Steel Dynasty - Chapter 907

[Chapter 905 The Great Cause of Unification]

Nanchang.

Luo Xin took out his pocket watch and checked the time, then ordered the soldiers to blow the charge horn for attack.

For him, there really weren’t many challenges along the way.

The Battle of Lin’an City did buy some time for the Merchant Council to stabilize in the south, but it was only a little. In such a vast area, the Merchant Council’s control can be said to be extremely weak.

Many times it was just a wealthy family in a certain city who defected to the merchant council, and then changed their banner after pulling some troops. However, the combat effectiveness of these wealthy families was only at the level of the cold weapon army ten years ago.

Facing their muskets and artillery, it would be good if these wealthy people could resist for an hour. In many cases, he could recover a county by sending only a thousand men, and a state-level city by three thousand men.

For example, in Nanchang City now, he currently has only 8,000 soldiers, and the rest have been sent out by him to attack other states and counties at the same time.

After all, relatively speaking, the influence of the merchant council in this area is still very weak. The difficulty lies with Lu Fei.

“Boom, boom, boom…”

As the roar of artillery sounded, the Nanchang city gate was turned into powder in the explosion, while the soldiers stood in three rows, holding their guns and shooting at the soldiers on the city wall.

However, the Nanchang soldiers on the city wall had no weapons that could threaten them. This method of warfare has almost become the norm.

They were just shooting at a target.

Soldiers on the Nanchang City Wall fell off the wall one by one, and chaos quickly broke out on the city wall. These soldiers had never experienced such a bizarre war.

The legend from the north became reality and now they just want to survive.

“Charge!”

As the order was issued, the soldiers rushed into Nanchang City unhurriedly. However, as soon as they entered the city, they found some soldiers walking towards them carrying white flags.

They were not surprised by this situation. In fact, this was what they were taught. Before each attack, they would always threaten them in advance and ask them to surrender under the white flag.

If the other party doesn’t accept it, they will attack.

Passing over these surrendering soldiers, the royal soldiers immediately rushed into the city. As usual, they immediately searched for the parliament members in the city and arrested the wealthy families who supported the parliament. After all, if a city surrendered to the merchants’ council, most of the wealthy families in the city must have chosen the merchants’ council. .

Luo Xin entered the city under the escort of his personal guards. He ordered to his division commander: “Search carefully. Don’t let go of even one tael of silver from a wealthy family. Think about the canned food you eat and the hangings hanging around your waist.” Grenades, you will have nothing without money. “

Luo Xin’s words made the soldiers even more excited. Now that it has become their habit to confiscate the property of wealthy families before entering a city, they are happy for more wealthy families to join the merchant council.

This would give them a reason to deprive them of their wealth.

After easily capturing Nanchang, Luo Xin unfolded the map. According to the current plan, the next step is Changsha, and then he will fight all the way to Guangzhou to join Lu Fei.

Closing the map, he shouted: “Hurry up, hurry up, the rest will be left to the officials, we have to continue going south.”

While they were going south, the officials led by Fiji took over the captured areas one by one. Cities, many of these southern cities were once managed by the royal family. Many local officials had gone to Beijing to meet Xiao Wenxuan and were very familiar with these important ministers in Fiji.

Therefore, wherever Fiji goes, he will look for local officials from poor families or good ones according to the roster to re-establish the government office.

Because of this, they were able to quickly stabilize the captured cities, and they also chose to garrison some important cities to prevent them from falling into the hands of the enemy again.

On October 11th, after a short rest, Luo Xin led his troops and continued southward. In three months, he successively captured Changsha, Hengzhou, Yongzhou, Chenzhou, and Shaozhou, and arrived at the gate of Guangzhou in mid-January of the following year.

At this time, Lu Fei also successively conquered Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Chaozhou, and Huizhou and reached the city of Guangzhou.

“Hahaha, Luo Xin!”

Under the city of Guangzhou, Lu Fei couldn’t help but be happy. They had been fighting a war for a year since they went south. Now they have taken over most of the territory controlled by the merchant council and are making great progress all the way.

In front of them is Guangzhou, the largest and most prosperous city occupied by the Merchant Council. Once this place is conquered, the Merchant Council will no longer have a foothold, and the rest of the war can no longer be called a war, but can only be called bandit suppression.

“Lu Fei.” Luo Xin walked towards Lu Fei. The two patted each other’s shoulders. He looked at the dusty but extremely refined soldiers behind Lu Fei and said, “Many of them are new faces. It seems that This group of new soldiers have become veterans. “

“No, in order to win the south as soon as possible, groups of new soldiers went to the battlefield, and now they have become elites,” Lu Fei said with a smile.

Luo Xin nodded. Not only Lu Fei, he also brought out many officers from the Army Academy along the way. The new recruits have now become veterans.

However, he was fortunate that he had already understood the truth while studying at the Army Academy. In war, sometimes the competition is about overall strength.

This war was destined to be a crushing one from the beginning. First of all, this was a war of royal unification, not an invasion of aliens, and the resistance of the people was not very intense.

Those who fight desperately against them are those who are afraid of losing their status and wealth.

Moreover, the thoroughness of Chu Di’s reform made many people who saw clearly the benefits of following the royal family. On the contrary, the merchant council had done a lot of dirty things this year.

After all, the members of the parliament are complicated and there are no people. Some members of the parliament are no better than bandits. Many people hate this.

Secondly, areas dominated by agriculture are no match for areas with strong industry.

“Hey, this trip south has become a training ground for soldiers.” Luo Xin looked at the Guangzhou City in front of him, “When do you want to start fighting?”

In order to defend this city, the Merchant Council arranged the last elite here. , and it is said that the people who were bewitched by the Qinglong King are also in the city.

“Why are you in a hurry? You and I have just joined forces. Let the soldiers rest and eat and drink before fighting. Let’s go. In order to reward us with the supplies this time, the emperor specially rewarded us with Qingzhou Zui and some side dishes. Relax tonight.”

Luo Xin licked his lips. Fighting is an extremely difficult thing. The soldiers who went south did not suffer many casualties in the war, but there were many casualties caused by mosquito bites and poisonous fog and miasma. If it weren’t for the doctors who accompanied the army, With his superb medical skills, he is really going crazy.

Now that Lu Fei said this, he really wanted to relax.

“After you’ve had enough to eat and drink, go beat them up.” Luo Xin pointed at Guangzhou City and cursed. Hearing this, Lu Fei suddenly laughed.

PS: The first domestic volume is coming to an end, and the following will be the international volume.

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