The Japanese retreated and dispersed, and the city of Taizhou was defended, but the heavy heart of Tan Lun, the governor of Taizhou, was not much lighter.
How to ease up?
In this battle, Taizhou government soldiers and people casualties are very serious, just half a day to defend the city, Taizhou government soldiers were killed more than 800 people, the remaining soldiers are almost everyone with injuries, it is not easy to compile and train out of the new army this time is considered to be a complete waste of the people to assist in defending the city was also killed or injured more than 1,000 people.
Casualties are still secondary!
The biggest problem now is that although Taizhou has been defended, the seven counties under its jurisdiction have all been overrun by the Japanese. Before Taizhou was besieged by the Japanese, there was news that all seven counties had been overrun by the Japanese. Although there is no confirmation, but it can not be wrong, the Japanese are so powerful, Taizhou Prefecture so many defenders, were almost broken by the Japanese, the county so little defenders, should not be spared.
As a governor, I have the responsibility to protect the territory and protect the people. If any county within my jurisdiction is attacked by the Japanese, the local governor will certainly be responsible for it, but I, as the governor, can hardly escape the blame, which is a serious dereliction of duty! What’s more, now all seven counties under the government have been overrun by Japanese pirates! This is a defeat that has never been seen since the founding of the Ming Dynasty! And it’s happened to me, Tan Lun! It’s a great shame!
I had hoped to make a great career in Taizhou, but I didn’t realise that I would meet with such a political disaster! To rule the country and secure the state; to serve the people and help the world ……Oh, it’s all gone to hell. ……
How can I fulfil my political ambitions?
The political future is worrying, the career suffered a fatal crisis, how can the governor Tan Lun relaxed up.
“Prefect, Prefect ……It’s time to order the opening of the city gates to allow the general and his party outside the city to enter the city to recuperate.”
After the Japanese retreated and dispersed, the paperwork to see the governor Tan Lun floundered in the city, delayed in ordering to open the city gates, welcome the reinforcements into the city, looking at the reinforcements outside the city are in the mood for fear of causing trouble, can not help but out of the voice to remind.
“Oh, oh, pass this government order, open the city gate, welcome the reinforcements into the city. With the Japanese a fight, the soldiers outside the city tired, hard work, with the household room to arrange a banquet, good hospitality to rescue my Taizhou province of the soldiers. At the same time, have the work room and the military room gather doctors and physicians to prepare a lot of medicinal materials, such as knife wound medicine, to properly treat the injured generals.”
Under the repeated reminder of the clerk, Tan Lun, the governor of Taizhou, only then came back to his senses from his heavy sad thoughts and ordered with a renewed spirit.
“What does this bird government do for food, my lord I risked my life to kill the Japanese, expel the Japanese invaders, and won the battle, but in the end, this bird government didn’t even open the city gates not to mention taking care of the food, letting my lord drink the north-west wind outside and eat the closed door, thinking about it is all angry!”
“That’s it, that’s it, it’s still a capital city, even the friendship of the landlord does not understand, if I had known that, I would not come.”
Outside the city gates under the banner of “Yu”, a few dangling cavalrymen, facing the closed city gates, could not help but launch a complaint.
“You few little brats, what are you talking about! Laozi brought you to rescue Taizhou Province, is it to mix food? I was honoured by His Majesty’s grace to serve as the general of Ningbo and Taizhou, so it was my duty to fight the Japanese and rescue Taizhou! You are all old men who have followed me, don’t disgrace me!”
The leading general was a middle-aged man in his forties, standard Chinese character face, long tiger’s back and waist, his body was as strong as a bear, after hearing the whining of the soldiers under his command, he couldn’t help but glare at them and scolded them.
A few dangling soldiers were scolded after also not afraid, smiling around their general, show up, “General, general, you old calm down, we are just whining. As you can see, we didn’t hesitate in the battlefield just now, and chopped off at least three Japanese heads.”
“Rolling, rolling, let go of your mother’s fart, you are the ones who are old! I’m only forty-nine this year, I’m in my prime! If it wasn’t for the fact that you chopped off a few Japanese on the battlefield and listening to you complaining, I would have lashed out long ago.”
When the leading general heard the word “your old man”, he couldn’t help but jump with his tiger’s eyebrow, as if the tiger had been stepped on, spitting on the face of several people.
“Hahaha, Liu Er Dog, Li Da Zhuang, you guys patted the general’s arse on the horse’s leg again.”The crowd of cavalrymen couldn’t help but laugh, for this kind of scene, they seemed to have seen it all long ago.
Just at this moment, the gates of Taizhou Prefecture opened, and Tan Lun led the city’s officials and greeted them at the city gates.
“Thanks to all the generals for their assistance, or else Taizhou Prefecture would have been in dire straits. The city has already prepared a crude tea and meal, I hope you will not mind. Oh yes, I haven’t asked for the general’s name yet.”Tan Lun, the governor of Taizhou, arched his hand and thanked the generals outside the city, Sheng invited them to enter the city, and then asked the leading general for his name.
“There’s food to eat, hahaha ……”
Hearing that the city had already prepared a meal, the group of cavalrymen outside the city all wailed in excitement.
“Where where where, Governor Tan is polite, my name is Yu Dayou, I am the Senator General of Ning (Bo) Taizhou (state) appointed by His Majesty. Fighting the Japanese and protecting Ningbo and Taizhou is Yu’s job.”
The general cleaned up the shouting soldiers, rolled over and dismounted from his horse, clasped his fists and saluted Tan Lun, the governor of Taizhou.
This person is Yu Dayou, at the beginning of this month, Jiajing Emperor Fang appointed him as Ningtai Senator General. Yu had just taken up his post, and the cavalrymen behind him were all his own soldiers from when he was the commander of the Fujian Province.
He was recommended by Zhu Dan, who was the right deputy royal inspector three years earlier, when he visited Fujian. However, after Zhu Dan offended the interests of Zhejiang and Fujian, and was falsely accused by a treacherous official of committing a crime, he committed suicide, and Yu’s situation was not good either, as he was repeatedly sidelined by local bureaucrats and suppressed by the Yan Party in Fujian. When he was first appointed to the post, he was suppressed by Yan Song, who did not report his achievements to the court, and only gave him 50 taels of silver as a reward for his efforts to quell the rebellion of Fan Ziyi in Annam. The official environment in which Yu Dayou lived was thus evident.
This year, the Japanese invasion of Jiangnan was serious, and the Japanese had plundered the coast of Zhejiang several times. The Jiajing Emperor thought of Zhu Dan, who had committed suicide long ago, and then remembered Yu Dayou, who had been recommended by Zhu Dan, and appointed him general of Ningbo and Taizhou to defend against the Japanese invaders.
Yu Dayou?
Hearing the general call himself Yu Dayou, Taizhou governor Tan Lun immediately straightened his face and said in a loud voice, “It’s a pleasure to meet you, it turns out that you’re the famous General Yu Dayou of the Southeast, the ‘Jiao Dragon of the Blue Ripple’,” he said in an arching voice! It’s really better to hear than to see, General riding first, using his troops like a jiao, sharp and unstoppable, the Japanese invaders will be crushed at the touch of a button, it’s really a hundred battles of the jiao dragon also.”
