The next day, that is, the first day of the first month of the seventh year of Xuanping.

This day was the first day of the Lunar New Year, but the Second Army of the Tang Dynasty and the Fifth Army launched a general attack on the head of Huangzhou City!

Tens of thousands of soldiers continued to rush to the head of Huangzhou City like a tide, and many assault battalions took turns to fight, and the soldiers of the assault battalion wearing plate armor, under the cover of artillery fire and muskets in the rear, either through the gap in the ruins of the city wall blasted by the sappers, or simply climbed up to the head of the city with a long ladder, and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the soldiers of the Left Army of the Governor.

The next day, the second day of the Lunar New Year, the two sides broke out the fiercest hand-to-hand combat since the Battle of Huangzhou, on the same day, more than 4,000 people were killed on the spot by the Left Army of the Governor, more than 1,000 people were killed in the battle of the 7th Infantry Division, and 70 percent of the casualties of the 7th Assault Battalion temporarily assigned to the division to fight together!

The assault battalion was not the first assault battalion to rush to the city, they were the third assault battalion to charge, but it was intercepted by an ambush by the governor of the city, almost dozens of shotguns and hundreds of arquebus soldiers ambushed in another section of the ruined city wall, and when the seventh assault battalion thought that they had finally rushed up, they suddenly opened fire, and shotguns, muskets, and grenades were poured on this assault battalion together, so that more than 600 people in the battalion were killed and wounded on the spot!

The tragic battle between the two sides made the Spring Festival not the slightest warmth and celebration in the face of war!

When night approached, although Huangzhou had not yet been conquered, the Tang Army had successfully captured the outer city wall, and the remaining Left Army of the Governor was forced to retreat again, this time they could only retreat to the inner city!

Du Danqing had high hopes that he would be able to hold the Huangzhou defense line for more than a month after being besieged, but in fact, so far, he has only resisted for seven days!

It's only seven days!

Du Danqing couldn't understand why he had made such adequate preparations, but in the end, he was still a failure!

This night, Du Danqing stayed awake all night, he did not discuss the war with his staff, and no one thought hard about how to break the situation!

That's how he stayed in his study, drinking rice wine and reading a book in his hand amid the rumbling of cannons outside.

When the explosion sounds, there is always a flash of light outside, which is the sound and light of the cannonball after it falls in the city and explodes.

After fighting against the puppet Tang thief army for many years, he has long been accustomed to this kind of explosion!

Even based on the sound of the explosion, he could tell that this should be a forty-eight-pound heavy howitzer of the puppet Tang thief army.

When these pseudo-Tang thieves are fighting, the shells will not stop almost all the time, and sometimes he is suspicious, these pseudo-Tang thieves have so many shells from there, their artillery has hit so many shells, won't the barrels be scrapped?

Although Du Danqing boasted that he knew the Tang Dynasty very well, he, like the vast majority of people in this era, did not understand the particularity of the entire Tang Dynasty at all!

Will the artillery of the Tang Dynasty Division be scrapped? Definitely, but in the storage warehouse behind the house, there are rows of brand-new artillery waiting to be replaced at any time.

Are there so many shells? That's nonsense!

The production of artillery shells by the Ming army is made by craftsmen one by one, but the arsenal on the side of the Tang Dynasty is an assembly line production, and the production efficiency is more than dozens of times that of the Ming army!

And you don't look at how many arsenals produced ordnance in the Tang Dynasty, and under the command of the three major weapons companies, there were twelve arsenals of all sizes producing all kinds of ammunition!

Every day, ships loaded with all kinds of ammunition come and go to the Yangtze River waterway to supply all kinds of ammunition to the frontline troops.

Therefore, these doubts in Du Danqing's heart are still because he doesn't know the Tang Dynasty well enough!

But this kind of incomprehension sometimes leads many Ming generals to one-sidedly put the reason for the defeat on the sharpness of the guns of the Tang Dynasty, thus ignoring other aspects of the Tang Dynasty.

For example, the current Du Danqing, his mind is now full of guns and ammunition, but he doesn't know that when the Tang Army broke through the outer city wall, it actually relied on the assault battalion, and the assault battalion had a large number of cold-armed soldiers, and when the ordinary infantry rushed to the city for hand-to-hand combat, they also relied on bayonets!

The sharpness of guns and artillery inevitably brought a lot of advantages to the Datang Army, but the Datang Army was able to win frequently, relying more on training and bravery.

When the two sides are fighting bayonets, it has nothing to do with the sharpness of the guns, it is purely a competition for the training and courage of both sides!

As a result, the Left Army of the Governor still performed quite well when the two sides were engaged in a long-distance confrontation operation, but when the two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat, they were often quickly defeated!

This is also the characteristic of almost all contemporary Ming armies!

The Ming army that dared to shoot at the Tang Army with guns and artillery had them, and there were quite a few!

But there are few Ming troops who dare to fight with the Tang Army with bayonets.

Therefore, on the battlefield, there is often such a scene, when the two sides are firing guns and cannons at medium and long distances, the Ming army still fights in the same way, but when the Tang Army launches a bayonet charge, the Ming army on the opposite side often collapses.

Does Du Danqing know this? He knows, but does he understand?

He doesn't understand!

On the night of this day, the continuous artillery bombardment of the Datang Army passed, and the next day, the infantry of the Datang Army, who had rested all night, began a new round of attack!

This time, however, it was more difficult for the Left Army to defend.

At noon, the east gate of the inner city was conquered by the Third Infantry Division of the Tang Army!

An hour later, the 3rd Infantry Division continued its advance and conquered a number of makeshift fortresses built by the Ming army behind the inner city with masonry houses.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the 12th Infantry Division of the Fifth Army, which had launched an attack, also broke through the defense of the Ming army, captured a temporary fortress on the left side of the headquarters of the Left Army of the Governor, and advanced to a place less than 50 meters away from the headquarters of the Left Army of the Commander!

The officers and men of the 3rd Battalion of the 34th Infantry Regiment under the command of the 12th Infantry Division could clearly see the signboard hanging on the huge building across the street.

The signboard above clearly shows the importance of this building: Daming Governor Biao Left Army Commander Yamen.

I have to say that even the style of the signboard is copied from the Tang Army, because the Tang Dynasty likes to hang signboards with vertical strips, and then it will be written on the Yamen of a certain prefecture in the Tang Dynasty, and the headquarters of a certain division.

The Datang Army learns the standards thoroughly, and even the signboard is not forgotten to learn, but the Datang Army often uses a certain command and headquarters, and they supervise the standard with a certain commander Yamen.

Without much hesitation, after waiting for a few shotguns to come up in the rear, the officers and men of the third battalion immediately launched an attack on this commander's yamen.

Under the bombardment of guns, an ordinary building is naturally unable to resist, although there are also a lot of Ming soldiers resisting, but now it is obvious that the general trend has gone, they are not very resolute in resisting, many people are slightly resisting, and then they gave up the waist knife and musket to surrender, and more Ming soldiers, in fact, when the soldiers of the Tang Army rushed in, they surrendered directly.

This is also the reason why their battle is so smooth today, because after the Tang Army conquered the outer city, it can almost be concluded that the destruction of the Left Army of the Governor is doomed, and their resistance is doomed to be meaningless.

Many generals who supervised the standard made various choices in despair!

Some people try to break through and escape with their troops, but if they break through before they are completely besieged, there is still hope for a small breakout to escape, but now, they are all blocked in the inner city, and they still want to break through? It's late!

There are also a small number of generals who follow the example of the generals who died in Changsha and Hengyang, and commit suicide in despair!

Some people took off their military uniforms, left the army, and began to flee for their lives, but the inner city is so big, not to mention that there are not many ordinary people in the inner city at all, all of them are supervising soldiers, after they take off their uniforms, where can they hide after throwing away their weapons?

And more of the supervising generals surrendered in desperation with their descendants who were still loyal to them!

Now that the battle has been going on, these gentry disciples have done their best, and they are worthy of the high expectations of their fathers and elders in the family, and it is time to think about their own lives.

There are also a very small number of people who want to be honest on the spot, and try to make meritorious contributions at the last moment, but to save their lives, and even further become a part of Datang, for these people, Datang Wang Shi will never refuse.

As long as you are willing to do it anyway, you will be treated with kindness!

However, the above are all supervising generals, or more accurately, the children of the local gentry in Huguang!

Ordinary supervising soldiers are not included, they are naturally crowded, most of them chose to escape and surrender when the city was broken, this chaotic moment, saving their lives is the key, who cares about the life and death of those old men above!

These Ming army commanders of the Yamen, the commander of the left army, are no exception, hundreds of Ming troops, more than half of them surrendered on the spot, and the rest fled, only a very small number are resisting!

But the third battalion is not vegetarian, needless to say about the recalcitrant Ming army, it is directly guns and cannons, and after gradually advancing, it came all the way to the inner courtyard!

This inner courtyard is obviously the command center of the Left Army of the Supervising Standard, because there are many paper documents scattered on the ground, and a group of officers wearing the uniforms of the supervising officers raised their hands one by one and slowly walked out under the bayonets of the soldiers of the third battalion!

The major commander of the third battalion walked in and saw that it was very messy, the ground was full of messes, papers were scattered all over the ground, and there were many corpses lying on the ground.

Some of the bodies were known to have been killed by muskets or bayonets, but a few were seen to have killed themselves.

He directly skipped the group of captured officers who were taken away, and then said, "What about Du Danqing?" ”

The subordinate shook his head: "I didn't find him, I didn't find his person, and I didn't find his body!" ”

The major frowned when he heard this: "I don't see people alive or dead, I don't see corpses?" ”