Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 329 Battle in Cangzhou

"The morale of the army is exhausted!"

Yang Chao couldn't help but sighed, he didn't mention people's hearts, because that thing was always a lie.

Li Zicheng's Eastern Expedition, none of the ten officials who blocked him, most of them opened the door to welcome the surrender, are they dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty? No, they think that the Ming Dynasty is hopeless, and they plan to fall into the arms of the new master , continue to enjoy power.

The people's hearts are different, but the people's hearts are useless. It is the military generals and civil officials who can make the decisions.

If you want to really raise the hearts of the people, I am afraid that the common people don't care about the Ming Dynasty and Li Zicheng, they just want to live a peaceful life.

The so-called popular support was woven by Wen Guanmen and used as a banner for himself.

There are some people in mountainous areas who don't know who is the emperor all their lives, so how can they talk about people's hearts.

So people's hearts are nothing more than official hearts. Obviously, officials in the north have completely given up on the Ming Dynasty after seeing the famine year after year. However, Jiangnan officials are better, and production has not been greatly damaged. Jiangnan officials are more inclined to the Ming Dynasty.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are also well aware of this, so the main area of ​​their activities bypasses the affluent Jiangnan instead. Don’t they know that Jiangnan can grab more things? It is because they know that there are few people who respond to them in Jiangnan, so They fought into the dilapidated Henan time and time again, because they knew that no matter how many people they lost here, they could quickly replenish them.

"Camp on the other side, beware of Cangzhou!"

Yang Chao was not interested in conquering Cangzhou, and Cangzhou City refused to let him in, which made Yang Chao quite disappointed. His army's supplies were burned, and he hoped to find a city.

Now his 300 people are obviously unable to contribute to Cangzhou, which is "united as a city". The irony is that if every city of the Ming Dynasty had this enthusiasm for surrender, the Ming Dynasty would not perish.

I just stayed in Cangzhou for a long time, but before I got reinforcements, a large number of cavalry came and they surrounded Yang Chao's camp. They all surrounded them from a distance, and were not in a hurry to attack.

Yang Chao was surrounded.

Yu Jiye's mood became more and more depressed. Three of his subordinates had already died, and seven others were still struggling on the verge of death. Their bodies were very hot, but there was no soup to heal them.

The princes were complaining to the prince one by one. After finding out that the soldiers dared not hurt them, they became more and more unwilling to cooperate. After walking tens of meters, they yelled that they couldn't walk anymore, and they wanted to take a car.

None of the maids yelled, but the men like them were coquettish and tight.

Especially the prince Zhu Cihong kept saying that he had a stomachache with a big belly, and he had to go to the latrine dozens of times a day.

Yu Jiye, who came from a family of military officers, did not dare to neglect these princes, and always showed great respect, but the other party became more and more confident, and could not walk much in a day.

Since Wuqing was delayed all night, everyone slept in danger.

There were [-] cavalry surrounding Yang Chao. Fortunately, they didn't have heavy weapons, so they couldn't do anything to Yang Chao's camp.

It was just watching these people burn their tank boats, which made Yang Chao very uncomfortable.

There are still three days of rations in the army. If the food is exhausted, we must find a way to break through.

One day, two days, Yu Jiye was not seen in the north, and many male reinforcements were not seen in the south.

On the third day, Yang Chao mobilized his men to break out at night.

But at this time, someone suddenly saw the reinforcements.

Many men finally arrived.

The captive soldiers also found many male reinforcements, and immediately went up to meet them, but were beaten by Wang Pu's army with a bludgeon.

The two armies joined forces, and the cavalry was still wandering around. It was obvious that they could not abandon Cangzhou.

"Many men, go and beat Cangzhou to me!"

Many men were ordered to organize staff to go.

After firing the tiger squatting cannon under the city for a round, the gate of the city opened, and the magistrate of Cangzhou led people out to meet him, repeatedly expressing that it was a misunderstanding, and that they wanted Master Wang.

Yang Chao didn't care about the speculative psychology of these people. After entering, he sealed up the warehouse in Cangzhou first.

Having received [-] dans of military rations, and with the rations in hand, he did not panic, and confronted the peasant cavalry in a down-to-earth manner.

At this time, the cavalry gathered again, and the losses were not heavy.

Yang Chao couldn't help sighing, he had to be a cavalry to fight cavalry.

Just now he saw a lot of men's army formation, which is a new type of wall formation that he began to think about when he was in Haizhou. The first row is a large shield, the back is a row of bird gunners, a row of archers, and a row of crossbowmen , the three-layer long-range fire strike is very sharp, with swords and shields on both sides. Not only do they need to guard against the two wings, but these strong guys also carry tiger squat guns weighing dozens of kilograms on their backs. After the long-range fire strike, they immediately went out to form a team Immediately firing a round of tiger squatting cannons can immediately tear the cavalry formation, even the elite three-wall cavalry is no exception.

"This formation is available!"

Yang Chao thought to himself that he was quite satisfied with his new army formation.

But Yang Chao doesn't plan to go out to fight in the city for the time being. His purpose is not to kill many people, but to save people. Even saving one person is enough, so just stay in Cangzhou and wait quietly, and let people pay attention to the situation in the north every day. If a small army appears, immediately go out of the city to meet them.

"Don't use cannons, and don't go out of the city, let the bandits surround Cangzhou with peace of mind!"

The reinforcements brought a hundred tiger squatting cannons, which were cast by the gunners during the bandit suppression period in Zhejiang. They were equipped with the troops after passing Lao Jin's three inspections. There are also some large-caliber General Cannons and Fuzhou Cannons in Cangzhou City. Lang Jipao, but they didn't fire a single shot against Yang Chao.

Yang Chao didn't intend to use cannons to push the peasant army too far, so he let them stay under the city to prevent them from going north and threatening Yu Jiye and the others.

As soon as Yu Jiye and the others appeared, Yang Chao planned to use the momentum of thunder to break through the line of defense and meet Yu Jiye.

"My lord, what about those guys?"

After many men finally had a full meal, they asked Yang Chao indignantly.

The guys he was talking about referred to a group of Ming army, Gao Jie's Ming army.

Gao Jie was a general under Li Zicheng, but he hooked up with Li Zicheng's wife. After the incident, he fled with his own soldiers and horses. Pretending to be Li Zicheng's army, cheating food and drinking in Hebei and Shandong.

In the end, when they met Yang Chao's reinforcements, they boldly sent people to sneak attack, trying to steal the supplies, but they failed, and angrily set fire to lose the tank boats and other things.

Many men went out to battle and captured some prisoners. After interrogation, they found out that they were not real bandits, but pretended to be furious immediately. Fortunately, he was not Wang Pu's temper, otherwise he would have killed these prisoners long ago.

"killed!"

Yang Chao said coldly.

It’s fine to pretend to be bandits to cheat food and drink. After all, everyone is afraid of Li Zicheng at this time, and the slogan of opening the city to welcome the king is very loud. On the contrary, the Ming army is very unpopular and bumps into walls everywhere. The city of Daming does not allow them to enter. For supplies, the local tyrants are especially on guard against them, so pretending to be a peasant army to deceive people is also a last resort.

But if you rob the friendly army with the fake one, you will completely lose your position. This is a rebellion!
Dozens of heads were soon hung on the top of the city. Since they pretended to be the peasant army, they simply told the people who became them that these were their comrades in arms.

It is a pity that the sense of honor of the peasant army does not seem to be strong. The heads of their fake comrades are hanging on the wall. They are completely indifferent and do not come to attack the city, just wandering outside the city.

"Cangzhou City is besieged? What should we do?"

Yu Jiye watched Cangzhou from a distance, and immediately spotted the cavalry, they could only hide nearby.

"Can you go around?"

Xie Fei asked.

Yu Jiye hesitated: "My lord's order is for us to advance along the river."

"But the lord said to take care of us, where are the lords now?"

Bian Er yelled dissatisfiedly, he has also been very upset recently, seeing that his "wife" is not as good-looking as others, but that woman actually recognized him, and she really regarded herself as his husband-in-law when she had nothing to do with her. It's not right for Bian Er to refuse, nor to accept it. He has been teased by his comrades all the time, making him blush.

Xie Fei frowned and said, "Bian Er, stop talking nonsense!"

Yu Jiye suddenly thought: "Do you think your lord will be in the city?"

Xie Fei smiled wryly: "If my lord is in the city, is it possible to be surrounded by bandits?"

The soldiers who participated in the Haizhou War with Yang Chao all had an extremely superstitious trust in Yang Chao, feeling that as long as Yang Chao was there, they would be invincible in the world.

"Bian Er, what are you doing?"

At this time, Bian Er suddenly touched it out, and walked towards the front with his waist down. This place is very close to Cangzhou, and the camp of the rogues is not far away.

Soon Bian Er dragged back a prisoner.

"ask him!"

The prisoner was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old child, with a panicked look on his face: "Where are you guys from?"

The child speaks a Henan accent.

But Sheng is tall and powerful, and he is not a master like Bian Er, so he may not be able to control him yet.

"Don't worry about who we are, what kind of people are you?"

Yu Jiye took out a knife holder and asked him on his neck.

He quickly got the answer he wanted. This is Liu Fangliang's vanguard, Yishui's cavalry, who came to cut off the connection between Cangzhou and the south.

"What is the origin of the Ming army in the city?"

Yu Jiye asked again.

Soon they got the answer, and the soldiers said that they couldn't figure it out either. They had surrounded a small Ming army, and the formation of this Ming army was very strange.

Through the captive's description, Yu Jiye was immediately overjoyed. He had judged that most of the people in the city were his own.

"What should we do now?"

Xie Fei was also excited. Although it was strange why the invincible General Yang in his eyes was besieged by people, he still asked hopefully.

Yu Jiye thought for a while: "Go back first! Let's talk at night."

Yang Chao has been waiting in Cangzhou for three days, and he is very worried about the speed of Yu Jiye and his party. They are an elite group, and everyone can ride a horse. If they can’t find a boat, they should go to Cangzhou on horseback. It can only show that they are not going well. , Yang Chao hoped that they would not appear to explain the accident.

"Sir, something happened!"

As soon as he fell asleep in the middle of the night, many men broke in and woke up Yang Chao loudly.

"what happened!"

Yang Chao got up and asked.

Many men wondered: "The northern camp of the rogue bandits is on fire!"

When Yang Chao heard this, he was puzzled for a moment, and immediately woke up: "Quickly, attack the whole battalion and defeat the captive soldiers!"

(End of this chapter)