The city gate of Yangzhou Mansion is now wide open, and the refugees who escaped from Songjiang are pouring in like a tide, Zhang Fan looked at this scene, as if he had returned to Qingyang Mansion, at that time, it was also like the general tide of refugees now, but at that time, the people of Northern Xinjiang were hiding in Tartar; And now the people of Jiangnan are indeed hiding in the wokes.

It's just a little different, because of the invasion of the Tartars for many years in northern Xinjiang, the people seem to be a little used to it, although it is also very miserable, but the people in northern Xinjiang obviously have a lot of experience.

But this Jiangnan is different, although there have been examples of large-scale invasion of the Japanese invaders here, but after all, there are only a few times, the lives of the common people are still very stable, and it is precisely because of the stability that the people here do not have too much experience of escaping, most of the people have seen the Japanese invaders attacking in groups, they have been frightened and scattered, and they don't care about packing up their things and escaping like this.

It is precisely because of this, although this Songjiang Mansion is only a short distance from Yangzhou, and even on foot is only about a day, but on this day, most of the people have been exhausted, the most important thing is the food problem, it is precisely because there is no experience of fleeing, many people have not considered this problem, so although this land south of the Yangtze River is not as good as the yellow sand desert in the northern Xinjiang of the Ming Dynasty, but it is also so that these people who walked all night are almost disgraced and languid.

On the city wall of the east gate of Yangzhou City, Zhang Fan and his party were standing there, looking at the crowds of people who were still pouring into the city below, and everyone's faces were heavy.

"My lord, although this Yangzhou City is not small, it is almost full now," Wang Meng said on the side.

This is indeed a problem, now people are fleeing, that is naturally to live in Yangzhou City with a strong city wall around, although Yangzhou is not a small place, but that also refers to the surrounding counties and other places, originally Yangzhou City was full of people, now almost half of the people in Songjiang Mansion have come here, and the remaining half have fled to Hangzhou Mansion.

Originally, Wang Dezhao was not ready to open the door, after all, at this kind of moment, whether to open the door or not is a choice for him, the imperial court has not clearly stipulated the way to deal with things at this time, it is completely up to the local officials to decide, but for Wang Dezhao, he must choose this way, it is not that he is too picky and refuses to distribute food to these fleeing people

If he ordered the gates to be closed and not opened, he would not have done anything in the future, but if he had ordered the gates to be opened, he might have been rewarded in the future, but if any of the refugees had mixed in with the people of the area and caused any damage, he would have to take all the responsibility, which was not what he wanted.

Fortunately, now that Zhang Fan is here, Wang Dezhao does not dare to disobey his orders, and if he is held accountable in the future, there is Zhang Fan above him, what is he afraid of.

However, according to Zhang Fan's meaning, now the gate of Yangzhou City is open, but Wang Dezhao's concern Zhang Fan also has to consider it, after all, there is a lot of origin behind the attack of the Japanese bandits, and they also have a group of special operations personnel who do this kind of infiltration, assassination, sabotage, etc., so this is also very troublesome.

There is no way, you can only rely on the human eye to observe, although the Fusang people look almost exactly the same as the people of the Ming Dynasty, but there are some differences, Zhang Fan told them, as long as you see a particularly short person, then you must pay attention.

And in order to prevent the omission of this method, for everyone who has entered Yangzhou City, there is a special person to register the household registration, if there is anyone who other people have not seen, it is natural to step up precautions, fortunately, this time there are not too many such people, otherwise Zhang Fan's current manpower is not enough, after all, they have to protect Zhang Fan's safety.

"I look at the current situation, I'm afraid that all the people who fled to the north have come to this Yangzhou," Zhang Fan looked back at the overcrowding in the city, and said, "Isn't there a Suzhou Mansion on this road, and no one is put in there, what's going on?"

"My lord, it's really just like this," Liang Chao next to him replied, he had asked a lot of refugees before and learned about their situation along the way, "On the one hand, the Suzhou prefect did order the city gate to be closed, and also ordered the guards guarding the gate to never allow a single fleeing citizen to enter, and secondly, it is estimated that the Suzhou prefect ordered the city gate to be opened, and it is estimated that not many people will enter,"

"What's the matter," Zhang Fan heard his words, he was very puzzled, obviously there was a close place, the city gate was opened for them to take refuge, and there was also food supplies, why didn't he go in, but he had to run twice the distance to take refuge in this Yangzhou City.

"This ...... My lord, that's the case," Liang Chao said, "First, this Suzhou Mansion is a little too close to Songjiang Mansion, and secondly, there are really some problems with the fall of Songjiang Mansion, according to these people who have fled, in the past, even if there were even three or four Japanese robbers ashore in a place a hundred miles away from Songjiang, Songjiang Mansion would ring a bell to warn the people, and this time, the people in Songjiang Mansion did not hear the bell at all, or saw the firelight What can warn them, the only thing that can make them remember is that The screams heard by the people who live in the East Side when they are ugly,"

"Do you mean that Songjiang Mansion has no defense, or even resistance, and those Japanese robbers entered the city gate in a grand manner," Zhang Fan asked, "Does it mean that Songjiang Mansion does not close the city gate at night?"

"This is impossible, my lord, the imperial court has a clear rule that a large state and county like Songjiang Mansion must close the city gate at night," Liang Chao replied, "and this time, there was no warning at all, as if someone was inside to help open the city gate and let them in,"

"Are you saying that the people who defend the city have been bought," Zhang Fan asked, "What happened to those who guarded the city now?"

"This ...... I don't know, after all, the Japanese invaders entered through the East City Gate, and the people all fled to the west after they found out, and they didn't know the situation at the East City Gate," Liang Chao said, "Don't you think that those who guard the gate have been bribed by the Japanese Invaders?"

"No, I don't think so," Zhang Fan said, "If you say that they have been bought, but now there are no people in Yangzhou City, could it be that they stayed in Songjiang Mansion and took the money but sold their lives to the Japanese Kou?"

"What does the adult mean ......" Liang Chao had already guessed Zhang Fan's thoughts.

"Yes, in my opinion, it's not bought with money at all, but with a knife," Zhang Fan said, "I'm afraid those people are already dead,"

Liang Chao thought about Zhang Fan's words, it was indeed good, it was too dangerous to buy with money, if something went wrong on the way, wouldn't it be better to wipe out the whole army, compared to sneaking into the city during the day, waiting until night to kill the guards guarding the city gate, and then opening the city gate to let his own people in.

"How many pirates are attacking Songjiang Mansion this time," Zhang Fan asked.

"The lowly official has already sent his good men to Songjiang to investigate this morning, and it is estimated that tonight we will know the number and movement of the Japanese who have attacked them," Wang Meng replied, "In addition, those people who have fled, they will care how many Japanese invaders have attacked if they flee here, but according to the estimate of the lowly office, it will take two or three thousand people to make the people of the entire Songjiang Mansion abandon the city and flee,"

"Two or three thousand people," Zhang Fan repeated the number, his brows already furrowed deeply, "What about the border guards in the Songjiang area, could it be that they didn't notice any movement, two or three thousand people, they actually captured Songjiang Mansion so quietly," Speaking of this, although Zhang Fan's expression had not changed much, extreme anger could already be heard from his voice.

Thinking about it, whoever touches it has to be angry, two or three thousand people just captured a city under their noses, and no defenders found out, but all the other side came "chaotic waves".

How could Wang Meng not understand Zhang Fan's anger, but he still had to explain to Zhang Fan, according to him, the general in charge of coastal defense along the Songjiang Prefecture was said to have taken it as a thing at all after receiving a warning from others, and even after the man read Zhang Fan's letter, he laughed a few times, and after saying that it was impossible, he burned Zhang Fan's letter with a candle.

It is precisely because of this that no one in the Songjiang area has patrolled the seaside these days, until yesterday, after the Japanese invaded Songjiang Mansion, they were still in the military camp dozens of miles away, and now something happened, but the man was in a hurry, and even stupidly took his subordinates in a vain attempt to recapture Songjiang Mansion, but no one would be optimistic about him, after all, Songjiang is a big city near the sea, and the city defense is not weak, and there is no shortage of things such as artillery, and the Japanese are not unable to use those things.

Originally, he planned to respect that matter and put it first, so as not to distract Zhang Fan, and then go to the trouble of that person if necessary in the future, but now it seems that there is no need for Zhang Fan to punish that person, it is estimated that just the widows who are now stationed in the city of Songjiang Mansion are enough for him to drink a pot.

"What about the situation on the other two sides, Huai'an Mansion and Ningbo Mansion," Zhang Fan asked.

"The situation is not good," Liang Chao said, "When the news came from there, the Japanese had already entered the city, and it looked similar to the situation in Songjiang,"

"My lord, what should we do now," Wang Meng asked.

What else can I do, Zhang Fan now has only one way in his heart: "Notify the nearby defenders, each battalion will leave half of the people to guard the nearest state capital, and the other half of the people will all go to Suzhou Mansion for me to prevent further attacks by the Japanese invaders, now this is the case first, and other things have to wait,"