Cut down the trees and build ladders, ten siege ladders must be completed within half an hour, I want to make Jingnan bleed like a river!”
The surprise attack failed, the leader of the Japanese pirates, Heihachiro, became infuriated, holding a Japanese sword, urging the Japanese pirates to rush to build siege ladders.
“Hey!”
In response, the Japanese pirates, with axes, machetes, and Japanese swords, accelerated the speed of logging and rushed to build siege ladders.
Seeing the Japanese outside the city rushing to build siege ladders in full swing, the despair of the people inside the city is getting deeper and deeper, some holding their heads in despair and crying, some kneeling on the ground in despair and kowtowing and chanting, praying to all the gods and goddesses to save them…….
There are only so many defenders left on the city, and there are no guards in a thirty-mile radius around Jingnan County, so it is unlikely that there will be reinforcements in a short time.
With more than 30 people, against 3,000 Japanese, how can they win?
How can we defend this city?
We’re dead! The people are crying out in despair, the whole Jingnan is covered in cries.
“Your Honour, can this city still be defended?”
In the midst of the people’s desperate cries, the government officials and soldiers on the city walls followed suit and fell into despair.
“Can!”
Zhu Pingan shouted back.
It must be able to be defended!
Either defend the city or die. This seemingly either/or multiple choice question actually only had one option of defending the city!
One must create conditions even if one cannot defend! Must be able to defend! It must be defended! And, can only succeed, can not fail!
“Prefect respect …… not my humble servant to combat morale, just …… just we now only have more than thirty brothers, outside the Japanese invaders there are still two to three thousand people, the enemy is outnumbered, how can more than thirty of us defend two to three thousand Japanese invaders to attack the city?How can we defend the city with thirty or so men?”
A soldier with an injured arm sighed as he listened to Zhu Pingan’s words and said with his head hanging down.
“Who said there are only thirty or so of us brothers defending the city?”Zhu Pingan shook his head and said meaningfully.
“Isn’t it? One, two, three, four …… thirty nine people, that’s right.”The soldier asked suspiciously.
The soldier reached out and counted, it was thirty-nine people on the city wall right ah. Even if the people from the other three city gates were transferred over, it would only add more than thirty people, moreover, the people from the other city gates could not be transferred at all, if there was no one to guard the city gates, wouldn’t it be easy for the Japanese to attack the county from the other city gates.
“Not more than thirty brothers, but more than thirty thousand brothers, we have more than thirty thousand brothers guarding the city. It’s not that we are outnumbered by the enemy, but that we are outnumbered by the enemy!”Zhu Pingan said softly.
“More than thirty thousand brothers? I’m outnumbered by the enemy?”The soldier heard this and opened his mouth wide in surprise, his eyes filled with disbelief.
County Zun …… is stupid! How to say nonsense with eyes open? The city wall is a total of so many people, I have counted several times, it is impossible to count wrongly, how can there be more than 30,000 brothers. Obviously the enemy is outnumbered, how is it that I am outnumbered?
“County Duke ……”
The soldier opened his mouth and was about to defend himself when he looked up to find Zhu Pingan turning around and walking slowly towards the inner battlements of the city wall.
“Fathers and mothers!”
Zhu Pingan slowly walked to the inner battlements of the city wall, pressed his hand against the city wall, and shouted loudly to the people crying in despair underneath the city wall.
When the people under the city who were in despair heard the voice of the governor’s great lord, they could not help but temporarily stop their desperate tears and prayers and looked up.
“Folks, everyone can see. Three thousand Japanese invaders attacked the city, our magistrates and soldiers were good, they were brave, they fought bravely to kill the enemy, none of them retreated, they did it, defended the first wave of the Japanese invaders’ attack, and made the Japanese invaders leave behind more than a hundred corpses. However, we also suffered heavy casualties as well, thirty-two of us were killed in battle, twenty-nine of us were wounded, and only thirty-nine of us are left to fight again, while there are still more than three thousand Japanese pirates outside the city. Now, the Japanese outside the city are cutting down trees to build siege ladders, and when the ladders are built, it will be time for the Japanese to attack the city again. It is now an urgent moment of life and death for Jingnan.”
Zhu Pingan pressed his hand against the city wall and said loudly to the crowd, not hiding the current life and death crisis at all.
“Oooh ……More than thirty defenders, more than three thousand Japanese invaders, how can this city still be defended, God ah, Ru Lai Buddha ah, Great Compassionate Goddess of Mercy ah, please save us, please.”
“Alas, dead ah!”
“Wooooooooo, with so few people, there’s still no defence of the city. Why don’t we just find ourselves a rope to get rid of it ……”
“With such a small number of people, how can we hold Jingnan, to hold Jingnan, unless the Gods and Buddhas of the heavens help us.”
Hearing Zhu Pingan’s honesty about the life and death crisis, the common people under the city became even more desperate, begging God and Buddha, crying and complaining ……
“More than thirty defenders, more than three thousand Japanese pirates, how can this city be defended?”Zhu Pingan looked at the crowd and pulled the corner of his mouth, “I heard someone begging the gods and worshipping the Buddha, saying that in order to defend Jingnan, it will only be possible unless the heavens are full of gods and Buddhas to help.”
“Right, with such a small garrison and so many Japanese invaders, how can we defend the city unless the gods help.”
“Unless there’s a miracle, we’re dead.”
“Governor, let’s raise the altar and burn incense to pray to the gods, maybe there’ll be a god who’s willing to help.”
“Hey, miracles, ethereal, how can we say that we can ask for it …….”
The city was in chaos, some people proposed to pray to God and Buddha, just like a drowning person grasping the last straw.
“Pray to God and worship Buddha?”Zhu Pingan pulled the corners of his mouth, “Once upon a time, there was a devout Buddhist who, once again, encountered difficulties, so he went to the temple to beg the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion, Goddess of Mercy and Goddess of Mercy, for help in resolving his difficulties. When he entered the temple and knelt down to pray to the Goddess of Mercy, he noticed that there was a man on the futon next to him who was also praying to the Goddess of Mercy. He realised that the man looked so much like the Goddess of Mercy that it was as if the Buddha statue of the Goddess of Mercy had come to life, so he asked curiously, ‘Are you the Goddess of Mercy?’The Goddess of Mercy returned ‘Yes’. The Buddhist monk was puzzled and asked, ‘If you are Guanyin Bodhisattva, then why are you worshipping yourself?’Guanyin Bodhisattva replied back, ‘Because I too have encountered difficult things, but I know that it is better to seek God than to seek oneself!'”
“Seeking God is better than seeking yourself!”
Zhu Pingan’s words were like a thunderbolt that boomed above the heads of the crowd, causing them to instantly have a jolt.
“Folks, it is better to seek God than to seek yourself! This is a time of life and death for Jingnan County! The one who can save Jingnan now is all of you folks themselves, and the one who can save all of you folks is also all of you folks themselves. The Japanese may be 3,000 strong, but there are 30,000 of us in Jingnan. Get up! Fathers and Folks! Stand up!Defend the city together! We have 30,000 people, but the Japanese only have 3,000; with 30,000 against 3,000, occupying the right place and time, there is no reason why we can’t hold it! As long as we defend, we can definitely hold it!”Zhu Pingan was impassioned and shouted loudly at the top of his voice, “But if, if we don’t defend the city. The Japanese will use their Japanese swords and kill us! Killed our parents, wives and children! And will point their fingers at our bones and say: ‘Look, these are cowards without balls!'”
“Guard the city!”
“Defend the city!”
“Governor, we are not cowards, we will defend the city!”
“If we don’t defend the city, we will surely die! If we defend the city, we can still survive, let’s fight the Japanese!”
Zhu Pingan’s words were like a match thrown into a barrel of dynamite, and the city instantly exploded! The sound of war was booming!
