Become a feudal king from today

"Lu Chang, I have ordered you to command 30,000 troops and capture the four southern counties of Qizhou, Ningzhou, Bozhou, and other counties in Yuzhou. Read М"

While ordering the soldiers to dig trenches, Chang Wei issued another order.

Although he was confident of breaking through the opponent's trench and taking Yangcheng.

But it is different from attacking other cities.

This time, they were afraid that they would have to fight under Yangcheng for some time.

After all, Yangcheng has gathered a large number of powerful and powerful soldiers, and they are all elite.

The most important thing is that these generals and soldiers did not flee halfway, which shows that they are loyal enough to the powerful clan.

Because basically, they are either members of the powerful and wealthy families with the same surname, or they are their in-laws.

Combined with the trench surrounding Yangcheng.

The next battle will be the most difficult since they went south.

Starting from Lucheng, in order to defeat the powerful clan as soon as possible, they just chased the powerful clan army where Xie Duan and others were, and only captured important cities along the way.

There was no division of troops to attack other cities in Ningzhou.

Therefore, they only controlled important nodes on the southward route, but did not fully capture Ningzhou and the four southwest counties of Qizhou.

As for Yuzhou and Bozhou, not a single soldier passed by.

Originally, if they could quickly annihilate the powerful army led by Xie Duan and others, that would be all.

But now that we are going to get into a tug of war, we cannot leave these places alone.

These powerful families have ruled the counties for more than two hundred years, and there are still many wealthy families and officials left.

According to his understanding, the wealthy families only sent their core children and private soldiers to follow Xie Duan, while Han Zheng and others fought with them.

The cities that the royal army did not capture were still controlled by the children of the wealthy families who stayed behind.

If they take the opportunity to bewitch, use money and food to recruit people as soldiers, occupy the city, and fight against them, it will be very troublesome.

Furthermore, because they were advancing so quickly, the soldiers only carried fried noodles.

An army of hundreds of thousands will soon face the problem of food and grass.

This makes it even more necessary to take over the four southern counties of Qizhou, Ningzhou, and even Yuzhou and Bozhou.

After all, although Yuzhou and Bozhou are not on their route south.

But if something goes wrong, Qizhou and Ningzhou can be burned.

"Yes, General!" In response, Lu Chang turned around and left.

Returning to the army, he divided the 30,000 soldiers and horses into fifteen teams, each with 2,000 men, and assigned the cities to be attacked to the generals who led the teams.

After all, even if there are still remnants of powerful and wealthy families in the city that has not yet been captured, there will not be many of them.

It is completely enough for two thousand people to take down a city.

"My God, this army seems so good at digging trenches, it's shocking."

The tower in the north of Yangcheng.

When Lu Chang assigned tasks to his generals, Carter had been observing the battlefield.

Seeing Yanzhou soldiers starting to dig trenches, he exclaimed.

From the powerful generals, he learned that this army often dug trenches under the city and threw small explosive firearms at them.

However, that kind of single-person trench is completely different from the trenches currently dug by the Yanzhou army.

This is where his exclamation comes from.

Because the trenches dug by the Yanzhou army are winding and staggered, like wavy lines.

At first, he thought that the army from Yanzhou was imitating their trench digging.

After observing for a while, he realized that they were digging according to their own plan.

"Conical bullets, explosive throwing firearms, this is really strange, how did King Yan do these." Carter spread his hands and stared at the bullets in his palms, which were obtained by the powerful clan on the battlefield.

At present, Western flintlock muskets still use round bullets, even rifled guns use round bullets.

Therefore, this discovery surprised him even more, and he suddenly felt that this trip to Dasong was necessary.

"Can you tell me all the news about King Yan?" Carter put the bullet in his jacket pocket and asked Wang She beside him.

Although he had some understanding of King Yan in Japan.

But he wanted to personally obtain the evaluation of the King of Yan from Da Song's mouth.

"This King of Yan was a fool before he went to Yanzhou..." Wang Xie said happily after hearing this.

The three powerful families now want to use the Japanese and Western natives to fight against King Yan, and he naturally knows everything.

Carter listened intently and frowned slightly.

After Wang Xie finished speaking, he said: "So, it is basically impossible for King Yan to obtain any support from nearby forces."

"That's right, he is a madman and he is an enemy of everyone." Wang Xie deliberately emphasized the word "madman", slandering Zhao Xu and Yanzhou just like Sato Mahihisa.

Carter didn't care about the conflict between King Yan and the Dashong clan.

He knew very well that the essential contradiction between King Yan and the powerful clan lay in the struggle between different interest groups.

He just wanted to find out how the King of Yan went from having nothing to mastering such superb firearms technology.

"Perhaps, there was really a missionary who was proficient in craftsmanship and was loyal to him." Like everyone else, Carter could only explain this matter in this way, and believed that the missionary's craftsmanship was very superb.

After all, in the West, they would discover each other's scholars.

Scholars often flee to other countries for various reasons.

"What a lucky guy." Carter felt sour in his heart.

Then, he went down the city wall, returned to his residence, wrote a letter, and prepared to send it to the Sam Country Consulate in Japan, "Dear Mr. Elson, Japan's description of King Dasong Yan is accurate."

"The army of the Dasong clan has just mastered firearms and knows little about firearms tactics. This is very different from the army of King Yan, who seems to be very familiar with firearms tactics."

"Even if our army of Sam's country faces them, I'm afraid it will be very troublesome. If we don't intervene in time, it may only take one or two years for King Yan to unify Dasong. By then, a giant will awaken in the East."

"If this day comes, the colonies in the East will obviously be seriously threatened, and our plan to seize the Portuguese colonies will also be affected."

"Based on this, it is very reasonable to intervene when Dasong is in civil strife. It is necessary that the barren north of Dasong will limit the growth of the King of Yan. "

"Let the south of Dasong remain independent and support them. They will become our helpers in clamping down on the King of Yan in the future."

"Because of the fear of the King of Yan, the south will also rely more on us, so that we can gain greater benefits."

"And I will stay here and lead the army of the powerful tribe to resist the King of Yan until all parties of the East Earth Alliance sign a contract. At the same time, I will learn about their firearms. Finally, we must not let a yellow-skinned lowly country rise. May God bless the Sam country. "

After writing the letter, Carter put the letter paper into an envelope and handed it to his subordinate, a young Sam country guard in his early twenties.

Let him give it to the Japanese and send it to Japan via the Liang family's merchant ship.

After that, he returned to the city wall to assist the powerful tribe generals in defending the city.

The next three days were peaceful.

The wide and deep trenches kept the royal family's personal army busy for about three days before they surrounded the trenches dug by the powerful tribe.

At the same time, the fast horses sent by Chang Wei arrived in Yancheng.

The situation in Yangcheng was delivered to Zhao Xu.