stubborn thief

Chapter 480 False
On Gaotai City, Yang Jiamo's expression turned ugly for a moment.

Because Wang Xingshan's plan to line up behind the city in the south of the city failed, Liu Chengzong's soldiers and horses were indifferent to them, watching them in small groups from a distance across the paddy field, as if they were watching a joke.

Arraying against the city is the Ming army's conventional tactic in defending the city. Its logic is simple, safe and efficient. The most important key to this tactic is that the city is behind it.

War is a game. When a general chooses to defend a city, he must judge that the current situation is not suitable for battle. It usually means that the battlefield situation is that the enemy is strong and we are weak.

In the long history, the offensive and defensive technology has developed rapidly, and the city wall is not a consumable, which determines that the defensive technology is not always ahead of the siege technology.

The purpose of the attacking party is to attack the city, and the defending party must cause difficulties for the attacking army. Whether it is burning the siege equipment, or forcing the besieging army to be nervous and unable to quickly control the suburbs, the means are to send troops out of the city.

But since defending the city is already a choice when the enemy is strong and we are weak, sending troops out of the city is too easy to be wiped out, so it is a very good choice to line up against the city.

After all, it is rare for an army to be defeated from the front in a field battle. Even if it is defeated from the front, it is difficult to suffer serious injuries. Wearing a pair of iron pants to protect the buttocks, so that the two wings and the rear of the army formation are under the cover of the defending army.

At this time, the terrain of the high platform can provide the defenders with an advantage to the greatest extent. The road here is smooth, and it should be a flat land, but the city is adjacent to the Heihe River in the north, and there are three large canals parallel to the Heihe River in the south. Clear small canals separate large fields.

On this kind of terrain, the superior mobility and strength of the Marshal's Army will be offset by the terrain.

The army in Liu Chengzong's hands was not fully sure against the enemies arrayed against the city, but the battlefield in his eyes and the battlefield in his mind were completely two different things.

The battlefield in front of me is naturally a city, an army formation is an army formation, and the city can only be attacked by breaking the army formation; but in my mind, there are no such things on the battlefield, only him and Yang Jiamo, the two of them will pour out their will to use troops on this land .

So he was not in a hurry at all. First, he wrote more than 300 letters of persuasion in the army, ordered the Chahar cavalry to gallop across the trench, and shot the letter to the enemy's position from a distance, and let the Heshuo special cavalry spread out in twos and threes on the edge of the canal. .

Yang Jiamo expected him to send troops to fight against the Ming army arrayed behind the city because of the ditches. The army could not advance quickly or retreat quickly, but the geographical advantage was never exclusive to any one person. Bringing difficulties in hand-to-hand combat can also bring Wang Xingshan the effect of enclosing himself.

Accidentally, Wang Xingshan embarrassed himself.

It’s true that this Ganzhou army is recruits, but they didn’t join the army to eat food. After Wang Zi used the Liyuan Fort to kill Li Yun, a guerrilla general from Ganzhou, he was stimulated by every family in Ganzhou. Volunteer to enlist in the army in Wave of Will.

This is the essential difference between them and other armies in their will to fight.

But the enthusiasm that was instigated came quickly and was consumed quickly, and it was most necessary to boost morale, but Liu Chengzong didn't fight them, just persuaded them to surrender.

The letter of persuasion to surrender is still the same old thing, and it basically has no effect on the newly formed Ganzhou Army. These people were not soldiers in the past, so it is difficult to empathize with the old frontier soldiers like them, but at least the meaning of not wanting to be an enemy is clearly expressed.

Seeing this, Wang Xingshan was anxious in his heart, but he couldn't take the initiative to cross the ditch to attack. The whole battlefield fell into a strange calm. Ganzhou Army.

The Huben camp of the Chinese army in the back is too much. Based on several villages and forts that have not been burned down, they set up pots to cook meat, slaughter pigs and sheep on the spot, and smoke from cooking smoke rises in the sky. A good army.

The two sides confronted each other for the whole afternoon, and it was not until sunset that Yang Jiamo had no choice but to signal to withdraw his troops and bring them into the high platform.

That night, Wei Qian'er brought back several leaders elected by the people of Gaotai, including respected old people and prestigious squires. Liu Shizi asked people to make milk tea and invited them into the handsome tent for a chat.

The same kind of rice feeds a variety of people. Several leaders came in and said everything. Some advised Liu Chengzong to withdraw from the army on behalf of the people, and some relied on the old to sell the old and hoped that he would not add to the war. Liu Chengzong accepted it humbly, and then drove them out.

In the end, a leader was left named Yin Ruyue, a martial arts student of Gaotai Confucianism, young, and had a clear understanding of the situation, so he didn't talk nonsense.

Liu Chengzong said: "If I would retreat, why would I have to raise troops from Qinghai? Now that I have occupied the high platform, they are all the people under my rule. I asked you to come here to discuss how to resettle the population and resume farming, so that the officials and the people can be safe. Other words Needless to say."

Yin Ruyue nodded in agreement, but from his point of view, this matter was not something he could get involved in. He cupped his hands generously and said, "Since we have already surrendered, we will follow the command of the commander-in-chief. "

Liu Chengzong laughed out loud when he heard the words, knowing that it was his way of acting that had frightened the martial artist, he waved his hands and said, "There is nothing I can't order, I know that the people of Gaotai are not willing to join me, it's just that they don't want to be forcibly evicted. .”

"The most urgent task at the moment is to resettle the people who have no food and clothing. At the moment of the war, I will temporarily appoint you as the head of the craftsman battalion. You will be recruited to make equipment and transport wood and stone. The marshal's office will allocate the tents to provide food and grass. Divide land, build houses and repair houses."

Yin Ruyue is very satisfied with this appointment.

It’s not that he was temporarily appointed as a thousand chief officer, but that the resettlement policy of the marshal’s army is much better than that of the Ming army’s forced relocation... There are not many people in Gaotai, but there is a lot of land here, including intensively cultivated paddy fields and In dry land with extensive planting and low harvest, people's living standards are not bad when the products are abundant.

Naturally, no one is happy to move people away under such circumstances.

The consistent land distribution policy of the Marshal's Mansion is even more interesting to Yin Ruyue. Gaotai originally had a population of more than 3000 and more than 30 mu of land, including military farmland.

According to Liu Chengzong's meaning, he does not intend to continue to set up a thousand households here, but to register households for Qimin, so how will he divide the more than 30 mu of land?

There are only 600 people left, no matter how many points are scored!
The most important thing is that those who were supposed to be relocated were military households from Gaotai, and the soldiers in Gaotai City were all from Ganzhou.

Because of this, when Yang Jiamo went to the city again the next day, the army outside the city was still an army, but besides the army, there were three besieged camps full of felt tents in the fields.

Lele carts full of wood and stone were rushing all over the ground to transport them to the camp, and the energetic people in Gaotai made the place full of enthusiasm, desperately trying to do their part to capture Qianhu in Gaotai.

Yang Jiamo knew that the backlash of his failure to fortify the wall and clear the country was coming.

It was also on this day that the messengers who came from Suzhou arrived at the siege camp outside the city. It was Huang Shengxiao, a general who stayed behind to besiege Jiayuguan, who sent a letter.

In the letter, Huang Shengxiao praised Suzhou general Hu Zhishen. This seemingly incompetent former Suzhou guard commander can really do something.

Six days ago, Hu Zhishen rode into Jiayuguan alone. Three days later, in the early morning of Huang Shengxiao, the defenders waited and watched the flag of General Zhong being thrown down.

Only one day later, Huang Shengxiao's troops hadn't finished picking up cannons inside and outside the closed wall. The Suzhou Battalion, which had reorganized [-] surrendered troops, had already set out under the leadership of Commander Hu Zhishen. Thousands of meters of India surrendered.

The Suzhou battalion, which will be overstaffed, has already been taken by Hu Zhishen to the front line, and it is estimated that it will reach Gaotai in two days.

Huang Shengxiao suggested in the letter that Liu Chengzong let the Suzhou Battalion take the lead. To be precise, let the guerrilla general Ding Guodong under the jurisdiction of the Suzhou Battalion take the lead, only 800 people.

As for the reason, Huang Shengxiao admitted frankly that it was not a personal grievance, but just annoying. As the only general of the Marshal Army who walked into Gansu from the Jiayuguan city gate, Huang Shengxiao had a clear view of Jiayuguan. The 800 people in the Guancheng were a little No food left.

Huang Shengxiao was very envious. When they besieged the city, Ding Guodong ordered people to requisition a lot of livestock and food from the pass. During the siege, there was basically no serious fight. They just fired a few cannons at them, and later they didn't even bother to fire them.

The defenders in the pass were a little nervous at the beginning, but they gradually let themselves go, turning their fighting spirit into appetite, and cooked food in the pass every day.

It is said that their original plan was to close the food reserves and break out of the siege after a while. The direction of the breakout was to the west, occupying Hami or being occupied by Hami.

As a result, Hu Zhishen came to persuade him to surrender, but Ding Guodong didn't say anything.

There is a process of dynamic changes in people's thoughts. At the beginning, they are born with the will to die, and it is not too much to eat a few good meals before they die.

At this moment, Liu Chengzong led the troops to the east, and Liu Chengzu led the troops to the north. After closing the gate, the defenders realized that Suzhou had fallen and Ganzhou was in danger. It was impossible for the friendly army to come to their aid. They had eaten a lot of good food, not to mention They could also tell that the Marshal Army and the others were no different from them, and they really didn't want to kill them.

Facing Hu Zhishen's persuasion to capitulate, General Guan Guan was too embarrassed to say the first sentence, but Ha, who was used to watching the birds, dared to ask a question: "General, there is still a lot of food and grass left in Guan Guan, this... "

The original intention of the fire is that the food can last for a while, why don't you look at it again, who knows that everyone unanimously suggested that since there is still more food, let's hold a banquet.

To be a soldier of Ming Dynasty and to eat food from Ming Dynasty is a matter of course!
The banquet lasted for three days, and all the edible meat was eaten up by the [-] soldiers. They even drank wine on the last day.

Huang Shengxiao was so angry, these workers from the Ming Empire understood how to eat public food, and co-authored an expedition of three thousand miles with the Marshal's Mansion to improve the lives of the 800 people in Jiayuguan.

As for Mirayin, let alone Mirayin, unlike Jiayuguan, which has sufficient rations, it is a post station itself. After being besieged, the food stored there is not enough for thousands of people to eat for ten days and a half months. Mix it up, even if Hu Zhishen doesn't try to persuade him to surrender, he won't be far from internal strife.

Just in time for Hu Zhishen to persuade him to surrender, the commander of the Suzhou Guard and the guerrilla general surrendered, and they had no burden.

At the same time, Huang Shengxiao also gave a brief report on the casting of military weapons by Chijinwei and Suzhouwei. He has already cast 24 solid shells and [-] barrels of loose shells, and made clay molds for [-] heavy cannons. The material collection has also been completed. After this is done, at least a dozen jack cannons will be able to go into battle a month later.

This is undoubtedly good news for Liu Chengzong. More supplementary troops, more heavy artillery and ammunition can better solve the problem of the current shortage of troops, and even make him optimistic about the situation on the entire battlefield.

Facing the construction of a siege camp outside the city to make siege equipment, Yang Jiamo once again sent Wang Xingshan back to the city to line up. Liu Chengzong still ignored Wang Xingshan, but asked them to send them a letter of persuasion in a second. Feng's capitulation letter was a little more intense in terms of words.

Wang Xingshan's threatening army must be pulled out before attacking the city, but he doesn't want to make his attack intention too obvious, Liu Shizi is holding back his strength.

The artisan camp is rushing to manufacture wooden mantles, ladders, wooden baskets, planks, and supporting beams for digging tunnels for him. He has listed all siege methods as options, and it is best to win at a relatively low cost. No, you can try storming, digging tunnels or even blowing up city walls.

For Wang Xingshan's army, he also made two-handed preparations. The craftsman camp has prepared more than 500 carts of earth and rocks. Just waiting for Wang Xingshan to withdraw to the city this evening, they will fill in several roads for the canal. Prepare for the hand-to-hand combat of those who came down, and on the one hand, try to hold them back.

The size of the city has an optimal ratio to the number of defenders. A large city must have fewer defenders, and too many defenders in a small city may not be a good thing.

Liu Chengzong hoped that the enemy would enter the city and put nearly [-] defenders in this small city, so that the tension would double in the army.

Of course, the enemy might not listen to him, but after today, even if Wang Xingshan dared to lead troops out again, it would not be so easy. As long as the canal is filled, the artillery can be transported quickly.

Liu Chengzong has already transferred all the six heavy cannons in his hand to Wei Qianer's hands. With the lion cannon, he has the opportunity to penetrate the army formation before the close combat.

In the evening, Wang Xingshan's bored army stood outside the city for another day. They were so hungry that their chests were stuck to their stomachs, and they returned to the city in disgrace.

As soon as the city gate on the high platform was closed, Yang Jiamo at the top of the city saw a group of Lele vehicles loaded with mud rushing towards the canal, and within a short while filled the canal more than ten steps north.

It's just that at this time, Liu Chengzong was more horrified than Yang Jiamo in his heart.

Because the scattered Heshuo special herdsman captured the messenger of the Ming army, and the messenger carried a letter from Hong Chengchou, which stated that the Ming army on the East Road had recovered several fortresses in Songshan, and recaptured Zhuanglang City, and began to march towards Hehuang .

Liu Chengzong put down the letter and said with a smile: "Yang Jiamo actually wants to deceive me with a fake letter."

Wei Qian'er was puzzled and said: "Marshal, how do you know that this letter is fake?"

Liu Chengzong smiled lightly, patted Wei Qian'er on the shoulder, and said, "You will understand after this battle."

Whether this letter is true or not is not important, what is important is the morale of the army, and it is necessary for this letter to be false.

　Good evening!Xiaoyang people came back and updated. The fever just went away today, and no one in the family escaped it. Fortunately, the children and the elderly only had a fever. Everyone who is not positive must protect themselves. If you can’t get sick, you won’t get sick. It’s too uncomfortable to get sick.

　　
　
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