Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 697

[Chapter 697 Carter’s Letter]

“Lu Chang, I ordered you to lead 30,000 soldiers and horses to take down the four southern counties of Qizhou, Ningzhou, Bozhou, and other counties in Yuzhou.”

While ordering the soldiers to dig trenches, Chang Wei issued another order an order.

Although he has the confidence to break through the opponent’s trench and take Yangcheng.

But it is different from attacking other cities.

This time, they are afraid that they will have to stay in Yangcheng for a while.

After all, a large number of powerful and wealthy soldiers gathered in Yangcheng, and all of them were elite.

The most important thing is that these generals and soldiers did not flee halfway, which shows that they are also loyal enough to the powerful clan.

Because basically, they are either members of the powerful and wealthy clans with the same surname, or their in-laws.

Combined with the moat surrounding Yangcheng.

The next battle will be the hardest since they went south.

And starting from Lucheng, in order to defeat the powerful clan as soon as possible, they just chased the powerful clan army where Xie Duan and others belonged, and only took down important cities along the way.

No troops were divided to attack other cities in Ningzhou.

Therefore, they only controlled important nodes on the southward route, and did not fully capture Ningzhou and the four southwest counties of Qizhou.

As for Yuzhou and Bozhou, not a single soldier passed by.

Originally, it would be fine if they could quickly annihilate the powerful army led by Xie Duan and others.

But if we are going to be caught in a tug of war today, these places cannot be left alone.

These powerful families have ruled the counties and counties for more than 200 years, and there are still many wealthy families and officials.

According to his understanding, the wealthy clan only sent their core disciples and private soldiers to follow Xie Duan, and Han Zheng and others fought against them.

The cities that were not captured by the royal family’s troops were still controlled by the descendants of the rich family who stayed behind.

It will be very troublesome if they take the opportunity to confuse and spend money and food to recruit people as soldiers, occupy the city, and fight against them.

Furthermore, because they were advancing so fast along the way, the soldiers only carried fried noodles.

The hundreds of thousands of troops will soon face the problem of food and grass.

This makes it even more necessary to fully take over the four southern counties of Qizhou, Ningzhou, and even Yuzhou and Bozhou.

After all, although Yuzhou and Bozhou were not on their route to the south.

But if something goes wrong, it can completely burn Qizhou and Ningzhou.

“Yes, General!” After answering yes, Lu Chang turned and left.

Back in the army, he divided the 30,000 soldiers and horses into fifteen teams, each with 2,000 people, and assigned the generals who led the teams the cities to attack.

After all, even if there are remnants of powerful and powerful clans in the cities that have not yet been captured, there will not be many.

It is completely enough for two thousand people to win a city.

“My God, this army seems to be very good at digging trenches, it’s shocking.”

The north tower of Yangcheng.

While Lu Chang was assigning tasks to his generals, Carter had been observing the battlefield.

Seeing Yanzhou soldiers digging trenches, he was amazed.

From the mouth of the powerful general, he learned that this army often dug trenches under the city and threw a small explosive weapon at them.

However, that kind of single-person trench is completely different from the trenches dug by the current Yanzhou army.

This is where his amazement comes from.

Because the current trenches dug by the Yanzhou army are winding and well-arranged, like wavy lines.

At first, he thought that the army from Yanzhou was imitating their trench digging.

After observing for a while, he realized that they were digging according to their own plan.

“Conical bullets, throwing firearms that can explode, it’s really strange, how did this King Yan do this.” Carter opened his hands, staring at the bullets in his palms, which were obtained by the Shizu on the battlefield.

At present, flintlock guns in Xitu still use round bullets, even rifled guns use round bullets.

Therefore, this discovery surprised him even more, and he suddenly felt that this trip to the Great Song was very necessary.

“Can you tell me all the news about King Yan?” Carter put the bullet into his coat pocket and asked Wang Xie beside him.

In Dongying, although he had some understanding of the King Yan.

But he wanted to get an evaluation of the King of Yan from Da Song himself.

“The king of Yan was a fool before he went to Yanzhou…” Wang Xie said eloquently.

The three families now want to use the Dongying and Xitu people to fight against King Yan, so he naturally knows everything.

Carter listened attentively, frowning slightly.

After Wang Xie finished speaking, he said: “So it is basically impossible for King Yan to get any support from the nearby forces.”

“That’s right, he is a lunatic who is against everyone.” “The two words slandered Zhao Xu and Yanzhou just like Sato Mahisa.

Carter didn’t care about the conflict between the King of Yan and the Dasong clan.

He knew very well that the essential conflict between the King of Yan and the powerful clan lay in the struggle between different interest groups.

He just wanted to figure out how this king of Yan had mastered such superb firearm technology from having nothing.

“Perhaps a missionary who was proficient in crafts really served him.” Like everyone, Carter could only explain this in this way, and believed that the missionary’s mastery of crafts was very high.

After all, in the West, they will dig each other’s scholars.

Scholars often flee to other countries for various reasons.

“What a lucky guy.” Carter felt sour in his heart.

Then, he went down the city wall, returned to his residence, wrote a letter, and prepared to send it to the Consulate of Sam Country in Dongying, “Dear Mr. Eilson, Dongying’s description of the Dasongyan King is accurate.”

“The army of the Dasong clan has little knowledge of firearm tactics because they have just mastered firearms. This is very different from the Yanwang army. They seem to be very familiar with firearm tactics.

” I’m afraid it will be very troublesome. If we don’t intervene in time, maybe it will only take a year or two before the king of Yan will unify and praise, and by then, a giant in the eastern land will awaken.”

“If this day comes, The colony in the east will obviously be seriously threatened, and our plan to seize the Frangji colony will also be affected.”

“Based on this, when Dasong is in civil strife, it is very necessary to intervene. Dasong is barren The north will limit the growth of this king of Yan.”

“Let the south remain independent and support them, and they will become our helpers to restrain the king of Yan in the future.”

“Because of fear of the king of Yan, the south will also rely on us more, let us gain Greater interests.”

“And I will stay here and lead the clan army to resist the King of Yan until the parties of the Eastern Land Alliance sign a contract, and at the same time, learn about their firearms. In the end, we must not let a yellow-skinned The humble country is rising, and may God bless the country of Sam.”

After writing the letter, Carter put the letter in an envelope and handed it to his subordinate, a young guard of the country of Sam in his early twenties.

Let him be handed over to the Dongying people and sent to Dongying on the Liang family’s merchant ship.

After that, he returned to the city wall to assist the powerful generals in defending the city.

The next three days were peaceful.

The wide and deep trench kept the royal army busy for about three days before they surrounded the trench dug by the powerful clan.

At the same time, the fast horse sent by Chang Wei arrived in Yancheng.

Send the situation of Yangcheng to Zhao Xu.

(end of this chapter)