Chapter 040: The Battle of Freshwater (Four)

  The fierce battle on the city wall continued, but the defenders inside the city remained completely still.

  In the command center, General Ma Xiongtai was not paying attention at all, looking at the map in front of him, humming a little tune, as if the battle outside had nothing to do with him.

  "It's a long journey, but I have to say that these Huangpu kids are quite brave in battle. However, they don't have much combat experience and no heavy weapons. Launching a strong attack like this will only increase casualties and won't yield any results." The chief of staff walked up to Ma Xiongtai's side and said with a smile.

  Ma Xiongtao yawned and his facial expression also became somewhat withered.

  An aide hastily brought over a water pipe, Ma Xiongtai sat down in the chair, put the pipe to his mouth, and the aide quickly lit it.

  Ma Xiongtao took a few deep breaths and his face regained its vitality.

  "What you said is right, they are still very brave in battle, but in front of us, apart from sending themselves to death for nothing, there's no gain at all. What kind of place is Tamsui? They don't even bother to ask, even if they have an army of ten thousand men, wanting to take this place down is just a pipe dream." Ma Xiongtai said with a smug expression while puffing out smoke rings.

  Just then, an officer rushed in from outside, without even a military salute, and reported directly: "Commander, it's not good. The WaWa army launched a night raid, destroying many firepower points on the city wall, and set up countless light and heavy machine guns to suppress our firepower points. Now some of the WaWa army have already climbed onto the city wall."

  "What?" Ma Xiongtao could hardly believe his ears, staring with his eyes wide open, angrily looking at the officer.

  The officer reported the situation again, Ma Xiongtiao hastily put down his pipe on the table and walked to the front of the map. The city wall of Danshui was high and thick, which was why Ma Xiongtiao dared to boast. Once the battle on the city wall was lost, in the alley battles, Ma Xiongtiao would not dare to boast again.

  "Hurry, order the troops in the city to reinforce and go up, no matter what we must hold on to the city wall." Ma Xiongtao quickly gave the command.

  The orderly ran out at a quick pace, fearing he would waste more time.

  On the city wall, both sides have already engaged in close combat.

  A team of over 100 brave warriors, more than 40 of whom have already climbed onto the city wall, but at a great cost: by now, the team has lost over 30 lives.

  "Rat-a-tat." The Browning automatic rifle spat out flames, bullet after bullet becoming a deadly killer, Chen's soldiers falling one by one to the ground.

  Although the city wall was occupied by Chen Jun's soldiers, under the strong automatic firepower of the Brave Troop, Chen Jun's soldiers did not even have the opportunity to engage in close combat.

  "Hu Lianchang, take your men and rush down to the city gate, open it up."

  "Dong Lianchang, hold your position on the city wall and cover our troops' retreat."

  Sun Xinghua fired at Chen Jun's soldiers while rapidly issuing orders.

  "Charge!" Second Lieutenant Hu Wei, holding a Thompson submachine gun, commanded over a dozen soldiers to launch a charge towards the city below. Over a dozen soldiers carrying automatic weapons followed closely behind Hu Wei, forming a powerful firepower network.

  The Chen Jun soldiers who blocked their way fell down one after another.

  Outside the city, on the surface of the three camps' positions.

  Seeing the brave troops on the city wall, Commander Chiang immediately issued an order, ordering the third battalion to join the battle, and before dawn, they must open the gate to receive the friendly forces entering the city.

  "Comrades, for the sake of our ideology, charge!" The party representative of the Third Battalion, Cai Guangju, held up his pistol and shouted loudly.

  Three hundred and sixty more officers and men, like tigers coming down from a mountain, charged swiftly towards the city wall.

  The officers and soldiers moved quickly, they even forgot to deploy the charging formation, all they thought about was rushing up quickly to support the battle on the city wall, because there were not only their own battalion commanders but also their sworn brothers.

  During the charge, Du Yuming was tripped by a stone and fell to the ground. Five or six soldiers rushed over to surround him, but Du Yuming shouted loudly: "Don't take care of me, hurry up and rush forward."

  The firepower on the city wall unfolded its shooting, and the bullets became the god of death, taking away the lives of one soldier after another.

  No one retreated, they all charged forward against Chen Jiao's soldiers' bullets, regardless of their own safety, and launched a fierce attack on the city wall.

  Three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred meters, every segment of distance, there were soldiers falling to the ground.

  But gradually, a class, a row, a company, climbed up along the long ladder and entered onto the city wall.

  "Second team, third team, charge down quickly and open the city gate!" Sun Xinghua shouted loudly.

  Cai Guangjie took up a handgun and personally led two companies of troops in an attack on the city wall.

  As the party representative of the Third Regiment, Cai Guangjie rushed to the forefront.

  Just at this moment, Chen's soldiers who had come as reinforcements from a distance opened fire.

  A string of vicious bullets shot towards Cai Guangjie's body.

  Cai Guangjie fell into a pool of blood, Cai Guangjie, who was shot several times, still managed to get up after falling down.

  "Party representative." Squadron Leader Dong Tianyong quickly ran over and supported Cai Guangju, who was barely able to stand up.

  "Dong Lianchang, hurry up and bandage me, the rebels are waiting for us to come and kill them!" Cai Guangju said hastily after seeing Dong Tianyong.

  After finishing speaking, Cai Guangjie had no strength left and fell into Dong Tianyong's arms.

  "Hurry up and send him to the rear for medical treatment." The representative of the Third Company, Sun Guangping, walked over and saw that Cai Guangju was covered in blood, and hastily shouted a sentence.

  Dong Tianyong shook his head in grief and indignation, at this moment Cai Guangju had no breath left.

  "Comrades, avenge the party representative and kill with me!" Dong Tianyong carefully placed Cai Guang's body on the ground, holding the Thompson submachine gun, and rushed to the front of the troops again.

  The officers and men heard Dong Tianyong's shout, they all knew that the party representative had sacrificed himself, and each of them was filled with grief and indignation. Regardless of the bullets shot by Chen Jun's soldiers, they launched a strong attack towards the city gate.

  The soldiers in front fell down, and those behind continued to charge forward. The charging soldiers fell down, followed by the soldiers behind them, who charged forward again.

  The soldiers of Chen Jun's army were shocked by the crazy fighting methods of the Party Army. They had been in battle for many years and had never seen such an army, which fought like madmen, disregarding their own casualties, especially the officers who always charged to the front.

  Gradually, Chen Jun's soldiers could no longer resist and one by one they turned around and ran back.

  The three companies swiftly occupied their positions, covering the advance of the second company which had arrived ahead of time at the foot of the city.

  At 5 o'clock in the morning, the Tamsui city gate was opened by the Second Regiment, and tens of thousands of troops rushed in from the city gate to pursue the Chen army soldiers inside.

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