Since the appearance of captives in Haizhou City, the news has almost been cut off, even if there were only about 300 captives at the beginning, but the news of Haizhou City and other places was still blocked.

No one wanted to investigate the news of the captives, even if they were ordered from above, and those scouts would often drill wherever they wanted, and after a few days, they would come back to report some hearsay, and it was extremely exaggerated.

At the beginning, as soon as captives and rangers appeared near Haizhou, Haizhou dared to send people to say that there were thousands of troops and horses as far as the eye could see.

After Yang Chao's rescue for a long time, there was no news, and the scouts sent by Shi Kefa continued to affirm this statement, and every time they reported to Huai'an that Haizhou was surrounded by thousands of troops and horses, in fact, they did not go to Haizhou at all, in fact, there were only a few hundred captives in Haizhou at that time to confront Yang Chao, and in the end, this captives were directly beaten to death by Yang Chao.

As a result, when the news that Yang Chao defeated hundreds of captives and beheaded hundreds of people spread, everyone knew that there were only so many people in Haizhou.

No one pursued such a thing.

Immediately the salt merchant became bolder, it turned out that there were only so many captives, it turned out to be a group of robbers who came to fight the autumn wind, and they were also disabled, what is there to be afraid of.

So they lost most of their business for more than half a year, and they wanted to open immediately, and the salt merchants who made up for the losses immediately sent ships to set off, you must know that they lost more than just profits, although they had no way to do business for most of the year, and were even asked by the government to donate money in the open, and officials such as Shi Kefa forced them to pay money to strengthen the city defense and build weapons, and those officials who were not so decent would not open because of the salt merchants' trading. Regardless of the "common practice" that the salt merchants should give, the salt merchant groups can be said to be sitting on empty food during this time, and they have a lot of family wealth. I will also panic in my heart.

As a result, the first fleet sent out by the salt merchants to clear the wasteland had just arrived near Haizhou. As a result, Nima, didn't you say that there were hundreds of captives, didn't you say that they were all killed and disabled, then this captive soldier who was all over the sky and surrounded Haizhou was not able to come from the sky?

The first fleet of salt merchants only glanced at the vicinity of Haizhou from a distance, and ran back frantically as if they were dead, for fear that they would be caught up by the captives if they ran slowly.

The captives also saw a huge fleet. But first, they were besieging the city, and they had no spare strength to pursue, and they had just finished the night battle, and that tragic night battle, after the sneak attack on the city was successful, they were forced to be beaten down by Yang Chao with a cannon, that kind of defeat was a subversive defeat, and the spiritual blow to the army that had developed the habit of despising the Ming army and having developed the habit of victory was much greater than that of the army that often failed, because their inherent concepts were subverted. You will definitely experience confusion in a short period of time.

Therefore, these captives were very worried about the combat effectiveness of the Ming army in Jiangnan, for fear that the Ming army in Jiangnan was a fierce guy like Yang Chao, so they didn't want to easily provoke the Ming army in Jiangnan. Even the first moment they saw the huge fleet, they thought not to chase, but to escape, and they took it for granted that the huge fleet of these salt merchants was a reinforcement for the Ming army.

After the two groups of people startled each other, each had a different reaction, the salt merchant's fleet ran back lifelessly, and the captives were stunned for a moment and found that the other party had run away, which means that they are not those guys who dare to play with their lives in Haizhou City. So I chased it and chased it for more than ten miles. As a result, Mao did not catch up, although these fleets were not as effective as the Ming army in the city. The ability to run away one by one made the captives out of reach, and they were still under siege, so they had to give up.

The salt merchant's fleet ran back to Huai'an without danger, and it was a miracle that they had returned in five days, which had been at least ten days away.

When these fleets returned, they naturally brought back the situation in Haizhou, and brought panic, because their news was seriously inaccurate, and because of the panic they exaggerated what they saw hundreds of times, and even they felt that it was true, and even the most stable people told their hosts that there were at least 100,000 captives outside Haizhou.

Shi Kefa repeatedly confirmed, and even personally interrogated more than a dozen salt merchants, and the news he got was almost the same, and Shi Kefa believed that the army of captives surrounded Haizhou City, and there were at least 100,000 people.

The figure of 100,000 was reported to various places from Huai'an Fatang through official channels as conclusive news, and at the same time, together with this Tang newspaper, it was always sent to various places to ask for help.

Shi Kefa is not a civil official with no sense of responsibility, Yu Private, it was he who sent Yang Chao to Haizhou, but he was besieged by the army of captives and fell into death, and then he didn't care, he didn't want to go, Yu Gong, let the captives besiege Haizhou, it was too dangerous for Jiangnan, you must know that after the captives captured Haizhou, fools knew that they would kill Huai'an along the canal, then Yangzhou, and then Nanjing.

Therefore, Shi Kefa can't ignore it in public and private, but the number of defenders in Huai'an is not very large, and those deputy generals of the general army have persuaded Shi Kefa to focus on Huai'an, or that there must be ghosts when so many captives besiege Haizhou but have not beaten down, it must be a plan to encircle and send reinforcements, so that Shi Kefa must not be fooled, Shi Kefa is a responsible person, but only lacks decisiveness, and it is easy to hesitate before the big event, he also feels that what these generals said is reasonable, and in the end he can only desperately send a request for help to other places.

Of course, no one responded to Shi Kefa's request, and no one would send a single soldier to Huai'an.

These news reached the city of Beijing, the emperor was quite sad, in his opinion Yang Chao was dead, in just half a month, the names of Haizhou and Yang Chao have appeared in his ears twice, the first time was to send three hundred military merit heads, which have been inspected and confirmed by the Ministry of War, the vast majority of them are real Tartar heads, a small number of them are also Mongolian heads, none of them are good people who kill good people and take meritorious deeds.

Chongzhen confirmed earlier than the Ministry of War, because he believed in Shi Kefa's inquest, so he had already sent a reward to Yang Chao earlier, but he didn't expect that Yang Chao, the total reward of Xiaoqian, had not yet arrived, and he was about to die.

The Beijing Military Department also attached great importance to the siege of Haizhou by 100,000 captives, and they did not care too much about the small matter of a small Qian Zong being besieged. However, they attached great importance to the direction of action of the 100,000 captives, and when they heard that 100,000 captives were heading south to Haizhou, the military headquarters had to worry about the main force of the captives going south. So he sent an urgent alarm to Nanjing, asking Jiangnan to ensure the safety of Nanjing.

When the news reached the officialdom of Nanjing.

Mother Yang was furious at home and didn't say anything. scolded everyone from top to bottom, and Yang's father was also extremely worried, Yang Chao was his only son, Yang Yue was shocked three times a day, and his brother was surrounded by 100,000 captives, which had to be eaten raw.

Some of the poor women in the Qinglou were all frightened, and they heard that more than one shed tears of pity for Yang Chao.

The most comedic reaction is officialdom. Xiong Mingyu first received Shi Kefa's distress document, of course, he didn't see it, where are there still soldiers in Jiangnan to shoot, Nanjing is extremely empty, and the governor of Fengyang has taken too many Jiangnan soldiers and horses, and he is fighting fiercely with the Liukou in Henan and Huguang.

Later, Xiong Mingyu received a strict order from Beijing to protect Nanjing, and he had an excuse not to send reinforcements to Shi Kefa.

And Xiong Mingyu immediately invited Gu Zhaoji to a banquet, if the captives really went south, Gu Zhaoji, a noble who mastered the Yangtze River Naval Army, would be good at the market, and he couldn't help but make friends. So he took the initiative to feast Gu Zhaoji. The attitude is very friendly, it seems that there has never been any friction between the two, and the reinstatement of Gu Zhaoji's brother-in-law Cui Wei as the deputy general of the Yanziji battalion is just a trivial matter. Xiong Mingyu said that it would definitely be done within a month.

Feng Kezong was once again invited to attend the banquet that Xu Zhongxiao set for him, and smiled at the 1,000 taels of silver tickets that Xu Zhongxiao had extorted from nowhere, and the two talked very happily and felt like confidants.

Feng Kezong is much more courageous this time, Nima, 100,000 captives have surrounded you to death, can you still escape, can you fly? When he thought of flying, Feng Kezong later recalled that he really looked up at the sky at that time.

Feng Kezong was still cautious and repeatedly confirmed the news that Yang Chao was surrounded and killed in Haizhou by 100,000 captives. When he found that even the Beijing Military Department had warned Jiang Nan to be careful, Feng Kezong was convinced that Yang Chao was indeed surrounded by 100,000 captives. He didn't believe that Yang Chao could escape.

The army of the Ming Dynasty has so far been targeted by captives. There is no one who can retreat with his whole body, even if he hides in the city, he will definitely not be able to prevent it, unless the captives themselves do not want to break the city, but the captives have an army of 100,000 to surround such a small city as Haizhou, how can it not be a real siege, the consideration of the Beijing Military Department is to be old-fashioned, obviously the captives are planning to take Haizhou, and then use Haizhou as a springboard to continue south.

At this point, Feng Kezong dared to accept Xu Zhongxiao's banquet again, and once again accept the filial piety of Xu Zhongxiao, a thousand households who are very good at being a man.

But after Feng Kezong went once, he suddenly didn't want to go again, although he told himself that he didn't have to be afraid of Yang Chao in the future, he was not afraid, but when he went to be with Yang Chao's enemy, and Xu Zhongxiao, who was designated to clean up, Feng Kezong still couldn't help but feel weak, and his heart was panicked.

As a reasonable person, Xu Zhongxiao didn't believe that Yang Chao could come back from Haizhou intact anyway, how could it be possible, I hadn't heard that under the siege of 100,000 captives, there was a Ming army that could escape safely, of course, except for Wu Sangui who was brave and crowned the three armies, but Wu Sangui only saved his father in the thousands of troops, and Wu Sangui had three thousand families in his hands, each of whom was a good man in Liaodong who rode a horse and galloped without losing to the Tartars.

As for Yang Chao, there are only a few hundred people, surrounded by 100,000 captives, and it is difficult to fly even if he has wings.

As for the number of words 100,000, it's not that no one doubts it, but the situation that came out of the captives this time is too bizarre, and some people rumored that the captives rode millions on foot, otherwise how could they fight from Liaodong to Shandong? In particular, Jiangnan, who had never seen captives, did not know that Manchuria was only a very small regime, with a population of less than one million.

Therefore, it is not completely implausible to say that 100,000 captives appeared in Haizhou, at least everyone agrees that it is possible, haven't the captives been in Shandong, and the southeast of Shandong is not Haizhou, which is close at hand, and the captives are all cavalry, I am afraid that it will not be able to arrive in a day.

It doesn't matter if others believe it or not, anyway, the officialdom believes it, because the official Tang newspaper sent out from Huai'an is 100,000, which is much lower than most of the news they heard, and in the number of hundreds of thousands to millions, there is a 100,000 word, and even people feel that the government is deliberately concealing the facts, because they are worried about causing panic.

Therefore, Feng Kezong confirmed again and again, from the official channels and from the Jinyiwei channels, the figure of 100,000 was credible.

That's why he decided that Yang Chao was in a catastrophe, and he decided that Yang Chao couldn't press on his head like a shadow like before, making him breathless, but he just didn't dare to collude with Xu Zhongxiao, because when he saw Xu Zhongxiao, he thought of Yang Chao, and when he thought of Yang Chao, he felt a chill in his heart, and finally Feng Kezong decided that before the confirmation of the confirmation of Yang Chao's death, he still didn't get too close to Xu Zhongxiao for the time being, which was really too tormenting.

Of course, the speed at which this kind of news spreads is far slower than the actual war situation in Haizhou.

Because when the earliest salt ships sent from Huai'an to Haizhou arrived in Haizhou, Haizhou had been calm for ten days, and the captives had not attacked the city, but Haizhou was a little critical, and the most critical thing was that Haizhou was about to run out of food.

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