Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 253 Forgive
I saw some screaming and slashing people, some climbed up the city wall, some jumped down screaming, some sat on the ground and howled.Of course, there were also those who rushed towards the Ming army frantically.

Yang Chao knew that this captive soldier had been defeated, their will to fight was completely destroyed, and their spiritual will was crushed by this kind of close-range shelling that they had never seen before. They were already desperate.

There is nothing to command at this time.

There is only one order: "All troops charge!"

There were only four or five hundred captive soldiers in total. Wa Quan lost his formation, and most of them lost the will to resist and were in a daze. The formation, the armored elites charged, and the captive soldiers were strangled layer by layer.

In less than a quarter of an hour, they were all corpses all over the place, and the damage caused to Yang Chao was minimal, only a dozen or so were injured and three died.

But at this time, there were still captive soldiers who kept kicking the city. Obviously, the people under the city didn't know how terrible things happened above, and they still drove their soldiers up to the city in an orderly manner.

These scattered captive soldiers had no choice but to be assassinated one by one on the crenel.

The small-scale defensive operation lasted less than half an hour, and the captive soldiers completely gave up attacking the city, leaving behind a pile of dead bodies and retreating.

Unknowingly, the sky has become slightly brighter.

Yang Chao felt a trace of coldness on his face, it turned out to be a drop of rain.

The water vapor that gathered for three days finally condensed into water droplets above the nine heavens and landed on the earth.

It's raining!
The drizzle brought a bit of coolness to the earth, but there was a bloody smell in the house in this coolness.

Yang Chao stood up. At this moment, he suddenly saw that on the messy sandbags on the north side, which had also been hit by lead bullets, suddenly an armored soldier climbed up, followed by the second, and the third. Song Kun of the wall chose to climb over the wall.

It's just that when they climbed up, they were all stunned. What they saw was fragments of the ground, and comrades holding long guns, standing quietly behind the parapet and maintaining a defensive state.

Behind Yang Chao, a crowd of people had already gathered, most of them crowded in the corner of the city wall, staring blankly at all this.

Many people came over during the shelling just now, but they didn't know what to do, including Zheng Yongwang's reserve team.

Yang Chao waved to Zheng Yongwang, and he ran over quickly.

"Take someone to clean up!"

Yang Chao pointed to the battlefield in front of him.

The corpses of captive soldiers were all over the place. Although they were enemies, Yang Chao still felt a little uncomfortable after being tortured like this.

This place is fragmented, I don't know how many people were beaten to death, flesh, brains and bones are mixed together. Except for the butcher, no one will enjoy this scene.

Min Zhuang, who Zheng Yongwang took to clean up, vomited immediately.

The captive soldiers under the city completely retreated, leaving behind seven or eight ladders, a pile of sandbags, and wheelbarrows.

Suddenly, I turned around and saw many men and women walking over.

Yang Chao remembered ordering him to support the south wall.

So he asked, "How is the situation in the south?"

Many men said: "They all retreated!"

It seems that the captive soldiers have completely given up on this attack.

That's right, in the face of such a fiasco, they couldn't find a reason not to give up.

On the west wall, they dropped nearly a thousand people, while the south wall suffered far more casualties due to the continuous storm overnight.

But the most important thing is that they have clearly occupied a foothold, but they did not hold it. In order to occupy this foothold, they continued to attack on the south wall to attract firepower, and the price they paid was far more than a thousand people, and may even reach two to three thousand people. People, in this situation, they have no choice, what else can they do except end this senseless battle?
"Don't slack off, lead people to collect the dead bodies, and bury the remains of our army's fallen soldiers. Zheng Yongwang stays behind, and the others go down to the city to rest!"

Yang Chao gave orders one after another.

After finishing speaking, Yang Chao walked down the tower slowly by himself.

Walking past the soldiers one by one, I saw that after the bloody battle, their temperaments were not the same.

When I walked past Wang Pu, I saw a calm expression on his face, neither the joy of victory nor the grief of losing his comrades, calm, unusually calm.

Yang Chao knows that such a fierce and cruel battle is a deep test of human psychology. After this battle, all soldiers who participated will become soldiers of all battles without exception. There will be no more tension or excitement, only ruthless fighting, like a fighting machine.

Yang Chao paused in front of Wang Pu, staring at his calm eyes for a long time.

Ever since Wang Pu went to the battle without authorization, Yang Chao has been holding on to his heart, thinking that he violated military discipline, and thinking that he must be severely punished after the war.

But now this kind of thinking has faded away.

In fact, Yang Chao had already talked with Lu Mo, who is most familiar with military law, in private. Lu Mo only asked Yang Chao if he had given an explicit order to stop Wang Pu from attacking. Yang Chao said that he had not issued such an explicit order. It should be in line with military law.

Because at that time Yang Chao asked Wang Pu to command the battle in the south alone, Wang Pu was equivalent to the chief officer in the south, and the chief officer naturally had the power to look for the right time and take the initiative to attack.

Judging from this nature, Wang Pu's assault at that time was not only not aggressive, but he seized the opportunity to benefit. It was a very agile battlefield performance, which is worthy of praise.

But Yang Chao knew very well in his heart that if he hadn't put all his eggs in one basket, Wang Pu would have been wiped out by the captive soldiers at that time.

In fact, what dissatisfied Yang Chao the most was that since that assault, Wang Pu had once again regained his complacent look in the past. Didn't realize at all that he almost killed his soldiers.

So to clean up Wang Pu, Yang Chao can still find a reason, it depends on whether he wants to clean up him, but the reason why Yang Chao wants to clean up Wang Pu is just to beat him and make him restrain himself, don't do it It's not that he really wants to kill him if he makes that kind of aggressive move that puts the whole army at a disadvantage.

Now after a night of bloody battle, and seeing Wang Pu's calm expression again, Yang Chao understands that Wang Pu has actually changed and his mind has matured.

Standing in front of Wang Pu for a while, Yang Chao patted Wang Pu's shoulder lightly.

He nodded and said, "Good job! Don't be so rash in doing things in the future."

Wang Pu saluted: "Your Excellency, don't worry, Biaoxia understands."

Yang Chao nodded, he really matured, Yang Chao completely dispelled the idea of ​​settling accounts after Qiu Hou, let that aggressive attack be blown away in the wind, let him become Wang Pu's brave attack, the honor of the captive general, not the shame , not to command indiscriminately, to bury the psychological burden of several brothers.

When Yang Chao turned and walked down the city, the people in the city also got up one after another, or most of them stayed up all night.

That night, they survived tremblingly, the shouts of killing in the city could be heard in half of the city, and the sound of rumbling cannons spread throughout the city.

A dull atmosphere shrouded their heads like a dark cloud, and people couldn't breathe. Finally, it was dawn. Many people spontaneously came to the base of the city wall to look around, and saw soldiers walking down the city in silence.

These soldiers passed by them, making the common people feel chills. The breath after a night of killing was suppressed under the calm appearance of the soldiers, brewing into a strong tyranny.

Seeing the armored soldiers walking down the city wall one by one, some people finally stepped forward and climbed towards the city wall.

One by one the common people were stunned by the scene on the top of the city. Some vomited, some burst into tears, some cried and laughed. Those who vomited couldn’t stand the Shura field at least, and those who cried were seeing their relatives fighting. When he died, he cried and laughed when he saw the corpse of the captive soldier and thought of the relatives who died under the butcher's knife of the captive soldier.

When Yang Chao walked down the city wall, he found Song Lian and a few people standing quietly under the city wall.

Yang Chao walked past him calmly without saying hello to him.

As a result, Song Lian suddenly whispered to Yang Chao's back: "The soldiers' breakfast is ready."

Song Lian's tone lost the arrogance of the literati before, but a touch of sentimentality.

Yang Chao didn't turn his head, but said lightly, "Thank you Mr. Song."

After eating the hot rice porridge and a few pieces of salted fish brought by the soldiers, Yang Chao fell into a deep sleep.

Yang Chao dreamed of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, but in his dream, when he faced all this, he was so calm and calm, as if he had changed into a different person.

After waking up, it was already evening, and he still felt weak all over. Although he was not in the front when he was fighting in armor last night, the double consumption of mental and physical strength still made Yang Chao feel a little bit exhausted.

Looking at his soldiers, it turned out that most of them were still sleeping. They had consumed more energy than Yang Chao, and were obviously more tired. Yang Chao didn't bother them, but took two soldiers and stepped up the city wall .

Yang Chao stepped into the city to learn about the battle situation. He learned that the captive soldiers did not come to attack for a day. Yang Chao had expected this a long time ago. The fierce battle lasted all night. Given the scale of yesterday's battle, almost all the captive soldiers were mobilized. And after such a tragic defeat, it is impossible for them to muster their morale and continue to fight.

This is also the reason why Yang Chao dared to let most of the soldiers rest at ease.

The mess in the city has been cleaned up, and the drizzle of the day has washed away a lot of blood.

Yang Chao glanced at the camp of captive soldiers from a distance, and his eyes fell back on the moat. The sandbag causeway several feet wide still quietly blocked the moat. Yang Chao knew that this passage must be destroyed.

Although this passage is kept, the captive soldiers may not attack the city again. The captive soldiers cannot withstand another defeat, but Yang Chao can't afford to be attacked again, so this passage has to be destroyed no matter what. The tide can take the initiative.

(End of this chapter)