Section 244 The captives moved again
This is, a landslide!
Of course, Yang Chao would not believe that the mountain god was angry, it had rained heavily for more than ten days, and the soil on the mountain had long been loose, but at this time, the red-clothed cannon had bombarded dozens of times, and the more than ten catties of lead bullet were not a joke, and it was not impossible to cause a landslide.
However, the captive battalion halfway up the mountain was fun, and their luck was really bad, and the landslide bore the brunt.
Although the final result was that the entire camp of Qishan was not destroyed, the half of the camp on the right collapsed by the impact, and even a part of the earth and stones were rolled down the mountain, and the entire camp of captives was in a panic, with people roaring and neighing, and galloping in all directions.
The great panic lasted for half an hour before the officers of the captives suppressed the soldiers.
An hour later, I saw the captives carrying large bags and small bags, leading horses and carts, and moving down the mountain in despair.
went down the mountain, then went west along the moat, and swam across the Rose River one by one with a wooden hand, and went directly to the west camp.
"Quick, fire them all! Free Attack! ”
These embarrassed captives, what are you waiting for if you don't fight at this time, there is no danger in beating the water dogs, only benefits.
But Yang Chao's orders rarely failed, and the soldiers were very frightened, and none of them dared to fight, especially those gunners, who were all transferred from Huai'an Shi Kefa, according to reason, Yang Chao was only temporarily in charge of them, and they were even less serious about Yang Chao's orders.
"Chang Craftsman, quickly organize the gunners to open fire, the tiger squat cannon can hit them!"
Yang Chao was anxious, and immediately found the head of the gunner, that is, the gunner who had been busy leading people to play with the red-clothed cannon just now.
As a result, Chang Jiangtou was the most frightened, and his head shook like a rattle: "I can't fight, I can't fight." My lord, the mountain god is angry. The cannon disturbed the mountain god and didn't dare to fight anymore! ”
knew that this was nonsense, but Yang Chao couldn't explain it. Even Yang Chao himself is no longer so firmly atheistic, because he can't explain how he got to the Ming Dynasty.
Worship the ghosts and stay away. Yang Chao has never considered this problem, but now he has to think about it, not for himself, but how to dispel the doubts of the gunners, not to mention the gunners, even his own soldiers, at this time, one by one are shocked, they all think that the mountain god is angry.
Even many people have already knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
"Chang Craftsman. The mountain god is angry not because of your cannon. The mountain god was angry because those Tartars should have camped on the mountain god's body, which angered the mountain god, so they trampled their camp flat! When we fight the tartars, not only will the mountain god not be angry, but it is still something that makes the mountain god happy. ”
Although he knew that he was talking nonsense, the soldiers accepted it, the gunners accepted it, and the people believed it. Yang Chao can be regarded as acting according to the law.
Sure enough, there was a look of hesitation on Chang Jiangtou's face.
Yang Chao called several officers again: "Tell the soldiers that the mountain god hates Tartars, and these Tartars cut trees and hunt in the mountains." provoked the mountain god to be angry, and now he is hitting the tartar hard, and the mountain god is happy. Otherwise, if the mountain god is still angry, he may have to step on Haizhou City. ”
The officer's face was also shocked, after all, the sudden large-scale "movement" of the trees on the mountain really made these people who had no natural knowledge in awe, they themselves had no bottom in their hearts, and it made sense to hear Yang Chao's explanation, if it wasn't so, why did the mountain god collapse the camp of the Tartars.
So one by one, they immediately went down to spread Yang Chao's ghost stories to their soldiers.
The gunners also hesitated to get a few cannons. Then a few shots were fired in a small area, but not a few Tartars were killed. It just made them panic even more, and they ran away. Far from Haizhou City.
Turg felt that his luck had been bad.
As soon as the ten-day covenant was made, suddenly the mountain fell, smashing half of the battalion, and a thousand people were directly buried, and no less than a thousand were injured.
Like the Ming army, the captives were also very superstitious and even more religious.
Moreover, the worship of mountain gods is also prevalent in the northeast, and the craft of picking ginseng is learned from the hands of the Han people, and the worship of the mountain god is also learned from the Han people, and the Manchurians also have to sacrifice ginseng every year.
The vast majority of captives thought that this was the mountain god who was angry, and the mountain god of the Han people was dissatisfied with their killing of the Han people, but the Mongolians did not worship the mountain god very much, they had natural river worship, of course, now more are enshrined in the living Buddha, so the Mongolians do not think that the mountain god is angry, but think that this is the power of the Ming army's cannons.
This is even more terrifying, the artillery of the Ming army is so fierce, this battle is still a fart, let alone now, I am afraid that the entire Liaodong has already let Yuan Chonghuan, who invented the cannon tactics of using Jiancheng, be flattened.
Not to mention the soldiers, even Turg himself was uncertain, to put it bluntly, he was just a captive chieftain, and he was also very superstitious, so he also felt a mysterious power in his heart, as if the gods were warning him to leave quickly.
For a moment, Turg deeply felt a feeling that the heavens were going to kill me.
Not to mention the other captives, even he had a feeling of immediately getting up camp and returning to Liaodong.
But the fear of Huang Taiji overcame the awe of the mountain god, the mountain god who can't be seen or touched can't kill him, but Huang Taiji can not only kill him, but also kill his family.
Therefore, Turg immediately ordered to relocate, first moving the large camp to the west camp, after the north camp and the east camp were combined, the east camp obviously could not accommodate them, although the west camp was small, but relatively speaking, there was still space.
Anyway, I don't dare to stay in the mountains anymore, move to the flat ground, maybe the mountain god's divine power can't take care of anywhere, in that case, it can still be surrounded for a few days, if it reaches the flat land, the mountain god can still collapse their camp, then don't say hurry up.
Therefore, in just a few days, the captives moved the camp twice, the first time the north camp was moved to the east camp, that was because of the stagnant water, and this time the main camp was moved to the west camp, because the mountain god was angry, this natural irresistible force, the captive soldiers' already loose military spirit was completely hit to the brink of collapse.
Someone started fleeing that night, that's a story for later.
Yang Chao felt sorry for the city at this time, he missed the opportunity, and watched the captives walk outside the city, but because his own soldiers were equally afraid, no one dared to go up to fight for a long time, if his soldiers were high morale. Just now, I took people to fight directly, and it is estimated that it is also a stable win.
The good thing is that my own people are slowly recovering. And the fighting spirit is getting stronger and stronger, after all, the landslide destroyed the camp of the captives. Coupled with Yang Chao's explanation, everyone naturally believed that it was because the captives provoked the mountain god, and after everyone's limited bombardment of the captives, the mountain slowly calmed down, and everyone felt that it was because they beat the tartars to please the mountain god.
Even the immortals are on their side, and the morale is not high to see the hell.
Looking at the higher and higher morale, as well as the captives who had already entered the West Camp, Yang Chao could only reluctantly accept the fact that he had lost a good opportunity.
However, his original intention of boosting morale with artillery bombardment was achieved. And the effect greatly exceeded expectations, thanks to the mountain god!
At the same time, Yang Chao faced a new situation, that is, the northern battalion of the captives moved to the east camp, and the south camp moved to the west camp, forming a trend of attacking Haizhou from the east and the west.
At this time, no matter what happened in the west camp or the east camp, the captives on the opposite side would know it, which meant that the joint operations of the captives in the future were basically impossible to realize.
Moreover, after the captives gave up the Qishan Mountain, Yang Chao was equal to getting the opportunity to retreat from the south. Whether it is to retreat over the Qushan Mountain, or to leave by boat directly from the river, I believe that the captives will not be able to stop themselves.
It's not difficult to climb the mountain. It is a small hill and is easy to pass, but considering the reverence of his subordinates for the mountain god, basically no one dares to walk from the mountain.
It's not difficult to walk from the river, as long as there are some boats, put them into the moat from outside the southern city, and go directly to the Rose River, and the western camp of the captives will be dispatched to intercept it? Artillery bombarded them, and there was artillery in the city to cover them. The captives could not intercept the fleet, after all, they could not charge on horseback on the river. Archery, it rains so hard as long as they are willing to damage the bow and arrow for eating. Let them shoot well, it won't be much power anyway.
So in the face of the emerging situation, Yang Chao's plan was to build a ship.
Haizhou is close to the canal, and there are salt ships coming and going all the year round, and it is really impossible to say that there are no shipbuilders here.
There are not only craftsmen, but also workshops, not only workshops, but also materials.
Yang Chao soon found some shipwrights and asked them to start building ships.
But Yang Chao's actions soon attracted the attention of Haizhou City.
To be exact, the concern of the Haizhou state capital.
Song Lian was like a frightened bird, and soon found Yang Chao, and asked Yang Chao with no confidence to what he wanted.
Yang Chao told him that he could probably break through and put Song Lian half to death.
jumped to his feet and threatened, saying that without his consent, not a single boat in Haizhou could be built, and without his consent, no one would want to leave.
Yang Chao held back a smile, watching Song Lian perform for a quarter of an hour, until the end, it was only a threat of side knocking, and he never dared to scold Yang Chao, Yang Chao knew that he had probably made this scholar very helpless, and he didn't want to make friends with him, but he couldn't do without Yang Chao's military support.
Then Yang Chao showed some maps of the Haizhou water system to Song Lian.
"Lord Song, please look, the main water system in Haizhou is the Rose River!"
Yang Chao pointed to the picture, and said along a river that came from the southwest and went around the northeast like the sea.
Song Lian finally calmed down and snorted, "So what? ”
Haizhou's water conservancy terrain, he thinks he is more familiar with than Yang Chao.
Yang Chao's fingers finally slid to the lower reaches of the Rose River to the northeast of Haizhou more than ten miles, and the map marked the flood outlet!
Song Lian seemed to have caught something, and glanced at Yang Chao suspiciously.
Yang Chao couldn't help but laugh and said: "That Daodian Shi Master thinks that this official is building a ship to run?" ”
Song Lian couldn't help blushing, he really thought so, but if he wanted to run, Yang Chao would probably have run early, and he wouldn't even come.
coughed a few times to hide the embarrassment: "Naturally, the official didn't think so!" ”
Yang Chao didn't poke it either, and said, "Then now this official needs Lord Song a little favor!" (To be continued).