Zhu Pingan drew a map of the movements of the Shangyu Japanese pirates after they landed, marked Yingtian and other places as well, and carefully recalled the deeds of the group of Japanese pirates that attacked Nanjing that he had read about in modern times.
When Zhu Pingan was in modern times, he had browsed through the relevant historical records, saying that during the Jiajing period, there was a group of about 53 Japanese pirates who travelled across 3,000 miles, robbed the provinces of Zheijiang, Anhui, and Suzhou, and plundered more than 20 states and counties, and violated the capital, Nanjing, in a blatant manner.
Of course, the surviving historical materials are controversial about the number of Japanese invaders, the historical materials are different, the records are not the same, some say that it is fifty-three days, some say that it is seventy-two, and some just roughly recorded sixty or seventy people.
Despite the controversy, the number of Japanese invaders is basically confirmed to be between fifty and seventy.
The Japanese pirates that landed in Shangyu now had about ninety people left, and they were still separated from Nanjing by Taipingfu, etc. It was estimated that when they killed all the way to Yingtian, they would still lose some manpower on the way, especially because Taipingfu had a garrison, so when they arrived in Yingtian, the manpower that they had left was estimated to be between fifty and seventy people.
Therefore, this group of Japanese pirates was basically the same as the group that attacked Yingtian in terms of numbers.
Then, Zhu Pingan discovered that apart from the number of people, the travelling routes of the Japanese were also basically the same. Historical records show that the group of Japanese invaders that attacked Nanjing landed in Zhejiang and robbed the provinces of Zhejiang, Anhui, and Suzhou all the way across 3,000 miles; this group of Japanese invaders landed in Shangyu, Zhejiang, and then turned inland from Zhejiang into Anhui, and now they have already crossed more than 1,800 miles. …… So the routes before the attack on Nanjing, as well as the distance travelled, basically coincide.
In addition to the above two points, there is also the combat power.
According to historical records, the group of Japanese invaders that attacked Yingtian had amazing combat power, like wild boars, charging across the territory of the Ming Dynasty, piggybacking, with few rivals, and even some historical records said that there was no Japanese invaders with higher combat power than this group of Japanese invaders during the decades of the Jiajing period when the Japanese invasion was the most serious.
This group of Japanese invaders landed in Shangyu, their combat power is also extremely tough, Tong newspaper has recorded many times that they catch arrows with their empty hands, Zhu Pingan has never seen such a capable Japanese invaders, and even feel that they can be categorised as the special forces in the ancient times.
Therefore, in terms of combat power, the Japanese pirates that landed in Shangyu and the Japanese pirates that attacked Yingtian in history are basically the same.
There are too many of these coincidences!
There were no coincidences in history!
Thinking of this, Zhu Pingan could already conclude that the group of Japanese pirates that landed in Shangyu were the same group of Japanese pirates that had brazenly attacked Nanjing as recorded in history.
Therefore, it was imperative to report to Yingtian as soon as possible, and to be prepared early and well-prepared so as to avoid repeating the mistakes of history.
Historically, this group of Japanese invaders attacked Yingtian, causing Yingtian to lose its troops and generals, and the historical record used the phrase “almost attacked Yingtian” to describe it, so it can be seen how great the harm done by this group of Japanese invaders was to Yingtian and how serious the trauma it caused was!
This incident has a far-reaching impact, not only to make the court of the Ming Dynasty serious shame, a heavy blow to the morale of anti-Japanese, but also the side of the encouragement to stimulate the Japanese invaders, so that the south of the Yangtze River, the Japanese more surging, like a fire in full swing up.
Never repeat the mistakes of history!
Zhu Pingan’s gaze became firm, and without delay, he sent someone to call Liu Dazhou and others, and asked them to follow him to ride to Yingtian to warn the enemy!
On the way to Yingtian on horseback, Zhu Pingan had been thinking hard about why this group of Japanese invaders wanted to attack Nanjing! If they wanted to attack Nanking, wouldn’t it have been closer for them to go directly from Shangyu to Hangzhou to Nanking? Or wouldn’t it be more convenient to land near Yingtian? Why risk going deeper inland and making such a big circle before attacking Nanking? What conspiracy do they have?
Zhu Pingan spurred his horse while racking his brain to think hard about these questions above.
This group of Japanese invaders were by no means lost and misdirected! When they fought with the government troops, they not only had strong force, but were also good at setting up ambushes, attacking from the east and striking from the west, and other tactics. From this, it can be seen that this group of Japanese invaders were definitely cunning people with a lot of tricks!
Therefore, this group of Japanese invaders would never penetrate into the inland for no reason, they must be scheming and ill-intentioned!
But why did the scheming and malicious Japanese pirates take such a great risk to go inland and attack the heavily fortified Yingtian City? A lone army went deep into a foreign country to make a big circle, and with the loss of half of their troops, they still had to attack the heavily guarded giant city!
This is like a suicide trip!
Why?
What kind of conspiracy were the Japanese brewing?
Zhu Pingan pondered for a long time on the back of his horse, but still did not come up with an answer that made sense.
If you can’t think clearly, then think differently.
Zhu Pingan imagined himself as a Japanese pirate, came across the ocean, landed in the Ming Dynasty Zhejiang Shangyu, burned and looted a village and town, not only did not flee, but also had the courage to drink and eat meat in the village and town in one of the most elegant courtyard, singing and dancing, and build up their strength, waiting for the Ming Dynasty Shaoxing Prefecture, the joint forces of the guards to come to encircle and annihilate the Ming Dynasty, when the Ming army came, took the initiative to attack and kill the Shaoxing Prefecture, the joint forces of the guards, and killed the Ming Dynasty army, and then, after killing them, they retired into the courtyard. Take the initiative to retreat into the courtyard, sitting and waiting for the Ming army reinforcements, in the Ming army night before the fire attack, and then kill a wave of the besieged Ming army, tore an opening, take the raft across the river easily out of the Ming army encirclement; crossing the river, found more than three hundred heavily armed escorting the official sedan chair night procession, ambush attacked and killed, and then raised the long way north; north to arrive at the Qiantang River, turn the direction of the west, and go deeper into the inland, and hastened to reach the Changhua County, slaughtered the fish and rice villages, and came to the encirclement of the Changhua County officers and soldiers killed a shit, take advantage of the situation into the Changhua County, a burst of burning and looting, continue to the west to reach the submerged county, once again burning and looting, attracting the submerged county officers and soldiers to come to the siege, ambush in the officers and soldiers must be on the road, will be submerged in the submerged county officers and soldiers attacked and killed a man and horse; continue to the west into the Chun’an County, once again killed the defeated officers and soldiers; the West into the Huizhou Prefecture, the attack on the passes ……
Zhu Pingan imagined himself as a Japanese pirate, landing, killing, attacking the officials and soldiers, attacking the county, and attacking the passes ……
“Eh?!”
The corner of Zhu Pingan’s eye suddenly jumped, sensing a problem, this group of Japanese pirates were fighting with the officials too often!
They came across the sea and far away from the ocean, it seems that they are not seeking wealth, but rather they are doing it for the sake of the Ming army everywhere as if they are doing it for the sake of the Ming army, no matter which county or province they come to, they are going to do it with the local officials and soldiers, and even if they are able to avoid it, they are not avoiding it!
If there is anyone who is most familiar with the situation of the Ming army on this road, it is not this group of Japanese pirates!
Wait, familiar with the situation of the Ming army?
It was like a flash of light cutting through the night! Zhu Pingan’s eyes instantly widened and he couldn’t help but blurt out, “They are scouts!”
This group of Japanese pirates landed from Shangyu in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and headed north to the Qiantang River, turning inland to Changhua, Yu Qian, Chun’an, Huizhou Prefecture, Ningguo Prefecture, Taiping Prefecture, Yingtian Prefecture, and Suzhou Prefecture …… Around the most prosperous Jiangsu and Shanghai area of Jiangnan turned a big circle, roaming around the war for three thousand miles, where the human resources, material resources, terrain, military strength, war power are not clear in the chest; my terrain, military strength for him to see, his day into the invasion of the enemy, how to check it!
What a big appetite!
I’m sure there is a malicious intent!
