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The wealthy soldiers were stunned by the grenade, but the Marines took the opportunity to jump into the trench.

Some of them took up rifled guns with bayonets and fired at the remaining Wu soldiers in the trench.

Some of them continued to throw grenades into the next trench and reached the second trench from the middle aisle.

The explosions of grenades were mixed with the screams of Wu soldiers.

"I surrender! I surrender..."

The Marines were so murderous that the Wu soldiers still alive in the trench raised their hands and surrendered.

Most of them are soldiers from ordinary people, and some are soldiers from wealthy families.

At this moment, they were all too scared to muster up any soldiers to fight the Marines.

This was not a war at all, but a complete massacre.

Now, they would rather be captured and dig in the mines than stay in the trenches for a moment.

After taking the first trench, the attack below the Marines was extremely smooth.

Under the bombardment of howitzers, the morale of the Wu soldiers was extremely low, and some soldiers fled.

Seeing them charging into the trench, the Wu soldiers collapsed instantly, but a small number of die-hard elements from the wealthy families were still resisting them.

But this small group of trench soldiers could not affect the situation of the battle at all.

They were cleared as the Marines occupied the trenches.

At this moment, more and more Wu soldiers were crowding at the city gate.

They all want to enter the city.

However, the gates of Lujiao City were closed tightly, and they ignored the cries of the Wu soldiers.

Seeing that King Yan's army was getting closer and closer, many soldiers simply fled around the city.

Within an hour, the Marines occupied the trench fortifications under Antler City.

The last trench dug by the Wu army was only more than thirty meters away from the city wall.

Wu's trenches instead became a protective umbrella for the Marines.

Standing in the last row of trenches, Marines kept throwing grenades at the wall.

Flowers of flame burst out from the city wall.

"Your Highness can really spend the night in Antler City tonight." The trench was captured and the battle situation was basically controlled by the Marines. Zhou Yi said with a smile.

When King Yan gave the order to Pan Chang, he was worried that Pan Chang would not be able to complete it.

Now, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"The people in Lujiao City are all new soldiers. Liang Kai is just unwilling to lose Yizhou, so he wants to cause some trouble. He also knows that this place cannot be defended." Zhao Xu sneered.

Before heading south to Yizhou, Xu Ke provided him with information about Yizhou.

"No wonder it collapsed so quickly." Zhou Yi understood.

After that, the two continued to stare at the battlefield.

While the Marines were throwing grenades at the city wall, some Marines came from behind and carried ladders to the bottom of the city wall.

These ladders were all transported with the warships.

Following the ladder, the Marines quickly climbed up the city wall.

At this moment, in Lujiao City, the surface of Liang River was ashen.

He placed half of his troops outside the city, and now he is dying and fleeing.

When King Yan's soldiers threw grenades on the city wall, the soldiers on the wall also collapsed.

The surviving soldiers fled down the city wall one after another. The soldiers from the supervising team went up and killed several of them, but they were unable to stop the soldiers from disintegrating.

"Bang bang bang..."

At this moment, the Yanzhou army climbed onto the city wall and fired at the Wu soldiers in the city. The fleeing Wu soldiers fell one after another.

The fleeing soldiers were horrified. Some soldiers thought of something and knelt down one after another and raised their hands.

Seeing someone doing this, more soldiers dropped their muskets and knelt on the ground.

Sure enough, these surrendered soldiers were not shot again.

Liang Xi was angry again when he saw this. He wanted to fight to the death, but he knew there was nothing he could do to save his life.

If he wants to escape, Yizhou is surrounded by the sea. Where can he escape?

Just as he was hesitating, he suddenly felt pain. When he touched it, his fingers were covered with blood.

Immediately, he felt dizzy and fell down.

Once the general died, the Wu soldiers in Antler City became like headless flies, only thinking about saving their lives.

In another hour, the Marines cleared away the resisting Wu soldiers and completely took control of Lujiao City.

At this time, the sky had just dimmed.

Zhao Xu and Zhou Yi entered Antler City one after another.

After taking this city, Beiyi Province fell into his pocket.

"Send someone to Marka City and tell Fei Wen that I want to meet him in Lujiao City." Zhao Xu said to Zhou Yi when he arrived at Lujiao City's Yamen.

In response, Zhou Yi sent people to go to Nanyizhou along the coast overnight.

Then, Zhao Xu ordered Pan Changqing to surrender the deserters on the island.

These deserters are like bandits. If they are not eliminated, they will bring disaster to one party.

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at the same time.

The Wu warship escaping from Yizhou arrived at Haizhou opposite Yizhou. Immediately, a speeding horse set off from Haizhou and headed for the neighboring Zhezhou to the north along the post road.

In more than two days, the news of King Yan's attack on Yizhou reached Lincheng.

"Prince Yan finally took action." In the imperial study room, Liang Kai looked embarrassed.

Ever since he agreed to the British provocation to Jiangbei, he knew that this day would come sooner or later.

However, he did not regret it, because he knew very well that one day he and King Yan would have to decide the winner.

He had no complaints against Britain.

During this period, Britain transported 30,000 of Britain's best flintlock muskets and corresponding ammunition to Wu through Cochin.

In addition to this, there were thirty-six field guns of great range and power.

In the future, Britain will continue to provide muskets and artillery to Wu.

Of course, these muskets and cannons need to be bought with silver.

But his Liang family doesn't have much else, but they have a lot of silver, so they can afford it.

As long as he can stop the King of Yan, he thinks it's worth spending some silver.

In addition to muskets and cannons, Britain also sent 150 craftsmen.

These craftsmen were led by ten British people, and the rest were Indian craftsmen.

With them, there were also two steam engines.

As promised, Britain provided all support to Wu.

And this also strengthened his determination to confront the King of Yan.

He believed that as long as he could stop the King of Yan for a while.

In time, with the wealth of Jiangnan and the steam industry provided by Britain, he would be able to crush Jiangbei into powder.

"Yizhou, a small place, is lost if it is lost." Liang Kai snorted angrily.

He knew very well that once Yizhou was lost, Wu's maritime trade would be over.

But he could only pretend not to care, so as not to hit the morale of Wu.

"Please ask Mr. Luther to come over." Thinking of something, Liang Kai's eyes flashed with a sharp light.

This Luther is a British man, commanding 5,000 people to serve the Wu Kingdom.

When the number of mercenaries in the Wu Kingdom reached 20,000, he issued an order to organize the mercenaries into an army, named the Wansheng Army, and Luther served as the general of the Wansheng Army.

This Luther was a major in the British Army.

After retiring, he formed a mercenary army to serve the Xitu National Company in the East.

He offered a high price to keep him in the Wu Kingdom.

With him, he believed that he would be able to stop the King of Yan from unifying Jiangnan.