Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 789

[Chapter 789]

Niutautan “Cheer up and give me your life.”

“If we lose, we will not end well. If we lose Jiangnan, we will have nothing.”

“Do you still want to go back to Jiangbei?” ? Take back your property? Think, fight to the death.”

“…”

These inspired the generals, and the generals encouraged their own soldiers.

Although he has not recovered from the fear of yesterday’s shelling.

But the words of the generals reached the bottom of their hearts.

In the past, they were high above the people, and the common people were their tenant farmers. They went in and out, hugged each other, and no one would envy them.

Even the most ordinary clansmen are looked up to because they share the same clan and surname as the Hao clan.

Now because of King Yan, they have nothing.

“Fight, fight with them.” The soldiers of the powerful clan looked at the soldiers of Yanzhou who were constantly attacking the first trench and shouted.

A burst of slogans sounded on the battlefield, and Wang Xie showed a satisfied look.

Luther also nodded slightly.

His mercenaries had killed so many people, why should these powerful clans hide behind them.

At Niutautan, they want King Yan’s army to suffer heavy casualties!

While the powerful soldiers shouted, the soldiers continued to support the soldiers in the first row of trenches through the corridor in the middle.

Every time a soldier falls, the next batch of powerful soldiers and mercenaries will fill them up, and the two sides immediately fall into fierce competition.

The changes on the battlefield were immediately observed by Lu Chang and the other three in the hot air balloon.

Obviously, compared with the war in Jiangbei, the resistance of the powerful clan is more determined than before.

But before the war, he had this mental preparation.

This time going south is their final decisive battle with the powerful clan.

In addition to the status of the soldiers of the powerful clan, they also focused on observing the mercenaries in the western lands.

These mercenaries are obviously more experienced than the powerful soldiers.

Shuttle in the trenches has always been short, close to the trenches, to avoid the bombing of shells.

After entering the first row of ditches, they squatted down and tilted their bayonet-mounted flintlocks.

This is tantamount to turning the trench into a trap. If the soldiers of the palace jump into it, they will definitely be injured.

When fighting, they cooperate in pairs, one is responsible for shooting and the other is responsible for reloading.

Without aiming, he fired a shot outside and squatted down again.

The musket has no line, they just want to let the stray bullet hit some unlucky soldier to kill the enemy.

In addition, what made them frown was that these Western mercenaries seemed to have taught the powerful soldiers how to resist lime bombs before.

Soldiers in the trench took out a cloth from time to time to wipe their eyes.

They guessed that the cloth should be soaked in vegetable oil.

Observing these situations, they used their vision of the battlefield to constantly adjust their tactics.

At the same time, he also wrote the situation on the battlefield on a note, tied it with a stone and threw it down.

“Your Highness, it’s similar to what we observed.” Chang Wei took off the note and handed it to Zhao Xu.

Although they were not as careful as Lu Chang and the other three, they could still get a general idea.

After the soldiers of the royal family landed on Niutautan, they were always blocked from the first trench.

There were 150,000 people on the other side, and yesterday’s shelling cost them at most 20,000 to 30,000 people.

Even if the rest of these people are pigs, they have to be caught for a while.

Therefore, it is not that their attack is frustrated, but that they will continue to consume the enemy’s strength.

After all, morale on the battlefield is important, but the most important thing is the casualties of both sides.

When they realize that they cannot defeat the enemy, and their own casualties are increasing, the high-spirited soldiers will continue to decline and eventually collapse.

“Do you want the second batch of soldiers to cross the river?” Chang Wei asked again.

About 50,000 soldiers crossed the river in the first batch.

Then there will be a second batch and a third batch to allow all the 150,000 troops to cross the river.

“It’s not the time yet.” Zhao Xu put down the binoculars.

Only 50,000 soldiers seemed to be crowded in front of the beach, and if another 50,000 were sent over, everyone would huddle together, and a random stray bullet from the opponent might be able to injure the soldiers of the palace.

Waiting for the powerful army to taste the defeat under the attack of the first batch of royal soldiers, and then let the second batch of soldiers cross the river, can their morale be severely depressed.

For example when capturing the first trench.

“Yes, Your Highness.” Chang Wei replied yes, he was just a little anxious and wanted to take down Niutautan as soon as possible.

Zhao Xu nodded, thinking of something, he asked: “How is the deployment of the Qin army?” The

army of the royal family hit near Jinling, and the defense of Dasong’s other places was weak.

So when he went south, he asked Chang Wei to dispatch the Qin army to defend the weak points, so as not to be stolen by the enemy.

For example, Nanliang, if they took the opportunity to attack, they would still suffer a lot of losses to Jiangbei.

“The Qin army sent 20,000 additional soldiers to Jingzhou to guard against Nanliang, and the current strength in Jingzhou has reached 60,000,” Chang Wei said.

The Qin Army, Ning Jin Army and the Prince’s Family Army each have their own garrison areas.

Among them, the Qin army is responsible for the defense of Qinzhou, Yongzhou, and Jingzhou, and the royal army is responsible for the defense of Jinzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Qizhou, Bozhou, and Ningzhou.

But because they mainly fought against the enemy in Jinzhou, Bozhou and Ningzhou, they actually focused on defending these three states.

And Ning Jinjun is naturally in charge of Ning Jin Dusi.

Hearing this, Zhao Xu felt a little more at ease.

Immediately, he continued to pay attention to the battlefield.

Next, Niutautan is basically a repeated battle between the two sides.

The soldiers of the Wangfu on the beach kept shooting the exposed enemies with rifled guns, and threw grenades into the trenches under the rain of bullets.

The artillery on the beachhead also continued to bombard the trenches.

The battle lasted from early morning to noon, and there was a turning point in the battlefield.

At this time, another charge was organized by the beach. Under the cover of howitzers and soldiers, two thousand royal troops rushed to the trench.

The artillery shells exploded into balls of flames in the trench, and the opponent was so crushed that he couldn’t lift his head.

The soldiers of the Wangfu on the beach also took advantage of the range of the rifled guns to shoot and kill the soldiers they could find.

The mercenaries and powerful soldiers who leaned out to shoot the soldiers of the royal palace were killed and injured continuously under the precise and fierce firepower.

Thirty meters away from the ditch, the soldiers of the palace threw a wave of grenades into the ditch, and then charged towards the first ditch with bayonets in hand.

Learning from the opponent’s experience of setting the bayonet at an angle and making a trap, they didn’t jump into the trench immediately.

Instead, raising the gun is a bullet to them, and then jumping into the trench.

“Defend the ditch for me this time.” Overthrowing a powerful soldier, Wang Qiao, the general banner, shouted.

He is from Yanzhou, and when King Yan first recruited soldiers in Yanjun, he joined the royal army.

After that, he fought with the army in the south and north, and was promoted from an ordinary soldier to a captain, and then to a banner commander. After the reform, he was promoted to the general banner.

Like him, most of the people who joined the royal army with him were promoted.

Of course, what they rely on is not veteran qualifications, but the courage to fight and kill on the battlefield.

Every time he charged, he took the lead.

After his words fell, suddenly a tall mercenary general from the Western Regions rushed towards him.

(end of this chapter)