I Will Be The Crowned King

"Artillery! All covert! Covert, covert!"

Reno's terrified cries rang out in the torrential rain, but by the time he realized it was too late.

With the roar of trembling hearts, three shrapnel shells exploded in front of the swept Hantu Legion with the screams from the depths of the underworld.

In the next second, gunpowder smoke replaced the dark clouds, and a "torrent" composed of thousands of tiny lead bullets fell on the heads of the stunned and unaware Han Tu soldiers.

In an instant, the soldiers in the front row melted like ice and snow under the terrified gaze of their companions behind them—the flesh was torn, the bones were crushed, and the blood splashed by the rain turned into a dark red flowing freely under their feet. became the only traces of their existence.

But the "lucky ones" who witnessed all this with their own eyes soon ushered in their curse: the remaining lead bullets mixed in the rain were still enough to smash their limbs, penetrate their chests, and drill holes in the top of their skulls , smashed their pupils, burrowed in through their open mouths that screamed and wailed, smashed their teeth and tore their tongues, and finally tore a neck-breaking gap from the back of their necks...

After two rounds of rapid fire, the charge of the entire Hantu Legion stopped, leaving enough broken arms and stumps to fill the entire street in front of the barricade and blood and meat that flowed randomly.

"The artillery stops firing, the line privates—all in place!"

Looking at the repulsed Legion of Far Land, Luther Igor sneered and waved the saber in his hand. The rain splashed with the tip of the knife made him feel like an artist.

Play with explosions and paint with gunpowder smoke.

Beside him, the three infantry regiments quickly spread out from left to right, forming nine equal-sized, dense and compact firing phalanxes behind the barricades; rifle.

"Everyone ready - fire!"

"boom--!!!!"

Row after row of salvos rang out from behind the barricade, vying for gunfire into the torrential rain.

I don’t know if the visibility was too low due to the rainstorm, and the command system failed. The imperial soldiers who were guarding the square were still in order during the first salvo. Shoot the lead bullet out of the barrel.

Thick white gunpowder smoke enveloped the entire battlefield. No one from the soldiers to the officers knew what was going on on the opposite side. They could just rely on the sound of gunfire to tell that the enemy was still attacking; so the infantrymen in each phalanx continued to mechanically reload, raise their guns, and shoot. ; the saber-wielding knights shouting? clamoring for a counter-offensive.

In the face of the gradually "out of control" infantry line? Luther Igor and a group of officers did not care - for the infantry, the Empire's attitude has always been that these people can fill the front line? Rely on salvos to maintain deterrence against the enemy ? Enough... As for killing and defeating the enemy, that is the task of artillery and cavalry.

Therefore, even if there are one or two "little problems" on the line? It doesn't matter at all. It is impossible for the weak Hantu people to break through the barricades guarded by artillery and heavy troops... Wait until the north gate? These thousands of people are the turtles in the urn? They are only a matter of time.

And Luther Igor, who stood by the front and nailed the enemy to the square, would become the hero second only to General Lawrence in the defense of Carindia Harbor.

Contemplating how much he could gain from this war, Luther, contented, pushed the monocle on his face again; the rain-drenched lenses reflected a grim calculation.

Not only the square in front of him and the main force of the Hantu Legion... As the imperial advance army gradually recovered its calm from the initial panic, stood firm? The originally one-sided battle situation began to be reversed.

On the battlefields on both sides of the North City Gate, although thousands of soldiers in charge of feinting broke through the positions and forts of the imperial defenders, in the face of forts with a complete defense system and heavy artillery, the simple equipment allowed them to have absolutely no enemies. Comparable mobility, but pointless for taking a position.

And the more in this tough battle, which is destined to pay a certain price? Call it a house.

Faced with impregnable forts? These disorganized, chaotic Mists and Aydens are almost the best mobile target shooting training for artillerymen? With close-range platoons of guns, the corpses can be blocked in a few minutes. channel of attack.

And because of the lack of experience in dealing with heavy firepower? Obviously they have been attacked by artillery fire? The first thought of these small lords and officers from nobles is still to maintain a dense formation? Empower their own people with concentrated fire platoon guns.

In other words, only by using this method of "reporting the regiment to keep warm" can their army not be immediately collapsed in the explosion and screaming; as for the so-called "skirmish array", "column interspersed"... They were confused by the Clovis tactics themselves, let alone those soldiers under them who were farmers a few weeks ago, and who didn't even know which guns should be pointed at.

So the Han Tu soldiers who were hit head-on began to retreat, while maintaining the siege of these forts and strongholds, and on the other hand, more troops began to pour into the city from the broken north gate, burning, killing and looting—invisibly. Once again, the pressure to break out of the Imperial defenders on the outer positions has been weakened.

Seizing this opportunity, the commander of the advance army, Lawrence Igor, decisively dispatched four infantry regiments that had just suppressed the riots in the noble district, and more than 2,000 imperial line soldiers covered in blood, and took down the fallen North with just one surprise attack. city ​​gate.

But calling it a "raid" was actually just letting the soldiers march in the rain - the empty city gate had no defenders at all except for a few hapless people who got lost.

This further deepened Lawrence's prediction that his enemy was a mob army, and a young man who didn't understand what war was. How to end.

Therefore, he gave up the plan to organize the outer positions of the defenders to break out of the siege, and instead began to annihilate the Hantu Legion that was still besieging the positions.

The commander of the advance army was deeply gratified that even if he suffered heavy losses without warning, not even one of the positions and forts was captured by the enemy, and he stubbornly defended the positions.

Even when they sensed that the enemy's offensive was weakening, and they were suspected of having low morale and fleeing, many of them tried to tear open the encircling net with artillery, and organized commandos to break through and get in touch with the rear... Although they failed due to the disparity of troops, these commandos were Surrounded by layers, they still fight to the death with the enemy until they are completely submerged.

Their recklessness attracted the final attention of the Han Soil Legion, and to a certain extent was one of the reasons why Lawrence was able to easily regain the North Gate.

Following the command of the general attack, the four infantry regiments were immediately divided into parts, forming twelve small column square formations with battalions as units, and launched a bayonet charge towards the flanks and rear of the two-wing Hantu Corps. Attacking from behind, screams and wailing raged in the flying flesh and blood.

The imperial soldiers who were standing in their positions noticed that there were reinforcements, and immediately began to launch an offensive. The originally not strong encirclement network immediately fell to pieces before and after the attack, and morale fell like a cliff.

Soon, with the collapse of the first army, the surrounding Hantu soldiers also began to rush to either escape or kneel to surrender, and the entire line of troops disappeared in an instant.

During this period, many of the defeated armies regrouped at an astonishing speed, trying to break through their positions again and regain control of the Beicheng Gate; but the Hantu Legion, which had lost the advantage of the raid, was unable to even open an effective breakthrough in the face of the impregnable position. , can only watch as he is expelled from the position.

And the very few small units that took advantage of the opportunity of the enemy to launch a counterattack and rushed into the positions and forts were also strangled by the inside and outside layers, and were soon wiped out.

Half an hour later, there were no Francois thorns flags erected in the entire outer battlefield of Port Carindia, and the imperial irises bloomed again in the torrential rain at the North City Gate.

For these fallen troops, Lawrence had no intention of wasting artillery shells on them, and began to rectify the scattered troops under his command, restore the organization lost in the fierce battle, and at the same time turn the artillery in the positions and the fort to the city.

Now that it has been confirmed that the enemy has no reinforcements, it would be a waste to point the artillery outside the city.

As for the soldiers who are raging in the city right now, burning, killing, looting and even gradually causing another riot, Lawrence doesn't take these scumbags to heart, let alone what kind of climate they can become... No matter how bad the army is In the army, no matter how strong the thugs are, they are still thugs; in the face of an army with absolute order, no matter how many scumbags there are, it doesn't make any sense.

What's more, in a sense, these thugs are not a force that cannot be used - since the empire has no idea of ​​establishing rule in Carindia Port, of course, it should be as messy as possible. After the empire retreats, it will not be able to recover its vitality for a few years.

The Igor family, who was born in Lawrence, has a large area of ​​plantations in the southern part of the empire. The industrial structure is very similar to that of Hantuo, mainly coffee and wine. Strong conflict of interest.

Therefore, even if he knew how unreliable this action was, and even dangerous in a sense, Lawrence still insisted on accepting the emperor's appointment and became the commander of the advance army.

Before that, whether it was shelling the port, letting riots and **** suppression, and looting the nobles of Carindia, it was all out of the needs of the family's interests, doing everything possible to weaken the commercial opponent of Carindia.

Use these thugs to completely destroy the port of Carindia, so that the cheap coffee beans and wine of Hantu can't appear in the market of the southern part of the empire... Basically what Lawrence thinks right now.

After confirming this, when I saw the houses lit by thugs in the city and the thick smoke that covered the sky, I felt a lot better.

Seeing that the battle on the city wall was over, Lawrence, who could finally breathe a sigh of relief, slowly put down the telescope in his hand, and turned his eyes to the Iser elf beside him, his expression became a little complicated.

To be honest, although he is very much in favor of His Majesty's move to contain the Kingdom of Clovis in the vast land, this does not mean that Lawrence also supports the elves of Yisel, especially after the pointy ears have revealed that they are the old gods.

Even if the empire can survive the current crisis and defeat the Seven Cities Alliance of Hantu—he still doesn’t know that Hantu has been established—the gap between the Kingdom of Clovis and the Church of Order will inevitably spread to the whole world. It is very likely to cause another war that affects the entire ordered world.

You must know that the last time something like this happened was a war of sectarian division. The cause was the disagreement between the church and the royal family.

And if there is some truth to that time, it was to complete a separation between religious authority and secular authority, then this time, in any case, at least in terms of belief, the emperor's support for the Iser Elf is untenable.

As an imperial knight, Lawrence couldn't blame the emperor, so he could only express his resentment on this uninvited ambassador Matthias.

This one was extremely desolate when he appeared, and revealed a strangeness from beginning to end. He claimed to be the "Isel Elf Ambassador" who claimed to be the Elf King and the representative of the Thirteenth Council. Lawrence discovered his identity of the Old God Sect as soon as he appeared.

The reason why he didn't get rid of him immediately was not only because of his identity as the "elf ambassador", but also because of the information he had. Although the authenticity is very questionable, there is indeed no more news about the isolated and helpless advance army. channel.

And the ambassador of Matthias was not empty-handed... On the second day of his arrival, the three Carindian nobles who were most resistant to the advance army died collectively at home: one drank too much, and the other was in broad daylight. Actively jumped into the sea to commit suicide, and a son was strangled to death by his coveted inheritance.

All of them have nothing to do with the Imperial Advance Corps and are very clean.

"It seems that there is no suspense in this battle~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Mathias with an indifferent expression took the lead in breaking the silence between the two, and said in a complimenting tone:

"Congratulations, Lord Lawrence Igor."

"You are too polite, Your Excellency Mathias... But the battle is not over yet." Lawrence said solemnly:

"Not to mention the thugs in the city that are more than cockroaches, there are at least a few thousand people in the main enemy force alone; once they break through the barricades on the square and drive straight into the port, the expedition will be over."

"But it's impossible for them to break through the square." Mathias smiled:

"Otherwise, you wouldn't be sitting here chatting with me... would you?"

Lawrence snorted coldly, hiding his inner pride.

"And you're right, whether it's the thugs in the city or the scum of thousands of Aiden and Thun, they're all insignificant, they're just stinky fish and rotten shrimp." The elf ambassador suddenly said sternly:

"Anson Bach is the enemy you need to watch out for."