On the top of Huayue City.
Prince Amir, the regent, was standing solemnly on the city wall surrounded by a group of ministers.
This prince is now over twenty years old, strong and powerful, carrying a long sword and a gun on his back.
He held up a telescope and looked at the Daxia soldiers heading towards Huayue City in the distance. A smile appeared on his cold face.
"Ten thousand men, attacking Huayue City... This king greatly admires the courage of the enemy generals!"
"General Kiran,"
An old general with a thin face beside him bowed and said, "I am here!"
"You will personally command the 50,000 defenders. Remember, this enemy army can fly! Therefore, you must divide the 50,000 defenders into five teams. Four of them will guard the four sides of the city wall, and the other team will reinforce the enemy's main force."
"Tell the soldiers to aim and fire. Don't give the enemy a chance to fly up the city wall!"
"I obey your command!"
General Kiran took the order and left. Amir put down the telescope, walked down the city wall, and stood in front of the more than 100,000 recruited civilians.
He waved his arms and shouted, "At this moment, the enemy is right in front of us!"
"They intend to destroy our walls, trample our capital, and slaughter our people!"
"Now is the moment of life and death for the Peacock Nation! His Majesty the King has led his army to battle, and now he has returned victorious and is about to arrive in Huayue City. What you must do now is to follow me and guard the city walls, defend Huayue City! When His Majesty the King returns, we will wipe out the invaders in one fell swoop!"
The crowd was excited, waving their hands and shouting loudly: "Defend our homeland and eliminate the invaders!"
Amir waved his arms again, and the crowd's voices gradually died down. "Next, I will give you weapons, and then you will follow me up the wall with your guns!"
His guards opened the weapons boxes and distributed guns and bullets to these young and strong residents.
When Amir led this ragtag army to the top of the city wall, He Sandao's troops had already arrived a hundred feet outside the city wall.
He stopped again and looked carefully with the telescope. There were crowds of people on the city wall, but their clothes were different. Most of them were not wearing armor but colorful cloth.
There are more than ten arrow towers and dozens of cannons on the city wall they are facing... These things do not pose a big threat to the Marines. The real threat is the row of densely packed guns mounted on the city wall!
If this thing flew up, it would definitely be shot into a sieve in the sky.
What should I do?
He didn't have an air force, but if Guan Xiaoxi's air force took off from a distance and flew beyond the range of the guns to bomb them, it would definitely blow the soldiers guarding the city to pieces.
He gave no order to attack the city.
He turned and shouted to the soldiers in front of him, "Don't be stupid and fly up to me! Now, everyone, grab your guns and shoot at the farthest range. Kill the guards on the wall!"
"Remember, don't get within the enemy's firing range! If the enemy fires a shell, be the first to get killed. It's stupid to be killed by a shell!"
"Follow orders!"
Ten thousand Marines quickly lined up in a row, holding their guns and following He Sandao forward.
Amir frowned. He didn't know how powerful the Mauser rifles of the Daxia Army were. He was surprised at what the enemy was going to do.
When attacking a city, shouldn't everyone be gathered together to break through in one fell swoop?
Soon, He Sandao stood about thirty feet away from the city wall.
He raised his gun...
"Bang……!"
A crisp gunshot shattered the tranquility of the early morning.
A soldier on the city wall fell to the ground with a thud.
Before Amir could react, he heard a burst of dense gunfire, "Bang, bang, bang..." and a large section of the city wall collapsed in an instant!
"careful……"
“Everyone hide…!”
"Send the message, order Kiran to attack with cannons and arrows!"
“Boom boom boom…”
Dozens of cannons on the city wall suddenly fired, and shells flew across the sky and landed outside the city.
A deafening explosion sounded, stirring up dust all over the sky.
The Marines took off at that moment, but did not move forward. They flew straight into the sky, and actually completed a round of volleys in the air, killing thousands of enemy soldiers!
They landed on the ground, which was covered with dense craters of varying depths.
Amir hid behind an arrow nest and watched the whole process through a telescope. His heart suddenly sank... that round of shelling had no effect at all!
"Keep bombarding!"
"Everyone else, get down!"
Cannons roared and Marines flew around.
The gunfire stopped because they were only about ten feet above the city wall at most, and the enemy was hiding under the wall, so they couldn't even see their shadow.
This is the enemy's capital, and it is obvious that there is plenty of ammunition.
The sound of artillery fire continued for a full half hour without stopping, and the battle became stalemate.
A spy from the Tianji Pavilion rushed over at this moment: "Commander He...!"
"explain!"
"The enemy army will arrive at the battlefield in about two hours!"
"How many people are there?"
"Three hundred thousand!"
He Sandao swallowed his saliva. What the hell, if he couldn't take Huayue City within two hours, wouldn't his people be surrounded and killed by the enemy?
His pupils shrank and he issued a new order:
"Wu Yu..."
"I'm here!"
"I now order you to lead the brothers of the First Brigade to the city wall! I'll give you one stick of incense to lead your troops up the city wall!"
"I receive this... Brothers of the First Brigade, prepare to work!"
He Sandao turned around and said to Tang Qianjun, "Tell the rest of the brothers to provide cover! Make sure the First Brigade reaches the city wall safely!"
Wu Yu led three thousand people and ran quickly towards the city wall.
Amir, who was on the city wall, had been observing the enemy's situation. He naturally noticed it and shouted, "Shoot! Shoot them to death!"
"Bang bang bang bang..."
Suddenly, dense gunfire rang out below the city. As soon as the soldiers defending the city wall showed their heads, they were shot in the head. The advantages of the flintlock rifle's five-shot and continuous fire were fully demonstrated at this time.
"Brothers, follow me!"
Wu Yu led three thousand soldiers into the sky. They raised their guns in the air, tore a hole in the city wall, and landed on it.
At this time, the defenders of the remaining three parts of the city wall rushed over under the leadership of General Kiran.
For a moment, the city wall was covered with gunfire and bullets, and Wu Yu's troops, who had just climbed onto the city wall, came under fierce attack.
At the foot of the city, He Sandao issued another order: "Everyone, follow me up the wall!"
Seven thousand Marines, led by He Sandao, ran quickly towards the city wall and then flew up.
On the city wall, two thousand of Wu Yu's three thousand men were killed in a few breaths.
The enemy's guns were single-shot, which gave these thousand people a brief chance to survive.
However, the enemy numbered 150,000.
Even those civilians, the guns in their hands are enough to threaten the lives of the Daxia soldiers.
When He Sandao led seven thousand people to the top of the wall, he happened to see Wu Yu being shot.
He fell down.
Of the three thousand people who climbed the wall earlier, only three to five hundred were left.
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