The Son of Heaven personally went to the front line and personally promised to be promoted to an official and make a fortune, which was undoubtedly a great encouragement to the 100,000 soldiers who participated in the Battle of Hanyang!

Spiritual and material incentives are combined, and the lethality is enormous!

It's not that there are no people in this world who can firmly resist, but they are definitely a minority!

Especially behind these promises, the Tang Army also occupies an almost absolute advantage, the Ming army in the city is stubbornly guarded, there were a total of 30,000 people before, after several days of shelling and tentative operations, the Ming army has also attrition at least thousands, and most of these attrition people are still very important artillery!

The artillery of these years is quite technical, experienced gunners and inexperienced gunners, using the same artillery, the difference is huge, the artillery of the Ming army supervised the standard of many casualties, and there is no way to resist the artillery bombardment of the Tang Army in the future.

In this case, the artillery of the Tang Army occupies an absolute advantage, and this absolute superiority in artillery can quickly become an advantage for the infantry.

When the order for the general attack was given, the horns of the charge of the troops were blown!

The tens of thousands of Tang soldiers who attacked in the first wave rushed to the head of Hanyang Mansion City like a flood that burst the embankment!

Many of the soldiers of the assault battalion were the vanguard of the flood, all of them wearing various types of plate armor, jumped out of the traffic trench, and then ran to the head of the city dozens of meters away!

The supervising Chinese army in the city naturally will not sit still, and watching the Tang Army rush up, they are also desperately resisting!

Braving the artillery fire of the Tang Army, they shelled the city with the remaining various types of artillery, bowl guns, Franc machine guns, field guns, and of course, the muskets of musketeers!

I have to say that the firepower of the Chinese army is stronger than that of other Ming armies, and it is much stronger, but unfortunately, they are facing the Tang Army, and they are also the main force of the Tang Army that has completed the redress.

This time, all the units of the Tang Army that participated in the Southwest Campaign have all completed the rifle reloading, and the arquebus has long been abandoned, and it has been replaced by a flintlock pistol.

At the turn of spring and summer last year, only one infantry division and one guard army of the Tang Army in the Northern Expedition were equipped with flintlock pistols, but by the time of last winter, most of the main forces participating in the Southwest Campaign had successfully reloaded with flintlock pistols, and by the end of the first month of the seventh year of Xuanping, all the troops participating in the Southwest Campaign had completed the redress!

The flintlock pistol has become the most important infantry weapon of the Tang Army!

And this also means that the Tang Army's infantry firepower, even with the same strength, is far more than the standard that is still equipped with arquebuses.

Not to mention, in this battle, the strength of the Tang Army was almost four times that of the Governor of the Chinese Army in the city.

When many infantry in the front row charged, the flintlock musketeers in the back row who provided fire support fired at the head of the city in rows, their purpose was not to say how many Ming troops were killed or wounded, but to completely suppress the counterattack of the Ming army at the head of the city.

Tens of thousands of muskets fired suppressively, countless projectiles hit the battlements, splashing countless sand and gravel, and those Ming troops who dared to lean out to fight back, as long as they dared to come out, then they would easily be beaten into a hornet's nest.

The rumbling cannons, the crisp and dense gunfire, the sound of grenade explosions, and the shouts of soldiers on both sides filled the entire battlefield at this moment!

Even in Jiangxia County, on the south bank of the Yangtze River, people can clearly hear the rumbling cannons, and through the rumbling cannons, they can feel the brutal war thousands of meters away.

Tens of thousands of people charged, and they charged in dense formations, and if this was the case in the era when machine guns were invented and mass-equipped, then you would see patches of soldiers being cut like wheat by heavy machine guns.

However, now there are no machine guns!

Although the Ming army has shotguns, Franc machine guns and field guns in their hands, the power is not small, and if one shot hits, it can also cause a lot of casualties to the Tang Army, but these artillery pieces have a huge flaw, that is, the sustained ability of firepower is too poor.

If you want to fire again after the gun has fired, you have to reload, and this reload takes time.

Reload time, that's measured in minutes!

And even if it was a heavily armored assault battalion sword and shield soldier who rushed to the city wall from thirty meters away, the whole process would definitely not take a minute!

In other words, the Ming army at the head of the city actually only had one, at most two chances to open fire and intercept!

Therefore, when the Ming army at the head of the city opened fire and killed and injured many Tang soldiers in the charge, the officers of the Tang Army who commanded the battle outside the city showed excitement one by one, and then brandished the command knife and shouted: "Rush!" ”

Even ordinary soldiers who have fought a few battles know that after the guns are fired, it takes a long time to reload, otherwise, you think that the Tang Army likes to play with a salvo of bayonets in the frontal field battle.

It's not that the rapid fire of the musket is too slow, and the hit rate is too low at a long distance, so it is simply close to within thirty meters and then fires to ensure a relatively high hit rate, and then charges directly with a bayonet after firing a salvo!

This is also why, when the Datang Army performs standard field combat missions, it only requires musketeers to carry fifty rounds of ammunition!

In fact, so many bullets are not used at all, and often after a large-scale battle, the musketeers only fire a few shots!

For example, during the Northern Expedition, in fact, many soldiers in the army did not even run out of these fifty bullets!

However, this situation is different when attacking a tough battle, because when a tough battle is conducted, there will often be a large-scale counter-shooting operation, and when the counter-firing is carried out, the consumption of bullets is relatively large.

The more bullets consumed, which means that the opposite Inspector Chinese Army has endured a greater fire density1

The absolute superiority in troops, the absolute superiority in firepower, made this general offensive battle a winner from the very beginning!

Li Xuan didn't even have a chance to say that he personally adjusted his troops to fight, and this battle was already over.

In the first wave of general attacks, the Tang Army completely entered Hanyang City!

By noon, they had crushed the last organized resistance of the Ming army in the city, and then completely took control of all parts of the city!

When the troops entering the city took control of the key places in the city, they began to purge the remnants of the city, and then began to arrest some of the high-ranking generals and officials who had escaped.

When the soldiers entered the city to conquer the Yamen of the commander of the superintendent, they learned from the captured superintendent soldiers and several officers that a quarter of an hour ago, Zhang Yue had left with more than 100 personal soldiers, and they only knew where he went.

And although Hanyang Castle is not big, it is not small.

At the same time, Hanyang City, which was at war, was now full of chaos, and the remnants of the superintendent in the city, as well as many residents in the city, were mixed together, and it was not so easy to find out Zhang Yue.

But the Tang Army is naturally unwilling, if it is an ordinary senior general of the Ming Army, they will run away, and they are too lazy to take care of it, but Zhang Yue is different, he is the commander of the superintendent, the governor of the six provinces, and at the same time the first assistant of the cabinet in King Jing's puppet regime, Taishi, in short, King Jing has added all the titles that can be added to Zhang Yue.

Such an important role, how can it be said that he will run away if he is allowed to run, he must be found and caught!

The command from above is to see people in life, and to see corpses in death!

In order to arrest Zhang Yue and other high-ranking generals and important officials of the supervision system who had escaped, the Tang Army, which had just entered the city, directly blocked the whole city, all the city gates and city walls were blocked, and all the traffic arteries in the city were also blocked, and no one was allowed to move around at will.

This is martial law of the strictest!

There are still at least tens of thousands of defeated soldiers in the entire city, and tens of thousands of ordinary residents, all of whom are now hiding, and no one dares to go out into the streets openly.

But in the case of strict blockade, they didn't find Zhang Yue for a whole afternoon, and other high-ranking generals and officials who escaped from the supervision system were arrested, but Zhang Yue didn't know where to go.

Could it be that there is no one in life and no body in death?

This is the commander of the 12th Infantry Division, who presided over the search and capture mission in the city, Major General Ying Songbai, who is quite annoyed!

On this day, although there were many troops entering the city, in fact, many of the troops entering the city had their own fixed tasks, and they mainly defended the city walls and controlled important buildings and transportation arteries in the city.

As for the search for the defeated soldiers in the city, this task was handed over to the Fifth Army!

The Fifth Army again entrusted the task of capturing Zhang Yue and other senior generals to the 12th Infantry Division, and in order to prevent Zhang Yue from being captured, Ying Songbai dispatched a full infantry regiment to conduct a carpet search around the buildings around the headquarters of the Governor and Biao, as well as several other possible hiding places.

But Zhang Yue still hasn't been found!

Is Zhang Yue dead?

No way!

After the person was arrested, in order to survive, he took the initiative to reveal that he was still with Zhang Yue half an hour ago, because he escaped from the Yamen of the commander of the supervision standard with Zhang Yue at noon, and there were several other senior officials and generals who escaped with them, and there were more than 100 personal soldiers to escort him.

In the evening, because they were short of food, the commander of the guard of the Central Army brought a dozen people out to look for food, but they did not expect to be discovered by the patrolling soldiers and finally arrested.

According to his clues, they found Zhang Yue's nearest location, which was an ordinary house, but unfortunately, when they got there, it was already empty.

But the many cluttered traces in the house prove that there were indeed many people hiding here not so long ago!

One of the battalion commanders of the team leader looked at the messy marks on the ground, as well as at the ashes that still emitted residual warmth, and then said: "Please help friendly troops to completely block the area within a radius of one thousand meters, no, two thousand meters!" ”

"They can't run far, as long as they are still in the city, we can find Zhang Yue!"

In fact, Zhang Yue did not run far, at this time he was in a small alley hundreds of meters away, and soon after, he was escorted into a simple courtyard in the depths of the alley by a group of personal soldiers!