The sun was shining high, lighting up the entire earth.
The breeze came slowly, and the wheat fields rolled up waves.
A huge team was walking on the official road, stretching for several miles in front and back, with tens of thousands of people.
Behind the team were Green Camp soldiers holding weapons, and in the middle were nearly 10,000 people who had been arrested, supporting the old and young, pushing carts and carrying loads.
There were men and women, old and young.
Weeping sounds came and went, accompanied by the Green Camp.
The soldiers yelled and beat.
In order to obtain enough cannon fodder for the siege, Duduo ordered that all active people, regardless of men, women, old or weak, be captured and brought to the gates of Yangzhou City, no longer limited to strong men.
Fan Tianyu, a military officer in the Chinese army, suggested to Duduo that the Ming Dynasty would soon be destroyed, and these people would become the people of the Qing Dynasty in the future.
He suggested that Duduo should treat the people well, and it would be best to deploy young men to participate in the siege, and letting them go would have no effect.
Women, children, old and weak.
After all, in the future, it will be up to the people to pay taxes, money and food for the Qing Dynasty.
At that time, Duduo thought it made sense, so he followed Fan Tianyu's suggestion.
Who would have known that a few days later, under the interference of Pingnan Army cavalry, the number of strong men recruited was less than 10,000.
In three days, not even a ditch for water diversion was dug, let alone filling the moat.
If kindness does not support soldiers, how can there be so much kindness in women?
Duduo, who had participated in previous robberies, naturally would not take the lives of ordinary people seriously, let alone a lowly Akito.
Over the years, Duduo has personally killed hundreds of people from the Ming Dynasty, including Ming soldiers and generals, as well as women and children.
Duduo issued an order, ordering the Green Camp soldiers to obtain enough common people as soon as possible, no longer limited to strong men, which caused disaster to the common people west of the canal.
Wherever the Green Camp soldiers went, villages were looted and everyone was captured and sent to Yangzhou to be used as cannon fodder.
Liu Zhong led his men to the southwest for only thirty miles.
In half a day, they looted more than ten villages and arrested six to seven thousand people.
Several villages had built walls, and the villagers stood guard against the walls.
Liu Zhong personally directed the attack, suppressing the villagers on the wall with bows and arrows, blasting open the village gates with the artillery he carried, and then rushed in to kill all the resisters.
Green Camp The soldiers swarmed in and started doing whatever they wanted.
Villages that did not resist were treated much better, with basically no massacres and rapes.
Of course, all the people in the village would still be robbed, and their food and property would be plundered.
Now, the Green Camp soldiers, who had captured enough people and looted food and property, returned to Yangzhou under the leadership of Liu Zhong.
When the team was less than thirty miles away from Yangzhou City, suddenly the scout horses sent in front rushed back like flying.
"General, the Ming army is coming" After hearing the detective report, the Green Camp soldiers suddenly became commotion.
"Don't be chaotic, don't be chaotic, quickly form a formation to defend the enemy" Liu Zhong shouted sternly.
Following his order, under the urging of officers at all levels, the Green Camp soldiers gradually stabilized, lifted the horse from the car, and placed it in the direction of the Ming army's cavalry.
The green battalion soldiers stood in line fearfully with their spears raised.
The road and the roadside are only a few feet wide.
On the left side of the road are endless wheat fields, and on the right side are gentle slopes of undulating hills.
On the hills are dense woods.
As long as the road is cut off by blocking horses, the enemy's cavalry will not be able to use it no matter how powerful it is.
They must dismount.
Battle.
This is why Liu Zhong didn't panic.
However, he still gave the order and ordered several of his cavalrymen to run out along the way to move reinforcements.
Duduo sent out more than ten groups of green soldiers, with a number of no less than 30,000 people.
As long as any one of them comes to help, they can keep this Ming army cavalry behind under a pincer attack.
It would be best if we could find the three thousand Mongolian cavalry led by Berenike.
All the people were ordered to sit on the ground, and hundreds of green soldiers with sharp blades watched on both sides, killing anyone who dared to run around.
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In the distance, large clouds of smoke and dust have appeared, and the Ming army cavalry is less than five miles away.
Looking at the array of green soldiers appearing in the distance, Yu Feng, who was riding at the front, raised his left hand and waved it back.
Then the messenger behind him blew his whistle.
The sharp whistle sounded, and the cavalry behind him started to release their weapons.
He slowed down his horse and stopped a stone's throw away from the Green Camp soldiers.
After several successful sneak attacks, the Green Camp soldiers learned the lesson, and could not help but increase their numbers.
The accompanying troops actually brought their own horses with them, and they were able to set up defenses in a short time.
Yu Feng, who tried to sneak attack several times, failed in vain.
In this kind of terrain that is unfavorable for cavalry attack, there is no way to use cavalry to attack the opponent's formation that resists horses and relies on them.
If a sneak attack fails, the only option is to attack by force.
However, the opponent's number is several times that of our own, so even if we dismount and attack by force, we may not be able to defeat them.
However, looking at the opponent's prepared formation, a sneer appeared on Yu Feng's lips.
With an order, all the cavalrymen jumped off their horses one hundred and twenty feet away from the Green Camp soldiers, and then unloaded ten artillery pieces from their horses.
They are all thirty-six kilograms of squatting tiger cannons, and a war horse can easily carry two of them.
The Tiger Crouching Cannon was placed on the ground, with the muzzle pointed forward.
The gunner commander Chen Goudan squinted one eye and looked at the Green Camp position for a moment, and nodded heavily.
At this distance, the Tiger Crouching Cannon was placed at just the right angle to spray the barrage into the Green Camp position.
This is the result of hundreds of test firings.
Twenty soldiers rushed over, and the two men waited on an artillery piece.
They raised their wooden hammers and drove nails into the front paws of the squatting tiger cannon, so that the squatting tiger cannon was firmly grasped on the ground.
This was to stabilize the cannon body.
Then the gunner untied the cloth bag, poured the pre-weighed gunpowder into the muzzle, tamped it down with a wooden stick of suitable thickness, then picked up another cloth bag and poured hundreds of small projectiles into the muzzle.
The whole process was as smooth as a flowing stream.
From taking off the cannon to loading the projectiles, it took at most more than twenty breaths.
It can be seen how rigorous training the gunners went through in order to train the speed of firing.
In the green camp formation, Liu Zhong stared blankly at the busy work of the Ming cavalry.
Is this going to be artillery?
The cavalry even carried artillery.
What to do Faced with this situation, Liu Zhong couldn't think of a way for a while.
Use bows, arrows and firecrackers to attack the opponent first from a distance of a hundred feet, which is already beyond the range of bows, arrows and firecrackers.
If you order the army to attack immediately, you must first move away the horse, and then run a hundred feet away before engaging the opponent.
This time is enough for the opponent to fire.
The road behind the retreat was crowded with thousands of captured people, blocking the retreat.
Unless you got off the road into the wheat fields or ran to the bushes on the other side of the hillside, it would take effort to climb up from the bottom.
Moreover, once they retreat, all the looted food and captured people will be left to the Ming army.
How will I explain to Prince Duduo of Yu?
Just when Liu Zhong was hesitating, the Ming army gunner on the opposite side had already lit the fuse of the Tiger Crouching Cannon.
After a few breaths, with a series of loud noises, countless projectiles rushed towards the Green Camp array like densely packed wasps
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