Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 1853 1854 Riot

The warehouse was empty, with only a few panicked rats running around in the corner, as if hiding from something terrible. The soldiers of the Lions Empire escorted Hunter and other "spies who incited rebellion" away, leaving behind a mess on the ground and a lingering tense atmosphere in the air.

Yucheng, this once prosperous city, now looks like an isolated island about to be swallowed by a storm. In the streets and alleys, the soldiers of Lions and Dorne patrolled in groups of three or five, with panicked expressions. They originally thought that this was just an easy suppression, but they didn't expect to fall into such a quagmire.

Even so, there were still many civilians and workers who gathered in secret. They discussed how to end the war, and the topic of discussion turned to how to welcome the army of the Tang Empire into the city.

  In the eyes of all the civilians, as long as the Tang Empire's army occupied Yucheng, their suffering would be over. As long as those coalition soldiers who bullied the weak and feared the strong were driven away, the war would be completely over!

With this idea, more and more people began to join the radical small group. Many people wanted to fight for a future at this time. If they could really create chaos and let the Tang Empire occupy Yucheng at a relatively low cost, they would definitely be praised!

As a result, some people began to secretly draw maps, assemble teams, and even scout several Allied arsenals hidden in the city, preparing to welcome the arrival of the Tang Empire army with their own practical actions.

"Damn it! Are these peasants crazy?" A young Ryans soldier cursed under his breath, his palms full of sweat as he tightly gripped the rifle in his hands.

Just now, he shot and killed a civilian who tried to rush up to rob him of his weapon, and the other person's blood even splashed on his face. This was his first time killing someone, and it was also his first time to kill someone at such a close distance...

"Be alert! I heard that civilians have rioted in many places!" Looking at his frightened subordinates, the Lions Empire officer who had just hung up the phone and walked out of the sentry post reminded nervously.

He had just heard about another block where a commander had publicly executed a worker named Hunter in order to deter the restless civilians. He was arrested yesterday on charges of inciting civilian rebellion.

Who knew that when the worker was being executed, a group of masked gangsters suddenly jumped out, armed with submachine guns and fierce firepower, and rescued the thug named Hunter in full view of everyone.

A large-scale riot then broke out there, with civilians from several blocks attacking the local garrison and even occupying an arsenal.

Even a fool knows that this is not that simple. If it is just a mob, it is impossible for them to be a match for the local garrison. Obviously, among those rioters, there are some people of unknown origin. These people have automatic weapons and are very skilled in tactical coordination, helping those unarmed rioters to stabilize their position.

Now, those rioters have occupied the arsenal and have more bullets and guns. Now these civilians with guns are running around in the city, causing countless troubles for the coalition forces defending the city.

"If anyone attacks the checkpoint, open fire immediately..." He looked at the sandbags piled up next to his post, and then at the towering buildings around him. He felt that the checkpoint he had set up at the intersection was simply a trap. If anything went wrong, their fortifications here were leaky and there was no way to defend themselves.

"No, Captain...are we really shooting at civilians? Then the higher-ups will blame us..." An old soldier came up and asked in a low voice. He felt that shooting at his compatriots was not a good thing no matter how you looked at it.

"Shut up! Do you want to be torn to pieces by those lunatics?" The commander of the outpost glared at him fiercely and said in a low voice, "These untouchables are completely crazy. They are capable of doing anything! Some soldiers have already been beaten to death. Do you want to die too?"

"Bang, bang, bang, bang!" A series of gunshots suddenly came from the distance. Judging from the sound, it should be the MP40 submachine gun commonly equipped in the Lions Empire. This submachine gun is equipped in many countries in the East Continent, mainly the Poplar Empire of the Elf and the Lions Empire.

"Hide! Damn it! They are coming." Hiding behind the sandbag shelter, the officer of the Lions Empire held up the helmet on his head with his hand, reminding his men to find shelter quickly.

On the other side of the street, civilians holding all kinds of weapons were pouring in like a tide.

Some of these people were holding sticks or shovels, some were holding kitchen knives from home or wrenches from the factory, some were holding 98K rifles found in the armory, and some were only holding a bayonet... With red eyes and looking crazy, they rushed towards the Lions Empire soldiers at the checkpoint.

"Get these bastards away!" Hunter, who was rescued from the execution ground and mixed in the crowd, yelled wildly. He had just been to the gates of hell, and of course it was impossible for him to reason with these soldiers of the Lions Empire.

"They will kill all of us sooner or later! Drive them out of our city!" Someone in the crowd holding an MP40 submachine gun shouted to the people around him.

  Along with these shouts, the crowd rushing to the barricade checkpoint became even more violent. They really had been oppressed for too long, and now they decided to fight for themselves!

"Go back! We will shoot if you come any closer!" Behind the sandbags, a soldier from the Lions Empire stuck half of his head out and shouted at the frenzied crowd.

In response, a bullet flew towards him. Although it didn't hit his head, it still scared him. Then the soldiers of the Lions Empire were no longer polite. They were also annoyed and pulled the trigger at the crowd.

"Bang!" One of Ryans' soldiers fired a shot at the crowd, then he retreated behind the sandbags and pulled the bolt to reload the bullet.

"Kill! For freedom! For the Tang army!" The person who shouted this was a thin young man who was waving a rusty kitchen knife in his hand with a determined look on his face.

Another old worker standing next to him was hit by a flying bullet and was caught by the crowd as he fell backwards. The crowd became more frantic after seeing the blood, and those with weapons also opened fire on the Lions Empire soldiers in the checkpoint.

"Damn it!" The Dornish soldiers obviously did not expect to be attacked so desperately. They thought that the other party would be scared away as long as they fired, but in fact the other party rushed directly towards them.

"Bang!" Another gunshot rang out, and the young man who had just wielded the rusty kitchen knife fell to the ground, his blood staining the ground red. The shooter was a veteran of the Lions who was hiding behind a sandbag. Because there were so many targets, he didn't even need to aim.

"Idiot, you inferiors are only worthy of fighting with us..." He stuck his head out again, put the gun on the sandbag, and aimed at a civilian who was leading the charge through the peephole. He muttered, his finger was already on the trigger. Unfortunately, before he finished speaking, a bullet hit him accurately between the eyebrows. He widened his eyes, fell on his back unwillingly, and fell beside another soldier of the Lions Empire.

At the third-floor window of a building behind the crowd, a bearded man looked away from the eyepiece of the quadruple scope. He was a Tang Dynasty agent lurking in Yucheng, responsible for helping Yucheng civilians on the street to eliminate threats blocking the road.

With agents like him, this group of civilians became more and more powerful, and more and more people gathered together. They broke through one checkpoint after another, occupied one block after another, and destroyed many of the coalition's defense deployments in the city.

Seeing the situation was bad, the officer at the checkpoint abandoned his soldiers and ran away. The machine gun behind the sandbags did not fire. When the civilians approached, they saw that the machine gunner had died beside the machine gun. The remaining few Ryans soldiers had raised their hands, but the angry crowd did not give them a chance to surrender...

"Assholes! Those assholes!" Paul tore up a city defense map in frustration in the underground headquarters. His carefully planned defense plan had just been launched when it was completely destroyed by the rioters in the city.

The Tang army outside the city apparently received news of the riots in Yucheng, and launched a large-scale attack while the city was in chaos.

The northern Tang army, which had not been very aggressive in attacking, also began to move south today. The pressure on the Dorne Empire's troops stationed in the northern suburbs of the city doubled, and they suffered heavy losses...

The Tang army, which had been fighting very actively in the south, attacked even more fiercely today. They had already broken through the defense line on the outskirts of Yucheng. Some troops had entered the urban area, apparently wanting to join forces with the rioting civilians in the city.

If the Tang army and the rioters were allowed to gather together, the defense of the entire Yucheng would probably collapse soon. So Paul desperately deployed troops to prevent the Tang army from entering the city, while at the same time ordering the desperate suppression of the rioters in the city.

"Damn it! How could this happen?" As the highest commander of the Lions Empire stationed in Jade City, Paul had originally thought of holding out in Jade City for a few months. But now he looked at the chaotic scene in front of him, his face pale and he didn't know what to say.

He never expected that the Tang army's attack would be so swift and fierce, and the civilians in Yucheng, who usually accepted the attack, actually gave him the most fatal blow from behind.

"General! What should we do?" An officer stumbled over to Paul and asked in panic, "There seems to be a problem at Arsenal No. 5..."

As soon as he reported the incident, Paul felt the ground beneath his feet tremble. He reached out to hold the table to maintain his balance, and then the explosion that could be heard clearly in the basement reached everyone's ears.

Dust fell from the ceiling, choking people and making them cough. Paul's face turned pale, his lips trembled, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

"That group of... unruly people... couldn't be..." The adjutant beside Paul looked pale, his lips trembled, and his voice was intermittent, as if he had suffered a great fright.

"Did they blow up the arsenal?" His voice became smaller and smaller, and he almost talked to himself. After all, the earth-shattering explosion just now was too shocking for him, so shocking that he couldn't believe his ears.

"General!" The officer who came to report began to tremble in his voice. His legs seemed as heavy as if they were filled with lead and he could hardly stand.

"We...what should we do now?" He knew that losing Arsenal No. 5 was a huge loss for the coalition forces. There were tens of thousands of shells stored there, enough for the coalition artillery to use for more than a few months. Without these shells, the coalition artillery would definitely be silent for a long time, and this time was enough for the Tang army to do too many things.

"Those damned unruly people! How dare they..." Paul gritted his teeth and said, veins popping out on his forehead, obviously furious. He knew that the defense of the No. 5 armory was very tight, and it was impossible for those civilians to break in. The only explanation was that someone helped those civilians blow up the armory.

The Tang army's infiltration in Yucheng was truly pervasive. The other side had been operating here for so many years, and the number of spies left behind must be innumerable... He was still careless and did not expect the other side to be able to do this.

"Those bastards! It must be that damn Silver Fox! There can't be anyone else except them!" Paul became angrier and angrier as he thought about it. He slammed his fist on the table with a loud bang. "Those rioters must have discovered that there were no guns or bullets in the armory that they could use, so they..."

"So they just blew up the shells piled in the warehouse." The adjutant said with a pale face. He knew that those civilians were completely crazy to do this.

"What should we do? What else can we do?" Paul only then remembered the officer who had just asked what to do. He looked at the officer, angrily put his hands on the table, and roared loudly. His eyes were full of bloodshot, like an enraged beast: "Order the troops to suppress the mob at all costs!"

"And more!" Paul took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down, but his voice was still trembling: "Send another letter to the Dornish people and tell them..."

"Tell them what?" the adjutant asked cautiously. He knew that Paul's emotions were very unstable right now and any carelessness could bring disaster upon himself.

"Tell them," Paul gritted his teeth and said, "Don't worry about the casualties of civilians in the city. Treat all the rioters as enemy troops! Shoot them immediately!"

He couldn't care less now. All he could think about was not losing Jade City so quickly. No matter what, he had to complete the task given to him by Lions II: Jade City would hold out for three months.