Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 370

[Chapter 370]

“Your Highness, Yanzhou is barren. These pirates have always looked down on this place, but now they come here again and again to harass you. I’m afraid it’s not easy.” Chang Wei’s eyes were full of murderous intent.

It’s okay to be bullied by Beidi and Xiliang, and now a little pirate is coming to bite them.

Do you really think they are mud-tempered?

“It’s really strange.” Zhao Xu said.

He became suspicious when the pirates burned the ship’s captain last time.

It’s just that there were no core personnel from Wufeng Island among the pirates captured, and nothing was found during the interrogation.

The only information they got was an order from their island owner.

This time the Japanese pirates came again, and they directly attacked Jinghai County, which confused him even more.

“Could it be revenge?” Zhao Xu rubbed his chin, the purpose of hanging the pirate’s body on the stake on the coast was indeed to warn the pirate.

However, in his opinion, mobilizing people to attack Jinghai County in order to avenge the revival division was a bit too stupid.

After all, even if there are pirates who escaped by chance, they must know that Yanzhou has artillery.

“Oops!” A thought suddenly popped up in Zhao Xu’s mind, and a layer of cold sweat suddenly broke out on his back.

He said to Chang Wei: “You immediately send 20,000 people to Pingcheng, and strictly guard the shipyard of the shipbuilding company, so that no accidents will happen to the warships under construction.”

Chang Wei immediately recalled, “Yes, the last general Just go and dispatch troops.”

Pingcheng is the center of Yanzhou waterway.

Not only is there a canal leading to Jinling, but there is also a river called Haihe that flows eastward from Pingcheng and flows into the sea.

King Yan established a shipbuilding workshop in Pingcheng, which is also convenient for warships to go to sea.

But Yanzhou’s ships can go to sea from there, and pirates can naturally enter the hinterland of Yanzhou from this river.

The purpose of the first pirates was the ship division.

This time may not be the case, attacking Jinghai County is not only revenge, but also a strategy of making a move.

“Your Highness, do you want to take these cannons with their bores removed?” Wang Ying pointed to a row of twelve cannons.

The conversation between King Yan and Chang Wei obviously meant that there was going to be another war.

“Well, it makes sense.” Zhao Xu said, and he immediately ordered the artillery to pull the artillery back to the barracks.

Today, he and Chang Wei were looking at the firing effects of the first batch of cutting artillery pieces.

Before cutting, the effective range of these artillery pieces is 1,500 meters, and the maximum range is 3 kilometers.

But now it has reached an effective range of two kilometers, with a maximum range of five kilometers.

This basically reached the peak range of smoothbore guns during the contemporary Opium War.

If you want to improve further, in addition to designing rifling, you need to change to a more explosive gunpowder.

After ordering to take the improved artillery away, Zhao Xu turned around and wanted to go back to the palace.

He was planning to go to Jinghai County. This time the pirates made such a big commotion, there must be some core figures in it.

If he can be caught, he may be able to interrogate something, so that he can understand the current situation outside of Da Song and prepare early.

“By the way, the improved artillery is very good. Next, we will cut all the artillery of the whole army.” Zhao Xu said after getting on the horse.

Thinking of something, he said again: “There are still chariots, so hurry up.”

“Your Highness, don’t worry, now the Division of Military Warfare manufactures armaments for the royal family’s troops, there is no problem,” Wang Ying said.

Among the people who came from Sizhou this time, there are many skilled craftsmen.

When the government office sent these people to build roads and bridges, they also asked him if he needed craftsmen.

He took the opportunity to select another 5,000 people to rush into the military division, and the current manpower was unprecedentedly sufficient.

Zhao Xu nodded and rode away.

After going to the palace, he changed into his military uniform, waited for an hour, and followed Chang Wei to Pingcheng.

On the way, Chang Wei led 15,000 people to Pingcheng, and he led 5,000 people to Jinghai.

On the way to Jinghai, he was very calm.

Bai Shang is stationed in Jinghai, if he can’t even deal with these pirates.

This captain doesn’t have to do it anymore.

…

Jinghai County.

The pirates left eighty corpses and retreated again, and the battlefield fell into silence.

“Laixi, you lead 3,000 people out from the south gate and outflank them to the north. Great Ancestor, you lead 3,000 people out from the north gate to outflank them to the south, so you can catch them all.” Bai Shang said to the general beside him.

“Yes, Captain Captain.” The general responded and left.

They fought all afternoon yesterday, and the pirates did not attack the city at night.

Early this morning, the pirates continued their attack.

Now more than 900 pirates have died in Jinghai County.

It’s just that even after suffering such losses, the pirates still have no intention of retreating.

This surprised him.

Thinking about the time, he felt that King Yan should know the news by now.

So he decided not to continue playing the game of defending the city with the pirates.

If King Yan wants to come, he will encircle and suppress the pirates before King Yan comes, and dedicate the head of the thief to King Yan.

“Li Cheng, kill the artillery of the pirates!” Turning back from his thoughts, Bai Shang said to the artillery general beside him.

These artillery pieces of the pirates are quite powerful, and they can pose a considerable threat to his soldiers.

Although in his opinion, these clumsy heavy artillery are not as powerful as Yanzhou’s defensive heavy artillery.

“Damn it.”

When Bai Shang dispatched his troops, Yamada Kazuno gritted his teeth while looking at the retreating crew members in distress.

His men rushed into Jinghai City yesterday, originally he thought they would face a group of soldiers wearing armor and holding swords.

But unexpectedly, after a very familiar gunshot, the subordinates who rushed into the city never came back.

Only then did he know that Yanzhou’s army also had muskets.

Next, he organized several charges, but they were all defeated by the defenders in the city.

Now, he finally understands that Jinghai County is a tough nut to crack.

Their revenge is only afraid of failure.

“Master Yamada, what should we do now? The soldiers and horses in Yanzhou seem to be different from those in other places. If we continue to fight like this, it will only increase the casualties.” A pirate asked with a nervous expression.

Yamada Kazuno looked back at the warships on the sea.

At this time, 30 of the 72 warships on the sea remained, and 42 of them disappeared.

This time they came back to Yanzhou and attacked Jinghai County, they were planning to kill two birds with one stone.

One is to take revenge on King Yan, and the other is to sneak into Pingcheng from Haihe at night and burn down the warships under construction in Yanzhou.

For this matter, someone gave their island owner an amount of silver that was enough to tempt them.

“Stay here, even if you can’t win the city, you must continue to feint.” Kazuno Yamada looked at Jinghai County with hatred.

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly saw flames bursting from the city wall.

Then a huge roar sounded, and then he heard a scream coming from behind him.

Looking back, he found that the crew in front of a cannon had been shot in the arm, and the entire arm was broken.

Yamada Kazuno suddenly became nervous.

Dozens of shells fell near their artillery.

The soldiers of King Yan in the city were obviously firing their artillery.

The distance of 300 meters is a reasonable distance for artillery placement.

Because it was too far away, the crew could not see the target clearly.

Most importantly, he underestimated the range of Yanzhou artillery.

In his heart, it is impossible for Da Song to build more powerful artillery than their ship.

During the siege, the artillery on the city only fired at about 200 meters, which gave him an illusion.

But now, he feels cheated.

(end of this chapter)