"Once Zheng Sen returns to their place, although he has no strength, he is a banner that can be used to rally - not to mention he is still a child who is easily manipulated. There will definitely be careerists who will support him when he gets there. At that time, the entire Zheng Group will not be as simple as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in Zhangzhou Bay, but the situation of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period." Jiang Shan analyzed.
"Is it necessary for an eight-year-old child to be so complicated?" Tokuji expressed dissent at the meeting. "Does it need to be tender and affectionate towards the indigenous people?"
Jiang Shan said in a respectful and decent tone: "Letting Zheng Sen go will mess up the enemy; keeping him in our hands will mess up ourselves."
"There are quite a few people suffering from Mary's disease..." Zong Zong commented on this, but no longer expressed any objection.
The order to release Zheng Sen has just been conveyed to Kinmen Island. As the person in charge of front-line intelligence and political security, Xu Xu was also in favor of letting Zheng Sen go. Like many elders, he felt that killing an eight-year-old child was unjustifiable.
However, Xu Xu believes that the release should not be a simple release, otherwise the Zheng Group, the Ming Dynasty, and various forces along the coast will think that this is a sign of weakness that the Senate is afraid of the Zheng Group. Therefore, the release must be conditional, such as collecting a ransom - this is how the family members currently captured plan to deal with it.
Now that someone is willing to risk their lives to save him, that's the best thing. They don't even have to ask for a ransom. It would be better to just go with the flow and let them escape.
Xuexi decided to give them a little help. Whether they could escape would depend on the luck and ability of these people. If the escape is unsuccessful, then this "trouble" will be solved naturally. No one had anything to say.
While he was thinking about it, someone sent a summary of the deaths, injuries, and captures of people above the middle level of the Zheng Group in the past few days. The General Staff currently requires real evidence for the death records of important enemy figures. It is best to have corpses or heads to verify the identities. Otherwise, at least there must be cross-cutting oral evidence from multiple people on both sides.
in accordance with this policy. They have now compiled a list of middle- and high-level personnel in the Zheng Group who were killed during Operation Overlord. Among the long list of those who were killed, the one who ranked first was Zheng Zhilong’s brother Zheng Zhihu. This Zheng army’s most brave general, known for his “wisdom and bravery”, defended the offensive and defensive battle on Kinmen Island until the last moment. , until all the soldiers and servants around him were killed and fled. Even after being shot and wounded, he still refused to escape. In the end, he was stabbed to death by the bayonets of the swarming Shanghai soldiers.
Under Zheng Zhihu, Zheng Zhilong's younger brother Zheng Zhipeng was killed in the Battle of the Fire Attack Ship. Except for these two people. There are also a few less famous members of Shibazhi who are listed above.
After them are the names of a group of major Zheng army generals, many of whom are familiar to Xu. In the old plane, some of them later surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty and met with the soldiers of the past. Some followed Zheng Chenggong to go north to Nanjing, to conquer Taiwan in the west, or died in battle or finally passed away with regrets... Behind each of them there is a story that can be written down by historians.
Now, all this will no longer exist. They have become a cold list of names on the report. Permission is a shame.
As for Zheng Zhilong, there is no complete evidence to prove his life and death so far. However, Zhang Tumu, who came from Kaohsiung yesterday, had already had the headless body exhumed and fingerprints extracted. Xu also sent people to Zheng Zhilong's residence in Anping, Zhongzuo and other places. Trying to extract fingerprints from personal belongings in his house for comparison.
It won't be long before the identity of the mysterious headless corpse is revealed. Xu is 99% sure that this person is Zheng Zhilong.
He looked at the timetable on the table. A full week has passed since D-Day, and the "special search" operations in Anping, Kinmen, Xiamen Island and other places are coming to an end. All the gold and silver seized have been shipped. By interrogating prisoners and offering rewards for informants, the special search team of the Planning Academy unearthed dozens of gold and silver hoards in Anping and seized 170,000 taels of gold and silver. One hundred thousand dollars.
A few days ago, engineering troops using metal detectors were dispatched from Lingao. Specially carry out metal detection on the residences and government offices where Anping and other important tasks of the Zheng Group are located to see if there are any secret caches.
The search operation has shifted to heavy cargo. With the spirit of "nothing is wasted in the world", the special search team of the Planning Institute began a large-scale search and removal of less valuable heavy goods. Even the various dilapidated ships abandoned in the harbor were not spared. They were slightly repaired and then pulled away in a tug fleet. All these ships were taken to Hong Kong to be dismantled and used as ship materials for new ships.
Starting next week, the expeditionary force of Operation Overlord will begin to gradually withdraw. Within a week, all prisoners and local people will be transported to Kaohsiung for resettlement. Before that, we must try to arrange Zheng Sen's escape.
He thought for a moment, then rang the bell to call the orderly, and asked him to summon the naturalized civilian cadre in charge of the informant in the prison camp for officials and the labor camp to accept the task.
"Little Lord--"
"Call me Fusong," Zheng Sen stopped Tongtaro who had sneaked in from calling him, and whispered, "Hurry up and say it."
"Yes!" Tongtaro nodded excitedly. Because he got the news that the Kon thieves were about to escape, and it was said that they would take away all the prisoners before escaping, Totaro decided to launch a rescue without further delay.
The original plan was to use the "Li Dai Tao Zombie" method, but gave up because they couldn't find a reliable boy in a hurry. After discussion, several Japanese mercenaries decided to escape without further delay and use a method of cooperating inside and outside to escape directly from prison.
They observed the perimeter of Camp A in advance. Jiaziying was surrounded by two fences, the outer one was a bamboo fence made of sharpened bamboo poles, and the inner one was a barbed iron mesh.
Bamboo fences are easy to destroy. They have sharp blades hidden around them, and most of them are masters of swordsmanship. Cutting through bamboo fences is not a problem, except for the barbed wire inside. Not only is it covered with iron thorns, but there are also bells hanging on it, which will ring incessantly at the slightest disturbance. However, they quickly found a way to crack it - Wang Dachui suggested using a shovel to dig a trench under the barbed wire and crawl through it.
However, this seemingly simple plan has an insurmountable obstacle, which is that there are sentries patrolling between the two fences. Sentinels in groups of two patrol along the path between the two fences, no matter which point they dig from , before the sentry came back, there was no time to dig a trench to take the people out, and then fill it in again - if they didn't fill it in, they would be discovered by the sentry immediately, and once discovered, it would be impossible for them to escape.
They also considered killing the sentries - but there were several towers standing around the entire Jiazi Camp. Although they were very simple, the sentries stood on top of them in a high-rise building, and they could clearly see every move below, making it difficult to escape.
No matter how these people planned, they were never sure that they could bring Fu Song out silently.
Just when he was at a loss, things suddenly took a turn for the better. Ning Liujin, who was coerced by them to participate in this operation, said that he had found a suitable boy in the labor camp and was willing to be the young master's substitute and go to the A-zi camp to replace him - he only had to give fifty taels of silver to his father. mom.
"What do his parents do?"
"It's just the people on the island - his father is sick and can't work," Ning Liujin said, shaking his head, "There is a younger brother in the family, and the population is large, so he came to work in the labor camp. I saw that he was always looking sad and working hard, probably because he was short of money..."
As he mentioned the boy's name, Totaro and his group had no impression - there were many people in the labor camp, and they came from various sources. Some of them were not transferred from the prison camp, but were recruited from the islanders to work. Profitable.
"This is a matter of losing his head, and he is willing?" Wang Dachui played with the wakizashi in his hand, "You want to trick us?"
"Don't dare, don't dare..." Ning Liujin's face turned pale, "No, forget it..."
"Tell me," Tongtaro stopped Wang Dachui, "why he is willing."
"Master, this is paying fifty taels of silver to buy a life." Ning Liujin forced out a bitter smile, "Why doesn't he want to? If he dies, the whole family will live - and he may not necessarily die."
Tongtaro pondered for a moment, then suddenly pulled out his wakizashi and stabbed Ning Liujin with a sharp knife, passing under Ning Liujin's ribs. Ning Liujin screamed, and there was a stench, and shit and urine flowed out.
However, the tip of the knife did not pass through his body. It only penetrated into his clothes, grazed his skin and penetrated. Although the difference was only a hair's breadth, Ning Liujin didn't lose even a hair on his head.
Ning Liujin collapsed on the ground, trembling all over and unable to speak a word.
"Did you inform the thief Kun?"
"No... no... I don't dare..." Ning Liujin kowtowed repeatedly.
"Call that boy here tonight." Tongtaro said, "I want to ask him personally."
As expected, Ning Liujin found the boy that night. Tongtaro saw that his height and build were almost the same as Fusong's, but his skin was dark and rough. He was obviously from a poor background. Fortunately, I went in at night and changed people. This difference should be able to defeat the sentinels.
When asked about his age, he was much older than Fu Song, already eleven years old. It was true that Tongtaro believed half of Ning Liujin's words. He questioned the boy again and again, frightened and deceived him, but in the end it was still what Ning Liujin said.
Tongtaro was still doubtful, so he brought Duo to discuss it to see if it was a trap.
Duo Duo's answer was simple: "If Ning Liujin snitches, we and Master Fusong will be finished. Since we are not finished yet, we might as well take advantage of it."
