Chapter 17: Conspiracy
The smoke of gunpowder is once again filled, and in less than a year in this unfortunate place, Beland has experienced two military disasters in a row, no, no, no, it's too unlucky!
There were only a few anti-smuggling boats outside the harbor, which were no match for the Varankans, and without hindrance, the transports safely lowered the soldiers from the boats and continued to land in Beland. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"How's it going?" Josephine stood on the outskirts of the harbor, looking at the black smoke and craters that kept appearing in the harbor with an unhappy expression. "Very bad, the Varankans have landed easily with the help of the mist that appeared in the early morning and are currently engaged with the garrison, seventh ...... The Guards Corps urgently sent a large battalion of troops to support, but there was no way to drive the enemy out. ”
"Isn't this good news, to inform Lorraine?"
"Air cavalry has been sent."
"And what about my Skyfire?" The attendant was a little hesitant, but Josephine already knew the situation of his floating battleship, the steel battleship was still in a state of repair, and it would probably take half a year for the magicians to take off again.
"Well, why doesn't our battery fire?" "This ...... The Port Authority did not have enough budget for the reconstruction, so it temporarily appropriated the cost of repairing the fort, which is expected to be made up next month. ”
"Are you stupid? I approved 30,000 pfennigh for the restoration, and you will use it to rebuild the Port Authority? "But if there is no office space, there is no way for the officials to carry out their work!" "You !!"
Josephine didn't know what to say for a while, she saw the grievances of the attendant officer, and wanted to scold but couldn't say it, so she could only stare dryly.
However, the Varankans were not idle, and in less than half a day they had unloaded five thousand men, which was so fast that the troops in the harbor had no time to react, but Madam Sidri was not satisfied in the slightest.
"The speed of your group of pigs is too slow, the attendants in my hometown are faster than you, what are you waiting for to act quickly!" The lady's roar frightened the soldiers into speeding up, but it was not a great drain of time and energy to get from the transports to the boats and then to the harbor, not to mention that they were still recruits who had never seen much blood.
Sidri and Diane were such irascible commanders, and they had mentioned her adventures before, but absolutely no one knew that she had done so many stupid things after joining the Senate.
Collusion with businessmen to buy and sell official positions, this can't be all blamed on her, just relying on the pitiful welfare of the Senate, I'm afraid it will be easy for the senators to starve to death, of course, Sidri has to work hard to make money to maintain an elegant biochemistry, selling officials is obviously a good choice.
There is also such a thing as fighting political opponents, the favorite thing is to put people to death, and then sell the other party's entire family to slave traders, there are no less than 3,000 unlucky people alone, and even the losing boss of the Senate dares to do it, no wonder everyone doesn't like this guy.
Of course, the most hated thing is the battle, killing teammates Liwei, killing prisoners Liwei, and killing ...... at every turn Well, the little ones up to the age of twelve can still survive the death, as long as they can resist the harassment of this muscular girl.
Accidents are inevitable in this way, and the media must be strongly controlled to stop talking nonsense, and the reporters and editors with a modicum of justice have been sold to the slave city-states, and Varanka can only hear the praises of her.
"Madam, the speed can't be faster, there are already more than ten people who have accidentally fallen into the water and drowned, if ...... Yes! The captain who had come to persuade him had not even finished speaking, and Sidri and Diane slashed the unfortunate man with an impatient sword.
Of course she knew this, but the enemy didn't have too many troops stationed in it, and if she didn't hurry up now, she couldn't guarantee that something would happen...... "Those mages, how long will it take for me to prepare the spell?" "Captain Mage said it would take another hour to cast it, and you're guaranteed to reach your goal."
Sidri and Diane nodded, only their own personal guards were trustworthy in the troops attached to this battle, and they couldn't bear it when they thought that the damn senators had given her all recruits in order to weaken her power.
"Wait for me, the mage's trick is thrown over, and if you use that thing again, I don't believe that a group of old continent buns can beat me!"
The sun was on the leader of the people, and it was the hottest time of the day, and the sound of trumpets, slashing, muskets and cannons, steel and flames, and the roar of war formed a loud song in this port, though not very beautiful.
Belland had no walls, and the constant influx of civilians, prisoners of war, and soldiers from Josephine's arrival turned it into a large construction site, and now had to fight for lives and property.
The emergency barricades in the narrow streets looked like a mess, but it was very useful to keep the Varankan soldiers at bay, as long as they weren't confronted with artillery and magic.
The hapless port authority was burned again, and the Varanka frigates, seeing that no one had intercepted them, were very happy to aim their guns at the shore and bombard them indiscriminately, covering the landing force to transport the guns up.
Josephine had already ordered the arsenals to be fully opened, and everyone who could move was given muskets and ammunition, and even civilians could be given the old muskets they had captured.
Such a cost-free organization of geological surveys made the number of military personnel in the port of Beland increase from 2,000 at the beginning to more than 10,000, and soldiers of the Seventh Army continued to arrive to join the defensive campaign.
The mages in the distant airport also arrived to reinforce Josephine's temporary headquarters, of course, the price and debt to be paid for this are really high enough, it is foreseeable that Her Royal Highness the princess's bill must be very terrible, but let's get through this first.
The number of defenders increased to contain the enemy's offensive, and although the port area was unable to fight the five ships, the enemy was also blocked on the other side of the city, and both sides began to prepare for the next phase of the battle.
Varanka needed to gather more landing forces and concentrate their artillery to try to destroy the defenders' positions, and Josephine's forces needed to be further integrated, as long as they were given time, the troops from Lane City and the airport would arrive.
"5 medium frigates and 25 transports, where did Varanka get so many ships?" Josephine looked at the information in his hand, "There are definitely more than 10,000 people. "Your Highness, they are still landing, and just now the air knights went to reconnoiter and found that their anti-aircraft firepower is not strong, and they can send gyroplanes to attack."
At present, Josephine has a large number of defenders, although the training is not very high, but if he does not stop the follow-up troops of Varanka, the consequences are unimaginable.
Soon two squads of six gyroplanes got Josephine's order, took off from the airport and flew quickly to the sea, and the frigate that was still bombarding the harbor soon found the enemy in the sky, but the elevation angle of the ballista and artillery was not enough, and the range of the musket was forgotten, and the only mages that could fight were concentrated on the flagship by Sidri and Diane......
And then? Nothing then left......
The flame missiles and rocket nests easily set fire to these 5 warships, and Fakeu was terrified, but Sidri and Diane around him did not react, although this warrior-turned-professional could only carry a big bow to fight even if he had a reaction.
"Ma'am! The mages are done and ready to attack! "So what are you waiting for, hurry up and launch!"
A huge magic force appeared in the air, and Lorraine, who had just arrived at the outskirts, immediately realized that the other party seemed to have prepared a strategic spell...... Well, to be precise, it's not that kind of horror thing, and when you want to intercept it, you don't have time, so you can only watch it.
A large green mist shrouded the harbor of Belland, and the soldiers of both sides were contaminated with this thing, and soon fell to the ground wailing, but they didn't expect it to be a poisonous cloud!
"Trouble, I didn't expect the enemy to use this thing......" "Then you hurry up and fight back!"
If this is a counterattack...... So do it, take out box after box of metal balls from the space bag, and distribute them to the soldiers to hurry up and throw them to the front line, and be responsible for using the wind spell to disperse the fog.
In the end, these metal balls exploded in Josephine's puzzled eyes, and a disgusting cloud of yellow appeared, "Why do you look so ugly?" "The enemy in the telescope is retching, and even the troops, who have not just come into contact with the green cloud, are fleeing in terror, which looks terrifying.
"That's my special stinky cloud technique, and it can definitely make people lose their combat effectiveness!" "But oh, we don't have gas masks, how can we take back the port?" "Well......
Of course, it's good to wait for the clouds and mist to dissipate, the sea breeze here is very strong, and it won't take half a day to dissipate...... (To be continued.) )