Chapter 948: The End of the Empire (3rd update, please subscribe)

What should war look like?

There should be bullets flying everywhere, blood and flesh flying everywhere.

It should be...

But it's definitely not like this.

poison gas!

The poison gas directly destroyed the Brazilian defense line. On the two-kilometer-deep front line, tens of thousands of Brazilian soldiers were either killed or injured by the poison gas.

While the Brazilians were struggling desperately in the poison gas, the Ming army was still advancing. All Wang Qingshan saw along the way was hell, with dead bodies everywhere - the corpses all over the ground reminded him why the silence between heaven and earth was due to death!

After advancing nearly three kilometers, there was finally some movement between heaven and earth - a violent coughing sound came from the trench ahead. Although the green smoke obscured his vision, he could still see that the trench was full of corpses, and among the corpses, there were vague figures struggling there.

It's Brazilian!

"kill!"

Without any hesitation, Wang Qingshan pulled the trigger the moment he saw the enemy. While he shot the enemy down with one shot, his comrades around him had already charged forward with bayonets in hand.

On the battlefield, no one has time to think too much, and any hesitation means death. When those coughing Brazilians saw the enemy rushing towards them, they instinctively picked up their weapons and resisted, but their resistance was weak, and many of them had even dropped their guns.

"kill!"

bayonet!

As the soldiers shouted and killed, they stabbed the enemy's bodies. They were surprised to find that the enemy in front of them was completely vulnerable. Those seemingly strong black people were weaker than they had imagined. They even faced the bayonets straight towards them.

"kill!"

As the soldiers roared, bayonets pierced into the enemy's chest, and after their pistols were empty, they picked up a rifle from the ground and fought with the enemy. Wang Qingshan was surprised to see that many Brazilians had smiles of relief on their faces when they were killed.

The imagined fierce battle did not happen at all. The soldiers easily broke down the Brazilians' "resistance" if resistance meant suicide!

In front of them, the green poisonous gas had become much lighter, like a shocking fog. As the troops continued to advance, the number of dead in front of them became fewer and fewer, and the number of wounded increased. Facing the attack of the Ming army, most of them fled in panic. They coughed as they fled, and some of them vomited blood and fell down while running.

This is no longer a battle, but a mop-up!

The soldiers who came from the rear directly ended the lives of those people with bayonets. In this way, they chased for more than 8 kilometers until the green poisonous smoke was almost completely dissipated. They stopped only then, but they did not stop for long.

In less than half an hour, hundreds of trucks arrived, driving on the muddy battlefield. After passing the vanguard's defense line, the trucks drove forward more than a hundred meters, and then turned around on the battlefield, facing the Brazilian defense line with the rear of the truck. Then the engineers once again detonated the special explosive plugs. Just like before, at the moment the explosive plugs exploded, hundreds of tons of chlorine gas were released again, and the green chlorine gas once again formed a huge poisonous gas ball, which rolled towards the Brazilian defense line under the influence of the earth's wind.

In order to ensure the effectiveness of the poison gas attack, and of course, because it was the first time to use poison gas and they had no idea how much to use, the military transported a total of more than 1,200 tons of chlorine. According to the plan, the military released more than 300 tons of chlorine from three locations at the same time. In order to prevent the concentration of chlorine from becoming diluted and causing a decrease in lethality, the military specially dispatched airships to observe the concentration of chlorine. When the concentration was found to be reduced, they immediately dispatched a motor vehicle unit to transport the chlorine cylinders directly to the front line and released them again at the front line.

Such continuous release of poison gas had never happened before. Even in the First World War in another world, the warring countries had never used such a method to continuously release poison gas. But now, in the Ming Dynasty, although the officers of the Ming Dynasty got this "new toy" for the first time, they still applied poison gas on a large scale according to their own ideas, in the most direct and violent way.

One strike is a thousand tons!

It has to be said that such a heavy-duty poison gas directly destroyed the resistance of the Brazilian army. In just one day, the Brazilian defense line completely collapsed. The high concentration of poison gas directly killed more than 100,000 people, and the remaining Brazilians, whether white officers or black soldiers, completely collapsed. The white officers directly took off their uniforms and fled back home, and those slave soldiers directly turned into thugs. On the way back to Rio de Janeiro from the front line, they burned, killed, looted, and directly "bought for free."

On the night of February 6, although the Ming army was still more than ten kilometers away from Rio de Janeiro, the streets were filled with gunfire and fire. The troops withdrawn from the front line were looting and setting fires everywhere. Even the Capitol was burned down. Men were killed and women were raped.

Around the palace, the Royal Guards were guarding the last piece of pure land in the city. Thousands of nobles and civilians had fled here to avoid the thugs, who were obviously out to rob rather than fight the Royal Guards. With the protection of the Royal Guards, at least this place was safe for the time being.

But it was only temporary. The sound of gunfire and the cries of civilians rang out everywhere in Rio de Janeiro. While the buildings in the city were constantly being set on fire, there was also chaos in the palace.

"Your Majesty, we have to leave. The Ming army could occupy this place at any time. The rebels in the city are looting everywhere. We..."

Although the marshal did not continue speaking, how could Pedro II not know what he wanted to say.

Brazil is finished!

He looked out the window at the burning city.

one day!

The Ming army destroyed their resistance in just one day.

"Poison gas, damn it, they are followers of Satan, how could they use poison gas?"

Faced with other people's complaints, Pedro II just sighed helplessly. Poison gas, the Ming people used poison gas to destroy everything.

Brazil is dead...

"Get on board!"

Without any hesitation, facing the Ming army that was about to attack the city, Emperor Pedro II of the Brazilian Empire made a rational choice, just as his ancestors made the same choice when facing Napoleon's invasion.

Of course not, resist and fight to the death.

But flee... flee to Europe!

(End of this chapter)