Chapter 616 Attack!

"Your Majesty, you really think alike. I will accept this." Xie Duan's eyes flickered.

He had intended to unite with Qi to resist the King of Yan.

He did not expect that Qi would come to him before he made a move.

Moreover, he was given a great gift that he had been longing for.

With such a good opportunity in front of him, how could he refuse?

The envoy of Qi nodded and smiled. This was within his expectations.

No powerful family could refuse the temptation of flintlock rifles.

Moreover, the Xie family and the King of Yan had a dispute over the imperial lineage.

"In this case, please sign this contract, Your Majesty." The envoy of Qi took a document from the official beside him and presented it to Xie Duan.

Xie Duan took it and read the document carefully.

The content of the contract was very simple, that is, to conclude an offensive and defensive alliance against the King of Yan.

If one of the contracting parties is attacked by the King of Yan, the other contracting parties must provide necessary resources such as soldiers and food.

If the majority of the contracting parties agree to attack the King of Yan, the other contracting parties must also send troops to support.

"Go and get the jade seal." Xie Duan said to the eunuch beside him.

Zhao Gang was just a puppet of the Xie family. At present, the power of the court was in his hands. It was enough for him to agree to this contract.

The envoy of Qi nodded with satisfaction. He was the first of the four envoys to arrive at the destination, and the first contract was successfully signed.

This was a good start.

In fact, he also knew that there was no essential contradiction between the powerful families. At present, only Qi, the matchmaker, was needed to complete the alliance.

At the same time.

The other three envoys were rushing to Wu, Nanliang and Nanping in the southernmost part.

Three days later, the envoys of Qi who were going to Wu arrived in Lincheng.

Like the envoys of Qi in Jinling, after seeing Liang Kai, they first presented the flintlock gun and demonstrated it in person in front of Liang Kai.

This new type of firearm, which was different from the matchlock gun, immediately caused a shock in the court of Wu.

Although Liang Kai was happy to see the people of Qi and Dongying fighting to the death with the King of Yan, the temptation of the flintlock gun was obviously hard to refuse.

This made him realize the gap between Wu's muskets and Qi's.

If this gap cannot be made up, even if the King of Yan and Qi decide the outcome, Wu's poor muskets cannot win the Qi army with flintlock rifles, let alone profit from it.

Thinking of this, he signed the contract without hesitation.

"Go back and tell your Majesty that our Wu and Qi have worked together to deal with the King of Yan before. I hope the two countries will continue to make peace and deal with the threat from the north." Liang Kai said, stamping his seal on the contract.

Although he said so, he secretly thought that at that time he only needed to work without exerting himself.

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Southern Liang.

Only two days after Wu, the envoys of Qi arrived in Xiangcheng.

Dou Wei and Dou Mu were delighted to learn the purpose and promise of the envoys of Qi.

After signing the contract and sending off the Qi envoy, Dou Mu said, "Father is really wise. He determined that other clans would sooner or later join forces with our Dou family to attack Yan, and now it has come true."

Dou Wei showed a proud look. This time, the King of Yan attacked the three cities in Hebei, which not only reunited the clans, but also allowed the clans to get flintlock rifles, which greatly increased their strength.

Before, any of them was at a disadvantage when facing the King of Yan.

Now, the clans are united, and Nanliang has the help of Beidi, and Qi has the cooperation of Dongying.

The combined strength of them seems to be much greater than that of the King of Yan.

It will be difficult for the King of Yan to defeat each one and unify Dasong.

In this way, all countries will be stable.

In the future, even if he Nanliang cannot unify Dasong, but

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Outside Pingyuan City.

While Qi united with other clans, the aerial artillery here was half built.

During this period, the scattered soldiers were not idle, and they kept attacking the Qi soldiers on the city wall.

In addition, the royal guards in the camp only trained as usual every day and did not take any other actions.

Faced with the strange buildings that kept growing taller, Han Qi in the city became more and more anxious, but he did not dare to lead his troops out of the city to fight.

He knew very well that it was tantamount to seeking death.

Another ten days passed.

Eight aerial artillery platforms were finally built and put into use.

On this day, Chang Wei ordered the artillery to pull the field artillery onto the aerial artillery platform and aim at the north wall of Pingyuan City.

These aerial artillery platforms are higher than the walls of Pingyuan City.

Now, the artillery has changed from looking up at Pingyuan City to looking down at Pingyuan City.

When all the field artillery were on the artillery platform.

The war began.

"Soldiers, we have enough ammunition this time, don't be afraid of wasting it, and hit it hard." On an aerial artillery platform, Chang Wei pointed at Pingyuan City and shouted loudly.

During this period, the King of Yan transferred a lot of ammunition from Yancheng.

According to him, he was afraid that the firepower of the royal guards was insufficient, resulting in unnecessary casualties of soldiers.

So he specifically ordered people to carry out saturation bombardment on Pingyuan City, making the enemy cry for their parents.

The artillerymen grinned when they heard this.

For them, having enough shells is like having enough food, which means "delightful".

So they answered loudly: "Yes, General!"

Chang Wei nodded and passed the order to the other seven artillery batteries.

Of course, this order also applies to the artillerymen in charge of mortars, musketeers and balloonists.

Everything was ready, and Chang Wei issued the order to attack.

"Boom boom boom..."

At almost the same time, the sound of artillery was heard from eight aerial artillery batteries at the same time.

One by one, the shells flew over a distance of 800 meters and hit the top of Pingyuan City.

At this moment, standing on the artillery platform, the artillery commander could clearly see the position of Qi's artillery on the wall of Pingyuan City through the telescope.

They specifically focused on suppressing the enemy's artillery.

To prevent them from causing heavy casualties to the charging soldiers of the royal palace.

When the sound of the artillery sounded, the heavy infantry was in front, and the musketeers were behind, slowly walking towards Pingyuan City.

The mortar soldiers followed the siege soldiers.

When they were four hundred meters away from Pingyuan City, they stopped and aimed the mortar at the wall of Pingyuan City.

Lime bullets and shotgun shells drew curves in the air, exploded on the top of Pingyuan City, and bloomed into flowers of fire.

"Damn it, it turns out that the ghost thing is used to place artillery. How do the generals of the King of Yan know so many strange things!"

On the steps leading to the wall of Pingyuan City, Han Qi jumped in anger.

Now, he didn't dare to climb the wall at all.

One by one, the shells whistled and hit the wall directly. The soldiers hit by the shells were either dead or injured.

"Marshal, the soldiers of Yanzhou are attacking the city." At this moment, a general of Qi State came to Han Qi and said urgently.

"Quick, let the artillery push the artillery to the front, replace all the grapeshot, and hit them hard." Han Qi shouted.

Then he asked: "Where is General Shicun?"

"General Shicun went to the city. He said he wanted to arrange the streets and alleys to fight street battles with the soldiers of Yanzhou." The general replied.

Han Qi's face fell immediately after hearing this.

The city had been arranged long ago, so why did he need to go there again.

This Shicun Dahe clearly saw that the situation was not right and was unwilling to go to the city to supervise the battle.

The Japanese were indeed unreliable.