Steel Dynasty - Chapter 775

[Chapter 774: Putting an end to the chaos]

A dim afterglow fell from the western sky into Yazhou City.

On the street, the musketeers carried their muskets and marched neatly towards Songzhou City. They had just ended their ambush against two barbarian teams of ten thousand people.

Now they couldn’t rest and had to continue to hunt down the remaining three ten thousand men.

At this time, the morale of the soldiers was high. Seeing that all the invaders were about to be wiped out, they already had the joy of victory in their hearts.

Luo Quan did not set off with Lu Fei and Qi Guangyi. He would be responsible for the custody of the prisoners in Yazhou City. The ambush outside the city today was very beautiful.

In addition to the barbarian cavalry, 50,000 barbarian slave soldiers were captured. He will work with Di Ying to prevent these slaves from causing chaos in the rear.

Originally, he could have killed these people just like the barbarians in Songzhou City, but his reason finally made him choose to keep these prisoners.

This time Bashu was so seriously damaged by these people that it would be better to leave them to serve as hard labor in Bashu for life than to kill them all.

Of course, this is only for ordinary barbarian soldiers. None of those barbarian generals can escape the judgment of Dayu Kingdom.

Watching Lu Fei and his soldiers leave, Luo Quan said to Di Ying: “Escort Bodo’s body and the remaining barbarian generals to Qingzhou and ask the emperor to judge.”

“Yes, general.”

Di Ying responded, and he led The soldiers drove all the barbarian generals into prison cars, sent soldiers to take these people to Yizhou, and then took a boat from Yizhou to Qingzhou.

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Songzhou City.

Facing the trench in front of him, Aqige frowned. Although many scouts were lost, a group of scouts returned to tell them about Yazhou City.

Knowing that Yazhou City had been breached, Aqige and even Bodo had no chance of survival. After fighting against the remaining two tens of thousands of troops, they went straight to Songzhou, which they thought was weakly defended, and prepared to return to the grassland.

Aqige had long been dissatisfied with Bodo’s greedy character, and all his plans before departure were messed up by Bodo.

It’s just that this time Bodo is leading the team and they can only obey orders, but since Bodo is either dead or captured, he can no longer take care of him.

Winter is coming soon, and if they cannot bring the looted food back to the grassland, more people will die this winter.

Thinking of this, Aqige’s eyes became fierce, and he shouted loudly: “Dismount, we must capture Songzhou City.”

Now he only had cavalry under his command, but cavalry could not attack the city, so he only Soldiers can be ordered to abandon their horses and attack the city on foot.

When he decided to come to Songzhou, he judged that there must not be many defenders here, because most of the people were in Yazhou to encircle Hakata.

Now looking at the not very dense soldiers on the city wall, he couldn’t help but feel a little proud. Maybe he could return to the grassland this time.

But he soon discovered something was wrong. After his soldiers launched a charge, layers of muskets suddenly protruded from the ditch in front of the city gate.

With a burst of gunfire, the charging barbarian soldiers fell one after another. At this time, the soldiers on the city wall were also shooting from a long distance.

Bullets were flying, and the barbarian cavalry were like moths flying into a flame. However, no matter how fierce they were, they often fell on the charging road before they even came into contact with the soldiers of Dayu.

At this moment, the conquest musket gave full play to its long-range advantage. The soldiers in the ditch and the soldiers on the city wall covered each other and fired. The barbarian soldiers suffered heavy losses for a while.

Aqige was stunned. The first batch of four thousand soldiers who charged all fell down before they reached the trench.

His body was trembling, and then he ordered the second group of soldiers to charge. Now he had no way out. If Songzhou City was not broken, he would never be able to return to the grassland.

It’s just that the five thousand people who charged this time once again repeated the fate of the first wave of soldiers. These brave enough barbarian soldiers fell into a pool of blood amidst the intensive shooting.

Within an hour, two consecutive attacks failed, and Aqige’s body became cold.

The Chongqing army he encountered this time was obviously different from the past. This advantage in weapons made it impossible for him to win.

Looking at Songzhou City in silence, Aqige glanced at the remaining barbarian cavalry in despair. He then reined in his horse and headed towards Chang’an.

The remaining barbarian cavalry followed closely.

One day after Aqige left, Qi Guangyi led the cavalry to the foot of Songzhou City.

Looking at the corpses of the barbarian soldiers in front of Songzhou City, he realized that he was late.

“General, the hunting cavalry has been following the barbarians, and they are heading towards Chang’an.” A soldier reported to Qi Guangyi.

Hearing this, Qi Guangyi snorted angrily and said, “They are seeking death. Their horses have no fodder to eat. I wonder how far they can go.”

After that, he led his troops to pursue them and met them in front of Songzhou City. The number of remaining barbarian cavalry was no longer fearful, which made Qi Guangyi even bolder.

While Qi Guangyi continued to encircle and suppress the barbarian cavalry, the defender of Songzhou City also sent the news to Yazhou City.

Knowing that the remaining barbarian cavalry were still fleeing, he frowned, and then he called a general of the hunting cavalry and said: “You should immediately send three teams of hunting cavalry, one of which will go to Yizhou. Tell the people along the way, With the heads of barbarian soldiers, they can collect a bounty of five taels from the government offices of various states. Another team went to Chang’an to spread the news. The remaining team went directly to Juyongguan to inform Luo Hong, asking him to send cavalry to search for the remaining barbarian cavalry. “

“Yes, general.” The general of the hunting cavalry responded and walked out.

Luo Quan waved his hand and asked him to convey the order quickly.

He only did this to completely eliminate the barbarian soldiers in Bashu. Although they captured many barbarian soldiers in yesterday’s war, some of them were still on the run.

Bashu is a big country, and these barbarian soldiers can be anywhere, so only by asking the people to look for participating barbarian cavalry can they quickly eliminate the remaining soldiers in one fell swoop.

The same goes for going to Chang’an, where there are more wealthy families, and they will be happy to use this opportunity to show their face in front of the current emperor.

After giving this order, Luo Quan prepared to rest for three days before returning to Qingzhou. The army was greatly consumed outside, and Bashu suffered another disaster. He was unwilling to add any more burden to this place.

At the same time, Lu Fei naturally failed outside Songzhou City. According to the predetermined plan, he continued to lead his troops northward. What will happen? After resting in Chang’an, return to Jinling City.

However, in order to prevent the Tubo and barbarians from attacking Songzhou again, this time he decided to station the musketeers led by Di Ying in Songzhou City, waiting for Yizhou Prefecture to train a group of soldiers before replacing them.

(End of chapter)