The development of towns in the south of the Yangtze River is really developed, even comparable to later generations, outside the limited range of the city wall, there are highly developed vast towns, in the Taizhou War of Qi Jiguang's anti-Japanese war, an important battle Huajie Battle was fought in the Chengxia Town a few miles outside the city of Taizhou, outside the city of Hangzhou, a piece of Chengxia Town is also far more than the urban area.

But tonight, as if the end of the world had entered the end of the world, countless townspeople abandoned their belongings and fled to the city in panic, and at the outermost edge, there was already a fire, and the dark smoke was billowing up.

At this point, the pirate army had already dispersed, scattered into the houses to rob, after all, it was just a rabble composed of robbers, ruffians, fugitive slaves and lost dogs, and Mao Jue could not restrain it.

But it is such a rabble, which can make trouble on the coast of Jiangnan for decades, and several times thousands of people have defeated tens of thousands of regular troops of the Ming Army, and it is conceivable what the Jiangnan Guard has become corrupt and degenerate.

Tens of thousands of refugees fled to the gate of Qiantang County with their burdens crying and shouting, crying and banging on the city gate, but the city gate was tightly closed, no matter how these refugees cried, they just didn't open the door.

What officials and soldiers would rather die by themselves, and when they encounter villagers being held hostage, they have to save them, those are all stories in the movie, in real circumstances, even if they are the parents and children of the soldiers below, they are killed by thieves, and the city gates are not opened, who let the dead be ordinary people, lowly soldiers and military families, and those who live in the city are wealthy families with status?

The shouts were wave after wave, and the defenders at the head of the city were all swaying, but the prefect of Hangzhou Mansion did not change his face a little, and waved his hand coldly.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Fortunately, the Jiangnan soldiers have been rotten to the extreme, there is no compound bow with strong lethality, all of them are bamboo bows, and they shoot light arrows, although they shot down a piece, but there were not many dead, blood and pain touched the fear of the people, and these residents of the city finally scattered to both sides of the city and fled.

The south city is playing with all its might, the north city is still quiet, and the soft incense building here is still a paper fan and drunk, although they are uneasy, those famous prostitutes in the south of the Yangtze River are still dedicated to singing and dancing, and more than forty scholars are casually drinking and singing, and the faint shouting and killing seems to have nothing to do with them.

The Ming Dynasty died in these degenerate scholars, and there were orthodox theorists who wrote poems, "Yesterday I went to the city and returned with tears." Those who are dressed in women's clothes are all scholars. "The pillars of the country in these seats actually have more than a dozen heavy makeup and rouge, wearing colorful clothes and skirts, and the man's face and beard and heavy Adam's apple make people feel particularly awkward.

Fortunately, when the Japanese invaded Hangzhou, they were still a little touched by these scholars, holding a wine glass, Wu Xun was full of indignation, and he was worried about the country and the people.

"The court is unfortunate, and demons are rampant! To what extent has this coastal armament been depleted? There are tens of thousands of people in the four guards, and the Japanese cowards didn't stop them for a day, and let them kill under this city, it's really a waste material! These warriors, either they are eunuchs like Mao Wenlong in Dongjiang, treacherous people, or people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and who waste military salaries, Lord Chen, after returning to the dynasty, you must write to Your Majesty to impeach this group of incompetent people!"

The Lord Chen here is not the imperial history Chen Zanzhong, he can be regarded as the quasi-father-in-law of Mao Jue, Chen Zanzhong's third son, Chen Dacheng, is also a Beijing official, and he is the official of the Ministry of Officials.

If it weren't for such a thing with the Mao family, Wu Fu proposed to the Chen family again, he really didn't want to come to this kind of party, he sat for a long time, he looked at a few female scholars with his brows tightened, Wu Jing's words, he just snorted, didn't answer much, but Song Yi's scholars listened to the blood boiling, and they also raised their glasses and said arrogantly.

"Brother Wu said it well! The world has really been poor and accumulated for a long time, and the atmosphere in the DPRK and China is gloomy, so we need Brother Wu and Mr. Zhang to stand up.

One by one is really enthusiastic, if it weren't for the fact that these scholars would either wear a girl's clothes, or hug a Jiangnan girl and get drunk, Chen Dacheng would really almost believe it.

Just as the water is clear and muddy, people are also faint and righteous, this end, when the scholars of the Fushe Society were still drunk and dreaming of death, the entire Shen Mansion was already a vegetarian, the clansmen, regardless of whether they were high or low, everyone was issued with knives and guns, and some were also dressed in leather armor, and not only them, even Shen Guangzuo, an old man who was over seventy years old, also wrapped white silk on his forehead, wrapped in white linen clothes, and held a big gun in his hand.

"Grandpa! There are many guards in Hangzhou City, and there are artillery defenses, and in a few hours, the reinforcements of Zhenhai Wei and Andong Wei will also arrive, besides, there are still us! You can wait in the house with peace of mind! Please! ”

Let an old man in his early seventies fight hard? Shen Guangzuo is not Huang Zhong, he feels terrible when he thinks about it, the eldest son and grandson of the old guy all knelt on the ground, kowtowing desperately, but the angry Shen Guangzuo was all bearded, holding a big gun and roaring on the ground.

"Good generals will not be cowardly to death to be spared, and martyrs will not ruin festivals to survive! Today, the Japanese invade our hometown party, and the whole city should fight to the death! You asked the old man to wait for news in the house? Get out of the way, the dead old man will die in the city!"

"Grandpa!"

Really cried sadly, Shen Guangzuo's second grandson Shen Du was holding Shen Guangzuo's thigh and kowtowing, and several other descendants were also in a cold sweat, but they didn't say anything about this old man, anyway, they just stopped him from going, just when Shen Guangzuo gritted his teeth angrily, outside the door, several family members broke in in a panic and knelt on the ground suddenly.

"Master, third young master, fourth young master, young master Sun! Run! The Japanese broke through the martial arts gate, and the troops came straight here! ”

With a bang, the fourth Shen Qianyun staggered against the table, and the vase pen holder inkstone on it crackled and fell to the ground, and Shen Guangzuo himself also poured out his head for a few seconds, and then he came to his senses.

"How did the Japanese invade the city gates, and what about the officers and soldiers?"

"Back to the master, I don't know, it was broken all of a sudden, all the useless things ran away, and there were people talking nonsense, saying that the Japanese can breathe fire in a row, no one can stop it, master, Hangzhou has fallen, run away!"

The Shen family's morality is good, and the family is also loyal, his head slammed on the ground, and his voice was full of anxiety, but this sentence was Shen Guangzuo's expression was stunned, and he couldn't help repeating it.

"Serial Spitfire?"

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A black revolver with coagulated blood stains was taken out, looked at it twice, and was stuffed back by Shen Guangzuo, outside, those Shen family members were anxiously packing up their things, and the old guy suddenly pushed open the door of the study again, his face was as black as iron, and he was about to catch up with the white beard of the beautiful man who opened up like an umbrella, roaring angrily.

"Someone, prepare the car!"

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On the streets, fear has occupied all the minds of the residents of this thousand-year-old city, first the panicked citizens fled in all directions in a panic, and then the real Japanese samurai wearing carcasses rushed in arrogantly, but unlike those poor jingle rogues who rushed around, these people were in an orderly manner in front of the front team in front of the cannon fodder, and did not move to the left and right at all.

Thanks to Tokugawa Ieyasu, he destroyed the Toyotomi family, and on the East China Sea, there were many former noble samurai of the Toyotomi family who became ronin, with different backgrounds, and the quality of these wild samurai was also much more robbed than that of the ronin, and at the back, it was Mao Jue's third regiment of the pro-army, eight hundred strong men from Liaodong.

Luo Ning is indeed useful, the banner of the Luo family is much harder than those residents of the town under the city, and there is no trace of the widow here in the Wulin Gate of the North Gate, and the city gate was deceived by this woman in a few words, and then, the defenders of the city gate were greeted by a massacre.

In addition to the two scribes who were used as bargaining chips to blackmail the Luo family, the remaining more than 300 people, not a single one was left, all of them were stuffed into the barracks and killed with muskets and arrows, and the whole room was full of hideous corpses and blood.

No wonder Mao Jue is ruthless, even if he does it to Hangzhou, Mao Jue is still not ready to face the Ming Empire, this mighty revenge is still dressed in the coat of the Japanese Invaders, and later investigated it, it is also the evil created by the Japanese Invaders, and it has nothing to do with him Mao Jue. Now Mao Jue has learned, if you don't treat them very well, in the future, they will also die without mercy, this is the universal rule of this era!

This is also where Luo Ning is smart, in fact, at the beginning, Mao Jue didn't think about letting go of the Luo family at all, no matter whether she handed over Luo Zhen or not, the entire Luo family would be wiped out by Mao Jue, and she wanted to ask for a glimmer of life in the realm of death, and she had to protect the only male member of the Luo family, so she had to let the Luo family be useful to Mao Jue, so she did not hesitate to drag the whole clan into the risk of raiding the family and exterminating the family, and helped Mao Jue deceive the city gate.

"This is it!"

The advance speed of the Iron Righteous Army was beyond imagination, and the ancient city of Qiantang was not too big, not including the outside town, and in less than a few minutes, this sharp knife army had been directly inserted into the most prosperous center of Hangzhou Prefecture.

The bribed warriors and guards held their weapons, hurriedly blocked the water surrounded by the brightly lit Jiangnan wooden building, got off Mao Jue's horse, pointed to the door number of the soft red building, and Luo Ning's voice trembled.

Today, she is the leading party to the end, once it leaks out, even if the court does not pursue it, the angry revenge of the Jiangnan Shi clan will make her Luo family die without a place to be buried, looking up at the figure running upstairs that seems to be frightened, even if the shopkeeper Luo who has experienced I don't know how many winds and waves have passed, he can't suppress the violent trembling on his body.

Behind Luo Ning, he also dismounted, looking up at the famous Hangzhou building with candlelight, especially the crystal lamp light of his Dongjiang specialty revealed in the window, and a cruel sneer appeared on his muscular face.

This is also Luo Ning's second cleverness, even in order to save her own lives and others, she must also protect Luo Jin, once Mao Jue can kill him, he naturally can't trust the Luo family not to retaliate, maybe with an order, the Luo family will turn into a sea of blood, so she came up with this compromise.

Not killing Luo Zhen is not the benevolence of Mao Jue's woman, but Luo Ning's words have worked, being killed is only painful for a while, even if it is cut by a thousand knives, it is only a few hours, and people can only suffer for a lifetime if they live.

What is Luo Jin? A thorough official fan, grew up with a golden soup spoon, his mind is full of scholarly fantasies of this era, a boy with a belly of straw, Mao Jue's knife, not only cut off his legs, but also ended his political life, in the rebel army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the reason why Song Xiance, a scholar, was willing to serve Li Zicheng, the king of grass, was because although he was talented, he was short in stature and could not take the imperial examination.

The able-bodied person is still like this, not to mention that Luo Zhen is now a lame, so that this official fan will always look at the palace of the imperial examination and cannot enter, even if he has thousands of pounds and taels, he is also a lame man who is ridiculed, isn't it the biggest punishment for him?

However, this is also the Luo family, which started in business, can be controlled by Mao Jue and coerced! He does have an old relationship with Luo Ning, but Wu Xun and them? Mao Jue didn't have any leisure to make them miserable, and some were just cold killing intent.

With a bang, the door of the private room was kicked open, and the woman's screams, the scholar's angry scolding, the eyes looked around like crocodiles, and then a cold, cruel laugh rang out from the room.

"Heh, are you coming in order!"

(End of chapter)