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With violent shaking, the city wall near the city gate in the east of Hue City collapsed for hundreds of meters. The Vietnamese soldiers on the city wall were also completely buried in the rubble. Even the entire city of Hue trembled in the violent explosion, as if it had experienced a major earthquake! This makes the panic spread in the city!

When the city wall was blown down, Emperor Nguyen Phuc Hui of the Ming Dynasty was arranging troops on the main hall of the imperial palace, preparing to meet the Xinhua army. But at what time, the palace shook, which made his face change greatly, and the civil and military officials in the hall also panicked!

"What's going on? Was there an earthquake? Nguyen Phuc Rang asked. Now that Vietnam is being invaded by the Xinhua Army, there can be no more natural disasters! Otherwise, under the double blow of natural and man-made disasters, Vietnam will not be able to survive at all!

Soon the two reported that it was not an earthquake, but that the Xinhua army had blown up the eastern wall with gunpowder. The hundred-meter-wide walls near the city gate were blown down. The Vietnamese army suffered heavy losses. What's more, soon the Xinhua army will attack Hue City from those collapsed walls!

"How is this possible? How could the walls of Hue City be blown down so quickly? It's impossible! Nguyen Phuc Yen shouted in disbelief.

"Your Majesty, the artillery fire of the Xinhua Army before has already destroyed the foundation of the city wall! Next. They used a lot of gunpowder, and the walls couldn't resist it! Song Fuliang replied.

"Someone! Send four more battalions to the east! In any case, the Xinhua army must be kept out of the city walls! Can't let them into town! Ruan Phuc Rang ordered sternly. Since the beginning of the Nguyen Dynasty. This is the first time that an enemy has been able to cause such a big crisis to Hue City!

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Song Fuliang once again led his troops to fight. However, he has no idea whether he can withstand the attack of the Xinhua army. Yesterday's and today's battles have already demonstrated the powerful combat power of the Xinhua Army. This is simply incomparable to the Vietnamese army!

At the same time, after the walls of Hue City were blown down, the commander of the 2nd Brigade, Brigadier General Doolittle Did, ordered the siege of the city! The positions of the heavy artillery brigade and two brigade-affiliated artillery battalions. They all moved forward to a distance of two kilometers from Hue City and began to fire at Hue City! Provide fire support for infantry attacks.

The heavy shelling caused gunsmoke to rise in Hue City. Houses were set ablaze in the shelling, and Vietnamese cries were heard everywhere. In war, it is inevitable that there will be civilian casualties. Especially the Xinhua Army's style of fighting without any scruples about civilian casualties, even more so! Anyway. The Xinhua Army has never considered these Vietnamese monkeys to be its own. If you kill it, you kill it!

Three infantry battalions of the 2nd Brigade of the Xinhua Army began to attack the city of Hue. The Vietnamese army defending the eastern part of the city also struggled from the rubble and prepared to resist the attack of the Xinhua army. It's just that in the face of the heavy shelling of the Xinhua army, they suffered great losses.

"Brothers! Stop those damn Xinhua troops, can't let them enter the city! Our brothers and sisters all live in the city, if the Xinhua army is allowed to enter the city. Our loved ones are dead! Desperately want to defeat the Xinhua Army! A Vietnamese general shouted loudly, hoping to boost the morale of the Vietnamese army.

Merely. As soon as he finished speaking, a mortar shell fell on his side. The shell exploded, blowing up the Vietnamese general's flesh and blood. Three infantry battalions of the Xinhua Army and thirty Thunderbolt mortars were erected less than 300 meters away from the place where the city wall collapsed, shelling the vicinity with the maximum rate of fire, clearing the surrounding enemy for the infantry attack of the Xinhua Army!

Under the cover of artillery fire, the infantry of the Xinhua army began to charge. The soldiers lined up in loose lines and approached where the walls had collapsed. The rifle in his hand was also loaded, and as soon as he spotted the Vietnamese army, he immediately opened fire.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! "The snipers of each infantry squad of the Xinhua Army have taken on the task of precision strikes at this time. Focus on eliminating those enemies who pose a threat to the Xinhua Army.

At 9:32 a.m., a squad of Xinhua soldiers took the lead in attacking Hue through the gap in the collapsed city wall. However, as they crossed the rubble of the wall, a volley of bullets came their way. The surviving Vietnamese troops were shooting with shotguns. Several soldiers were shot on the spot, and the remaining soldiers also hurriedly lay down, and then fired back with the rifles in their hands!

Fortunately, the mortars in the rear shelled the hiding place of the Vietnamese troops in time, and several shells went down, killing several Vietnamese soldiers hiding there. The soldiers of the Xinhua Army were able to enter the city!

As the capital of Vietnam, Hue's streets are wide, and although most of the houses on both sides have been blown into ruins by the heavy shelling of the Xinhua Army, the roads in the city do not affect traffic. After the soldiers of the Xinhua Army stormed the city, they began to rely on the ruins as shelter, preparing to resist the counterattack of the Vietnamese army. There are tens of thousands of Vietnamese troops in Hue City, and they will definitely not watch the Xinhua army enter the city!

Sure enough, when the 3 infantry battalions of the 2nd Brigade of the Xinhua Army attacked Hue City, they were quickly counterattacked by tens of thousands of Vietnamese troops! The Vietnamese army was more familiar with the city, and they took advantage of the favorable terrain to launch an offensive against the Xinhua army's defensive lines. Fighting in the city, the range advantage of the rifles of the Xinhua Army was seriously weakened. The shotguns used by the Vietnamese army were also able to inflict fatal casualties on the Xinhua Army, which made the casualties of the Xinhua Army more and more large! If it were not for the support of artillery fire, the heavy artillery brigade and the two brigade artillery battalions were all firing shells into the city without counting the shells, causing huge casualties to the Vietnamese army. Otherwise, the pressure on the Xinhua Army will be even greater!

Soon, Du Lide, the commander of the 2nd Brigade of the Xinhua Army, had to send two infantry battalions into the city again, one with 5 infantry battalions and more than 3,000 people, and only then did he occupy a position two kilometers wide and one kilometer deep in the east of Hue City! However, the Vietnamese army they faced was at least more than 20,000 people! In order to take the Xinhua army out of Hue City, Emperor Nguyen Phuc Hui of the Ming Dynasty also counted casualties!

The fierce fighting continued until noon, and only came to an end temporarily. The 6 infantry battalions of the 2nd Brigade of the Xinhua Army were all dispatched to the city to stabilize the defensive line. A battle with casualties cost the Xinhua army more than 200 people. However, the Vietnamese paid an even greater price. In front of the position of the Xinhua Army, a thick layer of corpses had been piled up. With at least 5,000 Vietnamese killed, plus the wounded, the casualties of the Vietnamese army had increased to 10,000 in the morning's battle!

Because of the tension of the fighting, the 1st Brigade, which had rested for a morning, was dispatched out of the city. However, their combat mission was not to reinforce the 2nd Brigade, but to go around to the west of Hue City and block the retreat of the Vietnamese army! At the same time, it also cut off the reinforcements of the Vietnamese army to Hue City!

The total annihilation of the Vietnamese army in Hue City, and the capture of the Vietnamese emperor at the same time, was the main purpose of the Xinhua army's raid on Hue this time! If it succeeds, then the war of the Xinhua Army against Vietnam will be more than half of the victory!

On the main hall of the Vietnamese Imperial Palace, Emperor Nguyen Phuc Thanh was furious, and the 20,000 Vietnamese troops fought fiercely for a morning, but they could not drive the Xinhua troops who attacked the city out of Lu, but they also suffered heavy casualties! How can he accept such a result?

"Rubbish! It's all a bunch of rubbish! Our army is several times more than the Xinhua army, but we can't drive them out of Hue City, you are all a bunch of useless things! Ruan Phuc Yan scolded.

"Ministers deserve death!" The civil and military officials knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. Even now, everyone is hungry. But if Nguyen Phuc Thanh did not give the order to retreat from the dynasty for a moment, they would have to continue to wait here. And, as the war became more and more difficult, it also made them very panicked.

"If you die and can defeat the Xinhua Army, then you all die!" Ruan Fuyan said coldly.

The ministers were even more silent, begging for mercy again and again.

"Your Majesty, the minister suggests that elephant soldiers be sent to attack the position of the Xinhua army! The firepower of the Xinhua army was strong, and our soldiers were often killed before they could break into their positions! Only elephant soldiers can break through the positions of the Xinhua army! Cast them all out of the city! Fan Wendian suggested.

"Elephant soldiers? Not bad! We still have elephant soldiers! Come on, get all the elephants in a hurry, and in an hour, attack! This time, I want to lightly see the elephant soldiers trampling those damned Xinhua troops to death! Nguyen Phuc Ha Ha Da said with a smile.

Elephant soldiers are a type of military force in Southeast Asian countries that fight through domesticated elephants. Elephants are massive, thick-skinned, and unafraid of knives and guns, making them suitable for rampage on the battlefield, thus destroying the enemy's ranks and causing the enemy's rout!

Vietnam's elephant soldiers have also made great contributions to them in previous wars. In the face of the powerful firepower of the Xinhua Army, the ordinary Vietnamese army could not break through the positions of the Xinhua Army at all. Now, Nguyen Phuc Hyun can only pin his hopes on the elephant soldiers!

At 1:14 p.m., the Vietnamese army assembled five teams of elephants, which were already all the elephants in Hue city. The domesticated elephants, whose ears were gagged, were driven by the trainers and headed for the front line. Adult elephants, weighing between three and five tons. When you walk around, the ground rattles like thunder!

Driven by the trainers, 200 elephants marched along the streets of Hue City to attack the positions of the Xinhua army.

"Dog's day! Is this an elephant? The Vietnamese have sent elephants! Mortars fire! "The officers on the forward positions of the Xinhua Army, after discovering that the Vietnamese army was dispatching elephants, immediately issued an order to fight!

In less than two minutes, more than a dozen mortars on the forward positions opened fire, and a dense number of shells flew towards the herd of elephants! (To be continued......)