Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 658

[Chapter 658]

“Please rest assured, Your Highness, the final general will surely live up to expectations.” Zhou Yi straightened his body and gave a military salute to Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu nodded, narrowed his eyes, and emphasized: “Don’t be soft-handed, hit as hard as you can.”

Zhou Yi was stunned for a moment, King Yan seemed to be particularly disgusted with this Dongying.

However, he can also understand that Dongpu, as a country outside the territory, has intervened in the civil strife.

What is this if it’s not a bitch!

Agreed on this matter.

Zhao Xu asked Zhou Yi to transfer the twelve warships from Pingyuan City, leaving only four ships to patrol the Jin River.

In this way, Zhou Yi can command thirty-two warships to execute the plan to destroy the Dongying Navy.

After Zhou Yi left, Zhao Xu asked Feng’er to pack some clothes for him and prepared to go to Qizhou.

He did not participate in the battle of crossing the river, because the battle of crossing the river was a sure thing, so there was no need for him to participate in it himself.

But with the royal family’s troops going south, the Xie family and Nanliang will inevitably send troops to Qizhou to join the war.

At that time, the army of the Prince’s Mansion will have a showdown with the Allied Forces of Yan Yan on the land of Qizhou.

The scale of this battle is huge, surpassing any previous war.

Although he had great trust in Chang Wei, he felt that as the king of Yan, he still had to go there in person to improve the morale of the royal army and avoid mistakes in this battle.

Furthermore, if he does not participate in this kind of war that will be recorded in the annals of history in the future, wouldn’t it be less bloody for men.

Moreover, he also intends to inspect the rear area that Chang Wei established.

Like the decisive battle against the Allied Forces against Yan, this matter is also very important.

After all, the territory that has been conquered needs to be governed.

Moreover, the rear area established while fighting the war can obtain grain and grass supplies from the local area, reducing the pressure on grain and grass transportation in Yanzhou.

After all, when 120,000 people set off to fight, the number of civilians transporting grain and grass is often several times higher.

The farther you go, the more food and grass you will consume, because folks also need food.

Giving food to the enemy is certainly a solution, but if the enemy is defeated and chooses to burn the food and grass, he will be caught blind.

And he couldn’t do it by sending troops to rob the people of food.

Therefore, the only way to solve the pressure on food and grass is to establish a rear area similar to a base while fighting the war.

Even if you hit Jiangnan, you don’t have to worry about the army’s rations.

There is no need to send a large number of civilians to transport grain and grass.

Based on this, the matter of establishing a rear is by no means a child’s play for him.

In the afternoon, he called Liu Fu and Yang Feng over.

Let one of them supervise the reform of government affairs, and the other be responsible for the reform of the military.

Wars belong to wars, Yanzhou’s internal affairs cannot be affected, and we must continue to advance.

The next day, he went to Qizhou under the escort of Xu Lie.

At the same time, a team of cavalry was sent to Sizhou to prepare Ma Han to recover Qinzhou and Yongzhou.

During this period of time, he also delivered a batch of yellow powder and grenades to Ma Han’s troops.

As soon as the decisive battle with the Allied Forces against Yan started, Ma Han would lead the Ma family’s troops to take the opportunity to take back Yongzhou and Qinzhou, and block Nanliang The passage to and from Beidi destroyed the border markets of the two families.

If the decisive battle is won, let him attack Nanliang Wuguan as the West Route Army.

The army of the royal family continued to go south as the East Route Army, sweeping across the Qi State and the puppet court established by the Xie family.

After three days of trekking, he arrived at Dongping City.

While on the road, he got a battle report from Tanma, and he had some understanding of the current battle.

“Your Highness, the current battle is going very smoothly. Dongjun has been taken by us. Now, Qin Shan has taken Chenjun to the west, Lu Chang has taken Yangjun to the east, and Guan Tong has taken Gaojun to the south. , They are still continuing to attack the city, and before Qi reinforcements arrive, they can at least take down the eight counties outside Lucheng.”

Zhao Xu nodded, Qizhou is much larger than Yanzhou.

Yanzhou has seven counties in total, while Qizhou has twelve counties.

According to conventional Chang Wei, Qi State concentrated its main force on the four counties in the southwest and gave up the eight counties in the north, just letting the wealthy private soldiers delay their attack.

However, these wealthy private soldiers are obviously like chickens and dogs, and they are completely vulnerable to the attack of the royal family’s pro-army.

The army of the Wangfu can basically conquer two or three counties in one day, which is not much different from watching the wind and surrendering.

“The main trouble is that many wealthy families have been broken up into pieces, and small groups of private soldiers of wealthy families continue to move around in various counties, attacking villages like bandits, and attacking people transporting grain and grass.” Chang Wei said again.

Seeing Zhao Xu frowned, he hurriedly explained, “However, the captured firearms have been distributed to the town soldiers at the end, and Zhong Li is also actively training them so that everyone is a soldier. Today, six villages encountered private soldiers from wealthy families. , but they were all wiped out by the township soldiers and many people were captured alive.”

Zhong Li added: “Private soldiers of wealthy families often carry swords, which are far worse than the township soldiers with flintlock guns.”

Zhao Xu nodded slowly, such a short time.

Qi State does not have enough flintlock guns for its own army. Naturally, it is impossible for the rich to have flintlock guns, and they are still in the era of cold weapons.

On the contrary, the township soldiers received the flintlock guns confiscated from the soldiers of Qi State, and immediately entered the age of firearms, crushing private soldiers of wealthy families.

Thinking of this, he said: “This is almost the same. We must not forget the old line of defense against Beidi. There are many private soldiers of the wealthy family, can there be as many people in Qizhou? As long as the people are condensed into one rope, these private soldiers of the wealthy family are no more than It’s just a swarm of flies, nothing serious will happen.”

“What Your Highness said is true, but it’s all thanks to Zhongli.” Chang Wei said, looking at Zhongli beside him.

Zhao Xu showed a satisfied smile. Zhongli used to be an excellent cavalry general, and he was very satisfied.

But he didn’t expect that in the military school, he found that Zhong Li was a man with both civil and military skills, and he quickly accepted the military and civilian ideas taught by him.

After thinking about it, he thought it was very suitable as a secretary.

After all, if he casually promoted a scholar to the position of secretary, he would definitely not be able to convince other generals.

As for Zhongli, who had made great achievements in battle and had a certain prestige in the army, if he was appointed as the secretary in charge and commanded the orders in the army, he would be able to successfully establish a system of orders for the royal family and the army.

However, he also wanted to see how the theory was put into practice.

If he builds the rear of the war well, he will be the secretary.

So he patted Zhong Li on the shoulder, “Follow me to the countryside for a while, I want to see your skills.”

Zhong Li replied yes, leading Zhao Xu to walk outside the general’s mansion, Chang Wei also followed past.

Before the reinforcements from the Qi State arrived, he was free and could concentrate on stabilizing the territory he had conquered.

After leaving the city, Zhao Xu pointed in a random direction.

Not long after, they came to a nearby village called Duling.

Entering the village, Zhao Xu immediately heard shouts of killing.

Following the sound, it turned out that on the threshing floor of the village, a group of young men were practicing bayonet skills with sticks.

They were sweating profusely, but everyone was in high spirits.

(end of this chapter)