prosperous age

Chapter 80
"Ningbo Mansion is really fat. No wonder the Japanese pirates gathered so many people to go ashore to plunder. After moving for so many days, they still haven't finished moving."

Thinking of the goods mentioned in the letter, Wu Dong couldn't help sighing.

"Where's the soldier who came back to report? I also want to ask how the battle is going ahead."

Wei Wencai remembered that when he arrived at his uncle's house, he read the letter and hadn't asked the courier what was going on ahead, but his father was fine.

Wu Dong said with a smile, "I was exhausted when I came back, and I couldn't walk by water. He rode a horse and ran all the way back from Zhejiang. When he came back, he would faint. I had to let him rest. He still hasn't woken up."

"I guess I didn't rest well in the front, and I kept running around."

Wei Guangde answered after thinking about it.

"That's for sure. If there is a war, who can sleep in peace, and only when they come back here can they rest in peace."

Wu Dong nodded, but then he said: "These soldiers and servants looked fine before, but now they have exposed many flaws. Our soldiers here have never seen blood. I heard that the border town Even if the enemy is attacking the city, as long as you don’t reach the city wall, you can sleep in the tower directly, and you can’t be attacked.”

"See blood, where to see blood."

Wei Wencai also came to his senses. He didn't consider that these personal soldiers might be nervous and anxious because of the possibility of going to the battlefield, which would affect their rest.

Just thinking about riding a horse back from Zhejiang for a few days, how could I be so tired.

When he got up the next day, Wei Guangde even asked someone, the soldier who delivered the letter hadn't woken up yet, it was almost a day's sleep.

It was almost noon when someone came in to report again, and the soldier woke up.

When Wei Guangde came to a wing room, he saw that his elder brother Wei Wencai and his cousin were already waiting here. After sitting down for a while, the guard quickly entered the room.

Before Wei Guangde saw his appearance clearly, he only felt that this person was very strong, so he bowed down.

"Greetings, Young Master, Young Master Biao."

"Get up and talk back."

Wu Dong said, "When you came back yesterday, you said that my father and uncle are all well. What is the situation ahead? Also, why are you so tired?"

"Master Hui, the big guys didn't rest well all the way, especially before the battle with the pirates, the whole battalion was terrified."

The soldier replied honestly.

"Let's be clear, I'm afraid before I fight."

Wu Dong asked.

"It's not because of the killings in Yangzhou and Gaoyou that they were scared. They said that the Japanese pirates were all strong in martial arts, and they were invulnerable. If you shoot them with a bow and arrow, they can catch them with their bare hands and throw them back. The accuracy is similar to that of aiming an arrow.

Then, after the military order came down, the guards in Chuzhou and Jianyang were unwilling to board the ship, and they almost couldn't suppress it."

At this time, under the dictation of the soldiers, Wu Dong and the two brothers of the Wei family knew the situation at that time, but it was a bit dangerous.

After Nanjing sent a military order to rush the army to Zhejiang to suppress the Japanese, many guard soldiers in the rear were unwilling to board the ship at all.

It's very simple. During the training in Zhenjiang, many of the guards near the sea heard the legend of the Japanese pirates, and then it spread at that time.

Although I didn't see it with my own eyes or experience it personally, but I heard too much, and I took it seriously before I knew it.

This kind of news spread quietly in the camp, but the battalion officers and generals didn't notice it. Since then, the momentum of the whole army has actually begun to decline, and finally broke out after receiving the military order to set off to suppress the Japanese.

Fortunately, after a year of rectification in the Nanjing Jingying Camp, the execution of the army has improved a little bit, and several guards showing signs of instability have been suppressed. But just like this, the Jiujiang Guard was surrounded by the Nanjing Jingying Camp for a long time Lift the ban.

After that, I was supposed to set off in a day, so I stayed in Zhenjiang for an extra day before boarding the boat.

The army set sail and arrived at the mouth of the sea, and encountered the Taicang Guard garrison on the sea near the Wusong River Guard Thousand Households. The two armies merged into one and continued southward.

"Actually, at that time, we hadn't closed our eyes for two days on the boat, and our morale was gone after boarding the boat."

Seeing such words from the mouth of this burly soldier, Wei Guangde knew something was wrong.

Logically speaking, the Taicang Guards should be at least one day ahead of the Zhenjiang army, not to mention that Zhenjiang was delayed by a day before starting, which means that the Taicang Guards had been lingering near the Wusong River for two days.

Then I heard the soldier continue to say that after arriving at the sea of ​​Jiaxing Mansion, according to the order above, Jiujiangwei, Anqingwei, Luzhouwei and other guards will continue to go south to Taizhou by boat. The guard was ordered to land in Ningbo Mansion.

Having said that, the soldier obviously hesitated, and was stunned for a moment without continuing to speak.

"What's the matter? Go on."

Wu Dong hesitated again when he saw the soldiers, and hurriedly asked.

The soldier's face turned slightly red, and he continued: "Shortly after we divided our troops, we lost our way on the sea, and then drifted to the vicinity of Yuyao County, Shaoxing Prefecture."

Hearing the soldiers say that they were supposed to go to Taizhou Mansion, but the fleet got lost and drifted to Shaoxing Mansion. Wei Guangde has seen the map of Zhejiang, so he naturally knows the location of Shaoxing Mansion. It is really the same as the message sent back last month. Almost, after passing Hangzhou Bay, we will go ashore.

Wei Guangde could think of it, and Wu Dong naturally knew it too, and the expression on his face was also very exciting for a while.

If you bypass Ningbo to go to Taizhou, you must pass through Zhoushan, the lair of Japanese pirates. Can you go?

joke.

The only person in the house who didn't know the status was the eldest brother Wei Wencai. He didn't go to Jiujiang Mansion that time. As for Ningbo Mansion and Shaoxing Mansion, he only knew that they were from Zhejiang.

"Ahem, getting lost at sea is also a common thing, you go on."

Wu Dong urged angrily.

"After we landed in Shaoxing, we got in touch with Tanma from the local Linshanwei"

As the soldiers continued to tell, Wei Guangde realized that his father and his Jiujiang Guards had still not been able to escape the battlefield.

After the pirates plundered Dinghai County, Ningbo Prefecture, some pirates came to Cixi County to plunder.

In fact, there are many guards around Ningbo and Shaoxing. There are five guards in Ningbo, Dinghai, Linshan, Guanhai and Shaoxing, not to mention there are several guards of thousands of households, but In the battle of Dinghai County, Dinghaiwei was directly defeated, and Guanhaiwei in Cixi was also unable to withstand it.

But Nanjing Jingying has no news, and it is not known where it has landed in Ningbo Mansion.

"Where did you fight the pirates?"

Wei Guangde already knew from the letter that Jiujiangwei was fighting Japanese pirates, and it was still on the boundary of Ningbo Prefecture, but the guards chattered for a long time and didn't mention the points he cared about.

"The place where we went ashore was Yuyao, which is very close to Cixi. Within half a day after we went ashore, we met the defeated Guanhaiwei soldiers. It is said that Dinghaiwei has already retreated to Ningbo Mansion, and then we got into a fight with Japanese pirates."

(End of this chapter)