HBWnovel Chapter 949: People of Ironstone City
Chapter 949: People of Ironstone City
The legion commander watched everything that happened on the city wall with a telescope.
The hand holding the telescope couldn't help but clench it a little.
It seems that this bone is not easy to chew!
It seems that some on the other side are planning to surrender, but others are planning to fight to the end.
The two sides even started arguing, and it seemed that the one who was determined to hold on to the end had the upper hand...
The corps commander immediately gave orders for the artillery to be ready to fire at any time.
The mercenary in charge of delivering the message saw that the situation on the city wall was unclear and immediately prepared to run away.
As soon as the mercenary took two steps, the garrison officer immediately pulled out his pistol and fired two shots at the mercenary.
The mercenary was hit in the leg and then rolled into the ditch nearby.
When the legion commander saw this scene, he threw the telescope in his hand to the ground and started cursing.
"Fuck it! Blast him!"
But soon, he suddenly remembered that the telescope he broke was worth a gold coin, and finally picked it up in a panic.
Wiping his telescope as if he were wiping a treasure.
Fortunately, it's not broken...
After receiving the order, the artillery opened fire immediately.
Hundreds of artillery pieces launched an attack directly towards Tieshi City.
The dense artillery shells formed a perfect parabola in the air and then fell into the Iron Stone City.
However, most of the shells hit the city walls, trying to avoid attacking residential areas within the city.
When the city lord heard the whistling sound of the artillery shells, he was stunned on the spot for a moment.
Da Yan finally opened fire...
The city lord's guards immediately took the city lord down from the city wall.
The garrison officer was a fool; they were not fools.
Naturally, they would not let their city lord put himself in danger.
Wouldn't it be better to just stay in the City Lord's Mansion?
The residents in the city were completely panicked at this moment.
They knew the power of artillery, but had never been actually bombed by it.
After hearing the whistling and explosion of the shells, they instantly became obedient.
Everyone fell into panic.
At first they thought Bonaparte would protect them.
After all, Bonaparte promised to make them live a good life.
But what about now? What about the good days?
They didn't see the good days, but the bad days kept coming.
Heavy taxes, coupled with the tyranny of the new city garrison officers.
The entire Iron Stone City suffered terribly.
But even in such an environment, Tieshi City developed abnormally.
The city lord knew that all the conflicts were waiting for an opportunity to explode...
And this opportunity seems to be not far away...
The mercenaries' artillery hit the city walls.
The horrific explosion caused great panic among the residents in the city.
After two hours of bombardment, the mercenaries still showed no signs of attacking.
The legion commander was still using artillery to attack the city walls.
It looked like they would not give up until the city wall was completely destroyed.
In fact, the mercenaries could have launched an attack at this moment.
The city walls had been almost completely destroyed, but the bombardment continued without any cessation.
This is to dismantle the walls in the hearts of the residents of Ironstone City.
Because the legion commander witnessed everything that had just happened on the city wall, and he also got detailed information about Ironstone City from the Intelligence Bureau.
This place was originally a powder keg, and it was about to explode before the mercenaries arrived...
The current bombardment is just adding fuel to the flames...
Inside the city.
The horrific bombardment made people in the entire city like frightened birds.
They looked around for the best place to hide from the bombardment.
In a sewer.
Hundreds of ragged Ironstone residents are hiding in the sewers.
From time to time, they felt vibrations coming from the sewer walls.
They were originally residents of the slums.
What is a slum?
That's where the thatched houses and tents are gathered.
For example, if you are hit by a cannonball, you can’t even stop a bullet…
So when the shelling started, they immediately hid in the sewers.
Trying to use the sewers to avoid shelling.
But they seemed to have forgotten one thing, that is, the end of the sewer is outside the city...
Although the legion commander did not send a large force to attack, he still sent out a small team under his command.
This team is a noble team.
Most of them are descendants of honorary nobles.
Because it was so difficult to join the National Defense Force, it was difficult for them to squeeze in after hearing that the mercenaries had been established.
With the idea of making great achievements in mind, they joined the mercenary army without hesitation.
As honorary nobles, although they lost a lot of property, the property they owned was still very considerable.
So after they joined the mercenaries, they heard that mercenaries could buy their own weapons and equipment.
They just got themselves a bunch of top-notch equipment.
M4 carbine, M1911, night vision goggles, body armor, grenade launcher, tear gas...
Almost everything that can be used in individual combat, these noble lords got themselves a set.
And they ranked among the best in the 15 days of training.
So the legion commander decided to let them complete this difficult task.
That is to enter the city through the sewer, meet the city lord, and let the city lord persuade the civilians in the city to surrender.
The legion commander knew the importance of Ironstone City.
So naturally, they don’t want Tieshi City’s production capacity to be affected.
Only by protecting these innocent people can we minimize the losses of Tieshi City.
In the sewer, a 14-member mercenary team emerged from an inconspicuous body of water like water ghosts.
As soon as they surfaced, the mercenary team immediately removed their oxygen masks and then turned on their night vision goggles.
Regarding Iron Stone City, the Intelligence Bureau has already grasped the specific direction of the Iron Stone City sewers.
Looking at the map handed to them by the legion commander, the mercenary team immediately headed in the marked direction.
With a map and night vision goggles.
They approached the City Lord's Mansion silently as if they had activated cheats.
But they soon stopped.
Because there is a large crowd gathering ahead.
And these people are the poor people hiding in the sewers.
They were originally trying to avoid the bombardment, but the garrison general saw that the city wall was directly destroyed.
Meanwhile, the mercenaries were slow to launch their attack, and the garrison officers believed that the mercenaries were going to launch the attack at night.
3000 people could not defend an iron stone city without walls.
So the garrison officer gave the order to capture able-bodied men.
Let them help defend...
But how could these ordinary people agree?
They started arguing in the sewer.
The soldiers began to capture able-bodied men directly in the sewers.
There was wailing throughout the sewer.
"I won't go! You are asking us to die!"
"let go!"
"boom!"
The originally noisy sewer suddenly became quiet after a gunshot.
In order to prevent the soldier from taking his father away, a young boy grabbed the soldier's trouser leg and tried to stop the soldier.
But the soldier got angry and shot the little boy dead...
As a result, the soldier put away his gun without a care in the world and then gave the boy's father a gun butt.
Everyone is angry but dare not speak out...
(Good night(T^T))