Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 805

[Chapter 805 Bacheng]

Bazhou, Bacheng.

This mountain city, which is neither rich nor barren, became noisy because of the arrival of the king and ministers of the state of Wu.

After deciding to move the capital to Bacheng, Liang Kai arrived here with his ministers, concubines and prince half a month ago.

Afterwards, Xie Duan, Han Zheng, Wang Zi’an and the children of the powerful clan who were ordered to evacuate from Sucheng also came to Bacheng one after another.

Along with them, Luther and his 6,000 mercenaries came.

In the battle between Niutautan and Jinling, more than half of his mercenaries were lost.

The native soldiers seemed to be dead and injured, and the western soldiers also lost more than 2,000 people.

“Ambassador Brooke, the King of Yan did not fall for the trick. The troops of the Prince’s Mansion who went south were huddled in Jinling City, and did not pursue our Wu army. The meaning of pass.”

Liang Kai frowned in Bacheng Palace.

King Yan has always used troops unreasonably. Although he cooperated with Brooke’s strategy, he always had a heart.

Sure enough, he was still disappointed.

In this way, they lured the enemy deep, and their plan to annihilate the royal family’s troops failed.

In the gazebo of the palace, Xie Duan, Han Zheng and Wang Zian sat on the side, while Liang Kai sat opposite Brook and Luther.

The two looked at each other, and Brook smiled and said, “You should thank me. Although King Yan didn’t fall for it, at least his attention was attracted by people from Nanliang and Beidi, right?”

Liang Kai suddenly realized what he said. , Picking up the wine glass, he thanked again and again, “Ambassador Brooke, General Luther, I am stupid, thank you, thank you.”

Obviously, in the current alliance, Nanping is close to Frank, Nanliang is close to Beidi, and Beidi is close to Ross. country.

The relationship between Britain and his country of Wu is firm.

Brooke’s plan is undoubtedly secretly biased towards Wu Guo.

“But Dou Wei is an old fox, he must be aware of this, but why he…” Xie Duan suddenly felt that something was wrong, so he asked.

“Nanliang has no choice. The state of Wu perishes, and it will be Nanliang’s turn. This is also Nanliang’s sincerity. They have betrayed you, and they should compensate you.” Brooke said, “Of course, the most important point is that Beidi We can get muskets and cannons from Britain, they have to cooperate with our actions, Beidi cooperates, and Nanliang naturally has to cooperate.”

Liang Kai and others suddenly realized.

Han Zheng clapped his hands and laughed loudly, “That’s right, Nanliang owes us, otherwise we would have agreed to the battle against Yan. How could it be as miserable as today, and they should bleed.”

Hearing this, Wang Zi’an and Xie Duan sighed at the same time Take a breath.

Now they really have nothing but the remnants of their troops.

“Brother Han, Brother Xie, Brother Wang, these things are over, and now our family is back together. In order to deal with King Yan, I understand in my heart, but I can’t mention this matter outside.” Annoyed, immediately persuaded.

Brooke said: “Your Majesty is right. Let Nanliang and Beidi take action this time. Although they are taking care of your country of Wu on the one hand, it is indeed a strategic need. In the future, your powerful clans will have to cooperate with each other.”

Han Zheng and the three nodded slowly .

It is said that as soon as Liang Kai arrived in Bacheng, Nanliang brought in a large amount of grain and grass, and the first batch of grain and grass did not even charge money.

It can be seen that the Dou family is really trying to make up for it.

Otherwise, with Dou Wei’s temperament, he would not be at a disadvantage if he was killed, and he would not take the initiative to attack at Jianguan and Zhongling Pass.

After all, this means that they will suffer from King Yan’s key attack.

“Brook and His Majesty said yes.” Han Zheng looked firmly, “Let’s let the past go, King Yan is our real enemy.”

After finishing speaking, he drank the wine in one gulp.

Strategically speaking, there is nothing wrong with Brook’s approach.

King Yan’s southward trend was as turbulent as the waters of Jiujiang, which could not be stopped.

If it is allowed to continue going south, within half a year, the entire Jiangnan will fall.

Now, let the Nanliang army and Beidi’s Ashur department move towards Jianguan and Zhonglingguan.

Although King Yan did not follow their plan, their goal was half achieved.

King Yan was now forced to stop going south, and the battlefield was pulled from the south back to the north.

In this way, they have time to breathe.

“That’s right.” Brooke smiled with satisfaction.

He actually hoped that there would be conflicts among the powerful clans.

In this way, after King Yan was destroyed, he could take advantage of the conflicts among powerful clans to benefit Britain.

However, in the current situation, these contradictions must be covered up, and we must concentrate on dealing with King Yan.

“By the way, Ambassador Brooke, when this imitation musket will arrive, I’m afraid that Nanliang and Beidi will not be able to hold on. If King Yan seizes Jianguan and Zhongling Pass, King Yan will take the initiative again and will continue to go south. In my opinion, in the end, our army should have the same guns and cannons as King Yan’s army to deal with them.” After talking about King Yan’s change of deployment, Liang Kai said.

Brook frowned, “Our factory in Tianzhu is not large in scale and cannot expand production in a short period of time, but the governor has already reported the imitation guns to the parliament. With the steam industry in Britain, within two or three months, thirty or forty There is absolutely no problem with ten thousand muskets, but it may take a year to meet your needs.”

Liang Kai was a little disappointed, a year is too long.

I don’t know what will happen during this time.

But right now, he can only place his hopes on Britain’s workshop in Tianzhu, and he said: “Then please give us Wu State first, even if there is more money, it doesn’t matter.”

“Your Majesty, I forgot again. We must be united, and the firearms that can be spared will naturally be used in the most critical places.” Brook did not promise Liang Kai.

Although they are more inclined to support Wu, they should not be too biased when it comes to King Yan.

Furthermore, the muskets produced must first satisfy their British army.

Only the surplus can be bought for them.

According to his estimate, within two months from now, they will provide at most 30,000 imitation firearms to Shizu and Beidi.

“Yes, yes, yes.” Liang Kai smiled awkwardly, and stopped mentioning this matter.

Immediately, everyone discussed how to make a corresponding deployment again after King Yan changed the deployment.

This time their duel with King Yan was like the change of the army formation on the battlefield.

If the other party changes the military formation, they will naturally also change the corresponding military formation.

“Currently, Mule Hongzhen is pulling the defense line in the north, and the Nanliang and Ashur troops are pulling the defense line in the west. We need to cooperate with them to spread the forces of King Yan more widely. In this way, we can concentrate our forces at one point and occupy advantage,” Luthor said.

After a pause, he continued: “Since the King of Yan will not come after us, we will make trouble for him. We should order Wu’s army to advance to the south bank of the Jiujiang River, and create more illusions of crossing the river, so that he has to deploy troops on the north bank of the Jiujiang River.” Take precautions.”

Everyone nodded upon hearing this.

The less troops the King of Yan had at Jianguan and Zhongling Pass, the less likely it was that he would capture Jianguan and Zhongling Pass.

The muskets dragged to Britain have arrived, and the advantage will be with them.

For the first time, they felt that victory was within reach.

(end of this chapter)