In fact, what Yang Daniu didn't know was that just over ten minutes after he left, two teams of Japanese pirates arrived one after another. They discussed with the team of Japanese pirates led by Tanikawa Masaharu for a while and then turned around and rushed towards Zhenjiang Prefecture...

Zhenjiang Prefecture is located in the west of Nanjing and the east of Jiangdu (Yangzhou Prefecture), and it is also a hub channel for the transportation of canals. Therefore, it has always been a place that military strategists must fight for. In more than two hundred years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhenjiang faced two military disasters. Sadly, these two military disasters were related to Japanese pirates.

The scorching summer is scattered on the ground. People are bustling with people in the past. Zhenjiang City is now rare. The ships that were originally woven by the river are gone. The once prosperous hinterland of Jiangnan has become lifeless. The four gates of Zhenjiang City are tightly closed. On the city wall, which is seven or eight meters high, there is a young and strong soldier wearing a blue turban with most of his head, wearing purple cloth armor, and legs wrapped around his feet. These soldiers are holding spears or holding waist knives. Almost everyone's eyes are nervously observing the movement outside the city wall. On the north gate tower, the current Zhenjiang Prefect Wu Zhenliang, accompanied by the Zhenjiang Guard Gong Daxian, checking the defense of the city defense.

Seeing the numerous ragged Japanese pirates outside the city wall constantly making strange roars and provocative ridicule at the city wall, Wu Zhenliang's face looked very bad. He turned to ask Gong Daxian and said, "Gong Shoujie, the bandits are so rampant. As the Zhenjiang Shoujie, do you have no strategy to retreat to the enemy?"

Gong Daxian said bitterly: "Sir, don't look at the thieves' equipment, but their combat power is extremely powerful. Now our Zhenjiang has only more than 2,000 soldiers to fight. It is already extremely barely difficult to defend the city wall. There are no spare strength to go out of the city to fight the thieves. If you want to retreat, you can only wait until the reinforcements arrive."

"snort……"

Wu Zhenliang snorted coldly and stopped talking. Since Zhenjiang City was besieged by Japanese pirates half a month ago, Wu Zhenjiang has fallen into inexplicable anxiety. Although he has not experienced the harm of Japanese pirates in person, Jiajing is only a hundred years away from now. He is very clear about the harm of Japanese pirates, whether it is the rumors of the government or the records in the book. He knows very well what will happen if he is attacked by Japanese pirates. As for the escape, don't think about it. The Ming Dynasty has been established for more than 200 years, and there has never been an example of civil servants who escaped during his tenure. Even if he ran away, the final result was that he was caught by the court and pushed to Caishikou and beheaded. Instead of letting his family be shamed and defamed for thousands of years, it would be better to break himself when the city was broken.

Perhaps because he noticed the uneasiness in Wu Zhenliang's heart, Gong Daxian comforted him: "Don't panic, sir. Although the Japanese pirates are cruel, they are too few. They cannot attack the city wall. As long as we defend the city, the Japanese pirates will naturally retreat when reinforcements arrive."

Wu Zhenliang, who was told about his thoughts, glared at Gong Daxian in a angrily manner. This guy dared to underestimate him. If it were normal, he would have to give this vulgar martial artist a good look. However, now the enemy is not easy to attack, so he can only snort and scold him: "Gong Shoujie is not so bad. At most, the Japanese pirates are only more than 2,000 soldiers guarding the city. In addition, there are tens of thousands of young and strong men, but they are trapped in the city by only Japanese pirates and cannot move at all. If it is spread, you, the Zhenjiang garrison, may be blind."

Although Gong Daxian, the garrison, was also in the fourth rank and the prefect Wu Zhenliang, the Ming Dynasty is now a lowly literary and military man. He naturally couldn't refute him, so he could only smile bitterly and turn his head. However, when he looked outside again, his face immediately changed. He pointed at the mouth in front of him and made a sound of chirping. In a hurry, he couldn't speak for a while.

When Wu Zhenliang saw Gong Daxian's appearance, he thought the other party was so scolded that he could not speak. He had just a look of contempt in his eyes, but when he looked in the distance with the other party's finger, his originally contemptuous eyes immediately changed, and his face turned pale in an instant. At this moment, he made the same move as Gong Daxian, pointed to the front and screamed in a stuttering voice: "No, the Tartars are going to attack the city... Go up to the city wall to defend the city!"

With Wu Zhenliang's screams, the entire city wall began to boil. Many soldiers ran around like headless flies. The city wall was filled with the screams of soldiers and the shouts of officers...

More than a mile away from the city wall, under the escort of dozens of Japanese pirates wearing bamboo armor, a burly and ferocious Japanese pirate wearing copper pocket helmet and bronze armor, with a burly and ferocious face was standing on a hillside, quietly watching hundreds of Japanese pirates in ragged clothes holding various weapons rushing towards the city wall in front, and beside him was Masaharu Tanikawa, who had just rushed back from outside.

This Japanese pirate is no other person. It is the Japanese pirate leader Homo erectile Hua Kan, who has caused chaos in the entire Jiangsu Province in recent times.

Homohira Kanabe was the leader of a samurai daime in Japan. Daming was defeated and died in the battle with other samurai. The defeated Homohira had no choice but to flee Japan with more than 100 samurai who were loyal to him. Then he went to the coast of Ming Dynasty to engage in pirates. Because the warriors he led were brave and ruthless in fighting, he grabbed many wealth that he never dared to imagine in the past in just over a year, and his team expanded to more than two thousand people like snowballs.

When the team was big, his heart became wild. He realized that the Ming Dynasty was weak and he thought that the opportunity had come. He believed that as long as he worked hard to win several cities, he could achieve hegemony in the Ming Dynasty, and even become a famous name or even a king in a foreign country. So, he, who had originally led his troops to wander around, also had the idea of ​​attacking the city. Zhenjiang Prefecture, which is a place that must be fought for and rich in military strategists, became his first goal.

Although Hiroshi Kaka was brave, he was not stupid. He knew very well that it was difficult to occupy a city from the mouth of the Ming Dynasty. It was not easy for the Japanese pirates who were used to fighting to fight. In these days, he ordered the Japanese pirates to build a lot of ladders and siege tools, and also sent teams to plunder everywhere. Just as he was counting the plundered wealth, a leader came to report and found the traces of the Ming cavalry. Moreover, these Ming pirates were very different from the Ming army they encountered these days. This cavalry was much more skillful in terms of equipment and skills.
Chapter completed!