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In the early morning of June 19, the officers and soldiers of the 1st Brigade of the Xinhua Army with black circles under their eyes withdrew from the front line and began to rest! In order to guard against the night attack of the Vietnamese army, they were in good spirits last night. As a result, they did not expect that the Vietnamese did not even have the courage to attack at night, which made them too disappointed. However, it also seems to indicate that the Vietnamese are worse than they think!

After a night's efforts, the officers and men of the heavy artillery brigade of the Xinhua Army had gone ashore and set up artillery positions on the front line overnight. The artillery position of the Xinhua Army is only four kilometers from Hue City! With a range of six kilometers from a 105-mm howitzer, it is already able to cover a part of Hue City! Now, the other two infantry brigades, the 9th Brigade and the 10th Brigade, have also begun to disembark, and it is expected that by the evening, the four infantry brigades and one heavy artillery brigade dispatched by the Xinhua Army this time will all be able to disembark. In the future, those ships transporting ammunition and materials will enter the port for loading and unloading one after another.

At 7 o'clock in the morning, Major General Sun Hao had already appeared on the forward position and began to observe the Vietnamese army with a telescope. Hue City, four kilometers away, is hidden in the fog, and it is impossible to see the specific situation. However, the sun has already risen, and it will soon be able to dispel the fog, and then it will be time for the Xinhua army to attack!

"General Sun, the Vietnamese monkeys seem to be too bold! They didn't launch a night attack last night, this is the best time to defeat us in one fell swoop while we are still on a firm foothold! The commander of the 2nd Brigade, Du Lide, said with some regret.

"Perhaps. Did the Vietnamese think they had enough strength to hold Hue City? Major General Sun Hao said. Only this reason can be explained as what the Vietnamese army would abandon the night raid. When you are at a disadvantage, you can launch a surprise attack with the help of night. This is a great opportunity to turn the tide. However, the Vietnamese let it go like this, which is too unbelievable!

"Humph! How is it possible to hold Hue City? Lao Zhao, it's up to you next! As long as your cannon blows Hue out of a hole, my men will be able to storm in and capture the Vietnamese Emperor alive! Brigadier General Dulittle said to Major General Zhao Shiwu, commander of the artillery brigade. Artillery is a technical class. The commander of the artillery brigade was also promoted to a major general, one level higher than the commanders of other infantry brigades.

"Ha Luha, Lao Du. Just look at it! My cannon will make these Vietnamese monkeys completely desperate! When the time comes, maybe you just need to rush up and collect the corpses of those Vietnamese monkeys! Major General Zhao Shiwu smiled arrogantly. The power of a 105-mm howitzer, on land. It's simply not something that a country like Vietnam can resist! Of course. If it can be replaced with a 155mm heavy howitzer, Hue can easily be erased from the map. However, the 155-mm heavy howitzer is too heavy to be equipped with field troops in a short time!

"That's a good feeling! But don't blow up the Emperor of Vietnam! Even His Majesty of our Xinhua Kingdom still only claims to be the king, and a small Vietnam, they dare to call themselves emperors? This is completely Yoro's arrogance! Don't give them a little color. They still don't know who is the overlord of the South Seas! Brigadier General Doolittle said. Obviously, many of the generals of the Xinhua Army. I am very dissatisfied with the claim of the Vietnamese monarch as emperor!

By 7:45 a.m., the fog had lifted. Hue City emerged from the mist. The preparations for the attack of the Xinhua Army are also in place!

"Start attacking!" Major General Sun Hao gave the order to open fire!

"Fire!" Major General Zhao Shiwu, the commander of the artillery brigade, who had already prepared it, slashed down with the command knife in his hand!

Suddenly, 90 105-mm howitzers opened fire one after another. The sound of intensive shelling was as if it were thunder!

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "One after another, under the action of huge kinetic energy, the cannonballs roared towards Hue City. The cannonballs exploded on the city wall, blowing up breaches and breaches on the entire city wall, as if the earth was shaking the mountains!

According to the division of labor, the target of the heavy artillery brigade's shelling was mainly the city walls of Hue City, and Major General Sun Hao hoped to be able to destroy the city defense of Hue City with powerful firepower. The artillery battalions of the 1st and 2nd Brigades of the Army were aimed at the positions of the Vietnamese army outside the city. A total of 48 75-mm field guns, focusing on the Vietnamese army, inflicting losses on them!

The fierce shelling of the Xinhua army made the city of Hue jump for a while. Ordinary Vietnamese civilians, one by one, panicked. They never imagined that war would befall them in this way. Countless Vietnamese began to pack up and prepare to flee Hue. But when I arrived at the city gate, I found that the gate of Hue City had been closed according to the order of Emperor Nguyen Phuc Thanh! From now on, the Vietnamese army will hold Hue City to the death, only allowed to enter but not leave! As the capital of Vietnam, Hue City is larger than the city of Manila, with a population of more than 300,000 people! Because of the order of Emperor Nguyen Phuc Huan, now these Vietnamese will suffer heavy losses in the fierce artillery fire of the Xinhua Army!

"Your Majesty, now the Xinhua army is bombarding the city wall, their artillery fire is too powerful, and gaps are beginning to appear in many city walls! If this continues, the walls will collapse! "Fan Wendian told Emperor Ruan Fuhui of the Ming Dynasty!

"What about our artillery? Why don't you fight back? Emperor Ming Ming Ruan Phuc asked with a pant.

"Your Majesty, our artillery can't reach the artillery of the Xinhua Army at all! They were firing eight miles from us! The maximum range of our artillery is only four to five miles! Song Fuliang replied.

Suddenly, Ruan Phuc Hyun was speechless. With such a big gap, it's no wonder that the Vietnamese army is at a disadvantage!

"Can our city walls withstand the shelling of the Xinhua Army?" Ruan Phuc Yan asked.

"Your Majesty, this is very difficult! Our walls are made of bricks and stones. The artillery fire of the Xinhua army is too powerful, and it may not be able to help our city walls for a while. But if they continue to shell like this, our walls will soon be blown down! Song Fuliang replied.

"General Song, you are too worried, where did the Xinhua Army get so many shells! Their logistical supplies were to be brought in from Luzon. There are certainly not many shells! Vietnamese Minister Nguyen Tan Lam suggested.

At this time, the Janissaries reported that the Vietnamese troops outside the city had suffered heavy losses from the Xinhua army's shelling, and General Le Van Duc requested to lead his troops back inside the city. In order to prevent the land outside the city from falling so quickly, Nguyen Phuc Yen ordered Le Van Duc to lead an army of 10,000 to garrison outside the city. But as a result, I didn't expect that the shelling of the Xinhua Army would be so fierce.

"Accurate!" Ruan Fuyan ordered a little helplessly.

"Changqing Gong asks to see!" The eunuchs outside the main hall sang loudly.

"Xuan!" Ruan Fuyan frowned, and then said. He didn't like this eldest son very much. Now that the Xinhua army is attacking, he doesn't have time to think about who to appoint as the crown prince.

"Father! When Erchen learned that the Xinhua Army was coming, he specially implored his father to agree that Erchen would lead his troops into battle to kill the enemy and defeat the Xinhua Army! Changqing Gong Nguyen Phuc Xuan pleaded.

"Military affairs, I and the ministers have to think about it, you don't have to worry about it!" Ruan Fuyan said impatiently.

"Yes, Father!" Ruan Fuxuan lowered his head and stepped aside, but no one saw it, his eyes were already full of resentment at the moment. As the eldest son of Nguyen Phuc Thanh, he has always believed that the position of the crown prince is his! However, now that he is 32 years old, Ruan Phuc has not yet set up a prince, which makes him very dissatisfied. It's just that Nguyen Phuc Thanh single-handedly brought Vietnam into its heyday and has a high prestige in the whole country, even if he is dissatisfied, he can only hide it in his heart!

The heavy shelling of the Xinhua army lasted for a full hour before it ended. At this time, the city wall to the east of Hue City had become full of holes. Although it hasn't collapsed yet, it doesn't seem to be holding out for long!

"Dog's day, the walls of Hue City are not as bad as they seem! After so many shells, it won't collapse! The commander of the 2nd Brigade, Doolittle, muttered.

"Don't waste shells! Fry it with gunpowder! Blow up the city gates! Major General Zhao Shiwu suggested.

Because the Vietnamese army had withdrawn to the city, and at the same time, in the face of the heavy artillery bombardment of the Xinhua army, the Vietnamese army did not deploy many troops on the city wall, which gave the Xinhua army an excellent opportunity!

A squad of sappers, carrying gunpowder bags, rushed towards the walls of Hue City, while at the same time, an infantry battalion of the 2nd Brigade of the Xinhua Army launched an attack to cover their movements. After the retreat of the Vietnamese army on its own initiative, the 2nd Brigade of the Xinhua Army had already advanced its forward position to less than a kilometer from the walls of Hue City!

"Quick! On the city wall, the Xinhua army attacked! "The offensive of the Xinhua army attracted the attention of the Vietnamese army. Those Vietnamese troops hiding behind the city walls began to climb the bombed and battered city walls, ready to stop the Xinhua army!

"Fire!" At a distance of only 200 meters from the city wall, the officers and soldiers of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the 2nd Brigade of the Xinhua Army began to shoot at the city wall to cover the movement of the engineers.

Mortars and rifles fired at the same time, and the dense fire caused heavy losses to the Vietnamese troops who had just rushed to the city wall, and the rest of the people were lying on the city wall, not daring to rise again, and naturally they could not interfere with the actions of the sappers of the Xinhua army!

More than a dozen sappers carried a total of 200 catties of gunpowder, all of which were piled up under the city gate.

A few minutes later, the long fuse was ignited, and the sappers of the Xinhua Army began to run backwards in despair. At the same time, the infantry responsible for the cover also began to retreat!

Three minutes later, an earth-shattering explosion rang out. In the black smoke of gunpowder, the entire gate on the east side of Hue City was blown up, and there was a burst of dust! (To be continued......)