Qingshui Town is a town with more than 1,000 people. It has a large salt field and gold mines. Most of the residents work in these two places, as well as fishermen and hunters. It is a relatively wealthy town.

The town is only three miles away from the sea, and it has long been the target of pirates. However, the seaside here is on the main channel heading south from Dengzhou. The ships of Dengzhou Navy are often patrolled, and they have not been attacked by pirates.

A month ago, the Dengzhou navy was severely injured while fighting pirates. Only 11 of the 72 combat ships were left, and basically lost control of the coast. The pirates' activities became increasingly rampant.

Not long ago, a group of pirates came to rob, but were beaten away by the town protection team, and killed more than a dozen pirates. Today, the pirates were struggling with more people coming to take revenge.

The gate of the town was closed, and the men, women, young and old in the town were mobilized to the city wall. Mao Jun, the town, was a retired old soldier. He guarded Luoyang City under Wang Shichong and had certain experience in defending the city.

At this moment, on the city wall, young and middle-aged men were guarding behind the battlements with swords, guns and sticks. The elderly were boiling water on the top of the city, and the strong women carried stretchers to transport the wounded. Everyone knew that pirates were very cruel. If the city was broken, everyone would suffer, so they fought to the death to defend the city.

Not long after, the pirates carried the ladder to the city gate. A Japanese pirate leader wore a helmet with cow horns and said something to the city house.

A traitor cried out, "General Chijiao said, "You must open the city and surrender quickly, otherwise you will not be able to keep the whole family after the city is broken."

Mao Jun knew that pirates like this would easily cause panic among the people, and it would be better to fight directly. So he didn't talk nonsense and picked up the bow and arrow and pointed the leader of the Japanese pirate. Unfortunately, when he was young, he was not sure to shoot arrows. He hadn't fiddled with the bow and arrow for so many years. The arrow shot over, more than ten feet away from the Japanese pirate leader. He was shooting right away, but it hit a pirate near him in the thigh, making the guy scream.

The people guarding the city laughed and relaxed when they saw the pirate's embarrassing appearance.

The pirate leader stopped talking nonsense, and he issued a series of orders in his room, and the pirates acted separately according to his orders.

The people in Qingshui Town had repelled a pirate attack last time, and they had some experience and confidence. They held crossbows and guns and waited for the pirates to climb the city.

Unexpectedly, unlike what they thought, the pirates did not rush to attack the city with cloud ladders, but first sent some pirates to come under the city wall under the cover of a row of huge shields. Then, behind the shields, many archers flashed out. These archers were well-trained and had very accurate archery skills. After they shot arrows, they immediately hid behind the shields, and after seeing the target, they stood up and shot arrows at the top of the city.

The people on the city wall had no experience with such tactics, which caused considerable casualties and suddenly became a little panicked.

Based on Mao Jun's experience in the military, his first feeling was that these people were not ordinary pirates, but well-trained army.

Under the suppression of the pirates' bows and arrows, the people guarding the city did not dare to show their heads. The few archers hid and lost the threat to the pirates under the city.

Soon, the pirate behind him carried the ladder and approached the city wall.

Mao Jun shouted in a hurry, "Call it quickly! The pirates are coming."

The people didn't care about fear and rushed towards the pirates on the ladder with stones and boiling water.

The pirates in Japan were all outlaws, and they were constantly being knocked down from the ladder, and the ones behind continued to climb upwards.

The pirate archers under the city wall saw that there were not many crossbows on the city wall, so they simply broke away from the shield player's cover and came to the base of the city wall to directly cover the pirates to climb upwards.

The people suffered heavy casualties, and people were constantly being shot and withdrawing from the battle, and gaps began to appear on the top of the city.

Finally, some pirates climbed up the city wall. These pirates were well-trained. After jumping onto the city wall, they used their bodies to guard the ladders and covered the pirates to climb up the city wall. As more and more pirates climbed up the city wall, the people guarding the city were killed and injured, and finally they could not bear the pressure and fled in all directions.

"The city is broken." Mao Jun's eyes turned dark and he almost fell to the ground.

Suddenly, a horn sounded outside the city. Mao Jun heard such a sound last time, which was the order to retreat from the pirates.

The pirates who had climbed up the city wall heard the sound of the horns and climbed down one after another. Then, the pirates began to form a group and retreated along the original road towards the seaside.

Mao Jun was like a dream. He observed for a long time and confirmed that the pirates had really withdrawn. He was worried that the pirates would make a comeback, so he hurriedly called on the people to continue defending the city, but found that the people were crowded to the west gate and wanted to drive them into the mountains. Mao Jun persuaded them, but the people were scared and unwilling to defend the city again.

At this moment, Dongmu Shou sent a team of officers and soldiers after hearing the news.

?In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, roads were set up along the border, and each road was set up to command troops to guard the border. In any area where border troops were guarded, the larger ones were called army, and the smaller ones were called guards, city, and town. For example, Pinglu Road, there were eleven guards, including Lu Long Army and Dongjun. There were envoys of guards, cities, towns, and guards. Dongmu guards were the border guards set up by the court in Dongmu County, Dengzhou.

The arrival of the border defense forces stabilized the people in the city and re-arranged the city defense.

Just as they set up defenses to defend the city, someone shouted, "It's not good. The pirates are back."

Everyone looked towards the seaside, and as expected, they saw the pirates running towards this direction, everyone became nervous again. However, they soon discovered that these pirates were different from when they came just now. They looked much smaller, less than 200 people. They seemed to be in a mess, not like they were coming to attack Qingshui Town, but instead seemed to be running away.

Sure enough, a sharp-eyed man shouted, "It's the Tang army, it's the Tang army chasing them."

It didn't take long, and everyone saw clearly that behind the pirates, there were flags with red and black letters in the Tang army, and about hundreds of Tang troops were chasing the pirates. At this moment, everyone understood why the pirates had attacked the city and left in a hurry.

Dongmu Shou captured more than 200 officers and soldiers. When they saw such a good opportunity, they certainly refused to let go, so they immediately opened the city gate and rushed towards the pirates.

The pirates were surrounded by the officers and soldiers captured by Dongmu Shou and the officers and soldiers chasing behind them. The battle ended in a short time. More than 100 pirates were wiped out and the pirate leader wearing a horned helmet was captured alive.

Not long after, the officers and soldiers captured by Dongmu Shou and the people of Qingshui Town knew that the Tang army that was chasing pirates was called the Marine Corps, which was part of the newly established outer sea fleet of the Tang Dynasty. The reinforcements sent by the Tang Dynasty to Dengzhou arrived, and they were the vanguard of the outer sea fleet led by Liu Rengui.
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