Chapter 80 80 Frontline Battle Situation
“Ningbo Prefecture is really fat. No wonder the Japanese pirates gathered so many people to go ashore to plunder, and they haven’t finished moving it after so many days.”
Wu Dong couldn't help but sigh when he thought of the wealth mentioned in the letter.
"Where is the soldier who came back to report the message? I also want to ask how the battle is going ahead."
Wei Wen just remembered that he had gone to read the message when he arrived at his uncle's house, and he hadn't asked yet. What's going on in front of the messenger? My father is fine.
Wu Dong said with a smile, "He collapsed from exhaustion when he came back. He couldn't walk by water. He ran back from Zhejiang on horseback. People who came back were almost fainting, so I had to let him rest. He still hasn't woken up yet."< br>
“I guess I didn’t get a good rest at the front, and kept running around.”
Wei Guangde thought about it before answering.
"That's for sure. If there is a war, who can sleep peacefully? Only by returning here can we rest assured."
Wu Dong nodded, but then said: " These soldiers and servants seemed fine before, but this time All of a sudden, many flaws were exposed. Our soldiers here have never seen blood. I heard that the veterans over there in the border town, even if the enemy is attacking the city, as long as they don't climb the city wall, they can sleep in the tower. Still unstoppable.”
"When you see blood, go wherever you see blood."
Wei Wencai also woke up. He had not considered that before, these soldiers might be nervous and anxious because of the possibility of going to the battlefield, which would affect own rest.
How could I be so tired just thinking about how I had only been riding a horse back from Zhejiang for a few days?
When he got up the next day, Wei Guangde asked someone to ask. The soldier who delivered the letter was not awake yet. He had been sleeping for almost a day.
It was almost noon when a servant came in again to report that the soldier had woken up.
When Wei Guangde arrived at a wing, he saw that his elder brother Wei Wencai and his cousin were already waiting here. After sitting down for a while, the soldier quickly entered the room.
Before Wei Guangde could see his appearance clearly, he only felt that this man was very strong, so he had already bowed down to him.
"Greetings to the young master."
"Get up and answer."
Wu Dong said, "When you came back yesterday, you said that my father and uncle were both well. What's going on ahead? And why are you so tired?"
"Master Hui, we didn't get much rest along the way. Especially before the battle with the Japanese pirates, the whole battalion was very scared."
The soldier replied honestly.
“Let me be clear, why are you so scared before the fight.”
Wu Dong asked.
“I wasn’t scared by the killers in Yangzhou and Gaoyou. They said that the Japanese pirates were highly skilled in martial arts and invulnerable. If you shoot them with bows and arrows, they can catch them with their bare hands and throw them back to you. That’s accurate. It's almost like shooting an arrow with aim.
Then, after the military order came down, the guardsmen in Chuzhou and Jianyang were unwilling to get on the ship and almost couldn't hold them back."
At this time, under the dictation of the soldiers, Wu Dong and the Wei family The two brothers knew that the situation at that time was a bit dangerous.
After Nanjing sent a military order to rush the army to Zhejiang to suppress the Japanese, many people were shocked. The guardsmen at the rear were not willing to board the ship at all.
It was simple. During the training in Zhenjiang, many of the guardsmen near the sea had heard of the legend of Japanese pirates, and it spread around that time.
Although I haven’t seen it with my own eyes or experienced it personally, I have heard it so much that I unconsciously take it seriously.
Such news spread quietly in the camp, but none of the officers and generals in the camp noticed it. From that time on, the momentum of the entire army actually began to decline, and finally broke out after receiving military orders to set out to suppress the Japanese. Fortunately, after a year of rectification by the Nanjing Jingying Camp, the army's execution ability has improved a bit, and several guard posts that showed signs of instability were suppressed. But even so, the Jiujiang Guards were surrounded by the Nanjing Jingying Camp for a long time. Lift the ban.
After that, we were supposed to set off in one day, so we stayed in Zhenjiang for an extra day before boarding the ship and sailing.
The army set sail to the seaport and met the Taicang Guard garrison on the sea near the Wusong River Guards Qianhu Station. The two armies merged into one and continued southward.
“Actually, at that time, we had not slept for two days on the ship, and our morale was gone after we got on the ship.”
Seeing this strong soldier say such words, Wei Guangde knew something was wrong.
Logically speaking, the Taicang Guard should be at least one day ahead of the Zhenjiang army, not to mention that the Zhenjiang side was delayed for a day before setting off. This means that the Taicang Guard Army is near the Wusong River. I lingered for two days.
Then I heard the soldier continue to say, naturally after arriving at the sea surface of Jiaxing Prefecture, according to the orders from above, Jiujiang Guard, Anqing Guard, Luzhou Guard and other guard posts will continue southward to Taizhou by boat. , Nanjing Jingying Camp, together with other guard posts, were ordered to land in Ningbo Prefecture.
Having said this, the soldier hesitated obviously and was stunned for a moment without continuing to speak.
"What's going on? Go on."
Seeing that the soldiers hesitated again, Wu Dong asked hurriedly.
The soldier's face was slightly red, and he continued: "Not long after we divided our troops, we got lost on the sea, and then drifted near Yuyao County, Shaoxing Prefecture."
I heard the soldier said that they were originally It was time to go to Taizhou Prefecture, but the fleet lost its way and drifted to Shaoxing Prefecture. Wei Guangde had seen the map of Zhejiang, so he naturally knew the location of Shaoxing Prefecture. It was really similar to the message sent back last month. It was just past Hangzhou Bay. Go ashore.
Wei Guangde could think of it, and Wu Dong naturally knew it, and the expression on his face was also very exciting for a while.
Bypassing Ningbo to go to Taizhou, we must pass through Zhoushan, the home of the Japanese pirates. Can we go there?
joke.
The only one in the room who was confused about the situation was his eldest brother Wei Wencai. He didn't go to Jiujiang Prefecture that time. As for Ningbo Prefecture and Shaoxing Prefecture, he only knew that they were from Zhejiang Province.
"Ahem, getting lost at sea is common, go on."
Wu Dong urged unhappily.
“After we landed in Shaoxing, we came into contact with the local Linshan Guard’s Tanma”
As the soldier continued to tell, Wei Guangde realized that his father and his Jiujiang Guards still failed to escape the battlefield.
After the Japanese pirates plundered Dinghai County, Ningbo Prefecture, some Japanese pirates went to Cixi County to plunder.
In fact, there are many guard posts around Ningbo Prefecture and Shaoxing Prefecture. There are five guard posts including Ningbo Guard, Dinghai Guard, Linshan Guard, Guanhai Guard and Shaoxing Guard, not to mention several guards. Qianhu existed, but in the battle of Dinghai County, the Dinghai Guards were directly defeated, and Cixi's Guanhai Guards could not withstand it.
But there is no news from the Nanjing Jingying Camp, and it is not known where they have landed in Ningbo Prefecture.
“Where did you fight the Japanese pirates?”
From the letter, Wei Guangde already knew that the Jiujiang Guards were fighting Japanese pirates, and that they were still on the border of Ningbo Prefecture, but the soldiers' rustling for a long time did not bring up the point of concern to him.
“The place where we landed was Yuyao, very close to Cixi. Not long after we landed, we met the defeated soldiers of the Guanhai Guards. It was said that the Dinghai Guards had retreated to Ningbo Prefecture, and then we fought with the Japanese pirates. .”
(End of this chapter)