"Reported that Jiangyin County in South Zhili Province was captured by Xu Hai and Maye Japanese invaders this morning. The Japanese pirates burned, killed and looted wantonly. The water in the moat outside Jiangyin County turned red and the crows hovering over Jiangyin County covered the sky."
The Zhejiang governor's Yamen and the scouts, led by Liu Mu, reported the news of the fall of Jiangyin County to Zhu Ping'an.
Liu Mu came back from the capital yesterday.
He brought Zhu Ping'an from the capital as a reward from Emperor Jiajing: a bag of fruit stores, a jar of royal wine, and an imperial edict.
"When the Japanese invaders in Zhejiang are in danger, I hope you can help them out. I look forward to reporting on your success in pacifying the Japanese invaders!"
After Zhu Pingan received the reward from Emperor Jiajing, he was speechless. Emperor Jiajing was too stingy, so he dismissed himself with a bag of fruit, a jar of wine, and a text message.
"Young Master, the preserved fruits and royal wine are the sacrifices given by the Holy One to the past emperors in the suburban temple after the prisoner sacrifice ceremony. Only cabinet ministers are eligible to receive the Holy Master's gift. Apart from the cabinet ministers, Young Master is the only one."
Liu Mu added, with a look of shame on his face.
Well, for people in this feudal era, this is already a great reward.
In response to this, Zhu Ping'an could only curl his lips. He didn't have anything practical at all, and he still said with a big face that when I quell the Japanese pirates in Zhejiang, Emperor Jiajing is really a white wolf with nothing.
Back to business.
Liu Mu led the messengers to report the news of the fall of Jiangyin County to Zhu Pingan.
"The Japanese pirates didn't stop on the second day of the Lunar New Year. It seems that they are deliberately preventing everyone from having a good New Year."
When Zhu Ping'an received the news, he couldn't help but frowned, and felt a strong uneasiness in his heart. Xu Hai and a group of Japanese pirates began to attack the county. This was really a bad signal. The Japanese pirates could attack the county in southern Zhili, so naturally they would
Being able to attack the county seat in Zhejiang means that the county seat in Zhejiang is no longer safe!
It is no longer safe for ordinary people to hide from villages and towns to county towns!
The Japanese pirates were about to attack, but they had too few available troops. The 8,000 recruits recruited from Yiwu, Dongyang, Yongkang, Wuyi and other places had only been trained for ten days, and had not yet formed combat strength, and were far from meeting the requirements for going to the battlefield.
As for Yu Dayou, he was asked to leave by Zhang Jing. He could only be responsible for the defense of the station and had no right to mobilize him.
The guard posts in various places were too weak, and they could barely defend the city against the Japanese pirates, let alone fight in the field.
It is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice, she is really worried.
"Pay close attention to the follow-up of the Japanese invasion in Jiangyin County, and at the same time dispatch the ten-post Zhejiang army into five teams to reconnoiter the northern Zhejiang border. The mules and horses in the army are at their disposal. If Japanese pirates enter the country, a warning will be issued immediately and the nearby people will evacuate to the county or to the county seat.
Hidden in the mountains and forests; in addition, each sentry commander is authorized to make decisions on the fly, depending on the strength of the Japanese pirates, to intercept, harass, annihilate or retreat, etc. No matter whether the decision is correct or not, no responsibility will be held."
In desperation, Zhu Ping'an could only use the Zhejiang army. In view of the lack of troops, he could only send ten sentries to guard northern Zhejiang.
At this moment, Jiangyin County was already a hell on earth. After the Japanese pirates captured Jiangyin County, half of their troops were scattered around the city, burning, killing, and looting.
The rich and powerful households in the city were targeted by Japanese pirates who burned, killed, and looted. The nursing home that originally bullied the neighbors and showed off its power was vulnerable to the Japanese swords of the Japanese pirates. Anyone who was targeted by the rich and powerful households would have their doors broken into, killed and robbed, and the Japanese pirates knew their way around easily.
They caused one tragedy after another, killing people everywhere in the city.
Half of the troops, led by Xu Hai, Maye, Ryuzoji Shingen and Matsuura Shimosaburo, besieged the Jiangyin County government office.
The reason why the troops were divided was because after the Japanese pirates captured the county, Jiang Zhiqiu, the magistrate of Jiangyin County, did not abandon the city and flee, nor did he surrender to the Japanese pirates. Instead, he used the county government arsenal to arm all the county government officials and servants in the backyard, and at the same time gathered a group of soldiers.
More than a hundred defeated troops guarded the county government office.
Jiang Zhixian was also a decisive person. Instead of taking advantage of the Japanese pirates, it was better to take advantage of his own people. First, he distributed all the crossbows, armors, swords, and shields in the county government's arsenal to the government officials, servants, and soldiers; secondly, he opened the county government's treasury.
, distributed all the nearly ten thousand taels of silver in the county government's silver treasury to the government officials, servants and defeated soldiers, inspiring them to defend the county government to the death; finally, the county government's granary was surrounded with straw, and the straw was poured with
Grease, told his cronies to set fire to the grain depot once the county government fell, and not to leave a single grain to the Japanese pirates!
Jiang Zhixian himself also put on armor, picked up a long sword, went to the front line of the county government wall, and ordered everyone to defend the government to the death.
Under Jiang Zhixian's repeated tactics, as well as the arsenal of bows and arrows, and armed with armor, the defending force composed of government servants, servants and defeated soldiers, despite heavy casualties, miraculously withstood the Japanese pirates.
Enter the county government gate.
"Come on, come on, come on, if you dare to cower, this is what will happen! If you break the gate of the county government office, I will tear off the head of this piece of shit county magistrate and use it as a ball!"
Maye was a little irritable. He personally directed the Japanese pirates to attack the county government office. Unexpectedly, the motley crew led by Jiang Zhixian actually withstood his several attacks. This made him feel that he had lost face in front of Ryuzoji Shingen and Matsuura Shimosaburo.
Angrily, he slashed a Japanese pirate who retreated without permission, forcing the Japanese pirate to attack again.
Under the command of Ma Ye's bloody Japanese sword, the Japanese pirates once again launched a strong attack on the county government office.
"Kill me!"
"Dead, dead!"
"Come on, rush in and chop them to death!"
The real and fake Japanese invaders rushed towards the county government office. The wall surrounding the county government office was not high, only about three meters high, and the Japanese pirates could climb it using a ladder.
"Everyone, if the Japanese pirates rush in, we will die. Only by trying our best to block them can we survive!"
"Let me tell you, my life is much more valuable than yours. I am not just waiting to be killed. Don't worry. Before the Japanese invaders broke through the city, I had already asked for help from the governor and the Shandong spearmen stationed in Changzhou.
.”
"Reinforcements are already on the way now. As long as we hold on, as long as we hold on for a while, the reinforcements will come, and then we will be saved!"
"As long as you persist until reinforcements arrive, after the war, each person will be rewarded with an additional ten taels of silver, and those who died in the battle will also receive a pension of twenty taels of silver. Please rest assured, I swear on the black gauze hat on my head. If you violate this oath, I will be punished."
If the veil falls to the ground, the head will be at risk!"
Jiangyin County Magistrate organized his government officials to break up his troops and fight to the death against the Japanese pirates. At the same time, he gave them a picture, emphasizing that he had asked for help from outside before the Japanese pirates broke through the city, and that he had stopped the Japanese pirates. Everyone was rewarded with more silver.
In the face of life and death, the government officials and the defeated soldiers showed their amazing potential, and once again blocked the fierce attack of the Japanese pirates.
Although, a heavy price was inevitably paid, with nearly half of them being wounded or killed.
In the cold weapon era of hand-to-hand bloody battles, generally speaking, if the casualties exceed 10%, the army will basically be defeated. Only famous generals with extremely high command ability can maintain the army from retreating when the casualties exceed 20%.
Under the threat of death, the Jiangyin County government performed a miracle, with nearly half of the casualties still resisting desperately.
There is no other way, they are all surrounded in the county government office, with no way to escape, they can only fight to the death to survive.