It was early one morning.
Mao Guoqi patrolled around on horseback, surveying the terrain of the Nanjiang River and overlooking the Japanese defense situation on the other side.
The river fog is thick.
In the distance, he saw a lone boat crossing the river. At first, Mao Guoqi thought it was a scout or messenger sent by the Japanese, so he simply scratched his tongue and asked what was going on.
As a result, when I looked closer, I saw a woman wearing Li Chao clothes. Looking from the direction where the lone boat came from, it seemed that the woman had just come out of the Japanese camp.
During the march and fighting, Li Chaoren, who was captured by the Japanese army and served as a slave from time to time, ran out and sought asylum from the Ming army.
The generals are not surprised by this and have formed a very mature process:
First, they inquired about the Japanese army's intelligence, and through trivial answers, they restored the truth and eliminated the suspicion of elaboration. Then, they gave these poor people some food rations and money, and allowed these poor people to go home on their own.
However, just as Mao Guoqi drove his horse forward and prepared for routine, something unexpected happened. When the woman who escaped saw that she was a Ming general, she breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed on the ground, trembling from the middle of her sleeves. Take out a letter.
"For me?"
Mao Guoqi's eyes widened and he was very surprised.
The woman, who didn't understand Chinese, kept pointing at his luxurious armor and stomach and couldn't stop nodding.
This greatly surprised Mao Guoqi. He was an out-and-out southerner and a general of the Zhejiang Army. If the imperial court had not ordered to fight against Japan and aid Korea, he would never have come to the peninsula in his life.
As a result, in Jinzhou, which is located on the seaside, a foreign woman escaped from the Japanese army camp and gave him a letter.
How strange!
Weird!
With the idea of exploration, Mao Guoqi immediately took the letter and opened it. There were only a few lines in the text:
This woman is about to live in a foreign land, and I feel pity for her. I will redeem her at the expense of my money and return her to my homeland. The soldiers and generals of the Celestial Empire should take pity on their poverty and refrain from killing them. This is the virtue of saving ants.
It is true that Lao Mao is a rough man and does not understand the twists and turns of civil servants, but the meaning expressed here is very simple and clear:
This woman was about to be sold to Japan. Seeing how pitiful she was, I ransomed her life and begged the Ming army not to harm her.
Our Zhejiang soldiers are well-known as the army of kings. If we had time, we would build houses for local refugees during the march. As for embarrassing a woman?
Mao Guoqi felt helpless. Just when he was about to ask about the situation of the person who wrote the letter, he glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw the signature.
"Those who know my surname will bury my son's father after your father's death. Anyone who asks me for my name will say something about me, but will not say anything about my talent."
What does this bird mean?
Let me guess lantern riddles!
Mao Guoqi, who had limited education, found it too confusing. Looking at it horizontally and vertically, he couldn't understand the true meaning, but his intuition told him that this matter was not simple, and there was a big secret worth exploring.
As a result, a soldier named Zhuge was called over. He scanned it and said it was a very simple crossword puzzle. He could find the answer to any well-known scholar in the Ming Dynasty.
Ling Gong: A famous general in the Tang Dynasty with a different surname, Wang Guo Ziyi. Because he once served as Zhongshu Ling, he was respected as Ling Gong by the world.
The father of Mi'er comes from Guo Ju Mi'er in the Twenty-Four Filial Piety Pictures.
Double hint equals explicit statement!
The surname of the person who wrote the letter is: Guo.
The answer to the riddle of You or Zhikou is an ancient word:
country.
The homonymous words evolved from it are:
country.
The key to no talent is to remove the last word next to the handle, and the answer is revealed:
install.
Guo Guoan!
If we add the war preparation stage, a group of patriots emerged during the ten-year Anti-Japanese War.
Among them, the most famous ones are Xu Sanguan and his apprentice Zhu Junwang who risked his life to pass on information.
Both of them are Jiangxi people who were teased by fate and ended up in trouble in a foreign country.
But Xu Sanguan’s information was not written by him alone, there was another author!
Guo Guoan provided a large amount of combat readiness information about the Japanese army, and correctly deduced the Japanese invasion route and time, as well as how to defend the enemy from the country.
As a small person, his life was very exciting and full of legends. He was originally a military household in Fujian and lived a peaceful life. One day when he went fishing, he unfortunately encountered pirates and was abducted to Japan.
Then, relying on his own ability, he became an officer of the Satsuma Domain, and his rank was not low.
After Xu Sanguan finished writing the information and risked all his connections to send it out, he gradually became quiet. But Guo Guoan was different. He seemed to have been quiet for eight years, but in fact he had been looking for opportunities.
As the last person of the Shimazu family to land on the peninsula, he escaped the death of Nanyuan and was staying in the camp near Nanjiang!
Kill the Japanese!
The more you kill, the better, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty will no longer live in the shadow of the Japanese.
This is what Guo Guoan, and even most other Ming people living in foreign countries, think about day and night.
"Guo Guoan?"
"What a strange name. I don't know this person at all."
At first, Mao Guoqi was still confused, until he suddenly remembered that he also had a staff general named Shi Shiyong. Someone from Jinyiwei might have some clues.
"Old Shi, do you know what's going on?"
"Guo Guoan, he is indeed a trustworthy person!"
When Shi Shiyong received the letter, he looked up to the sky and shouted with joy beyond words.
"Do you know each other?"
Mao Guoqi, who originally came to ask with the attitude of giving it a try, was dumbfounded.
"It's an old friendship."
"Where did we meet?"
"Japan."
Stupid, completely stupid.
Mao Guoqi never imagined that the leader of the Jinyiwei in front of him had been abroad and had met the strange Guo Guoan. If he hadn't met him in person, he would not have believed it.
"Are you sure you've been there?"
"What, you don't believe it?"
Respond to a rhetorical question with a rhetorical question.
Shi Shiyong straightened his back and said proudly:
"Don't forget, Jinyiwei is responsible for monitoring the world!"
Time goes back to the 20th year of Wanli.
Compared with the majestic power of their predecessors who controlled the wind and rain and frightened the civil and military ministers, the Jin Yiwei did indeed regress as he lived, but he did not degenerate to the level of a rotten fish.
At that time, the Japanese offensive on the peninsula had stopped, and the Korean king was crying in Uiju.
The various ministries of the Ming Dynasty were systematically preparing to cross the Yalu River and conquer the Japanese, and the Jinyiwei also moved.
Xu Fuyuan, who was the governor of Fujian at the time, summoned two commanders under his command. One was Shen Bingyi and the other was Shi Shiyong.
Shen Bingyi is too old and cannot bear the heavy responsibility.
At that time, Shi Shiyong was young and powerful, and had extraordinary conversational skills, so he received a difficult and important task——
Cross the ocean to the Japanese country and contact the martyrs who provided precious information to the Ming Dynasty.
In June of the 21st year of Wanli, the commander disguised himself as a businessman and led two capable and clever younger brothers to cross the ocean on the ship of Xu Yu, a maritime merchant, and arrived at the Hirado River in Kyushu on July 4th.
As a result, he discovered that he had come to the wrong place. The target person had already gone to Nagoya to meet with Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Shi Shiyong, the commander of the Imperial Guard, was obviously worthy of his reputation as being sent abroad by the Ming Dynasty to perform important tasks.
Regardless of the unfamiliar place, he headed straight for Nagoya, the enemy's home base.
After arriving, he was responsible for contacting the martyrs, while his two younger brothers went to investigate the terrain of Nagoya.
