The current army sent a vassal army as pioneers to attack with a slight attempt. After being shot by the archers gathered at the top of the city, they repelled several times and lost hundreds of losses, the Huai Army's own formation basically completed the corresponding attack preparations.

As the first strong city during the Eastern Expedition to face a desperate struggle, the corresponding preparations were also solemnly completed.

Therefore, when the sky turned white the next day, what the defenders on the city could see was the distinctive cannon carts under the protection of the hollow array outside the city, divided into sequences and gathered in the countryside.

The first one to roar was a twelve-inch diameter mortar cannon in the heavy artillery battalion, followed by a 10-inch diameter and an eight-inch diameter long-barrel siege cannon, followed by a six-inch diameter and a four-inch diameter long-barrel siege cannon in the three field artillery battalions, mountain cannons and cavalry cannons, which were fired in turn.

The only thing that was not moving were those large wheel guns and small bowl cannons that were specially used in the main battle camp, filled with ammunition and arranged in a line, acting as a warning role in the rear and flanks.

In an instant, hundreds of iron balls of cannons of all sizes were covered with long, short, curved or straight ballistics, and bombarded the moat with people's heads. It was like a landslide and cracking, or like a deafening rock bursting out from a spring and splattering.

The moat with rammed earth and bricks suddenly seemed to be shorter out of thin air, and it seemed to be chewed off a large edge by an invisible giant mouth. The defenders who were hiding with bows disappeared together with the battlements they depended for hiding, leaving only a large section of the city with bare adobe exposed with the wall core.

In an instant, the whole city completely lost its voice, and then it was overwhelmed by the louder cheers and the louder morale under the city. The white soldiers and vassal soldiers who carried the long ladder and pushed the ladder and the tower cart, rushed forward with high morale and piled up the walls, and the selection soldiers and the selected warriors who held the rear team high, put the city walls on one go...

Then more grenades pressed against the city wall and threw the explosive bombs and sulphurs in their hands one after another. After a fire and clouds of smoke and howling screams of ghosts and wolves burst out inside, there was no suspense about what happened next.

The five vassal lords in the city, plus eleven city masters, were awarded the title of the day. Most of them could not even find the whole body because they were in or near the walls that were attacked. The defenders in the city, as well as armed personnel, had killed more than 6,000 people, and thousands of people of various relationships, thus becoming prisoners of the Huai Army.

In this Heye City, there are no dangers to guard nearby Tangmazhai, Hexiang, Yongping, Xianghe, etc., distributed in dozens of towns, villages and towns between the Hunhe River and the lower reaches of the Taizi River. They raised white flags and sent rewards to cows, horses, pigs and sheep, and even women.

After the battle, it was natural to clean the battlefield and clean up the spoils. Although there was a famine in the area and most of the people were frivolous, as the leaders of these independent local forces, they still collected and accumulated a lot of things before this winter.

So after patient persuasion/torture, it was easy to copy out a lot of wealth and food resources according to the map, including tens of thousands of stones of rice that existed in Heye City. Yes, it is rice.

After all, this is also a few traditional areas in Liaodong and even the entire Andong Protectorate, which are suitable for growing rice and have a very good rice yield. Even among the "Northeast Rice" sold to the south at high prices in later generations, they have a place.

The most famous rice in the area are pearl ginger and thin white can. The former is one of the local tribute designated by the intra-court of the previous dynasty, while the latter is the most popular variety sold by private exports.

Therefore, the troops that were resting after the war were able to eat fragrant rice and steamed wax at once. The non-duty sequence also had a few sips of local rice brewed rice to relieve the fatigue.

I even heard from the Soldiers Committee that there were many Japanese who were slaughtered in the army, holding rice balls with soy sauce and radish, and praying while moving and crying. I had never eaten such delicious white rice in my life.

During the short stay, a group of middle and upper-level leaders were executed and cleaned up on the spot as an example and example to warn the resisters to kill chickens and warn the monkeys. Anyway, I no longer need to tolerate those who raise evil spirits to continue to retain them as a force to maintain the ruling power of the grassroots; then I took out most of the food and distributed it on the spot to provide relief to the hungry people in the local area.

On the one hand, it is a method of buying people's hearts that is easy to achieve recently, and on the other hand, it is also an opportunity to promote their hardships. It is the result of these upper-class people relying on force to impose violent taxes. The Huai Army is a private goods to correct the situation; in order to obtain the results of the comparison of the people's hearts in the shortest time.

If there is no accident, we will follow this template in the future to ensure that the occupied areas are stabilized as soon as possible and establish the most basic ruling order; anyway, my Huai Army has always been strict in military discipline and generous in treatment, and is not as good as the things obtained by robbing these lower-class people. On the contrary, in daily contact, it is easier to gain limited favors and recognition with small favors such as fair trade.

However, outside the battlefield, some dirty work and shameful means were still done by people; so the group of old Luo family members and vassal soldiers that were summoned were truly useful;

After all, as the old subordinate of the Luo family who was destroyed, he was passionate about his family and country hatred and did some extreme things, which was naturally natural and did not take it as a matter of different things;

If it is revealed later, it will naturally be reprimanded and restrained, and then find several prisoners who are extremely guilty and become substitutes and chop their heads down as public confessions of Mingdian's regular punishment.

During this process, Du Shiyi, who was joining the army, accidentally discovered another better method and method, which was to use the seized food as food, and invited the people of these places to have a meal on the spot. So many people shed tears while eating, and then took the opportunity to be incited by the Huai Army, and criticized and exposed the various crimes and bad deeds of the independent leaders on the spot.

In this case, almost few people can survive alone. In fact, with limited resources, many cruel and tragic events are emerging one after another. Then there is a routine drama of publicly punishing the evildoers and exiling those who are subordinates to go to the mining salt farm in Huai land to atone for their sins.

Then, in the midst of a condemnation of the dog who started to beat the water, the simple and crude transfer of people's recognition was completed in disguise.

However, even if there are captured food and materials as supplements, it is easy to defeat the enemy. To properly organize and resettle the population resources of these newly acquired areas, a large amount of food is needed as a soft means and auxiliary measure to maintain the situation. After all, it is impossible for people to remain calm when they are hungry, and anything can happen.

Therefore, according to the statistics and budget of the staff of the army, before the local area finally obtains the next harvest, the gap in daily grain supply is about 170,000 to 80,000 shi. It is probably equivalent to the grain surplus in one and a half to two years under the good weather in Huaizhen. Fortunately, the output from other places can be adjusted and supplemented when the rear is smooth and stable.

As the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. After all, it is the essence of the southeastern Andong area. Under the rule of the Luo family, it has a population base of nearly one million. After two years of disarray and turmoil, about 600% of the population has survived, but most of them are in a state of escape or hiddenness, which is also the target group I want to recruit and store now.

Even in the most prosperous era of Luo family rule, two-fifths of them were directly controlled by the family and branch leaders; then one-fifth of them were controlled by the other five in the form of appointing the substitute, and the last two-fifths were stored in the hands of those small and medium-sized princes in the form of a vassal of Luo family;

Nowadays, most of them are wanted to annex and digest. Thanks to the continued unrest and war in Liaodong, it completely disrupted the old order that had been passed down for a long time and the traditional inertia of the Luo family rule, making me clean up again and achieve more with half the effort.

As the saying goes, relative to the punishment and deterrence of force, sufficient food is also a powerful weapon. Once these people come out of scattered places to receive self-rescue and reproduction for the purpose of survival of food, they will naturally become part of the new order under the control of Huaizhen.

Therefore, what I lack now is the officials who will establish local governments and ruling order in the future, as well as a large number of grassroots executives.

Therefore, compared with the vanguard troops and the two side divisions, I even slowed down the pace and pace of advancement in a targeted manner, so as to cooperate with the baggage brigade following behind to further consolidate the occupied areas and along the rear route.
Chapter completed!