Both of them were injured in the previous fight. They returned to Datou's foothold outside the city, took out the medicine for their injuries, took it internally, and applied it externally to each other.

"Sir, this battle was a great one," Datou was still immersed in the excitement of the fierce fighting. "These Japanese pirates are much more powerful than the mob at Jinding Villa."

"If you are selected to perform a mission in the Middle-earth, you will definitely not be a drunkard." His lungs were injured, so he could not speak very loudly.

"Whether it's a waste or not depends on who it is. When you meet an adult, they deserve to be unlucky." Datou said.

He shook his head and said, "Don't underestimate them. We were lucky enough to annihilate our opponents this time. The opponent's purple energy master's sword skills are very powerful. It will not be easy for me to fight against this person."

"No matter how powerful he is, you are still superior to me," Datou said. "Looking at the world, I am afraid that you are the only one who can defeat the master of purple energy with his blue energy cultivation."

He shook his head helplessly, "I've told you so many times, don't flatter me. I know how much I weigh. If I didn't have the Hunyuan Divine Skill, I wouldn't be his opponent at all."

"In short, we won, and we won a big victory." Datou said.

He took a long breath and didn't answer.

Datou sat next to him, "But these Japanese pirates are really fierce. They knew they were not our opponents but they still rushed up desperately. By the way, sir, what were they shouting when they fought hard against us?"

"Most of them were curse words," he said. "A few of them shouted "Long live the Emperor."

"What the hell is the emperor?" Big Head tilted his head and asked.

"It's their emperor," he said. "This shows that they were commissioned by the imperial court of their country to sneak into China. The reason why they are not afraid of death is probably because they received a promise from the imperial court before setting off. For example, if they die in battle,

, the court will reward and support their families and so on. But there is another possibility. The reason why they are not afraid of death is because of some kind of belief."

"What faith?" Datou asked.

"I don't know. In fact, I don't know much about them. I only heard Chen Miao say something about them when I was learning Japanese before." He shook his head and asked, "By the way, did you kill all the prostitutes upstairs?"

"Kill them," Datou nodded, "but we can't let them give birth to bastards for the Japanese pirates."

Seeing the frown, Datou hurriedly explained, "Sir, they say that if you take a wife to look after the courtyard and catch pigs to look into the pen, the bastard's calf must be a turtle. The parents of male thieves and female prostitutes will not produce any good babies."

Didn't answer

talk.

Da Tou took out the drink he bought for him earlier and handed it to him. He shook his head but did not take it. Da Tou raised his head and took a sip. Then he asked doubtfully, "Sir, these Japanese pirates are indeed very strange. They can't walk when they see a woman."

Dao'er, but they risked their lives during the war, who do you think they are?"

"It's hard to say who they are," he said casually. "In the eyes of the world, bad people are extremely evil and have no merit. Good people are perfect and full of merits. In fact, this idea is very unfair, because no matter whether it is an object or a person, there are

There are two sides of yin and yang. Bad people are not necessarily brave, and good people are not necessarily lustful. Honest officials may be messy in handling government affairs, while corrupt officials may be well-organized. We can neither ignore their incompetence because they are honest officials, nor can we ignore their incompetence just because they are well-organized.

To ignore them is to be a corrupt official."

"What your Excellency said is absolutely true." Datou nodded with admiration.

He added, "There is no need to explore who the Japanese are. In their view, they are undoubtedly good people, but in our view, they are all bad people, because what they did is very detrimental to us, the Tang Dynasty."

"They came for the dragon veins and earthly branches," Datou curled his lips and said, "This is no longer detrimental to us, but they want to burn down our home and cut off our roots."

Although Big Tou's words were vulgar, it was indeed the truth. He nodded and said, "So we don't have to worry about who they are, and we don't have to wonder what they are thinking. We just look at what they did. They deserve to die for what they did."

"Yeah." Big Head nodded.

He took out the map that Datou had pulled out of Suzuki from his waist bag. It was a hand-drawn map. He had seen the complete Dragon Vein Continuation Map. The map on Suzuki's body was part of the Dragon Vein Continuation Map, but it was not the original.

part of the map, but a part of the map he had tampered with, which marked the general area where the mountains, rivers and golden roosters were located.

Even the original is wrong, so naturally this hand-drawn map is also wrong, and the dragon vein continuation map was drawn by the Qin Dynasty. The territory of the Tang Dynasty was four times that of the Qin Dynasty. It is very difficult to trace it backwards.

Big, not to mention that the original traceable map is not accurate. Not only will it be impossible to follow the map with such a map, but it will also be greatly misled. The Golden Dragon and Earthly Branches should be safe in a short period of time.

After looking at the map, I wanted to destroy it, but after thinking about it, I didn’t do that.

He put the map away. This wrong map was very useful. It wouldn't be long before the Japanese knew that all the troops sent to find the golden rooster had been wiped out. The map would naturally fall into his hands. If he did nothing,

Then the Japanese will immediately become suspicious, why did he do nothing after getting the map? Isn't he afraid that the Japanese will find the Earthly Branches? Why isn't he afraid? Is he aware that the Japanese will definitely not find it?

The correct approach is to take advantage of the situation and send people to search the places where the Golden Rooster may appear according to the guidance of the fake map, or send heavy troops to garrison a certain area to give the other party the illusion that they have found the Earthly Branches in advance and are closely protecting them.

The most direct consequence of this is that the Japanese will think that the map in their hand is fine, and it is unlikely that the Japanese will attack the garrison forcefully, because in addition to the Golden Rooster, there are eleven other earthly branches, and they will look for them first based on the map in their hand.

Other earthly branches, and there is no doubt that the other eleven earthly branches are within the area marked on the map.

In this way, they will spend a lot of time searching in the area marked on the map, while their own side can take the opportunity to deal with other matters including rectifying the government and filling the treasury.

He put away the map and took out the letter written in Japanese. This letter was not written to Suzuki by others, but was written by Suzuki to others before he could send it out. The title of the superior was His Excellency General Shimizu Shi. The text of the letter was

The general meaning is that we have arrived in Linxian and will leave for the west in the near future. If we find any clues, we will notify the headquarters as soon as possible. The signature is Shuichi Suzuki.

Seeing that his brows were furrowed after reading the letter, Da Tou asked cautiously, "Sir, what is written in the letter?"

He said, "The Purple Qi master just now was just Ashigaru General. This letter was written by him to his superior, General Shigaru. There is nothing important in it. He just said that they have arrived here."

Without waiting for Datou to ask further questions, he said again, "The rank of the Ashigaru general is not high, it is about the same as the fifth-grade military attache of the Tang Dynasty, and the official general is equivalent to our fourth-grade military attache. According to the regulations of the Japanese samurai, the official general cannot rule.

When an army goes out on an expedition, the person who leads the army should at least be a general, which is approximately equal to our third-grade military general."

"You mean they came with a lot of people?" Datou asked.

"I don't know exactly how many people came, but there are at least several thousand people." He said, "At least several thousand people" were Takeda Mayumi's exact words.

"If these thousands of people are all life-threatening masters, it will be difficult to deal with." Datou frowned and shook his head.

"You don't have to doubt it, I'm sure

"They are all," he said, "and an Ashigaru general has a lilac cultivation level. What kind of cultivation level does a high-ranking general have? What kind of cultivation level does a junior general have?"

Datou also discovered the seriousness of the problem, "Aren't there not many Japanese pirates in total? Why do so many warriors appear all at once?"

"I suspect that Japan is sending out all its troops this time," he said. "The samurai sent out are probably selected from across the country in order to win surely."

Datou held the jug and frowned, calculating, "One thousand or two thousand certainly cannot be counted as several thousand. Thousands must be at least three thousand or more. We have killed less than fifty people before. If they are divided into twelve groups, it will be divided."

There are only six to seven hundred people on the 13th route, what are the thousands of people doing?"

"This is also what I'm worried about," he said. "According to the content of the letter, these fifty people are only responsible for exploring and searching, and are not responsible for dealing with those earthly branches. I once saw an earthly branch whose spiritual energy cultivation level has exceeded

Purple Qi category, this shows that the Japanese are well prepared this time, and those who are responsible for dealing with the earthly branches are the elite."

"It's really terrible," Datou laughed sadly, "Right now, the military governors from all over the country want to separatist forces and rebel. It's hard to say whether the new army raised by the imperial court can defeat them. With such a group of people popping up again, we have something to do.

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"There are internal and external troubles, and the situation is precarious." He also laughed.

It was already the middle of the night, and the two of them were injured and tired, so they stopped talking and each lay down, closing their eyes and taking a nap.

At dawn, the two set out on the road and rushed to Xichuan.

Linxian is only more than a thousand miles away from Xichuan. The two of them traveled many places these days and never had a good rest. They were already exhausted and tired. They had traveled more than a thousand miles for two days.

Although the two rushed to Xichuan, their destination was not Xichuan because Wang Jian, the governor of Xichuan, had rebelled, and the imperial court was sending Long Haotian, commander of 100,000 troops, to crusade. The destination of their trip was a prefecture near Xichuan.

County.

The two of them left Chang'an this time under the guise of supervising the administration of officials in the prefectures and counties near Xichuan. What they had done before was all private matters, and now they are doing official business here. Not only do they have a first-class official residence, they also serve as ministers of household affairs and imperial censors.

With great power in hand, local officials near Xichuan had received official documents from the imperial court and knew that he would come in person. They had been waiting for a long time. When they saw the two of them arriving, they immediately welcomed them into the government office and treated them hospitably.
Chapter completed!