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Chapter 460: Riot: Steam Knight Flag
The siege began.

The train carrying the Northern Army did not enter the train station, but stopped before entering the train station and unloaded the infantry on board.

The infantry battalion commander deployed his troops and launched an attack along the railway line towards the train station.

At the same time, the colonial garrison troops that had originally planned to attack the city also launched an offensive from the outskirts of the city towards the train station.

The railway station is an important strategic node in this small town and one of the most solid buildings in this town. The clock tower of the railway station is the commanding height of the surrounding area. Whoever controls it can control the surrounding areas.

Therefore, taking over the railway station is an important strategic node for occupying this city.

After all, this is just a small town. You can even say that the entire city is planned around railways and train stations. By controlling the train station, you can use this as a basis to take over the entire city.

The attackers knew this, and the defenders knew this as well. The revolutionary army stationed in the city had already received the news and knew that the Northern Army would come to attack the city.

Therefore, they had built a complete set of solid defense systems around the train station a few days ago, and even took the initiative to cut off and demolish the railway leading to the train station from outside the city.

This is mainly to prevent the Imperial Army from directly using armored trains to attack the train station, although neither the New World colonial garrison nor the Northern Army would be so stupid as to rush directly into the city by train.

Although it would seem easier to drive a train directly in at first glance, the rails are actually fixed. All you need to do is prepare a few artillery positions on the roadside and you can destroy the train directly like shooting at a fixed target.

So from the very beginning, the officers responsible for formulating the battle plan did not consider taking the train directly into the city.

Although the central bloom sounds good, and they have the capital to do so with the assistance of a team of steam knights, the main force of this siege is still the New World colonial garrison that originally planned to attack the city, rather than the Northern Army that just came to assist in the battle.

Therefore, when formulating the siege plan, the colonial garrison planned to divide their troops into two groups and attack in a pincer attack from both sides of the railway, responsible for distracting the defenders' attention and stretching their troops at the same time.

The Northern Army then used Steam Knights to lead the way, attacked the train station along the railway, occupied the station and suppressed the surrounding area.

After that, the colonial garrison only needed to defeat the enemy in front of them, and then they could coordinate with the Northern Army at the train station to occupy the city.

The entire battle plan was quite standard, with no highlights, but no problems either. It was a typical strategy of building a strong stronghold and fighting a dull battle.

But it must be said that the effect is very good. After all, the colonial garrison has advantages in manpower and firepower. With the arrival of the northern army, they have a spearhead for attacking the enemy.

As long as this spearhead can penetrate the revolutionary army's defense line and capture the train station, the city will be equivalent to being captured.

As for whether the Revolutionary Army is able to stop the attack of the Steam Knights? If they can, this is probably just a ghost story.

After all, the ones responsible for the attack were a whole flag team of twelve steam knights.

Not only that, they also had a clear division of labor, forming a twelve-man combat team and advancing steadily in combat formation.

(Station and configuration diagram)

Three of the twelve steam knights held shields and large shotguns, forming the vanguard of the battle formation, standing in a triangle to resist attacks from the front and sides. The battle shields they carried were the defensive shields that appeared at the inauguration ceremony of Chernoborg, which could unfold a golden ring to resist incoming stray arrows and bullets, and also had a certain degree of defense against small-caliber shells.

Behind the three shield knights were five knights equipped with standard weapons. Their main weapons were chainswords, gunlances, and a portable recoilless cannon.

The Grand Knight Commander of this flag team is also among them, responsible for commanding the battle.

Next to the Grand Knight Commander, there is a knight equipped with a communication antenna who is responsible for conveying the Grand Knight Commander's orders.

This is the product that Perfectoct obtained when he improved the steam knight armor and developed the autonomous knight. It can deploy a communication network with a coverage radius of 500 meters. Within this range, the steam knights can communicate with each other through the communication module on the armor and achieve real-time battlefield information transmission.

Behind them are two heavily armored knights equipped with a miniature machine gun and a mortar respectively. Their main task is to provide firepower output and support for the flag team.

After all, sometimes when it is necessary to clear out the mobs on the battlefield, the recoilless guns originally equipped to the Steam Knights are obviously not suitable for this task, and weapons such as chainswords are only suitable for close combat.

So after spending some time, Perfect developed an air-cooled rotary machine gun that can be used to effectively clear out the miscellaneous soldiers.

There is no need to say much about mortars. This small indirect-fire cannon is very practical on the battlefield. It is very useful in eliminating firing points or barricades.

It is also light and compact, making it a powerful weapon that the Steam Knight can carry around and put down to fight, and it can also carry a considerable number of shells.

A flag team has twelve people. In addition to these eleven knights, there is also a knight wearing light steam armor, who specializes in stealth and reconnaissance.

He was equipped with a mass-produced sniper rifle developed by Perfect on the basis of the original 12.7mm gas-operated automatic sniper rifle. Its main task was to snipe enemy commanders on the battlefield, conduct battlefield reconnaissance and artillery guidance.

You have to know that mortars have an indirect trajectory and can cross the ridge from one side of the mountain to the other side. If there is artillery guidance, it can be carried out out of the enemy's sight, leaving the enemy no time and opportunity to react.

It can be said that this Steam Knights Flag Team is completely ahead of this world and this era in terms of equipment and configuration. Even if it was placed in the era before Perfectoct traveled through time, such a team would be put on the battlefield...

It’s hard to say about field battles, but if it’s a street fight, it will become a nightmare for many people.

In fact, they had become a nightmare for the revolutionary army stationed in the city.

The defenses that the Revolutionary Army had set up around the train station were certainly strong enough for ordinary infantry, but for the Steam Knights, they were not much stronger than a sand castle on the beach.

They used portable recoilless rifles to quickly eliminate the firing points at almost the speed of wading. When they encountered a stronghold that the recoilless rifles could not hit, the mortars in the rear would call out the targets.

And when the fearless revolutionary soldiers organized their troops to charge and tried to attack the Steam Knights at close range, the miniature machine guns would quickly harvest and clear out these infantrymen who had almost no protection, without delaying the entire team's progress.

Not to mention that there was an entire battalion of Guards infantry accompanying them in the battle behind them.

(End of this chapter)