The sudden arrival of Long Xia's army was too unexpected for this group of Japanese people.
At least in their eyes, this operation was extremely secretive. He entered Suzhou as a businessman. The weapons in his hands were all bought piecemeal these days, but now he was caught by Long Xiajun.
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Soon, under Qi Zeguang's instructions, thousands of Qi's troops directly fought against the Japanese Japanese pirates.
The army under Qi Zeguang was an unusual Jiangnan army. Even though it had never participated in a battle, its daily training was extremely hard. With the advantage of numbers and strength, this group of Japanese pirates had to retreat while fighting.
"Fuck you!"
After Qi Zeguang killed a Japanese pirate, he immediately noticed that dozens of Japanese pirates were gathering at the city gate and pulling at the gate.
"Hurry up and stop them!"
After shouting, Qi Zeguang led more than a hundred people to kill towards the city gate.
But even though they were approaching step by step, the Japanese pirates still showed no intention of retreating and kept pulling at the city gate.
Qi Zeguang had a hunch that there must be Japanese troops outside the city at this moment!
He immediately stepped over, raised his sword and chopped off the head of a Japanese pirate.
Hundreds of Long Xia troops came forward and quickly killed all the Japanese pirates at the city gate.
The city gate is very much in the middle of the city, and now it has been pushed out of a gap by the Japanese pirates from before.
Inadvertently, Qi Zeguang glanced outside the crack of the door out of the corner of his eye, but it was only this glance that frightened him and hurriedly greeted everyone.
"Come here quickly! Close the city gate tightly!"
At this moment, outside the city, groups of Japanese cavalry were rushing towards this side. Qi Zeguang didn't know how these troops sneaked over quietly.
But if the city gate is not blocked now, the entire city of Suzhou will suffer!
The chaos in the city has basically been calmed down. You can already feel someone pushing on the other side of the city gate. However, with the efforts of more than a hundred Qi family troops, the door was finally closed again.
"Hurry up and clean up these Japanese pirates. Follow me up to the tower."
When everyone went up to the city tower, they could see that there were at least five or six thousand cavalry gathered under the city. However, after Qi Zeguang closed the city gate, in order to avoid being shot by arrows, these cavalry all retreated to a position a hundred feet away, with the same people upstairs.
The defenders looked at each other from a distance.
The deputy general on the side saw that these Japanese pirates had not succeeded in their sneak attack, and said with joy: "Thanks to the general's foresight, if these Japanese pirates had not succeeded in their sneak attack, the entire city of Suzhou would have been in disaster today."
Qi Zeguang looked at the cavalrymen in silence for a long time, and then said softly: "Don't think that it is safe. The Japanese people have been plotting for so long, and they can't be just for one Suzhou city. These thousands of cavalrymen are probably just the vanguard, and the army should be behind.
You should respond quickly and bring all the soldiers in our army over."
After listening to Qi Zeguang's words, the deputy general immediately understood the seriousness of the matter and hurried down to the city and rode towards Yingtian.
As for Qi Zeguang, his facial expression is getting more solemn now. He doesn't know how much the Japanese have invested this time, but if the current emperor pays so much attention to it, I'm afraid it can't be as simple as harassment.
Thinking of this, Qi Zeguang got off the tower and quickly ran towards the magistrate's residence.
There were nearly ten thousand people in the street fight just now. Even though it was late at night, many people were awakened by what just happened.
The prefect of Suzhou had already gathered all the officers and soldiers of the government into his mansion to prevent any unexpected events. Dozens of government officials were waiting with swords in hand. When they saw Qi Zeguang suddenly rushing into the house, they were frightened and fled in all directions.
"Oh my god! The Japanese pirates are coming!"
They were all a mob. Qi Zeguang didn't bother to pay attention to these people. He stepped forward and grabbed the prefect and said: "Stop howling, I am the commander-in-chief of the first army of the Jiangnan Army!"
Upon hearing this and looking at the token in Qi Zeguang's hand, the prefect was slightly startled and then stopped panicking.
"Yes...it turns out to be the military master."
"It's safe for now, don't be afraid."
After things settled down in the courtyard, the magistrate asked his servants to make tea.
"Um...general, I just heard such a loud noise at the city gate. Are the Japanese pirates invading again?"
Qi Zeguang sat on the chair and nodded lightly: "You must do what I tell you next. There will be a war here soon. You should quickly organize the people to evacuate to the rear."
"Is the matter... already serious enough?"
The prefect was over fifty years old. He had personally experienced the troubles caused by Japanese pirates in the early years, but if he was forced to move the entire city, this was definitely the first time in history.
Qi Zeguang didn't want to say more to him: "Listen to me, it won't be long before the Japanese army presses on the border, and it will be impossible to escape by then."
After all, the vanguard troops have a few thousand people, but the main force in the rear is probably around tens of thousands. Now he has many people who died in the battle before, and the full force is less than 3,000 people. In this city, he
There is no certainty that it can be maintained.
Seeing Qi Zeguang's determination, the prefect could only do as he said. After all...he couldn't afford to gamble on a matter where human life was at stake, and would rather run away in vain.
"Okay, I will ask someone to negotiate with the local officials of Yingtian City."
If we really want to retreat, we can only retreat to the nearest Yingtian Capital City. Yingtian City has strong defenses and the Jiangnan Army barracks are there. There is no safer place than there.
But Qi Zeguang waved his hand: "No need, I have already sent someone to tell you to take the people to the rear immediately, do you understand?"
"yes!"
After saying that, the prefect ordered the government officials to go to every street and household to inform them.
As for Qi Zeguang's return to the city tower, Suzhou City, which was originally extremely quiet, began to become noisy because of this incident. Some people did not take the notice from the government officials seriously.
Of course, some people have already packed up their things and started heading towards Yingtian.
This night was destined to be restless. Qi Zeguang was like a lone hero leading less than 3,000 people to guard this empty city that was about to become lonely.
The location of Suzhou City is very special. It is the first line of defense along the coast. If they really want to plot south of the Yangtze River, the Japanese must first capture Suzhou City as a base and then drive their troops all the way to Yingtian.
For this reason, Suzhou City must be defended. As long as these Japanese people have no foothold and wait until reinforcements arrive, everything will be fine.
There are hundreds of thousands of troops along the Jiangnan coast, but in Qi Zeguang's heart, Chen Mu is the one who can really reassure him.
I just don’t know how long it will take to get to Jiangnan.
By the early morning of the next day, most of the more than 100,000 people in Suzhou City had finished walking. As for the remaining part, most of them were lonely old people who were dying. For them, traveling for more than a hundred miles was a dead end.
They can only hope that they can defend Suzhou City.