Chapter 021: The Scourge of Ningbo II

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"Why did the Japanese invade Zhejiang again?" Zhang Wenda looked at the Zhejiang civil and military officials present and asked suspiciously: "Is there any one of you involved?" The old man is not a fool, and you don't have to think that you can hide everything. ”

Several military attachés led by the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division followed Huang Sihai to the front line of Songpu, and the highest official position left behind was Liu Aitao, a commander of the capital, who wanted to speak, but he knew that he was kicked by the official of the Inspectorate Department next to him behind his heels, and he closed his mouth.

Obviously, on this occasion, everyone is an old fritter, you are a martial artist who will definitely make things yellow, everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and the last person to speak was Ma Xuan, the political envoy of Zhejiang, who opened his mouth: "Do you know that Song Jiangwei commanded Lu Hua to be escorted into Beijing a few years ago?" ”

Coincidentally, it was no one else who escorted Lu Hua into Beijing, it was Chen Cao's house, Zhang Wenda was in the capital at the time, and the imperial court had a royal history of Lu Hua who was slacking off, and finally sentenced to exile and sent to Liaodong as a small soldier, Zhang Wenda also knew a thing or two, but it was not complete.

Ma Xuan continued: "A few years ago, a group of Japanese invaders attacked Songjiangwei, commanded Lu Hua to slack off without fighting, and then was arrested, this should be how things came about. ”

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"Lu Hua said at the time that he was wronged." Chen Cao chattered for a while, and then looked at Zhao Xin: "He said that the Japanese invaded, most of them were Han Chinese, and a small number of real Japanese were related to maritime trade." ”

Lu Hua really only said so much...

"As a result, I heard that he was assigned to Liaodong."

Chen Cao thought about it carefully, things were really a little strange, and then he woke up, I am afraid that Lu Hua's matter is operated by a master behind the scenes, and he was attacked by the Japanese bandits, so he should just be a scapegoat.

"My lord, my subordinates sent people to check around Songjiangwei, and the caliber is about the same, but the remnants of a sergeant who was killed by the Japanese Kou revealed something," Liao Yaowen looked a little tired, and he had just come back from Songjiangwei: "Lu Hua has been doing maritime trade business with people in Zhejiang. ”

Chen Cao nodded, and the matter finally became a little eyebrow-raising at this point: "There are few Japanese people, a so-called guardian country is only the size of a county town in my Ming Dynasty, the largest population is seventy or eighty thousand, and the army under a daimyo is no more than fifty thousand, and the smallest is at most three or four hundred." As he spoke, he stared at the bewildered crowd: "This name is not his big name..."

Seeing that everyone was relieved, Chen Cao continued: "I thought that this Ningbo Rebellion must be because of the huge interests generated by the sea trade in Zhejiang, so there will be such a thing, and it is the people of Daming who suffer." ”

Later generations generally believe that the richest people in the late Ming Dynasty were in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, indeed, it is now, more than half of the taxes of the entire Ming Dynasty come from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which is also the reason why the emperors of the past dynasties attach the most importance to the stability of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

"My lord," Lin Guodong walked into the big tent quickly, ignoring Chen Cao, who was talking, and said urgently: "As expected by your lordship, the scouts under the lowly rank found many sea ships on the edge of the sea cliff, the lights were flickering, and the target was on the beachhead of the fishing village ten miles away from the sea cliff. ”

Sou...

Chen Cao immediately stood up, ordered his subordinates to wear armor, and then prepared to send someone to inform Zhang Tiande, who knew that before the words came out, an explosion sounded, and a raging fire broke out outside the camp.

"It's fierce fire oil," Zhao Xin shouted in horror.

Chen Cao and the others ran out of the big tent, only to see that the camp tent of the Nanjing Right Guard on the original station of Guanhaiwei had been on fire, and the sergeants trampled on each other, and what was worse was that the Nanjing Right Guard was one of the few firearms troops in Nanzhili, and the firearms of the whole guard were at least 3,000 people, and the camp tent transporting gunpowder and projectiles was close to Chen Cao's camp.

If he really wanted to do something, he only heard a loud noise, and Chen Cao was thrown to the ground by Zhao Xin...

Airplanes......

Chen Cao only felt that his ears were no longer his own, the shock wave generated by the explosion overturned all the tents here, and the nosebleed flowed down his nose, Chen Cao couldn't help shaking his head, Xu Kai stood up first and walked to Chen Cao's side, shaking and shouting vigorously, so Chen Cao slowed down for a long time.

"My lord, let's go..."Zhao Xin stood up, but the helmet that fell off pulled Chen Cao away.

Chen Cao broke free of Zhao Xin's hand, wiped the nosebleed clean, and then shouted: "Lin Guodong, blow the trumpet and assemble, Zhao Xin, organize your subordinates, prepare for the battle, and bring me the Yanling knife." ”

Lin Guodong and Zhao Xin: "Yes..."

Zhang Tiande was a little drunk, so much so that after the gunpowder tent was ignited and exploded, Zhang Tiande trembled as if he had fallen into the frozen water of December.

"My lord," the pacification envoy of Nanjing's right guard quickly ran into Zhang Tiande's big tent: "The Japanese are coming..."

Qian Zhang is a person who has made meritorious contributions, and he reacted quickly after the explosion, but his soldiers are all temporarily recruited untouchables, and they have never been on the battlefield, in this case, except for the two hundred personal soldiers under his command to supervise the formation, most of the rest are scattered as birds and beasts, running in all directions.

Finally, Zhao Tianlin and Hirata Takashi led more than 2,000 men into the camp of the Nanjing Right Guard, and 500 warriors from Tsushima who were reinforced by them joined the battle soon after.

Chen Cao only has 500 Jinyi guards under the supervision array, plus 300 Lin Guodong's sergeants, 800 people, they are overseers, the camp is established in the right rear of the right guard of Nanjing, the distance is far away, it is inevitable that there are deserters on the right guard of Nanjing, although they do not go to the battle array, but at this moment there are no less than 1,000 people just catching deserters.

"Hurry up and report to the Heming Field and ask them to come for reinforcements, the Japanese are powerful, and there are more than 10,000 people." Zhang Kai shouted loudly to his subordinates, although this guy is smiling, but at this moment, he took out the courage to cross the knife to support Zhang Tiande.

"Bang bang bang..."

Guns of fire, arquebuses, three-eyed guns, and various firearms such as large guns and iron cannons in the hands of the Japanese invaders, the two sides broke out fierce fire, at this time it was about two o'clock in the morning, the moon was dark and the wind was high, coupled with the painful cries of the wounded, the entire Guanhaiwei station was like purgatory on earth.

The battle lasted until the beginning of the morning, that is, around five o'clock in the morning, and the coastal area was lit up early, and the scene of the battle could be clearly seen with the naked eye.

More than 10,000 people were killed by more than 2,000 Japanese robbers.

"My lord," Zhao Xin ran to Chen Cao's side: "Nanjing's right guard was defeated, and the commander made Zhang Tiande run away." ”

Chen Cao turned his head to look at Zhao Xin, with a look of indignation: "Firearms troops, these young master soldiers, if they are really on vacation, is he..."

Zhang Tiande took advantage of the dawn to take the remaining more than 2,000 people of the Nanjing Right Guard to run away from the side, but there were still more than 1,000 people left in the Nanjing Right Guard, and the leader was Zhang Tiande's nephew Zhang Kai, and in front of Zhang Kai was Qian Zhang's men, and the more than 3,000 people gathered were no more than 1,000 people left at the moment, and they were fighting a bloody battle with the Japanese Invaders.

"Get out of the way, let's get over." Zhang Hao, the deputy of the open Qianhu, shouted angrily with a knife.

And in front of them was Zhao Xin.

The Yanling knife in Chen Cao's hand has been replaced twice, and the first two blunt knives are because they killed the deserter, and the blood on his body is also the blood of the deserter.

Chen Cao was blown by the sea breeze, in addition to the coolness, there was also a trace of sadness, the rise of the Japanese Invaders, but the number of people seemed to be less than three thousand, and the real Wo was even less, but the troops of more than 10,000 people were killed and fled, and the Ming army was really rotten to the bones.

"Nanjing Right Guard, if you dare to retreat, you won't be killed..."Chen Cao held his knife and shouted at Zhang Hao over there.

Zhao Xin took a deep breath, pulled out a brand-new Yanling knife, pointed at Zhang Hao and said, "Nanjing Right Guard, if you dare to retreat, you will be killed." ”

"Nanjing Right Guard, if you dare to retreat, you will be killed..."

Hundreds of brocade guards shouted in unison, their momentum was like a rainbow, and they were all frightened, and he clearly saw many of the right guard's brothers kneeling in the distance, and the long knives were on their necks.

"Hey," Zhang Kai let out a long sigh, then took a deep breath and shouted: "Brothers, it's time to give the Nanjing right guard a long face, kill back." ”

"Kill..."

The momentum is very great, but the actual effect is too little, Qian Zhang finally couldn't stand it, the untouchables under his command began to rout, Chen Cao's men couldn't kill them, after Zhang Kai led people to kill them, the scene was controlled for a while, but it was a drop in the bucket.

Hirata Gao's speed of killing is too fast, Zhang Hao is chasing and slashing a Japanese coward with a knife, Hirata Gao kills from the front, the Japanese knife in his hand slashes horizontally, the knife in Zhang Gao's hand is broken in response, blood jumps on Hirata Gao's face, this guy licks the blood on the knife with his tongue, this action becomes the last straw that crushes this gang, and the rest of the Nanjing Right Guard begins to collapse.

Seeing this, Chen Cao couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted with a knife: "Jinyiwei, attack..."

Eight hundred people, three hundred personal soldiers under Lin Guodong, all killed in the direction of Zhao Tianlin, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides.

Qian Zhang was covered in blood, the armor on his body was beaten beyond recognition by the big guns of the Japanese Kou, this time it was a crime again, and he had to do his best, when Chen Cao killed his side, he thought that this guy was going to hang.

Qian Zhang was a little surprised: "Chen Qianhu, are you so good at kung fu?" ”

"My lord, retreat, let's do our best, Nanjing's right guard is dead." Zhao Xin's face was also covered with blood, and his face was scratched by the Japanese Kou, and the broken appearance was certain.

"Stand out, sir." Xu Kaixian had no less than five knife wounds on his body, among which the wound on his abdomen was the deepest, and the blood flowed incessantly.

Chen Cao and Qian Zhang leaned together, Lin Guodong's people only had more than 100 people left, and it is estimated that there are less than 1,000 people still standing on the battlefield, either dead or fleeing.

Only then did Chen Cao see clearly that there were only a few hundred people left on the Wako's side, basically all of them were real Wako, all of them were short and stubby, and they moved quickly, dressed as standard samurai, some of them were full, and some were dressed in ronin clothes.

"It's a big deal to go back if you die..."Chen Cao read a sentence, and the people next to him didn't understand, so they heard him continue: "My soldiers of the Ming Dynasty only have soldiers who died in battle, and there are no soldiers who retreat, and they don't retreat..."

"Don't return..."Qian Zhang also raised his arms and shouted...

"No retreat, no retreat..."

More than 1,000 people shouted in unison, and then under the leadership of Chen Cao and Qian Zhang, they launched a decisive charge towards the Japanese Kou.

The wind is blowing and the clouds are flying...

Chen Cao only found out at this time that the real widow is really difficult to deal with, that is, with his own good skills, it is very difficult to kill a true widow, compared to the Tartar of Liaodong, the real widow is too difficult to deal with.

In terms of speed, the Japanese invaders usually have two or three people against one, and the opponent who kills them is caught off guard, and the more than 1,000 people who rushed in with the last courage died in less than half an hour, and the rest were all forced to the edge of the sea cliff by the Japanese invaders.

Lao Tzu will not be a cliff jumper...

Chen Cao pulled Qian Zhang and said with a smile: "General Qian is really a good man, if I am like you, Liao Shi will not fail like this." ”

Qian Zhang also laughed, but it was a little miserable, he was really injured: "Brother, I really can't imagine that the high-flying Jinyi Guard also has you and other heroes, it's a pity, this battle is the last acquaintance, if there is a chance, I want to worship you as brothers." ”

Chen Cao laughed out loud: "Okay, if you don't die, you and I will be brothers." ”

"Kill..."

A few hundred men began the final battle, and the number of people continued to decrease, and in the end, there were less than a hundred people left on the edge of the sea cliff.

Zhao Tianlin knew that there was a leading Jinyi guard leader inside, and he didn't expect the opponent to be so able to fight, and the troops of the Ming Army Guard that he encountered in the past were like a baggage army, and they left after sending supplies.

"My lord," a widow with a banner behind his back quickly ran to Zhao Tianlin's side, and said quickly: "My lord, the reinforcements of the Ming Kingdom are here. ”

Zhao Tianlin took a deep breath, the opponent on the opposite side obviously couldn't kill them all in a short time, but he paid such a big price, he definitely couldn't let all these Ming troops live, so he ordered: "Kill, kill them all, let's retreat." ”

"Kill..."

For a while, Chinese and Japanese words came and went, Chen Cao was not a fool, he took his last breath, brandished a long knife with a gap and rushed into the Japanese formation, and Qian Zhang, who rushed in at the same time, went all the way forward to kill.

To be able to kill one is a...

There are fewer and fewer people alive ... This is the first time Chen Cao has felt the Shura Purgatory since he crossed over...

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Chen Cao didn't know how long he had been asleep, and when he woke up, his upper body was naked, covered with unpleasant Chinese medicine, and his lower body was also naked, but it was wrapped in bandages, and the color was not leaked to some extent.

'Ahem, ahem...'

Chen Cao's coughing attracted people, the door was opened, and a maidservant girl walked into the room, and then ran towards the door in surprise, and from time to time there was a series of footsteps.

"Brother, are you awake?" The person who came was Qian Zhang, accompanied by Zhao Xin and Liao Yaowen, and a group of people all looked at Chen Cao with smiles.

"Am I not dead?" After Chen Cao jumped out of the first sentence, he saw the sunlight outside the door clearly.

Zhang Wenda then walked in, a group of people in the house saluted together, Zhang Wenda nodded, walked to the bedside, and nodded with satisfaction: "Good boy, Ke Cangzhen didn't see the wrong person, after this matter, no matter what, the old man will definitely play Your Majesty to ask for credit." ”

Before Chen Cao fainted, Huang Chongtao, the commander stationed in the Heming Field, came with 5,000 Ming troops to reinforce and retreat, and Huang Sihai and Zhang Wenda also rushed to the Guanhaiwei garrison from time to time, Huang Sihai had gone to Songpu in advance because of the matter in Songpu, leaving only Huang Chongtao and Zhang Wenda to stay in Guanhaiwei and set off on a certain day.

"You rest first, and then talk about it after you heal your injuries." After Zhang Wenda said some words of concern, he left with someone.

Chen Cao stared at the bandages on Zhao Xin's face, and then asked, "What about the other brothers?" ”

Zhao Xin's smile was gone, and then Liao Yaowen spoke: "Lao Xu is seriously injured, he can't be treated well, and he has been sent to Hangzhou for diagnosis and treatment. ”

Chen Cao sighed, then stared at Qian Zhang again, and said with a reluctant smile: "If it's really a big disaster, when I get better, let's worship as brothers." ”

Qian Zhang is a guerrilla general, and the armor he wears is better than Chen Cao's half-body armor, although he was hit by the gun, but he was blocked by the armor, and he was injured and rested for two days before he healed and got out of bed: "Don't mention this, we don't have to bow down, you and I will be brothers in the future, I have to clean up the remnants of the army, you rest first." ”

Qian Zhang left Chen Cao before he remembered Lin Guodong, so he asked Zhao Xin, and then Zhao Xin spoke: "This guy is very powerful, there are more than a dozen of the three hundred personal soldiers under his command, he himself is injured, not serious, and can walk." ”

"My lord is brave, even more powerful than in Liaodong, it's like killing the Japanese to go crazy, if you don't lose your strength, no matter how bad you are, you have to kill some more." Liao Yaowen smiled and bragged.

Chen Cao showed a happy smile at this moment, and then the smile froze: "Is there any news of Nanjing Right Guard?" ”

"Grass..."Zhao Xin scolded when he heard this: "If it weren't for Zhang Tiande's gang running away, we wouldn't have suffered such heavy losses, Guanhaiwei was newly built, and it is understandable that there is no combat effectiveness, this battle has to rely on the right guard of Nanjing, and as a result, that guy took away most of the people," Zhao Xin became more and more angry, and by the way, he began to greet all the female dependents in Zhang Tiande's family, and also said that he wanted to have an intimate relationship, looking at Chen Cao's eyes, he remembered that Zhang Tiande's daughter was Chen Cao's former fiancée, so he hurriedly hugged his fists and made amends: "My lord, The subordinates have no mouth, please forgive your sins. ”

Chen Cao shook his hand: "What about Zhang Tiande?" ”

Zhao Xin said again: "The sky has eyes, this guy ran to the village thirty miles outside the Heming field with his soldiers to rest, but was rushed by Lord Zhang and hit a situation, after learning that they escaped, even if he ordered someone to arrest Zhang Tiande, he may have been on the way to Hangzhou at this moment." ”

"The Zhang family is completely planted this time..."Chen Cao thought silently, and then shook his head, it was no longer his own business, what else did he think.

"How long did I sleep?"

"My lord, you have slept for three days," Zhao Xin took a glass of water and handed it to Chen Cao: "I heard that Lord Zhang is preparing to surround the Japanese in Songpu, I don't know how the war is going." ”

Chen Cao didn't know what the battle was like, but when the news came back two days later, he was quite shocked, and the Japanese invaders were defeated at Songpu, and then sailed away on a sea ship.

"The Jingying troops of the Marquis of Fengcheng had just landed on the shore, and they had only fired a round of firearms, and the Japanese boats had gone away." The gauze on Zhao Xin's face has been removed, and sure enough, he has left a long scar, which looks extremely hateful.

Chen Cao felt that this scar was very powerful, so he teased it many times, and then frowned: "This matter is not simple. ”

"Songpu is encircled, our army has a total of more than 50,000 guards, surrounded from three directions, and there are troops of General Qi, the general of Taizhou, behind them, but these people are stunned to find a gap and run." Zhao Xin continued: "By the way, the Yanzhou Mansion guards who were blocked in front of them were defeated and defeated. ”

When Chen Cao heard Zhao Xin say this, he smelled a smell of conspiracy from it at that time, but he could only guess that this kind of thing could not be said nonsense, he just thought to himself.

But things are not simple, five days later, the local guards returned to the station, Qian Zhang because of the Guanhaiwei resistance to the enemy, Zhang Wenda let Qian Zhang temporarily take the post of Ningbo general, this result began in Jiajing, but all temporary leadership, later will become a real position, not to mention this district military position.

Lin Guodong was lucky, Chen Cao was on the side to help, and Lin Guodong also temporarily took the position of commander of Guanhaiwei and recruited troops to rebuild Guanhaiwei.

Chen Cao set off in the near future to follow Zhang Wenda's boat towards Hangzhou, this time Ningbo is a little unbelievable, Chen Cao tried Zhang Wenda on the road a few times, the old guy is silent, or off topic to say other things, so that Chen Cao's heart is like a cat scratch.

Fifteen days later, Chen Cao, Zhang Yanzong and other high-ranking officials of Jinyi returned to Nanjing, and Zhang Wenda returned to Beijing with a series of follow-up events.

At home, Li Fengchun and Chen Qing were extremely concerned after learning that Chen Cao was injured, and coincidentally, Chen Cao saw Song Yin and Zhang Chen in the figure of the women, thinking that they had already crossed paths with Chen Cao after leaving for so long.

'No Return'

These two words had spread before Chen Cao returned to Jinling, not to mention that this guy is still famous in the south of the Yangtze River 'Nalan Rongruo', such talents of Yunwen and Yunwu really gave the people of Jinling a face, of course, the most beautiful on the face is naturally the Duke of Wei.

For this reason, Xu Hongji also specially set up wine, and invited many high-level people such as Jinling's eunuchs and uncles to participate in the celebration of Chen Cao's achievements.

In a few days, the Qincha of the Beijing division arrived, two things, the first was about the right guard of Nanjing in Zhejiang, and the second was to reward the meritorious personnel.

Zhang Tiande escaped from the battle, resulting in the defeat of the right guard of Nanjing, the whole army of Guanhaiwei was annihilated, originally he belonged to the local guard, and was a garrison force, Xu Hongji was also reprimanded for this, saying that he had no way to lead the army, this matter was too big, after the Beijing Dynasty discussion, Zhang Tiande asked on the spot, the male family was exiled to Qiongzhou, and the woman entered the teaching workshop as a slave; After Xu Hongji was punished, he took the initiative to ask Ying to deal with Zhang Tiande's matter, and even the behavior of fleeing with the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Right Guard must also be dealt with seriously.

As for rewarding meritorious personnel, Zhang Wenda added the title of Prince Shaobao, which is already the top of his age; Secondly, Zhejiang's civil and military officials are offsetting their merits and demerits this time, and they will not be rewarded or punished; Lin Guodong's father, Lin Youcai, was imprisoned and died in Beijing, and he himself was awarded the post of commander of Guanhaiwei because of his anti-Japanese exploits, and Qian Zhang was also promoted from the guilty Ningbo guerrilla to a general.

Chen Cao, this trip to supervise the battle has made a great contribution, and he is a person of Jinyiwei, even with Zhang Wenda, an old scholar who does not like Jinyiwei very much, praised Chen Cao's behavior in the court, and in view of the fact that this guy is too young, only seventeen years old, it is too easy to make him proud of the reward, according to the rules of officialdom, plus Luo Sigong's turnaround, Chen Cao Jinyiwei was awarded the post of Zhenfu envoy of Nanzhen Fusi, and the original Zhenfu envoy Xu Xianchun, then the official was added to the commander of Nanzhen Fusi, and Zhang Yanzong was juxtaposed, of course, it was Xu Xianchun who was actually in charge of Nanzhen Fusi.