Under Zhu Pingan’s reminder and demonstration, quite a number of magistrates and soldiers followed suit and used torches to burn off the ropes, and most of the flying claw ropes were burned off except for a few that were not burned off that had been drenched by the Japanese pirates in advance with urine and river water.
The Japanese didn’t make climbing ladders in advance, and most of the climbing tools such as flying claw ropes were burnt out, and those few ropes that were soaked with urine and failed to be burnt out were also focused on by the defenders, and for a while the boulders and golden juice came down one after another, and the Japanese screamed miserably and fell down to the bottom of the city.
After the hard work of clearing the Japanese on the city walls, Jingnan County City held down the first wave of Japanese attack.
“The Japanese invaders have retreated!”
“The Japanese invaders ran away!”
“We held it, we held it!”
After the Japanese retreated, the yamen and soldiers on the city walls burst into cheers, happily celebrating their victory.
“Defended? The Japanese have retreated?!”
“Really?!”
“Great.”
The shivering and desperate people under the city heard that the Japanese invaders retreated, their mouths opened wide in surprise, they were overjoyed and cried tears of joy, happily running around and cheering, the Jingnan county town was just like a sea of cheers.
In a burst of cheering, Zhu Pingan stood on the city wall, his expression was relaxed, but his heart was incomparably heavy.
Zhu Pingan gaze deep ……
Although it was difficult to defend the county, the situation was not optimistic at all. Because, firstly, this is only the first wave of the Japanese invaders’ attack, the Japanese invaders will surely attack the city again after repairing; secondly, the casualties on our side are heavy, one hundred people on the west side of the city’s government officials and soldiers in this wave of the city’s defence, thirty-two people were killed in battle, twenty-nine people were wounded, a total of sixty-one people were lost, and only thirty-nine people on the wall’s government officials and soldiers are still in a state of combat effectiveness. Thirdly, the Japanese invaders were still outnumbered, and although the Japanese invaders lost more than 100 men, this loss was only a fraction of a cent to the Japanese invaders, who still had more than 3,000 men.
Zhu Pingan knew very well that the reason why the Japanese retreated was because the claws, ropes and other simple climbing equipment were destroyed, and they needed time to cut down the trees to make climbing ladders, and when the ladders were finished, it was time for the Japanese to attack again.
There were thirty-nine defenders on the city and more than three thousand Japanese under the city.
What’s next?
How will the city be defended?
With the ferocity of the Japanese and the disparity in the number of enemies, I’m afraid that in the next wave of attack, as long as one of the Japanese attacked the city wall, the wall would be declared defenseless, and if the wall was defenseless, the city of Jingnan County would fall as well.
It is difficult.
Zhu Pingan looked at the retreating Japanese pirates, how could he not relax in his heart.
“My lord, drink a bowl of water.”
Liu Dazhou held his helmet under his elbow and came forward with a bowl of water in his hand, handing it to Zhu Pingan.
“Big Dagger, thank you. Thanks to you guys today, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable.”
Zhu Pingan took the bowl, smiled and patted Liu Dazhou’s shoulder, thanking him from the bottom of his heart.
Truly, today, on the city wall, thanks to Liu Dazhou, Liu Dajun, Liu Dahammer and the others, the yamen and soldiers on the city wall were not at all a match for the Japanese invaders, the ferocious and brave Japanese invaders climbed up the city wall like wolves into a flock of goats, and one on one, they easily chopped up the yamen and soldiers, and one on one they fought against two or three, and they were not defeated, and could even counter-kill them, and it was only Liu Dazhou, Liu Dajun and the rest that were so strong, and their personal force value exceeded that of the Japanese invaders.If not for Liu Dazhou and Liu Dazhun, who were on the city wall and were saving the city, killing all sides, the city wall would have been lost long ago. Moreover, Zhu Pingan was a weak scholar, his physical quality was even worse than the government officials and soldiers, the reason why he could still stand here intact was also because of Liu Dazhou and Liu Dazhun’s close protection, if not for Liu Dazhou and Liu Dazhun’s protection beside Zhu Pingan, even if Zhu Pingan had nine lives, all of them would have been sent to the west by the Japanese pirates on the city wall.
“What is the point of being polite to us, if it wasn’t for you, we would have lost our lives long ago. If it wasn’t for you, we would have been killed. Now that we’re following you, we’ve become constables, and we’re all eating the royal food, which is a great thing to honour our ancestors. Besides, if you are a civil official who doesn’t avoid swords and daggers and kills Japanese with a sword despite the danger, it is our duty to kill the enemy as we practise martial arts.”Liu Dazhou laughed nervously and rubbed the back of his head, shaking his head.
“Big Dagger you are injured?”
Zhu Pingan notices that as soon as Liu Dazhou raises his arm to touch the back of his head, the clothes on the side of his waist are large swaths of blood, and he cannot help but ask anxiously.
“No, these are the blood of the Japanese brats.”
Liu Dagger shook his head and explained, in order to reassure Zhu Pingan, Liu Dagger lifted his clothes to show Zhu Pingan.
When Zhu Pingan saw that Liu Dazhou was not injured, he let go of his heart.
“Look, the Japanese invaders have retreated, but they haven’t retreated, the Japanese invaders have set up camp a mile outside the city.”
A cheering yamen on the city wall suddenly noticed that the retreating Japanese invaders outside the city had not retreated, but had set up camp a mile outside the city, and he could not help but cry out in shock as his forehead was drenched in cold sweat.
His words caught the attention of the crowd, who all looked outside the city.
“Really, f*ck, the Japanese really haven’t retreated, the Japanese have set up camp underneath the city, is this going to attack the city again?!”
“The Japanese haven’t retreated?!”
“The Japanese haven’t left! The Japanese haven’t left!”
When the people saw that the Japanese invaders had really set up camp a mile below the city and had no intention of retreating, they could not help but be alarmed and sweating.
“Quickly open, some of the Japanese are chopping down trees and dragging their trunks into the camp, what are they chopping down trees for?!”
“Ladders? Are the Japanese chopping down trees to build siege ladders?!!!”
“That’s right, look at them, they put the tree trunks side by side, and the horizontal logs, the siege ladders! The Japanese are really building siege ladders!!!”
“The Japanese are building siege ladders, what to do, the Japanese are building siege ladders, they must be thieves, they still want to attack the city.”
“With siege ladders, it will be much easier for the Japanese to climb the city walls. The Japanese are fierce and have many men, there are still 2,000 to 3,000 of them, but we only have about 30 men left, how can we defend the city if the Japanese attack again.”
“How can we defend?”
“Ai, the few men on the city walls aren’t enough for the Japanese, and a single charge from the Japanese can break through the county. God ah, please, what to do, what to do, dead, we are dead …….”
Then, the sharp-eyed people saw that the Japanese invaders were chopping down trees to make siege ladders, so they could not help but be even more terrified and shout out in despair.
Soon, people above and below the city knew that the Japanese invaders were chopping down trees to make siege ladders, brewing the next wave of siege. People knew that there were only about thirty government officials and soldiers guarding the city, while the Japanese had two to three thousand people, and the Japanese were all fierce and skilled in martial arts, so when the Japanese had siege ladders, how could the county be defended.
The county can’t be defended!
The county can’t be defended!
Such remarks filled the Jingnan County.
For a while, the atmosphere of despair swept over Jingnan County once again, and people’s cries of despair were endless.
