Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 229
In the city of Haizhou.

Jiang Yang, a hundred households of the Thousand Households Office in the East China Sea, begged to see the adult Zhizhou last night, and gave Zhizhou a large gift out of his own pocket, and explained to Zhizhou that the conflict between Yang Chao and Zhizhou's servant was all because of the servant's reckless language, which annoyed him. Caused by Yang Chao.

The governor of Haizhou reluctantly accepted this explanation and agreed to provide some supplies to the outside of the city, but he made it clear that according to the old rules, Yang Chao had to pay a sum of money. In the past, it had to be multiplied five times.

Jiang Yang didn't tell Yang Chao the news, and he didn't pay the money as requested by Haizhou Zhizhou, because he knew that Yang Chao was not short of food, and Yang Chao only wanted some vegetables, so Jiang Yang simply bought them in the city with his own money. A large batch of vegetables.

One thing the governor of Haizhou did not lie, the price of goods in the city is indeed soaring.

When scattered captive soldiers appeared in Haizhou, the governor of Haizhou had the "foresight" to seal all the city gates with bricks and stones, which not only prevented the refugees outside the city from entering the city, but also the people in the city could not escape. , The materials can't be shipped in, so the price of goods has risen sharply.

Food is good. There is a Changping warehouse in Haizhou City, and there is a large amount of food in storage, but vegetables, such as fresh vegetables, are becoming less and less. If you want to find some, you will have to pay five times or even higher prices.

Jiang Yang spent a lot of money, almost all his net worth, and he only got a few hundred catties of vegetables.

Through his own relationship, Jiang Yang sent these vegetables from the city to the city, and then he went down to the city himself, and pushed the vegetables back to Yang Chao's barracks with a cart.

"Isn't this sent by the prefect of Haizhou? You Mr. Jiang bought it with your own money!"

When Yang Chao saw these dishes, he smiled and said to Jiang Yang.

Jiang Yang didn't expect Yang Chao to figure it out so easily, so he nodded and admitted with a wry smile.

Yang Chao immediately handed over these vegetables to Huang Feng's mansion and told Huang Feng's mansion that these vegetables were reserved for the wounded.

The old man Bian is called Bian Rang, which means "Rang" for being gentle, courteous and thrifty.

From the name, it can be seen that old man Bian is still somewhat cultured.

Moreover, he is a humble person, well-known far and near, and has many friends.

The most important thing is that the Bian family is an old household in Bianjiapu. Over the years, they have accumulated a lot of money and own thousands of acres of salt fields.

The Bian family was not prosperous, and Bian Rang had only one son and one daughter, so he adopted many adoptive sons since he was a child, hoping to protect his sons and keep the family business in the future.

The daughter married the son of a rich man nearby.

But Bian Rang knew that his daughter and Bian Er grew up together, and they were childhood sweethearts, but they were not in the right family, so it was impossible for him to marry his daughter to Bian Er.

Bian Rang did not expect that his behavior of climbing high branches would kill his daughter.

This time when the soldiers were together, Bian Rang moved his son to live in the city early on, but his daughter's house had a high-walled courtyard and dozens of family members, so they did not go to the city to escape.

As a result, the old man Bian Rang was arrested under the city of Haizhou with the soldiers. After being rescued by Yang Chao, Bian Rang proposed to leave again. In fact, it was not all for the little wealth hidden at home. Most of the Bian family wealth was lost. Bian Rang was taken to Haizhou City by his son. The reason why Bian Rang wanted to go back was because he was worried about his daughter and wanted to see her.

It turned out that the compound of the in-laws was looted by the captive soldiers, and the whole family of hundreds of people were all killed.

Bian Rang was almost going crazy. After wrapping his daughter’s body in a mat and hiding it, Bian Rang rushed to Haizhou City again. As a result, he encountered captive soldiers on the road, and his servants desperately guarded him, especially after Bian Er suffered multiple injuries. was able to save his life.

Bian asked the old man to hate Donglu so much that he wanted to eat their meat.

"Okay, since you want to avenge Miss, I won't keep you either! But before you leave, you have to kill that captive first to relieve the old man's hatred!"

The chieftain that old man Bian was talking about was the captive general who was arrested. This captive general occupied a big house by himself in the barracks, and there were several soldiers who waited on him, and Doctor Wu even treated his wounds.

Yang Chao's soldiers didn't care about this, on the contrary, these common people who had a sworn hatred against the captive soldiers couldn't understand this very much, and wished they could swallow that captive general alive.

Bian Er agreed: "Thank you Yifu, forgive my son for not being filial!"

Bian Er kowtowed his head three times, then got up and strode away.

Walking all the way to the captive general's room, he reached out and took out the wrist-relief knife in his arms, rushed into the room at once, and in front of the two stunned soldiers, grabbed the captive soldier's neck, held the knife and charged at the captive general. Bing stabbed in the stomach!

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When Yang Chao arrived, Bian Er was pressed down by two soldiers and knelt on the ground. A large group of soldiers had already gathered in the room.

The captive general sat on the chair as calmly as Mount Tai, drinking wine by himself, watching the actions of the Ming army as if watching a good show.

Yang Chao saw Bian Er kneeling on the ground with his wrist-removing knife beside him, with a calm expression.

"You want to kill the chieftain?"

Yang Chao asked coldly.

This captive chieftain is an important person, and he is a prisoner. Yang Chao still has a bit of a civilized mentality of not killing prisoners.

"it's me!"

Bian Er answered very simply.

Yang Chao said: "Why?"

Bian Er said: "To kill the Tartars with you!"

Yang Chao was a little confused about the logic of this. In order to kill the Tartars with him, did he have to kill a captive chieftain? In order to prove his courage, he handed in a nomination certificate?

Yang Chao couldn't figure out Bian Er's logic, so he didn't think about it anymore. The troublesome thing was how to deal with Bian Er.

By the way, this Bian Er seems to have caused a lot of trouble for himself. He was the one who robbed horses and gave wine last time. Now he is holding a sharp knife.

How to deal with it, still can't be killed, but punished——

Yang Chao suddenly caught a glimpse of the old god of the captive general, looked at Yang Chao with a playful look on his face, and inexplicably felt a kind of national feeling in his heart.

"Hmph, I'm not going to punish you!"

Punish your own people and let the barbarians enjoy the show?Yang Chao couldn't do it, even though he knew it was unreasonable, but he just couldn't do it.

He waved his hand: "Let it go!"

But Bian Er didn't want to leave: "I want to fight Tartars with you."

Yang Chao had someone pull him all the way to the door, then motioned him to turn around, then kicked his ass, kicking him out of the door.

Then he turned and entered the house.

"Change two people, not four, and escort the chieftain to the boat. As for the two of you, go and get the ten army sticks yourself, and you will be punished for minor dereliction of duty."

The two soldiers who made mistakes were ordered to be punished.

The captive general was quite contented, as if the performance of the Ming army had shown him a good show just now, Yang Chao lost his temper for a while.

"Tied up and stuffed with the stinkiest socks in the barracks!"

After speaking, he strode out of the barracks.

The military camp was celebrating, Yang Chao made an exception and allowed everyone to drink, but only half and half, half in the morning and half in the afternoon, there was wine and meat, a big feast, and a celebration wine!

Yang Chao also joined in symbolically. Li Liang and Zhang Dun followed him, one holding a wine jar and the other holding a wine bowl. Then, he touched his lips with intent, but he didn't try to persuade him to drink, otherwise Yang Chao would be drunk.

Yang Chao wasn't drunk, but Hu Quan was. He didn't even get up from Yang Chao's toast, and sat on the ground to continue drinking.

Yang Chao knew that Hu Quan was unhappy, and the reason for his displeasure was that Yang Chao never let him go into battle, but sent him to the artillery formation at the street corner. Even when Yang Chao himself led the charge, he refused to let Hu Quan Go, this made Hu Quan very angry, and questioned Yang Chao because he was not dead and looked down on him.

Yang Chao was very helpless. Out of selfishness, he really wanted to protect this friend, but the other reason was that Yang Chao had always regarded Hu Quan as a scholar, just like it was impossible for Yang Chao to let Huang Fengfu or martial arts go into battle. It seems a bit extravagant for Yang Chao now to go to the battle like the big soldiers. There are only a few literate people in the army, and even one less will do.

The soldiers were bragging while drinking and eating meat. Yang Chao occasionally heard the sound twice, and the soldiers were very happy.

After the soldiers received a lot of rewards this time, many thick-skinned men shouted that they would build big houses and marry wives when they returned home.

This made Yang Chao feel that he seems to have paid the money too early, and these guys have obviously developed a desire for pleasure. With this desire, are they willing to risk their lives to fight in the future?
In three days, not to mention the wine, even the horse meat was eaten up.

It was time for Yang Chao to leave, but Gao Liangming, the magistrate of Haizhou, sent a housekeeper here, bringing a lot of vegetables, fruits and meat.

It seemed too late to labor the army. The battle had been fought for three days, and only then did I think of laboring the army.

Moreover, this time the servants of the Gao family were very respectful, without the arrogance of the previous visit, which surprised Yang Chao a bit.

But the answer was soon obtained. Haizhou City found that there were captive cavalry in the north, and they were about ten miles away.

Only then did Yang Chao realize that it was the captive soldiers who had come again, no wonder the governor of Haizhou had a better attitude this time.

Moreover, the number of captive soldiers will definitely not be small. After asking Jiang Yang in detail, Jiang Yang is not sure about the number, but he said that there may be more than last time, at least thousands of people, forming a regular front ten miles away and heading to the sea. Coming from the direction of Zhoucheng.

Therefore, Zhizhou hoped that Yang Chao would continue to stop this group of captive soldiers, so he sent wine, meat, cattle and sheep!
The appearance of Donglu's reinforcements made Yang Chao doubt his previous judgment. Previously, he judged that Donglu's troops in Haizhou were just some sporadic looting troops, and it was impossible for a large army to appear. The reason why he fought with himself The evil battle, it was because he was provoked by himself, so he stupidly fought a battle with huge casualties.

But now that the new reinforcements of the captive soldiers appeared, and the scale was larger, Yang Chao felt that maybe the three hundred or so captive soldiers in front were the vanguard of the captive soldiers and came to investigate.

The later army was the main force for the captive soldiers to attack Haizhou. To attack Haizhou City, Yang Chao judged that it would be impossible without 1 people. This means that Yang Chao will face tens of thousands of troops. The captive soldiers, this immediately made Yang Chao embarrassed. Even if he encountered thousands of captive soldiers, Yang Chao was confident to rely on this warehouse area to defend, but facing tens of thousands, unless he could enter the city, he had no hope of resisting.

Must go to town!

Yang Chao thought of this, and immediately asked Jiang Yang to go to Haizhou City to negotiate with the governor of Haizhou.

(End of this chapter)