"How's it going?"

Feeling that the situation in the city was more critical, Yang Chao spent a whole day helping Zhang Wei deal with civil affairs in Chengzhong, and only in the evening did he have time to inquire about the military situation.

"The captives besieged the city on all sides, and they attacked it for a day."

Lu Mo replied.

Yang Chao divided the army into four teams, Wang Pu had the strongest combat effectiveness, leading a hundred people to guard the south wall and face the main camp of the captives.

Lü Mo guarded the west wall, Song Kun was on the north wall, Zheng Yongwang was on the east wall, and Sun Changfu led people as reserves.

Yang Chao asked again: "What are the casualties of our army?" ”

Lu Mo said: "The casualties are not large, the captives are mainly harassing, and the river is filling in on all sides!" Our army suffered less than 10 casualties, but the casualties of the people were still somewhat large. ”

Yang Chao said: "Let's talk about it specifically." ”

Lu Mo only then told the battle situation of the day in detail.

Yang Chao's soldiers injured ten people, all of them were slightly injured, caused by the captives shooting arrows under the city, and they were fine in iron armor.

There are nearly 1,000 people in the city, all of whom were transferred to the city when Gao Liang knew that the state was there, plus the guards of Haizhou, with a number of more than 4,000 people.

But these people were not trained, and the captives had not attacked the city before, and this time they began to harass and besiege the city, and the result was a lot of confusion, many people trampled on each other, and in the end hundreds of people died, hundreds were injured, and less than 50 were actually killed.

Yang Chao had long expected this, untrained soldiers were easy to collapse in panic, but fortunately there was a city wall to protect them, if they fought in the field, they would probably be annihilated.

"I have already negotiated with the governor of Haizhou, and all the strong people in the city are under our control, and you will transfer our officers overnight. Each team is being selected to organize the people, and there is no one to rule a hundred people. Promoted to the captain of the team. Draw another captain to command the guards in the East China Sea, and each of them will command thirty people! ”

Yang Chao is now less than 600 people. There were forty infantry regiments, forty squadrons, and eighty commanders.

Forty teams are all going to form Minzhuang. One person commands over 100 people, which is enough to organize more than 4,000 people.

Forty captains went to take charge of the guards. One man can rule over thirty, and he can organize a thousand guards.

Although the training problem cannot be solved for the time being, if they can be organized, it will not be chaotic, and with the help of the city wall defense, they can barely be competent.

In addition, Yang Chao also planned to let these people train immediately, as long as they had ten days, they would at least be able to learn to assassinate simply. Under the leadership of the veterans, as long as they dare to assassinate the captives when they are kicking the city, it is basically impossible for the captives to attack Haizhou City.

As for whether he will give himself ten days Yang Chao is not sure, but three or five days is no problem, before three or five days, the captives should not attack the city in a big way, after all, it takes time to fill the river, especially in the west and north, which is the Rose River. It is a natural river, not an excavated moat, so it is very wide. It is simply impossible to fill it up in a short period of time.

If the captives only attack from the southeast and southeast, the opponent's forces will not be able to deploy, and the superiority of troops will not be reflected, unless the captives do not take Haizhou City seriously, they will need at least a few days to prepare.

Today's captives harassed the city, and then vigorously filled the river, it seems that they still attach great importance to Haizhou City, or rather, to Yang Chao, a strong soldier who suddenly appeared. After all, it is important.

At night, Sun Changfu was on duty. Replaced many men's divisions.

There was no fighting all night, and even the artillery of the Ming army stopped. The gunners also need to rest.

Early the next morning, Yang Chao stepped on the city wall.

The camp of the captives in the south of the city has disappeared and has been transferred to the mountains of Qishan, which is the result of Yang Chao's overnight artillery bombardment.

It's just not known what the losses of the captives were.

Although the captives moved the battalion to the mountains and made the artillery lose its firing range, it had no effect on them, anyway, their army had surrounded Haizhou and blocked the escape path of the Haizhou people, even if they ran from the south, the captives and cavalry had the confidence to pursue and annihilate them all.

Yang Chao looked at the new camp of the captives, which was on the mountainside of Qishan, still hunting with flags, and the flags were hanging high, obviously the shelling did not give them much blow, but they were just dismounted.

Yang Chao couldn't help but rejoice, although Qishan is only a small mountain, the highest point is less than a hundred zhang, but it is much higher than Haizhou City, the high point is too easy to find, fortunately the captives have no cannons, otherwise they will set up cannons on the high point to bombard Haizhou, and Haizhou City will not be able to hold it.

The captives did not know how to use artillery, they fought against the Ming army with artillery in Liaodong for more than ten years, and they had already formed their own artillery, and even their artillery was already stronger than the Ming artillery of the *, in the battle of Jinzhou, they used artillery to break through the fortresses guarded by Zu Dashou.

However, under the influence of the Ming army in Liaodong, the cannons of the captives were also red-coated cannons, and these red-coated cannons were Western-style cannons imitated by Ming craftsmen, but they were not Western field artillery, but naval guns on ocean-going merchant ships of Western countries, so they were prone to thousands of catties, and the cannons of the Ming army used this kind of cannon to defend the city, and the captives were used to attack the city.

However, the cannon was too heavy, obviously it was impossible to transport it from Liaodong thousands of miles away, and the captives were for the purpose of plundering, and the light troops broke through and crossed the pass, and there were no conditions to carry cannons, so they rarely attacked the city, even if they attacked cities like Surabaya and Yanzhou, they only relied on simple siege equipment.

These are the instruments that were also improvised from logging.

It is no problem to temporarily build siege ladders and build shield cars to prevent arrows, but it is almost impossible to temporarily cast cannons.

To cast cannons, especially red-coated cannons, requires a very complex process, and there can be no mistakes in the process, otherwise the efforts will be wasted.

Among them, it takes several months just to make the mud mold, because in order to cast a huge cannon body, this kind of mud mold is almost finely made, after shaping, in order to prevent deformation, can not be baked, but to be dried in the shade, just the mud mold is dry, it takes several months, so casting a cannon is often in the period of half a year.

Obviously, it is impossible for the captives to stay under Haizhou City for half a year to cast cannons, and it is impossible for them to take cannon casting craftsmen with them.

Therefore, they still need to use people to attack the city this time.

Yang Chao observed in the city for a long time, and saw the military flag of the camp of the captive soldiers shaking in the mountain, and a cavalry came out of the camp and went down the mountain.

They were followed by groups of infantry pushing shield carts, and some unarmored soldiers pushing carts with sandbags and mud bags on them.

"Li Qianhu, you see, this time the captives went south from the north, obviously they came with light soldiers, and they didn't have time to bring the people. Most of the people in the vicinity of Haizhou have fled, and they have not had time to search for them in a short time. So these ten thousand people are all Tartars. How many of these heads do you think we can cut? ”

On the city wall, Li Rui followed Yang Chao, he still had a sense of novelty in his heart, slightly nervous, but there was no sense of panic around Yang Chao, speaking of which, this was his first time in the city, if there was no Yang Chao, he would never have come up.

At this time, Tingwen smiled and said, "Lord Yang said that he was joking." ”

Yang Chao was indeed joking, he didn't think that he could behead people, it was impossible to go out of the city and behead without defeating the captives, no matter how many people he killed, it was useless to cut off people's heads.

But it is true that the captives are indeed pure captives, and there is not a single common people.

Yang Chao said: "Li Qianhu, this official doesn't laugh, if you can't hold Haizhou, maybe you may not all die, but you have to be captured by the captives to be slaves." Oh, and you're going to have braids like theirs! ”

Speaking of having to keep braids when he was a slave, Li Rui couldn't help but show a strange look on his face, with some disgust and disgust.

Yang Chao continued: "If Li Qianhu is caught, you will have to be pressed by them, go all the way to Liaodong, and then farm for them. If you come next time, maybe you can be like them and come to Daming to grab a handful. ”

Li Rui was stunned for a moment, and then pointed to the captives who were pushing carts and said, "Lord Yang is saying that those people also have my Ming people?" ”

Yang Chao sighed: "Maybe there is, the captives are scarce, and the Ming people who have entered the customs and looted five times are millions, and some of these people have raised their flags, and they will also carry them when they fight." ”

Li Rui suddenly said angrily: "Traitor, a traitor who doesn't know the monarch's father!" ”

Yang Chao said gloomily: "The monarch can't protect them, and we can only blame ourselves." ”

Li Rui was still indignant, but listening to Yang Chao's tone, he stopped talking, obviously he didn't agree with Yang Chao's statement.

The captives soon reached the city, and the cavalry stopped at the south side of the river, and then the shield carts took cover, followed by a group of carts.

The archers behind the cart began to shoot arrows at the city, and the birds and archers on the cart returned fire, but they could not hit the captives behind the cart and could only target the captives in the cart.

Yang Chao could hear the captives shouting, pushing the cart forward desperately, and then throwing the sandbags on the cart into the river at once, and then pulling the cart and running back desperately.

In the distance, some captives were constantly reloading mud bags, and when the cart returned, it immediately filled another cart and pushed it to the moat again.

Every time they went back and forth, several corpses were left behind, and the Ming troops in the city were also shot and wounded by the captives from time to time.

It's the same as yesterday's battle.

Almost all of these carts are coated, and no matter how many captives die, they will not hurt their muscles and bones, and at most some of the slaves who work for them will make them feel distressed, as long as they can win, there will be more slaves to replenish when they go back.

On the contrary, Yang Chao felt a little uncomfortable, these are the people of the Ming Dynasty, rolled up in the tide of the late Ming Dynasty, not only to be cannon fodder for foreign races, but also for their descendants to become foreign races in the future, this is not only a tragedy for a small group of people, but a tragedy for the entire nation.

It is similar to the south, and the same is the case in the east, but the situation in the north and west is better, because the moats on these two sides are wide and far from the city wall, and the bows and arrows of the Ming army cannot threaten the captives on the other side of the river nearly seventy or eighty paces away, so they can only watch them fill the river, but unfortunately Yang Chao is not optimistic that they can fill the natural river.

Therefore, it was ordered that the Ming troops on the northwest side did not need to fight back, and it was important to seize the time to train, so compared with the fierce shooting on the southeast side, the northwest side appeared to be quite calm.

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