It's been ten days, and it's raining non-stop.

Even during the day, the sky seems very low, and the mood is very heavy.

What is even more heavy is that the captives still did not retreat.

The patience of the captives exceeded Yang Chao's estimates.

Yang Chao thought that it wouldn't take long for the captives to withdraw on their own.

Because it was certainly impossible for the captives to have too many supplies, they were not like the Ming army, and they could always find support for local battles, and of course this support might not be much.

However, the captives will definitely not get any support for this kind of raiding and plundering war in a foreign land that spans thousands of miles, and if they can grab it, they will have food, and if they can't grab it, they will only starve.

Yang Chao knew that the captives were coming from Shandong for thousands of miles, and he never found any signs of the captives carrying baggage, because they had no vehicles, all of them were war horses, and even if the war horses could camel some supplies, they were very limited.

It stands to reason that this kind of operation can last for ten days, which is already the limit, but the captives trapped Yang Chao for more than half a month.

Moreover, since Yang Chao blew up the moat passage of the captive, the captives have never launched an attack again, neither tried to refill the moat, nor even harassed them.

From time to time, there were captives, small groups of soldiers, one person, two horses or even three horses, sometimes leaving in the morning and returning in the evening.

After a detailed investigation, Yang Chao knew that these captives had gone out to loot, and every time they came back, they would immediately carry things, needless to say that they were going to rob the materials for a living.

This went on for ten days.

And it has been raining for the past ten days.

It rained lightly for the first three days, but on the fourth day, the rain did not stop, but became heavier.

At first, Yang Chao thought that the captives did not attack the city because it was raining, and the rainy weather was damp. When the weather is wet, the bow is floppy and cannot fight. If you force the bow to open, you will break the bowstring and bow arm. So the captives stopped the siege.

But finding that the captives didn't even harass, they just besieged the city to death, and then kept going out to loot, Yang Chao felt that things were not so simple, and the captives wanted to surround themselves to death.

I can't help but think of the Tang newspaper I saw last year, Zu Dashou was surrounded by life in Jinzhou for more than half a year, and finally had to rely on cannibalism to persevere.

Yang Chao didn't want to do this, he really ran out of food. He would rather take his troops out to fight the captives.

Yang Chao thought about the results of the Battle of Haizhou a lot, but he never thought that this would be the case.

I didn't expect it to become a long-term siege of the city by captives, and in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, a long-term siege of a Daming city.

This is simply incredible, the captives can surround Jinzhou, Yang Chao is not surprised at all, Jinzhou is outside the pass, located at the junction of the enemy and me, the captives have cavalry can be said to occupy the geographical advantage, but Haizhou is in the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, it is the Ming Dynasty, which is already located in the Jianghuai region, but the captives were able to encircle Haizhou.

This is a miracle in all military history. To achieve this, in addition to the fact that the captives are strong enough, have rich experience in long-term combat, have very low survival needs, and can maintain combat effectiveness through raiding, the most important point is that the Ming army gave the captives the opportunity to gallop like no man's land.

If the Ming court could mobilize reinforcements and relieve the siege of Haizhou, the captives would never dare to be bold enough to choose such an unbelievable tactic. Of course, if the Ming court had an army that could command it, it would probably not be possible for the captives to fight from Liaodong to Haizhou.

Objective conditions for both the enemy and the enemy. This is the result that we are doing.

As for the reinforcements, Yang Chao couldn't help but think of the performance of some military attachés in Huai'an. It is estimated that he has been in Haizhou for about a year, and no one has come to rescue him, Zu Dashou has insisted in Jinzhou for half a year, and the Ming Dynasty has tried every means to rescue him, although even the reinforcements led by a famous marshal like Hong Chengchou have been served by the captives, but Zu Dashou has a hope, and now Haizhou has no hope, if the captives have been surrounded like this, Yang Chao feels that he is out of the city to the death, and there is really no choice.

And to go out of the city for a decisive battle, the late battle is obviously not as good as the early battle, and now Haizhou has not run out of food, and can still eat for more than ten days, but it is not the best choice to really survive until that time in the decisive battle, in the case of insufficient material supplies and unstable military morale.

Yang Chao had to struggle between the choice of leaving the city immediately for a decisive battle, or holding on for a few days and waiting for the captives to retreat.

The siege posture shown by the captives also made the people of Haizhou feel uneasy, and all kinds of violent incidents began to occur frequently, and robbery and theft incidents around food and property continued to appear, and even when the officials were chasing them, they in turn chased and beat the officials.

Seeing that Haizhou City was out of control, Song Lian Dianshi was finally willing to bow his head and discuss with Yang Chao, the first was to hope that Yang Chao would send troops into the city to maintain it, and the second was to discuss whether to reduce the daily ration ration and reduce it by half.

If the grain ration is reduced by half, it will naturally be able to support the established grain stock for twice the time, and Haizhou will be able to hold on for a month.

But Yang Chao thought about it or refused, Haizhou City in the suffocating siege process, has begun to show signs of mass collapse, if the ration ration is tightened now, it is equivalent to the tension in the hearts of the people in the city, and add a heavy weight, this string will not be done well will directly collapse, and then the entire Haizhou City will be out of control in an instant.

As for sending troops into the city to maintain order, this Yang Chaodao did not refuse, and he did not need to dispatch his own elite soldiers, but just let the officers take those people and run around the city with weapons, shouting slogans is enough to deter Xiaoxiao.

But all this cannot fundamentally solve the problem, and to solve the fundamental problem, we have to focus on how to repel the captives and how to relieve the siege of Haizhou.

"My lord! The captives in the north of the city have moved! ”

Just when Yang Chao was secretly meditating in the room, he suddenly reported to the guards who were in charge of guarding the north wall.

Although the captives did not attack the city, and it was raining heavily in the sky, it seemed that the siege was unlikely, but Yang Chao still retained some troops to defend the city, of course, only a small number of people, and a flag team was placed on a city wall.

The one who came to report was the soldier of Sun Changfu's banner team, who was brought into Yang Chao's room by his own soldiers.

After careful questioning, Yang Chao confirmed that the captives were not simply dispatched to plunder, but a large operation of the whole battalion, Yang Chao immediately set off to Beicheng, and at the same time ordered all the rest troops to be ready at all times.

After Yang Chao quickly came to the north city wall, he did see that the captives were moving on a large scale, with teams of cavalry dispatched, one with three horses, or even four horses, and a trolley pushing a bag of grain.

The situation of the captives made Yang Chao very puzzled, this was not like going out of the city to loot, nor was it like preparing to attack the city, but like moving.

I saw the captives, one by one, cars and horses, starting from the northern camp and moving far along the canal to the east.

Yang Chao's soldiers followed the ranks of the captives at all times, and soon found that the target of the captives was the barracks in the east of Haizhou City.

Circumference three missing one?

Yang Chao couldn't help but be so suspicious.

Previously, the situation of Haizhou has been blocked on all sides, and there are captive barracks on all sides, the Qishan camp in the south of the city is the main camp, and there is a barracks on the east, west and north sides of the city, among which the Qishan barracks are the largest, and the other three barracks are slightly smaller.

Now the soldiers of the captive soldiers in the north camp have gone to the east camp, revealing a breakthrough direction to Haizhou City, so that Yang Chao can't help but guess what the captives want to play, and hit the morale of the Ming army in turn, induce the Ming army to break through, and then they chase and kill.

But Yang Chao always felt that something was wrong, did the captives really look down on themselves so much? If this is the case, then it will probably not give up the siege, even if it originally looked down on the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, and had a battle in Haizhou City, the captives should be sober.

Since the captives attached great importance to Yang Chao, how could they use such a naïve strategy, or they wanted to hit the morale of their own soldiers.

Yang Chao secretly said in his heart, until all the soldiers in the northern camp of the captives were withdrawn into the east camp and did not make any further moves, Yang Chao was still puzzled and puzzled.

Then he quietly let people venture to swim across the river in the evening, but the captured soldiers took a look at the abandoned north camp.

The result was both reasonable and unexpected, and the sentry reported that there were many places of standing water in the northern camp of the captives.

After so many days of heavy rain, the river is almost rising across the riverbank, and the topography of Haizhou is high in the southwest and low in the northeast, so the Rose River flows from south to north, turns to the east, and finally flows into the sea.

The north side is the most downstream, so the terrain is the lowest, so it's no surprise that water is standing here.

After days of heavy rain, the river swelled, and the camp was flooded, which was normal.

……

The captives are in the camp of the mountain.

Turg is listening to the move from the North Camp to the East Camp, and it is not so easy to move the big camp.

There are too many nomadic tribal habits retained among the captives, that is, slavery, property and even people have masters, and the whole army is a slave owner with a group of slaves, so the barracks are full of mountaineering, and you and I are very clear.

If the looting goes smoothly and enough materials are grabbed, of course there is nothing, but if once you fall into tension and the materials are not enough, there will be frequent disputes, and the North Camp and the East Camp will be jointly operated, and the main problem is the problem of various materials, the North Camp will move to the East Camp, which involves the transfer of various materials and the problem of occupying the resources of the East Camp.

Today you have a tent for me, and tomorrow you have a bucket of hay for me, you can quarrel.

Turg was annoyed, so this joint camp was delayed until now, and it was not until the water flooded the northern camp that they started the joint camp.

Turg understands that in fact, it is not really for such a thing, and he is really nervous now, but it has not reached the point where he can't go on, and the real reason is that they are all impatient like gunpowder, just a little bit.

What caused everyone to be anxious was the long-delayed war, and now there were all kinds of complaints, basically no one wanted to fight this war, no matter how rich Turg emphasized Haizhou, no matter how much he promised to give everyone a share, no one wanted to continue to drag it on.

"Master, I really can't fight anymore, four of my five Niu Lu have fallen today, and if it drags on, let alone enter Haizhou, they will all die of illness."

Turg couldn't help but snort, one of his minions reported the matter of the joint venture, and took the opportunity to complain to him.

But Turg also knew that what the minions said was not all nonsense, and that disease had indeed become a big threat to them at this time. (To be continued).