As the sky grew brighter, the patrols at the head of the city changed their guards, replaced by a group of rested soldiers, who still patrolled the city as before.

On weekdays, at the west gate of Yingchang Mansion, many businessmen and travelers gathered here before dawn to wait for the door to open, and many small vendors selling wontons for breakfast also jumped over early in the morning with their burdens.

But today, downstairs at the West Gate, only a few merchants are watching here.

Now there are rumors everywhere in the city about the uprising of the Qilin Army in Xiangcheng County, and it is fighting with the official army of the Great Song Dynasty, and no one knows what the outcome of the battle is, and now it is snowing heavily, and no one is rushing to go south from Nanyang at this time, some are staying in the city and waiting, and some are going south by another road.

On the official road outside the city gate, a few villagers who came out of the village and entered the city to catch the market were coming this way, walking and walking, suddenly stopped, and looked at the tanks, cars and cavalry on the official road.

When this villager saw that it was not the costume of the official army, he was instantly frightened, and immediately knelt down on the ground and kowtowed to beg the hero to spare his life.

Li Chu just asked Ning Rong to drive the villagers back.

As time passed, more and more villagers who rushed to the market found the Qilin Army on the road, and finally they were persuaded to go back one by one, and told them that we are the righteous teachers of the Qilin Army, and we came to attack Yingchang Mansion, so that we should not panic and return to our hometown with peace of mind.

It was only at this time that the patrol soldiers at the head of the city saw that they had discovered the Qilin Army outside the city, and they immediately panicked.

Li Chu just smiled, I have been waiting here for so long before there is a reaction, this is Yingchang Mansion, it can be said that it is one of the most important cities on Jingxi Road, this reaction, if the towns up and down the Great Song Dynasty are all such reactions, it will be sour.

He didn't immediately rush to open fire, waiting, waiting for this group of soldiers to pass the news to Zheng Ci, and waiting for everyone's eyes in Yingchang Mansion to gather in Xicheng.

The tiger doesn't wield, you treat me as a sick cat.

After the time was almost complete, Li Chu immediately got up and ordered, after Ning Rong got the order, he led two hundred horsemen to advance slowly, and one hundred soldiers of the rapid reaction force also held compound crossbows, and gradually walked forward in a long snake.

In the tank, the loaded shells were also replaced by Li Chu with armor fragmentation shells.

There were a total of 55 shells in the tank, including 10 vertical armor-piercing shells, armor-fragmenting shells, and armor-piercing shells on the tail, and 25 grenades. Now seven grenades have been knocked out, and there are eighteen left.

Forty-eight shells, that's enough!

After Li Chu sat in the gunner's room, he aimed at the city wall of Yingchang Mansion.

The foot is a tower, the body is swayed back, the barrel is shrunk, and the armor fragmentation bullet **** out of the barrel in the white smoke.

The gate tower on the city gate was hit by a cannonball.

Boom!

The cannonball flew into the city gate tower, exploded inside, and the huge explosive force lifted the roof of the entire city gate tower and flew down in the city, and at the same time, the hot and sharp shrapnel inside scattered at high speed, and the wood chips flew one after another, and the huge city gate tower collapsed under this cannon.

With one shot, the city gate tower collapsed.

The soldiers standing near the gate tower were affected, and the impact of the explosion blew up the wooden blocks, bricks, etc., and hit them.

Early in the morning, a huge explosion shook the people of the entire Yingchang Mansion.

Everyone walked out of the house in horror and looked around to see what had happened, and some of the babies were also crying in horror by the loud explosion. The people who lived near the west gate also saw the roof of the gate tower that had been lifted off and fell in the city, as well as the collapsed gate tower, and the fire on it was burning.

Everyone, blinded.

Zheng Ci was also blinded.

Anxious to the west city gate, just halfway to Xizhi Street, he heard a shocking noise, Zheng Ci looked up, his eyes instantly straightened, and the city gate tower standing on the city wall exploded.

Before Zheng Ci could react, there was another loud bang, and a ball of fire exploded on the city wall, and a huge cloud of gunpowder smoke rose up.

This shell made the residents of the city, especially those near the West Gate, feel as if they were in the vicinity of an earthquake.

After the smoke passed, the soldiers on the city wall slowly stood up, looking at the broken city wall, just now a soldier happened to see a fire spewing out from the side of the tank, and before he could react, his side exploded.

After getting up, the little soldier didn't say a word and ran directly to the city.

Just as the soldiers ran down the city, Li Chu bombarded the city wall with another cannonball.

Boom!

Like an earthquake shaking a mountain.

After Li Chu opened fire, he immediately ran to the loader's position, reprocessed a shell and stuffed it into the barrel, this time replacing it with a grenade. Sit back in the gunner's room, aim, fire!

Rumble!!!

Yingchang Mansion, Li Chu did not plan to take it.

He wanted Zheng Ci and the Great Song Dynasty to be terrified after seeing the tragedy of Yingchang Mansion.

The officials and soldiers of the Song Dynasty sent people over to encircle and suppress them in three days, and they really bullied Li Chuhao.

Now there is not much fuel for the tank, not only the oil problem, but the biggest root, the soldiers in Li Chu's hands, have not risen.

They are all newly recruited in a hurry, the quality of the soldiers is different, and they lack training in all aspects, so they are not as good as the people and even the militia. In last night's scuffle, this casualty ratio was still based on Li Chu's skill in strafing the cavalry of the official army, plus Ning Rong's three hundred cavalry to help, even so, it was such a large casualty.

If they are left to do it themselves, the consequences will be self-evident.

And not just soldiers!

Xiangcheng County's internal construction control, people's livelihood, politics, etc., there is still a big mess waiting for Li Chu to deal with, he needs time now, and he needs a period of time to recuperate and improve his overall quality.

And it doesn't stop there.

The construction of Yan'an's oil fields takes time, and if the officers and soldiers are allowed to continue to attack it, where will there be time for Li Chu?

It is better to be passive, it is better to take the initiative, take advantage of the fact that the tank fuel and artillery shells can still be supported, show off their muscles, show their fangs, and beat the officers and soldiers into fear, and they are afraid of fighting, and they dare not come to pick up the tiger's whiskers at will, even if they want to send troops, they will act cautiously.

Just like Wang Qing in Huaixi, now Wang Qing's momentum is monstrous, don't say anything else, just say this Nanyang, Wang Qing's thief army has occupied Nanyang for more than a year, this year, can you see Ruzhou, Yingchang Mansion generation of officers and soldiers, forbidden army to encircle and suppress Wang Qing?

This Great Song Dynasty court, this is treating itself as a soft persimmon.

Come on, pinch handle.

Reloaded, Li Chu bombarded out with another shell.

He did not choose a residential area, but tried to choose the city wall of Yingchang Mansion, which is composed of all stones, which can better reflect the power of cannonballs.

After a few shells, a huge hole had been blasted out of the wall of the West Gate.

The originally closed city gate has long since disappeared, and the city wall on the city gate is also empty.

The city gate tower above has long since disappeared.

At the city gate, there was no city wall, and a hole tens of meters wide was bombed.

Ning Rong's cavalry team, Li He's special operations force, had also rushed to the vicinity of the city gate under the roar of artillery fire.

"Cavalry, charge!"

PS, there's something going on today, and that's it for this chapter in the evening.

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