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Guangning City.

One hundred thousand soldiers of the palace are ready to go.

This time to attack Pingyuan City, Chang Wei gathered 80,000 infantry and 20,000 cavalry.

Among them, there were 70,000 musketeers, 8,000 heavy infantry, more than 2,000 artillery, and 306 field guns of various types, which basically represented 70% of the strength of the royal army.

This time he wanted to capture three cities in Qi State's Hebei Province in one go, and expand Yanzhou's territory to the north bank of the Jin River.

"General, the hot air balloon soldiers have arrived." Just as the army was about to set off, a cavalryman came to Chang Wei.

Chang Wei nodded.

Two-quarters of an hour ago, the army was ready to set off, and they stayed in place just to wait for these hot-air balloon soldiers.

Several wars have proven that although these hot air balloon soldiers cannot determine the outcome of a war, their reconnaissance and harassment on the battlefield are even more powerful for the royal soldiers.

For this war, he specially dispatched ten hot-air balloons, thirty hot-air balloon soldiers, and ten hot-air balloons.

In addition, the army will be accompanied by 50,000 civilians recruited by the government, who will be responsible for the transportation of grain and grass.

After this period of investigation, they found that Pingyuan City was heavily fortified, and it would probably not be possible to capture Pingyuan City in one or two days.

After all, this was unlike any war they had ever fought.

First, they no longer have the advantage of defending the city, which will make the war more difficult.

Although during the Battle of Jinzhou, they were also on the offensive side.

Moreover, many cities were captured.

But the Xiliang soldiers at that time had never seen muskets and artillery, and their weapons were only bows, arrows and scimitars, which gave them a lot of advantage.

But now, a large number of artillery were placed on the walls of Pingyuan City. Most of the Qi soldiers in the city used matchlocks and were already quite familiar with firearms. This advantage was greatly weakened.

Secondly, just like what King Yan said.

Japan is colluding with Qi State and may give Qi State some ideas to deal with them.

However, although the difficulty of the war has increased due to the popularity of firearms, this has not affected the generals' confidence in victory.

The Royal Army's pro-army forces never focus only on weapons. Although firearms are the reason for their repeated victories, strict training and the spirit of sacrifice are fundamental.

When fighting hand-to-hand with Beidi soldiers, the soldiers from the royal palace were never afraid.

Thinking of this, Chang Wei looked towards the direction of Pingyuan City and shouted loudly

"Set off."

Yanzhou is narrow from east to west and long from north to south. The distance from Guangning City to Pingyang City is more than 180 miles.

After more than two days of marching, the army arrived at Pingyuan City. Chang Wei ordered them to set up camp one thousand meters away from Pingyuan City.

At the same time, the hot-air balloon soldiers began to heat the hot-air balloon and took off for reconnaissance.

"Can you Japanese make that thing?"

On the northern wall of Pingyuan City, Han Qi pointed to the hot air balloon in the sky and asked Shicun Dahe.

Shi Cun Dahe shook his head, with a surprised look on his face.

Although he learned from the information provided by Qi that King Yan had used this flying thing in the sky several times during the war with Beidi, he still felt a little nervous when he saw it with his own eyes.

"This thing is called a hot air balloon. Businessmen in Yancheng even paid money to hang their signs on the hot air balloon to attract attention." Han Qi added.

"Lord Sato said that this thing also exists in Xitu Continent." Fumura Taiga muttered.

"Really? Then why didn't you bring this skill from the West to Japan?" Han Qi was puzzled.

Shimura Taiga's expression dimmed for a moment and he said, "I have also asked Mr. Sato about this."

"He said that the Westerners are very arrogant. The white supremacy trend is prevalent in their country and they look down on us Japanese people at all."

"When they come here, they just want to make money from us and enslave us. They don't want to teach us too many things at all."

Han Qi frowned. In order to please Shicun Dahe, he deliberately brought injustice to Japan, so he cursed: "These Western natives are really looking down on others. When King Yan is eliminated in the future, we in Qi must teach them a lesson. "

"General Han!" Shi Cun Dahe was not happy when he heard this, but his face became serious and angry, "You can't insult the Western natives like this, because it is tantamount to insulting Japan."

"Where do you start talking about this?" Han Qi looked confused.

Shi Cun Dahe said angrily: "Compared to the civilization of the West, you praise it as a barbaric and uncivilized land, and we in Japan are determined to be loyal students of the West. If you insult our teachers in Japan, you are naturally insulting Japan. …”

At this point, he stopped talking.

In fact, he also wants to say below that Japan has benefited from Western skills and is now much more powerful than Dasong.

The Westerners looked down on them, the Japanese, but they, the Japanese, looked down on Dasung, Korea, and everyone else in the East.

Han Qi opened his mouth, as if he was stupid.

He really couldn't understand why the Japanese were looked down upon, so they still looked humble and respected the Westerners.

It's just that Qi State needs to cooperate with the Japanese people at the moment, and he doesn't want to make both parties unhappy because of this trivial matter.

So he laughed a few times and never mentioned the matter again.

Then, he looked at the endless army of King Yan to the north and said: "General Shicun, this time King Yan's troops are basically out in full force. I'm afraid there will be a fierce battle in Pingyuan City. General, don't hide your clumsiness and must do your best to help." I."

Shimura Dahe just nodded slightly.

Although he doesn't like Qi, for the sake of Japan and for Japan to be able to unify the Eastern Territory in the future, he must stand with Qi to stop the expansion of King Yan.

At this moment, a hot air balloon was getting closer and closer and was about to fly to the top of the city.

Han Qi hurriedly pulled Shi Cun Dahe into hiding.

Now he is very grateful to Beidi, because it was the war with King Yan in Beidi that allowed them to learn a lot of experience.

Faced with something flying in the sky, they knew they had to hide as soon as possible.

After a quarter of an hour, the hot air balloon slowly left, and then they came out and continued to arrange soldiers to prepare for the attack.

The departing hot air balloon slowly landed in the camp of the royal army.

The hot air balloon soldier reported his reconnaissance information back to Chang Wei.

"General, their artillery stores are all equipped with wheeled gun mounts? And they are placed south of the city wall walkway?"

"Oh?" Chang Wei frowned. This discovery was no small matter. King Yan guessed it right again.

The Japanese apparently taught Qi some skills in using firearms.

If so, Qi's artillery can move flexibly on the city wall.

Moreover, the top wall of Pingyuan City is twelve meters wide.

It's no wonder that when he looked through the telescope from bottom to top, he didn't find Qi's artillery. It turned out that they were all on the south side.

After a little thought, he figured out Qi's tactics.

"Interesting, this battle doesn't look so boring anymore." Chang Wei suddenly chuckled, feeling full of fighting spirit.