The Prosperous Era of Longwan

Wei Guangde was still very surprised to hear that the adults in Nanjing didn't give them any confirmation, but he didn't open his mouth to explain to him at this time.

Among the people in the room, the one who really knew the reason was Zhang Shigui. Wu Dong might have guessed something. As for Zhang Hongfu, his expression was similar to Wei Guangde's at the moment.

However, Wei Guangde's mind jumped to Zhejiang again, and he immediately asked: "Brother, you went to the front line this time. You should know what is going on there now."

Wei Guangde thought about his impression that the Japanese invasion was very serious in the southeast, but now two months have passed. Although the matter has begun to spread among the people, as people from the health center, they seem to have not seen any more news so far. .

Wei Wencai had already talked about the topic they were most concerned about before, and now it was everyone's turn to pay attention to the losses suffered by the Japanese pirates in Zhejiang.

Wei Wencai was silent for a moment after hearing this and then said: "The whole eastern Zhejiang is in chaos.

The Japanese pirates landed in Ningbo, Taizhou, and Wenzhou, burning, killing, and looting all the way. Many forts were breached, and several county towns were destroyed. If our Jiujiang Guards and three other guards hadn't been stationed at the edge of Shaoxing Prefecture this time to hold back the Japanese pirates, we would have been defeated. It’s unclear whether they will reach Hangzhou. "

"I brought back a lot of things this time, and the Japanese pirates may have taken away even more."

Zhang Hongfu interjected and said, he was also present when the delivery was made. Although the dozens of ships were not fully loaded, he also knew that a lot of goods were shipped in Zhenjiang and Yingtianfu, and a lot of things were disembarked. If they were all sold, they would probably cost more than two or thirty thousand taels of silver.

"I don't know about this, but I think more people must have been robbed."

Wei Wencai thought about it and then said: "I heard that when they arrived in Dinghai County, the Japanese pirates had been plundering there for more than ten days. The good things must have been taken away early in the morning, and the rest was inconvenient to transport.

The amount of gold and silver seized this time was very small, only two boxes.

By the way, Guangde, the bowl-mouth blunderbuss you suggested to my uncle and the others this time brought was a great success. If those blunderbuss hadn't killed the group led by the Japanese pirates, we would have died a lot in a close fight. people. "

"Oh, all right."

Hearing this, Wei Guangde just smiled.

No one in future generations will know the power of cannon.

That is to say, there really are no other good things in Qianhusuo, so the cannons dismantled from the warships can barely make do. If there are multiple cannons, such as Folangji or Hongyi cannons, who would use those things.

Those bowl-mouth guns are all older than Wei Guangde.

At the beginning, Qianhu Station collected the bowl-mouth muskets from the 100 households below, and found a total of more than ten guns. However, after picking and picking, they found that seven of the cannons were still usable, or at least they dared to be shot.

The remaining bowl-mouth guns were not distributed any more. They were all made of copper and were directly collected into the warehouse of Qianhusuo.

"By the way, last time my soldiers only talked about the record of our Qianhu Station. When asked about the group of Japanese pirates that the border guard fought against, the soldier couldn't explain clearly. Did you go over this time and ask?"

Wu Dong also asked.

The soldier last time could still talk about his personal experience. When asked about the battle between the brigade and the Japanese pirates, he didn't know anything about it. He just knew that he won the battle in the end and the Japanese pirates ran away.

"Hey, it's like playing house. The Luzhou Guard and Anqing Guard couldn't withstand it and were beaten straight away. Fortunately, our Jiujiang Guard and Chuzhou Guard were quicker to attack, otherwise it would be hard to say whether we would win or lose."

Wei Wencai may have remembered the scene when he heard that, and a smile appeared on his lips, "I heard that it almost became a competition to see who could run faster. In front of him were several guards' commanders riding horses. Behind them are soldiers from Luzhou Guard and Anqing Guard, then the Japanese pirate brigade, and finally the soldiers from Chuzhou Guard and our Jiujiang Guard."

"Ha ha ha ha."

A few people were very amused and laughed along with it. Who would have thought that a large group besieging Japanese pirates would turn into such a scene.

"We turned around and beat back the Japanese pirates. We used a desperate strategy to defeat the Japanese pirates, and then encircled them. Then our army's plan was successful and defeated the Japanese pirates who wanted to invade Shaoxing Prefecture."

Wei Wencai continued: "But don't talk about it. I heard from the people in Wei that the dozens of dwarves in that group of Japanese pirates were really Japanese and they were really capable of fighting. They were surrounded by thousands of people and they were killed after they were allowed to escape." A dozen or so.

The group that my uncle and my father fought were also elite Japanese pirates, but most of them were fake Japanese pirates, and there were only a few real Japanese pirates. They were all old bandits.

It's just that our people went to the town first, so we hid most of the belongings left by the Japanese pirates in the town. The other guards received very little this time, and it was really difficult to carry them, so they brought a letter asking us to transport them there. Walk.

Later, when we were fighting in the sea, we fought there first and chased them directly to the beach. We also confiscated a lot of things along the way, and we brought them all back this time. "

"The guard station didn't send any troops to help. I remember asking the guard commander for help before the battle."

Wu Dong put away his smile and spoke again.

"At that time, we had already started running back. Who would come back to support us? Commander Wei didn't even know that the Japanese pirates were coming from behind. If he had known, he would have run faster."

Wei Wencai shook his head, "This time the East Zhejiang Guard Station basically lost the battle, and we were the only ones who won the head-on battle with the Japanese pirates.

Dinghai Guards suffered the worst losses, with less than a thousand people escaping into Fucheng. I heard that the Haimen Guards in Taizhou Prefecture suffered heavy losses and directly lost Huangyan County. Taizhou Guards did not dare to go out of the city to fight, so they defended Taizhou. Fucheng.

Over in Wenzhou Prefecture, Leqing suffered a disaster, and Puqi's Qianhu Guardhouse was destroyed, but other places were fine. "

"When will they come back?"

Wei Guangde asked the question he wanted to ask the most. Don't look at whether Jiujiang Guards and the other three guards could defeat the Japanese pirates. They were directly transferred to eastern Zhejiang. That area was often attacked by Japanese pirates in the future. Where did they go? , but there will be no stable life.

"I don't know, the higher ups haven't made a decision yet."

Wei Wencai still shook his head at this question, "When I was in the Duke's Mansion in Nanjing, I heard that in early April, the Tatar Antarctic troops fled to Xinxing Fort in Liaodong. Our army suffered heavy losses again. One commander was killed and several others were killed. Hundreds of households.

It is said that the capital has begun to have headaches due to the Japanese pirates from the south and the north. In the past, the Japanese pirates said they would deal with it. This time, Zhejiang was disturbed by the Japanese pirates. A large number of guard posts suffered heavy losses in the battle, and they may not be able to withdraw for a while.

However, the Duke of Guo said that he would help at a critical moment. Our people did not embarrass him this time. At least they won a battle, otherwise they would not dare to speak in the capital.

Now the man in the capital is furious because something happened in the north and south at the same time, which disturbed his Qing Xiu. "

When Zhang Shigui saw Wei Wencai's appearance, he just chuckled twice and then turned his attention to Wei Guangde, "Guangde, you have to work hard for this college examination. I'm waiting to drink your celebration wine."