Chapter 1348: 1349 Street fighting in the old capital
In the old capital, outside a factory outside the city, tanks of the Tang Army had rolled over a parapet built with sandbags. There were corpses of Qin soldiers everywhere. A Qin soldier whose face was covered with blood struggled to get up, and then his head was shattered by a flying bullet.
Another 59 tank was parked not far away, covering the turning of the attacking 59 tank. They cooperated quite tacitly. On the other side of the wall, a destroyed No. 4 tank was burning.
Such a battle gave the armored soldiers of the Tang Army an inexplicable embarrassment. It was as if they were firing at their former selves, hitting them with one shot and smashing into pieces the equipment they were once so familiar with.
A fierce battle just broke out here. The Qin army wanted to protect the factory, but their efforts failed in the end.
The infantry of the Tang Army had already invaded the factory through the gap, and started a street battle with the remaining soldiers of the Qin State where the pipeline stretched.
The firepower of both sides is not at the same level at all. The suppressive power of assault rifles at this distance is really disappointing. It is not comparable to submachine guns.
Only a small number of Qin troops were equipped with submachine guns, and most of the remaining troops were only equipped with 98K rifles. This kind of rifle is fairly accurate at long distances, but the firepower density at close range is very poor.
bolt-action rifles will eventually go into history. With the gradual popularization of heavy weapons and equipment, the importance of firepower density far exceeds the firepower range.
After all, farther away, it is already within the killing range of mortars, heavy machine guns, and rockets. Individual firepower has been filled by more advanced weapons.
In a house, Qin soldiers were inserting bayonets into their weapons. They have received the final order to use their lives to buy enough time for the empire.
They don't know how long they will persist. They only know that they are no longer able to complete the task of persisting to the end. They expected to stay here for three days, but they couldn't even hold on for three hours.
"For Great Qin! For His Majesty the Emperor! Attack!" The commander of Qin drew his pistol and pointed forward, and all the soldiers rushed out of the house.
They screamed and rushed towards the Tang soldiers who had just rushed into the factory with bayonets in hand. Fierce gunfire echoed immediately.
“Chu, chu, chu, chu!” The dense gunshots were short and powerful, followed by deathly silence. The ground was covered with the corpses of Qin soldiers who had run out of bullets, and the only Tang soldier who fell was hit by a pistol bullet.
His body armor saved him, but he was injured and needed to be sent to the rear for treatment. His squad leader patted his arm and watched the stretcher leave.
Overhead, an armed helicopter roared past, then hovered further away. Then the rocket nests on the short wings spit out tongues of fire, and one rocket after another sent the Qin army gathering on the position into hell.
A series of tracer bullets flew up from the ground. It was an anti-aircraft heavy machine gun position that opened fire. Tang's armed helicopter immediately turned sideways and avoided most of the incoming bullets.
However, there were still bullets that penetrated the fuselage, leaving a row of exaggerated bullet holes in the thin and fragile skin. Unfortunately, these bullets did not hit key parts. The bullets that hit the cab were also blocked by bulletproof steel plates and did not hurt the driver inside.
The attacked helicopter gunship opened fire immediately, and the machine gun instantly flooded the Qin army's machine gun position on the ground. The dense bullets caused white smoke to rise from the ground, followed by rockets from under the short wings of the helicopter, which began to pour near the machine gun position. The explosion caused the earth to tremble, and dust began to fall from the beams of the factory building next door. The Tang army inside began to retreat, because no one wanted to hide in a dangerous building and wait to die.
A few minutes later, the factory building began to collapse, submerging the bodies inside and the machinery that had not been evacuated in time. The raised dust spread in all directions and swallowed up the 59 tanks outside the courtyard wall.
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"The Tang Army has entered the city! General!" Liu Zhian's adjutant reminded his superior nervously: "The 80th Army is about to be unable to withstand it."
"Chen Li has ruined the country." Liu Zhi'an sighed, and then shook his head: "He also tried his best... but the Tang people are really too powerful."
"I have tried my best... everything I can do has been done. Now I can only rely on the soldiers fighting on the front line." He stood up and walked to the map. There was already a red arrow on the map with an abrupt top. Entered the old urban area.
"General! General! Those **** Chinese! They surrendered!" An officer hurriedly ran into Liu Zhian's underground headquarters and shouted anxiously: "North, the position in the north is lost!"
"Why are you panicking? The positions in the north will be lost sooner or later!" Liu Zhian scolded. When he asked more than 10,000 Chinese soldiers to support the northern defense line, he was already mentally prepared to lose the defensive positions in the northern suburbs.
Liu Zhian is not stupid enough to expect those Dahua servants to fight to the death. If it weren't for the fact that there was no reserve team, he wouldn't have asked Dahua's servant army to support him.
It’s a pity that the other party is even more shameless than he imagined! They mutinied as soon as they arrived on the battlefield. Ten thousand Chinese and thousands of Qin's remaining troops fought fiercely. As a result, the Tang Dynasty captured the northern suburbs of the old capital without any effort.
"Anyway, the city is full of our troops...the situation has not collapsed yet! Let the troops act according to the pre-plan!" Liu Zhian did not panic at all, because he had already calculated that the Tang army would invade the city.
The outer defense line was in shambles, and the broken Qin defense line had almost no way to stop the Tang army's attack.
In this case, the Tang army will naturally attack into the urban area, because this is the best and most direct way to solve his Liu Zhian cluster.
"Come on! I'll wait for you here! Who is it? I want to see who is coming to take the head from my neck, Liu Zhian!" As the top frontline commander of the Qin State, Liu Zhian had no fear at all.
When he decided to lay the landmines and shoulder the responsibility on his own, he never thought that he would still be alive.
The Qin State is so large that it naturally has loyal people who are willing to die for it. With a person like Liu Zhian, it is not surprising at all.
"But! Before you take my life... you, the Tang Dynasty! You have to kill 20,000 people to be buried with me!" Liu Zhian gritted his teeth and said bitterly.