Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 20

2021-01-28

Chapter 20 Huofen City (Part 2)

"What do you need us to do?" Open your mouth to ask.

"Huh?" The attitude of the high-ranking official in front of him changed too quickly, and the Captain of the Fire Defense Team couldn't accept it for a while, but he quickly regained his sense: "Pick up the house! The house here must not be preserved. Now, you need to go back two blocks and remove the isolation belt."

"All of them! Back - turn! Start - go!" The noisy and chaotic voices around the fire were amplified by the use of amplification. The magnified order was overwhelmed, and the headmaster directly ordered all the students through magic.

His character is swift and decisive, and he does what he says: "Which houses are to be demolished, tell me!"

"I'll take you there!" Leading the way: "I don't have enough manpower, it's really good that you can help, and God will bless you."

"humph." Do not catch a cold.

The residents of the house located in the zone demarcated by the Fire Brigade Captain realized what the group of soldiers was up to. The fire is still two blocks away! Of course they wouldn't let the soldiers demolish their houses.

"What are you doing?"

"Why are you smashing our house!"

"You want to smash my house and step over my body."

"Why don't others pick up ours?"

"The soldier kills you!"

Living in a quarantine zone Residents in the area stopped by the street, picked up door bars, kitchen knives and the like, and waved them to keep the cadets from approaching.

The Fire Team Captain went back and forth, earnest and well-meant advised, but no one was willing to listen to what he was saying.

The residents living inside the isolation belt also recalled that once the isolation belt is removed, it means that their house will be abandoned.

So they also joined the team to prevent the demolition of the house, and resolutely did not let the officers and students get close to the house.

Residents living outside the isolation zone are very supportive of the plan to demolish the house, but they just watch the fun with their hands on the sidelines.

"Fuck off!" The headmaster yelled out a violent shout wrapped in magical power, which scared the residents who were imposing in a dumbfounded manner just now. He really couldn't stand this farce any longer: "The third school year! Infantry Division! Get out of line!"

Winters heard the order and reflexively took a few steps to stand outside the line.

"Who dares to stop it! execute without any mercy!" is still a deafening voice amplified by amplifying: "I want to lose money! Ask the city government for it!"

Winters also didn't expect this minister directly ordered "execute without any mercy". In his opinion, things never reached the level of killing people.

The residents of the port area obviously didn't expect this official to be so ruthless. Reasonable imposing manner.

Winters stood face to face with the residents who were protecting their house, and he saw horror and fear in the eyes of the residents.

"Are you really going to do it?" Winters thought, clutching the shovel in his hand tightly, swallowing hard.

"Start!" The minister shouted out loudly again.

Winters' heart is full, and the sense of duty to obey orders overcomes all distractions. He didn't care whether his arm was still injured, he lifted the shovel with both hands and moved towards the person opposite and smashed it fiercely.

But Winters deliberately used the wooden handle instead of the iron end, thinking to himself, "The wooden handle It shouldn't be killing people."

How could a group of petty citizens be the opponents of these quasi-officers who had been trained for many years.

"Murder!"

"Soldiers murdered!"

"It's the people in the military academy who set fire!"

"Demolish!" The Minister ordered, he completely ignored what the residents who were dispersed were shouting, and just carried out the original plan.

This time, no one dared to stop them. The residents turned their heads and ran home to move things, trying to save more belongings before the house was demolished.

The houses in the port area of Jade City can be said to be a typical example of a natural and unplanned urban area.

Starting from the wharf, the city grows spontaneously without any rules, with houses wrapped layer by layer like an onion.

There are houses for any purpose: living, warehouses, workshops, shops; houses of any material: wood, adobe, brick, stone; all ages. Simply a one-pot mix-up.

The cadets fastened ropes to the wooden houses facing the street and pulled down one wall of the house with all their strength.

The location of the isolation belt of the fire prevention Captain is very particular. The isolation belt is delineated along a stinky ditch. After the military cadets demolished the house, the construction waste generated can be directly pushed into the stinky ditch, which greatly improves the efficiency.

"Don't all gather here, you can't do it! Stay here for the third year! For the first year, go to the east block! For the second year, go to the west block! Whoever dares to stop, execute without any mercy!" The minister methodically sat in command.

"Montecuccoli!" The Minister called another person's name.

"Here!" The director of the Artillery Science Teaching and Research Section responded immediately.

"Go back to the armory to get the gunpowder, and the masonry houses will all be blown up!"

"Yes!" .

When all the soldiers at the scene were demolishing the house in a frenzy, there was a hoarse chanting sound suddenly in the distance.

"Be in awe! Feel the fire of God's wrath! His glorious judgment day has come!" Residents knelt at his feet, and many tried to kiss his clothes and shoes.

The cultivator raised his prayer flags in both hands and proclaimed in a stern voice: "The angel of fire has descended on Sodom! This is the holy fire that punishes you for your normally sins! Repent..."

"I'm Fuck You!" The Minister whipped the magic stick with a whip.

"Anyone who comes to help with the work! Each person will receive twenty large silver shields! There is no distinction between men, women and children!" To solve the clergy who blatantly promoted defeatism, the minister kept watching from the scene. Recruiting people from among the residents of the city: "If you don't help, the fire will burn, and your house will not be preserved!"

[Big Silver Shield: refers to the big Silver Coin that was minted in the Republic of the United Provinces since 537 in the Imperial Calendar, with which There is also a small silver shield, the ratio of silver content between the two is 12:1]
Who pays the money? It's definitely not from the military academy.

According to the idea of this minister: "Go to the city government to ask for it."

This minister does not care how much trouble his words will bring to the Jade City Governing Council, he Now what is considered is how to remove the isolation belt quickly and well.

Through the means of coercion, bait, and even bluffing, the demolishing battallion has added a large number of manpower.

The sheriff arrived with the assembled Jade City city guard, just in time for the city guard to maintain law and order at the scene.

The two infantry battallions (full 960 soldiers and 14 officers) stationed outside the city also rushed to the scene, and the army soldier Lu soon threw himself into the work of removing the isolation belt.

The dull sound of explosions and the sound of houses collapsing came one after another. The war horses were put on simple yokes to drag down the houses. The demolition works were being carried out in an orderly, tense and orderly manner.

But the plan never changes quickly. From night to now, the wind speed of the sea breeze blowing from the ocean to the land has been gradually increasing.

Under the blessing of the sea breeze, the flames spread faster than everyone expected. The line of fire is accelerating towards the barrier, and there is still a large area left to remove the barrier.

"My lord, I'm afraid we're too late... We should set up the isolation belt two blocks further back." The Fire Team Captain grabbed the hat in his hand with great chagrin, and crumpled it into a mess.

"I know." The minister was still cold, but he looked thoughtful and seemed to have some idea.

"Christian!" The Minister called out a name.

"Here!" The director of the sorcerer teaching and research section heard the minister's summons and ran over from a distance.

"If all the sorcerers use Wind Ride in a concentrated manner, can the wind direction of an area be temporarily changed?" The Minister proposed his wonderful idea.

“It is difficult to compete with the mighty power of nature with the power of the sorcerer.” Teacher Christian felt that the minister’s idea was too whimsical: “The sorcerer should use the spell with the help of the natural trend, not against the trend… ..."

"I asked if you can or not?" The Minister didn't want to listen to nonsense.

"Theoretically it should be possible." Instructor Christian continued to explain: "But in fact I think it should be difficult to do with our existing sorcerer strength, we don't have enough and strong enough sorcerer ..."

"It's fine." The Minister only heard what he wanted to hear.

"I'm talking about theoretically possible, in fact..." Christian hurriedly tried to explain that there was a gap between theory and practice.

"Doing something is better than doing nothing at all." The Minister made a judgment: "Gather all the sorcerers on the scene, and I will tell you where to go."

Winters, who was busy demolishing the house, was suddenly called, and he noticed that all the sorcerer trainees who were called out with him.

All the sorcerers at the scene were gathered in one place, and instructor Christian repeated the order loudly: "I will hear the order in a while, use the wind riding technique with all my strength up ahead, no need to hold back. Remember! It's up ahead."

Winters understood the leadership's plan as soon as he heard it. He thought to himself that he would be arrested and used as a tool for such a poor level of acceleration magic, which shows that this minister is really a dead horse. As a living horse doctor.

Afterwards, the sorcerers were taken to an area that had not yet been demolished. In order to distribute them evenly, some sorcerers were even arranged to stand on the roof.

Winters didn't go to the house. He stood on the street, and through the smoke, he could already see the burning house more than 20 meters away.

"Wind control, activate it with all your strength!" An order came from not far behind.

Winters heard the command and kept the gesture of pressing the middle finger with the left thumb, recalling the feeling of using the acceleration magic, and went into the casting state with all his strength.

Scorching and Extreme Cold took turns tormenting his "third hand," and it appeared that thousands of knives were slicing through his "fifth limb."

He could feel that the wind direction around him was changing. The wind blowing from the front gradually became smaller, stopped, and then turned into the wind blowing forward from behind.

Winters knew that the Minister's plan was working, but he couldn't hold on any longer, so he tried to relax his mind and quit spellcasting.

But something frightened him, he couldn't get out of the spellcasting state. In the past, the spellcasting state that could not be maintained without a little concentration, but now it is impossible to withdraw even if it wants to.

He even became paralyzed and lost control of his body.

To others, Winters appears to be standing at attention in the street, but in reality he is being forced to undergo endless torture. Finally, he couldn't take it anymore. His eyes darkened and he lost consciousness.

At the last moment before he fell down, he saw a flame python rising into the sky.

A credible record of blasting mining using a black gunpowder was written in 1627, but the exact origin of blasting technology is unknown. Apparently people realized that the black gunpowder could be used for demolition a long time ago. Examples include the 1453 bombing of Urban by his own cannon; the British gunpowder conspiracy in 1603; the 1585 siege of Antwerp, where the Dutch tried to blow up the pontoon with two large ships filled with gunpowder. So it is not surprising that the artillerymen of the military school know how to use gunpowder blasting.