Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 207 Arming
Salt is a huge profiteering industry, so although Haizhou is not big, it is quite rich. Not to mention the solid city walls, even the warehouses on the pier are very durable. Not to mention the high surroundings, it is said that there is a thick layer of lime under the ground, and there are dry planks on top of the lime, and green bricks are laid on the top, so the inside is quite dry.

Of course, Yang Chao would not be polite with such a nice house, so he immediately asked the soldiers to clean up some of them and use them as barracks.

As for the people in the surrounding area, Yang Chao also had a headache for a while. The best way is to let them enter the city, but the Haizhou government does not agree, and even these people are not willing to let them in. In the end, Yang Chao can only let these people go. Organize them, house them under the leadership of some soldiers, and give them food.

Of course they wouldn't let them eat for free, these people also had to help Yang Chao with work, the men organized to move the military rations and other supplies on the dock into the warehouse, and the women helped with cooking and cleaning.

For Yang Chao, these are trivial matters, and he taught Huang Fengfu to do them all.

Huang Fengfu is a scholar. He is more suitable for common people than soldiers like Yang Chao.

And Yang Chao had the most important thing to do, he had to complete the defensive arrangement as soon as possible, otherwise, if the captive soldiers came to kill them, they would have to be slaughtered by the cavalry in the wilderness.

"There is no gap in this street. If the two ends are blocked, the captive soldiers will not be able to deploy their forces!"

There are two rows of houses side by side on the pier, and one block at each end is a fortress, Yang Chao said to his subordinates.

But Yang Chao still felt something was wrong.

Immediately said: "Wang Pu led people to build a wall formation at the entrance of the street! Li Wuliu took a few archers to try it over there!"

His subordinates immediately understood that Yang Chao wanted to practice.

It really wasn't right after a try.

Wang Pu's men lined up in a row at the street entrance, just like building a wall, but Li Wuliu's archers could open up a wide front outside, which means that there is only one wall at the street entrance on his side. Wide firepower, but the opposite side can attack with a wider firepower surface.

"It seems that there is no advantage in building a wall at the street!"

Yang Chao sighed.

"Withdraw three feet inward!"

After making Wang Pu retreat three zhang inside, Li Wuliu's archers couldn't deploy, so Yang Chao nodded.

"Throughout the walls at both ends! If the captive soldiers want to attack us, they can only go deep into the streets and attack us, and no one will take advantage of it!"

Yang Chao said.

After thinking about it, let Zhao Kang lead someone to build a wall.

"My lord, what are you doing?"

Zhao Kang asked.

Yang Chao smiled: "Isn't there so much salt in the warehouse? I think it's all packed in sacks, so it just piles up!"

Zhao Kang opened his mouth wide: "Ah!"

Build a wall with salt!Everyone else felt incredible too.

Salt is a necessity, but due to salt control, the price of table salt is high. A family's expenditure on salt is often the same as food, and the amount of salt used is obviously much less than that of food, so salt is too expensive.

Now that Yang Chao asked them to use salt to build the walls, it was hard for these poor officers to imagine for a while.

"Go!"

Yang Chao said coldly.

Zhao Kang nodded blankly, turned around and went to Huangfeng Mansion to ask for migrant workers.

"Talk about it, is there anything else you want to add?"

Yang Chao then asked the other officers. Although there was a block at both ends and brick buildings on both sides, it seemed that there were no dead ends, but one person's consideration was not comprehensive enough, and Yang Chao wanted to hear other people's opinions.

Soon thereafter, various opinions were expressed.

Wang Pu said that the Lei Wall affected his attack, hoping to leave a gap.

His subordinates are all infantry. If the enemy flees, he will be trapped inside, and he has no chance to pursue him.

Yang Chao considered that the captive soldiers were all cavalry, and they would not be able to catch up even if they fled, so he rejected this proposal.

Li Wuliu didn't care, he was leading archers and spearmen, and he had the advantage of shooting against the captive soldiers through the wall, as if he was on a boat, so he didn't have any objections.

Many men asked suspiciously, what if the captive soldiers broke through the wall?
There are brick houses on both sides. If the captive soldiers break through the wall and enter, will they kill everyone by surprise?

Zheng Yongwang said that it is enough to block all the doors.

Sun Changfu said that soldiers were placed in every room, and the alarm was raised when they heard the sound of chiseling the wall.

"This question is very good. Send a group of spearmen to the house and block the captive soldiers on the roofs on both sides!"

Li Wuliu fully supported this idea. Anyway, the spearman was also his subordinate, so he would have credit for it again.

"There is no need to block the door. These walls are thick enough and cannot be broken down casually. A few people are placed in each room, and ours do not need to be released. The people are scattered and told them that if the captive soldiers break the wall, everyone will be killed." Everyone must die. Let them hear the sound and call the police!"

The idea has been made, but going to the room is a problem.

Yang Chao immediately called for Jiang Yang and asked him to go to Haizhou Mansion for a ladder.

After Jiang Yang returned, he reported that the Haizhou Zhizhou still refused the request. The Zhizhou thought that if the captive soldiers came and Yang Chao's army ran away, then all the ladders would be left to the captive soldiers. The captive soldiers just used the ladders to attack Haizhou City.

This Zhizhou has far-reaching considerations.

However, Jiang Yang still used his connections to find more than 30 ladders in the city, and then sent them down from the city wall.

The city walls are full of soldiers from Haizhou Guard, which is convenient for Jiang Yang, a hundred households.

This Zhizhou of Haizhou has already left Yang Chao speechless. This Zhizhou was also a scholar of the imperial court, but everything he did seemed to be against Yang Chao. He always used the worst thoughts to think about Ming's soldiers, and he didn't want to do anything good at all. of.

"It seems that our Master Zhizhou is very pessimistic!"

Yang Chao mocked Jiang Yang.

"Master Gao is a literati, he really doesn't understand battle formation!"

Jiang Yang defended Haizhou Zhizhou.

This Zhizhou's surname is Gao, and Yang Chao is too lazy to say his name.

"Okay! Let's not mention the scholar. How does Master Jiang think of our army's deployment?"

Yang Chao introduced his arrangement to Jiang Yang and asked.

Jiang Yang said: "The iron wall is indestructible!"

This guy is completely sycophant, he has no opinion at all, in fact, he has never been in battle, except for courage and loyalty, he is not much better than Nazhizhou.

It was quickly set up.

On both sides of the excuse, close three feet inward, and build two four-foot-high low walls on each side. The spearmen can raise their guns and shoot behind them, not to mention the archers, who can throw bows and arrows.

Two teams of spearmen and archers were arranged behind the wall, shooting guns at a distance and shooting arrows at a distance.

My side is protected by a wall built of salt bags. If the captive soldiers want to shoot at each other, they will definitely not take advantage.

Thirty ladders were also set up on the eaves of the street, and ten gunners were dispatched on each side. They could shoot while lying on the roof, and the sloping tile roof just provided them with protection.

The ladder was not removed, so that the soldiers on the ground could go up to provide support at any time.

All the supplies on the pier were also moved into the warehouse, including gunpowder, lead bullets, arrows, and thousands of additional spears, leather armor, cotton armor, etc.

In addition, tens of thousands of taels of cash were also put in.

Yang Chao also specially sent ten soldiers to guard these materials. He was not worried about his soldiers stealing them, but he had to be careful whether these poor people would be motivated by money. If they really stole money, it would be very difficult to deal with, because I can't manage private households with a thousand.

If they are not punished, it will encourage their courage and even affect the soldiers under their own hands, which will be even more chaotic.

Except for the material warehouse, people were arranged to live in each house, and they were told to hide in the room if the captive soldiers attacked. Someone will come to support.

With everything properly arranged, it was time for the captive soldiers to attack. Yang Chao even vaguely expected that the other party would attack.

Yang Chao thinks that with his arrangement, there are hundreds of veterans who have experienced a battle, plus enough houses, even if two thousand captive soldiers come, he can defend himself, and the periphery of Haizhou is full of small groups of looters. It should be impossible to have 2000 captive soldiers.

Until evening, a bird musketeer who had been placed suddenly shouted.

"Someone!"

Yang Chao heard the shout and immediately climbed up the ladder.

From the corner of the city wall, two shambling figures staggered towards this side.

Soon behind the two figures, a few cavalrymen appeared, screaming, not shooting at the two in front with their bows and arrows.

Yang Chao couldn't help being taken aback.

He recognized the two people in front of him, they were the old man of the Bian family who left the city of Haizhou today, but he took several strong servants with him when he left, but now he came back with only one follower, and the servant still had a stick two arrows.

The old man was not injured, but he was obviously very tired, his feet were staggering, and he was still holding a big cloth bag when he was pregnant.

A few captive soldiers were obviously playing tricks on the old man, pressing their horses to drive away and frighten them.

Yang Chao asked a few blunderbussmen nearby to take aim, and at the same time he took a loaded blunderbuss, stood on the eaves, and coldly aimed at the most arrogant soldier.

Yang Chao has also practiced the bird gun. It can be said that he has practiced everything, assassination, archery, and knives and shields for a few days. Of course, the bird gun that made his heart flutter is certainly not to be missed.

The old man was very smart, he didn't run to the city gate, but ran directly to the warehouse.

Watching the old man run towards the street step by step, the captive soldiers obviously became serious and began to shoot arrows seriously.

But at this time, the servant held a knife in his hand, swung the knife sideways and retreated, blocking most of the bows and arrows.

This is a servant who knows kung fu, and it may be because of this skill that he can survive.

It is also because of the protection of the servants that the old man has been able to not get hurt.

Seeing that the old man had already run into the warehouse within a hundred steps.

A captive soldier immediately drove his horse to speed up, at the same time put away his bow and arrow, and swung his saber to kill him.

Yang Chao kept aiming, and when the captive soldier entered the old man about ten steps away, and the servant had already stood still, and was about to fight one-on-one with the captive soldier, Yang Chao suddenly pulled the trigger.

The burning head of the match was pressed into the medicine pool of the bird gun, a puff of white smoke came out, and then there was a crisp sound, the butt of the gun hit Yang Chao's shoulder fiercely, the muzzle sprayed out the usual hot line of fire, and a lead shot flew quickly. Shoot out.

The captive soldier almost fell down in response, and threw the scimitar up into the sky.

(End of this chapter)