Yesterday, after Zhu Pingan returned from Yingtian to the schoolyard of Peach Blossom Collection, he actively prepared the army for war, but since it was already late in the day when he came back, it was not easy to carry out some things that needed to be done out of the camp, such as purchasing and so on. When Zhu Pingan stayed up at night to write the plan to prepare for the war, he listed the things that needed to be purchased out of the camp and wrote a letter to Lady Yi Lan of the Wuxi Miao Tusi with his own handwriting.
The next day, the sky only just had a touch of hazy morning sunlight, Zhu Pingan who only slept for less than two hours got up, simply washed up, and called Liu Dajun, Liu Dahammer and the others early in the morning.
“Big Gun, you hold one hundred taels of silver, pick fifty cavalrymen and go to Peach Blossom Market Town to purchase according to the items listed on the paper, if Peach Blossom Market Town can’t be purchased then go to Yingtian, be sure to go and come back quickly, don’t be delayed.”
“Sledgehammer, you hold my handwritten letter, as well as this one hundred taels of silver, select fifty cavalrymen, all equipped with two horses, and go all the way to the Wuxi Miao barbarians’ residence–Wuxi Miao town, pay a visit to the Wuxi Miao Tuji Burial Lan Lady, and find out how they are living under the mountain. What difficulties they have, and at the same time, acquire a large amount of their tribe’s secret knife wound medicine.”
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Zhu Pingan handed over the silver cheques, purchase orders, and letters to Liu Dazhun, Liu Dahammer, and the others respectively, ordering them to select their elite cavalry and split up. Since Wuxi Town, where the Wuxi Miao now resided, was far away, Zhu Ping’an especially emphasised that Liu Daham had to travel with a double horse so that they could change on the road.
The Shangyu Japanese were very ambitious and tough, so Zhu Pingan took it very seriously and made many preparations in advance.
Purchasing supplies was only one of them.
In a war, supplies and herbs are essential, and the secret medicine of Wuxi Miao has remarkable efficacy, so naturally, more is better.
When it was almost noon, Marquis Linhuai and Duke Wei came together, and they brought the latest news of the pond report to Zhu Pingan.
After reading the pond report once, Zhu Pingan returned to read it once more, then frowned, his expression following suit with seriousness.
“What’s wrong, Xian Nephew?Is there something wrong with the pond report?”Duke Wei and Marquis Linhuai put down their teacups and asked.
“Uncle, Ping An did find a problem.”Zhu Pingan nodded slightly and looked to the two men and explained, “Uncle, please look at the pond report records, Shangyu’s Japanese invaders had an encounter, Mu Yin and other ministries lost, the Japanese invaders drove Mu Yin’s ministries to attack Zeng Qiandu’s ministries, resulting in Zeng Qiandu’s ministries being in great disarray, and then following Mu Yin’s ministries collapsed by thousands of miles, the Japanese invaders achieved a great victory with no effort at all. However, in such an easy victory, the Shangyu Japanese lost twenty to thirty men, setting the highest battle loss record since they landed in Ming!Don’t you think it’s strange?In the past, the Shangyu Japanese had fought with the government soldiers many times, but the losses were very small, at most only a few Japanese were killed and a few were injured, how could there have ever been such a loss of twenty to thirty people?”
“What, does Xian Nephew suspect that the pond report is false?!”Marquis Linhuai looked up at Zhu Pingan and shook his head with a smile, “Oh, it won’t be!Xian nephew, you are thinking too much. After this battle, when the Japanese attacked Wuhu County, it was in broad daylight, under the clear sky, the soldiers and civilians on the walls of Wuhu County saw it, the eyes of all the people, there were thousands of people, how many times have I counted, there were only fifty-seven Japanese attacking under the city. Fifty-seven is not a big number, I won’t make a mistake.”
Marquis Linhuai’s words lagged behind, Duke Wei also laughed along with him, “Xian Nephew, you’re really overthinking it. Ancient people have a good saying, ‘the end of the crossbow, the potential can not wear onyx also’, now Shangyu landing of the Japanese invaders is already the end of the crossbow, not much strength; in addition, Mu commanders and Zeng Qiandu, they are three thousand allied forces, but not three thousand pigs. To the Japanese caused the loss of twenty children, is not also very normal.”
Heh, not three thousand pigs again?!
Come on, don’t insult the pig, their three thousand allied army is not as good as three pigs, if three thousand pigs come whistling, these dozens of Japanese invaders no matter how swarthy, will also have no bones left. There is a saying “one pig, two bears, three tigers, the most ferocious is the king of wild boar”, from this saying is enough to witness the ferocity of the wild boar.
Zhu Ping An cast aspersions in his mind, but in order to avoid causing unnecessary disputes, Zhu Ping An did not say it out loud.
“Uncle, it is true that the end of a strong crossbow cannot wear onyx, but the Japanese invaders that landed in Shangyu are far from the end of a strong crossbow.”Zhu Pingan said slowly.
Duke Wei smiled and shook his head with an experienced and confident face and said, “Oh, Xian Nephew, you are just inexperienced. There are only fifty-seven of the rickets bandits left, they are already at the end of the mountain and at the end of their strength.”.
Zhu Pingan asked, “Uncle, if the Japanese invaders are at the end of their strength, why are they still going to attack Wuhu County?!”
Duke Wei laughed and continued, “Hehe. Xian nephew, the fact that the Japanese went to attack Wuhu County just proves that they have reached the end of their strength. Nephew, you carefully look at the pond newspaper, pond newspaper records, the Japanese set fire to the south bank of Wuhu, take the opportunity to sneak across the north bank of Wuhu, attack Wuhu County, but when Wuhu County in time to cut off the moat bridge, tightly closed the city gate, this group of Japanese invaders have no way out, can only grey retreat, disappeared into obscurity. A small county, with the gates closed, this group of Japanese invaders had no way out, if they are not at the end of their strength, what are they?!”
Zhu Pingan shook his head, looked towards Duke Wei, and softly said, “Uncle, the Japanese bandits dared to go and attack Wuhu County, as long as they have this ambition, no matter what reason they did not succeed, it proves that they are not at the end of their strength. One must know that ambition comes from strength. Since they dared to attack Wuhu County, it proves that they have this strength, it proves that they are not at the end of their rope.”
As Zhu Pingan’s words trailed off, the two of them, Duke Wei and Marquis Linhuai, looked at each other before shaking their heads and laughing.
Ugh.
What are you guys laughing at?
Zhu Pingan was puzzled.
“Aiya, Xian nephew, you are still young and have experienced too few setbacks, you have yet to come out from the shadow of the last failed emergency military situation ah. Xian nephew, failure is not scary, you are still young, falling a few times and making a few fools of yourself is not a big deal, as long as you remember the lessons and grow in experience, this wave will not be a loss.”
Marquis Linhuai and Duke of Wei looked at Zhu Pingan with some sympathy, they thought that Zhu Pingan’s reasons were completely far-fetched and not at all convincing, in the final analysis, he was still young, he still couldn’t face and accept the failures brought about by the last emergency military situation, these were all far-fetched excuses in order to round up his emergency military situation blunders.
Halo!
Zhu Ping An was speechless, and with a bitter smile, he looked at the two men and explained: ”Uncle, you have misunderstood. Ping An is not pulling strings to corroborate yesterday’s emergency military situation, but rather, he is discussing the matter and analysing it rationally and factually.”
