marquis of jingan

Chapter 436: The Japanese sword is swung at night!
Shen Yi alone is unlikely to control the Wenzhou government.

More importantly, the target of the large group of Japanese pirates this time is likely to be not just Wenzhou Prefecture, but the entire Eastern Zhejiang Province. If you want to coordinate Eastern Zhejiang Province, you must have Li Mu, an imperial envoy, to issue orders.

Fortunately, Li Mu didn't go far. When Shen Yi was enlisting in Yongjia, Li Mu was cleaning up the local Japanese households in Funing County, which is a little south of Yongjia. Shen Yi sent an anti-Japanese army officer to send him a letter overnight. His Royal Highness was not ambiguous, after receiving Shen Yi's letter, he hurried back to Yongjia with only ten or twenty entourages.

Because the [-] anti-Japanese soldiers who followed him didn't have so many horses, they could only follow behind him and rush back to Yongjia on foot.

It was only about 260 li from Funing County to Yongjia. In the evening of the next day, Li Mu rushed back to Yongjia, the capital city of Wenzhou, and found Shen Yi in the anti-Japanese army camp outside the city.

In fact, after receiving the news of the Japanese pirates gathering last night, Shen Yi moved to live in the anti-Japanese army camp so that he could react immediately if there was any situation.

At the gate of the anti-Japanese army camp, after seeing Li Mu who had rushed back, Shen Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

He stepped forward to salute Li Mu.

"The prince is back."

Li Mu jumped off the horse, with a tired face, the prince of Jin stepped forward, helped Shen Yi up, then watched Shen Yi walk into the camp with his sleeves, and said in a deep voice: "Go in and talk."

Shen Yi nodded, and led Li Mu into the tent of the anti-Japanese army. In the tent, Li Mu sat on the main seat, and Shen Yi sat beside him. After the two sat down, Li Mu looked at Shen Yi, frowning: "Say Speaking of the specific situation, how could there be such a large group of Japanese pirates gathering in Wenzhou all of a sudden, without any sign in advance?"

Shen Yi sighed, and said slowly: "My lord, I have also thought about this issue. It stands to reason that even if the Japanese pirates make moves, there should be some signs before thousands of Japanese pirates gather, but this time, the Di Baosi got the news. At that time, these Japanese pirates had already assembled in large numbers."

Master Shen looked at Li Mu, and said in a deep voice: "At this moment, the Japanese pirates may launch looting at any time..."

"I thought about it all day and night, and thought of several possibilities."

Li Mu lowered his head and took a sip of tea, took a deep breath: "Let's listen."

"The first possibility is that Wang Xian, who we beat up in Taizhou Mansion, played a role in causing so many Japanese pirates to gather in Wenzhou Mansion in a short period of time, but..."

Shen Yi paused, and continued: "However, Wang Xian can still be counted among the pirates along the coast of Taizhou Prefecture, but among the many pirate gangs, he is not particularly powerful. Even if he knows some pirates, he is not very powerful. There may be such a big ability."

"The second possibility..."

Shen Yi looked up at Li Mu, and said slowly: "The second possibility is that we ransacked the house along the way and completely offended these gentry along the coast, some wealthy businessmen who had contacts with Japanese pirates, or even supported Japanese pirates, and were afraid that the prince would go and liquidate them." Therefore, they exhausted all their strength to gather the Japanese pirates, and they made such a big formation..."

Li Mu frowned.

He looked at Shen Yi and said in a deep voice: "Ziheng's words are wrong. Even thousands of Japanese pirates would not be able to defeat the capital city of Wenzhou Prefecture. Even if these Japanese pirates did evil in eastern Zhejiang, they would not be able to hurt you and me. Humans can't stop us from continuing to patrol the sea."

Shen Yi looked at Li Mu, lowered his eyebrows and said: "My lord, our Anti-Japanese Army is newly built. If these Japanese pirates are under the nose of the Anti-Japanese Army, harming the people in eastern Zhejiang and then go away, the reputation of the Anti-Japanese Army will be completely destroyed. It's rotten, and it's not just as simple as an anti-Japanese army rotten..."

"After the anti-Japanese army is dead, it will be even more difficult for the imperial court to form a similar coastal defense force along the coast in the future. It can only be recruited from the forbidden army, and the forbidden army is not familiar with the place, so it may not be able to take those troops. How about the pirates..."

Li Mu frowned, and looked at Shen Yi thoughtfully: "Then... what about the third possibility?"

Shen Yi looked a little complicated, he looked up at Li Mu, and said slowly: "The third possibility is that someone in the court thinks that we are not going well."

"The son went south to patrol the sea all the way, and now he has confiscated six or seven houses. These houses are all rich and noble families in the local area. Many of them are related to the court. Some people's backgrounds may be A senior official in Jiankang City."

"Let's continue the investigation like this, not to mention cutting off their wings, those people in the court may be worried that they will be found out, so they will try their best to mess up this sea patrol..."

Jin Shizi's expression changed.

"Zi Heng means that there are people in the imperial court who know Japanese?!"

"I can't talk about getting through the Japanese."

Shen Yi said slowly: "However, among the princes in the court, some people are very capable and have a wide range of ways. Maybe they have the ability to contact these Japanese pirates."

Having said that, Shen Yi looked up at Li Mu again, he opened his mouth, but hesitated to speak.

Li Mu saw Shen Yi's expression in his eyes. The Jin Shizi pondered for a while, then looked at Shen Yi, and said in a low voice: "Does Ziheng want to say that the Zhao family may also be involved in this matter..."

It has been one or two months since the Anti-Japanese Army conscripted troops. After the Anti-Japanese Army conscription, the emperor's idea of ​​building a new armed force has become clear, and the most threatening force of this idea is naturally to control the Huaihe Navy for decades. Zhao Clan.

Shen Yi shook his head: "My lord, I didn't say anything."

Li Mu's face was a bit ugly, he lowered his head slightly and said: "Yes, indeed I can't say anything..."

After saying this, he clenched his fist so hard that his nails almost dug into his flesh.

After the two were silent for a while, Li Mu looked up at Shen Yi and asked, "Has Ziheng already had a countermeasure?"

Shen Yi sighed, repeated what he said to Jiang Zhifu, and then said: "Your Majesty, the people in the Dibao Division are watching the movements of the Japanese pirates. Since the Anti-Japanese Army has formed an army, then we have no way out. We can only meet them head-on, repel or defeat these pirates!"

The number of people that the Anti-Japanese Army can use now is more than 1000, of which seven to eight hundred are unqualified recruits, there are two to three hundred qualified recruits, and hundreds of recruits who have been trained for a period of time.

This number is incomparable to the number of Japanese pirates with thousands of people.

Suffering is suffering, Shen Yi can't fight.

Knowing a Wolf Whip is already the limit of his knowledge base. As for formations like the Qi Family Army's Mandarin Duck Formation, he really can't use them.

Otherwise, with the brilliant results of Qi's army against Japanese pirates, the more than 1000 people in Shen Yi's hands would be enough.

Not just enough, but more than enough.

But there is no way, firstly, the quality of this anti-Japanese army is far inferior to that of Qi's army, and secondly, Shen Yi did not learn the battle formation of Qi's army. Now that the enemy is at hand, he can only bite the bullet.

After listening to Shen Yi's words, Li Mu nodded without saying a word: "Tomorrow morning, I will go to the Wenzhou government office in person and let them follow your orders, Ziheng. As for the matter of responding to the enemy..."

"I've already brought Ling Su back. After a while, you and Ling Su will have a good discussion about the specific war, so I won't participate, but..."

Li Mu's eyes sparkled: "After the discussion is over, remember to tell me that although I don't command the army, I still want to kill a few Japanese pirates in front of the battle, and vent my anger for the people of Dachen!"

Shen Yi shook his head slightly: "The son is an imperial envoy, so you can't join the battle."

Li Mu looked resolute.

"Ziheng, I'm from the Li family."

"In the face of foreign enemies, there is no one in the entire anti-Japanese army who should go to battle more than me."

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While Li Mu and Shen Yi were discussing the anti-Japanese issues in the camp outside Yongjia City, dozens of small boats docked one by one in the dark along the coast of Yueqing County, a subsidiary of Wenzhou Prefecture.

From each boat, more than a dozen people jumped down. These people were all dressed in Japanese costumes and had knives around their waists.

A Japanese man with the appearance of a leader jumped out of the boat, pulled out the saber from his waist, swung it fiercely, and then yelled in Japanese.

"Go!"

Ever since, hundreds of Japanese pirates moved swiftly towards Yueqing!

(End of this chapter)