Jiang Cheng walked in front of these captured soldiers, looked at these soldiers with horror in their eyes, and nodded in his heart.

Although these soldiers are not elite, they are at least good cannon fodder.

Jiang Cheng is very satisfied with such an army, because only such people are easy to control, as for those who have talent, Jiang Cheng needs it, but it will definitely not be needed now.

At the beginning of the establishment of a force, what is needed is not a group of people and masters, but a hall of words, and only in this way can it get through the period of development.

"Pull all the officers out. Jiang Cheng looked around before speaking.

"Yes!" was then identified by the surrendering soldiers, and soon twenty officers were pulled out.

"Now give you a chance, do you see these people? You only need to cut them down, then you can join the Red Turban Army, or you will be killed immediately. ”

"Spare your life, the general spare your life. After Jiang Cheng's words fell, most of the twenty officers knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

"Don't do it yet!" Jiang Cheng didn't even look at these people, but still looked at these soldiers coldly.

"Is what the general said true?" said a young man among the soldiers.

"Don't worry, General Ben is true to his word, as long as you do it, you will become a member of the Red Turban Army. ”

Looking at Jiang Cheng's words, the soldier ruthlessly pulled out the knife in front of him and stabbed an officer.

"Ah!" may have been caused by the soldier's nervousness, and the officer had been slashed to the bone.

"Yes, you will be our brother from now on. Jiang Cheng praised loudly after seeing this example.

Sure enough, everyone has a herd mentality, and after having the example of the first person, the rest of the people have stepped forward to do it.

Half an hour later, the twenty officers had already died of blood loss.

And what Jiang Cheng harvested was 300 soldiers who had no way out.

Soon after purging the army, Jiang Cheng asked these former officers and soldiers of the Dayan Imperial Court, who had become soldiers of the Red Turban Army, to gather the people of the county.

Yongle County is not a big county seat, so the people in the city are only 30,000 people in total, plus those who died during the siege of the city, and the Red Turban Army killed them after entering the city, so there are only more than 23,000 people left in the city now.

But that's enough for so many people.

After gathering all the people, he entered the city and forcibly recruited 3,000 soldiers as soldiers, plus Jiang Cheng's own soldiers, as well as the soldiers who surrendered, his total number of soldiers has now swelled to more than 4,000 people.

Although most of them have never experienced war, it should be said that they have not been trained, but it doesn't matter, Jiang Cheng just wants to train while fighting.

Time was not controlled by anyone's will, and in a blink of an eye, three days later, more than 1,200 reinforcements from the county town came to the front of the city wall.

And they also knew the news that the county seat was defeated, and they didn't talk nonsense, and began to line up and prepare to attack the city.

Jiang Cheng sold it to Bai Bai, and the soldiers who came this time were no longer county soldiers, but the real elite of the Dayan Imperial Court.

I don't dare to say anything else, but it is enough to suppress the county, and there are 5,800 soldiers and horses in one county, which is divided into five armies and one army of 1,200 people.

And this time the team came with soldiers from an army, these soldiers have undergone strict training, and they usually carry out combat missions such as suppressing bandits and robbers.

It can be said that although it is not elite, it is much stronger than ordinary soldiers, and compared with Jiang Cheng's army, it is really incomparable.

You must know that the Red Turban Army was still a peasant half a month ago? Fortunately, there is such a county town that can be defended, otherwise Jiang Cheng would have planned to make a strategic shift a long time ago.

And Jiang Cheng just paid attention to delaying time, and all the villages in Yongle County were burned down by him, and most of the residents were forcibly recruited by him.

It can be said that there is not a single grain of grain in the wild, and the water sources everywhere have also been poisoned under Jiang Cheng's orders, which can guarantee that there is absolutely no way to drink.

Anyway, Jiang Cheng came to Qingye one by one, just to not give the other party any chance to replenish.

Jiang Cheng really didn't believe that the army that came to quell the chaos could bring much food.

As long as they are consumed, they will definitely retreat, and at that time it will be easy to move forward and difficult to retreat, and Jiang Cheng will let them know what the standard model of peasant uprising is.

"Siege the city, take Yongle County for me, and kill the rebels!" Chen Tao, the captain of the Yongwu Military Academy, waved his hand fiercely at Yongle City.

As the order to attack was given, all the brave soldiers Shi Bin rushed to the city wall.

However, it is a pity that they did not expect the county town to fall so quickly, so all kinds of siege equipment were not brought, so that the tragedy can only be like Jiang Cheng did at the beginning, cutting down bamboo trees to make simple siege ladders and other items.

Of course, this is not the most tragic thing, the worst thing is that the trees that can be cut down around have long been used up by Jiang Cheng when he attacked the city, and some of the remaining trees were also burned by Jiang Cheng's order.

Jiang Cheng knew that the other party would build siege equipment, and it would be too stupid to keep these trees.

Of course, the area around Yongle County is still very large, so there must still be trees, and Jiang Cheng has no intention of relying on this method to delay the other party for the rest of his life.

Jiang Cheng just wants to delay the other party for a few hours, and it is also good.

"Archer prepare!"

"Shoot the arrows!"

As the Yan army began to attack the city, Jiang Cheng gave an order, and the soldiers who were waiting in the back loosened their bowstrings one after another.

"Puff puff puff!"

"Charge, don't retreat, kill the city wall, kill the rebels!" After a rain of arrows, the brave army was also a little hesitant, but no matter how much hesitation was awakened by the shouts of the warlords.

"Archers, put it again!" hundreds of archers couldn't stand it after three rounds of volleys.

In fact, in this era, archers are definitely an elite class, which is different from some cannon fodder soldiers, and there are not many who can shoot arrows with bows and arrows.

Coupled with continuous bow and arrow, this is not something that everyone can do.

Of course, these elite archers and Jiang Cheng's archers are two different things, and the archers under Jiang Cheng are all urgently trained.

That quasi-head is such a mess, and if you can shoot it, God willing.

However, the thing is that the soldiers of the Yan army themselves are in a state of siege, so after three rounds of bows and arrows, the three hundred Yan troops who attacked in the first echelon were killed on the spot, and more than 50 people were killed.

That's a full sixth of the casualties, which is already a lot of casualties. They are not a modern army that can withstand one-half, if not all, of death.