"Kill!"

Burst!

In the area of the city gate in the north of Guangzhou, the People's Army and the Ming army fought together, because the Ming army's defense focus was on the city wall, there were not many Ming troops in the city gate.

Under the leadership of the soldiers who first ascended the camp, seeing that the People's Army was about to rush into the city through the city gate, Ren Jianxiu came with a large group of Ming troops on the city wall.

"Kill!"

"Block, you must block the thief, if you can't stop us, we will all die."

The Ming army fought back frantically.

The People's Army continued to pour into the North City Gate area, the Ming army on the city wall was throwing rolling stones and wood, the People's Army firearms troops continued to shoot and kill the Ming troops who were about to throw the rolling stones, and the Ming archers continued to throw and injure the People's Army.

In just a quarter of an hour, hundreds of soldiers of the People's Army had fallen in the area of the North City Gate, most of the soldiers in the front camp were killed in battle, and the number of Ming soldiers killed and wounded was only half of the number of people killed and wounded by the People's Army, or even less.

The People's Army, which has a large number of new recruits in the cold weapons unit, is no match for the elite soldiers of the Ming army in armor.

"Retreat!"

Seeing that it was impossible to attack the city, but the number of casualties was increasing rapidly, He Yan could only give the order to withdraw the army, but unfortunately, this was the best opportunity to break through the city of Guangzhou, but it was desperately blocked by the Ming army.

The People's Army soldiers at the front slowly retreated, but they didn't expect that the Ming Army, who had already killed the madness, would actually chase them out, and the KPA soldiers quickly walked to the sides, leaving a way for the firearms troops to shoot.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

A wave of lead bullets shot out, and the Ming army that rushed to the front, whether it was an elite soldier in armor or an ordinary soldier, fell to the ground under the attack of the tiger head gun.

"Run! Come on! ”

The People's Army did not continue to attack, and then rushed up, it is expected that it will be the scene of the melee battle between the two armies just now, and the People's Army will have more casualties, and the city is not suitable for firearms troops to fight.

The Ming army retreated, the People's Army also retreated, and the first attack of the People's Army on the city of Guangzhou ended in failure.

After a big battle, the Third Mixed Brigade suffered nearly 1,000 casualties, and the Ming army suffered more than 700 casualties.

More than half of the casualties of the Ming army came from the firearms unit of the People's Army, and the firearms unit shot the Ming army outcropping on the city wall, and also shot the Ming army that finally caught up.

The casualties of the People's Army mainly came from the Ming Army's archers on the city wall and the fighting at the city gate, and the Ming Army's firearms were very lethal to the People's Army, in fact, the Ming Army's firearms troops were suppressed by the People's Army's firearms units, and they did not play much role at all.

A big battle is over, and the tired soldiers need time to rest and move on to the next big one.

The north gate of Guangzhou was blown up by the People's Army, and in order to block the north gate, Ren Jianxiu ordered his subordinates to block the city gate hole with mud, stones and other debris.

Not only did the north city gate hole be blocked, but the east city gate hole and the west city gate hole were also blocked, Wu Wenhua even wanted to block the south city gate hole, the city gate hole was blocked, and the people's army could not rush into the city by blowing up the city gate.

However, Ren Jianxiu dissuaded Wu Wenhua, once the Nancheng Gate was blocked, the Ming army in the city really had no way in and out, and they couldn't retreat if they wanted to.

And when the reinforcements arrived, the Ming army in the city could not quickly go out of the city and attack the thief army on both sides with the reinforcements, and the reinforcements could not quickly rush into the city, which was very troublesome.

The Ming army's blocking of the gate hole in the north city was noticed by the People's Army, and when they got the news, He Yan's face was a little ugly, and the north could no longer be used as the main direction of attack.

He Yan didn't know if the city gate holes on the other three sides of Guangzhou City were blocked, if they were all blocked, there were only two ways for the Third Mixed Brigade to break the city, one was to use a ladder to climb the city wall to break the city, and the other was to blow up the city wall with explosives.

The Third Mixed Brigade will kill and injure more people than the city gate to break the city, and use explosives to break the city, so the Third Mixed Brigade will not want to capture Guangzhou City in a short time.

The city of Guangzhou is stronger, such as putting multiple explosive bags at the city gate and blowing the city gate to pieces, it is impossible to happen on the city wall, the most appropriate way is to dig a hole under the city wall and bury a large amount of explosives here to blow up the city wall.

There is a Ming army defense on the city wall, and the people's army naturally cannot run directly to dig a pit under the city wall, but can only dig a tunnel under the city wall at a distance from the city wall, and dig a tunnel under the city wall when the Ming army cannot find it, this tunnel must be dug at least 100 meters, and the tunnel has not yet been dug under the city wall, and the Ming army reinforcements will arrive.

For the time being, it is not possible to determine whether the Ming army really blocked all the city gates, as long as one city gate is not blocked, and the opportunity is found by the Third Mixed Brigade, He Yan will not be sure to capture the city of Guangzhou.

Melee combat is the weak point of the People's Army, but He Yan thought of a way to defeat the enemy in close combat.

Since the People's Army seized a large amount of gunpowder from the Ming Army, the People's Army was not short of gunpowder, and Fang Nan asked Hutouzhai to make a batch of grenades.

The grenade was very rudimentary, just a layer of iron with gunpowder in it, and a fuse was inserted.

The native grenade cannot be pulled and exploded, the fuse of the grenade must be ignited, and the native grenade is relatively heavy, and ordinary soldiers can only throw it more than ten meters away.

High-ranking KPA officers have seen the scene of the grenade exploding, and the explosion is far less powerful than the explosive pack, and it is better to be able to throw it more than ten meters away, and it is almost impossible to lose itself when it explodes at a distance of more than ten meters.

In the face of the second encirclement and suppression of the People's Army by the Ming Dynasty, the battle between the Third Mixed Brigade and Guo Rong's army was the most critical, and most of the grenades were given to the neighboring three mixed brigades.

Now He Yan remembered that his army had a batch of grenades that could be taken out and used, He Yan felt that he had lost a very good opportunity, if he had thought of this batch of grenades earlier, he would have been able to use them in today's battle, and he might be able to break the city in one battle.

In close combat, the grenadiers lit the grenade fuse and threw it out to the front, blowing the enemy upside down, even if the enemy was not killed, the morale would plummet, giving the KPA a chance to defeat the enemy.

The opportunity is lost, and it will be troublesome to think about it again, and then the 3rd Mixed Brigade will attack the various gates of Guangzhou City one after another, looking for the city gates that have not been blocked, and I don't know how many people were killed or injured during the period.

Thinking of the grenade, He Yan immediately took action, formed a grenadier unit, selected powerful soldiers to join, and first used stones of similar weight to practice, but there was not much time for the grenadiers to practice, forget it now, the Ming Third Mixed Brigade would continue to attack Guangzhou City, and capture Guangzhou City while the Ming army reinforcements had not yet arrived.

[A grenade in a modern army, an ordinary soldier throws thirty meters to qualify]

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