That night, the Zhang family in Yangzhou, since Zhang Yufang's family left, Zhang Fan even took it upon himself to put the Zhang family's subordinates on a long vacation, and gave each of them a sum of silver.

No, in fact, it can't be said that he is alone, and some of his subordinates have also moved in, but Zhang Fan has also explained, the master bedroom can't be entered, and there are only a few people who live in, but it hasn't caused any damage here.

In the past few days, Zhang Fan has spent all the nights alone, although in his last life, he has lived alone for a long time, but now it is different from the past, a person's night is indeed a little lonely for Zhang Fan now, and now this situation is not like the march back then, and it is also a good choice to go up to a group of people to chat around, now Zhang Fan can no longer call Wang Meng or Liang Chao to accompany him to talk for a long time, not to mention whether they agree or not, That situation always made Zhang Fan feel that it was really a good "base".

The above are Zhang Fan's own cranky thoughts, and in fact, the reason why he did this is that he is really upset in his heart, and the scene of the people who fled into this Yangzhou city during the day has been recalled in his mind, which makes him even more upset.

In fact, he has never seen this situation, when he was in Anhua County, he has not seen this kind of scene, but the impact at that time is different from now, after all, it was the first time Zhang Fan saw this kind of scene with his own eyes, although there were not too many people who fled because of the attack of the Tartars at that time, but after all, it was Zhang Fan who saw it with his own eyes, those people were dusty, and the worried look still appeared in his mind from time to time.

Originally, Zhang Fan felt that after having this experience, he was immune to this situation, but today, he was once again impacted, firstly, there were many people in the south of the Yangtze River, and if he fled, the appearance of the crowd was really surprising.

Second, what I saw today was Zhang Fan standing on the city gate to see, although because this time, he stood relatively high, and the expressions on the faces of those refugees were not too real, but the so-called standing high and seeing far, where Zhang Fan saw a scene he had never seen, in the city of Yangzhou behind him, the buildings did not change in the slightest, or as in the past, reflecting the long history and prosperity here, but the crowd on the street, the black pressure from a high place, It really made Zhang Fan's heart tremble; Looking down at the city, a steady stream of people are still squeezing into the gate of Yangzhou City, Wang Dezhao followed Zhang Fan's meaning, in order to prevent any accidents at the city gate, a large number of officials were mobilized to help maintain order, Zhang Fan on the city gate can always hear the shouts of the guards and the cries of the people among the refugees, these two voices are mixed together, it really makes people feel too sad; Looking ahead, there are still a large number of people on the road behind, and a steady stream of people is heading towards this side, as if endless.

Especially when Zhang Fan walked back after coming down from the city gate, he came into close contact with these refugees, and seeing their appearance, how could Zhang Fan have no idea in his heart.

However, this is only part of Zhang Fan's annoyance now, and the other things are about the appointment of him issued by the imperial court, of course, Zhang Fan is not saying that there is anything wrong with this, but he cares about other things, since Longqing has decided to mobilize Qi Jiguang and his Qi family army to stop the invasion of the Japanese Invaders, this is enough to prove that the imperial court attaches great importance to this matter, but Qi Jiguang is too far away from here, and there are no available generals and troops around, after all, the Japanese have attacked Huai'an Mansion now, In Songjiang Prefecture and Ningbo Prefecture, although Zhang Fan did not think that there would be more Japanese pirates attacking other places, the armies in other places must strengthen their defenses.

If you want to mobilize troops from nearby, it can only be from Henan and Huguang, but if you transfer troops from there, Zhang Fan doesn't think it's appropriate, if you send an order now, it is better to wait for Qi Jiguang's arrival, after all, the official document in Zhang Fan's hand now takes more than a day to get here from the capital, and after more than a day, Qi Jiguang's men and horses are estimated to have passed the Beijing division now, which is not much longer than the transfer of troops from Henan or Huguang.

Second, Zhang Fan is worried that if his order passes, there will be any nonsense over there, or he will not listen to him at all, so it will be in vain, although Zhang Fan is now temporarily entitled to direct command the army by Longqing, but obviously now his holy decree has not been received, and the official document does not make it clear whether he has the right to command the troops of these four provinces, or whether he has the right to command all the troops, but Zhang Fan believes that since the holy decree is not written, Then eighty percent of officials and generals in other places will not buy his account.

Originally, they thought that the Japanese would command a place to attack, or a provincial place to attack, but now, Huai'an Mansion and Songjiang Mansion belong to this Nanzhili, and Ningbo Mansion is in Zhejiang, Zhang Fan, who was still a little confused, also woke up, after all, the other party is a Japanese Kou, and he is not a person from the Ming Dynasty, where will they care if these three places are in the same province, and they may not even know these circumstances, And the choice of these three places as the target of the attack, the reason is also obvious, after all, these three places are the closest places to the East China Sea, for the Japanese who are all driving small boats, it is really very convenient, and these three places are relatively concentrated, not very far, I think that Ashikaga Yoshiaki also understands that his manpower is not too sufficient, and wants them to take care of each other.

Thinking of this, Zhang Fan suddenly became alert, he hurriedly got up from the bed, got dressed a few times, and called Wang Meng over.

"My lord, I don't know what is important when I call my humble post so late," Wang Meng asked as soon as he came over.

"You go now, and ask someone to send a letter to Hangzhou Mansion overnight," Zhang Fan said to Wang Meng as he sat there writing, "Give this letter to the governor of Zhejiang, and ask him to send warships to patrol me on the return road between Ningbo Mansion and Songjiang Mansion, in case the Japanese invaders will meet on land and water,"

"What my lord means is that the Japanese invaded our three cities at the same time, just to distract us," Wang Meng thought of the reason in his mind as soon as he heard Zhang Fan's words, and said, "Do those Japanese robbers really think so?"

"Whether they think so, I don't know," Zhang Fan said worriedly, "but no one can say for sure this kind of thing, or we have to guard against it, if there is no then it is naturally good, if there is, we must also take precautions, now we have let those Japanese robbers seize the opportunity, but we must not be deceived by their tactics again," Zhang Fan said this, and the letter under his hand had already been written.

"Yes, my lord," Wang Meng replied, and took the letter handed by Zhang Fan in his hand, but he did not leave immediately, but asked, "So, my lord, Huai'an Mansion now also has Japanese Kou, and Huai'an Mansion is this Yangzhou Mansion between Songjiang Mansion, do you think it is ......?"

"It's a shortage of manpower now," Zhang Fan thought for a while and said, "If the Japanese really plan to distract us, they probably won't bypass Yangzhou on the road, but no one can say for sure about this kind of thing, I'll write another letter now, you have someone send it to Yingtianfu for me, hand it over to Hai Rui, and let him lead the troops over to take precautions," Zhang Fan said this, and the pen in his hand began to move again.

When Wang Meng got the two letters in his hands and was about to turn around and leave, Zhang Fan stopped him again.

"By the way, during the day, you said that the people sent to Songjiang to investigate the situation have not come back yet," Zhang Fan asked about this matter, he has been attacking the Japanese Invaders for a whole day now, but he still doesn't know the situation in Songjiang Mansion, "Nothing will happen,"

"It's also strange to be lowly at this point," Wang Meng said, "But the lowly ones sent this time are all good at this area, these people were originally scouts in the army, and they shouldn't have anything to do, I think it is estimated that there is some change in the situation of the Japanese in Songjiang, so it will be delayed,"

"Well, that's it, then you can go quickly," Zhang Fan nodded after hearing this.

After Wang Meng left, Zhang Fan suddenly felt very tired, but he didn't feel sleepy at all, he was really troubled in his heart, and the distraught Zhang Fan walked out of the room and came to the courtyard.

The sky is full of stars and a slight cool breeze, this is the most calming and refreshing situation in this summer season, but Zhang Fan at this moment is unable to calm his heart at all.

As he walked, he suddenly heard some noises, and thinking that he didn't know if it was the one who hadn't rested yet, and out of curiosity, Zhang Fan walked over.

Zhang Fan, who walked in, although he couldn't hear it clearly, he could hear the voices of a man and a woman, and he couldn't help but wonder in his heart, the people of the Zhang family let him go home, how could there be a woman here.

After walking in, Zhang Fan heard the man's words.

"eshouldle**ehere,It'stoodangerous."

Hearing this sentence in English, Zhang Fan remembered that Richard and Joanna were still here, he didn't let them leave, but maybe because Joanna was a soldier, she insisted on staying here, although Richard, the foreign secretary, wanted to leave this dangerous place very much, but he was a man after all, and the woman who was traveling with him said that he wanted to stay, and he had a tough attitude, so he could only stay hard.

Zhang Fan followed the voice and walked in the direction of the two,