As the night grew darker, supper food began to be cooked under the city walls.

The people of the three sects and the nine streams, such as the dart master and the Taoist priest who had just been brought back by Lu Qi, were sitting around eating together, and they were all incorporated into the ranks of the soldiers in the Wang master's book, these people had no professional military training and could play a limited role.

"It's foggy again on the river." The Taoist priest leaned against the battlement wall and looked at the hazy banks of the Yujiang River: "If the Japanese take advantage of the fog to touch it, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find it." ”

The head of the dart pulled the meat porridge in the bowl and wiped his mouth: "What are you afraid of?" The soldiers will block, and the water will cover the earth! ”

The Taoist priest pulled out the sword at his waist and looked at it, and the sword body reflected the bonfire, like a pool of autumn water.

"Dare to ask if you can ask Chang Ke?"

A clear voice came from the direction of the city's steps, and the Taoist priest heard the sound and looked at it, but it was Lu Qi.

"Xiaosheng has a matter, I want to ask the Taoist chief for help."

……

"My sisters will sew according to this method, and it doesn't hurt if the stitches are thicker, in short, the sooner the better!" Chen Yin'er unfolded the mold she made to show them.

The surrounding women looked at each other, and one of them, a middle-aged woman with a double screw bun, hesitated and said, "Is this really possible?" ”

"Don't hide it from your sisters, my sister's husband is the master of Wu Zhixian, the official of the county's parents, and now I come to ask my sisters to be entrusted by him." Chen Yin'er gave a blessing, with firm faith in her eyes.

"In the evening the Japanese will come, and among the soldiers defending the city must be their fathers and brothers, and their husbands! I'm sure you're all worried, what's the use of just worrying? We need to help, too! ”

"But we're all women, what's the use?" The women looked at each other.

Chen Yin'er picked up the things in her hand: "Women also have the use of women!" Everyone must have lanterns on the front of the house, right? I would also like to ask your skillful hands to change it. ”

"It coincides with the Lantern Festival, and in previous years, jacquard lanterns have been changed, but now it has changed, let's put river lanterns!"

As soon as the words came out, they shocked everyone present, and the double-snail woman led by her wiped her tears, stood up and said to the women around her:

"That's a good girl! My man is on the castle tower tonight, so instead of sitting here in a hurry, why not give them a little help? I did it! ”

"I'll do it too!"

"And the slave family!"

The women gathered, everyone called relatives and friends to tell each other, and gradually more and more people joined in this handicraft, and a very efficient assembly line was carried out in the streets and yards.

More and more river lamps were made, and someone carefully lit the lamp oil into it.

Chen Yin'er was checking the floating situation of the river lantern, but suddenly heard a commotion from the house, and hurriedly went inside to check: "What's wrong?" ”

But I saw two or three people surrounding a young woman, hiding their hands behind their backs with a shy face: "This ......"

Chen Yin'er took it out and saw that there was a note in her hand, which read, "May my husband Li Sanniu be safe."

"Master, lady, let's ...... Can you write it too? ”

The women in the back looked at Chen Yin'er with hopeful eyes.

Chen Yin'er's eyes were red.

"Yes!"

……

"Master's Lady!" The woman who lit the lamp oil ran in: "Master is looking for you, and he is outside the door!" ”

Chen Yin'er hurriedly came out and was relieved to see that Lu Qi was safe and sound: "Husband, according to what you said, nearly 100 river lanterns have been made, and they are still in the process of stepping up." ”

Lu Qi took a deep breath: "It's so good, I'll take it later, but I'm not here for this now." ”

As he spoke, he let the Taoist priest behind him: "This Taoist chief is a strange person, and he worked hard for his old man to calculate a hexagram for me." ”

The Taoist priest waved the dust: "Fusheng Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable!" The little friend of the poor Taoist Temple had a bad anger between his eyebrows, and he was afraid that there would be a death catastrophe today. ”

Chen Yin'er suddenly took a half step back: "What? ”

"This believer is panicking, this calamity is not unbreakable, poor Taoism teaches you a method.

Recently, you must have obtained a treasure, that is the seven-star lamp in the sky, the prime minister of Wuhou Zhuge relied on this life, as long as the master's eight characters were written in the lantern and kept the lamp unextinguished, you can spend it safely. ”

After hearing this, Chen Yin'er began to think: "Seven Star Lantern...... Could it be the deer lamp?! ”

"That's right, that's right!" The Taoist priest nodded: "Look, this deer is Bi Lu, this is the key to saving Master Lu's life!" ”

"The deer lamp is still at home!" Chen Yin'er lifted her skirt, pulled her legs and ran home.

When Chen Yin'er's figure disappeared completely, Lu Qi turned around and whispered to the Taoist priest: "Thank you, Daoist." ”

"It's okay." The Taoist priest shook his head: "Alas......"

Lu Qi arched his hand to the woman hiding behind the door: "It's time, please also ask your mothers-in-law and sisters-in-law to carry the river lantern and go to the water gate with Xiaosheng!" ”

……

A large group of women, each holding a lantern of various colors, or rickety white hair, or childish, or wearing gold and jade, or jinghai cloth skirt.

But with a determined look on their faces, they lined up and walked towards the water gate.

The water gate was wide open, and the river lanterns of different shapes were lit up and gently pushed into the river, and the water surface suddenly seemed to be full of flowers and birds.

The river lantern drifted farther and farther away with the water, and Lu Qi vaguely heard a girl with the lantern clasped her hands together and whispered softly: "I hope that Daddy can turn evil into good fortune in this battle to defend the city, and become auspicious in trouble." ”

An old woman put down the river lantern: "May my son be safe and healthy." ”

"May my brother come back alive."

"May ......"

The river lanterns float on the water, reflecting simple but sincere wishes, like the stars in the night sky twinkling with bright light, drifting along the current, dispelling the dense fog and illuminating the road ahead.

"Look! What is that? ”

The soldiers on the city wall noticed the situation here and looked at Yujiang one after another.

The king also went to the city tower at this time: "Is this the first plan that Master Lu said?" ”

"Bell, bell!"

Suddenly, everyone's spirits tensed, and a gong sound came from an unknown direction, resounding on both sides of the Yujiang River.

This is the person who was originally spread out in Wuzhi County, as long as he found the traces of the Japanese robbers, he sounded the gong to warn. Now that the gong has sounded, it means that it ......

The Woko are coming!

The water gate must be closed immediately, and Lu Qi ordered the Taoist priest to lead the women back, and he hurried to the city tower.

Wang Zhushu and Qi Yicheng led the guards of the city to wait in front of them with helmets and armor, and when they saw Lu Qi coming up, they turned their heads and shouted to the gatehouse: "Come out quickly." ”

What came out were four actors, they were dressed in shark skins, holding a big bamboo tube in their arms, and gave a round of salute to the people present: "Hello officials, good Master Lu." ”

"Hmm." Master Wang nodded: "Finally, I will ask you again, this plan is really dangerous, but after the matter is completed, this official will ensure that you will get out of the lowly nationality and be a good family in the future." Would you like to? ”

The four of them glanced at each other, and the clown came out and said, "We are willing!" ”

Lu Qi nodded at them and looked down at the city.

At this time, with the river lantern as a light source, the situation on both sides of the bank can be seen clearly.

Suddenly, a soldier on the corner tower shouted, "The Japanese are here!" ”

The small colonel guarding the city raised the order flag violently: "All departments listen to the order!" ”

There was a sudden sound on the city wall, and the arrows with bows and crossbows were loaded, and even the guns of the cannons were moved in that direction, and they were about to tear all the invading enemies to pieces until the military order was given.

"Putting ......"

Just as he was about to give the order, he suddenly saw a familiar figure rushing out of the black crowd below, running towards this side, shouting as he ran:

"Don't let go of the arrows! I am Qi Ming, the son of Qi Yicheng! I've brought reinforcements from Linshanwei! ”

"Brother Qi?!" Lu Qi leaned on the wall and looked, sure enough, it was him! How did he get back?

Qi Yicheng was so shocked that he almost sat on the ground, and kept muttering: "Idiot...... You idiot! ”

Linshanwei only came sixty or seventy people, and the official went to Guanhaiwei to ask for help, Qi Ming was worried about the safety of the city, so he rushed back with Linshanwei first.

When Qi Ming was hung up to the city tower, Qi Yicheng was so angry that he could barely speak.

"What I desire is more than life; Whoever I have done evil is more than death. Brother Lu, the younger brother just has a personal understanding of Si Yan today, thank you! Qi Ming arched his hand.

At this time, another exclamation came from the lookout of the corner tower:

"There are more than a dozen big ships sailing down the river!"

Everyone looked at the river: "Oh? Have the reinforcements from Guanhaiwei also arrived? ”

Lu Qi looked at it closely, only to feel a beat in his heart. The big boats were moving on the river with river lights, and the people on board were full of people, but they were very quiet.

"That's not right! That's a Wako! ”

Lu Qi shouted loudly: "The guards are quickly formed!" ”

It's too late!

The first two boats had already docked, and a dozen or so Japanese on board landed on the river bank as fast as they could, screaming, and rushed towards the guards in groups of threes and twos.

In a hurry, there was no time to reload the musket, and the two armies were already close to each other.

Although the vanguard of the Japanese were dressed in cloth, they were all armed with sharp swords, and they were not afraid of death.

On the other hand, on the side of the guards, there was no formation, and there were no good weapons, so they were broken by the Japanese sword in three or two strokes, and they fought and retreated all the way, and finally retreated to the city wall.