Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 613

[Chapter 613 Coping]

“Qi’s army has withdrawn.” On the

city wall, Chang Wei had been watching the battlefield, seeing Qi’s soldiers retreating south one after another, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

Pingyuan City was taken.

What followed was nothing more than chasing and intercepting the remnants of the Qi State.

Turning his head, he said to Qin Shan and Guan Tong: “You immediately lead the soldiers to take over Pingyuan City.” The

two of them should have led their soldiers and horses to enter from the north gate.

On the south side of Pingyuan City.

Chen Hu and Zhongli commanded 10,000 cavalry each, and ambushed on the only way to the ferry in Pingyuan City.

When the gunfire of Pingyuan City stopped, a cavalry came in a short while.

“General, Qi State has been defeated, and a large number of routs are fleeing towards the ferry of Pingyuan City.”

Zhong Li and Chen Hu looked at each other and nodded.

Back in their respective armies, they immediately ordered to prepare for battle.

In less than half an hour, they saw the soldiers of Qi State coming from the north.

When these soldiers entered their ambush range, a gong sounded, and a large number of cavalry rushed out of the woods, brandishing sabers and rushing over.

The soldiers of Qi State who escaped from Pingyuan City have long since been unable to find generals and generals, and the chaos has become a mess.

Seeing a large number of cavalry charging towards them now, they were even more heartbroken, they didn’t care about anything, they just wanted to run for their lives.

For a while, soldiers of Qi State ran around like headless chickens.

“Kill!” Facing the chaotic Qi soldiers, the cavalry was as if a sharp knife had been inserted into tofu.

They rode their horses into the middle of the rebellious soldiers and chopped left and right, one after another Qi soldiers fell under the saber.

The impact of more than 20,000 cavalry instantly caused Qi’s army to be defeated and suffered heavy casualties.

Seeing this, the soldiers of Qi State were even more flustered. A large number of soldiers threw away their matchlock guns and armor, and just fled blindly to the ferry of Pingyuan City.

Han Qi and Shi Cun Dahe mixed among the rout soldiers.

When the soldiers of the palace were chasing and killing the soldiers of Qi, they were observing the weak position of the cavalry of the palace.

Seeing a gap in the southeast of the soldiers of Qi State, he immediately led the cavalry to kill them.

Zhong Li had been watching the battlefield, and when he saw a small group of Qi cavalry trying to escape, he immediately led a thousand cavalry to kill them.

When Han Qi and Shi Cun Dahe broke through the gap, they saw a pair of cavalry surrounding them.

Zhong Li stared at Han Qi and sneered, “Master Han, long time no see.”

When he was under Yuan Li, he had seen Han Qi many times.

Han Qi’s face froze.

If he meets someone else, he may still have hope of escape.

But facing the cavalry led by Zhongli, he was unable to fly.

“Zhongli, you are acting as a minion for the tiger, neither the King of Yan nor you will end well, just wait.” Seeing that the hope of escaping back to the Qi Kingdom is slim, Han Qi growled and shouted loudly.

Zhongli gave Han Qi a disdainful look, and said, “Who is doing the right thing for the heavens and who is doing the harm for the tiger? Someone will judge after a hundred years.” After

finishing speaking, he pointed his spear at Han Qi and slapped his horse to kill him.

Han Qi was startled and tried to rein in his horse and turn around.

But Zhongli’s long spear arrived in an instant and picked him off the horse.

Immediately, Zhongli swept his spear across, knocking down Shicun Dahe who was closely following Han Qi.

“Catch them all!” Zhongli shouted.

The cavalry responded loudly, jumped off their horses, and pushed Han Qi and Shi Cun Dahe to the ground.

The main general was captured, and the morale of the soldiers of Qi State was even more demoralized.

More and more Qi soldiers stopped fleeing at all, but dropped their weapons and surrendered like cavalrymen.

Only a small number of Qi soldiers escaped from the battlefield.

Annihilating the scattered Qi soldiers in one fell swoop, Zhong Li and Chen Hu ordered the cavalry to escort them to Pingyuan City.

Only a part of the soldiers were left to sweep the battlefield to collect armor, matchlock guns and other items.

At this time, Chang Wei and the generals had arrived in the center of Pingyuan City.

When Zhongli came over the captives, Chang Wei and the other generals smiled.

Then he said: “Send the battle report to Yancheng immediately, and wait for His Highness’s instructions.”

Two days later.

The news that the royal family’s troops broke through Pingyuan City arrived in Yancheng.

“Congratulations, Your Highness, once Pingyuan City is destroyed, the remaining two cities are nothing more than possessions.” In the reception hall of the

palace, Ma Han cupped his hands and congratulated Zhao Xu.

Three days ago, the King of Yan ordered him to go to Yan City to discuss matters. Today, he just arrived.

Hearing this, Zhao Xu smiled softly, “This matter was originally within my king’s expectation. What I care about is to reduce the casualties of soldiers.”

Ma Han continued to flatter, “His Royal Highness loves soldiers like sons, no wonder the prince’s family is close to the army. Invincible.”

Zhao Xu waved his hand, “Okay, my king didn’t call you here to listen to your flattery, but I have something important for you.”

Ma Han’s expression suddenly became serious, as if he was listening attentively.

After pondering for a while, Zhao Xu said: “According to the information this king has received, it seems that the Qi State is collaborating with other powerful clans to resist this king.

” , then it will be troublesome.”

“You have also heard the battle report just now, this time there are flintlock guns in the army of Qi who are fighting with the royal family’s personal soldiers, if they are allowed to continue to engage in internal and external collusion, Da Song’s split may be in danger. It will continue for a long time, even indefinitely.”

“So, this king is going to start from two places. First, take back Qinzhou and Yongzhou, and cut off the connection between Nanliang and Beidi. Second, after a new batch of warships are launched, this king is going to let Zhou Yi annihilate Dongying navy and Wufeng pirates, cut off the communication between Dongying and the Han family, so that they can be dealt with with peace of mind.”

Ma Han nodded slowly.

In his opinion, King Yan’s decision was very correct.

Now Beidi and Dongying are the two instigators of the cholera eulogy.

They are like villains who keep feeding meat to tigers.

As long as they are here, the tiger will become stronger and stronger, and it will be more fierce when it bites Yanzhou.

The most important thing is that calling back and forth is all internal friction in Da Song.

But Dongying and Beidi can weaken Dasong just by fighting with each other, which is extremely shameless.

Then, his eyes lit up, Qinzhou and Yongzhou were a wound in every Ma family’s heart.

Now, they finally have a chance to take back these two states.

“What does Your Highness want me to do?” He asked.

“This king will provide your army with a batch of new muskets and artillery, and will also send generals to assist in training.” Zhao Xu said.

During this period of time, Ma Han had put down the rebellion in Sizhou, and the Ma family who persisted gained his approval.

From then on, the army of the Ma family will not only be the army of the Ma family, but also the army of the imperial court.

Therefore, he planned to make the firearms of the Ma family’s army reach the same level as that of the royal family’s army.

Waiting for them to adapt to the new firearms, he will let Ma Han lead the Ma family troops to retake Qinzhou and Yongzhou.

Ma Han was overjoyed when he heard the words, and hurriedly said: “Thank you, Your Highness.”

Zhao Xu nodded, but he changed the subject and said, “But before that, your Ma family army will receive a group of generals from the military academy.”

Ma Han was stunned for a while , then relieved, since he has already taken refuge in King Yan, he doesn’t care about this anymore, so he said: “No problem.”

Only then did Zhao Xu reveal a deep smile.

This group of generals is a group of special generals he has cultivated since the establishment of the military school.

Their duty is not to lead troops to fight like Chang Wei and the others, but to be responsible for the ideological education of soldiers.

In the army, their rights are comparable to those of the chief general, and they can supervise each other.

In this way, he indirectly controlled the Ma family’s army.

(end of this chapter)