Because of the killing of a Japanese team in one fell swoop, and the corpses of the Japanese were hoisted on the city tower, Qingjiang County became famous for a while.

Nanxiang and Beixiang both have strong folk customs, so as soon as Gu Qian's order was reached, the two townships immediately organized a group exercise, if you want the horses to run faster, you naturally have to feed more grass, because there is an additional silver subsidy to participate in the group exercise, so the enthusiasm of the villagers is very high.

With the development of the regimental training, the martial arts style in Qingjiang County became stronger and stronger, and it soon became famous in Xinghua Mansion.

Xinghua Province is located in the southeast, most of the territory is near the sea, although Zhejiang is now the hardest hit area, but there are still a small number of Japanese pirates who regard Fujian as a place to settle down, and the people along the coast of Fujian are often harassed by the Japanese invaders.

Xinghua is not a rich place, the Japanese who take this as a base camp are not many, because the number is small, the Japanese do not dare to act in a big way, most of them regard Xinghua Mansion as a resting place, if they really want to rob, they will still run to Fuxian County, Zhejiang, which is adjacent to Xinghua, to "do business".

This time I came to Qingjiang, but in fact, this team of would-be robbers got lost in the wind and waves, and they bumped into it in a daze.

Originally, the Dongxiang Xue family did not have a desperate plan to fight with the Japanese Invaders, but the hateful Japanese Kou were cruel, killing more than a dozen people of the Dongxiang Xue family at once, and robbing a lot of money and goods.

made a windfall in Dongxiang, the Japanese were overjoyed, and ran to Beixiang, which is rich in silver, to attack and harass, but did not think that the villagers of Beixiang were brave, and almost beat them to the north, and the Japanese could not resist the Beixiang villagers who took out a desperate posture to fight with them, so they could only flee in a hurry to the direction of the county seat.

On the path leading to the county seat, Gu Qian had already finished arranging, waiting for the would-be robbers to take the bait.

Sure enough, as Gu Zhixian expected, this group of panicked would-be robbers fell into the death trap prepared for them, and under Duan Wenrui's full supervision, the would-be robbers lined up and crawled to meet their Amaterasu God one by one.

The more beautiful Qingjiang is this time, the more eye-catching it is, and the people naturally praise the eldest master's iron-fisted policy against the enemy, but Gu Qian's colleagues and superiors don't necessarily see it that way, especially Zhou Datong, the county magistrate of Linshui County next door, is very dissatisfied with Gu Qian's practice of hanging the corpse of the widow on the head of the city.

Linshui County is also a coastal county, not far from Linshui County, there is a nest of Japanese robbers hidden, Zhou Datong also knows a little about this situation, but the business scope of the Japanese is mainly in Zhejiang Province, and the people of Linshui County can not say that there is no crime in autumn, and it can be regarded as well water does not violate river water, so Zhou Datong has adopted an attitude of turning a blind eye to the fact that the Japanese are hiding in Linshui County.

Linshui County is afraid of the Japanese like a tiger, but Qingjiang County dares to hang the corpse of the Japanese Kou on the city, listening to the praise of the people of Linshui County for Gu Qian, Zhou Datong does not show it on his face, but he is very uncomfortable in his heart. A weak-crowned young man who was an official at the beginning turned out to be more showy than him, an old official who has been a county magistrate for many years, and it is strange that Zhou Datong can balance in his heart.

What's more, he thinks he is a person on the road of Xiao Zhifu, and he has also heard of the matter of Xiao Zhifu and the second master of the Xue family breaking their wrists, not to mention whether Xiao Zhifu can succeed in this battle, just Gu Qian helped the Xue family deal with Lord Xiao, it is very wrong for Zhou Datong.

They are Yan Shoufu's faction, but Gu Qian is a protégé of Master Xu, seeing that Gu Qian is getting more and more beautiful in Xinghua Mansion, how can he bear not to give the other party a little color.

"My lord, the soldiers have been dispatched, do you have any other orders?" the staff came in and replied.

"Let them make a bigger noise, our purpose is not to fight the thieves, but to drive them away, so that the brothers can properly retain some strength. In front of his confidants, Zhou Datong naturally would not hide it, after all, this strategy to drive away the Japanese invaders was privately discussed by him and his staff, and now there is no need to hold a shelf.

"Now that the students know, sit down and wait for the good news from the students. The staff arched their hands, and according to the original plan, they went to join the soldiers of the Inspection Division, and prepared to supervise the battle in person.

"Be careful, don't fight hard. ”

"Master Xie cares, and students know. ”

The staff walked away in the moonlight, and Zhou Datong sat in the signing room for a long time, slowly revealing a sneer.

In addition to burning down the nest of the Japanese invaders, it did not hurt the bones of the Japanese invaders, and even the soldiers of Linshui County did not cause any casualties, because the soldiers only took torches to expel the Japanese invaders, and did not directly confront the Japanese invaders. They always kept a certain distance from the Japanese invaders, and because of the guidance of well-intentioned people, the more than 200 Japanese invaders did not retreat to the seaside, but entered the scope of Qingjiang County.

Originally, the Japanese robbers hated the hanging of the corpses of the Japanese in Qingjiang County, and after finding that they had not retreated to the sea but were forced into the Qingjiang territory, the Japanese not only did not have a trace of panic, but had a stronger fighting spirit, and rushed in the direction of Qingjiang County with a squeaky scream.

"What are you talking about?,There are a large number of Japanese robbers pouring into the territory of Qingjiang?" Hearing Xiao Jiu's return, Gu Qian suddenly sat up from the bed.

"The spies are right outside the door, and adults can directly ask for questions. Xiao Jiu hurriedly said.

"Good. Gu Qian hurriedly put on his clothes and came to the door, where the spies and Duan Wenrui were already waiting at the bottom of the steps.

"How's the situation?" Gu Qian hurriedly asked.

"If you go back to your lordship, there are about 200 Japanese robbers with knives attacking my Qingjiang County. The spies' faces turned pale from the cold, and there was a hint of horror in their expressions.

"Two hundred?" Gu Qian gasped, "Where did you get so many widows?"

"The little ones don't know, but when the little ones found them, they were less than thirty miles away from Qingjiang County!"

Isn't that coming soon? Gu Qian's heart was shocked, and he stumbled under his feet.

"My lord!" Duan Wenrui stepped forward and helped him.

"I'm fine," Gu Qian waved his hand, took a deep breath and said, "Quickly go and pass the order, order the soldiers of the four cities to guard the city gate, without the official hand, no one is allowed to open the city gate without permission, and there will be no mercy for violators!"

"Yes!"

"Ring the gong to warn, order all households to close their doors and not go out without authorization, and violators will be immediately arrested and put into the county jail!"

"Yes!"

"Gather soldiers to garrison the city tower, and call a hundred young men to stand by under the city tower, waiting for support at any time. ”

"Yes!"

With the issuance of one order after another, Qingjiang County urgently mobilized, heard that there was a large wave of Japanese invaders, the people did not dare to sleep, dressed in the dark, and the whole family huddled together nervously waiting for news.

At the darkest moment before dawn, a sharp sound sounded on the south tower of Qingjiang, and with this warning, the four gates of Qingjiang City were linked, and the sharp warning sound resounded through the sky.

Gu Qian was dressed in official uniforms, standing calmly on the South City Tower, less than a mile away from the South City Tower, a fire dragon meandered in, and the city tower instantly became silent, everyone knew that the Japanese were coming.

"My lord, you better go downstairs and take shelter first. Ma Xiancheng was so frightened that his face turned pale, and his legs and stomach trembled, but Gu Qian stood at the head of the city, where did he dare to hide from below, he could only follow up, I heard that the widows were all murderous and vicious, once they were entangled, their lives could not be saved.

"No need, this official is standing here and advancing and retreating with all the officials and people, I don't believe that those people have the ability to break through my city wall. ”

"My lord, the son of a daughter can't sit down. ”

After listening to Ma Xiancheng's words, Gu Qian raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Old Ma, what you said is a bit excessive, this official is only a mere seven grades, how can he be compared with a thousand gold nobles?"

Ma Xiancheng was choked by him, his face turned red, and he retreated to the side.

The Japanese are accustomed to robbing along the coast, and they have done a lot of burning, killing and looting, but the siege of the city is really a rare thing for them, after all, robbing, killing people and goods, robbing and running, and now facing the high city walls, the usual methods are somewhat ineffective.

Although the business is not proficient, the Japanese still don't want to give up, think about the brothers who were hung on the wall by Gu Qian, think about the nest that was burned down by Linshui County, where are the Japanese robbers willing to let go of the opportunity to take revenge.

The Qingjiang city wall is as high as three zhang, unless the Japanese have the ability to fly, otherwise they can't attack the wall, but the Japanese have burned and looted for so many years, and they have some kung fu in their hands, they took out flying claws and other things, and when the large group of people and horses gathered at the south gate of the Qingjiang River, several teams extinguished the torches, and came to the sparsely populated city wall root at night, ready to take advantage of the gap between the Qingjiang officers and soldiers to defend the south gate, climb the city wall and outflank the past.

What the Japanese could think of, Gu Qian had already thought of, in order to prevent the Japanese from sneaking up, he sent someone to light torches on the city wall, and when the Japanese were assembled under the south city gate, the torches suddenly lit up on the city wall, and suddenly illuminated the dark city wall.

Several of the flying claws were cut down by the soldiers guarding the city walls, and with a scream, the pirates lost a few of their good hands.

"Baga!" the leader of the pirates gritted his teeth in hatred, and with a gesture of the long knife in his hand, he shouted to several pirates with bows and arrows in their hands, "Shoot me!"

Several long arrows quenched with poison flew towards Gu Qian, who was standing in the city tower, with a sharp wind.

"My lord!" Ma Xiancheng said in horror.

Gu Qian frowned slightly, and looked at the arrow feathers that were coming at him without moving, and the soldiers guarding the city tower were all frightened by him, was this Lord Gu a master of art or was he stupid? Why didn't he move?

"What's the panic?!" Gu Qian watched coldly as the arrow hit the battlement, and finally slashed weakly, he gently loosened his clenched fist, and said loudly, "The Japanese people came from the wilderness, but they are just a group of uncivilized monkeys, I am in the country, can't I even clean up a few uncivilized barbarians?"

"Your Excellency is mighty, this battle will be won!"

"In this battle, our side has the advantage, if we don't kill all these Japanese robbers, what face do you have to see Qingjiang's father?"

"Kill all the pirates, and raise my prestige!"

Gu Qian's composure and calmness inspired everyone present, the county commander was not afraid of death, what were they doing with these little soldiers still shrinking behind?

"Brothers, destroy these sons and avenge the dead fathers and villagers!" suddenly someone in the crowd shouted.

"Kill, kill, kill!" echoed from the castle tower.

Until dawn, Gu Qian has been standing on top of the city tower, with him in charge, no official or soldier dares to retreat, under the guard of the Qingjiang army and civilians, no one can climb the city wall.

As early as the beginning of the closure of the city gate, Gu Qian sent Duan Wenrui to lead the soldiers who had stopped the Japanese in Qingshui Stream to set up an ambush outside the city, and sent a few fast horses to Beixiang and Nanxiang overnight to ask for support.

Beixiang and Nanxiang have always been brave and brave, and the villagers who participated in the group training have already mastered the essence of the mandarin duck array, just when the sky was slightly bright, with a burst of shouting and killing, the reinforcements from Beixiang and Nanxiang finally rushed to Nancheng.

"Kill, kill, kill!" Duan Wenrui's soldiers hiding outside the city came out, and the officers and soldiers of Beixiang, Nanxiang, and Qingjiang counties outflanked the Japanese from three directions, and they were armed with wolf shackles, shields, and spears, shouting the slogan of exterminating the Japanese and killing them with a steady pace.

The widows who were still shouting under the city tower didn't expect that there were still reinforcements in Qingjiang County, and they just wanted to assassinate Gu Qian and run away, only to find out at this time that they had fallen into the trap set by Gu Qian, and they couldn't escape.

"Fooled!" the leader of the Japanese invaders shouted, "If you want to live, kill me immediately!"

Under the command of Duan Wenrui and the leaders of the Beixiang and Nanxiang regiments, the Qingjiang army and civilians surrounded the Japanese and took advantage of the wolf and spear to stab the outer Japanese at once.

"Give it to me!" Seeing that the situation was not good, the leader of the Japanese Bandits immediately shouted loudly, "Hurry up, or we will all die here!"

"Don't let one go, give me slow, slow, kill!" Although the language was not understood, Duan Wenrui guessed their purpose very lightly from the actions of the widows.

Duan Wenrui prides himself on not being a good person, but he still thinks that he is much better than these Japanese people, at least he has not done anything to ordinary people.

The sky was bright, and the soldiers and civilians guarding the city tower gradually saw the shape below, the Qingjiang side had already occupied the advantage under the leadership of Duan Wenrui, and it was only a matter of time before they killed this group of widows.

"Lord Duan is doing well!" burst of cheers rang out from the castle tower.

"Sons, kill those people, we have good wine and good food for you to celebrate!"

"My lord, the little ones also want to go down to kill the enemy, please be gracious!" The soldiers guarding the city tower couldn't sit still, and the brothers below were killing the enemy to earn military merits, and they also wanted to go down to earn money.

Seeing the faces of eagerly anticipation, Gu Qian frowned and said, "Who let you leave your post without permission?"

"My lord, we want to go down and kill the enemy. Several soldiers fell to their knees.

"You see that Lord Duan is easy to kill the enemy, right?"

A few people didn't dare to say anything.

"Do you know how long they've been practicing?" Gu Qian said coldly, "It's not that the official doesn't want to let you go, but you've also seen the long knives of the Japanese Kou, those knives are made of stainless steel, and cutting your saber is as easy as chopping vegetables, not only will you not be able to help when you go down, I'm afraid you will have to take your life!"

"This ......" Several people looked at each other, and after Gu Qian turned around, he retreated with a red face amid the laughter of everyone.

Watching the battle from the city tower, I only felt that Duan Wenrui and others won easily, but I didn't know that the two hundred ferocious Japanese pirates were not so easy to deal with, although there were as many as 400 Qingjiang soldiers and civilians fighting in front of the city gate, but after besieging the Japanese pirates, they still caused some casualties.

And because of the ferocity of the Japanese invaders, after a long period of strangulation, because of exhaustion, the encirclement of Qingjiang was still broken out of a gap by the Japanese invaders, and dozens of Japanese invaders took advantage of the chaos to escape.

"Chase me!" Duan Wenrui said angrily.

"Stop!" Gu Qian shouted from the city tower.

"My lord, you can't let them go, in case these people wander into the township, I don't know what kind of chaos will be caused!"

"I know, there is a big battle, you come back to rest first, those widows, I will send someone else to chase them. Gu Qian could see that this group of would-be robbers had been frightened by the Qingjiang soldiers and civilians, and it was impossible for them to have the strength to do anything sabotage.

The top priority at the moment is to consolidate the results of the battle, count the corpses of the Japanese robbers, and quickly make up for the dead ones, and the other is to count the number of casualties on their own side and treat them immediately.

Thinking of this, Gu Qian hurriedly asked people to open the city gate and rushed to the outside of the city in person, but greeted the triumphant heroes, of course, he did not forget to send a team of men and horses, following the footsteps of the Japanese invaders to escape, and drove the Japanese into the sea all the way. I was a great official in ancient times

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Chapter 55 of the text Gu Zhi County resisted the Japanese