Chapter 20 The Wakos
At noon, everyone continued to work, but Su Qingping had already begun to feed the horses and gathered four guards to start arranging work for them. Later, if the Japanese really arrived, they would organize the workers to withdraw to Erweibao, and they would also quickly report to Su Ren and send the news to Jinshanwei Town.
Just after dinner in the afternoon, Su Ming and his people were digging the salt pan, when suddenly a guard on the northern road ran over quickly, and he came to the salt field and ran quickly towards the village.
When Su Ming saw this, he guessed that there might be a situation, he and Su Zhe quickly returned to the Zhuangyuan, and saw that the fifth brother Su Qingping had already begun to arrange for the personnel to retreat.
"Everyone, don't panic, don't bring anything, and run away in the direction of Erweiborg. Black Bull, you ride a horse and quickly inform my eldest brother, where is the eighth brother? What about the eighth brother? Su Qingping began to shout in the courtyard.
"Fifth brother, I'm here. Don't panic, everyone, we have already arranged, there is still a lot of time, all the soldiers maintain order, and take the workers back to Erweibao. Su Ming entered the village and saw that the people here were already in chaos, and shouted loudly.
Seeing this, the soldiers began to beckon everyone to retreat, and soon everyone put down their work and began to flee westward.
"Eighth brother, the Japanese are really here, and they have landed 3 miles away from our north." Su Qingping looked at Su Ming and said anxiously.
"How many ships have come to the sea? How many people? Su Ming asked.
Su Qingping looked at the soldiers who came back to report.
"Eighth master, I saw two ships docking, and the ones who came down were all widows, our Xiaoqi asked me to come back quickly and report, and I will come back." Sobing said.
"Fifth brother, you send someone to inform the eldest brother first, let's ride a horse to see how many Japanese invaders come, and let the eldest brother not go out of the fort to wait for our news." Su Ming said calmly.
"Okay, I'll send someone back." Su Qingping sent a small flag to ride back to report the news, and he and Su Ming and the other six people rode on horses to investigate the situation of the Japanese invaders, and at this time a small flag came from the north with three soldiers.
"Banner Master, Eighth Master! The Wako came, two ships in all, and I saw 12 of them ashore, with bows and arrows and broadswords in their hands. Xiao Qi gasped and said to Su Ming.
"Do you think there's anyone left on their ship?" Su Ming asked.
"This, I didn't pay attention to it, I see that they are all down, if there are those left behind, it shouldn't be too many." The small flag returns.
"Okay, the four of you hurry up and go back to the fort, fifth brother, you send someone to inform the other two patrol teams to retreat quickly, if you go home and the door of the second castle is closed, find a place to hide first.
Thirteenth brother, let's go! Su Ming said that he was about to leave on horseback.
"Eighth brother, why don't we go back together! There are 12 people on the boat, maybe there are still people on the boat, it is too dangerous for you and the thirteenth brother to go. Hearing that there were twelve Japanese robbers, Su Qingping called Su Ming to go back to the fort together.
"Tell the eldest brother to act according to the plan, protect the workers from chaos, and try to delay the time if the Japanese catch up." Su Ming said as he rode north, and Su Zhe rode behind him.
The two rode north for more than a mile when they saw a group of men approaching them quickly.
"Starling, that's a wolf!" Su Zhe saw a group of people in the distance with scimitars hanging from their waists, and three people holding iron shields in their hands, and saw the two of them The team stopped and set up a formation, and the four archers behind had already loaded their arrows and slowly leaned towards them.
"They were almost all under five feet tall, with swords around their waists, and five of them had short hair. They are all wearing shorts and hoop legs, and there is no doubt that they are widows. Twelve Japanese robbers, four bows and arrows, three shields, and a large sword, should not be difficult to deal with. Su Ming looked at the wolf and walked towards him.
"Starling, they're coming, what should we do?" Su Zhe asked anxiously when he saw the Japanese Kou walking towards them.
"They are all short bows, with an effective range of up to 30 cloths, let's not enter their 50-step range, try to drag them down and let the fifth brother retreat." Su Ming said calmly.
Waiting for the other party to get fifty steps closer to him, Su Ming saw that the opponent's archer began to draw his bow, and then he and Su Zhe rode back.
Seeing Su Ming and the two retreating, the two retreated until they saw a small road, which was a detour to Qiyan Fort, and the Japanese did not follow here, but continued to go in the direction of Wei Zhuang's salt field.
"Starling, the widow has gone to the salt farm, what should we do?" Su Zhe saw that the widow did not follow, and shouted anxiously.
"You follow me, don't get 50 steps away from the Wako." Su Ming said as he rode back to the road and chased after the Japanese Kou.
Twelve of them saw Su Ming and the two chasing after them on horseback, and they couldn't help but stop, but Su Ming and the two stopped 50 steps away from them, and the Japanese chased after them.
Su Ming saw that he was riding a horse and retreating here, probably seeing that Su Ming and the two of them didn't even have weapons on them, they stopped after chasing them for more than ten steps, and then turned around and continued to walk in the direction of the salt field.
Seeing that his attraction no longer worked, the other party expected that it was impossible for the two of them to attack him, so Su Ming stopped following.
"At this time, the fifth brother should take people to evacuate, let's go to find the ship of the Japanese Kou." Su Ming said, taking Su Zhe to the north, and it was easy for them to find the two small boats that were parked on the shore.
"Thirteenth brother, you look at the horse first, I see that there seem to be people on this boat, I will let you come over and you will come again." Su Ming saw the ship of the Japanese and dismounted with Su Zhe, and he handed the reins of the horse to Su Zhe and said.
"Starling, it's too dangerous for you to go alone, let's go together." Su Zhe saw that Su Ming was going to deal with two small boats alone, and couldn't help but say anxiously.
"I'm sure, you're waiting here." After speaking, Su Ming quickly approached the two small boats.
The widow on the boat had also seen Su Ming, and found that he was only one person and had no weapons, so he took out his scimitar and stood on the boat viciously looking at Su Ming.
Su Ming saw that there was only one wolf on the two small boats, he quickly walked over and the other party pulled out his scimitar and stroked it in the air, without the slightest intention of driving the boat to the shore, so it couldn't be better.
When they came to the shore, the two were only more than two feet apart, and the would-be seemed to want to go ashore and kill Su Ming, Su Ming didn't waste any time, took out a pistol and aimed it at the other party's head, and the would-be coward fell directly on the boat.
Taking out a steel helmet from the Sea of Consciousness and putting it on his head, Su Ming took the gun and carefully went into the water, swam to the side of the Japanese boat to make sure that there were no enemies, and then boarded the boat.
There seemed to be movement in a ship's cabin, Su Ming cautiously entered the cabin and saw a girl with her legs and feet trapped, lying in the cabin in disheveled, and the other party was a little surprised to see him dressed as a soldier.
This girl seems to be fifteen or sixteen years old at most, and it is not easy to live on the ship of the Japanese Invaders. Su Ming ignored the girl, and saw the copper coins, cloth clothes, and food bags thrown everywhere in the cabin, and he went to another ship.
There was no one on this ship, it was all robbed by the Japanese robbers, and this group of Japanese should have landed in the northern part of Songjiang Prefecture to rob them, and they just passed by to grab it.
After failing to find the widow, Su Ming was sure that the only widow on the ship had been killed by him, so he boarded the shore and shouted to Su Zhe to let him come.
"Thirteenth brother, you transfer these two ships to other places, in case there are pirates who come back later, don't give him a chance to escape, there is a little girl on the ship who should be robbed by the pirates, you should be careful alone." Su Ming said.
"Starling, what did you just use to kill that would... I don't want to stay here, I want to go with you to kill the widows, and the eldest brother said let me follow you all the time. Su Zhe said.
"I don't know what's going on with my eldest brother now, I have to go back quickly, someone here must drive the boat away, otherwise everything we have prepared will be in vain." Su Ming said so, and Su Zhe reluctantly agreed.
Seeing Su Zhe get on the boat, Su Ming got on the horse and headed in the direction of the salt factory.
When he came to the salt factory, Su Ming saw that there were two Japanese robbers at the gate of the village, and several Japanese robbers carried out the salt they had just boiled today.
Except for dozens of catties of salt, there is nothing of value in the salt factory. The two widows carried the two salt bags on their backs, and they gave up continuing to search for Su Ming, who was riding a horse, and walked along the main road in the direction of Erweibao.
Su Ming was not in a hurry when he saw this, the thirteenth brother drove the boat away, these would-be robbers were turtles in the urn, and he had time to clean up the other party.
Following behind the twelve would-be robbers, Su Ming saw that there was no one on this road, and occasionally found a rag shoe on the road, which should have been left behind in a hurry when the workers withdrew.
Walking less than two miles along the road to the west, the Japanese robbers found a village running happily, Su Ming also followed behind them on horseback, a Japanese robber hid in the woods and seemed to attack Su Ming, Su Ming saw 11 Japanese robbers go to the village to loot, he stared at the position of the Japanese with a short bow, and waited until the other 11 people walked away, then dismounted and slowly approached the other party.
"Whoosh!" An arrow flew in, Su Ming had already prepared, and if the arrow was not fast, he easily dodged it.
The widow didn't shoot Su Ming 50 steps away with this short arrow, he saw that Su Ming had left his horse, thinking that this was an opportunity, he dragged Su Ming with the arrow, he shouted and killed Su Ming with a scimitar.
"Bump!"
A gunshot rang out, and the wolf fell to the ground, blood pouring out of his chest. Su Ming saw that the distance was a little long, and the opponent's head may not be hit, so he shot the opponent directly in the chest, seeing that the other party was not dead and still struggling, Su Ming walked over and shot him in the heart again, and this widow finally stopped struggling.
Going back and riding his horse, Su Ming heard a shout coming from ahead, he rode over and saw that the eldest brother was already confronting the elite of Wei Zhuang and the Japanese Kou.
Five of the soldiers of the Second Castle held shields in the front, and seven or eight people held spears behind the shields and lowered their heads to wait for the Japanese to approach, and then arrows continued to shoot out from the back of the shield, but most of them did not reach the range where the Japanese were located, and occasionally a few arrows hit the position of the Japanese and were also blocked by the Japanese shields.
There were more than 20 people on Su Ren's side, but there were only 11 people on the Wakou side, what Su Ming couldn't understand was that the Japanese Kou who were inferior in numbers were much more fierce than the guards of Wei Zhuang, they raised their shields while approaching the direction of Wei Zhuang's soldiers, and their formation was not chaotic at all during the movement.