Lu Gengyu turned his head to look at the city, the expressions of those soldiers looked cloudy and uncertain under the illumination of the flames generated by the cannons, and they couldn't see joy, anger and sorrow, or maybe they were accustomed to such a scene. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

He sighed, facing an unknown opponent, fierce resistance at the head of the city, dozens or hundreds of casualties were acceptable, because this would protect the thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city from poisoning. But if the other party sacrifices this trick, what's the point of resisting? Perhaps more innocent people died under the flowering bullet than after the other party entered the city.

He took a deep breath and announced his decision to the crowd, as he raised his voice as the rumbling cannons interfered with him: "You have all seen that we can't resist them, and instead of letting more people die under the cannons, it is better to open the gates and let them in." Dig up the gates of the city and disperse on your own, and I won't stop you from going out of the city and surrendering......"

When the people saw that the county magistrate had said this, they scattered after a little hesitation, and came to the city gate to dig up the sand that blocked the door. The sooner you open the gates, the sooner the cannons will stop.

Lu Gengyu walked down the city wall in a daze, ignoring the obstruction of his entourage, and walked straight to the county government despite the cannonballs flying overhead.

After Wei Lianheng gave the order to open fire, he was also beating drums in his heart. Although the powerful mortar is a deadly threat to the city, isn't it a kind of torment for him? He's betting against the defenders in the city to see who can't survive and admit defeat first. If the other party is dead, not to mention that the excessive consumption of the population in the city will affect the general's plan, and kill the civilians who have no ability to resist, he will not be able to go up to his own conscience - this is the people under the Ming Dynasty, not the Japanese who landed in the south, nor the Tartars who knocked on the north to knock on the gates.

He counted the number of shells fired in his mind, and when he felt that it was enough to have a deterrent effect, he ordered the shelling to stop.

When the surroundings were quiet, the noise at the city gate reached his ears. There seemed to be a lot of people behind the door doing something, shouting and screaming, mixed with the sound of sand rattling down.

After a while, the tattered city gate opened from the inside, and a group of people poked their heads out from behind the gate, observing the movement outside the city.

Wei Lianheng's heart fell to the ground, they admitted defeat, and finally they didn't have to continue to suffer. Taking a deep breath, he ordered: "All of them, load up the ammunition, keep the battle formation, and enter the city!" ”

This sudden battle of attack and defense of the city happened quickly and ended even faster, and finally ended with the victory of the Qiongzhou battalion. After more than a dozen dead and wounded, the soldiers of the two companies successfully entered the city amid the wails of the wounded and the frightened eyes of the people.

To the surprise of all the military households and people in Changhua, after the Qiongzhou battalion entered the city, it did not go on a killing spree to retaliate, nor did it loot, but passed through the streets of several ruins, and went straight to the county government and the office of the thousand households.

The two yamen are built next to each other and are located in the very center of the county. After all, the scale of the county seat was still too small, and one of the flowering bombs thrown in from outside the city actually landed on the county office, and half of the house in the inner courtyard was blown up.

Wei Lianheng first entered the county government and found that it was empty, and the officials and servants had disappeared. He frowned and said, "Look around and see if you can find the magistrate?" ”

The soldiers scattered to search, searched every room, and there was no one in sight, and they came to report it.

"Could it be that you ran away?" Wei Lianheng was puzzled, but seeing the determination of Zhixian County to resist, he didn't look like such a person, besides, the county seat was so small, where could he go?

At this time, a faint moan came from the half-collapsed house, Wei Lianheng's heart moved, and asked, "Have you found that house?" ”

One soldier shook his head and said, "I was looking for it over there, but I didn't go in to see it when I saw that the house had collapsed." ”

"Go inside and have a look."

Several soldiers lifted the broken pillar blocking the doorway and drilled inside to inspect it. Soon a voice came: "Someone is inside, suppressed." ”

A man in a green-robed official uniform was carried out, unconscious, and his left leg was dripping with blood at the knee.

Wei Lianheng recognized that this was Changhua Zhixian, and it was he who organized a decent resistance and let his idea of easily break the city fail, so he had to use mortars. As a civil official, he was able to mobilize the people to defend the city wall in a short period of time when a thousand households were scattered, and he was an opponent worthy of respect.

Wei Lianheng sighed: "Stop the bleeding for him and carry him into the front yard lobby, it doesn't matter here." Let's go to the Thousand Households to find their bad luck. ”

The soldiers asked puzzledly: "Battalion commander, this county order has caused a lot of deaths and injuries to our brother, so let him go?" ”

Wei Lianheng looked at Lu Gengyu, who was unconscious, and said, "He just did what he had to do, and each of them was blameless." Besides, he's like this now, so why can't he get along with him? ”

Zhang Dayou never expected that after leaving the city gate, the place of right and wrong, and hiding back in the office of the thousand households, he would still be threatened by the flowering bomb. A flowering bomb happened to land in the county office next door, scaring him half to death.

Just as he was thinking about whether to pack up and go out of the city from the east gate to hide, there was a commotion at the door, and it seemed that many people had poured into the front yard of the government office.

Zhang Dayou went out to inspect and took a look at Wei Lianheng at the front. As soon as he saw the other party's bright red military uniform, Zhang Dayou shuddered, and subconsciously ran back.

Wei Lianheng grabbed his shirt and shouted, "Lord Qianhu, where are you going?" ”

Seeing that he couldn't run away, he was also single, turned around and knelt on the ground, begging for mercy loudly: "My lord, spare my life, I didn't want to confront your department, it's all Lu Zhixian's idea, there is a debtor and a master, if you want to find him, look for him!" ”

Wei Lianheng shook his head again and again, the dignified thousands of households actually had this kind of virtue, "one soldier bears, one will bear a nest", no wonder it is the people who stand at the head of the city to resist in the end.

However, for some things, it is more appropriate to do it from such soft bones. Wei Lianheng asked him: "Today we have a big battle with thieves, recapture the county seat, and save the people from fire and water, how are you going to report this matter to the authorities?" ”

Zhang Dayou didn't react for a while, obviously you suddenly came to attack the city, how did you become a hero who saved the people from fire and water and relieved the people from hanging upside down?

Seeing him like this, Wei Lianheng said impatiently: "The news of the thieves in Changhua has already spread, and the prefect's yamen also knows, as a thousand households in Changhua, you have the responsibility of guarding the land, but you don't know it, what's the use of keeping your dog's life?" As he spoke, he drew his saber and slapped him in the face.

The cold blade made Zhang Da blessed to the heart, he immediately understood what he should say, and nodded again and again: "It is exactly, the thieves infiltrated the county and poisoned the people, and I was unable to fight thousands of households, but fortunately, Your Excellency led people to attack the city, expelled the thieves, and rescued three thousand soldiers and ......civilians from the thieves' knives" (To be continued.) )