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Lucheng. read

While Zhao Xu was inspecting the War Department, Chang Wei launched an attack here.

Yesterday he led his troops to the gates of Lucheng and took advantage of the night to dig trenches outside Lucheng.

It is different from places like Jicheng and Yangcheng.

The city of Lu was built on a plain, and there were no solid stones to prevent them from digging trenches.

At this time, as his order was issued, the grenadiers entered the trench and threw grenades against the walls of Lucheng.

After entering Qizhou, his invincible new tactics once again exerted great power.

It only took him half a day to capture Lucheng.

"General, some of the soldiers and horses in Lu City are private soldiers of wealthy families, and most of them are strong men recruited by the Han family into the army." Qin Shan reported to Chang Wei with a dark face.

"It's really unlucky that they are a bunch of miscellaneous soldiers." Lu Chang said.

Chang Wei snorted when he heard this, and said: "I want to see how long these powerful troops can hide."

As the three of them were talking, a general came over with a beaming face, "General, I discovered the treasury in Lucheng. There was a large amount of copper coins, gold, silver and jewelry that I didn't have time to move away."

After a pause, he said: "But the calligraphy, paintings and porcelain were either burned or broken by them, and they don't want to leave them to us."

"Hahaha... Jicheng must have fallen too quickly, which caught them by surprise." Qin Shan laughed, and his mood improved again. This battle was not in vain after all.

After that, the three of them went to the treasury located in the southwest corner of Lucheng.

Sure enough, in one of the warehouses, they saw mountains of copper coins.

Boxes of silver, gold bars and jewelry were found in several other warehouses.

"The Han family is really rich." Lu Chang clicked his tongue.

He roughly estimated that the items left by the Han family were worth at least tens of millions of taels.

"Half of Dasong's salt comes from Qizhou. It's not surprising that they have been able to accumulate such a large fortune in the past two hundred years." Chang Wei narrowed his eyes, "Take these things back to Yanzhou. We used to fight Beidi It was a loss, but we made a profit by attacking Qizhou this time.”

Then, the three of them went to check the granary.

What annoyed them was that 70% of the food in the granary was burned, and the remaining 30% was for the 100,000 defenders of Lucheng, and it was only enough for one month's rations.

"Damn it." Chang Wei cursed, "They are trying to clear the country and create trouble for us going south."

After pondering for a while, he said: "Lu Chang, lead 30,000 troops to Yangcheng, and attack with the 30,000 troops left there to capture Yangcheng."

Then, he said: "Qinshan, Guantong, you and I will continue southward to Yicheng. The more they try to stop us, I just chase them."

"Yes, general." Qin Shan Guantong said loudly.

The next day, Commander Chang Wei went to Yicheng.

Lu Chang went straight to Yangcheng.

Through the prisoners captured in Lucheng, they learned that most of the troops in Yangcheng had already withdrawn.

There are only 30,000 soldiers and horses in the city.

However, Yangcheng is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

They invested large forces to attack the city in order to reduce the casualties of soldiers, capture Yangcheng as soon as possible, and join Chang Wei and his party.

Two days later, Lu Chang arrived in Yangcheng.

That night, he took advantage of the darkness to launch an attack on Yangcheng.

Because he traveled by day and night, he escaped the detection of Yangcheng's detectives.

The soldiers and horses of Yangcheng had no defense against them coming from the direction of Lucheng.

In the darkness, the skirmishers reached the bottom of the city and threw grenades up the city wall.

At the same time, the royal army on the north side of Yangcheng also launched an attack on Yangcheng.

Sixty thousand soldiers and horses attacked from front to back. Before dawn, Yangcheng, which was only garrisoned by 30,000 people, was successfully captured by them.

The next day, they went to Yicheng and met Chang Wei and his party.

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Jinghai County.

Zhao Xu inspected the workshop, then left Yancheng and arrived here.

Wang Chong's large-scale single-cylinder steam engine has taken shape, and his immediate concern is naturally the construction of the main body of the steam engine ship.

After all, the steam engine and the main body of the steam engine ship are inseparable, and neither one can survive without them.

"Your Highness, I have retained the dimensions of this location according to the requirements on the drawings, no more and no less." In a dry dock, Chen Shou pointed to the steamship being built.

Now this steamship only has its keel, and it will take some time before it is completed.

"Don't worry about this. The dimensions of the steam engine I gave Wang Chong are based on the drawings." Zhao Xu said.

After a pause, he said: "Can the progress of the steam ship be advanced?"

Originally, Japan was the only one involved in the civil strife in Dasong, and his sail warships were completely sufficient.

But now that Sam and Britain are also involved in Dasong's chaos, his need for steamships is urgent.

After all, sail warships rely too much on wind power, and without wind, there will be insufficient power.

But steamships are different and can maintain power around the clock.

If there is a war, the side with the steamship will be more flexible and win with less.

He didn't want his sail warship to suffer the losses of the Westerners in this regard.

"It can roughly improve by two months." Chen Shou thought for a while and said.

The steamship was only half the size of the sailing battleship.

However, due to the installation of a steam engine, the internal structure is a bit more complicated.

Initially, he asked for a year.

But as construction progressed, he estimated that ten months would be enough.

After all, the most important thing about this thing is the steam engine.