The identity of the captive cannot be guessed.

When the captive was captured, there was no token on his body, except for a gorgeous armor to prove that his identity was different, there was nothing special, and Yang Chao could not find anyone who understood Manchu, so he could not be tried, and now there was no chance to be tried, because the captives were sent away, and they had been gone for three days, and now they were probably halfway through, and they would arrive in Huai'an in a few days.

And Yang Chao didn't take that captive too seriously before, after all, he only brought about 300 people to loot the captive general, at most, it was a general at the level of Jiala Ezhen, and he was just a general-level military attache in the Ming army, so he didn't care too much, but he didn't expect that he actually attracted thousands of people to rescue, so it must not be at the level of Jiala, what is it, I can't guess, I can't ask, anyway, it's a big fish.

Figuring this out, Yang Chao regretted it a little, not regretting that he had been escorted back to Huai'an, but regretting that he did not send heavy troops to escort him, if he ran away halfway, he would lose a lot.

Watching Huang Qi and the three of them leave, Li Wuliu was a little regretful, and Wang Pu was also very unwilling.

Huang Fengfu frowned deeply, and couldn't help but ask Yang Chao to speak.

"Your Excellency's move is inappropriate."

Huang Fengfu was very worried.

Yang Chao smiled: "How is it inappropriate? ”

Huang Fengfu sighed: "If the money is passed on to the captives before the army, I am afraid it will be unfavorable to the adults!" ”

This is a problem, the Ming Dynasty is very taboo for officials to negotiate peace with the enemy, even civilian officials, let alone military attachés.

Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, was impeached and attacked by the Yanguan because he privately negotiated peace with the Later Jin, and was imprisoned by Emperor Chongzhen.

Moreover, Chen Xinjia was privately allowed by the emperor to negotiate peace, but after being known, the emperor did not want to bear the notoriety of negotiating peace with thieves so he arrested Chen Xinjia.

Later, Zhou Yanru accepted bribes to persuade the emperor and moved out of the national law practice of "the big Sima soldiers do not come to the city and do not behead". As a result, the emperor still did not change his original intention, and Chen Xinjia was responsible for the border defense, and the war was not going well. He also lost seven pro-domains during his tenure, and abandoned Chen Xinjia on the charge of "insulting my pro-feudal seven".

There is a national law that the military department will not kill if it is not for the enemy's soldiers who are in the city and go to Beijing. secretly got his own instructions, and Emperor Chongzhen refused to let go of Chen Xinjia, lest he bear the stigma, which shows that this is really taboo in the Ming Dynasty.

If the official knows about it, I am afraid that Yang Chao will have to be impeached, and the emperor will not hesitate to kill Yang Chao, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty is still really sinister.

Yang Chao accidentally found out that he had done something wrong. And it's a political mistake, I can't help but sweat, but I don't care too much, I am a general, as long as I can fight, the emperor is unlikely to kill if he wants to, of course, now I am only a thousand always not very safe, if I can do the total army, then there is no need to be afraid, even if I really collude with the enemy in private. The emperor can only turn a blind eye.

"Let's finish this battle first and worry about this problem."

Yang Chao said with a smile.

If it is defeated, needless to say, it will be dead. If the victory is won, then there is no proof for the person who impeached him.

Huang Fengfu sighed: "It doesn't hurt if the adults made up their minds to fight to the death with the Dongyu from the beginning, but in this way, there is no room for turnaround, and they can only fight the captives in Haizhou." ”

Huang Fengfu meant that Yang Chao still had a chance to break through, but now he could only stay in Haizhou and fight with Dongyu to clear his suspicions.

Yang Chao didn't care much about this, he really didn't think about breaking through at first, because the captives were cavalry. You are an infantryman, and you have to retreat in front of the cavalry. That's no different from looking for death.

Even if you take a boat, you can't run away. After all, the speed of the boat in the canal is not comparable to the speed of the horse, you must know that many sections of the canal still rely on people to pull the fiber, at that time, not to mention compared with the war horse, even on foot are faster than the boat.

Therefore, the moment the reinforcements arrived, it was already destined that Yang Chao would have to fight.

This battle is probably more dangerous than the last time, Yang Chao has to use 600 men against 4,000 or more captives, with his back to the fortified city, but he can't get any support, there is nothing more difficult than this.

At this time, Gao Liangming, the governor of Haizhou City, was very dissatisfied with Yang Chao's threat, and Yang Chao actually told him that if he didn't let his soldiers enter the city, he would leave Haizhou.

Gao Liangming immediately asked Jiang Yang angrily: "He wants to lead his troops into the city, what does he want?" ”

This sentence was very sinister, and he suspected Yang Chao's intention to insist on bringing troops into the city, so he almost said that Yang Chao wanted to rebel.

This is obviously nonsense, but it is the ancient Chinese culture, especially at the end of the Ming Dynasty, in the eyes of civil officials, the army is no different from bandits, except for them who read the books of sages and sages, everyone else is a puppet without faith and righteousness, and they are not trustworthy.

He let Yang Chao enter the city, what should Yang Chao do if he dedicated the city to the captive army?

But Jiang Yang had no way to refute this nonsense, so he could only say: "General Yang also hopes to use Jiancheng to fight a decisive battle with the captives." ”

Gao Liangming snorted coldly: "The captives are outside the city, he wants to fight a decisive battle with the captives, why do you have to enter the city?" ”

Yes, the enemy army is outside the city, since you want to fight with the enemy army, then fight outside the city, what a reasonable logic, so why did the Ming Dynasty establish these fortified cities? Just to block commercial traffic? Not to ward off the enemy?

said, Jiang Yang can't say that he is a civil official, so he can only helplessly go out of the city to report to Yang Chao.

Yang Chao was inspecting the defenses.

This is not a good time.

Although 300 captives were eliminated, Yang Chao's loss was not small, and the casualties were not much, but the loss of weapons was quite large.

In particular, there were only a hundred of them, and now there were only seventy left.

The muskets of the arquebus era cannot be compared with those of later generations, and the gap in materials makes the firearms of this era unable to be used for as long as the rifles of later generations.

The life of the barrel of the bird gun is more than 100 rounds, and it will be scrapped after 200 rounds in the sky, either the barrel is deformed or worn out badly.

Of course, Yang Chao's scrapped thirty bird guns are mainly due to wear and tear, because Yang Chao's bird guns strictly implement rotation shooting, if they don't do this, under continuous shooting, one barrel. Sometimes more than ten rounds will be hot and deformed, and Yang Chao rotates with three barrels, and at the same time has no chance to shoot constantly. Hence the protection of the barrel.

Of course, it is also because these barrels are all exquisite bird guns made by skilled Nanjing craftsmen, if they are those stocks of the War Bureau. It is estimated that there is no need to wear and tear to scrap, I am afraid that it has long been scrapped because of the explosion, not only the gun is scrapped, but everyone may have to be scrapped together.

The reason why it will wear out is not that Yang Chao's birdmen shot so much under Haizhou City, but more because when he was in Huai'an, Yang Chao had been shooting live ammunition for several months, and he didn't need money for gunpowder and lead bullet at that time. Yang Chao was a life-threatening live-ammunition training, but at that time, most of the bird guns were worn out, which reflected the results of training under Haizhou City, but at the same time, the bird guns were overwhelmed, and many of them were scrapped.

This problem is more of a headache for Yang Chao than deformation, because deformation is often improper operation, and the problem of wear and tear is unavoidable.

Jiang Yang came back to tell Yang Chao that Haizhou City still refused to allow Yang Chao to enter the city. It's just to make things worse, so Yang Chao can't help but have a headache.

"Well, at least these people have to be put into the city. Tell Haizhou Zhizhou that if he doesn't agree to this, he will be impeached in the future no matter what! ”

Jiang Yang could only nod and agree, and continued to negotiate with Kochizhou, and at the same time took the initiative to offer Yang Chao that he could help get a batch of equipment supplies.

There is still no shortage of equipment to feed Yang Chao, food is enough for him to eat for two months, and armor and spears are enough to equip a thousand people, but the problem of bird guns cannot be solved. Jiang Yang told Yang Chao that Haizhou City could give him a batch of bird guns, but Yang Chao was not very confident about the quality of the weapons in Haizhou Guard.

Soon Huang Qi came again. After reporting to his master, he came to negotiate with Yang Chao.

This time, Huang Qi came alone.

This time, Yang Chao seemed to be a different person. warmly invited Huang Qi into the warehouse, found a house, and entertained him with drinks.

Yang Chao's changes made Huang Qi very proud, and he was arrogant when he spoke, and he appreciated Yang Chao's knowledge of current affairs.

"My master said that as long as Lord Yang surrenders, high-ranking officials are indispensable."

This time, Huang Qi still intends to win over Yang Chao, especially the change in Yang Chao's attitude, which made him suddenly have confidence, if they can recruit Yang Chao, then they will not only save the lives of important people, but also be able to enter Haizhou City.

The most important thing is that he, Huang Qi, will be able to make a great contribution.

Yang Chao was a little hesitant about this temptation: "Lord Huang, forgive me, this official can't surrender, this official is a person from Nanjing, and his family is in Nanjing, if this official surrenders, I'm afraid that his family will suffer." ”

Huang Qi laughed: "Lord Yang is wrong, Er Chao has always been benevolent, even if Lord Yang surrenders, his family should be fine." ”

Yang Chao was puzzled: "How can you see it?" ”

Seeing that Yang Chao was worried about this, Huang Qi couldn't help but be puzzled.

"That Hong Chengchou is dignified and strategic, and he also surrendered to my Qing Dynasty. The Ming court did not anger the Hong family. There is also that ancestor Dashou, many people in the ancestral family descended to my Qing Dynasty, and Zu Dashou is still a high-ranking official. Today, Dashou also descended to my Qing Dynasty, that Wu Xiang and his ancestral family are in-laws, and he is still a high-ranking official in Liaodong, and his son Wu Sangui is even more powerful! There is also Liu Liangzuo in Shandong, his younger brother Liangchen has already surrendered to my Qing Dynasty, and Liu Liangzuo still holds a heavy army and a general army. What worries Lord Yang? ”

Yang Chao couldn't help but be shocked, the Ming Dynasty had so many relatives and children of military generals surrendered, and the Ming Dynasty still let these people hold heavy troops, this is no longer a matter of benevolence, but a stupid question.

Of course, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty probably thought that although there were relatives who surrendered, trusting these officers would make them more grateful to Dade for serving the imperial court, and at the same time give the surrendered officers a way back, so that they would not fight to the death for the Manchu Dynasty.

Yang Chao felt that although he couldn't implicate his family, he couldn't let these people hold heavy troops, even if they were going to rise and fall secretly, and raise a high-ranking official, anyway, they couldn't let them lead the troops.

Yang Chao didn't show it on his face, but he still hesitated, saying that he was very worried, and delayed until the evening, told Huang Qi that he needed to think about it, and sent him away.

Jiang Yang came back and told Yang Chao that the governor of Haizhou was worried that there were captives among the people, so he also gathered these people into the city.

This made Yang Chao drop the cup directly, and he talked to Huang Qixu and the snake during the day, the purpose was to delay time, to secretly Chen Cang, send these people into the city first, and then fight them to the death, but he didn't expect it to be wasted.

"Good, good, good!"

Yang Chao said three good words in a row, and then he had nothing to say. (To be continued).