Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 274

Yang Chao didn't realize that Nanjing, Huai'an and Chaotang would be disturbed at all, so he just stayed in Haizhou City wholeheartedly.

Receive those military supplies with peace of mind.

According to Yang Chao's prediction, the government allocated to various workshops, as well as the iron, lead, saltpeter and other materials that Song Lian used legal and illegal means to loot during the siege, and he could make another thousand bird guns for himself, five hundred If he didn't get all the armor, he would really be unwilling to do so. After getting all the supplies, Yang Chao could consider throwing away the miscellaneous leather armors and other things of the captive soldiers.

However, the food in Haizhou City has been in short supply, and Wang Xiao has secretly agreed to pay three times the profit. Although the Wang family has made great efforts to mobilize food, and the efficiency is faster than Shi Kefa's government, it still cannot fully meet the needs of Haizhou City.

After all, this is a big city of 10 people.

Therefore, Song Lian's policy of unified purchase and sales of grain still continued, but the quota was doubled, but it was only half of the average ration in front of the station.

So Yang Chao still had a reason to stay, so Song Lian still wanted to drive him away.

You must know that Yang Chao's military rations cannot be cut off, and they must be supplied in full. Song Lian doesn't care about Yang Chao's five hundred elite soldiers, but if Yang Chao leaves, the rations of the three thousand civilians who are still being held and trained by Yang Chao will be reduced. It can be halved, which will free up the daily quota of 3000 people, which will greatly relieve Song Lian.

But Yang Chao just refused to leave, making it difficult for Song Lian to say anything. Besides, the captive soldiers in Shandong seem to be still there. Who dares to say that they will not go south again. If they go south again and drive Yang Chao away by themselves, who knows he will still Will not come to support again.

Therefore, I didn't dare to forcefully drive them away, and could only make side-step attacks every time, but it was completely useless.

After staying in Haizhou for a full month, Yang Chao didn't start to withdraw his troops from Haizhou in batches until he confirmed that all the government supplies had been turned into his guns, armor and spears.

Of course, there was also news from Shandong at this time, which confirmed that the captive soldiers had retreated. Under the watchful eye of Zhou Yanru's army in Tongzhou, they engulfed more than 30 people and left millions of gold and silver treasures. Apart from a nail, it is as easy as traveling in other places.

It's not that Zhou Yanru didn't want to fight. After Yang Chao's record in Haizhou was passed to Tongzhou through Beijing, he was really moved once. After all, Yang Chao's record made people wonder whether the captive soldiers had reached the end of their strength and were exhausted. One hit, so Zhou Yanru really planned a small-scale attack. As a result, after thousands of people went out, they disappeared. What they pursued was only a hundred or so stragglers wandering around Tongzhou.

This result made Zhou Yanru completely lose his determination to fight the captive soldiers. He hid in Tongzhou City with peace of mind and watched the captive soldiers leave the pass. As long as the captive soldiers leave the pass without threatening the city of Beijing, Zhou Yanru should have made a great contribution Although there were some discordant voices from the court, many people even engaged in conspiracies and tricks while he was not at home. The grasshoppers were crushed to death one by one.

The salt boats and tank boats outside Haizhou City had been waiting for a long time. Yang Chao's soldiers boarded the boat one by one. Of course, they did not board the boat alone, and they all carried the coffins of their comrades on their shoulders.

500 people, carrying [-] coffins.

When the soldiers carried the martyr's coffin onto the ship, tens of thousands of people from all over Haizhou City came to see him off.

When they learned that Yang Chao and the warriors were leaving, they really wanted to send them off. Ordinary people, in fact, they all have a steelyard in their hearts. If you treat him well, he will remember it.

Yang Chao is also willing to let the soldiers see this kind of scene of being loved and loved, let them enjoy the admiration of the common people, and help cultivate their sense of honor. Sure enough, the soldiers who carried the coffins and boarded the ship slowly had expressions on their faces. Solemn, but without concealing a sense of pride.

Yang Chao himself was also touched. Looking at the coffins, he felt extremely emotional. These people came from Nanjing alive and kicking with him, but now they want to send their remains back. I really don’t know how to treat them. The family confessed, but this is war, someone must be sacrificed and blood must be shed.

All Yang Chao can do is "I promise that your death will not be worthless, I promise that your name will be accompanied by honor forever, I promise that your parents will be raised, your children will be taught, brothers, rest in peace."

In the future, in order not to let the first martyrs die in vain, Yang Chao's actions, even if he took great risks, he will remain steadfast. It has to be said that he was also influenced by the first batch of martyrs, because the promise to these people , so no matter how hard it was, I persevered.

All the soldiers boarded the boat. Unfortunately, Yang Chao failed to take away the three thousand civilians in Huai'an. He asked his officers to inquire, but found that there were not a hundred people who were willing to go with them. Most of them chose to stay in Haizhou with a tangled mood.

To be honest, these folks are actually full of envy for the treatment of Yang Chao soldiers, but at the same time, after experiencing a bloody battle, they survived with great difficulty. Most of them still wanted to live a peaceful life. Strong, there are only 3000 people left, and it is understandable to scare others.

Of course, there are also people who are determined to go with Yang Chao, such as Ding Bian Er of the Bian family. Later, after stealing the army horses, he finally sent back a cart of wine. What he did made people feel unreliable. He had a heroic demeanor, but he had no discipline at all.

Of course, this Bian Er later mixed into the Minzhuang team, performed well in the battle, was skilled in martial arts and dared to fight, and killed a few captive soldiers, so Yang Chao finally agreed to take him away this time.

As for the batch of military supplies that Yang Chao secretly pocketed in Haizhou, they have been transported away long ago, and they are probably all in Nanjing now.

Every time the grain transport ships of the Royal Fleet come, besides carrying a large amount of salt on the return journey, they are helping Yang Chao transport military supplies.

More than 8000 war horses were the first to be transported away, and there may not be more than 8000 horses if they are not transported away, because horses starve to death every day.

The extra blunderbuss, long spears, single swords, and armors were also transported away, and they were sent directly to Nanjing like war horses. Although these things cannot be clearly explained, they are always difficult to explain, so Yang Chao wants to Quietly sent back to Xinjiangkou camp.

So this time it was all soldiers.

But what Yang Chao didn't expect was that his soldiers had already boarded the boat and the water boat started. At this time, none of the people left. Instead of leaving, they slowly followed the water boat.

This made Haizhou Dianshi Song Lian, who was also seeing off at the pier, couldn't help but feel emotional, because he knew in his heart that these were not arranged by him. He just posted a notice telling the people that the reinforcements in Huai'an were leaving, and those who wanted to send them off could send them away. , Unexpectedly, 3 to [-] people came all at once, which is equivalent to more than half of the permanent population of Haizhou.

Song Lian also had to admit that even if the civil officials were to leave, the common people would not have many to see them off, and officials who could let the common people see them off, without exception, could enter the history books.

A feeling of envy and emotion spread in Song Lian's heart. He suddenly felt that Yang Chao didn't need to leave in such a hurry. Although Haizhou City still hadn't restored the previous level of food supply, as more and more merchants trafficked With the arrival of food, and Shi Kefa finally sent a large amount of official food, Haizhou's food crisis has actually been resolved, and supplying Yang Chao's army is not a problem at all.

But he knew that there was no reason for Yang Chao to stay in Haizhou anymore. Even the captive soldiers had retreated. He had no reason to stay as a guest army to rescue Haizhou.

Yang Chao was quite surprised to see the actions of the common people, but he immediately understood that the common people wanted to give them a ride. This kindness was appreciated, and Yang Chao deliberately slowed down the laborers so that the common people could keep up.

After walking for a mile, Yang Chao felt that it was interesting enough, so he asked the soldiers to wave to the people, meaning to let them go back.

But the common people still followed silently, and Yang Chao was deeply moved. After all, he wasn't a wolf-hearted dog, and he didn't fight for them in vain.

After following for a few miles, Yang Chao waved his hand again, but they still didn't leave.

Seeing the pride on the faces of his soldiers and enjoying the love and affection from the people from the bottom of his heart, Yang Chao asked the people to follow him some distance.

Of course, not everyone followed them all the time. Of course, the number of people seeing off was less and less. At five miles, only one-third of them remained, and at eight miles, only a thousand people were still seeing them off.

The last commoner who saw him off turned out to be a gray-haired old man. He stopped at a place of strength, probably tired from running, and sat on the ground.

Of course Yang Chao thought he was sitting on the ground, but in fact the old man knelt on the ground and kowtowed. In this world, I hated the Tartars to the bottom of my heart, but what a small commoner could do for him was to hide in the city and live.

Unexpectedly, Yang Chao was born out of nowhere. First, he defeated three hundred captive soldiers outside the city and rescued many people. The old man was very fortunate to find his little grandson among them, so he was extremely grateful to Yang Chao's army. Send ten miles!
"We have to remember the love that the common people send each other from ten miles away!"

Yang Chao sighed to Huangfeng Mansion.

In fact, the Huangfeng Mansion is also very emotional. The story of eating pots of milk to welcome the master was only read in the book. In reality, the common people fear soldiers like tigers, and they fear and hate soldiers. Master Yang's soldiers are actually able to be so loved by the common people. Could it be that this is what the hearts of the people want.

Huangfeng Mansion seemed to see the shadow of the Yue Family Army back then.

(End of this chapter)