1346. Bloody capture of Tangzhou (Part 1)

As the soldiers of the Xiangyang Prefecture garrison became closer and closer to the city gate, the soldiers from both sides also began to shoot at each other.

Among the soldiers of both armies, almost no one used cold weapons.

The popularity of the Shenlong gun has caused many old weapons such as bows, arrows, shields, etc. to be eliminated at an extremely fast speed.

During the shooting, soldiers on both sides were killed.

When the soldiers of the Xiangyang Prefecture garrison arrived outside the moat, the Yuan army threw thunder at the top of the city.

But the soldiers of the garrison troops of Xiangyang Prefecture were still bravely rushing forward.

It was not until a soldier jumped into the moat and began to build a floating bridge. Only then did the soldiers hurried to the front with sandbags from behind.

The sandbags were quickly piled up, forming bunkers.

The soldiers holding the Shenlong gun crawled behind the cover and continued to shoot at the Yuan army on the top of the city.

The moat was soon filled with blood.

Faced with such firepower resistance from the Yuan army, the Xiangyang Prefecture Garrison also inevitably paid a rather painful price.

The generals in the first and second regiments were shouting constantly.

But the soldiers could only shoot at the city behind the shelter, providing firepower support to the robes of the moat.

After about two quarters of an hour passed, there were finally more than ten floating bridges on the moat outside Tangzhou City.

A soldier showed his head out of the turbid river water and shouted in surprise: "The bridge is set up! The bridge is set up!"

Then the sound was obliterated by the explosion.

"Kill!"

Behind the bunker, there were generals shouting while shooting.

A soldier holding a horn stood up, raised his head and blew the charge.

The soldiers of the Song Dynasty liked to fight with the wind, but they were never afraid of fighting tough battles.

Think about it before, the emperor had only 20,000 soldiers on the island of Viazhou, and did not have firearms like the Dragon Gun. He had the most primitive sky-burning thunder, and he was not defeated by the Yuan army?

In the national strength and military strength were far inferior to those of the Yuan Dynasty, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty won consecutive battles. Now, the national strength is not inferior to the Yuan Dynasty, so they should be invincible.

Although these Xiangyang Prefecture garrisons did not follow Zhao Dongting's soldiers since the time of the Qingzhou Island, they systematically learned the "history of making a fortune" since Zhao Dongting took over the Song Dynasty, and had a strong sense of honor for this country and the army of this country.

It is this sense of honor that makes all the soldiers of the Song Dynasty have unparalleled courage.

When the charge rang, many soldiers from the first and second regiments rushed out of the bunker and rushed towards the moat.

The several battalions that built the floating bridge did not retreat, and climbed directly from the water and rushed towards the city gate.

The artillery fire kept resounding.

At the top of the city, outside the city, there is smoke everywhere.

Such a formation seems to be much more chaotic than when cold weapons were confronted before.

"Stop them!"

"Stop them!"

On the top of the city, the Yuan army general shouted with a thick neck.

Many thunders were thrown under the city.

Balls of smoke exploded.

In the smoke of gunpowder, there is a tragic song of passion and tears.

The two regiments of the Xiangyang Prefecture Garrison were not able to directly capture the Tangzhou city gate.

When they reached the city gate, they encountered stubborn resistance from the Yuan army. The two regiments suffered heavy casualties, and the generals in the regiment had to lead the army back to the bunker again.

In the army.

Tan Siyuan stared in the military formation with a telescope, and then ordered in a deep voice, "Fifth Regiment, Eighth Regiment, go up and replace the first Regiment and the second Regiment!"

Two more groups ran towards the front.

After they rushed to the bunker, they quickly replaced the second group with an incomplete system.

Then, it was the siege again.

The sound of cannons quietly sparse at this moment.

This is not because there are no shells in the army of both sides, but because the city is full of devastation.

Just above the southern city gate of Tangzhou, there were already artillery shells and were riddled with holes. There were no soldiers of the Yuan army within a range of about dozens of meters, let alone grenade launchers.

There are 200 grenade launchers in the Xiangyang Prefecture garrison. This kind of firepower is only 100 grenade launchers compared to the Yuan army, and they still have to take advantage of it.

Apart from the grenade launcher in the distance, the Yuan army no longer had much defense power over the city gate.

The soldiers of the Fifth Regiment and the Eighth Regiment were able to enter the city.

Gunshots rang out densely in the city.

He Lima and Zhang Liangdong were no longer on the city wall at this time.

Many Yuan troops ran down the city walls and set up fronts in the city to block the soldiers of the Xiangyang Prefecture garrison who were entering the city.

Among the soldiers who rushed into the city, some people were shot and fell to the ground, or were obscured in an explosion.

The sound of gunfire and cannons intertwined into the most passionate music score of this era.

After several gaps were blown up by Tan Siyuan, he led all the soldiers of the army to enter the city under artillery fire.

Only the confrontation did not end like that.

The power of the Shenlong gun is of course much greater than that of swords and guns, but when both sides have firearms, the loss of soldiers on both sides is not as fast as before when cold weapons were fighting.

The sky has gone from gray to dark.

Then it gradually became darker from gloomy.

The darkness turns night again.

Although the Yuan army had firearms, they were still not as familiar with hot weapon warfare as the soldiers of the Song Dynasty. In terms of gunfire, they were not as good as the soldiers in the Xiangyang Prefecture garrison.

Since the Xiangyang Prefecture garrison broke through the city, there was a stalemate for about half an hour. Then, the Yuan army in the city was finally killed and gradually retreated.

The defense line they arranged was broken through one by one by the soldiers of the Xiangyang Prefecture garrison.

Until now, the battle has spread from the city gate to the depths of the outer city.

No one has the heart to calculate how much the soldiers on both sides have lost.

Zhang Liangdong, He Lima, and the generals of the Yuan army in the city looked bad.

However, they never thought that even though they had firearms, thousands of elite soldiers guarding the city were actually suppressed by the Song army and retreated repeatedly.

These Song soldiers seemed to have been injected with chicken blood, which made them quite puzzled and confused.

I can't understand why the Song army was so fierce and fearless.

What exactly is it that gives them such great courage?

Compared with the Song army's shooting skills and cooperation during marching, Zhang Liangdong and others felt that the Song army's courage to be fearless was the most difficult thing for them to deal with.

If you continue to fight like this, let alone hold on for another half a month, maybe by dawn, the Tangzhou City will be captured by the Song army.

But Zhang Liangdong and others had no choice.

Seeing that more and more soldiers were killed, He Lima organized several counterattacks and returned in vain. Zhang Liangdong no longer had too much hope for defending this Tangzhou City.

Perhaps they were defeated from the moment the Xiangyang Prefecture garrison entered the city.

It was originally a mistake for He Lima to rely on the Tangzhou moat and city walls to resist the Xiangyang Prefecture garrison.

That's still the old-fashioned idea.

With grenade launchers, there is not much difference between the city wall and the useless one.

When the gunfire finally stopped this night, most of the southern urban area of ​​Tangzhou City was taken down by the Xiangyang Prefecture Garrison.

After the Yuan army retreated to Chunhe Street, the two armies were separated by Chunhe Street and temporarily stopped.

There are sandbags everywhere on the streets and bunkers arranged by wooden fences. Many of them are already covered with bullet holes.

There was blood on the street, as well as the corpses of soldiers and even the people on both sides.

There are also many potholes that have been exploded by bombs.

This battle between the two sides was not considered a confrontation where too much military force was invested. Until now, it has actually been considered a heavy casualty.

Tan Siyuan hurriedly reorganized his army in the south of Chunhe Street.

The temporary physiotherapy center was filled with the painful hums and screams of the soldiers.

Tan Siyuan led several generals and Wu Dingtang worshippers to appear in the temporary physiotherapy center, with a serious expression.

Looking at the soldiers on the ground who were shot or injured, lying on the bed, and the military doctors running around in a hurry, everyone felt numb.
To be continued...