It was not too difficult to open the floodgates of Linhongkou, and Song Lian led people to get things done early the next morning, and the water level in Haizhou City began to drop slowly.

Haizhou City was flooded in the end, but as Yang Chao thought, it was not too serious, the average water on the streets was less than three feet, and the most flooded houses in the city were only half built, but compared to the result of exterminating the Tartars, it was still worth paying such a price.

The owner of the house also expressed his understanding for this, especially after Yang Chao gave thirty taels of silver as the cost of rebuilding and twenty taels as compensation for property damage, he had no second words, and said that his family has always had a tradition of supporting the army under the envy of his neighbors why his own house was not flooded.

In order to pay for hundreds of seriously flooded houses in the city, Yang Chao paid tens of thousands of taels of silver.

However, Yang Chao has calculated carefully, this time it is really not a compensation, even if those heads reward the court black, Yang Chao will still not compensate.

Because Yang Chao later discovered a new source of wealth, that is, war horses, war horses of captives.

At that time, I was patronizing and arresting people, and only then did I think about those war horses, but only about 10,000 good horses were collected, and the rest were either washed away by the water or drowned.

As for the drowned horses, Yang Chao didn't go to salvage, and the dead horses that had been soaked in the flood didn't know how many bacteria there were, so they didn't dare to eat them.

It was not until the third day that the water conservancy experts in Haizhou City finally blocked the Rose River.

The method used is very simple, drive the boat to the gap, the boat is filled with stones, directly chisel, after dozens of small boats, the gap is finally blocked, and then the people are mobilized to work on the shore. Patch the gap thoroughly.

Fortunately, the Rose River is not the Yellow River, otherwise this method is obviously unreliable, of course, if it is replaced by the Yellow River. I didn't dare to think about digging to kill Yang Chao, that thing was not as simple as a city when it was flooded. That would have to mobilize the forces of the whole country to fight it.

However, I heard that Li Zicheng and the Ming army have dug the Yellow River outside Kaifeng in recent years, first the Ming army dug the river, but they are obviously too unprofessional, after digging the river for the first time, it turned out that the flood did not flood Li Zicheng, because Li Zicheng's camping technology is very professional, and the place chosen is not only high terrain and convenient drainage, but it has broken off the Ming army's own grain transportation channel.

It is said that the mastermind of this digging of the Yellow River. It is Hou Xun, the father of Hou Fangyu, one of the four princes, and it turns out that a big civil official like Shangshu of the Ministry of War is indeed bolder than Yang Chao, a military general, but Hou Xun was later sent to prison by Emperor Chongzhen, and Yang Chao has not come out before he comes to Haizhou, so I don't know if it has anything to do with him digging the Yellow River.

The second digging of the river was Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng not only camped higher than the Ming army, but also the technology of digging the river was stronger than the Ming army, Li Zicheng dug the Yellow River, not only did not rush to himself, but also very smoothly washed away Kaifeng City. Li Zicheng broke through the Kaifeng fortified city in this way.

Yang Chao can't control Li Zicheng's problem now, and Yang Chao is in trouble now.

Song Lian, the classic history of Haizhou, came to drive Yang Chao away, obviously this is a bit of a grinding and killing donkey. After eating, the chef tastes ungrateful, but Song Lian said it very well, Lord Yang's soldiers are tired from a long battle, and it is time to go back to Huai'an early to rest.

Yang Chao is not going to go.

The reason is very simple, Haizhou City is still supplying Yang Chao with all kinds of military supplies, and there are thirty bird guns, more than ten pairs of iron armor, and hundreds of spears every day. As well as more than twenty barrels of gunpowder, countless buckshot shells.

It was easy to force Haizhou into a military production city. It's a pity to leave now, Yang Chao has left, and countless military industrial employees are not allowed to be laid off. How to solve the problem of unemployment?

Well, this question is actually vexatious and unspeakable.

Yang Chao's excuse was very great, he told Song Lian, the history of Haizhou, that he couldn't bear to see the people of Haizhou hungry.

Righteous words expressed: Before the people of Haizhou did not eat the rice from Huai'an for a day, he would not leave for a day, and shared weal and woe with the people of Haizhou.

Song Lian left helplessly, he is a civil official, there is really no way to deal with a scoundrel like Yang Chao, if he was a rough person, he would have scolded him a long time ago.

Youma, you have eaten more than four people for one soldier, and you are still sharing weal and woe with the people of Haizhou.

Up to now, Yang Chao still refuses to reduce the food supply of the soldiers, not only his 500 elite soldiers cannot be less, but even the more than 3,000 people who follow him cannot be less, well, Yang Chao does have the intention of currying favor with these people now, or trying to win over these people.

If you can't fool yourself into becoming a soldier in Nanjing, then you are really sorry for the tens of thousands of captives who let them try the knife and pay for their lives.

Therefore, during this time, Yang Chao still let these people eat and drink well, and still insisted on letting the officers train them, but it was strictly forbidden for the officers to beat and scold, and for a while, the officers under Yang Chao were all model instructors who cared for the people.

Ten days passed in a hurry, and the life-saving food from Huai'an was far away, but the people of Haizhou were not as panicked as before, because they were surrounded by captives before, but now it is mainly the problem that the grain has not arrived, there was no hope before, and now it is only a temporary difficulty.

So Song Lian planned to reduce the quota of the people of Haizhou again.

You must know that in the past, the people's rations were half of the soldiers', but later they were lowered once and became a quarter, and if they were reduced, they would really starve to death, so Yang Chao suggested that Song Lian mobilize the enthusiasm of the people and be self-reliant.

Let Song Lian organize the people to go out of the city to fish, catch Tianwa, Bo bark, and dig wild vegetables.

Anyway, the water has receded, and it is already convenient to get out of the city.

After the flood receded, the remnants of many captives were revealed, which made it quite regrettable that the treasures of the captives that Yang Chao had been longing for did not appear, and according to the habits of the captives, half of what they grabbed would still be confiscated, which meant that there should be a large amount of public wealth in the captive camp.

It's a pity that Yang Chao was disappointed, these captives were all galloping from Shandong, except for the private belongings that no one was willing to hand over, those confiscated belongings had already been escorted to Qingzhou to hand over the captives to the Kou Headquarters, and now they are all lying in the warehouse of Mr. Abatai, the commander-in-chief of the Kou Army.

There was no property, but a group of captives were recovered.

Let Yang Chao get the number of heads to break through to 7,000 people, and the iron armor has reached 2,000 pairs, yes, most of the captives who drowned first and were not washed away by the flood behind were iron armor, and most of them were double-layer armor.

Of course, not all of these 7,000 heads have been cut off, and a thousand heads are still growing on the shoulders of the captives, because these people were captured alive, and during this time, they were all half-dead, and Yang Chao planned to hand them over to Shi Kefa to sacrifice prisoners.

Last time, I brought two living people to Shi Kefa, one is still a minor boy, and he really can't hold up the scene, and now there are a thousand people who can probably make Emperor Chongzhen show off, and more importantly, Yang Chao himself is a little eager for that kind of limelight scene, think about it, and a thousand captives walked up Daming Street, and were watched by countless people in the capital, do you ask: Which hero caught these Tartars?

Being in the limelight is not the goal, being famous is also dispensable, Yang Chao's real purpose is to attract the attention of the emperor, if it can be reused by the emperor, Yang Chao has the confidence to completely change the fate of the country, the Ming Dynasty may not die, as for whether the captives want to enter the customs, it can only be the next time and space.

The people of Haizhou suffered from hunger for another ten days, and they were finally relieved, and the grain fleet from Huai'an finally came.

Countless people were watching from the wharf, but they still couldn't get life-saving food, even if the rich people among them waved their tickets and wanted to get some rice porridge for their babies who were waiting to be fed.

Because this first batch of grain is military food, it is Yang Chao's food, not for sale!

Well, this batch of grain was not sent by Shi Kefa, but by Wang Xiao.

Yang Chao personally watched the high-spirited Wang Xiao on the dock and couldn't wait, without waiting for the boat to stop, he jumped onto the dock, and then ran quickly to Yang Chao, holding Yang Chao's arm excitedly.

"Brother Yang! Served! ”

Wang Xiao said excitedly, he really didn't expect Yang Chao to be able to wipe out all the captives.

"Haha, Brother Wang, thank you very much for sending this grain so quickly, it really solves our urgent need, Haizhou is going to run out of food completely!"

Yang Chao said with a smile.

Wang Xiao sighed and said: "It's boring to say this, compared to your life in Haizhou, the little brother is really very guilty!" The transfer of military rations is not enough. ”

Yang Chao said again: "Is there only food?" ”

Yang Chao was a little worried, during this period of time just eating rice, his soldiers were a little malnourished, dozens of soldiers were sick, there was obvious swelling, Yang Chao had to kill hundreds of equally weak war horses to supplement the nutrition of the whole army, as a result, until now the war horses that died of illness during the period were removed, and there were only 9,000 war horses left in Yang Chao's hands.

Wang Xiao waved his hand: "In addition to grain, there are also a hundred pigs and thousands of chickens and ducks." ”

Yang Chao said again: "Thank you, Brother Wang, I know that you are careful." ”

Wang Xiao said: "There is no need to thank the little brother, in fact, these pigs, cattle and sheep were all sent by the rich businessmen in Huai'an, and they also came to the labor army, and now there are a few on the boat, begging to introduce Brother Yang." In addition to pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese, there are also 100 loads of wine. ”

When Yang Chao heard this, this can be a banquet, after winning such a big victory, he didn't even put up a celebration banquet, not because he didn't want to put it, but because he really didn't have materials to luxury, he originally thought that he would go to Huai'an, and even treat everyone after returning to Nanjing.

Well, now these wealthy merchants in Huai'an have sent enough grain, wine and meat, and it is too much to say if they don't celebrate well. (To be continued).