Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 672

[Chapter 672]

level “Father, I’m back!” Ma Jin’s blood stained the hem of Ma Han’s gown red.

Looking at the extremely familiar city in front of him, a tear dripped from the corner of Ma Han’s eye.

Dian Zhang and the other Ma family generals looked moved, and they were equally excited.

After losing Qinzhou and Yongzhou these years, the deep sense of guilt has always made them restless.

Now, their hearts are finally at peace.

People hung Ma Jin’s body at the east gate of Xiancheng for public display.

General Ma Han returned to the mansion that once belonged to him.

Taking a deep breath, he gradually calmed down from the thrill of revenge.

Even if he took back Xiancheng, the city would no longer be the private property of his Ma family, but belonged to the imperial court.

His goal is no longer to expand the Ma family’s power and take Qinzhou and Yongzhou as his own.

Instead, he carried out King Yan’s orders, disturbed the Northwest of Dasong, and cooperated with the royal family’s army to create troubles for the Yan coalition forces and disrupt their cooperation.

Therefore, he can’t stop here, and next, he must continue to implement the plan.

After pondering for a while, he asked, “How many Beidi cavalrymen were captured in this ambush.”

Ma Lan said, “My lord, after counting, there were more than 33,000 Beidi cavalry casualties, and the remaining Beidi cavalrymen all fled. Ma Han nodded, and said to the law: ”

The remaining Beidi cavalry are not to be feared. I will give you 20,000 soldiers and horses to attack Yongcheng. The remaining soldiers and horses will follow me, and we will travel day and night to take down Xiaoguan.” ”

“Yes, my lord.” Dian Zhang nodded.

After deciding on this matter, Ma Han ordered the soldiers to rest for a day.

The next day, he left 3,000 soldiers and horses in Xiancheng to guard the city, and led more than 75,000 people to march towards Xiaoguan.

The decrees commanded 20,000 horses and headed north.

In order to guard against the Ma’s army in Sizhou, Beidi concentrated its main forces in the two cities of Yancheng and Xiancheng during this period.

The other cities in Qinzhou are only guarded by hundreds or thousands of people, maintaining law and order in the city.

Ma Han didn’t take down these cities one by one, but took down the cities he encountered on the way to Xiaoguan.

After all, at the moment, soldiers are extremely fast, and they want to take advantage of Beidi and Nanliang’s lack of reaction to capture Xiaoguan.

After four days of rapid march, he arrived at Xiaoguan City.

“This is bad.” Looking at the Ma family soldiers who suddenly appeared below the city, Guard General Xiao Guan Beidi looked extremely embarrassed.

Due to Ma Han’s advancing speed was too fast, it took less than ten days to break through Land City, then to Xian City, and finally reach Xiaoguan.

And the Beidi cavalry who fled from Xiancheng brought him the news of Xiancheng’s fall only two days ago.

The scouts he sent to Wuwei may have just arrived.

The most terrible thing is that because Qinzhou and Yongzhou are currently occupied by Beidi territory.

To Beidi, Xiaoguan was just an internal pass, they didn’t station heavy troops in Xiaoguan at all, only 15,000 people guarded it on weekdays.

Even with the addition of some Beidi cavalry who fled here from Xiancheng, there are only more than 30,000 people.

“Siege the city.”

Compared with General Beidi’s panic, Ma Han was full of confidence.

Fighting all the way, he is full of confidence in his soldiers.

After losing Qinzhou and Yongzhou, the morale of the Ma family was once very low.

But now, since leaving Qinguan and taking down the city of soil, the morale of the soldiers of the Ma family is getting higher and higher, and they all seem to have endless energy.

Therefore, let the soldiers rest for half an hour, and he gave the order.

Before entering Qinzhou, the Fourth Court provided them with the deployment of troops in Qinzhou and Yongzhou.

Therefore, he knew very well that there were not many Beidi soldiers in Xiaoguan.

This is why he dared to divide his troops into two groups, taking Yongzhou and Xiaoguan all the way.

“Boom boom boom…”

Under his command, mortars and field guns shelled the city wall.

At the same time, he ordered the soldiers to aim at the Beidi soldiers on the city wall, and fight as long as the Beidi soldiers showed their heads.

The solid shells of the field artillery hit the wall stack, and the huge power smashed the wall stack.

The explosive shells of the mortars burst into fireballs on the city wall.

Lime bombs made the city walls shrouded in white dust.

Under the fierce shelling, the Beidi artillerymen were suppressed by the fierce firepower and fell into chaos, causing a large number of casualties.

Only a small number of Beidi artillery are still shooting at the stragglers under the city wall.

But their artillery often only fires one shell a minute.

Such shelling is basically unable to hinder the advance of skirmishers.

Skirmishers walked in irregular curves while running.

Each of them had hand grenades hanging from their waists.

Thousands of paratroopers marched staggered at intervals of about one meter.

When they came to the city wall, they threw grenades on it.

Mortars and field guns are powerful, but due to their small number, they are not as large as the range of damage caused by dense grenades.

“Boom boom boom…” There was an explosion, and almost every position on the front wall was covered in flames.

After the first round of throwing, the sound of cannons on the city wall stopped.

Some surviving Beidi archers looked fierce, and they leaned forward to look down the city.

Seeing that the Ma family soldiers under the city were about to throw stick-like things at them again, they bent their bows and drew arrows, and shot at the soldiers who threw grenades.

However, the moment they leaned forward, the soldiers who had been staring at the city wall pulled the trigger and shot at them.

Beidi archers were shot and killed one after another.

However, a small number of archers still shot bows and arrows, and the soldiers who threw grenades suffered casualties.

Seeing this, Mahan immediately sent soldiers to drag the wounded soldiers back, and ordered the reserve team to take the wounded soldiers’ positions.

“Boom boom boom…” The explosion sounded again, followed by the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth times…

Ma Han squinted his eyes and looked at the city wall of Xiaoguan. Compared with Ma Jin’s soldiers, Beidi soldiers’ The resistance is indeed fierce.

But their ferocity meant nothing.

At most, you need to throw a few more rounds of grenades.

For him, the gap in firearms cannot be made up by the bravery of individual soldiers.

The city wall was bombarded indiscriminately for half an hour, until no Beidi soldiers rushed to the city wall and immediately gave the order to attack the city.

At this time, the cloud ladder team, who had been waiting for a long time, rushed towards the city wall carrying the ladder.

The soldiers of the Ma family followed behind the Yunti team.

The moment the ladder reached the city wall, they used both hands and feet to quickly climb the city wall.

At this moment, the city wall was covered with the corpses of Beidi soldiers, and they didn’t even have a place to stay.

They could only step on the corpses of Beidi people and rush to the steps, preparing to seize the city gate.

The moment they boarded the city wall, there was a sound of breaking through the air.

Beidi soldiers hiding under the city wall fired bows and arrows at them, and immediately some soldiers were injured and fell to the ground.

“Son of a son of a bitch.” The wounded soldier cursed, untied the grenade from his waist, and pulled away the Beidi soldiers who pulled the matchlock and threw them down near the city wall.

The explosion sounded, and the screams of Beidi soldiers were heard immediately.

Other soldiers also threw grenades at the Beidi soldiers, which exploded in all directions.

As more soldiers mounted the walls, more explosions sounded.

At the same time, intensive gunshots rang out, and Beidi soldiers who were stubbornly resisting continued to fall in a pool of blood.

Under the cover of other soldiers, a school lieutenant led 500 soldiers to attack the city gate.

More than 30 Beidi soldiers hid in the entrance hole to resist, but were immediately dealt with by the grenades thrown over them.

The soldiers of the Ma family opened the gate of the city.

(end of this chapter)