Chapter 620: Response

"The Qi army has withdrawn. Read М"

On the city wall, Chang Wei had been watching the battlefield. Seeing the Qi soldiers retreating south, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

Pingyuan City was taken.

The next step was just to chase and intercept the remnants of Qi.

Turning his head, he said to Qin Shan and Guan Tong: "You will lead the soldiers to take over Pingyuan City immediately."

The two responded, and each led their troops to enter from the north gate.

On the south side of Pingyuan City.

Chen Hu and Zhongli each led 10,000 cavalrymen and ambushed on the road that must be passed through the Pingyuan City ferry.

When the artillery fire in Pingyuan City stopped, a cavalryman hurried over soon.

"General, Qi was defeated, and a large number of defeated soldiers are fleeing to the Pingyuan City ferry."

Zhongli and Chen Hu looked at each other and nodded.

Returning to their respective armies, they immediately ordered to prepare for battle.

In less than half an hour, they saw a large number of Qi soldiers coming from the north.

When these soldiers entered their ambush range, a gong sounded, and a large number of cavalry rushed out of the woods, waving sabers and rushing over.

The Qi soldiers who escaped from Pingyuan City had long lost their generals and soldiers, and the generals could not find their soldiers, and it was a mess.

Now seeing a large number of cavalry rushing towards them, they were even more terrified, and they didn't care about anything, just wanted to escape.

For a while, the Qi soldiers were like headless flies, running everywhere.

"Kill!" Facing the chaotic Qi soldiers, the cavalry was like a sharp knife inserted into tofu.

They rushed into the middle of the chaotic soldiers and chopped left and right, and one Qi soldier after another fell under the saber.

The impact of more than 20,000 cavalry instantly caused heavy casualties to the Qi fleeing soldiers.

Seeing this, the Qi soldiers were even more panicked. A large number of soldiers threw away their matchlock guns and armor on their bodies, and just fled to the Pingyuan City ferry.

Han Qi and Shicun Dahe mixed in the fleeing soldiers.

While the palace soldiers were chasing the Qi soldiers, they were observing the weak position of the palace cavalry.

Seeing the Qi soldiers rushing out of a gap in the southeast, he immediately led the cavalry to kill them.

Zhongli had been watching the battlefield and found a small group of Qi cavalry trying to escape. He immediately led a thousand cavalry to kill them.

When Han Qi and Shicun Dahe broke through the gap, they saw a pair of cavalry surrounding them.

Zhongli stared at Han Qi and sneered, "Lord Han, long time no see."

When he was under Yuan Li, he had seen Han Qi many times.

Han Qi's face froze.

If he met someone else, he might still have hope of escaping.

But facing the cavalry led by Zhongli, he couldn't fly.

"Zhongli, you are an accomplice to the tiger. Neither the King of Yan nor you will have a good end. You just wait." Seeing that the hope of escaping back to Qi was slim, Han Qi shouted loudly.

Zhongli gave Han Qi a disdainful look and said, "Who is acting on behalf of heaven and who is acting as an accomplice to the evil, someone will judge it in a hundred years."

After that, he pointed his spear at Han Qi and rushed forward.

Han Qi was shocked and tried to rein in his horse and turn back.

But Zhongli's spear arrived in an instant and knocked him off his horse.

Then, Zhongli swept his spear across and knocked Shicun Dahe, who was following Han Qi, off his horse.

"Catch them all!" Zhongli shouted.

The cavalry responded loudly, jumped off their horses, and pressed Han Qi and Shicun Dahe to the ground.

The commander was captured, and the morale of the Qi soldiers was completely lost.

More and more Qi soldiers simply stopped running away, but dropped their weapons and surrendered to the cavalry.

Only a small number of Qi soldiers escaped from the battlefield.

After annihilating the scattered Qi soldiers in one fell swoop, Zhongli and Chen Hu ordered the cavalry to escort them to Pingyuan City.

Only a part of the soldiers were left to clean the battlefield and collect armor, matchlock guns and other items.

At this time, Chang Wei and the generals had already arrived at the center of Pingyuan City.

When Zhongli came with the captives, Chang Wei and the generals smiled.

Then he said: "Send the battle report to Yancheng immediately and wait for your instructions."

Two days later.

The news that the royal army had broken Pingyuan City arrived in Yancheng.

"Congratulations, Your Highness, once Pingyuan City is broken, the remaining two cities will be in your pocket."

In the reception hall of the royal palace, Ma Han bowed to Zhao Xu to congratulate him.

Three days ago, the King of Yan ordered him to go to Yancheng for a meeting, and today, he just arrived.

Zhao Xu heard this and chuckled twice, "This was originally within my expectation. I only care about reducing the casualties of the soldiers."

Ma Han continued to flatter, "Your Highness loves his soldiers like his own sons. No wonder the royal army is invincible."

Zhao Xu waved his hand, "Okay, I summoned you here not to listen to your flattery, but to entrust you with important matters."

Ma Han's expression suddenly became serious, and he looked like he was listening attentively.

After a pause, Zhao Xu said, "According to the news I have received, Qi seems to be joining forces with other powerful families to resist me."

"I don't care if the powerful families join forces to attack, but if Beidi and Dongying get involved, it will be troublesome."

"You have also heard the battle report just now. Flintlock rifles have appeared in the Qi army that fought with the royal guards this time. If they are allowed to continue to collude with each other, the division of Dasong will continue for a long time, or even indefinitely."

"So, I plan to start from two places. First, take back Qinzhou and Yongzhou to cut off the connection between Nanliang and Beidi. Second, after a new batch of warships are launched, I plan to let Zhou Yi annihilate the Dongying navy and Wufeng pirates, and cut off the exchanges between Dongying and the Han family. Then, I can deal with them with peace of mind."

Ma Han nodded slowly.

In his opinion, the decision of the King of Yan was very correct.

Now Beidi and Dongying are the two initiators of the cholera in Dasong.

They are like the evil people who keep feeding meat to the tiger.

As long as they are there, the tiger will become stronger and stronger, and will be more fierce when biting Yanzhou.

The most important thing is that fighting back and forth is all internal consumption of Dasong.

Dongying and Beidi only need to add fuel to the fire to weaken Dasong, which is simply shameless.

Then, his eyes suddenly lit up. Qinzhou and Yongzhou are a wound in the heart of every Ma family member.

Now, they finally have the opportunity to take back these two states.

"What does your highness want me to do?" he asked.

"This king will provide a batch of new muskets and artillery for your army, and will also send generals to assist in training." Zhao Xu said.

During this period, Ma Han has quelled the rebellion in Sizhou, and the Ma family who persisted have been recognized by him.

From then on, the Ma family's army will not only be the Ma family's army, but also the court's army.

Therefore, he planned to make the firearms of the Ma family army reach the same level as the Wangfu's personal army.

After they adapted to the new firearms, he would let Ma Han lead the Ma family troops to recapture Qinzhou and Yongzhou.

Ma Han was overjoyed when he heard this and hurriedly said, "Thank you, Your Highness."

Zhao Xu nodded, but he changed the subject and said, "But before that, your Ma family army will accept a group of generals from the military school."

Ma Han was stunned for a moment, then relieved. Since he had surrendered to the King of Yan, he didn't care about this, so he said, "No problem."

Zhao Xu smiled deeply.

This group of generals was a group of special generals he had cultivated since he built the military school.

Their duties were not to lead troops to fight like Chang Wei and others, but to be responsible for the ideological education of soldiers.

In the army, their power was comparable to that of the main general, and they could supervise each other.

In this way, he indirectly controlled the Ma family's army.