Chapter 1099: Fierce

"Charge! Charge for me and retake the city walls."

While the Central Army soldiers occupied the four city walls, the Tusman Grand Duke Yadehan was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, repeatedly urging his soldiers to attack.

Now, he was terrified to the extreme.

The previous artillery bombardment had already killed or wounded over twenty thousand Tusman soldiers, and the Artillery they had deployed on the city walls had basically been destroyed.

Among their subordinates, whether generals or soldiers, morale was extremely low.

No one could endure a war where they could only take a beating and were unable to fight back.

And then, just as his army's morale was low, the Great Song army launched another assault on the city.

The city walls guarded by the Tusman soldiers fell in less than an hour; to him, this was simply unbelievable.

Not only the generals and soldiers, but even he himself was stunned, unable to collect his thoughts for a moment.

After all, in his understanding, with the number of Tusman soldiers inside Wumu City, they should have been able to hold out for two or three months regardless.

But now, the Great Song soldiers appearing on the city ramparts showed them a cruel reality.

Yet, as one of the eight Grand Dukes of the dignified Tusman Empire, how could he just surrender like this?

Even though the Tusman army's morale was about to collapse, he still had to continue resisting.

Under his orders, the Tusman generals forced the soldiers to charge toward the city walls in waves, but at this moment, the city walls seemed to have an invisible barrier.

Whenever they approached, they would be blocked by this wall and then fall into a pool of blood.

Their successive waves of sacrifice only added more corpses to the cold ground.

"Bang! Bang! Bang..."

As the number of Central Army soldiers on the city walls increased, the firepower clearly became more intense.

Every time a muzzle flashed, a charging Tusman soldier would fall.

Mixed among these soldiers were sharpshooters, who searched for the figures of Tusman generals amidst the Tusman soldiers.

One Tusman general after another was shot dead by them.

The deaths of these Tusman generals made their charges increasingly chaotic, without any order.

The Tusman soldiers in front, seeing their companions shot dead, shrank back in fear or even retreated.

The Tusman soldiers behind kept pushing forward.

Thus, more and more Tusman soldiers were squeezed together.

Because there was no command from generals, no one among the soldiers was willing to give way, and they remained in a stalemate, which caused more and more Tusman soldiers to be jammed near the city walls, unable to move.

Such Tusman soldiers obviously became living targets for the Central Army soldiers.

They didn't even need to aim; they could just fire directly into the crowd.

"Da-da-da..."

Just as the Tusman army fell into chaos, the sound of Machine Gun fire suddenly rang out on the city walls.

It turned out that the Machine Gun Team soldiers had carried the Machine Guns up onto the city walls.

The Machine Guns of the Machine Gun Team were generally mounted on two-wheeled carts, which made marching easier.

During battle, it was also convenient to push them to change positions.

But this small cart, like the Artillery, was just a frame; the Machine Gun could be detached from the cart.

The Weaponry Bureau naturally considered this situation when producing the Machine Guns.

The design blueprints for the Machine Guns included both two-wheeled carts and tripods.

This was precisely to deal with the problem of the Machine Gun carts being inconvenient to move forward.

Therefore, when the Central Army soldiers occupied the city walls, the Machine Gun Team detached the Machine Guns and, with the help of other soldiers, transported the Machine Guns, tripods, and ammunition up to the city walls.

After mounting the Machine Guns onto the tripods, the Machine Gun Team began firing downward from the high ground of the city walls.

"Da-da-da..."

As one Machine Gun Team after another climbed the city walls, the sound of Machine Gun fire became even more intense.

The Central Army's firepower instantly became formidable; like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, the Tusman soldiers fell in swathes.

The ground near the city walls was covered with layer upon layer of corpses.

And under the cover of the Machine Guns, the Central Army's city-seizing squad easily took the city gate.

The four city gates were opened one by one.

"Enter the city!"

Chang Wei had been watching the battlefield; seeing the city gate opened, he stood with his hands behind his back and sneered, "Overestimating your capabilities, wanting to arm-wrestle with my Great Song, without even looking at how much you can actually handle."

"Great General, this subordinate will go and capture this so-called Tusman Grand Duke alive." Lv Chang rolled up his sleeves and lifted his foot to leave.

"Heh, that depends on whether I'm willing to let you have him." Bai Shang also wanted to go.

"First come, first served." Huo An said, but his pace was no slower.

Chang Wei ignored them; with the city gate taken, the battle for Wumu City was effectively in its final stage.

Once the Central Army soldiers entered the city in large numbers, the Tusman army would crumble.

"Launch the general assault!" Chang Wei gave the order at this moment.

Under his command, the sound of the bugle charge echoed over the battlefield once again.

The Central Army soldiers still outside the city climbed out of the Trenches and charged toward the city gates from all directions.

"Kill..."

Amidst roars, the Central Army soldiers crossed the Trenches, passed through the city gates, and surged like a tide into the various alleys of Wumu City.

Suddenly, the sounds of rifles, Machine Guns, and Hand Grenades mingled together, and the corpses of Tusman soldiers began to spread from the vicinity of the city walls to every corner.

"Grand Duke, we can't hold them off; the Great Song army are simply devils, they aren't human. My muskets and Artillery are no better than fire-poker sticks in front of them."

As the Central Army soldiers entered the city, Yadehan, under the protection of Tusman generals, hid inside the government office in the center of Wumu City.

At this moment, he was panting, his eyes wide open, his face full of terror.

A group of Tusman Empire generals, all covered in blood, knelt on one knee before him.

This blood had all splattered onto them when the Tusman Empire soldiers were shot and killed.

Abbas covered his ears tightly; in order to block the Dasong army, he had risked the danger of the city interior being suitable for cavalry charges and forced his cavalry to launch an attack.

But he and his cavalry were immediately subjected to the sweeping fire of the strange muskets on the city walls, and in an instant, men and horses were overturned.

He was also hit in the ear during the battle, and his entire left ear had vanished.

Now his body was trembling slightly.

Yadehan's encouragement had once increased his confidence significantly, but after today's battle, the fear of being dominated by the Dasong Gun Cavalry had returned.

"Once the city gate opened and the Dasong soldiers poured in, our army completely collapsed; we have completely lost," Abbas wept bitterly.

As each message of despair reached his ears, Yadehan slowly closed his eyes.

Back then, when Anka handed Tianshan over to him, his heart was filled with infinite gratitude.

He immediately dispatched his own army to Wumu City, and he himself came here in person to admire this fertile Grassland that belonged to him.

Yet, he ultimately never expected that a piece of fat meat would turn out to be poison.

Both he and his army would be buried here.

At the same time, he felt even more worry for the Tusman Empire.

With such a powerful neighbor suddenly rising, their Tusman Empire's plan to expand eastward would be terminated.

Furthermore, their hegemony in Zhongtu would also face a challenge.

He knew in his heart that he could not escape this calamity, but he only hoped that the Zhongtu under their Tusman Empire rule could work together with the Western Lands to destroy Dasong.

If so, even if he were to die, he could close his eyes in peace.

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