Become a feudal king from today

"Your Highness, Yizhou is ahead. Read М"

Owen left and sailed for another hour, when he could vaguely see the horizon on the sea.

This is Yizhou.

In order to attract the Wu Kingdom to join the Eastern Tu Alliance, Japan surrendered the northern part of Yizhou.

Afterwards, the State of Wu sent naval warships and 30,000 soldiers to Yizhou.

All these 30,000 soldiers are currently stationed in Antler City.

This is a large city built in Japan relative to Marka City.

Through this city, one can control the surrounding land.

Of course, the most important value of Yizhou is not farming, but its important strategic position.

Controlling this place is equivalent to controlling the sea trade routes from north to south of Dasong.

In ancient times, this value was not prominent, but as the world enters modern times, the value of Yizhou will be reflected.

This is not just a problem for the north-south trade route of Da Song.

Taking this place would mean holding the lifeblood of Japan and Korea.

If Japan and Korea want to participate in sea trade in the future, they can only depend on his face.

Moreover, using this as a base, the Yanzhou fleet can also enter the Pacific Ocean on a large scale and turn the Pacific Ocean into its own back garden.

After all, Sam Country has already reached out to this island in the ocean.

He could not sit back and watch all the important islands in the ocean being occupied by them.

"Let's do it!" Looking at Yizhou, Zhao Xu ordered.

He would not be disrupted by Britain's little tricks.

Even if Britain and other Western countries say something, they will have to pacify Jiangnan and complete the unification of Dasong.

Furthermore, in the north of Dasong, Beidi, Dasong's mortal enemy, has not yet been eliminated.

He had a lot to do and no time to argue with Britain.

"Yes, Your Highness." Zhou Yi responded and ordered the fleet to move forward at full speed.

As he got closer to the dock of Lujiao City, the warships of Wu State appeared in Zhao Xu's telescope.

There are thirty ships in total, docked at the dock.

They didn't take Wu's warships seriously.

This time, their fleet consisted of twelve steamships and twelve sailing warships.

The rear of the fleet was followed by troopships with eight thousand Marines on board.

After sailing for a while, the Wu warship discovered them.

The navy soldiers of Wu Kingdom boarded the warship, but instead of fighting them, they ran away without any intention of fighting them.

News of the Edo naval battle also reached Wu.

During the Goryeo naval battle, they were chased everywhere by Yanzhou's sail warships. How could they be opponents of steam ships and sail warships now?

"A bunch of rats." Seeing this scene, Zhou Yi sneered.

This time, the royal army goes south, and their navy will cooperate with the royal army to launch an attack on the coast of Jiangnan, attacking the powerful families in Jiangnan from both sides.

Based on this, they want to capture Yizhou first.

Of course, there is another point. Their King Yan seems to be obsessed with Yizhou and can't wait to take him under his command.

Instead of chasing the Wu warships, Zhou Yi led the fleet to sail directly south, and did not directly attack the Lujiao City dock.

According to the information provided by the Fourth Institute, Wu State built many forts at the docks of Lujiao City.

When they first attacked the coastal cities of Japan, they usually fired at these forts to destroy them.

But in fact, this method is very cumbersome and takes a long time.

But there is no way, because Japan is mostly mountainous along the coast, and the terrain is not convenient for Marine soldiers to make roundabout landing operations.

But Yizhou is different. The west coast of Yizhou is almost all plains.

It is easy to land at any location, and the Yizhou army has worse firearms than the Japanese army, and it is more difficult to resist the landing of the Marines.

Therefore, just like during the Ryukyu campaign, Zhou Yi ordered the fleet to land thirty miles south of Lujiao Pier.

During the landing process, the Wu army did not obstruct them, and the entire landing process went extremely smoothly.

Zhao Xu and Zhou Yi also landed by boat.

"Pan Chang, please be careful, the lives of His Highness and this general are in your hands." Zhou Yi said to Pan Chang as he set foot on the land of Yizhou.

Pan Chang felt a cold sweat in his heart, straightened his waist, and said: "Your Highness and General Zhou Quan are protected by the last general."

Zhao Xu smiled and said, "Don't listen to Zhou Yi. Fight as you want. Don't be restrained. I am a battle-hardened man and I am not a delicate little girl. I want you to keep an eye on me at all times."

After saying that, he waved his hand and motioned to Pan Chang to take down the dock first.

Then, he stepped deeply on the ground under his feet, and a smile appeared on his lips.

After capturing Lujiao City, Yizhou would be under his control from now on.

Under his order, Chang Pan led 7,000 soldiers towards the dock, leaving 1,000 soldiers to protect him.

At this time, Zhao Xu and Zhou Yi strolled inside and came to a rice field.

Unlike the severe cold in the north, Yizhou is as warm as spring in this season.

While only wheat can be grown in the north, rice is still grown here.

According to his memory, rice here in Yizhou seems to be harvested three times a year, and the yield is also high. It is known as the rice warehouse on the sea in contemporary times.

In addition, the subtropical marine humid climate here is also suitable for growing sugar cane, pineapples, bananas, etc., and it is also known as the hometown of fruits.

Of course, there is also a very important point, rubber trees can be planted here.

Although, rubber trees can also be planted in the southernmost area of ​​Da Song.

But due to the inconvenience of inland transportation, he thought it would be more convenient to find a way to plant rubber trees in Yizhou.

At that time, rubber will be transported to the coastal cities of Da Song through sea transportation.

Therefore, if Yizhou, which has so many advantages, is not taken over now, it will be much later.

While he and Zhou Yi were wandering around, the Marines arrived at the dock of Lujiao City after an hour's trek and launched an attack on the fort from the flank.

There are about 5,000 Wu troops guarding Lujiao Pier.

They obviously did not expect that King Yan's army would land elsewhere and outflank them.

"Bang bang bang..."

"Boom!", "Boom!" "Boom!"...

Since the artillery pieces of the fort are all facing the sea, they are fixed on the fort and difficult to move.

The Marines attacked from the side, completely avoiding the opponent's artillery.

Upon arriving at the fort range, the Marines, led by their generals, attacked the forts one by one.

Because the rifled rifles of the Marines had a much longer range than the smoothbore rifles of the Wu soldiers.

Marines often shoot at each other from a distance of about 150 meters.

At the same time, under the cover of shooting, the skirmishers stepped forward with grenades and threw the grenades into the fort.

The general who guarded Lujiao City was named Liang Xi.

Under the attack of the Marines, he was blinded. He saw the forts falling one by one and was unable to recover.

He immediately led the remaining soldiers to withdraw towards Antler City.

Since the state of Wu invaded Jiangbei along the coast of Jiujiang, they had the consciousness of King Yan to attack Yizhou.

Therefore, the forts were strengthened during this time.

But unexpectedly, all these forts turned into useless waste.

However, around Antler City, they dug trenches and built fortifications with the help of mercenaries.

I hope to use this to stop King Yan's troops and horses until reinforcements arrive.