Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 245 Why are you fighting?
Today is a cloudy day, and the weather is a bit stuffy, but the captive soldiers will still come to attack, Yang Chao is sure of this.

But Yang Chao didn't expect the attack to come so fast and so violently.

Yesterday's attack seemed to be just a warm-up, but as soon as it came up today, the captive soldiers continued to attack.

On the south wall, [-] shield vehicles were dispatched at a time, and [-] small groups quickly formed after crossing the river.

Each small group is defended by shield vehicles, with hundreds of soldiers behind them.

After paying a lot of money, they got another thirty ladders.

Obviously, the captive soldiers intend to attack the city with three times the size of yesterday.

Thirty ladders were erected on the city wall in the same way as yesterday.

Then there were captive soldiers wearing thick quilts that they had snatched from nowhere, fiercely climbing up the ladder.

Thirty places attacked at the same time, and the captive soldiers climbed up one by one, almost as if stepping on the head below with one foot.

This kind of formation made the Ming army really not used to it.

Because the hot salt water didn't work for a while, the captive soldiers in thick quilts turned their heads up, and several pots of water did not cause any damage.

Fortunately, Wang Pu was clever, and arranged three spearmen behind each battlement, hiding behind the wall, and the moment the first soldier stepped on the battlement, he stabbed fiercely with his spear.

Yang Chao broke out in a cold sweat. He didn't expect that the captive soldiers would catch him by surprise as soon as they came up today. He had to admit that although he had defeated the captive soldiers several times, the generals of the captive soldiers had better combat experience and on-the-spot adaptability than himself. .

Wang Pu led his men to use the crenel as the center, and used a wall formation to fight against the captive soldiers in Tengcheng. They didn't give up temporarily until they killed hundreds of people.

Although the captive soldiers failed to gain a foothold on the city this time, they had already set foot on the ground of the city wall, and they were already fighting hand to hand.

Wang Pu's response was very clever, but at the same time he was very steady, which made Yang Chao's impression of his recklessness slightly changed.

At each of the [-] attack points, Wang Pu arranged three spearmen to lurk around the crenel. Once the captive soldiers stepped on the crenel, they immediately rushed out. In the case of three against one, the captive soldiers were often assassinated as soon as they came up. It is impossible to gain a foothold at all, as long as they cannot gain a foothold as soon as possible, then the people in Tengcheng will have no choice but to die and be killed in vain.

But three-to-one is obviously not enough insurance. If one captive soldier resists, or even squeezes out a space with his body, the captive soldiers behind the city are likely to gain a foothold, and then more than a dozen people will soon be able to stand, as long as they occupy a crenel With such a small space, the reinforcements of the captive soldiers can continue to push the city from here, and completely break through the defense of the Ming army for a breakthrough.

As long as a section of the city wall is occupied, the captive soldiers are almost equal to victory.

It was probably because of this that the captive soldiers made such a fierce attack regardless of casualties.

"Zhao Kang, go and send the order. All the spearmen are hiding on both sides of the crenel in this way. Set up a team for each attack point, and five people are lurking on each side!"

There are a total of 300 attack points for the captive soldiers. Yang Chao has placed more than half of his troops here in Nancheng, and each attack point has a team. The [-] attack points are only [-] people. Yang Chao still has some people.

Arrange ten people at each attack point, and the captive soldiers will have to face ten long spears when they step on the city alone. It is possible to resist it three to one, or push them away with their bodies, but the ten spears have no choice but to be shot. Go down to the city for the first time.

After giving an order, it was quickly carried out, and even some of Li Wuliu's musketeers put on long spears and lurked.

However, Yang Chao still reserved one hand, and set up a bird gunner on each side of each point, and kept reloading and standby at any time, but did not fire. Instead, in case of special circumstances, such as the first person leaning against the body , Forcibly squeezed into the city wall, grabbing a space for the people behind, then the bird gunner would immediately shoot and shoot the second one who stepped into the city.

The plan was rigorous and the execution was strong, so the effect could naturally meet expectations. Under the tactics of the Ming army, the captive soldiers could not attack. The stalemate lasted for an hour. After leaving more than 300 corpses, the captive soldiers retreated and retreated completely. They went back and crossed the river. At this time, it was not dark yet, and the setting sun hung like blood on the west side. If they wanted to fight, they could still fight. Therefore, the captive soldiers actually gave up their attack in advance today.

It's just that Yang Chao's loss was also great, with more than 20 casualties. In just two days, Yang Chao lost 30 people in battle, which is shocking.

After learning that the Ming army had repelled the captive soldiers, Li Rui quickly climbed up the city wall, nodded and bowed, and found Yang Chao who was inspecting the situation.

At this time, a group of soldiers were resting against the city wall, and Min Zhuang was busy cleaning up the scene, putting away the messy iron pans, firewood and salt bags, and at the same time carrying the corpses of the captive soldiers.

Seeing these corpses, Li Rui's eyes were full of greed, which was the reason why he hurried to find Yang Chao.

Of course, you can't say that in your mouth: "Congratulations to Master Yang, congratulations to Master Yang, you have killed a lot this time, but you have made a great contribution!"

Yang Chao was not in the mood to deal with Li Rui. He knew Li Rui's purpose in his heart, but he felt very uncomfortable and wished he could get rid of him right away.

"Li Qianhu, don't worry, I should give you a lot of military leaders. When these are cleaned up, you can take away ten first!"

Yang Chao said coldly.

Li Rui hurriedly said: "Master Yang is not talking, the official is not at ease, the official is just worried about the safety of the Lord, so he came up to visit."

Yang Chao said: "Thank you, Li Qianhu, for your concern. Now that I have seen it, please trouble Li Qianhu to take these corpses down, cut off the heads and nitrate them."

The Ming army has a tradition of recording meritorious service with heads, so it has the habit of saving heads, otherwise it will stink when the heads are sent to the Ministry of War.

Yang Chao's people can't do these things, so it's just right to leave them to Li Rui.

Li Rui hastily agreed, and the people who brought him left immediately.

This time at least more than 300 people were beheaded. Although most of them went to the city, some of them died on the city. There were almost a hundred people. Thirty were given to Li Rui, and seventy to Yang Chao.

It's just his own loss, which makes Yang Chao feel a little unacceptable. He lost 550 outside the city, and another [-] in Haizhou City. In addition to the dozens of wounded who were sent away, the only people who can fight now are [-] already.

These are all seeds, and none of them can afford to lose, but there is no one who will not die in a war. Yang Chao also understands this truth, but his heart is heavy. After all, war is a test for soldiers, so why not a test for officers? .

Yang Chao knew that he had to pass this hurdle. The character he grew up in peacetime had to adapt to war as soon as possible.

At the same time, Yang Chao made up his mind not to allow the captive soldiers to fight hand-to-hand so easily. Although the exchange has an advantage over him, it is still not as cost-effective as keeping the captive soldiers far away from the river and attacking from afar. .

In other words, Yang Chao still insisted on digging the moat again.

But it is not easy to dig the canal. It took two days for the captive soldiers to fill the canal, and hundreds of people were lost. Yang Chao is definitely unwilling to pay such a large number of casualties. Last night's test also ended in failure, which proves that he wants to move out. Sandbags cannot be removed in a short time by people alone.

Once the delay is longer, the captive soldiers will come to stop it when they find out.

The bad news is that the captive soldiers are obviously experienced, and they are very concerned about the protection of this passage.

The good news is that the captive soldiers were also very careless, and they didn't keep troops and horses for protection. They just sent cavalry to patrol this area.

That is to say, Yang Chao can easily approach the passage, but he cannot stay for too long, and must destroy the passage in a short time, but those sand bags are extremely heavy, and it is very difficult for one person to remove one at a time. In order to allow for the passage of cavalry, the passage is four or five feet wide, which obviously cannot be easily evacuated.

It is obviously not that easy to get through in a short period of time and require a lot of work.

After dark, he continued to arrange people to stay on duty at night, but Yang Chao wandered around several military camps.

The barracks are all in the caves of Tibetan soldiers, with simple beds set up. In a cave, some can accommodate a flag team, and some can only accommodate a small team.

Yang Chao didn't go in, but just listened to the movement outside. Sure enough, morale was still a problem.

Some soldiers muttered, especially Li Wuliu's blunderbussmen, who had great opinions, complaining that their blunderbuss soldiers fought every day without even a chance to rotate, and suffered the most damage. Most of the casualties in the past few days were blunderbusses Of the 20 battle losses, the gunners accounted for more than [-].

Li Wuliu scolded the soldiers fiercely, telling them that no one survives in a war, and if they are afraid of death, get out early, thinking that the military salary is so easy to get?
Li Wuliu's method of handling is obviously oppressive. This method is not good, but it has quick results. The army is a violent machine after all, so it is sometimes unavoidable for officials to crush people to death.

Li Wuliu's voice was so loud that Yang Chao could hear it at the gate, and he didn't plan to go in. After he figured out the general situation, he left.

When we arrived at the entrance of another cave for hiding soldiers, we suddenly heard soldiers crying.

Then I heard the voice of Banner Chief Lu Mo.

"Don't cry, there is no one who survives a war."

Lu Mo is still the same truth, this truth is indeed a truth.

The soldier cried: "But why should we come here to die? It would be nice for us to stay in Nanjing. There is no reason to go to Haizhou."

This question suddenly made Yang Chao's heart tense. That's right, these are the guards from Nanjing. Why should they come to Haizhou? According to their thinking, I'm afraid there is only one answer, that is, Yang Chao wants to bring them to kill the enemy To make meritorious service is to exchange their lives for black yarn on their heads.

If the soldiers really thought this way, Yang Chao really didn't know how to explain it to them. Although there were ten thousand reasons in his mind, they were somewhat untenable to these soldiers.

Because Yang Chao has the intention of making meritorious service and getting promoted in his heart, but he was promoted to gain greater power, to gain greater power, and to change the fate of everyone.

Although the fundamental purpose is not for selfishness, there is indeed a plan to kill the enemy and make meritorious service. If you want to kill the enemy, you will inevitably be killed by the enemy, so in fact it is equivalent to exchanging the lives of soldiers for your own military merit.

(End of this chapter)