"For my king!" "WAAAAAAAGH..." Along with the earth-shattering shouts of the march, the sound of drums and bugles like a storm; dense smoke clouds from cannons like rolling thunder rising straight up, and huge roars exploding inside and outside the city walls. , resounding in every corner of the city.
Thousands of families in Seine City were also crying and shouting on the streets, scrambling to close their doors and windows and block them with all the heavy objects they could find. Then they hugged each other, trembled, and cried, waiting for the fate of being reduced to a war zone or being plundered by the victors.
However, not many people took to the streets as expected and quickly built barricades to protect their communities. Even the municipal officials and members of the police department in the city smashed the doors one by one, making loud noises, trying to summon them to help, but they were counterattacked by falling objects from high altitude.
They could only run away covered in filth or with bloodied heads and heads covered in stench; and after passing a few blocks, most of the officials and security guards who had been hastily summoned and mobilized had no idea when they had fled. Only a handful of diehards were left shouting and threatening at the top of their lungs.
In fact, after the coups and turbulence of the capital's successive government changes, coupled with the massacres of the five great dukes after they came to the capital, until the Burgundian dynasty counterattacked and calculated, the brutal purges and tyrannical suppression of all factions; the truly rebellious spirit People have already died or escaped.
Most of the remaining residents of Seine City are the extremely poor who are struggling for the last bit of livelihood under the high-pressure rule of the dynasty; a large part of them are even foreigners who have been moved to the capital in recent years, and even people from A vassal of Burgundy's hometown.
Therefore, even if the remaining municipal officials and security guards continue to threaten and intimidate, they have not been able to change the result of running into obstacles everywhere. There are also some people who broke into the deep streets and alleys of the slums, or the pubs where the lower class people usually gathered, and never came out.
However, compared with the city defenses that were easily broken through, the lower city area was basically undefended; there were even a few armed men emerging from the streets to actively maintain order; the bridges and intersections in the outer ring area were blocked; The city defense troops who came in full force quickly took over.
Of course, unlike the National Guards, which were the predecessors of these city defense armies, and were composed of property owners and the wealthy class, most of today's city defense armies are military organizations filled with aristocratic children, private soldiers, and bodyguards in the upper city. Therefore, it is better than the police department in terms of fighting will.
While they were frantically rushing into the nearest houses and shops, brandishing knives and guns to intimidate and threaten everything they saw, they violently snatched away everything that could be used to set up defense lines and temporary fortifications; at the same time, they set fire to try to burn both sides of the bridge. A built-up area exploited by the enemy.
They also continued to drive away and beat down those who tried to escape into the inner ring area to seek shelter in a vicious manner; they even used the shield walls and spears that blocked the bridge deck to push away these poor crying people one after another. Pushed and squeezed into the river, they turned into struggling and rippling sprays.
However, this situation could not last long; suddenly, the city defense soldiers gathered on the bridge screamed and their flesh and blood flew and exploded. As the special attack company that was the first to break through the sharp knife, the heritage knights who led the attack as a group had also rushed nearby.
And at these enemies blocking the way, shotguns were fired or increased amounts of heavy gunpowder shells were thrown. Then, these refugees who were mixed up in the battlefield screamed as if they were waking up from a dream, and fled desperately; they also jumped into the river in a panic.
Just when these city defense troops were suddenly attacked and hurriedly wanted to retreat to the bridge, they raised their weapons and looked around in panic, looking for possible enemies; more shrill screams and whines came from behind them , and there were shocking shouts of fighting...
But there was already a group of heritage knights wearing thick plate armor, and they had crossed the seven or eight meter wide river at some point. Then, after these tall and well-protected iron cans rushed out from the smashed and collapsed buildings again, they became a nightmare for these city defense troops.
They slashed, slapped, and stabbed at the opponent's spears, sabers, and straight swords; in the fierce metal collision, only insignificant scratches were left, and they easily cut one side. They were cut off in succession by the swinging sword, moon-blade axe, and long-handled knife.
In the blink of an eye, the ground at the bridge barricade was covered with severed and smashed limbs, with blood and organs splattered everywhere. Then, the white soldiers and musketeers who followed from the other side rushed across the short stone bridge in one go, mopping up the remaining enemies with spears, swords, shields and lead bullets.
And those archers and crossbowmen from the city defense army who were deployed on the buildings near the bridgehead only had time to fire one round in a hurry. Then, the inheritance knights who were rushed below were knocked down and fell down one after another; in the blink of an eye, the intersection into the outer ring area opened.
However, more engineering squadrons carrying equipment and equipment, and artillery groups pushed by Mara people from the strike company also crossed the bridge and began to work on the spot to establish temporary strongholds. At this time, the knight team responsible for opening the breakthrough was replaced for a short period of repair and recovery.
Those who were in charge of the attack also became ordinary soldiers advancing along the streets. At the head are white soldiers wearing armor and holding swords and shields; half-armored spearmen follow closely on both sides to prevent surprise attacks in horizontal alleys. The musketeers, who only had breastplates and helmets, and a few grenadiers were protected in the center.
At the same time, it is also responsible for the cover and support of long-range projection, constantly knocking down sporadic enemies emerging in the streets, or shooting down and killing those crossbowmen who lurk in the heights of buildings to attack. A small number of grenadiers were responsible for dealing with enemies who tried to hide in the building.
Use accurately thrown gunpowder bombs or incendiary bombs to turn these hidden threats into burning torches, or collapse them under a pile of ruins. It wasn't until they encountered strong fortifications and buildings on the streets that they would raise flags or blow whistles to call for support from the rear.
At this time, the following wheeled short-barreled mountain cannons, as well as the shotgun cannons juxtaposed on trolleys, will be pushed directly to the forefront under the cover of shield walls and baffles; they will roar and spit out scorching heat. The ball bullets and loose pellets can easily penetrate and tear apart all enemy formations.
At the same time, chaos and disintegration occurred unsurprisingly in the enemy's rear; however, the revised and replenished knight squad, relying on their superior physical fitness and explosive power, easily bypassed the enemy from the blind corner of the vision above the building. line of defense, and began to kill.
Therefore, just one morning later, the furthest front of the Free Army's attack into the city had already broken into the junction of the inner ring area and the outer ring area. The entire right bank and a small part of the left bank in the outer ring area were completely enveloped in the roar of fireworks and fire.
But here, the defensive operations dominated by the city defense army were almost completely defeated and beyond control. But it was at this time that the Free Army soldiers who marched straight in on the Lumière Bridge, a strategic point on the edge of the inner ring area, also encountered the fiercest resistance and their first defeat.
(End of chapter)
