Brocade tears

Meng Kuang closed his eyes and rested his mind, but kept seventy percent of his attention on the movement outside the cave.At first, it was very windy and rainy, and the sound of wind and rain covered the sound outside the cave, and she couldn't hear anything clearly.I don't know how long it took until Meng Kuang touched the dried clothes and put them on, and the wind and rain outside gradually stopped.

Meng Kuang walked towards the trestle bridge, hesitating whether to go into the water again, and swam out of the cave to see the situation.But she reckoned that the mutiny she imagined should not have happened outside, and everything seemed to be proceeding step by step.The tide receded, and the water level in the cave dropped visibly to the naked eye, revealing even the submerged stone steps below the trestle bridge.

Just when Meng Kuang was about to take off his hard-dried clothes again, wrap them in a tarpaulin, and put water on his head.She heard the paddling of oars, someone coming in from the outside of the cave.She was taken aback at first, but after a while she realized that it might be Guo Dayou who came to look for her.Because I had a disagreement with him about sneaking into the tide cave before, he must have been deeply impressed by this. If you want to find yourself, the tide cave is the most reasonable choice.

But she didn't take it lightly, and immediately found a place to hide. She needs to judge whether the person who came is really Guo Dayou, and then choose whether to show herself or not.

Not long after, the ship passed through the not very long cave and appeared within Meng Kuang's field of vision.The people on the boat were illuminated by the lights in the cave, and Meng Kuang was relieved to find that it was indeed Guo Dayou.And what surprised her was that besides Guo Dayou and Qiu Bai, there was also an old acquaintance on the boat that came in—Li Laosan.Judging from the state of several people, it is not that Li Laosan threatened Guo Dayou and Qiu Bai, the three of them get along well, and there seems to be no abnormality.

They appear to be cautious, always on guard that there will be enemies in the cave.Meng Kuang slowly came out of his hiding place and waved to them. When Guo Dayou saw Meng Kuang, he breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help saying happily:

"Thirteen! We have found you. You are indeed in this tide hole."

Li Laosan interrupted him, and asked first:

"Have you ever had contact with the enemy? How is the situation in the dock?"

Meng Kuang didn't answer his question, nor was he in a hurry to get on the boat.She glanced at Qiu Bai, and Guo Dayou on the side reacted quickly, and heard him say:

"You talk, Lao Qiu also knows your identity." Guo Dayou said, in order to save unnecessary communication barriers, Guo Dayou told Qiu Bai Meng Kuang's identity as a woman, Qiu Bai didn't seem very surprised.Perhaps, as the princess's confidant, he has heard about this for a long time?And obviously Guo Dayou also knew that Li Laosan knew Meng Kuang's secret very well, so he didn't shy away from it at all.

Meng Kuang nodded, and said: "I went to the bay to inquire. There are a large number of temporary board houses built on the shore of the bay, and there are many Japanese pirates living in them. There are also Ming people, but less than 600%. In total, the number of Japanese pirates in the bay It can reach more than [-]. After I entered the tide cave, I met an old Japanese samurai who was leading five Japanese ninjas for a secret talk. I hid in the dark and was not discovered by them. After talking for a while, they took a boat out of the cave and returned to the dock Among them. I wanted to go into the dock to check, but there were a large number of shipbuilders repairing the ship inside. It was difficult for me to hide, so I gave up and went back to the cave to accumulate strength and wait for the opportunity. I may have waited here for two hours You'll be here soon enough."

"Japanese warriors? Do they have badges or other patterns on their bodies?" Guo Dayou immediately asked directly.

"Yes, it's a circle with a cross inside." Meng Kuang replied gesturing.

"Oh, so it's from the Satsuma Shimadzu family." Guo Dayou immediately judged.

"Satsuma Shimadzu?" Qiu Bai didn't know much about Japanese people, and he couldn't even understand this term.And Meng Kuang was better than him. She knew Satsuma Shimadzu, but not much.So I heard Guo Dayou explain:

"Satsuma is a vassal state on Kyushu Island, the southernmost island of the Japanese islands. Although the Japanese state is unified by the Japanese emperor, they call it the 'emperor', but in fact the emperor is in vain, and the various vassal states are divided into separate regimes, continuing the continuation of the Shang Dynasty. Thousands of years. This Satsuma feudal kingdom is located at the southwestern tip of Kyushu Island. The ruler of Satsuma is a daimyo family surnamed Shimadzu. The family itself was split more than 200 years ago. Later, one of the branches, the Isaku Shimadzu family, gradually grew. The son Takahisa Shimadzu became the governor of the Shimadzu family as the adopted son of the main family, and then passed the position of governor to his eldest son Yoshihisa Shimadzu. About 14 years ago, Yoshihisa Shimadzu defeated Otomo in the Battle of Otokawa Six years later, he defeated the Longzuosi clan and became the prefect of Sanzhou. Yoshihisa also has three outstanding younger brothers: Yoshihiro, Suijiu, and Jiajiu, who are known as the strongest Satsuma warriors in the country. They try Leading the army to unify the three southern states of Kyushu, and even the entire Kyushu. However, both Shengyu and He Shengliang, Toyotomi Hideyoshi turned out to be born, and formed a dispute with Shimadzu Yoshihisa between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang. Then five years ago, Hideyoshi launched the Kyushu Campaign. The Jin clan surrendered to Hideyoshi, and finally kept the territory of Sanshu."

Li Laosan said: "It's strange, the Shimadzu family should have followed Toyotomi Hideyoshi to attack the Japanese country at this moment, why would they have the leisure to come to our Zhejiang coast to do things?"

Guo Dayou thought for a while, and said: "I'm afraid that the main force of the Shimadzu family is not here. It is said that after Shimadzu Suijiu, the third son of the Shimadzu family, surrendered to Hideyoshi, he took a rebellious attitude towards Hideyoshi and rejected him. Sending troops to conquer North Korea. I don’t know if this news is true. It was all told by my informant on Tsushima Island. Because this is completely opposite to his previous attitude. On the eve of Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s Kyushu conquest, Suijiu advocated He surrendered to Hideyoshi, but the other three of the four Shimadzu brothers all advocated the war of resistance, so Sui Jiu’s claim was rejected. Now he is trying his best to resist after the Shimadzu family surrendered to Hideyoshi, which is really strange.”

"You mean... the Japanese pirates hiding in this bay are actually people led by Shimadzu Toshihisa, and his purpose is to obtain as much military equipment as possible from Ming Dynasty so that he can go back and fight against Toyotomi Hideyoshi?" said Li Laosan.

"I didn't say that, it's just a guess." Guo Dayou seemed very cautious.Li Laosan sneered, he felt that this matter was eight or nine.

"Let me tell you, from the very beginning, I thought these Japanese pirates were really upright. They all spent money to buy my Ming's armaments. They seemed to want to establish a long-term black arms trade line. In the past, the Japanese pirates' style was to steal They may not want to attract the attention of officers and soldiers, so they have to find compradors to purchase, which consumes a lot of energy." Qiu Bai said.

"One is that there is no one to snatch it, hundreds of people can't make a fortune, and the other is that they don't want to attract the attention of the outside world. These people are indeed operating in secret. What I am wondering now is that I don't know where the money for the purchase of armaments comes from. You know The price of buying armaments is not cheap. They bought a lot, and the trade lasted for at least half a year. If it was really Shimadzu Suijiu, he betrayed the Shimadzu family by himself and traveled thousands of miles across the sea. How much money and rations can he bring with us to the coast of Zhejiang? These [-] people still rely on him for food. After a few days of eating, it will be a terrifying figure. He has maintained neither stealing nor robbing for so long. I don't believe that there is no financial backer." Guo Dayou said.

"Money..." Li Laosan was thoughtful, as if he had thought of a certain possibility.

Everyone thought for a while, and then Meng Kuang said: "Don't care where their money comes from now, you follow me, and I will show you something."

She asked a few people to dock the boat by the trestle bridge, led them ashore, and arrived at the place where the Japanese gathered before. Meng Kuang pointed to the pattern on the ground and said, "Is this pattern drawn? The bay? Those Japanese people avoided their accomplices and quietly drew this kind of picture similar to military lines in this cave. I guess there may be civil strife among them, and some people want to rebel and seize power. However, I waited for a long time, and there seemed to be no movement outside. No, I don't know if my guess is correct."

"No, it's very possible." Guo Dayou looked at the military road map carved out of stone in front of him, and said, "After they seize power, they must sail away from the coast. However, there is no way for them to go to sea due to the storm outside. They have to wait until The storm has passed, the sea has just calmed down, and the rebellion is suddenly launched at the moment when everyone is most relaxed, and then they can successfully seize the ship and escape."

While speaking, a gunshot suddenly sounded in the dock outside, echoing clearly in the quiet bay after the storm.Everyone was startled, and immediately ran to the side of the boat, got on the boat and rushed out of the cave.It took only a short time to row a boat from the inside of the cave to the outside of the cave, and the noise was already shaking in the entire bay, and the rebellion among the Japanese pirates began.

About two shots away from the dock, Meng Kuang saw that the dock was already in chaos, and Japanese people launched an attack inside the dock.The shipbuilders were resting, but now they fled in all directions, and some of them blocked the way without long eyes, and were immediately cut down and fell into the water.Some Japanese pirates occupied the ship that was being overhauled in the dock, and twenty or so people worked together to push the boat out of the dock using levers and rollers.

"Wow!", the sound of the big ship entering the water resounded across the bay, Qiu Bai and Guo Dayou, who were rowing, stepped up their oars, and the boat galloped fast.Li Laosan said:

"Wait for everyone to cooperate, Meng Kuang, Guo Dayou, you just go to complete your mission, Qiu Bai and I will cover for you. I will be responsible for guiding you to retreat, and you can follow me when the time comes, don't worry too much Our ship and a fishing boat are waiting outside."

After all, everyone's boats have already rowed to the dock, and all the large ships in the dock have been launched into the water. The Japanese pirates pushing the boats jumped into the water one after another, swimming towards the boats, and the rope ladders were thrown off the boats. , they climbed up the rope ladder to the boat.

In the dock, a blood-stained guy staggered down from the top floor of the dock to the lower floor, and happened to meet Meng Kuang and the others face to face.Meng Kuang took a closer look, good guy, most of the Japanese pirate's left shoulder and left arm are gone, as if he was blown away by a gun.Yue Dai's head was scattered, his beard and hair were gray, and he was also covered with blood. He rushed out like a ghost, holding a gun with his remaining right hand, and slashed at those rebellious warriors. A hoarse voice yelled something.

Meng Kuang saw that he didn't seem to see himself and others at all, so he ignored him and immediately went upstairs ahead of Guo Dayou.Li Laosan and Qiu Bai stayed below to meet them.When Meng Kuang ran up, Guo Dayou still paid some attention to the bloody Japanese pirate, because he understood the curse words of the Japanese pirate just now, and he said, "How dare you bastards betray our island?" Jin Suijiu!"

This guy is Shimadzu Toshihisa!

Li Laosan also seemed to understand his words, recognized his identity, and suddenly threw a flying needle from his sleeve and pierced the Japanese pirate's neck, causing him to faint immediately.Guo Dayou felt relieved, and chased Meng Kuang upstairs.The uppermost floor of the dock is where the leader of the Japanese pirates lives. It is not known whether the Shen Zhe they want to arrest is still in the dock.

On the way to the top floor, there was no resistance at all.All the Japanese pirates at the upper level were dispersed due to civil strife, running away and dying.Above the top floor is a hall, in which there are many floor mats scattered in a mess, and there are many dead bodies lying in this hall, with blood all over the floor.There is a partition door on the inside of the hall, and there are many small rooms divided inside. Meng Kuang searched one by one, and found two shivering Ming people hiding here, and knocked them out and handed them over to the rear. Guo Dayou tied up.

When she found the last and most elegant room, she finally saw a white-faced and beardless man, who was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground and couldn't get up.She immediately reached out and grabbed him, tearing her voice and roaring angrily:

"You are Shen Zhe!?"

"I'm not, I'm not Shen Zhe..." The man waved his hands in fright, "Ghost messenger, spare your life, ghost messenger, the younger one is just a nobody, working for Shen Zhe, you go find him, you go find him. "

"Where is the other person?!" Guo Dayou who came immediately asked.

"He ran away, and I don't know where he went." He cried with his head in his arms, his emotions completely broken down.

Ran? !Meng Kuang and Guo Dayou got acquainted with each other, and thought it was not good. Could it be that Shen Zhe was among the group who rebelled and escaped just now?

"Hurry up!" Guo Dayou immediately ran out of the dock, Meng Kuang knocked out the guy in front of him with a palm, and quickly left with Guo Dayou.