Volume 3: Shadow Warfare Chapter 30: Heroic Deathfight

Just as Lieutenant Aikman Hockled fell from his horse to the ground, a rain of bullets rained down on his cavalry.

Many of the horsemen fell from their horses, and some of them were about to dismount from their horses and raise their guns to return fire, but just as he was about to dismount, a bullet struck him in the head, and in an instant, blood splattered from his head, and he fell from his horse......

As soon as Lieutenant Aikman Hockey fell, the cavalry was left without a command, and Aikman Hocline shouted hard, but the cavalry was in disarray...... At this critical moment, I don't know where an eight-pounder 100 mm caliber gun came out, and the artillery fire shot into the sky, only a rumbling loud bang was heard, and in the center of the cavalry, the shells exploded instantly!

Lieutenant Aikman Hockey didn't know how he was relieved, and when he saw the shells explode next to him, he even felt the world spinning around him...... At this moment, a bullet concentrated in his abdomen! He fell to the ground, his eyes foggy...... Then, he saw the soldiers around him desperately fighting back...... Just as he was about to close his eyes and faint...... He felt someone pull him by the shoulders and push him back desperately......

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Second Lieutenant Sierhart was the adjutant in Lieutenant Ekman Hoclayde's cavalry team, and when Lieutenant Aikman Hoclayde's horse fell to the ground, Ensign Sierhart temporarily assumed the task of commanding the cavalry, he ordered the soldiers to desperately hold the lieutenant up, and after paying the death of a dozen cavalrymen, they finally withdrew from the ambush site......

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Lieutenant Aikman Hokneater felt the darkness around him, and he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen as if it was about to crack...... When he woke up, he found three soldiers holding his hands and feet, and a medic slicing open his abdomen with a scalpel......

Aikman Hoclyde used a tremendous force to almost push the people next to him away...... Seeing that the three men were about to lose the lieutenant, Second Lieutenant Siehart sent two more to hold down Lieutenant Aikman Hoclyde again.

Just when the lieutenant was almost passing out, he seemed to hear someone around him talking, "The bullet is out!" Take it out! Lieutenant Aikman Hockled heard the voice again: "Hurry up and make sure the second lieutenant lives, otherwise what's the use of taking out the bullet!" ”

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Aikman Hockey experienced another sensation of walking in the dark...... There was a bottomless abyss around him, but all he could walk around was a single-plank bridge......

The lieutenant awoke violently, and he found that his stomach was covered in bandages and covered in blood...... He found him in the ruins of a city building. Second Lieutenant Sierhart walked up to the lieutenant and told him, "Your Excellency, Lieutenant...... You have been unconscious for almost 6 hours, 6 hours ago, we blocked 4 enemy attacks, we desperately dragged you out in the ambush, the ambush left us with 19 soldiers, plus the previous blockade, we paid another 22 men...... Now we only have nine left...... In addition to the fact that you can't fight, plus me, we have 8 more people...... Soon it will be dark, and it is estimated that the enemy will take advantage of the night to attack. If I die, Your Excellency Lieutenant...... Hope you can live......"

Lieutenant Aikman Hoklid snorted weakly, and then he said slowly, "We...... How much ammunition is left......"

Sierhart shook his head, and he said slowly, "Not optimistic...... I just distributed the ammunition evenly, and I distributed the ammunition a little bit centrally, and each person has an average of 10 rifle bullets......"

When Sierhart finished speaking, Lieutenant Aikman Hokride shook his head...... He said slowly, "How many enemies are there?" ”

The second lieutenant responded, "I don't know...... But after a day of fighting, we found that we had killed at least eighty enemy soldiers...... But the momentum of their charge is still unabated......"

Lieutenant Aikman Hokride choked up, and he said slowly, "It's me who is too confident...... Without cover, I charged into the middle of town...... But...... I made a mistake, I ambushed our army......"

As Lieutenant Aikman Hockred spoke, Ensign Sieulhardt was silent...... After a long time, the second lieutenant comforted: "Your Excellency, Lieutenant, it is an honor for me to be able to fight with Your Excellency!" ”

The lieutenant said to Second Lieutenant Siehart: "Second Lieutenant, load the bullet from my revolver...... When the enemy rushes up, I will perform the last duty of a soldier! ”

After Lieutenant Aikman Holkelde finished speaking, he slowly closed his eyes...... Fell into a stupor. The second lieutenant beside him slowly took out the lieutenant's revolver and loaded the lieutenant's revolver.

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It was dark in the middle of the night, and it was about eight o'clock in the evening, and earlier in the morning, Second Lieutenant Sierhart watched quietly as the sun set in the distance, and the afterglow of the sunset stained the whole sky red, and then slowly set.

Now, Lieutenant Sierhart looked at the pitch-black sky in the distance, and he felt that the night was like a monster that could devour a person in one bite, a beast trying to devour people's lives.

The army that besieged Lieutenant Aikman Hockey was about three hundred people, and the enemy rebel forces that besieged Aikman Hoclid were all soldiers of General Athos's Guards, and this man named General Athos was actually a sergeant in the Akron Yatin Nation earlier. But after leaving the army after completing his service, he spent his days idle. In addition to scolding his wife, he spends all day drinking outside.

However, after the invasion of the Empire's forces, this man named General Athos was the first to contact the forces of the Empire, and immediately decided that he had "seen the opportunity", so he claimed to be a general, and he never explained whether it was a brigadier general or a major general. But since then, he has called himself a general.

At a time when most of the people in the Akron Yatin Kingdom were about to be unable to afford to eat, and the price of rice was soaring, this "General General" of Athos, with the support of the empire, had a large amount of hoarded grain, so he used this method to recruit a large number of "soldiers". But most of them are jobless and street thugs and the like.

Therefore, General Athos's rebel troops are not to say that they have any morale, and their army can be said to be rogues.

This General Atos, due to his imperial support, had a large number of rear-loading one-son rifled rifles. And he had food, so he expanded his army to more than 23,000 men in less than two months. In addition to his own soldiers and the most powerful rebel "brigade" of 7,000 men deployed in the town of Artemt, the remaining 16,000 men were divided into eight regiments of 2,000 men and deployed in several large villages and small towns around the town of Artemt.

There are more than 10,000 rebels in the town of Artemt, of which 7,000 are soldiers of General Athos's Guards, and these 7,000 people are absolutely loyal to General Athos, and have relatively strong combat effectiveness, and they even have the old rear-loading 100 caliber field guns that the empire has obsolete. This field gun adopts a bolt-type locking machine, and double-helix rifled fire, which allows the gun to be increased from front loading to rear loading, although it is impossible to complete rapid fire due to the old setup and the lack of artillery retreat and reloading. As a result, the artillery given by the Empire to the rebels in Artemt, that is, the soldiers of General Athos's Guards, could only fire at a rate of about one shot per minute......

Even with this artillery, General Atos had only twelve of them, and they were organized into two artillery batteries to form an artillery battalion. As for the artillery shells, General Atos's rebels had less than 600 rounds, and with the consumption of the war, General Atos's ammunition now only about 500 rounds remained.

But attacking this cavalry team made General Athos feel very uncomfortable. Because the morale of the cavalry team was extremely high, even if the artillery was used to attack, in the end, this cavalry team still resisted stubbornly.

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Second Lieutenant Sierhart looked at the time, and the time on his watch was about half past eight in the evening. At this moment, there was a rifle fire in the distance, followed by a whining and shouting. Second Lieutenant Sierhart knew that this was a bold charge by the rebels before they launched a charge.

Second Lieutenant Sierhart ordered everyone around him to hold on to his rifle and not a single bullet to waste!

When the enemy charged, Second Lieutenant Siehart was still waiting for the enemy to charge, but only a rumbling cannon was heard! Second Lieutenant Sierhart could visibly feel the whirling mountains around him......

When Ensign Siehart came back to his senses, he heard a loud cannon fire again! Second Lieutenant Sierhart knew that it was the rebels who were concentrating on the use of artillery attacks!

Suddenly, Sierhart felt the earth shake like the heavens were spinning...... He clearly saw that the soldiers beside him were swept away by the huge wave of air......

At the moment when Ensign Sieulhardt was waiting for the enemy to fire a third gun again for another attack...... He suddenly heard the sound of the enemy troops stopping the shelling and stopping the charge!

At the strange moment of Second Lieutenant Sierhart, inside the rebels, there was an extremely serious clashes!

And the source of this conflict comes from the arrival of an Oledka man!

The Oledka are the first Capetian merchant free states of the Empire's vassals. But for the rebels, they don't seem to know anything about the Oledecka people, nor about the relationship between the Oledecka and the Imperials.

But this Oledka man actually has the major certificate given by the empire! Obviously, an Oledka who is not from the Reich and became an officer of the Reich?

And this officer told the rebels to stop the attack immediately, and at this time, Second Lieutenant Sieulhardt, for some reason, did not attack the rebels, who were already clearly about to win!

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