After touring the galleon for a full three hours, Mr. Zhao enthusiastically went to the cool open-air toilet at the bow to relieve himself under the gaze of the beauty statue on the bow, and then ended his trip with great satisfaction.
After returning to Ship 101, Zhao Hao couldn't wait to throw himself onto the recliner, ready to rest his sore legs.
Wang Rulong finally got the chance to report the next battle plan to the young master.
Before he could even open his mouth, the guards came in and reported that the lord of the Omura family, Omura Juntada, had come in a small boat with a white flag to surrender...
"Can't you see I'm talking to Brother Wang? Let him drift on the sea for a while." Young Master Zhao waved his hand and said to Wang Rulong, "You continue."
"Uh..." Wang Rulong closed the folder in his hand helplessly and said, "Alas. The enemy surrendered too quickly. We have to redo our battle plan."
“Hahaha!” Zhao Hao couldn’t help but burst into laughter and said, “This is what they say: as long as I surrender quickly enough, the cannon of the Living Devil won’t be able to shoot at my face!”
~~
In fact, before Don Romeo Omura Juntada came to power, he had already shown his ability once when he appointed John Omura Kogata, the Fukudaura Magistrate.
After dawn today, a small ship and four speedboats carrying 100 marines landed at Futianpu Wharf. The reason they didn't use artillery to clear the way first was because they wanted to get some supplies.
The fleet had been at sea for seven days, and not only were all the fresh vegetables, fruits and meats about to be consumed, but even the fresh water on the ship had begun to taste bad. Before coming, Ma Rulong told Ximen Qing, the deputy captain of the 1st Squadron of the Marine Battalion, that even if there was nothing else in the village, it would be great to get some food and drink.
Ximen Qing's training uniform has three black iron stars embroidered on the left chest, indicating his status as a senior superintendent. He was also from the Qi Family Army, but he joined the army after the troops had fought in Fujian, so he was sent home without any military merit. After being summoned by his old boss Meng and joining the Jiangnan Group, he felt embarrassed every time his soldiers asked him to talk about his glorious deeds in killing Japanese pirates in the Qi Family Army.
So this time he vowed to do something to prove that he had not achieved anything because he joined the army too late.
Give me enough stage and I can become a famous general with great military achievements!
Unfortunately, in the Coast Guard, the Marines were just low-ranking soldiers who played supporting roles and did hard labor, and they didn't have many opportunities to show their talents. This time, he finally got a chance to land and lead the charge, and he didn't want to waste it.
"Brothers, it's finally our turn as Marines to show our faces!" On the 402 boat, Ximen Qing excitedly gave his men a pre-war mobilization. "We must fight a good battle and let those guys who look down on us see that we Marines are not inferior people!"
"Marines are not inferior people!" The Marines were immediately filled with anger, but the target of their anger seemed to be off target.
Several police instructors were sweating profusely after hearing this. They were thinking, what the hell is going on? Not only are they stealing our lines, but they are also stirring up internal conflicts. How are we supposed to write a report after the war?
In the police work meeting chaired by Mr. Zhao, it was clarified that the Coast Guard would implement a dual-chief system. Military chiefs at all levels would be responsible for training and operations. The duties of police commissioners, instructors, and counselors at all levels were to ensure that police officers and police personnel at all levels were loyal, disciplined, and brave in combat through education, supervision, management, and service.
Therefore, they must be vigilant against any bad signs in the police force. Of course, any discussion will have to wait until the operation is over.
~~
Under Ximen Qing's encouragement, the Marines were highly alert. They loaded their rifles as soon as they got off the boat, installed bayonets on their Longqing-style rifles, and slowly advanced into the village in a mandarin duck formation.
Unexpectedly, the vicious Japanese pirates did not appear as expected. Because all the villagers had fled, only a small man with a shaved head dressed as a samurai, with a long flag on his back, stood at the entrance of the village with a dignified look, and said something incoherently.
The Marines immediately raised their guns and aimed, ready to shoot the Japanese Zhang Fei.
But before they could pull the trigger, the little guy fell to his knees on the ground and kowtowed like a chicken pecking at rice.
The police officers looked at each other in bewilderment. Ximen Qing was afraid that it was a trick, so he quickly raised his hand to signal his men to stop. Then he waved his hand and ordered two marines to carefully step forward, capture him, and pull him in front of him with his hands tied behind his back.
It was then that Ximen Qing discovered that on the Japanese flag, one side had the words "My life is limited, the love of the Ming Dynasty" written on it, and the other side had the words "True Love" written on it.
When they lifted up his head, they saw that on the white cloth tied on his forehead, "Da Ming ❤ Ming" was clearly written, and the heart was still red.
Ximen Qing seemed to understand what he was saying, so he quickly called Tang Ren to translate. The translator told him that this person was expressing his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty. "My life is limited, but I will always love the Ming Dynasty." This probably means that I will always love the Ming Dynasty as long as I live. "True love" means "real love."
As for "Da Ming ❤ Ming", it means that Da Ming is his destiny. It probably means that he loved Da Ming from the beginning and always loved it.
"Oh, quite enthusiastic." Ximen Qing couldn't help but laugh: "Then ask this spiritual man what his name is?"
"I am Xiaofang from Dacun, the governor of this place." It turned out that this guy was Xiaofang, the governor who was ready to perform his duties faithfully. After listening to the translation, he nodded and bowed like a shrimp, with a flattering smile on his face, just like when he first welcomed the Nanman, it was from the bottom of his heart and warm.
"It is a great honor to have the heavenly soldiers come to this wilderness. On behalf of the Omura family, I am willing to serve the heavenly soldiers wholeheartedly!" He bent his waist, and the pendant on his neck hung down, which turned out to be a huge jade Guanyin.
"Oh, you still believe in Buddhism." Seeing that his attitude was still quite correct, Ximen Qing's expression relaxed.
"I have believed in Buddhism since I was young, and the monk in the monastery gave me the nickname Chihuahua." Omura Xiaofang said with a pious face: "In my heart, only the Ming Dynasty and the Buddha cannot be let down!"
"Well, not bad, not bad." Although Ximen Qing was disappointed that he lost the chance to make military achievements, he felt that he could meet such a well-behaved local official and should be able to complete the mission well.
Then he asked Xiao Fang in a deep voice: "Are you the leader here? Where did those people go?"
"They hid in the mountains." Xiao Fang smiled and replied: "I asked them to hide."
After hearing the translation, Ximen Qing couldn't help but get furious and slapped him in the face. "Asshole, are you kidding me?!"
"Please calm down, sir. I let them hide in the mountains in order to better show my filial piety to the Tian army of the Celestial Empire." Xiao Fang covered half of his swollen face, still smiling brightly, as if it was an honor to be beaten.
"What kind of bullshit is this?" Ximen Qing was a little impatient.
"These peasants are the most cunning." Xiao Fang explained hurriedly: "If I directly order them to make donations, they will make excuses and say they have nothing. In fact, they do have a lot of things. If you open their floor, you will find a lot of things in the cellar. There are rice, beans, salt, wine... everything!"
"Really?" Ximen Qing waved his hand and asked several Marines to go into a low-rise house. They opened the floor as instructed and found hidden food and vegetables, wine, meat, fruits, and even a live chicken with its mouth and feet tied.
"So rich?" Ximen Qing was surprised.
"These are not for our own consumption, but for goods." Xiao Fang said, "Futianpu is where the Nanman people come to the shore. Merchants from our country also sail here to trade. They are wealthy and are willing to pay several times the price to buy supplies..."
"Is that so?" Ximen Qing nodded in understanding. He had seen similar situations in Sanpo, Tamra City. Apparently, the villagers fled in such a hurry that they could not bring so many things into the mountains, so they could only hide them at home. But they did not expect to be sold out by their followers.
"Is it okay for you to betray them like this?" He looked at Xiao Fang with some contempt.
"I am helping them." Xiao Fangfeng said confidently, "If the Heavenly Army can't find supplies, they will burn the village in anger. Then these things will also be burned. It is better to give them to the Heavenly Army and ask them to leave their houses."
"Hahaha, that makes sense." Ximen Qingxin said, it seems that the news of the destruction of Jiangchuan City has spread, and the Punishment Fleet has turned into an indescribable big devil.
Cool!
~~
The village magistrate was really hard-working. He led the marines to empty the stocks of dozens of villagers in the town. He even did not leave out the supplies that his master had prepared for the southern barbarians.
Of course, his own things are an exception.
He watched the Marines pull away the supplies one by one, and he stood on the shore, waving his hands and reluctantly said, "Ah Xi Da Ma Da!"
"What does this mean?" Ximen Qing asked the translator.
"See you tomorrow."
"Fuck, they are really loyal." Ximen Qing was speechless and said, "They are much more loyal than the people of the Li Dynasty."
I heard from my superiors that the people of the Joseon Dynasty were more active than anyone else in showing their loyalty, but when it came to their efforts, they backed off. To put it bluntly, they only wanted to take advantage of the Celestial Empire and didn't want to suffer any losses.
"That's true, but the prerequisite is to defeat them." The Tang translator laughed and said, "At that time, King Jinghai..." As he said this, he suddenly realized that the Ming Dynasty had classified Wang Zhi as a Japanese pirate, so he stopped talking quickly.
"It's okay, just say whatever you want." Ximen Qing waved his hand. Commissioner Ma had issued an order that when educating police officers, they should treat Wang Zhi and the Japanese pirates differently and not lump them together. Although he didn't know the truth, an order was an order and it had to be carried out.
"Okay, okay." The man nodded repeatedly in gratitude and pursed his lips a few times, but ultimately said nothing more.
~~
At the dock, Xiao Fang saw off the Ming Dynasty people who came to thresh the straw. Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard the sound of hurried horse hooves behind him.
When he looked back, he saw the flag of the big village rising in the billowing smoke... This was because the dwarf was also short, and the smoke and dust covered both the man and the horse, leaving only the tall flagpole exposed.
Seeing that it was the master who came in person, Xiao Fang Fengxing hurried forward to greet him.
Omura Juntada pulled the reins of his horse, poked his head out from the smoke and dust, and looked at the glittering Fukuda Urakami. The two miserable Western ships no longer had the half blue and half white Portuguese royal flag embroidered with a crown and shield.
Instead, there was a scarlet flag embroidered with the sun and the moon shining on the sea, which was obviously the flag of the Ming Dynasty.
Now the last glimmer of hope was shattered, and he said weakly to Xiao Fang: "Go, take out all the rewards prepared for the Nanman, I'm going to go and entertain the troops."
ps. Has anyone ever had a nucleic acid test? Does it hurt? Is it more comfortable to get poked in the nose or mouth?