Become a feudal king from today

"Come here, close the city gates from today onwards. No one can leave Changcheng without my order." After thinking for a while, Xie An frowned and gave the order.

After that, he looked towards the direction of Bacheng, hoping that the reinforcements would arrive soon.

At present, 600,000 troops are stationed in Changcheng, and other cities in Jiangzhou are basically like empty cities.

With the ability of the King of Yan's army, it is as easy as taking something out of a bag to capture these cities.

I am afraid that it will take less than half a month for the northern part of Jiangzhou to fall, and its troops will head straight for Changcheng.

In addition, the food and grass of the Changcheng army are also a big problem.

Although After the summer harvest, they imposed heavy taxes on the people of Jiangzhou, but the food and grass collected were only enough to meet the needs of the million-strong army for half a year.

After all, the population of Jiangzhou, Xiangzhou, Yuezhou and Guizhou was not large, and there was not much arable land.

It was really difficult to support a million-strong army.

Moreover, this time, in order to prevent the food and grass from being looted by the King of Yan again.

Most of the food and grass were transported to Bazhou, and only two months of food and grass were left in Changcheng.

When the food and grass were in urgent need, food would be transported from Bazhou.

"If we lose Jiangzhou, Xiangzhou, etc. again, defeat is inevitable. "Thinking of the problem of food and grass, Xie An was like being hit hard. I'm afraid this is the reason why his eldest son Xie Bi's will was shaken. Originally, they relied on the participating states and counties to collect half a year's food and grass, but they could wait for the autumn harvest to collect another half a year, and so on, and they could hold on. But once the King of Yan conquered all the states and counties outside Bazhou, even if they had a million troops, it would be useless. Although Nanliang promised to sell them food and grass. But although Yizhou is a grain-producing area, I'm afraid it won't be so easy to support the Wu army and the Nanliang army at the same time. What's more, the Qin army of the King of Yan is now outside Jiameng Pass. Once they seize Jiameng Pass and spread the war to Yizhou, Yizhou's farming will be affected, and the problem of food and grass will become more prominent at that time. "The King of Yan is really pushing us to a dead end. "Xie An slammed his fist on the table.

But even though the current situation was very unfavorable to the powerful family, he still had no intention of betraying.

Like his elder brother Xie Duan, he was unwilling to be defeated by the Zhao royal family.

Especially defeated by the outlier King Yan.

...

Bacheng.

The news that King Yan's army arrived in Anqing arrived here one day later than Changcheng.

The arrival of this news cast a dark cloud over the entire Bacheng.

The first time King Yan's army marched westward was to cover their action to rescue the people.

This time, it actually marched westward.

At the same time, along with this news, there was also news from Jiameng Pass.

The Qin army of King Yan was stationed at Jiameng Pass and could launch an attack at any time.

The territory controlled by their powerful family was attacked by King Yan's army on both sides.

"Yizhou is handed over to Ashur and Nanliang. We will focus on dealing with the royal army. Immediately let the 600,000 troops of Xiangzhou march to Anqing. If King Yan's army attacks Changcheng, we will attack from both sides and try to annihilate it! "

In the study of the temporary palace, Luther raised his fist fiercely.

Brooke also nodded.

There is no doubt that after the King of Yan successfully made the people return to the three southeastern states, their strategy of clearing the fields failed.

At present, the three southeastern states have become the food and grass supply area for the King of Yan's army.

With his worries solved, the King of Yan launched a general attack on them this time.

Now, they are forced into a desperate situation and can only fight with all their strength.

Otherwise, they will be defeated one by one and lose even more miserably.

Liang Kai's face was so gloomy that a layer of frost could be scraped off.

Luther, Brooke and him all hope to continue to drag it out with the King of Yan, waiting for the new muskets to be equipped and the Western countries to send fleets and troops from their homeland.

But the King of Yan is obviously impatient to destroy them.

"Brother Liang, the only plan now is to fight with your back to the water. If you lose, the clan will be destroyed. If you win, the world will return to us. I, Han Zheng, am willing to act as a vanguard and go through fire and water. "Han Zheng spoke.

Wang Zian said: "If I can't return to Yuzhou, I, Wang Zian, would rather die on the battlefield."

"And I, Xie Duan, except for the traitor Ma family, this time let's tie the seven powerful families together and fight to the death." Xie Duan said loudly.

Liang Kai nodded heavily. In fact, before the summer harvest, he had a premonition that the King of Yan would attack them after the summer harvest.

Now, it is true.

Slowly standing up, he said: "Okay, this time let's kill them without leaving a single piece of armor. "

After that, he immediately sent people to Yunzhou to request Fan Xinglun to send troops for support, and at the same time ordered the Xiangzhou army to march to Jiangzhou.

Then, he ordered Han Zheng, Wang Zian and Xie Duan to go to Changcheng.

Of the 600,000 troops in Changcheng, only 200,000 were from his Wu State, and the rest were all from their three families.

The personal visit of their family head would surely boost the morale of the powerful generals and soldiers.

After that, he ordered the crown prince Liang Feng to strengthen the defense and intensify the training of the Wu State Guards equipped with British muskets and artillery.

If the Yan Wang army attacked Bacheng, he would definitely make the Yan Wang army lose the nose.

After discussing these things, everyone left.

...

Anqing City.

The royal family's personal army arrived here and rested for two days.

On the third day, 80,000 of the 100,000 royal family soldiers were left to garrison Anqing, and 20,000 soldiers were divided into two routes, attacking southward along the banks of Changhu Lake.

"The six counties on both sides of Changhu Lake are sparsely stationed. The largest county in De is only stationed with 5,000 soldiers. With the ability of the royal army, only 500 people can take it. Therefore, I can guarantee that it only takes six days." In time, we can capture all Jiangzhou counties outside Changcheng." At the south gate of Anqing City, Zhao Xu and Chang Wei watched the soldiers go away, Chang Wei looked confident.

Zhao Xu nodded. He was now very confident in the royal troops equipped with Qin-style rifles.

The current gap between the powerful army and them is like that hundreds of years ago when the Western Turks first landed in the New World with flintlock guns and faced the Indians.

During the Opium War, due to the huge difference in weapons generation, the Qing Dynasty suffered more than 20,000 casualties, while the other side suffered less than 500 casualties.

Facing the powerful army, he believed that the royal army could achieve huge results with minor casualties.

Because in addition to the gap in firearms, the morale of the powerful clan has also dropped to the extreme.

People from the Fourth Academy even sent him such funny information.

A member of the Fourth Hospital was discovered by Xie An's eldest son Xie Bi when he was inquiring about the news.

Not only did Xie Bi fail to arrest the member of the Fourth Academy, he instead negotiated terms with him through the member of the Fourth Academy.

It can be seen that the unstable people within the powerful clan have panicked.

After all, ants still live in vain, let alone humans.

He did not refuse this. Dividing the enemy was also a means of war.

He promised Xie Bi that as long as he could persuade Xie An to lead his troops to surrender, he could save the lives of his father and son.

As for whether Xie Bi can do it, he has expectations, but his expectations are not high.

At the same time, he will not slow down his offensive rhythm because of this.