Chapter 567: 567 The call of despair
Chapter 567 567 Desperate Call
At the Tang Army field airport near the border with Qi, Air Force Commander Brahim was looking at the officer who came to deliver the message.
The officer reported to Brahim the news that their paratroopers had sent back from the front line: "Our paratroopers have hit the Forbidden Army! Jiang Xian's location has been found, and he is in a manor near the airborne zone!"
Brahim was shocked when he heard the news. The paratroopers were on a mission to capture the Donghe Bridge, but they dropped it randomly and found the hiding place of the King of Qi?
After he was shocked, he said to himself enviously: "How lucky are they?"
The officer on the other side took the message, looked down at it, and quickly reminded: "General! Don't worry about this, the paratroopers' plan has changed! They want to capture Jiang Xian alive as much as possible!"
"That's a good idea. Can they kill Qi's imperial army?" Brahim asked with some disbelief.
The officer continued to remind: "General! I don't know the exact number of Qi's Imperial Guards, but the paratroopers are part of our air force. The losses have been great. Your Majesty may have other opinions about you."
Brahim subconsciously did not regard the airborne troops as a real air force, so he did not react for a while.
However, after being reminded by his subordinates, he immediately realized that those paratroopers behind enemy lines were also air force ground troops under his command!
So he immediately ordered: "I almost forgot that they are also members of our air force! Order all aircraft that can take off to prepare to bomb the new coordinates! Notify the paratroopers and ask them to deploy ground identification marks to avoid accidental damage!"
"Yes! General" Several air force commanders immediately stood at attention and saluted, and left with his orders.
Soon, the pilots flying to various targets heard the announcement of the change of attack order on their earphones.
The commanders of each wing issued orders to the aircraft closest to the Qi King's City to support the paratrooper operations.
"Bluebird Bluebird! Call Bluebird! Correct the route! Correct the attack target! Correct the attack target! 4 kilometers east of the King's City of Qi! There is an obvious combat area on the search ground! Mission: Support our ground troops in combat! Mission: Support our army Ground troops fighting!"
“Bluebird understands!” At an altitude of more than 6,000 meters, in the small cockpit of a Stuka dive bomber, the pilot, wearing an oxygen mask, replied in a suppressed voice.
After he answered, he pulled his control stick, and his plane responded to his operation and flexibly deviated from the route.
“Bluebird 2, follow me!” He shouted to his wingman while changing his route.
“Bluebird 2 understands!” The wingman’s pilot also pulled the joystick, followed his lead aircraft, and sped away into the distance.
On the other side, the eight Butcher FW-190 fighter jets that had just crossed the border also received orders to change their attack targets.
The planes had already lost altitude and were now starting to climb again. On the radio, all the pilots were very excited, because their target of attack this time was the King of Qi!
At the field airport that had just been put into use in Nanye, more than a dozen Air Force pilots put on their own equipment and ran to their planes on the other side of the runway.
Rows of Stuka dive bombers were parked there, and the ground crew had hung 500 kilograms of aerial bombs on them as quickly as possible.
“The fuel is full!” a ground crew member stood next to the plane and shouted to the pilot who climbed onto the plane.
Behind the pilot, the shooter who opened the door raised his thumb to the ground crew: "Thank you! Is the hydraulic pressure normal?"
“Normal!” Another ground crew member replied, waving his hands to signal that the plane could start.
With violent vibrations, the propellers began to rotate rapidly. The aircraft in front began to align with the runway. The wind blew across the lawn and rolled up waves.
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"Thud, tug, tug!" Before the smoke had cleared, Xiang Ziyu once again rushed into the courtyard full of Qi troops. This is a garden with many rooms around it.
Originally, the nearby rooms were prepared for ministers. Jiang Xian could not hide here alone. He needed a huge organization to maintain his effective control over the country.
The ministers of the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Ministry of Industry... all the ministers of various departments, at least the second-in-command of these departments, all live here and report to Jiang Xian on the running of the country at any time.
In addition, Cyric’s advisors, generals and chief officers of various military departments, and the aide-de-camp secretaries accompanying these officials and generals must also be added...
They are all here, just not necessarily in this courtyard. Some people live elsewhere, and some people live here but have run away.
The people who stayed here were also men and women, and everyone was so anxious that they had no idea what to do. They didn't even know how far things had come, they only knew that Tang Jun was coming. "Don't..." The Minister of Hubu, who was in charge of money and food in Qi State, just opened his mouth to speak when he was knocked to the ground by a bullet fired by Xiang Ziyu.
"Don't shoot!" On the other side, another Qi minister ran away with his head in his hands, hiding while shouting: "I am the Minister of Justice of Qi! I surrender! Don't shoot!"
He had a chance to finish shouting, but bullets don’t have eyes. The female family member next to him was beaten to death without firing more bullets, and lay there spewing blood.
"Killing!" a maid screamed. She was hit by a bullet before she could start running, and she stumbled to the ground.
Before she could get up, she was stepped down by someone - her escape had already begun, and trampling was nothing more than a small matter.
The official who stepped on this woman didn't fare much better. He stepped on a soft and fleshy body, and couldn't control himself and fell down.
Then someone stepped on him. A normally prominent official in the Ministry of Personnel of the State of Qi was trampled to death.
"Kill!" Xiang Ziyu shouted and continued to move forward, knowing that he had no chance to capture the prisoner. His current goal was simple, that is, to find and capture Jiang Xian, so as to completely end the battle here!
What he didn’t know yet was that on the other side, Tang paratroopers had also breached the courtyard wall. These paratroopers entered the manor from another direction, also causing chaos to the Qi army.
In the current manor, everything is out of control. The commander of the Qi State regiment in charge of the house could not restrain his troops at all, and he had no way to mobilize and command his remaining troops.
In fact, the Qi Army still has a lot of remaining troops after the battle. Adding in the unmoved security troops on the periphery, the Qi Army still has at least 1,300 troops left.
However, these troops were either still not gathered up on the outside, or they were in a mess inside the manor, unable to stop the advancement of the Tang Army's paratroopers.
There were the sounds of grenades exploding everywhere, the typewriter-like crisp sound of Tang Army's submachine guns, and the screams of Qi Army everywhere. No one could stand up to end this chaos.
Even the guards around Qi Wang Jiang Xian were in a bit of confusion. They were weighed down by the ministers and generals who were crowded together, and could not even form a decent battle formation.
Originally, they were only responsible for protecting Jiang Xian alone, but now they had to protect dozens of generals and ministers, as well as dozens of princesses, maids, servants, and handymen.
There is no way, because after hiding here for so long, Jiang Xian also attracted several concubines one after another. Who would have thought that pampering would eventually cause misery to these female relatives?
"Let your majesty get on the carriage! Quick! Let your majesty get on the carriage!" Finally, after passing a landscape, the prime minister saw the carriage waiting there and shouted excitedly.
He finally saw hope. As long as he could send the king back to the royal city, there would be a chance of improvement! Although the royal city is also very empty, it is still very easy to gather two thousand soldiers. Moreover, this Tang army that suddenly appeared and descended from the sky may not dare to enter the city!
Thinking of this, the prime minister finally breathed a sigh of relief. He helped Jiang Xian get into the carriage, but when he wanted to turn around, Jiang Xian held him back.
King Qi covered his chest, his face turned pale, and he tried his best to speak: "Come with me! Go back to the royal city! Go back to the royal city..."
At this moment, a round iron lump flew over from the side of the courtyard wall. The grenade was at least twenty meters away from the carriage. After landing, it rolled to the feet of a Qi general.
In the chaos, no one noticed such a thing flying in. Of course, the general didn't know that he was about to be in tragedy.
He still wanted to squeeze forward, preparing to escape with the carriage on the pretext of protecting the king.
The next second, the grenade exploded, the fragments penetrated and tore his lower body, and the shock wave lifted his broken upper body directly into the sky.
Everyone around him was affected, and they were killed and injured in an instant. Then another grenade flew over and also exploded far away from the carriage.
Jiang Xian was frightened by the explosion so close to him. After that, he felt a heartbreaking pain in his chest, as if shrapnel had just hit him.
The prime minister saw that something was wrong, and quickly climbed into the carriage. He didn't even care about the group of people behind him, and shouted to the carriage driver at the top of his lungs: "Go quickly! Go quickly!"
The previous explosion had frightened the horses to neigh. The coachman was already frightened. When he heard the prime minister's order, his hands shook, and the reins hurt the pulling horses. The carriage immediately began to move forward.
The guards at the front of the carriage were caught off guard and were knocked down several times. The guards on both sides also followed the carriage and ran forward in panic. The abandoned ministers chased the carriage while shouting and cursing, while the abandoned female family members ran behind and cried.
On the carriage, the prime minister no longer had to worry about so much. He grabbed Jiang Xian's hand and called his monarch desperately again and again: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Your Majesty, please wake up! Your Majesty!"
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An update, I’m really sorry and helpless.
(End of this chapter)