Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 774

[Chapter 774]

“Your Highness, Yizhou is ahead.”

Owen left and sailed for another hour, at this time he could faintly see the horizon on the sea.

This is Yizhou.

Dongying handed over the northern part of Yizhou in order to draw Wu to join the Eastern Land Alliance.

After that, the state of Wu sent naval warships and 30,000 soldiers to Yizhou.

These 30,000 soldiers are currently stationed in Antler City.

This is a large city established by Japan compared to Marka City.

Through this city, you can control the surrounding land.

Of course, the most important value of Yizhou lies not in farming, but in its important strategic position.

Controlling here is tantamount to controlling the sea trade route between the north and the south of Dasong.

In ancient times, this value was not prominent, but as the world enters modern times, the value of Yizhou will be reflected.

This is not just a question of the Great Song North-South trade route.

Winning here is tantamount to pinching the lifeblood of Japan and Korea.

If Japan and Korea want to participate in maritime trade in the future, they can only look at his face.

Moreover, using this as a base, the Yanzhou Fleet can also enter the Pacific Ocean in a large scale, turning the Pacific Ocean into its own back garden.

After all, the country of Sam has reached out to the islands in this ocean.

He couldn’t just sit back and watch all the important islands in the ocean be occupied by them.

“Let’s do it!” Zhao Xu ordered after looking at Yizhou.

He will not be disturbed by the little tricks made by Britain.

Even if Britain and other Western countries come up with a trick, he will have to flatten Jiangnan and complete the unification of Dasong.

Furthermore, in the north of Dasong, Beidi, Dasong’s mortal enemy, has not yet been eliminated.

He had so much to do that he didn’t have time to quarrel with Britain.

“Yes, Your Highness.” Zhou Yi replied yes, and ordered the fleet to advance at full speed.

As the distance to Lujiao City Wharf got closer, Zhao Xu’s telescope appeared Wu’s warship.

A total of 30 ships are docked at the dock.

They didn’t care much about Wu’s warships.

This time their fleet consisted of twelve steamships and twelve galleys.

The rear of the fleet followed the troop carrier with eight thousand marines on board.

After sailing for a while, the warship of the state of Wu found them.

The soldiers of the Wu State Navy boarded the warship, but instead of fighting, they ran away quickly, not intending to fight them at all.

The news of the Edo naval battle also spread to the state of Wu.

During the Koryo naval battle, they were chased around by Yanzhou’s sailing warships, how could they be opponents of steam ships and sailing warships now.

“A group of rats.” Seeing this scene, Zhou Yi sneered.

This time, the army of the Wangfu went south, and their navy would cooperate with the army of the Wangfu to launch an attack on the coast of the south of the Yangtze River and attack the Jiangnan tribes on both sides.

Based on this, they want to win Yizhou first.

Of course, there is another point, their King Yan seems to have an obsession with Yizhou, and some can’t wait to bring it under his command.

Instead of chasing the warship of Wu State, Zhou Yi led the fleet to sail directly south, and did not directly attack the Lujiao City Wharf.

According to the information provided by the Fourth Academy, Wu Guo built many forts at the Lujiao City Wharf.

When they attacked the coastal cities of Dongpu, they usually fired at these forts to destroy them.

But in fact, this method is very stupid and takes a long time.

It’s just that there is no way, because there are many mountains along the coast of Japan, and the terrain is not convenient for Marine soldiers to make roundabout landing operations.

But Yizhou is different. The west coast of Yizhou is almost all plains.

Any location is easy to land, and the powerful army stationed in Yizhou has worse firearms than the Japanese army, and it is more difficult to resist the landing of marine soldiers.

Therefore, just like when they were fighting Ryukyu, Zhou Yi ordered the fleet to land 30 miles south of Lujiao Wharf.

During the landing process, the Wu army did not obstruct it, and the whole landing process was extremely smooth.

Zhao Xu and Zhou Yi also boarded a boat and landed immediately.

“Pan Chang, be careful, the lives of His Highness and this general are in your hands.” Zhou Yi said to Pan Chang after setting foot on the land of Yizhou.

Pan Chang squeezed a cold sweat in his heart, straightened his waist, and said: “Your Highness, the last general guard, and General Zhouquan.”

Zhao Xu smiled, “Don’t listen to Zhou Yi, fight as you like, don’t be tied up, I Wang can be considered a battle-tested woman, and she is not a delicate little girl, so I want you to keep an eye on her all the time.”

After finishing speaking, he waved his hand and signaled Pan Zhang to take down the pier first.

Then, he stepped deeply on the ground under his feet, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

After taking Lujiao City, Yizhou will be under his control from now on.

Under his order, Pan Chang led 7,000 soldiers to the pier, leaving 1,000 soldiers to protect him.

At this time, Zhao Xu and Zhou Yi strolled in and came to a rice field.

Unlike the coldness in the north, Yizhou in this season is as warm as spring.

In the north where only wheat can be grown, rice is still grown here.

According to his memory, the rice here in Yizhou seems to be cropped three times a year, and the yield is also high. It is known as the rice warehouse on the sea in contemporary times.

In addition, the humid subtropical marine climate here is also suitable for growing sugar cane, pineapples, bananas, etc., and is also known as the hometown of fruits.

Of course, there is also a very important point that rubber trees can be planted here.

Although, rubber tree plantation can also be carried out in the southernmost area of Da Song.

But right now, due to inconvenient inland transportation, he thinks it is convenient to find a way to plant rubber trees in Yizhou.

At that time, the rubber can be transported to the coastal city of Dasong through sea transportation.

Therefore, Yizhou, which has so many advantages, is not won now, let alone when.

While he was wandering with Zhou Yi, the Marine Corps soldiers arrived at the wharf of Lujiao City after an hour’s trek, and attacked the fort from the flank.

There are about 5,000 Wu troops guarding the Lujiao Wharf.

They obviously didn’t expect that King Yan’s army would land in other places and outflank them.

“Bang bang bang…”

“Boom!”, “Boom!”, “Boom!”…

Because all the guns of the fort are facing the sea, and they are fixed on the fort, it is difficult to move.

The Marine Corps attacked from the side, which was equivalent to completely avoiding the opponent’s artillery.

When they reached the range of the fort, the marine soldiers, under the leadership of the general, attacked the fort one by one.

Because the rifled guns of Marine Corps soldiers have a much longer range than the smoothbore guns of Wu soldiers.

Marines usually shoot at each other at a distance of about 150 meters.

At the same time, under the cover of shooting, the stragglers held the grenade in front of them and threw the grenade into the fort.

The general guarding Lujiao City was named Liang Xi.

Under the attack of the Marine Corps, he was beaten blind, seeing the forts fall one by one, powerless.

He immediately led the remnant soldiers to retreat to Antler City.

Ever since the state of Wu invaded and harassed Jiangbei along the coast of Jiujiang, they had the consciousness of King Yan to attack Yizhou.

Therefore, the fort was strengthened during this time.

But unexpectedly, these forts have all become useless waste.

However, around Antler City, with the help of their mercenaries, they dug trenches and built fortifications.

I hope to use this to stop Yan Wang’s soldiers and horses, and wait until the reinforcements arrive.

(end of this chapter)