Chapter 545: Soldiers approach the city (replenishment)
A row of carriages leading to field cannons on the official road of Yizhou covered with loess are slowly moving forward.
On the city wall, Lu Fei was watching the convoy with a telescope. Next to him was Luo Xin. They had been in Yizhou for two days. When they saw the last batch of artillery arrived, Lu Fei breathed a sigh of relief. He said, "Damn, your artillery is really a turtle. If you don't come here, you will all fade."
Luo Xin rolled his eyes and said, "You speak lightly. This cannon is four or five hundred kilograms. You can try pulling one."
"Okay, I won't talk to you. Now that the field guns have arrived, it's time to take down Pengzhou City." Lu Fei said: "Hehe, this time I must fight a beautiful battle so that I won't be looked down upon by the soldiers of your firearm battalion."
Luo Xin shook his head. Since the Qingzhou army equipped firearms, the two of them led the army independently for the first time. They understood what Xiao Ming meant. If there was a great chaos today, Qingzhou might encounter multiple battles. At this time, they needed to conquer generals who were good at fighting.
This time, Xiao Ming sent two people over here to clearly want to hand over all the battles in the direction of Wei to the two, and they were also extremely excited about this.
The two of them came down from the city wall with their mouths. At this time, the troops from three prefectures in the Yizhou camp were being integrated and trained. This time, the infantry of the firearms camp was 20,000, and the 5,000 cavalry later allocated. The army attacking Pengzhou this time consisted of 20,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry. For Qingzhou, the scale of this army was already very large. After all, when the barbarians fought in Jizhou last year, it was only this number of troops.
After returning straight to the camp, Lu Fei sent someone to call the generals who participated in the siege.
After a while, more than 30 generals gathered in Lu Fei's camp. At this time, Lu Fei said: "Everyone, the field artillery has arrived, and the flintlock rifle and plate armor have also been sent to the hands of the soldiers. It can be said that everything is ready now. According to the combat plan originally formulated, we will repair it today and follow the Bian River to attack Pengzhou City tomorrow."
Luo Hong nodded, "Soldiers are the most important. We should catch the defenders of Pengzhou City off guard and quickly capture Pengzhou City."
"Person Luo said it well. This time we will divide the troops into two groups. Some of them will take a boat down the Bian River and first deal with the navy in Pengzhou City, while some of them will lead the team. They will set off from the official road and go straight to the bottom of Pengzhou City. At that time, we will join forces to take down Pengzhou City in one fell swoop." Lu Fei knocked on the table.
"Yes, General Lu." said the generals.
This time Lu Fei led his troops to the expedition, Xiao Ming gave him the title of General of the Southern Expedition and gave him the tiger talisman, all of which allowed him to successfully lead the army.
After making a plan, the generals went back to prepare. The next day, Lu Fei personally took three thousand musketeers to the ship and went downstream, while Luo Xin took five thousand cavalry and ten thousand infantry to set off towards Pengzhou City.
Yizhou is located in the southwest of Qidi, only a hundred miles away from Pengzhou City. When you set out in the morning, Lu Fei arrived on the Bianshui River outside Pengzhou City in the afternoon.
Looking at Pengzhou City built by the water, Lu Fei sneered. In his opinion, although the customs of Pengzhou City are strong, he would be scared when facing the soldiers with strong firearms.
As the three warships slowly arrived, the walls of Pengzhou suddenly became chaotic, and now the soldiers knew what happened in Wei and Qi.
In the past two days, even the eldest son of the Mi family, Mi Wenyi, has returned to Pengzhou City to prepare for war. It can be said that the soldiers in Pengzhou City have been nervous. Now, as soon as these three warships full of soldiers appeared, they immediately understood that what should be come or not.
"Enemy attacks, enemy attacks."
The soldiers on the city wall shouted, and at the same time, some soldiers quickly reached the crossbow and aimed the crossbow at the warships that were constantly moving forward, while some soldiers went down the city wall to report the matter.
At this time, Mi Wenyi was inviting a banquet for contemporary tribes in Mi Mansion in Pengzhou City. This time he was assigned by the King of Wei to guard the city himself, so when he arrived in Pengzhou City, he invited local tribes to discuss the matter together.
While everyone was enjoying singing, dancing, eating, drinking and having fun, a general suddenly broke in and said to Mi Wenyi: "Mi Changshi, three warships full of soldiers appeared outside the city, and they were probably the army of King Qi."
"The army of King Qi."
"Why did it come so quickly?"
"Is there really going to fight now?"
"..." Everyone was talking.
Mi Wenyi's eyes narrowed and he said to the general: "How many people are there in total?"
"There are less than a thousand soldiers on the warship, but the last general thought there must be soldiers hidden in the cabin, and it should be between two thousand and three thousand." The general said.
"There are only 3,000 people, and the defenders of our Pengzhou City have 50,000 elite troops, and the private soldiers of each family are more than 30,000. This number of enemy soldiers is not to be afraid of." An old man said at the banquet. He was the head of the Lu family, the second largest family in Pengzhou City.
Others echoed, "That's right, these three thousand people are not enough to stuff our teeth. The King of Qi has underestimated us Pengzhou too much."
At this time, a young man said loudly: "Mi Changshi, we have more than 30 naval warships in Pengzhou. Why not send the navy to sink these three warships into the river? In this way, will all the invading enemies be fed to fish?"
Unlike the optimism of these local tribes, Mi Wenyi said: "You must not underestimate the army of King Qi. The ability of King Qi to defeat the barbarians in the Battle of Cangzhou and the Battle of Jizhou is enough to show the strength of their army. This time they just sent these soldiers here, I am afraid that they would not be arrogant, but confident that these soldiers could take down Pengzhou City."
There were still some people at the banquet that were very calm. They nodded in agreement after hearing this.
Mi Wenyi took the opportunity to say, "It's just that the King of Wei and King Qi are now in a feud, and this Pengzhou City is a place where military strategists must compete for. Now that the King of Qi's troops appear here, will we still have a way out for Pengzhou City. If the city is broken and what the King of Qi has done, can we still have a way out?"
"We all remember the fact that the Qi King massacred the local tyrants three years ago. If he conquered Pengzhou City this time, he would definitely not give us a way out."
"That's right, we must fight to the death this time."
"That's right, this city is broken and it's better to defend Pengzhou City to the death. Now I'll mobilize the Zhang family's troops here." said a man.
"I'll go, too."
“…”
Mi Wenyi's face was calm, but he felt relieved. He made the local tribes share the same hatred with him in just one sentence.
After coughing, he said, "Everyone, since that's the case, I hope you can help me this time. This time, our Mi family will send all the troops and generals to swear to never let the King of Qi succeed."
Chapter completed!