While Qin Tai arranged the soldiers to be ready for battle, he also found the patriarchs from all over the country. Qin Tai said straight to the point: "Patriarchs, elders, it's too late for us to be polite now. The Japanese have gathered more people to attack Putian. If the city of Putian is broken, our home will be gone. Not only is our home gone, but our hope is gone. This officer has decided to take all the soldiers to defend Putian City and live and die together with Putian City. I don't know what everyone means? ”

Several patriarchs glanced at each other, and one of them said, "My lord, your kindness will never be forgotten. But I don't know how many people are on the other side? How sure are my Ming army that they will be able to win? ”

Qin Tai said very honestly: "How many troops the other party has, now the official doesn't know. But there will definitely be no less than four or five thousand people. Because the Japanese who fled back would definitely report the number of soldiers here to their chief. Even if they are arrogant and think that one person can beat one of our soldiers, it must be four or five thousand people. If they want to defeat us in one fell swoop, or if they want a complete victory, they will need six or seven thousand men, or even more. If they send about four or five thousand men, my soldiers should be able to deal with it. If it's seven or eight thousand, I can't guarantee it. If they come with 10,000 people, we can't even be sure. Therefore, it is up to everyone to stick to the new home of Putian. ”

One of the patriarchs said, "Excuse me, do you know how many people there are on the other side?" Will they come out of the nest? In this case, how sure will we be? ”

An officer on one side knew that Qin Tai couldn't answer, so he said: "The other party is Tanaka among the Japanese Kou, and the leader is called Tanaka Ichiro." His subordinates claim to be 100,000, but in fact, it is only a little more than 30,000. Over the years, he fought with General Yu Dayou and suffered many casualties. Now it is estimated that the number of people who can really go to war should be about 15,000 to 18,000. Ichiro Tanaka would not be stupid enough to ignore the base camp, so he sent about 13,000 people at most at one time. We have more than 4,300 soldiers, and this is our territory, so if the other side doesn't have any large-scale weapons in their hands, we should be able to hold out for three to eight days. If you break through or sneak attack, you should be able to fight with them. But in a head-to-head confrontation, we are definitely inferior to the Japanese Invaders. Our more than 4,000 people can only hold off the opponent for an hour at most, and if we cause 4 to 5,000 casualties on the other side, we will be completely annihilated. ”

The patriarchs stopped talking, but Qin Tai had something to say. "It's just the soldiers' part, and if you add everyone, it's different," he said. With more than 4,000 soldiers, plus the cooperation of tens of thousands of our people, even if the other side has 15,000 people, it can only be in vain. I hope that for the sake of your own homeland and your own territory, everyone will join forces to deal with the Japanese invaders. ”

One of the patriarchs stood up and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, we are all people who have experienced the looting of the Japanese invaders. We had seen the cruelty of the Japanese at the beginning, and we did everything we could to endure it, and in the end, the family was still ruined. Now it's our new home, our new hope. Lord Qin is not only our life-saving benefactor, but also a good parent. I believe that under his leadership, our lives will change for the better. Besides, these soldiers are not outsiders, they are all our Fujian soldiers. If we Fujian people want to survive in the future, we need them to be a good descendant. If we can't help these future generations, we won't be able to face our ancestors in the future, and we will be sorry for our children and grandchildren. I agree with Lord Qin's idea to stay and fight against the Japanese invaders together, avenge my family, and fight for my homeland. Only by killing these widows will we have a good life. ”

Another patriarch spoke, and he said, "We have nowhere to go anyway. Without food on hand, everyone can only starve to death. Lord Qin not only has food in his hands to keep us alive, but also helps us fight the Japanese invaders. Although we are in danger of fighting the pirates, we may not all die. If we leave Lord Qin, we won't be starving to death for long. I'm also in favor of staying. ”

The words of the two patriarchs aroused everyone's reaction, and everyone gradually unified their thoughts. In the end, everyone unanimously decided to stay and deal with the invading Japanese with the soldiers.

At this time, Xiao Lingzi's statistical report also came out, and the number of people totaled 73,000. Among them, there are about 10,000 young and middle-aged men, more than 15,000 women between the ages of 20 and 40, and the largest number of elderly people and children, more than 31,000 and 20,000 respectively.

Qin Tai decided that more than 10,000 men and some soldiers would form the first echelon to block the attack of the Japanese invaders on the periphery. More than 15,000 women are divided into three groups, some of which are used as transport teams and future medical teams, specializing in the transport of weapons and supplies as well as the wounded. Some of them guarded the castle tower as the main force of the second defense. Some people take care of the elderly and children, and cook and do laundry. Some of the elderly are more flexible, acting as liaisons, passing orders or something. Elderly people with handy hands and feet assisted the women's group in cleaning up their equipment and weapons, and the children gathered together, leaving a small number of women to look after them.

The weapons and equipment that Qin Tai had tricked from Tan Lun came in handy, and these equipment were distributed to men and women, greatly improving their defensive capabilities.

This side has just been arranged, and the Wako's side has also begun to move. The spies came to report, and Ichiro Tanaka personally led his subordinates out of the nest and decided to take down Putian City in one go. And the number of people greatly exceeded the eighteen thousand people that Qin Tai expected. It turned out that Ichiro Tanaka took advantage of the opportunity of Yu Dayou's resistance to the Japanese in Fujian to annex some small Japanese groups, which not only enriched his own strength, but also expanded his territory. Ichiro Tanaka now has more than 54,000 men under his command, and in addition to the elderly, women, and children, there are more than 30,000 people who can go to war. This time, Ichiro Tanaka was ready to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys, and personally took these 30,000 Japanese robbers to Putian.

This battle was an unforgettable battle for Qin Tai. Even if it was a later memory, Qin Tai still couldn't look back. Qin Tai once used the tragic word to describe the battle, which shows the cruelty of this battle.

The 30,000 Japanese invaders were divided into three routes, and Tanaka Ichiro led 20,000 main forces to advance from the middle road. Tanaka Ichiro's younger brother, Saburo Tanaka, attacked from the left with 5,000 Japanese invaders. Ichiro Tanaka's brother-in-law, Taro Takeuchi, attacked from the right with another line of 5,000 Japanese invaders.

The left and right sides of the pirates were fiercely blocked by Qin Tai's defenders, and they could not advance an inch. In the middle, they attacked all the way, relying on their own numbers. Not only did he kill all the blockers, but he also captured the crossbow arrows of many Qin Tai Ming soldiers.

Ichiro Tanaka deserves to be a big leader, and he didn't take care of himself to kill into Putian City, but divided his men and horses to help the other two people. At that time, the soldiers didn't know that the middle road had been broken by the Japanese invaders, so they didn't expect the Japanese to attack inside and outside. By the time the order to retreat was given inside the city, the people outside the city were already seriously killed or wounded. And the old man who delivered the news hid in the city because he was afraid of death. This led to the death and wounding of nearly 10,000 soldiers and civilians outside the city.

Everyone who retreated to Putian City immediately closed the city gate that had just been repaired. Everyone who fought against the Japanese on the castle tower was also frightened by the fact that there were so many Japanese invaders. At the beginning of the estimate, the number of Japanese pirates was 20,000 or 30,000, which greatly exceeded the total number of people estimated before.

The old man who delivered the news finally got retribution, because he was timid and did not notify the left and right sides in time, resulting in the death of the old man's eldest son at the hands of the Japanese Kou. The old man's second son also despised his father and said that he wanted to disassociate himself from the old man. For the first time, the old man felt that he was wrong.

Ichiro Tanaka really brought large siege tools, ladders, siege vehicles, stone cannons, and so on.

Qin Tai knew that the city gate had just been built after all, and it was not strong enough, so it was estimated that it would not last long. So he took the risk and ordered to abandon the city gates and retreat to the inner city to engage in the fiercest street battles with the Japanese invaders. One room and one floor, one street and one place fought against the Japanese invaders. That's when the power of the crossbow bolt comes into play.

Ichiro Tanaka thought that after the city gate was breached, the Ming army was considered a failure. Therefore, there was no order to reserve reserves, and all of them went into the city to kill all the men. At this time, the number of Tanaka Ichiro was about 20,000, and the actual combatants of Qin Tai plus all the women were only about 25,000.

Qin Tai personally led a team of crossbow archers to guard an area, and Zhan Xiaoxiao led a group of death squad members to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese at close range. The archers fired their arrows when they looked for an opportunity on the side. The last women also have weapons in their hands, ready to rush out at any moment to fight the Japanese invaders.

Qin Tai's crossbow team played a major role in diversion, with nearly 20,000 pirates, Qin Tai's crossbow team wiped out a total of nearly 10,000 people, almost half of them. Almost all of Zhan Xiaoxiao's death squad were killed, leaving only Zhan Xiaoxiao and three veterans of the Qi family's army, and four of them were also seriously injured and fell in a pool of blood. It was only later, when it was reasonable, that I found out that they were still alive.

When the daredevils all fell, the women's team moved in. The women in their group surrounded a Japanese robber in two or three people, and they did not want to kill the Japanese robbers. The Japanese slashed the women with their swords, and the women stabbed the women with their own weapons. When the scene was cleaned up afterwards, most of the women were almost entangled with the widows. Everyone wanted to separate them, but they had to cut off their hands, feet, and bodies to separate them. Many of the women died by holding the pirates and biting their throats or other parts with their teeth.

Later, when the women's team died, the old people rushed to the pirates with all the weapons they could use. An old man stoned to death a widow with a weighing slump in his hand, but was hacked to death by another widow with a knife from behind. An old lady hacked to death a widow with a kitchen knife in her hand, and she had no strength to pull out the kitchen knife and fell next to the widow.

Ichiro Tanaka was finally surrounded by "Ma Sandao" and two other veterans of the Qi family's army. At this time, Saburo Tanaka and Taro Takeuchi had already been killed by Ming soldiers. After "Ma Sandao" killed Saburo Tanaka with his own hands, he came over to surround Ichiro Tanaka. Ichiro Tanaka knew that the general situation was gone, so he stopped pestering and prepared to flee back to the base camp with a small number of men. As long as they don't die, there will always be a chance to make a comeback.

Tanaka Ichiro led people out of Putian City, and Qin Tai, who was on the side at this time, immediately got on his horse and chased after Tanaka Ichiro. "Ma Sandao" was not worried about Qin Tai, and hurriedly rode a horse to catch up. Under the flanking attack of the two men, all of Ichiro Tanaka's men were shot down and killed. Ichiro Tanaka tried to buy Qin Tai with money, but Qin Tai shot Ichiro Tanaka with the crossbow arrow in his hand without saying a word. Got rid of this gang leader who had been endangering Fujian for many years. Finally killed a murderous demon king for Fujian.

After learning that Ichiro Tanaka had been killed, everyone in the city finally got some comfort. But the death and injury of their loved ones grieved them even more. Not only were there less than 1,000 of the 5,000 soldiers left, but almost all of the more than 10,000 young and middle-aged men were killed. Of the more than 15,000 women, less than 3,000 remained. The elderly were also almost half killed or wounded. The only ones who were not harmed were the children, who did not have a single casualty.

After the war, Qin Tai vigorously rescued the wounded and tried his best to protect the wounded to recover. Because Ichiro Tanaka was eliminated, the other Japanese did not dare to invade Putian again. Qin Tai has received everyone's support, and more people have come to join Qin Tai. Qin Tai used the new people to recruit troops to replenish the source of troops, and at the same time, he vigorously developed Putian. Gradually with Putian as the center, it gradually developed in Fujian.