Munitions Empire

Chapter 484 Battle of King City 466_2

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Therefore, upon seeing the Chief of Staff resting in the village, the commander of the guard battalion began to complain: "Chief of Staff, if something happens, how do I explain it to General Tagg?"

"I will have a good talk with him, make him pay attention to his safety," the Chief of Staff replied. While he spoke, a female officer from the division headquarters passed by, carrying a large stack of documents.

"Chief of Staff, the 2nd Battalion made contact! I have marked their position on the map," another officer who followed the female officer reported as he passed by the Chief of Staff.

The already busy Chief of Staff nodded, then pulled out a map from the clutter on the folding table to check the positions on it.

The entire division was in disarray... Many troops were still unaccounted for. However, the good news was that those found had already reached their assigned positions.

On the other end of Zheng Country's King City, the 155 mm howitzers of the 1st Infantry Division were bombarding the walls of King City from 10 kilometers away.

The heavy shells landed near the city walls, with one directly exploding at the base, toppling a thick segment of the wall.

The fractured stones of the wall broke and tumbled, several soldiers stationed at the top were killed by the artillery fire, and the surrounding Zheng soldiers panicked as they passed under the collapsing wall, quickly disappearing into the rolling dust.

"What do we do now? What do we do now?" Zheng Tong, watching the smoking walls in the distance, questioned Li Jun and Zhang Ming at his side.

Zhang Ming looked towards Li Jun, curious himself about what plans the Great General of Zheng Country could possibly have to address the crisis at hand.

"I have already ordered the troops to set up a defensive perimeter; based on the combat manual provided by Shireck, we dug trenches and reinforced artillery at key positions," Li Jun replied, competently and properly, indeed a capable commander.

He had actually not seen these tactics before, but after suffering several setbacks, he decisively began to use the new methods outlined by Shireck.

In addition, he deployed a large number of soldiers in the workshops and factory halls outside the Royal Palace and was prepared to contest these vital industrial facilities with the Tang Army.

"Is there any news from the envoy we sent to Dahua for reinforcements?" Zheng Tong then turned to Zhang Ming at his side and asked.

Zhang Ming immediately bowed his head: "Your Majesty! There's no news yet! However, there was information earlier that the road to Dahua was cut off, in chaos, with Tang Army everywhere..."

"We've fallen into the enemy's trap!" If Zheng Tong hadn't figured out by now that the strategy proposed by Pang Tong was actually poison for Zheng Country, he wouldn't be fit to be the king of Zheng Country.

Next to the vine-covered walls, there was a hastily dug trench by the Zheng Army forces. The soldiers from Zheng Country huddled inside the trench, holding their heads and curling up as shells fell around their positions.

The vibrations eventually caused the already unstable walls to collapse, and with one explosion after another gradually receding, the Tang Army soldiers dispersed and advanced toward the Zheng Army's position.

Amidst the gunpowder smoke, a Zheng Country soldier poked his head out from the trench, spotted the Tang Army soldiers who had already come close to their position, and immediately withdrew his head.

"This is bad! The enemy, the enemy is coming over here!" The young Zheng Country soldier pressed his voice to the lowest and shouted with all his might.

Hearing the warning, the Zheng Army soldiers inside the trench quickly chose their positions, poked their heads out, and then their weapons, ready to pull the trigger on those approaching enemies.

But before they could open fire, bullets from the sniper rifles flying toward them sent those Zheng Country soldiers back into the trench.

The shot soldier fell on his back, with a hole in his forehead. Seeing their comrade's head blown open, the remaining Zheng Country soldiers all pulled their heads back, no longer daring to look out carelessly and see how the situation was changing.

Not everyone has the courage to expose their head to a sniper, let alone the opposite side wasn't just one sniper! It was a group!

While these terrified Zheng Country soldiers were huddling in the trench, arguing with their eyes over who should take a peek to scope out the situation, the Tang Army soldiers crawling forward outside the trench had already come very close.

Carefully withdrawing grenades from beside them, the Tang Army soldiers in pairs pulled the pins from the grenades and then released the safety lever.

The delayed fuses started to work, and after mentally counting to two, the soldiers threw their grenades forward together.

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Explosions suddenly resounded above the heads of the Zheng Army soldiers hiding in the trench, and the soil lifted by the blasts fell upon them.

Due to the explosions, one after another, the thrown soil seemed to be burying all the people alive in the trench.

At that moment, at the foot of a Zheng Country soldier, a round grenade tumbled and rolled to the side of his shoe

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Brothers, Dragon Spirit is ill and needs a couple of days to recover, so for now we'll just have one update. Once the illness is over, I will make up the updates.

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