The temperature dropped yesterday and the Yellow River quickly froze.
Seeing the ice layer getting thicker and thicker, Luo had an ominous premonition in his heart.
The Southern Army is stationed in Kaifeng. Now that the Yellow River is frozen, they may attack at any time.
"Prince! It's not good! The Yellow River is completely frozen!" Zhang Lei ran to the door in panic and exclaimed into the room.
Luo Xin actually knew this a long time ago. He didn't sleep well all night and would wake up every hour.
When he wakes up, he will send someone to the river to check.
Now the Yellow River is completely frozen, and carriages and horses can travel without any problem.
"Squeak~" Luo Xin pushed open the door, with a haggard expression on his face.
He was no longer the high-spirited King Xin, but now he had become a fleeing bandit.
"My lord, what should we do now? We have just built fifteen Tiger Crouching Cannons, and the gunpowder has not been prepared properly. This battle will not be easy to fight!" Zhang Lei was worried.
Fifteen imitation Tiger Crouching Cannons were built, but there was no substantial progress in gunpowder.
The current imitation gunpowder can only drive the shells 50 meters away.
Moreover, when a cannon was fired, black smoke billowed out and the artillerymen nearby choked.
"Let's have a fight and try the power of the Crouching Tiger Cannon."
"If we lose again, we will go to Handan, Jizhou or even Kyoto."
"Run away. Maybe you can escape all the way to a bitter cold place."
Luo Xin said expressionlessly, as if he was used to running away.
After a series of defeats, Luo Xin could no longer keep his spirits up.
After Luo Xin finished speaking, he glanced at Zhang Lei lightly and then returned to the room.
Zhang Lei shook his head, worried about Luo Xin's condition.
Just as I was about to go in and take a look, a guard came running behind me.
"General! I just got the news that the Southern Army in Kaifeng is heading north!"
"Quick! Have someone move the Crouching Tiger Cannon to the river!" Zhang Lei said hurriedly.
After saying that, he ran into the house to tell Luo Xin about this.
"A Lei, I'll leave the defense to you. I'll wait for you in Handan."
Before Zhang Lei entered the room, Luo Xin came out.
He looked panicked and wanted to run away.
Zhang Lei didn't stop him either. Luo Xin was in such a state that he might as well retreat first.
The guards were called and five thousand elite soldiers were arranged to escort Luo Xin away.
Zhang Lei immediately set up a formation by the river.
Around Si Shi, Song Yang's army arrived at the south bank of the Yellow River.
I took out my telescope and looked at it. I saw that the bandits on the other side of the river were already waiting in formation.
"Eh? Crouching Tiger Cannon?" Song Yang saw a row of Crouching Tiger Cannon and counted fifteen of them.
"Your Majesty, they stole two of our Crouching Tiger Cannons before. These should be imitations."
"Imitation? Haha. Let's see how powerful the cannons on both sides are." Song Yang smiled and said.
He did not blame Yu Ming for throwing the Crouching Tiger Cannon.
For such a long time, the rebels would only have a problem if they couldn't get some muskets and artillery.
As long as the gunpowder formula is still in their hands, they will never be their opponents, no matter how good the imitation is.
Yu Ming called the front troops to approach, and when they were about 100 meters away, the Crouching Tiger Artillery was set up on the river.
"Fire!"
Boom boom boom!
The shells of the Crouching Tiger Cannon spurted out, and the people on the opposite side were immediately blown up.
Zhang Lei tried hard to restrain the team, hoping to wait for Nanjun to get closer before firing.
As a result, the Renaissance Army had no intention of approaching.
The bombing started from a hundred meters away.
"Charge! Charge up and destroy the artillery!" Zhang Lei became fierce and sent a death squad to charge.
"Push the Tiger Crouching Cannon over and follow the Death Squadron!"
Zhang Lei asked the artillerymen to push the Tiger Crouching Cannon forward, while he asked the death squads to gain distance for the Tiger Crouching Cannon.
All this will be seen clearly with a telescope tomorrow morning.
As soon as the death squad moved, Yu Ming smiled.
"Cannon! Fire!"
"Boom boom boom!"
There was a series of explosions, and at a distance of a thousand meters, the cannon fired directly from the beach in the south. One shot reached the other side, and the death squads who had just moved forward were cut into pieces.
"Ah! Help!"
"Run away! Run away quickly! The Confederate army cannot be defeated!"
After a burst of shelling, the death squads did not dare to move forward.
They were so blown away that they just ran backwards.
Zhang Lei had no choice but to directly order to fire.
The shells fired by the fifteen squatting tiger cannons only reached 70 or 80 meters.
There was no way to reach the Renaissance Army's Crouching Tiger Cannon.
The Renaissance Army soldiers lit the Tiger Crouching Cannon with mocking smiles.
Another large row of thieves fell.
Now, no one dares to carry it by the river anymore.
They began to flee wildly.
He even dropped his weapons for fear of affecting his escape speed.
No matter how Zhang Lei suppressed him, he could not stop his flight.
"Alas! Go back to the city!"
Zhang Lei originally wanted to engage in a river attack. After all, the river embankments on both sides were quite high, so he might be able to attack from a high position.
As a result, the morale of the soldiers fell to the bottom.
I can't muster any courage, let alone fight.
This rout immediately led to chaos.
Yu Ming waved the flag, and the soldiers of the Renaissance Army swarmed forward.
Muskets and artillery fire.
Occasionally they would shout slogans of surrender without killing.
As a result, most of the rebel soldiers who had no will chose to surrender.
Another blocking battle ended with the defeat of the rebel soldiers.
When Zhang Lei fled back to the city, of the 40,000 troops he brought out, only 15,000 were left.
outside the city.
A large number of people knelt in Wuyangyang.
All surrendered.
Song Yang never expected that he would capture so many people in one battle.
Only after taking Yu Ming to check in person did Song Yang understand the reason.
These thieves also had no clothing to keep out the cold.
After all, the Renaissance Army in Kaifeng still wore thin cotton-padded clothes.
Most of these bandits only wore autumn clothes.
Some wear thick clothes, with four or five layers of autumn clothes stacked on top of each other.
This way of dressing is cold and affects movement.
It's amazing if you can win a battle.
"Sir! We sincerely surrender! As long as you give us food to eat."
"Yes, yes! We are not afraid of death. If you give us food to eat, we will fight for you!"
Seeing Song Yang and Yu Ming approaching, the traitors kneeling on the ground saluted verbally.
All they asked for was a full meal.
"How many meals do you have every day?" Song Yang asked a random soldier.
"This gentleman is joking, how many meals do you have? Now, if you can have one meal of porridge every day, it will be considered a good thing."
"Sir, if you allow us to rely on you, we only need two porridges a day!"
This traitor made a condition.
It turned out to be just two meals of porridge.
What do the Fuxing Army eat on weekdays?
Enough white rice!
From time to time, we have to have some stew!
Just looking at the food, the Renaissance Army is bound to win!
The Luo Xin Group did not have much food and supplies at all. After spending more than a month in Xinyang, they had already run out of ammunition and food.
I didn't find much food when I fled north. When I arrived in Liyang, I basically had to rely on my cavalry to go to nearby cities and villages to grab food.
A good letter king, he really became a bandit.
"Old Yu, please send the surrendered soldiers back to Kaifeng. Let Liu Huairen take over them. These are the best labor force. Don't let them freeze."
Song Yang greeted Yu Ming and gave instructions.
Yu Ming nodded and immediately arranged for people to gather the surrendering troops.
"Listen to me, I'm going to send you to Kaifeng now. When you get to Kaifeng, please be honest."
"Sir, can you give me something to eat?" the soldiers asked carefully.
"Here! Three meals of porridge a day!" Yu Ming waved his hand.
"Three meals!" The surrendering soldiers were shocked and wished they could surrender as soon as possible.
"Don't worry, sir! As long as you give us three meals of porridge, we will all serve as death squads for you!" the soldiers said excitedly.
"What a beautiful idea! Do you still want to be our soldiers? No way! When the war is over, you will all be assigned to farm in various places! Just be ordinary people!"
Yu Ming said coldly.
The Renaissance Army is not that easy to join. If you join the Renaissance Army, the treatment will be much better than other professions.
The selection of soldiers was also very careful.
These surrendered troops can only be dispersed and go to various places to replenish the population, cultivate the fields, and become ordinary people.
"No need to fight?"
"Can I farm?"
"Then we will allocate land?"
The thieves were all curious.
If there is no war, the land will be cultivated.
This is a good thing, better than before the natural disaster!
"Give! Of course we will give you land! How much we will give depends on where you can allocate it. In a big state capital, each person should have at least 20 acres, and in a small state capital, ten or eight acres."
Yu Ming patiently answered the questions of the surrendered soldiers.
This is a way to win over people's hearts and promote policies.
Going all the way north, Yu Ming was already familiar with the road.
"Really? My mother, the big state will give you twenty acres, and the small state will give you ten or eight acres? Or will it be given per head?"
"No wonder Lao Niu took his whole family to Shannan East Road and never came back! It turns out their policies there are so good!"
"Yes, yes! If we knew it was so good there, why would we fight?"
"Hmph! It's all the damn King Xin's fault! No! The thief Luo Xin!"
"We were only given ten acres of land for each family!"
"The Yellow River overflowed, and the little land in my house was flooded! Alas!"
"My house was also flooded, and I had no harvest last year. The little relief food I was given was not enough to eat!"
"I heard that they were all taken by the generals above!"
"Hmph! Damn it!"
It was originally a result of the propaganda policy, but the surrendered soldiers discussed it over and over again, and it turned into a rally to denounce Luo Xin.
It took Yu Ming a long time to get everyone to calm down.
"Listen to me! From now on, if you take refuge with our Prince of Jiangzhou, you will become the common people of Daqian. Don't think about fighting and killing, just work and farm honestly. You don't have to worry about natural disasters or floods.
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"As long as the prince is here, I guarantee that none of you will go hungry!"
"Okay! Everyone gather now! I will take you to Kaifeng!"
Yu Mingden shouted loudly, and the surrender soldiers gathered together in a noisy manner.
They don't have much training on weekdays, so it would be good if they can gather together.
Yu Ming allocated a thousand people to the Fuxing Army and escorted more than 20,000 surrendered troops to Kaifeng.
Song Yang watched the surrender soldiers leave, shook his head and said: "The common people only want three meals a day, enough food and clothing."
"But Luo Xin can't give them these, so he is destined to be abandoned by the people."
Yu Mingshen agreed and said: "What the prince said is that our Jiangzhou Renaissance Army has strong combat effectiveness because of its superior living conditions. The soldiers have enough food and drink, high fighting will and superior physical fitness, so they are naturally brave and invincible in battle!"
Song Yang smiled and said, "You summed it up well."
After saying that, Song Yang got on his horse and said, "Let's go. There is Li Yang ahead. Before it gets dark, capture Li Yang for me!"