If you want to defend the city, you have to have certain conditions.

Chongde County is small, there are only two city gates, the Japanese have always been not good at attacking the city, there are about three or four hundred soldiers in the city, as well as hundreds of people such as the government servant and the guard, and there are experienced veterans to command, it is not too difficult to defend the city.

The problem now is that there is a shortage of silver.

Demolishing houses and employing village warriors all need silver, which is still a trivial matter, and the key is that it takes silver taels to motivate soldiers to defend the city.

Qian Yuan knew this very well, so he appeared at Xiang's house.

The Xiang family has the reputation of being the first in Jiaxing, on the one hand, because of its good family background and high reputation, and on the other hand, because of its wealth.

Chongde is a small county town, there are not many large households, basically only the Xiang family is the first to look forward, and at this time they all gather in the Xiang family.

"The city of Jiashan is broken, and the city is slaughtered by the Japanese invaders." Qian Yuan's eyes swept over everyone like lightning, "Either the silver will help the officers and soldiers defend the city, or the city will be broken and looted by the Japanese robbers, you can choose." ”

Xiang Yuanbian, who had been unpleasant to Qian Yuan since yesterday, was the first to jump out, "No money." ”

The Zhou family, the in-laws of the Xiang family, smiled bitterly: "Even if you have money, it may not be a good thing to take it out......

"Bandits are like combs, and soldiers are like grates." Qian Yuan sneered: "Now there are four hundred soldiers in the city, and it won't take two hours to wash Chongde County." ”

Hearing such a murderous threat, everyone shivered, and couldn't help but glance at the two people behind Qian Yuan, one was Lu Bin and the other was Li Liangqin.

Lu Bin pressed the handle of the knife in his hand, his face was expressionless, and he didn't say a word, and the corners of Li Liangqin's mouth twitched, but he didn't say anything.

Although he despises this Songjiang Xiucai's style, Li Liangqin, who has followed Yu Dayou for three years, also knows the virtue of the soldiers under his command, except for dozens of personal soldiers brought from Guangdong and Guangxi, the rest are all local guards in Zhejiang, without silver to boost morale, those generals of the defeated army may be scattered the next day!

Besides, now the troops in the city are mainly in the hands of Lu Bin, and Lu Bin is the only one who is from Songjiang Xiu.

"You think I'm joking?" Qian Yuan paced back and forth in the lobby and glanced at Xiang Yuanbian, "Tianlai Pavilion is famous in Jiangnan, and you write clearly on your paintings and calligraphy, five hundred gold, one thousand gold...... Do you think the Woko will let it go? ”

"Ten taels of silver for each soldier, and three taels of silver for each hired villager." Qian Yuan didn't bother to pay attention to these goods who wanted money and didn't want to die, "Give you half an hour, and if you don't have any money, you will start washing the city." ”

"Qian Jiazi, believe it or not, I will sue Nanjing!"

"Faith." Qian Yuan looked at the other party calmly, "But first, you have to live." ”

The gaze swept over everyone again with a great sense of oppression, and the hall was silent, and this time no one jumped out again.

After a while, Qian Yuan waved his hand and called the scribe to record the storage, and he pulled Lu Bin and Li Liangqin out of the house.

"Let's talk about it." Qian Yuan asked with a gloomy face: "Where was General Yu's army defeated?" ”

"Pinghu." Li Liangqin said sullenly: "Ambushed by more than 1,000 pirates, more than 100 ronins are the vanguard, and the officers and soldiers will collapse at the first touch. ”

Qian Yuan immediately linked Yu Hang's invasion by the Japanese and Yu Dayou's ambush at Pinghu, and his cheeks bulged, if he guessed correctly, the large-scale invasion of the Japanese invaders finally came.

"How is Mr. Yu now?"

"No fear for my life, but I lost too much blood and fell unconscious." Lu Bin sighed, "This defeat, I'm afraid that I will be imprisoned in the future." ”

Qian Yuan glanced at the past, still thinking about the future, he didn't know if he could hold it up now, maybe the big guys were planted in this Chongde City.

The streets were chaotic, and panicked people could be seen everywhere, and sharp cries could be heard from time to time.

Everyone was about to go to Yu Dayou's residence, when suddenly Qian Yuan's footsteps slowed down and looked at the city gate, where a large number of people were flocking into the city.

"Who opened the gates?" Lu Bin roared angrily, drew his waist knife and hurried over.

The city wall of Chongde County is not high, even if the Japanese invaders build a ladder to attack the city, it is most likely to target the city gate, and the one that takes the opportunity to seize the city gate among the fleeing people is the one with the highest success rate.

After scolding a few words about the soldiers in charge of the city gate, Lu Bin first asked the city gate to be killed, and Wang Yi, Yang Wen and others scattered to hold the more than 100 people.

"Brother Qian." Xiang Dushou, who was sweating profusely, came over, "They are all people of Jiaxing, how can they bear ......?"

"There are Japanese robbers everywhere along the southeast coast, and everyone knows it, and seven or eight out of ten of them are Ming people." Qian Yuan blocked back expressionlessly, and stretched out his finger to point at a man with his head bowed among the people.

Yang Wen immediately took the person out and searched it up and down, and there was a "ding dong" sound, and a snow-bright dagger fell on the bluestone slab.

Qian Yuan was a criminal policeman in his previous life, and his eyesight in this regard was quite good, and he had already seen something wrong.

The crowd immediately became in a commotion, Qian Yuan sneered and waved his hand, and more than 20 nursing homes raised their swords and guns in unison to suppress the commotion.

Soon, Wang Yi, who was also quite vicious, picked out seven or eight men one after another, and found daggers and other sharp weapons from them.

Xiang Dushou on the side watched this scene dumbfounded, wanting to say something but couldn't say it.

After a moment of silence, Qian Yuan called Liu Zhutou and commanded in a low voice, "Women regardless of size are admitted to the city, men are only accepted under the age of ten, and the rest are all driven out." ”

"This, this ......" Liu Zhutou is a sleek person, and he wants to persuade a few words.

But Qian Yuan had already made a gesture towards Wang Yi.

Wang Yi smiled and nodded hideously, took out his waist knife and walked a few steps, and slashed down with a slash.

"Ahh......hh

In the crowd, a sharp cry suddenly arose, but it was gone in a blink of an eye, and then there was no sound.

The nurse let go of his hand and took a step back, the headless corpse kneeling on the ground froze there, and only after a moment did it stagger and fall to the ground, the blood staining the ground bright red, and not far ahead, the skull was still staring at each other.

Soon, the eight heads were placed upright on the left side of the city gate, and Qian Yuan squinted and told the soldiers to tie the heads together with their hair and hang them on the city gate.

There was no need for Qian Yuan to say anything, Liu Zhutou quickly dealt with the matter, and Xiang Dushou stood beside Qian Yuan for a long time and couldn't find anything to say.

The last time we met, I was a gentle and even a shy young man, but in the blink of an eye, he changed into a decisive killing, and he didn't change his color when he saw his head hit the ground...... Xiang Dushou was a little dazed.

Glancing at the women and children who were driven together, Qian Yuan turned his head and asked, "Liu Zhutou, how much grain has been collected?" ”

It is impossible to prevent people from outside the city from entering the city, not to mention that they will definitely be scolded as shit in the future, even now, women and children are tortured and killed under the city, which is a huge blow to the morale of the soldiers guarding the city.

Those sturdy men always have more chances to escape, Qian Yuan hopes to accommodate women and children who have no destructive ability as much as possible, compared to the danger of being stolen by the Japanese robbers, Qian Yuan has tried his best to do the limit.

"Not much...... Oh, no wonder let's gather food. Liu Zhutou smiled bitterly: "The two grain stores in the city belong to the Xiang family. ”

Qian Yuan glanced at it, Xiang Dushou shuddered, and immediately nodded and said, "The Xiang family has no shirk responsibility." ”

After instructing the scribe to sort out the records, Qian Yuan followed Li Liangqin and Lu Bin to Yu Dayou.

As soon as I entered, I heard shouting inside.

Qian Yuan mentioned in his heart, Yu Long Qihu, don't hang one here, then your own butterfly will be too guilty.

"Wake up, wake up!"

"Call the doctor, where's the medicine?"

"Bring some water first, and the adults will drink it."

Qian Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, leaned on the door frame and calmed down, it's okay, as long as he doesn't die.