Brother Mu, what is the current situation in Linhai, Huangyan, Tiantai counties as well as Taizhou Prefecture?”Zhu Pingan asked.
“Your Excellency, Linhai, Huangyan, and Tiantai counties have also been hit by Japanese invaders, and the invaders of these three counties are the same group of Japanese invaders, the leader of the thieves is named Jiangmen Lord, and he is the most powerful, with nearly 5,000 Japanese invaders under his command. The county towns of Linhai and Huangyan were both destroyed by this Jiangmen master, but the county town of Tiantai was spared. The governor of Tiantai County was killed by an arrow from a Japanese pirate while defending the city, and when the city was about to be lost, a group of Shaolin monks came to rescue it. It was said that the governor of Tiantai County had always taken care of the temples and was very generous, and the two temples in Tiantai County had received favours from the governor of Tiantai County. Therefore, when the monks of the two temples heard that Japanese invaders were besieging the city of Tiantai, they spontaneously organised eighty monks to go to the rescue, and these monks, each holding an iron rod of thirty to forty catties, were so strong that they fought off the Japanese invaders, and saved the city of Tiantai in the time of danger. However, there were still some Japanese invaders outside Tiantai County, eyeing the city. As for Taizhou Prefecture, there is news that Taizhou Prefecture has been surrounded by Jiangmen Lord since yesterday, but strangely enough, although Jiangmen Lord has surrounded Taizhou Prefecture, he has not rushed to attack the city.”
Liu Mu carefully reported back to Zhu Pingan the news he had poked around.
“Are you saying that Jiangmen Lord has surrounded but not attacked Taizhou Mansion?”Zhu Pingan’s dark, ink-like eyes flashed with a bright light after hearing this.
“Precisely. Jiangmen Lord only blockaded Taizhou Mansion and did not rush to attack the city, not even a tentative feint.”Liu Mu nodded.
If they were surrounding but not attacking, not rushing to attack the city, Zhu Pingan stroked his chin, and in his heart, he was seven or eight percent certain that this Jiangmen master should be waiting for the two groups of Japanese pirates, Honda Heihachi and Iron King Kong, to join him and attack the city together.
These three groups of Japanese pirates landed almost at the same time, one group plundered Jingnan and Taiping, one group plundered Ninghai and Xianju, and one group plundered Linhai, Huangyan, and Tiantai, which just happened to divide the seven counties under the jurisdiction of the Taizhou Prefecture cleanly.
Coincidence? No, this is not a coincidence!
These three groups of Japanese pirates must be a group, before landing they conspired to divide the seven counties under the jurisdiction of Taizhou, and then agreed to meet under the city of Taizhou to attack Taizhou, which is a high city with a deep pool and a large number of defenders. The reason why the Jiangmen master had not attacked Taizhou was that he was waiting for the two groups of Japanese pirates, Honda Heihachi and Iron King Kong, to join him.
The Jiangmen master had 5,000 Japanese invaders under his command, which was far more than the number of Japanese invaders under the command of Honda Heihachi and Tie Jingang, so the Jiangmen master should be the general leader of this group of Japanese invaders, and he must have the highest position and the most important say in this group of Japanese invaders.
Since Master Jiang was waiting, then Honda Heihachi and Iron King Kong would surely come.
In this way, occupying Taiping County, Honda Heihachi, to go to Taizhou City to meet with the Jiangmen master, will not stay in Taiping County, then, that …… himself is not an opportunity to grab a “restoration of Taiping County” of the war, if the planning is correct, this war will be as good as nothing.If the plan is correct, the war work is the same as the white pick up.
However, this is all based on their own speculation.
Are the Jiangmen masters, Honda Heihachi and Iron King Kong a group? Did they agree to join forces outside Taizhou? All of these are yet to be verified.
How?
Of course it’s to find Japanese pirates!
Capture a few Japanese prisoners, hold them separately, and open their mouths for verification.
However, it is not easy to do it, but it is not easy to catch the Japanese pirates just because they say so.
“Brother Mak, I suspect that the three groups of Japanese bandits, Honda Heihachi, Iron King Kong, and Jiang Menzhu, are a group. Where Jiangmen Lord is taking a siege but not attacking Taizhou Prefecture City, I suspect that he is waiting for Honda Heihachi and Iron King Kong to join up with him and attack the city after combining their forces. Unlike county towns, Taizhou Prefecture is a high and deep city with a large number of guards, so it would not be easy for one group of Japanese to break through the prefectural capital with only Jiangmen’s master. Only when the three groups of Japanese pirates join forces and take advantage of the military strength will they be able to break through the capital.”Zhu Pingan took a sip of tea, looked towards Liu Mu, and slowly said.
“Your Excellency has a point.”After listening to Zhu Pingan’s analysis, Liu Mu thought a little and nodded vigorously.
“These are all my guesses.”Zhu Pingan said softly, “It remains to be verified.”
“Your Excellency, what to verify?”Liu Mu asked.
“To verify, it’s best to find Japanese pirates to verify and capture a few Japanese prisoners ……However, this is not easy.”Zhu Pingan said slowly.
“Ah, I should have known that those few Japanese pirates wouldn’t have been killed ……”Liu Mu sniffed and said with remorse.
Zhu Pingan sniffed and looked up at Liu Mu.
“Your Excellency, today when we went to Tai Ping County to scout for news, we met a few Japanese pirates roaming the countryside to burn and loot on the road, and slaughtered them all in passing. Had I known, it would have been better to capture them.”Liu Mu was remorseful, but quickly said with an arch, “If you want to capture a few Japanese prisoners, it’s not difficult at all. After Honda Heihachi took over Taiping County, there were often groups of Japanese pirates who went to the countryside to kill, loot, and harm the people. It is not difficult to capture a few Japanese prisoners. Your Excellency, please rest assured, and leave the matter of capturing Japanese prisoners to us.”
When Zhu Pingan heard this, his eyes couldn’t help but light up, yes, the Japanese are disorganised, so they can catch the single ones.
“My lord, it’s nighttime now, it’s easier to act. I’ll go find Big Dagger and the others right now and catch a few Japanese prisoners back.”Liu Mu arched his hand and asked for help, confident as if catching Japanese captives was like going to the food market to buy food.
“Good, then I’ll count on you guys, Brother Mu. But you have to be more careful, with safety as the top priority, set your target on those single Japanese pirates, don’t mess with those large groups of Japanese pirates, just look for them in the countryside near my Jingnan, don’t go deeper into Taiping County, it doesn’t matter if you can’t catch any Japanese pirate captives. Also, we captured quite a few Japanese swords when we defended the city, you can bring them with you and pretend to be Japanese pirates.”Zhu Pingan nodded and rose to his feet, arching his hand, urging Liu Mu to be more careful and suggesting that Liu Mu and the others could pretend to be Japanese pirates.
Zhu Pingan was still very assured of Liu Mu and his men, Liu Mu and his men were hunters by birth and had great martial arts skills, as long as they didn’t encounter a large group of Japanese pirates, safety was not a problem, and if they dressed up as Japanese pirates, it would be easier for them to hide and get away.
“Don’t worry, Your Excellency, we’ll go and return.”Liu Mu arched his hand and said.
Soon, Liu Mu found Liu Dazhou, Liu Dahammer and a few of them, and selected five more among the government officials, all of them changed into the clothes of the Japanese invaders, and each of them brought a Japanese sword with them, pretending to be Japanese invaders, and rode to Taiping County in the night.
Zhu Pingan sent them out of the county office and had been waiting in the lobby of the county office.
After about two hours, a sound of horses’ hooves could be heard outside, and Zhu Pingan quickly stepped out of the lobby.
Sure enough, as soon as Zhu Pingan arrived at the gate of the county office, he saw Liu Mu and the others.
“Your Excellency, fortunately, we caught five alive.”
Liu Mu, Liu Dazhou and the others rolled over and dismounted from their horses, saluting Zhu Pingan, with five Japanese pirates tied up on their horses’ backs.
“Good!”
Zhu Pingan had a joyful look on his face and praised them.
