The situation in the north is calm now.

Because the captives from the north did not try to storm the warehouse from the beginning to the end, they tried to test it with a shield cart at first, but the shield cart was quickly disabled.

The cavalry charge never approached thirty paces at all, and the cavalry did not take advantage of the bird gun, and the charge and projectile also faced the double blow of the bird gun and the Ming army's foot bow, so it was never able to bite the strong barrier of the Ming army.

And the captives didn't seem to plan to break through the camp today, so the captives in the north have been patiently fighting with the Ming army.

Yang Chao couldn't help but think that maybe the captives didn't plan to take him down in one day, but planned to spend a few days.

As for the chaotic battle in the south, it was largely due to the sudden blow of the Qianjin Franc machine, followed by Wang Pu's adventurous attack, which was completely an accident.

That is to say, the captives did not intend to break through Yang Chao's strong formation at once, and were unwilling to take the risk of attacking the strong formation, so they were so tug-of-war and tentative, obviously they did not want to and were unwilling to risk huge casualties to eliminate Yang Chao, of course, Yang Chao did not think that the captives had the strength to destroy themselves.

Considering the possible plans of the captives, Yang Chao was a little relieved, and he was not in a hurry to defeat the captives in the north immediately.

Because Yang Chao guessed that the captives in the north probably didn't know the situation in the south, at least they didn't know that the captives in the south were almost wiped out, and even the main general was captured by himself, of course, they might have seen the Ming army attack from the south, but they didn't know why they didn't take the opportunity to launch a fierce attack, and Li Wuliu, who stayed behind, even told Yang Chao that after Yang Chao attacked south, the captives in the north even stopped attacking for a while.

Yang Chao guessed that the captives in the north were probably too confident in the field combat ability of their cavalry, and probably thought that Yang Chao would definitely be wiped out if he attacked in the field, so they simply waited for the field battle in the south to eliminate Yang Chao's living forces, and then took the opportunity to attack the southern street. So they were able to storm from the north with dangerous birds and artillery.

It's just that the captives didn't expect that their companions in the south not only failed to win the field battle, but were wiped out by the Ming army. They couldn't even imagine this kind of scene, and some people even told them. They wouldn't believe it, unless they saw it with their own eyes, and the line of sight was not very good at this time, there was white smoke everywhere, and with the blockage of the warehouse, it was impossible for them to see the situation in the south at a glance, only the corpses of people and horses in one place. But even after seeing this, the captives in the north did not believe that these were left by his people, and even believed that these were all from the Ming army.

Yang Chao was very suspicious that once the captives in the north knew the situation in the south, they were still determined to fight with him all the time.

After all, the captives are here to rob, and this time they gathered to attack Yang Chao, I am afraid that it is out of a kind of demoralization of the Ming army, and the purpose of not letting the Ming army dare to fight against them is inside, to put it bluntly, it is to establish their invincible image in the hearts of the Ming army, so that the Ming army only dares to retreat in the city after seeing them. Let them loot in the four fields, like Yang Chao, who dared to resist without running when he saw them, and even dared to camp outside the city to confront them. Obviously, it belongs to the role of the Ming army, which is not open-minded, and it must be resolutely attacked.

But if the captives knew that Yang Chao had almost wiped out more than 100 captives in the south, then it would prove that he had the ability to wipe out all the captives in the north, and it was doubtful that the captives would continue to be determined to fight Yang Chao to the death.

The total number of captives was only about 300, and the crippled south meant that they had lost half of their combat strength, and I had never heard of an example of a bandit group that could endure half of the casualties and continue to rob.

Therefore, Yang Chao did not necessarily need to continue the battle with the captives in the north. All you need to do is let the captives in the north know what's going on in the south, and then they'll probably retreat on their own. Then Yang Chao can take the fruits of victory and return to Huai'an to return to Shi Kefa.

As for the situation in the south, let the north know. That's not what Yang Chao should worry about, it's the captive's own business, the remaining forty or fifty remnants in the south can always pass on the news, even if it goes around the city for a week, it won't take much time.

It's just that most of these remnants are still wandering in the south at this time, and they don't know what their idea is.

Yang Chao looked at the situation in the north, saw the captives in the north, and sometimes sent a small group of cavalry to harass him, most of the time he threw a few arrows at a hundred paces or so, while Yang Chao had a few bird cries on his side, and there were almost no casualties among each other, and he felt that this battle should probably end like this, and he was about to return to the barracks, but suddenly heard gunshots from the south.

Yang Chao was just about to ask Li Liang to take a look at the situation, but he immediately stopped Li Liang and took a few personal soldiers to go there himself.

The captives in the south have been disabled by Yang Chao, and it is impossible to attack, but the captives have not attacked, how can their own soldiers fight birds.

When I got to the south, I found out.

It turned out that the captives were not dead, and when they finally began to enter within a hundred paces, they did not try to heal or retrieve the wounded and dead bodies of their comrades, but only greeted the horses wandering inside.

After entering a hundred paces, it was within range of the bird's gun, but the bird's gunner, who had been aiming for a long time here, finally opened fire, and after killing a few captives, the others fled.

After listening to Yang Chao, he also felt that there was no big problem, but he felt that it was never a way to put those loot on the battlefield and not harvest it, especially the war horses, which had already run away more than a dozen horses, which made Yang Chao's heart ache.

How to go out into battle to collect the loot without being threatened by the captives, Yang Chao suddenly thought of a way in his heart, and felt that he could give it a try!

After the scattered captives were dispersed, Yang Chao soon summoned several officers and asked them to observe Yang Chao's arrangement of the formation.

This time the formation was extremely troublesome, according to Yang Chao's request, more than ten large shields were brought out, but these shields were too heavy, and after thinking about it, Yang Chao hit the idea to the captive shield carts that were still scattered on both sides of the street.

These shield carts are still in good condition, after all, Yang Chao did not directly bombard these shield carts with cannons, at that time, the cannon mainly hit the cavalry behind him, and even in order to let the cavalry get close to the dense charge, he deliberately put the shield cart in front of the low wall, so Yang Chao had more than 30 shield carts in his hand.

The workmanship of these shield carts was extremely crude, and the carts were obviously unicycles looted nearby, and some of the thick wooden shields in front were still dismantled from the door panels, and it is not known which people's house they were removed.

But these shield carts are very convenient to move, and they can be regarded as a good innovation for the captives.

Let ten shield carts line up in front, and then arrange ten birdmen, plus ten archers, and behind is a row of pikemen.

On each side are five sword and shield soldiers, and these shielded sword and shield soldiers are responsible for protecting the two wings.

In this way, a phalanx is formed.

At the front were men pushing the shield carts, the second row of bird guns, the third row of archers, the fourth row of pikemen, a total of four rows of soldiers, five sword and shield men on each side, a phalanx of fifty men in total.

Then, under Yang Chao's order, the phalanx slowly moved forward, the shield cart slowly advanced, the birdmen, archers and spearmen followed in unison, and the sword and shield soldiers put their shields on their sides and followed suit.

The most difficult thing is that the shield car is not easy to move forward neatly, the use of the shield car by the captives is the fastest forward, the fastest to approach the enemy formation, and there are not too many requirements for the formation, and Yang Chao wants to deploy the army formation, then it must be neatly aligned.

Under Yang Chao's strict order, each team was shouting the trumpet to advance, the speed was very slow, slower than the usual walking in unison, but it was always neat.

The other officers looked at Yang Chao's new formation, they didn't understand it very well, especially Wang Pu, who was even a little not very interested, he was more interested in the wall formation charge and the short hand, he used the wall formation to fight against Lao Jin's mandarin duck formation without falling behind, and the short-handed contact directly penetrated the cavalry of the captive soldiers, and the arrogance of being hit by Li Wuliu began to be arrogant again these days.

Yang Chao didn't know Wang Pu's careful thoughts, he was just concentrating on practicing his new formation, and Yang Chao was still very confident in this.

The wall formation was also made by Yang Chao, at first because he saw his soldiers lining up on the boat to attack the Jiang bandits, and after he went back, he incorporated this accidental attack method into the training, and became the formation of the wall formation, and after this test, it can be proved that the wall formation is still very lethal when charging.

But it is naturally no problem to charge the river bandits, and there is no problem with the chaotic cavalry formation, but the wall formation has a fatal weakness, that is, the defensive force is too weak, it is completely an offensive formation, and the defense is not even comparable to the mandarin duck formation, and the countless confrontations between the wall formation and the mandarin duck formation in the army have long exposed this weakness, otherwise Wang Pu, the officer who believes in the wall formation most fanatically, would not have used the mandarin duck formation to stab the captives at the beginning.

And this time, Yang Chao's low wall of masonry, and the confrontation with the captives in front of the low wall, made Yang Chao suddenly wake up, why not put a wall in the wall array? Of course, the real wall can't be moved, but the shield can, you can use the shield wall.

In this way, the wall formation can be both offensive and defensive, and it can be moved, but at the same expense of speed.

But as a compensation, Yang Chao also strengthened the firepower of the wall formation, no longer a single charge formation, no longer a single use of spears, but added a row of bird guns and a row of archers, strengthened the long-range attack force, and deployed two long-range troops at the same time to achieve the effect of compound strike, which was also seen by Yang Chao behind the low wall, and he was deeply touched at that time.

After the new composite wall formation was arranged, he moved forward slowly, Yang Chao really hoped that the captives would provoke him, but unfortunately, none of the captives came up to find trouble, and saw Yang Chao attack again, although it was a formation that they couldn't understand, but the captives still escaped very wisely.

The new wall array moved slowly, and soon it took ten steps, twenty steps, and thirty steps.

At that time, the cavalry had rushed into the thirty paces, thirty steps to sixty steps was just the area where Yang Chao and the captives fought the most intensely, there were hundreds of corpses of the captives left here, with the advance of the new wall array, soon swept over these corpses, according to Yang Chao's requirements, the sword and shield hands cut off a few heads, and also gathered a few horses, so that the wall array became a little bloated.

After walking forty steps, the wall formation is not moving forward, this time it was originally a drill formation, they don't need to fight, cut off their heads and collect war horses, and they are mainly to provoke the captives, hoping that the captives will come to fight, but the captives are unmoved, always wandering a hundred steps away, the wall array is advancing, they retreat, they are determined to fight against Yang Chao. (To be continued).