In addition, Yu Xiaotian's idea of fighting these laborers is not very realistic, after all, it is Zhu Dadian who is sitting here, and in front of the two armies, he can't get these laborers away without knowing it, feed them, and consume his own soldiers' food, so he will definitely not leave these prisoners.

But it was too cheap to give it to Shandong soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers in vain, so that they could replenish their troops, so Yu Xiaotian pushed back and thwarted them, and finally Zhu Dadian said that Yu Xiaotian would be the main general in the future, and the rest of the people, except for him, would be subject to Yu Xiaotian's control, Yu Xiaotian agreed, and handed over these prisoners to Wu Anbang and Gao Guozhu and others.

For more than ten consecutive days, there was no large-scale fighting between the two sides, and it can be said that both sides were secretly adding to their own injuries and recuperating their strength, just waiting for the next showdown again.

Ten days later, at the beginning of August, the temperature became higher and higher, and unlike the bitter cold of winter, the temperature in Laizhou was also quite hot in summer, and the sun scorched the earth, as if it wanted to burn everything, which was not so popular for both the official army and the rebels.

And in the first few days there was a heavy rain, and it was cloudy for a few days, and after the weather cleared, the temperature rose sharply, and the stagnant water on the ground was steamed, and people felt more damp and hot, as if in a steamer.

Everyone felt uncomfortable with such weather, and if the confrontation continued like this, it would be a kind of torment for both sides, so Zhu Dadian finally couldn't bear it anymore, and gathered the generals again, asking for a quick victory, and first to lift the siege of Laizhou.

Yu Xiaotian is also unwilling to waste time here, now the land of Denglai has long been destroyed by the rebels, he led thousands of sons to live here, every day consumption is very large, although the court transferred a batch of military food, it is indeed a priority to supply Fujian soldiers and horses, but these soldiers in Xiaotian's view, but not at all people eat.

The amount of food rations allocated by the soldiers of the Yu family army is far more than one-third of that of other officers and soldiers, and there are three meals a day, while the rest of the officers and soldiers have two meals a day.

Moreover, most of these soldiers' rations are old grains, and many of them have become moldy, and most of them are sorghum, wheat, soybeans, and even wheat has not even been ground into flour, so it can only be mixed with boiled wheat rice or multigrain porridge for officers and soldiers to eat.

In addition, the quality of the grain is poor, there is a lot of mildew, in addition to the poor taste, it is also easy to cause a large area of diarrhea, even if Yu Xiaotian tried his best to avoid it, but there was also a situation in the army that was not adapted to the soil and water, and many officers and soldiers continued to have diarrhea, which had a great impact on the combat strength under his command.

Therefore, in Yu Xiaotian's army, most of the food eaten had to be transported from Fushan to the side of Fushan, and before Laizhou City was conquered, it could not be replenished by water, so it was a great waste.

The rebels also seem to be aware of this, and tried to cut off the grain route of the Yu family army three times today, but fortunately, a military station was arranged on the grain road of the Yu family army, so that the rebels did not succeed.

So continue to drag on, Yu Xiaotian has no patience, not to mention that now he has extended his tentacles to Denglai, a large number of personnel have been sent to Shandong and Denglai, and everything that should be done has been done, a large number of refugees have now begun to be transferred in batches to Yangma Island in Muping County or directly to Fushan, there are ships to these two places every day to transfer the refugees assembled in these places, and a large number of refugees have been collected recently.

After a large area here suffered a military disaster, it was a catastrophe for the economy and places of these places, including the squire Haoqiang, which made the entire Denglai area almost fall into a state of barrenness, so that Yu Xiaotian could easily extend his hand to many places, and with the strong support of the Seawolf Group, he quickly formed a new Haoqiang in the local area.

These people will be his seeds in Xiaotian in the future, as long as they don't erect a mountain and play an anti-flag for the time being, the court will be powerless to manage it, and it will undoubtedly play a huge role in Yu Xiaotian's rebellion in the future.

Now that these things have been done, Yu Xiaotian asked himself, there is no need to continue to delay time here, so as soon as Zhu Dadian mentioned that he wanted to fight a decisive battle with the rebels, he immediately nodded and agreed.

Now among the officials and soldiers, Yu Xiaotian is a figure who has the final say except for Zhu Dadian, everyone knows very well that if you want to deal with the rebels, it depends on Yu Xiaotian, Yu Xiaotian doesn't want to fight, and others must fight for their lives, but if Yu Xiaotian wants to fight, others say no, I'm afraid it's useless.

Seeing Yu Xiaotian nodding, none of the other generals had a fart, so they could only agree and be willing to follow Zhu Dadian's order to go to meet the enemy and fight to the death.

Kong Youde on the rebel side is also impatient, the two sides are so consumed, it is not much benefit to him, although he can raise food on the spot, but now within a radius of dozens or even hundreds of miles around, everything he can grab has been robbed, and he has been trapped here in Laizhou for a long time, if he can't defeat the official army, take Laizhou City, and wave his army westward, his side will also run out of food.

It happened that the official army was going to fight a decisive battle with him, and he did not avoid the battle, but directly poured out, and once again set up the battlefield about ten miles south of Laizhou City, and brought the prelude to the decisive battle.

This time, in addition to pouring out of the nest, the rebels also invited all the artillery that could be used, and a total of four Hongyi cannons were lined up by them and placed in front of the formation.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian was not polite, and invited the three twenty-four-pound army siege artillery brought with the army out of the camp and placed them on the battlefield for the first time.

After the two sides lined up, they did not immediately attack each other, but the artillery of both sides started first, and a standard artillery bombardment came.

Although the rebels have a lot of artillery, and the equipment is quite advanced in the Ming army, compared with Yu Xiaotian's Yu family's army, it is nothing, and the only thing they can do is the four Hongyi cannons and a dozen Western-style artillery pieces with relatively small caliber and light weight, which are relatively good.

However, these imitation Western-style artillery guns are completely incomparable with Yu Jiajun's cannons in terms of quality, not to mention accuracy.

Originally, Kong Youde planned to use the few Hongyi cannons they had at hand this time to give a heavy blow to the official army, especially the Yu family's army, intending to first frustrate the spirit of the Yu family's army, so that the Yu family's army could also taste the power of their artillery.

However, as soon as the artillery array was opened, Kong Youde discovered that the artillery array of the Yu family army was luxurious, no worse than his, and among the artillery arrays in front of their army, there were actually three heavy Hongyi cannons that had never been seen before.

said that it was heavy, but in fact, the total weight of the 24-pounder cannon of the Yu family army was less than two-thirds of the 18-pounder Hongyi cannon that the rebels were using at hand, but the power far exceeded that of the Hongyi cannon used by the rebels.

More importantly, the siege heavy artillery of the Yu family army is equipped with a lot of flowering shells, the casting quality of these flowering shells is quite good, the skin is thin and the filling is large, and there are a lot of delicate granular black powder stuffed in it, and the black powder has also been compacted when loaded, and the power is by no means comparable to the kind of flowering bullets equipped with ordinary twelve-pounder guns.

This kind of 24-pounder cannon flowering shell, once exploding, can produce about 50 fragments, although it can not be compared with the modern grenades of later generations, but the power is really not small in this era, one explosion, the enemy within a radius of 10 meters around the explosion point, even if it is not killed by shrapnel, at least will be shocked to pieces, and it will not be able to recover for a long time.

After the two sides lined up, the Yu Jiajun side was the first to attack, and the cannons in the artillery array rang out one after another, and a muffled thunderous roar was heard, raising a large area of gunsmoke.

The shells immediately whistled and smashed into the rebel artillery position, and the first round of shelling was not accurate and failed to effectively destroy the enemy artillery, but this was only a calibrated fire by the artillery, and the use of solid shells was also very powerful.

When the rebels saw the artillery firing from the official army, they also hurriedly began to fire back, but the landing point of the rebel artillery was even more miserable, and most of the shells fell far away from the artillery position of the family army, which did not pose any threat to the artillery position of the family army at all.

Then the two sides launched an artillery battle for nearly half an hour, as the artillery of the Yu family army became larger and more accurate, and the hands became hotter, the shells began to fall into the rebel artillery array.

The shells exploded one after another, and in just half an hour, the three Hongyi cannons in the hands of the rebels were overturned, or the rebel gunners were almost killed and wounded, making them lose the ability to continue the artillery battle.

And the last remaining Hongyi cannon, because the rebel gunners were too nervous, was filled with excessive gunpowder, the cannon rang out, the cannon exploded on the spot, and the entire cannon's butt exploded, don't think about the fate of the rebel gunners who surrounded the cannon, dozens of gunners who operated the cannon were blown up on the spot, even if they were not killed, they were all knocked to the ground, bleeding from their ears, and they were deaf at their eyes.

Therefore, the result of the artillery battle was the complete victory of the Yu family's army, and the rebels' artillery was dumbfounded by them, and then the Yu family army was the leader, and the Shandong soldiers, Zhejiang soldiers, and Sichuan soldiers followed closely and began to press towards the rebels.

Moreover, the artillery of the Yu family army did not sit still, and the 12-pounder howitzers and 6-pounder light guns all advanced forward with the army and directly entered the battlefield to provide fire support and fire suppression to the officers and troops at a relatively close range.

(I can't express how touched I am, thank you so much for your support!) Today, Brother Bandit's Song Brother once again gave a heavy reward, in addition to the White Cloud Gap and the Winter Solstice 1979 Brother's reward! Brother, I am here again to express my gratitude! ）