Chapter 191 Zhu Di is worried about whether Zhu Yuanzhang will be suspicious of Chu Nan

The 200 firearms troops in the Chunan Jinwu Vanguard have not been deployed yet. If they had been deployed, the casualties of the Ming army would definitely have been smaller.

However, Chu Nan did not use them in this battle, because he always felt that these two hundred firearms troops should be used as a killer weapon and only when faced with desperate situations.

Now is not the time to be desperate, at least he has the advantage.

He looked at the Japanese pirates who were surrounded and at the end of their strength, and spoke directly to his men.

“Let them surrender and take away their weapons.”

“Yes!” The people under his command who understood the Japanese language immediately shouted to the pirates to convey this message.

“Sir!” After hearing what Chu Nan meant, Taro Kojima’s subordinates also spoke to Taro Kojima.

“They want us to surrender. What should we do now?”

“What should we do?” But after hearing what his subordinates said, Taro Kojima became angry.

“What else can we do? According to Chinese saying, we can’t escape even if we have wings!”

“Ah?” The subordinates also became anxious.

“Should we surrender then?”

“Surrender?” But Taro Kojima smiled.

“Do we have a chance to survive if we surrender? The Ming Dynasty hates us so much. If they catch us, we might die miserably. They might even tear our hearts and lungs out and leave us with no intact corpses!”

“Ah?” Hearing this, the subordinates were terrified.

“Sir, what shall we do then?”

“What else can we do?” Taro Kojima said nothing more.

“Wow!” The next second, he pulled out the small knife from his waist, which was used by the Japanese pirates to commit suicide by disembowelment.

“Sir? You?” The subordinates were also shocked. Is Taro Kojima going to commit suicide?

“Not good!” When Chu Nan saw this situation, he shouted directly to his subordinates.

“He’s going to commit suicide, stop him!”

Chu Nan felt that this person was the leader and must know a lot of secrets, and would definitely be able to tell who in the Ming Dynasty was colluding with.

In this way, he can be used to overthrow that person in the Ming Dynasty, so he must not be allowed to die.

“Yes!” The Ming army soldiers were about to step forward upon hearing this.

But it was too late. Taro Kojima was faster. He looked at Chu Nan and shouted loudly.

“Chun Nan, bastard, I, Kojima Taro, will not let you go even if I become a ghost!”

“You want to catch me and ask for information, but it’s not that easy. If I tell you, that person and I will both die. But if I don’t tell you, that person will have a chance to help me get revenge!”

“Chun Nan, I’ll be waiting for you in hell!”

“Puchi!” After saying that, Taro Kojima cut open his abdomen fiercely, and blood gushed out immediately.

Then he fell from his horse to the ground and died instantly.

“Sir!” Seeing Taro Kojima like this, many fearless leaders and Japanese pirates realized that they were doomed to die.

Then, they also drew their daggers.

“Puchi, Puchi!” Then, they all committed suicide by cutting open their stomachs.

“It’s really crazy.” Seeing this situation, Chu Nan frowned. He didn’t expect that he couldn’t capture these people alive.

But the Ming army was still powerful. Although they did not capture those who committed suicide alive, they also captured many other Japanese pirates, including some high-ranking Japanese pirates. Chu Nan thought that he might be able to get the information he wanted from these high-ranking Japanese pirates.

Then he spoke directly to Fu Zhong who was standing beside him: “You take the people to clean up the battlefield. The King of Yan and I will go back.”

Chu Nan also had to write a report on the battle to Zhu Yuanzhang to reassure him. At the same time, there were dangers on the battlefield, and it would be troublesome if there were hidden arrows or something, so he let Zhu Di go back.

“Yes.” After hearing Chu Nan’s words, Fu Zhong immediately went down to make arrangements.

Zhu Di also followed Chu Nan back.

Because the Japanese pirates had been almost dealt with, Chu Nan brought more than a hundred cavalrymen in addition to his own twenty personal guards to escort himself back.

Soon we arrived at the city of Taizhou.

“Hurry, hurry, hurry!” But suddenly, a roar was heard at the city gate.

“What’s going on!” Zhu Di was shocked when he saw this situation. Could it be an ambush by Japanese pirates?

“Don’t panic.” It was already broad daylight, so Chu Nan immediately saw the situation in Taizhou City.

Countless ordinary people actually came out to welcome Chu Nan and his group. It seemed that the news of Chu Nan and his group’s destruction of the Japanese pirates had already spread here.

The common people were seen standing on both sides, holding fruits, cakes and wine in their hands, shouting at Chu Nan and the others.

“Mr. Chu, you are my great benefactor. You saved the people of this entire city! You are my great benefactor!”

“You killed so many Japanese pirates. Now there will be no more Japanese pirates to kill us!”

These common people were really grateful to Chu Nan, because last night they heard the Japanese pirates coming again and thought they were doomed.

After all, they had repelled the Japanese pirates last time, and they would definitely seek revenge. They were terrified when they thought of their cruelty.

Once the city is breached, no one, young or old, will be left alive. It is outrageous.

As a result, the Chu Nan army descended from the sky and wiped out all the Japanese pirates. No one from Taizhou was hurt. They were so happy that they all came out to thank Chu Nan.

When they saw Chu Nan’s troops, they rushed to stuff the food in their hands into the soldiers’ hands.

Seeing this scene, Chu Nan panicked, because he was afraid that there were still Japanese pirates and spies mixed in. After all, Zhu Di was still alive, so he could only refuse the common people and fled to the Taizhou government office.

At this moment in the Taizhou government office, the prefect was very sensible. He had already prepared everything for Chu Nan, so that Chu Nan had a place to work and deploy troops. He himself retreated to a side hall.

Chu Nan was not polite and started to assign tasks to his subordinates as soon as he came back.

“Come here, pass on my order. Write a letter and arrange for the Royal Guards to escort you to Nanjing immediately and tell His Majesty everything that happened here.”

“Lock up all the pirate leaders separately, and then have the Royal Guards interrogate them one by one to see if they can dig out any secrets!”

Chu Nan still trusts the Jinyiwei. After all, they were established not long ago and are not so easily corrupted. It shouldn’t be so soon that they would be arranged to be spies by others.

In this way, if the Jinyiwei obtained information, it is highly likely that no one would do anything about it.

But Chu Nan felt that this was not enough, and spoke to his subordinates again.

“Pass on my order to allocate another 100,000 taels of silver to reward all the soldiers who go to the battlefield and the garrison soldiers who come to support them!”

“Allow another 100,000 taels of silver to comfort the families of all the dead and wounded soldiers.”

“Mr. Chu, you are so awesome!” Seeing this scene, Zhu Di also admired Chu Nan.

With so much money used to appease these soldiers, they will surely fight harder in the future.

“But.” But at this time, Zhu Di had a concern.

“Mr. Chu, you are rewarding the soldiers on behalf of my father, aren’t you afraid that he will be suspicious?”

(End of this chapter)