This kind of iron pot is used for stir-frying in restaurants and people's houses in the city, but it is not big, and the mouth of the pot is often only about one foot, but because it is a stir-fry pot, there are wooden handles, but at this time the wooden handle was removed by the Ming army and replaced with a five-foot-long long handle, so people can pour oil down without lying on the battlement, reducing the probability of being injured by bows and arrows.

The captives were clearly probing, and they responded after the third ladder was also defeated by hot oil.

As long as they saw the iron pot, they immediately concentrated their firepower and shot arrows at the battlements, even if the people did not show their heads, they were often shot, but they overturned the oil pot in a panic, and did not hurt the captives, fortunately, they did not hurt the Ming army, and the boiling oil was all sprinkled on the battlements and flowed down the city wall.

But the Ming army did not give up, and still burned oil and poured it upside down.

The captives did not intend to give up, their ten ladders were finally all erected, and they also figured out the tactics of the Ming army, and began to send people to forcibly kick the city, one after another armored soldiers, quickly climbing the ladders.

After the shield carts had been concentrated in the position of the stepping ladder, all the archers began to cover the stepping city, shooting arrows towards the battlements, not allowing the oil pot to have a chance to put the battlements at all.

This move of captives dealt a big blow to the Ming army's oil pot tactics, and the iron pot began to be less for a while.

"Hit!"

There were only ten ladders, which allowed the captives to concentrate their forces to break through, but also made it easier for the Ming army to defend.

"Shield!"

In fact, the oil pot was suppressed and could not be broken, and the dense bows and arrows of the captives covered the battlements, making it impossible to stand here at all.

Li Wuliu quickly transferred the shield soldiers, and the shield soldiers held the shields, covered the people, and continued to pour the hot oil.

Immediately, he knocked down the captives on more than a dozen ladders that were kicking the city.

The first wave of sieges failed.

The losses of the captives were very large, except for the armored soldiers who took the lead in climbing the city, and the people behind were often scalded by boiling oil. I don't want to die.

Therefore, the first wave of strong attacks only lost more than a dozen people.

But this already made Turg, who was watching the battle behind, frown, and he frowned not because of dead or wounded. But because he saw the will of the Ming army, compared to this casualty. It was the Ming army's will to resist that worried him the most.

Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty has always been disdainful of the cities built by the Han people in later generations, and Kangxi is even more complacent about not building the Great Wall, Turge knows very well in his heart that if the Ming army hiding behind the fortified city insists on sticking to it, it will be a very troublesome thing.

Even in Turg's memory, since the Nurhachi cavalry, there are really not many Ming cities that have been stormed and occupied, and they have paid a heavy price every time.

But that's it. Turg has no choice, in fact, since he led his troops south to Haizhou, he has no choice, he must capture Haizhou, otherwise he will not be able to explain to these masters of the banners who were called by him, and even those Mongols will be dissatisfied.

Because he couldn't grab something, Turg's trip south failed, which was a huge blow to his prestige.

But it was not easy not to go south, although Abatai did not explicitly order him. But if he really doesn't come, he will completely offend Abatai in the future, and it is the consistent policy of his master, Huang Taiji, to win over the Eight Banners powerful faction like Abatai. If Turg offended Abatai, Huang Taiji would also be dissatisfied.

So Turg knew in his heart that he had no choice in the first place, but who was it that forced him into this situation.

The noble Bei Ziye must not be blamed, he can't blame the master, he can only blame the slave, thinking of this, Turg couldn't help but secretly hate the bow.

"Come on, next time let Dunbai take his people to kick the city. Tell him that as long as he can kick the city and get his footing, I'll keep him safe. If you can't, die! ”

Thinking of this, Turg immediately ordered.

Haizhou City. Seeing the captives who retreated twenty steps back after the failure of the first siege and still insisted on the defense of the shield cart, Yang Chao knew that the captives didn't just give up, they just breathed a sigh of relief, and then they would kick the city.

And they are at a distance of about twenty paces, so that the cannon on the city has lost the firing range, even if it is a tiger squat cannon is not easy to attack downward, at this distance, the bow and arrow of the captives can naturally suppress the bow and arrow on the city, the only thing that can shoot with them is the bird gun, but unfortunately there are too few bird guns in their hands, to be precise, there are too few bird guns, so in the comparison of firepower, it is the Ming army that occupies a geographical advantage to occupy a disadvantage.

In the final analysis, the overall strength is not as good as the captive soldiers, which Yang Chao does not deny at all.

The disadvantage of the quality of individual soldiers can not be solved for a long time, or even forever, because the life and fighting of nomads are inseparable, and they cannot survive without fighting in the face of harsh living conditions, while the agrarian people need to put most of their forces on peaceful production, so even professional soldiers cannot be trained for as many years as nomadic civilians.

However, although the quality of individual soldiers has natural flaws, they can be compensated for in discipline, that is, relying on teamwork, in this regard, the farming nation is naturally not bad, and even has an advantage, because large-scale production must be achieved only by cooperation.

Therefore, the military orientation of the agrarian nation is often to cultivate combat effectiveness through strict discipline.

In all dynasties, the period of military strength was a period of strict system, and the Qin Dynasty, which had cold and strict military discipline, was a typical example.

However, although the cultivation of discipline is shorter than the time required to improve the quality of individual soldiers, it is not something that can be formed overnight, Yang Chao's most optimistic estimate is that it will take ten days for the people of Haizhou to form an organization, which is still under the heavy pressure of the enemy's siege, if it is placed in peacetime, with Yang Chao's experience, it is impossible to do it without three months.

And even so, after ten days, these people will only be able to do the most limited defense on the city walls, and it is still impossible for them to attack.

Yang Chao has been on the south wall, and the situation on the east wall has been constantly fed back by the pro-soldiers, and the situation there is the same as that on the south wall, but it is slightly easier, after all, it is not the main force over there.

At this time, the battle on the south wall began again, and the second wave of the captives began to attack.

This time, the attitude of the captives was much more resolute, and they did not retreat from the fight to the death, and they could not repel them even after kicking the city repeatedly, and more than a dozen pots of boiling oil could not be repelled by pouring oil.

The traditional method of defending the city, Yang Chao did not refuse at all, so there is a lot of rolling wood and stone on the city wall, but it is still the most effective hot oil, but this pot of oil is poured down like this, and the price is also very expensive.

Yang Chao hoped that these traditional defensive methods could last for at least three days, but seeing the current posture of the captives, if they continued to attack so strongly, it was really impossible to stop them for three days.

The second wave of captives retreated, leaving behind more than fifty people and retreating.

Yang Chao also took people to the city for a look, and inquired about the injuries, and the people on his side lost more than fifty, including more than ten of his own soldiers alone, and the injuries were not optimistic, they were all injured in the face, and it would be good to have one or two lucky survivors.

The rest were Minzhuang, and to Yang Chao's surprise, these Minzhuang were hit like this, and there was not a single deserter.

Of course, there is nowhere to escape, home is behind, where can you escape?

In addition, Yang Chao did not naively hope for people's combat consciousness, like the captive soldiers, there was a supervision team patrolling behind, as long as he saw someone who escaped, he would be killed on the spot, and these have been clearly explained to these people.

"My lord, there's no gas!"

Yang Chao walked to an empty oil pot, and a young man in his twenties said dejectedly.

Yang Chao nodded: "And rolling wood!" ”

In fact, there are many ways for the Ming army to defend the city, Qi Jiguang's military book in the city defense weapons are complicated, among which there are more than ten kinds of firearms, one of which is called ten thousand enemies, and some are similar to the grenades of later generations, that is, the hollow iron ball is filled with gunpowder, poison and other things, and it is thrown down the city to explode and add poisonous smoke, which is very terrifying.

But Haizhou City couldn't find anything like it, and there weren't even enough knives and guns in the military abandoned guards, let alone these things.

"My lord, why don't we boil the water, it's almost the same if the boiling water is scalded."

Qing Zhuang said in a pleading tone, obviously throwing rolling logs down the city is much more risky than pouring oil down the oil pot from afar.

However, the temperature of boiling water is far from being compared with boiling oil, and a pot of boiling water is poured down, unless it is in direct contact with the skin, it may not be able to hurt the captives, and it will soon be cold, and the lethality is not enough.

Yang Chao was about to refuse, and suddenly his heart moved, boiling water is not good, use salt water.

Although the temperature is about the same, but the effect of killing is not the same, those who have been stained with salt know that the pain is too much, the boiling salt water is poured down, think about that kind of pain can deal a blow to the captive, may not be able to die at once, but it absolutely makes them unbearable, shouting and crying, can definitely affect the morale of the captive.

Thinking of this, Yang Chao immediately said: "Okay, boil water, but add salt!" ”

Qing Zhuang sighed, his face showed excitement, as long as he was not allowed to run to the battlements to throw wood, it was no problem to boil water and pour it down, even if the captives shot arrows, there were soldiers with shields here to help them block them, and the casualties were actually very small.

And all he has to do is to continue to boil the pot, the difference is that just now it is to burn oil, now it is just to boil water, as for adding salt, it is simpler, the most important thing in Haizhou is salt, although it is in the city, it is easy to get thousands of loads of salt.

It's not a pity at all, it's much cheaper than oil.

Yang Chao ordered, and soon an officer would take people to Haizhou City to find salt.

Yang Chao found that he stayed in the city, and there was no help for the time being, so he followed them down, and he was also worried that when he was looking for salt, there would be an accident, after all, he had to take something from the salt merchant again.

Yang Chao naturally did not let his people go directly to the requisition, but found the history of Song Lian and asked the people from the Yamen to come forward, and the local salt merchants were also relieved.

———————————— (To be continued).