Steel Dynasty - Chapter 562

[Chapter 562 Capture Tongzhou City]

“Exactly, since King Wei is determined to destroy the feudal country, we must capture Wei as soon as possible and return the favor.”

“I second the proposal.”

The three monarchs and ministers in the main hall reached a consensus after discussion.

After settling the matter, Zhan Xingchang and Pang Yukun left. Zhan Xingchang had to prepare for this mission to Yandi and Chang’an. After all, this mission was also extremely dangerous.

Although the two countries are at war without killing each other, it will be troublesome if they meet an unreasonable person.

However, he was worried about changing someone else’s mission. After all, Zhan Xingchang had a flexible mind and was good at adapting to circumstances, so he might be able to resolve the crisis.

However, this mission was beyond his reach. The only thing he could do now was to make a quick decision as Pang Yukun said and completely control the Wei region in his own hands.

Thinking of this, he once again sent an order to Yue Yun, asking him to lead a fleet to seize Tongzhou, then go up the Yangtze River to bombard Jinling City, and at the same time ask him to find a suitable place to land along the river.

As the saying goes, to capture the thief first, capture the king. In this case, after he has made preparations, he will directly attack Jinling City, thus attacking from the north and south.

The next day, Zhan Xingchang and his entourage set off from Qingzhou to Yandi.

On the same day, Yue Yun led the naval cadets to Dengzhou. After practicing in Dengzhou for half a month, Yue Yun set out for Tongzhou with 24 battleships and 12,000 Dengzhou troops.

Four days later, Tongzhou City appeared in front of him.

Just a month ago, this port was not accessible to warships, but now it is controlled by soldiers at all levels, and any merchant ship from Qingzhou is refused to dock here.

Some merchant ships were even maliciously detained, and merchants were arrested as Qingzhou Sesaku.

Yue Yun was quite angry when he got the news. It was known to all the world that King Wei was ambitious and unwilling to form an alliance with Qingzhou. This was not only a disregard for the blood of the royal family, but also a naked betrayal.

Therefore, the soldiers had long been dissatisfied with King Wei, and now Xiao Ming ordered the capture of Tongzhou, which seemed to have found a way for the soldiers to vent their anger.

At Tongzhou Pier, when they saw twenty warships appearing on the sea, the soldiers guarding the dock showed fear. They had never seen such warships appear at Tongzhou Pier at once.

Now that Tongzhou Pier has clearly refused to dock any ship in Qingzhou, there is only one possibility for so many warships to appear here, and that is war.

“Hurry and report to the general that a large number of warships from Qingzhou have appeared at sea.” the Tongzhou Military Academy captain guarding the dock ordered.

A soldier nodded and immediately ran towards the city on horseback.

At this time, the warships on the sea began to adjust their formation and lined up in a straight line. After the formation was completed, a thunderous sound like a huge earthquake suddenly sounded, white smoke and flames appeared on the sea, and black solid bullets were like raindrops. Generally shot towards Tongzhou Pier.

The soldiers in Tongzhou were shocked. They had never seen such a hell-like scene. The soldiers who were hit fell directly into a pool of blood and died miserably. Everything on the dock that was hit by the shells was torn apart, except for a short period of time. Time was in a mess at Tongzhou Wharf.

The dense volleys of artillery shells sent Tongzhou soldiers looking for hiding places, but soldiers were constantly hit and let out a miserable howl before death.

At this moment, the dock is a living hell.

Yue Yun observed the situation at Tongzhou Wharf through the telescope. He had a deep understanding of war. War was always tragic, but for the unification of Great Chongqing and for Great Chongqing to face foreign enemies together, the war must continue.

He learned this truth from Xiao Ming. If he was kind to King Wei, Dayu would never have a unified country. If he did not carry out a thorough war, the wealthy families of Dayu would never be able to unite. Cannot be eradicated.

Perhaps one day history will cast Xiao Ming as the greatest tyrant of all time, but he will not regret what he did today, because without destruction, there will be no rebirth.

“Captain Ye, the rest is up to you.” Yue Yun said to the general standing beside him. This man was none other than the Governor of Dengzhou, Ye Qingyun.

Putting away the telescope, Ye Qingyun nodded, “It’s finally our Dengzhou Army’s turn to go into battle. Soldiers, fight to the death. We want to show the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army that our Dengzhou Army is not just a show off.”

“Yes .

, General.” The soldiers roared in unison.

Yue Yun smiled and nodded. At this time, he ordered the soldiers to put down the boat on the battleship. The Dengzhou army climbed down to the boat along the rope ladders on both sides, and rowed the boat towards Tongzhou Pier.

At this time, the battleship’s artillery fire did not stop and was still covering the landing of the Dengzhou Army. When more than a hundred small boats arrived at the dock, a thousand soldiers on board immediately seized important roads on the dock.

After the soldiers completely controlled the dock, the warships staying at sea moved closer to the dock. This was to prevent the warships from being destroyed by the enemy.

When the battleship arrived at the dock, the remaining soldiers began to disembark, and the field guns were also hoisted from the battleship.

Ye Qingyun also arrived at the dock at this time. At this time, the dock was full of soldiers from the Tongzhou Army, and more Tongzhou Army soldiers had fled to Tongzhou City under the fierce firepower of the battleships.

Before attacking the city, Ye Qingyun got information that there were 40,000 soldiers in Tongzhou City. This was because of the Japanese invasion problem along the coast.

However, he was not afraid at all when facing an enemy four times his size. He also knew the news that Pengzhou City was captured by Lu Fei. For him, he did not want to lose to Crazy Lu.

Ye Qingyun quickly gathered his soldiers. He left some soldiers to guard the dock, while the rest marched towards Tongzhou City. He had so many soldiers to prevent his retreat from being cut off.

Compared with Pengzhou City, Tongzhou City is a flat place, and Tongzhou Pier is only a few miles away from Tongzhou City. After walking along the avenue for less than half an hour, Ye Qingyun arrived at the foot of Tongzhou City.

There was a large open space outside Tongzhou City. Ye Qingyun quickly arranged the soldiers in a line formation. At this time, he looked at the Tongzhou Wall. To his surprise, he saw artillery.

“This King of Wei no longer places artillery in Pengzhou City, but chooses to place artillery in Tongzhou. Isn’t he deliberately trying to get in trouble with me? Crazy Lu is really out of luck.”

However, although he complained, he still had to think about how to solve this problem. According to his observation, there were ten artillery pieces in front of Tongzhou City, and what he asked his scouts to observe was that there were ten artillery pieces guarding the four walls.

As a result, his idea of attacking the city wall without artillery was in vain.

When he was worried, the artillery captain of the Dengzhou Army said: “Captain, please don’t forget that the artillery sold to the King of Wei by His Highness is the worst. Some artillery does not have a range of 400 meters, but our field artillery is enough After three miles, our artillery can just kill their artillery.”

(End of this chapter)