Tongxiang County.

The clouds are covered with dark clouds and the autumn wind is bleak. It looks like another autumn rain, but the city is filled with a peaceful atmosphere, and even the sound of festive firecrackers sounds from time to time.

Outside the East City Gate, purple-black blood seeped into the soil, and four towering Jingguan covered with quicklime, a tragic situation of hell on earth.

But from time to time, people gave the soldiers guarding the city from time to time, sneaked up and took a few glances. While their faces were pale, they were amazed and said... Fortunately, the broom star is here!

It’s indeed a broom star. It’s a special place to defeat Japanese pirates when descending to earth!

This sentence was said casually on the night when Liang Sheng entered the city and was given the reward silver. In just three days, it had spread throughout Tongxiang.

Then, starting the next day, Liang Sheng, who had been practicing martial arts since childhood, was locked up in the house to copy Buddhist scriptures...

Unlike two years ago, although Xu Hai's raid on Jiaxing Prefecture this time was as fast as lightning, before him, several Japanese pirates had invaded one after another, so a large number of families near Pinghu, Haiyan, Xiushui and wealthy merchants moved to Tongxiang temporarily.

I thought Tongxiang was the safest place in the whole mansion, after all, the Governor's Office was here. Unexpectedly, Zhejiang Governor Ruan E was greedy for merit and advance rashly, Lu Tong's 4,000 troops were all lost, and in panic, Qian Yuan led his army to sweep Xu Hai, and the Japanese pirates were unable to organize an offensive in Duotongxiang County.

In the side hall of the governor's yamen, Qian Yuan and Wu Baipeng were smiling and listening to the bigwigs. They used all kinds of good words, and they were almost willing to pay Qian Yuan up.

After a while of nonsense, Qian Yuan put away his smile and coughed twice, "Cough cough, this battle has also suffered a lot. Just the bird guns broke fifty or sixty, other spears, war horses, long swords, etc...."

While talking, Qian Yuan looked at the old acquaintance sitting not far away, Xiang Dushou, the first family in Jiaxing, who went to Beijing to take the exam for the second time, and returned to his hometown in April this year.

Xiang Dushou swallowed and smiled and said, "Zhancai, let us leave this little thing. If it weren't for you this time, we might not be able to withstand the Japanese pirates' siege."

"Yes, I heard that the silver in the Governor's yamen is not enough to reward silver. Don't use Curry's cloth or silk tops, just say it's the number!"

"This thing is not brought by silver if you don't bring it to life or death!"

Wu Baipeng and Qian Yuan looked at each other with speechless expressions, and then they started to be so conscious, it was simply so self-conscious!

Qian Yuan couldn't help but murmur in his heart, two years ago, he just scared him in Chongde County, but this time he couldn't even scare him...

Qian Yuan underestimated the threat that Xu Hai's invasion of Jiaxing Prefecture brought to these wealthy families. Xiushui County was captured more than ten days ago. Five wealthy families in the city who had no time to escape were left without leaving any chickens and dogs. The female family was hung naked on a high place. Two of them had Jinshi officials. This matter has been rumored to the southeast, and these wealthy families inevitably felt sad about the death of rabbits and foxes.

It is difficult for the wealthy families to judge what the Japanese pirates will do next. They are not stingy with this amount of money because they hope that Qian Yuan can lead his army to stay in Tongxiang and save their lives.

Qian Yuan thought that after seeing off these people, he thought that it was right. He could make up for more than a dozen war horses from Hou Jigao and then make up for the weapons he had lost one after another. He could still make up three thousand silvers...

There was no way, the landlord's family had no surplus food. Qian Yuan brought seventy-two guards out, and now there were only fifty-eight people left, and almost everyone was injured, and rewarded silver and weapons were all for money. Qian Yuan was also planning to recruit craftsmen to make bird guns, and even improve them.

"Brother Weixi, half the price." Qian Yuan shook his hand and said, "There is no money on his hand, and no one is running errands for you!"

Wu Baipeng smiled bitterly and said nothing. In the past two years, he has actually been very frustrated. He is as honest as water and refuses to make money. He only collects some common practices and is short of money.

While chatting, the two went to the study. Originally, this was a tea room specially arranged by Ruan E. The space was quite large. Qian Yuan temporarily changed it into a study room. A large map was hung on the wall, and a brush was dipped in ink and other paints were painted colorfully.

"Today, there are Japanese pirates lingering in Wuzhen and Nanxun. In addition, Deqing County, Huzhou Prefecture, had been captured for a long time. The Japanese pirates plundered north, but Wukang County has been held to this day, and the Japanese pirates who have captured the city have also gone north." Wu Baipeng sighed: "Xu Hai is going to escape."

"Eighty-mostly I can't stop it." Qian Yuan spread his hands, picked up the Miao Dao leaning against the table and drew a line on the map, "From Wuzhen, Nanxun, retreating eastward, passing Wangjiangjing, Xiushui County, Jiaxing County, Chongde County nearby..."

"There are too many places to escape, including Jinshan, Nanhui, Haiyan, Haining, and Pinghu in Jiaxing Prefecture." Qian Yuan shook his head, "Unless Yu Dayou and Wang Chonggu went south quickly, Liu Xian from Shaoxing Prefecture was north of Shanghai Ning at the same time, and sent another warship to sea to fight to find out where Xu Hai's fleet was."

"Warship..." Qian Yuan touched his chin that had begun to grow his beard, "I heard the news that in Taizhou... Qi Yuanjing, my uncle, and Jingchuan Gong both took a boat to sea and made a lot of gains."

In this battle, only Taizhou fought the best in the coastal prefectures, killing two thousand Japanese pirates and capturing more than ten sea ships. In this way, Qi Yuanjing and Tan Zili did not spend much effort.

Wu Baipeng also shook his head immediately. This was almost impossible. It was impossible for the north and south to cooperate so well. The government troops were born with fear of going to sea to fight.

"Shaoxing Prefecture, Ningbo Prefecture is still in chaos. Although the large number of Japanese pirates have retreated, the small number of Japanese pirates are wandering everywhere." Wu Baipeng sighed and said, "Liu Xian is afraid that he will not lead the army north so quickly, and he doesn't know what Songjiang Prefecture and Suzhou Prefecture are. Yu Dayou has not yet gone south to aid Jiaxing Prefecture..."

"According to Hou Longquan, after Xu Hai defeated Lu Tong's 4,000 troops, many Japanese pirates rushed from the sea to Songjiang and Suzhou." Qian Yuan no longer had any hope of staying Xu Hai this time. Although Yu Dayou was the general of Wusong, he actually had few troops.

This was a common way of decentralization in the Ming Dynasty. The new army under Yu Dayou's command was trained and trained, with a total strength of only about 4,000, and was responsible for the suppression of Japanese troops. Dong Bangzheng, deputy general of Wusong, was mainly responsible for the defense of Huating and Shanghai counties, while the 3,000 troops under Wang Chonggu did not enter Songjiang Prefecture, but only took care of Suzhou Prefecture.

The governor of Zhejiang Direct Hu Zongxian led the troops of six provinces, but in fact, they fought on their own and did not completely obey Hu Zongxian's arrangements. If nothing else is said, the Songjiang Prefecture will inevitably jump. Once Songjiang Prefecture is plundered by Japanese pirates, no matter how successful Yu Dayou went south to aid Jiaxing Prefecture, there will be impeachment memorials in the court. If the trouble is too big, Hu Zongxian will not be able to protect Yu Dayou.

Therefore, Hu Zongxian's power is actually mainly reflected in Zhejiang Province, which is also an important reason why he excluded Zhejiang Governor Ruan E.

Qian Yuan couldn't help feeling a little pitiful to Hu Zongxian. He tried his best to climb to the position of Governor of Zhejiang and Zhizhi, and nominally commanded the troops of the six provinces, but in fact his power was far less than that of Governor Xuanda and Governor of Ji Liao in the north.

However, Qian Yuan and Wu Baipeng both guessed wrongly this time.

At dusk that day, Zhejiang Eastern Governor Liu Xian led a army of 2,000 to Tongxiang, while Hu Zongxian was in the army.

Outside the governor's yamen, two rows of selected soldiers stood with their heads held high, but their spears, bird guns, and waist knives were all damaged. These twenty people were the warriors who killed the most Japanese in the battle outside Tongxiang County three days ago.

He Xinyin and Wu Chengqi, two old men who came from Shangyu, smiled bitterly. Hu Zongxian set up Qian Yuan and his hands half a month ago. Now Qian Yuan is going to collect the accounts... Look, with such broken weapons, he killed more than a thousand Japanese soldiers. Do you want Hu Zongxian to allocate more money?

Wu Baipeng was a little uncomfortable all over. He admired Qian Yuan's courage and courage, and also admired Qian Yuan's superb cooking skills. But this guy loves money so much and just took a pen from a wealthy man in the city!

Dozens of horses galloped over and stopped at the yamen gate. Hu Zongxian, who was in charge, turned over and dismounted, and walked in with an abnormal blush on his tired face.

Wu Baipeng, He Xinyin, Wu Chengqi, Lu Bin, and Hou Jigao all retreated to the sides and divided a passage.
Chapter completed!