Captain Calvin immediately shouted, "All on alert! ", and was then shot through the head by a bullet.

In fact, when the wagon laden with logs suddenly appeared, everyone was already in combat mode.

Because theoretically such large trucks are not allowed on this street, even some people who want to make money will choose to come at night, after all, it is not easy to be discovered.

Transporting this timber during the day can easily be targeted by the police and gendarmes, and even if the police and gendarmes are sent away, pedestrians in the two busy streets in front and behind will be a big problem.

The sudden appearance of an obviously overloaded carriage was too abrupt, and when the captain of the guard drew his pistol, the driver on the opposite side was visibly panicked, so the carriage suddenly lost control.

Otherwise, the logs wouldn't have been scattered on the ground, but would have smashed into Baron Brooke's carriage.

Seeing that the plan had changed, the attacker was not ambiguous, and actually chose to shoot directly.

The first shots were fired, followed by a series of gunfires, but the main targets were the coachmen and horses.

It's a pity that the attacker still uses a rifled rifled gun, and even a skilled veteran takes more than twenty seconds to get a bullet.

Baron Brooke's bodyguards immediately returned fire, killing several gunmen who had not taken cover in time.

But then another group of gunmen came out from both sides of the street, all of them armed with revolvers, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides.

The attackers wanted to use their numerical superiority to end the battle quickly, but what they didn't expect was that just four air rifles could suppress the charge of dozens of men.

Air rifles have a range of 150 meters, but in fact they cannot kill people beyond 50 meters, and even close range shots cannot penetrate 3mm (mm) steel plates.

However, the air rifle had an unrivaled rate of fire and continuous fire before the invention of the submachine gun, and four air rifles rained down on the onrushing gunners at a rate of two rounds per second.

15 seconds, 120 bullets, directly put the twenty gunners who rushed to the front to the ground, and the rest of the gunners had never seen such fierce fire, and they all shrank back for a while.

That's where the lever rifle comes into play, and the ferocious and precise bullets keep cutting down the number of attackers.

Of course, there are also attackers who use the vantage heights to shoot cold arrows at the guards. But soon the attackers discovered that the problem was that pistols and breech guns were not at all advantageous when firing at the lever rifle.

Revolvers, in particular, seem to be able to kill their opponents only with ricochets and "gods", while lever rifles can shoot them accurately.

At the same time, the attackers found a problem, that is, instead of the expected situation of the guards blocking the bullets in front of the carriage, everyone hid behind the carriage.

What was even more outrageous was that the carriage of the carriage was unscathed after withstanding dozens of rifle rounds and hundreds of pistol shots, and the leader of the attackers was also in a hurry.

Only the sound of a flower pot shattering was heard, and all the gunmen rushed towards the carriage as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

I thought that the silent fast weapon had been consumed, but they miscalculated. The four air riflemen had already replaced the cylinders, and the rain of bullets was pouring down again.

But this time the attackers did not back down and rushed to the carriage with huge casualties. The guards also knew that the last moment had come, and they dropped their spears and drew their revolvers to meet them.

The melee shooting was very brutal, and the men on both sides continued to fall one after another, and soon the last of the guards and the last of the attackers who rushed up to each other fell to the ground.

At this time, there were nearly 100 corpses lying on the street, and in fact the attackers still had a squad of men and horses, but because the carriage was too strong to shoot from a distance, they could only approach the carriage to ensure that the target was killed.

"Yards! How can these bastards fight like this! After fighting for so long, it seems that we can't run away! ”

One of the attackers said with great reluctance.

Another attacker said with a blank face: "The buyer has paid enough hush money, and our task now is to confirm the death of the target, and then the balance will be left to our family." ”

"Damn! Damn it! ”

The attackers walked near the carriage only to find that the entire carriage was forged and welded with steel.

While they were thinking about how to open the "Steel Shell King VIII", Klaus overturned the stall next to him, the air rifle firing again, and as the high-pressure gas cylinders ran out of gas, the last attacker died in convulsions.

Klaus drew his revolver and stood guard against the stall, only to lose consciousness until the city guards arrived.

Looking at the corpses and the messy streets gave the illusion of being on a battlefield, they had never seen such a fierce battle.

Eighty per cent of the attackers were killed directly or died from bleeding, and the rest of the population is not doing well.

On the side of the guards, eight people died on the spot, ten of the remaining thirteen people lost consciousness, and the other three were also incapacitated.

Baron Brooke himself only hit the steel plate on his forehead, some minor trauma and concussion.

After interrogation, it was determined that the attack was planned by several large families.

What about the purpose? Naturally, he is the governor of the central bank, because Brooke is a person who blocks the financial path of too many people.

Since Baron Brooke was supported by Archduke Franz, those people naturally did not dare to do anything to the latter, so they could only find a way to deal with the former.

So he hired a hundred gunmen and decided to assassinate Baron Brooke on the street in front of the Central Bank, but Franz knew that it was far from simple.

Who has the ability to take away all the gendarmes and police in the vicinity, and at the same time keep the convoy attached to the Central Bank still?

Just as Franz was about to get to the bottom of the investigation, Count Hüssel found the former and warned Franz not to pursue it any further.

He knew that this was what his mother meant, so Franz immediately rushed back to Schönbrunn Palace to ask Mrs. Sophie face to face.

"Mother, why is that? They took the initiative to provoke us, do you want me to swallow my anger? The previous assassination of your father was also, what exactly were you thinking? ”

Mrs. Sophie: "Franz, I want you to understand that this country did not belong to you before you ascended the throne.

And sacrificing Brooke alone, you can get the support of many people. ”

Franz angrily asked, "Do you want to exchange a financial expert who is loyal to the country for the support of a bunch of rubbish who only knows how to intrigue?" ”

Madame Sophie was not in a hurry, she seemed to have known that Franz would say this.

"Mr. Brooke is indeed a loyal man, but not irreplaceable. There is no shortage of people in the empire who are more capable and have more backgrounds than him.

You're not the emperor yet, and you need to enlist the big families to support you, instead of fighting against them and forcing them to support your opponents and prevent you from ascending the throne. ”

Mrs. Sophie's words confused Franz, who did not know what other "opponents" he had. Could it be Maximilian, but that's too.

Just the edict left by Franz II and the Salik Law made Franz feel that he could not lose to Maximilian.

In addition, if his brother is really so confused, although he will not kill his relatives, he must also teach him a hard lesson.

(End of chapter)