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A city in the northern part of the empire, a floating ice harbor.

Nearly three months have passed since the Northern Federation launched a war. The situation of the war is not as optimistic as the Empire imagined. The power of the Northern Federation Navy is far beyond imagination. A week ago, the last warship of the Imperial Navy was sunk... This means that the Rhine Empire completely lost the northern sea control power, including the Cold Wind Strait.

As the largest port city in the northern empire, Floating Ice Harbor was violently attacked by the Northern Federation from the beginning of the war. Until today, it has almost become an isolated city, with only one supply channel left and has not been cut off. Despite this, this channel is often plagued by the Northern Federation landing forces.

Six Viking-class warships lined up in the port area of ​​Floating Ice Harbor, and large-caliber naval guns kept bombarding the city. Almost two-thirds of the outer city area of ​​Floating Ice Harbor had turned into ruins, and only the inner city area barely defended against the towering and solid city walls.

"Have the fourth batch of reinforcements arrived yet?" On the walls of the inner city, a man with the rank of brigadier general looked at the northern federal army in the distance, and asked his adjutant with some anxiety.

"It is reported that they encountered a small group of elite enemy troops on the road. In order to prevent excessive losses, the commander of the support force ordered the slowdown of the march." The adjutant replied.

"This group of... cowards!" said the brigadier, "Forget it, if you were to count on those people, the Floating Ice Harbor would have been lost long ago. Let the brothers prepare for battle, and the barbarians probably will start siege again."

"yes!"

There were many corpses piled up under the city walls, including emperors and federal troops, and the most were civilians in Floating Ice Harbor who had no time to enter the inner city to take refuge.

Fortunately, the temperature in Floating Ice Harbor is below zero all year round, and even in the next season, these corpses will be difficult to rot. Otherwise, the federal army would not have to launch a strong attack. The plague alone would be enough to make the imperial people who were defending Floating Ice Harbor die.

Solid iron shells kept bombarding the city walls, making deafening sounds, and the debris of the city bricks splashed everywhere. The emperor's soldiers squatted behind the squatters with their weapons tightly holding back their weapons. It was not that they did not want to fight back, but that the number of shells left in the city could not support the Imperial Guards and the Northern Federation fleets to bombard. Once the shells were exhausted, they would have to pay a greater price to repel the next federal attack.

The four phalanxes of the Federal Army had already assembled in the port area. According to the arrangement of a phalanx of the Federal Army equal to a thousand-person team, they actually invested a total of four thousand men in this round of strong attack.

In the past three months, the Northern Federation has left at least 10,000 corpses here. These 4,000 people are obviously the living forces that have just arrived at the Floating Ice Harbor on warships from the Federal Republic... No one knows how the Northern Federation has developed such a huge army in a barren place as the Permafrost Islands.

"Strange..." The brigadier general put down the copper-tube telescope in his hand, shook his head in confusion, frowned, and the index finger of his right hand kept tapping on the table with the sand table in front of him.

"What's wrong, General?"

"Look at this federal unit, the front row of soldiers are equipped with heavy tower shields and long-barrel muskets. The light infantry behind the heavy infantry is a combination of short swords, a hand axe and round shields, and a few light steam tanks. This is a completely flat-ground combat configuration. Whether it is a ladder, a catapult or a siege ram, there is no appearance. These soldiers do not even carry wooden boards for laying bridges... I'm curious, how do they plan to cross the moat outside the inner city, and then climb over the twenty-two-meter-high city wall?"

"Maybe... these 4,000 people are just the first batch of troops of the Northern Federation, used to stabilize the position and will invest more troops in the future?" said the adjutant, who was also a staff officer.

"This possibility is not ruled out... If this is true, I'm afraid the federal army will invest the most troops since the beginning of the war. It seems that they are bound to win..."

As the adjutant guessed, the four thousand federal soldiers stopped advancing after reaching the edge of the moat, but instead used the shield to shoot with the emperor on the wall.

"Huh... they are really fighting with us, this is not right..."

As soon as the adjutant finished speaking, several huge explosions suddenly came from the inner city! Several pillars formed by thick smoke instantly rose from the ground and penetrated into the sky!

"What's going on?!" The adjutant was still in a state of shock, and the brigadier had already issued an order to the messenger-

"The inner city is immediately martial law! The security forces and the damage management department rushed to the site where the explosion occurred! Don't let anyone who is suspicious!"

The brigadier's face was already very ugly at this moment. Even if he did not send someone to investigate the explosion, he could know where it was based on the location of the Yanzhu...

Ammunition depot, mechanical depot, granary... and the Huangquan Training Camp's resident. Logically speaking, these places should be the most closely guarded places in the entire inner city. How did the enemy's sabotagers get in?!

At this moment, a young boy wearing a Huangquan training camp uniform suddenly appeared near the city gate.

Condescendingly, the brigadier general naturally saw the boy... "With such a violent explosion, are there survivors among the trainees sent by Huang Quan?... No! No! Now the people in Huang Quan should be in a rest and he should not appear here! Stop him for me!"

As many people rushed to deal with the explosion in the inner city, the defense force at the city gate seemed a little thin at this moment. There were less than twenty guards guards guarding nearby. The two guards closest to the boy immediately pulled out the swords at their waists and walked towards him.

"Hey! Stop! You-"

Before the guard could finish his words, the boy suddenly pulled out a double-barrel short gun. After two gunshots, the two guards fell to the ground immediately.

After suddenly shooting two guards, the boy ran quickly towards the city gate, and at the same time took out a bundle of metal tubular objects from the backpack behind him and held them high in his hand!

After seeing the boy's hand, the brigadier's breathing suddenly became rapid and shouted loudly: "Stop him! No - kill him!!"

Around the city gate, the soldiers on the city wall turned their guns and shot at the running boy. However, they were still one step late. The boy had already thrown out his things at the winch of the city gate suspension bridge, and then quickly jumped into the drainage ditch on the street!

The bundle of things he threw out was a powerful alchemy bomb. The core detonation component of the bomb even contained a small piece of ink crystal!

"boom!!"

A loud noise came from under your feet, and even the entire city wall shaking. The next second, the suspension bridge that had lost its support fell down. The federal army, who had been waiting outside the city for a long time, rushed in like a wolf and a tiger!
Chapter completed!