The thief monk Xu Hai rages in Jiaxing Prefecture, northeast of Hangzhou Prefecture, and successively captured Pinghu and Haiyan counties, and instead attacked Chongde County. He also pleaded with the army to come to Hangzhou City and beheaded the head of Xu Jin, the governor of Zhizhe, to make a chamber pot to avenge his uncle, "Shark King" Xu Weixue.

Xu Jin scoffed at this and sent three guards to guard Chongde County, namely the Right Guard of Hangzhou, Haining Guard of Linshan Guard, and the Qianhu Office of Lanpu. If the local yamen runners and civilians in Chongde County were added, the total force was nearly 20,000.

Although the combat power of these coastal guards is worrying, they have a lot of people to win. In addition, behind Chongde County is Hangzhou City, the Governor Xu Beitou stares at him at a close distance, so no one dares to slack off from the top of the top officers and ordinary soldiers. Instead, they guard Chongde County steadily and firmly block Xu Hai's military attack.

However, the regular army of three guards was forced to hide in the city by a mob, which was embarrassing. Although Xu Jin was very annoyed by this, he had no choice. In this situation, it would be good to rely on these brave soldiers who had lost their courage to defend their position. It is unlikely to expect them to win a battle.

Xu Hai's attack was temporarily blocked in Chongde Prefecture. Look at the two Japanese pirates, Orishimiko and Hosokawa Takeshu. Although they were elusive in Songjiang Prefecture and Kunshan, Jiangsu, which made the local officers and soldiers run away, their goal was nothing more than wealth and did not capture cities and land like Xu Hai and Wang Zhi, and they could temporarily delay the deal.

Therefore, after three old Jiangxi troops arrived, Xu Jin immediately prepared to personally urge his troops to deal with Wang Zhi.

Compared to Xu Hai, who fought to the death of Chongde County, Wang Zhi was obviously more dangerous. Recently, this guy was in trouble in Ningbo Prefecture. Due to the passive response of local gentry and officers and soldiers, and even affair with thieves, Wang Zhi was in a state of power in Ningbo Prefecture and successively captured several counties. His power expanded rapidly, and now he is even more at the city of Ningbo Prefecture.

In addition, Wang Zhi was so arrogant that he proclaimed himself King Hui, which the court would never tolerate. Just this, Xu Jin had to attack him first and remove him with a thunderous momentum.

On July 28, the second year of Jiajing, after meeting with Yu Linsheng and three old Jiangxi subordinates, Xu Jin immediately convened a military meeting and made a series of military deployments.

First, Xu Jin ordered the governor of Zhejiang Xi Shu to lead the Hangzhou guards to take charge of Hangzhou city. Secondly, Xu Jin issued three orders in a row, ordering Shaoxing guards, Guanhai guards and Changguo guards to send troops to encircle the three sides to support Ningbo Prefecture City. Third, improve the reward for killing thieves. If one Japanese pirate is killed, the silver reward will be increased from the original five taels to ten taels, and a pirate will be killed, and the silver reward will be increased from two taels to five taels.

Although Xu Jin did not say it clearly, he could guess as long as he had a little brain. The Governor was preparing to personally rush to Ningbo, so shortly after Xu Jin held a military meeting, more than a dozen fast horses quietly left the four cities in Hangzhou, with unknown whereabouts.

Between summer and autumn, it is the season when typhoons are frequent in the coastal areas. In the morning, the sky is still clear, but it is almost noon, but suddenly the wind is howling, and the rolling clouds cover the sky and the sun is coming. The heavy rain seems like thousands of arrows. There is no way to distinguish cattle and horses from a hundred meters away.

To get from Hangzhou City to Ningbo Prefecture, the nearest road is naturally the official road. When you pass through Shaoxing Prefecture, you will be in Ningbo Prefecture for about 300 miles.

At this moment, near the official road about 30 miles south of Hangzhou City, a small group of officers and soldiers were lurking in the dense grass beside the road, and were soaked in the sudden storm and rain. The rain drifted down along the edge of the hat.

Despite this, the officers and soldiers did not find a place to shelter from the rain, but instead squatted quietly in the grass, like tree stumps, allowing the turbid water to flow through their knees. The young officer in charge was lying directly in the mud, with one hand on his head and a grass root in his mouth lazily. It was his brother-in-law Xie Erjian.

It turned out that just before Xu Jin held a military meeting, Xie Erjian secretly left Hangzhou City with fifty soldiers, rode fast horses south, and stumbled into two groups on both sides of the official road, one of which was ambushed fifteen miles away, while Xie Erjian personally led another group of ambushed thirty miles away, waiting for the guys who were scattering inside to inform the news.

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At this time, a fast horse appeared on the official road in a storm. The four hooves were splattering with mud and water, and the sound of hooves passed through the noisy wind and rain. Finally, business came to the door. Xie Erjian, who was originally lazy, jumped up with a carp.

The knight immediately probably took a detour and did not encounter the group of 500 battalions of soldiers who were ambushing fifteen miles away. However, the good luck ended here because he was hitting Xie Erjian's muzzle.

With a loud bang, the horse's hooves tripped to the squat rope set in advance, and flew out on the spot, falling heavily to the ground. With this force, the horse was ruined without seeing that the horse was ruined.

Ten men immediately rushed out with their swords, tied the knight who had fallen into vagueness, and took it back and threw it at Xie Erjian's feet. As for the horse that had broken its neck and was helpless, he could only drag it into the grass to cover it.

Just like fishing in the river, sometimes you can sit for a few hours without fishing. Once there are fishing, you will come one after another.

Soon, another horse appeared on the official road in the wind and rain, but the knight on the horse was very alert. The horse was not fast and he also observed on both sides of the road from time to time.

As the saying goes, once you are bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of the ropes for ten years. This knight is so cautious that he may have been ambushed fifteen miles away, but this guy escaped by chance.

Xie Erjian couldn't help but frown. Although he always looked lazy, his requirements for his subordinates were very strict. Now that he had actually left a messenger, he was naturally unhappy.

At this time, the knight had already arrived at the ambush position of Xie Erjian and others, and suddenly whipped the horse's butt. The unhappy horse immediately raised its four hooves and galloped, barely jumped over the tripping rope.

What a cunning guy, it turns out that he has discovered the ambush!

As the knight was about to escape, with a bang, the bowstring exploded into a large mist, and a sharp arrow shot towards him like a meteor rushing to the moon, instantly sank into the horse's belly, and the blood immediately dyed the heavy rain red.

The horse roared sadly, and fell to the ground while running at high speed. It slipped out of more than ten meters on the muddy official road before it stopped. However, the knight was very awesome. He curled up into a ball, rolled out several meters roundly on the ground like a ball, and then jumped up and jumped into the grass beside the road and ran away.

Xie Erjian couldn't help but exclaim. This guy has some ability, no wonder he could escape under the first group of soldiers.

Xie Erjian stopped his subordinates who wanted to shoot, rushed out with a quick pace, as fast as a cheetah, and suddenly rushed into the grass. After a moment, he walked back with someone, poked his ribs, and then threw them on the ground and said coldly: "Bind it up!"

The two fierce soldiers took out the rope with a grin, tied the cunning guy tightly, and even broke one leg.

The heavy rain lasted for more than an hour before it became weaker and turned into an intermittent shower. At this time, five spies had tied up at Xie Erjian's feet. After interrogation, most of these guys were passing by. Xie Erjian suddenly felt that he should have ambushed him fifty miles away, but it was too late now. It was probably a spy who had already gone south through the detour.

However, the relationship is not very important. Xu Jin personally led his troops south to Ningbo this time, and he did not intend to keep it a secret. The reason why he sent someone to intercept the spies who reported the news was just to take the opportunity to clear the black sheep in Hangzhou.

As the saying goes, to fight against foreign countries, we must first settle the country. We will not eliminate the spies in our own team. Xu Jin dared to leave Hangzhou and go south with peace of mind.

At around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the rain completely stopped. Xie Erjian ordered the team to be withdrawn and escorted the twelve spies back to Hangzhou City. Xu Jin immediately went down to close the four cities.

The next thing was simple. The Jinyiwei followed the clues and captured a group of officials and gentry behind the spy, one of which was actually Zhou Shichang, the Zhejiang Censor’s Censor.
Chapter completed!