I'm a pirate at the end of Ming Dynasty

"Follow me? What do I want you to do?"

"We can do anything as long as we have enough food to eat. The more than 1000 of us are homeless, have no jobs, and have no worries. We are still strong. As long as we can eat well, even our lives are not worth much. I I think we should be more useful than those local warriors."

"talk later."

After that, Zheng Zhipeng lowered his head to drink the porridge and ignored him. His mind was quite confused now.

After a while, Yan Yingyuan told him that many brothers have become homeless and are very confused now. Those who have not found their families are even more anxious to go back, and those who have found their fellow villagers do not want to continue walking. To put it simply, if the people's hearts are lost, the team will no longer be able to lead it.

"Brother Yan, have you found your countryman?"

"My family is from Taizhou."

"Oh……"

After a long silence, Zheng Zhipeng said: "Brother Yan, take the remaining brothers and continue walking south. If you find the villagers, if your home is still there, give me a message. If your home is gone... Let the brothers bring the villagers to Ningbo Mansion to find me."

Yan Yingyuan said in surprise: "You want to stay in Ningbo Mansion?"

"Otherwise? More than half of the village warriors have found fellow villagers, and the homeless are the majority. If they are abandoned here, how many people will survive in the end? Nine times out of ten, they have to leave. Those of you who have taken the road of rebelling against thieves, you have gone through life and death for me, how could I not care about your life or death?"

Yan Yingyuan nodded. He knew that what Zheng Zhipeng said was right. They had been too optimistic about the situation before. The little food they brought from Songjiang was all for themselves, and it was not enough to last for a long time. What's more, in the current situation, there are some of these disaster victims, including me and you, how can we really not leave them at all?

"Fourth Master is going to Ningbo, what are your plans?"

"Let's take it one step at a time. My sixth brother has rushed back to Hangzhou and is collecting food. Fortunately, Ningbo's shipping is very convenient. I can ask my eldest brother for help. Our family has grown a lot of snow peas in Baodao over the years. Potatoes), I should have saved some, it can last for a while."

"Fourth Master Rende, I will take the brothers back at that moment. In fact, we Taizhou people have also discussed it before. As long as Fourth Master has orders from you in the future, swords, mountains, and seas of fire will be at your call."

Zheng Zhipeng smiled and patted his shoulder and said, "Go ahead, I still owe your hometown a big shipyard."

Yan Yingyuan smiled bitterly: "I hope our hometown is still there."

After that, Yan Yingyuan and Zheng Zhipeng said goodbye, taking the remaining Taizhou Xiangyong with them, and embarked on the road back to their hometown with their hearts full of worries. What was even more miserable was that the Ningbo people could not find any of their hometown people. They didn't know that their families were still there. Whether he was there or not, he could only leave the team with worries and go on the road alone.

The remaining victims looked at Zheng Zhipeng helplessly.

"Everyone, if you want to go to Shaoxing to attack the county, you can trust me and be willing to follow me. Lead the way to Ningbo Prefecture."

With a roar, tens of thousands of people knelt down in front of Zheng Zhipeng again, but this time Zheng Zhipeng didn't feel awkward for the first time, and he didn't rush to get them up.

This is what I deserve.

Outside Ningbo Mansion, there was a different scene of hell.

The young and the strong have all gone south, leaving only the old, weak, women and children waiting numbly outside the city. In fact, they themselves don't know what they are waiting for. Is it the few rice soup porridge shops that are set up sporadically out of the city every day?Or should we wait for our men to conquer the county and come back to give them a full meal?Maybe, just waiting to die.

A pretty girl opened her clothes without hesitation and was breastfeeding her child. She didn't care at all that the old man next door was looking at her, but the child was sucking desperately, but how could she get any milk?

Children always cry when they don't have enough to eat. The crying was quite loud in the past two days, but since yesterday, the child can no longer cry.

"Dad, bury the child, he won't survive."

The father took the child with a numb face, sighed, but without leaving even a drop of tears, he picked up his grandson's leg and threw it into the sky casually, and nothing happened.

The woman only felt that her eyes were going dark, and accompanied by the sound of the child falling to the ground, her whole body went limp as if she had lost her backbone, and she didn't know who was going on. However, the father-in-law just sighed and stretched out his hand to touch the woman. He was breathing heavily and saw that he was still breathing, but just unconscious, so he sat next to the woman, arranged her clothes, and took out a piece of bark from his pocket. After thinking about it, he broke off half of it and gave it to his daughter-in-law. Throw the remaining half into your mouth.

"The day before yesterday, the government was still distributing a bowl of porridge outside the city. Why are they not distributing gruel today?"

The old man muttered dissatisfiedly while chewing the bark.

When Zheng Zhipeng came back with several victims, the entire Ningbo mansion was in a state of excitement. Zheng Zhipeng's sharp eyes even saw that the soldiers on the city wall had already prepared their equipment for battle.

"Luo Chao, please sort it out. Put some of the ones that have no one at home and see how many there are."

Luo Chao said with a smile: "We have been doing this for the past few days. There are more than 3000 young people with no one at home. Most of them have some self-defense guys."

"Gather the people together and give you a task. Stop the others for now and don't go into the city. Otherwise, there may be trouble with such a chaos."

"Yes."

Zheng Zhipeng asked the country warriors who came with him to gather together. Zheng Zhilong borrowed his black guards as the leader, and he followed his own righteousness. He led the mighty troops slowly towards the city gate and shouted at the bottom of the city. A voice: "Open the door!"

The Ningbo magistrate in the city did not dare to neglect him. Seeing that Zheng Zhipeng's vanguard was well-equipped and did not look like refugees, especially the black guards all in a row, which was really intimidating, he hurriedly asked: "Who is under the city?"

"According to the Inspector General Zheng Zhipeng, the people in the city quickly opened the door."

Of course, the prefect in the city had also heard of Zheng Zhipeng, and knew that this person was really not easy to mess with. He immediately felt a little embarrassed, but still asked: "I wonder if General Zheng is not in Hangzhou, why did he come to my Ningbo mansion?"

"It's for fighting against Japanese invaders. Why, Lord Fu, you don't want to open the door for me?"

"This……"

"Master Fu, if you don't attack the city within ten seconds, then I will have reason to suspect that you are colluding with Liu Xiang, and I will attack the city."

The prefect was shocked when he heard this. You must know that there are hundreds of thousands of refugees under the city. How can the few thousand defenders in the city be of any use?He could only shout at the top of his lungs: "You dare!"

"Do you think I dare? I have Zhang Budang's warrant and the military situation is raging. If you linger and don't open the door, I suspect you are wrong in colluding with Liu Xiang? If you don't open the door, I will attack the city first. Come down, and then I’ll take you to find Zhang Butang for review!”

The prefect became even more panicked when he heard this. After thinking about it, he simply asked as if he was looking for a way out: "But is there really a warrant from Zhang Butang?"

"Here's the warrant, open the door quickly!"