Chapter 57: The Fall of the Floating Ice Harbor
"Everyone! Block the city gates! Don't let those barbarians rush in!"
At this time, no one cared about the boy who blew the suspension bridge winch. The soldiers of the Northern Federation had already entered the inner city with heavy shields. The sporadic guards under the city wall were swallowed up almost instantly... Since the attacking troops of the Northern Federation did not carry any siege equipment before, the emperor who guarded the city did not store a large number of troops under the city gate... The suspended suspension bridge and the moat that was ten meters wide and more than four meters deep were originally a natural chasm that the federal army could not cross, but now, this natural chasm has disappeared with the loud bang of the alchemy bomb!
"It's over..." The adjutant stared blankly at Tieliu that was pouring into the inner city, his lips buzzed slightly, and he wanted to say something, but in the end he only wrote these three words.
Yes, it's all over, at least for the Floating Ice Harbor War Zone.
The Northern Federation took three months to pay more than a dozen warships of all sizes and more than 20,000 soldiers and failed to chew off the lonely city. In the end, a boy opened the city gate with an alchemy bomb... The Brigadier General had thought about the fall of the Floating Ice Harbor, but he really didn't expect that such an ending that sounded ridiculous.
"Make a last try... This is the last thing we can do for the empire..." The brigadier took the short gun handed over by the adjutant and looked up to the distance. It was the direction of the imperial capital. After the fall of the Floating Ice Harbor, it was a plain from the north shore of the mainland to the Linfeng Castle, and the empire had no danger at all.
The imperial defenders in Floating Ice Harbor did not choose to surrender. They fought with the Northern Federation for nearly three months. Everyone knew that due to the supply issue, the Northern Federation troops fighting across the sea would not choose to leave prisoners at all. Even if they were left behind, they would soon be recharged to attack the cannon fodder of the city wall. Therefore, although the defeat was irreversible, the defenders were still struggling to resist.
Every street and alley was filled with gunfire, the sound of shouting and killing and the collision of weapons. The soldiers from both sides were fighting for each other, and corpses were almost everywhere... At this time, a figure covered in mud and ice slag crawled out of a remote drainage ditch. His movements were very agile. He climbed up to a nearby roof with bare hands in just a few seconds. Standing on the roof, half of the inner city could see. Seeing the Emperor retreating step by step, a slightly ferocious smile suddenly appeared on his face.
"Get out, get back, this land does not belong to you!"
The boy suddenly laughed loudly, as if crazy.
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The battle report was reported to Lingfeng Fort - Floating Ice Harbor that night. The defenders were killed in battle from Virginia, with countless civilians killed and injured. In addition, the 11th phase of the Huangquan Training Camp, which went to Floating Ice Harbor for practical exercises, included 152 people, 151 people were killed and 1 rebelled.
Since the Empire drove the Northern Federation from the mainland to the Permafrost Islands opposite the Cold Wind Strait, in nearly eighty years, the Northern Federation has launched more than a dozen attacks on the Empire's north coast, each time it was repelled no more than ten kilometers away from the coastline. Floating Ice Harbor has also won the title of "The Never Falling City of the Northern Frontier of the Empire"...
But today, the "city that never falls" has fallen...
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"The Knights of the Earth Dragon have arrived at Fortress Togray, and the 47th and 49th Armored Divisions are on their way!"
"The Awakener's Squad 'Red' and 'Suddenly' have arrived at the designated position. The 11th Mobile Force is conducting tactical detours and is expected to arrive at the western area of the Federal Army at noon tomorrow!"
"The Third Aircraft Team has set sail, and the reconnaissance team has already arrived at the combat area!"
The entire empire's war machine has been launched, and countless intelligence and orders have been collected to the military headquarters and sent from here to the entire empire... If the gate of the imperial headquarters has something called a threshold that is commonly found in oriental buildings, it may have been flattened now.
All the debates in the court have been replaced by the same topic, that is, how to repel the troops of the Northern Federation... how to defend the imperial capital.
In fact, it is not completely unsafe to be found. Since the young emperor moved the capital from Reinhardt, which was destroyed on the day of his arrival, to Linfeng Castle, an unprecedented fortress has begun to be built on the plains north of the capital...
However, in ten years, only about one-third of the fortress was completed, and only three of the twelve satellite cities were completed. The entire "Torgras Fortress" has only been a semi-finished product.
But this semi-finished fortress has now become the last barrier in front of the imperial capital.
In order to build this fortress, the emperor executed several ministers who dissuaded himself on the grounds of "defusing the people and causing money", and almost led to direct conflict between the royal family and several groups of powers in the upper echelons of the empire... But at this time, even those who stood on the side of the executed person were sighing at the moment why His Majesty the Emperor did not take more tough measures at the time, otherwise, the completion of the Tograce Fortress would definitely not be only one-third of the time.
No one is sure whether the more than 20,000 remnants who retreated from the North Coast front, the 30,000 elite troops set out from the imperial capital, and the 100,000 troops mobilized urgently from all over the country.
In terms of the combat effectiveness of soldiers, the emperor was absolutely unable to compete with the federal army. The harsh environment on the Permafrost Islands not only did not cause the tribes of the northern Federation to decline and fail to recover, but instead trained a group of terrifying evil wolves to come out...
And now, the evil wolf has returned to this homeland that originally belonged to them.
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The Huangquan Training Camp also received a war report from Floating Ice Harbor. Before the war report was released, more than half of the people inside the base were taken away by the imperial military police in the name of "accepting investigation" - "151 people were killed and 1 person rebelled". The word was so dazzling that the atmosphere in the entire Huangquan Training Camp seemed to have entered the dark season ahead of schedule.
It is said that the place where the Floating Ice Harbor fell so quickly has an inescapable connection with the rebellious Huangquan Training Camp freshman - if he hadn't blown up the winch of the suspension bridge, the solid walls of the inner city of Floating Ice Harbor would have to stay for at least several months, and by then, the exhausted federal army would naturally have to retreat to the Permafrost Islands on the other side of the strait - just like the dozen failed attacks before.
But that boy, that alchemy bomb, changed history.
Or... made history.
Chapter completed!