Although he didn't think that the captives would fight at night, but there was no big mistake in being careful, Yang Chao still arranged the men on duty at night, and it was Zheng Yongwang's turn to take people to the city to keep vigil, in addition to his own flag, there were five infantry teams at his disposal, a total of 100 people, patrolling on the four city walls.

Up to now, although Yang Chao has sent officers to organize the people and the guards, he still maintains his elite army and always maintains an elite force with great combat effectiveness.

In addition to Zheng Yongwang leading people to patrol around, there were also people sitting under the wall to rest, each of them holding a spear, leaning against the wall, and there were captives a few hundred steps behind them.

Yang Chao left himself a hundred elite soldiers to patrol, but he couldn't rely on these 100 people alone, if he really encountered a surprise attack, he couldn't guard against it, so there were still quite a lot of people on the four city walls, and there were 200 people on each city wall.

"My lord, what does it feel like to kill someone?"

There are also those who can't sleep and get together to chat.

Because it was dark and he couldn't light torches to make targets for people, Yang Chao basically didn't know anyone during his inspection.

Suddenly, I heard a soldier ask the officer next to him.

"I don't feel it, it's like tearing the cloth!"

The officer's voice sounded, Yang Chao felt very familiar, knowing that this was his subordinate, and it was a team leader, and now he was sent to Minzhuang to take charge of a hundred people, which was temporarily promoted to a hundred generals.

"My lord, I've heard people say that there is murder in killing people, isn't it?"

The soldier asked again.

The officer replied: "I don't know. ”

The soldier said, "My father said that it is true, that those who kill pigs have murderous spirits, and that pigs are afraid when they see them." The dog killer hid away when he saw it. ”

The officer was curious: "Really? ”

Yang Chao's officers are not very old, most of them are seventeen or eighteen years old, and less than one-tenth are over twenty years old.

The young officer was still at an age of natural curiosity.

The soldier suddenly became less confident: "It's not necessarily true, I heard about snake catchers." The serpent is not afraid of him, and may bite him. ”

The officer sighed, and there was some regret in his tone.

Yang Chao did not disturb this group of officers and soldiers. Quietly walked by with two personal soldiers.

Suddenly, he encountered a group of patrolling soldiers at the corner of the city, and they suddenly stopped Yang Chao.

"Who? Why do you want to walk around without permission? ”

"Zheng Yongwang! It's me. ”

Yang Chao immediately heard Zheng Yongwang's voice.

Zheng Yongwang also heard Yang Chao's voice. Immediately stand upright: "My lord! ”

Yang Chao waved his hand: "Continue patrolling." Now you can send fewer people, and you can't relax in the second half of the night, if you attack at night, it's often in the second half of the night. ”

Zheng Yongwang said: "Bid and save!" ”

Yang Chao walked down the city tower at this time, and his confidence in his heart increased a lot, because he found that the soldiers were not as nervous as he imagined, and those people were much better than he imagined, and he did not show panic at all.

Yang Chao had a rare good night's sleep, and the rooster crowed on the second day. Immediately beat the soldiers, although there was no alarm in the city, but it was time for them to go up and stand by, although they were very tired, but really could not let any of them lazy, they had to be sober before the captives attacked the city, and they had to warm up.

Let the officers take these men to run on the city walls, it doesn't take long, just run from one end to the other on the walls of their respective defenses.

The warm-up was not wasted because they had just finished warming up. After eating a hot breakfast brought by Song Lian and some people, the horns of the captives sounded, and then groups of captives rushed out of the camp. It's time to siege the city!

The battle was fought almost simultaneously on both sides of the southeast.

The captives pushed the shield carts in front, followed by the elite infantry, driving long ladders.

There are also cavalry waiting for an opportunity to cruise, ready to pounce on reinforcements at any time.

"Li Wuliu!"

"Here!"

Yang Chao immediately called Li Wuliu.

Face-to-face instruction: "You lead the gunners to prepare, and the tiger squat cannon is ready to support." ”

"Yes!"

Li Wuliu saluted and was about to leave.

"Wait."

Yang Chao stopped him.

Li Wuliu stood up and saluted again.

Yang Chao then said: "You should hurry up and train a new bird team in Haizhou, you can choose the number of people, at most three hundred." The bird guns made by Haizhou people are also excellent. ”

Li Wuliu was overjoyed, he was already like an expanding bird's hand. He is now the first person in the army to advocate that the use of bird guns should be prioritized for long-range combat.

What made Yang Chao change his mind was the most important thing, except that the bird hand had already proved his worth. In fact, it was found that the quality of Haizhou's bird guns is indeed okay.

Yang Chao had no choice but to use Haizhou's bird gun yesterday to supplement his losses. As a result, at the end of the day, it was found that the quality of Haizhou's bird guns was good.

After asking Jiang Yang again, I understood that in fact, for the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty, the production of bird guns is not a difficult technology, after all, Westerners have regarded gunpowder weapons as the main weapon, compared to the Ming Dynasty has more blacksmiths than the whole of Europe, there is no reason why it cannot make sophisticated gunpowder weapons, in fact, during the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese and Westerners were equally equal in terms of firearms technology.

It's just that the system in the late Ming Dynasty was rotten, and when it got up early, it couldn't find the direction of using weapons, so there was no market for making weapons, so more firearms were not developed.

The development of a country's weapons is always related to the enemy's situation, just like although the introduction of Western technology, the Ming Dynasty's firecrackers are smaller than the Western caliber and have a longer range, this is because the Ming Dynasty's opponents Mongolia and Manchuria have elite archers, and Western archers have entered history, so the Ming Dynasty is more inclined to develop a bird gun that can suppress the archers in the range, and the Westerners tend to develop large-caliber muskets that can penetrate the heavy armor of Western knights because they want to fight against heavy cavalry.

The Ming Dynasty was different from Western firearms because their enemies were different, and there were no technical barriers.

Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, in fact, the craftsmen who can make bird guns can be singled out, as long as they have been made, if they have experience, they can create excellent bird guns step by step, and the reason why the weapons equipped in the war bureau and the army are not good, it is because of corruption* and cutting corners, not technical factors, but institutional factors.

In the Ming Dynasty, such craftsmen could be selected from each guard, because all the guards had an ordnance bureau or a miscellaneous bureau similar to the military war, and the craftsmen did not need to pay taxes, but only needed to pay a certain amount of weapons and equipment to the central government.

However, under normal circumstances, the weapons and equipment handed over by the local ordnance bureaus are worse than those produced by the Eighth Central Bureau, and no one wants them.

However, it is undeniable that under this system, there are craftsmen who can make all kinds of weapons in various places, and there are also craftsmen who make bird guns and artillery in Haizhou, although there are not many, but they are also quite experienced.

After asking Jiang Yang yesterday, Jiang Yang introduced a craftsman in their guard to Yang Chao, this is an old military craftsman, attached to the craftsman in the East China Sea, who has also been in Haizhou since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, more than fifty years old, and his ancestral skills are very exquisite.

The old warsmith told Yang Chao that the bird guns that Jiang Yang handed over to Yang Chao had been inspected by him, and Yang Chao was curious about how to inspect the quality of the metal barrel without advanced electronic equipment, and the old warsmith told him to listen.

He also demonstrated to Yang Chao once, using a small hammer to tap the barrel of the gun, he could tell if there were cracks in the barrel.

This is similar to the ultrasonic detection of later generations, but later generations used electronic instruments for analysis, and the old military craftsmen relied entirely on experience.

Yang Chao knew that this kind of thing could not be promoted, and he could only rely on the accumulation of experience, and Haizhou was also the master of making guns and cannons in Haizhou City.

The old warmaker gave Yang Chao confidence, since Haizhou can build a bird gun, then why not let them build it now, build a good bird gun, and naturally equip their own army, this is definitely given for nothing, don't do it in vain, as for training, it is naturally a last resort, at this time, if you can train a considerable number of bird guns, the defense of the city is naturally very sharp, anyway, it must be shorter than the archers.

Li Wuliu is very keen on the large-scale formation of birds, so he can't wait to pick up troops for training today.

When he was in the new Jiangkou camp, although he was very dissatisfied with Lao Jin, this time he planned to select new bird gunners according to Lao Jin's method of selecting soldiers, although he only learned fur, and could only imitate one appearance, that is, a group of arms with long arms and good eyes should be selected.

Li Wuliu is still just fantasizing about training, today is too late, today has to fight on the city wall, so he can only choose at night, and then he plans to pick an officer to train tomorrow, and the others still stay in the city to fight.

Compared with Li Wuliu who was still planning, the officers in the north and west of the city had already organized the people to practice for a day.

The north and west of the city are the Rose River, although the river is not wide, but this is a natural river, compared to the moat, it is much wider, the narrowest place is more than ten zhang, the width of the place is even dozens of zhang, the most important thing is that the water flow is abundant, the river is very deep, to fill up, even if no one stops, just the amount of earthwork, are enough for the captives to drink a pot.

Anyway, after two days of filling, the captives advanced less than a zhang from the river bank, not even a tenth, whether they could hold on or not is a matter of two words, so the people in the west and north of the city did not need to fight for a while, but they were not idle, and under the leadership of the officers, they were actively training.

The officers first trained these people to practice their pace according to the techniques they had learned in Nanjing, and as long as the pace could be practiced well, then there would be no confusion.

But it's not just about practicing pace, it's now in war, not peacetime, so Yang Chao told them that they don't need to follow the step-by-step process, they can train assassination in advance, the captives are in front of them, and they can fight at any time, and they can't fight just by walking, so half a day to practice pace, half a day to let these soldiers learn to assassinate.

Because the filling of the river by the captives on both sides of the city was not going well, the soldiers on both sides were mainly training, eating and drinking enough and then stabbing in the air.

―――――――――――― (To be continued).