"Time is tight! It will take at least ten days. ”

Yang Chao looked at the captives who couldn't wait to attack, and couldn't help but think that at such a tense moment, Yang Chao still insisted on letting the northwest train on both sides, because he knew very well in his heart that if 10,000 captives wanted to attack Haizhou, he would probably not be able to hold it.

Even if you are condescending, even if you have a strong city, but there are no soldiers who dare to fight, everything is in vain.

And Yang Chao is still faintly worried about the problem of morale, although in the past few days, because of the trapped in the lonely city, the soldiers' will to fight has become firmer, but if they are besieged all the time, sooner or later there will be problems.

The situation of homesickness of soldiers last time taught Yang Chao a lesson, soldiers are not beaten with iron, people's hearts are flesh and blood, and they are all emotional.

Therefore, for a period of time, Yang Chao has no soldiers to fight, and there may be problems with morale after a long time, so ten days is a suitable time, and then he can barely make Haizhou Minzhuang have some discipline, and at that time, he may take the initiative to attack according to the situation.

The so-called trapped in the lonely city, a long time to defend will be lost, the defense can not be passive defense, the defense should also take the initiative, from time to time out of the city to sneak attack, this is to help improve their military morale, and at the same time to hit the enemy's will, if you stick to it, often the defenders can not stand the long-term pressure.

There are also officers who suggested that Yang Chao went out of the city to attack at night, that is Wang Pu, he couldn't stand it last night and wanted to sneak attack, and was scolded by Yang Chao.

There are only more than 580 people in his hands, one radish and one pit, if you lose one, you will lose one, these veterans who have been trained for more than a year cannot be trained quickly, so if there is no opportunity, Yang Chao will never be willing to take his elite out to risk.

The captives began to assemble early in the morning, and of course the main directions were still to the southeast. Especially to the south, which is the main camp of the captives, after these few days of observation. Yang Chao judged that the captives had hoarded at least 4,000 troops in this direction, while the other three forces were much smaller. Each side is about two thousand.

Obviously, the south was the focus of the captive army's attack and Yang Chao's defense.

Yang Chao personally sat in charge, and Li Wuliu archers, Wang Pu's infantry, at least half of the elite were arranged here.

Watching the captives under the city begin to move, a hundred more shield carts began to approach the city wall, followed by elite infantry, and then cavalry slowly pressed over. It was the same as the situation encountered in the warehouse, except that the scale was not the same as that time, and the first wave of attacks alone had at least a thousand captives.

Yang Chao knows that the longer the time drags on, the more bad it will be for him, but it will also be bad for the captives.

They were on an expedition, obviously it was impossible to have reinforcements, and without any assistance, the vicinity of Haizhou City had already been looted, and it was obviously impossible for them to find enough food and grass nearby. Therefore, the captives prefer a quick victory, and are not even willing to delay for more than ten days.

In contrast, Yang Chao didn't want to drag it out for too long. But ten days is no problem, at least the grain and grass can support a month, this is the geographical advantage.

Although it is located on the tower of the urn city, it does not need Yang Chao's command, and there is nothing unusual about fighting, and several officers at this time know exactly how to fight and how to arrange the attack to their advantage.

"Listen up, don't be merciful. Give Lao Tzu a hard beat, or win. Die or die! If the Tartars enter the city, they will not kill you. will also be arrested and sent to Liaodong to be slaves, and during the day they will be farmed, and they will also serve the tartars to sleep. I don't know, those Tartars, they like young men the most. Get caught, just wait for the rotten ass. ”

Wang Pu shouted loudly.

In fact, since yesterday, Yang Chao has begun to explain the situation to the soldiers, letting them know that they have been surrounded, and they will either defeat the Tartars or have a tragic fate, just like Yang Chao said to Li Rui.

Yang Chao also told his officers, and let the officers encourage the soldiers so much, but when Yang Chao's words reached the mouths of these officers, they were immediately tampered with and intensified, and they became Tartars who like men to serve, which made these young men who didn't know why felt an unprecedented shame, and they resolutely couldn't accept this result, even if they died, they couldn't be toyed with.

In fact, the soldiers talked about it even more outrageously in private, including the fact that the Tartars had to eat people at every meal, and the reason why the Tartars came to arrest people was to eat, and they ate people like cattle and sheep.

The human instinct to deal with the fear of the unknown is to simply gather in the collective, so in the history of mankind, many cities that have been besieged for a long time can be held only by the people, and it is precisely because of this human instinct that in the field, I have never heard of a battle that can hold each other for several months.

Therefore, it is not for nothing that the farming peoples of the world have basically chosen to build fortresses.

The captives were well-trained and quickly passed through the moat, and the bird guns and tiger squat cannons on the city walls had already fired, but unlike usual, this time the captives did not choose to suppress with bows and arrows, but passed through the moat at full speed, and then began to spread out the formation.

Through the narrow passage in the canal, the captives began to disperse, apparently hoping to spread their forces and attack with the maximum striking surface.

The infantry all passed through the canal, and although they paid the price of dozens of people, they were not yet wounded.

Under the cover of the shield cart, they had advanced to twenty paces and spread out to a width of one hundred zhang, at which time the archers, who had escaped the blows of the tiger squat cannon and the bird guns, began to bend their bows and arrows, thinking about shooting arrows on the city wall.

The distance of twenty paces made the bow and arrow of the captive soldiers have great power, which caused casualties to the Ming army in an instant, and the most important thing is to suppress the firepower of the city, so that the Ming army did not dare to probe.

At this time, the second wave of captives began to cross the river, and more than a dozen of them carried long ladders and ran quickly.

The captives are planning to attack the city directly, without giving themselves the slightest respite.

But Li Wuliu was obviously very shrewd, and after not reaping much results from the attack on the shield carts, and knowing that these siege ladders were the most threatening targets, he immediately turned his guns and began to shoot those who carried ladders in the rain of arrows from the captives' bows and arrows.

The first ladder, as soon as they stepped on the sandbag passage, was immediately killed by several people, and then a group of people fell to the ground, but they did not dare to stop, they immediately stood up, carried the ladder and continued to run forward, but soon the second wave of lead bullets hit, and several more were shot, and then there was a third wave, and the first team was killed and wounded after the third wave of blows, either directly killed, or they were injured and lay on the ground wailing and rolling.

But the attitude of the captives was very resolute, and the clothes behind them carried the ladder and still kept moving forward.

Yang Chao also saw that someone threw down the ladder and tried to escape, but was immediately shot by the cavalry behind.

These ladder bearers are the most miserable group of people at this time, oppressed by the Ming army in front and the Tartars in the back.

"!"

Li Wuliu scolded fiercely, and he saw one of his subordinates shot dead by a captive, and he hated these captives with amazing shooting skills.

But he knew what was important, and he still insisted on blocking the ladders.

Wang Pu lay on the battlements, as if he didn't bother to dodge the rain of arrows from the captives, in fact, he didn't look at the archers of the captives at all, but looked at those who carried ladders, he hoped that these people could attack the city, otherwise he would not have a chance to fight the captives.

Yang Chao looked at it coldly, knowing that it was inevitable for the captives to attack the city, and whether they could stop the captives in the end still depended on the results of the hand-to-hand encounter.

It was a moment that could be blocked before.

Although Bao Yi was shot one by one, there were always lucky people who could cross the river, one, two, and soon ten ladders were carried across the river by Bao Yi, and then Bao Yi took the ladder behind those shield carts, and then he gasped for breath and was glad that he survived again.

The captives probably thought that ten ladders were enough to storm the city themselves, so they paused for a while.

Then there was a shield cart to cover, and Bao Yi carried the ladder forward again, and the archers behind the shield carts on both sides were responsible for shooting arrows at the head of the city to suppress it.

The captives were extremely experienced in combat and closely cooperated, and they quickly rushed to the city wall with a ladder and immediately set up the ladder.

But climbing the ladder and kicking the city is not the task of these coats who don't even have armor, and they have been covering behind the shield cart under the city wall, and immediately a few armored soldiers jumped out and climbed up the ladder.

They held slender knives in their mouths, these knives were similar to the waist knives of the Ming army, the blade was slightly curved, with a less obvious curvature, but it was narrower and thinner than the belt of the Ming army.

The captives climbed the ladder very quickly, but when he was only halfway up, a Ming army pushed down the stone from the battlement, but the captives were lucky, the stone did not hit him, but hit the ladder above his head, bounced away, and only smashed the ladder a little crooked.

The captives continued to climb, but his good fortune was over, for an iron pot appeared on his head, and the bottom of the pot was stained with oil, and above all, flames were rising from time to time on it.

The iron pot was quickly turned over, and a pot of boiling oil with fire was poured down.

The boiling oil was poured on his head, and the captives fell down the ladder with a howl, and he was not dead for a while, rolling and wailing on the ground, and it took a long time to quiet down, and this kind of tragedy made the captives behind hesitate for a while, and did not even climb the ladder again.

At this time, a second ladder was also erected, and another captive climbed up, as if it was only a temptation, and there was only one net to climb.

And on the city wall above the captives, there were puffs of smoke, and those who didn't know thought that Haizhou City was on fire.

"Hurry, hurry! This way! ”

Li Wuliu greeted a few people who were burning the oil pot not far behind him.

The pot has already been burned red, just waiting for the captives to attack the city, like this iron pot of different sizes, at this time there are more than a hundred on the head of the city.

In the urging of Li Wuliu, several people raised the wooden handle connected to the iron pot, lifted the iron pot and slowly walked towards the battlement, and then slowly pushed the iron pot to the battlement, carefully stretched out of the city, and then turned over, a pot of boiling oil was poured down, and then a scream was heard! (To be continued).