Of course, the people who can be invited by local feudal officials like Pan Ruzhen to go to the city to watch the battle are not unknown people, on the contrary, these people are all well-known figures in Hangzhou Prefecture, they either have thousands of wealth or fertile land, and such people do not exist here.

However, when these usually five or six people, or reserved, rich or majestic, faced with the black and oppressive rogues under the city, the so-called reserve and majesty were all gone, replaced by panic and panic, and the rich-looking gentry was the first to collapse.

Collapse is contagious, and when a person collapses, it often causes a chain reaction.

When the gentleman's cry sounded, the people around him began to be confused, some of their bodies trembled like chaff, some leaned against the guardrail with dull eyes, and even more frightened people were so frightened that they were incontinent on the spot, and they were unaware of the urine flowing out from under their trouser legs.

In addition to Pan Ruzhen and these gentry on the city gate, there are also dozens of soldiers of the Fubiao battalion, many people see the ugly appearance of the well-dressed and high-ranking "big men" on weekdays, and their eyes show disdain at this moment.

Pan Ruzhen slowly walked to the middle of the crowd and said sharply: "Everyone, you have also seen the current situation, the thieves are attacking the city urgently, and the soldiers are using their lives to buy time for us to live."

If the city wall is lost, what will happen is not to be said, you should also be clear, don't think that you can stay out of it! ”

These gentry are naturally not stupid, after many people exchanged glances with each other, one of the old men stood up tremblingly and saluted Pan Ruzhen, "Lord Governor, rest assured, although the old man and others can't lift their hands and shoulders and can't resist, but at least they have lived in Hangzhou Mansion for so long, and they can't help but they can always help with small favors such as some errands, if there is anything, you just have to tell it, as long as these people can do it, they will not shirk." ”

Don't look at this old man standing there, trembling as if a gust of wind can blow away, but Pan Ruzhen knows very well that this old guy is the president of the Hui Chamber of Commerce stationed in Hangzhou, and it can be said that the business community in Hangzhou will be shaken three times if he stomps his feet. ”

The most feared thing about this kind of thing is singing a one-man show, and it will be much easier to do it if someone helps to hold the eye.

Pan Ruzhen has been in officialdom for most of his life, how can he not know the truth of beating snakes and sticks?

Seeing that someone had set up a ladder, he hurriedly said: "Since Duke Wei Qinggong said so, then Ben Fu is not welcome." Now the thieves are attacking the city urgently, and the casualties of the defenders are very large, and now we can say that there is no shortage of anything. There is a shortage of silver, a lack of food, a shortage of doctors, a shortage of medicinal materials, but most importantly, a shortage of people.

These days, the young Zhuang who defend the city alone have suffered thousands of casualties, so Benfu decided to recruit another 8,000 young men to assist the officers and soldiers in defending the city, and Benfu also knows that you still have a lot of family members who are used to watch the family nursing home, and Benfu plans to requisition these people to help defend the city, I don't know what you think? ’”

Seeing that Pan Ruzhen asked for money, food, medicine, and doctors, the expressions of these rich gentry were quite normal, but when they heard that they were going to requisition the family in their hands, many people's faces couldn't help but leak a look of hesitation.

Pan Ruzhen saw all this in his eyes and continued: It stands to reason that these people are all your domestic servants, even if it is not easy for the imperial court to forcibly requisition, but now that the situation is urgent, Benfu can't take care of it much, if Hangzhou City is breached, no matter how many servants can't save your lives, do you say that's the truth? “”

"Strike...... Strike ......"

The old man known as Weiqing Gong stomped his feet, sighed and said: "Needless to say, Lord Governor, the truth of cold lips and teeth is still known by Lao Yu and others, and now Lao Yu immediately asked all the families in the mansion to be sent here for the governor and Lord Ma, as long as they can defend Hangzhou City, it is worth it for them to all die in the city!" ”

"Only celebrate the righteousness of the public!" Pan Ruzhen was overjoyed, as long as this old man opened his mouth, others would be able to do it.

If not, the people next to him also spoke: "Don't worry, Lord Governor, the grass people are also willing to send more than 30 family members to here for you to send." ”

"There are more than 100 people in the grass people's family, and they are willing to send them all."

"There are not many grass people in their families, but the grass people are willing to provide the army with 2,000 stone of grain and grass and 5,000 taels of silver."

"The grass people are willing to provide a batch of herbs, and there are six doctors."

"The grass people are willing to donate six thousand taels of silver for the army."

Looking at the generous gentry, Pan Ruzhen's spirit also became invigorated, and he smiled at everyone to show his gratitude.

Soon, the gentry took their leave, and the reason for their departure was also very strong, to go back to collect supplies, just looking at the impatient and even hectic steps of these people, no matter how they looked like a group of refugees fleeing the famine.

The guerrilla general of the Governor's Battalion walked up to Pan Ruzhen's side and reminded: "Lord Governor, these people are all old oilers, you have to be careful of their yang and yin." ”

"It's okay!"

Pan Ruzhen waved his hand and said quietly.

"As long as the Liukou is still outside the city for a day, we don't have to worry about them making trouble, because these people know very well what will happen to them once the city is broken, so Benfu has never worried that they will repay their debts, and now what worries Benfu the most is when Xinguogong's soldiers and horses will arrive, you must know that our people can't last too long."

Pan Ruzhen's worries were not unreasonable, after seven days of fighting, the officers and soldiers defending the city of Hangzhou were already exhausted, if it were not for the basket of silver coins placed on the head of the city and the long knives of the overseers, they would have been unable to hold on.

But even so, the number of defenders is still too small, the original 5,000 defenders plus 10,000 young men and more than 1,000 private soldiers from the salt merchants and maritime merchants, now thirty percent of them have been killed, and the rest are all exhausted......

Just when Li Zicheng was commanding seventy or eighty thousand rogues to storm Hangzhou Mansion, less than fifty miles away from Hangzhou Mansion, a group of cavalry was quietly advancing towards Hangzhou Mansion from a small road.

This group of cavalry wore the special steel half-body armor of the Jiangning Army, carried a brown beisi fire gun on their backs, and hung slender sabers on their saddles, and some even hung a longbow on their saddles, and the whole team exuded a strong fighting spirit.