Qi Jingtong and Xie Erjian led their troops to pursue the fleeing Japanese ships. Xu Jin was not worried. First, the Japanese pirates had suffered heavy casualties and were definitely not opponents of the 500th battalion equipped with flintlock rifles; second, Qi Jingtong's father was Qi Xuan, the commander of Dengzhou Guard. He was a descendant of the general. He was familiar with naval battles since he was a child. Dengzhou Guard itself is the Japanese Guard on the coast of Shandong.

Seeing two Japanese ships chasing into the sea, Xu Jin ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up and the warning of fire was lifted. At this time, the beach was full of corpses and blood stains, but most of the Japanese pirates were corpses. Although the inspectors of the inspection department were killed very hard by the Japanese pirates, the number of casualties was not as high as that of the Japanese pirates.

Today, when we were in close contact with a small group of Japanese pirates, the flintlock rifle showed its powerful power for the first time. No matter how brave the Japanese pirates were or how sharp the Japanese sword was, they were instantly slag in front of the flintlock rifle.

"Brother-in-law, look at this." Xie Sanlian picked up an arrow on the beach and handed it to Xu Jin with a smile.

Xu Jin reached out to take the arrow and was stunned. The arrow was actually light and probably only about one or two. Xie Sanliang reached out to scratch the arrow, and the arrow actually faded, revealing the original color of the wood. It turned out that the arrow was made of wood, but the surface was painted, making it look like it was made of iron.

Xu Jin couldn't help but realize that no wonder the Japanese pirates were as if they were nothing if they were hit by a few arrows. It turned out that the arrows used by the inspectors were such garbage things. A burst of rage burst out in his chest, and his eyes were sharply looking at Zhao Datong.

Zhao Datong and the two deputy inspectors around him were both frightened and silent. They lowered their heads and lowered their hands, and did not even dare to breathe out. Xu Jiong, the judge of the Salt Transport Branch next to them, also remained silent and did not dare to get into trouble.

Speaking of which, since Xu Jin came to Yangzhou Prefecture, his style of dealing with people and things made people feel like spring breeze. However, after the battle just now, Xu Jiong and others realized that once this seemingly gentle and elegant imperial envoy was as fierce as the cold winter, he was as fierce as the cold winter with just a command, hundreds of vicious Japanese pirates were wiped out.

"Inspector Zhao, how do you explain this?" Xu Jin threw the arrow in front of Zhao Datong.

Zhao Datong's knees softened and he fell to the ground with a thump, saying tremblingly: "Sir, the lords should be damned. The brothers in the inspection department are usually negligent in training, and very few can shoot arrows, so..."

"So you made such a light fake arrow to fool people? Hehe, inspector Zhao, you are so damn talented!" Xie Sanqian teased with a smile, and then snatched a short bow from a archer and pulled the string hard. As a result, with a bang, the short bow was directly pulled off.

Xie Sanqin threw the broken short bow on the ground, clapped his hands and smiled, "This thing can also be called a bow, right?"

Zhao Datong and the two deputy inspectors looked as if they were ashamed, kowtowed and begged for mercy: "The officials deserve to die for ten thousand times, and they deserve to die for ten thousand times!"

Speaking of which, the inspectors and the army soldiers were usually negligent in training and had few strength to shoot the bows, so they made some soft bows and light arrows to pretend. If the imperial envoy had not been to inspect today, they would not even bother to color the arrows. This kind of bow was shot far, but it was not lethal. In addition, the wind in Shanghai was strong, so it didn't have much strength to shoot against the Japanese pirates against the wind, which was almost the same as scratching the itch.

Xu Jin never dreamed that the combat power of the inspection department was so decayed. If it weren't for the Japanese pirates who happened to encounter an attack on the Japanese pirates today, he would have been kept in the dark. If the other coastal garrisons of the Ming Dynasty were the same, wouldn't the coastal defense line be useless?

The more Xu Jin thought about it, the more he became more and more scared, and shouted sternly: "Come here, take all the fraud and neglect Zhao Datong, and the two deputy inspectors, all sued him."

Several Jinyiwei immediately rushed forward and tied up Zhao Datong and two deputy inspectors, and temporarily took him back to the county jail to wait for the detention.

"Where is the magistrate Zhu?" Xu Jin realized that Zhu Wan was missing at this time and asked loudly.

A 500-battalion soldier next to him grinned and said, "Sir, the young man just saw Magistrate Zhu sneaking into Qi Qianhu's ship."

Xu Jin couldn't help but be speechless. Zhu Wan is a liberal arts student who is from two Jinshi, but she is like a martial artist. She likes to dance with knives and sticks to kill. I remember that at the Shangyuan Festival literary meeting, this guy won the wreath of the beard with a sword dance.

At this time, the two Japanese ships had already sailed far away on the sea, leaving only two black spots. Even if Xu Jin wanted to send someone to recover Zhu Wan, it would be too late, so he had to give up and continue to order people to clean the battlefield.

Soon, the statistics came out. Thirty-two people died, more than one hundred people were injured, and only three of the brothers in the 500 battalion were injured, all of whom were injured when they fought in close combat with the Japanese pirates. On the other hand, seventy-six people died, nineteen were captured, most of which were killed and injured under the flintlock rifle.

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On the vast sea, two Japanese ships were sailing and chasing in the northeast direction one after another.

At this moment, there was a Japanese samurai standing on the stern deck of the Japanese ship in front. This Japanese samurai was different from other dirty Japanese pirates. He was wearing a clean kimono, an exquisite samurai sword hanging around his waist, and holding a monocular telescope in his hand to observe the Japanese ship chasing behind him.

This Japanese samurai was named Soshi. He was originally a member of the Japanese Dainamed Ouchi clan. He was a real samurai and had extremely high martial arts skills.

At the beginning of last year, the Orochi-sai representative, led the three bows of the ship to Ningbo, Zhejiang to trade tribute with the Ming Dynasty. Unexpectedly, another representative of the Japanese daimyo Hosokawa clan also arrived later.

The Hosokawa family's envoy was named Ruizo, and there was also a Ningbo native named Song Suqing in the fleet. Song Suqing took the route of eunuchs of Ningbo Shibo. Therefore, although the Hosokawa family's tribute fleet came late, it was able to inspect the goods before the Ouchi family's fleet.

This naturally aroused great dissatisfaction among the Ouchi delegation. In addition, at the welcoming dinner, Resa Hosokawa representative was arranged to be at the top seat, while the Ouchi representative was at the bottom seat, which made Sosuke even more annoyed.

By the way, this Soushi was also a ruthless character. He took advantage of the drunkenness to rush into the Toku of the Maitou Division, grab the temporary weapons, and then rushed into the guest hall to kill Resa, the representative of the Hosokawa clan. Originally, Resa also had a group of samurai protected by the samurai, but they had no weapons and were quickly slaughtered.

Zong Shi was still unhappy when he killed Ruizuo, so he continued to chase Song Suqing, a native of Ningbo. As a result, Song Suqing cleverly fled to Shaoxing Prefecture. Zong Shi led hundreds of people to chase the city of Shaoxing Prefecture, burned, killed and looted along the way. The Ming army that was ordered to encircle and suppress was all wiped out by Zong Shi. Even Liu Jin, commander of the Japanese, and Zhang Tong, thousands of households, died under the Japanese sword.

After plundering, Soshi returned to Ningbo, calmly fled out of the sea by boat, and fled to Japan with a large amount of wealth he had plundered.

However, Zongshe was not very lucky. On the way back to China, he encountered a storm. One of the three bows of the ship sank and the other was blown to North Korea. North Korea was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. He captured all the Japanese on the ship and sent them to the Ming Dynasty for punishment. The Ming Dynasty finally regained some face.

Soshi led the only remaining ship to return to Japan. Due to the loss of two ships, this time he not only failed to make a profit, but also lost. Soshi was punished by the Ouchi family after returning to the country, and Hosokawa family wanted to kill them quickly.

Knowing that something was wrong, So Soushi simply led the last ship to escape from the sea, occupied an island, became a professional pirate, and specifically robbed the passing merchant ships. He recruited a large number of roninmen and landless warriors to join, and at the same time recruited several nearby pirates, and gradually increased his strength.

Speaking of which, Japan is currently divided, the situation is turbulent, and supplies are quite scarce. Such as silk, cloth, medicine, iron, lacquerware, porcelain, etc. are very popular in Japan, and the prices are several times more expensive than the Ming Dynasty, or even dozens of times. Therefore, as long as the goods are shipped from the Ming Dynasty to Japan, the profit will be several times more or even dozens of times.

Driven by huge interests, the merchants and pirates on the coast of Japan all set their sights on the southeastern coast of the Ming Dynasty. Zongshe was no exception. This time, he led two boats to the coast of the Ming Dynasty, intending to plunder them. Moreover, Zongshe carefully selected Dongtai County, Nanzhili, which had the weakest defense, but unfortunately met Xu Jin, the imperial envoy, and eventually failed to steal the chicken and lose the rice.

At this time, Zongshe stood on the stern with a cold expression. Looking at Ming Jun chasing him behind, he regretted that his intestines were blue, and he even felt a little scared.

Speaking of which, in Ningbo last year, Zongshai led hundreds of people to travel around, as if he had entered a no-man's land, and defeated the Ming army, so he was very disdainful of the Ming army's combat power.

Because of this, when he saw nearly a thousand Ming troops on the shore, he ordered his Japanese pirates to land without hesitation. As a result, he was seriously tragic. Most of the Japanese pirates under his command were killed and injured, and he also lost a boat. Even if he had the life to flee back to Japan, he would not recover in a few years and there was still the danger of being annexed by other pirates.
Chapter completed!