Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 606

[Chapter 606 Fighting Spirit]

Spirit Guangning City.

Hundreds of thousands of royal soldiers are ready to go.

This time to attack Pingyuan City, Chang Wei gathered 80,000 infantry and 20,000 cavalry.

Among them, there are 70,000 musketeers, 8,000 heavy infantry, more than 2,000 artillery, and 306 field artillery of various types, basically showing 70% of the strength of the royal family’s army.

This time, he will take down the three cities in the Hebei Province of Qi State in one go, and expand the territory of Yanzhou to the north bank of the Jinhe River.

“General, the hot air balloon soldiers have arrived.” Just as the army was about to move out, a cavalryman came in front of Chang Wei.

Chang Wei nodded.

Two quarters of an hour ago, the army was ready to set off, and they stayed in place just to wait for these hot air balloon soldiers.

Several wars have proved that although these hot air balloon soldiers cannot determine the victory or defeat of a war, their reconnaissance and harassment on the battlefield are even more powerful for the royal soldiers.

For this war, he dispatched ten hot air balloons, thirty hot air balloon soldiers, and ten hot air balloons.

In addition, there are 50,000 civilian husbands recruited by the government to act with the army, and they will be responsible for the transportation of grain and grass.

After this period of investigation, they found that Pingyuan City was heavily guarded, and it might not be possible to take Pingyuan City in a day or two.

After all, this was unlike any war they had ever fought.

First of all, they don’t have the advantage of defending the city, which makes the war difficult.

Although during the Battle of Jinzhou, they were also on the offensive side.

Moreover, many cities have been taken down.

But the Xiliang soldiers at that time had never seen guns and artillery, and their weapons were nothing more than bows, arrows and scimitars, which gave them a lot of advantages.

But now, a large number of cannons were placed on the walls of Pingyuan City. Most of the Qi soldiers in the city used matchlock guns. They were quite familiar with firearms, and this part of their advantage was greatly weakened.

Secondly, just like King Yan said.

The alliance between Dongying and Qi State may give Qi State some ideas to deal with them.

However, although the difficulty of war has increased due to the popularity of firearms, this has not affected the generals’ confidence in victory.

The army of the royal family has never only talked about weapons. Although their repeated victories are due to firearms, strict training and the spirit of sacrifice are fundamental.

When fighting with Beidi soldiers, the soldiers of the royal family’s army were never afraid.

Thinking of this, Chang Wei looked towards the direction of Pingyuan City and shouted

“Let’s go.”

Yanzhou is narrow from east to west and long from north to south, and the distance from Guangning City to Pingyang City is more than 180 li.

After more than two days of marching, the army arrived at Pingyuan City, and Chang Weiling set up camp a thousand meters away from Pingyuan City.

At the same time, the hot air balloon soldiers began to heat the hot air balloon and took off for reconnaissance.

“Will you Dongying people make that thing?”

Han Qi asked Shicun Dahe pointing to the hot air balloon in the sky on the north wall of Pingyuan City.

Shi Cun Dahe shook his head with a surprised face.

Although from the information provided by Qi State, he learned that King Yan had used this flying thing in the sky several times in the battle with Beidi, but seeing it with his own eyes, he still felt a little nervous in his heart.

“This thing is called a hot air balloon. Merchants in Yancheng even paid money to hang their signs on the hot air balloon to attract attention.” Han Qi added.

“Master Sato said that the Western Land Continent also has this thing.” Shimura Taiga muttered.

“Really? Then why didn’t you bring this kind of skill from the west to Dongpu?” Han Qi was puzzled.

Shimura Dahe’s expression darkened for a moment and he said: “I also asked Mr. Sato about this.”

“He said that the natives of the West are very proud, and white supremacy is prevailing in their country, and they look down on us Dongying people at all.”

“They He came here only to earn our money and enslave us, and he doesn’t want to teach us too many things.”

Han Qi frowned, and in order to please Shimura Dahe, he wanted to fight against Dongying, so he cursed: “These natives really look down on people. When King Yan is eliminated in the future, our country of Qi must teach them a lesson.”

“General Han!” Shi Cun Dahe was not happy when he heard the words, but instead became serious and angry , “You can’t insult the natives like this, because it’s tantamount to insulting Dongpu.”

“Where did you say that?” Han Qi looked puzzled.

Shi Cun Dahe said angrily: “Compared to the civilization of the West, you are a barbaric and uncivilized place, and we in Dongying are determined to be loyal students of the West. You insult our teachers in Dongying, and you are insulting Dongying. …”

At this point, he stopped talking.

In fact, he also wants to say that Dongying has benefited from the skills of the Western Lands, and is now much stronger than Dasong.

The Westerners look down on them Dongying people, but they Dongying people look down on Dasong, Goryeo and everyone else in the Eastlands.

Han Qi opened his mouth, as if he was stupid.

He really couldn’t understand that Dongpu was looked down upon, so why did he still have a humble look of admiring the Western natives?

It’s just that Qi State needs to cooperate with Dongying people at the moment, and he doesn’t want to make both sides unhappy because of this trivial matter.

So he laughed a few times and stopped mentioning the matter.

Then, he looked towards the endless King Yan army to the north, and said: “General Shi Cun, this time King Yan’s soldiers and horses basically come out in full force. I’m afraid there will be a fierce battle in Pingyuan City. General, don’t hide your clumsiness. You must do your best to help.” Me.”

Shi Cun Dahe just nodded slightly.

Although he doesn’t like Qi, but for the sake of Dongying and Dongying’s ability to unify the East in the future, he must stand with Qi to prevent the expansion of King Yan.

At this moment, a hot air balloon was getting closer and closer, and it was about to fly over the city.

Han Qi hurriedly dragged Shicun Dahe into hiding.

Now he is very grateful to Beidi, because it was Beidi’s battle with King Yan that allowed them to learn a lot of experience.

Facing this kind of thing flying in the sky, they knew that they had to hide immediately.

After a quarter of an hour, the hot air balloon left slowly before they came out and continued to deploy soldiers to guard against attack.

The gradually departing hot air balloon landed slowly in the barracks of the royal army.

The hot air balloon soldier reported his reconnaissance information to Chang Wei.

“General, all their cannons are equipped with gun mounts with wheels? And they are placed on the south side of the city wall aisle?”

“Oh?” Chang Wei frowned. This discovery is not trivial, and King Yan guessed right again.

The Dongying people obviously taught Qi some skills in using firearms.

If this is the case, Qi’s artillery can move flexibly on the city wall.

Moreover, the width of the city wall of Pingyuan City is twelve meters.

It’s no wonder that he didn’t find Qi’s artillery from bottom to top through the telescope, because they were all on the south side.

After a little thought, he figured out Qi’s tactics.

“Interesting, this battle doesn’t seem to be so boring anymore.” Chang Wei suddenly chuckled, feeling full of fighting spirit all over his body.

(end of this chapter)