It was not easy to boost morale, but fortunately, the reorganized troops were simple-minded and the majority of the troops were simple-minded, and they did not fall behind in the battle against the Japanese Invaders, of course, such a record was rightly accused by the rattan players and bird players of lying about their military exploits, but this further aroused the fighting spirit of the soldiers, and the inferiority complex turned to the other extreme, and everyone begged to fight to prove themselves. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Chang Wei still let the troops rest for half an hour, and the opponent was no longer the remnants of Yanagi who were as tired as the baggage soldiers, but the tiger and wolf soldiers of Okita, who acted rashly, would only end up with a loss of soldiers, and Yan Ruyu and Yu Piaoling also needed time to recover their internal strength.

Yu Piaoling became the most popular, and the ethereal knife wound medicine was far more effective than the regular medicine in the army, and this also greatly boosted the morale of the troops.

When Yan Ruyu's internal strength recovered to eighty percent of the level, Chang Wei knew that it was time to act, and ordered the horse's hooves to be wrapped in cloth, and everyone embarked on the journey east to Heishi Village.

Along the way, there was silence on the official road, but from time to time I saw the corpses of my comrades-in-arms, some of whom had their ears cut off, some of whom had their noses cut off, and some of whom had their stomachs disemboweled, and the situation was unbearable. There was no time to bury these corpses, and everyone could only grit their teeth and curse, and their emotions became more and more intense.

Three miles away from the village of Black Rock, there was no enemy sentry, and another mile forward, there was still no trace of the enemy, and when the outline of the village of Black Rock appeared in front of us, I saw a large ship quietly anchored on the shore, and there was no one in the open space south of the village.

"Why is Okita moving so fast?!"

Chang Wei was taken aback in his heart, not because Okita really retreated from here, but because the speed of his retreat was far beyond imagination, and it was not easy to organize more than 200 people to get on the boat immediately, Yan Ruyu was also surprised!

"How late is the general?"

When Chang Wei arrived at the shore, he saw a few people pacing out of the cabin, among them was a middle-aged man, not tall, dressed in a Han robe, holding a fan, with a mediocre appearance, but his demeanor was very elegant, and several powerful generals behind him were very unfamiliar.

The middle-aged man saw Chang Wei standing in front of the formation immediately, pointed at the group, and laughed loudly in half-baked Chinese: "I heard that the general was beheading Liu Sheng and Sanshang, why is the army so slow, so I have no chance to fight with the general!"

The voice is not slow, but it is sonorous and powerful, and it can be heard clearly in the sea breeze, obviously with good martial arts.

This gentleman-like teacher is Kazuya Okita, the leader of the Japanese Bandits?

Listening to his provocation, Chang Wei of course refused to show weakness, so he sneered: "You escaped quickly, but you complained that I came late, you want to fight, and when you get off the boat, you will fight, what are you talking about on the boat!"

"What are young people anxious about? With an opponent like you, it's too late for a certain family to be happy, how can they be stingy to fight with you?!"

As he spoke, he took out a bloody head from the brocade box held by the person on the right and threw it out casually, and he didn't see how much strength he exerted, the head had already crossed the water surface of more than ten zhang, and landed in front of Chang Weima with a snap, which was Hu Lian's head.

"This kind of character, a certain family is not interested! You, don't let me down!"

The loud cursing behind him couldn't suppress Okita's voice, Chang Wei had reestimated his strength in his heart, Okita seemed to have completely relied on his extraordinary skills to sit on the throne of the leader, and the Yagyu Shibei, who was invincible, was willing to surrender to him, and he had at least the strength of the top twenty on the dragon list.

"You won't be disappointed, how can a dead man be disappointed! Okita, your head is temporarily on your neck, and the next time we meet, you won't have such good luck again!"

Although Okita is out of reach of Changwei on the ship, he can't miss the opportunity to weaken his strength and morale. Fighting the war is the heaviest money and grain, because the ban on the sea cannot be enforced for a long time, as long as Okita has money, the supply will not be too difficult, if you want to cut off his grain and grass, you have to cut off his connection with the Jiangnan family, and Songjiang has a coastline of hundreds of miles, this time it was just an ambush in Okita, which made him suspicious, thus dividing the relationship between him and the Jiangnan family.

The most important thing is to directly catch the evidence of the connection between the Okita Group and the Jiangnan family, so as to catch all the masterminds behind the scenes.

This is the ultimate goal of Changwei!

Under the moonlight, Okita really frowned slightly, and muttered something in his mouth, although he couldn't hear the sound at all when he was too far away, Chang Weiyun had enough eyesight to see the shape of his lips.

"Luck?"

Chang Wei understood that Zong Shi had already had doubts in his heart, and at this moment, he vaguely intended to say that an ambush was an encounter, and the result of reverse thinking was probably even more regarded as a colleague. Seeing that the desired effect had been achieved, Chang Wei waved his hand, and more than a dozen bird guns stretched out from the team and shot at Zongshe.

About ten or so lead pellets shot out from the muzzle, the speed is far faster than the hidden weapon and the bow and arrow, and what is even more terrifying is that the master who uses the archery and the hidden weapon with all his strength can only support dozens of times at most, but there are a hundred lead pellets in the lead bag of each bird gunner, although the time for the bird gun is enough to kill them ten times, but if a dozen bird guns are facing a person at the same time, it is difficult for any master to retreat.

However, these bird gunners are very poor because of lack of training, even if the three lead pellets that go straight to the target after traveling more than ten zhang, the speed is no longer so terrible, Okita and the generals behind him all use knives to knock the lead pellets flying, the Japanese are laughing, as if ridiculing the Ming army in the class gate to get axes, and then listen to Okita's order, a few people retreated into the cabin, the big ship put up sails, more than 20 long oars came out, and flew towards the depths of the sea.

"Next time, how many people will survive the next battle?"

Listening to the loud curses of the soldiers behind him, Chang Wei sighed slightly in his heart, but his face was exaggerated, although a counterattack to win in defeat did not become a reality, but the morale should be preserved: "Yes, next time, I will never let the Japanese slip away so swaggeringly." But, brethren, ...... It's time to count the loot!"

After all, there was only half an hour of retreat time, the battlefield was not cleaned, more than a dozen weapons and even two corpses of the Japanese were searched out of the hidden corners by the soldiers who wanted to make meritorious contributions, of course, Chang Wei also heard an excited shout: "My lord, there is still a living one here!"

By the time he received Fu Zhouzi's general order and returned to the temporary military camp in Sheshan, Songjiang, it was already the afternoon of the next day.

"Lord He, stop quibbling! Master Fu and I are fighting against more than 200 Japanese pirates in the north of Nanhuizui, and the elite soldiers who can defeat Master Hu will cost fifty or sixty Japanese pirates, and the number of the Okita group is less than 300 -- this is the information that you personally provided, Lord He, how can there be nearly 150 Japanese robbers in Heishi Village? It is clear that you want to shirk the responsibility for failure and escape!"

Wu Siming pointed at Chang Wei's nose and said angrily: "One hundred soldiers against one hundred and fifty Japanese soldiers, one head-to-head battle, only thirty-seven people were killed, but more than twenty enemies were killed, do you think those soldiers are the three Davids of the Beijing camp, those thirty-seven brothers should be the ghosts of the dead who fled from the enemy!"

"Lord Wu, do you want my soldiers to fight with your cavalry archers?"

Chang Wei sneered at each other, but his heart was like a boiling pot, the battle situation was completely different from what he imagined, almost at the same time when he received Fu Zhouzi's report on the change arrangement, Wu Siming's troops who stayed in the north of Nanhuizui were attacked by two hundred and fifty Japanese invaders, fortunately, Wu Siming's subordinates were really strong, using the terrain advantage to stubbornly resist, and finally waited for Fu Zhouzi, who came to the aid of the whole army after paying the price of more than 40 people, the Japanese invaders did not fall behind with one enemy and two enemies, although they left more than 30 corpses, but they were able to calmly retreat to the north, Fu Zhouzi led his troops to pursue eighty miles, and the result was that the enemy escaped。

"The Okita Group has as many as 500 troops?"

"The Okita attack had a considerable purpose, and it was by no means a chance encounter or two, where did he get the information?"

"And the suspicious cavalry under Okita, where did he get so many war horses?"

"Which family in Jiangnan has such strength, such courage, and dares to provide such strong support?"

Doubts came to my mind one after another, but I still had to deal with Wu Siming's harsh accusations: "Regarding the deviation in the number of Okita groups, I admit that my information is wrong. ”

Because Fu Zhouzi later participated in the war, Chang Wei couldn't deny the number of Japanese soldiers Wu Siming had faced: "For my mistakes, please punish Master Fu, but just erase the merits of the soldiers, aren't you afraid that the soldiers will be cold?"

"Maybe Brother He met the Japanese soldiers!"

Zeng Liang said in a round way, he didn't have too much frustration on his face, this time the whole army of the Japanese camp was dispatched, and the only complete victory was that the six Cangshan Iron he led sank the two Japanese supply ships encountered outside Xiaoqidao in one fell swoop, and captured more than 20,000 taels of silver, which made the pale record of the Japanese camp a little brighter.

"Don't quarrel anymore, I trust Lord He's judgment. ”

Fu Zhouzi was silent for a long time, and finally spoke: "Lord Wu, this official and you have not seen Okita in the north of Nanhuizui, according to the military's intelligence, that person should be Kobe Ryota, the No. 2 person in the Okita group." ”

"Therefore, what Lord He encountered in Heishi Village is likely to be the main force of the Japanese Invaders, and only the main force of the Japanese Invaders can defeat Lord Hu in just a short period of time. Fortunately, Lord He led his troops to kill Yanagi Shibei and Sankami Sanosuke, which is a miracle!"

He paused for a moment, and then said: "What's more, for me, your argument is meaningless! The military needs heroes, and the morale of the anti-Japanese camp must also be guaranteed, so Lord Wu's immobility in holding his position, Lord He's ability to save the troops like the wind, and Lord Zeng's aggression like fire, will all become a model for the anti-Japanese camp. It's just that the strength of the Japanese is much beyond our expectations in advance, and I have already reported to Grandpa Xu, the garrison of Nanjing, and asked him to send another 500 elite soldiers. The generals should profoundly review the experience of this battle so that they can fight again!"

"Dreadnought, according to you, eighty percent of the battle records of the army should be recorded on your personal head, and such a battle example is of little value for large-scale warfare. ”

Fu Zhouzi listened to Chang Wei's detailed explanation of the battle situation in Heishi Village, sighed, and said: "What's more, Yanagi and Mikami are just two fierce generals among the Japanese Kou, and they are not as good as Kobe Ryota in terms of wisdom, that kid has an extremely keen judgment of the situation, and when he found that there was a danger of being surrounded and annihilated by me, he retreated without hesitation, and set up all kinds of ecstasy arrays along the way, forcing me to slow down the speed of the pursuit and escape calmly." ”

"It cannot be said that the soldiers are useless. ”

Chang Wei retorted before he said: "The increase in the number of Okita's subordinates is not a worry, after the sea ban, a small group of Japanese robbers will have difficulty in supplying for a while, and it is likely to throw themselves into Okita, and in the same way, once the sea ban is loosened, the Okita group may be split." ”

"What worries me even more is how Okita learned about the whereabouts of our army? The timing of his attack on Wu Siming and Hu Lian does not seem to be a simple encounter! In Heishi Village, perhaps because I moved my position, and the enemy knew that the opponent was a soldier who usually had no combat effectiveness, he relaxed his vigilance!"

"This should be blamed on me, although the elite soldiers and strong generals have been dispatched from various guards, but it has also alarmed many people, and the army seems to have spies of the Japanese Bandits, not to mention that the distance between this place and Songjiang Mansion is too close, and the supply depends on Songjiang Mansion, so it is not too difficult to know the information about the movement of troops! As soon as the increase arrives, I will change the location and rebuild the barracks. ”

"Is it really that simple?"

Although Chang Wei was full of questions, the affairs of the Jiangnan family didn't want Fu Zhouzi to be too deeply involved, so he swallowed back the words that came to his mouth.

Regarding the unexpected expansion of the Okita Group, Yan Ruyu's analysis is roughly similar to Chang Wei, but she also raised another possibility.

Kazuya Okita was originally a retainer of the Ouchi family, the great princes of Japan, but he was exiled for misconduct, so he sailed on the sea and became a Japanese coward.

Yan Ruyu couldn't guess how Zong Shi obtained the accurate information about the suppression of the Japanese camp, after all, everyone's understanding of this person now is only half-understood.

A few days later, the general order of the Nanjing garrison Xu Gongye arrived at Sheshan with five hundred elite soldiers, and the general did not reprimand much for the initial battle of the Japanese camp, but praised it, after all, the two generals and more than 30 Japanese heads, more than 20,000 taels of silver are real military achievements, so all the soldiers have their own rewards, Wu Siming, who has outstanding military achievements, was promoted to the deputy general of the Japanese battalion, and Zeng Liang was promoted to the deputy thousand households of Jinshanwei because of his military exploits and qualifications are old enough.

He Wenyuan, who is under the pseudonym of Chang Wei, has also been praised and rewarded, but he is a volunteer under Chang Wei, not in the military, and he has not been promoted.

There is even a vague reward for the Jiangnan family in the general order, although the semantics are vague, it can be roughly inferred that the family was rewarded for doing a good job of fishing bait and closely cooperating with the military, which was of course Chang Wei's idea.

As for the dead Hu Lian, Xu Shan, and more than 200 soldiers, although the compensation is generous, the number of casualties in the general order has been greatly reduced to 50.

The darkness of the Ming army or Chang Wei has long been surprised, such an army must be restructured as soon as possible, otherwise, I am afraid that it will collapse sooner or later! Fortunately, Wang Zhichen's movements are fast enough, and he is almost about to reach the five southern provinces.

Fu Zhouzi and Chang Wei studied for a while, and finally made up their minds to move the military camp to Wujiang, which is under the jurisdiction of Suzhou, because it is convenient for everything to be done and news is easy to control, and second, Wujiang is close to Taihu Lake, so that the naval army can be trained.

According to everyone's analysis, Zongshi did not achieve the purpose of his expected attack, and it was inevitable to re-estimate the strength of the anti-Japanese battalion, and in the absence of accurate information, he would not act rashly, and the anti-Japanese battalion also happened to use this time to sum up experience and conduct targeted training.

With the support of Fu Zhouzi, Wu Siming began to promote the mixed tactics of the bird bow and arrow and cavalry he used in the Nanhuizui Northern War, and Fu Zhouzi even assigned Zhang Lubu and the Guiyou Finance Department to Wu Siming's training and command, and the low-fire rate but powerful bird gun had the support of the bow and arrow, and the long-range strike capability was significantly improved.

After this battle, Fu Zhouzi's wariness of Wu Siming on the surface has decreased a lot, and he may have something to do with He Qing's death, but it is unlikely that he colluded with the Japanese Kou. Chang Wei understood that Fu Zhouzi wanted to borrow Wu Siming's combat power, so he didn't say anything more, anyway, there will always be a time when the battle is over, so let's clean him up at that time!

10,000 taels of silver was paid as a deposit to He Dingqian, a well-known Qianzi house in Suzhou, to improve the equipment of the anti-Japanese battalion.

Of course, training the soldiers is just Chang Wei's amateur job, with Lu Sanchuan's supervision, and Hu Dahai as the target of the sparring partner, he doesn't need to bother too much about the training of the soldiers. Soon after the troops were transferred to the new military camp in Wujiang, Chang Wei sneaked back to Zhenjiang with Yan, Yu and the two daughters and the trophies-Bai Zitong, He Susu, and He Wen.

"I didn't expect that there were still supernumerary personnel in your Tang Sect, your brother is really a talent. ”

Chang Wei told Tang Jinyi about Bai Zitong's performance, and couldn't help but sneer at the end.

"Is there such a thing?!"

Tang Jinyi was taken aback, his handsome face was suddenly covered with frost, his eyes flickered, obviously he was not ignorant of the possible hidden dangers inside the Tang Sect, but he didn't expect Bai Zitong to have a relationship with his own family.

"The stakes are very high, and I immediately informed my father that the mystery of the seven links probably fell on Bai Zitong. ”

"Wait for you, it's too late!" Tang Shuxue glanced at her eldest brother and said angrily: "Xianggong, he has already sent someone to inform his father." ”

When the person was still in the barracks, Chang Wei passed a letter and informed Tang Shuxue of Bai Zitong's identity doubts, she immediately contacted her father Tang Xingtian, and after getting her daughter's handwritten letter, he left enough antidote for the Jiangnan Group and disappeared mysteriously.

Chang Wei smiled: "Let's go, let's interrogate Bai Zitong and see if he is your brother or uncle." ”

"Xianggong, you're not serious. Tang Shuxue twisted him in disgust, hesitated for a moment and said, "Go ahead, I'll accompany my sister-in-law." ”

Presumably, she was really afraid of asking something embarrassing, so she avoided it, after all, there were not a few dirty things in the big family.

Chang Wei took Tang Jinyi from a fortification in the Volunteer Battalion into the secret passage, here is as important as the laboratory, the tens of millions of taels of silver are hidden in the secret passage, when building the secret passage, the craftsmen and soldiers are blindfolded in and out, the division of labor to build, except for Chang Wei's henchmen did not know the structure, there is also a secret door and a secret passage connected to the laboratory.

Entering a cell in the secret passage, the scene in front of him made people's blood tremble, Ye Huiyun and Zhao Minglin, the four female prisoners of the underground gate, were not at all inches, wearing black blindfolds on their eyes, and a fluffy tail hanging behind them, and a long leather rope was attached to the black collar around their necks.

The four of them were chained to the ground, their hands and feet were all shackled with iron hoops, and the sensitive and vulnerable parts of their bodies were covered with hideous instruments and weights.

Tang Jinyi was taken aback: "Ye Huiyun, why are they here?"

"Do you like it, Sanshao, if you are interested, let Grandpa Guo give you these slave dogs." ”

They were greeted by Li'er and Qing'er, they were Cheng Ning'er's younger sisters, and after Fang Huan'er and Cheng Ning'er went to Beijing, they were responsible for interrogating Ye Huiyun and the others.

Tang Jinyi shook his head, he didn't even visit the brothel of Qinglou, and he wasn't even interested in a big beauty like Su Chengcheng, not to mention these obscene things.

glanced at Chang Wei and said, "How did they become like this?"

Chang Wei smiled and asked, "Did Ye Huiyun tell the secret of the Holy Land?"

Li'er replied: "I have explained it all years ago, there is a mechanism to control the ebb and flow of the Shuangyu Gate hidden in the Holy Land of the Earth Gate, and the specific location is in the waterfall where Grandpa Guo and Tang Sanshao fell into the water. Under normal circumstances, the time when the hydraulic mechanism is full and reaches equilibrium is August 15 every year, and if you crack the mechanism, you can enter the treasure house at any time. ”

"It's no wonder that the tide will ebb and flow on August 15 every year, and the mechanism designed by Wang Zhi is really ingenious. Tang Jinyi sighed with emotion: "Speaking of which, I can try it and see if I can unlock the mechanism." ”

Chang Wei nodded and said, "Do you remember Hakong's cousin? Ha Pingxuan is known as a god hand, he may also be able to help, and when we have time, let's go and see it together." ”

As they spoke, Li'er and Qing'er led them inside, and after a corridor and a prison cell, Yan Qianbo and Liu Zhanyun were imprisoned here, who were rescued from the Shen family by Chang Wei and Tang Jinyi.

Without waiting for Chang Wei to ask, Qing'er said: "Their mouths are much looser, Grandpa Guo, Sanshao, you must not guess, right? Yan Qianbo is Liang Kecheng's concubine, and Liu Zhanyun is Feng Ziming's woman." ”

Chang Wei and Tang Jinyi exclaimed in unison: "What?

Seeing that Li'er and Qing'er nodded firmly, Chang Wei pondered for a long time before saying: "Feng Ziming is the son of the scholar Feng Quan, and Liang Kecheng is the grandson of the scholar Liang Tingji. Did you find anything useful?"

"At last year's martial arts conference, Zhao Minglin led the remnants of the earth gate to assassinate Guogong and it was really related to Yan Qianbo, and the news should have been leaked to Zhao Minglin. As for whether Su Qingcheng, Chu Qing, and Liang Kecheng were involved in the three people who were present at the time, they are still being interrogated, and I believe that it will not be long before they confess. ”

"Sure enough!"

Chang Wei has always suspected that the people present at the time planned the assassination case, and now it has finally been confirmed, and since Yan Qianbo is Liang Kecheng's woman, this matter must not be simple.

Tang Jinyi said curiously: "How did you interrogate it? How could they reveal such a life-threatening secret in a short period of time?"

Li'er smiled mysteriously, and said softly: "I am not afraid that they will not say anything under the torture of the means that these women are most afraid of, not to mention, they are all ethereal disciples, and they are masters with heads and faces in the rivers and lakes, if they use the threat of selling to the Qinglou to pick up customers, how can they not be afraid?"

The misty disciples pick up guests in the Qinglou, and when this kind of thing spreads, there is no need to mix it up completely.

It's really vicious!

Tang Jinyi glanced deeply at Chang Wei, Li'er, and Qing'er, and fell silent.

Chang Wei patted him and said, "Hey, what kind of eyes are you? I haven't touched any of these women." By the way, my sister-in-law is pregnant, do you want to pick two of them back to play?"

Tang Jinyi turned his back with a wry smile, and then walked in Tang Banmeng, He Susu, and He Wen, these three women were the easiest to loosen their mouths, and they almost said everything with Bai Zitong after a few whips.

Tang Banmeng knew very little, and He Susu's mother and daughter only knew that Bai Zitong's true identity was the young master of the Tang Sect, so it was not clear.

Walking into the innermost cell, before Chang Wei could speak, Bai Zitong, who was being tortured, exclaimed: "Chang Wei?