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In addition, Yu Xiaotian's idea of ​​​​taking these laborers is unrealistic. After all, Zhu Dadian is here now. In front of the two armies, he has no way to take away these laborers unknowingly and feed them.

, to consume his own military rations, so he will definitely not keep these captured soldiers.

But giving it to Shandong soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers for free to replenish their troops was too cheap for them, so Yu Xiaotian hesitated and resisted. Finally, Zhu Dadian expressed his position that in the future, Yu Xiaotian would be the main general in the front of the army, and the rest would be

Everyone except him was subject to Yu Xiaotian's control. Only then did Yu Xiaotian agree to hand over these captured soldiers to Wu Anbang, Gao Guozhu and others.

For more than ten consecutive days, there was no large-scale fighting between the two sides. It can be said that both sides were secretly inflicting wounds and recuperating their strength, just waiting for the next showdown.

Ten days later, in early August, the temperature was getting higher and higher. Different from the severe cold in winter, the temperature in Laizhou was also quite hot in summer. The sun scorched everything on the earth, seeming to want to burn everything.

It was like burning. For both the government and the rebels, this kind of climate was not very pleasant.

Moreover, it rained heavily in the first few days and was cloudy for several consecutive days. After the weather cleared, the temperature rose sharply, causing the water on the ground to evaporate. People felt hot and humid, as if they were in a steamer.

Everyone felt uncomfortable with such weather. If the confrontation continued like this, it would be a kind of torture for both sides. So Zhu Dadian finally couldn't bear it anymore. He gathered the generals again and demanded a quick victory. The siege of Laizhou should be solved first.

Let’s talk about it later.

Yu Xiaotian is no longer willing to waste time here. Now the land of Denglai has been devastated by the rebels. He leads thousands of men to live here and consumes a lot of money every day. Although the imperial court has transferred a group of soldiers.

Food was indeed given priority to the Fujian soldiers and horses, but in Xiaotian's opinion, these military rations were not food for human consumption at all.

The military rations transferred from the imperial court were, firstly, insufficient in quantity. The daily rations of food for the soldiers and generals of the Yu family were far more than one third of that of other officers and soldiers. They had three meals a day, which was a lot.

It's two meals a day.

Moreover, most of these military rations are old and old, a lot of rations?

?It has become moldy, and most of it is sorghum, wheat, soybeans, and even wheat is not even ground into flour. It can only be mixed with cooked wheat rice or multigrain porridge to feed the officers and soldiers. Most of the Yu family's troops are southern soldiers, and there are usually many

I am used to eating rice or brown rice, but I am not used to eating these grains.

In addition, the quality of the food is poor and there is a lot of mold. In addition to having a bad taste, it can also easily cause widespread diarrhea. Even though Yu Xiaotian tried his best to avoid it, the army was not acclimatized and many officers and soldiers continued to suffer from diarrhea.

It has a great impact on the combat effectiveness of his subordinates.

Therefore, most of the food consumed by Yu Xiaotian's army had to be transported long distances from Fushan Station. Before Laizhou City was captured, it could not be supplied through waterways, which was a huge waste.

The rebels seemed to be aware of this and tried to cut off the Yu Jiajun's food route three times today. Fortunately, a line of military stations were placed on the Yu Jiajun's food route, so the rebels did not succeed.

So if he continues to delay, Yu Xiaotian has no patience anymore, not to mention that now he has extended his tentacles to Denglai, and a large number of personnel have been sent to Shandong and Denglai areas. Everything that needs to be done has been done, and a large number of refugees have

, now they have begun to be transferred in batches to Yangma Island in Muping County or directly to Fushan Station. Ships go to these two places every day to transfer the refugees gathered in these places. A large number of refugees have been collected recently.

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After a large area here suffered a military disaster, it was a disaster for the economy and the local gentry and powerful people in these places, causing the entire Denglai area to almost fall into a state of desolation, allowing Yu Xiaotian to

He easily reached out to many places, and with the strong support of the Sea Wolf Group, he quickly formed a new power in the local area.

These people will be his seeds for Yu Xiaotian from now on. As long as they don't raise a flag of rebellion for the time being, the court will be unable to control them at all. They 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 that there was no need to waste time here anymore, so when Zhu Dadian proposed a decisive battle with the rebels, he immediately nodded and agreed.

Now among the officers and soldiers, besides Zhu Dadian, Yu Xiaotian has the final say. Everyone knows that if they want to deal with the rebels, it depends on Yu Xiaotian. If Yu Xiaotian doesn't want to fight, others

There is definitely no chance for a person to fight for his life, but if Yu Xiaotian wants to fight, it may be useless if others say no.

Seeing Yu Xiaotian nodding, none of the other generals could only express their agreement and were willing to follow Zhu Dadian's order to meet the enemy and fight to the death.

Kong Youde on the rebel side is also impatient to wait. If the two sides continue to spend so much time, it will not be of much benefit to him. Although he can raise food on the spot, now within a radius of dozens or even hundreds of miles, he

He has already robbed everything he could. He has been trapped here in Laizhou for a long time. If he can't defeat the official army, capture Laizhou City, and march westward, he will also run out of food.

Just when the army was about to engage in a decisive battle with him, he did not shy away from the battle. He rushed out in full force and once again set up a battlefield about ten miles south of Laizhou City, which was the prelude to the decisive battle.

This time, the rebels not only came out in full force, but also invited all the cannons they could use. A total of four Hongyi cannons were lined up in front of the formation.

Of course Yu Xiaotian was not polite. He invited the three 24-pound army siege heavy artillery brought with the army out of the camp and placed them on the battlefield for the first time. Only then did Zhu Dadian know that it turned out that

Yu Xiaotian kept a secret, and he actually brought three such powerful weapons on hand, so he suddenly became more confident.

After the two sides formed their positions, they did not immediately attack each other. Instead, the cannons from both sides started firing first, and there was a standard artillery exchange.

Although the rebels have a lot of artillery and their equipment is quite advanced among the Ming army, compared with Yu Xiaotian's Yu Jiajun, it is nothing. The only thing they can use is

The four Hongyi cannons and a dozen Western-style cannons with relatively smaller caliber and lighter weight are relatively good.

However, these imitation Western-style artillery are completely incomparable with Yu Jiajun's cannons in terms of quality, not to mention accuracy. Yu Jiajun's artillery now has a complete operating mechanism and a simple aiming mechanism, which greatly simplifies the operation.

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Originally, Kong Youde planned to use the few red barbarian cannons they had on hand to deal a heavy blow to the government and army, especially the Yu Jiajun. He planned to dampen the Yu Jiajun's spirit first and let the Yu Jiajun also have a taste.

Their cannons are powerful.

But once the artillery array was deployed, Kong Youde discovered that the Yu Jiajun's artillery array was no less luxurious than his, and in the artillery array in front of their army, there were actually three heavy-duty red barbarian guns that he had never seen before.

cannon.

It is said to be heavy. In fact, the total weight of Yu Jiajun's twenty-four-pound cannon is less than two-thirds of the imitation Western-style eighteen-pound Hongyi cannon used by the rebels, but its power far exceeds that of the rebels.

The kind of red barbarian cannon used.

What's more important is that the Yu Jiajun's siege heavy artillery is equipped with a lot of explosive shells. The casting quality of these explosive shells is quite good, the skin is thin and the filling is large. There is a lot of fine granular black powder stuffed in it, and when the black powder is being loaded,

It has also been compacted, and its power is by no means comparable to the explosive shells equipped with ordinary twelve-pound guns.

Once the explosive shell of this twenty-four-pound gun explodes, it can produce about fifty pieces of fragments. Although it cannot be compared with the modern grenades of later generations, the power is indeed not small in this era.

Even if the enemy troops within a radius of ten meters around the explosion point are not killed by shrapnel, they will at least be shaken to pieces and 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. The cannons in the artillery array fired one after another, making a thunderous roar and sending up large clouds of gunpowder smoke.

The artillery shells immediately roared and smashed into the rebel artillery array. The accuracy of the first round of artillery was poor and failed to effectively destroy the enemy artillery. However, this was just a calibration shot by the artillery. They used solid bullets and were not powerful.

big.

When the rebels saw the official army firing artillery, they quickly began to fire back. However, the impact of the rebel artillery was even more terrible. Most of the artillery shells landed far away from the Yu Jiajun artillery position.

Doesn't pose any threat.

The two sides then engaged in an artillery battle for nearly half an hour. As the Yu's artillery became larger and more accurate, and their hands became hotter, artillery shells began to fall into the rebel artillery formation one after another.

Explosive bombs exploded one after another. In just half an hour, the three Hongyi cannons in hand by the rebels were overturned, or the rebel gunners were almost killed and wounded, making them lose the ability to continue the artillery battle.

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As for the last remaining Hongyi cannon, because the rebel gunner was too nervous, he loaded it with too much gunpowder.

Those ones

What happened to the rebel gunners who surrounded the cannon? Dozens of the gunners who were operating the cannon were blown to pieces on the spot. Even if they were not killed, they were all knocked to the ground. Their ears were bleeding and their eyes were bleeding.

It looked like he was deafened.

Therefore, the result of the artillery battle was that the Yu Jiajun was completely victorious. The rebels' cannons were silenced by them one after another. Then the Yu Jiajun, led by the Yu Jiajun, Shandong soldiers, Zhejiang soldiers, and Sichuan soldiers formed formations and followed closely, and began to move towards the rebels.

Press away.

Moreover, the artillery of the Yu Jiajun did not wait. The twelve-pound howitzers and six-pound light artillery all moved forward with the army and directly entered the battlefield to provide fire support and fire suppression to the officers and soldiers at a relatively close range.

(I am moved beyond words. Thank you very much for your support, brothers! Today, bandit brother’s singing brother once again gave a heavy reward. In addition, there are also rewards from brothers Baiyun Guogiai and Winter Solstice 1979! Brother, I am here.

Thank you again!)