Since receiving the pond report, Zhu Pingan has been paying close attention to the news of the group of 150 Japanese pirates yesterday, but for two days in a row did not receive news of this group of pirates, Zhu Pingan even suspected that this group of pirates along the Qiantang River out of the sea far away. These days, it’s not uncommon for Japanese pirates to come ashore, grab a handful and run away.
However, Zhu Ping’an thought that this group of Japanese pirates would not go out to the sea so easily, because this group of Japanese pirates had fierce strength, and since the landing in Shangyu, they had won successively in burning, killing and looting, and had not suffered a single defeat, and had no loss of personnel, and they still had the ability to continue to commit crimes and loot. The Japanese pirates, as strong as they were, were definitely not satisfied with the fact that they only landed for half a day and only burned and looted a small town, an imperial official who returned to his hometown, and a small village! The Japanese invaders were so strong that they must have a huge appetite and a huge ambition.
Zhu Pingan judged that they would continue to commit evils and sins until they had robbed enough or their strength was severely damaged, then they would go far away.
However, strangely enough, after disappearing by the Qiantang River, this group of Japanese bandits hibernated for two whole days without revealing a single trace of what mischief they were harbouring? Where was their next destination?
Zhu Pingan was puzzled!
On the third day, Zhu Pingan couldn’t help but handwrite a few official letters for Liu Mu to hold and head to Yingtian City, to go to the Yingtian Ministry of Military Affairs and other divisions to probe the news of this group of Japanese invaders, when Liu Mu was about to depart, another pond report arrived at the Zhejian military camp.
When Zhu Pingan received the report, he had an intuition that the report must have something to do with the group of Japanese invaders that landed in Shangyu.
Sure enough, when Zhu Pingan opened the pond report, he saw the news of this group of Japanese pirates!
However, when he saw the location where this group of Japanese invaders had appeared, Zhu Pingan could not help but let out a “Hm?!”He let out a cry.
Unbelievable!
After disappearing from the Qiantang River, this group of Japanese pirates appeared in Changhua County yesterday afternoon!
This direction is not right! Changhua County is in the west, one hundred kilometres, or two hundred miles, west of Hangzhou Prefecture.
This distance is not close!
Theoretically, when Japanese pirates plunder, it’s usually along the coast, and the place where this group of Japanese pirates disappeared was along the Qiantang River, and disappeared after massacring Wangjiang Village, which is along the Qiantang River, and on the opposite bank is the outskirts of Hangzhou Prefecture.
The Japanese should have crossed the Qiantang River and gone north and east, plundering the coast so that they could flee to the sea.
How come this group of Japanese put on the other side of the rich suburbs of Hangzhou Province, coastal areas do not go, how to go west, deep inland to go?
In response, Zhu Ping An could not help but let out a questioning “huh?”Zhu Ping An could not help but let out a questioning “Huh?” sound, wondering how this group of Japanese invaders went west.
Zhu Ping An had two suspicions at this time, one was that this group of Japanese invaders had lost their way, they had travelled a long way across the sea and were unfamiliar with the land, so they wanted to go east, but they turned around or lost their way, and went in the opposite direction; there was also a suspicion that this group of Japanese invaders had massacred the Wangjiang Village before disappearing along the Qiantang River, so were they also abducting people familiar with the terrain of the neighbouring areas of the Wangjiang Village, and asking them to lead them, and then they ended up risking their lives to pitfalls, just as the little hero Wang Er Xiao had done.Hero Wang Er Xiao like risking their lives to pit the Japanese pirates, deliberately bringing the Japanese pirates to the west, bringing the Japanese pirates to the inland, so that the Japanese pirates fell into the inland surrounded by officials and soldiers from all over the country!
But this was the case, and after disappearing by the village of Wangjiang on the Qiantang River, the group of Japanese invaders appeared on the opposite bank, Changhua County, two hundred miles to the west!
The Japanese bandits slaughtered the fish and rice villages on the riverside of Changhua County. The governor of Changhua County led a total of four hundred soldiers and civilians to come and fight against the Japanese bandits, but the result was no match for the Japanese bandits, and they were easily defeated by the Japanese bandits, and the governor of Changhua County fell off his horse and was rescued by his subordinates in a desperate attempt to save his life.
After defeating the governor of Changhua County, the Japanese followed the Japanese and entered the city of Changhua County from the south gate of Changhua County, burned and looted in the county, and then came out from the west gate.
After the Japanese out of Changhua County, evening and appeared in the Changhua County next to the territory of Yu Qian County, robbed the town of Hamu, Yu Qian County Secretary rate of soldiers, officers, the people strong to go to eliminate the Japanese, a line has not yet reached the town of Hamu, the middle of the way will meet the Japanese ambush, in the death and injury of a number of people, Yu Qian County Secretary rate of the people strategically back (scampered), the Japanese were then along the way to loot, along the road, the people died and were heavily injured. ……
Pond News finally recorded that Hangzhou Province was shaken by this ……
“Alas ……”
Seeing this account, Zhu Pingan couldn’t help but sigh in contempt.
This group of Japanese invaders was still the same group of Japanese invaders! Fierce, ferocious, cunning, and good at fighting! Good at setting up ambushes!
This was no ordinary Japanese pirate!
This group of Japanese invaders was simply like a special army that was good at fighting!
I don’t want to admit it!
But it’s true!
Compared to them, the soldiers along the road are like a rabble!
After sighing for a long time, Zhu Pingan unfolded the report and carefully read it again, this time focusing on the details.
After reading it again, Zhu Pingan found a problem, this pond report records that the Japanese invaders faced by Changhua County were more than 130 people, less than 140 people.
One hundred and thirty people?
Wasn’t this group of Japanese bandits 150 people? How did it become more than one hundred and thirty people?
The Japanese have been reduced in number!
Where did they go? In the two days since they disappeared from Wangjiang Village and appeared in Changhua County, the Japanese have lost ten men. The Tong Newspaper didn’t record where the Japanese plundered in these two days, so either the Japanese were on the road in these two days, or the Japanese plundered a remote village in these two days, and due to the remoteness of the village, they haven’t been discovered yet. Then the reason for the attrition of the Japanese invaders might be natural causes, such as drowning in a boat that capsized while crossing a river, or they might have encountered fierce resistance while plundering a remote village, resulting in attrition.
No matter what the reason was, it was a good thing that there was an attrition of the Japanese. Otherwise, one would have thought that this group of Japanese invaders were invulnerable to swords and spears!
After reading the pond report, Zhu Pingan took advantage of the training gap, the content of the pond report to the whole army briefly and succinctly declared once, and urged the Zheijiang army up and down to strengthen the training, “sweating more in peacetime, less tears in wartime ……”
In this way, after another day, Zhu Pingan in the evening and received a pond newspaper.
No need to think, this pond newspaper records certainly still the news of this group of Japanese invaders. As expected, when he opened the newspaper, the content he saw was exactly this group of Japanese pirates.
“Eh?!”
Seeing the location of the Japanese invaders, Zhu Pingan couldn’t help but let out the same puzzled “hmm” sound he made yesterday.
This group of Japanese pirates had unexpectedly appeared in Huizhou Prefecture!
After plundering Chun’an County, the Japanese pirates appeared in Huizhou Prefecture!
Huizhou Prefecture was to the west of Yu Qian County and Chang Hua County, and even further inland, Huizhou Prefecture was already Anhui Province!
Anhui Province! Have these Japanese gone crazy? Why are they still heading west? Zhu Pingan had ten thousand doubts in his mind!
This group of Japanese invaders have lost their way too much! They are lost to Anhui Province!
Or is it that this group of Japanese pirates have turned, they have travelled a long way, they are not familiar with the area, they thought they were heading east, but it turned out that they were heading west? Can’t be, it’s been four days, turned around for four whole days?
Moreover, this group of Japanese invaders also entered Huizhou too easily.
Huizhou is known as “eight and a half mountains and water, half of the farmland and manor”, Huizhou territory is a mountain after mountain, a peak after a peak, hill screen column, ridge and valley intertwined, the terrain is particularly complex.
Especially, Huizhou is the junction of Anhui Province and Zhejiang Province, this junction is a pass!
