Chapter 91: Republic of China: Starting from the First Class of Whampoa Chapter 91: Mountain of Blades and Sea of Fire

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Protagonist:

Lv Muzhi

On Lv Muzhi's defensive line, the entire South City Wall trembled amid violent explosions.

The soldiers pressed tightly behind the battlements, feeling the tremors beneath their feet, waiting for Lv Muzhi to issue the counterattack order.

"The enemy's infantry vanguard is approaching!"

On the City Gate Tower, the observation post set up in advance shouted loudly.

Lv Muzhi poked his head out to observe the situation, discovering that the enemy was launching a charge, and the artillery fire was beginning to become sporadic.

"Take combat positions! Artillery, counterattack!"

Lv Muzhi loudly ordered the soldiers to quickly take their positions, running bent over along the city wall, reminding every soldier to enter combat state.

Through the pervasive smoke, one could see the dark mass of enemy troops, like a bursting flood, surging toward the South City Wall, the momentum of their charge exceptionally ferocious.

The two cannons assigned to the city wall fired first, the shells landing in the dark mass of enemy troops, seemingly blasting open a blank space, but it was soon filled by subsequent enemies.

The heavy machine guns spat tongues of fire, bullets pouring down like splashed water, the enemy troops at the front falling one after another.

The enemy's dense attack made Lv Muzhi's scalp go numb; presumably the battle situation on Xue Yue's side was not much different from here, and the enemy was very likely to take this Nanchang City by piling up human bodies!

Lv Muzhi observed the battle situation on the city wall, and a bold idea came to mind.

"Du Yuming! Quick! Take men down, open the barbican gate from the inside, let some enemies in, remember, let them in, and immediately retreat back after opening the barbican gate!"

Based on trust in Lv Muzhi, Du Yuming executed the order without hesitation, and could roughly guess what Lv Muzhi wanted to do.

Du Yuming led a squad of soldiers quickly down to the city gate tunnel, moved some of the sandbags blocking the gate, exited Jinxian Gate, entered the barbican, pulled open half of the heavy barbican gate, then led the team back to the city wall.

Jinxian Gate was surrounded by a protruding semicircular city wall, the area enclosed by this protruding semicircular wall section was called the barbican, and the function of the barbican was to protect the main city gate; after the enemy entered the barbican, they could continue to attack Jinxian Gate.

Almost every major city gate had a protruding barbican protecting it, which was very common in ancient large cities.

But now the barbican gate had been opened in advance by Lv Muzhi's order.

The enemy troops came with great momentum and fierce firepower; after paying no small price, a large number of enemies still successfully broke through the fire blockade, rushed to the foot of the city wall, and began setting up cloud ladders to climb the city.

Some soldiers used firearms to shoot enemies climbing the cloud ladders, while others grabbed prepared incendiary bottles and smashed them at the cloud ladders.

Some enemy troops were hit on the head by incendiary bottles, their entire heads turning into fireballs, wailing as they fell from the cloud ladders.

Some cloud ladders also had flames attached to their bodies under the effect of the incendiary bottles, making it difficult for enemy troops to find footing or handholds when climbing the city.

The enemy troops at the foot of the city wall were struggling to attack without success when they suddenly saw the city gate had opened half by itself; nearby warlord company commanders and platoon leaders were overjoyed at the sight.

"The city gate is breached! Charge in!"

Someone shouted, and a large number of enemy troops, like sharks smelling blood, swarmed toward the city gate, vying to rush into the barbican.

The enemy thought they had found a breakthrough, but unknowingly stepped into a death trap.

After the enemy troops kept rushing into the barbican, Lv Muzhi ordered the soldiers on the barbican not to rush to open fire, but to wait for more enemies to rush into the barbican.

A warlord company commander led his men into the barbican, but found the situation seemed wrong, and urgently ordered his men to retreat.

But the soldiers of other companies and platoons outside the barbican didn't care about these; they had already killed until their eyes were red, charging left and right on the battlefield, rushing wherever there was a gap, and a human traffic jam and trampling occurred at the barbican gate.

"Fire!" Lv Muzhi ordered from the city wall above the barbican, and threw a hand grenade.

Rifles, machine guns, hand grenades, and a large number of prepared incendiary bottles rained down into the clustered enemy troops on the barbican city wall.

The barbican instantly turned into a slaughterhouse; the enemies rushing in had nowhere to hide, with no way to advance or retreat, and were constantly shot down by machine gun and rifle fire.

Among the enemy troops jammed at the barbican gate, many now had flames attached to them by incendiary bottles, hand grenades kept smashing down on their heads, and in their desperate wails, they fell in swathes, devoured by flames.

In a short time, enemy corpses lay everywhere under the barbican.

However, the crisis at the foot of the south city wall was not completely resolved.

Just as Lv Muzhi concentrated his forces to deal with the enemies inside the barbican, Deng Ruzuo pushed his six directly subordinate mountain guns to a distance of several hundred meters, disregarding the danger of exposure, and was concentrating fire on a section of wall at the southeast corner of the city wall.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

One heavy shell after another repeatedly struck and exploded in the same area.

Although the city wall, battered by war, was sturdy, under such close-range continuous fierce bombardment, and after being hit at the wall corner, it finally could not bear the load.

The external bricks and stones of a section of city wall at the southeast corner collapsed over a large area; although it was not completely breached, it formed a huge gap made of rubble and broken bricks, with a steep slope but enough for people to climb!

"The city wall is collapsing! Brothers, climb up from there!" The enemy officer roared with joy.

In an instant, countless enemy troops turned direction, swarming toward this newly appeared gap like ants, howling as they climbed upward.

"The gap! The enemies are coming up from the gap!" The defending soldiers shouted a warning.

Seeing this, Lv Muzhi knew the most critical moment had arrived.

"Order our artillery to strike the enemy's artillery position!"

"Song Xilian, command the heavy machine guns on the barbican to attack the enemy troops climbing the gap with flanking fire!"

"Du Yuming, take men and bring the oil pots over!"

"Zhang Fei, take the Special Service Company and come with me; go block the enemies at the gap, absolutely cannot let them rush in!"

Before his voice faded, Lv Muzhi had already taken the lead rushing toward the gap at the southeast corner.

Seeing the regiment commander leading from the front, the soldiers' morale was greatly boosted; they all raised their bayonets and followed closely behind.

At the gap, two or three enemy troops had already climbed onto the wall top and instantly collided with the defending troops rushing to block the gap.

Bang bang~

The enemy troops who climbed onto the city wall were directly shot down by the defenders' bullets,

Special Service Company Commander Zhang Fei rushed near the gap, just seeing an enemy soldier holding a bayonet climbing the wall; the two stared at each other, and Zhang Fei thrust with a bayonet, stabbing the enemy down.

Rat-tat-tat~ rat-tat-tat~

The enemy at the foot of the City Wall opened fire to cover their own men climbing up; Sun Chuanfang's Beiyang Warlords were likewise equipped with Submachine Guns, far stronger than Chen Jiongming's Part they had Encountered before.

"Hand Grenade!"

Lv Muzhi Reminded loudly.

Several warriors threw Hand Grenades down, the grenades rolling down the steep Slope at the gap and Exploding with a boom at the Bottom, overturning more than Ten Plus enemies gathered below.

But the enemy's offensive did not lessen, still climbing up without cease.

The enemy climbed the wall, Shot, and cursed...

The Revolutionary Army Opened Fire, Bayonet Charged, and shouted battle cries...