, his face showed joy and said loudly: "Katana!" I exclaimed, "Yes, katana!" The main reason why these five Japanese are so powerful is that they have this powerful katana, which is made of many different kinds of iron and steel, and then heated by a furnace, and at the same time vigorously beaten by craftsmen, it can be said that it is extremely sharp, and because the toughness of the knife is very good, it is very fast to use. Therefore, I advise everyone to run to the ronin with a katana in the future, and remember not to fight if you win. It's important to save your life! At this time, Zhao Wu walked over and patted me on the shoulder vigorously, and said with a hippie smile: "Ha, I didn't expect you to usually look like a piece of wood, I know that there are a lot!" At first, I saw that the prefect chose you to be the captain, but I was still not convinced? Now think about it, you kid is really the best candidate for the captain of this operation! Sun Fei said with a worried face: "What should I do next?" The prince and princess are still in their hands, and it is a bit tricky to save people! Zhao Wu and Zhao Ming said in unison: "Yes, what should I do next?" I patted Zhao Wu on the shoulder, smiled coldly, and said, "Wait until it gets dark before acting!" Sun Fei hurriedly said: "This is not good, the prince is still in their hands, what if the prince and the princess are injured, what should we do, if we don't blame Shangfeng, none of us can afford this responsibility!" I saw that someone dared to defy my orders, and it was Sun Fei, so I said unceremoniously: "I am the captain, do as I say!" Although Sun Fei was unwilling, he was helpless, and his face was gloomy.
Follow me towards the Jingzhou Mansion. Jingzhou is a battleground for soldiers since ancient times, in addition to the terrain is dangerous, there is an important one, that is, the waterway is extremely smooth, since the Sui and Tang dynasties, the economic center slowly wants to move south, especially after Emperor Yang of Sui opened the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the trend of economic southward movement is becoming more and more obvious, until the Northern Song Dynasty, the economic center of gravity completely moved south.
Waterways are becoming increasingly important. And this Jingzhou is close to the Yangtze River, although it is not as close to the Yangtze River as Jinling, surrounded by mountains, there is a tiger in the dragon pan.
But it is also a treasure of feng shui. About 20 miles to the east of the Liaowang Mansion, it is the Jingzhou Mansion, because of the influence of its widows, the street is deserted and looks extremely desolate.
After a few of us arrived at the mansion, I immediately asked Sun Fei, Zhao Wu and others to find a piece of land with bamboo.
Although Sun Fei, Zhao Wu and the others said that they had questions on their faces, they saw that my tone was cautious, and although they were dissatisfied, they still went.