His new-style wall formation slowly came back, and the lack of confrontation made Yang Chao a little regretful, and he didn't see the power of the new-style formation.

But it turned out that the captives had completely lost their courage, and no one dared to fight against the Ming army.

Yang Chao simply continued to organize a new wall formation, and this time directly formed three, and the finished glyph advanced.

Their purpose was not to grab the head and the war horse, but to distance Yang Chao's own soldiers behind them, and let them cut the head and collect the war horse.

There were fifty people in a new-style wall formation, one hundred and fifty people in three wall formations, and the remnants of the captives were only forty or fifty people, so they were unable to cope with it at all, and they did not plan to fight, so they retreated again and gave up the entire battlefield to Yang Chao.

The soldiers calmly cut off the heads, gathered the horses, and returned to the warehouse, and after counting, they found that there were one hundred and seven corpses in the heads, among which a few new captives were found to be injured, but these pro-soldiers did not hesitate, and directly hacked to death, for them, the most valuable thing for these captives is only the head.

The war horses collected fifty horses, and also snatched back more than ten relatively complete war horse corpses, as for those stumps, they were temporarily abandoned, and Yang Chao didn't want people to take back the stumps of war horses that were mixed with human stumps.

After returning to the camp, the soldiers' faces were filled with the joy of harvest, although this time was not as happy as the last time, but this time they went out to harvest the fruit, which made people even more happy, for many soldiers, this time the head was cut back, among which was the one they were promoted.

did not let the soldiers rest, and while it was still dark, Yang Chao lined up again to collect the scattered heads on the battlefield in the north.

In addition to the one killed yesterday, thirty heads were also captured on the battlefield in the north, which was somewhat unexpected by Yang Chao.

After returning to the camp, it was already late, and Yang Chao assigned many men's flag teams to be on duty at night. Then let the other soldiers hurry up and rest.

Victory is achieved during the day, and it is more important to pay attention to the enemy's sneak attack at night.

Old man Bian saw Yang Chao's army attacking three times in one day, and his face was full of excitement. Once again, on behalf of the people, I came to Yang Chao.

He took out his gold again and expressed his hope for the labor army. I hope that Yang Chao will use the money to sell some wine and meat to work the army.

Yang Chao told Old Man Bian that even if he had money now, he couldn't buy anything, so he refused Old Man Bian's money.

Yang Chao had all his thoughts on the captives in the north at this time, and Yang Chao had no intention of attacking these more than 100 captives, because he thought that once these captives knew about the annihilation of their companions in the south, they would retreat by themselves.

But Yang Chao clearly made a mistake. The captives in the north not only did not leave, but from the next day, they intensified the frequency of harassment, and even began to storm them.

watched wave after wave push the shield cart and ran to within thirty steps of the warehouse, and then the captives behind the shield cart began to draw their bows and shoot heavy arrows, and attacked Yang Chao's bird gunners and archers.

One side is protected by shield vehicles, and the other side is protected by low walls and warehouses, which can be considered equal for a while.

But in the end, Yang Chao is more advantageous, after all, it is a simple shield car. It's impossible to compare to a low wall, and even less to a warehouse, although the shield cart can block a bow and arrow. It can also block the bird's gun, but if you block one or two shots, can you still block ten or twenty shots? Not to mention that Yang Chao still has a big killer weapon like the Tiger Squat Cannon in his hand, which can blast the shield car out of a big hole with one shot, and the general cannon and the daughter Franc machine can blast the shield car out with one shot.

But the captives were also cunning, and as soon as their shield cart broke, they fled immediately, without any delay, and continued to come back with a shield cart.

seems to have made up his mind to consume Yang Chao like this.

But Yang Chao couldn't understand it. The captives want to use this method to consume their own ammunition?

Yang Chao didn't think that the captives had this ability, that is, the captives were dead. Yang Chao's gunpowder probably couldn't be finished, and the lead bullet couldn't be released.

But the captives didn't know. Maybe they want to use this method to consume Yang Chao's supplies, and then rush up.

But why did the captives do this?

Yang Chao really couldn't figure it out, as a looting group, as a looting group that rarely attacked Jiancheng after entering the customs, and it was not the main force, just a small detachment, without attacking weapons, relying on improvised shield carts, with bows and arrows and sabers, to attack the well-defended fortress?

Unless the commander of the captives is a fool, it is really difficult to understand the other party's approach.

But Yang Chao is also happy to play with the other party like this.

Even if the captives don't hold each other, after the shield car is broken, no matter how fast they run, they will always be taken away by the birds, and the captives don't lose more than ten or twenty lives at the end of the day, don't think about getting by.

In this way, before they can consume themselves, the captives will die first.

The command of the captives is obviously not a fool, on the contrary, the command of the captives is greatly cunning.

Soon Yang Chao found that they were attacking from east to west, and their rangers who were attacking everywhere appeared in all directions around them.

They made a detour to the west side of the river, tried to attack the ships parked on the edge of the dock, made a detour to the south of the warehouse, robbed the corpses of the captives whose heads had been cut off, and emptied the food and supplies in the captive camp to the south, and even the cattle and sheep.

"Gold, gold!"

A few shouts made Yang Chao realize that he had made a big mistake, the other party snatched all the corpses, leaving a scattered ingot of gold on the ground.

The gold was apparently from the captives who had died in battle, the corpses had been snatched, and most of the gold and silver had been taken by the living captives, but there were always those that were left behind, glowing with a charming golden glow in the sun.

And it was Yang Chao who let the captives snatch the corpses and specially ordered their soldiers not to fire a single shot, and it was Yang Chao who gave these captives the opportunity to calmly pull away the corpses of their compatriots.

The reason why Yang Chao did this was because Yang Chao thought that these corpses had been kept here all the time to breed germs, and if they infected their own people, it would be worth the loss, and it would be better to have enemies as scavengers, but he didn't expect that he would also miss the gold and silver hidden in these captives.

Since it was a robbery group, it was for robbery, and the captives had the habit of hiding booty privately, and many of the captives were Yu Ding, who were not organized by Abatai to loot, but came voluntarily, and they brought their own food and horses for the purpose of looting, so these people hid more things.

But Yang Chao obviously doesn't know much about the situation of the captives, and the only understanding is also seen in Qi Jiguang's book, but in the era of Qi Jiguang, there was Qi Jiguang sitting on the border, it seems that it is not easy for the captives to go south to loot, and they may lose their heads before they get something, so the captives at that time were not like a plundering group, but like a merit group that sent military merits to the Ming army.

The more accurate situation is what Lao Jin told Yang Chao, but Lao Jin's captives in that era had not yet entered the customs, and they didn't seem to have any habit of hiding booty outside the customs, at least Lao Jin didn't tell Yang Chao, probably although Lao Jin was a member of the brave Qi family's army, but the Qi family's army also fell, and the captives were the most fierce and barbaric times in the Nurhachi era, Lao Jin probably didn't have any chance to loot the spoils from the captives, so he didn't know about this situation.

This caused Yang Chao to give up a great opportunity to make a fortune.

Judging from the proportion of gold and silver left at the scene, it is clear that the captives have robbed a lot of gold.

What Yang Chao didn't know was that, according to relevant records, Abatai entered the Kou this time, captured 360,000 people, and plundered 120,000 taels of gold and 2.2 million taels of silver. The ratio of gold and silver in the Ming Dynasty was about ten to one, and even because silver was more widely circulated as currency, the stock of gold and silver was too exaggerated compared to two hundred and twenty to twelve. Therefore, the only explanation is that under the same weight, the Eight Banners soldiers prefer to privately store gold of higher value, so the gold outside that proportion is naturally hidden by the soldiers.

I didn't expect that it was understandable that the captives had gold on them, but Yang Chao even gave up the camp of the captives, so he couldn't say anything.

Yang Chao didn't expect that there was so much grain and so many cattle and sheep hidden in that simple barracks.

Although there were captives wandering around at that time, and it was a bit worth the loss to occupy this barracks 200 steps away, Yang Chao could completely use artillery to blow up this large camp.

It was completely his own negligence that allowed these materials to be taken away by the captives in vain.

Eating a trench and growing wise, Yang Chao wrote down the habit of captive soldiers, and promised that he would not do it again next time.

There was a stalemate with the captives from the north for three days, and for three days these captives continued to harass them, and even if they lost more than 30 lives, they showed no sign of giving up.

On the contrary, there was a problem in Yang Chao's army, Yang Chao found that the morale of his soldiers seemed to be a little low, after winning the captives on the first day, everyone was still elated, and the second day could also actively fight, but the third day was a little low, and early this morning, Yang Chao found that many soldiers looked gloomy and sat on the street corner silently.

Something must have gone wrong.

The psychology of a soldier is a magical thing, very difficult to grasp, a strong-willed and tenacious army may bomb the camp because of a light sound, anyway, the psychology of these people on the verge of life and death is subtle, even psychologists cannot fully control it.

Experienced generals will know how to dredge this emotion and know how to guide.

Yang Chao is not an experienced general, on the contrary, he is extremely inexperienced in leading troops, so he does not have the ability to deal with this kind of problem.

However, it did not prevent Yang Chao from knowing the importance of the morale of the army, and there was no famous general who did not pay attention to the issue of morale.

Therefore, noticing that there would be a problem with the soldier's mentality, Yang Chao immediately became cautious and began to slowly find out the reason.

First, I chatted cordially with some soldiers.

The results were not good, and the soldiers were reluctant to tell the truth to themselves.

So he mobilized his own personal soldiers, and these personal soldiers and other soldiers, and other soldiers, some of them were fellow villagers from the guard, and there was no problem for them to communicate.

And his own personal soldiers have no effect, their salaries are higher, and they are more loyal and trustworthy to Yang Chao.

Through one pro-soldier after another, Yang Chao quickly discovered the reason. (To be continued).