Cuiyan, who was exhausted, came to Jizhou with her old father who had just been rectified. Zhao Xing had already taken his army out of the city gate hurriedly.

Just outside the city gate, the couple met. Zhao Xing took Xiufen's hand and comforted apologetically: "I have agreed with Master Sun that you will return to the capital and return to our home under his protection."

A gentle and weak Xiufen smiled indifferently: "I won't go anywhere. My sister Cuiyan and I are in Jizhou, so I will protect your back."

Zhao Xing frowned and looked at Cui Yan. Cui Yan, who was wearing military uniform, nodded firmly: "When Sister Xiufen and I talked about this, she firmly disagreed. Of course, I also think that the three of us are united and we must be together, and we must die together, so as to avoid being lonely before and after life."

What else was saying? Zhao Xing slowly stretched out his arms, slowly hugged the two wives, and murmured with tears in his eyes: "Home and wife are one, we must live together and die together."

The soldiers who were rolling by heard and saw it. They did not speak, but their firm and sonorous steps were already full of morale.

Zhao Xing left, and even the 2,500 soldiers who promised to leave Zhao He were returned to Zhao Xing by Zhang Cuiyan, and they left with high morale. The people didn't know where they were, and Master Sun also left and took his three thousand soldiers to guard and close the door. Countless people in Jizhou cried and said, "The Ming Dynasty abandoned us, Master Sun abandoned us, and we are finished in Jizhou."

And at this moment, a man suddenly shouted, "Don't cry for now, look, there is a large army coming in the city gate, look."

All the desperate people put away their sadness and despair and looked at the city gate. Two red and white war horses rushed into the city gate with a huge army. On the red horse, one was a female general wearing a golden helmet and a heroic figure with a cherry gun in hand, and the other was a weak and beautiful woman like an angel, with a firm face and riding in.

They two big flags behind them, and one of them wrote: "The daughter of the British Duke of the Ming Dynasty is the county lord."

A large flag wrote: "The wife of Zhao Xing, the commander of the Ming Dynasty's Jinyiwei, Gao."

Facing these two strange banners, all the people were shocked, and they didn't know what this meant.

Cui Yan stopped at the horse, facing the growing number of people, and announced loudly: "Famous people, don't cry in despair. The court did not abandon you, and Zhao Xing did not abandon you. Zhao Xing led his team to attack and restore Zunhua; I, his wife Zhang Cuiyan and Gao Xiufen, came and took over Jizhou. I will work with you to protect Jizhou and keep the way for our husbands."

Xiufen directly ordered: "Chief the four gates of Jizhou, only our husbands can open them and we can go out."

The sound of silence turned and liked to shout wildly. "Hua Mulan, Mu Guiying, Hua Mulan, Mu Guiying." As the cheers over and over again, groups of men came to Zhang Cuiyan: "Mr. City Guardian, we ask for the order to rush the city and guard Jizhou with the soldiers."

A group of healthy women came to Xiufen: "Please lead us to transport supplies to the soldiers and prepare food and wrap them up."

An old man stepped forward: "I can't kill the enemy, but I can use a bald pen to remember the righteousness of the soldiers."

But in a blink of an eye, the city was full of bravery, and the horse road was bustling with people transporting materials to the soldiers to protect the city.

Sitting on the chair of Sun Chengzong, together with Xiufen, he looked through the material account book left by Master Sun.

Master Sun led his troops away, but he would have the conscience to keep everything that could be left behind.

Qianhu Zhou Xueli reported: "Miss, in the end, in addition to our three thousand brothers, there are five thousand original brave men, we have five thousand brave men to join us. A total of 13,000 soldiers guarding the city were 10,000, and the civilians were infinity."

Zhou Xueli was an old man from the old country, so he still called Zhang Cuiyan a retainer.

Zhang Cuiyan decisively ordered: "Your troops leave one thousand reserve teams to rescue emergency teams at any time, and then two thousand brothers, each leading five brave men, to defend four cities."

"yes."

"Tell my brothers, this time we are fighting to the death. We are injured and killed in battle. My Duke's Mansion and my husband are responsible for the funeral after death. But what I want to see is that in every group, the first one to die in battle is our brother."

Zhou Xueli replied: "Yes." Then he added: "If all the righteous and brave men died in battle, and my subordinates are alive, please ask the eldest lady to be a good teacher."

Zhang Cuiyan nodded without hesitation: "I will never show mercy."

Faced with such military orders, the officers and soldiers were all silent. However, the leaders of the righteous and bravery were all very willing to fight. People were not worried about the few, but they were resentful of unfairness. Since the official army fought to the death, how could the righteous and bravery retreat?

After arranging the soldiers, Zhang Cuiyan turned to the magistrate sitting aside and said, "I ask my uncle to arrange for the yamen runners to take to the streets. Anyone who causes trouble, spreads rumors, takes the opportunity to steal and loot, and hoard the goods, will be arrested and will be on the ground formation."

The magistrate Wu Keyong stood up respectfully in the face of this heroine: "I will make arrangements now." Then he took a group of officials to patrol directly on the streets.

He said to Xiufen: "Sister, have you counted the city guarding equipment?"

Xiufen raised her head and said, "Master Sun gave all the turbulent bombs to our husband, but the gunpowder, lead, and arrows are still enough."

The old gentry Zheng Wusheng stood up and asked: "The sharp weapon to defend the city is tincture oil. How can it be missing? Please give me a command. I will go to the neighbors around and mobilize everyone to offer cooking oil from door to door."

Cuiyan stood up and bowed: "I'll send a document now. Thank you for your hard work."

Zheng Wusheng smiled slightly: "The country was destroyed and the family was destroyed. Everyone understands this. I am busy with my country and the family, so why should I work hard?" Then he took Cui Yan's official document and left hurriedly.

"Sister, how much food is there?"

This made Xiufen embarrassed: "According to statistics, it can support the needs of January at most."

At this time, the president of the Chamber of Commerce stood up and said, "On behalf of the Jizhou Chamber of Commerce, I donated 5,000 stones of grain."

General Feng Tong, the general leader of the volunteers, said: "I call on the civilians to go home for dinner, or reduce the food in half."

Cui Yan bowed to the two of them with gratitude: "This makes me feel wronged by all the elders."

Then directly arrange: "The existing food and food resources will be entrusted to you for management, remember not to waste it." The president of the Chamber of Commerce was trusted so much and said with gale at that time: "If you see a grain of rice on the ground, you should pay for it with your head."

It turns out that he was born in a general and had a family background. Cui Yan's orderly arrangement in the lobby impressed everyone at that time, and everyone was no longer a tragic death to defend Jizhou, but had absolute confidence.

On the wall of the east gate of Jizhou City, Cui Yan and Xiufen stood side by side. Looking at Zunhua City hidden among the mountains, no one said anything, but both of them knew each other’s thoughts.

Finally, Cui Yan shook the red cloak: "Sister, it's useless to see. We should not let our husband worry about what we are here. I'll go patrol the city defense now."

Xiufen nodded: "Sister, go, I'll go to the Jianfu camp to boost morale."
Chapter completed!