Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 203 Under the city of Haizhou
The excitement didn't last long. After seeing Haizhou City, he soon saw the people under the city.

At this time, a lot of people gathered at the gate of the city, and they didn't know who they were, so Yang Chao cautiously asked all the soldiers to put on their armor immediately.

At this time, continue along the canal to the north. Because this section of the Salt River is in the west of Haizhou City, it is also called the West Salt River. There are people everywhere.

Getting closer and closer to the pier, everyone finally saw clearly that the person on the pier was not Donglu.

Yang Chao felt relieved, why Donglu wasn't here.

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly heard the sound of horseshoes and the neighing of war horses from far to near. From the northwest corner of Haizhou City, a group of cavalry suddenly appeared.

And there was a group of people running in front of the cavalry.

Eastern prisoner.

Eastern captives are expelling civilians.

Donglu is expelling civilians to Haizhou City.

"Destroy the people and attack the city!"

Yang Chao immediately thought of these words.

No wonder there are so many people on the pier, Donglu came here, but why don't these people run away.

Yang Chao's eyes searched carefully, and at the same time he ordered the boat to stop. Sure enough, a dozen or so Eastern cavalry hidden in the warehouse suddenly came out from behind the building, and when they were about fifty steps away from the fleet, they began to shoot arrows.

Suddenly there was a scream.

With the power of war horses, the cavalry and shooting of captive soldiers are still very powerful.

Yang Chao also had a clear look at the appearance of the captive soldiers at this time. They did not wear helmets or armor, but sheepskin clothes. They looked like herdsmen. These were obviously not elite soldiers from the East, but rangers. Among the Eight Banners, it should belong to Wu Jia Yu Ding.

One of them left a deep impression on Yang Chao. Although the face of the foreign race was very different from that of the Han people, with a fast forehead, broad nose and flat nose, he could still tell that it was a child.

But the boy was very active, and he rushed first, throwing his bow and arrows, trying to shoot his own men.

Yang Chao had already crouched behind the side of the boat. At this moment, the boat stopped in the middle of the river, only ten steps away from the pier on the river bank, and it was almost handover with the captive soldiers.

Fortunately, it was the river soldiers on board, otherwise they were suddenly attacked by the other side, under the charge of the cavalry, Yang Chao and these inexperienced soldiers would have to be slaughtered in vain.

Hiding on the boat at this time is equivalent to having an extra low city to protect yourself.

Yang Chao calmed down quickly, and organized his own soldiers to fight back.

At the same time, let the messenger send an order: "Each ship fights on its own!"

The messenger was trained by Lao Jin, and currently he can only fly the flag, so it can be used during the day, but not at night.

Now this kind of messenger has only trained less than ten people. If Yang Chao spreads out, there will be one for each flag, at least one for each of these warships.

The messenger waved a yellow flag in his hand to convey Yang Chao's order to other troops.

Yang Chao concentrated on commanding the battle.

"Use bird guns, remember to hit them together, are you all loaded?"

The hundred musketeers also separated, ten in each boat.

The ten musketeers on Yang Chao's boat loaded slowly, the fast ones had already been loaded, while the slow ones were still poking through the rods.

At this moment, Yang Chao heard a gunshot. He looked up and saw that it was from a certain warship behind him. He couldn't tell which ship it was, but the gunshot obviously disrupted Yang Chao's plan.

He couldn't help but looked up at the captive soldiers, and found that the captive soldiers were heading towards the ship that had just shot, obviously intending to shoot the first bird and kill those who dared to resist first.

And this exposes their profile, which is an opportunity.

Yang Chao shouted: "After loading, immediately fire a volley and aim at the horse!"

There is an ancient poem that shoots people first, shoots horses, and captures thieves first, and captures the king first.

Marshal Qi also said, "Shoot people first and shoot horses, and horse servants and thieves will defeat themselves." The reason why Marshal Qi said this is because he thought that when soldiers were fighting with Mongolian cavalry, they were a little reluctant to kill horses. A few 20 taels, the capture of a horse is a huge amount of property, so the soldiers were quite reluctant.

As a result, many Mongolian knights escaped and even caused the soldiers themselves to be killed.

Qi Jiguang said, "In the past, it was only because of loving other horses and wanting to get them alive, so it was difficult to win. You see, the thief's horse's head is three feet high, and the person's horse's head is five feet high. My infantry rushed on the horse's head, and there are still horses and horses. The front feet are separated, the thief's knife is three feet away, how can it reach me, I just unite the army to form a wall, and move forward densely, with my long knife and stick, chop the horse's head and leg, the horse is injured and falls, At this time, the thief was thrown down, and before he could turn around, he hit him on the head with a big stick, and there was no one left undead. If you kill the thief, you will be rewarded with 50 taels of silver for each head. The armor and staff are not cheap, so why bother? What's more, a thief has several horses. If I want to kill him, the horse on which the thief is riding will be defeated. In the future, if the horse is not yours, if you don't cut off the thief's horse before the battle, you and the person who took the thief's horse will be beheaded. .Thousands, it is the same crime to let the general below you. Cutting and wounding the horses, after the battle, it is like cooking in front of the camp to replace the meal. Surviving good horses, all with the charge, with ten horses as the rate, only draw one horse and take the horse. , and the rest are scattered."

Yang Chao was actually very envious of those horses, they were all high-quality war horses outside the customs, and he couldn't even buy them himself. Now these Donglu boys in front of him are riding one each.

But after learning from Marshal Qi's experience, he also felt that the target of the war horse was bigger, and it was easier to hit the horse.

Any war, no matter how expensive, can be profitable as long as it can be won, because victory is actually the lowest cost.

With Yang Chao's order, five of the ten spearmen stood up and took aim immediately. Now the captive soldiers were not facing them, and they had no sense of urgency, so they could aim calmly. It still made the musketeer feel like his heart was stagnant, and his chest was extremely stuffy. Before he got an order, one of them fired, and then the others fired.

Yang Chao yelled: "Liu Yong, you played and released it without order, and you will be demerited once!"

After the instinctive anger was over, Yang Chao had time to look at the results. He only saw a group of about ten captive soldiers on flying horses had arrived in front of a ship, but one captive soldier was left behind, and his horse was circling. Finally fell to the ground.

The captive soldier was not injured, and quickly jumped off his horse, but immediately pulled out his knife and yelled loudly, looking at this ship for a while and yelling at that ship for a while, as if he wanted to know who killed him horse.

Yang Chao saw that this kid was exactly the active kid just now.

"Continue to load!"

Yang Chao shouted loudly.

The blunderbuss continued to load.

At this time, the cavalry at the northwest corner of the city wall finally drove a group of people over.

They had already arrived at the west gate of Haizhou, but they didn't intend to stop at all, and even drove the people towards Yang Chao's fleet.

(End of this chapter)