Steel Dynasty - Chapter 908

[Chapter 906 Battle of Guangzhou]

February 15th.

This is a day with clear skies and bright spring scenery. If we were in Qingzhou, it would be a bit cold at this time of year, but here, the climate is still warm and pleasant.

On the third day after the Huben Army and the Shenji Army merged, the two men, who had recovered from the fatigue of the long march, ordered a general attack on Guangzhou City.

At this time, coupled with the continuous support of the new army, the number of soldiers outside Guangzhou reached 170,000, and the number of soldiers in the field also reached 700.

“Seven hundred field guns and three hundred mortars, this is enough for them to drink a pot.” Luo Xin was beaming. He was good at commanding artillery. For him, now was the best opportunity to take advantage of artillery fire.

Lu Fei said: “It’s basically over to capture the merchant council in Guangzhou City. Now that there is enough ammunition, you can use the artillery as you want.”

Luo Xin’s eyes flashed with excitement. There are now soldiers equipped with firearms in Guangzhou City. There weren’t many, and they were all new recruits. For them, these soldiers didn’t have much combat effectiveness at all.

And the people seduced by the Azure Dragon King are even more cannon fodder.

“It’s time to end this farce.”

Luo Xin said solemnly, and then he began to deploy field artillery and mortars. In order to achieve the effect of defeating the enemy with one blow, this time he did not choose to bombard on all sides at the same time.

Instead, he concentrated all the field artillery and mortars in front of the north gate of Guangzhou City. Now that Guangzhou City was surrounded by water, he had no worries that they would escape.

In one morning, a total of thousands of artillery pieces, including field battle mortars and mortars, were assembled. Following Luo Xin’s order, the Battle of Guangzhou City officially started at one o’clock in the afternoon.

“Boom, boom, boom…” Amidst the sound of artillery fire that shook the world, shells like raindrops fell on the wall due north of Guangzhou City.

In an instant, the city wall was covered in a sea of fire, with bricks and stones shattered and flesh and blood flying everywhere. The defense in the north of the parliamentary army was shattered into pieces with just one round of shelling.

“Boom, boom, boom…”

After the first round of shelling, the second round of shelling followed. As if walking through a circle in hell, the parliamentary soldiers fell into terror again.

Then came the third and fourth times. When the smoke dissipated, less than 40% of the parliamentary soldiers survived on the city wall after four rounds of shelling, and the artillery they built was basically destroyed.

“I want to go home, I want to go home!”

On the wall of Guangzhou, a parliamentary soldier collapsed. The hellish experience made him run down without caring about anything. The soldiers who survived looked numbly at the corpses on the city wall. , this is not a war, this is a massacre.

The screams of the soldiers made their hearts tighten one by one. After the first soldier collapsed, the remaining soldiers also fled the battlefield desperately.

In Guangzhou City, the people under the command of the Qinglong King all looked frightened. The huge explosion coming from the north made their hearts jump into their throats.

Then the defeated soldiers covered in blood made them even more worried.

“Hurry up and run for your life, you can’t win, you can’t win…” A soldier shouted sadly, but his words stopped abruptly before he could say anything. A general’s knife pierced the soldier’s heart.

Pulling out the bloody knife, the general ordered: “All forward, don’t you want to get the land and no longer pay for food? The royal army is outside the city. As long as we win, we will have everything.”

“Come on! “Some desperadoes in the crowd shouted. The immediate benefits made them forget their fear, and they yelled and headed north.

Outside the city, the royal soldiers were sitting leisurely in the trenches, waiting for the bombardment to end. After experiencing large and small wars, they had a clear view of the merchant council’s combat effectiveness.

Now they are very confident.

“Boom, boom, boom…”

After a brief interval, the roar of artillery sounded again, and the entire artillery position was filled with fire and smoke.

The city walls of Guangzhou gradually appeared to be crumbling after being bombarded by continuous bombardment like raindrops of artillery shells.

Seeing this, Luo Xin urged the artillery to continue the bombardment. Finally, after the seventeenth round of bombardment, the north wall of Guangzhou City collapsed, and at this time the soldiers of the Qinglong King also arrived at the city.

The sudden collapse made many soldiers confused, but something more terrifying than the city wall happened next. For the first time, they experienced what a shelling was.

Before the soldiers could recover, dense shells fell around them.

Shrapnel flew, air waves rolled, and the soldiers of the Azure Dragon King suffered heavy casualties in an instant. These soldiers were ordinary people who farmed the land, and they had never experienced such a terrible war.

Looking at their fallen companions, they ran away crying, but at this moment, a terrible news suddenly came.

“Everyone, please stop fighting. King Qinglong ran away, and the Cao family and his son also ran away. They took all our money away. Now they are just leaving us to die. Stop resisting, otherwise you will only lose your lives in vain.” “

The person who spoke was none other than Lin Youde. Now the council members in the city were in a panic when they found out that the Cao family and his son and the Qinglong King were no longer in the city.

After learning the news, he immediately spread the news. This was the time to disrupt the morale of the parliamentary army.

Sure enough, as soon as the news came out, the soldiers were in an uproar. They fought because of their belief in the Blue Dragon King of the Merchant Council, and now they shamelessly abandoned them.

“Damn it, we were told to die, but they ran away. Brothers, we stopped fighting.” A general cursed fiercely.

“The Merchant Council is a bunch of liars. They deceived us and now we have nothing.”

“Kill them!”

“…”

Indignant words were uttered from the mouths of the soldiers. They no longer rushed to the front line, but took up arms and rushed to the parliamentary residence.

At this time, Lin Youde was dressed as an ordinary soldier. When he saw this, he showed a smile. As long as Guangzhou is in chaos, they can reduce casualties.

When the angry soldiers rushed into the station and discovered that the Cao family, father and son, and King Qinglong were really gone, greater chaos arose, and the soldiers began to shoot at the parliament in the parliament.

For them, all they want now is to vent their anger.

At the same time, when the city wall of Guangzhou collapsed, Lu Fei gave the order to charge.

The royal soldiers took up their bayonet-mounted Falcon rifles and poured into Guangzhou City like a flood. Facing the chaos of Guangzhou City, they quickly controlled the situation.

The people and soldiers who saw the royal soldiers rushing over immediately chose to surrender. The royal army’s attack went very smoothly and basically encountered no resistance.

Luo Xin and Lu Fei entered the city after the city was broken. When they saw Lin Youde walking towards them, they got off their horses and said with a smile: “Lin Youde, you are still alive.”

“Before the Merchant Council was eliminated, how could I Will you die?” Lin Youde laughed.

He had known the two of them before lurking in the Merchant Council. It was Li San who took him to meet with people in the army for today.

(End of chapter)