When everyone heard Yan Hong say this, they were also a little relieved. Hai Rui nodded and said, "Qin Cha's words are reasonable. In addition, since there is no preparation for recruitment, the ordnance in the hands of the people should also be collected. Originally, it was quite unsuitable for the people to hold the blade, not to mention that the remnants of the White Lotus were still hidden among the people, maybe there would be trouble, and it would be even more disadvantageous if they were allowed to hold the blade. Zhang Lingyin, this matter must still fall on you. ”

Yan Hong said: "What Brother Hai said is very true. However, the current city defense affairs are urgent, and this matter of confiscating weapons can be handled by Zhang Lingyin as soon as possible, and it does not have to be limited to one day at a time. Also, Brother Yun, hire the people as people's husbands, but these people have to support the city, if they are not trained, they are afraid that they will be congested by each other at that time. Therefore, it is still hard for you to cooperate with Zhang Lingyin and organize it so that you can command freely. ”

Everyone was discussing, and suddenly Tao Zhi strode in outside the door and said: "Yu Qincha, the north gate is alarmed, and a chaotic army is approaching at night!" ”

It turned out that at noon today, Yun Chuqi suggested to Yan Hong that he sent more than a dozen shrewd and capable Jinyi guards and officers and soldiers, each of whom went out of the city for several miles to ambush, and if the enemy was approaching, he would use rockets as a signal to notify the city. In order to prevent the enemy from sneaking up on the night and catching the city off guard. Now it must have been the discovery of the enemy, and the fire horn came.

Yan Hong heard the report and turned to everyone: "Gentlemen, generals, how can you deal with it?" "He is self-aware, and he is not the material for war, so it is better to listen to the experts.

At that moment, Yun Chuqi arched his hand and said: "Yu Qin is poor, now the four gates are defended by the soldiers and horses of the right guard of Jinan, and it is expected that there will be no loss for a while." And the enemy is attacking from afar, and it is unlikely that there will be many siege equipment. In Yun's view, on the one hand, the garrison of the North Gate was called to strictly defend it. On the one hand, 500 soldiers and horses from the original Fubiao battalion were transferred to assist. It's foolproof. The Chin Cha does not have to be there in person. can still sit in the yamen. ”

Zhang Qingyan said: "In addition, the thieves are cunning, so we must prevent them from feinting to attack the north gate and actually attack other city gates." Therefore, please send a messenger to order the other three gates to be on strict guard. Another elite army was selected to be prepared in the city to meet all sides. It is also necessary to prevent the remnants of the White Lotus Sect in the city from making a rebellion. ”

Yan Hong was overjoyed and said, "What the two of you have seen is excellent. General Qin Delu, please personally go to the north gate to preside over the defense and send your subordinates to be able to do so. Strictly guard against the remaining three doors. General Wei Guoliang, please transfer 500 troops and horses from the headquarters to the north gate to help, and lead the Fubiao battalion brigade to respond in the center. Zhang Lao Lingyin, please arrange for the archers and civilians in this county to be under martial law on the street to prevent traitors from taking advantage of the situation to cause chaos. Mr. Yun Chuqi, please gather the team of disaster victims, and under the banner of accompanying the army and the people, and wait for Zhang Lao Lingyin's dispatch. Discuss a lot of trouble. Shao Daxia, please lead the heroes of the Loyal and Righteous Alliance. Patrol the streets and cut out the wandering traitors. ”

Everyone bowed their hands and said, "Obey!" So they departed.

After these people left, Yan Hong thought to himself, no one can say how the north gate is fighting. Idle is idle, and there is a lot of work at hand. He also ordered someone to invite the heads of the four major families in Jinan to explain the fact that the Mongols were about to fight in Jinan.

When these veterans heard this, they couldn't help but change color. Among them, Guo Shoucheng was the most courageous, and said to Yan Hong: "Master Qincha, it is indeed dangerous for this Tartar to enter the Kou, but with Qincha sitting here, I Jinan may not be able to get rid of this great difficulty." But I don't know if the old man is of use to us, but I advise. ”

Yan Hong nodded and said, "Old man Guo really has insight. Ben Qincha sat in Jinan, and he would never allow the Tartars to hurt the people in the city. Now there is a need for help. First, you are all local wealthy families, and the thieves are besieging the city, please lead the people and appease the people, so that the order is not chaotic, and the traitorous party has no way to take advantage of it. Second, everyone in the family has a family servant, and when the city defense is in danger, they must also help each other defend the city. Now the city of Jinan is full of victims, many of them are strong, you can pay money and food to recruit, expand the family, in case of emergency. The cost of recruiting domestic servants should be paid in advance, and when the thief army retreated, the court would compensate for it, or it would be repaid from Wang Xuan's reverse property. ”

This is also a trick that Yan Hong is worried about the lack of city defense troops. It is not possible for the Qin Cha to recruit troops by himself, but why can't the four major families expand the family with the acquiescence of the Qin Cha? And when the enemy really fights, there is nothing wrong with sending these families to the city to defend.

Although Guo Shoucheng didn't know Yan Hong's worries, he also understood his intentions, and Yan Hong said it earlier, when the big thing here is over, Wang Xuan's real estate is most likely to be sold at a cheap price, and he will be able to profit from it when the time comes. Immediately, Guo Shoucheng arched his hand and said: "What the old man said is very good. The king and thieves were in turmoil before, and now the Tartars are close to the city, and the old man often hates the lack of servants in the family, and is always worried about the safety of the family. Now that the old man Mengqin can't help it, Guo Mou turned around and went to recruit Ding Zhuang thousands of people among his relatives, friends, tenants and good people to protect his family and defend the country. If there is a shortage of food and salary, Guo is willing to break the family to help! ”

Several other members also agreed. Yan Hongxi said: "Food, Wang Xuan's family wealth has been confiscated, and there is no shortage for the time being, when you need help, I will discuss it with all of you." Everyone is now sharing weal and woe, and the official is not polite. Guo Shoucheng nodded and said: "What Qin sent to teach is that if the Tartars break the city wall, we will not even be able to save our lives." Zidang and Qincha are in the same boat and do their best. ”

Yan Hong was quite relieved to see that the four major families were so upright. To send off the people of the four major families, suddenly another general banner of the right guard of Jinan came in and said: "Master Qincha, the enemy attack outside the north gate has been repulsed. ”

Yan Hong was overjoyed: "Hurry up and report from the truth." ”

The general banner said: "I got the warning signal before, and the city governor immediately deployed the defense, and not long after, General Qin also came in person, and there were five hundred brothers from the Fubiao battalion to reinforce it. The thieves, who had tens of thousands of infantry and cavalry, and whose torches were brightly illuminated, rushed towards the city gate, and were repelled by a flurry of arrows from us. The thief army rushed three times, our army was extraordinarily heroic, and General Qin personally opened his bow and shot more than 20 thieves. After fighting for half an hour, the thief army saw that it was cheap, so they retreated. It is estimated that at least a thousand people were killed or wounded. ”

Yan Hong said: "Then how many casualties are our army?" ”

The general banner said: "Toqin sent Hongfu, General Qin commanded well, only two of our army were wounded by the cold arrows of the thief army under the city, and there was no loss in addition." ”

Yan Hong smiled secretly in his heart, since he had fought for half an hour, only two of our army were slightly injured, which showed that the enemy army had not attacked at all. This myth of destroying more than a thousand enemies, although I don't understand military affairs, I'm not an idiot. But he also knew that this was the practice of officialdom, and immediately praised: "Very good." The soldiers bravely killed thousands of enemies, and Ben Chin will definitely have a heavy reward! Stand down. ”

At this time, I saw Shao Jing come in with Zhang Qingyan, Xia Zisu and others, and happened to hear the last few words. Zhang Qingyan covered his mouth and said: "Qincha, when we just looked, although the enemy troops outside the city came quickly, they were not ready for war, and the number of people is unknown. After climbing the city for a while, he was shot down by our army's random arrows, and then retreated. At present, Yun Chuqi's eldest brother arranged for more than 20,000 refugees to go up to the city wall, lined up in a row, beating drums and shouting. I couldn't see it clearly in the night, and the thieves outside the city thought that they were also deterred, and retreated more than twenty miles and stopped attacking. In my opinion, they will not act again until dawn. ”

Yan Hong said: "Very good. I was about to take advantage of this opportunity to straighten out the morale of the army. "He knows the importance of morale in combat. When he was pursued by the mutinous Fubiao battalion the night before, it was the glorious image of himself living and dying together that greatly boosted the morale of the Jinyi guards, and the two hundred people actually blocked the onslaught of nearly ten times the enemy's army. Now that the enemy forces outside the city are fighting a lot, they have to be motivated by the ideas of the patchwork team under them.

Immediately, Yan Hong ordered Zhang Jingzhai to lead the people to transport the silver ingots in the silver treasury from the Wang family, and all of them were concentrated in the school field in the city. Then, the people and horses of Fubiao, Weisu, and Xiangma, which are not subordinate to each other, were all transferred to the school field. The defense of the head of the city was temporarily guarded by the Beijing camp team and the brocade guards. Yun Chuqi led the people to strengthen the defense. Thinking that the rebel army outside the city was killed and retreated for a while, there was no big wave at the moment.

There were more than 5,000 people from these three routes, and when they came to the school grounds, they stood in a line, not knowing what to do, and their hearts were uneasy. Especially Fubiao and Xiangma, after all, they had followed the rebellion before, although Lei Zhanbiao and Shen Yu had already been ambushed, and Qin Cha also promised not to blame the past, but he always had to have a long heart, and he was afraid that this was going to be killed intensively, so he couldn't help but hold the weapon in his hand tightly.

After a while, I saw that there were brocade guards escorting the people one after another, pulling the carts of boxes here, piling them up into a hill. Subsequently, Qin Cha Yan Hong, Qin Delu, He Bingzhong and others also came one after another. I saw Yan Hong holding a loudspeaker in his hand, and went directly to the high platform of the three armies on weekdays, and shouted loudly:

"Sons, the Mongols have already fought in Jinan, and they are waiting to eat food and serve as soldiers on weekdays, and it is time to kill themselves to serve the country. Shen Yu and others made a mess before, and it had nothing to do with you, but now they are just serving the imperial court to show their loyalty! And you wait for Shandong Xiangma, not only want to recruit An, but also take advantage of this matter to make military achievements, so that I can protect, let you be hereditary officials, and your children and grandchildren will no longer do a green forest career! The thief has been eliminated from last night's incident, and you will not be implicated, but you can rest assured that you will kill the thief. ”

Everyone was relieved to hear that they were not settling accounts, but mobilizing. Yan Hong said again: "Although the Tartar is fierce, don't I have a man in Shandong?" What's more, Jinan City has thick walls, plenty of grain and grass, and can defend the city with peace of mind, what can be missing? The border army is coming, and thousands of Tartar soldiers can be captured in one battle, so how can you let go of such a great opportunity for meritorious service and promotion? Ben Chin cha hereby decrees that there is a reward for killing the enemy! In addition to the already rewarded in the imperial court, those who can get a Tartar head will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver! Those who can get the head of the traitor will be rewarded with ten taels of silver! And it will be issued on the same day, and there will be no discounts! The war dead will be given a generous tribute. There are also brave fighters, I will write a book to protect the lift, there is a dare to cower not the former, Ben Qin cha regardless of his grade, all with the royal flag, first cut and then play! (To be continued......)