Although the sky is not yet bright, because the scope of the capital is not large, the information delay is not too far. Just when the team led by Xiao Xuan, which was mainly composed of volunteer battalions, launched an attack along the avenue near the imperial city, Cao Wenzhao, You Shigong and others, who learned the news that the three main barracks commanded by Wu Sangui plus hundreds of families had been defeated, no longer dared to despise it, and directly let more than 10,000 people in the two main barracks of the Tianxiong Army under the jurisdiction of Lu Xiangsheng, who were almost the first-class elite in the entire team inside and outside the city, and even two battalions of the cronies led by himself, a total of about 20,000 elite soldiers were deployed along the streets and adjacent places, forming an infantry in front, chariots in the rear, The cavalry was stationed in other streets, ready to launch a dense defense of flank and rear attacks.

There was previous news, and at this time, Yuan Keli, who rushed to the temporary tent on the west side of the imperial city as quickly as possible, did not feel at all that he planned to annihilate this powerful enemy. Because no one is sure that even with such a strong defense, it will be able to withstand the attack of the enemy army.

Just when the team led by Xiao Xuan attacked not far from the target, Lu Xiangsheng, who rushed to the north end of the avenue in the northwest of the imperial city as fast as possible, quickly ordered the horse artillery team that arrived first to launch an artillery bombardment. There was no time to carry too much ammunition, but this time Lu Xiangsheng carried more than 100 pieces of ammunition filled with ammunition owned by more than 10,000 people in the entire Tianxiong Army.

In the first year of Chongzhen, the life-and-death bloody battle with the Jianzhou army that entered the customs also improved the talent and understanding of the surviving Lu Xiangsheng in the use of firearms a lot, coupled with the accumulation of combat experience under the new combat mode in the past few months, which made Lu Xiangsheng very clear: for the elite in the true sense of the word, when he is not sure that he has the elite that can be compared with the melee hand-to-hand combat ability, artillery is the best way to restrain the opponent. Moreover, artillery cannot be used in a scattered manner, it is better to carry less ammunition than to fire as much live ammunition as possible in the shortest possible time, especially in this kind of engagement along the streets.

Therefore, it was very rare that the elite led by Xiao Xuan had not approached a distance of about 100 steps from the enemy, and the fierce cannon fire continued to sound along the street with flickering lights. In just a short period of time, more than 10 shells that flew into the front line one after another caused more than 20 casualties and losses of the first company of the volunteer battalion, most of them were either dead or disabled, and the rapid momentum of the entire attacking team could not help but be shocked at this time.

However, at this time, the officers and men of the volunteer battalion did not engage in infantry and artillery fire with the opponent with fierce firepower at an unfavorable distance of 100 paces away, as the enemy in the distance had expected, but the officers and men behind rushed to the front without hesitation holding a thin shield that seemed to have only the meaning of comfort, and acted as a meat shield in the attack, and the whole team launched a fierce offensive again after a short pause.

Lu Xiangsheng personally commanded the artillery team in such a situation, and continued to use the light artillery that had already been filled with gunpowder to continuously push to the front to carry out artillery bombardment, the more the entire volunteer battalion attacked, the more heavy the casualties under the fierce artillery bombardment, even the people around Xiao Xuan were hit by the fierce seven or eight pounds of heavy bullets at this time, and the blood spit out by the officers and soldiers under the blunt wound also stained Xiao Xuan's body, which once made Xiao Xuan wonder if there was an obvious problem with his command.

However, the habit of rational thinking still plays an important role at this time, which may be a little bit of the battlefield understanding of famous generals or qualified generals? On the narrow streets, the rate of fire from the opposite side was too fierce and unreasonable. The only way to do this is to use the loaded ammunition and firepower to open fire like your own tactics. If at least a few hundred light artillery pieces were gathered like this, there would undoubtedly be great danger for the team to continue the attack, but Xiao Xuan subconsciously guessed in his heart: in this short period of time, it should be impossible for the enemy to have such a fast reaction speed to concentrate the artillery fire of more than ten battalions, so he ordered to continue the attack, and covered the assault with the smoke formed by the continuous explosion of grenades.

As a result, although the artillery fire on the opposite side was still fierce, the casualty pressure on the team during the attack began to decrease a lot. When the whole team rushed through the smoke screen made by the grenades and approached about thirty or forty paces away from the enemy position, the whole team quickly stopped, and with the cooperation of the officers and men of the volunteer battalion behind them, the first company of the volunteer battalion, which only had more than 100 officers and men, began to shoot out bursts of ammunition fire one after another. In just a minute or so, the 36 officers and men who rushed to the front fired nearly 1,000 rounds of projectiles, forming a fire force that seemed to be as fast as machine guns or firecrackers throughout the street. Moreover, this kind of firepower seems to be like shooting a target in actual combat, causing hundreds of casualties and losses to the enemy troops at the forefront in a very short period of time, and the defensive and artillery arrays of several hundred people at the forefront that have just begun to form are quickly crushed.

This rate of firing along the streets, which is about 1,000 rounds per minute, seems to be clearly not stopping, and continues to move forward with an unstoppable rapid attack. When the enemy forces in front of him began to be able to face such dense firepower and make a decent counterattack, Xiao Xuan quickly ordered the bombardier at the bomb dropping position to attack. When the buildings and rooftops on either side began to harass the team sporadically in the dark, the archers in the group responded at the right time, and the infantry with grenades at close range also responded. The entire attacking team was like a sharp sword that focused the main forces forward, and it was almost powerless on the entire long street.

Lu Xiangsheng also faced the attack of the elite of Jianzhou last year, but even the elite of those Jianzhou army in armor could not fight such a fierce offensive in the attack, especially when the defenders who had just inspired their courage launched a firm fire back, but it seemed that there was no effect at all, which made the originally determined and daring soldiers begin to waver.

As the firepower of the enemy's resistance became weaker and weaker, and the firepower of the attacking team became more and more fierce, the elite Ming army, which had intended to resist on the endless streets, also retreated like a torrent after the bravest team suffered considerable casualties.

(End of chapter)