The morning mist at Liaodong’s Zhenjiang Fortress was thick with the briny scent of the sea, and Shen Xitang’s black leather boots crunched over the scorched edges of a *Defense Map of Jiulian City*. Xiao Heng’s Xiuchun Saber cleaved through the blue-brick battlements of the Tiger Mountain Great Wall, and a fragment of a shattered Japanese iron gun caught the sea breeze, revealing a phosphorescent glimmer—within the chrysanthemum patterns inside the barrel, a seal script mark for the "Wanli Korean Campaign" was engraved!
"Lord Thousand-Householder, look at this powder chamber." She traced the crack in the iron gun with her fingertip. "This forged steel craftsmanship is unique to the Sakai artisans of the Keicho era; after the Battle of Jiksan, it should have been burned along with Konishi Yukinaga’s effects..."
Suddenly, the blast of a conch shell echoed across the Yalu River. Thirty rafters dressed as Korean sailors burst from the reed marshes, their matchlocks featuring firing mechanisms identical to the weapons abandoned by Yi Sun-sin’s former subordinates. Xiao Heng’s scabbard shattered one of the firing mechanisms; instead of lead shot, what spilled out were rolls of the *Secret Files of the Uiju Border Market*, each page bearing red ink markings stamped with the seal of Mao Wenlong’s "Dongjiang Garrison"!
Chapter 151