Chapter 614: The Island Falls
As the battle progressed, the bullets carried by the soldiers quickly emptied, and as the distance continued to close, everyone clearly realized that this offensive and defensive battle would soon enter the stage of fighting bayonets.
In this case, the Imperial City Janissaries, who were mighty in the shooting battle, undoubtedly attracted everyone's attention.
With Xiong's order, a group of Imperial City Guards took down a strange object from their backs, and without waiting for everyone to think about it, the Imperial City Guards looked at a position, and inserted the rifle in their hands directly into the object, twisting it, accompanied by "Click: A soft sound, it was directly spliced into a black big knife!"
Needless to say, this strange combination weapon was made by Xia Fox.
Originally, the signature weapon of the Imperial City Guards was the axe and shield.
And now, the shield has been replaced by a rifle, and the tomahawk has been replaced by a somewhat exaggerated-looking war knife.
Xia Qi did this, naturally because of his considerations.
In the early years, the Imperial Guards were equipped with battle axes, which could inflict a lot of damage on all kinds of thick-skinned armor units, and also possessed excellent "shield-breaking" abilities.
And now, with his promotion to the silver rank, the era has also entered the modern era, and the early armor such as thick armor and shields has basically been eliminated. Now, even if you put on a lighter sword, you can still deal effective damage to enemy soldiers.
Since both horizontal and vertical can achieve the goal, why didn't he choose a lighter one compared to the heavy tomahawk.
Facts have proved that the Imperial City Guards, who have been replaced with special swords, have become more flexible than before while maintaining their combat effectiveness.
But among them, bears are an exception.
He was born with divine power, coupled with the acquired high-intensity exercise, which made him ridiculously strong.
A weapon that is too light will make him feel bad and not easy to use.
In this way, unlike other Imperial City Guards, the weapon in Xiong's hand was not a combined weapon designed by Xia Fox, Xia Qi not only let him equip him with a rifle, but also let the most skilled dwarven craftsman in Great Xia forge a super heavy war knife for Xiong.
And the combat knife he was equipped with at this time was not only larger in size than the combat knives of other Imperial City Guards, but also the density of the sword body that had been tempered for thousands of years was even higher.
The weight of the sword is far more exaggerated than it seems.
After Qian led his Imperial City Guards all the way into the enemy position, Xiong's terrifying attack could not resist those Sakura soldiers at all, and killing those enemy soldiers was as easy as chopping melons and vegetables.
With a single knife, you can split a person into two sections on the spot.
The soldiers of this era have seen what the corpse of someone shot with a gun looks like, and they have also seen the corpse of a person who was unfortunately hit by a shell and was blown into pieces of flesh, but they have never seen someone cut in two with an exaggerated and hideous knife.
At the same time, because the knife was swung too fast, the person who was cut in two had not had time to die, and the body that was broken in two was still struggling in pain!
At this moment, the terrifying scene in front of him was frantically pushing the soldiers on the Sakura side to the brink of collapse.
At this moment, the Praetorian Guards of the Imperial City once again showed their posture like killing machines.
On the battlefield, the smell of blood and gunpowder smoke are constantly intertwined, mixed with a solemn aura, frantically eroding the will of every cherry blossom soldier. Soon, an emotion called "fear" enveloped the hearts of every Sakura soldier.
At this point, the battle can be said to be decided.
The defeat in the naval battle and the destruction of the signal tower made the Sakura defenders panic.
And at this juncture, Xia Qi's round of artillery baptism, coupled with the slaughtering attack of the Imperial City Guards, made their morale plummet all the way.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Sakura defenders, whose morale has suffered many blows, are already as brittle as tissue paper at this time, and they only need to poke lightly to make them collapse directly!
This is clearly the case at the moment.
Between one advance and one retreat, the fortress fell.
Under the leadership of the Imperial City Guards, Xia Qi's army swarmed up, while the Sakura defenders, who were familiar with the internal terrain, were evacuated directly from the other side.
"It's finally time for me to wait!"
Looking at the sakura defenders who were hastily evacuating in the distance, the black-armored violent bear grinned.
According to His Majesty's order, as early as the elven druids launched their operation, they had already relied on their aerial vision to let the Great Xia heavy cavalry complete the rear.
Obviously, they had no intention of letting this Sakura army escape at all.
Looking at the violent bear with Lisuo wearing his helmet and visor, the green sheep on the side couldn't help but remind him in a deep voice.
"Mainly interception. Although it is a rout of the troops, there are too many people after all, and we have limited manpower, so don't rush over. ”
"Yes."
In a slightly violent hiss, the earth shook, and the Great Xia heavy cavalry entered the battlefield at this moment!!
"Ambush! There is an ambush!! ”
The Great Xia heavy cavalry, led by Storm Bear and Qingyang, rushed out quickly, and before they even had time to do anything, the set of black armor on their bodies alone had completely frightened those Sakura soldiers.
It is enough to see how much psychological shadow the Imperial City Guards led by Xiong left on them in the battle just now.
At this moment, seeing that another army wearing black armor had been killed from here, even the Sakura general who was riding in the command car had a pale face, and then hurriedly urged the driver to speed up and throw off the other party.
As soon as the accelerator was stepped on the end, the speed of the command car soared rapidly, and the Sakura general, who was sitting in the back seat of the car at the time, finally breathed a big sigh of relief.
In their opinion, it was absolutely impossible for the four-legged war horse to be faster than the four wheels of their command vehicle, not to mention that the cavalry team was not only a cavalry, but even the war horse was covered with armor that looked quite heavy, and the speed could not be fast.
But speaking of which, the size of the other party's war horse seems to be quite large, and I don't know what breed it is......
Before his thoughts fell, the driver sitting in the driver's seat had already let out a frightened scream, and at the same time, the Sakura general in the back seat of the car only heard a scream, and a paralyzing feeling directly filled his whole body.
In the next second, the galloping command vehicle lost control on the spot, rushed out of the main road at once, and overturned on one side of the outskirts.
The hearty blow made the violent bear can't help but let out an exhilarating cheer.
Then, feeling the vaguely paralyzing feeling of the war horse under his crotch, he came back to his senses and hurriedly stroked the mane of the war horse to appease it. In these years, most of the people who are eligible to sit in the car, except for the driver, are officers.
The violent bear, who also knows this, how can he let the other party run away?
The blow he just gave accurately deprived the command vehicle of its ability to move, and although the command vehicle that rushed out of the main road was completely overturned, it was not enough to kill anyone at this level.
Sure enough, soon the Sakura general struggled to climb out of the car.
In the next second, before he could rejoice that his life had been saved in such a car accident, a blade was on his neck.
Looking at the violent bear who turned his head and left his advice behind, Qingyang felt tired for a while, and at the same time, he was inexplicably a little accustomed to it.
She can't get angry, or rather, after so many years, getting angry about this thing will make her feel stupid.
In this way, after a faint sigh, Qingyang also quite simply led the Great Xia heavy cavalry under his command to intercept the Sakura army that was trying to escape.
Sakura with a car will be ahead, not to mention, these ordinary Sakura soldiers can't outrun them with just two legs.
Those who are unwilling to surrender will be taken away directly by a wave of charges.
After a simple interception, the army units that had been chasing after them quickly arrived, and at this point, the situation on this side can be said to be officially stabilized.
Now there are only two options left for the Sakura soldiers, one is to be captured obediently, or the other is to be killed after a senseless resistance.
In this regard, the Sakura soldiers, who had already been killed by the Xuanjia Army, chose the former without exception, and knelt directly on the ground with their heads in their hands.
As one fortress was completely breached, the two cherry blossom cities in the rear also fell.
On this island, there are only seven cities in total, counting the port cities that Tang Han captured earlier, among these seven cities, Xia Qi's army has already occupied three of them at once, and half of the entire island has fallen in a short period of time, this momentum can be said to be quite ferocious.
And during this period, since Storm Bear has captured a Sakura general and returned, an interrogation must be inevitable.
But it's a pity that that guy is a hard bone, and the professionals of embroidery and clothing are not there, so let a group of more amateurs come, and the result is not very good.
In the end, Xia Qi didn't bother to care anymore, and directly asked the Sakura general to be executed.
As for the next, the battle on this island was too easy for Xia Qi's expeditionary army.
The battle in front of them almost made them clean up the garrison on this island, and it was impossible for the remaining poor troops to stop them.
After a short rest, Xia Qi's expeditionary army directly launched a high-speed march, all the way straight in, and it didn't take much time at all, and all seven cities on the entire island fell under his control.
Subsequently, Xia Qi, who had been prepared for a long time, directly assigned people to occupy the seven cities at the same time, and carried out further governance.
Obviously, he didn't plan to leave in a wave.
This time, he had a desire to completely capture Yamamoto's seven-by-eight territory and then act as his eastern barrier to Great Xia, and it was naturally necessary to govern it for a long time.
During this period, there was a small accident at the port.