Rise From the Humble

  After Shangzhifu left the east gate, he went to the north gate and northwest gate. Just like what he did at the east gate, he also reminded the guards to be careful not to go out of the city to chase the pirates.

  The soldiers at the North Gate and Northwest Gate felt somewhat similar to General Wang’s reminder of Shang Zhifu’s reminder, and they also felt a little uncomfortable, feeling that their **** and sweaty victory was underestimated.

  In these two defenses of the city, we also shed blood and tears, with real swords and guns, and we fought back the Japanese pirates through untold hardships.

  Why is Zhu Ping'an's victory just because of his ability, and our victory is the Japanese pirates' feint? !

  We veterans on the battlefield, our city is tall and deep, can't we compare with bandits who have only been in Zhao'an for a few months and mud legs who have only put down their hoes? !

  My lord is too partial to one another?

   "Don't worry, my lord, the last general will guard the city carefully, and don't let the pirates take advantage of it." The soldiers responded with mixed feelings.

  The next day, the last darkness before dawn, it was dark and cold, with biting wind, filled with hazy mist.

A carrier pigeon flew down to the camp of the Zhejiang Army in the mist, with a letter box tied to its leg. The soldier who had been waiting for a long time in the pigeon loft immediately took off the letter box tied to the carrier pigeon's leg, and trotted all the way to report to Zhu Ping'an .

  Zhu Ping'an opened the secret letter and browsed through it at a glance.

   This is Liu Mu's handwriting.

  Through the secret letter, Zhu Pingan learned about Liu Mu and Liu Dadao's situation after they went out, as well as the news of their investigation.

  After they broke out of the camp yesterday, they were chased and intercepted by several Japanese pirates. Relying on the fast speed of the cavalry, they fought and retreated. After paying the price of five minor injuries, they finally got rid of the Japanese pirates. After escaping from the siege and interception of the Japanese pirates, Liu Mu and Liu Dadao split into two groups. Liu Mu led people to monitor the Japanese pirates, while Liu Dadao led people to look for the people of Xingcun in the wild.

The surrounding ten miles were raided by Japanese pirates several times. Those who were not well hidden were captured by Japanese pirates. Those who were not well hidden were not so easy to find. Some surviving people feared being caught by Japanese pirates and hid in more remote places. .

   Liu Dadao led the cavalry under his command to search for a long time before they found two surviving households who were hiding tightly before yesterday evening.

A surviving family asked three questions. They have been hiding in the cellar in the forest. They don’t know anything about the outside world. They only know that the pirates have searched the woods many times. Once again, they almost found the cellar where they were hiding. them.

Another family hid in the reed marshes by the river. They watched a lot in the reed marshes. Woren captured many hiding people and tied their hands with ropes. The team stretched for more than a hundred meters. Hundreds of people, vaguely heard what the Japanese pirates said, those who were arrested were lucky, their leaders had an explanation, they were not allowed to kill indiscriminately, they were allowed to join the gang as Japanese pirates, and they were popular and hot.

   Liu Dadao took people ten miles away to look for the surviving people. They found many households ten miles away, and several families fled from within ten miles.

  Liu Mu led his men to monitor the Japanese pirate camps outside the east gate, north gate and northwest gate of Suzhou City. He could not see the situation of the Japanese pirate camps clearly from a long distance.

In order to find out the situation of the Japanese pirate camp, Liu Mu took the risk of leading a team of 20 Japanese pirates to ambush in a woods. Instead, they used bows, arrows and bayonets. Fortunately, they did mental calculations without intentions, and the cotton armor had strong protection. They first shot a round of bows and arrows, and then went into battle with bayonets. After paying the price of two people being seriously injured and three others being slightly injured, they were all wiped out. This pirate team.

  Liu Mu selected nineteen people from the cavalry under his command, changed into Japanese pirate clothes with him, and sneaked into the Japanese pirate camp at the East Gate under the cover of night.

  The Japanese pirates had no military discipline at all, and the Japanese pirates standing guard at the gate of the camp just asked a simple question, why didn't the civilians be caught.

  Liu Mu replied that they were unlucky, they plowed three feet and failed to find the hiding people, so they had to return without success.

  The Japanese pirates at the gate of the camp just laughed, then you will have no luck. Those who capture the common people can eat meat and drink heavily, but those who do not capture the common people can only eat bran and swallow vegetables.

   Liu Mu pretended to be dejected, and led his subordinates into the Japanese pirate camp.

The Japanese pirates are mixed and the personnel are chaotic. Besides the real Japanese, there are also many Ming people who have taken refuge in the Japanese pirates. There are frustrated scholars, failed businessmen, rogues on the street, wild monks who do not abide by the rules and regulations, and desperate people. People wait.

   And even if it is a real Japanese, it looks very similar to Mingren. Except for hairstyle, accent, and slightly shorter stature, it is almost the same as Mingren.

   It is also because of this that many Japanese pirates disguised themselves as officers, soldiers, and ordinary people, mixed into the city to be attacked in advance, murdered and set fire to sabotage, or cooperated with the inside and outside to attack suddenly, etc. This trick was tried and tested by the Japanese pirates time and again.

  Of course, it was easy for Japanese pirates to pretend to be Ming people, and it was also easy for Ming people to pretend to be Japanese pirates. Liu Mu and the others sneaked into the Japanese pirate camp without any risk.

  The Japanese pirate camp was even more chaotic. There was no disorder in the east and west of the camp, and the Japanese pirates had no discipline. They gathered in groups of three or four.

  After Liu Mu sneaked into the Japanese pirate camp with his subordinates, he felt that as long as he didn't casually hang around in front of the high-level Japanese pirates' tent, there should be no risk of exposure.

  When Japanese pirates ask why I haven’t seen you, Liu Mu always prevaricates with the excuse that he came to Tuolin’s lair some time ago.

Fortunately, because the great Japanese chief Hojo Dosan was killed yesterday when he attacked the Zhe army's position, the Japanese pirates under his command were divided up by Xu Hai, Ma Ye and Chen Dong. Xu Hai's Japanese pirates had many new faces. Liu Mu and the others The twenty unfamiliar faces were not eye-catching at all, and they were regarded as Japanese pirates under the command of Hojo Michizo who had been carved up.

  Newcomers are always bullied, especially Liu Mu and the others have not captured the people from the wild, and when they entered the camp, they were arrested by a small Japanese pirate leader and asked them to guard the newly captured people and stay on duty at night.

   This is just sleepy coming to offer a pillow. Of course, Liu Mu will not refuse, but there is an expression on his face that is not happy but unable to resist.

  Liu Mu and the others guarded the captured people all night, so they naturally figured out everything.

  The Japanese pirates captured these common people, shaved their heads into real Japanese hairstyles, changed them into Japanese clothes, and even trained them urgently for a few hours, with the purpose of getting them to participate in the siege tomorrow morning.

  Liu Mu looked for an opportunity to chat with the Japanese pirates who were also guarding him.

  These captured ordinary people were sent to die. It was said that they were sent to attack the city, but in fact they were sent to die.

  The more than 800 ordinary people captured earlier, almost all died in the two siege battles this morning and evening.

  As for why the common people were sent to death, the low-level Japanese pirates who were guarding it were not clear, only that Xu Hai and other Japanese chieftains ordered it.