After the two sides met the ceremony, Pan Ruzhen bowed his hand and smiled bitterly: "Grandpa Guo, it stands to reason that you have come from afar, and the lower officials should ask you to rest first, and then prepare a little wine to wash the dust for you, but now the thieves are attacking the city very urgently, so I invite you to go to Qingbo Gate to watch the battle and introduce the battle situation to you." ”

Yang Feng smiled: "Lord Pan doesn't have to be polite, my father came here to rescue hundreds of thousands of people in Hangzhou Mansion, not to drink, now the military situation is urgent, it should be so." ”

Pan Ruzhen said: "Grandpa Xie Guo is considerate, please!" ”

"Please!"

Surrounded by a group of people, Yang Feng and Pan Ruzhen got on their horses and headed towards Qingbo Gate, behind them were the officials of the Hangzhou Prefecture, as well as Yang Feng's five hundred family members and two thousand soldiers.

Taking advantage of the time to hurry, Yang Feng was also looking around. Hangzhou City is one of the richest places in the south of the Yangtze River, along the way the streets are lined with shops, although in wartime, but the shops on the street are not closed, there are still many people buying things.

When Yang Feng and Pan Ruzhen and their entourage walked down the street surrounded by many sergeants, they saw that there were still so many pedestrians on the street, and they couldn't help but ask curiously: "Lord Pan, now that the offensive outside is quite fierce, the people in the city can still do business with peace of mind, which really surprises my father." ”

Pan Ruzhen said helplessly: "There are now more than 75,600 households in Hangzhou Prefecture, with a population of more than 300,000, and the daily consumption alone is a large amount. ”

Yang Feng nodded, this is the same whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the later generations.

After all, the people take food as the sky, and filling their stomachs is the most important thing for the common people, no matter how fierce the fighting is outside, as long as they are alive, they need to eat, drink and Lazar.

However, on the way, Yang Feng also noticed that the eyes of some civil officials who followed him around him were quite complicated, as if they were mixed with hatred, disgust, hesitation and other emotions, and this discovery also made Yang Feng a little vigilant.

For Yang Feng, the officials and gentry in Hangzhou City are naturally like thunder, and there are really not many people who don't know him, but their senses for him are more complicated.

Before this, the vast majority of Jiangnan gentry could be said to hate Yang Feng to the core. After all, as the old saying goes, cutting off people's financial routes is like killing their parents, and Yang Feng is not only their financial route, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a root plan.

Whether it is the reopening of the sea ban or the opening of the customs in Fujian, or even the re-establishment of the Fujian sailors, these things are tantamount to a sharp knife stabbing into their hearts in the eyes of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, not to mention the excerpt of the gentry who Yang Feng presented as one errand and one grain, this is no longer a sharp knife, but to dig their ancestral graves.

If it weren't for Yang Fenggui as the prince of the country, there were countless guards around him, and he would have died a long time ago, even so, Yang Feng had been assassinated several times over the years, although he was unsuccessful, but it can be seen that in Daming I don't know how many people want his life.

Our Yang Daguan naturally knows this, and he never expects a rescue to change these people's views of himself.

Seeing through it is the advantage of the Chinese people, Yang Feng soon came to the gate tower of Qingbo Gate, Pan Ruzhen next to him was half a step behind him, pointed to the front and said: "Grandpa Guo, please look, now that we and the thieves are collecting the corpses of their respective fallen soldiers, it is estimated that in another quarter of an hour or two, the thieves will attack the Qingbo Gate again." ”

Yang Feng didn't speak, but took out a telescope from his waist to observe, from the telescope he could clearly see that the corpses under the city wall had been almost cleaned up, and more than a dozen big pits were dug farther away, and he could even see that those big pits had been piled up with dense corpses, and many thieves were filling the big pits.

Yang Feng made a rough estimate, according to the calculation that each big pit can hold five or six hundred corpses, there are at least seven or eight thousand corpses in a dozen big pits, and it seems that the fight is really tragic these days.

He sighed lightly, turned his head and said, "Master Pan, you have indeed fought quite fiercely these days, and it is difficult for you." ”

Hearing Yang Feng's words, Pan Ruzhen's tears almost flowed.

It's been seven days, it's easy for him, the thieves' offensive is getting fiercer day by day, and the situation in Hangzhou is getting worse day by day, if it weren't for the tens of thousands of young men recruited a few days ago and the thousands of private soldiers he coaxed and deceived from the salt merchants and maritime merchants with his old face, Hangzhou Mansion would have fallen long ago.

But even so, the huge casualties also made him tired, and what he feared most these days was to receive the bad news of the fall of the city wall as soon as he opened his eyes, so he stayed on the gate tower of the Qingbo Gate almost every day.

At the height of the war, he even personally beat the drums for the soldiers defending the city, and from this point of view, he had done a very good job as a governor, and now at first glance he heard that someone had made an affirmation and standard for his work, and it was naturally impossible to say that he was not excited.

However, as an old fritter who has been in the officialdom for decades, he naturally will not easily show his inner emotions, but Yang Feng's eyes are not ordinarily good, and he immediately aimed at his somewhat reddened eye circles.

He took a step forward, patted Pan Ruzhen's shoulder and comforted: "Okay, Master Pan, now that my father-in-law is here, you can also rest and sleep peacefully." ”

Pan Ruzhen glanced at Yang Feng deeply, bowed to him and said, "Since this is the case, then the lower official will entrust the safety of Hangzhou Mansion to his grandfather." ”

"Hmm!"

Yang Feng nodded, and was about to speak, but he heard a burst of drums suddenly sounding under the city, and Pan Ruzhen's face changed slightly: "It's not good, the thieves are going to attack the city again." ”

Two quarters of an hour ago

"What, you said that a Jiangning army has broken through the barrier and entered Hangzhou City?"

In the camp of the rogue outside the city, Li Zicheng's eyes widened angrily, and he looked at a bandit leader kneeling on the ground.

"King Chuang, that Jiangning army suddenly appeared, and soon broke through our defense line into the city, I saw that this Jiangning army had at least four or five thousand people, including a large number of artillery and baggage battalions."

"Why didn't you stop them?" Li Zicheng's eyes almost erupted with anger, in order to take Hangzhou City, they have lost tens of thousands of people these days, although most of them are hungry soldiers, but no matter what, hungry soldiers are also soldiers, he spent so much effort to desperately expand his troops, and now it is difficult to lose a lot, and anyone will feel distressed.

"King Chuang, I only have a thousand men and horses under me, how can I stop the gang of fierce gods and evil gods of the Jiang Ning Army, you better hurry up and think of a way."

Hearing that the Jiangning army had entered the city, Li Zicheng's heart immediately hung up, and he turned his head and asked the people behind him: "Isn't there any news from them?" ”

"Nope."

Everyone shook their heads.