Starting boy Ma Kongqun

Chapter 65 Returning home, the enemy is already around!
  After leaving the battlefield quietly, the dozen or so members of the Konoe Yingming group ran all the way to a river.

When he invaded Taizhou, Konoe Yingming also considered that there must be a way out in case of failure, so he secretly hid more than a dozen ships here and prepared sufficient food and water on each ship.

It's a pity that although this escape route finally came in handy, they couldn't even fit on one ship.

In order to prevent the pursuers from behind from coming to take advantage of the remaining ships, Konoe Yingming ordered all of them to be scuttled, and then led everyone to board the only remaining ship and go down the river.

Hearing that there was no movement behind him, Konoe Yingmei was slightly relieved, but he felt a little sad when he thought that his teacher Yagyu Mune had only used the lives of himself and five trusted samurai to give him a chance to escape.

As for the remaining three hundred people, he never paid attention to them.

At this time, a person on the boat came closer and asked with a somewhat nervous look: "Lord, do we want to return to Black Dragon Island?"

Black Dragon Island is a small island in the East China Sea. It originally had no official name. It was not until Konoe conquered several groups of Japanese pirates and established his own power that he chose this island as his home base and named it "Black Dragon".

Konoe Yingming heard that the man spoke Chinese. When he turned around to look, he saw that it was a leader named "Sadotake Teruo".

The information about this person immediately registered in his mind.

Satake Teruo's original name was Li Zhaofu. His father was a maritime merchant in the Ming Dynasty, but his mother was a concubine his father bought from Japan.

After his birth, he was discriminated against by his family because of his background. After his mother passed away, he became no different than a servant of the Li family.

Li Zhaofu suffered humiliation until he was twenty years old, and finally found an opportunity to poison and kill more than twenty members of his family, took a large amount of property and fled to the sea to become a pirate.

Later, he joined a Japanese pirate gang and simply changed his mother's surname. With his ruthlessness and agility, he kept climbing up the ranks, and eventually became the second-ranking figure in the gang as a military advisor.

When Konoe Yingming came to subdue this group of Japanese pirates, Satake Teruo was the first to see the situation clearly and take the initiative to take action, so he was favored by Konoe Yingming.

So this time when the imperial guards cut off their tails and escaped, he was one of the dozen or so people they took away.

After seeing Teruo Satake asking questions, except for Kunihiko Hattori, who had known the inside story, all the other subordinates who were later subdued looked at him, and Konoe sighed secretly.

If possible, he would definitely be willing to give up the people in front of him and take away his original subordinates, but now there are really not many people available in his hands. If he wants to achieve great things in the future, he will not have to rely on these people, so it is Confess some things to them every time and let them have more confidence in themselves to avoid having other ideas.

With a decision made in his heart, Konwei Yingming put on a gentle smile and shook his head: "Since Ma Kongqun can catch us, he can also catch up to Black Dragon Island. It is not safe to go there anymore. Don't worry, everyone, there is an old saying in the Ming Dynasty: ' "Cunning Rabbit Three Cave", I have already built another shelter on a more secret island. There is not only enough food, weapons and property stored there, but also another group of people I brought from Fuso. As long as we return there, we Then you have the capital to make a comeback!”

Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, the tense expressions of the dozen or so people immediately relaxed, and they looked at Konoe Yingming with a little more conviction.

The ship followed the river straight into the sea, drifted on the sea for several days, and finally arrived at the small island that Konoe Hina had mentioned, which was indeed more hidden because it was far away from the shipping route. When everyone was mooring the boat near the island, someone on the island had already noticed that more than ten men dressed as Japanese warriors came over with weapons.

When they saw Konoe Hina and Hattori Kunihiko who were the first to disembark, they all put away their weapons and stepped forward to respectfully salute Konoe Hina and call them "Lord".

At this moment, Konoe Mingina was exhausted both physically and mentally. He briefly explained a few words and asked his subordinates to settle down the people he had brought back, and then went to his own residence on the island to rest. Hattori Kunihiko also left with him.

Teruo Satake and others followed the samurai to a row of wooden houses built on the island. After three or two people were assigned to a room, they couldn't wait to go in and threw themselves on the simple wooden bed that was originally hard but felt extremely comfortable at the moment. There were thunderous snores coming one after another.

From the afternoon until nightfall, the sound of snoring in several wooden houses was still roaring, and these people seemed to show no sign of waking up.

Gradually, the only sound left was the snoring of one person in one of the wooden houses.

After a while, Satake Teruo quietly opened the door and came out. He looked around once to make sure that no one was watching, then he used his extremely skillful Qinggong movement and flew towards the east of the island.

Not long after, he came to a towering rock on the seaside. He stopped and observed for a moment to make sure it was safe. Then he took out a stack of flat objects from his arms, stretched them out and rounded them up, and found three lamps connected in series, with bamboo strips as the bones. , tulle as the surface, and the "Kongming Lantern" is divided into three colors: red, yellow and green.

Teruo Satake took out a ball of extremely thin and light silk thread with a special texture from his arms, tied one end to the lower end of the lowest sky lantern, and then took a fire stick to light the wick.

As the heat from the three flames filled the interior space, the three sky lanterns began to rise slowly.

He stretched the silk thread in his hand longer and longer, and when the Kongming Lantern rose to a height of tens of feet, he tied the lower end of the silk thread to a rock.

In this way, anyone who is interested can determine the general location of the island as long as they see these three Kongming Lanterns with special colors.

As for the people on the island, even if they saw three dots and three colors of light in the sky, they could not understand the mystery for a while, and it was difficult to find this place in the dark night.

When the specially made wick burns to the end before dawn, the lampshade and the thin wire underneath will be burned away, destroying the corpse without leaving any trace.

After doing all this, Teruo Satake glanced at the far reaches of the vast black night on the rocks, and whispered to himself: "I hope the hall master and the others have been following secretly not far away, and they can come here tonight to plow the courtyard and sweep." Otherwise I would have a lot to spend in this den of thieves."

The tone of these words was completely different from the usual Teruo Satake!
  He carefully observed the surroundings again and found nothing strange. The people on the island probably did not notice what he had done, so they calmed down and returned to the wooden house where they had slept.

After Teruo Satake entered the house, with a little light from the window, he saw that the guy who had been squeezed into the same bed with him was still sleeping soundly. A look of extreme disgust appeared on his face, and he immediately picked up a bag from the foot of the bed. A small piece of incense stick exudes a light smoke. Use your fingers to stub out the incense head and carefully keep it in your arms.

Then he lay down on the other side of the bed with some reluctance, snoring from light to heavy, blending in with the snoring that was still coming from these wooden houses, making it difficult to distinguish one from the other...

(End of this chapter)