Chapter 423: 423 The battle ends
Chapter 423 Chapter 423 The battle ends
The people of Mirage were stunned by what they saw. They could not imagine that such a huge thing could fly in the sky.
This was so crazy that they looked up at the eyes overlooking them and fell into complete fear for a moment.
They felt that they were being targeted by the devil, and out of awe of the sharks in the ocean, they could not even muster the courage to struggle.
Many people knelt on the ground, kowtowing to the monster in the sky, as if they were pounding garlic.
Many soldiers even threw away their guns. They were afraid that these monsters hanging in the sky would punish them for their disrespect.
"God in heaven! I am guilty! I am guilty! Forgive me! Forgive me!" A mirage officer was no better than the soldiers around him. He also knelt on the ground and muttered something.
Mirage Wu Chun was so frightened that he fell to the ground, and he was in a state of embarrassment at this moment. He had already seen seven or eight of these huge airships slowly descending on Fengshun City, completely blocking out the sky and the sun.
Of course he didn't know how powerful these things were, because he had never even seen such things.
A rabbit definitely cannot tell whether an alien is a threat to itself, because it has no idea what an alien is.
In Fengshun City, the people of Zheng State were also frightened by everything in front of them. Naturally, they had never seen anything that the people of Mirage State had not seen before.
They also had never seen what an airship looked like, and they were so frightened by the terrifying eyes on the airship that they could not speak.
They were already frightened by the massacre by the Mirage people, and now seeing all this, they were even more frightened to death - they had no idea if this was another more vicious demon coming...
There was no way. After seeing the sharp-toothed shark paint for the first time, they were not even sure whether these monsters flying above their heads were human creations.
The goblins are already bad enough, but if orcs, elves, dwarves or the like come here, who knows what the situation will be like?
Some women hugged their children, some old people even sighed, and the men looked blank. The whole city was like a hamster under the wings of an eagle, and could only huddle in a corner and tremble.
"Mom..." A frightened child huddled in his mother's arms, not daring to look at the eyes in the sky.
“A big, big disaster is coming, a big disaster is coming!” An old man leaned on crutches, stared at more and more airships in the sky, and lamented in a desperate voice.
"Boom!" After attaching explosives, Datang's ground troops directly blew open the gate of Fengshun City. The flying wood chips cut the Mirage soldiers behind the gate into pieces of meat.
Amidst the screams and begging for mercy of the Mirage soldiers who were swept away by the explosion but did not lose their lives, the soldiers of the Datang Group rushed into the city with rifles.
The Mirage soldiers who were frightened half to death by the scene in the sky immediately raised their hands. They did not want to be decapitated by the heavenly soldiers and generals.
What awes them is that each of these enemy soldiers who rush in is tall and powerful, and their movements are very agile and skillful, and their eliteness is breathtaking.
These Datang soldiers almost subconsciously stabbed the wounded Mirage soldiers rolling on the ground with their bayonets, causing silence near the city gate in a few seconds.
Such skillful assassination movements made the Mirage soldiers seem to see themselves. This familiar feeling made them feel more intimate, and at the same time they instantly became well-behaved out of fear.
There is no way. They know very well how cruel they are, so they are extremely submissive to the existence that is more ferocious than them, for fear that the other party will show a more violent appearance.
What is strange is that the soldiers of the Datang Group who rushed into the city immediately spread a huge red flag on the ground. In the center of this flag, there was also a weird dragon-shaped emblem embroidered on it.
The Bloody Dragon Flag is the flag of the Datang Group and is also the air contact signal for the ground forces of the Datang Group—they had just received special training in this area before boarding the ship.
The moment they saw the airship, the 1st and 2nd Battalions knew that they had to notify the friendly forces overhead as soon as possible and ask them not to drop the bombs!
Others don’t know, but they know the actual power of these airships—if they start bombing, Fengshun City will basically be doomed!
Completely different from airplanes, airships are very slow, so their bombing accuracy is really terrifying. Under certain circumstances, they can even hover and bomb, maintaining absolute accuracy.
The falling path of the bomb is not a parabola, but close to a straight line - such attack characteristics make the airship's attack accuracy almost comparable to that of guided weapons.
What’s even more frightening is that the vast majority of cities in the world are not reinforced concrete forests or made of cement. Their ability to withstand attacks is really limited.
Hundreds of bombs are enough to completely turn Fengshun City into ruins. This is not an exaggeration at all, and it is even a bit modest.
So as soon as the 1st Battalion Commander and the 2nd Battalion Commander discussed it, they immediately made the decision to attack the city first and then prevent the Air Force from bombing. Their progress was very fast. As for why they only rolled out one flag, the reason was that according to tradition, the flag of the 2nd Battalion was lost halfway.
The commander of the airship force, who was about to start the attack, soon saw the huge flag spread out on the ground, and then he canceled the attack order with some regret.
There was no other way. He couldn't afford the responsibility of bombing friendly forces, so he could only order the airship to be on standby and wait for news from the ground.
"Wait a moment! Look at the progress of the friendly forces on the ground! I really want to see... there are some enemy ships over there at the port..." Put down the telescope, stood at the front of the airship pod, and looked through the glass window at the distant harbor The commander of the airship unit looked at his adjutant.
"Send a signal to boat No. 4! Tell them that we are ready to turn! The target harbor area...there are artillery batteries and battleships over there." The adjutant immediately understood and ordered.
On the ground, the civilians of Zheng State were staring dumbly at a group of soldiers they had never seen before, hurriedly passing by their homes.
These soldiers were wearing gray-green military uniforms, with iron helmets on their heads, carrying slender rifles, and a lot of things on their bodies that swayed slightly with their steps.
Compared to soldiers, they looked more like guys selling groceries on the streets, and they didn't look like they had any fighting ability at all.
They are as timid as mice, even leaning against the wall to check carefully at every turn to see if there is any danger.
They kept their heads as low as possible when running, and were in no way comparable to the big-headed soldiers carrying guns and marching in neat steps.
But such soldiers actually rushed into Fengshun City and arrested groups of mirage troops. No scary gunshots were even heard in the city.
Those soldiers of the Mirage Kingdom, who used to be fierce and evil in the past, now have their heads hanging down, as listless and depressed as the soldiers of the Zheng Kingdom in the past.
Immediately afterwards, the somewhat frightened people of Zheng State were surprised to see that many of these strange and timid soldiers they looked down on had a pair of black eyes.
The commander of the 1st Battalion walked into the city gate, took the statistical report from a non-commissioned officer at the battalion headquarters, and then looked at the numbers on it.
It was almost as much as he expected. Except for the dozens of Mirage soldiers who were killed at the city gate, and the dozen or so Mirage soldiers who were injured and then stabbed to death, the remaining Mirage soldiers put down their weapons. Surrender.
Including commanders at all levels and other miscellaneous entourages, there were more than 3,100 prisoners in the Mirage Kingdom.
As for the Mirage navy docked in Fengshun City, they have all been sunk by a Bunas-class warship blocked outside the port.
The landing fleet of the 2nd Transport Regiment broke into the port directly. Now the 2nd Regiment is unloading. This time, their landing speed is much faster than that of the 1st Regiment.
The Mirage Kingdom has hoarded a total of enough grain to feed 10,000 people for several months in Fengshun City. This grain has now become the spoils of war for the Datang Group. Also captured were several sailing ships that had not had time to leave port to join the battle.
In short, the battle of Fengshun City was supposed to last for several hours, but due to the sudden appearance of the airship, the battle ended in just over an hour.
Datang Group captured Fengshun City without any bloodshed, and even occupied important facilities such as the fort and dock intact.
At this point, the 6 legions deployed by the Mirage Kingdom in the direction of Fengshun City, totaling 9,000 troops, were completely wiped out by the Datang Group. The situation where the Mirage troops threatened the landing site at the same time was completely broken, and the Mirage troops on Dongwan Island were already in danger.
At the same time, the Mirage Navy's fleet stationed on Dongwan Island also suffered heavy losses. More than 50 sail warships and 7 paddle steamers were sunk, and the sea control near Dongwan Island was completely lost.
Commanders Xu Wuyuan and Xu Wubai died in the rebellion. Fengshun City defender Xu Wuyuan surrendered, and the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Division of the Datang Group was able to land at the port of Fengshun City.
The first stage of the battle ended with the Datang Group's victory. Although the airship unit, which participated in the battle for the first time, shocked the enemy as soon as it appeared and helped the ground forces achieve a great victory, the entire airship unit was unable to do so until the end. Not dropping a bomb can be said to be extremely frustrating.
"Let the troops rest as soon as possible! There are still many things to do..." The first thing the 2nd regimental commander did after landing was to adapt to the ground that was no longer shaking.
He watched his troops walking down the gangway, watching the ship's own crane unloading cars and heavy weapons and equipment onto the small dock, with an unhappy expression on his face.
The terminal facilities here are so poor that they seriously affect their unloading speed. But there's nothing that can be done about it, because there are so many things that need to be transformed here.
(End of this chapter)