Since the destruction of Yangzhou City, with the news of Shi Shangshu's suicide and martyrdom and the slaughter of Yangzhou for ten days has gradually come, the entire Jinling City has been filled with a kind of panic and uneasiness before the catastrophe.

It wasn't until the seventh day of the fifth month that a good news finally came out in the city, that is, His Royal Highness the King of Linchuan, who was now regarded as the savior by everyone in Jinling City, finally woke up from the high fever, and even carried his sick body on the drum tower in the city in the afternoon of the same day to do a pre-war mobilization of the people in the city.

In fact, the people under the drum tower only saw a young man dressed in the crown of the king of the seven and five chapters, because he was far away, they couldn't see what he looked like, and they only saw that he was tall, although he was sick, he was still tall.

At this time, countless people had already gathered under the drum tower, and they all looked up at His Royal Highness the King of Linchuan, who could almost be called a legend. Almost all the people thought that if the county king had not been injured by his own bombed artillery in Jinan City, maybe the Tartars would have been blocked out of Jinan City until now, and they would not have driven straight into it at all, and they would have fought all the way to the border south of the Yangtze River.

If His Royal Highness, the king of the county who uses soldiers like a god, is really well ill and has him in charge, then will Jinling City be like the previous Jinan City, once again creating a miracle of blocking the Tartars outside the city for several months without entering.

There are more and more people standing under the drum tower, and the black pressure is silent. Everyone held a heart and waited quietly for the golden words that King Linchuan was about to say to them.

However, they did not hear the voice of His Royal Highness the King of Linchuan. They only saw His Highness say a few words to a dark and ugly scribe beside him from a distance, and then they heard the scribe say loudly: "All the villagers and elders in Jinling City, in the next Zhou Wen, are a master under the King of Linchuan, because His Highness has been recovering from a long illness, his throat is still swollen and hoarse, and he can't make a sound, so he ordered him to announce some urgent matters in the city for him. ”

"I think you already know that after the city of Yangzhou was broken, the Tartars slaughtered the city for ten days in a row before they stopped sealing the knife. It is said that in the past ten days, more than 800,000 men, women, and children died tragically under the Tartar knife in Yangzhou City! ”

In order to make her voice heard by the people gathered below, she ordered eight strong men to stand in groups of two in the four corners of the upper floor, and shouted what she said again.

The black crowd was finally no longer silent, and the cursing, screaming, and crying suddenly converged into a turbulent stream of sounds, colliding together, splashing in all directions, making people panic for no reason.

Cai Wei glanced at the red lady, and the red lady understood, and immediately raised her hand and struck it on a gong. The buzzing noise below gradually became quieter, and everyone held their breath again, wanting to know what His Royal Highness King Linchuan could do to turn the tide at this critical moment.

"Fathers and fellow villagers, do you know why the Tartars want to wash Yangzhou in blood and slaughter so many old and weak women and children?"

"The excuse given by the Tartars is that because the guards and people of Yangzhou City did not look at the wind and surrendered, they even dared to resist, and they also blocked them outside Yangzhou City for six days!"

"But is this really the sin of the soldiers and civilians of Yangzhou? Shouldn't we rise up and resist when foreign enemies invade, drive away the bad guys who come to burn, kill, loot, and do all kinds of evil to defend our homes and defend the country? ”

"Which country is this? For example, when a wolf invades our home and eats not only our pigs and sheep, but also hurts others, shouldn't we take up arms and kill this abominable wolf, but instead wash ourselves and stretch our necks for it to eat? ”

"The soldiers and civilians of Yangzhou City just did what they were supposed to do, because they didn't want to be slaves of the country, and they didn't want to be inferior slaves in the eyes of foreigners, and they were insulted and bullied! I don't want to be forced to shave off my hair, take off my crown, take off the Han clothes we have worn for thousands of years, but wear the horse coat of the Tartars, and leave the ugly money rat tail of the Tartars! ”

"That's why the people of Yangzhou City are desperately resisting, because this piece of land, whether it is thousands of miles from the north, the Central Plains or our Jiangnan water town, this is where our ancestors have lived for generations, it is our homeland, why should we give up this fertile field and great rivers and mountains to the Tartars, we are the real masters of this land! We want to defend our dignity as masters! ”

"The people of Yangzhou City have used their blood to defend their pride and unyielding pride as the descendants of Yan and Huang and the sons and daughters of China. So, what about our fathers and villagers in Jinling City? Immediately the army of the Tartars is about to descend on the city, will we surrender to the Tartars who are greedy for life and fear death, or will we stand up our backbones and fight against the Tartars? ”

Many strong-blooded young men and hot-blooded men shouted: "Fight with them, never surrender and become slaves of the country!" "□□ Tartar!" "If you don't want to fight for Lao Tzu's life, you have to die with the Tartars!"

But more people just looked left and right with horrified expressions.

After another gong sounded, Cai Wei continued: "Of course, we are not blood-weary men, and we are willing to defend our homeland until the last drop of blood is shed, but if we can live, who of us is not willing to save our lives and live in peace with our family and friends?" ”

"But even if we do surrender to the Tartars, will the Tartars open up to us and give us a way out?"

"When the city of Yangzhou was broken, the Hui merchant Wang brothers once sent 300,000 taels of gold to Hao Duo, the prince of Yu of the Tartars, begging him to spare the innocent people in the city, Hao Duo accepted the 300,000 taels of gold, but he still killed 800,000 Yangzhou people in one go."

"Because slaughtering the city was his purpose, Yangzhou was the first important place in the south of the Yangtze River attacked by the Tartars, and they wanted to use this kind of wanton killing atrocity to deter the people in other parts of the Yangtze River, so that they could be afraid, fearful, and crush our fighting spirit and courage to resist, and then obediently open the city gate to be their minions!"

Therefore, the Tartars have never sent a letter of persuasion to surrender to Jinling, because only one city in Yangzhou has been slaughtered, and the weight in their hearts is not enough, and they have to slaughter in Jinling again in order to better deter Jiangnan. After all, the city of Jinling is the place where Emperor Hongwu Longxing of our dynasty was built, not only the place where Yan Qin originally built the capital, but also the capital of my dynasty. ”

"What the Tartars want is not only to possess our land, but also to conquer our spirits. Because we have as many as 40,000 Chinese sons and daughters, but how many of them are there in total? Therefore, they can only use all kinds of cruel atrocities to intimidate our hearts, and want us to completely submit to them from the heart, never dare to resist again, and become a pug they raise who only knows how to wag their tail and beg for mercy. ”

"So we can only defend Jinling, even if we know that the walls of Jinling will still be bombarded by Tartar artillery in the end, we still have to hold on to our homeland. If we take the initiative to surrender the city in order to survive and steal our lives, we will not only be looked down upon by the Tartars, but will also greatly shake the morale of our Great Qin. People live in the world, what they rely on, what they rely on is a breath, their heads can be broken, and blood can flow, but this force is born as a human being, and the spirit of standing up in the sky and the earth cannot be lost! ”

"So," Cai Wei looked at the people downstairs and shouted loudly: "My Royal Highness is willing to drive out the Tartars, defend the country, hold Jinling until the last moment, and live and die with Jinling City!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the people were moved, although they knew that His Royal Highness the King of Linchuan had always been the main force to resist the enemy, but after all, the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to Daqin, and he was seriously ill and just recovering, there were still many people who were worried that he would not take care of his own life first, and they never imagined that he would say such a promise to live and die with Jinling City.

For a while, countless people shouted: "Live and die with Jinling City!" "We are willing to help His Highness defend the city!" "The city is in the people, and the city is dead!"

Cai Wei once again signaled everyone to be quiet, "We stick to Jinling in order to give the Tartars a color and let them know that we Han people are not easy to bully, but we can't sacrifice the lives of innocent people in vain for the sake of blindly fighting with the Tartars." Therefore, all the young and strong men in the city, who have no burden on their families and are willing to help His Highness defend the city, please go to the recruitment office at the east gate of the drum tower to sign up for the army. ”

"As for the old and weak women and children in the city, for everyone's safety, although the hometown is difficult to give up, please pack up the softness, leave Jinling quickly, and flee to other places, after all, you can stay in the green mountains, and you are not afraid of no firewood. Only when Jinling City becomes an empty city with no people except the defenders, we can be more assured and bold to defend it, and every day we hold on, the more our fathers and villagers can hide in a place that is still far away from the war at this time, weaving and farming, and enriching the national strength of our Great Qin. ”

"It is the soldiers who stayed to defend the city, I am here to assure you on behalf of my Royal Highness, although on the battlefield, there will always be dead and wounded, but His Royal Highness is here to solemnly promise to everyone that His Royal Highness will not only defend Jinling as long as possible, but also save the lives of all soldiers as much as possible when the city is broken."

"We need to let the Tartars know that it is not easy to encroach on other people's homes, and that they will also have to pay the price of blood. We are all backbone sons and daughters of China, and in order to defend our land and our homeland, we will fight to the death with them. Even if we are temporarily weak at the moment, as long as all the men, women and children of our country think so, we will twist into a rope and work together, one day, we will completely drive out the Tartars and return to our homeland! ”

"Fathers and fellow villagers, let us unite as one, the army and the people are united, drive out the Tartars, and defend the country!"

Eight men shouted loudly: "...... Unite as one, the army and the people are united, drive out the Tartars, and defend the country! ”

Many of the people below had already raised their arms and shouted: "Fight to the death with the Tartars!" "Defend my homeland!" "Get the damn Tartars out!"

For a time, the shouts of expelling the Tartars and protecting the homeland came and went, and finally everyone's shouts converged into a neat and powerful sentence, "Defend the homeland and defend the country, drive out the Tartars!" ”

This shout is so sonorous and powerful, the sound is vibrating, and the sound is curbing the clouds, in the streets and alleys of the ancient capital of Jinling, in the hearts of every Jinling people, echoing for a long time, and enduring.