Thousands of flowers bloomed in the east at night, and the stars fell like rain. In the night sky of Shazhou Beach, countless colorful fireworks flew into the sky, some like phoenixes flying in the sky, some like blooming fire trees and silver flowers, and some like waterfalls cascading down, dyeing the night sky gorgeous and beautiful.
What a night-time night of fireworks! Officers, soldiers and civilians alike were enjoying themselves. It was a sight to behold and full of admiration.
After the fireworks show, there were no other activities in the Nian Dan Hai Festival, and everyone fell asleep while recalling the fireworks show.
Since it was already late at night after the fireworks show, the roads were difficult to walk on at night, and breakfast would be provided at the ceremony site the next morning, so except for the villagers who lived very nearby, basically no one left.
The common people built simple huts at the sea sacrifice site to spend the night. Zhao Wenhua also ordered the military camps to allocate as many tents as possible to the common people, which earned him the reputation of Zhao Qingtian. Zhao Wenhua was so happy that he invited Hu Zongxian to have a drink before going to bed.
At midnight, the entire sea sacrifice site fell into extreme darkness and silence, with only the sound of snoring.
"The weather has changed, the wind has picked up, the stars and the moon have disappeared, hahahaha, it's a dark and windy night, when it comes to killing and arson, even God is helping us. It seems that the sea sacrifices by the dog officials of the Ming Dynasty are of no use. Men, it's our turn to take action. Gather and deploy according to the plan. We are going to kill tonight."
Nakamura Yukiji was wearing a nightgown. Looking at the pitch-black night outside the tent and the howling north wind, he couldn't help but laugh mockingly. After he finished speaking, he drew the Japanese sword at his waist and swung it hard.
"Hi!"
Twenty or so Japanese pirates, also wearing night clothes, swarmed out of the tent behind Nakamura Yukiji, including Inukai Abe. They nodded excitedly, bent their bodies and dispersed to gather their respective deployments.
Soon, these pirates multiplied and arrived at a remote tent. They knocked a few secret codes and summoned a group of black-clad pirates. Then, these pirates gathered together in a planned manner.
"The forty of you will be responsible for killing and setting fire to the camps where the Ming people are. Spread out and each person will be responsible for one camp. The main purpose is to set fire and destroy the camps, so that the Ming people will cry for their parents and rush around like headless flies..."
"You fifty people are responsible for killing and setting fire to He Qing's army camp! The Ming army has a thousand soldiers."
"You fifty people are responsible for killing and setting fire to Shen Xiyi's army camp! The Ming army also has a thousand soldiers."
"The forty of you are responsible for going to Zhu Ping'an's army camp to kill and set fire! The Ming army has the smallest number of soldiers, only 800 people!"
"Seventy of you are responsible for going to Tang Kekuan's camp to kill and set fire! The Ming army has two thousand soldiers."
"Eighty of you are responsible for going to Yu Dayou's camp to kill people and set fire! This army has three thousand soldiers."
"Eighty of you are responsible for killing and setting fire to Li Tingzhu's army camp! This army has 3,000 soldiers."
"The remaining 168 people will follow me to the Hu Zongxian army of the Ming Dynasty, that is, their central army camp to kill and set fire. Our target is their general's tent, to kill the Ming Dynasty's sea dog sacrifice officer, and to steal their sea sacrifice imperial edict."
"Whether we are from Prince Hui's army or Chief Xu's army, tonight we are all brothers. Let us fight side by side and give the dog emperor of the Ming Dynasty a great gift! Let the Ming Dynasty be terrified!"
Nakamura Yukiji looked at the more than 500 battle-hardened Japanese pirates gathered under his command, nodded with satisfaction, arranged the tasks one by one, and finally made a general mobilization to win over and encourage the two armies.
The Japanese pirates were inspired and their blood boiled. They couldn't wait to kill and burn to their heart's content.
"Keep silent and march!" Inukai Abe, the second-in-command of this group of Japanese pirates, waved his hand.
The standard configuration of a night attack is to keep silent, because an important condition for the success of a night attack is to sneak into the enemy camp quietly and launch a surprise attack. Once the enemy discovers your tracks, the night attack will be half failed.
As a wandering samurai, Inukai Abe participated in many village battles in Japan. After coming to Ming Dynasty, he also experienced hundreds of battles and was familiar with night attacks, so he added the order with great experience.
"No! You don't have to keep silent in this battle! On the contrary, I want you to shout loudly. Here are a hundred whistles I made myself during the day. Divide them among yourselves and blow them as hard as you can when there is killing or arson!"
Yukiji Nakamura reached out to stop Inukai Abe, took out a bag, threw it to Inukai Abe, and asked him to distribute the whistles.
"Ah?" Inukai Abe was stunned, staring blankly at the bag in his hand. Shouldn't a night raid be silent? Why did Nakamura-kun do the opposite, asking us to shout and kill and even blow the whistle? !
However, he still remembered what happened in the evening, and he vowed to be loyal to Nakamura Yukiji until death and never question any decision of Nakamura Yukiji again.
So, he just paused for a moment, and then distributed the one hundred whistles in the bag to each night attack team according to Nakamura Yukiji's instructions.
"Very good, Inukai-kun, you will know the reason later. Without further ado, the stage is ours now, and the killing begins!"
Yukiji Nakamura was very satisfied with Inukai Abe's performance. "Very good! What I want is your unwavering execution." So he smiled and nodded, patted Inukai Abe's shoulder, then waved his Japanese sword and gave the order to act.
More than 500 Japanese pirates followed Nakamura Yukiji's order, holding their Japanese swords and ran away in different directions.
In an instant, the entire sea sacrifice site was filled with the pirates' shouts of killing and shrill whistles.
The civilians' camps were the first to be robbed, with flames shooting up into the sky and screams and pleas for mercy filling the night sky.
Next came the He Qingjun camp and Shen Xiyi camp on the periphery. He Qingjun and Shen Xiyi also received the warning sent by Zhu Pingan in the evening, but they scoffed at Zhu Pingan's warning. Lord Zhao and Governor Zhang didn't say anything. How dare you, a young boy, point fingers at us... ...
The two camps were not much different from civilian camps, with no fences, no antlers, no trenches, and even no soldiers patrolling. The sentinels on duty had drunk some wine in the evening and were now fast asleep.
The Japanese pirates rushed into the two camps shouting and killing as if they were in an empty land. The sentry at the door didn't even have time to open his eyes before he was stabbed in the heart by the pirates, falling into eternal darkness and sleep.
After the Japanese pirates rushed into the camp, they dispersed and threw torches soaked in grease onto the military tents.
In an instant, all the military tents caught fire.
Some soldiers were startled awake and ran out naked. They had no armor or even any weapons, and were chopped to the ground by the Japanese pirates outside like cutting melons and vegetables.
"What's going on? Why is it so lively outside? There are so many bright lights. Are they setting off fireworks again?"
In some tents that had not been damaged, the soldiers were awakened by the shouting and screaming, and they opened their eyes in a daze and talked to themselves.
"What fireworks? Those are Japanese pirates. The Japanese pirates are coming to kill us..." The soldier in the same tent woke up in shock and almost peed himself when he heard the fireworks.
"What, the Japanese pirates are coming?!" The soldiers were immediately panicked.
Listening again, there were Japanese shouts and screams outside, and shrill whistles from all directions. How many Japanese pirates were there? The soldiers in the tent were all terrified, "The Japanese pirate army is coming, run for your lives!" They ran out naked.
Soon, the whole camp was in chaos. Soldiers ran out in panic, scrambling to escape, throwing away their armor and weapons, and trampling on each other...