Zhu Pingan took the reaction of Zhang Tiantai and the other three into his eyes and knew that they did not believe in his military intelligence, which was actually expected by him. If he had not known history, had the foresight to foresee the future, and had valued and carefully studied this group of Japanese pirates, he himself would not have believed that less than a hundred Japanese pirates would dare to attack the accompanying capital, Yingtian.
However, believe it or not, this was the upcoming fact.
“Lord Tendai, Lord Bai, Lord Zhang, the reason why Ping An deduced that this group of Japanese pirates will attack Yingtian is because of the conclusion that my humble servant came to after carefully combing through and studying this group of Japanese pirates.” Zhu Pingan arched his hand with a serious face and said.
“Oh, how did you come to such a conclusion from your research, Sir Zhu?” Zhang Tuan Tai asked curiously.
“Heh, this deduction is still a conclusion that you, Zi Hou, came to after carefully combing through your research, ah? Hehe, if Zi Hou you hadn’t carefully combed through your research, wouldn’t you have been able to conclude that this group of less than a hundred Japanese invaders were going to continue travelling for tens of thousands of miles north to attack the Forbidden City of my Ming Dynasty?” Zhang Chufeng couldn’t help but laugh out loud, taunting Zhu Pingan.
Attacking the Forbidden City …… Vice-Admiral Bai couldn’t help but be amused as well after hearing Zhang Chufeng’s words.
“Back to the Tuan Tai, my humble servant has carefully combed through and studied the group of Japanese pirates that landed in Shangyu, and discovered four characteristics that set them apart from other Japanese pirates. Firstly, the Japanese pirates in Shangyu are very tough and elite, far more than other pirates, although other pirates are also very powerful, but I have not seen that group of pirates as elite and tough as the Shangyu pirates, more than a hundred people travelled across thousands of miles of my Ming, and passed through the prefectures and counties of the officials and soldiers, more than 2,000, less than 500 or 600, and there is no one who can resist them. Secondly, I found that the Japanese who landed in Shangyu were all real ones, and I did not see any records of fake ones. Thirdly, the Japanese who landed in Shangyu did not aim at plundering property, but rather at fighting. They landed from Shangyu all the way to rob Shaoxing, Changhua, silt potential, Chun’an, Huizhou, Taiping Province and other places, all the way to kill and set fire to the city to pull down the fortress, and rarely robbed the property, that is, to break the government treasury, but also more than a torch, on the contrary, they did not come to a county, did not come to a government, will fight with the local army, even if it can be avoided, but also do not avoid it. I summarised and sorted it out, this group of Japanese invaders didn’t miss the opportunity to fight with any of the county officials and soldiers along the way, and there wasn’t a single exception; fourthly, the Japanese invaders’ marching routes were very different from those of other Japanese invaders. Generally speaking, after landing on the south-east coast, the Japanese invaders would loot and plunder in the coastal counties and then quickly set sail to escape from the sea; however, this was not the case with the Japanese invaders who landed in Shangyu; after landing in Shangyu, they did not continue to roam around the coastal areas, but rather, they marched westward and penetrated into the interior of more than 800 miles, and went deeper and deeper in the interior to the area of Huizhou Prefecture and Taiping Prefecture, and then went northward once again… . ever since our dynasty had the Japanese plague, there hasn’t been that Japanese invasion that had such a bandit looting route.” Zhu Pingan turned a blind eye to Zhang Chufeng’s taunts, and reported to Zhang Tiantai with an unperturbed arch.
“Zi Hou, what does this tell us?” Zhang Chufeng interrupted Zhu Pingan and said in disbelief.
Zhang Tuan Tai and Vice-Admiral Bai also both looked at Zhu Pingan, somewhat puzzled. As Zhang Chufeng said, even if the Japanese pirates that landed in Shangyu had these characteristics that were different from other Japanese pirates, but what could it mean.
“Lord Tendai, Lord Bai, and Lord Zhang, my humble servant deduces that the reason why this group of Japanese pirates that came across the sea and ocean are few and tough, and do not aim to loot and pillage property, and repeatedly engage in battles with the officials and soldiers from all over the world, is because they are the elite scouting outposts of the Japanese pirates in the Japanese country. At present, the Japanese country is in war, and the daimyo of various places are in serious lack of food, grass and money, and they have long been salivating over the rich and fertile Jiangnan area of my Ming. They have been sent by the Japanese pirates to spy on the military strength, combat power, topography and terrain of our Ming, so that they can enter the region in a big way in the future! This group of Japanese pirates since the landing of Zhejiang Shangyu, all the way to Shaoxing, Changhua, silt dive, Chun’an, Huizhou, Taiping Province and other places to spy, all the human resources, material resources, terrain, troop strength, combat strength are all clear in the chest, and in the future when the Japanese pirates to invade the invasion of the enemy in large quantities, my Ming terrain, troop strength and other facts and figures for them, your Excellency, imagine, at that time, how can we control it.”
Zhu Pingan swept his eyes over Zhang Tiantai and the others, arched his hands and slowly explained to them.
“Hehe, it’s a pity that Lord Zhu doesn’t go to write a Chi Monster storybook. The Japanese trouble has begun since the pseudo Yuan period, and has continued off and on for a hundred years now, the terrain of my Daming’s troop strength and combat power, etc., they should have learnt about it long ago, so why do they need to go through all the trouble of coming back to spy on it once again.” Zhang Chufeng shook his head.
“Lord Zhang, it is not true. Since the Pseudo-Yuan, the Japanese invasion is only limited to individual areas along the coast, and assemble a small problem, the Pseudo-Yuan and our dynasty strictly control the map, the Japanese invaders at most only understand the topography of the prefectures and counties close to the coast, inland topography, they have no way to understand the topography of the terrain. As for the troop strength, combat power and other situations they are even more unlikely to understand, troop deployment changes every year, combat power is even more varied, earlier years of troop strength, combat power, material resources and other situations have long been inapplicable to today.” Zhu Pingan faintly opened his mouth.
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“Er …… Zhang Chufeng was stunned for a moment, but quickly thought of another reason and continued to shake his head in rebuttal.
“Lord Zhang, the Japanese pirates joined by my Daming bandits are all retrograde Japanese pirates led by Wang Zhi and Mao Haifeng, these Japanese pirates do not need the deployment of my Daming’s topography and terrain, but the Japanese pirates are not, as I said just now, the Japanese pirates that landed in Shangyu are all true Japanese pirates, there are no false Japanese pirates in existence. In addition, these bandits only know the topography of the terrain, but they have no way of knowing the strength of the troops and the strength of the battlefield. Therefore, the Japanese Japanese have handpicked elite Japanese bandits and sent them as outposts to spy on the realities of our Great Ming.” Zhu Pingan had long guessed that Zhang Chufeng was going to say this, and when his words trailed off, he slowly spoke.
“Er, heh, this is also just your personal wishful speculation, Lord Zhu. There are many irregularities in it.” After Zhang Chufeng froze for a few seconds, he suddenly had a flash of light, then shook his head with a smile and continued to retort, “If according to your speculation, they are the outpost scouts of the Japanese invaders, then it is even more unlikely that they would go to attack Yingtian. My Yingtian’s capital is a high city with a deep pool, many soldiers and generals, and plenty of armaments and foodstuffs, so for the Japanese to come to attack with less than a hundred soldiers is tantamount to suicide. If they are Japanese scout outposts, how can they commit suicide, the Japanese Japanese are still waiting for them to pass the message back.”
Attacking his own shield with his own spear, huh, let’s see how you explain it. Zhang Chufeng confidently looked at Zhu Pingan, waiting for Zhu Pingan to make a fool of himself.
