Yu Ren glanced at the man. "Don't worry, everyone. I have fought with these thieves from the Scented Incense Sect. They are a group of mobs. Our Yanzhou city is high and deep, and as long as everyone has confidence, they will be able to defend it.

In addition, I have discussed with King Lu. We will add another 500 people to you as soon as possible. Each city wall will add 500 people. In this way, we will not be one thousand people, but three thousand people. In addition, our advantages in weapons and the advantages of occupying the city will not be a problem even if we stay for three months."

At this time, King Lu was forced by Yu Ren and had no way out, so he had to stand up.

"Thank you brothers for your hard work. But don't worry, when the battle is over, I will ask the emperor for your merits. In addition, I will ask the housekeeper to prepare immediately. Each soldier who stayed to defend the city will be rewarded with ten taels of silver. Each person will be rewarded with ten taels of silver. It will be thirty taels of long and hundreds of taels of long. If anyone cuts off the enemy's head, each person's head will be rewarded with ten taels of silver."

The soldiers guarding the city were a little hesitant, but when they heard that King Lu had given such a heavy bounty, they all expressed that they must fight the thieves to the end.

When the King of Lu saw that the people were so angry, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, they went to the other three cities to make a pre-war mobilization. The soldiers guarding the city were all excited when they heard about the heavy rewards from King Lu. You should know that for these soldiers, there were not many opportunities to make money in their lives, and fighting was regarded by most people as a rare opportunity to make money.

Inspiring the morale of the soldiers guarding the city, Yu Ren accompanied King Lu back to the mansion to check the servants in their mansion.

Zhu Quan summoned a total of 600 young and strong servants. Yu Ren saw that they were all dressed in bright clothes, but some were arrogant and some showed timidity. Yu Ren knew that these people were difficult to use.

"Prince, let's send a recruitment notice as soon as possible!"

The King of Lu knew that this was imminent, so he asked Zhu Quan to carry 20,000 taels of silver from the bank deposit on the spot, and asked the chief officials of the royal palace to write a recruitment book, and asked someone to copy multiple copies and send people to various parts of the city to distribute. Then, the King of Lu asked Zhu Quan to take his people to distribute 10,000 taels of silver to the soldiers guarding the city.

The remaining 10,000 taels of silver were piled outside the door of the Lu Palace. They temporarily set up a recruiting station outside the door.

As the saying goes, there must be a brave man under heavy rewards. The temptation of this money is still very great. In less than half a day, nearly a thousand people were recruited.

King Lu handed all these people over to Yu Ren.

Yu Ren grouped them into groups and after selecting the leaders, he sent them to four cities. Since Yanzhou City was close to the canal, there were several iron mines in Shandong. The imperial court set up several ordnance processing factories there to produce ordinary swords and arrows. In order to facilitate transportation, an armory was also set up in Yanzhou City.

Therefore, this armour is not troublesome.

However, there is no gunpowder among these weapons.

Yu Ren knew that their troops were still too far away from the Scent of Incense Sect. Therefore, this weapon became particularly important. He ordered people to gather all the craftsmen from the fireworks in Yanzhou City to produce as much gunpowder as possible. Then he ordered people to prepare more cotton cloth, wrap the gunpowder into small bags, stuff some gravels inside, and tie them with leads.

This was Yu Ren's new invention. He didn't know whether this thing should be considered an explosive pack or a grenade. He tried to explode a few in an open field in the city, and the effect was pretty good.

Just as Yu Ren and his friends were preparing for the war, the enemy suddenly appeared in Yanzhou City. The guards of the north city reported that they would come to report, and a large number of incense-smelling scholars suddenly appeared in the north of the city.

King Lu was surprised to hear the military newspaper. "So quickly. Didn't they say they still have fifty miles? It's only been less than a day, why did they arrive!"

Yu Ren was still relatively calm. He put down the map in his hand and asked, "How many people do they have?"

"I don't know. If we judge from the torch, it is estimated that there will be no less than 10,000 people."

Yu Ren shook his head.

"It is impossible. If it is a team of ten thousand people, it is impossible for us to escape. I guess they will not exceed two thousand at most.

This must be their vanguard. He wanted to take advantage of our unpreparedness to attack and attempt to capture Yanzhou City in one fell swoop.

You go and tell the soldiers, and tell them not to panic, and we will send another 300 people to help them immediately. This enemy is just a vanguard to test our virtuality and reality, and there will never be many people. If they don’t attack the city, tell your brothers not to waste bows and arrows. If they attack the city, beat me hard."

The missionary officer agreed and went down.

King Lu was still a little worried.

"Are we going to the scene to see it?"

Yu Ren looked at the sky. It was already midnight. "I'll go! The prince doesn't have to worry. Just send someone to notify the guards of the other three cities and ask them to be more careful and prevent the enemy from attacking. I think the enemy's main force has not arrived so quickly. The real battle has not arrived yet. Let me give this kind of small enemy! You should keep your spirits well now.

At present, you are always the hope of the whole city’s military and civilians. You must always maintain a good mental outlook, so that everyone will have confidence when they see the prince.”

After saying that, Yu Ren picked up the longbow and rushed to the north city.

Yu Ren climbed the city tower of the North City and saw that the city was covered with dense torches. A man held the torch and was standing under the city and shouting to the city.

"Listen to the people in the city, put down your weapons quickly and open the city to surrender. We promise not to hurt you. Otherwise, when our army captures the city, no one of you will ever want to live."

Seeing that there was no response in the city, the man said again, "You have also seen it. Our elders personally led a 50,000 army, which has surrounded Yanzhou City. In another day, the 200,000 army of our leader personally led will also arrive. It is impossible for you to defend Yanzhou. It is better to surrender earlier, and perhaps you can leave a way out."

Yu Ren stood on the city tower, staring at the scene coldly, and not speaking.

The man shouted for a while, but when he saw that there was no effect, he had to retreat. At this time, Yu Ren saw that there were two people surrounded by a large group of torches. They were two acquaintances.

These two are Liu Ziming's daughter, and his second disciples Liu Yurong and Cao Wenzhao.

Seeing that Cao Wenzhao was there, Yu Ren couldn't help but put down the bow and arrow in his hand and shouted to him, "Wenzhao, we finally met on the battlefield."

However, I advise you not to be futile. With me guarding here, you will never be able to attack the city. Don’t say that you only have two or three thousand people, even if there are really ten thousand people, I will still let you go back to the wall."

Cao Wenzhao suddenly heard Yu Ren's voice and was shocked. He hurriedly looked up. Under the moonlight, he saw Yu Ren standing on the city tower.

Seeing Yu Ren appearing here and breaking his plan with another word, Cao Wenzhao couldn't help but sigh. This time, it was a strange trick he proposed to Liu Ziming. He planned to suddenly appear under Yanzhou City before the army, and then use night to conceal his true strength to intimidate the Yanzhou garrison to open the city to surrender. Unexpectedly, he met Yu Ren.

Cao Wenzhao had a period of contact with Yu Ren. He knew Yu Ren too well and knew that Yu Ren was a person who would do his best once he decided to do something and would never be scared by any difficulties. With him in Yanzhou, he broke through the city; otherwise, it would be impossible to surrender.

Seeing Yu Ren, Cao Wenzhao knew that the plan had failed. He said to Liu Yurong, "Let's go! With him here to guard it, it is impossible for us to attack and enter the city. Let's wait until the army arrives and make plans!"

Liu Yurong disagreed.

"We finally arrived here in advance, how could we give up the siege just because of such a person? As far as I know, the defenders in Yanzhou City will not exceed 1,000. There are no more than 300 people on the top of the city, and our troops are ten times that of him. He is Yu Ren, can he still have three heads and six arms?" After saying that, Liu Yurong waved her hand behind her.

"Carry the ladder over me and attack the city immediately."

The people behind him agreed and immediately lifted up two ladders. Liu Yurong stood behind them and commanded the siege.

However, before the cloud ladder could lift the moat, the bows and arrows on the city shot like rain. The cloud ladder team immediately fell down. Liu Yurong was so angry that she no longer cared about the image of a lady, she drew out her long sword and shouted behind her, "Kill, kill me to the city."

Yu Ren looked at the woman under the city coldly. He quietly raised his arm and pulled up the strong bow.
Chapter completed!