Chapter 60 Killing the Japanese

Min County and Changle County.

They are all large coastal counties of Fuzhou Prefecture.

However, compared with Changle County, Min County is closer.

Changle County and Fuzhou City are separated by the Minjiang River.

After some discussion, Chu Yuan and Dongfang Sheng decided to go to Min County first.

The main reason was that the group of Japanese pirates in Min County was smaller in number, with only more than a hundred people, and was easier to deal with.

Eighty miles southeast of Fuzhou City is the county seat of Min County.

Although Min County is a large county around the provincial capital, it cannot be compared with big cities like Fuzhou.

The county seat of Min County was only seven miles in circumference, two ren high, one foot wide, and had a parapet four feet high.

In front of the city gate, there were five or six constables wearing black clothes, small hats on their heads, and swords on their waists, checking the people entering and leaving the city gate.

Chu Yuan and Dongfang Sheng did not enter the city, but just inquired about the movements of the Japanese pirates at the city gate.

"You two are preparing..."

Hearing Chu Yuan and Dongfang Sheng inquiring about the movements of the Japanese pirates, the leading constable, who was a bit old and had gray hair, looked at the two people in front of him with a puzzled look.

Recently, residents from many villages and towns in Min County have fled to the county town to seek refuge.

How can there be people who are not afraid of death and rush into the hands of the Japanese pirates?

Chu Yuan said: "We both practiced martial arts and are here to kill the Japanese pirates."

When the old detective heard Chu Yuan say that the two men had practiced martial arts and were here to kill the Japanese pirates, he was instantly filled with respect.

The old detective gave a thumbs up and said, "So you two are great heroes."

The old detective continued, "The Japanese pirates are ferocious. Even if you have practiced martial arts, you should still be careful. I heard that the Japanese pirates have been active in Guantou Town in recent days and have just looted two villages. Those two villages have become scorched earth, with corpses everywhere. It was a tragic scene, tut tut..."

After asking the old detective about the location of Guantou Town, Chu Yuan and Dongfang Sheng set off again.

Both of them have mastered Qinggong, so they don't need to ride horses.

If you travel at full speed, your speed is no slower than riding a horse.

They walked south for less than twenty miles and saw a village.

However, this village has become ruins and scorched earth.

The fire had just been put out, but black smoke was still coming out from some places.

The original village has been burned down.

Only the outline of the burnt earthen walls remains, through which one can vaguely see the original appearance of the village.

"It smells bad!"

Chu Yuan shrugged his nose.

This is a smell like burnt meat.

"It's the stink of a burning body."

Dongfang Sheng frowned and tried to figure out what the smell was.

Chu Yuan's face turned cold and he searched among the ruins.

Sure enough, I saw more than a dozen bodies burned to charcoal.

Judging from the shapes and movements of the corpses, and the fact that there were no wounds on their bodies, it was obvious that they were burned to death.

Among them were women and children.
Besides, they were on the edge of the village ruins.

More than two to three hundred bodies of villagers were found, all of whom had fatal wounds on their bodies, as if they had been killed directly by the Japanese pirates with weapons.

"These beasts."

Chu Yuan's eyes were cold, and the anger accumulated in his heart was growing stronger and stronger.

Seeing the miserable plight of these people, Dongfang Bubai, who was the leader of a cult and used to seeing corpses, gradually became cold in expression.

"There is still a little smoke. The fire has just been extinguished. The pirates left not long ago, less than a day ago."

Dongfang Sheng analyzed.

"Let's go and chase them." Chu Yuan said immediately.

Dongfang Sheng said nothing, and together with Chu Yuan, he used his Qinggong skills to chase in the direction the Japanese pirates left.

In the coastal areas of the south, wind and rain come and go as they please, and the ground is moist all year round.

Footprints are most easily left on wet ground.

It just so happened that there had been a sudden rain here not long ago. By following the footprints on the ground, we could quickly find the Japanese pirates.

This chase.

The chase lasted until late the next night.

The main problem is that this group of Japanese pirates have uncertain directions of action.

Although they were not afraid of small groups of soldiers, they were afraid that the court would send large groups of soldiers to clear them out, so they would change their direction from time to time so that people could not grasp their whereabouts.

During this pursuit, they discovered a village that had been looted by Japanese pirates, leaving only scorched earth and ruins.

However, this village was lucky. Not long after this group of Japanese pirates killed and burned people, a heavy rain fell from the sky and put out the fire.

So in addition to the villagers who were killed by the Japanese pirates, there were still forty or fifty villagers who were about to be burned to death by the Japanese pirates, but they managed to find a way back and survived.

After asking the survivors about the direction in which the pirates had left, they finally caught up with them in the dark on the outskirts of a village called Luotian, less than ten miles away from Min County.

……

Nobuo Tanaka!

A Fuso ronin from the Kanto region.

Fuso was in the Warring States Period at that time, and daimyo in various places were fighting each other. He was originally a samurai under the command of a fallen daimyo in Odawara Castle in the Kanto region.

After his own daimyo was defeated, he tried to escape from the enemy daimyo's pursuit.

He left Fuso, came to the sea, and became a wanderer on the sea.

They lived a life of hunger and satiety, and at the call of some maritime forces, they gathered together with other ronin and became pirates.

Hearing that the Ming Dynasty was rich and its army was incompetent, they crossed the ocean and came to the Ming Dynasty to plunder.

Although they had only been in Ming Dynasty for half a month, they had already plundered seven villages, stolen a lot of treasures, and had women at their disposal at any time.

Tanaka Nobuo no longer knew how many Ming people he had killed.

Anyway, in his and his companions' eyes, the people of the Ming Dynasty are lambs.

The village we chose tonight is very large, with probably a hundred households.

In the dark night, they first eliminated the young and strong guards in the village, then rushed into the village, kicked open the doors of the villagers' houses, and looted and killed people as if no one was around.

"Life in Ming Dynasty is much more comfortable than in Fusang."

"There are endless lambs to kill and endless money to rob."

Tanaka Nobuo spoke Japanese language that the Ming people could not understand, his eyes full of cruelty and excitement. He rushed into a villager's yard and killed a young couple in succession. He was about to use the Japanese sword in his hand to chop off the head of an old woman in the yard who had gray hair, a face full of fear, and fell to the ground with a four or five-year-old boy in her arms.

"The Japanese pirates deserve to be killed!"

At this moment, a young man in a blue Taoist robe and with his hair tied in a bun came in from outside the yard like a ghost, crossed the wall and floated in, landing steadily in the yard.

His eyes are cold!
Although the opponent was still several feet away from him, he still swung his palm towards him.

He had no time to react at all, as if he was hit by a carriage. He flew up from the ground and hit the rammed earth wall at the edge of the yard. He fell to the ground after the wall collapsed.

After spitting out a mouthful of blood, he fell to the ground and completely lost consciousness.

If you examine his body apart, you'll find that his heart was torn into pieces.

It was the Qingcheng Sect's secret martial art, the "Heart-Destroying Palm".

Before he died, Nobuo Tanaka finally saw clearly what the other person was wearing.

The other person was dressed like a Taoist priest from the Ming Dynasty.

The Japanese pirates were killed. The old woman who survived in the yard and had been protecting her grandson came to her senses after a long time and was about to stand up to thank Chu Yuan.

Chu Yuan had already tiptoed over the courtyard wall and disappeared into the night.

(End of this chapter)