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Chapter 718 Chapter 718 The Tank in the Yard
The further south we went, the worse the weather was. The sky was covered with overcast clouds, which seriously affected the actions of Tang Guo's Air Force.

However, the rain has indeed stopped. Although there are still dark clouds in many places, it is only cloudy, but there is no rain.

The battle group of the Tang State charged all the way to the southwest, and even approached Wangchun City, a city in the southwestern region of the Dahua Empire.

Wangchun City has a pleasant climate, hence the name. The city is not large, but it has a population of 300,000, and there are many power plants and train stations.

The reason why it is so advanced is that this kind of infrastructure is actually contracted by the builders of the Tang Dynasty. After all, this is the hub city for the Dahua Railway.

The south of Wangchun City is the rear of the troops of the Dahua Empire attacking Xicong, passing through Tengyun City and heading south is Nanfengkou, and the troops of the Dahua Empire attacking Xicong attacked eastward from the Nanfengkou Railway.

Therefore, if the Dahua Empire wants to stop the attack of the Tang army, it is best to defend Wangchun City, and secondly, to stabilize its position in Tengyun City.

In short, if Nanfengkou is lost, everything will be over.So Han Zhiyuan personally rushed to Wangchun City, hoping to stop the Tang army from attacking here.

Tang Jun's attack target is also Wangchun City. After taking this place, Tang Jun's flanks will have cover, and they can continue to go south without worrying about Dahua's army launching a large-scale counterattack from the west flank.

This is a strategic stronghold, and it is the focus of the two sides' inevitable competition.

The troops invested by the Tang army were three temporarily formed battle groups, and the strength of these three battle groups was only about a few thousand people.

The troops assembled by the Dahua Empire in Wangchun City were not too many, only more than 1 troops were reluctantly mobilized nearby.Tanks, artillery and other weapons are superior to the Tang army, and the Dahua Empire is superior in terms of military strength.

On the fifth day after the Dahua border defense line was breached by Tang Jun, Tang Jun rushed to Wangchun City, which greatly exceeded the expectations of the Dahua Imperial Army.

Han Zhiyuan thought that the Tang Army would attack Wangchun City in two days at the earliest, but in fact, the Tang Army arrived at the outskirts of Wangchun City that day and directly launched an attack on Wangchun City.

An infantry battalion easily broke through the outer line of defense of the Dahua army under the cover of armored vehicles and assault gun tanks. The combat effectiveness of the two sides was not at the same level at all.

The battle-tested Grenadiers of the Tang Army are extremely powerful in street fighting. They hold assault rifles, and their combat effectiveness is not comparable to that of the Dahua Army with committee rifles.

What's more, most of the Dahua troops temporarily assembled in Wangchun City are recruits with almost zero combat experience, and there is no way to hold their positions.

Tang Jun only launched a charge, and broke into Wangchun City, blasted the city's ancient walls, rushed into the urban area and started street fighting.

The Dahua army that lost its command quickly collapsed, and many people even surrendered directly and handed over their weapons.

"What's going on in the east of the city?" Inside the city lord's mansion, Han Zhiyuan, who was devastated, walked back and forth in his temporary headquarters, extremely upset.

The gunshots in the city became more and more intense, and Han Zhiyuan's personal guard commander even advised Han Zhiyuan to leave here immediately.

But Han Zhiyuan didn't leave, he was a well-known warrior in the Great China Empire, and when it came to bravery, he thought he could not lose to anyone.

It is absolutely impossible for him to abandon the city and run away at such a time.In fact, all he was thinking about was how to defend here and block the attacking Tang army.

As long as he stabilized his position here, the shortcoming of the attacking Tang army's long front will be highlighted, and eventually it will become a weakness, and he will be forced to retreat and give up the captured land.

This is the best result for Dahua Empire and for him personally, and it is also the "hope" that he must work hard to achieve.

Now he has 1 troops in his hands, backed by a large city, counting the panicked and collapsed civilians, there are hundreds of thousands of people here!It will take time for Tang Jun to control the city. He does not believe that Tang Jun has the guts to really rush into the city to fight him in the street.

"There is no news from the east of the city, and the telephone lines haven't been installed yet." Han Zhiyuan's headquarters staff just rushed to Wangchun City yesterday, and they haven't done all the preparations. They don't know the city better than Tang Jun.So an officer answered Han Zhiyuan's question with some embarrassment, and his voice became weaker and weaker.

"Hurry up and pick it up for me! I want to ask where the people from the 3rd City Defense Regiment are, and are they still in their original defensive positions!" Han Zhiyuan became more and more angry as he spoke, and finally scolded in a cold voice: "Check it out yourself! Good phone line! You don’t have to come back if you don’t talk about it!”

The officer immediately saluted and said, "Yes! General! I'll look for it right away! If I can't find it, I won't be back!"

The officer had just left the hall of the City Lord's Mansion when the shells that fell nearby caused the ground to tremble.

That was a 150mm cannon of the Tang army shelling the city, and the impact of the shell was only about a hundred meters away from the city lord's mansion.

The terrible explosion made everyone shrink their necks involuntarily, and then the chandelier in the hall of the City Lord's Mansion shook due to the vibration.

From time to time, ashes fell from the roof and hit the blueprints on the tabletop, causing the rattling sound to continue.

On the dusty map, the Tang army's attacking posture is marked - judging from the position on this map, the Tang army should still be a hundred kilometers away.

But in fact, the Tang army is already besieging the city, not only with a large number of armored vehicles and tanks, but even 150mm heavy artillery!
Of course, Han Zhiyuan knew that Tang Jun had a self-propelled artillery called the Wild Bee, which used a tank chassis, and its cross-country ability was close to that of the No. 4 tank, and it could attack with the tank.

So he envied the commanders of the Tang army very much, because the commanders of the Tang army could try some tactics that he had never dared to think of in the past.

"Report! General!" A messenger with a bandage on his head ran into the hall, ignoring the blood on his body, kneeling on the ground and crying: "General! The 2nd regiment is over! The 2nd regiment is over!"

The area defended by the 2nd regiment was the most dangerous northeast side of Wangchun City, and that direction was the main attack direction of the Tang army going south.

In order to allow this regiment to withstand the offensive pressure of the Tang army, Han Zhiyuan reinforced the 1000nd regiment with the more than 2 elite soldiers he brought.

But what he didn't expect was that in the end, it was the 2nd regiment that had problems first, and the defense line guarded by more than 2000 people was finished when it was over.

"What are you calling for? Who are you calling for?" After Han Zhiyuan scolded coldly, he immediately asked, "Talk to me! What happened to the 2nd regiment?"

The soldier who came to deliver the news sobbed, and hurriedly talked about what happened: Tang Jun really invested the main force in the east. Under the cover of tanks, the defensive positions outside the 2nd regiment fell one after another.

The head of the Recovery 2 Regiment hadn't realized the seriousness of the problem yet. What he was thinking was that if he resisted for a while, he could order the troops to withdraw to the city wall and organize the troops there to continue fighting.

But in fact, before he ordered the troops to retreat, the entire army was defeated by the Tang army's intensive artillery fire and terrifying tanks.

A battalion of more than 500 people stationed in the position seems to have only run back less than 20, while the Tang army followed the fleeing Dahua army and rushed directly to the city wall, and then the combat engineers immediately deployed bombs, blowing up the building. The thick city walls built for more than 300 years.

Then the Tang Army swarmed in, and the 2nd Regiment retreated steadily. The head of the 2nd Regiment, who knew that he had lost his position and was in a bad situation, shot himself, and then the remaining 2nd Regiment troops collapsed.

It was the one who came to deliver the letter, and the leader of the 2nd regiment begged him to come back and deliver the letter before he died.During the time he came to the City Lord's Mansion, the 2nd Regiment... had ceased to exist.

The 3rd group contacted to make up, the 2nd group seemed to be completely hopeless, and now Han Zhiyuan suddenly felt that the situation was not good.

The combat troops he brought in were at most 2000 people including the guards, and the remaining 8000 people were city defense troops, as well as second-line garrisons dispatched nearby.

If these troops are stable, it is still possible to fight with the wind, but if the wind is against, the speed of the collapse of these troops is basically the same as the speed of the enemy's attack.

"The situation is not good! Get someone to pack up! Retreat to the west of the city!" Although his courage was still there, Han Zhiyuan didn't want to die here meaninglessly, so he planned to continue to retreat south with his elite.

The big deal is to go to Tengyun and continue to stick to it, so you don’t have to worry about no firewood if you stay in the green hills, right?He comforted himself in his mind, and then began to arrange for people to sort out the files, and burn them all as firewood in a while.

Hearing Han Zhiyuan's order, the officers on the left and right immediately started to get busy. Some of them organized documents, and some began to stuff telegrams and newspapers into the trash can.

After a while, someone lit a match and threw it into the iron trash can. The paper was not completely burned, and the choking gray smoke that came out immediately irritated everyone's noses.

Things were still burning here, and Han Zhiyuan heard gunshots not far away.He was startled, and then hurried out of the room, walked through the corridor, and saw his captain of the guard.

"What happened? Where are the guns fired?" Han Zhiyuan asked immediately when he saw the captain of the guard holding a pistol.

The captain of the guard turned pale, and replied: "General! Something is wrong, a Tang Army tank is at the corner of the street! My men are preventing the Tang Army around the tank from approaching here!"

"What?" Han Zhiyuan's voice suddenly rose when he heard the news.He subconsciously pressed the pistol on his waist, and ordered: "Hold on! Cover the headquarters and retreat!"

Before he finished speaking, the courtyard wall was knocked down by a No. 4 tank.That tank was majestic, rolling its not-so-wide tracks, twisting its huge body, and appeared in front of everyone.

"Ah!" A female secretary in the headquarters screamed in shock, and the civilian officers in the yard suddenly ran wildly, clutching their heads.

(End of this chapter)