On April 1st, Su Ming had dinner at home after practicing early in the morning, and the eldest brother was going to send the March green salt to Jinshanwei today, Su Ming looked at the warehouse behind the fort, plus the stone of green salt that he sent back yesterday afternoon, and the warehouse now has only more than 20 catties of green salt left.

The eldest brother took Cao Chunrui and more than 30 other soldiers to drive 4 carriages away, and Su Ming, the thirteenth brother and the iron pillar came to the salt field together, and saw someone sprinkling water on the edge of the salt pan to sprinkle the solidified cement of the salt field.

It takes at least three days for the cement and salt of the salt pan to solidify, Su Ming needs to repair the sluice plates of the two discharge canals today, and now the two salt pans have given up the previous method of directly filling with sand and gravel, Su Ming installed three baffles in the canal, even if it is not very tight, but it is much better than before, and the access and placement have become very simple.

Su Zhe did it himself, according to the gate mouth that Su Ming did just now, he was also smearing cement with his heart, Su Ming suddenly saw someone coming from the north, he glanced at the fifth brother next to him, and Su Qingping brought two soldiers to meet him.

After negotiating for nearly a quarter of an hour, Su Ming saw the three of them kneeling on the ground and pleading with the fifth brother, but the fifth brother finally drove the three of them away.

"Eighth brother, this situation is a little bad!" Su Qingping came to Su Ming's side and said.

"What's wrong?" Su Ming asked.

"Just now, the three people came from the northern Tuolin Institute, and the Tuolin Institute encountered the Japanese Bandits, several villages were breached, and the losses of the soldiers were also very serious, so many hundreds of them began to flee south." Su Qingping said.

To the north of the salt factory, where Tuolin is located, strictly speaking, they are composed of four hundred households, and the population is much larger than that of the salt factory. The people will never run away from home until they are forced to do so, especially in the Ming Dynasty, when they see pirates who must resist on the spot and wait for support, and it is a crime to escape.

"Did you ask how many pirates there were? How many ships came? Su Ming asked.

"They are all ordinary people, and when they saw a village fleeing en masse, they also fled, and they couldn't ask anything." Su Qingping said disdainfully.

As a seaside military household, all his life training is the ability to fight against the Japanese invaders, and he escaped first without seeing the enemy and lost his household registration, and he could only become a homeless person in the future, Su Qingping looked down on the people of the three Tuolin Institutes.

Su Qingping increased the scope of reconnaissance in the sea area east of Wei Zhuang, what should others do or what should they do, although the Japanese are afraid, they have been fighting with them since birth, even if the Japanese invaders come, how to deal with it, this salt field cannot be stopped.

Su Ren went home in the evening, and Su Ming told him about the homeless people he met in the salt factory today.

"The adults who went to the town today also said, let us be more careful, there are a lot of pirates in the east of Tuolin and Nanqiao, there should be more than ten small pirates coming together, and the total number is about 100." Su Ren said.

"Only a hundred? We have a high wall to protect, and the young and strong in the fort can gather a hundred people, so why be afraid of them, they had better not come, I will let them go and not return. Su Ming said to the eldest brother.

Su Ming said this, on the one hand, it is absolutely impossible for these pirates to log in only one place, and there will never be many of them scattered to Wei Zhuang. On the other hand, he has a Type 92 pistol, and he has already saved 200 bullets, so if the number of pirates is really small, he can completely annihilate the other party with the assistance of his eldest brother.

"Eighth brother, you must not underestimate the enemy. They are different from our ordinary soldiers, they live on the sea all year round, and each of them is very strong in martial arts and courage, and our soldiers usually fight them head-on, and they can only compete with them five times their number.

If you encounter a Japanese robber, return to the fort as soon as possible, and we will pass the news to Jinshanwei Town, and just guard Erwei Fort and let the town send troops. Su Ren said.

"What if we encounter three or five pirates? Also to withdraw from the salt factory and move all the people of the six villages outside the fort into Erweibao? The salt of the salt factory, and the homes of the people, should not be all plagued by the Japanese bandits? Su Ming heard that the eldest brother had such an attitude, and said with some anger in his heart.

He is such an attitude of hundreds of households, how to make people raise the courage to confront the Japanese Kou. A few small boats and dozens of widows, can drive a guard of the people to flee in all directions, if everyone really has the heart to fight, why bother to this extent, Su Ming couldn't help but think.

"Eighth brother, have you forgotten how our parents died? If I hadn't taken you to town, we would both have died.

The Japanese are all human beings like us, but the Ming Dynasty has long lost the courage it used to be, everyone has no military pay and is hungry, and after a long time, it is just to live.

I led the people of our guard to fight the pirates desperately, and the people were all lost, and when the time came, the Lord of the Thousand Households would still punish me, and in the end, it would be unpleasant inside and outside, as long as there was no absolute chance of winning, I would not take the initiative to attack. Su Ren said to his younger brother.

Su Ming also knew that what he said just now was a little reckless, how could the eldest brother's martial arts not want to make a meritorious career, but there were too many things on his shoulders, and fate made him have to go with the flow.

"Big brother... I heard that the imperial court ordered that the reward for killing a Japanese robber is 15 taels of silver, and the merit of killing ten people in a hundred households is counted as a merit. Su Ming's hatred for the Japanese Kou in his heart was no less than that of Su Ren, and he opened his mouth to encourage him.

"Eighth brother. You can't mess around, the Japanese Bandits' archery is very left, within 30 steps, even if the other party is only ten people, when we get close to at least more than ten killed, when the time comes, it will be difficult to leave a few Wolves, such a big loss is not worth it. Su Ren persuaded the underground road.

"Big brother, have you heard of the Fire Command?" Su Ming looked at Su Ren and asked.

"Of course, I've heard that there is a fire command in the town's guards, and the pirates and pirates sometimes use fire to control it." Su Ren said.

"I have a fire system that can kill people within 50 steps. And you don't have to stop to fill the gunpowder to continue firing during the battle. If the number of pirates attacking our Wei Zhuang is not large this time, we can try to kill a few pirates.

Now that the officials of the health center are changing, the Lord of the Thousand Households does not want to see us, and if we kill the Japanese Kou, other adults will inevitably pay attention to us, and even if the Lord of the Thousand Households targets us, we will have to think about it.

There is another point, the secret of our cement can't be hidden for a long time, and when the time comes, the adults of Qianhu will ask us for it, and the secret of snowflake salt, what should we do? Su Ming said this, and Su Ren couldn't help but think about it.

"Even if you have to kill the widows, you don't have to play, I can deal with your three-legged cat kung fu with one hand." Su Ren said this, which also showed that he already had the idea of killing the Japanese Kou.

"Big brother, don't say it, you really don't have to be my opponent with your bare hands, I'll take you outside the castle tomorrow morning, let's compare." Su Ming has been exercising for half a month, and this body is much stronger than when he just crossed over, and he can already use the grappling and fighting methods of his previous life.

"Go to sleep! We'll talk about killing the pirates later. Su Ren did not want his brother to participate in the battle with the Japanese and urged him to go back to his room and sleep.

In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, Su Ming got up and went out, and saw that the other houses in the courtyard were still quiet, and everyone had not gotten up yet.

Su Ming came to the door outside the eldest brother's room and knocked on the door, and the voice of the eldest sister-in-law came.

"Who!"

"It's me, eight!" Su Ming said.

There was a sound of dressing in the eldest brother's house, and the niece was woken up and began to cry, Su Ming waited for a while and saw the eldest brother dressed and walked out.

"What's wrong?" Su Ren saw Su Ming and asked.

"Big brother, follow me out of the castle!" Su Ming turned around as he spoke, and Su Ren followed without asking too much.

Open the door and go out of the yard, and came to the gate of Erwei Castle, Cao Chunrui is still leading people to patrol the castle wall, the cement manufacturing in the fort has not stopped in the past few days, and the two furnaces outside the fort have been open, although I am very curious about what the Su Ren brothers are doing out of the fort so early, Cao Chunrui still did not ask and opened the castle door.

Su Ming took Su Ren to the south for more than 2 miles before stopping, this is a reef area, the wind and waves are very strong all year round, and there is no village for dozens of miles to the south, so few people come here.

"Eighth brother, I won't agree with you to kill the widows, the year before last, it was the eldest brother who didn't protect you well, and let you go to the Shen family to be wronged, this time even if it is for the entire Wei Zhuang Institute, I won't let you go to the battlefield." Su Ren saw his younger brother stop, and didn't wait for the other party to speak.

"Since I brought you here, I must have a reason to convince you, big brother, have you seen that tree?" Su Ming pointed to the big tree 60 steps away, took out the Type 92 pistol from his pocket and quickly fired three shots, he was very confident in his marksmanship.

Su Ren heard three gunshots in a row, and he didn't know what was happening, he walked to the big tree closest to him, and saw that there were three small holes more than 6 feet high, which must have been hit by his younger brother with fire just now.

The best fire system in the Ming Dynasty is generally only 50 steps of effective range, and it is impossible to shoot such a deep hole in the busy tree body, Su Ren touched the three small holes with his hand and there was still some residual heat, and a trace of green smoke floated out of the hole.

"What kind of fire system are you, and you can fire three bullets at once?" Su Ren looked at Su Ming and asked.

"It's called a pistol, and I can shoot 15 rounds in a row at a time, and it takes 20 seconds to reload a magazine... Ten can't be sucked. If we fight against the Japanese pirates, as long as the number of the opponent does not exceed 30 people, and everyone pesters them to prevent them from escaping, I am confident that we will leave them all behind. Su Ming said.

Su Ren didn't speak, he looked at the scene where the pistol in Su Ming's hand seemed to be fighting the Japanese Kou, and it took a while for him to speak.

"You should have experienced a lot in the Shen family for more than a year, I heard that the Franc machine people are very active in the Daming South China Sea, and their Franc machine can shoot more than 300 steps.

Those hairy bearded people are all from uncivilized countries, and you will have less contact with them in the future. Su Ren thought that Su Ming's gun was obtained from the Portuguese.

"I didn't get my gun from there, it's my secret!" Su Ming said.

"It seems that your departure from the Shen family was also well thought out. You have such a powerful fire system, our ability to deal with the Japanese can be improved a lot, but our equipment is really poor.

We only have 5 pairs of armor in our arsenal, and all of them are old. You can use 2 pairs of longbows, 6 short attacks, 8 pairs of cowhide shields, and 58 swords. Patrols and vigilance are okay in peacetime, but if there is a real war, there are no more than 30 people who can go to the battlefield. Su Ren spoke out about Wei Zhuang's predicament.

"We don't need to fight much of a battle, when the time comes, we will select about 20 people, if the number of Japanese is small, we will attack, if the number is large, we will be the same as before, all of them will be withdrawn to Erweibao, I have this pistol, the other side does not have more than 200 people desperate to attack, it will not be able to take us." Su Ming said to the eldest brother.

"Well, in that case! Today we start preparing. At that time, if there are only three or five people, we will try, it will be enough to kill one of the other party, and it will also be a credit to send it to Jinshanwei Town. Su Ren finally agreed to Su Ming's proposal to kill the Japanese Kou.