The Japanese were at the city gates, and I slept on the city!
Zhu Pingan’s divine operation deeply shocked and infected the people who crowded in front of the city gate to escape, giving them a strong shot of tranquilliser.
The news that the governor was bunking on the city wall, vowing to live and die with the county, soon spread throughout the entire Jingnan County. The terrified atmosphere that had been hanging over Jingnan was instantly dispersed for the most part.
So ……The trepidation was still there ……
“Great Master Zhixian, please, please, please order to open the city gates and let us escape from the city. Great Master, I kowtow to you, open the city gates, let me take my mother out of the city to escape.”
“Great Master Zhi Xian, if you want to live and die with the county, you can live and die with the county, we won’t stop you, but you can’t drag us along. I’m timid, I don’t want to die yet, I don’t want to live and die with the county.”
“Great Master Governor, this old wife of mine kowtows to you, please order the city gates to be opened. If you don’t open the city gates, I, the old woman, will kneel for a long time.”
Although Zhu Pingan had shocked and infected many people, there were still quite a few people on the scene requesting, or more appropriately using the words “blackmailing” and “demanding”, for Zhu Pingan to order the opening of the city gates to allow them to leave the city and escape.
“Folks, it’s not that I, Zhu Ping An, won’t let you leave the city to escape, but leaving the city at this time is undoubtedly asking for death. The Japanese invaders are burning and looting outside the city, and at this moment, they are gathering towards the county town, so if you leave the city now, you will just run into the blade of the Japanese invaders …… At this time, staying inside the city and relying on the city wall for defence is the best option ……”
Zhu Pingan stood on the city wall and patiently explained to the crowd, Zhu Pingan’s explanation was much the same as Liu Dazhou’s previous explanation, after all, Liu Dazhou’s rhetoric at that time was also learnt from Zhu Pingan.
As with Liu Dazhou’s explanation, many of the people on the scene who were terrified and wanted to leave the city to escape did not buy it. They were so intent on leaving the city and escaping that they simply did not listen to Zhu Pingan’s explanation or believe in his words.
If it was in normal times, Zhu Pingan would have patiently continued to do their ideological work. However, today is different from usual, the Japanese are about to attack the city, the situation is close and very serious, and the defence of Jingnan County is very unpromising right now, Jingnan County is in danger, Zhu Ping An does not have the time to give them more explanations.
“All of you folks, please rise. At this moment, the Japanese are about to attack the city, the city gates cannot be opened, I have to be responsible for the tens of thousands of people in the county, please forgive me.”Zhu Pingan arched his hand towards the city and apologised.
At once, there were curses and cries under the city wall.
Prioritising matters, Zhu Pingan overrode the cries and curses from below the city and proceeded to set up the defences of Jingnan County.
When he started to set up the defence, Zhu Pingan found that the situation of defending Jingnan was far more serious than he had imagined.
The first problem is that there are few people.
The defending force of Jingnan County is mainly the county government and the soldiers guarding the city. There were a total of 106 magistrates in Jingnan County, but twenty-three of them followed Li Dianshi and fled the city, leaving only 83 magistrates left. There were 80 soldiers in Jingnan County, but 12 of them ran away, leaving only 68 soldiers left. In other words, there were a total of 151 guards available in Jingnan County.
Although we do not know the number of Japanese pirates that plundered Jingnan, but based on the scope of their rampage, it is estimated that there were no less than 2,000 of them.
With 151 men on our side and more than 2,000 Japanese pirates, the ratio of enemy strength to ours was nearly 20 to 1, which made us seriously outnumbered by the enemy. In addition, the Japanese more than two thousand people are often see blood outlaws, ferocious and incomparable, it is said that the real Japanese is a one of the martial arts; his side of the 151 people …… yamen to catch thieves and small gropers okay, on the battlefield is really difficult for them, and the guards of the city soldiers, it seems to be the armament is lax, lack of training, by the wine and sex empty body, to theirZhu Pingan really does not dare to report much hope for their fighting ability.
However, the current situation is so, Zhu Pingan has no choice but to maximise their combat power.
In order to maximise their fighting strength. On the city wall, Zhu Pingan used the county seal to issue three orders.
A heavy reward order. Zhu Pingan issued a heavy reward order: all government officials and soldiers who are brave enough to defend the city will be rewarded with ten taels of silver each; those who are injured defending the city will be rewarded with an additional ten taels of silver; those who are killed defending the city will be rewarded with an additional fifty taels of pension. As the saying goes, there will be a brave man under a heavy reward, Zhu Pingan’s heavy reward order has caused the spirit of the officers and soldiers to rise more than double.
A head-killing order. Zhu Pingan named Liu Mu, Liu Dazhou, and six others, as well as six other selected government servants, a total of twelve people, as supervisory officers. Zhu Pingan issued three orders to kill the head: if the supervisory officer retreats before the yamen and soldiers, the supervisory officer will be beheaded; if the yamen and soldiers do not listen to the command and retreat before the battle, the supervisory officer will be beheaded immediately! Whoever dares to disobey the military order will be killed without pardon!
A defence order. Zhu Pingan will 151 people, every 30 people together, a total of 5 city defence team, in the east gate, the south gate, the north gate each arranged a small team to guard the city, in the west gate arranged two small teams to guard the city, each small team at any time on orders to support each other.
The second problem was that the defending equipment was in poor condition.
First of all, there is no trench outside Jingnan County, and at this moment in time, it is too late to dig a trench. As for thistles and chenopodiaceae, there were none.
Secondly, there was a serious shortage of defensive weapons. There is no artillery, the stone thrower has long been broken down and decayed, the bed offspring is found in the military warehouse a few, but the age of repair, most of them can not be used, only two bed offspring can barely work, crossbow can be used only twenty or so. Zhu Pingan commanded the three bed offspring all placed in the west city gate. Rolling wood is also not much, only eight, wood inlaid with nails around the body of the sharps are also rusty, but polished a little can still be used. The wolf’s teeth commonly used in defending the city are afraid, Jingnan County is not one.
Lastly, there were not enough bows and arrows. There were less than a hundred bows and arrows in the county’s armoury.
The only good news was that there were quite a few standardised sabres, spears and shields in the armoury, enough to arm the magistrates and soldiers, and there was still a lot left over. In addition, there were also some simple cloth breastplates in the arsenal, although the defensive power was not good, but after the magistrates and soldiers put on the cloth breastplates, it gave them a lot of comfort, their sense of security increased not a little bit, and they also had a lot more courage.
While the Japanese army had not yet arrived, Zhu Pingan instructed the officers and soldiers to carry stones and huge logs to the city wall as defence weapons, and some people also volunteered to join in, carrying a large number of stones and huge logs to the city wall.
In addition to these, Zhu Ping An also prepared a “gourmet food” for the Japanese: gold juice.
Zhu Pingan had people go to the nearby houses to collect an unlimited amount of faeces and urine, and set up more than three dozen cauldrons on the city wall to boil the faeces-urine mixture non-stop until it boiled.
It is no exaggeration to say that the power and lethality of this “gourmet food” is much higher than other defensive weapons on the city walls.
This is the category of biochemical weapons.
It was a hot autumn day, and the Japanese were scalped and barefooted, so the golden juice was boiled and poured down, enough to scald the Japanese. Once scalded, the bacteria and microorganisms contained in the faecal water would infect the Japanese invaders through their wounds. In this way, even if they managed to get back alive, they would die because of the infection.
