Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 238
"How's the situation?"

Feeling that the situation in the city was more urgent, Yang Chao spent a whole day in Chengzhong helping Song Lian with civil affairs, and only in the evening did he have time to ask about the military situation.

"The captive soldiers surrounded and attacked the city for a whole day."

Lu Mo replied.

Yang Chao divided the army into four teams. Wang Pu had the strongest combat effectiveness and led 100 men to guard the south wall, facing the main barracks of the captive soldiers.

Lu Mo was guarding the west wall, Song Kun was on the north wall, Zheng Yongwang was on the east wall, and Sun Changfu led people as a reserve team.

Yang Chao asked again: "How about the casualties of our army?"

Lu Mo said: "The casualties are not large. The captive soldiers mainly harassed and filled the river on all sides! Our army suffered less than ten casualties, but the civilian casualties were still quite large."

Yang Chao said: "Tell me specifically."

Only then did Lu Mo talk about the battle situation of the day in detail.

Yang Chao's soldiers injured ten people, all of which were minor injuries, caused by captive soldiers shooting arrows under the city, and they were not seriously injured in iron armor.

There are nearly a thousand people in the city, all of whom were transferred to the city when Gao Liangming knew Zhou was there, and the guards from Shanghai, the number is more than 4000.

But these people were not trained, and the captive soldiers did not attack the city before. This time they began to harass and attack the city, which caused a lot of chaos. Many people trampled on each other. In the end, hundreds of people were killed and hundreds were injured. , but less than fifty.

Yang Chao had expected this a long time ago. Untrained soldiers would easily collapse in panic. Fortunately, they were protected by the city wall. If they fought in the field, they might be wiped out.

"I have already negotiated with the Zhizhou of Haizhou. All the strong and strong in the city are under our control. You will transfer our officers overnight. Each team is drawing and organizing the people and strong, and no one is in charge of a hundred people. Promote the corps leader to be the team leader. Draw another Corporal Commander, go and take charge of the guards in the East China Sea, each of them will take charge of 30 people!"

Yang Chao now has less than 600 people, with forty infantry teams, forty squadrons, and eighty corps leaders.

The forty teams are all going to form the Minzhuang, and one person controls a hundred people, which is enough to organize more than 4000 Minzhuang.

Forty corps leaders go to command the soldiers of the guards, and one person controls thirty, which can also organize a thousand soldiers of the guards.

Although the training problem can't be solved for the time being, if they can be organized, they will not be chaotic. With the help of the city wall defense, they can barely do the job.

In addition, Yang Chao also intends to let these people train immediately. As long as there are ten days, at least they can learn simple assassination. It is impossible to attack Shanghai City.

As for whether he will give himself ten days, Yang Chao is not sure, but three to five days is not a problem. Three to five days ago, the captive soldiers should not attack the city on a large scale. After all, it takes time to fill the river, especially in the west and north. , that is the Qiangwei River, a natural river, not an excavated moat, so it is very wide, and it is impossible to fill it up in a short time.

If the captive soldiers only attacked from the southeast and southeast, the opponent's forces would not be able to deploy, and the superiority of troops would not be reflected. Unless the captive soldiers did not take Haizhou City seriously, they would need at least a few days to prepare.

The captive soldiers who appeared today harassed the city and then vigorously filled the river. It seems that they still attach great importance to Haizhou City, or in other words, they value Yang Chao, a strong soldier who suddenly appeared, after all.

At night, Sun Changfu was on duty and replaced many men.

There was no fighting overnight, and even the artillery of the Ming army stopped, and the gunners also needed to rest.

Early the next morning, Yang Chao stepped onto the city wall.

The Qushan camp of the captive soldiers in the south of the city has disappeared and has been moved to the middle of the Qushan mountain. This is the result of Yang Chao's overnight shelling.

I just don't know how the captive soldiers lost.

Although the captive soldiers moved the camp to the mountains, which made the cannons lose their shooting range, it had no effect on them. Anyway, their army had surrounded Haizhou and blocked the way for the Haizhou people to escape, even if they came from the south. Run, the captive cavalry is confident in chasing and annihilating them.

Yang Chao looked at the new camp of the captive soldiers. It was on the mountainside of Qushan, and the banners were still flying, and the flags were flying high. Obviously, the shelling didn't hit them too much, it was just a warning.

Yang Chao couldn't help but feel lucky. Although Qu Mountain is only a small hill with the highest point less than [-] feet high, it is much higher than Haizhou City. The high point is too easy to find. Fortunately, the captive soldiers did not have cannons, otherwise they would have erected Cannons bombard Haizhou, and Haizhou City cannot be defended.

It's not that the captive soldiers know how to use cannons. They fought against the Ming army who used cannons in Pingjian City for more than ten years in Liaodong. In the battle of the war, they used cannons to break through the fortresses guarded by Zu Dashou.

However, under the influence of the Ming army in Liaodong, the cannons of the captive soldiers were also red-clothed cannons. These red-clothed cannons were Western-style cannons imitated by Ming craftsmen, but they were not Western field cannons, but naval guns on ocean-going merchant ships in Western countries. Therefore, it costs thousands of catties. The cannons of the Ming army used this kind of cannon to defend the city, and those of the captive soldiers were used to attack the city.

However, the cannons are too heavy, and it is obviously impossible to transport them all the way from Liaodong. This time, the captive soldiers were for the purpose of looting. They rushed in lightly and crossed the pass. They did not have the conditions to carry cannons. Therefore, they seldom attacked cities, even if they attacked Surabaya. Cities like Yanzhou rely on simple siege equipment.

It is these instruments that are also made of temporary logging.

It is no problem to temporarily build wooden siege ladders and arrow-proof shield vehicles, but it is almost impossible to temporarily cast cannons.

To cast cannons, especially red-clothed cannons, requires a very complicated process, and there must be no mistakes in the process, otherwise all previous efforts will be wasted, and the cannons of four to five thousand catties will explode if they are not careless.

Among them, it takes several months to make the clay mold, because in order to cast the huge cannon body, this kind of clay mold is almost meticulously crafted. It takes several months, so casting a cannon is often half a year.

Obviously, it is impossible for the captive soldiers to stay under the city of Haizhou for half a year to cast cannons, and it is impossible for them to take the cannon-casting craftsmen with them.

So they still need to use people to attack the city this time.

Not long after Yang Chao observed the city, he saw the flag of the camp of the camp of the captive soldiers shaking, and a cavalry came out of the camp and went down the mountain.

Behind them were groups of infantry pushing shield carts, and there were also some unarmored soldiers pushing carts with sandbags and mud bags on them.

"Look, Li Qianhu, this time the captive soldiers came from the north to the south. Obviously, they came with light soldiers, and they didn't have time to bring the people. Most of the people around Haizhou fled, and they didn't have time to search for them in a short time. So all the 1 people It's the Tartars. How many heads do you think we can cut off?"

On the city wall, Li Rui followed Yang Chao. He still had a sense of novelty in his heart and was a little nervous, but he didn't feel flustered when he was beside Yang Chao. Speaking of which, this was his first time going to the city. , he will never come up.

At this time, I heard and asked with a smile: "Master Yang is joking."

Yang Chao was indeed joking. He himself didn't think he could behead someone. It was impossible to go out of the city to behead him without defeating the captive soldiers.

But the captive soldiers are indeed pure captive soldiers, without a single commoner, this is true.

Yang Chao said: "Li Qianhu, I'm not joking, if you can't defend Haizhou, maybe not all of them will die, but they will all be captured by the captive soldiers and become slaves. By the way, you still have to keep their braids!"

Speaking of being a slave and having to wear braids, Li Rui couldn't help showing a strange look on his face, with some disgust and disgust.

Yang Chao continued: "If you are arrested, Li Qianhu, you will have to be suppressed by them, go all the way to Liaodong, and then plant land for them. If you come next time, you may be able to come to Daming to grab a piece of land like them. Bundle."

Li Rui was taken aback for a moment, then pointed to the captive soldiers pushing the carts and said, "Your Excellency Yang, you mean that those people also have people from my Daming?"

Yang Chao sighed: "Maybe there are. The number of captive soldiers is very small, and there are millions of Ming people who entered the customs five times to plunder. Some of these people have raised flags, and they will also carry them when fighting."

Li Rui suddenly said angrily: "Traitor, a traitor who doesn't know your father!"

But Yang Chao said sadly: "Father Jun can't protect them, we can only blame ourselves if we want to."

Li Rui was still aggrieved, but hearing Yang Chao's tone, he stopped talking, obviously he didn't agree with Yang Chao's statement.

The captive soldiers quickly arrived at the city, and the cavalry stopped on the south side of the river, and then covered with shield carts, followed by teams of carts.

The archers behind the shield chariot began to shoot arrows at the city, and the blunderbuss and archers on the city returned fire. They couldn't hit the captive soldiers behind the shield chariot, so they could only target the captive soldiers in the cart.

Yang Chao could hear the captive soldiers shouting, pushing the cart forward desperately, then threw the sandbags on the cart into the river, and then ran back desperately pulling the cart.

In the distance, some captive soldiers were constantly filling the mud bags. After pushing the cart back, they immediately filled another cart, and then pushed it towards the moat again.

Every time they go back and forth, several corpses are left behind, and the Ming army on the city is shot and wounded by captive soldiers from time to time.

This is no different from yesterday's battle.

Almost all of these carts are coated. No matter how many captive soldiers die, they will not hurt their bones. At most, some slaves who work for them will just make them feel bad. As long as they can win, there will be more after returning. The slave supplement.

On the contrary, Yang Chao felt a little uncomfortable. These are the people of the Ming Dynasty. In the tide of the late Ming Dynasty, not only will they be used as cannon fodder for the alien race, but their descendants will also become alien races in the future. This is not only a tragedy for a small number of people. , but the tragedy of the entire nation.

It is similar to the south side, and the same is the case in the east side, but the situation in the north and west sides is better, because the moat on these two sides is wide and far away from the city wall. Therefore, he could only watch them fill up the river. Unfortunately, Yang Chao was not optimistic about their ability to fill up the natural river.

Therefore, it was ordered that the Ming troops on the northwest sides did not need to fight back, and it was important to train as soon as possible. Therefore, compared with the fierce shooting on the southeast sides, the northwest sides seemed quite calm.

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