Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 300

[Chapter 300 Ye Duo]

“Your Highness, the Xiliang army has moved. From Xincheng and Jincheng, a large number of Xiliang troops are rushing to Huaicheng!” In

Hengshan County, the cavalry responsible for the investigation reported Xiliang’s movements to Zhao Xu.

In the past few days, he sent a large number of scouts.

Taking advantage of the telescope, the scouts easily avoided the Xiliang scouts and went deep into the hinterland of Jinzhou for investigation.

“Great, Liu Tan succeeded.” Chang Wei clenched his fists tightly.

Qin Shan and the others also looked excited.

The Xiliang soldiers in Xincheng and Jincheng were transferred away, and the defense of the two cities would inevitably weaken.

This time they took Xincheng, maybe they can take Jincheng in one go.

Zhao Xu nodded lightly, “Now we have to wait a few more days, presumably the reinforcements from Xiliang will arrive in Huaicheng, and then we will take Xincheng.”

Premature action will only let Murong Wuji see through their plan of bluffing.

When the Xiliang soldiers withdraw, they will be in trouble.

The generals nodded slightly, he naturally understood this.

Then, Zhao Xu asked Tan Ma to check again and report again, so as to keep track of Xiliang’s movements at any time.

At the same time, the generals are ready to go at any time.

The time to win Xincheng should not be too long.

After all, Liu Tan and his soldiers only brought dry food for ten days.

Two days later, various news from Tanma showed that the army from Xiliang estimated that it would take another day to reach Huaicheng.

At this time, Zhao Xu ordered the soldiers to rest during the day and march at night.

Xincheng and Huaicheng are about 300 miles away from Hengshan County.

However, because they had to bring artillery and other supplies, Zhao Xu gave them three days to march, and they marched day and night.

In the process of reconnaissance, the detective horse brought back the location of the jungle mountains on the path.

They will march according to the nodes where they can hide, avoiding exposure.

night.

The 60,000 army is ready to go.

Due to the large amount of food and grass stored in Hengshan County, he left 10,000 people for defense.

At the same time, there are sixty field guns with twelve-pound shells.

If the battle goes against them, they will fall back.

Therefore, this base camp that came out of Jinju must not be lost.

Everything was ready, and the army dispatched at night.

In the thick night, the palace army disappeared into the darkness again.

This time, they will attack Xincheng.

Marched all night.

Before dawn, they arrived at Yushan, the scheduled location.

The army rested in hiding, and at the same time sent scouts to investigate and guard against Xiliang scouts.

Sitting in the forest, Zhao Xu ate fried noodles and drank cold water like the soldiers, with a tired look on his face.

Chang Wei and Zhao Xu sat together, smiling slightly and looking at the young King Yan.

At this moment, it seemed that the esteemed prince in front of him was not King Yan, but his comrades who fought together.

“What are you smirking at, I don’t have any flowers on my face.” Zhao Xu glared at Chang Wei.

Chang Wei chuckled a few times, “What makes the general laugh is that he can march at night with these vulgar people like the general. His Highness is probably the first person in history.”

Zhao Xu squeezed his throat so that the fried noodles could slide down smoothly.

Then he said: “This king just wants to tell you that this king can suffer as much as you can. In the future, none of you will think of relying on your own merits to cock your tail in front of this king.

”

Since ancient times, this army has been extremely difficult to control.

The emperors who often make the army bow their heads and obey their ears are basically emperors who conquer the world with martial arts.

Such as Li Shimin, such as Lao Zhu’s father and son.

These founding emperors also understood that the army is difficult to control.

Therefore, I am afraid that after my death, the old general will not listen to the new king, or kill the heroes, or formulate a system where the civil servants are strong and the military weak, and the civilians will lead the army.

However, this also resulted in the weakness of the army later.

It was in consideration of these that Zhao Xu decided to lay a foundation for himself in the army.

So he personally participated in every battle at the moment.

He has made great achievements in battle, and any general in the royal family’s army should not try to compare his merits in front of him.

“How dare, how dare!” The generals immediately put on a playful smile.

They admire King Yan from the bottom of their hearts.

At present, no one dares to compare meritorious service with King Yan.

Just as he was talking, suddenly a scout horse galloped over and entered the forest.

“Your Highness, we found a scout from Xiliang ahead.” Tan Ma said.

Hearing this, Zhao Xu gave the generals a look.

The generals immediately returned to their respective armies and ordered all the soldiers to lie down.

At the same time, put a mouth cage on the horse to prevent the horse from neighing.

Because Tanma was a scout from Xiliang discovered with a telescope.

They have plenty of time to hide.

After a while, as expected, scouts from Xiliang passed under the mountain path.

After the Xiliang scouts left, they sat up again to eat, and then rested and slept.

At night, the army set out again.

at the same time.

Under Huaicheng, Liu Tan decided to withdraw after more than four days of siege.

Tanma found the Xiliang army that came to support, more than 90,000 people.

His task is to drag the Xiliang reinforcements as far as possible.

So after the night fell, he marched again at night and headed towards Tongguan.

Xiliang’s reinforcements rushed to the sky, searching everywhere for Yanzhou soldiers and horses, and suddenly got news that King Yan’s soldiers and horses were approaching Tongguan.

They rushed to the same pass immediately.

It’s just that when they arrived at Tongguan, the Yanzhou army disappeared again, this time without a trace.

“We must find them.” Ji Li looked at the fellow in front of him, feeling extremely angry.

…

under the city of Xincheng.

It was still night.

After three days of trekking, the royal army arrived here.

“Your Highness, Xiliang has dispatched 90,000 troops to support Huaicheng. The number of Xiliang soldiers in Jincheng and Xincheng will not exceed 60,000, or even less. Especially in Xincheng, the number may be less than 10,000.” Chang Wei analyzed.

Zhao Xu nodded.

Murong Wuji has a total of 150,000 people under his command.

This number is not bad.

Looking at the flames that occasionally lit up on the top of Xincheng City, Zhao Xu could feel the lack of defense here.

“Attack at dawn.” Zhao Xu said.

This wave of attacks from east to west completely emptied the troops in central Jinzhou.

After receiving his order, Chang Wei immediately ordered the city to besieged on all sides, instead of besieging the city on three sides and laying an ambush on the other side like in Hengshan County.

At the same time, the artillery was adjusted to the vicinity of the city gate.

But Xincheng and Hengshan County are different.

Hengshan County does not have a moat, but Xincheng does.

So when he arrived in Xincheng, he asked his soldiers to cut down trees, and then trapped the trees together to make a temporary pontoon bridge.

Gradually, a fish-belly whiteness appeared in the east.

The outline of Xincheng gradually became clear.

At this moment, a huge roar sounded.

The artillery blasted open the city gate.

But as the sawdust flew, Zhao Xu saw sandbags piled up behind the door.

Chang Wei frowned when he saw this, and immediately ordered the soldiers to carry the pontoon bridge to the city gate to clear the sandbags inside the gate.

When the gunfire sounded, the Xiliang generals in Xincheng turned pale with shock.

They hurried to the city wall, looking at the soldiers of King Yan who surrounded Xincheng, they were completely terrified.

Because they knew very well that there were only a handful of 6,000 soldiers in Xin City.

How do these six thousand soldiers resist an enemy with artillery ten times their size?

(end of this chapter)