Chapter 7: Saving Land and Losing People
"When they get close to the walls, shoot me hard!" Yu Wen gasped and gave the order. He was originally a person from Huguang, and in his more than 40 years of experience, except for some bandits and bandits caught when he heard or handled the case, he had never seen these robbers who killed people in front of the battle, and at the same time he hated in his heart, he couldn't help but worry about the captured people, whether the soldiers on the city wall could hold it, and whether the thousands of households of Jinshanwei could come in time, but if the city was broken, the life and death of the people in this city would be at stake.
"Can't fight, Lord County! The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty slaughtered the people of the Ming Dynasty, if this was known by the imperial historians, our large and small official groups would be condemned, and there would be a stroke of you and me in the future history books and county records. Li Dong, the county magistrate who had just finished the dispatch, heard the county order, and hurriedly spoke out to stop it, he was originally a person from this Nanzhili, if this can be promoted or lowered in the text, pat his ass and leave, what can they do as locals?
Hearing Li Xiancheng say this, not only did Yu County Commander not know what to do, but even those sergeants and generals were hesitant, and no one dared to bear the charge of slaughtering compatriots.
"Then according to Li Xiancheng's meaning, how should it be?" Yu Wenzhong is also in a dilemma, what the civil official cares about is a reputation, if this bad reputation, it is really more serious than killing him.
"Pick a few archers with good swordsmanship, wait for the Japanese to get close, and shoot arrows through the gaps in the crowd, don't use rocks and rolling wood and hot oil, even if you kill some of the people by mistake, it will be a last resort." Li Xiancheng came up with this compromise solution, and several civil officials who followed him also nodded slightly in agreement.
"However, this is a southern country, and the weather is hot and rainy, and bows and arrows are already easy to corrode, and there are even fewer archers. Relying on these dozen archers alone, I'm afraid it's rare to protect this city! "Zhang Jiang always knows something about military affairs, so he can hear that Li Xiancheng's attention is completely a fart, but he is a military attaché, and his quality is lower than that of Li Xiancheng, where do he dare to speak out and oppose it directly, so he had to say politely.
"But if we ignore the hostages and treat the hostages together, even if we succeed in defending the city, we will be finished! Why don't you use a bow and arrow to resist it, maybe Jin Shanwei will send someone over in a while? Li Xiancheng said tremblingly.
"But, Jin Shanwei's numbers and combat power, eh!" Mr. Zhang himself is a local garrison and knows the situation of Jin Shanwei. When I thought that although there were more than 5,000 people in Jinshanwei, there were almost one-third of the vacant number, and they would definitely only be able to send four or five hundred people, and the rest of them had to stay in Jinshanwei as a barrier to guard Nanjing. He has not been in battle for a long time, and he has traveled hundreds of miles to come to the rescue, but he is afraid that he will be vulnerable, but although it is a well-known thing, he can't say it in front of so many people, so he can only sigh.
Just when everyone was arguing, the Japanese had already driven those people to the bottom of the city, and the eastern city wall was low, only about one foot and five feet, and the Japanese found some ladders casually, and set up a ladder to come up!
"Lord County, as the old saying goes: if you save the land, you will lose people, and if you save people, you will save all people; If people lose land, people and land are lost. If you don't push down the ladder of those pirates and wait for them to come up, then you will really lose people and land. The Japanese are cruel by nature, with the preparation of the local garrison and the people, if they rely on the city wall, it is possible to protect this Huating County, if they give up the city wall, the city will be ruined, and the old and young will be finished! The lives of thousands of people in the city are all in the hands of the county lords! When the war is over, we and other people will inevitably gather the squires and elders in the city and jointly write to the court to inform the county lord of the difficulties. The lesser of the two evils, in wartime, we must have expedient measures, and we must not be kind to women, so that we cannot repay the king's kindness, and we cannot save the people from fire and water! ”
Ye Guan saw the ability of the Ming Dynasty bureaucrats to pass the buck, and everyone knew that if the order was given now, whoever ordered it would die. But if you don't give an order, when the city is broken, everyone will finish playing together. But no one wants to be a bird, isn't this sitting and waiting for perdition?! Ye Guan saw that some of the widows had begun to climb the ladder, so in a hurry, he had to take the initiative to persuade him, hoping that Yu County Ling would make up his mind.
"Well, yes, it makes sense, it makes sense! Come on, throw the stones and rolling woods, I am responsible for all the things, as long as I protect the people of the city, I will be infamous for thousands of years, why not, what to fear! After the war, I will go to the court, ask to return to the village, eat fasting and recite Buddha all day long, forgive me for today's mistakes! Yu Wenzhong finally made up his mind, looked at the Japanese robbers who began to climb under the city, and gave a battle order with red eyes.
Hearing the trembling words of Yu County's order, many people raised the rolling wood with red eyes, and when they threw it down, their eyes were full of tears, watching the rolling stones and rolling logs stone and rolling wood to death together with the people, and many people couldn't help but cry loudly.
Li Xiancheng also lifted his hem, lifted a rolling stone, and smashed it towards a widow under the city, and several other civil officials also went crazy and threw the rolling wood at the widows and people under the city, listening to the screams of the people under the city, many people trembled with their hands and feet, and the depression in their chests almost forced people to vomit blood.
It was still a little late, and some of the dexterous pirates had already reached the top of the city. After Zhang Jiang asked a few officers and soldiers to help those officials and old men down, he fought with the other general with the big knife in his hand and those Japanese who were the first to climb.
Many untrained men were hacked to death by the battle-hardened Japanese robbers, and in many cases, it was often only three or four civilians and officers and soldiers who could entangle a single Japanese servant. However, it inspired those officers and soldiers even more, they knew that once the city was broken, there would be no physiology. Ye Guan also found a spear next to a dead corpse and joined the siege of the Japanese Invaders.
There are not too many fancy moves to fight on the battlefield, and the narrow walkways on the city wall can't accommodate too many people, so the easiest way is to chop. Ye Guan's eyes are tricky, and he will always find an opportunity to attack the place where the Japanese can not be defended, so under the siege of these four people, one of the Japanese was found by Ye Guan, and he stabbed the Japanese Kou with one shot, and then the Japanese were unstable, and they were cut into meat sauce by those people and officers and soldiers.
Mr. Zhang and another unknown general are still a little capable, worthy of being an old soldier for many years, Mr. Zhang is always wielding a big knife, fighting two widows alone without falling into the wind, taking out the opportunity, and can also push those ladders away, so that those who are still in the air scream and fall down, although the city wall is not high, and the fall cannot die, but at least it relieves the pressure on the city.
"ちょっと待って" Ye watched that when Zhang was careless, he was cut off by a widow who found an opportunity to cut off the waist. Seeing that he was about to cut off Mr. Zhang, Ye Guan had an idea and shouted out a sentence in Japanese, which made the widow stunned. Although the accent of Japanese and Chinese is also different from region, in general, the Edo dialect can still be understood by those Shinto, so when the Shinwa heard that a young man dressed as an Aketo could actually use the accent of the Edo Hao, he was immediately stunned. In this stunned effort, Zhang Jiang always found an opportunity and hacked the Japanese to death with one knife, and then found the opportunity to kill another Japanese with one knife.
"Don't care why I say the words of the wolf, it's important to hurry up and cooperate with me to kill people!" Ye Guan saw that Zhang Jiang was always looking at him with strange eyes, so he hurriedly dealt with it.