Steel Dynasty - Chapter 656

[Chapter 655 Death of King Yan]

PS: Today’s fifth update, there are still two chapters, but they will be a little later.

September 16th.

After five days of marching, the King of Huainan and Cui Shangan led one hundred thousand Huainan Army soldiers to arrive at Yingcheng and set up camp.

After three days of preparations, Cui Shangan ordered artillery to bombard Yingzhou City, causing chaos in Yingzhou City.

“Artillery, artillery again, why does King Huainan have artillery? This must be Xiao Ming’s doing, it must be him.”

King Yan in the temporary palace was furious. The reason why he was so confident in Yingzhou City was that there were sixty artillery installed in the city. , these artillery pieces were part of the artillery pieces he purchased from Qingzhou.

It was precisely because of his confidence in the power of these artillery to defend the city that he scorned King Huainan, because he believed that his artillery would definitely defeat King Huainan’s army.

But now everything was beyond his expectation. King Huainan not only had artillery, but the range of the artillery was far beyond that of Yingzhou City’s artillery.

Now Yingzhou City could only be bombarded by King Huainan’s artillery in vain, but he could not use artillery to fight back, which made him suddenly furious.

Only then did he realize that he had been deceived by Xiao Ming. Xiao Ming had never sold the real artillery to them.

“Father, our city wall will collapse if this continues.” Cui Cheng’s words were a little difficult.

One hundred thousand people besieged the city. The densely packed soldiers besieged Yingzhou City. Now they can neither fight nor escape.

“So what if it collapses? How can my soldiers rely on the city wall.” King Yan suddenly pulled out his sword at this time, “This time I will personally lead the army to fight to the death with the King of Huainan.”

After that, King Yan He strode towards Nancheng, which was the key area for King Huainan’s attack.

Cui Cheng and Cui Hao did not rush forward with the King of Chu this time. Cui Cheng looked at Cui Hao and said: “Now the wealthy families in the city have changed their minds. They will never join us in fighting against the King of Huainan, and my father did not listen to the advice and told Xiao Ming “What should I do now?”

Cui Hao said with despair on his face, “I have been in Qingzhou for more than a month. From what I saw and heard, I still expected that the three kings’ coalition would be defeated, but I never thought that it would be defeated so completely. Now Xiao Ming’s power is great, and Yan State will definitely bear the brunt.

“What’s the use of mentioning this now? I just ask you if Xiao Ming told you how he would spare Yan State.” road.

“Xiao Ming did ask Pang Yukun to tell me about this matter before my foolish brother left. He said that unless King Yan took the blame and voluntarily gave up his title and title, he would not let Yan go.” Cui Hao said.

Cui Cheng suddenly fell silent upon hearing this. In his opinion, this matter was absolutely impossible. He sighed deeply, drew his sword and chased after King Yan.

Seeing Cui Cheng leaving, Cui Hao turned around and walked in the opposite direction. When Xiao Ming ascended the throne, he realized that the three kings’ alliance might not achieve anything.

Pang Yukun did say that to him, but he also mentioned that if he was willing to help, he would ensure his prosperity and wealth in the future.

He is only the second son of King Yan. To him, the land of this feudal kingdom will not be his in any case. In this situation, he is more and more worried about his own life, not what happens to the Yan Kingdom.

After leaving the temporary palace, Cui Hao walked straight into an alley. When he arrived at a house, he knocked six times and the door was opened.

At this time, some wealthy families had gathered in the courtyard. These wealthy families were all opposed to King Yan continuing to fight Huainan. After all, the outcome was now decided, and not everyone was willing to die with King Yan.

“Your Majesty, when will we start the army?” asked a wealthy clan leader.

“My father has already boarded the city. We are just waiting for King Huainan’s artillery to blow down the city wall. At this time, the city will be in chaos. That’s when we will raise our troops.” Cui Hao’s eyes flickered.

He thought to himself: Father, you are unkind to me, so don’t blame me for being unjust. My eldest brother is enjoying the prosperity of Yan State, but you sent me to Qingzhou to suffer.

All the wealthy clans nodded their heads after hearing this, waiting for the city to be broken.

Outside the city, fifty artillery pieces continuously bombarded the south city gate. Deep holes continued to appear in the fragile south city wall under the cannons. These holes continued to expand until there was a “boom” and the entire city gate exploded. collapse.

“Father, the city wall has fallen.” Cui Shangan said in surprise, and he immediately prepared to lead his troops into the city.

“Slow! Now is not the time.” King Huainan looked at the collapsed city gate on the east side of the main entrance, and then looked at the west side. At this time, the artillery on the west city gate was still intact. He said, “Now concentrate the artillery to bombard the west city wall. Once the city wall collapses, attack the city immediately.”

Cui Shangan looked at Xicheng and realized something. He said, “The artillery given by the emperor is really powerful. King Yan’s artillery can’t hit us at all, but we keep hitting it.”

King Huainan looked gloomy and said: “This is the power of the emperor. He has long been wary of us vassal kings, so he sold some inferior artillery to King Yan, King Liang, King Zhao and others.”

” Could it be that the emperor has already seen that there is chaos in Dayu Congress?” Cui Shangan asked in shock.

King Huainan said: “Who can know this? But this is enough to show that our emperor is not a simple character.”

While the two were talking, the wall of the West City also collapsed under the bombardment. At this time, King Huainan and Cui Shangan was shocked at the same time.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of war drums resounded throughout the battlefield, and the soldiers of the Huainan Army, whose morale was greatly boosted, roared and rushed towards Yingzhou City.

In Yingzhou City, King Yan and his guards were embarrassed to avoid the collapsed city wall. Through the collapsed city wall, he saw the soldiers rushing towards Yingzhou City like a tide.

King Yan’s eyes were blood red. He held his sword and shouted: “Soldiers, fight to the death with me and the enemy.”

His voice fell. Except for the personal guards who shouted loudly, the other soldiers were indifferent, and some of them were callous. The strong men who had just been recruited into the army were even trembling with fear.

How had they ever seen such a powerful weapon like artillery, not to mention that they were forced to join the army.

“Kill!”

The Huainan Army poured in from the two collapse sites at the same time, and the well-equipped soldiers immediately started fighting with the soldiers defending the city.

Some wealthy families who supported King Yan also led their tribes to fight bloody battles with the Huainan Army. For a time, the city wall was full of miserable howls and sounds of fighting. The bodies of soldiers from both sides continued to fall on the ground, and blood was flowing on the ground.

King Yan led his bodyguards to go into battle in person. Just as he was about to kill, loud shouts of killing suddenly rang out in the city, and a group of wealthy tribesmen with red stripes tied on their foreheads rushed out of the streets and alleys.

It’s just that they didn’t fight the Huainan army, but fought bloody battles with the Chu army and the wealthy tribes who supported him. At this time, the Chu army, whose morale was already low, collapsed instantly.

King Yan seemed to have lost all his strength at this time. While he was stunned, a Huainan Army general stabbed his sword into King Yan’s chest.

Spitting out a mouthful of blood, King Yan gradually sank into darkness.

(End of chapter)