Concentricity

In the evening two days later, before it was dark, the Japanese pirate ships appeared near Wuhu Island at the mouth of the Minjiang River.Wuhu Island is not rich, and the island is not big. There are only two small villages on the island, and the population is not large. They live by fishing and picking tea.The Japanese pirates chose Wuhu Island mainly to snatch rations.

When the Japanese boats went south, the water and food they brought were limited, and they needed to be robbed to replenish the supplies for the return trip, otherwise they would never return them.This time they encountered strong winds on their way south, and they were delayed at sea for more than ten days. When they arrived in Fujian, they were almost out of water and food, which was why they were so eager to land.

Along with the small boat of the pirates, there were also three of their big boats. The big boat escorted the small boat, and it seemed that they were planning to fight hard.

In the evening, the patrol boats of the Plum Blossom Institute had already set off, and Zhuang Xu happened to be leading the team that day.The fleet had just rounded Langqi Island when they heard bells ringing in the distance. Zhuang Xu was startled: "Due north, hurry up. Damn it, it's finally here!" The building boat adjusted its direction and rowed towards the north.

Mo Jinyan walked faster than the boat, quickly overtook the boat, and headed towards the accident site.Thick smoke billowed from Wuhu Mountain in the distance, almost connecting with the dusk. Mo Jinyan said bitterly: "This group of sons of bitches dare to come and snatch them in broad daylight. Brothers, it's no good to kill him!" Stay, let him come and go!"

Everyone shouted in unison: "Kill these sons of bitches!"

Once within the shooting range, the archers bent their bows and shot arrows. Eighteen archers boarded the three walking boats, and the arrows rained down on the Japanese boats moored by the sea.

The Japanese pirates guarding the boat were in a hurry. They chose to land before dark in order to avoid the navy officers and soldiers. Obviously, they did not expect the navy patrol team to appear so early. mother ship for help.

Mo Jinyan heard two different whistles coming from the Japanese ship, and felt that something was wrong. He turned his head and saw the big Japanese ship hiding behind the cliff.

"With a knife and arrows on our backs, let's go ashore. The boat guards will row the boats to the back of the building boats, and don't confront the Japanese boats head-on." Mo Jinyan ordered decisively.

Although the small boat was nimble, it definitely could not compete with the big boat, so Mo Jinyan asked everyone to abandon the boat and go ashore, leaving the pirate's big boat to Lou Chuan and Meng Chong to deal with.

There are nearly 40 soldiers in the three walking boats, and there are only three pirate boats. Their boats are not as big as the walking boats, and they need to carry cargo. The number of people will definitely be smaller than their own.

Walking quickly approached the shore from another place, leaving two oarsmen in each boat, and the rest went ashore.

At this time, the sky was not yet dark, and there was still a sunset glow in the sky, so the line of sight was completely unaffected, Mo Jinyan said: "Everyone pay attention, three groups, don't disperse, if you can shoot arrows, shoot arrows, and you can't shoot arrows any closer They are thieves, we are soldiers, thieves are afraid of officers and soldiers, this is innate, so they will lose to us psychologically first, so don't be afraid, everyone must muster courage, hold on With the belief that we must win, we will definitely defeat them!"

Everyone was full of confidence and rushed to the village in one go.

Sure enough, as Mo Jinyan expected, there were only more than 20 Japanese pirates who went ashore this time, and their main purpose of going ashore was to grab water and food.Because it was not dark, when the villagers heard something wrong, all the old Confucian women and children ran to the tea mountain behind to hide, and only some young and middle-aged men were left in the village to fight against the pirates.

Japanese thieves always rob at night, and rarely encounter large-scale resistance. This time they came during the day, obviously they picked the wrong time. Those men with hoes, chopping knives, kitchen knives, and sticks hid there In the corner, they will be given a knife or a stick unexpectedly.Therefore, before the officers and soldiers arrived, several Japanese thieves were brought down.

Just at this moment, the whistle rang again outside. Not many things were robbed, and several people had been lost. The officers and soldiers arrived again soon. It was too late to take away the dead bodies.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they left the village, they were blocked by a rain of arrows from the naval officers and soldiers, and several of them were knocked down at once. There were only fifteen or sixteen of them left. Find a way out.

The soldiers chased after them and added a few more arrows. The desperate pirates had to disperse and hide in every corner of the village.

Mo Jinyan put away the arrow and drew out the knife: "Everyone be careful, put away the arrow, and be careful not to accidentally injure the people. You must ask everyone you see, don't accidentally injure them. It is still a team of three, Meng Changling will follow me, everyone don't Take it lightly, and beware of Japanese thieves is what we say."

Everyone nodded.Meng Changling followed Mo Jinyan closely, and there were only two of them in their team.Since chasing the enemy on a rainy night last time, Meng Changling has obviously grown a lot, and now he is no longer afraid of the enemy, but he is still a bit weak in close combat, so Mo Jinyan took him by his side in order to take care of him.

Mo Jinyan stood at the gate of the ancestral hall, lowered his voice and said to Meng Changling: "I saw two people running in just now, you find a place to hide outside, set up your arrows, and if something goes wrong, shoot the arrows, and I will go in." have a look."

Meng Changling was so nervous that his palms were sweating, he nodded: "Then be careful."

Mo Jinyan said that skilled people are bold, but three or two people are not afraid.With his waist bent, he entered the gate of the ancestral hall lightly.

At this moment, the sky is starting to get dark, and you can still see things outside, but you can't really see things inside the house.Mo Jinyan held his breath, pricked up his ears, and listened to the subtle movements in the room.He walked to the altar in the ancestral hall, kicked something, looked down, and saw a wooden tablet that had fallen on the ground.Mo Jinyan understood, he squatted down slowly, and stretched out his left hand to pick up the tablet.

At that moment, someone jumped up from behind the tablet table, holding a Japanese sword high in his hand, and slashed at Mo Jinyan with all his strength.Mo Jinyan rolled on the ground, and threw the knife in his hand with a whoosh, and it was accurately inserted into the heart of the man, and the man fell straight from the air to the ground, spattering blood all over the place.

Mo Jinyan stood up quickly, pulled out the knife from the dead man, put the tablet in his hand on the altar, and said, "Offended." Killing people in a ancestral hall is really too offensive, but it is the enemy who killed , the sages here should all understand.

A sob came from behind the table where the tablet was placed, and Mo Jinyan knew that another person was hiding behind the table.He stopped and said coldly, "Come out."

For a long time, there was no movement behind the table, and the room became darker and darker.Meng Changling waited anxiously outside and shouted, "Brother Jinyan! Jinyan! Are you okay?"

Mo Jinyan replied in the room: "I'm fine, you can come in and bring a fire tampon in."

Meng Changling thought for a while, found a firewood outside, lit a big torch and went inside.

As soon as he entered, he saw the corpse lying on the ground. He was shocked. Mo Jinyan stood there motionless: "Give me the torch, there is another one behind this table, be careful not to move it."

"Alive?" Meng Changling asked in a low voice.

"Well, I dare not come out." Mo Jinyan took the torch, lit the oil lamp on the altar table, and handed it back to Meng Changling, "Go and light the lamps around."

With the light on, Mo Jinyan turned behind the table with a knife in his hand: "Come out."

There was a "clang" sound behind the table, obviously the Japanese sword fell to the ground.

Meng Changling came over after lighting the lamp: "What's going on?"

Mo Jinyan frowned and shook his head, took the torch from Meng Changling's hand again, and stretched it out to look behind him, only to see a teenage boy with a cloth strip wrapped around his head curled up, trembling.

Mo Jinyan pointed the knife at him: "Get up, come out with me."

The man didn't move, Mo Jinyan thought in his heart that since this man couldn't even hold the knife, there shouldn't be any danger, so he put away the knife and reached out to grab him.The moment his hand touched the man, a dagger stabbed straight at Mo Jinyan.

Meng Changling only felt a flash of silver light, and his pupils shrank suddenly: "Be careful!" Subconsciously, he wanted to help, but Mo Jinyan's movements were faster, he leaned back, barely dodging the deadly blow. With a knife, he kicked the dagger flying out.

Here, Meng Changling took a deep breath, bent his bow and set an arrow, his movements were like flowing clouds and flowing water, and with a "swish" arrow, he hit the man's neck. The boy's body tilted, he fell to the ground, twitched, and stopped moving. .

Mo Jinyan turned around and looked at Meng Changling in surprise: "Brother Changling, you—"

Meng Changling grabbed Mo Jinyan with lingering fear, and looked him up and down: "Fortunately, you are fine, this Japanese dog who killed a thousand knives." He kicked the young man's body very puzzled, really fucking cunning, It's also cloudy.

Meng Changling didn't hear Mo Jinyan's voice, and looked up at Mo Jinyan: "Brother Jinyan, are you okay?"

Mo Jinyan patted him on the shoulder with a smile: "I'm fine. I didn't expect you to be so calm and unruffled in danger. It's really beyond people's expectations." The shot was so crisp and neat, which is different from the thought he felt when he first heard about going to the battlefield. The situation of escape is very different.

Meng Changling blushed and let go of his hand: "It's okay if I kill him."

"It's okay, kill it if you kill it, so that we don't have to think about how to deal with the prisoners." Mo Jinyan pulled him away, "Let's go, there are other Japanese thieves, go and see how the situation is."

It was already dark outside, and the soldiers gathered at the gate of the ancestral hall, and there were more than a dozen villagers.

Mo Jinyan asked, "Is everything settled?"

A crossbowman said: "We killed fifteen pirates in total, captured two alive, and five escaped."

Mo Jinyan nodded: "There are still two corpses in the ancestral hall, I'm offended."

The head of the patriarch said it was okay.

At this moment, the horn sounded from the sea, and Mo Jinyan hurriedly said to the patriarch: "Old man, we have to go, I will trouble you to clean up the mess here, and the prisoners are temporarily held here. I will deal with it." It turns out that Wuhu Island is under the jurisdiction of Lianjiang County, located at the junction of Changle and Lianjiang, and this time the Meihua Institute has crossed the border.But it's all for dealing with foreign enemies. As for whether to cross the border or not, this is not the point.

At this moment, the battle at sea was fierce, and Zhuang Xu's Louchuan and Mengchong resisted the firepower of the three Japanese boats, but there was no obvious disadvantage.The big ships of the pirates are warships transformed from ordinary sea ships, which are not as tall and mighty as the tall ships, nor as convenient and flexible as Mengchong.The rockets fired by the pirates landed on the backs of the Louchuan and Mengchong boats. The backs of the boats were covered with raw cowhide, so they couldn't penetrate them at all, and couldn't ignite. The rockets rolled into the water.

As soon as Mo Jinyan came back, the situation of the battle was reversed immediately. They nimbly shuttled among several large ships and fired arrows at the right time. The Japanese ships soon showed signs of decline.

At this time, the warship of Dinghaisuo also got the signal and rushed over. Seeing that the situation was over, the pirates turned the bow of the ship and fled into the sea in a hurry.

The morale of the sailors soared, and the officers and men tried their best to chase the Japanese boats, chasing them all the way to Nanbeigan Island, and Zhuang Xu ordered them to stop and turn around.

Several corporal leaders on board boarded the tall ship to report the situation of the battle.Everyone was elated, and described the battle just now vividly.This time it was a complete victory. There was no loss of a single soldier on our side, and no casualties among the people. The number of enemies wiped out was no less than 20, and there were also two prisoners.

As night fell over the sea, Zhuang Xu raised his hand and said, "The Japanese pirates have suffered heavy losses this time. I guess they will not dare to attack again. In the near future, everyone can rest in peace for a while."

The boat rowed towards the shore, and Mo Jinyan looked around for a while, and suddenly he was stunned. He found that Nangan Island, which was far away from them, was actually a little bit of fire, and he felt strange, so he called out: "Hey, why are there people on Nangan Island?"

Everyone turned around to look, the fire was flickering, and it seemed that there were indeed people, so they couldn't help talking about it.Nangan Island and Beigan Island used to have residents. Due to the sea ban imposed by the dynasty, all the islanders migrated to the mainland for the convenience of management, and these islands became deserted islands.Who is lighting the fire on the island?

Zhuang Xu looked at it for a while, and said, "Maybe Japanese bandits are camping there."

A corporal leader said: "No, today I intercepted a pirate on Wuhu Island and found that he carried a big leather bag. Guess what it is?"

Some say it's oil, some say it's wine.

The corporal leader shook his head: "No, you all guessed wrong, it's actually water."

"Water?" Everyone was stunned. They couldn't figure it out. How could Japanese pirates even want water?

"So, the people on Nangan Island are not Japanese pirates anymore. If they were there, there would be no shortage of water." Mo Jinyan analyzed, "Then who would be on the island?"

Zhuang Xu said: "If it's not a pirate, it's probably a pirate, or a sea merchant who smuggled goods. This place is already a forbidden area for the sea, and fishermen will not come here to fish."

Mo Jinyan nodded thoughtfully: "Then shall we go back and have a look?"

Zhuang Xu pondered: "I won't go today, go back and ask Mr. Zhong for instructions, see if you want to check the various islands. But this is the scope of Dinghai Institute, and it is not under our control."