Rise From the Humble

"What happened?" Magistrate Shang's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly ran forward to take a look.

Don't make any more trouble! Magistrate Shang trotted while praying anxiously in his heart.

"Lord Fu Zun, look, there is a troop of troops marching towards my east gate in the distance." The deputy general pointed to the distance and reported to Magistrate Shang.

Shang Zhifu squinted his eyes and looked in the direction of the deputy general's finger. Sure enough, he saw a troop of soldiers and horses winding towards the east gate in the distance. The distance was estimated to be seven or eight miles away. The soldiers and horses looked like a group of small black dots. Same, go straight to the east gate.

Seeing the soldiers and horses rushing towards the east gate, Shang Zhifu suddenly became nervous.

Who are these troops? !

Is General Wang returning to the city? !

Or did General Wang fall into the Japanese pirates' trick to lure the enemy, and the entire army was wiped out, and the Japanese pirates came to attack the city with victory? !

Magistrate Shang was very nervous. He looked at the deputy general and asked repeatedly, "Is the city gate closed? Is the roof beam up? Put twenty carts of stones. If necessary, fill the gate passage with stones. Never let a Japanese pirate enter the city. !”

"Reporting to the Lord, the city gate has been closed and the roof beams have been supported. Eight roof beams have been supported. I will send people to pull the stones. Once the city gate is in danger of being lost, the city will be filled with stones. door passage.”

The deputy general reported back, and then ordered his men to go to the city to collect carriages to pull the stones and put them outside the city gate passage for later use.

The distance of seven or eight miles is not too far. The soldiers and horses in the distance are getting bigger and bigger in the sight of Shang Zhifu and others, from the size of ants at the beginning to the size of peanuts, and then to the size of fists.

Getting closer.

The hearts of the magistrate Shang and others on the city wall were in their throats.

As the soldiers and horses became fist-sized in their field of vision, Shang Zhifu and others found that there seemed to be too many soldiers and horses.

Yes, a rough estimate showed that there were nearly 2,000 people, or at least 1,600 or 700 people.

General Wang only brought a thousand troops out of the city. It was obvious that these 1,600 or 700 troops did not look like General Wang.

"Fu, Mr. Fu, there seem to be a lot of troops here," the deputy general said tremblingly.

"How much do you estimate?" Zhifu Shang asked after swallowing his saliva. At this moment, he hoped extremely that he had made a wrong estimate.

"About 1,600 or 700 people." The deputy general made another estimate and reported to Magistrate Shang.

I was not wrong in my estimation. Magistrate Shang was very disappointed. The next second he thought of an impossible possibility.

"How many people did General Wang bring out of the city to pursue the Japanese pirates?" Magistrate Shang asked knowingly, but still had a little illusion, hoping that he remembered wrongly.

"One thousand troops and horses," the deputy general replied.

"Then these 1,600 to 700 soldiers and horses, doesn't it mean that they are not General Wang and the others?" Magistrate Shang's voice was a little waggish.

"The master of the palace is wise, and the general also thinks that this army does not look like General Wang and his companions. The number of soldiers does not match the number, and they may be Japanese pirates."

The lieutenant swallowed.

"Hey, why didn't General Wang listen to my warning? This officer came to warn me again and again and clearly asked not to go out of the city to pursue the Japanese pirates. However, he refused to listen to my words and insisted on going out of the city to pursue the Japanese pirates. Look, this Didn't something happen?" Magistrate Shang couldn't help but let out a long sigh and complained angrily.

The lieutenant didn't know how to answer.

"The Japanese pirates are attacking again, what can be done?" After complaining for a while, Zhifu Shang asked the deputy general for advice.

"Master Fu, General Wang and his party may be in danger, but there is no need to worry about Suzhou City. Suzhou City is tall and solid, and there are a thousand reinforcements and 500 young men dispatched by Fu Zun. This wave of Japanese pirates is only 1,670 Hundreds of people, if we want to capture Suzhou City, this number of troops and horses is not enough. We must have at least five times our troops and horses. The Japanese pirates' previous attacks on the city have all ended in failure, and this time is expected to be no exception."

The lieutenant thought for a moment and replied.

"The previous attacks on the city were all civilians captured by the Japanese pirates. They deliberately sacrificed their lives to paralyze us and lure us out of the city to pursue them. The Japanese pirates' goal has been achieved. The people killed this time are pure Japanese pirates. Their fighting strength is natural. It’s not the same thing.”

After hearing the deputy general's words, Magistrate Shang was not relieved. He shook his head slightly and said with a worried look on his face.

When the deputy general heard this, his face became a little more worried. Of course, he was still confident in defending the city, but as Magistrate Shang said, in the first few waves of siege, the Japanese pirates used ordinary people to attack the city and lure the enemy. This is why I feel that the Japanese pirates are not good at fighting, but the Japanese pirates killed in this wave are probably pure Japanese pirates.

Japanese pirates are famous for being fierce and good at fighting. Although the Japanese pirates with 1,600 to 1,600 people cannot attack the city, they will definitely cause serious casualties to the defenders.

The sword has no eyes on the battlefield, and there is a prefect Shang who is here to supervise the battle, so the lieutenant general cannot stay behind.

It's dangerous.

Just when Magistrate Shang and the deputy general were worried, they heard another noise coming from around them, and an unexpected and exciting voice sounded.

"What happened again?" Magistrate Shang, the deputy general and others looked outside hurriedly, fearing that there would be another bad news.

"Look, the person coming here is wearing our armor, not the armor of the Japanese pirates. The leader is still more than a hundred cavalry. General Wang's bodyguards are just over a hundred cavalry. It seems that the person coming is our people, not the Japanese pirates. .”

"Huh?! It's true, even though it's a little far away, you can still distinguish the styles of the armor. The Japanese pirates wear very different clothes from us. The person who came here is indeed one of ours."

"The people coming are ours, not Japanese pirates."

The officers and soldiers on the city wall couldn't help but cheer. How could they not cheer when the unexpected joy fell from the sky.

"Our people?!"

Amidst the cheers of all the officers and soldiers, Magistrate Shang and the deputy general looked at the soldiers and horses coming from a distance in disbelief. If they looked carefully, they could indeed see that the armor on the soldiers and horses in the distance was really the armor of the Ming army.

Not a Japanese pirate, but General Wang? !

Magistrate Shang and the deputy general looked at each other with disbelief and suspicion on their faces, feeling that the matter was too suspicious.

The first and most important thing is that the number of people does not match up.

When General Wang went out to pursue the Japanese pirates, he only brought a thousand soldiers and horses, but when he came back he brought 1,600 to 1,600 to 7,000 soldiers and horses? !

How is this possible? It’s not like I went out of town to have a baby!

If they were Japanese pirates, they came to the east gate wearing the armor of the Ming army. Their purpose is self-evident, they must be trying to pretend to be the Ming army and trick them into opening the city gate.

The Japanese pirates were able to change into the clothes of the Ming army, and the fate of General Wang and the others was obvious. General Wang and the others must have suffered something unexpected.

"Alas." Magistrate Shang couldn't help but sigh again, mourning General Wang and his entourage who left the city without permission.

Although General Wang went out of the city without authorization to pursue the Japanese pirates, which made Zhifu Shang angry, but now that the people are gone, the dead are the most important, so let him let the past happen. Even at this moment, Magistrate Shang had already conceived General Wang's elegiac couplet.