Chapter 467: 467 seven days
Chapter 467 467 Seven Days
This is the latest general-purpose grenade produced by Datang Group. It is smaller than the previously used wooden-handled grenade. This is to make it easier for soldiers to carry and reduce the pressure on logistics support.
Although the wooden handle grenade can be thrown farther and can prevent it from rolling after landing, it is much larger than the oval grenade, taking up a lot of transportation volume and increasing the cost of use.
Furthermore, for individual soldiers, it is obviously easier to carry oval grenades than wooden handle grenades, and it is also easier to carry larger quantities.
The Zheng army had obviously never seen such a round explosive. When the soldier found something falling at his feet, his first reaction was to look at the thing with horizontal and vertical lines carved all over its body.
The next second, the fuse ran out of time, and the grenade exploded in the trench, creating a storm of metal.
Flame and shock waves were mixed with the split grenade body, rushing across the trench, swallowing up the crowded Zheng army.
A few seconds after the explosion, outside the trench of the Zheng Army, which was on their backs, a soldier from the Tang Dynasty rolled over and rolled into the trench. He was holding a Thompson submachine gun in his hand and vigilantly observed what was going on in the trench.
“Ouch…” A Zheng soldier who was overturned by a grenade lay groaning in the trench. His leg was penetrated by shrapnel and blood was gushing out.
In fact, he could no longer hear his own shouting, and his ears were full of buzzing. But he knew that he was injured, so he hoped to exchange his companions to save himself from dying.
It is a pity that most of his companions can no longer hear his moans. The trenches are littered with corpses, and those who can move are recovering in confusion.
“Help!” Farther away, a Zheng soldier was calling for help. Although he was also injured, it was obviously less serious and he had already sat up.
However, his shout attracted bullets from Tang soldiers who had already jumped into the trench. At the other end of the trench, the Tang Army assaulter who had just fallen into the trench picked up his submachine gun and started shooting.
“Chug, tug, tug!” Before the smoke had completely dissipated, the flaming Thompson submachine gun swept bullets like raindrops into the chaotic crowd of Zheng Jun.
At once there was a crowd of people jumping on their backs!
The Zheng Army soldier who had just sat up was shot in the chest and simply lay down. The Zheng Army soldier who was crouching far away for cover was also shot down by the bullet before he could stand up.
Zheng Jun saw the enemy rushing towards him and hurriedly pulled the bolt of the weapon in his hand. As a result, he was hit by a bullet before they could complete the action.
The most unlucky soldier of the Zheng Army raised his hands in fear, but the ruthless bullets still did not let go of the man who was ready to surrender. A mist of blood spurted out from his chest, and then he fell down.
Finally, the gunfire stopped, and all the remaining Zheng soldiers raised their hands. They dropped their weapons and watched helplessly as the enemy opposite them changed their magazines. They watched helplessly as more enemy troops entered the trenches and pushed them into a corner.
On the battlefield, the sound of artillery still continued, but it was gradually getting farther away from here. Further away, the battle was still going on. The degree of adaptation of both sides to the new tactics polarized the casualties on both sides.
Although Zheng Jun reluctantly learned to lay out trenches at the last moment, they were not at all accustomed to such tactics.
The soldiers huddled in the trenches and had no corresponding tactical experience at all. They were completely different from the soldiers of the Tang Army who had been accepting modern tactics.
What is even more helpless is that these Zheng Army soldiers do not have the support of heavy weapons. The artillery behind them cannot help them support the defense line in terms of quantity or quality and maintain the stability of the trench defense line.
In some areas of the battle, Zheng Jun, who had no automatic weapons at all, was beaten to the point where he was unable to fight back. Without heavy machine guns to provide continuous fire support, these soldiers hiding in the trenches were simply a bunch of rats, just fighting in the simple east. Just hiding in the West (yes, I typed that correctly! Stubborn face).
Even in close combat in the trenches, these soldiers who had only been equipped with new rifles for a few months were no match for the Tang soldiers equipped with submachine guns.
They were lucky enough to get a shot in the trenches, but if they were unlucky, they could only rely on bayonets to fight against the Datang Group's submachine guns.
The firepower density of the two sides is very different. When Zheng Jun fired a bullet, Datang Group may have fired dozens of bullets and several artillery shells...
The powerful troops built entirely with gold coins fought against the natives who did not understand modern warfare at all. It was basically a feast of capturing prisoners.
The Zheng army stationed in the factory and workshop area outside the city was also an elite, and there were many brave men. With just the bayonets in their hands, they also caused casualties to the Tang troops.
When seizing a bullet production factory outside the royal city, hundreds of Zheng Army soldiers held bayonets and prepared to fight a hand-to-hand battle with the Datang Group. In fact, they did succeed. Surrounding several factories, they wiped out an infantry squad of the Datang Group at the cost of annihilating their entire army... When the main force of the infantry company where this infantry squad was located came up, the battle became one-sided.
The Tang Dynasty troops then adopted a more conservative machine gun follow-up push tactic and advanced 400 meters in one breath without capturing a single prisoner.
This kind of battle, which was more like a **** revenge, frightened the Zheng army. They fought fiercely for a whole day. In the evening, the Zheng army all withdrew from the war zone and retreated to the vicinity of the city wall.
More Zheng troops deployed outside the royal city finally chose to surrender. The two sides only fought for a whole day, and several Tang army troops besieging the royal city captured almost 10,000 Zheng army prisoners.
During the battle, the Tang army killed at least 3,000 Zheng troops. This means that on the first day of fierce fighting, about a quarter of the Zheng troops who were defending the royal city were wiped out!
In the royal city, Zheng Tong became a little nervous after learning about the brutality of the battle. He couldn't believe that in just over a month, he had gone from the leader of resurgence to the king of subjugation.
More than a month ago, he was still holding on to taxes that he had never dared to think about in the past, and he had many more recruits than before, and he was still dreaming about his grand hegemony...
But in the blink of an eye, he was trapped in the isolated city, the palace had been bombarded to pieces, and the enemy's swords and guns were already thousands of meters away!
"How long can we... still hold on?" Zheng Tong, whose hands trembled every time he heard the approaching artillery fire, looked at Li Jun, who had an equally ugly face, and asked an annoying question. .
Li Jun rubbed the back of his hand, stared at the city defense deployment map, and replied with difficulty: "Morale may collapse at any time, so it's hard to say... However, we can still hold on for up to seven days."
“So short?” Zhang Ming on the side looked at Li Jun with fear. He and Li Jun had been fighting for power and profit all their lives, but at this time, they found that this old rival could still be of some use at critical moments.
The remaining ministers were running and hiding, and now not many of them can be found! Some people had already surrendered to the enemy with their families, and some were lost in the chaos.
Yesterday, before the war was so chaotic, Zhang Ming tried to find a few confidants to discuss how to deal with the situation at hand, but found that only one came.
The rest of the people either excused themselves and said they were sick, or they simply disappeared without a trace! These people usually have private houses in the city, and the worst thing is that they also have a golden house to hide their love. Now that they are hiding, it is not easy to find them.
"It's not short! The situation may be better tomorrow, but Your Majesty must be prepared for the city wall to be damaged and the enemy to enter the city." Li Jun continued to explain truthfully: "Looking at the enemy's artillery fire, the city wall cannot be defended. At most, we must hold on for one morning…"
"What? The city wall will be lost tomorrow?" Zhang Ming was shocked again. He was not a military expert, so in his opinion, if the city wall was lost, it was almost over.
"Didn't you say it can last for seven days?" Zheng Tong was also shocked by this statement. He thought Li Jun said that it could last for seven days with the help of a strong city wall.
Li Jun shook his head and gave the two military blind men a good explanation: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister! I said it was for up to seven days. In fact, it can last for five days, and the soldiers are considered dead."
He paused and continued: "The enemy's artillery fire is fierce, and the city head cannot be defended, so the city wall defenses will be breached soon. However, there are still houses and streets in the city that can hold on, and the civilians are in chaos... the enemy forces We didn’t dare to attack rashly, so we could barely hold on for two days while taking advantage of the chaos.”
Having said this, he swept his hand across the map, sighed and continued: "In three days at most, the troops without supervision and command will collapse, and the rest will only depend on how much resistance our soldiers have. I wonder when the enemy will come to kill us..."
Even during the Second World War, during the Battle of Stalingrad, the battle between the Soviet Army and the German Army was still chaotic. A large number of small units were completely separated from their superiors' command and fought brutally in narrow and cramped terrain. This was a huge impact on morale and will. test.
This is a confrontation between two highly modernized troops with strong fighting will. Any non-modern army that requires officers to supervise operations will quickly collapse in street fighting.
Li Jun, who led the troops, naturally knew how many pounds his troops weighed. He knew very well that once he lost his superior command and the small Zheng army was cut and scattered, it would immediately fall into chaos and then begin to collapse.
Although the most elite troops of the Zheng Army are deployed near the royal city, the principle is the same. No matter how elite the troops are, they cannot change the inevitable laws.
(End of this chapter)