Wo Lin is below the city, and I am sleeping on the city!
Zhu Ping'an's magical operation deeply shocked and affected the people who were crowding in front of the city gate to flee, and gave them a powerful sedative.
The news that the county magistrate had built a pavement on the city wall and vowed to live and die with the county quickly spread throughout Jingnan County. The atmosphere of panic that had been hanging over Jingnan was mostly dispelled in an instant.
So...the fear is still there...
"Master Magistrate, please, please order the city gates to be opened so that we can escape from the city. Master, I kowtow to you. Please open the city gates and let me take my mother out of the city to escape."
"Mr. Magistrate, if you want to live and die with the county, you can live and die with the county. We won't stop you, but you can't drag us along. I'm a coward. I don't want to die. I don't want to live with the county.
Survival or death.”
"Master Magistrate, I, an old woman, have kowtowed to you. I beg you to quickly order the city gate to be opened. If you don't open the city gate, I, old woman, will not be able to kneel down."
Although Zhu Pingan was shocked and infected many people, there were still many people at the scene who requested, or the words "blackmail" or "request" are more appropriate, asking Zhu Pingan to order the city gates to be opened to allow them to escape from the city.
"Dear fellow villagers, it's not that I, Zhu Ping'an, won't let you escape from the city, but that fleeing from the city at this time is undoubtedly asking for death. The Japanese pirates are burning, killing and looting outside the city. They are now gathering towards the county seat. If you leave the city now, you will bump into the Japanese pirates.
On the edge of the knife... At this time, staying in the city and relying on the city wall for defense is the best choice..."
Zhu Pingan stood on the city wall and patiently explained to everyone that Zhu Pingan's explanation was very similar to Liu Dadao's previous explanation. After all, Liu Dadao also learned his rhetoric at the time from Zhu Pingan.
Just like after Liu Dadao's explanation, many of the panicked people at the scene who wanted to escape from the city didn't buy it. They wanted to escape from the city and didn't listen to Zhu Pingan's explanation at all, nor did they believe Zhu Pingan's words.
If it were normal times, Zhu Pingan would have patiently continued to do their ideological work. However, today is different from usual times. The Japanese pirates are about to attack the city. The situation is critical and very serious. The current defense situation of Jingnan County is not optimistic. Jingnan County is in danger.
Zhu Ping'an didn't have time to explain more to them.
"Fathers and fellow villagers, please rise. At this moment, the Japanese pirates are about to attack the city, and the city gates cannot be opened. I have to take responsibility for the tens of thousands of people in the county, and I ask my fellow citizens to forgive me." Zhu Pingan apologized to the people in the city.
Suddenly, there were curses and cries under the city wall.
After sorting out the priorities, Zhu Pingan set about arranging the defense of Jingnan County despite the cries and curses from the people in the city.
After setting up the defense, Zhu Ping'an discovered that Jingnan's defense situation was far more severe than he had imagined.
The first problem is that there are few people.
Jingnan County's defensive force mainly consists of county government officials and city defenders. There are three classes of government officials in Jingnan County with 106 people. However, 23 people followed Li Dianshi and fled the city. Currently, there are only 83 government officials left.
Jingnan County has a total of 80 defenders, but 12 of them ran away, leaving only 68 defenders left. In other words, Jingnan County has a total of 151 available defenders.
Although the number of Japanese pirates who looted Jingnan is unknown, judging from the scope of the Japanese pirates' ravages, it is estimated that there were no less than 2,000 people.
We have 151 people, and there are more than 2,000 Japanese pirates. The strength ratio between the enemy and ourselves is close to 20 to 1. We are seriously outnumbered. In addition, the Japanese pirates, who are more than 2,000 people, are desperadoes who often see blood. They are extremely ferocious. It is said that we are outnumbered.
The real Japanese are all highly skilled in martial arts; these 151 people on our side... The government officials can catch petty thieves, but it is really difficult for them to go to the battlefield. But the soldiers guarding the city, at first glance, they have weak weapons, lack of training, and have been drained by drinking and sex.
Physically, Zhu Ping'an really didn't dare to give much hope to their fighting power.
However, the current situation is such that Zhu Pingan has no choice but to maximize their combat effectiveness.
In order to maximize their combat effectiveness, Zhu Pingan issued three orders with the county seal on the city wall.
A heavy reward order. Zhu Pingan issued a heavy reward order: all government officials and soldiers who bravely defend the city will be rewarded with ten taels of silver each; those who are injured while defending the city will be rewarded with an additional ten taels of silver; those who are killed while defending the city will receive an additional fifty taels of compensation.
As the saying goes, a brave man must be rewarded under a heavy reward. Zhu Ping'an's heavy reward order more than doubled the spirit of the government officials and soldiers.
A beheading order. Zhu Pingan named Liu Mu, Liu Dadao and other six people, as well as six other selected government officials, a total of 12 people as war supervisors. Zhu Pingan issued three beheading orders: the war supervisors served first, and the soldiers retreated.
If you stand in formation, the war supervising officer will be beheaded; if the yamen servants or soldiers do not obey orders and retreat before the battle, the war supervising officer will be beheaded! Anyone who dares to disobey military orders will be killed without mercy!
A defense order. Zhu Pingan divided 151 people, each of 30 people, into 5 defense teams. One team was deployed at the East Gate, South Gate, and North Gate to defend the city, and two teams were deployed at the West Gate to defend the city.
, each team is ordered to support each other at any time.
The second problem is that the defense equipment is ineffective.
First of all, there are no trenches outside Jingnan County, and time is short at this moment, and there is no time to dig trenches. As for the caltrops and other things to resist the enemy, there are no such things.
Secondly, there is a serious shortage of defensive weapons. There are no artillery pieces, and the catapults have long since fallen apart and rotted. A few beds were found in the weapons warehouse, but they were in disrepair and most of them were unusable. Only two beds were barely usable.
There were only about twenty crossbow arrows that could be used. Zhu Ping'an ordered all three beds to be placed at the west city gate. There were not many rolling logs, only eight. The nail-made sharp tools inlaid around the wood were all rusty, but they were polished.
It can still be used once. Jingnan County does not have any of the wolf fangs commonly used for city defense.
Finally, there was a shortage of bows and arrows. There were less than a hundred bows in the county's arsenal, and not many arrows.
The only good news is that there are quite a few standard sabers, spears and shields in the arsenal, which are enough to arm government officials and soldiers, and there are still a lot left. In addition, there are some simple cloth breastplates in the arsenal, although their defensive power is not very good.
However, after the government officials and soldiers put on the cloth breastplates, it gave them a lot of inner comfort. They felt more secure and more courageous.
Before the large Japanese pirate troops arrived, Zhu Ping'an ordered the government officials and soldiers to carry stones and huge trees to the city wall to use as defensive weapons. Some people also volunteered to join in and carried a large number of stones and huge trees to the city wall.
In addition to these, Zhu Ping M. An also carefully prepared a "gluttonous delicacy" for the Japanese pirates: golden juice.
Zhu Pingan sent people to nearby houses to collect an unlimited amount of feces and urine, and set up more than thirty large pots on the city wall to boil the mixture of feces and urine until it boiled.
It is no exaggeration to say that the power and lethality of this "delicacy" is much higher than other defensive weapons on the city wall.
This is considered the category of biological and chemical weapons.
Now is the hot autumn, and the Japanese pirates are bareheaded and naked. The golden juice is boiled and poured down, which is enough to burn the Japanese pirates. Once burned, the bacteria and microorganisms in the feces will infect the Japanese pirates through the wound. In this way, even if
Even if the Japanese pirates were lucky enough to escape with their lives, they would also die due to wound infection.