Steel, Guns, and the Industrial Party that Traveled to Another World

Jingyao Castle is the capital of the Kingdom of Aldor, named after the huge crystal stone on the Rabson Mountain near the city.

The previous kings of the Rodney Dynasty moved the capital several times, and finally settled here during the fifth reign. Since then, it has gradually become the political and economic center of the entire kingdom. After the careful management of the subsequent eleven generations of kings, the capital now has a population of more than 100,000, which is already one of the largest cities in the known world.

In the spring of the 1990th year of the Holy Calendar, the eastern territory of the kingdom was harassed by the Highland Barbarians. Her Royal Highness Princess Catherine personally led the army to expel them. After the princess's army arrived at the eastern highlands, the Grand Duke Giles, whose fiefdom was in the south, raised the banner of rebellion and began to march rapidly to the north.

But worse things followed. Sir Haas, the commander of the city guards who stayed in the capital, betrayed the royal family and launched a rebellion in response to Giles in the south.

It was already noon, and the fields on both sides of the King's Road leading to the capital were still busy.

It's not that the farmers don't want to rest, but the rebellion of the city guards a few days ago caused chaos around the capital for a while. No one dared to go out, which delayed a lot of farm work. Now that it's a little more stable, in order not to miss the farming time, many people get up early and work late.

Many birds chirped and flew from the north. People looked up and saw an army at the end of the road.

Some people began to get nervous, and they didn't breathe a sigh of relief until they saw the flags flying in the team.

As teams of soldiers passed by, smoke and dust rolled on the road. A large number of people and countless flags merged into a colorful river, winding and rushing towards the capital.

"Go——" A group of people dressed as knights rode their horses past the teams of soldiers walking and rushed to the front of the team. The leader was a female knight, with a head of shining golden hair moving in the wind, like a golden flame flying in the air.

When they were about to reach the front of the team, the knights found someone riding a horse galloping towards them, and they all pulled the reins and slowed down the horses.

The man soon arrived in front of the knights. He faced the leading female knight, put his right hand on his chest and nodded slightly: "Your Highness."

Catherine waved her hand to indicate that he didn't need to be polite, and asked: "What's the situation in front?"

"The vanguard has already joined the first king's army in Oren Town. The temporary command center has been set up and is waiting for you to go over."

"Okay, everyone, hurry up, let's go quickly."

"Yes!" The people behind took the order, urged the war horses under their crotches, and followed Princess Catherine to gallop away.

About half an hour later, Catherine and her group came to the government hall of Oren Town, which served as the temporary command center. Just as she dismounted, a female general appeared at the door, walked to the steps and knelt on one knee.

"Your Highness!"

The female general had black hair and black eyes, and was wearing black armor, which contrasted sharply with the princess's white armor.

Catherine immediately stretched out her hands to pull up the female general, then hugged her tightly, and said with relief: "Ophelia, thank the Lord of Light for arranging you to accompany me in such a dangerous time."

"Your Highness, I have vowed to follow you forever."

The female general's cold face showed a trace of tenderness.

"Thank you, Ophelia..."

"It is my duty to serve the lord. Your Highness, the loyal lords from all over the country are still waiting for your summons."

"Okay, I have seen a lot of people along the way. It is indeed the right person to send you to summon the loyal army."

Catherine praised while holding Ophelia's hand tightly, and the two walked into the government hall together.

Seeing the princess coming, the people who were discussing fiercely inside stood up to greet her.

Catherine walked to the main seat in the hall and sat down, motioning everyone to sit down. Ophelia sat on her right, and the rest of the people who followed the princess also found seats and sat down.

The princess looked around the hall and nodded with satisfaction.

"After the change in the capital, my father was in poor health and ordered me to temporarily take charge of state affairs. This is an order signed by His Majesty himself."

The princess unfolded a roll of paper, and immediately a servant took it with both hands and handed it to everyone in the hall to circulate in turn. The decree was indeed signed by His Majesty the King himself.

No one had any objection to Catherine's regentship. The ability of this princess has long been well-known. She was able to write at the age of five and fight at the age of ten. When her peers were still studying hard, she could assist the sick king in handling various affairs, and the ministers also praised her.

When she was fifteen years old, she formed her own knights and led the army to the highlands many times to drive away the barbarians who harassed the kingdom. No wonder she was asked to lead the army again this time.

Catherine said loudly: "When the country is in danger, you can tell the hearts of people. You can abide by the ancient oath and help the royal family in times of emergency. My father will definitely feel very relieved."

Everyone stood up to respond to the princess.

"Your Highness, the Harden family will follow the royal family to the death..."

"God is my witness, the Derry family is loyal to the royal family..."

"My Adely family is willing to lead the way for your Highness to fight against the traitor Giles!"

"Giles betrayed His Majesty the King, and his crime is unforgivable. The Lord of Light will punish him."

...

After the lords from other places expressed their loyalty to the royal family, the meeting entered the substantive stage: discussing how to recapture Jingyao Castle.

"Your Highness, Giles' main force was blocked by Duke Dodge and is temporarily unable to support the rebels in the capital. The city guards are only 5,000 people, while we have more than 40,000 troops. We don't need to wait for the royal army to arrive later. Tomorrow we will gather all our forces and recapture the capital in one go."

"These 5,000 people are the elite guarding the capital, not temporary farmers. It's better to be cautious."

"Do you look down on us foreign troops?"

"I definitely don't mean that."

"My intelligence shows that Hals has coerced at least 20,000 young men to defend the city for him."

"Lord Merlin is overthinking. There is nothing to worry about with the mob. When they see the royal flag, they will scatter like wild beasts."

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"They just need to know how to operate the city defense equipment. The walls of the capital are not the earthen walls in the countryside that can be broken with a single attack. It is difficult to conquer without a 10-fold advantage in military strength."

...

After an afternoon of discussion, the meeting decided that Duke Walker would lead 15,000 people to feint at the north gate of Jingyao, and Princess Catherine would lead a main force of 25,000 people to attack the east gate of Jingyao.

The next day, the attack on the north gate began first.

The royalist army first deployed catapults and archers. Due to accuracy issues, catapults mainly played a psychological deterrent role. It was the archers who really put great pressure on the defenders. Teams of archers threw dense rain of arrows at the city walls.

The rebels lacked archers and occasionally launched sporadic counterattacks. Most people could only rely on parapets and shields to resist the attack of the rain of arrows.

With the cover of catapults and archers, a large number of royalist soldiers pushed siege vehicles, battering rams and other large equipment slowly towards the city wall.

From time to time, people on the city wall were shot and fell to the ground. The real city guards were relatively calm, holding up their shields to protect their bodies tightly, but the militiamen who were forcibly conscripted could not be so calm, especially when someone around them was shot.

A militiaman finally couldn't stand it anymore. One person on the left and right was dead and one was injured. He estimated that the next arrow would pierce him. Before the next wave of arrows arrived, he left his defensive position and quietly moved to the horse road to the city.

"Hurry up and leave this damn place."

He had only this thought in his mind.

Seeing the horse road entrance and no one guarding it, the militiaman was about to be happy, but suddenly a sharp pain in his chest and back came. Looking down, he actually had a bloody spearhead in his chest. Before he could figure out what was going on, his consciousness gradually blurred and he fell forward on the city wall.

The city guard officer behind him drew out his spear with red eyes and shouted hysterically to the others: "This is the fate of deserters who leave their posts without permission, kill them without mercy!!!"

Just then...

"Bang!" A huge collision sound came, which was the sound of the siege vehicle hitting the city wall.

"Kill--"

A large number of royal party soldiers shouted loudly and rushed up the ladder on the siege vehicle.

"Keep the kerosene ready! Sword and shield soldiers move forward."

The rebels were also ready.

"Woo--"

Both the attackers and the defenders blew the horns at the same time, announcing the official start of the battle for the capital.

I am not very good at describing war scenes, so readers, please bear with it.