Late Ming sea owl

Chapter 154

In the vast darkness of the night, a light of fire broke into Umino Saabei's sight, and soon the fire turned into a fire dragon, winding its way through the mountains in the distance.

"Reinforcements are coming." Umino Zuobei's calm voice sounded from the east tower of Lihai Castle. The six ronin who were warily looking at the city and the walls on the left and right sides looked outside the city after hearing the words.

A few days ago, they entered the Cao'e River on two warships from Zhoushan Zhongzhongsuo, and then landed on an uninhabited river beach. Under the leadership of a guide, they walked day and night and took the mountain road to the vicinity of Lihaisuo City.

Since they only carried dry food and portable weapons, they had been sleeping and eating outdoors in the past few days. By tonight, everyone was quite exhausted.

Fortunately, the Japanese are quite talented in enduring hardships and hard work. Seeing that the large army was about to arrive, the seven forwards who were the first to attack the city were all in high spirits.

After three cups of tea, the follow-up troops arrived under the east city wall. There was still no movement from Li Haisuo. Umino Zuobei ordered the city gate to be opened and let the ronin under his command enter the city.

Then, he began to allocate people according to the established plan: "Kirigakure, you take 20 people to the backyard of the Qianhu Yamen Office and control the batch of raw silk as soon as possible. Sarutobi, you take 20 people to Sun Kee Carriage and Horse Racing Store to recruit carriages and Coachman..."

In the hands of Umino Zuobei and others, there are several detailed maps of Lihaisuo City given by Lin Hai. In addition to the main road that intersects horizontally and vertically at the Bell and Drum Tower, there are many other roads in the city, such as T-shaped roads and dead ends. The road is designed like a maze, obviously for the purpose of strengthening military defense.

However, no matter how good the city defense design is, it must be defended by people. Umino Sahei and others have occupied the east gate for more than half an hour. Except for a few night guards on the other three walls who came to kill their heads, they have not yet encountered any enemy. Any counterattack.

If the military households in Lihaisuo in the early Ming Dynasty knew that their descendants were so corrupt, they would probably crawl out of their graves in anger.

In addition to the 40 people sent to the city, Umino Zuobei evenly distributed the remaining 100 people to the four walls. Although the wall that each person needed to defend was six to seven feet long, he was fully confident at this time that he could Hold the city for one or two days.

This time was enough for Zhang Yong's fleet to arrive and transport the batch of raw silk away.

In the backyard of Lihai Suo Qianhu Yamen Office, Feng Yidao and others were struggling to support them. Those servants were all raised by Wu Zongjing with generous salaries, and their combat power was far beyond that of ordinary guardsmen.

Although Wu Zongjing is not from Wu Dui's branch, his status in the Wu family in Shanyin is not much lower than that of Wu Mengren. After all, Lihai is their most important private port near their hometown, and Liaohai trade goods also have to enter and exit from here. , so his financial resources are much stronger than those of ordinary Weisuo Qianhu.

If it weren't for the great god Shan Sinan, Feng Yidao and others would have been defeated long ago. The little old man was holding a big gun with a white wax pole that was thin at the front and thick at the back, dancing like flying in the melee.

The gun was like a living thing in his hand. It was as if it had eyes when he blocked it, held it, and stabbed it. It had both reality and reality, strength and softness. It was the Yang's Pear Blossom Spear, which was said to be invincible in the world. Compared with the Shasha Spear that was popular in the world. Jiaganzi and Majiaqiang are even more magical.

Each of the Shan sisters also had a big gun, which they picked up from the enemies killed by Shan Sinan. Although the two sisters' marksmanship was far inferior to that of their father, they should not be underestimated.

Especially the older Shanzhaodi, who has a big gun in his hand and can't even get close to seven or eight strong men. When facing Wu Zongjing's servants, he can basically fight one against two.

Feng Yidao and Viper did not know how to use guns and could only fight the enemy with single swords, so they were relatively at a disadvantage. Fortunately, they had rich experience in actual combat, and only Viper had suffered two minor injuries at the moment.

Just when Feng Yidao and others were about to lose their support, twenty ronin sent by Umino Zuobei finally arrived. The remaining ten or so Wu Zongjing's servants saw that something was not going well, and finally dispersed in a hurry.

The viper, who was interested in killing, took up the knife and chased the servant who had exposed him to blood. Shan Laidi also rushed over with a big gun, while Feng Yidao abandoned his knife and took a bow, and started shooting and escaping. of enemies.

Shan Sinan sat down on the ground and fell softly to the ground. Shan Zhaodi dropped the big gun and supported him: "Dad, what's wrong with you?"

Shan Sinan gasped and shook his head, indicating that he was fine.After all, people who are already over fifty cannot accept old age.

In fact, he couldn't hold on for a long time. He killed a few people when he had enough physical strength at the beginning. After his movements slowed down, he basically only had to parry.If Shan Sinan were ten years younger, there would be no need for the rogues behind to end this fierce battle.

Feng Yidao was only in his 30s, and he still had some strength to fight at this time, but after shooting three arrows in a row, he was a little overwhelmed. He came over and cupped his fists at the Shan family and his daughter and said, "Thank you two for saving your life."

In the battle just now, he was almost hit by the opponent's spear twice. Fortunately, Shan Sinan and Shan Zhaodi deflected the opponent's spear head for him.

"Brother Feng is serious." Shan Zhaodi returned the Wanfu gift to Feng Yidao, while Shan Sinan still sat on the ground speechless.

The melee at Qianhu Yamen was extremely dangerous, but the defensive battle on the city wall was very easy.The Huangjiayan Inspection Department refused to send troops. Wu Zongjing moved only 200 reinforcements from Xihaitangtai and two passes. They attacked the city symbolically and then refused to attack again.These flag troops and militiamen are not as easy to use as those servants. As a Shangguan, it is easy for Wu Zongjing to bully them on weekdays, but at critical moments, there is no way to ask them to work hard.

Wu Zongjing had no choice but to send people to Linguan, fifty miles away, to ask for help, while at the same time he personally went to Sanjiang Station on the other side of the Cao'e River to move reinforcements.

Qianhuke, the master of Sanjiang Institute, welcomed Wu Zongjing in politely: "Here, come, let's have some tea and calm Wu Qianhu's shock."

Wu Zongjing was so talkative that thousands of households in Sanjiang just asked him to drink tea in a leisurely manner.Until Zhang Yong's fleet arrived near Lihai and the city began to transport raw silk, the thousands of households still refused to send troops.

Wu Zongjing was completely desperate. It was impossible for the reinforcements from General Linguan to arrive in time, so he simply went back to Shaoxing Fucheng to report the news.

"Hundreds of Japanese pirates conquered the Pilihai Fortress? What do you do for food?" Wu Mengren was shocked and annoyed after hearing the report. He pointed at his uncle's nose and cursed. How did he know that Wu Zongjing actually exaggerated his opponent? of military strength.

When Wu Zongjing heard this, he immediately became angry. He was about to retort, but he heard Wu Mengwen say from the side: "Lao Wu, I can't blame Uncle Jing for this. It's because we underestimated Lin Hai."

"Fourth brother, are you saying that Lin Hai did this?" Wu Mengren had a look of disbelief in his eyes. He never expected that Lin Hai would take action before his dirty trick could be used.

"Of course, Zhejiang hasn't seen a real Japanese man in many years. How come he came to Li Haisuo by such a coincidence today? Don't forget who Mr. Li is behind Lin Hai."

Wu Mengwen took a slow sip of tea from the tea bowl, and then said: "What's more, this group of Japanese pirates avoided the coastal beacons and reached the foot of Lihaisuo City without anyone noticing. If there is no help from someone who is familiar with coastal defense, , how can it be done?”

"Furthermore, they transported raw silk so quickly, and even sent a special ship to pick it up. Obviously, all this was premeditated, and the purpose was very clear, it was for the fifteen hundred loads of raw silk... …”

Wu Mengwen gave out several reasons in the blink of an eye, each of which was very convincing. Wu Mengren couldn't help but not believe it. He punched the wall with a bang and gritted his teeth and said: "It's hateful, this guy is so bold."

"What's there to hate? We plotted against others first, but were plotted by others in the end." Wu Mengwen still looked calm and calm, "We lost this time, so we can just let him repay us twice as much next time. "

Wu Mengren said: "Fourth brother, let's go and sue him directly, saying that he is a Japanese communicator."

Wu Mengwen shook his head: "It's useless. Since he dares to send people to attack Li Haisuo, he is ready to abandon his official position at any time. When the sea is vast, we will have nowhere to look for him. Instead, we have to beware of him coming home to kill us. Si Men Xie’s lesson has been learned from the past, and we have to guard against it.”

Wu Mengren was stunned when he heard this: "Then what should we do?"

Wu Mengwen said: "There is no good way for now. Let's pretend not to know that he did it, and stabilize him for the time being. Tell him that this batch of raw silk has been robbed this year, but the business can still be done next year, as long as he is still in Zhoushan , we always have a chance to come back."

While the Wu brothers were talking, Lin Hai also took Ruan Mei to Zuanfeng Town near Li Hai, and listened to Feng Yidao and others talking about the situation last night.

"Sir, are we still going to Li Hai Institute?" Ruan Mei asked from the side.

"Go, of course you have to go, otherwise wouldn't it be equivalent to admitting that we did this?" Lin Hai said with a smile, "After going to Lihai Institute, we have to go to the Wu family in Shanyin. They gave us such a gift. It’s a lot of money, so it’s really unjustifiable not to thank you.”

Fifteen hundred loads of raw silk, of which five hundred were seven-mile silk and the remaining one thousand were ordinary lake silk, could be sold to Japan for about 40 taels of silver.

Although it is not as good as the one done in Liaohai last year, it is still a very good amount of financing, enough to establish two British East India companies and more...

So far, Lin Hai has probably earned less than 10 taels from legitimate business, but has earned more than 100 million taels from no-cost business. This is really better than hard work.

Lin Hai was also helpless about this. He obviously only wanted to be a businessman, but there were always people forcing him to become a robber. In this case, he had to reluctantly grab a chance.

"I really don't like doing this." Lin Hai swore to God with his conscience that he didn't know how many valuable things there would be in the reinforcement fleet that the Spaniards were about to send to Keelung besides the few Galen ships.

As one of the two big players in the Asian trading game, he should bring a lot of money, right?
(End of this chapter)