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As darkness enveloped the land, a group of carriages quickly rushed along the official road from the newly built Shanghai Port towards Suzhou!
At this time, Matsudaira Kubo realized that he had made another mistake. Although he rented more than a hundred horse-drawn carriages to haul goods, he forgot that the people he brought with him could not travel two hundred miles in half a day and overnight!
Especially when Zhu Youxiao was preparing to build Shanghai Port, the first thing he did was to build roads. This resulted in the road from Shanghai Port to Suzhou being extremely smooth!
Of course the carriages running on them were fast and stable, but in this way, the short-legged Japanese children brought by Matsudaira Kubo were blinded. They really couldn't outrun these carriages!
But at this time, the tenacity and obedience of the Japanese were shown. The subordinates brought by Matsudaira Kubo, whether they were samurai or followers, gritted their teeth and persisted desperately!
Only when you really can¡¯t hold on any longer, will you sit on the carriage and rest for a while. When you feel better, you will jump off the carriage and continue to run forward with the team!
In this way, people like Matsudaira Kubo struggled for a long time and a whole night, and they actually made it to Suzhou before dawn!
And those carriage drivers often took this road in Suzhou, so they drove the carriage directly to Jingguan outside Suzhou without any instructions from Matsudaira Kubo!
When the golden-red sun jumped out from the horizon and dispersed the darkness, Matsudaira Kubo's bloodshot eyes saw a huge mound covering an area of ??half an acre and about four feet high!
The mound was square and square, obviously built by man, but Matsudaira Kubo didn¡¯t know why someone would be so bored to build such a mound and put it here!
But when the convoy was still a hundred feet away from the mound, the drivers pulled the reins of the horses and were no longer willing to move forward half a step. Matsudaira Kubo didn't know what was happening, so he babbled a lot!
The coachmen also talked to him a lot with words and gestures, but because Kubo Matsudaira forgot to wait for his interpreter, the two sides talked very lively, but they were talking at the same time, and no one knew what the other said. !
But from the resolute attitude of the coachmen, Matsudaira Kubo also saw that they were unwilling to get close to the mound. This made Matsudaira Kubo angry but also curious. So driven by curiosity, he decided to go and see it himself. See what the secret is in that mound!
When Kubo Matsudaira walked towards the capital with a few samurai accompanying him, the coachmen who were unharnessing and feeding the sweating horses all had strange looks on their faces!
A young coachman whispered to an older coachman next to him: "These Japanese dwarves are really interesting. You have to go to the capital to see it. The buildings there are all Japanese pirates from their Japanese country. They go there." Why are you looking at it? Do you want to pay homage?"
The older coachman said while working: "Who knows? Although these people are Japanese, they are all paying tribute to our Majesty. I guess they are all good Japanese, and they should not be the same as those damn Japanese pirates." Are you guys?"
These coachmen don¡¯t know that Japanese pirates are actually the best profession for the down-and-out samurai of the Japanese country. A samurai like Matsudaira Kubo who got along well in front of Tokugawa Hidetada will naturally not become a Japanese pirate. But if Matsudaira Kubo is so depressed one day, When he can't even put food on the table, he won't care about doing business of killing people and selling goods!
The main reason why Matsudaira Kubo didn't think about Kyo-gwan was that the Japanese country did not build Kyo-gwan. Even though a samurai class like Matsudaira Kubo might have read about Kyo-gwan in classics, he still had no idea about Kyo-gwan. There is no clear understanding!
Therefore, in the eyes of Matsudaira Kubo, Jingguan is just a place name. Even when he saw the mound where the corpses of tens of thousands of Japanese pirates were sealed, he still did not realize what Jingguan was!
It was with this kind of doubt that when Kubo Matsudaira arrived at the foot of the Kyokan and saw the shriveled heads exposed around the huge mound, he was so frightened that he couldn't help but take a few steps back. The few who followed him The accompanying samurai was so frightened that he even drew out the sword from his waist!
It's no wonder that Matsudaira Kubo was shocked. It was actually those heads that had been pickled with lime. After months of exposure to wind and sun, the skin and flesh on their faces had turned as black as leather. At the same time, the skin and flesh shriveled and shriveled. , the faces of the heads became even more ferocious and terrifying!
"What's going on? Why are there so many people here?" Matsudaira Kubo calmed down and said to himself in disbelief!
"Sir, could this be Akito's execution ground? They buried the heads of the executed prisoners here!" A samurai who accompanied him said while swallowing his foam nervously!
"Impossible!" Another warrior accompanying him said:"These heads are all in the same degree of decomposition. They should have been executed together. How could Akito execute so many people at the same time?"
"Sir, look, there seems to be something up there!" Just as everyone was making random guesses, a samurai who was standing far away suddenly pointed to the top of Jingguan and shouted!
Matsudaira Kubo hurriedly led people back a certain distance, and then looked towards the top of Jingguan. He saw a broken armor placed on the top of Jingguan, with two swords stuck crosswise in front of the armor!
"That's that's the armor and sword of our Japanese country. Why do they appear in that place?" Matsudaira Kubo shouted in disbelief!
At this moment, a dull sound like a drum came from the distance. Matsudaira Kubo was also a very experienced samurai. When he heard the sound, he knew that a large group of cavalry was galloping towards this side!
Matsudaira Kubo looked solemn and immediately shouted: "Go back and set up defenses quickly!"
Immediately afterwards, Matsudaira Kubo took his personal samurai and ran towards the direction of the convoy. The samurai on the other side of the convoy also discovered that something was wrong. Although they were exhausted, they still arranged the arrangements before Matsudaira Kubo came back. Line of defense!
It's just that they didn't come out to fight, so they didn't bring anything else except the sword they carried with them. Therefore, the samurai could only stand in front and the entourage stood behind the samurai, forming a thin line of defense. When Matsudaira Kubo and others ran back , immediately stood in the center of the defense line.
The coachmen didn¡¯t know what happened, but when they saw that the Japanese were all nervous, they couldn¡¯t help but feel a little frightened. Under the greeting of the oldest coachman, all the coachmen led their horses and hid behind the carriage!
At this moment, on the horizon in the distance, a group of cavalry of about 2,000 people galloped over. At the front of the cavalry, a large apricot-yellow flag fluttered in the wind. Under the big flag, a strip was as long as the big flag, with only a palm. The wide red cloth strips also flew with the big flag!
Seeing this cavalry coming, Matsudaira Kubo's face suddenly became solemn. As a samurai, he knew that in front of such cavalry, he was simply a scum-like existence. As long as they charged, his defense line would be completely destroyed. collapse!
Just when Matsudaira Kubo was frightened, the coachmen recognized the cavalry, and someone immediately shouted: "Blood Flag Army, the Blood Flag Army is coming!"
Blood Flag Army!
This is the name given to Cao Ling's cavalry by the people in Suzhou because Cao Ling ordered people to tie a bloody cloth belt under the military flag to warn his soldiers that the enemy is extremely cruel and they can only fight tooth for tooth and blood for blood. !
It is this sign that is obviously different from other armies of the Ming Dynasty that gives Cao Ling's cavalry the special name "Blood Banner Army". However, Cao Ling and all the officers and soldiers of the Blood Banner Army did not expect that they would become famous today. , will accompany the rise of the entire Chinese nation in the world and become a nightmare for all races that dare to be enemies with China! (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com