Chapter 168
The Japanese pirates were all fierce and cruel people. They usually came out lightly, wore clothes, had short robes, and carried a long sword on their backs. They drove a small boat with the Hachiman Great Bodhisattva flag hanging in the wind, and they were elusive in the vast sea. They started from the coast of the mainland in the north and ended at the southern islands in the south. They burned, killed, robbed wherever they went, and did everything they did, which was outrageous.
It is true that the Japanese pirates follow the wind: when the northeast wind raged, they hid in Satsuma or Wudao to Ryukyu areas and waited for the opportunity. Once the north wind blew, they could invade Guangxi in the south, and the east wind would disturb Fujian. If the south wind blew strongly, they could attack Tianjin and even Liaoyang.
Japanese pirates emerged at the end of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, that is, the early days of the founding of the Ming Dynasty in China. Although they were attacked from both sides and under the two-way suppression of the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, their power expanded year by year, and their activities gradually became rampant, and their harm continued to intensify.
In order to defend against the invasion of Japanese pirates, the Ming Dynasty had to build a huge coastal defense. Just to defend a place in Fujian, zhèngfu organized one-third of the seaside residents into the army, and built 16 cities at the same time, and 15,000 troops stationed in garrisons to defend strictly. At that time, Shanghai and other places were only small villages with more than ten fishermen. Because they were located on the Huangpu River, Japanese pirates often landed here and built cities to prevent Japanese pirates. Then they gradually developed and flourished.
At that time, the Ming people talked about the Japanese changes, so that the children cried even though they made a fuss. When they heard that "the Japanese pirates are coming", they stopped immediately and did not dare to cry again.
Zhengliang is planning to be a hero who beats the Japanese this time.
The dusk in late autumn always comes very quickly. Before the water vapor evaporated by the light in the mountains dissipated, the sun set into the western mountain. So, the mist in the valley drove away the white mist and wandered down the mountain with a strong coolness. The shadow of the mountain peaks pressed on the village faster, and the shadow became thicker and thicker, gradually mixed with the night, but soon, it was canned by the moon again. The bright moon, which was not round, gradually rose to the high altitude. A transparent gray cloud covered the moonlight lightly, and a light smoke appeared on the field.
After personally monitoring the Ishihara family's troops' completely evacuated to the east coast of Kazutsu. Masara left all the foot and peasant soldiers to guard the newly occupied Yuansheng Castle, and immediately led 40 cloaks and 30 low-level warriors to quietly arrive near the temporary settlement of the pirates tonight.
Zhengliang hid on a cliff and looked down and saw several fires rising on the beach. Pirates were gathering in groups of three or five eating in large mouthfuls.
"Your Highness, there are about 40 pirates on the beach below, and there are eight pirates in the bay in the distance, and there are some pirates in the morning," Ichiroku, the leader of the ninja army's black hawk, whispered beside Masara. After nearly half a month of renovation, the Yamakuroku who moved to the Yetaka Mountain has gradually recovered. The new Yamakuroku leader, Ichirokuroku, also formed a 20-man ninja army according to Masara's request. This time it was a night raid, so Masara summoned the Ninja army, who was used to the dark environment, to help.
"How come there are so many people?" Masayora said in confusion. According to the information collected by Ikor before, the group of pirates in Wusuke only had more than 30 people. Why has the number increased so much today? Masayora felt a little strange.
"Your Highness, there are two pirates below. In addition to the Imamura, there are also pirates from Ikeda." Yiruo reported immediately, "And there are some people in that corner. It seems that these two pirates have joined forces to do a business at sea today."
"Oh?" Zhengliang was surprised when he heard this, and then he became happy. It was God who helped the Luo family. Before coming here, he had a headache about how to clear out these pirates who had come and go without a trace. Unexpectedly, the two groups of pirates gathered together all at once. Isn't this just a chance to give him a bunch of chances? Looking at the pirates below who laughed and scolded each other because of the great harvest today. Zhengliang thought about how to eliminate them more completely.
At this time, in a corner below the cliff, a short guy was holding a whip and whipping a young man with a whip mark on the door. The boy was covered in hair. Although he was tied tightly to the wooden stake and was covered in scars, he was still not showing any weakness. Not only did he not try his best to avoid it because of being beaten, but instead straightened his chest and cursed at the short man who beat him.
"Hahaha, this whip from Mingguo is good. Lord Wusuke might as well take a break and let me try the power of this whip?" A bearded man next to him laughed.
"Get out of here, you kid are sarcastic about me, right?" The short man stopped whip in his hand and turned his head to shout at the bearded man next to him.
"Master Gosuke misunderstood," said the bearded man with a smile, "If it weren't for your bravery today, this damn guy would be really hard to deal with."
"Hmph", the short Gosuke snorted coldly. Although Imamura joined forces with Ikeda to do a deal, the two groups of people secretly competed with each other and even tried to annex each other. As for the bearded man's words just now, Gosuke fully understood it as a satire of himself. But when he thought about what happened today, he felt very frustrated. He thought it was a simple deal, but he failed, but he encountered two hard points. He accidentally got knocked down. Although it was not a big deal, he was under the crowd, especially in front of Ikeda, which made him want to find a crack in the ground. Whenever he thought of this, his anger burned in his heart. He turned his head again, looked at the boy who was still cursing himself, raised his whip and whipped again. Humph, since one of them has left, then you will apologize.
"Hahaha, I said, Gosuke, did you use all your strength to the girls last night? Look, this guy completely tickled your thrust." The bearded man next to him laughed again.
Gosuke ignored this at all. After dealing with this guy several times, Gosuke knew that although this guy was tall and big, he was actually a sarcastic person, so he couldn't get too many people to surrender, which was also the reason why he had been suppressing the other party; of course, another reason was mainly due to the assistance of his elder brother, Shisuke. Well, I heard that the fourth brother has been doing well in the Matsuura family recently. Are you considering joining him? Gosuke was whipping the young man in front of him while thinking about it.
"Hahaha..." The bearded man was even more proud when he saw Gosuke ignore him and was about to continue digging for sarcasm. Suddenly, a gust of cold wind came from the side. Before he could react, he felt a severe pain coming from his neck, and then he fell into darkness.
When the bearded man laughed suddenly, he stopped laughing. He groaned and rushed to the ground. Everyone was stunned. When they looked closely with the fire, they suddenly found that a feather arrow was inserted into the neck of the bearded man, obviously he was dead to death.
"Not good, the leader was killed by that guy Gosuke. Everyone avenges the leader." In the darkness, I don't know who suddenly shouted.
"Wow" The pirates who were gathering around the fire in groups of three or five suddenly became excited. But before they could confirm whether the words just now were true, the two groups just stared at each other and became alert.
"Ah, the leader is dead..." The pirates who were originally even bearded man finally reacted and shouted.
"Xin San, what are you doing?" At this time, although Gosuke didn't understand what was going on, he immediately reacted and looked up in the direction of the arrowhead. He saw that under the hazy moon, a "pirate" was holding up his long bow, as if he had finished pulling the arrow.
Wusuke was shocked and found that it was the one of Feng's own confidants named Xin San, who was responsible for giving Feng a confidant, so he quickly started to swear. Although he was his confidant, he didn't do anything about why he did this, but at this time he would still blame him for the blame. Whether it was Huo Punishing Ikedazhong or handing the person over to Ikedazhong for disposal, he would be able to get out.
"Chief, your plan is good. I have been killed by me. Hurry up, take action, brothers, I took that guy Ikeda." The "pirate" on the cliff did not respond to Gosuke's loud shout, but instead started to sniff, inciting the people of Imamura to attack Ikeda's pirates.
"Ah? The leader was killed by Gosuke?", "Kill, avenge the leader"... The pirates of Ikeda obviously thought the leader was Imamura, and immediately picked up weapons and killed the pirates of Imamura. Many Imamuras also had vegetarians, and they also picked up weapons to meet each other. In this way, the two pirates who were originally sitting around the fire laughing and scolding each other and started fighting.
"Hu" Seeing this situation, the "pirate" standing on the cliff exclaimed and quickly retreated back into the cliff, because at this time, several feathered arrows came in the darkness. It was obvious that the pirates under the cliff came, and now he has become the public enemy of the two groups of pirates.
This "pirate" was Zhengliang. After a little checking the situation under the cliff, Zhengliang thought about countermeasures. At this moment, the Black Hawk reported that he had captured two pirates responsible for watching the wind. Zhengliang was overjoyed and risked his life to shout for previews. He quickly interrogated the two pirates. Under the coercion and temptation, the two pirates also told Zhengliang all the things in a bargain.
After getting enough information, Zhengliang came to the place where the two pirates were released, and happened to see the scene of two pirate leaders digging each other. Combined with the information given by the two pirates just now, Zhengliang immediately came up with a plan. Taking advantage of the dark night, the pirates pretending to be the pirates to sneak attack the leaders of the other pirates, which triggered their internal strife, and the Luo family reaped the benefits of the fisherman.
To Masaru's expectations, the arrow that originally hit the bearded man's chest by accident actually hit the neck of the bearded man, and killed the bearded man in an instant, causing the two pirates to die. What was even more unexpected to Masaru, the lower Wusuke actually asked him why he killed the bearded man, and Masaru would miss such an opportunity? He immediately pretended to have received instructions from Wusuke and did this even worse, which further aggravated the conflict between the two pirates. In fact, as long as someone calmly listened to the accent, he would know Masaru, but at this time, everyone focused on the death of the bearded man, and no one noticed this issue at all.
Chapter completed!