That night, it was over. Qi Zeguang had been preparing supplies for the defense of the city with his soldiers on the tower.
The scout took advantage of the darkness to go to the seaside to investigate. The seaside was now full of Japanese ships parked as far as the eye could see. From the scout's description, he guessed that there were at least 100,000 people.
The seaside is only fifty or sixty miles away, and now the war has completely started. The Japanese army may overwhelm them at any time. Even if the scouts were too frightened and mistakenly guessed that if the one hundred thousand army was cut in half, there would be more than fifty thousand people.
Wanting to defend Suzhou City with a team of less than 3,000 people, Qi Zeguang had to make full preparations. To say the least, not to mention defending the city, he had to wait for more than 100,000 people in the city to arrive at Yingtian City.
"Take people to demolish the houses in the city and bring up all the bricks."
There are not many defensive objects in Suzhou City. Bows and arrows alone are not enough to defend the city. Therefore, it is necessary to demolish private houses and use heavy objects such as bricks to defend the city.
"yes!"
After that, an officer led hundreds of people to the city.
As for the remaining soldiers, Qi Zeguang let them rest temporarily while he stood guard in front of the city.
There was no movement in the fields outside the city. The Japanese did not attack for a long time. This was something Qi Zeguang never expected. After all, for them, they should send troops as soon as possible and wait until reinforcements arrived to completely capture Suzhou City.
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Until the afternoon, the Japanese army was still in the future, but the city was already piled with bricks and stones. Seeing these things, Qi Zeguang felt a little more at peace.
As long as you hold on until noon tomorrow, your own army will come. There are 100,000 soldiers from Jiangnan. If you don’t believe it, these Japanese pirates can do whatever they want!
And just when Qi Zeguang was thinking like this, a soldier suddenly pointed in the distance and shouted: "General, here we come! Here we come!"
After hearing this, Qi Zeguang quickly looked into the distance, but just one glance made his heart freeze.
It's almost hard to see the edge at a glance. The Japanese army has too many people. The scouts during the day did not lie. One hundred thousand troops is no lie!
"Buck up quickly and defend!"
Everyone immediately cheered up, taut their bowstrings and stared at the approaching Japanese army.
Qi Zeguang noticed that everyone around him was scared out of his wits by the battle. They were obviously not scared by the huge war monster in front of him. After all, three thousand versus one hundred thousand, it was impossible not to be scared.
But now Qi Zeguang could only cheer up: "Hold on, as long as we hold on until tomorrow, all our brothers in Yingtian will come to support us. If the city of Suzhou is destroyed, the entire south will be in danger."
"As you command!"
Everyone shouted in unison, but their expressions showed a sense of helplessness. They knew that they would survive a narrow escape, but they had to stay here. The duty of a soldier is to obey, and of course this is also the helplessness of a soldier.
But when the 100,000 troops pressed down to about 100 paces, the defenders were ready to let go and shoot, but unexpectedly they suddenly stopped again.
Just when Qi Zeguang was confused, dozens of extremely large iron lumps suddenly appeared from the Japanese army. They looked extremely strange, and another extremely thick iron pipe was pointed directly at them.
Qi Zeguang frowned, feeling... deja vu.
"What on earth is this... a new siege engine?"
But when Qi Zeguang saw sparks starting to appear behind each iron bump, Qi Zeguang suddenly remembered that he had seen the firecracker used by Chen Mu before!
"Everyone get down quickly!"
However, the power of a fire gun as thick as an arm is enough to penetrate armor and kill people, and the current behemoth is undoubtedly more powerful!
Qi Zeguang's reminder was relatively timely, but there were still a few people standing there, wondering why they had to squat down. Soon, with the sound of a cannon, the head of the soldier closest to Qi Zeguang was directly hit by an iron bullet.
It was smashed to pieces.
Immediately afterwards, bursts of artillery fire bombarded the city gate, and rubble was flying in an instant. If Qi Zeguang had not given the timely order just now, at least half of the defenders standing at the city gate would have died.
As for the Japanese army, Oda Guishuo was standing in the army, coldly watching the changes in the situation on the battlefield.
"Continue to attack the city gate and make them unable to lift their heads. The rest will go to attack the city!"
After giving the military order, the troops behind them quickly moved towards the city gate under the mobilization of the generals.
As for the defenders in the city, they have been suppressed by artillery fire for a long time and dare not raise their heads. Once they raise their heads, they will die. Such is the power of artillery, they will suppress you to the point where you cannot even raise your head.
"General! Why don't we retreat? The Japanese pirates are already climbing the city!"
Hearing the words of the sergeant beside him, Qi Zeguang decided directly: "No! Suzhou City must be defended, that shield is against it, up!"
After giving up the scolding, Qi Zeguang took the lead in picking up his shield to set an example, and then picked up stone bricks and threw them towards the city.
But after all, the shield could not block the entire body. Under the fierce fire, some sergeants were still shot and fell to the ground.
"Hold the city! If the city is broken, the entire southern people will be plunged into war!"
This is the responsibility of a soldier, to protect his family and the country, even to the death. Under Qi Zeguang's voice and encouragement, the bloody spirit of everyone above the city gate was aroused.
Many people were killed in the gunfire, but still no one took a step back.
Oda Guishuo, who was far away in the Japanese army camp, saw this scene and couldn't help but smile with pride.
"These things invented by Brother Mu are really useful. Attacking the city in this way is much simpler and more convenient. Within a year, we will definitely be able to capture the entire Longxia."
This has been her goal all along, and she hates the country Long Xia.
She is not Japanese, but the daughter of the original dragon Xia Shuo Fang Mu. She was supposed to be a lady, but decades ago Long Xia suddenly raised his troops to attack Shuo Fang. When his father saw that Shuo Fang was no match for Long Xia's army, he led
He took his pregnant mother on a boat and fled to Japan.
My father believed deeply in the theory of dragon veins, and the reason why he was an enemy of the whole Long Xia was that he believed that he was the son of destiny, but when he was born, he was stupid because he was a girl.
How can a girl become the emperor?
He committed suicide out of grief and anger because he had lost everything.
It was the Long Xia court that forced his father to death and left him homeless.
After he became sensible, he vowed that even if he was a woman, he would achieve great things and let his underwhelming father see that he was not wrong.
She is indeed the son of destiny, but she is just a woman.
"We must capture Suzhou City today!"
The Japanese offensive became more and more fierce. At this time, the army had climbed up the flying ladder to the halfway position on the city wall. The artillery fire stopped, but it did not mean that it was beneficial to Qi Zeguang and his party.
But at this moment, another group of people suddenly climbed onto the city gate.
"General Qi, with such a dense concentration of Japanese pirates, burning them with fire will definitely be effective!"