Chapter 33, the tragic song of the otherworldly city management

When our protagonist Comrade Wang Qiu was promoted to the captain of the urban management brigade, his group of white colleagues from another world were approaching the end of their fate.

Falmat, a coastal plain on the eastern side of the Romanian mountains, is the imperial capital of the city of Ulabyanca

Two armies, also flying the flag of the Empire, are engaged in a fierce battle in the city of the Empire's capital. The clashing of swords and the sound of fierce fighting echoed repeatedly through the narrow alleys. Thousands of lives vanished one by one at an alarming rate, and the blood that flowed stained the marble pavement reddish-brown. If you look up, you can see the fire oil bombs fired by the heavy trebuchet, falling like meteors, temples, houses, warehouses, shops, barracks, ...... The houses and temples scattered throughout the imperial capital of Ulabyanka were crumbling in scorching flames and heat waves. The raging fire that fell from the sky quickly engulfed one ancient neighborhood after another, filling the turbid air with the smell of blood and burnt......

The panicked citizens of the imperial capital had no choice but to flee from their homes and hide in Tibet with their luggage, trying to avoid the wolf-like soldiers and keep their relatives and only property. But after all, there were many unlucky people who were blocked by soldiers with swords and tyrannical faces in the streets and alleys, and what happened next was naturally plunder and massacre...... The plundering of the army after the siege war is the military common sense of this world.

Even those citizens who were lucky enough to escape the army and the thugs were mostly burned to the ground before they could catch their breath, so they had to wrap their heads in coarse cloth, cover their mouths and noses with towels, pull their wives and children, drag carts and burdens, and look for shelter in all directions. From time to time, people with burnt bodies rushed out of the house screaming, and then fell to the ground with a body of flames, gradually turning into a pile of coke......

In short, in this way, with the scorching flames and heatwaves, and the terrible cries of the fleeers, the streets and alleys were clogged with charred black corpses of people and animals, and the exquisite and magnificent buildings either collapsed into rubble or turned to ashes in the firelight.

And in the sky above the imperial capital, there are air troops riding griffins, pegasus and pterodactyls fighting each other, falling like meteorites from time to time......

The imperial capital, which had not experienced military disasters for many years, had now become the battlefield of the Empire's civil war after the flood.

Just when the second prince Diabo, who hastily ascended the throne, took the Praetorian Guard and almost all the field regiments near the imperial capital to the north to conquer the rebellious nobles, and at the same time went to other provinces to raise grain to reduce the pressure on the food supply after the flood in the imperial capital. His elder brother, the eldest prince Sochar, who was unwilling to be seized of the throne, gathered a full 80,000 troops in various provinces and colonies in the east, and came to the imperial capital with great vigour!

In the face of such a sudden and strong enemy, the Imperial Senate left behind in the imperial capital was at a loss for a while, because the great flood of the other world that gushed out from the "gate" has now turned into a turbulent river with the Arnus Hill as the source and the sea in the imperial capital Ulabyanca City, turning the imperial capital Ulabyanca City and the nearby vast plains into a saltwater swamp, and millions of people have fallen into a desperate situation with no food and clothing.

In order to cope with such a tragic disaster and avoid the outbreak of famine and riots, the Senate not only moved hundreds of thousands of citizens and slaves from the imperial capital, but also asked the new emperor Diabo to take away most of the troops in the imperial capital under the banner of going out to quell the rebellion...... As a result, at the time when the garrison of this imperial capital was at its emptiest, the eldest prince Sochar killed him from the east!

Fortunately, the great flood that poured down from the Arnus Hills certainly brought a monstrous catastrophe to the imperial capital. But at the same time, the flooding also turned the imperial capital into a "city of outlying islands" surrounded by water, forming a natural defensive barrier. Therefore, the Senate sent people to the north urgently to ask for help from the new emperor, while shrinking its forces, abandoning the remaining scattered suburban strongholds, and concentrating on holding the imperial capital, hoping to wait for change.

However, what people never expected was that the day before the rebels led by Prince Sochar arrived on the outskirts of the imperial capital, the flood subsided! The "saltwater river" surrounding the imperial capital was also cut off, and the walls of the imperial capital had already collapsed in many places in the flood, completely losing its defensive function. In this way, the rebels can easily enter the imperial capital through the collapsed city wall by stepping on the mud and stinky fish and shrimp accumulated in the past four months!

With the retreat of the flood and the collapse of the city wall, the imperial capital has lost the last defensive barrier, the battle situation has evolved to this point, the only obstacle still standing in front of the rebels, in addition to the hundreds of janissaries and the private soldiers of the noble senators who stayed in the palace, only the three urban infantry brigades directly under the senate remained, or the imperial capital chengguan was also responsible for maintaining public order in the capital when there was no war mission.

The hoplites armed with square iron shields in the urban infantry brigade are usually retired and meritorious veterans of the Imperial Field Legion, and they are extremely rich in combat skills and experience, and their fighting spirit and loyalty are also quite reliable, and they can be called ironclad tenacity in the familiar environment of urban street fighting. Even in a desperate situation, they built barricades in the city and relied on the favorable terrain to repel many rebel attacks.

However, no matter how brave and good the chengguan soldiers of the three urban infantry brigades were, their total strength was only 3,000 people. In the face of a rebel army thirty times larger than himself, after stubbornly resisting for a while, it was gradually suppressed and defeated......

The remnants of the defenders who had been driven from the barricades continued to resist by burning houses all the way to distract the rebels from the pursuit. In order to avoid falling into an ambush circle, the high-flying rebels also kept burning houses to clear the battlefield, and in the end, half of the imperial capital, which had managed to survive the flood, became a blazing fire scene, full of smoke-filled ruins and piles of blackened corpses.

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On a hill on the outskirts of the imperial capital, a gorgeous camp tent was erected. A purple royal flag fluttered high on the flagpole outside the tent.

When tens of thousands of soldiers with different accents and different races were fighting hard in the huge city in front of them, the supreme commander of the Eastern rebels, the self-proclaimed emperor of the great prince Sochar, sat comfortably in the luxurious tent on the hill outside the imperial capital, holding a glass of fruit wine, holding a pergola, through the window of the tent, leisurely listening to the sound of killing in the distance, and enjoying the grand historical stage plays staged on the streets of the imperial capital......

It's not that Sochar is heartless, but he really lacks confidence in his military talent, under the interference of the infinite space reincarnation team, the previous crusade against the headhunter rabbit that he personally commanded, won first and then lost in the case of absolute superiority in troops, and even was wiped out, and even Sochar himself became a prisoner of war, and was ransomed by spending money, which has left a serious psychological shadow since then.

Now that he is once again raising troops to seize the throne, because the success or failure of the war is vital to him, Sochar, who can no longer afford to lose, simply boldly delegates power, and lets the experienced princes and generals under his command let go to fight, and he only boosts morale in the rear and relies on a surprise attack that is prepared for unpreparedness, with such a disparity in strength, if his side still can't win, then there is no need for this civil war to continue.

Sure enough, after fighting bloodily for most of the day, the last military flag of the Imperial Capital City Infantry Brigade was finally cut down and broken from the tower of the imperial palace. And on the battlefield in the entire city, a deafening cheer soon gradually sounded...... At the same time, a bloodstained and dusty general also returned from the front line riding a pterodactyl in high spirits, and excitedly reported the victory to the purple-robed Sochar.

“…… Sincerely, Your Majesty, we have crushed the last resistance of the enemy, and the palace and the Senate have been taken! But ......"

Speaking of this, the general who reported the victory couldn't help but change his words a little curtly, "...... Before our army surrounded the imperial capital, most of the patriarchs and nobles had already fled from the city and defected to the puppet emperor in the north, and only a small number of less important figures were captured or surrendered in the city......"

“…… It's okay, just let them live a few more days! Anyway, I'm going to have to settle accounts with my stupid brother! ”

Sochar stood up from his couch and waved his hand disapprovingly. Then, he looked at the black smoke lingering over the imperial capital, and pondered silently for a long time before issuing the next order: "...... In order to reward the soldiers of the whole army, reward them for three days of free movement in the imperial capital......"

As the Grand Prince of the Empire and the legal first in line to the throne, it is impossible to say that Sochar does not have any affection for the imperial capital of Ulabyanca. But the problem is that he knows better that at this critical moment, he needs to make his soldiers rich and reap the benefits of the war in order to maintain the cohesion of the army and the loyalty of the soldiers. And if a victorious army were to be rewarded with all the money from the coffers, it would be a huge expense. At least for Sochar, who rushed to the army, he simply can't afford it at the moment.

Therefore, after he captured the city, he could only use "free action", that is, a plunder, to boost morale, at least this is very cost-effective!

After making the above decision with great difficulty, and completely pushing the imperial capital into the fire pit, Sochar turned around again, and looked from the top of the hill to see that the imperial capital in the far north had changed hands, and the Senate was falling apart.

“…… The imperial capital is already mine, and the next time we fight, we will probably decide the winner! Diabo! ”

He sneered and muttered, "...... O my stupid brother! I hope you don't let me down too much! ”

However, Sochar, who was full of ambition and was determined to win the civil war and seize the throne, did not know at this moment that in the sky above his head, there was still a pair of sharp eyes under him, watching the offensive and defensive battle in the imperial capital, staring at his every move......

And what he didn't know was that a powerful invader from the other world had already sounded the horn of attack on the Arnous hills, more than two hundred kilometers away from the location of the "gate", showing their hideous minions to the world...... And it will end up being his nightmare.