"The collapse of the Ansmara Republic depends on today's battle."

De Nova, the capital of the Republic of Ansmara, has been blasted through several gaps in the walls surrounding the entire city at this time. Numerous rubbles are scattered on the ground, among which corpses lying in a pool of blood can be seen from time to time.

Winster, oh no, the army of the Holy Roman Empire has placed the city under siege for more than half a month. In this half month, 80 artillery fired at Denova in all directions. Thousands of cannonballs smashed the city walls into all kinds of holes, and the entire city was devastated. A large number of civilians and soldiers were killed here. In order to avoid the cannonballs falling from the sky, they had to hide in the dirty sewers.

De Nova is a typical port city. Its three walls defend against enemies on land. It is a prosperous and busy port by the sea. All the prosperity and busyness of the past have disappeared. The current port of De Nova is early The bombardment was razed to the ground, not only by the shelling of the Holy Roman Empire on land, but also by the first fleet of the Empire that blocked the port on the sea.

At the beginning of the siege, the Republican Navy and a large number of merchant ships stationed in the port were scrambling to leave this dangerous place, but they had just used the port when they were bombarded by the First Fleet. With the expansion of the First Fleet to a hundred Hawke battleships, none of those ships could sail out of the harbor, and all of them destroyed the sunken ship in the middle.

There was an embarrassing situation in the whole city that people inside couldn’t get out and people outside couldn’t get in. There was no supplies brought in from the outside, and the people living in De Nova quickly fell into famine, and they were trapped in the dark. The cold sewer escaped from shelling, and only when night came, could you walk on the ground, looking for edible food and some living supplies among the pieces of ruins. Although the shops along the street that were not destroyed by shelling by chance escaped the threat of flying in from the outside, they failed to escape the destitute residents. They swarmed into the shops and robbed the goods inside, as if they were being attacked. The farmland where the locust swarms are lucky is average, with nothing left.

In addition to looting goods, various law and order cases also occur on the ground or underground. Those unarmed old and weak women and children have become the targets of some people. They forcibly steal everything from the former, or beat them and abuse them for venting. A slightly beautiful woman will be forcibly dragged into the dark and raped by these thugs.

In the sewers where the Parliament of the Republic evacuated, because the army was maintaining law and order, the atrocities that took place here were very few compared to those on the ground. Although the members knew what was going on, they didn’t have the energy to let them go. Soldiers take care of them, and they can only let the remaining few hundred soldiers guard their side to protect their safety.

In a big republic, only a few hundred soldiers in the sewers can finally be driven, which makes every member of the assembly be embarrassed. As early as after the Holy Roman Emperor captured the first franchise city, the remaining four cities no longer obey the dispatch of the Denova Council. They began to defend the city from the army of operatives and armed citizens. The fragility of the Union Republic lies in At this moment, you have a clear view.

Even if the cities can unite to resist the invasion of the Holy Roman Emperors, they will not be able to gain an advantage, let alone the current situation of fighting each other. The army of the Holy Roman Empire once again easily captured the heavily guarded city, shot all the captives to death as punishment for their resistance, and then attacked again until the soldiers approached Denova.

Boom boom boom -

Listening to the roar of artillery seeping through the ground above their heads, the Denova people hiding in the sewer like mice shivered a bit. After the shelling sounded for a few seconds, the ground they were in suddenly violently vibrated, which was also accompanied by A dull loud noise. These experienced sewer refugees knew very well that another building must have been bombed.

The entire high-rise buildings of De Nova City have basically turned into ruins. The four-story house building in the center of the city is naturally inevitably collapsed. Some of them walked to the ground at dusk and looked around. The tallest building in the city is only the small house on the second floor that fortunately escaped the shelling. The rest, like the opera hall, the arena, the Poseidon Temple, and the port lighthouse, are all gone.

Thinking of the terrible conditions on the ground, the hearts of the survivors were filled with despair. It took hundreds of years of construction to reach its current scale. Now it has been razed to the ground by the shelling of the Holy Roman Emperors. If you want to restore it to the past I am afraid that the scale of this is nowhere in sight.

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A few hours later, the bombardment on the ground stopped. Under the command of Richard Bono, the commander of the 3rd Brigade of the Second Army, the officers and soldiers of the 3rd Brigade and the officers and men of the 2nd Brigade marched towards the breach of the damaged city wall. With muskets, the soldiers followed the flag bearer holding the double-headed eagle flag and marched forward with muskets.

There were no signs of soldiers moving in De Nova City. Even a few civilians were just living in the ruins. They fled in the opposite direction when they saw the soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire entering the city. The soldiers quickly discovered these hurriedly fleeing. "Mouse", but when they saw that there was no threat, they ignored it.

Soon~lightnovelpub.net~The news of the entry of the Holy Roman Emperor’s team into the city spread throughout Denova, and even the survivors hiding in the ground heard about them. People are asking for help, but in their eyes, there are all panicked expressions.

Perhaps because they understood their situation, the congressmen protected by the soldiers were silent for a long time, and jointly passed the proposal of surrender. They sorted out the white robe that had been soiled because they had been hiding in the sewer, and took the lead on the ground. When they saw the sun again, the dazzling sunlight irradiated their eyes, and they had to close their eyes, and it took a long time to adjust to the light on the ground.

The familiar streets were turned into ruins, and the survivors who stepped out of the ground couldn't help sobbing. They not only cried for their destroyed homes, but also cried for the end of the war.

The few congressmen in the lead looked at the Holy Roman Empire soldiers coming towards them, smiled bitterly, and took the initiative to greet them. Then, regardless of the other's reaction, they said:

"Let this war end. We are members of the Ansmara Republic. We surrender."

Let the dead rest in peace, so that the survivors can rebuild their homes with hope.