Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 607

[Chapter 607]

“Come here, send a team of scouts to Yan City, and ask His Highness to dispatch a batch of shovels, and at the same time, tell His Highness the information detected.” Chang Wei said.

After thinking for a while, he thought of a way to deal with it.

After a while, a group of cavalry rode their horses to the north, and they arrived in Yancheng in more than two days.

“The Dongying people are quite capable.” Tan Ma told the situation in Pingyuan City in detail, and Zhao Xu snorted coldly.

Judging from this situation, the Dongying people still learned something from the Western natives.

But to him, even so, the Dongying people are just playing tricks in front of him.

The experience and knowledge he has mastered are not comparable to the Japanese and Western natives in this world.

Like the current situation in Pingyuan City, in the military school, he had already listed examples of tactics for the generals.

In some ancient wars, in order to suppress the soldiers on the enemy’s wall, the attacking side would build an earth platform.

This kind of earth platform is a sloping mound of soil, and the mound is as high as the other side’s city wall.

In this way, archers can stand on the earth platform and shoot arrows at the opponent’s city wall to suppress the opponent’s firepower.

After all, it is very disadvantageous to attack from the bottom up.

Chang Wei asked him to transfer the shovel, probably because he wanted to use this method.

However, he just replaced the archers with field guns.

As long as this earth platform is built, the artillery can shoot at the Qi artillery on the plain city wall through the earth platform, thus destroying their artillery.

“Feng’er, go and call Zou Rong, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry.” Thinking of something, Zhao Xu said.

Chang Wei’s approach is certainly correct, but he doesn’t understand architecture.

The artillery is heavy, and if the platform is not compacted, several shellings can cause the platform to collapse.

However, if an earth platform more than ten meters high is rammed, it will take several months, greatly prolonging the time of siege, which is not conducive to the war.

He just got the news from Xu Ke that Han Zheng sent envoys to Xie’s family, Wu country, and Nanliang respectively.

This is a red flag.

After the Jinling Rebellion, the power and clan basically cut off contact, and now Qi State is trying to restore this connection.

Even if he slapped his butt, he could figure out what Han Zheng wanted to do.

If the power and clan unite again under the mediation of Qi State, it will bring him a lot of trouble.

To make matters worse, if they form a coalition to attack Yanzhou, the situation will be even worse.

At this time, it is particularly important to occupy the three cities, with the Jin River as the boundary, to prevent the flames of war from reaching Yanzhou.

Therefore, he must take these three cities as soon as possible while avoiding needless sacrifice of soldiers.

After a stick of incense, Zou Rong arrived at the palace.

Ever since the title of Gongcao Gongcao was removed and replaced by Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Zou Rong’s mood has remained in a state of excitement.

Even in the study, he still had a faint smile on his face.

He bowed to Zhao Xu, and said, “Minister of Industry, Zou Rong, see Your Highness.”

Zhao Xu nodded slightly. After the completion of the two major projects of the Bastion and the outer wall of Yanguan, Zou Rong has been in charge of the major infrastructure of Yanzhou, supervising Building facilities such as roads and bridges is much easier than before.

“My lord has an important task for you. You should immediately send a group of capable officials to Pingyuan City to help build concrete aerial fortresses.”

While speaking, he drew a few strokes on the blueprint and showed it to Zou Wing look.

Hearing the word Pingyuan City, Zou Rong’s expression immediately became serious.

He naturally knew that Pingyuan City was at war.

So he carefully looked at the building on the blueprint, nodded, “This thing is very easy, your Highness just leave it to the minister.”

Zhao Xu absolutely believed that Zou Rong was not bragging, after all, compared to Bastion and Yanguan Facade, the building is simply too simple.

In fact, the building he gave to Zou Rong is a contemporary two-story building.

The only structure is a few columns and a flat floor.

The pillars supported the plane, on which the guns were placed.

Then extend a slope from the small building to the ground, and use it to pull the cannon up.

As for the material of this building, he planned to use a small amount of steel bars, and then asked Zong Zourong to use some strong bamboo instead.

After all, this is not a long-term building, it can be discarded after being used once.

After explaining this matter, he gave Zou Rong a few more instructions, and asked Zou Rong to organize craftsmen to go to Pingyuan City as soon as possible.

Zou Rong returned to the government office and immediately asked the officials to summon the skilled craftsmen who participated in the construction of the bastion and the outer wall of Yanguan.

Have them prepare tools and materials immediately.

Three days later, a team of three thousand craftsmen marched towards Pingyuan City.

Because they were on foot, they walked for nearly four days before reaching Pingyuan City.

Seeing Chang Wei, Zou Rong told him Zhao Xu’s thoughts.

“Your Highness is still thoughtful.” Chang Wei said with emotion.

Immediately, he felt a sense of frustration, thinking that he might not be able to surpass King Yan in his life.

Handing over the Yanzhou Army to the King of Yan is not the same as handing it over to him.

Then, with joy on his face, he returned to reality.

This time with the help of the Ministry of Industry, he was able to build aerial forts one by one.

So, he took Zou Rong from the east of Pingyuan City to the west of Pingyuan City, pointed out eight locations, and asked Zou Rong to build aerial fortresses.

After negotiating with Chang Wei, Zou Rong summoned the public officials to discuss and assign tasks to them.

Not long after, some officials began to lead the craftsmen to dig the foundation.

Other craftsmen felled trees and made them into planks one by one.

After the foundation was dug, they would assemble the planks into a wooden channel and pour concrete into it.

In this way, the aerial turret has a solid foundation, and the rest only needs to be piled on it.

Looking at the bustling and busy scene in front of him, Chang Wei grinned.

Turning his eyes towards Ping Yuancheng, a stern light flashed in his eyes.

According to Zou Rong, concrete can solidify in seven days, so it only takes more than half a month to build a two-story aerial fort.

At that time, he will let Han Qi know what artillery is.

But before that, he didn’t want to be idle.

Although it is impossible to attack immediately, it can always cause a little trouble for them, and the soldiers of Qi State will feel

terrified when they think of this.

He said to Qin Shan: “Organize a straggler attack.”

“Yes, general.” Qin Shan replied yes.

Flintlocks don’t have aim, but rifled guns do.

So after being equipped with rifled guns, in addition to the normal formation, they also began to train the skirmish line.

In this way, during the online duel, the paratroopers can play the role of harassing the opponent’s formation, and even sneak attack the opponent’s artillery position, causing a surprise blow to the enemy.

Turning to the lieutenant beside him, he relayed Chang Wei’s order.

Not long after, the straggler line consisting of 300 men moved towards Pingyuan City.

(end of this chapter)