Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 439: Riot III

Despite the construction of barricades under the command of retired veterans such as Old Jimmy, the city guards were unwilling to suffer casualties and fought back and forth with them, even pushing the front line to other blocks.

But this does not mean that the rioting people can really confront the army head-on, nor does it mean that they really have the strength and ability to create a successful riot that causes enough damage in the capital of the most powerful country in the world.

Although the riot spread across four blocks, the city guards controlled and blocked the area, so the rioters were trapped in these four blocks and did not spread outward.

With the arrival of the Steam Knights and the Guards Cavalry Regiment, the balance of victory has been overwhelmingly overturned.

"Steam Knights, open the passage, clear the barricades and other obstacles on the street, and the cavalry regiment is ready to charge!" The Grand Knight Commander of the Knights who was in charge of the battle loudly issued orders. While preparing his equipment, he also cared about his apprentice: "Jim, be smart for a while, don't rush too fast, just follow me."

The apprentice who was instructed by the Grand Knight couldn't help but show some reluctance on his face, but he still nodded: "I understand, Master."

The young apprentice's heart was still filled with passion. Inspired by the knight stories he had heard in his childhood, he became a knight and longed to achieve great things. The passion of a man was always surging in his chest.

The young apprentice was somewhat restless as he finally had a chance to show off his skills.

The Grand Knight could certainly see that his apprentice was not being sincere, but he did not say anything.

He also came from a younger generation and could understand the thoughts of these young people who had not experienced much war. They felt that war was just like what was depicted in knight tales, where brave knights won honor, the just side would be victorious, and in the end the knight and the princess lived happily together.

So they do not understand the cruelty of war, but instead think it is a kind of romance that deserves youth and passion.

But for someone like the Grand Knight who has truly experienced the baptism of war and understands the cruelty of war, war never brings any romance and passion, but only cruelty and destruction.

It will not bring anything good, it will only destroy everything.

But it’s not feasible to talk about this kind of awareness with young people. They will only think that you are too stubborn and conservative, and that you are a stumbling block that prevents young people from obtaining their honor.

It is for this reason that the Grand Knight Commander only gave instructions to his apprentice instead of issuing mandatory orders.

In his opinion, this young apprentice of his only lacked training, but he had plenty of enthusiasm, justice and faith in his heart. As long as he was given more opportunities to train, he would definitely become a reliable knight in the future and be able to become the backbone of the White Bear Knights.

So the Grand Knight Commander still brought him along for this actual combat mission. Even though he was only a knight's apprentice now and could not wear the steam knight armor to enter the battlefield, the young knight still wore the traditional armor with full enthusiasm, ready to show his skills.

Soon, the order to attack was given, and the Grand Knight Commander led his flag team and began to advance in an attack formation.

The powerful force of the Steam Knight Armor was fully demonstrated at this moment. The barricades that hindered the cavalry's charge were pushed by the Steam Knight Armor, like paper, and were easily broken through.

The mob guarding the barricades raised their weapons and bravely or ignorantly shot at the Steam Knights, trying to knock down these powerful knights.

However, the lead bullets fired from the smoothbore muskets were like a joke in front of the composite armor of the Steam Knight Armor, and were not even as destructive as some powerful crossbows. Unless some unlucky person was shot through the observation window on the helmet, there was no possibility of using a smoothbore musket to penetrate the Steam Knight Armor.

As for the use of heavy firepower, infantry guns of 6 pounds or more can cause damage to the steam knight armor, but the problem is where can a group of mobs get such heavy firepower?

There are city guards, but the problem is that Langton’s city guards are not the corrupt good-for-nothings in some novels or legends.

Although they do suffer from corruption and are indeed just a non-military armed force for maintaining law and order, many soldiers in the City Guard are retired from regular armies, and some of their officers are non-outstanding graduates from military academies.

Generally speaking, it would be difficult for them to fight a tough battle, but to deal with a mob? They wouldn't collapse at the first blow, and even lose their artillery.

Therefore, even though Old Jimmy organized people to attack the Steam Knights according to the anti-knight combat tactics he had learned, he got nothing but casualties.

Not only did they fail to achieve any results, they even destroyed the morale of their own people.

After all, with more than fifty people in total, they couldn't even delay the charging knight. How could the morale not collapse?

In fact, the Imperial Military had already proved through combat exercises one after another that even the most elite Guards Infantry Regiment required a whole regiment of troops in a fully deployed state, relying on solid permanent fortresses to be able to withstand the attack of a Steam Knights Flag.

As for wanting to win? Two elite Guards infantry regiments might be able to do it at the cost of two-thirds of their casualties.

Or they may be able to equip enough artillery to provide fire coverage for the Steam Knights, otherwise nothing on the battlefield can hurt them.

This turned the battle into a one-sided massacre, especially when the Guards Cavalry Regiment began to charge, everything seemed to have entered garbage time.

Cavalrymen wielding sabers galloped through the streets, and anyone who dared to resist would be ruthlessly chopped down.

Blood flowed freely in the streets, corpses lay on both sides of the streets, and the cries of women and children echoed miserably in the buildings on both sides. Everything seemed so cruel.

This made the apprentice Jim, who was almost stepping into the battlefield for the first time, look shocked. He had fantasized about the battlefield before and thought he was ready to step into the battlefield.

However, when he witnessed all this, he could only murmur "This is not right, it shouldn't be like this", and followed his mentor, staring blankly until a bullet hit his helmet.

The broken shrapnel blinded one of his eyes, and his mentor immediately counterattacked, firing a recoilless gun at him.

Amid the explosion, the young apprentice, covering one eye, saw that it was a skinny old man wearing an old-fashioned army uniform and holding an old-fashioned matchlock rifle that was still smoking.

There was a satisfied smile on his face, and then he was engulfed by the explosion of the shell.

(End of this chapter)