Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 844

[Chapter 844]

Jiangxia City.

Liang Tong stood on the city wall, frowning.

The general beside him also had a sad expression on his face.

When the news of Shacheng’s fall came, he was terrified and couldn’t believe his ears.

In the beginning, it was obviously an active situation where they and Changcheng’s army double-teamed King Yan’s army.

But overnight, this situation became passive.

They were surrounded instead.

When he first got the news, he wanted to lead the troops to take back Shacheng.

But immediately abandoned the idea.

Although he has many soldiers and horses, it is impossible to take back the city where King Yan’s army is stationed.

Because he knew that King Yan’s army was equipped with a musket that was even more terrifying than front-loading rifles.

Siege is the way to death.

It is also impossible to bypass Shacheng.

King Yan’s army will not let them leave easily.

They can definitely do things like digging trenches and cutting off the road on the only way to Guizhou.

Therefore, under consideration, he decided to stick to Jiangxia, and at the same time sent people to Changcheng for help.

I hope Changcheng’s army can detour behind King Yan’s army and come back to double-team again.

This is their only hope of victory.

But what he didn’t know was that the current Changcheng had already been surrounded by the royal army.

The people they sent out were destined to be unable to send the news into Changcheng.

“The food and grass in the city are only enough to last for two months. If there is no reinforcement within two months, everything will be over.” A general said.

Liang Tong frowned even deeper, “This is the situation when King Yan is besieging but not attacking. If King Yan launches an attack, it’s hard to say whether he can last for more than a month.”

Xiangzhou is located in the south of Dasong, and it is also a barren land.

Therefore, the city walls of prefectures and counties are neither high nor thick.

Jiangxia is a county again, and the city walls are even shorter and thinner.

If it was a last resort, he would not be stationed in Jiangxia at all.

However, in order to last longer, he dug a lot of trenches around Jiangxia City in the past few days.

Hope to delay as long as possible.

Realizing that what he said was too frustrating, he suddenly said loudly, “Everyone, when we set off, this general said that this battle is a decisive battle between our powerful clan and King Yan. No matter how difficult the situation is, we will fight this battle.” If we want to fight on, as long as the reinforcements from the Westerners come, we will be able to win.” The

generals nodded, and now their only hope is the Westerners.

Therefore, no matter what price they paid, they had to hold back King Yan’s pace.

Even if King Yan wins everything, as long as Bacheng is still there at the last moment, they will hope to come back.

This ode will still belong to the powerful family in the future.

As they were talking, they suddenly noticed that King Yan’s army moved.

The army of King Yan in the north and east moved to the two wings of Jiangxia City, and gradually surrounded Jiangxia.

At the same time, King Yan’s artillery was looking for a suitable location to establish an artillery position.

It seems that they are about to launch an attack on Jiangxia City.

Seeing this, Liang Tong and the generals were silent for a while.

Jiang Xia’s fierce battle is inevitable…

At the same time.

After Chang Wei ordered Qin Shan and Guan Tong to surround Jiang Xia, he went around the city to the east to meet Zhao Xu.

“Your Highness, the last general interrogated the Sheriff of Shacheng in Shacheng, and they said that the Wu army only carried two months’ worth of food and grass.” Chang Wei said.

Zhao Xu knew what Chang Wei wanted to say, he meant to encircle Jiang Xia and not attack, and let him mess himself up.

From a tactical point of view, this is of course the optimal solution.

However, this is the optimal solution for the immediate battlefield, but not the optimal solution for the overall situation.

Because the war dragged on for an extra month, the chances of the Western Turks intervening in the civil strife in Dasong were a little more likely.

Therefore, the Wu army must be dealt with as soon as possible without delay.

After all, after taking Jiangzhou and Xiangzhou, there are Bazhou, Yunzhou and Yizhou.

Thinking of this, he said: “This king has asked you to take a long-term view, not only staying in the country, but you, a great general, are like this. It seems that other generals have not made much progress now.”

After finishing speaking, he told Chang Wei explained it again.

Hearing this, Chang Wei laughed, “It’s the last general’s fault.”

Zhao Xu glared at him, “When the war in the south of the Yangtze River is over, you should think about Da Song’s overseas strategy and how to fight overseas battles.

” Facing the south, he continued, “It’s not that the war is over when Dasong is unified, on the contrary, the real war has just begun, and a pack of wolves are at the gate of Dasong, waiting to eat us. They are more difficult to deal with than the army of the powerful clan There are many.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Chang Wei put away his hippie smile and turned serious.

At the same time, there is an uncontrollable excitement in my heart.

This is the swordsman’s fighting spirit when he challenges his next opponent.

“Rest for one night, and attack Jiang Xia tomorrow.” Zhao Xu ordered directly.

Nothing to say all night.

In the early morning of the next day, as the eastern sky was just getting brighter, thunder bursts resounded from the ground.

This is the artillery launched an artillery attack on Jiang Xia.

The howitzers were responsible for bombarding the powerful soldiers in the ditch in front of the city, while the rifled guns directly blasted at the Jiangxia city wall.

They wanted to smash this short and thin city wall into pieces.

“Tell the artillerymen, don’t save shells, hit them hard.” Zhao Xu looked at the battlefield and ordered at the same time.

The battle between Jiangzhou and Xiangzhou undoubtedly belonged to one of the major battles before reunification.

After the victory of the battle, the states and counties controlled by the peripheral clans in Bazhou were basically stripped off by him.

After taking Yizhou, attacking Yunzhou, and finally conquering Bazhou, Dasong has restored its territory in its most prosperous period.

However, this territory obviously cannot satisfy him.

In the future, it is bound to take back the territory controlled by Tubo and Beidi.

Otherwise, he would have no face to face future generations.

“Boom boom boom…”

His order was issued, and the sound of the artillery became more and more intensive.

The artillery shells fell on the trenches and the city walls like money, and exploded into a sea of flames.

Under the fierce bombardment of the royal family’s pro-army artillery, the powerful generals and soldiers did not dare to stay on the city wall.

The 600,000 people could only squeeze into the small Jiangxia City, listening to the explosion outside the city like a frightened bird, and the atmosphere was hopeless.

This shelling continued for six days and is still going on.

During this period, soldiers were continuously sent out of the city to replenish the soldiers in the trench.

The bodies of many dead soldiers and wounded soldiers were carried into the city.

In just six days, 30,000 corpses and more than 40,000 disabled soldiers gathered in the city.

It was summer, and these corpses piled up to rot quickly, and the stench filled Jiangxia City.

Wounded soldiers continue to die every day due to infection in their wounds.

And compared with death, despair spreads.

More soldiers refused to leave the city to guard the trenches.

It even happened that soldiers mutinied and killed generals because of this incident.

Even though he was suppressed, he knew what was happening.

Liang Tong and a group of powerful generals became more and more worried about the low-level soldiers.

On the seventh day.

Suddenly some black spots appeared in the sky, and then pieces of paper fell into Jiangxia City like snowflakes.

The Shizu soldiers picked up these pieces of paper and found that there were pictures on them.

Looking at these pictures, many powerful soldiers shed tears.

(end of this chapter)