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Chapter 466 Chapter 466 Battle of the Royal City
A military vehicle staggered to a stop on the side of the road. The officer in a gray-green coat jumped out of the vehicle, took out a cigarette case from his pocket, pulled out a cigarette, and put it in his mouth.

Another officer in the car rubbed his eyes, stretched his waist, touched the carport above his head with his hands, flinched subconsciously, and asked lazily, "Where are you?"

"About 10 kilometers ahead, King Zheng's City." He closed the match in his hand and lit a cigarette. The officer who got out of the car exhaled a puff of smoke and replied.

He hadn't slept for two days, and he was on the road non-stop. It was almost the limit of him and his troops.

“1团的1营大概在前面4公里的地方，1团2营在我们身后……1团3营到达指定位置了吗？”车里的军官从杂物袋里掏出了地图，摊开在膝盖上大概看了看，有些郁闷的继续问道。

The map in my hand was just updated recently. Although the accuracy has improved, it is really too rough.On this map, only some of the surrounding terrain are roughly marked, and at most it can only be used as a reference for command.

So, after comparing the surrounding maps, he finally managed to identify a mountain peak in the distance, and after looking at the deserted village that no one could see in front of him, he scratched his head and complained: "This damn map... ..."

There was a village on the side of the road where they were, and the people in this village seemed to have been wiped out because of the war, leaving only some messy, old houses.

Around these houses that have been in disrepair for a long time, you can still see some traces of troops once stationed, which may be left by Zheng Guo's army, because it is impossible for the troops of the Datang Group to camp in such a mess.

The officer who finally found a chance to smoke leaned against the car door, breathed out another puff of lung-passing smoke comfortably, and laughed twice: "You are content, this is all newly surveyed and mapped. If we use the previous one, it is estimated that we can all use it now." be lost."

"It's almost like getting lost now..." The officer in the car sighed again, his troops were all in disarray. In order to encircle Zheng's royal city as quickly as possible, his troops ran for 210 miles in two days. How many kilometers!
As the first motorized infantry division formed by the Datang Group, his troops are equipped with the most cars and new motorcycles. It can be said that they are the most fuel-intensive front-line combat troops.

However, the investment was worth the money after all. His motorized infantry division detoured all the way from the north, circled a big circle, and finally caught up with the scheduled time, encircled King Zheng City, and drew a circle on the map. Huge encirclement.

With this encirclement, the Dahua Empire, which is next to Zheng Guo, has no way to rescue Zheng Guo, and also eliminates all variables in Zheng Guo's dying struggle.

It was precisely because of their bold detour that Zheng Guo was completely caught off guard, and before he even reacted, he became a shackle.

While they were talking, a truck full of soldiers staggered up and stopped beside the car.

The co-driver's door of the truck was pushed open. On the wooden door, a dragon emblem was spray-painted, and next to it was the internal number of the unit it belonged to.

A squad leader jumped out of the truck, ran all the way to the car parked in front, stood at attention and saluted: "Sir! The road condition is very bad! Please pay attention to safety! Don't leave the guard's cover!"

"Okay! Okay! I got it! I got it!" The smoking officer smiled, waved his hand and said, "See the small village over there! Let's set up a division headquarters over there!"

"Yes! Understood!" Following the finger of the smoking officer, the squad leader of the guard company quickly stood at attention and saluted.

On the truck behind him, the soldiers had already jumped out of the truck one by one and began to set up guard around them.

In order to facilitate production and save materials, many parts of Datang Group's military trucks are made of wood.

The doors of the truck are all wood, as is the rear compartment, which saves a lot of steel and maximizes the use of different materials.

Of course, this also has disadvantages, that is, it will affect the service life of these cars.Metal doors and roof compartments are certainly more durable and, in some cases, can provide better defense.

However, in order to equip the troops with more trucks in a short period of time, the engineers of Datang Group decided to use wood to produce many parts of the trucks.

Soon other vehicles arrived, trucks carrying gasoline generators, trucks carrying wireless telegraph equipment, and then more guard troops arrived.

Soldiers began to build up defensive facilities around them. Some soldiers were digging trenches, and some soldiers were building machine gun fire points behind the trenches for cover.

The battalion commander of the guard battalion finally followed, and then he went to complain to the division commander.His troops are responsible for the security work of the division headquarters, but while running, the senior commanders of the division headquarters can easily get lost.

Running this way, many times the division commander's car is followed by only one guard squad. If the enemy's troops are defeated, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Therefore, as soon as he saw the chief of staff of the division resting in the village, the battalion commander of the guard battalion began to complain: "Chief of staff! If something happens like this, how can I explain to General Tiger?"

"I will have a good talk with him and let him pay attention to his own safety." The chief of staff said.While he was speaking, a lady officer from the division passed by him carrying a large pile of documents.

"Chief of staff, the 2nd Regiment is in contact! I have marked their locations on the map." Another officer who followed the lady officer passed by the chief of staff and reported his work.

The chief of staff, who was already too busy, nodded, and then took out one of the messy drawings on the folding table to look at the position on it.

Entire divisions are in disarray...many units have yet to be found.However, all the found troops have arrived at the designated location, which is good news.

On the other side of King Cheng's city, the 1mm howitzers of the 155st Infantry Division had bombarded the city walls of the city 10 kilometers away.

The heavy artillery shells fell directly near the city wall, and one shell exploded directly at the root of the city wall, knocking down a section of the thick city wall.

The broken boulders that built the city wall shattered and rolled, and several soldiers stationed on the top of the city were killed by the artillery fire. The soldiers of the Zheng Kingdom around them passed under the collapsed city wall in panic, and their figures quickly disappeared in the rolling dust. .

"What should we do now? What should we do now?" Zheng Tong questioned Li Jun and Zhang Ming, looking at the smoking city wall in the distance.

Zhang Ming looked at Li Jun, and he also wanted to hear what other good ways this General Zheng Guo could do to solve the crisis in front of him.

"The minister has already ordered the troops to set up defensive lines on the periphery. According to the tactical atlas provided by Cyric, we have dug trenches and strengthened artillery at key positions..." Li Jun's answer was quite satisfactory, which can be regarded as certain. Generals of ability.

In fact, he had never seen this tactic before, but after suffering a few losses, he decisively began to use this new tactic summed up by Cyric.

In addition, he also deployed a large number of soldiers in the workshops and factories outside the royal city, and was preparing to compete with the Tang army for these important industrial facilities.

"Is there any news about the person who went to Dahua for help?" Zheng Tong turned to look at Zhang Ming beside him, and asked.

Zhang Ming bowed his head immediately: "Your Majesty! There is no news yet! However, there was news before that the road to Dahua was cut off, the army was in chaos, and Tang troops were everywhere..."

"We have fallen into the enemy's trick!" If Zheng Tong still can't figure out that the so-called strategy offered by Pang Tong is actually Zheng Guo's poison, he doesn't need to be the king of Zheng Guo.

Therefore, he didn't blame Li Jun either. He was already very satisfied that this General Zheng Guo could lead his troops back to the king's city to serve the king.

"Let the troops hold on! Just hold on! Reinforcements from the Dahua Empire will come! Just hold on... There is a solution!" Zheng Tong looked at Li Jun again, and ordered: "Open the treasury! Reward the three armies! As long as Those who fight with heart! There will be grace in the future!"

Li Jun nodded immediately: "Yes! Your Majesty! I will fight to the last soldier! I will never back down!"

He is going to let the troops use buildings and bunkers to fight against the Tang army that surrounded the royal city.Now he has about 5 troops in his hands. He thinks that these troops may not be enough to counterattack the Tang army, but it should be more than enough to defend the royal city.

Therefore, after assuring Zheng Tong that he would stick to his determination until the last moment, Zheng Jun continued: "Although the enemy army began to bombard the city wall, they did not bombard the palace... Presumably they are also wary of attacking the civilians in the city. ...His Majesty handed over this place to the minister, and returned to the palace to rest..."

Before he could finish his words, the artillery shells whizzed over his head. Tang Jun's artillery shells crossed the top of the city and landed in the city, hitting Zheng Tong's palace accurately.

The huge explosion destroyed the walls of the palace all at once, and also collapsed several buildings. Thick smoke rose from the palace immediately, and even the flames could be seen vaguely.

"Quick! Go put out the fire!" Zhang Ming was taken aback for a moment, and then he was the first to react, and shouted in a crying voice.

Li Jun also reacted, and immediately ordered a general beside him: "Quick! Go to put out the fire! You lead people to put out the fire yourself! Protect the palace! Don't make trouble!"

Accompanied by his order, the general quickly ran towards the palace with a few soldiers on his waist knife.The people on the street are hiding in the East and West, people are panicked and don't know what to do.

This is the first time that the Tang army has bombarded a target in the city, and it also means that the Tang army is getting closer and closer to the royal city.

Zheng Tong, who had never felt the pressure of war, had a very ugly face this time.Before, he only saw the thick smoke and heard the sound of the guns, but now he really saw his palace, which was destroyed by the gunfire.

Previously, for the sake of safety, Zheng Tong followed Li Jun's suggestion and moved his headquarters to a separate courtyard, avoiding the biggest target of the palace.

However, as the shelling continued, both Li Jun and Zheng Tong found that the Tang army never seemed to bombard Zheng's palace.

Therefore, Li Jun just opened his mouth to persuade Zheng Tong to return to the palace to give orders.But the Tang army, who had never bombarded the royal city before, suddenly bombarded the palace today.

Chaos began to spread for a while, and before the Zheng Guo army stationed outside the city had time to look at the collapsed city walls behind them, the Tang army's attack began.

Next to the wall that had already been covered with vines, there was a trench dug hastily by Zheng Jun. The soldiers of Zheng Guo's army hiding inside curled up in the trench with their heads in their arms, letting the shells fall around their positions.

Because of the vibration, the wall that was not very strong finally collapsed, and the explosions gradually went away, and then the soldiers of the Tang army dispersed and approached the place where the Zheng army was stationed.

Amidst the gunpowder smoke, a Zheng Guo soldier poked his head out of the trench. He saw the Tang Army soldiers who were quite close to where they were, and immediately retracted his head.

"The big thing is bad! The enemy, the enemy is coming!" The young Zheng Guo soldier lowered his voice to the lowest and shouted with all his strength.

Hearing the warning, the soldiers of the Zheng army quickly chose their positions in the trenches, poked their heads out, and poked out their weapons, ready to pull the trigger on the approaching enemy troops.

As a result, before they opened fire, the bullets of the sniper rifles flying on the head sent these Zheng Guo troops back to the trenches.

The shot soldier fell on his back with a hole in his forehead.Seeing that their comrades had been shot through the head, the remaining soldiers of Zheng State retracted their heads one after another, not daring to poke their heads out casually to see the changes in the situation.

Not everyone has the guts to stick their heads out in front of a sniper, let alone a sniper!But a group!
Just when these frightened soldiers of Zheng State curled up in the trenches, arguing with their eyes who should show up to have a look and inquire about the situation, outside the trenches, the soldiers of the Tang Army crawling forward were already very far away. close.

Carefully removing the grenade from the side, the soldiers of the Tang army pulled the tab on the grenade in pairs, and then released the safety button.

The time-delay fuze started to work, and the grenade-throwing soldiers counted silently in their hearts before throwing their own grenades forward together.

Suddenly there was an explosion above the heads of Zheng Jun soldiers hiding in the trenches, and the soil around the trenches was lifted by the explosion and fell on these soldiers.

Because of the explosions one after another, the raised soil seemed to bury everyone in the trench alive.

At this moment, under the feet of a Zheng Guo soldier, a round grenade stumbled and rolled to his shoe...
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Brothers, Long Ling is sick and needs to be taken care of for two days. For the time being, he will make up for it when he recovers.

(End of this chapter)