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The battle between the two sides is like a tug-of-war, you attack me, and the fight is very happy, the city gate is suddenly under the control of the Zheng army, and it will be recaptured by the Qing army after a while, and the small city gate hole is like a flesh mill, and more than a thousand corpses on both sides have fallen. After fighting for nearly half an hour, the continuous onslaught of the Qing army, combined with the bricks, stones, wooden beatings on the city tower, and fierce fire oil and other defensive weapons finally repelled Shi Lang's sneak attack.

Harhaqi wiped the sweat from his forehead, this battle was really dangerous, just a little bit, the city gate fell! If this city gate really fell, then Huzhou City must have fallen into the hands of Zheng Jun, after all, now after the sky is bright, he found that even if the Zheng army lost more than their side in the first battle, but at this time there were still about three thousand five military horses under the city, and on the other hand, they were only two thousand five hundred at this time, and three hundred of them were injured.

Sure enough, the power of the sneak attack is huge, as the defender of the city, one does not pay attention to the sneak attack, and the casualty ratio of the two sides almost reaches one to one, but at this time, the Zheng army consumes like this, but they can't afford to consume it, there are only 3,200 soldiers under their command, and they have lost more than 700 at once, and the remaining part can withstand a few consumptions? Can this continue for 10 days or more?

"That's not right!" Harhazi suddenly thought of something, he slapped his head and secretly said that he was really stupid, how could the defender of the city not mobilize the people and let the young and strong people in the city help defend the city! There are too many people in the city to say that there is no problem in mobilizing five or six thousand young men to assist in defending the city. "Someone. Go and ask the prefect Lu Yu Lu! Harhazi immediately instructed the guards beside him.

Lu Yu soon came to the city tower. He didn't stay in his prefect's yamen at all. But after hearing that Zheng Jun had begun to attack the city, he came out of the prefect's yamen and came to Huzhou to garrison the yamen, wanting to rely on the soldiers here to protect him, and he also ordered the housekeeper in his house to quickly load the furniture that had been packed into the carriage, ready to withdraw from Huzhou City with him at any time. The garrison yamen was very close to the east city gate, so it was only a quarter of an hour's work for Lu Yu to arrive in front of Harhazi.

"I've seen Lord Harhazi!" Lu Yu said respectfully. Harhazi is a military attache from the third rank. He is a civil official of the fifth grade, if this is placed in the late Ming Dynasty, noble and cheap, then it has to be Harhazi to salute him Lu Yu, but he is now an official of the Qing Dynasty, and Harhazi is still an authentic Manchurian with three flags and yellow flags, so Lu Yu's appearance has always been more flattering. Now seeing that Harhazi blocked the thousands of troops of the Zheng army outside the city, his expression was even more flattering!

"Hmmm! I'm calling you now for something I need your help! Harhazi was not polite at all, and said directly.

"Your Excellency, please command, and your subordinates will do it immediately!" Lu Yu hurriedly bowed down and replied. This waist bends a little lower.

Harhazi looked down on Lu Yu even more when he looked at him, but he was the prefect of Huzhou. He still needed his help in the following matters, so he spoke: "The general forgot a very important thing before, which is to mobilize the young people in the city to help defend the city. The people in Huzhou City heard that there are about 30,000 households, and there are still more than 100,000 people, so it shouldn't be difficult for you to mobilize 5,000 young people to come over to help Ben General defend the city! ”

"It's not difficult, it's not difficult!" Lu Yu hurriedly replied. "It's just, it's just this"

"Huh?" Harhazi looked at him like this, and looked at him suspiciously: "If you have a problem, just say it!" "This is when he sees such a Han official, he is sick to his stomach, I really don't know how such a person was promoted to the position of Wupin prefect.

"This, Lord Hui, it's no problem to mobilize Qingzhuang to help defend the city, but it takes a lot of silver taels, since the last time General Zhejiang withdrew a large amount of silver from the treasury, let's do this" Lu Yu said hesitantly. After saying the previous words, he immediately changed his face and said quickly: "But my lord, I have an idea that can quickly solve the problem in front of me. But this requires your consent! ”

"Mother-in-law, mother-in-law, if you have a way, hurry up!" Harhazi is really fed up with such Han scholars, and he has to break it into several pieces in a sentence, and he has to die in a hurry.

"Yes! The way to humble the post is also very simple, that is, let the rich families in the city donate, at this time the city is in danger, but all the people in the city should have the money to contribute to the force, so let these rich families contribute some silver taels, one can use these silver taels to recruit young people to assist in defending the city, in addition, you can also use these silver taels to stimulate morale, after the number and morale are greatly increased, our Huzhou will also be solid, this is a good thing to kill three birds with one stone, I don't know my lord" Lu Yu finished his words in one breath, and then stared at Harhaji without moving, Waiting for a response from Khalhazi.

Harhazi's eyes lit up when he heard half of it, this method is good, he is really short of silver now, what do they like when they are soldiers, except for promotion, that is, to get rich, before the war, people have done it in all dynasties and dynasties to use silver to boost morale, and the effect is quite significant. "Okay, Ben will give you this right, and now Ben will order you to be fully responsible for this matter, but Ben will only give you an hour's time, and after an hour, Ben will need to see at least two thousand young men to come over to help defend the city, as for the rest, you must hurry up, at the latest can't wait until noon, Ben will want to see you ready!"

"No problem at all!" Lu Yu happily patted his chest and reassured.

"Let's do it!"

Lu Yu has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, this time he can justifiably extort these rich people in the city, at the critical moment, he just went too far, and he thought that he would turn a blind eye after Harhaji tasted some sweetness. There are almost strong connections in the city, and of course he does not dare to move. I can only say that I want to do it. As much silver as you can get. But for those ordinary rich families are not so polite, directly invited these people to the prefect's yamen, and then asked each family to donate 8,000 taels to 3,000 taels of silver at a time, and there were more than 30 people who were called to the prefect's yamen in an emergency, even if each family was 3,000 taels, it was 100,000 taels of silver, although 100,000 taels of silver could be the salary of the Qing army's 10,000-strong troops for half a year. This Lu Yu's greed is really surprising to others.

For these big households in Huzhou, although five thousand taels is a big number, it is just a big number, it is not an astronomical number, even the poorest one here, you can get it by squeezing it, but the key is that the money is aggrieved, several of the biggest gentry You Lu Yu dare not move, just take them ordinary landlords or businessmen with bad backgrounds, looking at the Qing soldiers standing inside and outside the yamen, these rich gentry have to grit their teeth and admit it. But they all thought that if they had a chance in the future, they must make this Lu Yu prefect look good.

Lu Yu didn't think about it so much, he didn't move because the background was too powerful. It's nothing to move these things that don't have a background or a background that doesn't work in his opinion, and after this one is done, he can immediately move to other places, even if he spends more money to transfer to the capital, it shouldn't be difficult. Besides, if he took out a lot of money to help this Lord Harhazi at one time, won his favor, and repelled Zheng Jun's rebellion, wouldn't it be smooth sailing for him to be promoted and make a fortune?

He has already understood, this deputy general Harhazi is an authentic person with a yellow flag, and his Lao Tzu is the current soldier Shagraba, that is the second grade of the military department, his son Lao Tzu is such a high official rank, presumably his family must be amazing, hugging this thick leg, it will be developed in the future, so at this time, Lu Yu is not afraid of offending these "little people" at all, only one hour, the first batch of 50,000 taels of silver collected was placed in front of Harhazi, and went to the city wall with him. There are also 2,000 young men recruited in advance.

This defending the city is fighting, there are really few people in the city who are willing, and many people in this Huzhou Mansion have not yet been completely attached to the Qing court, and I heard that it was Taiwan's Zheng army attacking the city, and there are not many people willing to help defend the city. Lu Yu also didn't talk nonsense with lowly people, just sprinkled a lot of silver, and those who were willing to participate in the defense of the city were given a settlement fee of ten taels of silver per person first, and if they were meritorious in the process of defending the city, they would be rewarded separately. This is a way that money can make ghosts grind, and suddenly a large number of young people signed up, and even many ruffians and hooligans in the city also participated. The first batch of 2,000 people demanded from Harhazi and were soon sent to the eastern gates.

The rest of the time does not need Lu Yu to participate, he continues to collect in the city, how can he make a good fortune if he doesn't take this opportunity, it will be difficult to find such a good time in the future. So for a whole afternoon, although the city was not broken by the Zheng army, the rich gentry in the city were not looted by the Zheng army, but Lu Yu made up for this article, and anyone who did not pay the money was put on the hat of a certain Antong rebel, and then put in the prison of the prefect's yamen until you paid the money. And if it is at this time, the silver taels paid will no longer be the ones that Lu Yu extorted in the past, the less will be doubled, and the more will be three or five times, he will not really want to destroy the whole family of these people, after all, the matter is too big, and it will not end well.

Fifty thousand taels of silver were placed on the city tower by Harhazi, mainly at the east city gate, and at the north city gate and the south city gate, some were also placed, the boxes were all opened, and the white silver pretense cost everyone's eyes, but Harhaji also clearly told all the soldiers that if they wanted to get this silver, they must block the attack of the Zheng army under the city, otherwise the city will be broken, and all these things will become other people's trophies.

With this large amount of silver incentives, sure enough, the morale of the Qing army has been greatly improved, and even the newly arranged young men who assisted in defending the city are full of morale. In one afternoon, Shi Lang led the army to attack the city twice, losing thousands of people and not breaking Huzhou City, so he had to quickly retreat for thirty miles and set up camp, preparing to turn back and mobilize a large army to follow up and break Huzhou City again. In fact, after last night's raid was unsuccessful, he should have retreated immediately, Sun Tzu has said in the Art of War, ten are to surround it, five to attack it, and to fight it twice, the enemy can divide it, and if it is less, it can be defended, and if it is not, it can be avoided, and now they have no more troops than in the city, and their morale is not very strong, and the wisest choice is to retreat temporarily. (To be continued......)