Chapter 1013: Capturing the City

"Bang, bang, bang..."

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The sounds of gunfire and hand grenade explosions intertwined on the city wall.

Coupled with the suppression from machine guns, even as the Azure Dragon Army soldiers launched an all-out charge, the Jiaozhi soldiers were powerless to counterattack.

Scaling ladders hit the wall, and the Azure Dragon Army soldiers immediately climbed up.

And when the first wave of three thousand men began to ascend the city, Guo Yong sent out another three thousand to support them.

They covered the first wave of soldiers while simultaneously climbing the scaling ladders themselves.

As the Great Song army launched their charge, Zhiling County fell into complete chaos.

Under three days of relentless, day-and-night shelling, they had suffered nearly thirty thousand casualties.

Most fatally, the reality of being forced to take a beating left the Jiaozhi soldiers with low morale.

Fear of the Great Song army was also spreading through the ranks.

"Advance, all of you advance! Not a single Great Song soldier must be allowed into the city," Ruan Youjin commanded from near the city wall.

At this moment, he appeared somewhat hysterical, especially after the city wall had been blown apart.

Many soldiers had died on the city wall these past few days, and many officers had died on the city wall as well.

This included Gao Yaozhi, who had been killed by a cannonball yesterday evening.

While this made him furious, it also made him increasingly terrified of the Great Song army breaking into Zhiling County.

Because this would mean the Jiaozhi army was utterly defenseless before the Great Song army.

Thus, after the Great Song army launched their charge, he personally led the Supervision Team to stand behind the soldiers; any soldier who turned back would be killed.

Under the death threat of the Supervision Team, the Jiaozhi army bit the bullet and charged onto the city wall, only to fall under the muzzles of the Azure Dragon Army soldiers.

As the soldiers in front died, those behind filled in, and the city wall was soon piled high with the corpses of Jiaozhi soldiers.

To facilitate movement, the Jiaozhi soldiers even threw the obstructive corpses off the city wall.

Yet, even as Jiaozhi soldiers were continuously replenished onto the wall, it was still like trying to put out a fire with firewood.

Before long, the Azure Dragon Army soldiers climbed onto the city wall.

Seeing the charging Jiaozhi soldiers, they raised their guns and fired.

Then they jumped off the scaling ladders, gripping rifles fixed with bayonets to engage the Jiaozhi soldiers in close-quarters combat.

As more and more Azure Dragon Army soldiers climbed onto the wall, the Jiaozhi soldiers were soon unable to hold them back.

Facing the Azure Dragon Army's two-man coordinated bayonet technique, the Jiaozhi soldiers were repeatedly run through.

Moreover, whenever there was the slightest gap, the Azure Dragon Army soldiers would reload their rifles.

While fighting at close range, they did not forget to fire from a distance.

More clever soldiers threw hand grenades directly at the stairs leading to the city wall to prevent the soldiers on the wall from coming up.

With one side gaining and the other losing, the Azure Dragon Army soldiers soon occupied the city wall.

At this point, the Azure Dragon Army soldiers used the corpses of the Jiaozhi soldiers as sandbags, stacking them along the edge of the wall to fire through the gaps, while occasionally throwing hand grenades to kill the Jiaozhi soldiers still attempting to retake the wall.

Seeing this scene, Ruan Youjin's eyes were practically dripping blood.

He gritted his teeth fiercely, wishing he could tear the Great Song soldiers apart.

Under the Great Song army's offensive, their counterattack at this moment was so feeble.

This was simply not an equal war.

"Da-da-da..."

Just as he was fuming over the loss of the city wall, he suddenly heard a strange sound of gunfire.

Earlier, this kind of gunfire was only outside the city, but now it seemed even closer.

He looked in the direction of the sound and discovered Great Song soldiers at the breach pushing strange firearms and firing continuously inward.

The Jiaozhi soldiers were struck as if by lightning, falling in rows.

Seeing this scene, he was shocked once again.

The artillery and the illuminating devices had already made his heart jump with fear.

What kind of devilish thing was this?

"Da-da-da..." The gunfire continued incessantly, as if this gun had an endless supply of bullets in its belly and required no reloading at all.

Bullet after bullet flew toward the Jiaozhi soldiers just like that.

"What is that? What is that?" Ruan Youjin stared blankly, even forgetting to deploy his troops.

Perhaps for him, deploying troops no longer had any meaning.

Facing the Great Song army with the firearms and artillery they were equipped with,

it was like a child with a rattle-drum competing against an adult's blades and clubs.

"Bang, bang, bang..." The gunfire grew increasingly dense.

After the city wall was occupied, Guo Yong committed all his vanguard soldiers.

For this expedition to Jiaozhi, they had left forty thousand at Zhennan Pass and only dispatched sixty thousand south, with twenty thousand each in the vanguard, center, and rear.

This was confidence in the Azure Dragon Army; troops are valued for their quality, not their quantity.

The current state of the battle was confirming this result.

With the support of numerous soldiers and the assault team receiving the assistance of machine guns, they immediately cleared the Jiaozhi soldiers near the breach.

The Great Song soldiers filed in through the breach.

Other machine gun squads also pushed their machine guns over the city wall and entered Zhiling Town.

Quickly finding favorable firing positions, the "da-da-da" sound of machine gun fire echoed throughout the entire county seat; the Jiaozhi soldiers were immediately wiped out at an even faster rate, and the area near the city wall was paved with the corpses of Jiaozhi soldiers.

"Kill!"

After clearing out the Jiaozhi soldiers near the city wall, the Azure Dragon Army soldiers immediately descended from the wall and roared as they charged into the city.

At this moment, the Jiaozhi army could no longer hold on.

They were in despair.

No matter how they charged, they could not survive under the enemy's muskets, just like moths constantly throwing themselves into a fire.

At this moment, the fear of death overcame their fear of the Supervision Team.

Ignoring the orders of their commanders, the Jiaozhi soldiers rushed desperately toward Nanmen, fleeing as if they were avoiding venomous snakes and wild beasts.

They did not want to stay in Zhiling County for even another moment!

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