I Will Be The Crowned King Chapter 42

The screeching sound of tearing the rain curtain still echoed through the dome, blasting sparks of fire on the fortified walls and messy positions.

In the choking billowing thick smoke, the levies almost faced the blasting point of the shells in front of them, rushed through the last ditch in front of the fortress impatiently, and launched an assault on the still burning ruins of the city gate.

"Charge - put on the bayonet!!!"

Hundreds of thousands of roars and loud bugles exploded in the torrential rain, and in the center of thunder and explosions, the levies infantry, who were terrified, raised their rifles with shining bayonets, and vented their inner fears with shouts and charges. .

Unexpectedly, the imperial defenders let the levies rush through the outermost trenches and city gates in a panic; only after seeing the enemy rushing into the fortress did they finally hurriedly organize the first line of defense.

"The first corps, line up!"

Carl Bain, who rushed into the fortress first, gave the order immediately, and at the same time dragged Lisa, who was still running, behind him, and raised the command knife in his right hand at the same time:

"Loose formation, all in place! Prepare - salvo!"

"boom----!!!!"

Almost at the same time, flames erupted from the lines on both sides at the same time; amid the billowing white smoke, the figures at the front of several stations silently fell to the ground.

The next second, just as the Imperial Army, which had maintained a tight formation, was preparing to fire another salvo, behind the first corps that had opened the horizontal line, a tidal wave of levies had already poured out from the two wings, pounced on them with bayonets. .

"boom----!!!!"

It was another row of volleys, and the levies at the forefront were like knocking down an invisible wall and falling to the ground one after another; but such thin firepower might be able to stop the attack of dozens or hundreds of people, but it could not stop thousands of people. Name is already afraid of a fool who only knows how to charge.

There was no bayonet wall to advance, no Xu Jin to shoot, the levy soldiers who rushed up in a mess, it was a hand-to-hand battle when the bayonet saw red!

"The glory of Clovis——!!!!"

"Long Live the Empire——!!!!"

At the moment when the two groups of people collided, countless screams and killings also exploded; hundreds of soldiers of the levy army pouring out their fears, like waves hitting the rocks, wave after wave attacked the imperial soldiers. position.

As a strong military post and military stronghold, the Fort Thunder Fortress has sufficient and complete fortifications; even inside the fortress, there are a large number of parapets and fences, as well as warehouses and strong towers as temporary strongholds; light artillery on the city walls can also Turn around at any time and shoot inside the fortress.

But at this moment, both the attackers and defenders seem to have forgotten this at the same time. They crowded into the small entrance under the ruins of the city gate, fighting brutally with bayonets, gun stocks and all available methods.

The imperial defenders in the fortress saw the fragile defense line crumbling, but were blocked by the formation of the friendly army from the artillery field. Weak defense.

Only the 1st Corps, which was stopped in time by Carl Bain, still maintained a horizontal formation in front of the gap, and shot freely in any possible enemy direction when it was almost overwhelmed by the "friendly forces" behind it.

"It's messed up, it's all messed up!"

Looking at the enemies rushing in from all directions in the rainstorm, Karl, who gritted his teeth, turned his head sharply, looked at An Sen who had the time to shoot with a gun, and roared directly:

"I said, Commander, don't work as a soldier there, think of a solution when you have time!"

"Right now, the enemy is foolishly entangled with us under the breach, but they will understand sooner or later! If we haven't attacked by then, it will be really over!"

"It doesn't matter, if you mess up, you will fight as you would."

An Sen calmly pulled the trigger; with a sound of "Bang!", the line soldier on the opposite side lost consciousness and fell into the quagmire.

"Let the soldiers follow me to the left, and see if you can bypass the front." Looking at Carl, who was nervous, Anson said that he didn't forget to pull the gun to reload:

"If you can get around it, try to rush to the city wall to occupy the fort."

"What if you can't?!"

"I can't... um... I can't say it anymore!"

Carl, who got the answer, almost turned his back, but rolled his eyes and executed the order:

"All in place - turn left, double column, quick charge!"

In the shouting, the more than 300 soldiers who received the order quickly turned around, and began to move quickly in the direction of the bugle. Most of them were the first corps, but there were also many soldiers from the rest of the troops who were scattered. Move behind the team to the left of the fortress.

And the imperial defenders, who were almost beaten with a sap at the beginning, finally began to recover at this time, and began to reorganize the order and organize defenses in the chaos.

A burst of hurried and chaotic bugles sounded in the fortress. Imperial soldiers in blue and white uniforms huddled and hid in front of their chests and on both sides of the fence. Groups of three or five built firepower nets in the corners of the fortress. Intermittent firing at the levy soldiers pouring in from the breach.

The imperial soldiers who relied on simple fortifications quickly gained a firm foothold outside the gap; but the problem is that the number of the two sides has more than doubled, and the too thin line of defense is not enough to stop the charge of hundreds of thousands of people.

What's more important is that at midnight and in a heavy rain, you can't see if the people around you are still alive; the gunshots and gunsmoke covered by the rain and darkness are far less scary than during the day, allowing the levy to survive. Charge the defensive line with more casualties than usual.

"Pfft—!"

Lisa, who stared with wide eyes, bit her bitterly and wanted to insert the bayonet into the bodies of the imperial soldiers. Before she could pull the bayonet out, Carl kicked the struggling corpse to the ground. .

Behind them, the 1st Corps, which barely maintained its formation, had already broken through the outer defense line and began to charge towards the city wall along the "gentle slope" behind the wall.

"I told you, don't rush forward like that!"

The panting Carl Bain grabbed Lisa's collar, and the dissatisfied little girl struggled desperately in his hand: "You are the captain of the skirmisher, not the vanguard who will die!"

"I'll say it again, you're the skirmisher commander, and your only mission is to kill Anson Bach with the rifle in your hand before anyone is going to kill him, or any of us, you know?!"

Lisa, whose hair was being grabbed, pouted and nodded aggrievedly.

Carl took a long sigh~www.mtlnovel.com~ and glanced at Lisa, whose eyes were a little red. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that the little girl in front of him was a monster who could shoot her head with a cannon.

at this time.

"Everyone - get down!"

Anson, who was standing at the front, suddenly crouched in horror and roared behind him.

Although Karl, who was shocked, didn't see anything clearly, he instinctively fell to the ground immediately, and at the same time pressed Lisa's small head to his side.

"Boom——!!!!"

The next moment, a thunder-like sound exploded in his ears, and all the soldiers who had not been able to hide were torn apart instantly. The sprayed blood plasma and shattered limbs fell from the city wall to the ground, mixed in the rain and mud.

Anson felt a tingling pain in his cranial cavity, and the image he "seeed" was clearly reflected in his mind - it was two light artillery pieces being loaded with cannonballs, plus nearly a company of infantry soldiers.

If you charge directly, the casualties will reach a quarter in an instant.

"All in place—" Anson, who roared, stretched his right hand behind his waist at the same time:

"Grenade ready!"

"Grenade?!"

This guy... is he talking about that thing that just smokes and doesn't explode? !

Carl, who was stunned for a moment, suddenly realized when he saw Anson's eyes.

The next second, more than a dozen dark grenades rose into the air and landed around the light artillery on the city wall.

After seeing what was falling and starting to breathe white smoke, the soldiers of the Empire, whose faces changed in shock, fled around.

But what they were waiting for was not an explosion, but the bayonet charge of more than 300 levy soldiers!

At one forty-five in the morning, the 1st Corps broke through the outer defense line and attacked the city wall.

Chapter end

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