Not long after, Tang Xing, the commander of the Songmen Guards, was invited in.
"Sir." As soon as he walked in the door, Tang Xing hurriedly bowed his hands and saluted.
"Come on, commander, sit down." Xiao Chen pointed to the chair where Duan Tianming was sitting just now, "I'm not very particular about it, so I don't need these complicated etiquette."
"Well, okay." Tang Xing sat down a little cautiously.
Although this is his own guardhouse, the other party is after all the famous purple-clad captain in the capital.
Tang Xing was still a little nervous when he was called over.
"Commander, I went to Longmen Station today, and the cold sweat on my body hasn't dried yet?" Xiao Chen raised his sleeves and wiped his forehead pretendingly.
"Master Ziyi, what happened to you?" Tang Xing was startled, stretched his head, and asked with concern.
Deep down in my heart, I was secretly happy.
These thousands of households who don’t know the heights of the world, think that they can be lawless with Zhao Wuming as their backer?
Could it be that he has set his sights on Dongchang and wants to dig a hole for Dongchang?
"May I ask, sir, are all the spaceships in Longmen Institute newly configured?" Xiao Chen asked with a smile.
"The spaceship? We got some last year. If we say it's new, it can be considered a new one."
"When I went to Longmen Institute, there were more than a dozen brand-new spaceships on the beach. Bai Qianhu said they were specially used for Dongchang as a spare."
"A spaceship is only suitable for close-range pursuits. Besides, this kind of ship itself is not big, and the number of people it can carry is even more limited. Japanese pirates can travel across the ocean, and they use ships much larger than this spaceship. When you meet a small group of Japanese pirates,
It's okay to pursue it for a while. If you encounter a Japanese pirate ship, let alone pursue it, you can't even get close." Tang Xing said with a serious face.
"Oh?" Xiao Chen became interested, "May I ask the commander, why can't you get close to the Japanese pirates' ship?"
After straightening his body, Tang Xing took the tea handed over by Duan Tianming with both hands and nodded with a smile.
Putting the tea bowl on the table, he hurriedly said: "Master Ziyi, you may have never seen it. When the tide is high, the wind and waves on the sea are very strong. If there is a little wind, the wind and waves on the sea can capsize the spacecraft at any time. Not to mention this
, the Japanese pirates' big ship alone is more than three feet high. Even if the spaceship is close, how can you climb up? On the deck above the big ship, the Japanese pirates are holding weapons, but they are ready to fight at any time."
"The boat is so big? The boat gang alone is only three or four feet high? Then there must be a lot of Japanese pirates on it?"
"The number of people won't be too many. After all, they mainly want to grab things and transport them back. But even if it is small, there are definitely a few hundred people. The spacecraft can carry up to twenty-five people. If you are close to the big ship, wouldn't you be criticized in the past? Maybe it's wrong.
completely annihilated."
Tang Xing said in a deep voice.
"Hundreds of people? So, the Japanese pirates docked the big ships and put people on our coastal areas one by one, instead of all disembarking in one place in a swarm?"
"My lord is wise." Tang Xing nodded, "There are large and small fishing villages on the seaside, but for the Japanese pirates, a dozen or twenty people can rob the entire village. They put the Japanese pirates down along the coastline and turned around.
Take them back one by one."
"So, they have a long period of activity on land? We don't necessarily have to pursue them. We can eliminate them on land?" Xiao Chen said.
"Of course. However, if you want to eliminate all Japanese pirates, you still have to find the final stop of their ships. Exterminate the Japanese pirates, destroy the ships, and then look back for the Japanese pirates who disembarked along the way." Tang Xing nodded.
Xiao Chen shook his head: "In the vast sea, Japanese pirate ships are wandering on the sea. It is not easy to find their final docking point."
"You can lure the enemy." Tang Xing said in a low voice.
"Luring the enemy? How to lure the enemy?"
"One is to use cargo ships to lure them, and the other is to use patrol ships from the guard station."
"I can understand why the cargo ship lured them. The Japanese pirates are just looking for money. It's just that the commander said that they would use the patrol boats of the guard station to lure them. What's the reason for this?" Xiao Chen really couldn't figure it out.
Aren't patrol boats specifically designed to expel and capture Japanese pirates?
Why do you seem to be a target of Japanese pirates now?
"Before your Excellency came, you should have heard that we lost more than a thousand soldiers, right?" Tang Xing smiled awkwardly.
Xiao Chen nodded: "I've heard about this."
"These soldiers who were lost were all patrolling the sea and mountains and never came back."
"Missing at sea?" Xiao Chen seemed to see a scene he didn't want to see in his mind.
"He who doesn't have any fight just disappears?"
"Patrol team, if you don't come back after going to sea, you will die." Tang Xing shook his head, looking very frustrated.
Xiao Chen was silent for a while, then raised his head to look at Tang Xing: "Sir, Commander, is there a possibility that these people are not dead?"
"No." Tang Xing said with a sad face, "The patrol team behind found the broken wreckage of the patrol ship on the sea mountain. The ship was scattered, how could the people be alive."
"Could they have caught a Japanese pirate ship?" Xiao Chen asked again.
Tang Xing was startled and said a little unconfidently: "Probably not. They are mortal enemies with the Japanese pirates, so how could they hitch a ride on the Japanese pirates' ship?"
Xiao Chen stood up, put his hands behind his back, and walked a few steps back and forth in the room.
He suddenly stopped and turned to look at Tang Xing.
"Didn't your Excellency say that you suspect that the Songmen Guards have a traitor? The Japanese pirates have harassed the people several times, and they have been able to avoid the patrols of the guards. There are two possibilities for this."
"First, there are really people who are in contact with the Japanese pirates and provide them with information."
"Another one is that these missing soldiers boarded Japanese pirate ships, or they have become 'Japanese pirates', leading real Japanese pirates to rob people along the coast of Ming Dynasty."
After talking for a while, Tang Xing opened his mouth wide.
Not to mention, this is really a possibility.
But, why didn’t I think of it before?
"If that's really the case, then, then..." Tang Xing couldn't answer the question for a moment.
"Are all the soldiers lost from that Qianhu Station?" Xiao Chen asked.
"Most of them are located in Longmen, but there are also other Qianhu residences."
Xiao Chen narrowed his eyes slightly: "This Longmen Institute seems to be the main potential source of the problem. Commander, do you know what kind of spaceships Longmen Institute has prepared for Dongchang?"
"What spaceship? Isn't it the one used by Longmen itself?"
"It's okay to say that the one he used was an old spaceship with cracks that reached half the depth of the hull. It was an old spaceship that he prepared for Dongchang. It was just specially refurbished. These spaceships will disintegrate when they reach the sea with a huge wave. I really don't know them.
How much hatred does he have towards Dongchang, that he dug such a deep hole for Dongchang?"
Looking at Tang Xing, Xiao Chen paid attention to the changes in his eyes.
"Is there such a thing? It's too much." Tang Xing clenched his fists and stood up with a bang.
"Dongchang is here to exterminate the Japanese pirates. They dug holes in Dongchang to resist the imperial court's decision to suppress the bandits. Sir, I will capture Bai Sang right away and let you deal with it."
"There's no rush." Xiao Chen raised his hand to block him, "These ships will be placed there. If the contact point of the Japanese pirates is Longmen Station, punishing Bai Sang will scare off the enemy."
"What do you mean, sir?"
"Monitor the Longmen Station, seize the Japanese pirates who are involved, spread false news, and lure them into our ambush circle."
"Should we let the guards do this?"
Looking at Tang Xing, Xiao Chen couldn't help but laugh: "Commander Zai Songmen, is there anyone he can trust?"
"Yes." Tang Xing nodded, "There are several hundred households, and they are still loyal to the court."
"Okay, the commander is responsible for monitoring the Longmen Station. If he discovers the situation, he will report it immediately, and the Dongchang will come out to arrest the person." Xiao Chen ordered.
"I'll make arrangements right away." Tang Xing stood up and walked towards the door.
Watching Tang Xing leave, Duan Tianming gathered around him: "Are his words credible?"
"What do you think?" Xiao Chen asked.
"It has some credibility." Duan Tianming nodded.
"At present, Songmen Guards, we still can't trust anyone easily. You should arrange for someone to follow him secretly. If he handles this matter without problems, we can choose to trust him in his future actions."
The 300 people in Dongchang were all brought out by themselves.
Xiao Chen didn't want to put the lives of people like Dongchang in the hands of a stranger who had no actions to prove his trustworthiness.
"Arrange people to watch the Longmen Institute secretly. Do we still want to go to the private sector to find out information about the Japanese pirates?" Duan Tianming walked out of the room, turned around and asked again.
"You go and arrange people first. We will change into casual clothes later and visit the villages along the coast."
Xiao Chen picked up the tea bowl on the table and drank it all in one gulp.