“Du…Du…”

Seeing the Taihu Gang bandits start attacking, the rhythmic horn sounded when the butcher's central army was located.

As the loud trumpet sounded, the soldiers in the front of the position extended the m1888 rifle, and the heavy machine gun positions were all in their positions.

The mortars, grenade launchers, etc. they carried were all on the hidden artillery positions behind, piercing the claws of the base frame deep into the soil behind them and fixed them.

There are many lakes around Gusu City, and the soil is soft. Artillery positions are built with the help of piled up gravel.

Xiong San led his assault camp bandits to scatter quickly after leaping out of his own formation, with each person being more than a meter apart.

In the long-term confrontation with the Zhejiang Army, they had known that there were mortars, grenade launchers and heavy machine guns in the battle, and the soldiers were too close, which happened to become the slaughterhouse for the opponent's heavy weapons.

As long as you disperse the formation and move close to the ground, the hit rate of heavy weapons is not high, which can effectively avoid casualties.

A sharp roar sounded in the air. It turned out that the mortars fired first, but it was obvious that there were not many such mortars in the butcher army. Listening to the roars in the air, Xiong San felt relieved. There were only twenty or thirty mortars, which did not pose much threat to himself.

The bandits began to crawl forward, roll flexibly, avoid shells, and attack the enemy formation.

When the distance between a hundred meters was still apart, the bandits in the front screamed wildly, stood up and charged with guns, while the bandits in the back used guns to shoot and cover them.

The few light and heavy machine guns among the bandits were also used.

"Boom...boom..."

"Bang...bang..."

"Da da...da da da..."

“…”

More than ten artillery shells and hundreds of bullets were shot towards the Republican positions with whistling sounds.

When it comes to marksmanship, the bandits of the Taihu Gang are not worse than those of the Republican Army. They all have Murata 30-type rifles. They are usually fine on Taihu Island, so they are practicing marksmanship hard.

However, in the current situation, marksmanship is not the first priority, and firepower is the most important.

When the bandits began to charge, the butcher's light and heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, rifles, and grenades all took action, and the enemy was beaten up. The first wave of charge was quickly suppressed.

...

There was a peaceful state under the city of Gusu, and both above and below the city were trapped in a strange silence.

Jin Tianlong seemed to have no intention of siege the city, but he seemed to be waiting for something under Chen Bing City?

Yang Shanxin and others who were left on the city wall felt that life was like years, and they were frightened all day long, and they always felt that something big was about to happen.

In their hearts, they hoped that the Zhejiang army would appear from behind the Taihu Gang, so that they could lead their troops out of the city to counterattack.

After the butcher led his troops away, there were only more than 800 soldiers in the main city of Gusu, and more than 300 soldiers were guarding the two acropolis next to them. Yang Shanxin and others dared not slacken at all, and even moved to the city tower to eat and live and hold on day and night.

The strategist Xiao Xuan is not a sour scholar who is ignorant of military affairs. In the years he has followed Zhang Renjun, he has also made suggestions for Zhang Renjun many times, and even stepped onto the battlefield with him.

But like this now, he felt it was too strange. "General, did you receive the secret letter you sent to Jinling City?"

In a day, he had asked this question countless times, which made Yang Shanxin a little impatient.

Who knows about this kind of thing? Anyway, if there is a squad sent out, it will not be intercepted by the enemy.

Yang Shanxin shook his head, and Xiao Xuan and Xiao Xuan looked at the bright lights in the Taihu Gang camp in the distance through the twilight. Xiao Xuan suddenly asked, "General, do you think Jin Tianlong will attack the city?"

Yang Shanxin was stunned and laughed loudly: "Mr. Xiao, you are too nervous and worry too much. Jin Tianlong has only about 5,000 people in the camp now, and there are also a lack of heavy artillery and siege ladders. If he dares to come, it is equivalent to coming to die."

"But what if Jin Tianlong quietly increased his troops?" Xiao Xuan expressed her inner doubts.

"Impossible!" Yang Shanxin flatly rejected, "Our sentry detectives have always been outside. If the bandits increase their troops on a large scale, this is an unconcealed military operation, and the stupidest sentry detectives can also discover it."

"No matter what, I mean, I will send out the messenger to Hangzhou Prefecture and Jinling Prefecture. At the same time, the messenger butcher leader leads the team to return as soon as possible, and there are other troops." Xiao Xuan was always uneasy.

"Okay, just follow Mr. Xiao's opinion."

Yang Shanxin called the adjutant and asked him to follow Xiao Xuan's three opinions.

...

Although it was late at night in the Taihu Gang camp, Jin Tianlong in the Central Army Commander's tent was still in good spirits. He sat upright on the 'stool' stacked with bullet boxes, looked at Jin Chengyi and asked:

"How is it? Can you arrive on time tomorrow at noon?"

Jin Chengyi nodded and said:

"My father, please rest assured. I have transferred another 3,000 troops stationed on Lantau Island. At the same time, I have recruited other nearby island soldiers and brought simple siege equipment to arrive tomorrow at noon."

"I wonder what the Shanghai army is? There are also the siege cannons promised by the Easterners?" Jin Tianlong asked further.

"Chen Yingshi sent someone to a secret letter. The First Brigade he entered from Kunshan was blocked by the Republican Army, but he sent a team of about 5,000 people to intersperse it. It is estimated that it will arrive tomorrow, and there will be ten heavy artillery from the Eastern people, together with shells, to arrive at the city of Gusu in the afternoon tomorrow."

After hearing this, Jin Tianlong smiled with relief, "That's good. Starting tomorrow morning, all the opponent's whistleblowers will be removed and try to delay the opponent's time to know our action. As long as the two sides of our side arrive, there will be siege artillery. Humph, Suzhou Prefecture will be my bag."

"My father is far-sighted and has a good plan!" Jin Chengyi's eyes flashed with the light of revenge.

This time, Jin Tianlong planned for a long time, and he was trying his best to take down Suzhou Prefecture. One was to avenge the shame eight years ago, and the other was to show his ability to the Shanghai army, and use his great military achievements to suppress other Qinghong Gangs, and he was dissatisfied with his various dissatisfaction with him.

He demonstrated at the city of Gusu with more than 10,000 subordinates, threatening the other party not to dare to fight, and then divided his troops to rob him to attract Yang Shanxin's brigade to deal with him.

The main purpose of luring Yang Shanxin's troops out of the city or fighting in the wilderness of various towns and towns is to tightly restrain them. Whether they can be eliminated is to block their way back to Gusu City.

Finally, he secretly dispatched troops and recruited soldiers from nearby Taihu Island, so as to win Gusu City with a thunder attack, and then occupy the entire southern Jiangsu, forming a unit with Chen Yingshi's troops in Shanghai.

He also thought about attacking his Taihu nest from Huzhou, Changxing and other places in Zhejiang, but the Eastern people agreed to help him monitor it.

He did not hesitate anymore and decided to take a big bet, and if he didn't succeed, he would be successful.

Because he understood his situation in Taihu Lake, as long as Chen Tianhua freed up his hands, he would lead a large army of water and land to encircle him.

If he is passively beaten, it is better to join forces with the Shanghai army and take the initiative.
Chapter completed!