Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 688

[Chapter 688]

Lucheng.

When Zhao Xu was inspecting the Military Division, Chang Wei launched an attack here.

Yesterday he led the troops to the city of Lu and dug trenches outside the city at night.

It is different from places like Jicheng and Yangcheng.

The city of Lu was built on a plain, and there were no solid stones to prevent them from digging trenches.

At this time, following his order, the grenadier team entered the trench and threw the grenade at the city wall of Lucheng.

After entering Qizhou, his invincible new style of warfare once again exerted great power.

It only took half a day before he took down Lucheng.

“General, some of the soldiers and horses in Lu City are private soldiers of the noble family, and most of them are the young men of the Han family.” Qin Shan reported to Chang Wei with a dark face.

“It’s really unlucky, it’s actually a bunch of miscellaneous soldiers.” Lu Chang said.

Chang Wei snorted when he heard the words, he said: “I want to see how long these powerful troops can hide.” The

three of them were talking when a general came over with a happy face, “General, the last general found out There is a large amount of copper coins, gold, silver and jewels in the treasury of Lucheng, which have not been removed in time.” After a

pause, he said, “But the calligraphy, paintings and porcelain were either burned by them or smashed, and they don’t want to leave them to us.”

“Hahaha …It must be that Jicheng fell too quickly, which they did not expect.” Qin Shan laughed, and his mood improved again, this battle was not in vain after all.

After all, the three of them went to the treasury located in the southwest corner of Lucheng together.

Sure enough, in one of the warehouses, they saw a mountain of copper coins.

Chests of silver, gold bars and jewels were found in several other storerooms.

“This Han family is really rich.” Lu Chang clicked his tongue.

He roughly estimated that the value of the things left by the Han family is at least ten million taels.

“Half of the salt in Dasong comes from Qizhou. It’s not surprising that they have accumulated such a large family fortune in the past two hundred years.” Chang Wei narrowed his eyes, “Take these things back to Yanzhou. It was a loss, but this attack on Qizhou made a profit.”

Then, the three of them went to check the granary.

What annoyed them was that 70% of the grain in the granary was burned, and the remaining 30% was for the 100,000 defenders of Lucheng, and it was only enough for a month’s ration.

“Damn it.” Chang Wei scolded, “They want to fortify the walls and clear the country, and cause trouble for us to go south.”

After pondering for a while, he said: “Lu Chang, you lead 30,000 soldiers and horses to Yangcheng, and stay with us. The 30,000 soldiers and horses there attacked back and forth, and captured Yangcheng.”

Then he said, “Qin Shan, Guan Tong, you follow this general and continue to go south to Yicheng. The more they want to stop us, this general will chase us. They fought.”

“Yes, General.” Qin Shanguan said loudly.

The next day, Commander Chang Wei went to Yicheng.

Lu Chang went straight to Yangcheng.

Through the prisoners captured in Lucheng, they learned that most of the soldiers and horses in Yangcheng had already withdrawn.

There are only 30,000 soldiers and horses in the city.

However, Yangcheng is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

They invested a large force to attack the city in order to reduce the casualties of the soldiers, take down Yangcheng as soon as possible, and join Chang Wei and his party.

Two days later, Lu Chang arrived in Yangcheng.

That night, he took advantage of the darkness to launch an attack on Yangcheng.

Because of his day and night travel, he escaped the detection of Yangcheng Tanma.

Yangcheng soldiers and horses had no defense against them coming from Lucheng.

In the dark, the stragglers touched the bottom of the city and threw grenades on the city wall.

At the same time, the royal army on the north side of Yangcheng also launched an attack on Yangcheng.

60,000 soldiers attacked back and forth. Before dawn, only 30,000 people were stationed in Yangcheng, which was successfully captured by them.

The next day, they headed towards Yicheng and joined Chang Wei and his party.

…

Jinghai County.

Zhao Xu inspected the workshop, then left Yancheng and arrived here.

Wang Chong’s large single-cylinder steam engine has taken shape, and his immediate concern is naturally the main construction of the steam engine ship.

After all, the steam engine and the main body of the steam engine ship are inseparable, and neither of them can do without.

“Your Highness, I have kept the size of this position according to the drawings, no more, no less.” In a dry dock, Chen Shou pointed to the steamship under construction.

Now the steamship only has a keel, and it will take some time before it is completed.

“Don’t worry about this, the size of the steam engine that this king gave to Wang Chong is based on the drawings.” Zhao Xu said.

After a pause, he asked, “Can the progress of the steamship be advanced?”

Originally, only Dongying participated in the civil strife in Dasong, and his sailing warship was completely sufficient.

But now that the country of Sam and Britain have also participated in the chaos of Dasong, his demand for steamships is also urgent.

After all, sailing warships rely too much on wind power, and without wind, there is not enough power.

But the steamship is different, can keep power 24/7.

If there is a war, the side with the steamship will be more flexible, so as to win more with less.

He didn’t want his sailing warship to suffer from the Western natives in this regard.

“It can be improved by about two months.” Chen Shou thought for a while and said.

A steamship is only half the size of a sailing warship.

However, because of the need to install a steam engine, the internal structure is a bit more complicated.

At first, he wanted a year.

But as construction progressed, he reckoned ten months would be enough.

After all, the most important thing about this thing is the steam engine.

(end of this chapter)