The front army sent the vanguard soldiers to make a slight attempt, and after being shot by the archers gathered at the head of the city, and repelling several losses of hundreds, the Huai army basically completed the corresponding preparations for attacking the fortification. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As the first fortified city in the process of the Eastern Crusade to encounter desperate resistance, the corresponding preparations were also solemn and took a lot of effort to complete.

Therefore, when the sky turned white the next day, all the defenders of the city could see was the well-layered artillery carriages, which were divided into several columns and gathered in the suburbs, under the arch of the hollow phalanx outside the city.

The first to roar was the twelve-inch mortar of a heavy artillery battalion, then the 10-inch and eight-inch long-barreled siege guns, followed by the six-inch and four-inch long-barreled field guns, mountain guns, and cavalry guns of the three field artillery battalions.

The only ones that did not move were those of the main battle camps, which specialized in firing shotguns, and the small cannons with the mouth of the bowl, which were lined up with ammunition and were acting as a guard in the rear and flanks.

Suddenly, hundreds of iron balls of cannon and iron of all sizes were overwhelming, drawing long or short, curved or straight ballistics, and the skulls and brains bombarded the moats with human heads. It's like a landslide, the ground cracks, and it's like a deafening spring bursting out, after the earth and rocks crumble and splash.

The rammed earth and brick moat seemed to be a cut out of thin air, and it was as if a large edge had been gnawed off by an invisible maw; The heavily armed defenders were gone, along with the battlements where they had been hiding, and only a large section of the city was bare and exposed adobe.

Suddenly, the whole city was completely silent, and then it was overwhelmed by the louder cheers and morale-boosting noise of the city, and the white soldiers and vassal soldiers who carried long ladders and pushed the ladders and building carts rushed forward with high morale to pile up the wall, and sent the front soldiers and selected warriors who held high the banner in the rear team to the city wall with a bang.

Then more grenadiers stuck to the city wall, throwing the explosive bombs and fire oil bombs in their hands over the city wall one after another, and after a cloud of fire and smoke and the screams of ghosts and wolves exploded inside, there was no suspense about what happened next.

The five arrogant feudal lords in the city plus the eleven city lords were awarded the heads on the same day, most of them were in or close to the section of the city wall that was being attacked, and even the corpse of the city could not be found, and the defenders in the city also killed more than 6,000 armed men in total, as well as thousands of people of various colors, etc., and thus became prisoners of the Huai army.

In this Heye City, there are no dangers to defend in the vicinity of Tangma Village, Hexiang, Yongping, Xianghe, etc., and dozens of towns, walled cities and towns distributed between the lower reaches of the Hunhe River and the Taizi River, and they have raised white flags one after another, and sent out cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, and even women who rewarded and labored the army.

After the battle, it is natural to enter the time to clean up the battlefield and clean up the loot. Although there was a famine in the local area and most of the people had food on their faces, the leaders of these self-reliant local forces still collected and accumulated a lot of things before this winter.

Therefore, after some patient persuasion/torture, it was easy to copy out a lot of wealth and food materials according to the map, including tens of thousands of stone rice stored in Tsuruno City, yes, rice.

After all, this is also one of the few traditional areas in Liaodong and even the entire Andong Prefecture that is suitable for growing rice and has a fairly good rice yield. Even among the "Northeast rice" that was sold to the south at a high price in later generations, there was a place.

The most famous rice in the area is pearl japonica and fine white can, the former is one of the Tugong designated by the Imperial Palace, and the latter is the most popular variety sold by the people.

Therefore, the troops who rested after the war were able to eat fragrant rice and steamed dried wax at once, and the off-duty sequence had a few sips of rice wine brewed from local rice to relieve fatigue.

I even heard feedback from the Soldiers' Committee that there were many Japanese who were miscellaneous servants in the army, holding rice balls topped with miso and radish sauce, and were moving and crying while praying that they had never eaten such delicious white rice in their lives.

During the short stay, I summarily executed and purged a number of middle- and upper-class leaders as an example and example for the resisters, and I no longer need to appease the traitors and continue to retain them as a ruling force to maintain the grassroots; Then take out most of the food and distribute it on the spot to help the hungry people in the area.

On the one hand, it is the recent easy-to-use means of buying people's hearts, and on the other hand, it is also taking the opportunity to publicize their hardships, which is the result of these high-level figures relying on force to extort and extort tyranny, and the Huai army is a private commodity that has come to set things right; In this way, in the shortest possible time, the results of the people's hearts and minds under the control can be obtained.

If there are no accidents, we will deal with this template in the future to ensure that the occupied areas are stabilized as soon as possible and the most basic ruling order is established; Anyway, my Huai army has always been strictly disciplined and well paid, and I don't look down on robbing these low-level people to get what they get. On the contrary, in daily contact, it is easier to gain limited favor and recognition with small favors such as fair trading.

However, outside the battlefield, some dirty work and shady methods are still done by people; As a result, the group of former Luo clan and vassal soldiers who were gathered at the beginning were able to really come in handy;

After all, as the old department of the Luo family, for the sake of hatred for the family and country, it is natural to do some radical things;

If it is exposed afterwards, it will naturally be reprimanded and restrained accordingly, and then find a few prisoners who have committed the most heinous crimes, and be a stand-in to cut off their heads is a public confession of the canonical punishment.

In this process, Du Shiyi, who joined the army, in the process of searching for local hidden people, accidentally found another better way and means, that is, to use the captured grain as a meal, and invited the people in these places to have a full meal on the spot, so many people shed tears while eating, and then took the opportunity to be agitated by the entrustment inserted by the Huai army, and counted and exposed all kinds of crimes and bad deeds of those self-reliant leaders on the spot.

In this case, few people can be left alone, and in fact, in the case of limited resources, many cruel and tragic things have emerged in the clan; Then there is the routine drama of publicly punishing the first evil, and exiled the followers to the mines and salt works of Huaidi to atone for their sins.

Then, in the midst of the condemnation of the water dogs, the simple and crude translocation of people's hearts and minds was completed in disguise.

However, even if there is captured food and supplies as a supplement, it is easy to defeat the enemy, and in order to properly organize and settle the population resources of these newly acquired areas, a large amount of food is needed as a soft means and auxiliary measure to maintain the situation; After all, when people are hungry and panicked, it is impossible to settle down, and anything can happen.

Therefore, according to the statistics and budget of the army staff, there will be a gap of about 170,000 or 80,000 stone in the daily food supply before the next harvest is finally obtained. It is about equal to the grain surplus of one and a half to two years under the wind and rain in Huaizhen; Fortunately, now that the rear is unimpeded and stability is guaranteed, there are outputs from other places that can provide adjustments and supplements.

As the saying goes, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, after all, it is the essence of the southeast of Andong, with a population base of nearly one million under the rule of Roche; After two years of disengagement and turmoil, about sixty or seventy percent of the population remained, but most of them were on the run or in hiding, which is also the target group I want to recruit and take in now.

Even in the heyday of Luo's rule, in the form of the own family and branch ownership, they probably directly controlled two-fifths of them; Then they controlled the other fifth in the form of appointed deputies, and the last remaining two-fifths were in the hands of those small and medium-sized princes in the form of Luo vassals;

Now, it is most of them that I want to annex and digest, thanks to the continuous turmoil and conquest in Liaodong, which has completely disrupted the old order that has been inherited for a long time and the traditional inertia of Luo's rule, so that I can clean it up again and get more results with half the effort.

As far as the so-called punishment and deterrence relative to force are concerned, sufficient food is also a powerful weapon. Once these people come out of the scattered hiding places to accept the management and reproduction of self-help in order to survive the food, they will naturally become a part of the new order under the control of Huaizhen.

Therefore, what I am lacking now is the officials who will establish local power and ruling order in the future, as well as a large number of grassroots executives.

Therefore, in view of the vanguard troops and the partial divisions on both routes, I even slowed down the pace and pace of the march in a targeted manner, so as to cooperate with the heavy troops following up in the rear and further stabilize the occupied areas and along the rear road. (To be continued.) )