Datong, Garrison Command!
"Commander! The camp outside the city has been breached!"
Qin Shaoguan, who had just returned to his headquarters from the city gate tower, received the news.
"What did you say? The camp outside the city was broken? How long had it been? You have to know that lying about military intelligence is court-martialed!”
Qin Shaoguan grabbed the guard's collar and snapped.
"Commander! How would I dare to lie to you? This was a telegram sent by Fan Gengcan himself. This was the last telegram they sent. After sending this telegram, they were captured!”
The confidential personnel said with a sad face.
"What is it? Let me see!"
Qin Shaoguan threw away the confidential personnel, picked up the message and read it carefully. A few seconds later, Qin Shaoguan sat on the chair, looking a little bald.
"It really broke! From the start of the bombardment to the end, less than an hour had passed!
Two groups of over 5,000 people were gone just like that?”
Qin Shaoguan sat in his chair in disbelief. He had not expected the Pingyuan Army to be so aggressive.
In less than an hour, he had eaten more than 5,000 of his men.
Even if there were more than 5,000 pigs, the Pingyuan Army wouldn't be able to catch all of them in an hour!
"Commander! This was not the time to be calculative. Now that our north gate has been breached, we can only defend the city.
Also, we need to send a message to Officer Yan. The Pingyuan Army isn't as weak as we thought. On the contrary, the Pingyuan Army's combat power is far stronger than we expected. Right now, they could only request Commander Yan to transfer troops from the southern front.
I reckon that the 20,000 security forces won't be of much use!”
Liu Zhuoqing, Qin Shaoguan's deputy commander, saw that Qin Shaoguan didn't believe him and couldn't help but say in a low voice.
"En! Not bad! Now is not the time for me to remain silent. Zhuo Qing, I'll leave this matter to you.
Immediately send a message to Officer Yan, requesting reinforcements. Otherwise, with our remaining 12,000 soldiers, it would be very difficult to resist the attack of the Pingyuan Army. I wonder where this Pingyuan Army came from. He had only appeared for a few months, but his combat strength was already so powerful!”
Qin Shaoguan couldn't figure it out.
Liu Zhuoqing didn't answer. He shook his head and asked the confidential personnel in the confidential room to send a message to Yan Baichuan.
"Commander! The Pingyuan Army is attacking the north gate again!”
Just as Liu Zhuoqing was about to go to the confidential room, a confidential officer ran in again.
There was a hint of nervousness on his face.
"What did you say? Are they attacking the north gate again?"
Qin Shaoguan's eyes widened.
What was the Pingyuan Army trying to do?
They had just taken down the camp outside the city, and now they were attacking their north gate.
Did they really think that they were invincible?
He actually looked down on him.
Han Ling wasn't sure if the Pingyuan Army was invincible.
But they looked down on Qin Shaoguan's troops!
Now, Han Ling really looked down on them. Two regiments, over 5,000 people, couldn't even withstand an hour of his attack.
Could it be that they still wanted him to look up to them?
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"Order the Heavy Artillery Regiment to stop firing. In order to avoid causing heavy casualties to the people of Datong!”
Han Ling took out the binoculars and ordered after observing for a while.
The power of the heavy artillery was too great. If it was not done well, it would cause a lot of civilian casualties.
If the people in Da Tong City were not his own people, Han Ling would have nothing to say.
However, the people inside were all his compatriots. Han Ling could not bear to see his compatriots suffer heavy casualties because of the warlords.
Therefore, they decided to stop the heavy artillery regiment's bombardment and let the 75mm field artillery of the field artillery battalion continue their bombardment.
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"Defend! Defend! We can't let the Pingyuan Army break into our camp. This is our last line of defense!”
On the city gate tower at the north gate of Datong, a Jinsui Army officer was waving his shell spear and shouting loudly.
If he was blindfolded with a black cloth, wearing a pair of black military boots and a northeastern hat, he would be able to see through it.
There was no doubt that this was definitely the prototype of a mountain eagle.
Look at that waving posture.
"Brothers, the people behind us are our fellow countrymen from Shanxi. We must not let the Pingyuan Army break through here. We must protect our homeland!"
He didn't expect that this officer of the Jinsui Army was quite eloquent.
Although he said so, the soldiers below did not have much determination to resist.
If they were to attack their foreign armies, perhaps they would still have some determination to resist.
However, they were all warlord troops. After all these years of warlord warfare, many soldiers had long developed the habit of surrendering if they could not win. This was especially true for the weaker troops in the regular army.
Usually, it was his grandmother who didn't dote on him and his uncle who didn't love him. Who would risk their lives for you in a war?
Therefore, what the officer said was one thing, and what the soldiers did was another.
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"How long have we been firing?"
Han Ling looked at Huang Kelin and asked.
"Reporting, Commander! It's been twenty minutes!"
"Twenty minutes? Get the mortars of the various regiments to go up.
Their attacks wouldn't be able to kill many of them! To attack the enemy behind the city wall, they still needed the curved trajectory of the mortars!”
The caliber of the mortar was not large, and its range was not very far.、
The power was also a little weak.
However, his curved trajectory could kill enemies hiding behind trenches and city walls.
Following Han Ling's order, the various regiments immediately mobilized countless mortars to begin firing.
As for the infantry, they were not in a hurry!
Now that they were looking down from above, if they didn't blow them up and kill more people, they wouldn't be able to escape.
At that time, many more people would die.
Right now, Han Ling did not have many subordinates. There were only a few tens of thousands of people in total. Han Ling was unwilling to spend them on this.
Although this would consume a lot of ammunition and would require some logistics, it shouldn't be too much of a problem to transport it by truck.
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