"The morale of the army is lost!"

Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh, he didn't mention the people's hearts, because that thing has always been a lie.

Li Zicheng went on an expedition to the east, and none of the ten officials who blocked him were open-door, most of them opened the door to welcome the surrender, are they dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty, no, they feel that the Ming Dynasty is hopeless, and they plan to throw themselves into the arms of the new master and continue to enjoy power.

The people's will is back, but the people's will is useless, and it is the military generals and civilian officials who can call the shots.

If you really want to mention the people's hearts, I am afraid that the common people don't care about the Ming Dynasty and Li Zicheng, they just want to live a peaceful life.

The so-called people's hearts are all woven out of the closed door and used to make flags for themselves.

Some people in mountainous areas have never known who is the emperor all their lives, let alone people's hearts.

Obviously, the officials in the north saw the famine year after year, and they were completely dead to the Ming Dynasty, while Jiangnan was better, and production was not greatly damaged, and Jiangnan officials were more inclined to the Ming Dynasty.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong also knew this very well, so the main area of their activities bypassed the rich Jiangnan, because they didn't know that Jiangnan could grab more things, and they knew that there were few people who responded to them in Jiangnan, so they fought into the dilapidated Henan again and again, because they knew that no matter how many people they lost here, they would be able to replenish it quickly.

"Set up camp on the other side, pay attention to Cangzhou!"

Yang Chao had no interest in conquering Cangzhou, and Cangzhou City did not let him in, which made Yang Chao quite disappointed, and his army's supplies were burned, hoping to find a city.

Now his 300 people are obviously unable to contribute to Cangzhou, which is "united as one", and the irony is that if every city of the Ming Dynasty has this enthusiasm for surrender. The Ming Dynasty will not die.

I just stayed in Cangzhou for half a day, and I didn't wait for reinforcements, but I waited for a large number of cavalry. They surrounded Yang Chao's large battalion, but after a few cavalrymen who were too close were shot by Yang Chao's birds. They were all around from afar, and they were not in a hurry to attack.

Yang Chao was surrounded.

Yu Jiye's mood became more and more depressed, three of his men had died, and seven people were always struggling on the death line, and their bodies were very hot, but there was no decoction to heal.

The three princes were complaining one by one, and after finding out that these soldiers did not dare to hurt them, they became more and more unwilling to cooperate. After walking a few dozen meters, they shouted that they couldn't walk, and they wanted to take a car.

Those palace maids didn't shout one by one, but they men were squeamish.

Especially the crown prince Zhu Cihong kept saying that he had a stomachache and had to go to the thatched house dozens of times a day.

Yu Jiye, as a military attache family, did not dare to slack off on these princes, and always respected them, but the other party became more and more fearless, and he couldn't walk much in a day.

From Wu Qing was delayed all night, and everyone slept in danger.

There were 3,000 cavalry surrounding Yang Chao, but fortunately there were no heavy weapons. I can't help Yang Chao's camp.

just watched these people burn their boats, which made Yang Chao very uncomfortable.

There are also three days' rations in the army, if the food is exhausted. It's time to find a way to break through.

For one day, two days, there was no Yu Jiye in the north, and there were no male reinforcements in the south.

On the third day, Yang Chao mobilized his subordinates, intending to break out at night.

But at this time, someone suddenly saw the figure of reinforcements.

Many men finally arrived.

The captives also found many male reinforcements, and immediately greeted them, but they were beaten indiscriminately by Wang Pu's army array, and then the tiger squat cannon fired a volley. The heavy infantry formation followed, and the cavalry immediately dispersed.

The two armies are combined. The cavalry was still wandering around, and it was clear that it was impossible for them to abandon Cangzhou.

"Many men. Go and knock Cangzhou down for me! ”

Many men were ordered to organize their men.

Only put the tiger squat cannon under the city for a round, the city gate was opened, and the magistrate of Cangzhou County took people out to greet him, and repeatedly said that it was a misunderstanding, and they were committed to the king.

Yang Chao didn't care about the speculative psychology of these people, and after entering, he sealed the warehouse in Cangzhou first.

I got 20,000 loads of military rations, I had food in my hands, I didn't panic, and I confronted the peasant army cavalry in a down-to-earth manner.

At this time the cavalry gathered again, and the losses were not heavy.

Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh, fighting cavalry has to be cavalry.

Just now he saw a lot of men's military formations, a new style of wall formation that he began to ponder when he was in Haizhou, the first row of big shields, a row of bird gunners in the back, a row of archers, and a row of crossbowmen, three layers of long-range fire strikes are very sharp, there are sword and shield hands on both sides, they not only need to guard against the two wings, but also these strong guys are also carrying dozens of pounds of tiger squat cannons, after the long-range fire strike, they immediately go forward to unfold the formation, immediately put a round of tiger squat cannons, and immediately tear the cavalry formation, Even the elite cavalry of the Three Walls was no exception.

"This formation is available!"

Yang Chao thought to himself, he was quite satisfied with his new-style military formation.

But Yang Chao doesn't plan to go out of the city to fight for the time being, his purpose is not to kill many people, but to save people, even if it is enough to save one person, so just stay in Cangzhou and wait quietly, and let people pay attention to the situation in the north every day, if a small army appears, immediately go out of the city to greet it.

"Don't use cannons, don't go out of the city, let the Liukou rest assured to surround Cangzhou!"

The reinforcements brought a hundred tiger squat cannons, which were cast by the gunners during the period of going to Zhejiang to suppress bandits, and equipped the troops after passing the three inspections of Lao Jin, and there were still some large caliber general cannons and Furlong machine guns in Cangzhou City, but they did not fire a cannon in the face of Yang Chao.

Yang Chao didn't plan to use artillery to force the peasant army too far, so he let them stay under the city to prevent them from going north and threatening Yu Jiye and them.

As soon as Yu Jiye and the others appeared, Yang Chao planned to use the power of thunder to tear apart the defense line and respond to Yu Jiye.

"My lord, what about those guys?"

After many men finally ate a full meal, they asked Yang Chao indignantly.

The guys he said were referring to a group of Ming troops, the Ming army of the Gao Jie Division.

Gao Jie is a general under Li Zicheng, but he hooked up with Li Zicheng's wife, and after the incident, he fled with his own soldiers and horses, and had a big enmity with Li Zicheng, so Li Zicheng rose in the north. He didn't dare to stay, and fled south in a hurry, but he pretended that Li Zicheng was an army. In Hebei, Shandong, cheating, eating and drinking.

In the end, he encountered Yang Chao's reinforcements, and boldly sent people to sneak attack. I wanted to snatch the supplies, but I didn't succeed, and in my anger, I set fire to the boat and other things.

Many men went out to capture some prisoners, and after interrogation, they learned that they were not really rogues, but pretended to be angry, but fortunately he was not Wang Pu's temper, otherwise he would have killed these prisoners a long time ago.

"Kill!"

Yang Chao said coldly.

It's just a matter of pretending to be a rogue to cheat and eat and drink, after all, everyone is afraid of Li Zicheng at this time. The slogan of Kaicheng to welcome the king is very loud, but the Ming army is very unpopular, and they hit a wall everywhere, and the city of the Ming Dynasty does not let them enter, does not give them supplies, and the local heroes are especially protective of them, so it is also a last resort to pretend that the peasant army deceives people.

But if you use the false to confuse the real and rob the friendly army, you will completely lose your position, this is a rebellion!

Dozens of heads soon hung on the city's head. Since they pretended to be peasant soldiers, they simply told the people who became that these were their comrades-in-arms.

It's a pity. The sense of honor of the peasant army does not seem to be strong, the heads of their fake comrades-in-arms are hung on the wall, they are not at all indifferent and do not come to attack the city, they just wander outside the city.

"Cangzhou City is besieged? What to do? ”

Yu Jiye observed Cangzhou from afar, and found the cavalry at the first time, and they could only hide nearby.

"Can you get around?"

Xie Fei asked.

Yu Jiye hesitated a little: "Your Excellency's order is to let us move along the river." ”

"But the adults said that they answered us, and now the adults are there?"

Bian Er shouted dissatisfiedly, he has also been upset recently. looked at his 'daughter-in-law' no matter how she looked at it, she didn't look as good as others, but that woman actually recognized herself. It's okay to shush yourself and ask for warmth, and you really think of yourself as his father-in-law, and it's not for Bian Er to refuse. It's not acceptable, I've been teased by my comrades-in-arms, and I've blushed.

Xie Fei frowned and said, "Bian Er, don't talk about these!" ”

Yu Jiye suddenly thought: "Do you think the adults will be in the city?" ”

Xie Fei smiled bitterly: "If the adults are in the city, can they still be surrounded by rogues?" ”

The soldiers who followed Yang Chao to participate in the Battle of Haizhou all had an extremely superstitious trust in Yang Chao, feeling that as long as Yang Chao was there, he would be invincible in the world.

"Bian Er, what are you doing?"

At this time, Bian Er suddenly touched out, and the cat walked towards the front with his waist bent, this place was already very close to Cangzhou, and the camp of Liukou was not far away.

Soon Bian Er dragged back a captive.

"Ask him!"

The captive was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old child, with a panicked expression: "What kind of heroes are you?" ”

This kid has a Henan accent.

But he was born burly and powerful, and if he is not a master like Bian Er, he may not be able to control him.

"You don't care who we are, what kind of people are you?"

Yu Jiye took out a knife holder and asked him around his neck.

Soon got the answer he wanted, this is Liu Fangliang's vanguard, Yishui's cavalry, is here to cut off the connection between Cangzhou and the south.

"Where did the Ming army in the city come from?"

Yu Jiye asked again.

Soon there was an answer, and the soldiers said that they couldn't figure it out, that they had surrounded a small group of Ming troops, and that this Ming army array was very strange and so on.

Through the description of the captive, Yu Jiye was immediately overjoyed, and he had already judged that the eight achievements in the city were his own people.

"What now?"

Xie Fei's heart also became excited, although it was very strange why the invincible General Yang in his eyes was besieged, he still asked hopefully.

Yu Jiye thought for a while: "Go back first!" We'll talk about it in the evening. ”

Yang Chao waited in Cangzhou for three days, and was very worried about the speed of Yu Jiye and his party, it was an elite, everyone could ride a horse, if they couldn't find a boat, they should ride a horse to Cangzhou, which could only show that they were very unhappy, and Yang Chao hoped that they would not have an accident.

"My lord, something is wrong!"

As soon as he fell asleep in the middle of the night, many men broke in and woke Yang Chao up loudly.

"What's going on!"

Yang Chao got up and asked.

Many men wondered: "The Liukou North Camp is on fire!" ”

When Yang Chao heard this, he was slightly puzzled, and immediately woke up: "Quick, the whole battalion will attack and defeat the captives!" (To be continued...... ）。