Everyone in the yamen of the Taizhou prefect argued for a long time without any result, and Tan Zheng, the only military personnel, was unwilling to go out of the city to fight, and no one could take him, so he could only break up unhappily. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe four gates of Linhai County were closed, and the people were not allowed to enter and exit, and the people were recruited to go to the city to assist the officers and soldiers of the guard post in defense, putting on a posture of strict defense.

The next day, Shimazu Mitsuhisa led his samurai to the outside of Linhai County, and did not kill directly under the city, but hid far away to look at the layout of the city defense.

I saw that the city walls were crowded with people and swords and guns, and it was obvious that the defenders were ready to deal with the siege. Linhai County is the capital city of Taizhou, and the city wall is much higher than the general county seat, up to four zhang, and the moat is about two zhang wide. For the Japanese samurai who did not have any siege equipment, the city wall more than ten meters high and the moat six or seven meters wide were simply insurmountable.

Mitsuhisa Shimazu stared at the walls and fell into deep thought. The henchman samurai next to him complained: "Lord, the walls of this Ming Kingdom are too tall, and they are not inferior to our Tsurumaru City, if you attack hard, I am afraid that the casualties will be too great, and the gains will outweigh the losses." ”

The other samurai also chimed in: "Yes, our warriors in Kagoshima are good at frontal fighting, and siege is not a strong point. It would be nice if the Ming army went out of the city to engage in battle......"

Mitsuhisa Shimazu listened to their conversation and his heart moved. He instructed his subordinates: "Go and invite General Xia's people to come over, there is something important to discuss." "The people of the Qiongzhou battalion followed all the way, called assistance, but in fact it was surveillance, and to some extent also acted as a military adviser, and he wanted to hear the advice of the other party.

The officers of the Qiongzhou battalion, who were in charge of monitoring them, were invited over. Shimazu Mitsuhisa asked respectfully: "May I ask Your Excellency, according to your judgment, do the defenders in this county town not plan to go out of the city to fight?" ”

The officer looked at the situation on the city wall and shook his head: "Look at this posture, I plan to defend the city." I heard that there are no battalions in Taizhou, only the local guard army, what kind of goods is the guard army, I don't say that you should also know, it's okay to defend the city, go out of the city to fight, hehe, you know ......"

"Understood. So, if your army is attacking the city, what kind of tactics is it? ”

The officer smiled, thinking, our Qiongzhou battalion is not stupid to set up a ladder to pile up human lives, the small city will use explosives to blow up the city gate, and the big city will be bombarded with mortars, until you want to die, and you have to go out of the city to fight, but why do you have to tell you the Japanese people, and you don't have these guys.

He replied vaguely: "Usually the siege of the city is nothing more than ants attached to it, taking human lives to fill it, the Qiongzhou battalion just has more firearms, but there is no special tactics......

Shimazu Mitsuhisa heard the perfunctory tone in his tone, and obviously the answer was not true, but he didn't plan to say it, and he didn't want to ask, so he just nodded quietly: "Understood." Although we have about 2,000 men, it is clear that the siege is not enough, so we have to find another way. ”

The officer was a little curious, but he wanted to see how these Japanese people, who only had one hand and one sword, attacked the city. I saw Shimazu Mitsuhisa talking a lot to his subordinates in Japanese, and the samurai next to him nodded frequently, and then led the order and arranged separately, but after watching it for a long time, I didn't see the regular actions such as cutting down trees and rushing to make siege ladders, and I couldn't help muttering in my heart, how many meanings does this mean? There are no siege equipment, is it difficult to bite the city gate open with your teeth?

On the city wall, the commander-in-chief in charge of defense, Qianhu Tan Zheng, nervously commanded the soldiers and the people to carry the equipment used to defend the city, such as simmer wood and rolling stones, and asked people to set up iron pots to boil water, ready to deal with the siege that might come at any time.

According to the report of the spies, the Japanese had appeared near the sea yesterday and robbed many large households, but they were afraid of being discovered, so the spies did not dare to get too close, and it was not clear how many people there were on the other side. According to Tan Zheng's experience, the Japanese have always been invincible, and most of them will attack the county seat, after all, the wealth of the capital city in the south of the Yangtze River is not comparable to the old wealth of the landlords in the countryside.

Feng Su, the county governor of Linhai, was also on the city wall, because he disagreed with Tan Zheng, he didn't like each other, and the two didn't communicate much when they were close to each other. If he hadn't been ordered by the prefect to organize the people of the county to assist in defending the city, Feng Su wouldn't want to pestle on the city wall with this thousand households who were afraid of death.

Tan Zheng didn't pay attention to him, he didn't seek merit but no fault, as long as the county seat was not lost, he was still a hereditary thousand households, and he would be his own emperor in peace and stability, so that he would not be as presumptuous as these civil officials who could only play tricks, they were pursuing fame in history, and they just wanted to maintain the status quo.

At noon, when the sun shone on the defenders on the city wall and drowsy, a group of figures appeared in the distance outside the city, trotting all the way in the direction of the county seat. Someone shouted: "The Japanese are coming!" ”

Everyone woke up, and Tan Zheng also leaned on the wall and looked down. Seeing that these people are getting closer and closer, their clothes are completely different from those of the Ming people, their hair is shaved into a half-moon shape, their upper body is wearing a single cloth cloth, and their lower body is only wearing shorts, and they are dressed very simply, but the Japanese knife in their hands is shining in the sun, and it looks very sharp.

Based on Tan Zheng's understanding, there is no doubt that these people are Japanese coles. It's just that...... Why are there so few people?

He watched again and again with his eyes wide open, no matter how he counted, there were only more than 100 people who died, this is the "army of Japanese robbers" that has caused panic in the entire Taizhou and even Zhejiang in recent times?

Not only was Tan Zheng dumbfounded, but Zhixian Feng Su was also stunned. Could it be that more than 100 people have entered and exited the counties of Taizhou as if they were in a no-man's land, and they were so frightened that Zhejiang officials sent an urgent report asking for help to Beijing?

It's a shame! Feng Su, who reacted, came to this conclusion. There are hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Taizhou, and if they are trampled under the feet of more than 100 Japanese robbers and dare not resist, it is simply ridiculous. Linhai County was blocked by such a handful of bandits in the city and did not dare to fight, not to mention whether it would be punished by the imperial court, and in the future, officials of all sizes, including the prefect and the prefect, would become the laughing stock of officialdom.

He found Tan Zheng and asked righteously: "Tan Qianhu, there are only a hundred Japanese robbers, are you still stubbornly defending the city and unwilling to fight, and watching the Japanese invaders slaughter the people of my county?" ”

Tan Zheng's face was blue and white for a while, he didn't expect that the other party would be such a person, and he would dare to go deep into the inland of Jiangnan to kill people and set fires. Although his great-grandfather's bloody lesson told him that even if there are 180 widows, a thousand households may not be able to beat it, but how can this kind of self-exposure of family ugliness be easy to say?

Feng Su was unforgiving: "Tan Qianhu, the enemy is outnumbered, the disparity is so big, if you still avoid the enemy and cowardice, I will first inform Futai, and then command the envoy to Zhejiang to participate in you!" ”

Tan Zheng had nothing to say for a while. At this time, more than a hundred would-be robbers came to the city, stood still where bows and arrows could not reach, and shouted in words they did not understand, with contemptuous expressions, and knew at a glance that they were not good words. Seeing that the defenders did not react, the Japanese took off their shorts and turned their backs in the direction of the city wall, revealing their bare buttocks with only a crotch cloth, and slapped them with their hands, the meaning of humiliation was very obvious.