Prefect Shang readily accepted Zhu Ping'an's suggestion and immediately sent people to post notices in the city to recruit carriages, horses and young and strong people.
When the people in the city heard that they would help the Zhejiang Army clean up the battlefield, they were immediately excited and signed up enthusiastically.
In a short time, tens of thousands of people signed up, and there was even an old woman who led her son by his ear and took him to the notice board to sign up.
"Mom, be gentle, be gentle, I didn't say I didn't want to sign up, why did you force me to sign up? Let the neighbors see and laugh at me."
The burly son took a deep breath and begged his mother to be gentler.
"Our entire city is able to survive because of Lord Zhu and his men. Lord Zhu and his men have won a victory outside and need help cleaning up the battlefield. You, a heartless bastard, turned around and ran home upon hearing the notice. It's really a misfortune for our family. How could I give birth to a heartless bastard like you! If you weren't the only child in the family, I would have cleaned up the mess no matter what."
The old woman was both angry and annoyed. She couldn't help but twist her son's ears again while cursing through her teeth.
"Oh my god, what a misunderstanding, what a misunderstanding. I ran home to ask Old Wang to borrow his car. Old Wang is a widower and a bachelor. He has a big car at home. He has a disability and certainly cannot go to help the Zhejiang Army clean up the battlefield. His car is just sitting there anyway. I went to borrow his car to help our benefactor, Lord Zhu, clean up the battlefield."
When the burly man heard this, he immediately shouted that it was a misunderstanding and hurriedly explained the reason why he turned back home.
"Why didn't you explain it earlier? Also, don't say that about your uncle Wang, you old bachelor. It's so unpleasant."
After hearing this, the old woman twisted her son's ear hard again, and then let go as her son cried out in pain.
"I'm telling the truth. He's an old bachelor." The burly man said, shrinking his neck.
"You are not allowed to tell the truth. You have to call him Uncle Wang. Okay, go find your Uncle Wang and borrow a cart! I will cook a dish for your Uncle Wang later and thank him for you." The old woman glared at her son and urged him.
"Okay, okay, then I won't tell you." The burly man agreed reluctantly under pressure from the old woman.
"Hurry up, there are so many people signing up. If you can't get a spot, I'll show you how I'll deal with you when you get back!" the old woman urged.
The burly man immediately broke into a running position.
There were countless people in the city who responded so enthusiastically to the recruitment, and they were vying for one spot.
While the people in the city were actively responding to the recruitment, the prefect Shang in the city was still verifying the relevant information with Zhu Ping'an.
Prefect Shang asked very carefully, and Zhu Ping'an answered very carefully, truthfully and fluently.
After a round of questions and answers, Magistrate Shang's trust in Zhu Ping'an increased sharply.
Of course, after experiencing the incident of Wang Jian leading the Japanese into the city, Prefect Shang learned a lesson. In order to verify the authenticity of the Japanese captives, Prefect Shang ordered ten trusted men to be lowered down in baskets and actually walked into the group of captives to check and identify them.
After the ten trusted men went down, they carefully checked and identified the prisoners.
In fact, you can tell at a glance that these Japanese pirates are all real, barefoot, bald, and their hair is not freshly shaved, without new stubble. If you look closely, you can distinguish the real Japanese from the fake ones. The real Japanese have a more natural bald topknot hairstyle, while the fake Japanese have their hair cut on the top of their heads and tied back in a bun. Their topknot is different from the real Japanese, a little abrupt and not natural enough. In addition, the real Japanese are generally shorter, half a head or even a head shorter than the fake Japanese. Also, because the real Japanese speak bird language, their mouth muscle contours are obviously different from those of the Ming people.
Whether they were real Japanese or fake Japanese, their Japanese clothes were tattered, and their hair, faces, and bodies had many marks of burns from the fire.
All these are consistent with the Zhejiang Army's victory report. The Zhejiang Army was able to achieve this great victory by relying on fire attack.
All the Japanese pirates were tied up very tightly, like hairy crabs, so tightly that it couldn't be any tighter. Many of the pirates' hands and feet were injured because they were tied too tightly.
Ten trusted men all tried to pull it hard, and it was indeed very tight. They tried their best but still couldn't break it. The Japanese captives gasped in pain. It was definitely not the kind of captive that could be easily pulled away like the Japanese captives tied up by Wang Jian.
They also checked the weapons seized by the Zhejiang Army from the Japanese pirates and carefully confirmed that these seized weapons were genuine weapons commonly used by the Japanese pirates, mostly Japanese swords, mixed with some katana, Kusanagi swords, longbows, muskets, etc.
Ten of Shang Zhifu's confidants checked again and again, and even isolated the Zhejiang Army and interrogated several Japanese pirate prisoners. They interrogated the situation of today's battle and finally came to the conclusion that these Japanese pirate prisoners were all real Japanese pirate prisoners and there was no fake one. Lord Zhu really commanded the Zhejiang Army to achieve a great victory.
After the ten trusted men confirmed that the Japanese pirates were captured, they were hoisted back to the city wall in baskets and reported to Prefect Shang.
The reason why they returned to the city wall to report was to avoid being under the control of the Zhejiang Army and speaking insincerely.
After receiving the report from his confidant confirming that it was correct, Prefect Shang was immediately relieved. He was overwhelmed with joy and excitement at the confirmation of the great victory, and hurriedly gave the order:
"Quick, quick, quick, quickly open the gate, open it wide, and welcome Lord Zhu and the Zhejiang Army soldiers into the city."
"Is the celebration banquet ready, Chief Zhang? Go and prepare it quickly. Once Zihou and the Zhejiang Army soldiers enter the city, we will take them to the celebration banquet. Prepare plenty of good meat, wine, and dishes for the banquet, as well as various snacks and fruits. It is better to not be able to finish the food than not have enough to eat."
“Also, the Zhejiang Army soldiers who came to report the victory earlier, quickly invite them out and reunite with the Zhejiang Army in the city.”
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After Prefect Shang gave the order, the gate of Suzhou City soon creaked open to its maximum.
"Zihou, please come in." Prefect Shang led Lieutenant General Zhang and a group of officials from Suzhou City out of the city to welcome Zhu Ping'an and his party in.
Zhu Ping'an shook his head and did not go in immediately.
Prefect Shang couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, thinking that Zhu Ping'an was a little angry that they didn't open the city gate to welcome him immediately.
However, the next second, Zhu Ping'an's words made him feel ashamed of his thoughts.
"Governor Shang, for safety reasons, it would be best to take the captives into the city and lock them up in a prison."
Zhu Ping'an bowed to Prefect Shang and pointed to the strings of Japanese pirate captives behind him and said so.
"That makes sense, that makes sense. Zihou is absolutely right. Where is the head of the prison? Quickly, clean up the prison and cooperate with the Zhejiang Army to detain the Japanese pirates in the prison. Send more people and keep a close watch on them. There must not be any mistakes!"
Prefect Shang nodded repeatedly and quickly arranged for the person in charge of the criminal department to cooperate with the Zhejiang army to put the Japanese pirates into jail.