"Lin Yi, the army has no jokes, what if you can't defend the city?"

"Don't worry, Lord Garrison, if there is a case, you can take Lin Yi's head!"

Wang Cheng sneered: "What is a little head of the general manager, for the safety of Yongping City and all the adults, even a hundred, a thousand, and ten thousand such heads will not help." Let's ask Lord Lin to tell me how to defend the city! ”

As soon as Wang Cheng's words came out, he immediately attracted a voice of approval.

"Lord Garrison is right, what is Lord Lin's good strategy to defend the city?"

"That's right, you might as well talk about it, so that the prefect and I can know about it."

……

Lin Yi said: "To put it simply, it's eight words, the wall is clear, go all out."

"I thought there was some trick, this, this ......" a disappointed shake shook his head and sighed.

It's not that these officials are rare and weird, but because they don't know that these eight words are too deep, but they are commonplace.

To put it bluntly, they hid in the city and did not dare to fight, but they just brought all the people and grain, grass and livestock outside to the city and held the city. The Tartars could not attack the city, and they could not get supplies, so they naturally retreated, and this trick did not work much against the Tartars.

The Huang Taiji soldiers invaded Gyeonggi several times, and many court officials were strong and clear, and did not dare to fight with the Tartars outside the city. The Tartars still entered the city, plundered and killed, but they really couldn't attack the city, and when they left, they also showed off their might with the plunder, jokingly saying that they would not let the Ming court and officials complain, which was the shame of the Ming court and the generals.

Go all out, and these four words will be more flexible.

At this time, Lin Yi said: "Lord Prefect, everyone, to defend this city, we still need everyone to take the lead, have money to contribute, and make a strong contribution, only by mobilizing the people in the city and this more than 1,000 old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers to work together to defend the city, can we succeed."

As soon as they said that they would pay for it, these officials and men were not happy, just like cutting their flesh, they looked at each other one by one.

At this time, Zhang Shouye, the magistrate, took the lead in saying: "This official is willing to scatter all his family wealth and recruit warriors to defend the city, and ask Lord Lin to send someone to the mansion to get it."

Lin Yi praised: "Thank you for your great help, you are worthy of being the parents of the people."

The prefect Li Qi blushed and gritted his teeth, and decided to pay 1,000 taels of silver, and the political envoy and the security department each paid 800 taels, as soon as they took the lead, the other staff members also had to pay out of their pockets, some were out of 500 taels, some were out of 250 taels, and there were 100 taels, Lin Yi was not too little, let the copywriting be all written, in duplicate, let the adults sign by themselves, and then use the prefect's big seal, and then send someone to take a list to immediately collect the silver from the major people's mansions.

The prefect announced his retirement in this way, and the prefect Li Qi returned to the inner house, sealed 1,000 taels of silver, sent the official messenger who took the silver away, and immediately ordered the housekeeper to pack up things secretly......

Coincidentally, when the political envoys, the inspectors and the garrison Wang Cheng returned to their inner houses, they immediately gathered their own soldiers and told their wives and children to pack up their things and prepare to flee......

Outside the yamen, there were many representatives of merchants and wealthy households, they hoped that the prefect could quickly open the city, they could flee with gold and silver treasures, it was too late, one by one they wore silk and satin, licked their chests and folded their stomachs, and were so anxious that they were sweating profusely, like ants on a hot pot, and some had already knelt down and kowtowed.

Lin Yi and Zhang Shouye, the magistrate, came outside and gave a speech to these people: "I, Lin Yi, am fully responsible for guarding the city thanks to the love of the prefect. Lin knows that you are all successful people in Yongping, with heads and faces, please rest assured, Lin will live up to the love of the prefect and the trust of you, and lead the soldiers in the city to fight bloody battles with the Tartars, and live and die with this city. Please rest assured, as long as I am Lin Yi, there will be Yongping, and I can keep you safe and sound. ”

"But it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and a large number of Tartars have already come to the city, and it is impossible to escape from the city. There is no other way but to defend the city. Surrender and escape are self-defeating, the Tartars are ferocious, and the day the city is broken is the time of our calamity. To defend this city, we need everyone's support, and there is money to pay, and someone to pay. I hope you don't be stingy, if the Tartars attack, don't say how much gold and silver you have, your lives are people's. In order to recruit warriors to defend the city, the magistrate has scattered all his family wealth, the prefect, the political secretary, according to the judge, the adults have donated tens of thousands of taels of silver, this is the list of donated silver, please take a look. ”

Lin Yi said, showing a prepared list in front of these people.

Lin Yi continued: "Please hurry back to your home, take out your gold and silver treasures, and distribute them to the soldiers who defend the city, this is called sacrificing wealth to save your life, there will be brave men under the heavy reward, if you are not willing to give out the silver, you must get someone, a young man is worth 100 taels of silver."

These businessmen and wealthy households, local tyrants and inferior gentry, saw this scene and had to grit their teeth, and most of them decided to take out a bag of silver and sacrifice their wealth to save their lives.

Lin Yi asked the magistrate Zhang Shouye to arrange for someone to receive the donated silver......

Lin Yi took the generals and climbed to the top of the city to inspect the city defense.

There are more than 1,200 soldiers, and now those who can go to the city have gone to the city, only 1,050 people, four city gates, and an average of only more than 200 people at one city gate, and the strength is a little thin.

Lin Yi gathered all the 1,050 soldiers in the wide area of the city to give a swearing-in speech, or inaugural speech. He adopted the method of increasing the reward of the iron-blooded order, and each soldier was given 20 taels of silver first, regardless of the level of his position.

20 taels of silver is not much, but it is not a small amount. The purchasing power of one or two pieces of silver at the end of the Ming Dynasty was roughly equivalent to 500 yuan for the red old man in later generations.

It would be good for these generals to be able to open five taels of silver a month, and the treasury of the Ming Dynasty was empty, and the phenomenon of salary arrears was serious. Some of them have been soldiers for a few years, and they haven't seen what the salary looks like, but they can just mix their bellies.

Therefore, when they got it in their hands at once, so much heavy silver, their blood was boiling, and they felt like they had made a fortune, and they dared to think about 20 taels of silver to buy a field and marry a daughter-in-law. If you go to a brothel, you can be chic several times......

These generals, with their hearts set in their minds, began to think crankily.

Lin Yi continued: "After repelling the Tartars, add another 50 taels per person, and those who have military merits will be rewarded according to the size of their military merits."

These generals were boiling when they heard this, whether they were young and strong soldiers, or old and weak soldiers, their eyes flashed with blue light, and the opportunity to make a fortune came, and they couldn't wait to shout Long live Lord Lin.

But then Lin Yi announced an iron-blooded military discipline: those who do not obey orders will be killed, those who fail to fight will be killed, those who defect to the enemy and treason will be killed, those who leave their posts without authorization will be punished, and those who are traitors and criminals will be killed without forgiveness for trespassing on people's houses and bullying the people.

At this moment, the crowd was excited, and Lord Weilin took the lead and fought a bloody battle with the Tartars to the end, and the call for coexistence and death with this city was raised.

With such fighting spirit, Lin Yi is quite satisfied.

Next, Lin Yi inspected their firearms again, there were no red-coated cannons, not even a thousand catties of Buddha Lang machine, there were more than 16 three-eyed guns in the city, some of them were rusty, I don't know if they could be beaten.

The gunpowder and ammunition were still relatively sufficient, so Lin Yi ordered people to take them out, and then divided these firearms and ammunition equally into the four city gates.

Wherever the Tartars passed, they burned, killed, and looted, and the common people in these villages and towns outside the city were also unlucky, and fled to their homes, as if fleeing the plague, some ran to the mountains, and some ran to the cities.

However, the four gates of Yongping City were closed like iron barrels, the suspension bridge was hung high, the wide moat, and the tall city wall were like two impassable chasms, and a large number of refugees gathered outside and wailed everywhere.

The soldiers at the head of the city turned a blind eye.

Seeing this scene, Lin Yi frowned and said, "Open the city, let the people in!"

The general defending the city said: "My lord can't open it, what if there are Tartars mixed in?"

Xiao Ying glared at her and said, "What's so difficult about this?" Strict checking, just check the identity of the people who enter the city, can the head of the Tartar be the same as the Han people? You are just making excuses, regardless of the lives of the people! ”

The leader of the city gate is a hundred presidents, he is the confidant of the garrison lord Wang Cheng, and said disdainfully: "Please ask the girl to stay virtuous, it is difficult to disobey the order, close the city gate, it is the order of the prefect and the garrison, and we are also acting on orders."

"Bastard thing! Now Lord Lin is the main general of the city, and there is an edict from the prefect, and those who violate the order will be beheaded! Zhang Hua said and pulled out half of the knife.

How do you know that this Bai Zong didn't pee on him at all, and rolled his eyes, "What Lord Lin is not Lord Lin, this Bai Zong only knows the prefect and the garrison!" ”

As soon as this Bai Zong finished speaking, the arc knife light flashed, and with a bubble of blood spurting out, this Bai Zong's head flew out, and then the five corpses fell in a pool of blood.

The military order is like a mountain, killing a hundred people, and all the generals present at this time were shocked.

Lin Yi held a blood-dripping steel knife in his hand, his eyes were like torches, and he said in a deep voice: "Thanks to the love of the prefect, I, Lin Yi, am now the lord of the city, and I can call on all the forces and resources in the city, no one is allowed to obstruct them, push three and four obstacles, and those who are passive and sabotage will be beheaded, Lin Mou now orders you to open the city and let the people in, if Shangfeng blames it, all the consequences will be borne by Lin someone, and it has nothing to do with you!"

"Obey Lord Lin's orders, quickly, open the city, open the city!"

The drawbridge fell, the jack gate stirred up, and the city gate was wide open.

When the people outside the city saw that the city gate was opened, they shouted to the sky and grabbed the ground, and ran into the city like a swarm of bees, as if they were robbing treasures in the city.

At this time, Xiao Ying, who was standing next to Lin Yi at the head of the city, shouted to the people below, who came like a tide: "Don't worry, folks, Lord Lin is here, and the security will let you all enter the city and then close the city."

"Lord Lin is really a good official! Lord Lin is doing well! Thank you, Lord Lin......" The people really slowed down, shouting and hurried into the city.

"Your Excellency is not far away, at most twenty or thirty miles, there are many villages where the people have been ruined by them, these Tartars are really not human, hurry up and close the city." The people who entered the city shouted.

Lin Yi immediately sent Zhang Hua, Erhu, He Tao and Wang Qi to set off from the four gates with his arrows, within a radius of ten miles, to take the people into the city, and what they could take must be brought into the city, and they can't be burned with them, they can't be left to the Tartars, and from now on, the city will be closed after half an hour.

These four people have now become Lin Yi's confidants, and they promised to take the order and left.