Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 356 Dinghai County, Japanese pirates invade

Ningbo Prefecture governs six counties including Yin County, Cixi County, Xiangshan County, Dinghai County, Fenghua County, and Changguo County. In the 20th year of Hongwu, Changguo County was abandoned and merged into Dinghai County, and it was changed to govern five counties.

Ningbo City is a coastal city. Standing on the city head in the east, you can even see the busy docks on the seaside, and you can even see the blue sea in the distance.

On this day, Zhu Chu and his party arrived in Ningbo City.

Although ancient coastal cities were not as developed as modern times, there were actually nearly 210,000 households and a population of 700,000 in the entire Ningbo Prefecture.

After entering the city, the first thing to do is naturally find a place to live.

The magistrate of Ningbo Prefecture came to pick him up after asking for information. After greeting him with some courtesy, he was just about to make arrangements.

Tang Xin's voice suddenly came from the carriage: "Your Highness, if you are not in a hurry to find a place to live, why don't we go to Dinghai County to have a look?"

Dinghai County?

In fact, it is today's Zhoushan City, but Zhoushan was originally the Zhoushan Town established in Zhoushan by the Dinghai Town Commander-in-Chief during the Kangxi period.

So it is still called Dinghai County. It is a small island on the sea outside Ningbo City. You need to go to the pier and take a boat to get to the island.

This island is actually not far from the mainland, and you can even swim across it.

And the water is not deep.

Dingyuan County is backed by Ningbo City, is connected to Songjiang Prefecture of Shanghai County to the north, and is bounded by the East China Sea to the outside.

This would have been a very developed port.

It's a pity that the Japanese island is in the stage of confrontation between the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Each of the North and the South has its own emperor, which confuses the Central Plains.

At least until they can compete, normal trade cannot be carried out, so coastal trade has been banned in recent years.

Zhu Ming thought for a moment and guessed Tang Xin's intention.

It turned out that Tang He was ordered to build a city on the coast of western Zhejiang and garrison it with soldiers to prevent Japanese pirates.

The answer sheet handed over by Tang He was: "Ninghai Linshan Guards, on the coast, are currently building fifty-nine cities. They recruit more than four men from Shaoxing and other prefectures, and use one man as a garrison. Anyone who gets five soldiers More than 8,750 people'.

In other words, Tang He had been to Ningbo at that time.

Now that he knew Tang Xin's intention, Zhu Zhen naturally had no doubts. He immediately gave Niu Sheng instructions and asked him to lead 6,000 troops to the camp in the city and settle down.

Otherwise, more than 6,000 troops on the street would still disturb the people.

Of course, Zhu Chu's one hundred guards must be brought with him. He is a majestic vassal king, so it is not too much to bring one hundred guards, right?

The magistrate of Ningbo Prefecture personally led the way for Zhu Zhen, led everyone to the east city gate, and personally let the defenders pass.

Just like that, Zhu Chu came out before he could appreciate the local customs and customs of Ningbo City.

But when we arrived at the dock, we started to have trouble again.

It’s easy for people to cross the sea by boat, but what about horses? Where's the carriage? How to deal with these things?

"It would be convenient if we built a bridge," Zhu Zhen couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the pier on the shore.

In the carriage, Tang Xin had already exposed his head first and jumped down gently. When he heard these words, he rolled his beautiful eyes and reminded: "Your Highness, this is not a small stream, this is the sea."

Zhu Ming smiled, subconsciously reached out to pick up Tang Xin, grabbed the soft and boneless Rouyi jade hand and squeezed it gently.

Tang Xin's pretty face turned red and she took her hand away, you stinking scoundrel.

"I know this is the sea, but do you really think I have never seen the sea?" Zhu Xinxin said that the Nujiang Bridge has been completed, and it is not really necessary to build a bridge across the entire Pacific Ocean, so it should not be a problem.

But now is not the time, we will talk about it later.

Then Zhu Chu picked up Xu Miaojin from the carriage.

"What should we say now?" Zhu Zhen asked the two women.

"Since Xin'er wants to see the other side of the sea, of course we have to risk our lives to accompany Junzi," Xu Miaojin joked.

In fact, her eyes were also flashing with excitement. Maybe this was the first time she saw the sea with her own eyes?

"Then take the accompanying things with you, leave ten guards brothers behind, and then ask the Ningbo prefect to help send them to the inn," Zhu Ming made arrangements.

As a result, before Zhu Chu could ask someone to call the Ningbo Magistrate back, the Ningbo Magistrate was already trotting over from the other side.

"I'm still here, waiting for your Highness's instructions. There's no need to go to any post house, I'll just arrange it in the backyard of the government office, where it can be accommodated," the Ningbo magistrate showed his attentiveness.

Zhu Chu took a look at the Ningbo Prefecture and remembered that the Shaoxing Prefecture Prefecture had also been extra careful with him before. They were civil servants and should not be Tang He's old subordinates.

Even if they are Tang He's old subordinates, they don't know Tang Xin, but are even more attentive to him. He is not Tang He's son-in-law yet.

There is only one answer. It seems that the news about Liyang County and Suzhou City has spread.

They are afraid of themselves.

Zhu Zhen smiled, this is a good thing, I am afraid that you are not afraid, thinking that this king does not dare to kill you.

If you know how to be afraid, it's okay. At least if you know how to be afraid, you will be afraid and don't dare to act recklessly.

"Then I'll leave it to you to arrange it," Zhu Zhen said casually.

"Yes," the prefect of Ningbo was still very happy.

"Your Highness, what should I do with these things?" Wang Fu suddenly looked at some wooden boxes in the carriage.

This carriage has only been occupied by Tang Xin and Xu Miaojin. Even if it rained before, Zhu Zhen did not go in to disturb them.

Maybe you care about the difference between men and women?

But although there are only two girls, it is not light. It had to be repaired once before in the Qian Mansion in Hangzhou.

It turned out that there were also gifts from the two daughters Tang, Xu and Zhu Chu, as well as several wooden boxes.

These wooden boxes contained good things, including large pineapple light machine guns and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition.

This must not get wet or damp, otherwise it will be over. Zhu Chu can only buy new ones if he has enough money, but he doesn't know how to repair them.

And these weapons are too important to lose.

Zhu Ming thought for a moment and said, "Take it with you."

"Yes."

Wang Fu winked at the brothers beside him, and under Li Gui's curious gaze, he moved the boxes and put them aside, guarding them with a serious look on his face.

"Can't you even look at me?" Li Gui curiously approached him.

Wang Fu smiled and held his shoulders and took him away: "You will know later, and I will give you a little shock when the time comes."

After all, Li Gui only officially entered Zhu Chu's inner circle after Zhu Chu came back from the grassland battle, so he really didn't know about the existence of the big pineapple. He had only seen it once in Yunnan, but had no chance. Watch it from up close, let alone practice the gun in person.

After that, while the Ningbo magistrate took the ten guards who were left behind, packed up the carriage and everyone's horses and left, Wang Fu and Li Gui consciously went to the dock to find two boatmen.

This is a ship running on the sea, not comparable to the ships on inland rivers. At least it is much larger than the previous passenger ships on West Lake and Taihu Lake.

Because there were still nearly a hundred people in the team, they were divided into two teams, each took a boat, and began to travel to the Zhoushan Islands, which is now Dinghai County.

Although Dinghai County is a small island on the sea, it is not far away after all. It is closer than Kinmen to Treasure Island, and it almost takes less than an hour to get there.

This is because the current ships travel slowly, otherwise they would be faster.

Here in Dinghai County, there is also a port on the seaside.

After all, people in Dinghai County also need daily necessities, and even a lot of food is transported from Ningbo City.

It was already a common thing for ships to sail back and forth on both sides of the pier.

But today, suddenly a large number of people ran out from the inside of the island.

Zhu Zhen was about to ask Wang Fu to pay the money. When he saw this scene, he couldn't help but misunderstood: "Could he want to see the money and rob us?"

The captains of the two ships said that we are not stupid. You are rich, but you also have people. These more than ninety people are carrying swords and dressed as soldiers. Are we crazy and robbing you?

Gu Wen and Qian Gui also looked up at the people running in the distance.

Suddenly, something moved in their hearts, and they looked at each other subconsciously.

"No," Qian Gui whispered, "something happened."

Gu Wen also said: "Your Highness, get on the boat and leave here quickly. Next we have to call in the army."

"What?" Zhu Zhen hadn't reacted yet.

At this time, those people in the distance had already rushed closer. Some people didn't care about anything else and rushed directly to the ship at the pier, shouting: "Set the ship quickly, quickly. The damn Japanese pirates are here again. Go and report it to the police Lord Magistrate, ask the Lord Magistrate to send troops to support us, otherwise our Changguo Guard will be completely wiped out."

Japanese pirates?

Zhu Zhen was shocked. In fact, he had heard that during the Hongwu period, the seaside was already deeply harassed and even persecuted by Japanese pirates.

He just didn't expect that he would actually encounter a Japanese pirate.

But then again, are Japanese pirates really that powerful? Or are there so many people? Chang Guowei here can't beat him?

Changguo County has been merged into Dinghai County, so Changguowei has naturally been merged into Dinghai County, which is on this island.

Seeing that these people were in a panic, they rushed to the two boats, urging the boatmen to sail quickly, for fear that the Japanese pirates would catch up. Zhu Ming narrowed his eyes slightly and shouted in a cold voice: "The whole army obeys the order. Immediately rush to the battlefield with me to support Chang Guowei. I want to see if the Japanese pirates have three heads and six arms? Are they immortal?"

"Here."

The entire army did not hesitate at all, even if there were less than a hundred of them, as long as it was His Highness's order and whatever His Highness pointed to, it would be their target.

Not to mention that these people are as afraid of Japanese pirates as tigers. Even if they really have to face enemies several times or even dozens of times, they will not flinch in the slightest.

This is the iron-blooded army that has fought a hundred battles.

At this moment, Zhu Chu was about to rush to the battlefield.

"Wait a minute, you haven't paid me yet," but the boatman stopped.

"Get out of here," Zhu Ming didn't have time to think about them, and yelled angrily: "When is it? This king is Zhu Ming, the King of Dian. Remember my name, and I will pay you when I come back."

"But what if you die?" The boatman said nothing at all.

Zhu Chu's guards all looked at him angrily. If it weren't for the fact that their highness always loved the people as his own son, they would have gone up to kill him.

Zhu Zhen smiled, raised his head and laughed loudly: "I'm afraid the person who killed me hasn't been born yet. Let's go."

At that moment, Zhu Zhen waved his hand and led the guards straight to the island.

Gu Wen and Qian Gui were originally civil servants, but they ended up following them, which surprised Zhu Zhen.

"Although we usually read books by sages, we also have other hobbies in our spare time, such as military books, strategies, etc. Besides, not all children from aristocratic families are civil servants, there are also military generals, right?" Gu Wenjian Zhu Ming was curious and patted his waist with his hand.

I saw that there was a sword hanging under his ribs.

Zhu Chu originally thought it was just a decoration, but now it seems that maybe Gu Wen is quite capable? Is he also capable of literary and martial arts?

Look again, Qian Gui also has a long sword under his ribs.

It felt like they didn't come to Zhu Chu to advise him, but more like they wanted to walk around the world with swords and be knights, and follow Zhu Chu to travel around?

"On the other hand, you two girls, why don't you hide?" Qian Gui looked at Xu Miaojin and Tang Xin solemnly, and said with concern: "The Japanese pirates have a bad reputation, especially if a Central Plains woman is kidnapped by them. , there is no trace or news anymore, and it is not even known whether he is still alive.”

Zhu Ming was about to curse angrily. It turned out that these beasts had already begun to behave differently than humans at this time.

Little did he think, things were scarier than he thought.

Hearing Qian Gui's words, Tang Xin gritted his teeth with a cold face and said: "I know that those beasts are not worthy of being human at all. The woman who fell into their hands will be relieved only if she dies. I also heard that they tied babies to On the pole, I boil the soup and listen to its cries, clap my hands and laugh. If I find a pregnant woman, I will predict the man and woman, and I will judge whether it is the winner or the loser."

After hearing these words, Zhu Xi's face was already gloomy, and he shouted violently: "The whole army speeds up and advances at full speed. I will kill them alive."

Originally, their marching speed was not too fast. After all, they still had to conserve their physical strength to fight the enemy.

But Zhu Chu couldn't care about that much anymore and shouted: "Wang Fu, pick up the gun."

"Here."

Wang Fu had previously asked people to bring over the wooden boxes in the carriage, which contained twelve light machine guns. At this time, he opened the wooden boxes and took out the machine guns and the bullets that were properly stored in the iron boxes.

Twelve people, including Wang Fu, loaded the machine guns with bullets, and they all showed ferocious sneers, their eyes flashing with cold storage murderous intent.

However, Zhu Zhen did not wait for them. Instead, he held his steel gun upside down, quickened his pace and ran at the front, racing all the way.

Even Xu Miaojin could only barely catch up, let alone Qian Gui and Gu Wen, who were civil servants after all.

But what surprised the two chief historians was that even Tang Xin was faster than them. Moreover, Tang Xin looked weak, but he was holding two steel whips in both hands, following Xu Miaojin.

The three of them disappeared in the blink of an eye.

After all, it was an ancient environment. Even a small island on the sea had lush woods.

Zhu Ming was furious at this time, his eyes were almost red, and he rushed forward in a straight line. He only knew that the people had escaped from this direction before, and he thought that the Japanese pirates were here.

Sure enough, after walking forward for a while, the sound of fighting could be heard in the distance.

Zhu Zhen speeded up again, kicked the ground hard, and stepped out of a deep pit with a bang, and his body flew out like an arrow from a string.

Passing through the cover of the woods, a small village appeared in front of Zhu Zhen. What made his eyes wide open was that the village had now been reduced to a sea of ​​fire, and people's screams seemed to be heard in the sea of ​​fire.

On the edge of the village, there was a group of dwarfs wearing simple clothes that could even be called rags, laughing and cursing.

Zhu Ming shouted: "Damn it."

Zhu Xi's voice immediately attracted the attention of those people.

In fact, there were not many of them, only a dozen or so, but even though they were dressed in rags, they had weapons on their backs and waists.

When they saw that Zhu Chu was alone, those people were not afraid at all, and calmly took off the bows and arrows on their backs one after another. Those who bent their bows and nocked arrows would aim at Zhu Chu.

This is the conventional tactic of Japanese pirates. When they are a little far away, they use bows and arrows to shoot, and when they are close, they use samurai swords.

They are not real bandits. In fact, they may be some generals from the Japanese country or samurai raised by the Daming Mansion, and they still have some strength.

But now is the early Ming Dynasty, and the military quality of the Ming Dynasty army is naturally not afraid of Japanese pirates.

The main reason is that they are hard to guard against. Japanese pirates like to make sneak attacks. For example, this time they attacked quietly and were caught off guard.

Even this village was not within the protection range of Nachang Guowei, and Zhu Chu ran in the wrong direction after all.

But it was a mistake, and I encountered a small group of Japanese pirates here.

Now that they had encountered them, they would not be allowed to leave alive. Zhu Ming was targeted by more than a dozen long bows at this time, but instead of retreating, he advanced straight towards the dozen people.

'Whoosh whoosh'.

The Japanese pirates did not hesitate, they let go of the arrows in their hands, and then looked in Zhu Chu's direction with a ferocious smile, thinking that he would die on the spot in the next second.

However, in Zhu Chu's eyes, those flying arrows were almost still, because those arrows were not as fast as him. Instead, he bumped into them, then raised the steel gun in his hand and waved it in front of him. The arrows bounced away.

"Nani?"

The Japanese pirates exclaimed.

"Nani, what are you doing," Zhu Jin cursed angrily, and in a blink of an eye, he rushed in front of them, picked up a big gun in his hand, and hit one of them on the head.

'puff'.

A piece of white and red splashed out from the man's brain. The white thing was his brain.

This scene scared the people nearby.

But of course Zhu Zhen would not hesitate. He held a spear in his hand and swept out the entire army with one powerful blow.

Before the unlucky guy could react, he bent sideways in a weird posture.

‘Click’.

Even the sound of bones breaking was half a beat slower.

That was the sound of this man's lumbar vertebrae being smashed.

Due to the lack of a sharp edge in the gun barrel, it was impossible to cut the person open, but Zhu Zhen's power was so terrifying that he directly broke the person into two sections with brute force, and folded the upper body and legs together.

"The devil, he is the devil."

"Monster."

"Come together and kill him."

The Japanese pirates screamed strangely one after another. Unfortunately, Zhu Zhen couldn't understand their words. Even if he did, it didn't matter. He didn't care about the words of dead people.

Next, these Japanese pirates also wanted to resist, drew out their proud samurai swords, and wanted to fight Zhu Ming.

But with Zhu Zhen's force, there was no room for them to resist.

In three strokes, five divided by two, Zhu Zhen killed all the Japanese pirates.

But when I look back at this small village with only seven or eight houses, it has been burned to the ground. I don’t even know how many people have died in the village.

Zhu Ming still couldn't understand his hatred, so he found some wooden sticks from the edge of the village, and inserted them one by one into the corpses of the Japanese pirates he had killed, and stabbed them on the edge of the village.

When Xu Miaojin finally caught up, she couldn't help being shocked. She had also seen bloody wars, but what Zhu Chu did at this time still scared her.

But Xu Miaojin quickly calmed down and shouted: "The battlefield is on the other side, and Xin'er has passed. Come with me."

This was just a small group of Japanese pirates that somehow wandered into this small village and caused a disaster.

But there is still fighting on the main battlefield.

Zhu Ming turned around and said with cold eyes: "Let's go and kill them all, leaving no one behind."

(End of this chapter)