What? How about abandoning the city and leaving?!
Although Governor Wang’s voice was very small, in the ears of Minister Xiahou, it was no less than a shocking thunderclap.
When Xiahou County Minister heard this, he raised his head in disbelief and looked at Wang Zhixian in a daze for a full three seconds.
“Cough cough …… Xiahou virtuous brother, I am saying that the Japanese invaders are many and powerful, we are few and alone, this sincerity is difficult to compete with, it is better to avoid the front for the time being and retreat strategically to retreat as a way to advance, retaining the living forces of my Taiping. Now the Japanese army has surrounded the east, west, and north gates, and there are only a few Japanese soldiers at the south gate, so while the Japanese are not yet paying attention, we will concentrate our efforts on retreating from the south gate with the people in the city, and we will surely be successful in one fell swoop.”Governor Wang coughed in embarrassment under the burning gaze of County Minister Xiahou and defended himself.
“Prefect, Prefect, ten thousand times impossible. The Japanese invaders are a typical siege of three, encircling the east, west, and north gates, and purposely letting go of the south gate to lure us to flee through the south gate, which the Japanese invaders must have pre-set ambushes outside the south gate. The Japanese must have set up ambushes outside the south gate. We must know that the Japanese came from the south. If we escaped through the south gate, we would be like sheep entering the wolf’s mouth, and would certainly be ambushed by the Japanese. Our Taiping County city walls are tall and large, and their integrity and sturdiness is well-known in Taizhou Prefecture, and the county is rich in grain and grass, so we can use the city walls as a support to hold out against the Japanese and keep them out of the city.”Hearing Governor Wang’s explanation, County Minister Xiahou couldn’t help but shake his head repeatedly, urging loudly and anxiously.
“Xiahou Xian Di has a point, it’s my fault for not thinking well. Our Taiping city is high and solid, the city is full of food and grass, using the city wall as a support, the imperial Japanese outside the city, is the best choice.”Wang Zhixian listened to Xiahou Prefect’s persuasion, swept a glance at the Japanese outside the city, narrowed his eyes slightly, and nodded after two seconds of contemplation.
“County Governor is wise.”
When Xiahou County Minister heard this, Fang let out a sigh of relief, wiped a handful of cold sweat from his forehead, and said with an arch of his hand.
Xiahou County Minister named Xiahou Liang, is a local person in Taiping County, Xiahou family is a local big family, it is said that the ancestor is Xiahou Yuan’s descendant. Xiahou Liang’s heart admire the glory of their ancestors, read poetry and books at the same time, but also to improve the physical fitness, practiced a martial arts, in Taiping County is famous for martial arts and literature, at the age of thirty years old in the Jurist, although has not been able to get into the scholar, but in the family of the operation of the bailiffs, to do the county magistrate of Taiping County.
Hahou Liang was a local and had a deep affection for the county. If Wang Zhixian abandoned the city and fled, the people of Taiping County would suffer a great deal if there was no leader and no one to lead the defence against the Japanese invaders.
Hearing that Wang Zhixian had given up the idea of abandoning the city and agreed to use the city wall as a defence against Japanese invaders, Xiahou Liang couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief.
“The Japanese invaders are now a matter of life and death, pass the order to gather the young and strong people of the county and go up to the city wall to defend against the Japanese invaders. County Magistrate Xiahou, the east and north gates are entrusted to you to preside over the defence, while the west and south gates will be defended by this official.”
Governor Wang ordered to recruit the people widely, and handed over the east gate and north gate to County Minister Xiahou for defence, and defended the west and south gates himself.
“As you command, my humble servant will live up to the trust of the county governor, the city is here and the people are here, the Cheng is dead and the people are dead!”Xiahou County Minister swore.
“Xiahou XianDi is overstating it, Xiahou XianDi is both civil and military, if the east gate and north gate are given to you, this official can rest assured.”
Wang Zhixian patted Xiahou County Minister’s shoulder and smiled gently.
Under the leadership of Governor Wang and County Minister Xiahou, Taiping County widely summoned the people to guard the four gates against the Japanese invaders.
“Kill!”
“Kill す!Kill す!”
The Japanese invaders outside the city screamed hideously, raised their Japanese swords and other blades in their hands, and approached Taiping County Town in a murderous manner.
Looking at the murderous, hideous-faced Japanese invaders, Governor Wang on the city wall couldn’t help but take half a step back, and the magistrates, soldiers, and people on the city wall had never experienced this kind of formation before, and were all scared to the point where their faces were white and their legs and stomachs were spinning.
Gutless rats!
When the leader of the Japanese pirates, Heihachiro, saw the performance of Governor Wang and the people on the city wall, he pulled the corners of his mouth disdainfully, and in a repeat of his old trick, he waved his hand, and a hundred Japanese pirates under his command pressed more than a hundred of the people to come out from the formation.
“What are the Japanese bandits doing?!”
The crowd on the city wall stared wide-eyed, exchanging words and discussing, not knowing what the Japanese wanted to do.
But soon, in the next second, they knew what the Japanese invaders were up to.
After the ferocious Japanese pirates pressed more than a hundred people to the front of the formation, under the command of Heihachiro, their hands rose up and their swords fell, and a cavity of blood spurted out, and a head rolled down to the ground. The Japanese pirates laughed hideously, stooped down and picked up a human head, shook it a few times towards the city wall, and then carried the blood drenched human head in their hands and ran away around the Taiping county town.
Carrying the human head running away ah ！！！！！ The barbaric cruelty of the Japanese invaders was highlighted by this move.
Although they had not seen the tiger and wolf divisions of the Qin Dynasty that hung human heads on their waists and conquered the six kingdoms, the act of the Japanese pirates running away with human heads was simply horrifying to the crowds of people on the walls of Taiping County, and all of them were chilled to the bone! Governor Wang couldn’t help but take another two steps back, his legs and stomach so weak that he could barely stand.
“Release the arrows! Release the arrows! Shoot these beasts to death!”
Seeing the Japanese invaders running around demonstrating with their heads, and noticing the frightened and weak-legged appearance of the people on the city, Xiahou County Minister couldn’t help but order the bows and arrows to shoot at the Japanese invaders in a loud voice, to combat the arrogance of the Japanese invaders.
Xiahou County Minister knew the importance of morale, and could not let the Japanese bandits strike the morale of the city!
However, most of the archers on the city wall are the civil status under the jurisdiction of the soldiers’ room, usually lack of training, for the bow and arrow this kind of consuming tactical cultivation, usually even more lack of training, especially at this moment, they are scared by the Japanese bandits running around with heads, originally not good archery, at this moment is even more greatly reduced.
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”
One by one, the flimsy and feeble bows and arrows were shot towards the Japanese invaders, the accuracy and strength were hardly complimentary.
“Hahaha, the ladies on the city, didn’t eat.”
This time, all the Japanese pirates who were running around demonstrating with their heads in their hands were all elites who had been through hundreds of battles, facing the bows and arrows shot from the city, they easily avoided them, basically no Japanese pirates were injured, not only that, there were also a lot of Japanese pirates demonstrating catching the arrows with their empty hands, one hand was holding the head of a person, and the other hand was clutching the feathered arrows that were shot at them in the heart of the hand.
Not only this, the Japanese pirates used the same method as the other pirates. The Japanese pirates who caught the arrows with their empty hands tied the human head to their waist, took down the longbow from their back, put the arrows on the bowstring, drew the bow like a full moon, and the arrows flew towards the city wall like lightning.
“Ah!”
Several miserable screams rang out on the city wall in succession, several people on the city wall fell down in response, the Japanese invaders were almost arrowless.
Seeing the shocking performance of the Japanese invaders, the people on the city of Taiping County were even more dumbfounded and scared.
The Japanese invaders were so strong that they could not resist them!
Seeing this, Wang Zhixian couldn’t help but take two more steps back, and his back was pressed against the battlements of the city wall.
