That night, the Beiyang Army, as usual, kept firing guns in the direction of the capital. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

While harassing and putting pressure on the Forbidden Army, the constant sound of gunfire could drown out the sound of artillery positions.

The artillery commander of the forbidden army arranged a total of five artillery positions, three shore defense guns and one artillery position, and all of them were hidden after they were finished.

Not to mention the forbidden army one or two kilometers away, even if you stand one or two hundred meters away, you can't find it.

Feng Guozhang also knows that whether he can take the capital depends on today.

Therefore, as soon as the morning dawned, more than 10,000 Beiyang troops began to eat breakfast and replenish ammunition.

By 10 o'clock in the morning, more than 10,000 Beiyang troops had all left the barracks and advanced the defensive line to a position less than 800 meters from the city. Light machine guns, heavy machine guns, mortars, as long as they can be used, they are all carried out.

"It's not good, the Beiyang Army is going to have a decisive battle today." A commander of the forbidden army guarding the head of the city was first shocked, and then made a judgment.

When it was done, the news was immediately sent to the city, and then the defenders were ordered to prepare for battle.

At this time, whether it was the forbidden army or the Beiyang army, they were waiting for the other party to shoot first.

Because, whoever shoots first will be exposed to the opponent's strength, and the opponent will be able to see the move and take the initiative on the battlefield.

When the attacking troops of the forbidden army advanced all the way to more than 400 meters outside the city, Zaitao came.

For him, the initiative on the battlefield is secondary. As long as the Beiyang Army can be killed and injured in large numbers in battle, the Beiyang Army, which has limited troops, will not be able to enter the capital even if there are many conspiracies.

Therefore, as soon as Zaitao got on the city wall, he decisively ordered the mortars on the city head to open fire, and ordered the artillery to smash shells in places where there were many Beiyang soldiers.

Seeing that the attacking troops were constantly being blown away by shells, and that the attacking troops had rushed to a position three hundred meters outside the city, heavy machine guns and mortars were all in place, ready to fire at the head of the city.

Feng Guozhang decisively ordered the artillery to open fire: "Concentrate artillery fire, destroy the wall 300 meters wide in front, cover the troops to rush up the city wall, and enter the capital." ”

Soon, nine cannonballs flew towards the city with a piercing screech of breaking through the air.

A few seconds later, a violent explosion sounded at the top of the city, and several fireballs mixed with thick black smoke also rose from the city. Of course, many of these forbidden troops were blown up.

"The artillery fought well, so they continued to bomb and killed all the forbidden troops in the city." Feng Guozhang, who was holding a telescope, ordered with excitement.

The power of the coastal defense artillery is far greater than he imagined, and the power produced by nine shells can even reach the power of a field artillery battalion firing a salvo, or even stronger.

Judging by this situation, as long as the shelling can last for five minutes, the 300-meter wall in front of it will be completely shrouded in artillery fire. And the forbidden army guarding the city, even if it is not completely destroyed, it will suffer heavy losses.

The Praetorian Army is obviously not going to give them so long.

Less than two minutes after the Beiyang Army opened fire, the Forbidden Army's counterattack shells crossed the city.

However, because the nine coastal defense guns of the Beiyang Army were arranged in three positions, there were not many artillery pieces left in the forbidden army. In order to concentrate fire and increase the rate of hits, more than a dozen guns were all aimed at one artillery position.

After a series of violent explosions, the three shore defense guns were directly drowned in the artillery fire.

After yesterday's artillery battle, the Forbidden artillery also changed its artillery positions. Seeing that the forbidden army took out all its artillery guns to counterattack at one time, the Beiyang Army, which had already determined the artillery positions of the forbidden army, directly took out all the remaining six coastal defense guns to counterattack.

As soon as the six shells smashed into the position of the forbidden artillery and exploded, the commander of the forbidden artillery realized that he had been fooled.

Then immediately ordered his artillery to counterattack.

However, the remaining few shore defense guns of the Beiyang Army were divided into several positions, and it was almost impossible to find and destroy them at once.

As a last resort, the artillery commander of the forbidden army could only choose one artillery position for counterattack.

It was not easy to destroy this artillery position with three shore defense guns, and the artillery position of the forbidden army had already suffered nearly 20 shells. In the violent explosion, at least six field guns were directly destroyed.

"Immediately adjust the gun port and counterattack the next artillery position of the Beiyang Army." The artillery commander, with a heartbroken face, immediately ordered.

After losing four more field guns, the Forbidden Army finally destroyed an artillery position of three shore defense guns of the Beiyang Army.

Then. The Beiyang Army had three shore defense guns left to open fire on the city.

Although the forbidden army only had six field guns left, the artillery commander still ordered his subordinates to immediately counterattack and destroy the last artillery strength of the Beiyang Army.

At this time, a section of the city wall that Feng Guozhang was targeting had been completely enveloped in artillery fire. With the help of artillery cover, several thousand attacking troops of the Beiyang Army have reached a position of 100 meters outside the city.

As soon as the artillery fire stopped, the mortars that had been prepared long ago quickly opened fire and continued to kill and wound the defenders at the head of the city.

Nearly 100 heavy machine guns also opened fire, covering the infantry to kill the city.

"General, rush up!" A subordinate standing beside Feng Guozhang said with excitement on his face.

Another subordinate followed: "Our attacking troops have brought explosives, as long as we get close to the city wall, pile the explosives in the city gate hole, and detonate it, the city wall will be blown up, and our men will be able to kill the city." ”

As soon as they finished speaking, an explosion was heard from a mortar position not far in front of them.

Several mortars were enveloped in artillery fire on the spot, and at a time when everyone had a bad feeling in their hearts, but still had great expectations for the attacking troops.

The city that was slowly quieting down suddenly flew out and pressed a large rain of grenades, and the attacking troops who had rushed to twenty or thirty meters outside the city were instantly enveloped by this rain of grenades.

The "booming ......" dense explosions sounded, and the area of 30 to 50 meters in front of the formation was directly shrouded in thick gunsmoke, and at least 1,000 attacking troops were shrouded, and their life and death were uncertain.

When the commander of the artillery of the forbidden army realized that he had been deceived, Zaitao also realized that this attack was not simple.

Since the Beiyang Army is going to fight a decisive battle, Zaitao must also take out all his capital.

More than 100 mortars stockpiled in the capital were directly erected behind the city wall during the artillery battle between the two sides.

As soon as the mortars of the Beiyang Army fired, they counterattacked, suppressed the artillery fire of the forbidden army in the shortest possible time, and relieved the crisis at the head of the city.

As soon as the explosion at the head of the city stopped, the reserves prepared in advance rushed to the head of the city.

Because the firepower of the Beiyang Army covering the attack was too strong, the reinforcements who rushed to the head of the city could not raise their heads to shoot, so they finally chose to attack the attacking troops with grenades.

But the grenade also had a flaw, so many grenades exploded together, and the thick smoke of gunpowder quickly enveloped the battlefield.

In this matter, no one knows whether there are still alive Beiyang troops rushing to the city gate on the battlefield filled with gunpowder.

In order to avoid this, the newly reinforced Praetorian army could only keep throwing grenades outside the city. (To be continued.) )