Chapter 470: Two Years (Part II)
The imperial capital is closed for seven days!
This is since the four major dukes entered the imperial capital five hundred years ago to negotiate, and once again the imperial capital was completely blocked, cutting off the communication between the inner and outer cities.
For seven days, the bustling and noisy outer city was still bustling with people, but the inner city was dead silent.
Inside and outside the city walls, there were many situations where the grandmaster wanted to rise into the air, either being bombarded down by several grandmasters, or being forced to fall by a dense stream of bows and arrows and muskets.
In this way, for seven days, not a single news from the inner city flowed out of the outer city.
Some people say that the emperor is critically ill.
Others say that it was the Legion that rebelled.
Someone else said that the crown prince killed the emperor.
Some even claimed that it was the Grand Duke of Saxony who led his troops to seize the imperial capital.
The gossip was disturbed, and all of it spread throughout the country through the telegraph network.
During the seven days of the Empire, officials and people from all over the empire received several different versions of the latest news about the imperial capital every day, and their mood was up and down.
During this period, the multiple explosions in the inner city of the imperial capital, and the faintly burning flames, all announced that something really happened this time!
It was not until the early morning of the eighth day that the gates of the inner city of the imperial capital were opened, and internal and external exchanges were resumed.
The streets and walls that have been deliberately swept away, as well as the occasional ruins, are whitewashed while ruthlessly revealing the past.
An emperor's latest edict was passed out of the palace and then throughout the country at breakneck speed.
"Prince François died of illness, and the eldest prince Charles was made crown prince, and while the emperor was recuperating, he was responsible for supervising the country. ”
Although this news was shocking at first, most people accepted it calmly, and this kind of thing is not the first time that this kind of thing has happened in the thousand-year-old history of the empire.
But what happened then turned out to be more than anyone expected.
Just wiped out the revenge army, the 200,000 new troops stationed in the northern region suddenly announced that the emperor was under house arrest, and the former prince François was also killed by traitorous ministers.
This new army is a newly organized army trained by François in the past three years, and only 20% of them are extraordinary, and the vast majority of them are ordinary people.
After training, these ordinary people were able to fight the avenging army of the experienced and extraordinary with muskets and artillery, and finally seized the opportunity to surround the avenging army and almost annihilate them.
The success of the new army was due to the powerful power of the improved muskets and artillery on the one hand, and the strict training of the new army and the fact that ordinary people in areas heavily infested by the revenge army, who were not lacking in fighting spirit and courage, coupled with the fighting style of fighting without fear of death and the absolute superiority in numbers, which defeated the famous revenge army.
Now the news that the late prince's new army is about to attack the imperial capital has come out, and everyone is waiting to see what happens.
The New Army did not choose to mobilize trains to concentrate on the south, but slowly marched south along the railway line, replenished supplies at stations along the way, and slowly walked for 20 days before reaching the border between the North and Gyeonggi.
The First Legion is also waiting for them here. ok essay network
The battle is about to break out, the new army exerted a powerful firepower, and the first legion that drove the synergistic source energy technique was blown up, and there was no way to coordinate the source energy technique, although it was powerful, whether it was a "strong shield" or a "phalanx", it could only hold on for a while, once the source energy was insufficient, the defense line was immediately torn apart, and it was impossible to form a new collaborative source energy technology formation. Having lost the advantage of coordinated operations, the individual combat effectiveness of the legionnaires was not as good as that of the avenging army, which fought all day long, and as a result, they could not even entangle and were crushed by the new army.
At this time, people knew that although firearms were very weak in one-on-one combat, once the number of users reached an order of magnitude, the transcendent was not much stronger than ordinary people under the dense firepower.
The new army slowly entered Gyeonggi, and the whole country was in an uproar.
Three days later, the new army appeared in the north of the imperial capital, and the imperial capital closed its doors again, and there was a lot of noise.
The next day, the new army began to attack the city in the north, and once it had crossed the northern wall, it was a defenseless palace.
No one could have imagined that one day, the pearl of the empire, the imperial capital, would be surrounded by enemies.
Although the Charr of the prison state repeatedly claimed that it would be impossible for the new army to cross the fortified walls, the believers had not blocked the gates, and a large number of people would have escaped from the inner city by this time.
And the outer city in the south is even more panicked, many people fled overnight, every time the train left was crowded, and the inside could not be squeezed, there were people outside the train, and even lying on the top of the train.
The canal leading to the south of the city has long been out of boats, and the canal that has run out of all boats is much quieter than the train.
Just as the battle was raging on the northern wall of the imperial capital, a large number of ships appeared on the canal, and these ships began to unload in an orderly manner as soon as they docked, but they were unloaded by heavily armed warriors.
The inhabitants of the Imperial Capital Southtown had never seen an army in such attire before, and later guessed from their accents that these people were from Stuart.
The army that disembarked from the ship began to march north around the walls of the imperial capital with neat steps, and their target was not the imperial capital, but the new army in the north.
The south gate of the imperial capital was opened, and the guns unloaded from the ship were pulled by steam wagons, and from the south gate they entered the city, and many even drove directly into the palace.
However, the new army attacking the imperial capital from the north did not know that their artillery originally had an overwhelming superiority, and after the artillery suppressed the artillery fire in the city, they stopped shelling and began to attack the breach in the city wall.
However, at this time, a new round of artillery bombardment began in the city, and the target was the new army gun emplacement, which had not yet had time to move.
After going back and forth, the artillery units of the new army suffered losses, but the infantry began to occupy the gaps in the city walls, and they relied on numerical superiority to save the situation.
However, the new army soon found that there were dense armies in the wilderness on the western side, and they turned out to be similar in equipment and combat methods to them, but the firepower was even more fierce than theirs.
Both sides used muskets with paper-loaded ammunition, with the new armies in the north firing a single shot, while the Stuart army coming in by ship from the south had two guns and one reload.
The tactics of both sides were similar, shooting from the ground and alternating cover when charging.
Gradually, the Forces nouvelles found themselves at a disadvantage, as a large number of their artillery had been destroyed by the sneak attack, and the troops lacking artillery support were gradually falling behind.
The command of the new army was ready to withdraw its troops, withdraw from the range of the opponent's artillery, pack up the formation and regroup to fight again, anyway, they still have a numerical advantage, and a temporary defeat is acceptable.
But at this moment, the earth began to tremble slightly, not a brief shock caused by artillery bombardment, but a continuous tremor.
A handful of veterans of the new army began to worry, but their fears soon became a reality, and a continuous stream of black spots appeared in the wilderness on the eastern side of the imperial capital. The black dots were getting closer and closer, revealing their figures, all of them armored cavalry.
The knight under the helmet was silent, clenched his spear and charged with his head, only the sound of the horse's urgent breathing was heard in the city.