"Japanese pirates!"

"What? Japanese pirates?"

"I heard it right? Japanese pirates?"

When the soldiers heard that it was the Japanese pirates landing, they immediately started to scream.

From their grandfathers, they heard more or less about the crimes of Japanese pirates, and some were even killed by Japanese pirates. There are statues of Qi Jiguang in many places in Shandong. As long as they see the statues of Qi Jiguang, it is impossible not to think of Japanese pirates. In their minds, Japanese pirates and Tartars are the most evil existences in the world. Even Japanese pirates are even more abominable. Now, Japanese pirates have actually occupied Dasongwei, how can this happen?

"speed!"

“So quickly!”

"Brothers who can run will run!"

Zhang Youcai fell off the horse's back, followed the team, running with the soldiers, while loudly encouraging him. He is now Yang Zhiyuan's deputy and attaches great importance to the honor of the Biaozi Camp. This is the first battle after the rename of the Biaozi Camp, and of course they have to take the lead. Besides, the Biaozi Camp has to deal with Japanese pirates, so naturally they cannot fall behind at all.

"Whoever is the first to arrive at Dasongwei will be the hero!"

"Who is the hero and who is the bear is on everyone's legs!"

"If the Japanese pirates are released, we are all bears!"

Inspired by Zhang Youcai and other officers, the soldiers accelerated their pace and trotted all the way. Then, Zhang Zhun ordered the abandonment of all unnecessary equipment, including various utensils for camping, to reduce the burden on his body. As a result, the soldiers ran faster. The team of 600 people seemed to be rolling torrents, killing Dasongwei.

"Yang Zhiyuan, come with me to find out the situation!"

"Zhang Youcai, you come with your troops!"

Zhang Zhun looked at the sky and said decisively.

At this time, the sky was already dark and night was about to fall soon. Calculated from the marching speed of the Biaozi Camp, it would take a whole night to get to the vicinity of Dasong City. After all, there is a long way from Xiongyasu to Dasong City.

After saying goodbye to Zhang Youcai, Zhang Zhun and Yang Zhiyuan rode their horses, galloped all the way, and quickly entered the land of Dasongwei. Dugu Lie and others followed closely behind Zhang Zhun. As soon as the group arrived at the location of Xing Village, they saw Ma Yi. At this time, the sky was already completely ready to come down.

Xingcun Village is actually a small town with a population of three or four thousand people. It is located at the west end of Dasongwei, near the Wulong River. If it were normal for nightfall, the survivors would be more lively, and various lights should have been lit. In the past few months, as there are many wood merchants gathering here and selling wood, the survivors' brothels and inns are full every night. However, Zhang Zhun looked around and could hardly see the lights.

Ma Yi hurriedly rode a horse to Zhang Zhun, and said in a angrily voice: "Sir, Dasongwei, over there..."

Zhang Zhun said calmly: "Don't be anxious, just talk slowly."

After saying that, he picked off his gourd and handed it to Ma Yi.

Ma Yi opened the plug without hesitation, took a big sip of water, moistened the dry throat, and then said obscurely: "The Japanese pirates came too suddenly. The whole city was trapped in a sea of ​​fire. Most of the houses were burned down, at least a few hundred people were killed, and the Japanese pirates also captured hundreds of hostages! The news of the Japanese pirate landing spread very quickly, and it caused great panic around Dasongwei. Look, the people in this village were so scared that they closed their doors and ran towards Laiyang."

Zhang Zhun's mind immediately showed a familiar scene in later TV movies. When the Japanese entered the village, the people fled one after another. In order to track down the whereabouts of the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians, the Japanese concentrated the people in the sanitary fields and asked them to explain the whereabouts of the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians. If they did not hand over, the Japanese would continue to kill people, and eventually even the people in the village were killed.

"devil!"

Zhang Zhun felt the blood in her body boiling.

"calm!"

"calm!

"calm!"

After the blood boiled all over his body, Zhang Zhun took a deep breath, tried hard to control his emotions, and calm himself down slowly. As a commander, what he needed was not passionate impulse, not single-handed reckless behavior, or a role like Shunliu, but a calm calculation, using the simplest and fastest way to eliminate these Japanese pirates at the least cost.

Zhang Zhun signaled Ma Yi not to be excited and asked slowly: "How many Japanese pirates are there?"

Ma Yi said obscurely: "The Japanese pirates occupied Dasong City and closed all the city gates, so the intelligence could not be sent out. The people in the city heard that the Japanese pirates came, and they all fled one after another. No one cared about the number of Japanese pirates. The officials were the fastest, and it was the officials who took the lead that they caused panic. According to what I learned, there were no less than 500 Japanese pirates entering Dasong City. In addition, the Japanese pirates came by on three large ships, and there might be some on the ship."

Zhang Zhun nodded slowly and asked deeply: "What a big ship? Can you see it?"

Ma Yi measured it and said cautiously: "It is approximately the size of a No. 2 lucky ship."

Zhang Zhun pondered and thought. Three No. 2 lucky ships can carry about 1,000 people, plus the sailors on their own ships, there should be about 1,500 people. If the Japanese pirates are full, it is probably this number. It seems that the number of Japanese pirates has arrived this time is really quite large! Such a large number of Japanese pirates are obviously not sporadic ronin, but directly ran out of Japan, and there may even be Daming's support behind it.

Damn, these Japanese devils have never been at ease!

I must completely break their backbone in the future!

Ma Yi continued: "From the information currently captured by our Maoyan Division, the Japanese pirates' equipment is mainly various muskets, with many iron cannons, some large guns, and some people saw many Japanese pirate warriors waving long swords and killing people randomly in the city."

Zhang Zhun nodded thoughtfully.

The so-called iron cannon is actually the general term for all muskets by Japanese pirates. The so-called big cannon is the real cannon. During the Warring States Period of Japan, various daimyos fought each other, such as the first three omen, Yoshimoto Imakawa, Yoshimoto Hojo, and Shingen Takeda; the last three omen, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu Tokugawa, are the representatives of these daimyos.

In order to defeat their opponents on the battlefield, they bought a large number of firearms from Portugal. Judging from the situation at that time, the firearms of Japanese pirates were relatively advanced. As for the so-called long swords, they should be those wandering Japanese samurai. These Japanese samurai could see their sinful figures on any occasion, and it was really not an exaggeration to cut them into pieces.

Of course, Zhang Zhun didn't take these so-called iron cannons and large guns seriously at all. Compared with the tiger guns and flying dragon cannons, these iron cannons and large guns all had to stand aside. Zhang Zhun didn't take the so-called Japanese ronin warriors seriously. Qi Jiguang didn't even want firearms, and he could deal with cold weapons alone. Now he is strong in his army, what are he worried about?

Ma Yi continued: "The leader of the Japanese pirates is called Aizhi Yishou, and the other information is not known for the time being."

Zhang Zhun said to himself: "Mingzhi Yishou?"

Ma Yi said helplessly: "Maybe there is a mistake in our translation. There are not many people here who know Japanese language, so there is no way to correct it. I am afraid that you have to ask Gao Da’s help, so that only our Maoyansi will have people who are proficient in Japanese."

Zhang Zhun frowned.

Akichi Mitsuhide knew that it had something to do with Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi's contemporary figures, the Honnoji Incident. As for which Akichi Otsu was, I had no impression. Maybe it was a Japanese daimyo who didn't know what crazy he was, but he actually thought of robbing the land of the Ming Dynasty. Sometimes the little Japanese devils can't be described as common sense.

The current Japanese shogun should be Tokugawa Ieki. I don’t know how to manage Japan. If such a big thing happens, he, the shogun, is also dereliction of duty. After catching these Japanese pirates, he must send an envoy to Tokugawa Ieyasu in the name of Ming Dynasty, question what was going on, and then ask for compensation. If there is no compensation, I’m sorry, there will be only war. There is no need to discuss.

Zhang Zhun signaled Ma Yi to turn his horse's head and continue to march towards Dasong City, then asked: "How is the local resistance of Dasongwei? How many people can be organized? How many original officers are there?"

Ma Yi said a little angrily: "The officials of Dasongwei have all run away! There is only one young deputy Qianhu, named Li Yi, who happened to come back from outside the city and found something wrong. So he took his family members to intercept the fleeing military households, organized two or three hundred people to observe the movements in the city outside the city. Later, a hundred households named Yan Guizang came from the nearby Haiyang Institute, and brought dozens of good military households to Dasong City to help fight. However, their number was too small, so they could only arrange for surveillance and other things in the city, so there was no need to say a counterattack."

He introduced in detail that the deputy Qianhu of Dasongwei, named Li Yi, was only 25 years old this year, and had only been hereditary Qianhu for half a year to succeed his deceased father. The hundred households led by the Haiyang army to support him were named Yan Guizang, and they were also young people with hereditary Qianhu for less than half a year. Because they were all young people who had just been hereditary, they had not been exhausted by the daily welcome and sent to each other, so they still had some courage. Although they did not have the strength to counterattack the Japanese pirates, they did not escape.

"Yeah, good!"

Zhang Zhun said to himself.

Among the chaotic, weak and disabled soldiers of the garrison, there were two people who were not afraid of the cruel Japanese pirates and had the courage to organize personnel to resist. Zhang Zhun looked up to them at the front line. Well, Zhang Zhun’s current requirements are indeed very low. In the decadent soldiers of the garrison, no matter whether you have the ability or not, as long as you have this courage, it is worthy of praise.

While talking, the group continued to speed towards Dasong City. The sky became darker and darker, and the road was not easy to walk. The northwest of Dasongwei was mainly hilly and mountainous, and the road was seriously disrepaired. In some places, Zhang Zhun and others had to get off their horses to walk. It was almost the time when they were ugly that they came to about ten miles from Dasong City.

"Li Yi, Yan Guizang, our adults are here!"

Ma Yi shouted from afar.

In the darkness, two torches were lit and illuminated the surroundings.

Zhang Zhun looked over the fire and saw two young officers. It must be Li Yi and Yan Guizang. Beside them, there were two hundred military households holding various weapons in their hands. Seeing Zhang Zhun arrive, the military households were obviously relieved. It seemed that before Zhang Zhun arrived, they were indeed very nervous, so nervous that they didn't even dare to light the torch.

Li Yi was not tall, not like a hereditary deputy Qianhu, but like a gentle young man. The order he asked Zhang Zhun for help was issued by Li Yi. Yan Guizang was even more gentle. It is hard to imagine that he would bring the temporary military household to reinforce from Haiyang Station. However, both of them were wearing regular Ming army uniforms and thick waist-length armor.

Seeing Zhang Zhun arrive, Li Yi and Yan Guizang were naturally very happy and subconsciously came to Zhang Zhun's horse to welcome him. Dasongwei was next door to Laizhou Prefecture, and of course they could not know about Zhang Zhun. It was precisely because they had a little understanding of Zhang Zhun that they decided to ask Zhang Zhun for help. In their opinion, on the ground in Shandong, the only one who could defeat the Japanese pirates was probably Zhang Zhun and his Hu Ben Army.

However, after seeing Zhang Zhun, the two of them looked a little embarrassed. They didn't know how to call Zhang Zhun. Before the edict was issued, Zhang Zhun was the right governor of the governor's office of the Later Army. Of course, they should be the rituals of subordinates and call him Lord Zhang Zhun. However, the edict also made it clear that Zhang Zhun was a rebel. For rebels, they should fight against each other and never live in peace.

Zhang Zhun naturally understood why the two were embarrassed and said disapprovingly: "You just call me Zhang Zhun. If you don't mind, you can call me Yulin."

Li Yi and Yan Guizang looked at each other and said embarrassedly: "Since that's the case, we will surpass it and call you Brother Yulin. In terms of age, we are both older than you."

Zhang Zhun nodded, not entangled with anything on this issue, and said sternly: "Li Yi, from now on, you are the commander of Dasongwei!"

Li Yi was stunned and did not react.

Zhang Zhun continued: "Yan Guizang, from now on, you will be the commander of Dasongwei! Assist Li Yi in handling affairs!"

Yan Guizang was naturally stunned and did not react.

Zhang Zhun said coldly: "What? Are you scared by the Japanese pirates?"

Li Yi and Yan Guizang looked at each other, and the former said unnaturally: "Brother Yulin, this is unruly... Our Guard Commander is currently on the way to Dengzhou Prefecture for help... Other officers in the Guard..."
Chapter completed!