Chapter 105                                                                                                                             

Wang Chonggu's appearance scared countless officials.

Then Wang Chonggu took over the military preparation yamen. No one dared not do his best to do his best. Soon a bit of rough information appeared in Wang Chonggu's hands. Wang Chonggu immediately gave the information to Ma Gui.

Magui spread the map, looked at the place, calculated a distance, and said, "Please rest assured, Lord Wang, I'll leave it to me."

Wang Chonggu said: "Lu Tong's army is outside Yangzhou City at this moment. Should I wait for them?"

Ma Gui rolled up the map in his hand and said, "Please sit down with you, Lord Wang." After that, since he put the map into a paper tube, he asked the personal soldiers behind him to carry it.

The map in Magui's hand is Magui's treasure.

These maps were all maps that Zhou Mengchen had sent to explore after he arrived in Jiangnan. To be honest, the accuracy of these maps was still not good. But it was not good, but it was more reliable than the Ming army generally relying on guides to fight. Zhou Mengchen still had fewer people at hand, otherwise he would have carefully mapped the coastal maps of Nanzhili and Zhejiang. It would not be so simple.

But even if the map is so simple, it is a big treasure for Magui, and it is not an exaggeration to consider it.

Wang Chonggu also wanted to assign combat missions and gave a few more explanations. However, he found that Ma Gui had turned around and left. He didn't know what to react for a moment, so he gritted his teeth and said, "A arrogant general."

Magui didn't think so much.

After a surprise, the troops that had just been arranged were gathered together.

Wang Chonggu was naturally worried that there would be any accidents when he was acting today, so he asked Ma Gui to guard the key areas and could deal with them directly even if there were any recurrences. Fortunately, Feng Hualong never thought about this, which also saved Wang Chonggu some trouble.

Magui's three thousand iron cavalry, after only a few days of dry food, he hurried out of the city to pursue him.

But about a day, Ma Gui chased the information site. It was just a step too late, but he saw that the entire village was no longer like that. The people's bodies were everywhere, especially the bodies of some women, without any threads on their bodies, and they were obviously violated before their death.

This is not the first time Ma Gui has seen such a scene, because it was generally the same when the Tartars headed south.

No, it is not much the same, because the Tartars had the intention of returning the people to the grassland as slaves, and they killed more of the elderly and weak who could not be taken away. Strong men and women would not easily kill. The pirate ship position is limited, and they care more about gold, silver, and fineness, and there is no intention of robbing women and men. Since there is no such intention, killing is the most convenient thing.

Magui said with a cold face: "Go and find the local official and ask them to clean up the place. In addition, ask where the Japanese pirates are going." Of course, Magui would not count on all this matter to the local people's reports. He took a few people to observe the ground carefully and look for traces of the marching of the large group of people.

Just about an hour later, Ma Gui came back with a dark face.

The water and soil in Jiangbei are different from those on Datong Pass. In other words, Ma Gui's tracking experience on the Pass cannot be fully applicable. After chasing for several miles, he lost his trace. He had to come back.

After I came back, I asked the local people and the result was the same.

The Japanese pirates escaped into the grass.

What is grass swaying? I have to say that the salt cooking industry is.

The two Huaihe Rivers were the most important salt-producing areas in the Ming Dynasty. However, at this time, they were all boiled salt. Although the salt drying method appeared, it started from the Fujian Salt Transportation Department. When boiling salt, raw materials were needed. The raw materials for boiling salt were forage. In order to supply boiling salt, there were large swaths and endless grass swaths in the coastal areas of Jiangbei. Many people say that the grass swaths were so large that it could be as large as several prefectures.

Of course, there is also a reason why so much land is allowed to grow grass. At the beginning of the founding of the country, most of these places were saline-alkali land. After the Yellow River was diverted, a large amount of mud and sand extended the coastline into the sea. This land that had just been exposed to the sea naturally had a lot of salt and could not be planted. However, the grass used to burn could grow. There was no need to worry about it. These messy grasses would grow lushly.

Magui tracked the Japanese pirates retreating into the grass. He saw that the grass that was tall and stretched out, and even if he climbed to a high place, he could not see if there was anyone inside. This situation reminded him of Datong's Green Gallery Treasure Plan. Now Datong is growing a lot of wheat, and it is like this every autumn. No, just as he was about to say, these unattended and wildly growing grasses grow much higher than crops.

"Sir, although there are several roads and several rivers in the grass swaying, all of which are used to transport salt, the deep grass swaying bandits often gather and loot. No one of the serious villagers will go deeper. We really don't know what it looks like?" Several people kowtowed and said.

Ma Gui waved his whip impatiently and exploded in the air, scaring the people to tremble all over. Ma Gui said, "Needless to say, you all go back."

"General, what should we do?" Several generals surrounded and looked at Ma Gui.

Ma Gui pinched the whip with his hands, clasped his knuckles and made a sound, and said, "What should we do? When we reached the end of our warriors, we asked about the knife. The terrain here is not good for us. Looking at the traces just now, the Japanese pirates walked for a maximum of one day, and they were all infantrymen, just from this section to the grass. They brought a lot of things, but now they are only thirty or fifty miles at most. I don't know, so I searched. I want to divide the troops and try to sweep the grass over for several miles to see what ghosts and monsters are hidden in the grass nest."

"However, be bold, be careful when you should be careful. Don't accidentally get into the Japanese pirates' words. When you meet an enemy, blow the whistle and warn. Don't be anxious. Do you understand?"

If the Jiangnan army was here, they would definitely not dare to advance like this. Even Qi Jiguang's Zhejiang army was here, it would be the same. Nothing else, their army was not as good as Datong's elite soldiers. They did not have the courage to fight against Japanese pirates with less and more.

Wang Chonggu said that Ma Gui is a powerful general. It is a bit unexpected. The army that has won battles all year round is a bit proud. This kind of pride is confident.

Not only Ma Gui is brave, but also the generals below.

Although these generals were only a hundred or a thousand households, they were all confident and did not feel that in this environment, the cavalry's horses could not exert their power and were easily ambushed, etc. What is the problem?

They gave the order.

Ma Gui took a short rest outside the grass sway, and drove each team into the grass sway and divided it into several teams, with each team several miles apart. This really requires plowing this grass sway.

At this moment, Mao Haifeng didn't know that the official army was so bold and dared to use this method. He was still hiding in a village deep in the grass.

The villages here are the bandits that the people call.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, there was nothing wrong with land here, all saline-alkali land. However, after so many years, there were problems with saline-alkali land here. Even though most of them were saline-alkali land, in some places with water flow impact, the land gradually normalized.

Time possesses the greatest divine power in the world.

However, the Ming Dynasty's management system was extremely hard and had never explored these lands. The scattered villages in the grass were naturally outside the management of the court, and the transportation was inconvenient to the outside world, so some people naturally took the bandit road.

This village is a retreat prepared by Mao Haifeng.

People from this village are also involved in smuggling, and even this village itself is a node on the smuggling route.

At this moment, Mao Haifeng was explaining his plan to the people below. He said: "One day from here, you can see the sea. I have sent someone to report to my adoptive father. If someone comes to pick us up, we will be able to go back to Zhoushan."

His eyes swept over these people and found that each of them had a look of loss. There was nothing else. After so many years of robbery, there was only the best one this time. He had never encountered a little resistance. Naturally, they wanted to grab more and continue to grab them.
Chapter completed!