Become a feudal king from today

"Ignore him. We have to rely on ourselves in Pingyuan City. Go and tell the soldiers that as long as they can defend Pingyuan City, each of them will be rewarded with ten taels of silver and ask them to risk their lives to fight for me."

"Yes, Marshal." The general responded, turned around and climbed onto the city wall.

But before he had taken a few steps, a cannonball suddenly exploded above his head. The general's body swayed and fell from the city wall.

Seeing this, Han Qi closed his eyes in pain.

Feeling fierce in his heart, he mustered up the courage to rush up to the city wall, repeatedly shouting at other generals to lead their soldiers to fight back.

It's just that the artillerymen of Qi State are currently being "taken care of" by Yanzhou Artillery.

On the northern city wall, 30% of the artillery mounts had been destroyed, and the barrels were lying on the ground.

Around the barrel, artillerymen lay in twos and threes.

These soldiers were hit by artillery and died miserably. They were either bloody or missing arms and legs.

What made him even more angry was that Yanzhou's artillery was still bombarding, and artillery was constantly being destroyed.

On the city wall, the situation of other soldiers was equally miserable. Yanzhou soldiers hit exploding shells on their heads.

Some soldiers were lying on the ground, dying, their bodies covered with iron nails.

Some soldiers screamed in pain in the white smoke, and soldiers kept coming out of the white smoke, and then lost their footing and fell off the city wall.

This scene made Han Qi's heart almost jump out of his throat.

He had never seen such a battle before. In an instant, he finally understood why Beidi was defeated by King Yan in the Ningjin Dusi.

It's just that Qi State and King Yan are incompatible with each other, and in the end only one side will fall. He must fight this battle hard.

On the one hand, this was to protect Pingyuan City, and on the other hand, it was to delay King Yan from going south and give Qi time to unite with other powerful clans.

In addition, Sato Zhenjiu also promised them that Japan would take action to contain King Yan.

If many parties can work together, the King of Yan will definitely use the rat weapon, and Qi will be safe.

Thinking of this, he shouted: "Brothers, if you kill a Yan King soldier, you will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver. The time has come to make a fortune."

The generals of Qi State immediately passed on Han Qi's words.

There must be brave men under a heavy reward, and among the soldiers guarding Pingyuan City this time, some were executed prisoners.

Before the war, Han Qi promised them that as long as they could defend Pingyuan City, they would be exempted from the death penalty and freed.

Now there is money to get, and most of these death row prisoners are brave and ruthless people.

Upon hearing this, they immediately ran to the artillery to assist the artillerymen in pulling the artillery.

At this time, one artillery piece was pushed to the gap between the city wall and the wall, and the muzzle extended out of the city wall.

I saw a group of Yanzhou heavy infantry under the city carrying a ladder and entering within 200 meters, preparing to climb the city wall.

The Qi artillery stuffed grape bullets into the muzzles and aimed at them.

There was a flash of fire, a loud noise, smoke rising, and grapeshot flying straight out.

However, this shot did not hit the heavy infantry at the front, and the shell fell on the land about thirty meters in front of them to the left.

The cotton cloth binding the grape bullets shattered, and small iron balls flew out.

The heavy infantrymen stopped immediately. They recognized at a glance that these were not ordinary artillery shells, but grape bullets.

Upon seeing this, the commander in charge of the siege immediately ordered the soldiers to retreat.

If it were just ordinary cannonballs, it would not prevent them from attacking the city, but these are grapeshots.

Although the artillery on the plain city wall was bombarded by their artillery, only thirty or forty guns were currently exposed on the city wall.

But the barrage of grape bullets can still cause them a large number of casualties.

Before attacking the city, their generals told them that if they found something wrong, they could retreat at any time.

As they retreated, they told the Musketeers what they had discovered.

Immediately, the musketeers retreated four hundred meters away.

Their unimproved artillery was able to shoot grapeshot four hundred meters away.

Although they knew that Qi's artillery was not even as good as their unimproved artillery, they still chose to retreat further for the sake of safety.

And during the retreat, they turned into a skirmish line to prevent being bombarded by the opponent's artillery.

"What's going on?" Chang Wei frowned as the soldiers in charge of the siege suddenly retreated.

This is not the way royal soldiers fight.

Not long after, Qin Shan came back from the front and told Chang Wei what the heavy infantry had discovered.

"Grape bomb, no wonder?" Chang Wei suddenly realized.

Looking at Pingyuan City, he snorted coldly, "These damn Japanese people have really taught Qi a lot, but trying to stump us is just a dream."

After a pause, he said to Qin Shan: "We will not attack the city today. Let the soldiers dig foxholes with shovels tonight."

This foxhole is also part of the skirmishing tactic.

Its purpose is to protect skirmishers from enemy artillery fire.

In this way, skirmishers can hide in foxholes and attack enemy targets safely.

Qin Shan scratched his head. He originally thought that these new tactics had no use at all, but he didn't expect that they would be used now.

Thinking of this, he admired King Yan even more.

Whatever they thought of, King Yan thought of it, and what they didn't think of, King Yan also thought of it for them.

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The head of Pingyuan City.

The Yanzhou soldiers retreated, and the Qi soldiers cheered.

A general laughed loudly: "I thought King Yan's soldiers and horses were so powerful, but they turned out to be just a group of cowards. As soon as our artillery fired, we scared them away."

"That's right, it seems that what they rely on to fight the Beidi people is grape bullets. Now that they have it, we also have it. If we beat them like this, we won't be able to do it."

"..."

The generals were all in high spirits, and Han Qi was also pinching his waist with a smile on his face.

Just now he was worried about the safety of Pingyuan City, but now it seems that King Yan's soldiers and horses have no hope of breaking through Pingyuan City.

The cheers from the top of the city attracted Shicun Dahe up. When he learned that King Yan's troops were defeated, he proudly said to Han Qi: "This is all the result of our Japanese grape bombs."

He had just hid in the city, so naturally he didn't want to risk his life for the sake of Qi State.

Second, it is really to organize soldiers to fight in the streets.

Even if the city wall cannot be defended, he will make King Yan's soldiers and horses pay a heavy price in taking the city.

Han Qi sneered in his heart, but had a smile on his face. He was not ashamed of the Japanese general's behavior, but he had to admit the power of grape bullets.

He casually agreed and said to the generals of Qi State: "Although the Yanzhou soldiers have retreated, you cannot be careless. You must continue to guard the city wall strictly and make no mistakes."

The generals of Qi State responded in unison.

From noon to evening, Yanzhou soldiers did not organize any more attacks.

As night fell, Han Qi was worried that Yanzhou soldiers would launch a sneak attack at night, and asked the generals to be more vigilant.

But it was very quiet this night.

But the next morning, when he was sleeping soundly, a Qi general came in a hurry, woke him up, and led him up the city wall.

"Marshal, look." The general pointed to the outside of the city. He saw that the distance between 150 and 200 meters from the city wall was covered with pits one after another.

These pits were so deep that Yanzhou soldiers stood in them with only their shoulders and heads exposed.

If you shrink down, you won't be able to see the whole person.

"What the hell is this?" Han Qi couldn't help but cursed.

His intuition told him that this thing was probably as disgusting as the small building built to the north.