A knife in love

Chapter 1538

After hearing what Qi Jiu had said, Li Qiufeng was taken aback, and said, "Brother Qi, didn't you come to rescue me and Miss Murong after you found out that I was trapped here?"

Qi Jiu shook his head and said with a wry smile: "How can I have such foresight? Brother Li told me to stay in Wangjiazhuang and pay attention to whether the pirates are going to attack Wangjiazhuang. There was no movement in the Zhuangzi for the past two days. We went to Motian Ridge to build a temple. When we got there, we realized that the situation was different from the previous few days. Almost all the men in Dongliao County were driven to the Ridge, and the magistrate also brought people to watch us work. These tolerances are very fierce. If anyone is a little slow, they will be scolded and whipped. Later, I found out that although the magistrate was present, the supervisors had no scruples to let us build the city wall instead of the temple. At that time, I thought How can the magistrate be so confused that he can't even tell whether to build a temple or a city..."

When Qi Jiu said this, Murong Danyan couldn't help but said: "That magistrate is a fake! He was faked by Japanese pirates."

Qi Jiu was startled, and glanced at Murong Danyan, as if he didn't believe her words.Li Qiufeng said: "Miss Murong is right. The Japanese pirates' conspiracy has already been launched. In order to stop the officers and soldiers going south, they are in a hurry to build a city on Motianling. For this reason, they sent people to arrest the magistrate and others, and sent someone to pretend to be the magistrate , the Yamen sent people to recruit men from Dongliao County to build a city for them on Motian Ridge."

Qi Jiu let out a long breath, and said in his mouth: "No wonder those supervisors are so rampant. I think they are all Japanese pirates. At noon, a group of people suddenly came from the mountain, and they whispered a few words with Zhixian and others. They selected more than [-] people, and I was also selected by them. I thought they were picking people to work, but after these people took us to the foot of Motianling, they put black cloth bags on our heads and threatened who If you dare to take off the black cloth bag, you will cut off your head.

"I saw the strange whereabouts of these people, and I was secretly on guard. After putting on the black cloth bag, these people tied their arms with ropes and pushed forward. I calculated the itinerary as I walked, and I walked around one Half an hour later, we walked about 30 miles back and forth. Later, these people made us stop and took off the black cloth bag, and then we found a stone house. The stone house is not big, and there are [-] to [-] people crowded, and there are people with hearts. He was terrified and shouted that he wanted to go home. But he was dragged out by those people and never came back. The rest of them were terrified and had to huddle in the stone house, and no one dared to say a word.

"Later, I heard thunder outside, and soon it rained heavily again. I wanted to know what these people were up to, so I hid in the crowd, pretended to be timid, and didn't say a word. After a long time Suddenly, four sergeants in black armor came and drove us out of the stone house and escorted us all the way here. Later, I found out that someone was going to use us to practice archery. Unprepared, he knocked them down to the ground, snatched a spear, and went straight to kill the black-armored general on the horse. The two of them knew what happened afterwards. If Brother Li and Miss Murong hadn't helped each other, I'm afraid I have already died under the random guns of Japanese pirates."

Li Qiufeng also told how he and Murong Danyan came here.After hearing this, Qi Jiu opened his mouth wide, shook his head again and again, and said in his mouth, "Damn it, why didn't I expect that the pirate's lair is so close to Wangjiazhuang?!"

Murong Danyan said: "Liusheng Zongyan is an extremely cunning old thief. He asked Morita Shinobi to sneak into Wangjiazhuang and become the big housekeeper, and put Wangjiazhuang under the surveillance of Japanese pirates. That's why he dared to build such a huge building behind Wangjiazhuang. The lair. The Yagyu family is so cunning, if you guessed that their lair is here, it would be surprising."

Li Qiufeng saw that the Japanese pirates at the foot of the mountain still did not attack, but they did not retreat either, and they still gathered at the foot of the mountain.It's just that many fires have been extinguished, and the open space under the mountain is getting darker and darker. It is extremely difficult to see the situation of the Japanese pirates clearly.He thought for a while, and then said to Qi Jiu: "The Japanese pirates at the foot of the mountain are the strong support of the Liusheng clan. They came out to practice in the heavy rain because the capture of Liaodong is imminent. These Japanese pirates are extremely cruel. For training, they even Use living people to practice arrows. They are so numerous that we cannot fight them head-on. Now the Japanese pirates are defending the west, and we cannot go back the same way. What's more, even if we fight out from the west, we can only enter Wangjiazhuang again. Shinobu Morita has already controlled Wangjiazhuang. There are many killers of the Yagyu clan in the village. These people's martial arts are much better than those Japanese pirates at the foot of the mountain. If we are entangled by them, it will be more difficult for us to escape. Therefore, it is impossible to fight from the west. The north and south are fields, and beyond the fields are woods and black vine walls. We have made a big fuss here, and the Liusheng family must strengthen their guard if they want to come from the north. It is also extremely difficult to rush out in two directions, south and south.”

When Li Qiufeng said this, he paused for a while, and then continued: "When Miss Murong and I were at the foot of the mountain, we saw a road and a house in the east. It came around from the east head. If the north, south, and west sides are impassable, we might as well sneak into the east head, maybe we can have a chance."

Murong Danyan and Qi Jiu naturally had no objection.The three of them had made up their minds, so they turned around and headed east.Qi Jiu said to Li Qiufeng while walking: "When I was in Dengzhou Wei, I heard the old lady who fought against Japanese pirates say that Fusang country is far overseas, the people are poor, and the military resources are extremely scarce. Although the craftsmen of Fusang Kingdom are good at forging weapons, they are short of pig iron, so they can only buy it in the Central Plains with large sums of money. From the general to the soldier, the armor on their bodies is reluctant to use iron, so they can only cut bamboo into pieces , and then put them on with thin ropes and wrapped them around the body to make armor. As for helmets, most of them are also made of wood. Only some high-ranking generals will wear iron helmets. At that time, I thought to myself, although bamboo Tough, but using it as armor is a child's play, and I don't take it seriously. But I just had a fierce battle with the Japanese pirates, and found that the armor on these bastards is indeed made of bamboo. I don't know what the Japanese pirates used. The armor made of bamboo slices is as hard as the iron armor worn by our Ming officers and soldiers, and the bamboo armor is far lighter than the iron armor, so these Japanese pirates are much more flexible when advancing and retreating."

When Qi Jiu said this, he paused for a while, and then said: "To be honest, I have always looked down on Japanese pirates before, thinking that they are just a group of robbers who died at sea. The officers and soldiers on the southeast coast have been defeated repeatedly. I only thought that the Japanese pirates took a lot of advantage because of the incompetence of the generals in command. But after the battle just now, I realized that the Japanese pirates are elite soldiers who have fought many battles. There are many. Now that the Japanese pirates have taken wings, if we want to bring them down in one fell swoop, I'm afraid, I'm afraid it will be more difficult than reaching the sky."

(End of this chapter)