Chapter 887: Advancing at a Rapid Speed

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After Zhao Xu's order was issued, the scouts arrived here in two days.

These days, Ma Han is working on the next order of King Yan.

He thought he would go to Songyang Pass as well, but he didn't expect to go to Yiyang this time.

"This is your Highness taking care of our Qin army and giving us a chance to show our faces." Ma Han said to Dianzhang with excitement.

The task of taking Yiyang is obviously easy and the credit is great.

After a pause, he continued to say to Dianzhang: "Let the soldiers sleep well during the day and set off at night. Your Highness will take care of us. We can't embarrass Your Highness and must fight a beautiful battle."

Dianzhang nodded and said loudly, "This is a must. Our Qin army is no worse than the royal army."

Ma Han blushed when he heard this and laughed twice, "Dianzhang, this is encouraging, but there is still some gap between our Qin army and the royal army, but it's okay to catch up."

Dianzhang also smiled awkwardly, "General, what you said is that our Qin army will definitely catch up, but even so, it's like playing for us to fight Yiyang."

"That's right." Ma Han straightened his back.

Their Qin army was only slightly inferior to the army under the command of the King of Yan.

But whether facing the Northern Di or the powerful tribes, they can beat them to tears.

The matter was agreed.

That night, the Qin army went to Yiyang.

Now, the eyes of the whole Yizhou are on Songyang Pass.

It can be said that the importance of Songyang Pass exceeds that of Yiyang City.

According to the intelligence sent by the scouts ordered by the King of Yan.

Dou Wei, including the Emperor of Southern Liang Dou Mu and the core children of the Xiao family, all went to Songyang Pass with the army this time.

Obviously, they have the worst plan.

As for the 100,000 troops in Yiyang, it is just to appease the nobles in Yizhou, so that they will not judge that they have been abandoned and cause trouble.

Or simply surrender to the King of Yan.

After three nights of trekking, the Qin army arrived at Yiyang City.

After a day of rest, at midnight on the fourth day, Ma Han launched an attack on Yiyang.

This time, they did not carry artillery, but only muskets and grenades.

A frontal attack during the day will naturally suffer more losses.

It is better to launch a night attack at night, take the opportunity to occupy the city wall, and fight street battles at dawn.

"The grenadiers are in front, the ladder team is behind, throw three rounds of grenades, climb the city wall immediately, clear the enemies on the wall, and occupy the highest point." Before the battle, Dianzhang issued an order.

After investigation, Yiyang's defense was still very tight.

However, the soldiers guarding Yiyang were obviously third-rate soldiers temporarily assembled by the private soldiers of the wealthy families.

The uniforms of these soldiers were varied, some wearing armor, carrying long swords, and some wearing cloth shirts and holding matchlock guns.

Only a small number of soldiers were holding flintlock guns and wearing the same uniforms.

"Yes." Dianzhang's order was issued, and the generals immediately returned to their respective armies.

Not long after, the grenade team groped towards the city wall in the dark.

Standing 30 meters away from the city wall, they threw three rounds of grenades at the city wall in succession, and the city wall was suddenly ablaze.

Then, other soldiers rushed to the city wall carrying the ladders made temporarily during the day.

Many soldiers followed the ladder team.

The ladders were close to the city wall, and they immediately climbed up.

"Kill!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"..."

After climbing the city wall, the Qin soldiers rushed towards the enemy soldiers with bayonets on their Qin-style rifles, shouting and killing.

When they came close to them, they would stab them.

If they were far away, they would shoot with their guns.

Three rounds of grenades had almost cleared out the enemy soldiers on the city wall.

The remaining enemy soldiers were quickly cleared.

The Qin soldiers immediately occupied the city wall.

According to the plan.

They stopped the attack after controlling the Yiyang city wall.

Instead, they pointed their guns down and defended the city wall.

It was dark at night, and it was pitch dark in the alley.

They didn't know the roads in Yiyang, and fighting in the alley at night at this moment would be more harm than good.

So, they just occupied the high ground of the city wall to prevent the opponent's counterattack.

But to their surprise, after taking down the city wall, the expected counterattack did not come.

After daybreak, something even more surprising happened to them.

A large number of powerful clans led their soldiers to the city wall with white flags and surrendered to them.

"It's almost done. The civil strife in Dasong will be quelled." Ma Han and Dianzhang came to the city wall and looked at this scene, and he sighed.

Just as the King of Yan judged, at this point, only the core layer of the powerful clans will continue to fight with them.

They hated the King of Yan for taking away their power, but they were afraid of losing the war, being captured by the King of Yan, and finally being executed.

The lower class of the powerful clans and powerful clans had a choice.

Seeing the King of Yan recover one state after another, the territory controlled by the powerful clans became smaller and smaller.

Now, they were squeezed into this small place in the southwest, and their confidence was naturally shaken.

Still following the powerful clans, it was just a monk ringing the bell for a day.

As soon as the King of Yan's army came, they were scared to pee their pants.

Rather than dying in battle, it is better to surrender.

Although there are no hundreds or thousands of acres of good farmland, at least they have their lives.

If I can get six mu of land in the future, I can make a living.

Moreover, I can work in a workshop or do business in the future.

"Yes, Yiyang is like this, and the cities south of Yizhou will probably surrender as well." Dianzhang nodded, "It's a pity that all the wealth in the Nanliang treasury has been transported away. Those were the things in Jinling City before."

Ma Han pursed his lips and snorted coldly. He said, "Don't be afraid of this. Your Highness mentioned this matter when we were chatting. Seeing that the situation is over, the remaining powerful families will definitely flee with a lot of wealth. Moreover, the people of the West are not kind people. The plan to stir up the civil strife in Dasong has failed. They will definitely make as much money as they can."

Clearing his throat, he continued, "But as your highness said, we will make them pay ten times, a hundred times, or a thousand times the amount they took away in the future. At that time, we will say that they stole as much wealth as they stole from us."

Dianzhang nodded, "Your Highness still plans far ahead. It's not so easy for us to take advantage of it."

The two chatted for a while and then led the Qin army to take over the entire Yiyang City.

However, although most of the Yiyang troops surrendered, some still resisted.

After a few small battles, Yiyang was completely under the control of the Qin army.

Then, Ma Han left 20,000 troops in Yiyang and ordered Dianzhang to lead the remaining troops to the south to capture other Yizhou cities and completely control Yizhou.

For the next six days, the Qin army marched all the way.

As they expected, they often fired a few shots and threw a few grenades in the remaining cities, and the opponents surrendered.

Whether it was a county town or a county town, the three to five thousand or two to three thousand soldiers were simply not worth a single blow.