Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 610

[Chapter 610 Foxhole]

“Leave him alone, we have to rely on ourselves in Pingyuan City, you go and tell the soldiers, as long as you can defend Pingyuan City, each person will be rewarded with ten taels of silver, and let them risk their lives to fight for me. ”

Yes, Marshal.” The general replied, turned around and boarded the city wall.

But before he walked a few steps, suddenly a shell exploded above his head, the general’s body shook and fell from the city wall.

Seeing this, Han Qi closed his eyes in pain.

Feeling ruthless for a while, he plucked up the courage to rush up the city wall, calling on other generals to lead the soldiers to fight back.

It’s just that the artillerymen of Qi State are being “taken care of” by the artillerymen of Yanzhou at this moment.

On the north wall, 30% of the artillery mounts had been destroyed, and the barrels were lying on the ground.

Around the barrel, lay artillerymen in twos and threes.

These soldiers were hit by the artillery and died in a miserable state. They were either bloody or bloody, or they were missing arms and legs.

What annoyed him even more was that Yanzhou’s artillery was still bombarding, and artillery was constantly being destroyed.

On the city wall, the situation of other soldiers was also miserable. Yanzhou soldiers hit them with explosive shells one after another.

Some soldiers were lying on the ground, dying, covered with iron nails.

Some soldiers screamed in pain in the white mist, and soldiers continued to pass through the white mist, and then stumbled and fell off the city wall.

This scene made Han Qi’s heart almost jump out of his throat.

He had never seen such a battle before, and in an instant, he finally understood why Beidi was defeated by King Yan in the capital of Ningjin.

It’s just that the state of Qi and the king of Yan are at odds with each other, and only one side will fall in the end. He has to bite the bullet and fight this battle.

On the one hand, this is to keep Pingyuan City, and on the other hand, it is to hold back the pace of King Yan’s southward movement and give Qi State time to unite with other powerful clans.

In addition, Sato Mahisa also promised them that Dongying would take action to contain King Yan.

If all parties can work together, the King of Yan will surely cast a taboo, so Qi will be safe.

Thinking of this, he shouted: “Brothers, kill a soldier of the King of Yan and reward him with a hundred taels of silver. It’s time to make a fortune.” The

generals of Qi State immediately passed on Han Qi’s words.

There must be brave men under heavy rewards, and some of the soldiers guarding Pingyuan City this time were exiles from death row.

Before the battle, Han Qi promised them that as long as they could defend Pingyuan City, they would be spared the death penalty and returned to their freedom.

Now there are money to be taken, and most of these prisoners on death row are brave and ruthless people.

Hearing this, they immediately ran to the artillery to assist the artillerymen in pulling the artillery.

At this time, a series of cannons were pushed to the gap between the walls of the city wall, and the muzzles of the guns protruded out of the city wall.

I saw a group of Yanzhou heavy infantry under the city carrying a ladder and entering within 200 meters, preparing to climb the city wall.

Qi State artillery stuffed grape bullets into the muzzle and aimed at them.

A flash of fire flashed, there was a loud noise, smoke rose, and grape bullets flew straight out.

It’s just that the artillery missed the heavy infantry at the front, and the shell fell on the land about 30 meters in front of them on the left.

The cotton cloth binding the grape bullets shattered, and small iron balls splashed out.

The heavy infantry stopped in their tracks immediately, and they recognized at a glance that these were not ordinary shells, but grape shells.

Seeing this, the commander-in-chief in charge of the siege immediately ordered the soldiers to retreat.

If it was just an ordinary artillery shell, it would not prevent them from attacking the city, but it was a grape shell.

Although the artillery on the plain city wall was bombarded by their artillery, only thirty or forty of them were exposed from the city wall at the moment.

But the barrage fired by the grape bombs can still cause them a lot of casualties.

Before attacking the city, their generals told them that if they found something wrong, they could retreat at any time.

While withdrawing, they told the Musketeers what they found.

Immediately, the Musketeers retreated four hundred meters away.

They can fire grapeshot up to four hundred meters without improved artillery.

Although they knew that Qi’s artillery was inferior to their unimproved artillery, they chose to retreat a little further just to be on the safe side.

And during the retreat, they turned into skirmishers to prevent them from being bombarded by the opponent’s artillery.

“What’s going on?” Chang Wei frowned as the soldiers in charge of the siege retreated suddenly.

This is not the style of the royal soldiers fighting.

Not long after, Qin Shan came back from the front and told Chang Wei what the heavy infantry had discovered.

“Grape bombs, no wonder?” Chang Wei was stunned.

Looking at Pingyuan City, he snorted coldly, “The damn Dongying people really taught Qi a lot, but it’s just a dream to stump us.”

After a pause, he said to Qin Shan: “No attack today. Let the soldiers dig foxholes with shovels at night.”

The foxholes are also part of skirmish tactics.

Its purpose was to protect skirmishers from enemy shelling.

In this way, skirmishers can hide in foxholes and safely attack enemy targets.

Qin Shan scratched his head. He originally thought that these new tactics would be useless at all, but he didn’t expect to use them now.

Thinking of this, he admired King Yan even more.

What they thought of, King Yan thought of, and what they didn’t think of, King Yan thought of for them.

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the head of the plain city.

The soldiers of Yanzhou retreated, and the soldiers of Qi State cheered.

One of the generals laughed loudly: “I thought King Yan’s soldiers and horses were so powerful, but they were just a group of cowards. When our artillery fired, we scared them away.

” After that, we have what they have now, and it won’t do if we beat them like this.”

“…” The

generals were all elated, and Han Qi was also pinching his waist with a smile on his face.

Just now he was worried about the safety of Pingyuan City, but now it seems that King Yan’s soldiers and horses have no hope of breaking through Pingyuan City.

The cheers from the top of the city attracted Shi Cun Dahe up, and when he learned that King Yan’s troops were retreating, he proudly said to Han Qi, “This is all thanks to our Dongying grape bombs.

” Qi Guo, put your life on the line.

Second, it was really to organize street fighting among soldiers.

Even if the city wall can’t be defended, he will make King Yan’s soldiers and horses pay a heavy price in taking the city.

Han Qi sneered in his heart, but there was a smile on his face. He was not ashamed of the actions of the Japanese generals, but he had to admit the power of grape bullets.

He echoed casually, and he said to the generals of the Qi State: “Although the soldiers of Yanzhou have retreated, you must not be careless. You must continue to guard the city wall strictly, and you must not lose anything.” The

generals of the Qi State agreed in unison.

From noon to night, Yanzhou soldiers did not organize any more attacks.

As night fell, Han Qi was worried that Yanzhou soldiers would launch a sneak attack at night, and he asked the generals to be more vigilant.

It’s just that the night was very quiet.

But the next morning, when he was sleeping soundly, a general of Qi State came in a hurry, woke him up, and led him up the city wall.

“Marshal, look.” The general pointed to the outside of the city, and saw that within 150 to 200 meters from the city wall, there were one after another earth pits.

These pits were so deep that Yanzhou soldiers could only expose their shoulders and heads when they stood inside.

If you shrink down, you can’t see the whole person.

“What the hell is this?” Han Qi couldn’t help cursing.

His intuition told him that this thing might be as abominable as the small building built in the north.

(end of this chapter)