Everyone continued to work at noon, but Su Qingping had already started feeding the horses and summoned four guards to start arranging work for them. If the Japanese pirates really arrived later, they would organize the workers to withdraw to Erwei Fort and quickly report the news to Su Ren

, pass the news to Jinshan Wei Town.

Just after dinner in the afternoon, Su Ming and his men were digging the salt field. Suddenly, a guard ran over quickly on the northern path. He came to the salt field and ran towards the village courtyard quickly.

When Su Ming saw this, he guessed that something might be going on. He and Su Zhe quickly returned to the village courtyard and saw that fifth brother Su Qingping had already begun arranging for the personnel to evacuate.

"Everyone, don't panic, don't take anything with you, and run away towards Erwei Fort. Hei Niu, ride a horse and tell my elder brother quickly, where is the eighth brother? Where is the eighth brother?" Su Qingping started shouting in the yard.

"Fifth brother, I'm here. Don't panic, everyone. We have already made arrangements and there is still a lot of time. All soldiers must maintain order and bring the workers back to Erwei Fort." Su Ming entered the village and saw that the people here were already in chaos and shouted loudly.

shouted.

When the soldiers saw this, they began to call everyone to retreat. Soon everyone put down their work and began to flee westward.

"Eighth brother, the Japanese pirates are really here. They landed 3 miles north of us." Su Qingping looked at Su Ming and said anxiously.

"How many ships did the Japanese pirates come? How many people were there?" Su Ming asked.

Su Qingping looked at the soldiers who came back to report.

"Eighth Master, I saw two ships docking, and they were all Japanese pirates. Our flag asked me to come back and report as soon as possible, so I came back." Suo Bing said.

"Fifth brother, please send someone to inform the eldest brother first. Let's ride on horseback to see how many Japanese pirates are coming. Ask the eldest brother not to leave the fort and wait for news from us." Su Ming said calmly.

"Okay, I'll send someone back right now." Su Qingping sent a flagman to ride back to report the news. He, Su Ming and six other people got on the horse and planned to explore the situation of the Japanese pirates. At this time, a flagger ran away from the north with three soldiers.

Come.

"Flag Master, Master Ba! The Japanese pirates are here. There are two boats in total. I saw a total of 12 of them ashore. The Japanese pirates had bows, arrows and swords in their hands." Xiao Qi panted and said to Su Ming.

"Do you think anyone is still on board their ship?" Su Ming asked.

"I didn't pay attention to this. I saw that all of them have come down. If there are any left behind, there shouldn't be too many." Xiaoqi returned.

"Okay, the four of you hurry up and return to the fort. Fifth Brother, you send someone to inform the other two patrol teams to retreat quickly. If the gate of Fort Wei is closed when you return home, find a place to hide first.

Thirteenth brother, let’s go!” Su Ming said and was about to leave on horseback.

"Eighth brother, why don't we go back together! Twelve Japanese pirates disembarked, and there might be others on the boat. It's too dangerous for you and thirteenth brother to go." Upon hearing that there were twelve Japanese pirates, Su Qingping called Su Ming to return to the fort together.

"Tell the elder brother to act as planned, protect the workers from chaos, and try to delay if the Japanese pirates catch up." Su Ming said and rode north, with Su Zhe riding behind him.

The two rode horses and walked north for more than a mile when they saw a group of people walking towards them quickly.

"Bago, those are Japanese pirates!" Su Zhe saw a group of people in the distance with scimitars hanging on their waists, and three people holding iron shields in their hands. When he saw the two of them, the team stopped and set up a formation, and the four archers behind them had already loaded their arrows.

, and slowly moved towards them.

"They are almost all under five feet tall. They have Japanese swords at their waists. Five of them have short hair. They are all wearing shorts and bow-legged legs. They are undoubtedly Japanese pirates. It should not be difficult for the twelve Japanese pirates to have four bows and arrows, three shields and a big sword.

Deal with it." Su Ming said as he watched the Japanese pirates approaching him.

"Bago, they are coming, what should we do?" Su Zhe asked anxiously when he saw the Japanese pirates coming towards them.

"They are all short bows with an effective range of up to 30 steps. We don't want to enter their 50-step range. We try to hold them back and let Fifth Brother and others retreat." Su Ming said calmly.

When the opponent was fifty steps closer to him, Su Ming saw the opponent's archer beginning to draw his bow, and then he and Su Zhe retreated on horseback.

The Japanese pirates saw Su Ming retreating and quickly followed them. The two retreated until they saw a small road, which was a detour to Zhayan Fort. The Japanese pirates saw this and did not follow them, but continued towards Wei Zhuang.

Head towards the salt field.

"Bago, the Japanese pirates went to the salt field, what should we do?" Su Zhe shouted anxiously when he saw that the Japanese pirates did not follow him.

"Follow me closely and don't get closer than 50 steps to the Japanese pirates." Su Ming said, riding back to the main road and chasing after the Japanese pirates.

When the twelve I saw Su and Ming riding horses to catch up, they couldn't help but stop. However, Su Ming still stopped 50 steps away from them, and the Japanese pirates were chasing them.

When Su Ming saw this, he rode back on horseback. Perhaps because he saw that Su Ming and the two of them had no weapons, the Japanese pirates stopped after chasing them for more than ten steps, then turned around and continued towards the salt field.

Seeing that his attraction had no effect, and the other party expected that the two of them would not attack him, Su Ming stopped following him.

"Fifth brother should have almost finished evacuating with his people now. Let's go find the Japanese pirates' boats." Su Ming said, taking Su Zhe to the north. It was easy for them to find the two Japanese pirates' boats parked on the shore.

boat.

"Thirteenth brother, please watch the horse first. I think there are people on this boat. I asked you to come over and then come over." Su Ming saw the Japanese pirates' boat and got off the horse with Su Zhe. He handed the horse's reins to Su.

Zhe said in his hands.

"Bago, it's too dangerous for you to go alone, let's go together." Su Zhe couldn't help but said anxiously when he saw Su Ming going to deal with two small boats alone.

"I'm sure, you wait here." After saying that, Su Ming quickly approached the two boats.

The Japanese pirates on the boat had also seen Su Ming and found that he was alone and had no weapons. He took out his scimitar and stood on the boat looking at Su Ming fiercely.

Su Ming saw that there was only one Japanese pirate on board the two small boats. He quickly walked over to the Japanese pirate, pulled out his scimitar and made strokes in the air without any intention of driving the boat away from the shore. This was the best thing.

When they came to the shore, they were only two feet away from each other. The Japanese pirate seemed to want to go ashore and kill Su Ming. Su Ming didn't waste time. He took out his pistol, pointed it at the other man's head and shot him. The Japanese pirate fell directly on the boat.

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He took out a steel helmet from the sea of ​​consciousness and put it on his head. Su Ming took a gun and carefully entered the water. He swam to the Japanese pirate ship to make sure there were no enemies before boarding the ship.

There seemed to be movement in the cabin of a ship. Su Ming carefully entered the cabin and saw a girl with her legs and feet trapped, lying disheveled in the cabin. The other party was a little surprised to see him dressed as a soldier.

This girl looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old at most. It was not easy to survive on the Japanese pirate ship. Su Ming ignored the girl and saw the copper coins, cloth clothes and food bags thrown everywhere in the cabin. He went

Got another boat.

There was no one on the boat, and it was all stolen by Japanese pirates. This group of Japanese pirates must have landed in the northern part of Songjiang Prefecture to rob, and they were just passing by to grab it when they arrived.

No Japanese pirates were found. Su Ming was sure that the only Japanese pirate on board had been killed by him, and then he went ashore and shouted to Su Zhe to come over.

"Thirteenth brother, please move these two ships to other places. If a pirate comes back later, don't give him a chance to escape. There is a little girl on the ship who must have been snatched by the Japanese pirates. You should be careful alone.

"Su Ming said.

"Brother Bage, what did you use to kill the Japanese pirates just now... I don't want to stay here, I want to go with you to kill the Japanese pirates. Brother asked me to follow you all the time." Su Zhe said.

"I don't know what's going on with brother now. I have to go back quickly. Someone must drive the boat away, otherwise everything we prepared will be in vain." Su Ming said this before Su Zhe reluctantly agreed.

Seeing Su Zhe get on the boat, Su Ming got on his horse and headed towards the salt factory.

Arriving at the salt factory, Su Ming saw two Japanese pirates at the entrance of the village. Several Japanese pirates came out carrying the salt they had just boiled today. When Su Ming appeared, the Japanese pirates started shouting, and soon they were in the village.

The Japanese pirates who were searching for things all came out, and there were quite a few of the 12 Japanese pirates.

Except for dozens of kilograms of salt, there was nothing of value in the salt factory. The two Japanese pirates carried two salt bags on their backs. They gave up the search and ignored Su Ming on horseback, and followed the road towards Erwei Fort.

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Su Ming was not in a hurry when he saw this. The thirteenth brother drove the boat away. These Japanese pirates were the turtles in the jar. He had plenty of time to deal with them.

Following the twelve Japanese pirates, Su Ming saw that there was no one on the road. He occasionally found a rag shoe on the road, which must have been left behind by the workers in a hurry when they evacuated.

After walking west along the road for less than two miles, the Japanese pirates found a village and ran over happily. Su Ming also followed behind them on horseback. A Japanese pirate was hiding in the woods and seemed to be about to attack Su Ming. Su Ming saw

11 Japanese pirates went to the village to search. He stared at the position of the Japanese pirate holding a short bow. He waited until the 11 Japanese pirates were far away, then dismounted and slowly approached him.

"Whoosh!" An arrow flew towards him. Su Ming had prepared for it. The arrow was not fast and he easily dodged it.

The Japanese pirate did not shoot Su Ming from 50 steps away with this short arrow. Seeing that Su Ming had left his horse, he thought this was an opportunity and dragged Su Ming with his arrow. He yelled and pointed at Su Ming with his scimitar.

Come to kill tomorrow.

"bump!"

With a gunshot, the Japanese pirate fell to the ground, and blood continued to flow out of his chest. Su Ming saw that the distance was a bit far and it was not possible to hit the opponent's head, so he shot the opponent directly in the chest. Seeing that the opponent was not dead and still struggling, Su Ming walked over.

Another shot aimed at his heart made the Japanese pirate finally stop struggling.

After going back and riding his horse, Su Ming heard shouts from ahead. He rode over and saw that his elder brother was already leading the elite of Wei Zhuang Suo to confront the Japanese pirates.

There were five soldiers of Erwei Fort at the front holding shields, and seven or eight people holding spears behind the shields with their heads lowered, waiting for the Japanese pirates to approach. Then arrows continued to be shot from the back of the shields, but most of them did not reach where the Japanese pirates were.

From time to time, a few arrows hit the Japanese pirate's position, but were blocked by the Japanese pirate's shield.

There were more than 20 people on Su Ren's side, but there were only 11 on the Japanese side. What Su Ming couldn't figure out was that the Japanese who were at a disadvantage in numbers were much more ferocious than Wei Zhuang's guards. They raised their shields while attacking Wei.
Chapter completed!