Become a feudal king from today

"Bang bang bang..."

Under the city wall, the grenadiers kept throwing grenades up the city wall.

Under the rounds of explosions, the Yuan family soldiers on the city wall suffered heavy casualties instantly.

At the same time, other royal soldiers prepared ladders and climbed up the city wall at any time.

Looking at the top of Jicheng City, Qin Shan touched his chin and murmured: "This guy from the Fourth Courtyard is really successful, which is a bit interesting."

Originally, he had no hope for the young man from the Fourth Academy to assassinate Yuan Li.

After all, there will definitely be a large number of soldiers guarding Yuan Li.

But he obviously underestimated the ability of this young man from the Fourth Academy.

When he saw a firework lighting up in the sky, he knew that the youth of the Fourth Academy had succeeded, so he immediately launched an attack instead of waiting until midnight.

After all, Yuan Li's assassination will definitely cause chaos in Jicheng. If we don't attack the city now, then when.

Just as he guessed, the explosion in the city and the fireworks flying into the sky attracted the attention of the Yuan family soldiers on the city wall.

When the grenadiers reached the foot of Jicheng City, they didn't take any precautions.

When the grenade exploded on the city wall, Yuan Li was doomed to fail in this war.

"Boom, boom, boom..." The explosion continued.

The generals of the Yuan family on the city wall were injured and died.

The remaining soldiers hurriedly asked for help from the city, but due to the death of Yuan Li and many generals, the Yuan family's army had long been in chaos, and no one paid attention to them.

Some soldiers of the Yuan family also made up their minds when they learned that Yuan Li was dead.

They were tired of wandering outside for so long and didn't want to run away any more.

Now, they don't want to fight anymore, they just want to return to Yanzhou, their hometown, and live a peaceful life.

The news that King Yan's soldiers would not kill the prisoners strengthened their belief.

The explosion on the city wall continued for a while, and then the Yuan family soldiers in the city heard loud shouts of killing.

The soldiers of the royal palace climbed up the city wall through ladders and rushed into Jicheng. The Yuan family's troops were in chaos and could not organize an effective attack at all.

The piecemeal counterattack was as fragile as a piece of paper in front of Yanzhou soldiers.

Seeing that the situation was over, more Yuan soldiers knelt down on the roadside and threw their swords and muskets on the ground.

Thirty thousand soldiers from the royal palace fought from the north to the south of the city.

At dawn, they occupied the entire Jicheng.

Qin Shan climbed to the south gate of Jicheng and looked down at the foot of the mountain. It was an endless plain as far as the eye could see.

At this time, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

This battle was easier than he imagined.

The leaderless Yuan family's soldiers and horses were vulnerable to the royal army in the palace.

"Inform His Highness King Yan immediately that Jicheng has been captured." Qin Shan said.

Taking Jicheng was equivalent to cutting a hole in the four southwest counties of Qi State.

They don't need to fight to the death in Yangcheng. They only need to enter the four southwest counties from Jicheng and fight towards Lucheng.

"Yes, general." After receiving the order, a cavalryman set off from the north gate of Jicheng and headed towards Yangcheng.

Two days later, the cavalry arrived at the royal camp outside Yangcheng.

"Jicheng was breached?" Chang Wei could hardly believe his ears.

This was too fast. It only took five days from Qinshan to taking Jicheng, which was simply incredible.

The cavalry then told them about the assassination of Yuan Li.

Zhao Xu nodded after hearing this. In a daze, he suddenly felt a little funny.

Thinking back to when he woke up in Prince Yan's Mansion, the Zhang family gave him a headache.

Yuan Li was a giant in Yanzhou at that time, which made him nervous all the time.

But he didn't expect that Yuan Li's death would not cause any disturbance in his heart.

Because to him, Yuan Li has long become an insignificant figure.

However, Yuan Li's death finally put an end to his worries.

Over the years, Yuan Li owed countless blood debts in Yanzhou, and now it is the blood debts that have been paid in blood.

Ignoring this matter, his mind returned to the current battlefield. He said to Chang Wei, "Leave 30,000 people to stare at Yangcheng, and the remaining 60,000 people will go to Jicheng at night to attack Lucheng."

"Yes, Your Highness." Chang Wei said.

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Lucheng.

News of the fall of Jicheng also reached here, and Han Zheng and Xie Duan were shocked.

"This Yuan Li is really a waste. Your Han family values ​​him too much. How can you let him defend Jicheng?" Xie Duan looked like he hated iron.

Han Zheng was already irritable, and Xie Duan got angry at him. He said angrily: "Now that things have happened, it is useless to talk about this. King Yan is attacking in the east and in the west. Even if he changes his mind, he will not be able to defend Jicheng. Don't talk about this anymore, or Think about what to do."

Xie Duan sighed.

Indeed, just as Han Zheng said.

Even if someone changes his position, he will not be able to defend Jicheng.

King Yan marched towards Yangcheng in a big way and deceived everyone.

"Originally I thought that relying on Yangcheng could hold off King Yan's troops for more than a month, but now it's good. King Yan took Jicheng in just five days. I'm afraid that in another five days, they will attack Lucheng. "Xie Duan shook his head and said, "There is no other way. Evacuate to Pengcheng quickly."

Han Zheng was a little hesitant. He only moved a small part of the Han family's treasury.

While the two were talking, Sato Masaku rushed over.

Looking at Han Zheng and Xie Duan, he really wanted to scold them.

Just thinking that the Japanese navy was wiped out by King Yan's fleet almost overnight, he had no shame to say anything.

With a long sigh, he said: "Three months, no matter what, you have to persist for three months. As long as you convince the State of Wu, we, Japan, can promote a new alliance. By then, you will be safe, and King Yan will not be able to continue to ask for help." Southern erosion.”

The important thing in the letter is exactly the plan that Shogun Watanabe is implementing.

Establish the Eastern-Turkish Alliance with Japan as the core to achieve the purpose of controlling the situation in Dasong.

This is like the offshore balancing strategy implemented by Britain in the Western Continent.

Let Dasong remain turbulent and divided while not allowing any powerful country to rise and threaten Japan's interests.

When he received the letter, the British consul stationed in Japan and the Sam country consul were somewhat moved by the matter.

After all, due to its long-term colonization, the Western Kingdom knows how to create checks and balances in a region.

For example, Britain's rule over Tianzhu relied on instigating internal strife among the small kingdoms of Tianzhu.

Join a group, fight a group, let them fight endlessly, and get the maximum benefit from it.

In the past, Dasong was a unified dynasty, and they were still a little wary.

But since Dasong has split, they naturally don't want to see Dasong reunited again.

A divisive ode would be in their interest.

However, they know very well that their own family alone cannot achieve the goal of splitting Dasong.

And they are twisted into a rope, relying on Japan, there is such a hope.

Especially Britain, their native parliament, has long made plans for Dasong.

The Kingdom of Sam also did not want to see the Kingdom of Wu, which had huge trade relations with it, destroyed by the King of Hell.

After discussion, they decided to bring Wu State into their alliance, so that the split of Dasong would be a foregone conclusion.