In early winter, the sun goes down very quickly, just now it was still sunset, in the blink of an eye it was already nightfall.
“Take a look, it’s already dark and this third day is about to pass, where is there any sign of the Japanese invaders.”
The man who had complained earlier, looked hard over the city wall into the darkness of the night in the distance, unable to see a single trace of silhouettes under the night, and once again bellyached.
“That’s right, as the saying goes, once again, twice, never again, this third day is about to pass, and the Japanese didn’t even come. It seems that the Japanese won’t come again. Our county respect is a tiger napping this time ……”The man who complained with him before followed suit.
“Hehe ……”The locals glanced at them meaningfully and returned a heh.
The two men returned, “Hey ……”, the heart of the belly, the county honours and not the gods, wrong once and how, our gratitude to the county honours and will not be reduced by much.
The night is getting deeper and deeper, not long after, the night has reached the degree of hand can not see five fingers, outside the city is still silent, only the night lords occasionally issued one or two seeping call.
“Another day of fear for nothing! Let’s go, let’s go home and sleep, we will never be scared again. The Japanese invaders are not a dog raised by the county respect, and the county respect will not be able to foretell …….”
“That is ……”
The two people stayed on the city wall for a while, pulled the corners of their mouths, muttered two sentences in a low voice, and then walked down.
However, before the two could step down a single step, they heard a commotion from behind them.
“Quick look, someone over there is coming straight for the city gates.”
“Aigoo, it’s still true, so fast ……”
“The Japanese invaders are coming ……”
A cry of alarm on the city wall came into the ears of the two men, the two men’s footsteps could not help but lurch, in which the timid one’s legs were soft on the spot, if not in time to hold the wall, he would have to roll down in fear.
The two men looked at each other, like a thunderclap, their heads smouldering, trembling voice said, “the Japanese really came?”
“Brother, brother, please give me a hand, let’s quickly go down and find a cellar, stinking ditch or something to hide in. I hope that we are blessed with a great life, and the Japanese invaders can not find us …….”
The timid one clung to the wall, his two strands couldn’t stop trembling, shivering, he said to the hanyou.
“Ah? Ah! It’s okay, it’s okay ……”The hanyou couldn’t help but panic even when he heard the bonobos.
Seeing this, the local man on the city wall snorted and looked at them, fished out a pig-killing knife from his sleeve, spat a mouthful of spit on the knife with all his might, and said to himself, “Old brother, today we can fight side by side again, the last time we defended the city we didn’t let you drink enough blood of the Japanese invaders, today I’m going to take you to drink your fill.”
After saying that, the local man then squeezed into the first line of the city wall with a pig-killing knife and a determined face.
“Crazy right he, don’t look at the bonobo is not tall, dressed like a caller, but one of the martial arts skill, waist three feet long knife, cut gold and iron, kill people without blinking, eat people without putting salt ……He took a pig-killing knife up, this is not the old lifer is too long to live!!!”
Seeing this, the two men couldn’t help but say.
“The Japanese invaders have come, and my old son s money for marrying his wife has finally come …… down.”
“Borrowed, last time I didn’t go up to the city wall and regretted it for half a year, this time I won’t go down even if I say anything.”
In the blink of an eye, there are so many people with dung forks, shovels, red tasseled guns and other weapons, squeezing past them, scrambling to occupy the wall stacks, looking out of the city with both eyes.
“What’s the situation, is madness still contagious? Each and every one of these people are crazy, aren’t they?!”
Seeing so many people scrambling forward, the two men were completely dumbfounded and muttered.
“No, it’s not the Japanese invaders, that’s our people, that’s the magistrate Zhang Ergu, I know him.”A sharp-eyed person noticed the clues and couldn’t help but loudly remind the people around him, saying.
“Well, it’s really not Zhang Er Dog, behind him is the dog said Tie Dan right, also a government servant.”
Someone soon recognised the several people outside the city who were rapidly approaching the city gates and shouted out.
“Ah? It’s not the Japanese bandits.”When the two heard this, the tension and worry on their faces was swept away, and their bodies quickly relaxed again, saying with some excitement, “I told you, how could the Japanese invaders just say they’re coming?!”
Soon, under the watchful eyes of the crowd, a few torches from outside the city came under the city gates and began to call the gates.
It was none other than Zhang Erniu, Tie Dan and the few of them.
“Erniu, TieDan, the county honours ordered you to closely monitor the coast, why have you run back? This city gate cannot be opened. The County Honour has ordered that without the County Honour’s order, no one is allowed to open the city gate.”
An errand boy on the city wall asked.
“There’s a situation on the sea, hundreds of Hachiman ships appeared on the sea, coming straight towards my Jingnan, Hachiman ships are the usual warships used by Japanese pirates, after the chief noticed this situation, he ordered us to come and report to the county honourable as soon as he was on fire. Old Zhang, since the city gates can’t be opened, quickly send down the carrier, and we’ll go up in it, so that we can report the situation to the county honourable in time.”
Zhang Erniu and the others were under the city gate, explaining loudly and urging the officers on the city wall to put down the carrier.
After verifying their identities once again, two cradles were soon hoisted down by ropes from the city wall, and one by one, Zhang Erniu and Tie Lock dragged them up. After Zhang Erniu and the others came up, they quickly descended the city wall and reported the news of the approaching Japanese invaders to Zhu Pingan.
“The Japanese invaders are really here!!!”
“The Japanese invaders are really coming!!!”
When the two men by the city wall heard this, they looked at each other, jaws agape and shocked. How could they have thought that when the prefectural governor said that the Japanese invaders were coming, the Japanese invaders had really come!
Soon, the news that the Japanese invaders were coming spread throughout the entire Jingnan County, and although Zhu Pingan had already reminded everyone, the crowd was still inevitably shocked and terrified upon hearing this news.
“The Japanese invaders are really here, these murderous Japanese invaders are too insidious and treacherous, they even took advantage of the late night to attack. If it wasn’t for your honour’s reminder, how could we have discovered the Japanese’s devious tricks! Who would have thought that the Japanese would attack at night. At this time of the night, everyone must be sleeping at home, if not for your honour’s reminder, I don’t know how many families would have been poisoned by the Japanese invaders; if not for your honour’s reminder, I’m afraid that the county town might have been stolen and won by the Japanese invaders as well ……”
“These murderous Japanese invaders attacked in the middle of the night, they are going to have a killing spree.”
“County Zun is really a god, saying that the Japanese invaders are coming and ordering us to move in advance to avoid them, and the Japanese invaders have really come. Our village is right on the seashore, so we’ll definitely be the first to suffer when the murderous Japanese attack. Thank you, if it wasn’t for you, I’m afraid our whole family would have been killed by now. ……”
People were afraid and glad that the Japanese invaders attacked in the middle of the night, and they were glad that the county honourable father notified them in advance, and they took precautions to avoid them in advance, otherwise, they were afraid that they could not escape from the disaster tonight.
