The Prosperous Era of Longwan

"The Ningbo Prefecture is really fat. No wonder the Japanese pirates gathered so many people to go ashore and plunder. They haven't finished moving it after so many days."

Wu Dong couldn't help but sigh when he thought of the wealth mentioned in the letter.

"Where is the soldier who came back to report? I also want to ask how the battle is going ahead."

Only then did Wei Wen remember that he had gone to read the letter when he arrived at his uncle's house. He hadn't asked the messenger what was going on up front and whether his father was okay.

Wu Dong said with a smile, "He collapsed from exhaustion when he came back. He couldn't walk by water. He ran back from Zhejiang on horseback. People who came back were almost fainting, so I had to let him rest. He still hasn't woken up yet."

"I guess I didn't get a good rest at the front, and I kept running around."

Wei Guangde thought about it before answering.

"That's for sure. If there's a war, who can sleep peacefully? Only by returning here can we rest peacefully."

Wu Dong nodded, but then said: "These soldiers and servants looked fine before, but now they have exposed many flaws. Our soldiers here have never seen blood. I heard that over there in Bian Town As a veteran, even if the enemy is attacking the city, as long as you don't get on the city wall, you can sleep in the tower and still be invulnerable."

"When you see blood, go wherever you see blood."

Wei Wencai also came to his senses. He had not considered that these soldiers might be nervous and anxious because of the possibility of going to the battlefield, which would affect his rest.

Just thinking about riding back from Zhejiang for only a few days, how could I be so tired?

When he got up the next day, Wei Guangde asked someone to ask. The soldier who delivered the letter was not awake yet. He had been sleeping for almost a day.

It was almost noon when a servant came in again to report that the soldier had woken up.

When Wei Guangde arrived at a wing, he saw that his elder brother Wei Wencai and his cousin were already waiting here. After sitting down for a while, the soldier quickly entered the room.

Before Wei Guangde could see his appearance clearly, he just felt that this man was very strong, so he had already bowed down.

"Greetings to the young master, my cousin."

"Get up and answer."

Wu Dong said, "When you came back yesterday, you said that my father and uncle were fine. What is the situation ahead? Also, why are you so tired?"

"Master Hui, we didn't get much rest along the way. Especially before the battle with the Japanese pirates, the whole battalion was extremely scared."

The soldier answered honestly.

"Tell me clearly, why are you so scared before we even fight?"

Wu Dong asked.

"It's not like they were frightened by the killers in Yangzhou and Gaoyou. They said that the Japanese pirates were highly skilled in martial arts and invulnerable. If you shoot a bow and arrow, they can catch it with their bare hands and throw it back to you. Their accuracy is almost the same as aiming an arrow.

Then, after the military order came down, the guardsmen in Chuzhou and Jianyang were unwilling to board the ship, and they almost couldn't hold them back."

At this time, under the dictation of the soldiers, Wu Dong and the Wei brothers knew that the situation at that time was a bit dangerous.

After Nanjing sent a military order to rush the army to Zhejiang to suppress the Japanese, many guardsmen in the rear were unwilling to board the ship at all.

It's very simple. During the training in Zhenjiang, many of the soldiers at the seaside guard station had heard of the legend of Japanese pirates, and it spread around that time.

Although I haven’t seen it with my own eyes or experienced it personally, I have heard so much that I unconsciously take it seriously.

Such news spread quietly in the camp, but none of the officers and generals in the camp noticed it. From that time on, the momentum of the entire army actually began to decline, and finally broke out after receiving military orders to set out to suppress the Japanese.

Fortunately, after a year of rectification by the Nanjing Jingying Camp, the army's execution ability has improved a bit, and several guard posts that showed signs of instability were suppressed. But even so, the Jiujiang Guards were surrounded by the Nanjing Jingying Camp for a long time. Lift the ban.

After that, we were supposed to set off in one day, so we stayed in Zhenjiang for an extra day before boarding the ship and sailing.

The army set sail and arrived at the mouth of the sea. They encountered the Taicang Guard garrison on the sea near the Wusong River Guards Qianhu Station. The two armies merged into one and continued southward.

"Actually, at that time, we had not slept a wink on the ship for two days, and our morale was gone after we boarded the ship."

Seeing this strong soldier say such words, Wei Guangde knew something was wrong.

Logically speaking, the Taicang Guard should be at least one day ahead of the Zhenjiang army, not to mention that the Zhenjiang side was delayed for a day before setting off. This meant that the Taicang Guard Army had been lingering near the Wusong River for two days.

Then I heard the soldier continue to say, naturally after arriving at the sea surface of Jiaxing Prefecture, according to the orders from above, Jiujiang Guard, Anqing Guard, Luzhou Guard and other guards will continue southward to Taizhou by boat. Nanjing Jingying will join other The Wei Suo was ordered to land at Ningbo Mansion.

Having said this, the soldier visibly hesitated and was stunned for a moment without continuing to speak.

"What's going on? Go on."

Seeing that the soldiers hesitated again, Wu Dong asked hurriedly.

The soldier's face turned red, and he continued: "Shortly after we divided our troops, we got lost on the sea, and then drifted to the vicinity of Yuyao County, Shaoxing Prefecture."

I heard the soldiers said that they were supposed to go to Taizhou Prefecture, but the fleet got lost and drifted to Shaoxing Prefecture. Wei Guangde had seen the map of Zhejiang, so he naturally knew the location of Shaoxing Prefecture. It was exactly the same as the message sent back last month. Almost there, we will go ashore after crossing Hangzhou Bay.

Wei Guangde could think of it, and Wu Dong naturally knew it, too, and the expression on his face was extremely exciting for a while.

If you bypass Ningbo and go to Taizhou, you must pass through Zhoushan, the home of the Japanese pirates. Can you go there?

joke.

The only person in the room who couldn't figure out the situation was his eldest brother Wei Wencai. He didn't go to Jiujiang Prefecture that time. As for Ningbo Prefecture and Shaoxing Prefecture, he only knew that they were from Zhejiang Province.

"Ahem, it's common to get lost at sea. Go on."

Wu Dong urged angrily.

"After we landed in Shaoxing, we came into contact with the local Linshan Guard's Tan Ma."

As the soldier continued to tell, Wei Guangde realized that his father and his Jiujiang Guards still failed to escape the battlefield.

After the Japanese pirates plundered Dinghai County, Ningbo Prefecture, some Japanese pirates went to Cixi County to plunder.

In fact, there are many guard posts around Ningbo Prefecture and Shaoxing Prefecture. There are five guard posts including Ningbo Guard, Dinghai Guard, Linshan Guard, Guanhai Guard and Shaoxing Guard, not to mention several guard posts for thousands of households. However, In the battle of Dinghai County, the Dinghai Guards were defeated directly, and Cixi's Guanhai Guards could not withstand it.

However, there is no news from the Nanjing Jingying Camp, and it is not known where they have landed in Ningbo Prefecture.

"Where did you fight the Japanese pirates?"

From the letter, Wei Guangde already knew that the Jiujiang Guards were fighting Japanese pirates, and that they were still on the border of Ningbo Prefecture, but the soldiers' rustling for a long time did not bring up the point of concern to him.

"The place where we landed was Yuyao, which is very close to Cixi. Not long after we landed, we met the retreating Guanhai Guard soldiers. It is said that the Dinghai Guards had retreated to Ningbo Prefecture, and then we fought with the Japanese pirates."