Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 549

[Chapter 549]

“Let’s go!”

Chang Wei gave the order at the East Wharf of Juhua Island.

After a day of preparation, the soldiers were ready to go to the battlefield.

After all the 60,000 royal troops boarded the ship, he ordered to go to Lian County in Ningzhou.

After half a day of sailing, the fleet arrived in the East Sea of Lian County.

At this time, the sun has not yet set, and the sunset has dyed the sea red and gorgeous.

Standing on the side of the boat, Chang Wei looked at Lianxian Beach through a telescope.

He didn’t choose this position randomly, but it was detected when the Propaganda Department distributed leaflets to Ning Jindu Division last time.

Although there is no pier in Lian County, the beach is flat and suitable for soldiers to gather here.

“The real battle is finally about to start.” Zhou Yi stood by Chang Wei’s side. Instead of looking through the binoculars, he looked far away, taking in the entire coast.

He was born in Ningcheng and spent his entire childhood in Ningcheng.

Now he can still recall the Wuliang Temple in Qining City and the huge ginkgo tree in front of the gate.

Now, the royal army’s troops are about to launch an attack on Ningcheng.

He was naturally excited, after all, his house was in Ningcheng, and he really wanted to go back and have a look.

Chang Wei’s expression was calm, but there were turmoil in his heart.

For more than ten years, no one in Dasong expects to take back this piece of homeland.

But now, under the leadership of King Yan, they will try to expel the Beidi people from here for the first time.

“Yes.” Chang Wei took a deep breath and let it out again, “When it gets dark, let the soldiers land on the beach.” After

that, he turned to Qin Shan, Guan Tong, and waited for the generals, “The first batch of soldiers arrived Immediately after the beach, march towards Ningcheng without delay, gather 8,000 people, and you can attack Ningcheng.”

It will take a long time to wait for all soldiers to land.

On the battlefield, soldiers are expensive and fast, which will undoubtedly delay time.

Therefore, taking advantage of the fact that the Beidi soldiers’ attention was all attracted by Yanguan, they had to attack quickly to take down Ningcheng.

When they react, turn around and attack them.

Sixty thousand people are enough to reach Ningcheng.

“Yes, General!” Qin Shan, Guan Tong and others responded.

For them, this task is not difficult.

The hot air balloon soldiers of the royal family have been investigating Ningcheng.

According to their reports, there are only more than 10,000 people guarding Ningcheng at present.

The strength of each city gate is less than 3,000 people.

There were only sixty guns on the four walls, and fifteen on each wall.

If the raid can be carried out successfully in the dark, these artillery pieces will not pose a threat to the enemy.

What’s more, they will also carry mortars and the lightest six-pound field guns.

It is enough to suppress Beidi artillery.

After giving the order, Chang Wei asked the generals to repeat the steps of the attack before letting them go back to prepare.

In this war, he will also not act with the army.

Because next he has to adjust his strategy according to the movement of Jincheng Beidi soldiers and horses.

An hour passed, and it was completely dark.

At this time, the warship put two transport boats of different sizes into the sea.

The slightly smaller ones are naturally used to transport troops, while the larger ones are specially used to transport artillery and mortars.

At the same time, some small merchant ships rowed directly to the beach.

Their boat is shallow and there is no need to worry about running aground.

When they got to the beach, the soldiers jumped off the merchant ship and walked ashore in water up to their knees.

Under the leadership of the general, they did not stop, and after gathering, they marched towards Ningcheng.

At this moment, there is only a narrow crescent moon in the sky, and the dim light makes the darkness of the night slightly lighter.

With the dim light, the soldiers found their way and marched at a trot.

Qin Shan went with the army.

In order to take down Ningcheng as soon as possible, the first batch of soldiers who went to Ningcheng were all required to take off their armor and only carry guns, ammunition and dry food on their backs.

Maybe it would cost them more casualties.

However, if Ningcheng cannot be captured on time, the entire strategy will fail.

At that time, the royal army will sacrifice more soldiers.

After marching for two and a half hours, at midnight, Qin Shan saw a huge black shadow lying on the ground.

There is still a little fire on the black shadow.

Without a doubt, they came to the foot of Ning Cheng.

Along the way, they did not encounter Beidi soldiers.

Obviously, Beidi people are still immersed in the fantasy of Yanzhou being destroyed by the plague, and firmly believe that Yanzhou is basically over.

Therefore, they devoted all their energies to Yanguan and gave up the vigilance of the coastline.

Inferring from this, he believed that the Beidi soldiers in Ningcheng must be very relaxed at the moment.

“Has the artillery caught up?” Seeing that it was only four or five miles away from Ningcheng, Qin Shan asked out of breath.

Soldiers are lightly dressed and walk fast.

But the artillery who dragged the artillery forward will not be so easy.

“Go back to the general, they are at the end of the line.” The general said.

This time they were accompanied by twenty mortars and eight field guns.

Mortars are light, and they can be carried and run by changing soldiers constantly.

But even a six-pound field gun weighs as much as four men.

Although soldiers were also dispatched to take turns running, they also stopped and waited several times before the artillery could barely keep up.

Otherwise, they would have arrived in Ningcheng in just over an hour.

After all, the five-kilometer cross-country is a training program that every royal soldier must pass.

Qin Shan nodded upon hearing this.

With the artillery at the end of the line, he felt relieved.

In this way, when he arranges it, the artillery will rush over.

After another quarter of an hour, Qin Shan arrived outside Ningcheng.

As he expected, the Beidi soldiers on patrol in Ningcheng were in twos and threes, and listless.

At this time, he ordered the soldiers to slow down and try to avoid making noise.

Then let the soldiers put down the mortar and aim at the south gate of Ningcheng.

While waiting for the field guns, he sent his soldiers to cut down the woods to make ladders.

When the soldiers came over with field artillery, everything was basically ready.

“Put the artillery in front of the south gate.” Qin Shan said to the artillerymen.

Then, he gave the order, the artillery sounded, and the mortars also bombarded the city wall.

Once the city gate was knocked down, a group of soldiers rushed in through the city gate, and another group of soldiers climbed up the city wall by means of ladders to occupy the commanding heights of Ningcheng.

In the night.

Beidi soldiers had no idea what was going on in the dark.

They didn’t even bother to glance into the darkness.

In their thinking, it was impossible for King Yan’s soldiers to attack Ning City while resisting their attack.

“Boom boom boom…” Suddenly there was a huge roar.

They almost jumped up in fright, and after a brief moment of shock, they suddenly realized what was going on.

Beidi generals shouted loudly on the city wall, ordering Beidi soldiers to guard against enemy attacks.

But there was only a low roar, and a huge explosion sounded above their heads.

Beidi soldiers fell down screaming.

“Kill!”

At this moment, the roar of the soldiers of the palace tore through the dead silence of the night.

The soldiers of the palace rushed towards the city gate that was knocked down by the artillery, armed with rifled guns equipped with bayonets.

Soldiers distributed on both sides of the city gate rushed towards the city wall carrying ladders.

(end of this chapter)