In the next few days, Liu Qing really followed the methods of Qiu Yizhi and Lin Shuhan, and put on a posture of being loose on the outside and tight on the inside.

Within a few days, among the suspicious people found by soldiers inside and outside Jinling City, there were indeed a few people from the rivers and lakes. However, these people either went around Jinling City and left the city, or suddenly there was no information, and none of the clues were investigated. And the copper-eyed Arhat was really calm, and he didn't show his head for several days as if he had evaporated from the world, and as for the traces of Shi Wei and the "big man", it was impossible to find out.

On Wen Lingjiao's side, Qiu Yizhi also tried her intentionally or unintentionally. But Wen Lingjiao is Wang Gu talking about him left and right, which is unpredictable. Qiu Yizhi was afraid that she would ask too tightly, so Miss Wen Lingjiao lost her temper and immediately brushed her sleeves away, so she didn't dare to ask.

All of a sudden, the case of the copper-eyed Arhat kidnapping the minister of the Qincha actually reached an impasse and could not be pushed further.

Wang Laowu, who went to Luoyang to deliver the letter, also returned from the capital after six days of round-trip, but he did not bring back a reply from the emperor, but only a reply from the prime minister Zhong Likuang.

Qiu Yizhi felt strange, opened Zhong Li Kuang's reply letter, and read it carefully: it turned out that the emperor Zheng Rong happened to feel cold two days ago, and could only stay in bed to listen to the government, but could not reply to the letter in person, so Zhong Li Kuang adhered to the holy will and replied to Qiu Yizhi.

As for the content of the reply, there is nothing to scrutinize, but it is just an instruction to Qiu Yizhi to handle the case carefully, so as not to ruin the life of Shi Wei, the minister of the Imperial Mission, and bring shame on the imperial court. As for Liu Qing, because he obeyed Qiuyi's words, in order to ensure the unity of power in Jinling, a place of right and wrong, his official position as the envoy of Jiangnan Province was temporarily retained.

At the same time, the giant shield and crossbow machine transferred from General Cui Nan were also sent to the place of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Jinling City.

This is a major event to enhance the combat effectiveness of the two hundred townships in Shanyin County, Qiu Yizhi heard the news, he immediately put down the affairs in his hand, called Zhao Chengxiao, and ordered the whole army to receive this batch of weapons and materials.

The giant shield and crossbow machine are the indispensable special weapons of the old Youyan Dao "Dangya Battalion" and the crossbow soldiers, and Qiu Yizhi often deals with them in Guangyang City, and he is extremely familiar. Therefore, he carefully observed these weapons, and saw that the tung oil on the surface of the giant shield was thick and new, and the bowstring of the crossbow machine was also thick and tight.

Qiu Yi was very moved, and announced on the spot: "These weapons are sharp weapons created by craftsmen with heart, and how much effort has been spent in them?" From now on, these weapons are like your life, and they cannot be easily damaged, otherwise they will be dealt with by military law. ”

In the next few days, Zhao Chengxiao was in charge of selecting suitable candidates among the villagers, and trained them in the methods of holding shields and shooting crossbows. Although Qiu Yizhi handed over full power to Zhao Chengxiao to manage, he always took the time to watch the training of soldiers, and when there was no progress in the Jinling case, it could be regarded as relaxing.

Speaking of which, Zhao Chengxiao is really a person who knows people and makes good use of them, and there is no soldier who is not applicable.

For example, the big shield of "Dangya Battalion" is heavy, with a total weight of more than 50 catties, and it is not possible to use Ruyi by relying solely on the strength of the arm. Therefore, Zhao Chengxiao specially selected people who were short in stature and stable in the lower plate, and taught them to skillfully use the strength of the waist, abdomen and legs, so that they could truly exert the power of the giant shield and become the cornerstone of the whole army.

Another example is a strong crossbow soldier, because the crossbow machine bowstring torque is extremely large, no matter how strong the strength is, it can not be pulled away with both hands, and can only be kicked open with feet, so it is often chosen to operate the crossbow machine with strong foot force. And Zhao Chengxiao saw that his subordinates could all open the crossbow with their foot strength alone, so he picked up people with strong arm strength among them, what he wanted was that they had strong hands and could shoot stably to improve the hit rate of crossbow arrows.

As for the close-quarters infantry, he selects people with flexible minds and extraordinary martial arts, and once they are hand-to-hand, they will not be left behind.

These townsmen of Shanyin County are carefully selected elite soldiers, and after the previous training, they have been trained to be disciplined, have high morale, and have a strong physique; After being taught by Lin Shuhan, he was more or less enlightened, and he learned to use weapons very quickly. A few days ago, they experienced a bloody battle of life and death against the Japanese under Jinling City, and they dispelled all their fear of the enemy.

Therefore, in just four or five days, Shanyin Xiangyong has already practiced the formation of the old Youyan Dao army, and has become a veritable strong army.

Liu Qing, the envoy of Jiangnan Province, was already busy handling the case of the robbery of the minister, and he was already in a hurry, so he had no time to take care of the problem of the Japanese pirates that were raging in the south of the Yangtze River - the Japanese pirates who had finally been scattered under the city of Jinling actually regrouped and harassed and plundered in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Huzhou and other places, causing trouble everywhere.

Qiu Yizhi thought that he could use the Japanese to test the ability of the newly trained soldiers, so he took the initiative to ask Liu Qing to exterminate the Japanese invaders.

Liu Qing originally wanted to keep Qiu Yizhi in Jinling City to handle Shi Wei's case for him, but Qiu Yi's heart was firm, and Liu Qing didn't dare to disobey the will of this "righteous highness" too much, so he had to nod and agree.

So in addition to leaving four shrewd personal soldiers to continue to monitor Wen Lingjiao's actions in the name of protection, Qiu Yizhi ordered two hundred Xiangyong and other fourteen personal soldiers, and under the escort of Wei Chi Jiming and Lin Shuhan's counselor, he went out of the city to find the main force of the Japanese invaders.

Since the victorious Xiangyong of Shanyin County had already gone out of the city to kill the enemy, the other horses who were recuperating in Jinling City after the defeat naturally had no reason to continue to recuperate in this gentle township, so they were also led by their respective officers to go out of the city and return to the township to defend them.

After suffering a defeat under the city of Jinling, the Japanese became even more annoyed and angry, and although they were on guard everywhere, they still turned Suzhou, Hangzhou, Huzhou and other world's richest fish and rice towns upside down. In order to avoid the rebellion of the Japanese invaders, the farmers in the countryside all ran to the city to save their lives, and the rural fields that were originally full of traffic and the sound of chickens and dogs have become uninhabited.

Seeing that the autumn harvest season is approaching, the ripe ears of rice grow in the field and no one harvests, the heart of Qiuyi is anxious, and it is afraid that the agricultural time will be missed, and even the grain in Luoyang, the capital city, will be difficult to supply.

Therefore, Qiu Yizhi was very eager to find the main force of the Japanese invaders everywhere, and even issued a document in the name of Liu Qing to garrison the generals everywhere, once a large number of Japanese invaders were found, they had to try their best to drag them down, and after Qiu Yi's army arrived, they would be annihilated again.

However, what Qiu Yizhi encountered was always a small group of more than a dozen people, although they also eliminated a lot, but the results of the battle could not be expanded.

Qiu Yizhi was anxious and discussed with Lin Shuhan, only to know that it was Jiangnan with rich natural treasures and abundant products, and even if the Japanese robbers stole ripe rice and preyed on chickens and ducks in the wild, they were enough to survive, so they were not in a hurry to concentrate their forces to attack Jiancheng, so it was difficult to find its main force.

He also asked about the captured fake widows, and Lin Shuhan's inference was also confirmed from their mouths - it turned out that the Japanese country had always been poor, and ordinary civilians fed their stomachs with millet and wild vegetables all year round, and often could not eat a bowl of white rice during the New Year; Now that they have come to the south of the Yangtze River, which is full of rice, it is as if a mouse has fallen into a rice vat and is very content, and they will not easily seek trouble from the officials and soldiers.

The Art of War: "Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles".

Now that they know the reason why the Japanese are broken into pieces, Qiu Yizhi and Lin Shuhan naturally have a way to deal with it.

He immediately issued an order to the whole province in the name of the Jiangnan Provincial Assassin Shi and the Jiedu Envoy Yamen, ordering the peasants from all over the country to immediately go out of the city to harvest rice. In the process of harvesting, the peasants should not harvest the rice in their own fields by themselves, but should concentrate their hands in one place, uniformly designate the ripe paddy fields for centralized harvesting, and adopt the method of "exchanging manpower for time" to shorten the harvesting time as much as possible, and at the same time be protected by the brave officers and soldiers of the local government and township. After the harvest was completed, all the grain had to be transported back to the nearby city, and not a single rice was left for the Japanese invaders.

In this way, it is equivalent to the concentrated use of scattered peasants and defenders, and at each harvest point, there are hundreds of soldiers and horses guarding them. Rao is a Japanese Kou is bold and fierce, but he does not dare to attack the enemy army dozens or hundreds of times larger.

In this way, Qiu Yizhi spent nearly a month not only harvesting the ripe rice, but also completing the impossible task of clearing the fields in the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, completely dispelling the delusion of the Japanese invaders who tried to replenish the land in situ for the winter.

Desperate, the pirates tried to attack the city.

However, one of them was too few in number, the second was lacking siege equipment, and the third was not under unified command, and Qiu Yizhi strictly ordered the defenders in various places in the name of Liu Qingjiedu's envoy to the yamen not to go out of the city without authorization to fight with the Japanese invaders, so the Japanese attacked several times, except for picking down a few pieces of blue bricks of the city wall produced in the south of the Yangtze River, there was no gain.

After all, the green bricks could not be eaten, and a few large bands of Japanese robbers were about to starve to death in the fields that were as clean as the bald heads of monks, and of course they could not sit idly by, so they gathered together to attack the city, and captured some people to survive the winter.

Because most of them were in Suzhou Prefecture and lacked food supplies, they could not travel long distances, so they could only find nearby cities to attack.

Jiangnan is the richest place in the Han Dynasty, and Suzhou is the richest place in the south of the Yangtze River, and the annual tax payment of Suzhou alone is comparable to the tax revenue of Shanxi, Yunnan and Guizhou, and its wealth can be seen.

And because Suzhou is very rich, the city wall of the county under its jurisdiction is built as solid as gold. At the same time, the remuneration and military salary set when recruiting the township warriors were also very generous - the so-called "under the heavy reward, there are brave men", and the combat effectiveness of the Suzhou Fuxiang Warrior Regiment is stronger than that in other places.

Therefore, a large number of Japanese robbers counted and counted with their fingers, gathered together and discussed repeatedly, and finally chose a small county town called Qingpu to attack.

These would-be robbers are not fools, and the reason why they chose Qingpu is not for no reason - first, Qingpu is the throat of Suzhou, Hangzhou, and even Jiangbei provinces, and they have the benefits of businessmen and friends, and they have a lot of accumulation; Second, Qingpu is close to the sea, and there are several large-scale shipyards, once they can't gain a foothold in Dahan, they can also calmly escape to the sea; Thirdly, it is said that the Qingpu city wall is not high, only one zhang high, as long as a few mounds of earth are piled up under the city wall to step on, you can calmly cross the city wall and kill into the city.

However, to the surprise of the Japanese Kou, it was just these mound of footsteps, which could not be piled up no matter what.

It turns out that the reason why the Qingpu city wall is not built is not high is because there is a moat outside the city to defend it. The moat is composed of three natural rivers and an artificial canal, with an arch bridge on each side of the river, corresponding to the four gates. The city wall is built along the river, and the corners of the wall are level with the river embankment, even if you are proficient in water, you can only touch the foot of the city wall if you swim across the river, and it is like a fantasy to say that you can go over the wall.