If I fail to overcome the tribulation, I can only return to the Ming Dynasty and become a prince.

Chapter 289 Nothingness Monk

The shogunate's envoy had a very troubled expression on his face at this time, but in the end he gritted his teeth and turned to a tall bucket-shaped bamboo hat with a bamboo "canopy" beside him, completely covering his head. The black-clothed monk said: "Master, please take action to capture the concubine of the Ming Dynasty prince!"

"The shogunate asked me to come out. I agreed that I would only take three strikes. Helping the shogunate repel an attack by the Ming army counts as one. You have two chances left. Are you sure this counts as one?" However, the monk in black did not immediately Instead of taking action, he confirmed with the shogunate's messenger.

The unknown monk in front of me is a practitioner invited by the shogunate. This kind of dress that covers his head and face is called a void monk, which is a unique type of monk in Japan.

This kind of nihilistic monk emerged in the Japanese country not too long ago. It was originally the dress of a military general from the Southern Dynasty who became a monk during the Japanese Civil War. Because of his dharma name, nihilistic, he was called the nihilistic monk.

They do not have a fixed residence or a monastery to practice Taoism. Instead, they travel around all day long, playing a flute called "Shakuhachi" in their hands as they go.

They are at home all over the world, begging for alms, and practicing Buddhist Zen that ordinary people cannot understand, even ordinary monks cannot understand.

It is worth mentioning that the Void Monks are not all monks. They are mixed in composition and have various motives for becoming Void Monks. Some are beggars who are unhappy in life. They put on their cassocks and escape into Buddhism, together with other Void Monks. Traveling all over the world just to beg for food and pray for the Buddha's favor.

There are also some people who are wanted robbers and ruffians. They band together and dress up as nihilistic monks in order to avoid being hunted by the fast-moving samurai. These people wander around, commit evil, and live a life of fighting and killing. days.

Others have ulterior motives...

The nihilistic monk in front of him was a practitioner invited by the shogunate at all costs because the shogunate was beaten by the Ming army and was unable to fight back, in order to reverse the unfavorable situation in which the shogunate was almost completely wiped out by the Ming army.

This nihilistic monk had already taken action once on Honshu Island. That time he killed a Ming army general, forcing the Ming army that was about to win to withdraw. It was a rare victory for the shogunate. Defeat after defeat.

After that, the current general of the shogunate sent the void monk to Kyushu Island, hoping to use the void monk's ability to provoke enough unrest on Kyushu Island to affect the logistics of the Ming army.

After all, although six vassal kings from the Ming Dynasty arrived in the Japanese country and their armies attacked several ways, there were still only two sea routes from the mainland of the Ming Dynasty to the Japanese country. Although the route from Nuergandusi to Hokkaido was said to be feasible, Nuer Gandusi itself is too barren, and even if this route is open, it cannot transport much, so Kyushu Island is still an important transit point for transporting various military supplies from the mainland of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, if trouble occurs on Kyushu Island, the entire Ming Dynasty's strategy of conquering Japan will be affected.

Although the Ming army has basically controlled most of the Japanese country, the three kings of Liaodong and King Ning, the core area of ​​Honshu Island, have not been completely defeated, and they are still at odds with the shogunate army.

This is also the reason why Zhu Zhanquan only took away part of his troops when he returned to China to participate in the Northern Expedition. He needed to leave enough troops to suppress the situation on Kyushu Island.

At present, Zhu Zhanchun's Zheng Fan has a total of ten guards. Among them, the Qingyu Guards and the Tianjin Sanwei are Zhu Zhanchun's old bases, and the Kyushu Guards have a total of six. They were all established locally after Zhu Zhanchun conquered Kyushu Island. Conscripted troops.Although 1 of them were immigrants from the Ming Dynasty, the rest were Japanese on Kyushu Island who had defected to the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, it is not a problem to use these Japanese soldiers to join the army. Previously, there was a guard of the Kyushu Guards who followed Zhu Zhankun in the northern expedition and proved their loyalty on the battlefield. The remaining five Kyushu Guards also used the heads and blood of the resistance forces on Kyushu Island. Proved their reliability.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Zhanyu never worried about the security issues on Kyushu Island.

After all, the total number of soldiers and horses in the ten guards is about 6 or [-]. Half of them are elites who have been on the battlefield, and the remaining half have seen blood. This is an incredible thing even in the Ming Dynasty. It is a powerful force, let alone in the Japanese country.

With so many soldiers and horses guarding Kyushu Island, if the Japanese shogunate army wants to provoke enough riots on Kyushu Island, it is obviously not enough to rely on these rebellious wealthy families and samurai families. Even if they are all armed, they will not be enough for Zhu Zhan. He can be killed.

So the shogunate had no choice but to find another way and invited this void monk, hoping that he could create enough chaos on Kyushu Island.

Obviously, what the shogunate hopes is to let this void monk take action and assassinate important figures in Prince Zheng's palace, and even Zhu Zhanju himself, to create enough chaos.

Especially when they came to Kyushu Island, the special envoy of the shogunate learned that Zhu Zhanchun's mother, the crown prince of Ming Dynasty and Zhu Zhanchun's newly married princess had all come to Kyushu Island, so their first target was On the Crown Princess of Ming Dynasty.

After all, in the view of the special envoy of the shogunate, no one on Kyushu Island is as noble as the Crown Princess of Ming Dynasty. If you can hold this card in your hand, it may not be impossible to end this war and even force Ming Dynasty to retreat.

However, although the Zhang family has been living in a hot spring annex that is not so tightly guarded, the problem is that the person responsible for the defense is a Qianhu family of Qingyu Guards. Even if they want to do something, they can't do it under the tight protection of the army.

Although the Void Monk is a cultivator and is indeed considered powerful and an expert from a common perspective, it would be too difficult for him to abduct the Crown Princess of the Ming Dynasty under the protection of an army of the Qingyu Guards' level. .

Originally, the special envoy of the shogunate hoped to contact the resistance forces on Kyushu Island to see if they could assemble a team to attack the hot spring villa or mobilize the Jade Guard to create an opportunity for the Void Monk to enter the hot spring villa and kidnap people, but now Lan Qi Only a small group of guards left the heavily protected hot spring villa, which naturally gave them an excellent opportunity.

The special envoy of the shogunate did not want to waste the precious two opportunities to drive the void monk, so he initially planned to use conventional troops to capture Lan Qier.

In his opinion, no matter how hard the Mongols can fight, they were repelled twice during the invasion, and their strength is just that, three hundred versus fifty, the advantage is mine!
However, they did not expect that the three hundred troops would be so vulnerable in front of the fifty Mongolian cavalry.

So no matter how reluctant he was, the shogunate's special envoy could only let the Void Monk take action to capture Lan Qier.

(End of this chapter)