Steel Dynasty - Chapter 742

[Chapter 741 The Haze of War]

“General Ye.”

Yue Yun and Ye Qingyun gave each other a military salute at the Haigu City dock.

Looking at the soldiers coming off the merchant ship, Yue Yun let out a heavy breath and said, “General Ye, the barbarian army is expected to arrive in the afternoon. It depends on the general whether the ancient sea city can be defended.”

“General Yue, don’t worry. The emperor has an order to make every effort to protect Haigu City,” Ye Qingyun said.

Hearing this, the expression on Yue Yun’s face relaxed.

Then, he looked at the merchants looking around on the dock and asked, “What do these people do?”

Before Ye Qingyun could say anything, Liang Dahai added, “These are slave catchers from Qingzhou, and they all want to take advantage of this.” I will take this opportunity to capture some slaves in Goryeo.”

He proposed the slave-catching plan. His original intention was to let Liang Dahai come to Goryeo to participate in the slave-catching matter, but the current situation obviously surprised him.

Seeing Yue Yun’s confused look, Liang Dahai told Yue Yun about Xiao Ming opening up private slave hunting, and Yue Yun finally understood.

“It’s a pity. The price of a young slave in Qingzhou now is at least thirty taels of silver. As long as the slave ship only needs to catch a hundred people at a time, the profit will be three thousand taels.” Yue Yun pondered for a moment and said. .

Liang Dahai nodded, “Even so, the supply exceeds demand. Now in Qingzhou, it is not just merchants and nobles who keep slaves. It is said that wealthy people have also begun to keep slaves and cultivate the land. It may be for this reason that the emperor will allow private slaves to be captured this time.” “

Ye Qingyun looked at the slave catchers at this time. These people were all wearing armor and holding bright weapons in their hands, just like a small army.

Slave catching is a dangerous business, so many merchants will hire some extremely vicious people to do it, and they only need to provide ships and weapons.

While talking about the slaves, the group walked towards Haigu City.

When they arrived in the city, Yue Yun introduced Haigu City and the current situation in Korea to Ye Qingyun.

“It’s Bei Shan again, he’s really haunting us. It was such a pity that we didn’t kill him with the cannon in Jizhou.” Ye Qingyun said regretfully.

“No, this Bei Shan hates Dayu the most. Now in order to avenge his hatred, he will do anything.” Yue Yun said; “There is a man named Li Chengzai in this ancient sea city. He told us that this time the barbarians The reason for the truce with Japan was that Bei Shan wanted Japan’s matchlock technology.

“Li Chengzai? Is that the Korean who surrendered to you?” Ye Qingyun asked. He also read a lot of information before coming.

Yue Yun nodded, “Yes, it’s him. His father holds an important position in Liujing City. What he said should be true.”

“The secret guard doesn’t know about such an important matter. It seems that the secret guard can’t handle it either.” Something happened.” Ye Qingyun smiled bitterly and shook his head.

“It would be scary if they could know everything.” Yue Yun saw it clearly.

Ye Qingyun chuckled lightly and said, “So what if the barbarians have matchlock guns? It’s not like I have never encountered them on the battlefield. King Yan, King Zhao, and King Liang all have a group of matchlock armies. We haven’t been able to defeat them yet.” The muskets made the rats run away, and this time we came to Haigu City, we also brought some heavy muskets just made by the military workshop.”

Yue Yun showed an interested look. Now both the army and the navy are very sensitive to new equipment. , after all, the war advantages brought by weapons make them bigger and stronger.

He couldn’t help but said anxiously: “Let me see what this heavy musket is?”

Ye Qingyun was like a naughty boy eager to show off. He took Yue Yun outside, then called a soldier and asked him to bring over the heavy musket. .

After a while, two soldiers ran towards them. One of them was carrying a huge flintlock gun, and the other was carrying a wooden box.

The two stopped in front of Yue Yun. At this time, Ye Qingyun said to Yue Yun, “This is a heavy musket. For this war, the emperor personally transferred a hundred of these heavy muskets from the military workshop.”

Yue Yun His eyes were dull. It seemed to him that what was in front of him was an enlarged flintlock gun. However, in addition to being larger, the heavy musket was also different in that it had a support in the middle.

The heavy musket can be rotated up, down, left and right through this support, allowing the heavy musket to strike in any direction.

“How powerful is this?” Yue Yun sighed.

“It is more powerful than a musket. It is very good at dealing with cavalry and infantry. Setting this thing up on the city walls and city gates is enough to cause a lot of casualties to the enemy.” Ye Qingyun said confidently.

While the two were talking, a scout suddenly came to report and said to Yue Yun: “General, the barbarian vanguard has arrived at Haigu City. They are now waiting for the follow-up troops to arrive.”

Hearing this, Yue Yun and Ye Qingyun looked at each other with expressions. There is a little more solemnity.

At this time, Ye Qingyun said to Yue Yun: “General Yue, it is up to us to defend the city. This time I will let Bei Shan stay here.”

After saying that, Ye Qingyun led the soldiers without looking back .

He rushed to the north gate and climbed onto the city wall. He took out his binoculars and looked at the environment around Haigu City, and felt relieved.

This ancient sea city faces the sea, and there are mountains on the east and west sides. If the barbarians want to conquer the ancient sea city, they can only attack it from the front.

Discovering the characteristics of Haigu City, he decisively deployed soldiers and weapons on the north city wall. At the same time, he also transported heavy muskets and field artillery to the city wall.

While Ye Qingyun was preparing, the barbarian army arrived at the foot of Haigu City one after another, and the stretching barbarian army stretched into a long black dragon on the ground.

In the evening, the barbarian army seemed to have all arrived. At this time, Ye Qingyun had also completed war preparations and was just waiting for the barbarians to attack the city.

“This time the barbarians brought a lot of artillery. It seems they are preparing to use our method to open the city gate.”

Through the colors of dusk, Yue Yun saw the artillery in the barbarian army. There were a hundred artillery pieces, which made him suddenly feel a layer of pressure.

For artillery, this city gate is basically useless. Once the city gate is broken, the barbarians will drive the slave soldiers into the city and defeat them with their numerical advantage.

So after hesitating, he said to Yue Yun: “Immediately ask Li Cheng to find some sand to put in bags and pile it up at the gate of the city. As for how to pile it up, I will send someone to tell him personally.”

Yue Yun looked heavy. Yue Yun’s expression told him that this battle was not going to be easy. He nodded and went down the city wall to look for Li Chengzai himself.

He is much stronger than Yue Yun at sea, but when it comes to defending the city, he still has to listen to this experienced veteran. Now he only hopes to defend Haigu City.

PS: In case of some unexpected situation, I will resume the four-chapter update tomorrow, and I will never break my promise.

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