Section 216 Kicking the city

Huang Qi's attitude is even more arrogant than the previous times.

Directly told Yang Chao that his master agreed that Yang Chao should join him when he entered the city, and asked Yang Chao not to play tricks after entering the city, otherwise he would die together with the stone city wall.

Yang Chao hurriedly agreed.

But when he told Huang Qi that he would have to wait a few days, he 'told the truth' that Haizhou City would not let him in, and that he was negotiating with the city officials.

Huang Qi, as a surrendered Ming officer, naturally understood the maladministration of the Ming army and knew the stereotype that the guest army could not enter the city.

Therefore, not only did he not doubt it, but he believed Yang Chao even more, if Yang Chao was cheating, he would have communicated with the city a long time ago, I am afraid that he was in a hurry to enter, and he would not wait for a few days, so it can only be said that Haizhou really did not agree with Yang Chao to enter the city.

So Huang Qi warned Yang Chao to hurry up, his master didn't have much patience.

Yang Chao said he was in urgent contact.

Yang Chao naturally deceived Huang Qi, in fact, Jiang Yang had already come over to reply, and Haizhou Dianshi agreed to let the people enter the city, but refused Yang Chao to enter the city.

Yang Chao is also psychologically prepared for this, at least this classic history is stronger than Zhizhou, and the classic history is also secretly worried that Yang Chao has no other plan to bring troops into the city, but it makes Yang Chao feel that this classic history is thoughtful, after all, there are too many things about the surrender of the Ming army.

Therefore, Yang Chao dragged Huang Qi in order to send the people into the city first, as for his own soldiers, of course, they must also go in, but they must let the undisciplined people in first, as long as their army moves, they will soon be able to enter.

There have always been more than 200 ordinary people in the warehouse, men, women and children, during this time, they ate Yang Chao, drank Yang Chao, and Yang Chao's soldiers are also very familiar, and they have long been nervous at the beginning, and now they are chatting with Yang Chao's soldiers very casually. Even some poor men tried to marry their daughters to Yang Chao's soldiers, and some little widows did not miss this thought, Yang Chao knew that several soldiers also received shoes made by little widows.

After dark. The people who had been notified by Huangfeng Mansion had already quietly walked out of the warehouse one by one. Walking towards Haizhou City with his breath.

When he arrived at the city, Jiang Yang lowered his voice and commanded the password, and soon the hanging baskets were thrown at the battlements one by one, and the people were pulled up one by one.

Then there were all kinds of materials, and the salt was gone, but Yang Chao's iron armor, leather armor, and weapons were quietly transferred to Haizhou City.

When that's all done, it's almost dawn. You can only stop.

On the second day, Huang Qi came in a hurry, Yang Chao told him that he had not yet negotiated with Haizhou City, but he had already sent a thousand taels of silver to the history of the canon, and asked people to dredge up the relationship, Yang Chao also gave Huang Qi a hundred taels of silver very familiarly, Huang Qi immediately praised Yang Chao for being sensible, did not say anything, and went back to the camp of Qishan directly.

In the evening, Yang Chao continued to transfer supplies, this time with artillery. The tiger squat cannon is naturally not a problem, the general cannon and the daughter franc machine are a little difficult, and the 4,000 gold red-coated cannon is simply a problem. These thirty cannons alone took a night of tossing, especially the 4,000-pound red-clothed cannon alone, it took two hours to laboriously get the city wall.

During the day, when Huang Qi came, Yang Chao didn't give him a chance to wander around the camp, and immediately pulled him into the house, entertained him with good wine and meat, and gave him a hundred taels of gold before leaving. left satisfied, as for Yang Chao's begging him for help and accommodation. He agreed with all his mouth, and even wished that Yang Chao would delay it for a few more days. delayed him and was scolded by the master a few times at most, but this is a real benefit to take.

Besides, if you don't dwell on it, how can you reflect the difficulty, if there is no difficulty, how can you reflect his credit, so Huang Qi doesn't care too much about Yang Chao's delay in entering the city, anyway, as long as Yang Chao can finally get in, this great credit will not be able to run, think about going back this time, he can get dozens of coats, plus the harvest of this robbery, his life should be very moist in the future, it seems that he was right to cast a tartar back then.

"Hurry up, it's your turn for Sun Erba!"

At night, the Haizhou guards, who had been hanging for two days, were very skillful in throwing down more than 30 hanging baskets, each of which could hang three people each time, and three times was a team of people.

Yang Chao's soldiers lined up in a neat formation, kicking the city one by one, and the efficiency was very high.

Yang Chao and Jiang Yang stood under Haizhou City, not anxious, there was still no movement from the captives, they were all waiting for Yang Chao to act.

In fact, Yang Chao can kick the city in the daytime, and the reason why it is at night is not to guard against the captive soldiers, but to guard against the Ming army, to be precise, to prevent the civil officials of Haizhou.

After all, the history of Haizhou did not agree to Yang Chao's entry into the city, Yang Chao persuaded the thousands of households in Haizhou, who had an in-law relationship with Jiang Yang's family, and after receiving the benefits of Yang Chao's 1,000 taels of silver, he gritted his teeth and agreed, because he knew very well in his heart that if Yang Chao broke through and left, or died in Haizhou City, then Haizhou City would never be able to resist the attack of tens of thousands of captives, so it was better to let Yang Chao enter the city, and then this strong army might be able to have the strength to fight.

Qianhu is different from those civil officials, his family has been in Haizhou for generations, if Haizhou City is breached, his wife, children, relatives and friends will be finished, so it is impossible for him to be like a civil official, just a single person, just leave, and die when he says he will die.

Therefore, Qianhu agreed to let Yang Chao enter the city, but if it was obstructed by the history of the classics, Qianhu really did not have the courage to argue with the civil officials, although the civil officials were the yamen of flowing water, and their military households were iron-beaten soldiers, but under the civil and military ranks, the civil official group was often twisted into a rope, offending the current civil officials, and no one dared to say whether the successor would find trouble.

Therefore, Yang Chao could only act at night to hide the eyes and ears of the classics.

Yang Chao didn't want to argue with them on this issue, and Yang Chao was actually willing to act at night in his heart, and during the day, in front of the captives, Yang Chao himself was not so stable in his heart, because he also had to guard against the captives, who knows if they would suddenly attack when they kicked the city.

Although what Huang Qi said is very good, who dares to say that it is not a conspiracy of the captives, Yang Chao is more willing to take his fate into his hands.

"My lord, please kick the city!"

After all the soldiers had stepped onto the city wall, Zhao Kang urged Yang Chao to get up.

In fact, the other officers originally hoped that Yang Chao would be the first to kick the city, thinking that this was a natural thing, but Yang Chao insisted on taking his own soldiers to break off.

Now that all the soldiers are stepping up to the city, only himself and his own soldiers are left, Yang Chao is not polite, and immediately stepped on a hanging basket.

This is a large frame made of rattan, and the steps are still covered with wooden planks, so it is safe for people to step on it.

There are pulleys hanging on the city wall, and hemp ropes are attached to the pulleys, and the hemp ropes are very strong when they are dipped in water, and more than a dozen strong men shout trumpets and pull them up hard.

As those strong men exerted their strength, Yang Chao felt a pause, and every time he could rise up nearly a foot.

The gondola slowly rose above the warehouse, and he could see the ships docked at the warehouse, Yang Chao knew that these ships could not be saved, but he would not leave them to the captives.

The barracks of the captives were also in full view, a large barracks on the west side of the river, a barracks on the north side, and a large barracks under the mountain to the south.

These camps are a mile away, in fact, they are not out of the range of artillery, but if they camp too far to avoid the artillery, they lose the meaning of besieging the city, and not all cannons can pose a threat at such a distance, so the captives boldly camped, they don't think that a small city like Haizhou has a red-coated cannon like a major town in Liaodong.

Yang Chao thought to himself, he didn't know what the effect of concentrating all the artillery to bombard the captive camp would be.

Finally stepped on the city wall, all the officers were waiting here, and when they saw Yang Chao coming up, they all stepped forward to salute.

Although Yang Chao has never shown a strong sense of hierarchy, this concept is very deep in the hearts of his subordinates, so often Yang Chao's actions will make them feel a little uncomfortable.

"Okay, they're all gone, and each of them will lead the team to rest! The artillery prepared for me, and after a while, the fire started, and all the artillery was fired at once! ”

"Lord Yang, I see that there are a lot of cannons in Haizhou City, do you want to send them together!"

It was the gunner under the account of Huai'an Shi Kefa who spoke, but he was not from a military background like the Nanjing Shenji Battalion, but a craftsman who was transferred from Huai'an Wei and a craftsman who cast artillery.

In this era, there were few professional artillerymen in the West, and often the gunners on the battlefield were those who cast artillery.

Although the Ming Dynasty had special artillery, the craftsmen who cast the artillery were often transferred to fight, especially when the main artillery was concentrated in the border fortress and the north and south capitals, Shi Kefa could only mobilize craftsmen from the local guard in Huai'an.

What the craftsman said was reasonable, Yang Chao nodded: "It's okay, you go and negotiate with the thousands of households in Haizhou to borrow their cannons, all of them will be transferred to the south wall, and I will be beaten hard according to the camp of the captive soldiers in Qishan!" ”

The craftsman answered and was about to leave.

"Chang Craftsman!"

Yang Chao suddenly stopped him: "Borrow the cannon to borrow the cannon, but after the fire started, our cannon immediately opened fire!" ”

Yang Chao had already decided that once everyone went to the city, he would fire cannons to give the captives a surprise attack, which would cause them some panic compared to at night.

If you want to pursue suddenness, you can't wait for all the cannons in Haizhou to be in place.

Chang Jiang bowed his head and replied: "Respect your life! ”

Yang Chao nodded, this Chang craftsman made Yang Chao quite satisfied, the performance of the more than 20 gunners under his command during this period is obvious to all, and it is even more rare that he is always not afraid of danger, even if he is suddenly besieged this time, he is much stronger than other craftsmen.

Yang Chao had already begun to plan in his heart that he wanted to take this person under his account, and he couldn't easily return it to Shi Kefa no matter what.

Yang Chao has been kicking the city for a long time, but he hasn't seen his own soldiers come up, but he waited until the dock where the fire was lit, and the warehouse was also on fire!

Soon after, the rumbling cannons on the city walls were heard! (To be continued).