Since the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, Japanese pirates captured Ningbo Prefecture, causing chaos in the south of the Yangtze River!
Zhejiang's chief envoy Si Babaili rushed to send the news to Jinling and the capital. The imperial governor-general Jiangnan Military and Political Affairs and the Minister of War Wenlian, who were stationed in Jinling Mansion, immediately dispatched 20,000 troops from the Jiangnan Camp to go south.
Unfortunately, peace in the south of the Yangtze River lasted for too long. The soldiers of the Jiangnan Camp were suddenly attacked by Japanese pirates in Yuyao County, and their troops were destroyed. By the time they fled to Shangyu County, nearly half of them were casualties plus those who escaped.
After Jia Lian came to the imperial envoy with the letters of recommendation from Lin Ruhai and Jia She, Wen Lian was overjoyed and asked his trusted generals to examine Jia Lian carefully. With a stroke of his pen, Jia Lian led thousands of households. Elite cavalry rushed to support Shangyu, which was being surrounded by Japanese pirates.
Under the cover of night, Jia Lian and other 1,000 armed guardsmen were secretly sent by the Songjiang Navy to Linshan Guards in the northeast of Shangyu.
Jia Lian ordered repairs on the spot, and then sent two teams of scouts to check the situation. Linshan Guard was a Japanese guard station set up by the Taizong Dynasty. Unfortunately, over the years, not only was there a serious shortage of people in the guard station, but there were not even a few pairs of useful leather armor.
After the deputy Qianhu who stayed behind handed several recent battle reports to Jia Lian, he expressed his loyalty to the emperor perfunctorily, and then yawned and went to bed without worrying about the Japanese pirates attacking.
In his words, Linshan Weiqiong only had a few copper coins. How could the Japanese pirates be willing to take the risk of confronting Songjiang Navy and come to the seaside...
"Sir, this kind of person is unreliable!"
Gu Yan, the deputy Qianhu, said disdainfully: "In my opinion, we should bypass Shangyu first and go to Kuaiji to join the Japanese army. The general is not afraid of death, but there are more than ten thousand Japanese pirates besieging Shangyu. We have so few people." Going directly to Shangyu is no different than sending yourself to death."
Jia Lian quickly read the battle report in his hand over the past few days, handed it to Gu Yan and said, "Brother Gu, take a look, we're afraid we won't have time to go to Kuaiji to join the army!"
It turned out that on the 21st of the twelfth lunar month, more than 10,000 Japanese pirates landed in Lihai, north of Kuaiji, captured Lihai and Sanshan in one fell swoop, and then stormed the unsuspecting Kuaiji.
At this time, the Ping Japanese Army, let alone rush to support Shangyu, just defended in a hurry, which was enough for them to be busy for a while.
"Hey! Where did this Japanese pirate come from? It's probably going to be difficult here in Zhejiang!"
Gu Yan picked up his pen and started marking on the map. There were Japanese pirates in the five major cities of Ningbo, Cixi, Yuyao, Shangyu and Kuaiji. A rough calculation showed that there were no less than 40,000 Japanese pirates in Shaoxing and Ningbo.
The Central Committee had been quarreling for several months over the suppression of Japanese invaders, and so far had not sent Wen Lian enough food, wages, troops and horses, and had only given him a set of imperial edicts to raise his own troops and wages.
This resulted in Wen Lian arriving in Jiangnan for two months. Apart from the limited few thousand forbidden troops around him, the only ones who could command and move were the old soldiers from the Jiangnan camp.
Rely on those old soldiers to defeat 40,000 Japanese pirates? Stop dreaming!
Jia Lian stared at the map on the table for a long time, and finally sighed: "The commander-in-chief must have received the news. I think he will send reinforcements as soon as possible."
"But sir, what should we do?"
Gu Yan opened his mouth again and again, and finally said what he was thinking: "There are Japanese pirates in the nearby cities. Sir, we don't even have a place to replenish food and grass, or we should retreat to the north!"
There is a strong enemy in front of us, and the sea behind us. If we don't return to Haining while Songjiang Navy's ship is still there, we may die at the hands of Japanese pirates in a few days.
Ordinarily, there is nothing wrong with Gu Yan's plan, but Jia Lian shook his head: "Shangyu is in an emergency. It is about to lose its defense. It is related to the life and death of tens of thousands of people. We can't save it!"
"But sir, there are thousands of people besieging Shangyu, we only need a thousand cavalry..."
Jia Lian pointed to a place on the map and said confidently: "The cavalry is good, let's use a move to surround Wei and save Zhao!"
After cooking in a pot and eating a meal of hot meat porridge, the Youwuwei soldiers finally regained their energy. After dawn, they galloped quickly and arrived at a small village fifteen miles north of Yuyao County before evening.
Although he was prepared, seeing the ruins and corpses everywhere in this small village in the south of the Yangtze River, Jia Lian couldn't help but cursed angrily: "These damn beasts!"
"Sir, they are all young and old. The younger girls are only
There were some little women who died with their babies..."
Bang!
Jia Lian punched the big tree next to him. Gu Yan secretly glanced at the blood on the tree trunk and reported in a low voice: "There is no food or money in the village. There are 244 corpses in total. It seems that the Japanese pirates killed the young woman." They were all kidnapped!"
The half-covered door opened, and the little woman on the bed seemed to have exhausted all her strength to protect the baby under her body. Her half-naked back was covered with bruises, and a wooden stick penetrated her back and chest. It came out everywhere and penetrated into the baby's neck...
Jia Lian silently pulled down the bed curtain and covered her body, his eyes filled with coldness.
After a long time, he said in a cold voice: "Let the brothers send the dead villagers a ride. Remember to tell the villagers, wait a minute, Daxia men will send the enemies to kowtow to them and confess their sins!"
Yuyao City, under the auspices of the county magistrate Yan Yuanying, withstood an onslaught of more than ten thousand Japanese pirates for more than ten days.
Fortunately, there was a lot of food in Yuyao, and Yan Yuanying aggressively collected food from the rich families in the city, and adopted a supply system to unite the people in the city, and organized more than 20,000 young men to cooperate with the city guards to guard the city.
However, Yan Yuanying also knew that if the imperial court did not send reinforcements, when the food in the city was exhausted, the city would not be far away.
"Your Majesty, those people in the city are clamoring for surrender and running away again!"
The county magistrate Li Qian dragged his tired body back to the county government office. As soon as he entered the door, he said with a frown: "Many people gathered at the south gate. They all listened to Qian Shiying and Diao Delu's deception, saying that there was not enough food in the city. We only need three days, and the only way to survive is to escape from the city!"
"Escape from the city? Even if you take advantage of Yao Jiang to escape to the south, can you escape the Japanese pirates' butcher's knife?".z.br>
Yan Yuanying cursed angrily: "This damn Qian Shiying and Diao Delu deserve to be cut to pieces! Brother Li, send people to disperse the people gathered at the south gate. Go to the Qian family and Diao family in person to warn them that the city If there are any rumors that harm the morale of the army, regardless of whether there is evidence or not, I will identify them and kill them!"
Boom boom boom...
The sound of artillery sounded again, night was coming, this was the last wave of attack today.
Yan Yuanying closed the food and grass account book, picked up the long knife beside the table, nodded to Li Qian, and walked out of the county government office.
The Japanese pirates' artillery were all lightweight and portable Fo Lang machine guns. Jia Lian regretfully said to Gu Yan, "It's a pity. These four cannons must be destroyed. It would be nice if they could be dragged back."
Gu Yan looked at the Japanese pirate camp in the distance that was spitting fire snakes, and grinned: "These small cannons of the Fo Lang machine are not as good as our general cannons. The range and power are far behind... But if you want it, sir, we can do it later." Let the general lead the brothers to hold on for a while longer, and my lord will drag him away!"
"No, what we have to do this time is to intersect, intersect, and intersect again! Destroy these cannons and disrupt the Japanese pirates' formation. The lives of brothers are important, and the artillery will be fought by the Ministry of Industry when the time comes!"
Jia Lian glanced at the sky and saw that it was slowly getting dark.
He pulled out the long knife from his waist and pulled down his mask. The ferocious black fang mask shone with cold light.
"Brothers, do you still remember the folks who died tragically at the hands of the Japanese pirates? Revenge! Revenge! Revenge!"
"revenge!"
"revenge!"
"revenge!"
With the sound of revenge, a thousand cavalry formed an arrow shape, headed by Jia Lian, and gradually accelerated towards the Japanese pirate army besieging Yuyao County.
Boom boom boom...
The barrels of the four artillery pieces were almost red. The Japanese pirate directing the bombardment was yelling at the gunner who wanted to stop the bombardment. The translator next to him yelled: "My lord, please continue loading quickly..."
"But if you hit it again, it will explode!"
As soon as the gunner with a sad face said something, he was whipped on the shoulder by the Japanese pirate who was directing the bombardment.
The burning pain made him whimper and fall to the ground.
Dong dong, dong dong, dong dong dong...
The ground was shaking, and the vibrations were getting louder and louder.
The man raised his head and saw a group of people coming towards him.
The devil with black armor and fangs.
"Ah, ghost... ghost..."
Snapped!
"What the hell? Get up quickly and continue loading..."
"kill!"
Under the cover of the darkness and the roar of artillery, a thousand cavalry rushed into the Japanese camp and penetrated the artillery position before being discovered.
Jia Lian, the leader of the army, shouted loudly and slashed his sword across the Japanese pirate who was obviously the commander. The Japanese pirate's head flew high before he even had time to shout.
Click!
The horse's hoof stepped on the body that fell to the ground, and the intestines and organs were squeezed out. The fishy smell almost made Jia Lian faint on the horse.
"As expected, they are transformed into barbarians, and they smell extremely fishy!"
The knife fell from his hand, and there was another thief's head. The thousand cavalry didn't stop at all. They killed all the three hundred enemies in the artillery camp like harvesting weeds, and then rushed towards the nearest crossbow camp.
Only a few soldiers in the rear threw their torches onto the gunpowder pile, then quickly clapped their horses and galloped away...
boom! boom! boom!
Flames shot into the sky. Yan Yuanying, who was standing on the top of the city commanding the city's defenders, stared at the Japanese pirate camp on the left side of the city gate in surprise and murmured: "Is this a bomb?"
"My lord, they are cavalry!"
A captain pointed forward with his hand. Yan Yuanying looked in the direction of the captain's finger and saw a cavalry rushing out of the Japanese camp and plunging straight into the Japanese camp that was attacking the city. It was like a sharp sword. With his chisel, he carved out a streak of red in the Japanese pirates' formation.
"Black helmet, black armor...with such combat power, they are the Imperial Guards of the Beijing Camp!"
Yan Yuanying was also a serious Jinshi. Although he was only at the bottom of the list, he was also passed through the imperial examination, and his knowledge was naturally extraordinary.
With just one glance, he could tell the identity of the person coming.
"Bang the drum and cheer for my Great Xia cavalry!"
Dong dong dong dong...
With the sound of war drums, the archers at the top of the city also tried their best to help the cavalry below the city clear the way. Originally, Yan Yuanying thought that Jia Lian and others were going to pierce through the enemy's camp and rush into the city to join them, but he did not expect that after the cavalry pierced through the enemy's camp, they shot an arrow carrying a letter at the top of the city and then turned their horses again. He entered the Japanese pirate army.
Yan Yuanying immediately opened the letter, read it hastily, and shouted: "Jia Lian, you are a true warrior!"
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