Late Ming sea owl

Chapter 153 Backyard Attack and Defense
"What did you say? There were Japanese pirates attacking the city? Why didn't the Dunjun call the police?"

Wu Zongjing, who was in charge of Li Hai's Qianhu family, got up from his concubine's bed in the fifth room and was shocked to death when he heard the news.

Thanks to Hong Chengchou's vigorous rectification, the beacon system along the coast of Zhejiang is fairly reliable.

After Dun Jun saw a large sea ship of unknown origin, he would send a small boat to ask questions.Their ships will all carry fires. Once they find something is wrong, they will immediately send a signal to the pier, and then the pier will use the grass frame method or twelve large white flags to alert the neighboring piers.

The person who came to report the news to Wu Zongjing was his adopted son and captain of the personal army, Wu Liu, who lived in the front yard of Qianhu Yamen. The defenders on the city found him first when they came to report the news.

After hearing Wu Zongjing's question, Wu Liu quickly replied: "Father, this group of Japanese pirates attacked the city from the east. It seems they did not take the sea route."

"Coming from the east? Are you sure it's a real Japanese pirate?" Wu Zongjing felt a little strange. For a moment, he suspected that it was a group of thieves who had shaved their heads and pretended to be Japanese pirates to scare people.

After all, there had been no real Japanese pirates along the coast of Zhejiang for many years, so the sudden appearance of Japanese pirates was indeed a bit strange. Thinking of this, Wu Zongjing, who was already frightened, suddenly became calmer again.

"It must be a real Japanese. I heard from the night guard in the city that this group of people all speaks the language of birds, and all of them are highly skilled in martial arts..."

"How many people are here?" After calming down, Wu Zongjing finally remembered to ask the number of people.

"It is said that there are only seven or eight people..." Wu Liu hesitated before replying, "Father, these people must be here to attack the front line. They now control the east gate, and there should be a large number of thieves coming soon. Come to respond, we quickly organize manpower to counterattack, otherwise it will be too late."

Wu Zongjing hesitated for a moment and suddenly said: "Stop guarding the city gate for the time being. Go and gather the servants quickly and go to the backyard to defend. Then go to Xihaitangtai, Sihui Pass, and Shihu Pass to move reinforcements."

The backyard of Qianhu Yamen was where the batch of raw silk was stored. Wu Zongjing finally decided to give priority to the 20 loads of raw silk. After all, it was nearly [-] taels of silver, which in Wu Qianhu's eyes was much more valuable than the gold of the people in the city. .

Wu Zongjing's decision was actually not completely unreasonable. After all, he only had about twenty servants in total, so it was hard to say whether he could recapture the city gate.

Even if they were recaptured, if a large force of Japanese pirates came, just these twenty or so people would not be able to defend the three-mile-long city wall. On the contrary, there was more hope for defending the small courtyard.Japanese pirates generally have no specific goals in their plundering. When they encounter hard ideas, they often ignore them and focus on soft persimmons.

As for repelling the Japanese pirates, they could only count on reinforcements from outside the city. Except for the twenty or so servants around him, the flag troops that Li Hai could send to the battle were either transferred to Linguan General's subordinates or sent to Went to Xihaitangtai.

Moreover, the Dun troops in Xihaitangtai are all gathered together, which may be faster than gathering the remaining flag troops scattered throughout the city.

"Yes, foster father!" Wu Liu responded and was about to leave.

But Wu Zongjing shouted from behind: "Wait a minute! Just lead the servants to defend in the backyard, and I will go out of the city myself to bring in reinforcements."

Wu Zongjing and Wu Liu went out overnight and acted separately. One took his wife, concubines and children outside the city, while the other stayed in the city to gather his servants.These servants live together near the Qianhu Yamen Office, making it easier to gather them together.

At this time, the full moon had disappeared into the dark clouds, and in the dark night, Wu Liu rode a horse and held a torch, and came to the door of the servant who lived nearest. He knocked on the door and called the servant out to convey the order: "Master Zhangyin has an order. , quickly go to the back door of Qianhu Yamen Office to gather."

"Brother Liu, what are you doing in the middle of the night?" the servant asked, yawning loudly. In the light of the fire, Wu Liu saw that he was only wearing the midfielder. "Stop talking nonsense, go back to the house and get your weapons." As the captain of the personal soldiers, Wu Liu was used to being arrogant, and he always treated these subordinates in a bossy manner.

"Let's do it, they are going to the backyard." Shan Sinan and others were hiding near Jing Ding's residence. After hearing this, Feng Yidao, who was solely responsible for commanding the operation, ordered.

Lin Hai made a careful plan for this operation. Ruan Mei had already figured out the storage location of the raw silk and the residence of Wu Zongjing's servants, and also drew detailed maps.

It would take half a day to transport [-] loads of raw silk out of the city, but it would only take a cup of tea to set it on fire. Although this possibility is unlikely, it is not impossible. Feng Yidao and others sneaked in The city came to prevent this possibility.

When Wu Liu summoned his servants, he mentioned that they should gather at the back door of the Qianhu Yamen Office, so Feng Yidao made a decisive decision to occupy the backyard first and then wait for help.

At this time, the only people guarding the backyard were Wu Zongjing's two servants. Shan Sinan and others used the cover of night to quickly deal with these two people and seize two knives and two bows.

Feng Yidao took a bow himself and gave the other one to Shan Sinan, and the two climbed to the big tree in the courtyard.The Shan sisters each took a knife, Viper still held a wooden stick in his hand, and the three of them were guarding behind the door.

After a while, Feng Yidao saw from a distance about twenty people holding torches and heading towards the backyard. The first person riding a horse was Wu Liu who summoned the servants.

Feng Yidao bent his bow and nocked an arrow, and was about to shoot Wu Liu who was riding a horse. Suddenly he heard Shan Sinan's voice in his ear: "Look, I'll let the man on the horse put flowers in his eyebrows."

Then he heard the sound of a bowstring. Feng Yidao quickly changed his aim and shot two feather arrows from the tree one after another.

In the light of the fire, Wu Liumei fell off his horse with an arrow in his heart. A person beside him was also shot by Feng Yidao and fell to the ground. The servants suddenly became a mess, and there were shouts and curses from far away.

"Good archery skills!" Feng Yidao said to Shan Sinan as he drew out the second feather arrow.

"You're not bad either." Shan Sinan also pulled out another arrow from the arrow pot.

With two whooshing sounds, two more feather arrows were shot out from the string. Two screams came from afar, and two more servants were shot to death on the spot.

"Throw the torch!" A servant shouted loudly and threw the torch towards the backyard from a distance. The other servants also followed the same example, and soon the location where the servants were was completely dark again.

Feng Yidao and Shan Sinan lost their vision and could not shoot arrows for a while. They both knew that they might have to fight hand-to-hand. On the one hand, they hoped that the group outside the hospital would be scared off by the few arrows just now; on the other hand, they hoped that Umino Saabei and the others can be faster.

After all, we only have five people and two swords, so it is still very stressful to defend this place.

At this time, Umino Zuobei was at the city gate east of Lihaisuo. There were only seven of them, and they were anxiously waiting for the arrival of the follow-up troops.

(End of this chapter)