Martial Arts: Start with 100,000 Xiliang Cavalry

Chapter 240 Breaking the city and arresting people

More than a dozen light cannons easily destroyed the fishing boat blocking the way, and the fishermen on it were also killed by the artillery fire.

Qi Jiguang was expressionless.He had warned these people before that obstructing military affairs would be regarded as an enemy army. These people did not listen, and now they are just reaping the consequences.

And those Xiali fishermen who were ridiculed and escaped before, saw this scene from a distance, and all paralyzed on the fishing boat in fright.

They have never seen such a powerful weapon, fear, fear, surprise, all kinds of emotions rushed into their minds.

"Keep going!"

After clearing the obstacles, Qi Jiguang let the fleet advance, and when they approached the shore, the soldiers disembarked one after another.

Some of them were left to garrison, and the others followed Qi Jiguang.

Their goal this time is not to completely conquer the entire country like they did when they fought against the Eastern Japanese.This is unlikely because Su Yuan didn't come.

If Su Yuan didn't come, there wouldn't be endless summoning soldiers.Even if Xiali was a small country, it would be difficult to conquer it with just a thousand people like Qi Jiguang.

The purpose of Qi Jiguang's trip was just as Su Yuan said, to teach Xia Li a lesson and let them figure out his position.

Qi Jiguang led hundreds of people forward, and there was a county town near the coast. At this moment, hundreds of militiamen had been organized and guarded the entrance of the town with various weapons.

Seeing the appearance of the Bei'an Army, these Xiali militiamen shouted one after another, looking very panicked.

Qi Jiguang asked the interpreter to shout, telling them to surrender and not to resist, otherwise swords and guns will not see.

Of course, the Xiali militiamen would not give in easily, especially when there were county guards standing behind them holding steel knives, they would be hacked if they took a step back.

"There are not many of them! Come on! Kill one and you will be rewarded!!"

There was a shout from the crowd, and the Xiali militiamen rushed towards the Bei'an army at the top of their voices.

Qi Jiguang unhurriedly ordered the soldiers to line up their guns, firing back and forth alternately.

"Bang bang bang bang bang!"

Rows of firecrackers were fired, and the strong smell of gunpowder filled the air.

The Xiali militiamen rushing to the front fell down following the sound, screaming in their mouths, which frightened the people behind and caused the charging formation to stop instantly.

They stopped, but the Bei'an Army's musket fire did not stop.The front row reloaded, the rear row continued to fire, another round of shooting, and dozens of people fell down immediately.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

"Run!!!"

Most of the militiamen in Xiali were farmers who were entangled. Wherever they saw firecrackers, they were frightened and fled in all directions.

The county guards who were supervising the battle behind were also dumbfounded. The steel knives in their hands were no better than the hoes and shovels of the militiamen when facing the firecrackers.

As soon as the militiamen ran away, of course they all ran back to the county seat.This small county has no city gates, so it doesn't make much difference whether you run or not. With Qi Jiguang's order, the masters of the rivers and lakes are dispatched one after another.

In less than half an hour, the small county town was under the control of the Bei'an army.Qi Jiguang didn't stay here for too long, and moved on after disposing of the county magistrate.

The goal of their trip is Guangchuan not far from here. Guangchuan is one of the several prefectural cities in Xiali, and the city is only smaller than the capital Seoul.

Take down Guangchuan, teach Xiali a lesson, and then withdraw.This is Qi Jiguang's plan.

Two days later, Qi Jiguang led his troops to the city of Guangchuan.This city is smaller than Taiyuan, but it is already very large in Xiali.

The low city walls were filled with soldiers quickly mobilized from all over the city, including those inside the city, there were nearly [-] soldiers in total.

Jiang Wanhe, the general who defended the city, was very anxious. Even though he knew that the Bei'an Army only came with less than a thousand people, he was still afraid.

There is no way, the Bei'an Army's victorious record has already spread to all countries in the East China Sea.If there were still people who would question it at the beginning, but after the defeat of Dongwa, no one dared to "crack down on counterfeiting" in person.

"General, the Bei'an Army is here!"

After Jiang Wanhe received the report, he hurried to the city wall.

Seeing that the Bei'an army was approaching the city, he quickly ordered the crossbowmen to prepare.

Even though he was afraid of anxiety, the city wall still gave Jiang Wanhe a sense of security.

With a strong city wall, as long as the hundreds of enemies dare to approach, at least a quarter of them will be wiped out in a round of arrow rain.

Jiang Wanhe thought so, and suddenly found that the Bei'an Army had stopped.

This distance is beyond the range of the bow and arrow, and the manpower he arranged on the city wall is purely for decoration.

However, my own archer is just a display, so the one on the other side will be too, right?

Jiang Wanhe didn't expect that the Bei'an Army's range was much farther than his.

"Prepare heavy artillery!"

Qi Jiguang asked the artillery to use heavy artillery to aim at the city wall.

In front of Regret Mountain Pao, a city wall made of mud like Xiali is almost meaningless.

As the artillery adjusted the angle, Qi Jiguang gave an order: "Fire!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

The sound of heavy artillery is deeper and more shocking than light artillery.The naked eye could see huge shells flying out of the chamber, flying towards Guangchuan City from the air with a powerful impact.

Some soldiers on the city wall also saw the black shells.They didn't know what it was, and they all stared at the excitement.

Jiang Wanhe sensed something was wrong, and shouted: "Quick, hide!!"

After yelling, he ran down the city wall under the cover of his personal guards.Immediately afterwards, the shells fell on the city wall.

"Boom!!!!"

The explosion sounded like thunder, and a large hole was blown out of the seemingly solid city wall, and dozens of soldiers fell down screaming.

But this was just the beginning. As other shells also fell, the explosions continued for a while.

The entire city wall collapsed at an extremely fast speed, and the air was full of gunpowder smoke and dust, as well as stumps and broken arms flying all over the sky.

This terrifying situation like the end of the world completely frightened the Xiali defenders. Many people were not killed by the bombing, but fainted from fright.Others had their internal organs shattered by the shock wave and died of vomiting blood.

"no no……"

Jiang Wanhe pushed away the corpse on his body, and crawled out from under the ruins with blood on his face.

He was lucky, because he ran fast, and his personal guards helped him block the falling rocks, so he didn't die.

But he had a feeling that he might as well be dead.

Seeing the nearly [-] defenders collapse and disintegrate in a short period of time, and hundreds of thousands of people died, the fear in his heart almost completely swallowed him.

He didn't understand what kind of weapon the Bei'an Army used, it was so powerful, and the attack distance was so far away... With such a weapon, how could they win?how is this possible? !
"Boom!" "Boom!"

The bombardment of the heavy artillery did not stop, and the sound of the explosion woke Jiang Wanhe up.

He scrambled and fled from the vicinity of the city wall, calling out to the fleeing soldiers, telling them to stay away with him.

Now he also knows that the city will definitely not be able to defend, and it is the best choice to keep more vitality!

A large number of remnants and defeated generals ran back together with him. On the way, some ordinary people in the city could be seen standing on the side of the street, all of them pale as paper.

The common people have their own eyes, and they can see whether the situation is good or bad.Right now, the soldiers of their own country are fleeing like bereaved dogs, which can only mean that the enemy has won.

Outside the city, Qi Jiguang was very satisfied looking at the completely blown down city wall.

It only took a dozen rounds of heavy artillery to destroy the defense of a city.The actual combat effect was beyond his expectation.

He knew that this had something to do with the first use. The Xiali army didn't know the power of the Mount Regret Cannon, so it was normal for them to be scared to pieces.

It will be like this the first time, and the second time, the enemy may be on guard.

Of course, to Qi Jiguang, that is not important.It is important to achieve the purpose of this war.

Seeing that the guards of Guangchuan City had collapsed, Qi Jiguang immediately ordered to march.

Hundreds of people quickly approached and entered the city.

The guard Jiang Wanhe had already escaped through another gate of the city wall with the remnant soldiers.Qi Jiguang didn't chase, but just started to open up warehouses just like the Bei'an army took down the city in the past.

The people of Xiali have also heard about the fact that the Bei'an army would confiscate the property of the rich and officials after conquering the city, and distribute part of it to the common people.

The courageous people, after seeing the Bei'an army entering the city, did not hide at home. Instead, they took the initiative to go out, chat with the Bei'an army, and offered to lead the way.

With such people, Qi Jiguang can save a lot of time.And there are more and more people like this, and there are thousands of people leading the Bei'an army to rich merchants in groups.

Some wealthy businessmen in Xiali felt extremely painful seeing this situation, and some couldn't help but cursed at the Xiali people who led the way, calling them shameful spies, not compatriots.

The people in Xiali also scolded back: "You bastards usually steal so much money from us, why didn't you call them compatriots at that time?!"

Qi Jiguang is quite familiar with this. He has experienced too many similar things in Dongwa.

He deeply understands that for ordinary people at the bottom, there is no sense of national honor.Because what they usually receive is not national treatment at all.

Su Yuan once told him that some officials and wealthy businessmen are best at deceiving the people at the bottom who are exploited and oppressed by them, making them believe that the property of these rich people is the property of the entire country and nation.

But actually?Many people understand this truth in their hearts, so when foreign troops enter, they will act as guides in exchange for some benefits.

The water that capsizes the boat is the tears of the common people, and you don't know if you don't reach the cross flow.

It only took Qi Jiguang half a day to wipe out the property of wealthy businessmen and officials in the city.He only accepted some important information, and distributed the rest.

The common people in Xiali are naturally grateful, but there are also some quick-witted people who dare not ask for it.If you say yes, you will definitely be settled by the masters afterwards.

These people knew that the Bei'an Army would not stay for long this time and would leave soon.Once they leave, Xia Li's gentlemen will definitely come back soon...the money sent out at that time will definitely be sent back.

Now that I have taken the money, maybe I have to pay it back before it's hot.Maybe the person who took the money will be accounted for at that time.

After Qi Jiguang learned of this, he felt that these people's ideas made sense.But his task is not to garrison, but to teach, and there is no other way to do it.

……

Jiangnan Haizhou.

A large ship was docked at the port, and the flag of Xifeng Kingdom was flying high on board, and many people were waiting in line at the boarding ladder.

A closer look reveals that most of the people queuing up to board the ship are officials of the Southern Zhou court.

After the Southern Zhou court reached an agreement with Xifeng Kingdom, the evacuation plan finally started.

The court of the Southern Zhou Dynasty had to pay a lot of money, as well as many antiques, martial arts cheats, and other messy prices, in exchange for the evacuation of the quota personnel.

The quota is not much, not enough for every official of the imperial court.Basically, only senior members of the first and second ranks have positions, and those below the second rank are not eligible to board a ship at all, so they can only find their own way to find other ships.

At this moment, a bright yellow sedan chair came from a distance, and after stopping, Zhou Cheng with a gloomy expression stepped out of the sedan chair.

Even now, he still couldn't believe that he, the emperor of the Great Zhou, was leaving the territory of the Great Zhou today.

Even if the envoy of Xifeng Kingdom told him that the League of Nations had been formed and would soon send allied forces to attack the Bei'an Army.When the time comes to defeat the Bei'an Army, Da Zhou will still belong to Zhou Cheng.

But, will everything go so smoothly?

Zhou Cheng was very suspicious.After so many failures, he no longer dared to hope too much.

"Your Majesty, hurry up and board the ship, be careful of the wind and cold." The little eunuch beside him straightened Zhou Cheng's clothes and said in a low voice.

Zhou Cheng sighed, turned his head and glanced at the land.

"I don't know if there will be a chance to come back in the future..."

After sighing with emotion, he asked the eunuch to grab a handful of soil from the ground, which is also a proof of his hometown.

"Emperor of the Great Zhou, please hurry up and board the ship, don't waste any more time. What a sissy to dawdle."

The captain of the West Maple transport ship stood by the boarding ladder and urged.

He looked at Zhou Cheng with mockery in his eyes.To him, the emperor who was so confused that he wanted to escape to Xifeng Kingdom and was protected by Xifeng government was undoubtedly a failed emperor.

He really has no respect for the failed emperor.

Zhou Cheng suppressed his displeasure, anyone in the Southern Zhou court who dared to talk to him like that would have had his head cut off long ago.But the one who is talking now is a native of Xifeng country, even if it is just a captain, he dare not provoke him.

He walked towards the ship ladder without saying a word, followed by the young eunuch who was next to him, but was stopped by the captain.

"Only the emperor is qualified, you lowly servant cannot board the ship!"

The little eunuch hurriedly pleaded: "But I want to serve His Majesty!"

"Go away! Eggless waste!" The captain kicked the little eunuch away with a look of disgust on his face.

Seeing this, Zhou Cheng opened his mouth to say something, but seeing the captain's fierce eyes, he still didn't say anything.

He climbed up the ladder by himself, and just halfway through the climb, he suddenly heard the captain shout: "What are you doing!"

what happened?
Zhou Cheng turned his head and saw a dozen men in black coming on horseback!

They were fast, and soon arrived at the coast. Captain Xifeng had already made people take out their muskets and put them on alert.But these dozens of black-clothed men all have martial arts, and they used lightness kung fu to fight with Xi Feng's crew.

One of them was so fast that he came to the boat ladder after a few jumps.Zhou Cheng could already see that these people were running after him, so he was so frightened that he hurriedly climbed onto the boat.

"Come down, you!"

The man in black flicked his arm, and threw out a long whip, wrapping around Zhou Cheng's ankle.Pulling hard, Zhou Cheng let out an "ah" and fell from the ladder.

With a whirlwind, Zhou Cheng found that he had been grabbed by the collar of the man in black, and he struggled: "Let me go! You are from the Bei'an Army?!"

The man in black smiled coldly: "Bei'an Army? This is what the Prime Minister wants!"

(End of this chapter)