If you want to defend the city, you must have certain conditions.

Chongde County is small and has only two city gates. Japanese pirates have always been not good at siegeing the city. There are about three or four hundred soldiers in the city, as well as 100 yamen runners, guards and other 100 people, and experienced veterans commanding it. It is not too difficult to defend the city.

The problem now is that there is a shortage of silver.

Broken houses and hiring village heroes all require money. This is still a trivial matter. The key is that it takes a lot of money to motivate soldiers to defend the city.

Qian Yuan knew very well about this, so he appeared in the Xiang family.

The Xiang family is known as the first family in Jiaxing. On the one hand, it is because of its good family background and high reputation, and on the other hand, it is because of its wealth.

Chongde is a small county town with few large households. Basically, they only follow the Xiang family. At this time, they gathered together at Xiang family.

"Jiashan City is broken, and the Japanese pirates massacre the city." Qian Yuan's eyes swept through everyone with lightning, "Either they can help the officers and soldiers defend the city, or the city is broken and killed and was robbed by the Japanese pirates. Please choose."

Xiang Yuanbian, who has been disliked by Qian Yuan since yesterday, was the first to jump out, "No money."

The Xiang family’s in-laws and family members smiled bitterly and said, “Even if they have money, it may not be a good thing to take it out…”

"Bandits pass by like combs, and soldiers pass by like combs." Qian Yuan sneered: "Now there are four hundred soldiers in the city, it will take less than two hours to wash Chongde County."

Hearing such a murderous threat, everyone had a cold war and couldn't help but look at the two people behind Qian Yuan, one was Lu Bin and the other was Li Liangqin.

Lu Bin pressed the handle of the knife with his hands and said expressionlessly. Li Liangqin's mouth twitched but said nothing.

Although he despised the style of this Songjiang scholar, Li Liangqin, who had been following Yu Dayou for three years, also knew the virtues of his soldiers. Except for dozens of personal soldiers brought from Guangdong and Guangxi, the rest were all local guards from Zhejiang. Without the money to inspire morale, the defeated generals might scatter the next day!

Besides, the main forces in the city are now in the hands of Lu Bin, and Lu Bin only Songjiang scholar is from.

"Do you think I'm joking?" Qian Yuan paced back and forth in the lobby, glanced at Xiang Yuanbian, "Tianlai Pavilion is famous in Jiangnan. You write clearly in your paintings and copybooks, five hundred gold, one thousand gold... Do you think the Japanese pirates will let go?"

"Each soldier is ten taels of silver, and each is three taels of silver is hired by the village hero." Qian Yuan was too lazy to pay attention to these goods that cost money and live. "Give you half an hour, and if you don't have any money, you will start to wash the city."

"Qian Family, believe it or not, I will sue it to Nanjing!"

"Finance." Qian Yuan looked at the other party calmly, "But first, you have to live."

The eyes with great oppression swept through everyone again, and the hall was silent, and no one jumped out again this time.

After a while, Qian Yuan waved his hand and called the clerk to record the storage, and pulled Lu Bin and Li Liangqin out of the mansion.

"Tell me." Qian Yuan asked with a sinister face: "Where is General Yu defeated?"

"Pinghu." Li Liangqin said softly: "Ambushed by more than a thousand Japanese pirates, more than a hundred roninmen were vanguards, and the officers and soldiers were about to collapse at one touch."

Qian Yuan immediately linked Yuhang's attack by Japanese pirates and Yu Dayou's encounter with Pinghu. His cheeks were bulging. If he guessed correctly, the large-scale attack of Japanese pirates finally came.

"How is General Yu now?"

"I have no worries about life, but I have lost too much blood and remained unconscious." Lu Bin sighed, "I am afraid that this defeat will be in prison in the future."

Qian Yuan glanced over and thought about the future. He still didn't know if he could hold on now. Maybe everyone was trapped in this Chongde City.

The streets were messy, and people with panic expressions could be seen everywhere, and sharp cries came from time to time.

Everyone was about to go to Yu Dayou's residence, when Qian Yuan suddenly stepped slowly and looked at the city gate, and a large number of people were flocking into the city.

"Who opened the city gate?" Lu Bin roared angrily, pulled out his waist knife and rushed over quickly.

The walls of Chongde County are not high. Even if the Japanese pirates build cloud ladders to attack the city, the most likely thing is to target the city gate. Among the people who are fleeing, they have the highest success rate.

After scolding the soldiers in charge of the city gate, Lu Bin first asked the city gate to be killed, while Wang Yi, Yang Wen and others dispersed to protect the more than a hundred people.

"Brother Qian Shi." Xiang Dushou, who was sweating profusely, came over, "It's all the people of Jiaxing, how can you bear it..."

"There are Japanese pirates everywhere along the southeast coast, and everyone knows that seven or eight out of ten people are the people of the Ming Dynasty." Qian Yuan blocked his face expressionlessly and pointed at a man with his head down among the people.

Yang Wen immediately took the person out and searched it up and down. With a "ding dong" sound, a sharp dagger fell on the bluestone slab.

Qian Yuan was a criminal policeman in his previous life. He had a great eye for this and had long seen something wrong.

The crowd immediately became turbulent, Qian Yuan sneered and waved his hand, and more than 20 guards raised their swords and guns to suppress the commotion.

Soon, Wang Yi, who had a very vicious vision, picked out seven or eight men from them one after another, and found sharp weapons such as daggers from them. It would be fine if it was one or two. So many men were carrying sharp weapons. There was no doubt that these were all Japanese pirates who were sneaking in to prepare to steal the city.

Xiang Dushou, who was standing beside him, looked at the scene with a dazed look, wanting to say something but unable to say it.

After a moment of silence, Qian Yuan called Captain Liu to whisper, "Women, no matter how big or small, are included in the city, men are only accepted by those under ten years old, and the rest are driven out."

"This, this..." Captain Liu was a slick person and wanted to persuade him a few words.

But Qian Yuan had already made a gesture to Wang Yi.

Wang Yi smiled ferociously, pulled out his waist and walked a few steps, and raised his sword and slashed it down.

“Ahhh…”

In the crowd, sharp cries suddenly arose, but in a blink of an eye, then silent.

The guard let go of his hand and took a step back. The headless corpse kneeling on the ground froze there. After a moment, he swayed and fell to the ground. The blood dyed the ground bright red. Not far away, the head was still staring at the eyes.

Soon, eight heads were placed right on the left side of the city gate. Qian Yuan squinted his eyes and told the soldier to tie the heads together with his hair and hang them on the city gate.

No need for Qian Yuan to say anything else. Captain Liu quickly finished the matter. Xiang Dushou stood beside Qian Yuan for a long time but couldn't find anything to say.

The last time I met, I was a gentle and even shy young man. In a blink of an eye, I changed my body and killed me decisively, and I didn't change my expression when I saw the head falling to the ground... Xiang Dushou was a little dazed.

After looking at the women and children who were driven together, Qian Yuan turned around and asked, "Captain Liu, how much food has he collected?"

It is impossible not to allow people outside the city to enter the city. Not to mention that they will definitely be called shit in the future. Even now, women and children are tortured and killed under the city, which will be a huge blow to the morale of the soldiers guarding the city.

Those strong men always have more chances to escape. Qian Yuan hopes to try his best to accommodate women and children who have no ability to destroy. Compared with the danger of being stolen by Japanese pirates in the city, Qian Yuan has tried his best to reach the limit.

"Not much...oh, no wonder we were asked to collect grain." Captain Liu smiled bitterly: "The two grain stores in the city belong to the Xiang family."

Qian Yuan turned his head and glanced at him. Xiang Dushou shivered and immediately nodded, "The Xiang family has no choice."

After instructing the clerk to sort out the records, Qian Yuan followed Li Liangqin and Lu Bin to Yu Dayou's place.

As soon as I started, I heard yelling inside.

Qian Yuanxin mentioned that Yu Long and Qi Hu, don’t hang one here, then this butterfly that you traveled through time would be too serious.

"Sir, I'm awake!"

"Call the doctor, where is the medicine?"

"Get some water first, so adults need to drink water."
Chapter completed!