The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 1345

As the officers and men of the garrison army of Xiangyang Mansion got closer and closer to the city gate, the soldiers of both sides also began to shoot at each other.

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

With the popularity of Shenlong Gun, many old weapons such as bows and arrows and shields have been eliminated at an extremely fast speed.

During the shootout, soldiers on both sides were killed in battle.

When the soldiers of the garrison army of Xiangyang Mansion reached the outside of the moat, there was even a Yuan army throwing thunder from the top of the city.

However, the officers and soldiers of the garrison army of Xiangyang Mansion still rushed forward bravely.

Until some soldiers jumped into the moat and began to erect floating bridges.Only the soldiers hurried up to the front with sandbags on their backs.

Sandbags were quickly piled up to form bunkers.

The soldiers holding Shenlong guns crawled behind the bunker and continued to shoot at the Yuan army at the head of the city.

The blood in the moat soon churned.

Facing the resistance of the Yuan army with such firepower, the garrison of Xiangyang Mansion also inevitably paid a rather painful price.

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

But the soldiers still could only shoot at the top of the city from behind the bunker, providing fire support for Paoze in the moat.

It took about two quarters of an hour until there were more than ten pontoon bridges spliced ​​together on the moat outside Tangzhou city.

A soldier poked his head out of the muddy river, shouting in surprise: "The bridge is built! The bridge is built!"

Then the sound was drowned out in the explosion.

"Kill!"

There are generals shouting while shooting from behind the bunker.

A soldier with a horn stood up, held his head high and blew the charge horn.

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

Thinking about it before, the emperor had only [-] soldiers on Naozhou Island, and no firearms such as Shenlong Gun, but he only had the most primitive Thunderbolt. Didn’t he beat the Yuan army to the ground?
When the national power and military strength were far inferior to those of the Yuan Dynasty, the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty fought consecutively.Now, the national power is not under the Yuan Dynasty, and it should be invincible.

Although these garrison troops of Xiangyang Mansion were not soldiers who followed Zhao Dongting from Naozhou Island, they had systematically studied the "family history" since Zhao Dongting took charge of the Song Dynasty in the army. The military has a strong sense of honor.

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

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

The few battalions that built the pontoon bridge did not retreat, climbed directly from the water to the shore, and rushed towards the city gate.

Cannon fire continued to resound.

The city head and outside the city are filled with gunpowder smoke.

This kind of battle looks much more chaotic than the previous confrontation of cold weapons.

"Stop them!"

"Block them for me!"

On the top of the city, there was a general of the Yuan army shouting loudly with red faces and necks.

Many Thunderbolts were thrown down the city.

Clouds of gunpowder smoke exploded.

In the smoke of gunpowder, there is an elegy of blood and tears.

The two regiments of the garrison of Xiangyang Mansion were not able to take the gate of Tangzhou directly.

When he reached the gate of the city, he encountered tenacious resistance from the Yuan army.The casualties of the two regiments were quite heavy, and the generals of the regiments had to lead their troops back to the bunker again.

in the army.

Tan Siyuan stared through the binoculars in the army formation, and ordered in a deep voice, "Five regiments, eight regiments, go up and replace the first and second regiments!"

Two more regiments ran forward.

After they rushed to the bunker, they quickly replaced the incomplete first and second regiments.

Then, another siege.

At this moment, the sound of the cannons also quietly faded away.

This is not because there are no shells in the armies of both sides, but because the city is already devastated.

Right above the south gate of Tangzhou, it has been riddled with shells.The soldiers of the Yuan army could not be seen within a range of about tens of meters, let alone grenade launchers.

There are two hundred grenade launchers in the garrison of Xiangyang Mansion. This kind of firepower is only a hundred grenade launchers in the Yuan army. After all, it will take advantage of it.

Except for the grenadiers still firing in the distance, the Yuan army didn't have much defense in the sky above the city gate.

Soldiers from the fifth and eighth regiments were able to enter the city.

Gunshots rang out densely in the city.

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

Many Yuan troops at the head of the city ran down the city wall and set up a front line in the city to block the soldiers of the garrison army of Xiangyang Mansion entering the city.

Among the soldiers who rushed into the city, one after another was shot and fell to the ground, or was annihilated in the explosion.

The sound of gunfire and artillery interweaves into the most passionate score of this era.

Tan Siyuan led the whole army and marched into the city under artillery fire after several gaps were blown in the city wall.

It's just a confrontation, it doesn't end like this.

Of course, the power of Shenlong Gun is 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 in the previous cold weapon battle.

The sky turned from gray to overcast.

Then it gradually changed from gloomy to gray.

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 marksmanship, it is also inferior to the soldiers in the garrison of Xiangyang Mansion.

After the garrison of Xiangyang Mansion 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 set up was broken one by one by the officers and soldiers of the Xiangyang Mansion garrison.

Up to now, the fighting has spread from the gate of the city to the depths of the outer city.

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

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

However, they never thought that even with the same firearms, thousands of elite soldiers guarding the city would still be pushed back again and again by the Song army.

These Song soldiers seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, which made them quite puzzled and at a loss.

I can't figure out why Song Jun is so brave and fearless.

What is it that gives them such courage?
Compared with the Song Army's marksmanship and the cooperation between marching, Zhang Liangdong and others felt that the Song Army's fearless courage was the most difficult thing for them to deal with.

If the fight continues like this, let alone hold on for another half a month, perhaps by dawn, the city of Tangzhou will be captured by the Song army.

But Zhang Liangdong and the others had no choice.

Seeing that more and more soldiers were killed in battle, He Lima organized several counterattacks without success.In Zhang Liangdong's heart, he no longer had much hope for sticking to this Tangzhou City.

Perhaps from the moment the garrison of Xiangyang Mansion entered the city, they had already been defeated.

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

That's still old fashioned thinking.

With firearms such as grenades, the city walls are not much different from being in vain.

By the time the gunfire finally stopped that night, most of the Nancheng District in Tangzhou City had been captured by the garrison of Xiangyang Prefecture.

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

On the streets, bunkers made of sandbags and wooden fences are everywhere.Many are riddled with bullet holes.

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

There are also many potholes exploded by bombs.

This confrontation, which neither side has invested too much force, has actually suffered heavy casualties up to now.

Tan Siyuan hastily organized his army in the south of Chunhe Street.

The temporary physical therapy room was filled with the pain and screams of the soldiers.

Tan Siyuan led several generals and Wu Dingtang enshrined in the temporary physiotherapy center with a solemn expression.

Seeing the soldiers who were shot or wounded lying on the bed, on the ground, and the military doctors rushing around, everyone felt numb.

This scene is no more relaxing than the corpses on the street.

Some soldiers even had their legs blown off, bloody and bloody.

When the military doctor bandaged these soldiers, his hands couldn't help shaking.

The anesthetics of this era can't really make people feel unconscious like later generations.

Some soldiers bit their gums to bleed, and couldn't stand the pain, and shouted: "Kill me! Kill me!"

This is even more uncomfortable than those soldiers who fainted from pain.

Tan Siyuan closed his eyes slightly.

At this time, a lieutenant general hurried to his side and said, "Deputy Commander, the number of casualties has been counted."

"read."

Tan Siyuan said.

The general spread out the paper in his hand, "A group of 420 people were killed, 98 people were seriously injured, and [-] people were slightly injured...the deputy head of the group..."

(End of this chapter)