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That night, it was already the third watch, Xinhe City in the east of Wenzhou City, eastern Zhejiang, here is a natural harbor, the grain and grass ordnance needed by the Qi army to fight in Taizhou in southern Zhejiang are mostly supplemented by here, and the families of the Qi family army are also concentrated here, coinciding with the big war, not only the Qi family army is all dispatched, the local family members are also scattered, to the front-line soldiers have transported grain and goods, the Xinhe City, which was originally overcrowded, suddenly became much empty, a lonely city stands on this coastline, listening to the sound of the waves outside.

Standing at the head of the city at this time, there was a middle-aged woman in full uniform, who looked to be thirty-three or four-four years old, with a round face and big eyes, long eyebrows and sideburns, a black mole in the left corner of the eye, high cheekbones, thick lips, a green handkerchief and a head, the hair exposed was slightly yellow, and the eyebrows were heroic, it was Qi Jiguang's wife, who was the daughter of Wang Dong, the general of Nanxi, Wang Lianying.

This Wang Lianying is a typical tiger girl, since she was a child, the lamp Zen master of Southern Shaolin taught a body of martial arts, before marrying Qi Jiguang in her early years, she was also a well-known disciple of the Southern Shaolin family, in the battle of Luoyue Gorge that year, Wang Lianying disguised herself as a man, followed the monks of Southern Shaolin out of battle, and finally relied on her outstanding martial arts to kill dozens of demon cultists, broke out of the encirclement, and became a famous heroine in the rivers and lakes.

The Wang and Qi families have made a marriage contract since they were children, but Wang Lianying has no bottom in her heart for Qi Jiguang, who she has never met at that time, and finally pretended to be a bandit and robber and attacked Qi Jiguang, who was transferred to Weijing Division at that time. As a result, the two of them fought in the dark, and after 3,000 moves. Qi Jiguang cut off Wang Lianying's hat with a sword, revealing a head of hair, so the two really fell in love, after Qi Jiguang guarded the Beijing division and won the martial arts, this pair of sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes were officially combined, and it was passed on as a good story on the rivers and lakes.

Wang Lianying after marriage. Qi Jiguang is also extremely helpful, which can be called a virtuous helper, especially in the past ten years since Qi Jiguang was transferred to the southeast. Wang Lianying has always been in the army as a woman, and there are 300 female soldiers around her, all of whom she personally trained, even the Yiwu generals under Qi Jiguang. Seeing Wang Lianying was also respectful.

It's just that God may not want to make human couples too perfect. Wang Lianying has been married to Qi Jiguang for more than ten years, everything else is good, but she has not given birth to a boy and a half girl, seeing that Qi Jiguang is also middle-aged, but has no heirs, which makes him anxious, after all, Qi Jiguang himself is also a single biography, and has no brothers and nephews.

So Qi Jiguang gritted his teeth. took two concubines outside Wang Lianying's back, just wanting to pass on the lineage for herself. Unexpectedly, after Wang Lianying heard the news, she was furious, this Mrs. Qi's personality is extremely stubborn, quite like the white-haired witch Qu Caifeng, who only pursues perfect love, and does not tolerate a little dust, as soon as she heard that Qi Jiguang married another concubine, without saying a word, she rushed to the residence of the two concubines with two knives, and almost demolished the two mansions, and the two women were so frightened that they ran away alone, and they didn't even dare to take the gold and silver.

After Qi Jiguang heard this, he was also furious, ready to reason with Wang Lianying, because Wang Lianying has always had hundreds of personal female soldiers, Qi Jiguang was afraid that he would suffer a loss if he went alone, so he gathered more than 1,000 Yiwu soldiers, ready to pull to Wang Lianying to support himself, but he didn't expect that just after gathering people, Wang Lianying took hundreds of female soldiers to kill the world angrily, Qi Jiguang was a good man who didn't eat the loss in front of him, and immediately said to Wang Lianying: "Please Madame review my subordinates!" ”

Wang Lianying, who was originally going to fight, laughed at Qi Jiguang's move, and a possible tragedy came to an abrupt end, but after this trouble, Qi Jiguang and Wang Lianying's relationship had some cracks, and then Qi Jiguang moved into the camp on the grounds that he was busy with military affairs, and only let Wang Lianying lead the families of female soldiers and soldiers to guard this Xinhe City.

Wang Lianying stood at the head of the city, the sea breeze blowing her headscarf, a pair of beautiful eyebrows frowned tightly, looking at the stars outside the city, like torches full of stars, and the rude shouts of the widows, like this surging sea, wave after wave of the city.

Li Tong, the Xinhe guard general standing on the side, was a little pale, he was not a Yiwu soldier of the Qi family's army, but just a guard of thousands of households, because Wang Lianying was a woman after all, it was inconvenient to formally command the city defense, so Hu Zongxian specially transferred this person to guard Xinhe City, but after all, he was only attacking the title of his father and ancestor, and he had no actual combat experience. secretly scolded why he had to fight for this errand of losing his head on the front line.

Wang Lianying opened her mouth slowly, her voice was not high, but it was full of magnetism, and she had a calm and unhurried composure: "General Li, according to what you see, how many widows are there outside the city?" ”

Li Tong looked at it carefully, and his tongue was a little knotted: "It's estimated that it's about five thousand." ”

Wang Lianying smiled slightly, and pointed into the distance: "General Li, you have to see clearly, the Japanese are just bluffing, you look at the Japanese under the small tree, one person holds two torches, and then look at the small canal, it looks like there are more than a dozen torches, but all of them are planted on the ground, and there is no one." ”

Li Tong's eyes widened, and he looked at it carefully, before he suddenly realized: "Oh, Mrs. Qi, it's really as you said, the Japanese are suspicious soldiers." ”

Wang Lianying's face sank, as if covered with a layer of frost: "General Li, now is on the battlefield, don't call me Mrs. Qi, Governor Hu gave me the position of a guerrilla general, you should call me General Wang." ”

Li Tong patted his head and said with a smile: "Look at my brain, it's really useless, General Wang still asks for forgiveness." ”

Wang Lianying waved her hand coldly, signaling that she would stop there, since she married Qi Jiguang, she has always disliked others to call her Mrs. Qi, but prefers others to call her Mrs. Wang.

Wang Lianying said: "That's it, the enemy situation is important, General Li, the real number of the Japanese is more than 1,000 people, less than 2,000." At least outside the city are so many people. ”

Li Tong's face became a little worried again: "General Wang." Even if there were only 2,000 Japanese soldiers, they still had the absolute upper hand, and most of the soldiers in the city sent supplies to General Qi. I now only have 200 old and weak sergeants, plus your 300 personal female soldiers, less than 500 people, this Xinhe City is not a strong city, the city wall is only less than two zhang high, I heard that there are many strong martial arts among the Japanese robbers, relying on light skills to jump to the top of the city. ”

Wang Lianying suddenly turned her head. A cold glint appeared in Feng's eyes: "General Li, what do you want to say?" ”

Li Tong gritted his teeth and said, "The enemy is strong and I am weak. You are General Qi's wife, which is related to the morale of our army's front-line officers and soldiers, and also related to General Qi's overall plan. If something is wrong with you. Then I, Li Tong, will die a hundred times, and it will be difficult to atone for his sins. ”

Wang Lianying sneered: "Then according to General Li's meaning, what should we do?" ”、

Li Tong Zhengse said: "General Wang, now there are 2,000 Japanese robbers outside our small Xinhe City, and there are Japanese thieves in the east, south, and north of the city. Only the west of the city has not moved, in my opinion. While the Japanese have not yet closed the siege, let's quickly open the west gate, you break through with 300 female soldiers, and there is still a glimmer of life. ”

Wang Lianying remained silent: "Then what should you do?" ”

Li Tong sighed: "General Wang, I am sent by Governor Hu to guard Xinhe, I have a mission, the city is in the people, the city is dead, you can break through to find General Qi, I can't, besides, I can stay here, I can also confuse the enemy army, so that they will not all chase you, General Wang, without further ado, you better break through quickly." ”

Wang Lianying suddenly burst out laughing, her voice was loud, revealing a sense of boldness, even in the wave after wave of scolding of the widows, it was still clearly audible.

After laughing, Wang Lianying looked at Li Tong with a confused face, and said: "General Li, you think about the Japanese Kou too simply, why they set up suspicious soldiers here, but they did not attack the city, not for other reasons, but because their main force has actually gone around the forest in the west, just waiting there to ambush our troops who have escaped from the city." ”

Li Tong gasped: "How is it possible?" ”

Wang Lianying said coldly: "At the beginning of today's shift, the Japanese invaders came, and I could see clearly at that time, a large number of Japanese ninjas dressed in black and masked with swords on their backs, under the cover of the night, did not raise torches at all, all of them bypassed behind the mountains in the north and entered the forest in the west. ”

Li Tong turned his head to the west, in the dark and gloomy woods, there was a trace of silence and weirdness, but there was a faint killing intent, and occasionally after one or two birds entered the forest, there was no sound, and it was terrifyingly quiet.

Wang Lianying sneered: "See, most of those ninjas are masters, as soon as they see a bird entering the forest, they will kill them with darts, but this is just to cover up, the more they want to hide their whereabouts, the more obvious it is exposed, the art of war is cloudy, and the siege is missing one, just to drive the opponent who guards the city out of the city, no matter how humble the small city is, it is safer than the plain clearing, since the Japanese have surrounded the three gates, and they have time to bluff and intimidate loudly here, but let the West Gate go, do you think this is possible?" ”

Li Tong slammed his fist on the city wall, and said hatefully: "What a vicious and cunning wolf, I can't imagine that they are not only cruel and easy to kill, but also use these tricks, I really underestimated them before." ”

Wang Lianying sighed: "General Li, never underestimate your opponents, the Japanese can run rampant in the southeast for decades, and repeatedly defeat the official army, it is by no means possible to do it only by relying on bravery, many of them have followed Wang Zhi and Xu Hai to fight for many years, and some have fought many battles in the East, and experienced generals should not be underestimated." ”

Li Tong nodded: "General Wang, since as you said, the Japanese are trying to lure us out of the city to annihilate, then we can't fall for them, and we must defend this Xinhe City to the death." ”

Wang Lianying smiled slightly: "General Li's courage is commendable, but I don't know what the odds can be?" ”

Li Tong was speechless all of a sudden, and after a long time, he shook his head and sighed: "To be honest, Xinhe City is small, the fortifications are not strong, the garrison is less than five hundred, but it has to resist four or five thousand bandits, if you want to survive a day, I am afraid that the chance of victory is less than one-tenth." ”

Wang Lianying waved her hand: "General Li, let me ask you a question, the Japanese have been tossing for four hours. We should also know that we can't be fooled out of the city, but at this time, we don't attack the city, we just make noise here. What is the purpose? ”

Li Tong was slightly stunned and shook his head: "The last general doesn't know, and I ask the general to give advice." ”

Wang Lianying nodded and said: "Actually, the Japanese invaders also made a surprise attack today, taking advantage of General Qi's main force to rush north to aid Haiyan City, they sent four or five thousand bandits to raid here, the purpose is to capture the families of our Qi family army. Second, Xinhe City has always been the rear defense base of the Qi family's army, and there is a lot of ordnance, grain and grass, and they also want to take the opportunity to rob it. ”

Li Tong nodded: "Not bad." I wanted to come to our spy here, and only after confirming that General Qi was not there, did he dare to come here. ”

Wang Lianying said with a smile: "But the information they got is outdated, and there are usually two thousand defenders in this Xinhe City. Plus the people of the city were temporarily recruited. You can also draw hundreds of strong men to go to the city to help defend, so only relying on their four or five thousand people, one day and one night, may not be able to take Xinhe City, now it is getting late, they don't know the reality of the city, because the Japanese have been repeatedly beaten by the Qi army, so they are afraid that we will set a trap again this time. Lure them into attacking the city and annihilate them until now. It's just a bluff, but it doesn't dare to really attack the city. ”

Li Tong suddenly realized and said with a smile: "I see, it seems that this night not only covered the transfer of the Japanese to the West Gate, but also made them unable to see the reality in our city." Speaking of this, his brows suddenly furrowed, "General Wang, it's just that in this way, in the daytime, the Japanese will see our reality clearly, and when we have so few people, they will definitely attack." ”

Wang Lianying shook her head: "The Japanese are not stupid, this place is only a day's journey from Haiyan, they will not wait until the day to attack the city, but I am afraid that if the fourth watch is not enough, they will launch a tentative attack at night." ”

Li Tong nervously pressed the handle of the knife suddenly: "Then what should I do?" Fight with the pirates! ”

Wang Lianying pondered for a moment, and suddenly spoke: "General Li, how many sets of armor are there in the arsenal in the city now?" ”

Li Tong hurriedly said: "There are more than 3,000 sets of armor, don't worry about the ordnance, after all, it is the rear headquarters of the Qi family's army, but now there is a shortage of people, and the whole city adds up to less than 4,000 people, and most of them are old and weak, and they can't fight at all." ”

Wang Lianying's eyes lit up, and she shook her head with a smile: "It's enough, the Japanese invaders can't see the reality clearly at night, they don't dare to attack in an all-out way, at most it's just for show, General Li, please hurry up and mobilize all the residents of the city to go to the city, everyone put on armor, the old and weak women and children stand behind the soldiers, beat gongs and drums, and raise torches, pay attention, only do this when the Japanese invade the city, if they are a hundred steps away from the city wall, then all the torches are extinguished, and no action is taken." ”

Li Tong suddenly came to his senses, clenched his fists vigorously, and said with full of anger: "Order!" With that, he turned and galloped down the wall.

Wang Lianying's eyebrows furrowed, and she beckoned a female soldier beside her and said: "Let's go, let's go to the West Gate, the east is a tidal flat, the south is a depression, the north side is the highest city wall, and the West Gate is full of Japanese ninjas, you can climb over the city wall, it should be the most dangerous place." ”

Hundreds of female soldiers above and below the city shouted in unison: "Yes! ”

In the dense forest in the west of the city, there was silence, a bird flew into the forest, stopped on the treetops, suddenly, the bird's eyes turned, as if it had found something, and was about to spread its wings and take off, but heard a sound of breaking the sky, a black ninja dart was nailed to the bird's abdomen at once, the bird fluttered weakly twice, an upside-down green onion fell to the ground, and there was no movement in an instant, but the discerning person could see that hundreds of corpses of various birds had fallen horizontally and vertically in the forest for several miles. And above these bird corpses, there were more than a thousand black-clad masked ninjas, and nearly three thousand bright and flickering moves, shining with evil light, all staring at the city that was not too tall or too big three miles away.

Lying in a bush at the edge of the forest, it is the leader of this group of ninjas, Koga Hanbei, this time the Japanese invaded the coast of Zhejiang, and hired a lot of money to hire a very famous Koga ninja in Japan, and the leader of the Japanese Koko Nobuyuki (Yan Shifan has been supporting this person under the pseudonym Luo Longwen in the Ming Dynasty in recent years) even promised that once the attack was successful, one-third of the robbery proceeds would be distributed to these Koga ninjas, which provoked the Koga ninjas to follow the three thousand Shinwa led by Kamizumi Nobuyuki's younger brother Nobuo Kamizumi this time. The goal is to New River City.

Before the war, Shangquan Nobuyuki knew through his own channels that Qi Jiguang and Wang Lianying had just had a big quarrel, and the relationship was not as good as before, and the defenders of Xinhe City were not too many, but for the sake of insurance, he still arranged for Ito Kogoro to attack from Haiyan, trying to support the main force of the Qi family's army, and give himself a chance to attack the city overnight, while Shangquan Nobuyuki himself divided the main force of the Japanese Invaders into three ways and went straight to the southernmost Taizhou City.

Koga Hanbei lay motionless, his eyes turned straight and shining, obviously thinking, and one of his deputies said in a low voice, "Chief, are we going to wait until dawn like this?" ”

Koga Hanbei waved his hand: "No, according to the original plan, around the fourth watch, Nobuo Kamiizumi will take the initiative to attack, and then you can see clearly what the defense forces in the city are." (To be continued......)