"I don't know what the military advisor is talking about. I have never seen this thing before, let alone Peng San..."
Peng San or Xie San?
"Oh... ok."
Song Che was not embarrassed, but pointed to the tent door:
"If you really don't want to say it, I won't force you to take your mother out of the military camp. But don't blame me for not reminding you that Wang Qi's family of five and Kong Si's family of seven have not even spared their children. For' As far as they're concerned, only the dead can keep secrets forever."
Xie San looked at the tent door, still unable to move forward. He sighed, longing for Song Che: "Can the military advisor protect the safety of me and my mother?"
Song Che said: "If the military camp cannot save your lives, what will you do when you get outside?"
Xie San sighed, "I am indeed Peng San..."
turn out to be:
Peng San, Wang Qi, Kong Si, and several fellow Taizhou residents were digging gold mines on an island called "She Island" thirty miles away from the coast of Tongzhou.
Later, when the Japanese invasion arose and pirates occupied She Island, Peng San and others also changed from bosses to hard laborers, digging gold mines for the pirates day and night.
Until early November, the Japanese pirates suddenly gathered a large number of troops to conquer Yancheng. The number of guards on She Island was reduced, and the three of them took the opportunity to escape back.
No wonder the Japanese pirates kept going on and on. It turned out that there was a gold mine that gave them blood transfusions.
If Peng San and others fled back to the mainland, they would undoubtedly expose the location of the gold mine, which is why they were silenced.
But there was something fishy about his words.
"You said She Island is thirty miles away from the coastline and is surrounded by the sea. No matter how weak the guards are, how could you three escape back?" Song Che asked.
"Does the military advisor suspect that I am a Japanese pirate?" Peng San was a little excited. "I escaped with great difficulty and narrowly escaped death! I just want to save my mother from poverty at home. I don't steal or rob. I have Is it wrong?"
"No one will say you are wrong, and they will even reward you."
Song Che said: "The direction, scale, location, and escape route of She Island are extremely critical information and can play a decisive role in launching a total annihilation of Japanese pirates in the future."
In the vast sea, if you can accurately locate your position, you will get twice the result with half the effort.
Peng San calmed down and then said:
“There are nearly a thousand hard workers on She Island, all of them men captured from coastal areas. They dig every day and every night, with little food and fatigue. People die almost every day. After they die, they are thrown directly into the sea to feed the fish;
I know very well in my heart that if I don't find a way to escape, I will die sooner or later without a whole body;
Wang Qi, Kong Si and other fellow villagers like me and I were the first ones to discover Shedao. There are some secrets that only we know;
On the southeast side of She Island, there is a cliff at the mouth of the sea. Under the cliff is a strange-edge reef. On the lower edge of the reef, there is a large cave. When the tide is high, the entrance of the cave will be covered by sea water, and when the tide is low, half of the cave entrance will be exposed.
The location where the gold mine was mined happened to be on the southeast side. We thought that if we could dig through the mine and the cave, we might be able to escape without anyone noticing;
We calculated the location and dug for a whole year, and finally we finally dug through the cave;
But in order not to be discovered by the supervisor, we lied that the mountain foundation was weak and buried the entrance of the cave with gravel, leaving only a small hole;
Then, during his free time, he began to hoard wood, whether it was sticks, branches, bark, or even chopsticks, and threw them all into the cave through small holes for later use;
At the end of October, I don't know what big event happened. Nearly 70% of the pirates and ronin were transferred away. Later I learned that they were going to attack Chuzhou;
I knew my chance to escape was coming.
When the night work period ended, we did not return to the barracks. Instead, we hid in the mine until the supervisor left. Then we sneaked into the cave, tied up the hoarded wood and bark to make a small boat, and used our clothes to make sails, and drilled along the cave passage. outlet to the sea;
The night at sea is very dark, and we cannot tell the direction, so we can only drift with the tide and let fate take its course;
God is wise, and the wind happened to be blowing from the southwest that night. Before dawn, we were washed up on the Xiuzhou coast by the sea;
We traveled from Xiuzhou to Suzhou, then to Chuzhou, and finally returned to Taizhou after half a month. I thought I had escaped from the devil's cave, but I never thought that before I had settled down for two days, I heard that seven members of Kong Si's family had been killed by Japanese pirates!
I realized at that time that the Japanese pirates were probably here, so I took my mother to Chuzhou overnight. Unexpectedly, all the major states strictly inspected the roads, and we couldn't leave Taizhou at all, so we had to hang out among the refugees.
The day before yesterday, I heard the announcement from the Taizhou Army that they could provide shelter without a road guide, so I took my mother to the military camp, and then I came to your place..."
After listening to this, Song Che nodded, picked up a handful of gold sand and said, "If I guess correctly, this is the thing that killed Kong Si and Wang Qi."
Peng San was puzzled, "Why?"
Song Che said: "Because this gold sand is too small to be used as currency, it must be melted into gold ingots or exchanged for equal amounts in a pawn shop. You are indeed smart enough, but you have forgotten that Japanese pirates are not limited to the sea. They also have their counterparts in Taizhou." Party, and a powerful person;
I think it must be Wang Qi or Kong Si who took the gold sand to exchange for money, which led to their whereabouts being exposed and causing death. "
"At the beginning, we secretly hid the gold sand, thinking that if we could come back alive, we could help our wives, children, and children escape poverty. Unexpectedly, our greed actually killed more than a dozen people in the Lao Wang and Lao Kong families!"
Peng San beat his chest and stamped his feet, his eyes filled with regret.
"By the way, there is one more important thing, which is the leader who controls She Island. Do you know him?" Song Che suddenly asked.
"I know him even when he turned into ashes!" Peng San said with red eyes, "He is the big pirate Wang Zhi! In the past, he was just a fisherman like us. Later he colluded with Japanese pirates and became a smuggler. After the maritime ban, he formed gangs everywhere. It has become the biggest scourge in Jiangnan today!"
Song Che was overjoyed, and after searching for a long time, it turned out that the pirate leader had taken root in She Island.
"Aside from Wang Zhi? Are there others?" Song Che asked again.
"have!"
Peng San said firmly: "I don't know who they are, they look human-like, but their hearts are worse than Wang Zhi's;
Most of the hard laborers on the island were kidnapped by them, including the food, equipment, gunpowder, and even the women for the prodigals to play with on the island, boat after boat! "
The one who has the ability to gather these supplies must be a big businessman, the Yang family? Ma family? Or is it more?
The Japanese pirates opened gold mines and used the gold to buy supplies, recruit soldiers and horses, and build ships and equipment. This was more than just a partial rebellion. They clearly wanted to rebel.
"Okay, you will live in the military camp during this period, and you will still live as 'Xie San'. I will send someone to arrange independent tents for you later. You will have three meals a day, so you will have enough food and clothing."
Peng San is currently the only person who knows the location of She Island. He has to lead the way to attack the island and capture the thieves, so nothing goes wrong.
