My Daming New Empire

In Bitiansheng, there are still some traditional Chinese medicines that were robbed in the past, hoping to have better medicinal materials for treating typhoid fever.

And a few hills away from them, a group of well-armored Habayashi guards, led by Yang Zhangde, were eating dry food.

"Yang Qianhu, if we can't find Zong Zhensheng's whereabouts again today, we will have to return."

Yang Zhangde tore off a piece of tender roasted meat and chewed it. "Is there no dry food?"

"We only brought dry food for three days, and today is the third day."

Although he stayed in the wild for three days, Yang Zhangde was still in good spirits. "This is Zong Zhensheng's lair. Of course, he is more familiar with this place than we are. However, there are so many of them, it is absolutely difficult for them to hide for a long time. Now Tsushima Island has almost been turned over by us. Can they There are fewer and fewer places to hide..."

Cheng Xu, the leader of the team, sighed: "Now we have added a few teams of chasing troops, we can't let other people take the lead."

Yang Zhangde laughed and said: "Don't worry, I have all the arrangements, and I will never let the brothers go for nothing."

"Who is it?" Several soldiers in charge of security suddenly shouted.

Yang Zhangde and the others followed the sound and saw three ronin dressed as warriors running out of the woods. They raised their hands high and said in Chinese with a strange accent: "Surrender, we surrender..."

Yang Zhangde shouted loudly: "Bring them here!"

Immediately, a group of people passed by, searched the three of them all over, and then escorted them to Yang Zhangde.

"Who are you? Since you shouted to surrender, you are obviously the ones we are chasing, right?"

One of the oldest warriors looked at him and said: "We are warriors of the Zong family. If the general of the Ming Dynasty can pardon us and give us a sum of money, we are willing to take you to capture Zong. Zhensheng."

Yang Zhangde was excited and said loudly: "If you lead us to catch Zong Zhensheng, the three of you will reward you with 100 taels of silver."

"This general is from Jinyiwei, right? Can you make the decision?"

Cheng Xu said loudly: "Although this Yang Qianhu is a member of Jinyiwei, he is also a celebrity in front of His Royal Highness, and the most important assistant of the Chief Soldier today."

As long as they can save their lives, the three people actually don't care how much money they will be rewarded for. After looking at Yang Zhangde for a while, they chose to trust him.The leading warrior said: "As long as you swear to God, spare our lives and give us rewards, we will take you to catch Zong Zhensheng now."

Yang Zhangde stretched out his palm, gave him a high-five and said, "I, Yang Zhangde, swear that if I can catch Zong Zhensheng, I will definitely protect your prosperity and wealth."

The two lightly clapped their hands three times, and the warrior said, "My lords, please come with me. The place where we started hiding is only two hills away from here."

As soon as Cheng Xu blew his whistle, all the people immediately gathered. Hearing that Zong Zhensheng could be caught, everyone's emotions immediately rose.

Along the rugged mountain road, after more than an hour, they finally arrived at the place where Zong Zhensheng and the others were hiding in advance.

But at this time, it was already time for people to leave the tea to cool down, and there was only a pile of ashes that were still warm, which proved that it hadn't been long since people left.

At this time, everyone looked at these three people with unkind eyes. Although they knew this, they couldn't blame them, but they all used this method to put some pressure on them.

Instead, Yang Zhangde asked in a harmonious voice: "They obviously left not long ago, do you know where Zong Zhensheng will flee to?"

The elderly warrior shook his head and said, "The Zong family has quite a few caves for hiding soldiers in the mountainous area. Although you have found most of them, there are still quite a few."

Yang Zhangde took out a map and said, "This is the map of Tsushima Island. Come, let's see. What other places do you know?"

Tsushima Island was originally small, only [-] kilometers long, [-] kilometers wide, and less than [-] square kilometers in total.

Now most of the island has been sorted out several times by the Ming army, and they dare not go to some places even if they are allowed to go.

Therefore, outside the safe range, there are many places where Zong Zhensheng can hide, but there are not many places where Zong Zhensheng can hide for a long time.

After all, there are more than 80 of them. With so many people eating, drinking and sleeping, it is difficult not to show their traces.

The best hiding place is a natural cave, and this is where Yang Zhangde and the others are most concerned.

After looking at Daming's map, it took a while for Yang Zhangde to teach them how to read the map.

They are located at the northern foot of Mitake Mountain, surrounded by mountains, and there are not many places suitable for people to live.

The few of them mentioned several places in a row, all of which had been discovered by the Ming army.

Just when Yang Zhangde was a little disappointed, a young warrior said: "General, I sent a batch of supplies to the Zong family last year to the Bitiansheng cave. It should be in the northernmost part of the island. This location can be reached directly by boat. The seaside is only two miles away. The cave is big enough to accommodate 500 people, and you can't see it from the outside if you light a fire inside."

"Then why didn't you flee there in the first place?"

"There is not much food there, only less than a hundred stones."

Yang Zhangde lifted his spirits, looked at the direction of his finger and said, "Zongzhen is in a panic now, and it may be his last hope there. But why did you know about this? It hasn't been silenced?"

He knelt down and said: "The villain is the cousin of the imperial concubine, so he was able to survive the disaster."

Yang Zhangde glanced at him with a half-smile, but he didn't expect that this soft bone was still his cheap brother-in-law.

Thinking of the chaste concubine who entered the water, but also passionately, his heart warmed up again.After being developed by him, this woman has become more and more charming now, so much so that until now, he is still reluctant to execute her.

Even when he was still thinking about going back to Daming, he took this woman back and continued to serve him.

Gathering his attention, he looked at the map carefully again.Sent the three of them down, called Cheng Xu and said, "If the spies don't find too many traces, we'll go back to the ship directly. Instead of passively searching like this, we might as well just go to this place and wait. If it's really The Zong family's best decision, they will definitely come here in the end."

Jie Jie laughed and said, "The commander-in-chief ordered us to obey Lord Qianhu's orders. If you stay on Tsushima Island, all brothers want to make meritorious deeds. Naturally, you want to follow Qianhu to earn more credit."

Yang Zhangde said firmly: "Don't worry, I, Yang Zhangde, will never treat any brother badly."

Passing through Tiantou Mountain from Mitake Mountain, they came to a bay here.A four-hundred-stone ship was parked about 500 meters from the shore.

Yang Zhangde and the others gave a signal, and after a while, the boat slowly docked.

Seeing that there were no traces of fighting, the deputy commander on duty sighed: "This Zong Zhensheng is really a gopher, he can hide like that."

Cheng Xu patted him on the shoulder and smiled, "Don't worry, we'll wait for him at his lair this time."

The ship set sail again, left the bay, and traveled northward for more than an hour, before arriving at a deep bay with green hills on both sides.

This is almost the northernmost tip of Tsushima Island. Except for a few outposts, there are also thatched huts built by fishermen, and no aborigines can be seen.

After the Ming army occupied the whole island, almost all the people were arrested, and the few who remained fled to the mountains.

Their arrival did not alarm anyone, a group of people hurried off the boat with enough dry food for five days, and then the boat sailed away again immediately.

If this ship stopped here, wouldn't it tell someone with a heart that there is a Ming army here.

Led by the warrior named Manzhen, Yang Zhangde and the others quickly arrived in front of a cave covered by green trees.

This cave is located in a valley, the location is not high, and there are big trees outside, if you don't get close, you don't know that there is another cave here.

Yang Zhangde went into the cave to investigate, and he was relieved that the substances stored in it hadn't been used.

He said to Cheng Xu: "This is a natural trap. The most important thing now is not to let Zong Zhensheng know that we have rushed to the front, so don't let Zong Zhensheng's spies find us."

Cheng Xu said confidently: "Master Qianhu, don't worry, you take a hundred brothers to stay inside the cave, and I will take two hundred brothers to guard the outside. As long as Zong Zhensheng's people dare to enter the valley, none of them will be able to escape."