On the morning of March 17, the sky was just lit up, and a fleet appeared on the canal about ten miles away from Dongtai County. This fleet consisted of dozens of large and small ships, which were the two thousand Nanjing Jinyiwei led by Tang Shaozong, the Marquis of Lingbi.

Speaking of which, after participating in the Courtesan Competition on March 15, Tang Shaozong led his fleet to Yangzhou City early the next morning and set off for Dongtai County, preparing to receive nearly 700,000 taels of wealth seized by Xu Jin, and also accompanied by Ma Huai, a doctor of the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing.

As the saying goes, no matter how profitable you don’t get up early, Tang Shaozong rushed to Dongtai County in a hurry, because it was profitable. The wealth seized by Xu Jin was only about 300,000 taels of cash, and the others were all kinds of goods. Naturally, the idea of ​​cash, could not be made, but it was easy to make the goods, such as using the method of losing the bag as a good one, or capsizing the boat and falling into the water, or even falling into the fire, etc. In short, the benefits of squeezing tens of thousands of taels from wealth worth hundreds of thousands of taels is simply easy for an old fried dough stick like Tang Shaozong.

When the fleet was still several miles away from Dongtai County, it saw thick smoke rising from the city from afar. The Jinyiwei, who first discovered the situation, immediately reported Tang Shaozong.

Tang Shaozong was still lying high in the cabin room. After receiving the report, he hurriedly put on his clothes and walked out of the cabin. When he came to the deck, he saw that there was a thick smoke rising from Dongtai County in the distance. He couldn't help but say, "Dragonist Ma, what happened in Dongtai County? A fire happened?"

Ma Huai, a doctor from the Ministry of Revenue, shook his head blankly and said, "I haven't tried it clearly. Qiu Qianhu has sent someone to inquire, and the news should be coming back soon."

Sure enough, after a cup of tea, a clutch that went to inquire about the news came back. When he learned that Dongtai County had been captured by a group of Japanese pirates, Tang Shaozong was shocked and hurriedly ordered: "Hurry up, turn around and return to Yangzhou!"

A trace of contempt flashed across the face of the Ma Langzhong, and he dissuaded: "Mr. Marquis, don't panic. According to my opinion, it's better to send someone to the city to find out the situation and then make a decision. Marquis just led his army here. If he retreated before the battle, the court will pursue it and you and I will be punished. What's more, the imperial envoy Xu is in Yangzhou City at this moment."

When Ma Langzhong mentioned Xu Jin, Tang Shaozong couldn't help but shivered cleverly. The reason why he dared to mock Xu Jin in person was largely because Xu Jin, the imperial envoy, was only ordered to supervise the coastal defense and could control the military of the coastal garrison, but could not control the heads of Nanjing Jinyiwei.

However, once a war occurs, it will be different. Xu Jin, the imperial envoy, has the right to act cheaply. In the jurisdiction where he was ordered, all troops must obey the orders of the Hou, naturally including him, Tang Shaozong.

When Tang Shaozong thought of Xu Jin's nickname, he was frightened. The person surnamed Xu was a ruthless person. If he didn't help him when he saw danger and retreated before the battle, he might be beheaded by Xu.

Tang Shaozong hesitated for a moment, but finally ordered the ship to stop and sent several scouts to the city to inquire about the news.

Soon, the scout who entered the city to inquire about the news returned and reported the situation in the city to Tang Shaozong in detail. The latter was so excited that he was ready to hear it. Because according to the news that the scouts found out, there were only a few hundred thieves who attacked the city, and they were all gathered in the county government to fight fiercely. It was obvious that the thieves had not yet completely taken down the county government government, which means that the wealth in the county government warehouse was still there.

"Haha, this marquis' chance to make great contributions!" Tang Shaozong laughed at the sky and shouted with great enthusiasm: "Qiu Qianhu, my commander ordered you to lead a thousand brothers as vanguards and enter from the west gate. Huang Qianhu, you and I will enter from the east gate together with you, and you must wipe out all the Japanese pirates."

"I'm responsible!" Tang Shaozong's two Qianhus agreed in unison. After the ships docked at the wharf outside the city, Qiu Qianhu ordered his troops and ran towards the nearest Xicheng Gate.

Besides, the battle situation in the county government warehouse is extremely fierce at this moment. After a night of fierce fighting, the ammunition of the five hundred battalions of soldiers has been exhausted. Although they have killed seventy or eighty bandits, there are too many thieves. At this moment, the yard has been completely occupied by the thieves. Zhao Bin, a hundred households, can only lead his brothers to guard the gate of the warehouse in blood.

At this time, the gate of the warehouse was filled with corpses, including thieves and 500 battalions of soldiers, and the blood wet the surrounding ground.

It is said that Xu Jin only left fifty 500 battalions of soldiers to guard the warehouse, led by Zhao Bin, a hundred households. Last night, Guo Jindi took away nine brothers to protect Zhu Wan, so there were only forty people guarding the warehouse. After a fierce battle in the middle of the night, there were only less than twenty brothers who could fight around Zhao Baihu.

Under the rising sun, Monk Pujing's bald head shone brightly, but his eyes were very gloomy. He thought it would be easy to take down the warehouse after the ammunition was consumed, but the combat power of the five hundred battalions of soldiers was far beyond his expectations. After attacking for nearly an hour, it was difficult to make a breakthrough.

"Hsokawa, it's dawn, retreat. If you drag it down, it's probably time for the Yancheng guards to arrive." Monk Pujing said in a deep voice.

Seeing that nearly one million taels of wealth were about to be at your fingertips, neither Hosokawa Takeshu nor Ouchi Sect were willing to give up halfway, the two of them roared sharply and drew their swords at the same time.

Both of them were of high-quality martial arts. They actually resisted the scattered swords of the 500 battalions of soldiers and forcibly rushed into the warehouse gate. Other Japanese warriors took the opportunity to follow up.

"Damn it, kill!" Zhao Bin roared like a wild beast, leading the brothers to fight back. Twenty steel knives flew up and down, and Takeshu Hosokawa and Sorai Ouchi were finally forced to retreat.

puff……

As soon as the blade swept past, Zhao Bin's lower abdomen was dyed red with blood in an instant, but he seemed to have no idea, and he still tried hard to force Takeshosokawa out of the warehouse door. The defense line that had been broken through was tightly sealed again.

"Boss Zhao, you are injured!" A brother reminded. Zhao Bin felt the pain in his heart. When he looked down, he found that his lower abdomen had been cut and even his intestines were squeezed out.

"Boss Zhao!" The brother next to him exclaimed in dismay.

Zhao Bin gritted his teeth and stuffed his intestines back, quickly took off his battle jacket and bandaged his stomach, cursing: "Why are you doing with a sad face? I can't die yet. I cheer up my spirits, and the delay will arrive soon."

It seemed that in order to respond to Zhao Bin's words, a messy sound of muskets and shouts of killing suddenly came from outside. It turned out that Qiu Qianhu, a subordinate of Tang Shaozong, was brought to kill him.

"The boss, it's not good. There are brigades of officers and soldiers outside!" A pirate crawled out and reported.

Chen Dong's face changed and he asked anxiously: "How many officers and soldiers have come?"

"I don't know, it's dense, in short, no less than a thousand, maybe a few thousand!"

"Retreat!" Monk Pujing indeed shouted softly, turned around and left. Seeing this, Chen Dong hurriedly summoned his pirates to retreat. Although the wealth was touching, he had to have a life-saving flower, right?

"Baga!" Ouchi Sectar cursed unwillingly. He did not get any benefits from attacking Dongtai County this time, and nearly ten warriors were killed or injured. The loss was huge, but at this time he had no choice but to withdraw.

The thieves hurriedly withdrew from the county government and met the Qianjinyiwei led by Qiu Qianhu. These Jinyiwei were finally trained regular troops, with dozens of muskets in front of them, and shot them up. Several pirates were shot and fell to the ground on the spot.

"Go out of the city east!" Monk Pujing turned around and ran eastward, and a group of thieves followed him.

Qiu Qianhu was overjoyed when he saw this. Hehe, didn’t he say how powerful the Japanese pirates were? As a result, he was killed by himself as soon as he met. It turned out that he was just a group of native chickens and tiles.

"Brothers, kill, the opportunity to make contributions is right in front of you!" Qiu Qianhu waved his sword and shouted bravely, running bravely in front of him. The Jinyiwei also chased after him, and the instant shouts of killing sounds shocked the sky, showing his imposing power.

"His grandma, where did so many Jinyiwei come from?" Zhao Bin led his brothers from the 500th battalion to chase out of the county government gate. When he saw Jinyiwei wearing flying fish suits all over the street, his eyes couldn't help but look straight.

"Boss Zhao, it seems to be the Jinyiwei in Nanjing!" said a fierce soldier.

Zhao Bin nodded: "It's really..." Before he finished speaking, his eyes turned dark and he fell to his head, losing too much blood and was in shock.

Besides, Tang Shaozong, this guy led a thousand Jinyiwei into the city from the east gate. In his opinion, a few hundred thieves and a thousand people in Qiu Qianhu were enough to deal with. He just had to go to the city leisurely and receive credit.

Speaking of the lineage of Duke Tang He of Xinguo, he declined since the title was erased by Emperor Yingzong of Ming Dynasty. It was not until Emperor Xiaozong of Ming Dynasty that Tang Shaozong had a little improvement. If he made military achievements today, Tang Shaozong felt that he could take the opportunity to propose to Emperor Jiajing to restore Duke Xinguo's title.

When Tang Shaozong thought of restoring his ancestors' glory, he became very excited. However, just as this guy was proud of himself, a powerful arrow suddenly broke through the air and hit Ma Huai, a doctor of the Ministry of Revenue who was riding with him.

The madam screamed and fell off his horse, and his neck was clearly shot by a sharp arrow, and he died so much that he could not die again.

Tang Shaozong was almost scared and hurriedly looked up. He saw hundreds of thieves running towards him. The group of men in black who were running in front were holding cold Japanese swords, with their expressions as ferocious as evil ghosts.

My God, when did that guy Tang Shaozong see such a situation? He was so scared that his legs were weak and he fell to the ground.

"Protect the Marquis!" Huang Qianhu pulled out his waist knife and shouted. The Jinyiwei around him rushed up and protected Tang Shaozong in the middle. The Jinyiwei holding a musket hurriedly took out the fire and ignited the lead.

It’s a pity that it was too late. Orishimiko, Hosokawa Takeshu and others had already rushed to the front like a strong wind. Before the lead of the musket in Jinyi’s hand was burned, her head was cut off by the Japanese knife...

The ones running in the front were the Japanese samurai. These guys formed a sharp knife, which instantly rushed the formation of the Jinyiwei.

Puff...
Chapter completed!