Tang Qi Tan

However, all of this is bad news for the acting head of the capital garrison, Polis, who led the army all the way back with all his might.Because, when he looked through the three-section telescopic telescope, all he could see was the smiling Golden Sun Flag with a sea-blue background.

Whether it is the "tax-payer" city wall in the outermost lower city, or the looming Orleans (Duke) city wall in the outer ring area behind, or the old (Roman) city wall occasionally towering in the inner ring area; there are also 23-hole bridge towers and the highest Notre-Dame Church, Zunsheng Tower, without exception.

Such a result also made Polis tremble with cold hands and feet, and almost fell off the horse's back.He exhausted all means of driving, only to concentrate all the riding and means of transportation, and left behind the slow-moving troops to confuse the enemy, only to rush back day and night.

You know, as several regiments under the Capital Garrison Corps, almost most of the officers and members of the non-commissioned officer corps, their family members and relatives stayed in the city of Seine; they acted as hostages in a certain sense.Therefore, once the news of the fall of the king's capital spreads, it will have dire consequences.

Therefore, in the end, Polis still swallowed the bloody smell that rushed to his throat under the emotion; he tried his best to act as if nothing had happened, and said to the left and right: "I have seen it all, there are still people in the city. In the battle, the king is waiting for our support."

"May God be the witness, and all my colleagues will follow me to fight the enemy and rescue the Holy One from danger and distress." Then, he rode his horse and swung his whip loudly and encouraged: "Even the titles of earls, marquises and ministers, create a family heritage. The fiefdom is right in front of your eyes..."

At this moment, he could only delude himself into believing that the palaces with strong walls and fortresses in the city had not yet fallen.In this way, he can at least use this to continue to gather these troops, rescue one of the royal family members, and retreat to the northern provinces for future affairs.

However, Polis adjusted his deployment on the spot, preparing to feign a frontal attack and attract attention, while sending an elite force to take the opportunity to detour to the north of the city; While meeting opportunities.

However, the city of Seine responded in the same way. Along the avenues distributed in the ring-shaped city, an army marched out with great fanfare and momentum, and actively advanced towards the southern suburb where Polis was located; The Liberation Army has entrusted Dahe with confidence and is going to take the initiative to go out of the city to meet them.

However, it was the cannons deployed on the walls behind the enemy that were the first to show off; these ten-pound and fourteen-pound long-barreled field cannons, as well as 32-pound assault rifles, were not incorporated into urban combat because they were too heavy and huge. City cannon/mortar cannon, vying to be the first to emit a large cloud of smoke and fire.

After just a few breaths, scorching balls with faintly curved trajectories bombarded the ground near the garrison army; even the archers and crossbowmen who were changing their marching columns and starting to attack formation.It exploded in an instant, splashing a large amount of soil and human body fragments.

Amidst the hissing and howling of people turning their backs, the Garrison Corps, as the first to suppress the several shooter companies, has become incomplete and scattered in formation while dodging and evading.At this time, the enemy array that was rapidly approaching head-on also launched an attack without time.

Following these musketeers wearing breastplates and round helmets, they raised the loaded long guns obliquely in a row, roughly in line with the sergeants who raised the flags, and with the sudden pause of the drums, They scrambled to shoot hot lead pellets like raindrops, straddling the enemy's formation far away.

As if after a brief delay and stagnation, blood mist exploded one after another in the front of the garrison on the opposite side, as well as severed limbs, burst organs, and brains splashed; Rice generally scrambles to the fallen corpse, while jagged gaps appear.

In a blink of an eye, several companies of the Dynasty Army were completely scattered or defeated on the spot by the head-on shelling and platooning without even being able to expand their formation.At this time, a group of semi-armored soldiers holding large curved shields and short spears finally pushed up from both sides.

This is one of the few backbone and backbone troops in the Garrison Corps of the Capital Region; the Strong Shield Regiment formed by selected elites from exiles from the Western Empire.As they quickly filled the front line and temporarily contained the front line, the shooter company spread and collapsed.

The thick shield not only blocked them, most of the lead shot from the firecrackers from a hundred meters away was raining like rain; it also covered the surviving shooter companies, and under the whip and scolding of the supervising officer, they regrouped into one after another. Irregular horizontal formation, and can't wait to shoot back.

However, at this time, the second round and the third round of shelling on the distant city wall came one after another; this time, at least twenty or thirty shells fell on the filled forward array; The flying iron ball shattered the large shield and soldiers without hindrance.

They tore, pierced, and knocked over many soldiers with the same tendency, and in a blink of an eye, among the densely packed crowd, zigzag passages were opened with flesh and blood flying all over them.Just as the rest of the large shield soldiers went forward and tried to fill the gap again, the attack from the opposite side came one after another.

It was Hale rockets soaring one after another, like a huge rocket with the mouth of a bowl and the height of a person, dragging twists and turns of smoke; at a seemingly slow but extremely tormenting speed, with a terrifying With a sharp roar, they fell one after another behind the formation of the large shield soldiers.

The roar of explosions and the sizzling sound of flames sputtering and burning almost spread to the rear of the large shield soldiers, and there were more than a dozen full companies ready to go; He ran around in panic, being burned by the splashing flames.

At this time, the dark blue and silver-white line formed by the free army gunners on the opposite side rushed to a distance of more than ten meters without any time to beat the drumbeat of trotting and sprinting; Pause, the dense lead pellets approaching the radiation burst out.

This time, the curved shields that the large shield soldiers relied on as a means of protection could no longer resist; they were immediately backed away by debris splashed in front of them, or fell to the ground stiff and bleeding.However, the large shield soldiers exposed on the inside rushed out without hesitation.

Like tree branches crossing and growing out of thin air, they also penetrated some Free Army musketeers who were too violent and stood too close.However, immediately behind these musketeers in blue, a sparking sphere suddenly flew out; it exploded with a bang among the shield soldiers.

But this time, these large shield soldiers who had always been tenacious and never retreated; finally couldn't bear the power of the bombardment, lost command and order on the spot and made a mess, and were submerged in the blue guns in a blink of an eye. The soldiers are arrayed, and the bayonets are raised like a forest.

Therefore, a few hours after the head-on battle, the dynasty army/capital garrison led by Polis was breached on the front line, and a deep depression hundreds of meters wide appeared.This sudden and unfavorable situation was beyond Polis' expectation and judgment.

He even regretted that in order to deter the enemies on the southern front and to increase the speed of the march, he did not bring the artillery that he used quite easily.Otherwise, even if the range and power are not as good as the enemy's heavy artillery, it can still contain and disrupt the enemy's offensive.

Therefore, no matter how unwilling he was, he could only order decisively: "Blow the horn, let the several Norman cavalry regiments, Picardy's warrior regiment, and country gentry cavalry attack from the left and right flanks respectively, conduct roundabout containment and support, and wait for the opportunity. Assault the enemy's rear from the flank."

"Order, the Grand Gascon Regiment and the Pyrenees Frontier Volunteer Regiment, enter the center line battlefield in scattered formations, ready to meet the impact from long-range firearms; Enburg Regiment, bypassing the central battlefield, following the cavalry and attacking from both wings..."

At this moment, instead, he let go of his previous worries about gains and losses, and quickly dispatched out only a few troops under his command except for the guards, capable of fighting, and skilled in fighting.After all, once the rescue of the king fails, it will be useless for him to keep these troops.

On the contrary, it is able to invest the greatest strength in the shortest time, and there may be a turning point.It was as if he had been active in the city of Senna in his early years, in various public and underground casinos, earning scholarships and living expenses in various identities, and cast the sieve without hesitation.

Then, it was up to God to decide his final fate.It's just that this time it wasn't just the result of an accidental miss, being threatened and intimidated by casino thugs, and throwing blood all over his body.There is also my own life and future, and there is only one last step left before the final revitalization of the family business.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of his old lover Joseph; she was Madame Beauharnay at that time, she was thrown on the street covered in blood, and almost hit her carriage after getting up again; Forged a series of entangled fate and disputes.

Then, Polis couldn't help but think of the encounter that appeared to be unusually fragrant, magnificent and strange like a dream under the invitation of those court ladies.However, the exclamation that suddenly sounded beside Polis also pulled him back from his brief daydream to the duty of bringing reality.

"Left wing, our left wing has been breached by an unknown enemy..." As one of Polis' subordinates, Rui Desai, the flag officer of the legion who was born as a minor nobleman, shouted to him hurriedly: "According The semaphore, the cavalry of the Normandy Militia, was attacked by the enemy cavalry."

However, before Polis could make a decision, he saw chaos spreading in the newly opened front on the left wing.The weak link between the Devaz Regiment and the Marneburg Regiment, which was about to attack, had been pierced by a heavily armored knight.

Although these heavily armored knights in horse armor seem to be only a few hundred; but fighting left and right between the Devaz regiment and the Marneburg regiment is like a red-hot knife cutting into butter; almost Without being able to block and resist for a moment, he was easily knocked into the air, kicked over and trampled down.

Apart from the traditional spear riding and sword cutting, they didn't even need complicated weapons. After piercing and flying several infantrymen, the heavy armor of the man and the horse itself was like a rampaging hammer; Easily still smashed and crushed the resistance groups wherever it passed.

Then, like waves after waves, light armored retinues/half armored cavalry rushed in.Armed with long sticks, maces, sabers, and short barbed spears, they looked like steppe warriors of the nomadic Khanate in the East. They swam in groups of three or five and chased them, and strangled the scattered small groups of enemies to death.

The armor on those heavily armored knights was so strong that Polis could see through the binoculars that they easily broke and smashed spears and halberds one after another, even if some fragments were embedded in them, He pulled it out without hesitation and still fought without hindrance.

Even, some knights seem to be shrouded in a looming invisible aura; and those long-range projectiles and sneak attacks from under the horse can easily bounce off and slide... Therefore, he can imagine that he has already attacked before, those The final end of the militia cavalry.