"Hold that intersection and don't let the Mongols rush in." Sun Xing pointed to the intersection in front, where Mongolian soldiers were pouring into the city.

"Stop lying, the commander will never come to rescue us." The company commander roared and rushed forward with the remnants of his troops who had just withdrawn.

When the battle reaches this point, there is no order at all. Bayonet versus bayonet, machete versus machete. One is cut down, and another one pops up behind him. Killing and being killed are both instantaneous things, and he just chopped down the last second.

If you drop someone else's head, your head will appear on the ground in the next second.

"The commander will come to save us! The commander will come." Sun Xing muttered mechanically, shooting again and again with the rifle in his hand, knocking out the Mongolian soldiers who rushed in.

No one believed what Sun Xing said. Everyone knew that Yinchuan City would be captured today. Several guys who knelt on the ground and surrendered were chopped down by the Mongolians who were red-eyed after being killed.

Alabutan said that he would kill all the life here, including every chicken and dog. He would make this place a dead place to pay homage to those dead Mongolian warriors.

Sun Yuanhua stood on the tower and watched the Ming troops being killed one by one. Farther away, a large number of Mongolian cavalry rushed towards Yinchuan City crazily. The fall of Yinchuan City today is inevitable!

"It's over! It's all over!" Sun Yuanhua closed his eyes. He still needed the integrity of a scholar-bureaucrat. Perhaps after thousands of years of history, he will also have a name like Wen Tianxiang.

"Master Magistrate, look!" Just as he was about to jump up, Chang Sui beside him suddenly pointed in the distance and shouted loudly.

Sun Yuanhua opened his eyes and saw more than a dozen black spots in the sky in the distance.

What is that thing? An eagle? Absolutely no way, this thing is almost as big as thousands of eagles.

"What is that thing?" Galdan was attracted by Na Ke'er's scream and looked in the direction of his finger.

"It's over!" Dorgon's heart dropped as he glanced at the sky. The feeling of his heart sinking almost made him fall off his horse.

They were relatively close and could clearly see a huge thing flying in the air in the distance. They didn't know what to call that thing. They were all round and bulging, and their bodies were bigger than the towers of Yinchuan City.

"Retract your troops! If you withdraw your troops and leave now, you can save less losses." Dorgon said lightly, and then called his people to start packing their things.

"What the hell is this?" Galdan shouted loudly.

"Li Xiao is here!" Dorgon mounted his horse and ran wildly into the depths of the grassland without looking back.

"Li Xiao? Is he a god?" Galdan didn't understand what would be scary even if Li Xiao came. There were tens of thousands of Mongolian soldiers on his side, but there were only a dozen or twenty of them on his head.

Soon Galdan heard a deafening roar, and the war horse under his crotch neighed involuntarily. Because the bridle was caught, it could only keep spinning on the ground. It was obvious that it wanted to leave this place and escape far away.

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Dorgon's team was already on the road, and they even abandoned their yurts in order to escape.

"Is this thing so scary?" Galdan was very confused.

When the first bomb weighing more than a thousand kilograms fell on a group of stormtroopers, Galdan immediately lost his doubts.

The bomb was thrown on the ground, directly killing five Mongolian soldiers. Then, the entire ground was lifted up. The sky-high soil and gunpowder smoke, accompanied by white air waves and shock waves, quickly spread around the center of the exploded circle. The spreading

In the process, the shock wave swallowed up everything.

Fifty meters away from the explosion point, both men and horses vomited blood and fell to the ground. They were not killed by the explosion, but were shocked to death. As for the ground within fifty meters, it was basically

No grass grows. This power looks more powerful than heavy rockets.

"Blow the horn and retreat!" Galdan immediately led the guards away without thinking. The speed of running was even three points faster than Dorgon.

Sun Zhijie looked at the smoke rising into the sky below her feet and kept giving orders to release. Each bomb weighed 1,200 kilograms, and a total of ten such bombs were carried on the airship.

Whenever flying over a group of cavalry, Sun Zhijie would order one to be dropped. Then, a huge explosion would engulf everything.

The Mongolian soldiers were crazy. They didn't understand why such a thing would appear in the sky. Some of them simply jumped off their horses and kowtowed to the sky, hoping that if they did so, the Immortal God would let them go. Some of them were so excited that they immediately turned around and patted their horses.

Walk.

"Airship!" Sun Xing's eyes widened with excitement.

"The commander is here to save us! The commander is here to save us!" Sun Xing jumped up and down, as happy as a child.

The airship plowed the ground and began to drop bombs. Li Xiao told the bombardier that this was called carpet bombing. The bombs dropped exploded one after another, and the Mongolian soldiers below were engulfed in smoke one after another. People on the airship could even see,

In the smoke, fragments of human body parts were constantly being thrown into the air by the air waves.

In this unobstructed prairie, the Mongolian cavalry had no place to hide or store. They could only watch the monsters flying over from the sky, dropping bombs and destroying everything.

Soon after the airships dropped their bombs, they began to lower their altitude. The machine guns under the pods strafed the cavalry on the ground!

Although the firing rate of 180 rounds per minute was a bit slow, the Mongolian cavalry was still beaten to the point of being knocked off their feet.

Thousands of Mongolian soldiers fell dead on the grass. The Mongolian soldiers who had been shouting crazily just now were all wailing in pain or running away. No one thought about attacking Yinchuan City, or killing in Yinchuan City. Their

There is only one belief in my mind.

Run! The further away from this place the better!

"Long live the Marshal! Long live the Marshal!" I don't know who shouted the first sentence, and then everyone in Yinchuan City shouted.

Sun Xing stood up with his bayonet-mounted rifle and shouted loudly: "The commander is here to save us. Everyone, follow me and charge. Kill these Mongolian bastards! Kill them!"

The leader took the lead in charging, and the soldiers naturally followed closely. A group of people held rifles and rushed towards the Mongolian soldiers like madmen.

The Mongolian soldiers who were so fierce just now have now turned into homeless dogs. They only wanted to escape for their lives, and how could they think of fighting the Ming army. When they saw the Ming army rushing towards them like crazy, one of them took the lead and followed him at the back door.

, and one runs faster than the other.

The bow-legged legs trained by riding horses for a long time look very funny when running, but they can't run fast.

As long as the Ming army caught up, it would be a bayonet in the back. Those who ran farther became targets for shooting. This was not a battle, but a one-sided massacre.

The Mongolian soldiers who entered Yinchuan City were all killed in just twenty minutes.

The sound of gunfire gradually stopped, and some people sat on the ground and gasped for breath. Some people hugged and cheered excitedly, and some were walking around with guns, not knowing what they wanted to do.

There had been wailing just now, and everyone thought this was the last day of their lives.

The airship landed, and when Sun Zhijie stepped off the airship, she was cheered like a hero.

"Sun Zhijie! Haha, why did you go to open this thing?" Sun Xing excitedly rushed over to hug his old classmate when they met.

"Okay Sun Xing, the city of Yinchuan has been beaten like this, your life is very tough." Sun Zhijie punched Sun Xing in the chest.

I was used to joking when I was in the military academy. You punch me and I kick you. It is normal for young men to fight and fight.

"Dad! This is Sun Zhijie, Sun Shoufu's grandson, my classmate in the military academy." Seeing his father, Sun Xing quickly introduced him to Sun Yuanhua.

"Hello, Lord Prefect." Sun Zhijie stood up straight and saluted Sun Yuanhua.

"It turns out he is the grandson of Sun Shoufu, no wonder! No wonder!" Sun Yuanhua smiled from ear to ear. Just a moment ago, he was thinking about committing suicide by jumping off a tower, but now he feels like he has lived in two different lives.

"I would like to report to the magistrate, the commander-in-chief has led the Fourth Division to the north. Please persist, magistrate, for a few more days, and the soldiers and horses of the fourth division will be able to reach Yinchuan. By then, even a hundred thousand Mongolian troops will not be in the eyes of our army."

"Thank you! Thank you very much! I have thanked the commander-in-chief on behalf of Sun Yuanhua. I will do my best to defend Yinchuan and prevent the Mongolian Tatars from invading an inch of our Ming Dynasty land." Sun Yuanhua looked like he was righteous, but in fact all the Mongolian soldiers ran away.

It is no longer possible to gather together and launch the kind of attack just now. With morale alone, the powerful Ming army can completely defeat the opponent.

Sometimes morale is quite important.

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"Is the airship flying back?" Li Xiao heard the roar outside and asked casually.

"We are back without any losses. We have transported a company to Yinchuan City in advance. Without bombs tomorrow, we can transport a battalion there. As long as our fourth division passes one battalion, the Mongols will no longer be able to invade Yinchuan City. Marshal, please wait.

If you need it in Xi'an, there is no need to make such a trip." Zu Dashou was very confident in his men.

"I heard that the Mongols used a large number of firearms. I have to go take a closer look. Tomorrow I will take an airship to Yinchuan to see what the fighting was like." Li Xiao dropped the pencil in his hand and looked away from the map.

"This can't be done! Marshal, when you came here, the chief assistant specifically told you that the airship is not safe yet and you must not ride it. Just do your best and don't make it difficult for the lower officials." I heard that Li Xiao wanted to take the airship.

, the soul of the ancestor’s death is rising.

I don't dare to let this man sit on this thing. If something happens, my head will definitely not be able to bear it.

"Hey...!" Li Xiao sighed. When he left the capital, Sun Chengzong made three agreements with him. The first one was that Li Xiao was not allowed to take the airship.

After all, this thing is a new thing, and from time to time there will be accidents and temporary landings during test flights. If Li Xiao's airship lands temporarily due to mechanical failure and is found by the Mongols, it will be in big trouble.

Seeing that Li Xiao was silent, Zu Dashou quickly changed the subject.

"Commander, this airship is really good. Xi'an is 1,500 miles away from Yinchuan, and this thing can fly back and forth in a day. You can allocate a few ships later, and I guarantee that the northwest will be impregnable for you. If the Mongols come back,

If you can take one step further east, you will chop off my ancestor Dashou's head."

"Ha! Ha! How many ships can I give you? What you have in mind is beautiful!

I drilled a hole in a mountain in Sichuan to get some oil out, and this time I put it all in. Besides, there are often sandstorms in the northwest, and the sky was clear just now. When a sandstorm comes, it's called flying sand and rocks.

Even though the airship looks big, it is actually very fragile. It will definitely crash if it encounters a sandstorm. The gasoline engine is also unstable and always suffers from mechanical failures of one kind or another. All these will take time to test. This time it is a risk.

If you go out, don't think about this thing in three or two years." Li Xiao shook his head helplessly. After all, the technology of airships is still immature.

Today's airships can only fly up to 90 kilometers per hour. The load capacity is not small. The huge hull can carry a weight of 18,000 kilograms, which is converted into nine tons. That kind of super large model, one

It can carry ten bombs weighing 1,200 kilograms. It can also carry a thirty-barreled machine gun and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition.

If used to transport troops, it can transport two infantry platoons and equipment at one time.

Originally, the northwest was a vast area, and the distances between cities were too far. Airships are absolutely a good thing, but it’s a pity! Without perfect weather forecast and communication support, there is no way to deploy them yet.

After being beaten away by airships, the Mongols never harassed Yinchuan City again.

After Sun Yuanhua waited timidly for several days, he finally arrived at the Fourth Division, which was well-organized and had strong soldiers and horses.

Li Xiao saw the severely damaged city wall, then looked at the huge craters on the ground, the collapsed city towers, and the shocking craters one after another on the city wall. He also took a breath. He didn't expect that there was only one garrison division.
To be continued...