Shooting civilians was a violation of human rights and the ethics of war in the old days, let alone shooting civilians for their own selfish gain.

Now it has only been seven years since the first year of the Honkai, and this is a relatively civilized Dawn City, not a place where order and morality have completely collapsed like the wilderness, so the defenders still retain some of the morality of the old era, and there is no way to kill civilians without psychological barriers.

However, the fate of disobedience to the Marquis of Charles was bloody again, and if they did not accept the order, they would undoubtedly turn into corpses on the ground like that young warrior.

What's even more depressing is that there is not even a chance to mutiny now, because the ghost hand is staring at them eerily from the side, and has already clenched two night swords, and now if any of them dares to point their guns in this direction, these two sharp blades will cut off their heads without mercy.

Eventually, under the terrifying gaze of the Marquis de Charles, the herald's desire for life overrode the sign of justice and delivered the order.

It didn't take long for the idle defenders of the city to gather on the main road leading to the central square, and everyone was anxious to guide the civilians this way, and the commander even climbed to the top of the vehicle himself, shouting at the throat with a high-powered horn: "Don't go near the Marquis's Palace!" Please go this way! Don't go near the Marquis' Palace! Please go this way! ”

However, no amount of shouting from the commanders could calm the frenzied crowd, and everyone squeezed towards the stairway to the Marquis's Palace, and as the crowd had broken through the first line of defense, the resistance they faced suddenly diminished and they rushed forward like crazy.

The first civilians quickly crowded into the second checkpoint defense of the Marquis's Palace Guard, they originally thought that what was waiting for them here was pepper water, explosion-proof shields, but this time they were wrong, when they saw that the defenders had all changed into federal guns, the bullets were loaded and safe, and the eyes were aimed at them with crazy cruelty, everyone felt a terrible cold current running down their backs.

"Don't come!!" The commander of the personal guard of the second line of defense shouted at the crowd with scarlet eyes, although this roar played a certain role, making the civilians at the front realize the crisis and scream and go backwards, but the civilians in the back didn't know the situation in front at all, how could a few retreating people block the movement of the large army?

In this way, the civilians who retreated in front were dragged forward by the large army, and one civilian grabbed the clothes of others at a loss, and shouted heartbreakingly: "Don't squeeze! They're going to shoot!! ”

"Fire !!" Under the fierce roar of the commander of the personal guard, the soldiers desperately and firmly pulled the trigger, and their obedience to the order also overwhelmed the humanity in their hearts at this moment.

Although the Federation's standard M16 series firearms are a little powerless in the face of powerful mutant creatures, ordinary human bodies are simply lambs to the slaughter in front of them, and the rain of bullets fired by more than 50 people together overturned batch after batch of people, and one after another blood mist exploded in the dense crowd, and the civilians in front fell like dominoes, and for a time the brains were all over the ground, and the flesh and blood were flying.

An innocent child's parents were killed, and he himself sat on the ground crying, but the bullets quickly pierced his skull, taking the weak life with him.

Although the civilians in front fell in pieces, the civilians behind them had no idea what was happening, and were still squeezing forward like headless flies, and the chaotic noise overwhelmed the sound of firearms, making them unable to distinguish the situation.

"Don't come here! Don't come back again!! The Commander of the Guards cried bitterly, but his shouts could not be transmitted to the other side through the gunfire, and because of the lack of information, no matter how many civilians fell in front of them, the civilians behind would be squeezed forward at a loss under the inertia of the large force, and then killed.

What's even more chilling is that the speed of shooting and killing doesn't seem to be as fast as the opponent's advancement, and the front line is still pushing over little by little.

Conventional firearms can't suppress the speed of civilian advances, and the Marquis of Charles issued a second bloody order to lift the ban on heavy weapons!

Under the transport of the logistics team, ten M2 Browning heavy machine guns were erected on the position, which is a heavy machine gun commonly used in federal troops in the old era, point 50 caliber, with a rate of fire of about 500 rounds per minute, and its power can not only kill and wound a large number of infantry, but can even be used to attack low-flying units and light armored units.

In the dense fire of these ten heavy machine guns, which can be called meat grinders, the trend of crowd advance was finally stopped, at the cost of thousands more corpses.

The dense artillery fire of the heavy machine guns pierced the night, letting the civilians in the rear know what was happening, and more importantly, the thick blood mist had begun to drift to the back of the crowd, and humans had a primitive fear of blood, and without anyone prompting, everyone turned their heads and fled screaming.

In the flying flesh and blood, the second line of defense of the personal guard contained the imminent collapse, as a soldier, he brilliantly fulfilled the task given by the Marquis of Charles, fulfilled the duty of a soldier, in fact, the commander was later commended by the Marquis and awarded a medal.

But the fate of the commander was not good, he constantly recalled the scene of the massacre of civilians in his nightmares every day and night, he dreamed that his hands were covered with blood, and the dead civilians turned into unjust spirits to ask for his life, and he woke up in a cold sweat countless times, and finally, in unspeakable pain, he shot himself in the temple and ended his life, blood staining his uniform and medals.

In the ensuing evacuation, the chaotic civilians were finally guided by the defenders to the central square, but unlike at the beginning of the chaos, everyone had a little blood on their bodies, some of them were their own, some of them were someone else's, their eyes were hollow, or they were like walking dead, and some of them were emotionally out of control and crazy because of the loss of their families, and they were carried away like pigs driven into a pen.

According to later statistics, in the battle of dawn, the death toll from the stampede reached 1,087, 4,519 were injured, of which 648 were permanently disabled, while the number of civilians killed by the pro-guard forces reached a staggering 3,128 and 981 were injured, and almost all of the injured lost the ability to take care of themselves.

Such a tragedy has not been seen since the appearance of the Wall of Life, but it was not the last, but it sounded like a prelude to a plague, sounding the bloody death knell in the cruel wilderness.