Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 776

[Chapter 776]

“Kill!” The

Hao soldiers were stunned by the grenade, but the Marine soldiers took the opportunity to jump into the trench.

Some of them picked up the rifled bayonets and shot the surviving Wu soldiers in the trench.

Some continued to throw grenades into the next ditch, and touched the second ditch from the middle aisle.

The screams of Wu soldiers were mixed with the explosion of grenades.

“I surrender! I surrender…” The

soldiers of the Marine Corps were murderous, and the Wu soldiers who were still alive in the trench raised their hands and surrendered.

Most of them are soldiers from ordinary people, and some are soldiers from the noble family.

At this moment, they were all heartbroken and unable to muster the slightest soldier to fight the Marine Corps soldiers.

This is not war at all, but outright massacre.

Now, they would rather be captured and go digging for mines than stay in a trench for a moment.

Taking the first trench, the attack below the Marine Corps was exceptionally smooth.

Under the bombardment of the howitzers, the morale of the Wu soldiers was already extremely low, and some soldiers fled.

Seeing them rushing into the trench, the soldiers of Wu State collapsed in an instant, but a small number of diehard members of the rich family were still resisting them.

But this small group of trench soldiers could not affect the battle situation at all.

As the Marines occupied the trenches, they were cleared in passing.

At this moment, there are more and more Wu soldiers crowded at the gate of the city.

They all want to enter the city.

However, the gates of Lujiao City were closed tightly, and they ignored the cries of Wu soldiers.

Seeing that King Yan’s army was getting closer and closer, many soldiers simply fled around the city.

In an hour’s time, the marines occupied the trench fortification under Antler City.

The last trench dug by the Wu army was only 30 meters away from the city wall.

Instead, Wu’s trenches became a protective umbrella for the marines.

Standing in the last row of trenches, Marines kept throwing grenades at the city walls.

Flowers of flame burst out from the city wall.

“His Royal Highness can really spend the night in Lujiao City tonight.” Zhou Yi laughed as the trenches were conquered and the battle was basically controlled by the marines.

When King Yan gave Pan Chang an order, he was worried that Pan Chang would not be able to complete it.

Now, he is relieved.

“The people in Lujiao City are all new recruits. Liang Kai is just unwilling to lose Yizhou like this, so he just wants to create some trouble. He also knows that this place cannot be defended.” Zhao Xu sneered.

Before going south to Yizhou, Xu Ke provided him with information about Yizhou.

“No wonder the defeat was so fast.” Zhou Yi understood.

After all, the two continued to watch the battlefield.

While the Marine Corps soldiers were throwing grenades at the city wall, some Marine Corps soldiers came from behind and carried the ladder to the bottom of the city wall.

These ladders were shipped together with the battleship.

Following the ladder, the marines quickly boarded the city wall.

At this moment, in Lujiao City, Liangxi’s face was ashes.

He has deployed half of his troops outside the city, and now he is dying and fleeing.

When the soldiers of King Yan threw grenades on the city wall, the soldiers on the city wall also collapsed.

The undead soldiers fled down the city wall one after another, and the soldiers of the supervisory team went up and hacked a few, but they failed to stop the soldiers from breaking up.

“Bang bang bang…”

At this moment, the Yanzhou army boarded the city wall and shot at the Wu soldiers in the city, and the fleeing Wu soldiers fell down one after another.

The fleeing soldiers were terrified. Some soldiers knelt down and raised their hands when they thought of something.

Seeing someone doing this, more soldiers dropped their muskets and knelt on the ground.

Sure enough, these soldiers who surrendered were not shot again.

Seeing this, Liang Xi was furious again. He wanted to fight to the death, but he knew he was powerless.

If he wants to escape, Yizhou is surrounded by sea, where can he escape?

Just as he was hesitating, suddenly his chest hurt, and when he touched it, blood was all over his fingers.

Immediately, he became dizzy and fell down.

Once the general died, the Wu soldiers in Lujiao City were like headless flies, only caring about saving their lives.

Another hour later, the soldiers of the Marine Corps cleared the rebellious Wu soldiers and completely controlled Lujiao City.

At this time, the sky had just dimmed.

Zhao Xu and Zhou Yi entered Antler City one after the other.

After taking this city, Beiyi Prefecture fell into his pocket.

“Send someone to Marka City, and send a message to Fei Wen, saying that the king wants to meet him in Antler City.” Zhao Xu said to Zhou Yi when he came to the Yamen of Antler City.

In response, Zhou Yi sent people to Nanyi Prefecture along the coast overnight.

Then, Zhao Xu ordered Pan Changqing to pay the deserters on the island.

These deserters are like bandits, if they are not wiped out, they will cause disaster.

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at the same time.

The warship of the State of Wu who escaped from Yizhou arrived at Haizhou opposite Yizhou. Immediately, a fast horse set off from Haizhou and traveled along the post road to Zhejiang, which is adjacent to the north.

In more than two days, news of King Yan’s attack on Yizhou reached Lincheng.

“The king of Yan has finally made a move.” Liang Kai’s face was embarrassed in the imperial study room.

Ever since he promised the Britons to provoke Jiangbei, he knew that this day would come sooner or later.

However, he didn’t regret it, because he knew very well that he and King Yan would one day have to decide the outcome.

He had no complaints about Britain either.

During this period of time, Britain transported 30,000 of Britain’s most excellent flintlock guns and corresponding ammunition to Wu through Jiaozhi.

In addition, there are thirty-six field guns with great range and power.

In the future, Britain will continue to provide guns and artillery to Wu.

Of course, these guns and artillery need to be bought with money.

But his Liang family doesn’t have many other things, but they have a lot of money and can afford it.

As long as he can block King Yan, he thinks it is worth spending some money.

In addition to guns and artillery, Britain also sent 150 craftsmen.

These craftsmen were led by ten Britons, and the rest were Tianzhu craftsmen.

With them came two steam engines.

Britain, as they promised, is providing all support to Wu.

And this also strengthened his determination to fight against King Yan.

He believed that as long as he could block King Yan for a while.

In time, with the wealth of Jiangnan and the steam industry provided by Britain, he will be able to grind Jiangbei into powder.

“Yizhou is a small place, if you lose it, you lose it.” Liang Kai snorted angrily.

He knew very well that once Yizhou was lost, Wu’s maritime trade would be over.

But he could only pretend not to care, so as not to hit the morale of Wu Guo.

“Mr. Luther, please come here.” Thinking of something, Liang Kai’s eyes flashed a stern light.

This Luther is a Briton, leading 5,000 people under his command to serve the country of Wu.

When Wu’s mercenaries reached 20,000, he issued an order to organize the mercenaries into an army called the Wansheng Army, and Luther served as the general of the Wansheng Army.

This Luther had been a major in the British army.

After retiring, a mercenary army was formed to serve the Western Land National Company in the Eastern Land.

He paid a high price to leave him in Wu.

With him here, he believed that King Yan’s attempt to unify the south of the Yangtze River would be prevented.

(end of this chapter)