The Last Three Hundred People Who Abandoned the City

The enemy army arrived in three days, so the county magistrate and the defenders fled, leaving only three hundred old and weak men and a border city whose gates could not be closed. Shen Qiao, a water conservancy technician who came from time-to-time, had already left the city with the refugees, but found that his younger brother was trapped in a hospital in the city. He turned back, took the seal left by the county magistrate, and did three things: demolished the ancestral hall and built the city gate, dredged the old canal to divert water, and opened the wealthy family's granary to release grain according to work. No one believed that the city could be defended, and even the improvised militiamen were hiding their escape shoes. But when the first enemy army fell into the mud outside the city, the three hundred people saw a way to survive for the first time. After guarding for a night, they had to survive the winter, exchange for iron tools, and get the surrounding villages that had also been abandoned to be willing to guard together next time.