Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 999

[Chapter 999 Charge]

“Boom boom boom…” The

shell exploded at the city wall of Zhiling County, bursting with flames.

The shrapnel spread like a goddess, and the Cochin soldiers who were hit by the shrapnel were blown away by the shock wave before they could scream.

Some field guns were hit by shells, and the wheels suddenly collapsed and crooked on the ground.

The parapets on the city wall were even more vulnerable under the bombardment of flowering bombs, and they collapsed one after another.

In a short period of time, the city wall was in a mess.

“General, something is wrong.”

Ruan Youjin immediately headed towards the north wall since the first shell hit the city wall.

When he reached the city wall, he was stopped by Gao Yaozhi.

At this moment, Gao Yaoshang’s face was covered with dust, and his clothes were torn.

Just now a shell exploded five meters away from him. Three soldiers around him were killed, two soldiers were seriously injured, and he and five soldiers were slightly injured.

The power of this eulogy artillery shell is terrifyingly powerful.

During the time when Ruan Youjin arrived, 20% of the soldiers defending the city were killed or injured.

“What’s wrong?” Ruan Youjin looked embarrassed.

He stayed up all night last night.

After sending out the sneak attack soldiers, he was full of anticipation for the good news that the sneak attack was successful.

But all he waited for was the sound of gunfire from five miles away.

Afterwards, the cave entrance was discovered, and he had to order the cave to be blown up.

But this was not the thing that shocked him the most.

What surprised him the most was the meteor-like light five miles away.

He knew that it belonged to Da Song’s army, but he couldn’t imagine what it was?

“The shooting distance of the opponent’s artillery has greatly exceeded ours, and now we can only be bombed.” Gao Yaozhi mourned.

This feeling of being beaten but not fighting back is too uncomfortable.

Most importantly, the performance of Da Song’s army far exceeded their expectations.

Although I understand that the current Dasong army is different from the past.

But they always thought that it was at most similar to the Western Turk Army.

But now the cold facts deny this.

The tactics taught by the Frankish military instructors are also useless.

“Bastard, how could this happen!” Ruan Youjin was surprised.

He was in a state of confusion when suddenly a soldier came to him and handed him a letter, “General, this is a letter from His Majesty.”

Ruan Youjin tore open the letter, glanced at it, his face turned pale .

“What’s the matter? General.” Seeing Ruan Youjin’s strange expression, Gao Yaozhi couldn’t help asking.

“This is the information sent by Mark Wen. In the conversation between Ashur and British Governor Bolt, he mentioned that the artillery of the Great Song Army has a long range and firearms that can be illuminated at night.” Ruan Youjin handed the letter to Gao Yaozhi.

There are only these two messages in this letter.

Information about the machine gun was not mentioned.

This is because during the Northern War, the White Tiger Army was not equipped with machine guns at that time.

After meeting with Mule Hongzhen, the Lancers arrived again, and the two had no time to communicate, so they hurriedly fled back to Tubo.

Gao Yaozhi took the letter and read it, stomping his feet angrily, “It’s useless to get this information only now.”

Ruan Youjin was also a little annoyed.

He thought it was a normal war, but now he seemed to be back thirty years ago.

At that time, he was still a captain accompanying the army and fighting the Frankish army. For the first time, he saw guns and artillery and the opponent’s line formation.

The opponent’s artillery and guns frightened them, and the 60,000 Cochin army that was urgently mobilized was defeated by the 2,000 Frankish army.

After that, Frank’s warships sailed along the coastline, constantly attacking the coast.

Although Frank only has more than 2,000 people, with the help of warships, he can gather more than 2,000 people at any point along the coast at any time.

Although their army was large, it was too late to support them.

Sometimes it will give the opponent an advantage in strength.

After a year of hard fighting, they finally found that they were powerless against the Franks, and finally chose to surrender.

Now, the Great Song army reminded him once again of the fear of being conquered.

However, Da Song is not Frank after all.

Surrendering to the Franks, the Ruan family can continue to live a good life in Jiaozhi.

But surrender to Dasong, and they are likely to be uprooted.

Thinking of this, the fear of death overcame his fear of Dae Song’s army.

Turning to Gao Yaozhi, he said: “No matter what price you pay, you must guard Zhiling County for me. Those who retreat will be killed without mercy.”

After finishing speaking, he motioned to the generals beside him to command them on the city wall.

Under the shelling of Dasong’s army, they suffered a lot.

But the city wall had to be defended, otherwise, once the opponent attacked the city, it would be too late for them to rush to the city.

Seeing Ruan Youjin’s resolute attitude, Gao Yaozhi exchanged glances with other generals, and dispatched soldiers to replenish the casualties on the city wall.

“Boom boom boom…” The shelling continued, from morning to noon, and from noon to night.

Even in the middle of the night, the shelling did not stop.

In order to prevent the Jiaozhi army from withdrawing from the city wall, Qin Shan continued to send soldiers to feign attacks, which made the Jiaozhi army complain even more.

The shelling continued for three days.

The city walls of the entire Zhiling County were blown up like pieces of tofu eaten by a dog, and some city walls even collapsed in a small area.

However, during these three days, the soldiers of the Qinglong Army waited for work with ease and had ample rest.

At noon on the fourth day, under the continuous bombardment of rifled guns, the city wall on the left side of the city gate in Zhiling County collapsed.

Seizing this opportunity, Qin Shan immediately ordered Guo Yong’s forward troops to organize an attack.

Under the suppression of the artillery fire, three thousand Qinglong Army soldiers poured out from the narrow part of the mountain road and entered the open land in front of Zhiling County.

In addition to the soldiers with rifles, there were thirty-six machine gun groups deployed at a distance of three hundred meters from the city wall.

All the soldiers aimed their guns in the direction of the city wall.

With everything in place, the artillerymen stopped shelling.

At this time, a hundred-man team got up from the ground and rushed towards the gap.

The shelling stopped, and immediately a Cochin soldier stood up from the city wall to observe the situation.

Seeing Dasong soldiers arriving at the city, they immediately raised their guns and fired.

At this moment, the sound of “Da Da Da…” resounded across the battlefield.

Thirty-six machine guns immediately covered the city wall, and under the heavy rain of bullets, the Jiaozhi soldiers who raised their guns kept falling down.

The 100-man squad arrived at the gap under cover, and when they looked in, they saw many Cochin soldiers pointing their guns at them.

“Bang bang bang…” There was a gunshot, and the bullets flew towards them, and they immediately climbed down.

Some bullets flew overhead.

“Damn it, kill them!” Xiaoqi, the team leader, yelled.

The soldiers drew grenades and threw them.

A roar immediately killed many Cochin soldiers.

However, in order to plug the gap, more and more Cochin soldiers gathered around.

Relying on a hundred of them obviously couldn’t break through the gap.

The information was conveyed through sign language.

The other soldiers of the Qinglong Army immediately took up the ladders and launched a full-scale charge towards the city wall, creating opportunities for the assault team to break through.

(end of this chapter)