Although I heard that Jingnan County has been defended once again, the people at the banquet still don’t hold a ray of hope for Jingnan County.
How many people can Jingnan defenders still have, originally only a total of more than 100 people, the last wave of Japanese attack, Jingnan although defended down, but also heavy damage to themselves, now there are still 30 to 50 people?
The absolute disparity in strength between the attacking and defending sides made them firmly believe that Jingnan would undoubtedly fall!
“After the Japanese invaders were thwarted in their attack on the city and retreated, they cut down trees and logs to make siege ladders. ……”The scouting horse soldier continued to report.
Sure enough!
The Japanese learnt a lesson from the last time they attacked the city with flying claws when the ropes were burnt off, and stepped up the felling of trees, rushed to build siege ladders, and when the Japanese siege ladders were completed, that was when the city of Jingnan County fell!
The banquet crowd had already “seen” the end of Jingnan County!
“In the nick of time, Governor Zhu told a story and mobilised the entire city to defend the city.”
The scouting horse pawn reported.
“What story? What story did Governor Zhu tell? How could it mobilise the entire city’s people to defend the city?!”
“That’s right, what story is so powerful?”
Hearing the report from the scout, the banquet crowd could not help but be filled with questions, curious as to what story Zhu Pingan had told, even Taizhou Governor Tan Lun and Ningtai General Yu Dayou were also curious as they looked towards the scout.
“At that time, it was also someone who suggested that Zhu Zhi Xian should pray to God to ward off the Japanese invaders, so Zhu Zhi Xian told this story. Zhu Zhixian said that once upon a time there was a very devout Buddhist, and one day he encountered a great difficulty, so he went to the temple to worship Guan Shiyin Bodhisattva, as he always did, and begged the Bodhisattva to help him resolve the difficulty. When he entered the temple to pay homage to the Goddess of Mercy, he noticed that there was also 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!'”
The crowd’s wishes were hard to resist, so the scouting horse pawn had to stop and recount the story that Zhu Pingan had told to the crowd, thanks to the fact that Zhu Zhixian had told an interesting story, and his memory was quite good, otherwise this would have been embarrassing.
“Seeking God is better than seeking oneself?!”
“What a good one, it’s better to seek God than to seek oneself!”
“Seeking God is better than seeking oneself! Governor Zhu’s words were truly deafening! No wonder the people of the entire city were able to be mobilised.”
After the scouting horse pawn finished telling about the ancient times, the banquet crowd was coaxed to feel a great deal of emotion about the story.
“After Governor Zhu finished telling the story, he impassionedly told the people of the whole city that it is better to seek God than to seek oneself, and that the one who can save Jingnan now is all of you folks yourselves. Although there are more than 3,000 Japanese invaders, there are 30,000 people in Jingnan County. As long as you all rise up to defend the city, Jingnan County will definitely be able to hold on! But if, if we don’t defend the city. The Japanese will kill us with their swords! Kill our parents, wives and children! And will point their fingers at our bones and say: ‘Look, these are cowards with no balls!’When Governor Zhu finished speaking, all the people of the city shouted ‘defend the city,’ and the invitations to fight were as loud as the beating of a drum.”
The scouting horse pawn had a good memory and basically repeated Zhu Pingan’s mobilising words at that time.
“Good! Move with emotion and reason! Governor Zhu spoke well in these words.”
“As I listen at this moment, I still can’t help but feel my blood boiling! No wonder the people of the whole city have been mobilised.”
The banquet crowd was overwhelmed with emotion.
Tan Lun, the governor of Taizhou, turned his gaze in the direction of Jingnan County, and a glint of light flashed in his dark eyes.
“Zhi County Zhu selected two thousand young and strong people from among them to go up to the city walls to defend the city, and asked the rest of the people to assist in collecting and transporting stones and other materials for defending the city. Zhu Zhixian had the two thousand young strong people defending the city registered and promised: after the battle, each person will be rewarded with ten taels of silver; for those who are injured, an additional ten taels of silver will be rewarded; for those who are killed in action, each person will be given an additional fifty taels of pension. In addition, after this battle, all those who want to serve in the county office as an officer will be given priority.”
The scouting horse pawn continued.
“Huh? Why does it feel as if Jingnan can hold on?!”Hearing this, someone at the banquet table murmured softly.
“Tough enough ……The Japanese are too many, although Jingnan has mobilised the people to defend the city to make up for the disadvantage of not having enough troops, but after all, they are all people, how can they be a match for the murderous Japanese?!”
Soon the people next to him shook their heads.
“Yes, Governor Zhu has tried his best, but it’s far from enough. Although there are more people, there are only thirty to fifty soldiers left to defend the city at most, and the remaining two thousand or so are commoners who haven’t experienced battlefield killings, so how can a mere thirty to fifty soldiers be able to motivate the two thousand or so people? Once the Japanese invaders start attacking the city, most of the people who have never experienced battle will be dumbfounded by the sight of swords and swords, life and death, and as long as the Japanese invaders set up siege ladders and climb up the walls, it will be a one-sided massacre.”
“Well, the people are fine as an auxiliary, how can they hold the city if they are the main force defending it? Recruits who have trained for several years going into battle for the first time, that would have to piss their trousers in fear, and their swords wouldn’t dare to slash at the Japanese, not to mention the common people.”
Except for a very few people who held a glimmer of hope for Jingnan, the overwhelming majority of the people still did not look favourably on Jingnan.
“Soon after Governor Zhu mobilised the people, the Japanese began to attack the city. This time, before attacking the city, the Japanese first killed more than 500 people in public under the city. Taking advantage of the fact that the people on the city were scared out of their wits, they attacked the city in a big way.”
The scouting horse pawn couldn’t help but clench his teeth when he reported here, he had a distant relative within this group of people who were killed.
Hearing this, the banquet crowd couldn’t help but clench their teeth and sigh. The Japanese invaders had seized on the shortcomings of the city’s defenders being commoners who had never experienced battle, and deliberately killed to intimidate the city’s commoners.
The Japanese are trying to intimidate the people in the city by killing them!
The Japanese invaders have hit the city’s seven inches!
The people at the banquet who had a glimmer of hope for the city of Jingnan County, at this moment that glimmer of hope was also dashed.
“After seeing that the young and strong people defending the city were scared out of their wits by the Japanese’s clinical killings, Zhu Zhixian stood up and while holding up his shield and striking it with the hilt of his sword, he ran back and forth on the city wall, shouting to the crowd of scared out of their wits, “Brothers, behind us are our parents, wives, and children, and there’s no way for us to retreat anymore! If we are not strong, who will guard them! If you are a man, rise up with me! Years later, when you sit under a tree in the sun, your son or grandson curiously asked you what you did when you were young, you don’t have to be red-faced, stammering that your grandfather I was shovelling sh*t in the ground. You can stare into their eyes, loud and proud, tell your children and grandchildren, saying: children, your grandfather I was on the walls of Jingnan County, and the dog said the governor of the big old master Zhu Pingan together side by side to fight the Japanese invaders! Killed thousands of ferocious Japanese invaders, drove them off the city walls, and preserved Jingnan!”The scouting horse recounted emotionally, “After Zhu Zhixian shouted, the people were like chicken blood, each one of them raised their spirits, straightened their backs, and faced the Japanese pirates attacking the city, none of them retreated, and drove the attacking Japanese pirates off the city wall again and again, defending the city of Jingnan County time and time again. After attacking the west gate for a long time, the Japanese invaders tried to attack the north gate again by weakening the enemy, but all of them were detected and foiled by Zhu Zhixian. The Japanese invaders had a bloody encounter in Jingnan, lost more than half of their troops and generals, and the corpses piled up into a mountain, so they finally had no choice but to withdraw from Jingnan in the night. The city of Jingnan County was defended! A total of seven hundred and ninety-five Japanese heads were captured!”
What?
Not only did Jingnan hold? It also captured 795 Japanese heads!
The report of the scout was like igniting dynamite, and the astonished voices of the people at the banquet almost toppled the roof!
