Steel Dynasty - Chapter 899

[Chapter 897 The Fall of Lin’an]

Xue Gui was a captain under the Sima clan.

Since Sima joined the merchant council, he was assigned to the front line of Lin’an to resist the attack of the royal army.

For nearly two months, they used the shelter of the trenches to successfully block the overwhelming royal army from Lin’an City.

Although there are still a lot of casualties in the daily battles, this mutual shooting has not brought their morale to the verge of collapse.

But a different situation occurred today. They observed the strange behavior of the soldiers of Great Chongqing, but they could not understand why.

Until he saw densely packed short sticks flying towards the trench where he was, and then a violent explosion covered a large area. The soldiers in the trench were defenseless at this time.

The explosion caused a large number of soldiers to fall in a pool of blood. For a while, the trenches at the front were like hell on earth.

A grenade exploded not far from Xue Gui. The powerful shock wave caused him to fall directly to the ground. At the same time, shrill screams continued to sound.

Xue Gui was stunned. He had never seen such a weapon before, and he was trembling with fear for a moment.

But this was still the first round. Before they could take a breath, the second round of throwing came again, and the soldiers who had just climbed up once again withstood the second round of bombing.

And in this explosion, he heard a nightmare-like sound, and the charge horn of the Great Chongqing Kingdom sounded.

On the opposite side, Lu Fei looked excited. The 800 grenades thrown in two rounds covered an area of more than 100 meters, which equals eight grenades exploding per meter.

Taking advantage of the panic caused by the bombing, Lu Fei decided to focus on breaking through the 100-meter defensive area. Once in the trench, the convenient loading method of the breech-loading gun would play its advantage.

“Charge!”

In the sound of the charge, the company commander, battalion commander, and regiment commander took the lead in the charge, and each of them took the lead. The military law of Dayu State stipulates that officers must take the lead in the charge. Those who do not cower will be removed from their posts and transferred to a military court.

The reason for this rule is to promote the brave fighting spirit of the army.

When the soldiers saw their commander charging, they rushed forward one by one, howling.

In the army, they are never jealous of their superiors, but are just in awe, because they understand that those who can become officers are definitely not cowards.

Especially those officers with royal family backgrounds. Today’s Holy Emperor has stricter requirements on them. All royal children must set an example whether among the people or on the battlefield, and they are also the front line in charging on the battlefield.

For this reason, the soldiers became more and more identified with the royal family. Under the leadership of the current Holy Master, the royal family meant taking on more responsibilities.

Although Lu Fei wanted to rush over like the soldiers with his gun, but as the commander of the battle, he couldn’t be so reckless.

Holding the telescope, he could only worry in his heart.

After the charge was launched, the stunned Lin’an army was unable to immediately organize effective resistance, and sporadic gunfire was not enough to stop the royal army’s charge.

Soon, the first group of soldiers rushed to the trench. Some of them jumped into the trench with Falcon rifles with bayonets attached, while other soldiers squatted or lay down to cover fire.

“Boom, boom, boom…”

The artillery on the trench position of the Sima Army began to fire. The fort protruding from the trench poured out artillery fire with solid bullets again and again, and some artillery began to use grape bullets.

Under the artillery fire, the charging soldiers began to suffer casualties. They immediately looked for obstacles on the battlefield, while the soldiers on the flat ground leaned down to shoot.

“Kill all the opponent’s artillery! Damn it, where did they get the artillery from?” Lu Fei was furious.

During this period of attack, their field artillery destroyed almost all the short-range artillery of the wealthy people. Unexpectedly, another group of artillery appeared today.

“Boom, boom, boom…”

The artillery loaded with explosive shells immediately began to bombard the opponent’s forts, and one fort after another was overturned in the explosion.

Under the suppression of our own artillery, Sima’s artillery stopped. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the second group of soldiers began to charge.

At this time, the soldiers of the first regiment started hand-to-hand combat with Sima’s army in the trench.

The grenadiers were mixed in with the muskets. From time to time they threw grenades at the dense crowd rushing towards the opponent, while the breech-loading rifles showed their advantage.

The soldiers ran around flexibly in the trenches and could load bullets in any posture. In contrast, Sima’s soldiers could only stand rigidly and load bullets, which became a target for the royal soldiers to shoot.

For a time, Sima’s soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the central trench was successfully breached.

Seeing that his soldiers had the advantage, Lu Fei ordered all his soldiers to press forward. The two-month stalemate was finally broken.

“Kill!”

Under his order, the remaining more than 30,000 soldiers launched a collective charge.

At the same time, Luo Xin also launched an attack in the west city of Lin’an. Facing the attack of more than 60,000 royal soldiers, Sima’s army finally collapsed.

The trenches lost their advantage, and they had no advantage before the superiority of the Royal soldiers’ firearms.

Especially when faced with the skilled bayonet skills of the royal soldiers, they had no hope of victory in hand-to-hand combat.

Sima Hao on the wall of Lin’an City saw everything with his eyes and was anxious in his heart. Now the trenches they dug were continuously occupied, soldiers were scrambling to escape, and the war began to become one-sided.

Just when he was anxious, he suddenly saw four or five hot air balloons floating towards Lin’an City.

“Damn it, damn it!” Sima Hao cursed. He had become accustomed to seeing this kind of hot air balloon in the past two months. Every time these hot air balloons came, they would throw down a large amount of paper.

These papers were filled with words that called them rebels and promoted the reforms being carried out in areas outside Lin’an.

Perhaps this defeat was related to the sudden appearance of new weapons, but he also understood that the propaganda during this period had shaken the minds of many soldiers.

The other wealthy families on the city wall immediately panicked when they saw this. Now Lin’an City is an isolated city, and the task assigned to them by the parliament is to hold on to Lin’an City and wait for support.

But now they have been holding on for two months, and the parliament has not sent a single soldier. Now Sima finally realizes a problem.

The bastard Cao Kun was just using it to delay the royal army’s march south. All the promises he gave were false.

It’s just that it’s too late to think of this now. The royal soldiers have already attacked the city, and the artillery of the royal army has also pushed the artillery to the front of the city.

“Boom, boom, boom…”

The flashes of fire and smoke from hundreds of artillery pieces made Sima Hao dizzy. Looking at the crumbling soldiers, he laughed like crazy.

“It’s God who wants to destroy our Sima family. It’s not my fault.” Sima Hao looked like a demon.

In his roar, the gates of Lin’an City collapsed. In the loud shouts of killing, the royal soldiers rushed into Lin’an City like tigers and wolves.

(End of chapter)