Tang Qi Tan

Chapter 537 Broken Bamboo
"For my king!" "WAAAAAAAGH..." With the earth-shattering shouts of marching, the sound of drums and bugles like a storm; the dense smoke cloud of cannons shot up like rolling thunder, and there was a huge roar inside and outside the city wall , resounding in every corner of the city.

Thousands of families in the city of Seine were also crying and clamoring on the streets, scrambling to close their doors and windows and blocking them with all the heavy objects they could find.Then hugged and shivered with family members, cried relative to each other, waiting for the fate of becoming a war zone or being robbed by the victors.

However, not many people rushed to the streets as expected, and quickly built barricades to defend their communities.Even the municipal officials and members of the police department in the city smashed the doors one by one with a loud noise, trying to call them to contribute, but they were counterattacked by falling objects.

They could only run away with filth and filth, or bloody heads; and then after passing through several blocks, even the officials and security guards who had been hastily called and mobilized escaped at some point. There was only a small poke left, and the diehards shouted and threatened at the top of their lungs.

In fact, after the coups and turmoil of previous government changes in the capital, coupled with the massacres of the five dukes after they entered Beijing, until the counterattack of the Burgundian Dynasty, the brutal purge and tyrannical suppression of all factions; the truly rebellious People have long since died or fled.

Most of the remaining residents of Seine City are also under the high-handed rule of the dynasty, suffering from the abject poverty for the last bit of livelihood; there are even a large part of them, who have only been relocated to the capital in recent years. A vassal of Burgundy's hometown.

Therefore, even if the remaining city officials and security guards continue to threaten and intimidate; they cannot change the result of bumping into walls everywhere.There are also some people who broke into the deep streets and alleys in the slums, or the taverns where the bottom people usually gather, and never came out again.

However, compared to being easily broken through the city defenses, it is basically undefended; there are even a few armed men emerging from the streets, actively maintaining order in the lower city; the bridges and intersections belonging to the outer ring area; The city defense army, who had rushed in full force, quickly took over.

Of course, unlike the National Self-Defense Corps, which was the predecessor of these city defense forces, the bourgeois and wealthy classes; most of today's city defense forces are military organizations filled with noble children, private soldiers, and guards in the upper city.Therefore, it is better than the Police Department in terms of fighting will.

They frantically rushed into the nearest houses and shops, brandishing knives and guns to intimidate and threaten everything they saw, and brutally snatched everything that could be used to set up defense lines and temporary fortifications; A built-up area exploited by the enemy.

They kept driving and knocking down those people who tried to escape into the inner ring area to seek asylum; they even used the shield wall and long guns to block the bridge deck to push these crying poor people away one by one. Shoving and squeezing into the river, turning into groups of struggling and rippling splashes.

However, this situation did not last long; all of a sudden, the city defense soldiers gathered on the bridge suddenly screamed and burst into pieces of flesh and blood.As the special attack company that was the first to break through the sharp knife, the inheritance knights who attacked as the team leader have also rushed nearby.

And at these enemies blocking the way, shotguns were fired or heavy gunpowder shells were thrown.Then, these refugees who were mixed into the battlefield also hissed and screamed as if they had just woken up from a dream, and fled in all directions desperately; they jumped into the river in a panic.

Just when these city defense troops who were suddenly attacked and hurriedly wanted to retreat to the bridge head held up their weapons and looked around in panic, looking for possible enemies; more screams and wailing came from behind them , as well as the uproarious roar of fighting...

But there was already a group of inheritance knights wearing thick plate armor, who had crossed the river seven or eight meters wide at some point.Then, after these well-protected tall iron cans rushed out of the smashed and collapsed buildings again, they became the nightmare of these city defense forces.

They slashed, slapped, and stabbed head-on, spears, sabers, and straight swords on each other's bodies; amidst the fierce metal impact, only insignificant scratches were left, and they were easily cut aside.He was chopped off in a row by the big sword, moon blade axe, and long-handled knife.

In a blink of an eye, the ground of the barricade at the head of the bridge was full of severed and smashed limbs, blood and organs scattered everywhere.Then, the white soldiers and musketeers who followed on the other side rushed across the short stone bridge in one go, sweeping away the remnants of the enemy with spears, sword shields and lead bullets.

And those archers and crossbowmen from the city defense army who were arranged on the buildings near the bridgehead only had time to fire one round hastily.Then, the inheritance knights who were rushed down fell down one after another; in a blink of an eye, the intersection into the outer ring area was opened.

However, more engineering squadrons carrying equipment and equipment, attacking the gun crews pushed by the Marathas of the company, also crossed the bridge and began to work on the spot to establish a temporary stronghold.At this time, the knight team responsible for opening the breakthrough was replaced for a short repair and recovery.

The role of the attacker has also become an ordinary soldier advancing along the street.The white soldiers in full armor and holding swords and shields lead the head; half-armored spearmen follow closely on both sides to prevent surprise attacks in the horizontal alleys.Musketeers with only breastplates and helmets, and a few grenadiers are protected in the center.

At the same time, it is also responsible for the cover and support of long-range projections, constantly knocking down sporadic enemies that emerge in the streets, or shooting down and killing those crossbowmen who are lurking in the high places of the building and attacking.The few grenadiers are responsible for dealing with the enemies who are trying to hide in the building.

Use the gunpowder bombs or incendiary bombs thrown with precision to turn these hidden threats into burning torches or collapse under the ruins.Until they encountered strong fortifications and buildings on the street, they would not raise the flag or blow the whistle to call for support from the rear.

At this time, the following wheeled short-barreled mountain cannons and the small shotguns on the trolley will be pushed directly to the forefront under the cover of the shield wall and the baffle; The balls and pellets can easily penetrate and tear apart all enemy formations.

At the same time, the enemy's rear was also unsurprisingly chaotic and disintegrated; it was the knight squad that had been corrected and supplemented. Relying on its extraordinary physical fitness and explosive power, it easily bypassed the enemy from the blind corner of the building. The line of defense, and began to kill special kills.

Therefore, just one morning later, the farthest 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.And the entire right bank and a small part of the left bank of the outer ring area were completely shrouded in the billowing smoke and dust of the attack.

But here, the defensive operations dominated by the city defense army were almost completely defeated and out of control.But it was at this time, on the Lumiere Bridge, an important point on the edge of the inner ring area; the soldiers of the Free Army who drove straight in also encountered the most intense resistance and the first setback.

(End of this chapter)