In the afternoon of the same day, the Ming army of Haiyangwei and Jimo Battalion returned from the suburbs, and they had a hundred knights at the forefront of the procession on tall horses, each holding a wooden stick in his hand, and the head of the stick carried the head of a Jiannu with long braids

"Wansheng~~Wansheng~~" The defenders at the head of Jinan City raised their hands and shouted

"Wansheng~~Wansheng~~" The horse team entered Jinan City, and the excited people of Jinan welcomed them like a carnival

Among the 100 knights, half of them were Haiyangwei and Jimo Battalion, Haiyangwei was led by Xu Erduo, and Jimo Battalion was led by Ge Fu, who raised their wooden sticks high in their hands to show their achievements to the people of Jinan

For many years, the people are afraid of the officers and soldiers to avoid the bandits, and they have always rolled their eyes at the officers and soldiers, and scolded their mothers behind their backs

"Kill the Tartars, return to the homeland!" Ge Fu couldn't help but shout

"Kill the Tartars and protect your homeland!" The soldiers of the Jimo battalion shouted

"Unite to defend Jinan!" Xu Erduo did not show weakness, and shouted at the top of his throat

"Unite to defend Jinan!" The soldiers of Haiyangwei also shouted loudly

Ge Fu squinted at Xu Erduo, and secretly said You are in love with me, right? So Ge Fu worked harder and harder, and shouted hoarsely: "Kill the Tartars, return to the homeland!" ”

Xu Erduo also shouted against each other: "Unite as one to defend Jinan!" ”

The people around them also shouted passionately, and the shouts could be heard from miles away

Due to the Qing soldiers burning all the way, a large number of Ming Dynasty people around Jinan Mansion poured into Jinan Mansion for refuge. These refugees told every Jinan person about the brutality and ferocity of the Qing soldiers with their painful experience, but this did not frighten the Jinan people at all, but strengthened the determination of the Jinan people to defend the city and resist the enemy.

In today's Jinan Mansion, women begin to sharpen bamboo slips and bamboo spears as soon as they open their eyes every day, while men strengthen the city walls and prepare ordnance materials. In the streets and alleys of Jinan, you can see men with swords everywhere practicing martial arts under the guidance of officers and soldiers, and even ten-year-old children make slingshots and mud balls

At the same time, in order to prevent the Qing army from sending spies to infiltrate Jinan in advance, Jinyiwei also stepped up inspections. Sure enough, in a period of more than 10 days, from the end of November to the beginning of December, more than 30 suspicious elements were arrested. However, something unexpected happened. During their detention in Jinyiwei's prison, all of them fell ill and died. After being examined by Lang Zhong and the Servants, they died of smallpox.

"According to historical records, Yue Tuo, the owner of the Red Flag Banner, died of smallpox in Jinan, could it be that the Qing army is breaking out of smallpox epidemic in the army at this moment? Or is this smallpox an outbreak in the city of Jinan, and these fine crops came to Jinan before they became sick? Song Youliang's mind began to be a little difficult to distinguish

Sure enough, smallpox first began to spread in crowded barracks and then to residential areas.

At the critical moment, the scientific knowledge mastered by the traverser began to exert its power, turning the tide in the stormy seas. Under the command of Song Youliang, the officers and men first arranged for the patients to be isolated, and all the things that the patients had come into contact with were burned with fire, and all the excrement and secretions were thrown into the lime buckets. People who carry corpses or come into contact with sick people should wear thick clothing, masks, and gloves. After the contact, the clothes and gloves were burned along with the corpses

This is followed by the initiation of pox immunization, by taking the pox slurry with cotton paste and stuffing it into the nostrils of the inoculated person, or grinding the pox scab finely, blowing it into the nose with a silver tube to make it mildly infected, and preventing smallpox by producing antibodies in the above method. Or apply a small amount of sore slurry to the wound of a healthy person to make it mildly infected, so as to produce antibodies. Although this indigenous method is not as good as the current vaccination, it was quite clever at the time.

Soon, smallpox in Jinan was contained, and only one or twenty of the seven or eight thousand infected people who were vaccinated by the local method died. The number of people infected with smallpox began to drop from a few thousand a day to a few hundred a day, and then to no more than one or two dozen a day. By 12 December, when the Qing army had completed the encirclement of Jinan, there were no more than 30 smallpox patients in the city every day, and they had been effectively isolated.

Outside the city, the Qing army gathered, in addition to the black pressure on the head of the people all over the mountains, it was the red dazzling red flag Daxu.

Although King De had to believe that the Qing soldiers had indeed bypassed Dezhou to attack Jinan, he still hoped that the local civil and military forces who had the responsibility of defending the land would be intimidated by the law of the country, and in order to protect his own life, he would defend the city with all his strength and wait for rescue. On the afternoon of the day when the Qing soldiers were surrounded, he was supported by two eunuchs to inspect the warehouse. He asked the treasurer to open a big room called the East Second Treasury, and saw that it was full of gold, silver and copper coins, and King De stroked a certain silver ingot, as if caressing his own heart: "This is all the family property that this king has worked hard for decades and ten years to run by himself, and I have to give it to people even a penny!" He hoped that after this moment, Jinan would be peaceful, and he would desperately collect money from Wangzhuang, Wangdian, tea and salt.

Subsequently, King De sent someone to call Song Xuezhu into the palace and ask him about the defense of the city. Song Xuezhu said that Haiyangwei already had 3,000 soldiers and horses to help, and the Moying camp also had 700 soldiers and horses to help, and he also sent seven groups of envoys to ask the court for help. Hearing these words, King De's mood was relieved, and he nodded and said, "Song Xunji is a great loyal minister. After the matter is decided, the widow will ask the emperor to write a book and reward you for your great achievements. ”

Song Xuezhu took the opportunity to stand up and said: "The officers and soldiers defending the city in Jinan have been in arrears for a long time, and they have complaints. Your Royal Highness, please hurry

Tens of thousands of dollars of silver were issued to strengthen the morale of the army. At the same time, the guest soldiers of Haiyang and Jimo also need to be paid to encourage! ”

King De gasped and said, "You people, when it comes to defending the city and fighting, you need silver, you want silver!" You think there is a cash cow and a cornucopia hidden in the palace! Inexhaustible? ”

Song Xuezhu said: "If there is no silver, who wants to work for nothing? There must be a brave man under the so-called heavy reward, as long as he survives this catastrophe, is the prince still afraid that he will not have the opportunity to accumulate money? ”

King De still thought that he was lucky and said: "Will the soldiers and horses north of the Yellow River arrive soon?" ”

Song Xuezhu said angrily: "If the prince personally goes to the city to take a look at the Dongyu army outside, he will know that before the reinforcements arrive, Jinan City will be breached!" ”

King De thought for a moment and stammered, "That, that, how is that good?" This king has worked hard for the soldiers, and he has given him a thousand taels of silver. ”

"A thousand taels per person?" Song Xuezhu asked knowingly

King De's eyes widened and he scolded: "Nonsense, a total of one thousand taels!" ”

Song Xuezhu said coldly: "Thousands of soldiers, how to apply a thousand taels of silver?" I can't say this to the soldiers! ”

King De thought about it again and said, "How about I reward three thousand taels?" One or two more is gone! ”

Song Xuezhu sighed, didn't speak, just kowtowed and resigned. Immediately, a eunuch sent three thousand taels of silver to the governor's yamen, and Song Xuezhu divided all the silver taels and kept nothing for himself. The result can be imagined, the soldiers were excited, blocking the governor's yamen and scolding, and Song Xuezhu had to pretend not to know

On December 11, Yue Tuo's army with red flags had surrounded Jinan Prefecture, and when King De received the report, he was greatly alarmed, and called several cronies and eunuchs to his front, and said in a trembling voice while panting: "You must think of saving the widow from Jinan." The widow does not hesitate to reward the gold and silver, how much money it wants, you can take it as you like, as long as you save the widow~~ Save the widow %......"

Liu De, the eunuch on the side, couldn't cry or laugh, and said secretly in his heart: "Why did you know today? Liu De said bitterly: "Lord Wang, the Dongyu has besieged Jinan, even if a bird can't fly, how can it escape?" ”

"That~~ How is that good!" King De was in a hurry

"Father~~" A young woman walked out of the inner room, "For today's plan, only by scattering money and inspiring soldiers to fight bravely to kill the enemy, has Father forgotten what the ghost said can only resolve the disaster by uniting together?" ”

"Huanting, you are a girl's family, what are you mixing blindly!" King De waved his hand, "Hurry up and pack up the softness and prepare to run for your life!" ”

Liu De, the eunuch who was honored, saluted the woman, "The slave has seen the county lord!" Zhu Huanting, the youngest daughter of King De and the lord of Laiyang, is twenty-eight years old this year, although the wool is not very standard, but the fall is also generous, and the royal style is full of style

"Money is something outside the body, and life is indeed one's own!" Zhu Huanting has long complained about her father's single-minded accumulation of money

Liu De, the eunuch who was honored, also said: "The prince atoned for his sins, and the old slave thought that what the county lord said was reasonable. If Dongyu breaks Jinan, it will be Jinshan Yinshan and it will be called to move away! ”

King De was in a dilemma, and finally made a decision to cover his ears and steal the bell, "Huanting, you have the final say on how much you want, but don't tell your father~ like that~ that your father's heart will feel better!" ”

At this time, Song Youliang was working with Ge Zhu, and commanded Feng Guan to go to the arsenal of Jinan Mansion to check the weapons reserves. The one who was in charge of the arsenal was a veteran, and the veteran saluted to the commander of the Feng Pavilion and asked, "The armor store swords, guns, and spears; B Treasury Hides Armor Shields; C. Treasury contains bows, crossbows, and arrows; Ding Ku hides firearms and gunpowder, which depot do you want to see first? ”

Feng Guan raised his eyebrows and said, "Guarding the city requires honor guards and firearms, Ding Ku!" ”

"Then adults, please go this way." The veteran led the crowd to the front. At the door of Dingku, two young soldiers stood guard with spears in their hands, and when they saw Feng Pavilion, they immediately saluted: "Commander!" ”

Feng Guan nodded and said, "Open the library door!" ”

Quack Quack ~ The heavy iron-clad wooden door was slowly pushed open

"Wow!" Song Youliang couldn't help but be speechless, only to see that the warehouse was full of all kinds of weapons, with a wide variety of types

"How much is stored here?" Feng Guan asked

The veteran pointed his finger in the northwest corner of the warehouse, "Lord Hui, 30,000 catties of gunpowder!" The old soldier's finger was piled up from the ground to the roof with the powder barrel labeled by the Daming Powder Division.

"1,800 enemies!" Next to the powder keg was a wooden-framed ball of mud, a formidable enemy

"Thunderbolt poison fireballs 1,100~!"

"Three thousand four hundred!"

"Three hundred shots with three eyes!"

"Thirteen hundred firearms!"

"Five hundred strokes!"

"Thunderbolt 500 strokes!"

"Seven pipes, five thunder god machines, four hundred strokes!"

"One hundred and fifty tiger squat cannons!"

"The nine-headed bird raises two hundred guns!"

"Twenty Franc cannons! 3,000 pills! ”

"Two thousand iron pomegranates!" (Actually, it's a god iron howitzer)

The veteran spoke eloquently in one breath, like a few treasures

Song Youliang smiled and asked, "How do you remember so clearly?" ”

"The little caretaker of the arsenal has been for thirty years!" The veteran replied

Feng Guan looked at Song Youliang triumphantly, and asked with a smile: "How are these ordnance compared to Haiyang Wei?" ”