When Emperor Jinghe received the memorial jointly by Liu Mingqi and Liu Mingjing, the two brothers had already arrived at a hill twenty miles outside Songxi County with a special team.

Songxi County is not a territory under Zhejiang Province, but from Fujian.

Sixty miles southeast of it is Zhenghe County, a transportation hub between Fujian and Zhejiang.

If the Japanese wanted to attack the Qingyuan Prefecture in Zhejiang from the Western Front, they would inevitably pass Zhenghe County.

Instead of defending in Zhejiang, Liu Mingqi and the others made up their minds and began to ambush the Japanese in Zhenghe County, avoiding the edge, burning their logistics supplies first, and then creating as tense atmosphere as possible along the way.

This requires the flexible activity of the special team, requiring the right opportunity to kill with one blow.

Sitting inside the nest, the guards of the Dewang Mansion and the members of the Royal Rugby team were all trying to drink water and eat, and then checking the weapons they carried with them.

It is suppose to face the brutal Japanese pirates, and it is false to say that they are not nervous at all.

But they have already decided to fight to the death with the Japanese, so they try their best to prepare and fight prepared battles.

Wouldn’t it be even happier to be able to go home happily with a lot of rewards and rewards after a big battle?

Liu Mingqi gave them a lot of rewards.

Each battle was carried out to destroy the enemy's logistics base, defeat the enemy's single horses, and attack the enemy's camp at night. Rewards were respectively 100 taels, 200 taels and 500 taels.

It means that if you attack a game, you will get a reward of at least one hundred taels of silver.

In addition, all the spoils they could get in this battle belong to them.

The Japanese burned, killed, looted and carried many treasures. If they could get them, it would be a considerable income.

Finally, the reward for a Japanese man with a head of 100 taels of silver was jointly issued by Liu Renhuai, the governor of the grain transport Miao Yan and the Minister of Salt Administration Bai Hengwang. They could also get the prize of 100 taels of silver, but it was hard to say that although Liu Mingqi said it, all of them were estimated. If the three of them did not give it to them, then the Dewang Mansion would make up for it.

Look!

What is courage?!

That's it!

After all, every special team member could get at least 5,000 to 10,000 taels of silver rewards.

After they go back, they retire if they want to retire, and if they want the local owner, they will be the local owner.

However, the fifty-eight royal rugby team members still tend to give them the assurance that Liu Mingqi gave them, "As long as you are willing to come, you will be the guards of my Dewang Mansion after you go back! From then on, the Dewang Mansion will take care of your family!"

This is just like the modern millionaire children who try every means to become civil servants, even if they earn two or three thousand yuan, they are willing to do so.

Money is rich.

Joining the Dewang Mansion means that from then on, there will be no need to worry about food and drink for generations. Even if the descendants are not successful, they can go to school, start a family and have a stable job.

This is really a fatal attraction for them.

Otherwise, if you want them to work hard just by relying on the benefits of money, some people will probably be afraid to retreat.

Thousands of horses were tied together, and someone specialized in feeding them with soybeans, grass, salt and other mixed feeds.

War horses may not need much on weekdays, just use simple forage, but if they want them to have strong explosive power and play a role in combat, they must be better eaten so that they can have strength.

Because we are now in a state of combat, no one carriages carrying special supplies, and all the supplies are carried by the horses.

The weapons and equipment that Liu Mingqi has configured for everyone is almost as armed as the teeth.

When each fights, there are two horses, a big knife, a crossbow arrow, a long bow and five pots of arrows, a close-fitting soft armor and a helmet, carrying fifty wooden grenades, and ten bottles of hell cocktails tightly held by bags.

The individual soldier's food is two kilograms of jerky meat, a small bag of big white rabbit milk candy, a small bag of salt, a bottle of white wine, and a pot of water.

In addition, there is a small bottle of disinfectant alcohol, a roll of gauze, and most importantly a small bottle of sulfonamide powder in the first aid kit.

Such individual equipment is comparable to that of the United States, but it is more than enough to kill the army before the fall of our Qing Dynasty.

It is also because Liu Mingqi prepared enough for everyone that everyone has a strong sense of security.

Although the general is bound to be killed on the battlefield, the more security, the less likely it is to be injured or killed. This is certain.

Even Gong Yuan and Sima Jin, who had just joined, had enough protective equipment, but the offensive weapons were only big swords and crossbow arrows.

They are not familiar with wooden grenades and hell cocktails. In order to avoid hurting their own people, they cannot be given it to them for the time being.

"The Japanese are advancing too fast." Liu Mingjing drank water here and said slowly: "It's only been a few days? Five more cities have been opened and more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians have been killed, but they have advanced to the edge of Fujian and Zhejiang... It seems that we are right to visit Zhenghe, Songxi, this time, and we just happened to copy their butts!"

"Why are these wolves so cruel?" Sima Jin was in a very bad mood, and there was a hint of fear.

Since the Japanese landed in Quanzhou Port more than half a month ago, they burned, killed and looted all the way, killing at least 400,000 Dakang soldiers and civilians, and did not let go of men, women, young and old. They were extremely cruel.

At the beginning, many people were lucky enough to think that they were locked up at home. The Japanese were anxious to attack the big town and would not come to rob them, but they were robbed and killed without exception.

Every city is a very small number of people to survive.

Since three days ago, when they were rushing to Songxi from Longquan, they suddenly saw the number of people fleeing several times more than before.

Every transporter ship was filled with people and full of panic.

Even those poor people no longer feel safe hiding in the mountains, but want to escape as far as possible.

Seeing the panic and desperate look of Sima Jin felt very uncomfortable.

These wealthy businessmen have actually been out of touch with the lower class for a long time, but in the face of huge external crises and the situation of life and death, Sima Jin is still full of feelings of unity against the enemy.

Gong Yuan is the same.

He stood beside him, waving his big sword, and gritted his teeth, "Your Highness kept telling us that the Japanese are beasts! I finally know now that they are not even as good as beasts! If you don't kill ten Japanese people this time, I will not go home!"

Because Gong Yuan often travels outside, he has been polishing his body.

Now that he has decided to kill the Japanese with Liu Mingqi, he even crams for the moment, insisting on swinging his sword five hundred times every day to exercise his "one-sword kill" skills.

By the way, he also pulled Sima Jin and practiced using crossbow arrows every day.

In fact, on the battlefield, the most important thing is the first collision, such as Cheng Yaojin's three axes, which are very useful tricks.

Although it is highly likely that Gong Yuan and Sima Jin will not be head-on with the Japanese, Liu Mingqi is also very happy to see that they can learn some self-protection skills.

As everyone spoke, a sound of birds cried outside.

The ambushing secret whistleman relaxed the wooden grenade in his hand when he heard the sound, but he still stared at the road in which he came in.

The next moment, Fan Shan and five short guards rode horses from outside and ran in quickly.

"Your Highness!"

When he got off the horse and arrived in front of Liu Mingqi, Fan Shan said breathlessly: "No! The Japanese are coming directly to us!"

"Um?"

Liu Mingqi and others were shocked.

What's going on?

Now we are in the valley between Songxi and Zhenghe. We should have rushed out and kicked their ass when the Japanese attacked Zhenghe. How could they suddenly come towards us?

Could it be that Zhenghe was lost so quickly?

Zhang Qin picked up the map and looked at it while saying in a deep voice: "Fan Shan, don't be in a hurry, just say it slowly! Make it clear! Is it the Japanese side army or the large army? How many of them are they? How fast is the march?"

"We stood far and didn't see clearly, but there were at least more than 5,000 people. We were moving towards us at night, which was about twenty miles away." Fan Shan said, "All the people they met were killed and galloped all the way. Although they were just infantry, they could reach Songxi City at most by morning!"

"Grass!"

Xiong Dabao suddenly stood up, "These guys are so fast! Fan Shan, have you checked out whether Zhenghe City has fallen?"

"I don't know, I dare not get close. After confirming that it was them, we took the small path and ran back." Fan Shan shook his head and said.

He knew what his responsibilities were, and he should ensure Liu Mingqi's safety as soon as possible, then the battle was the matter, and finally the life and death of these ordinary people.

As Fan Shan, who devoted his whole heart to Prince De's Mansion, except for his wife, son, Prince Yu and his wife, Liu Mingqi, and Dazhu who lived with him day and night, the life and death of others had nothing to do with him.

"Fan Shan is right to do this." Liu Mingqi said from the side, "Come on, Dazhu, call two people, hurry up and tell Songxi County that the Japanese are coming, and ask them to prepare! By the way, let them assist in the defense and bring more wooden grenades!"

"yes!"

Dazhu agreed and was about to leave, Xiong Dabao grabbed him and reached out to take out a token, "Come on, this is the token of Qianniuwei's captain. Holding it, the county magistrate should pay more attention to it."

"good!"

Dazhu took it and left. The two guards of the Dewang Mansion not far away turned over and rushed out in a short while.

"what to do?"

It was originally planned to have a sneak attack with a flowery but suddenly it turned into a head-on collision, and Liu Mingjing became excited.

Liu Mingqi shook her head, "No, we can't fight head-on with them, it's better to follow them quietly. When they attack the city almost succeeds, it's better to enter the formation from behind."

"That's right, they have already consumed almost the same amount of money and are about to succeed again, so it is naturally the time to be the most relaxed." Zhang Qin agreed with Liu Mingqi's idea, "Only in this way, we have more than 200 people, can we play the most important role."

"Then give orders!"

Xiong Dabao said in a deep voice, "Let everyone rest well, then quietly follow, determine their guard and baggage troops, and strive for success in one fell swoop!"

...

Fan Shan’s information is correct.

Only after an hour, the people lying in the hills and grass saw the Japanese moving rapidly.

Most of them were infantry, but they walked very fast and there was no sound along the way.
To be continued...