Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 273: Riot? Rebellion!

   After the Yagoda Inquisitor turned a few turns in the corridor illuminated by dim kerosene lamps and candles, they came to the open space enclosed by the previous court building.

   When Lawrence saw this clearing before, it was a beautiful garden with a large lawn, but now there are several more obvious burn marks. When Lawrence followed the Yagoda Inquisitor and ran to the previous dormitory along the bottom of the wall, several glass bottles were thrown in from the outside.

   These glass bottles crossed the fence and smashed into the clearing. There were fires. It seems that the burnt marks on the clearing were caused by these burning flasks. However, when the flames were just lit, a few people extinguished all these flames with fire-proof blankets and mud-stained mops in their hands.

   Fortunately, in this era, because of the industrial level, there is not much gasoline, and the price of alchemical items such as glow glue is so expensive that ordinary people cannot afford it. So the fire bottles that were thrown in contained a mixture of kerosene and whale oil, which was quickly put out by the fire extinguishing team.

   "Fortunately, we have prepared in advance, and there are not many Molotov cocktails of the other party." Smell the odor of whale oil, kerosene and scorched vegetation that came from the open space after the flame was extinguished. Jagoda explained to Lawrence, "In fact, we have the ability to intercept, but our extraordinary and precision shooters mainly focus on the enemy's extraordinary and high-value targets. So we can only put these Molotov cocktails in. Up."

   Lawrence heard the gunshots of the Guards attacking from the outside seemingly messy, and the artillery was also shooting far or near. It doesn't look like a regular army at all but launches an offensive. This shows that the extraordinary people and sharpshooters on the side of the court have been very successful in suppressing the weapon operators, grassroots officers and spellcasters in the Imperial Guard, so that the other party has no way to use the firepower and organizational advantages of the regular army itself.

   Although due to their nature, members of the referee are more capable of individual soldiers than ordinary soldiers, and the combat level of the squad is also stronger than that of ordinary troops. But they are basically not good at this kind of large-scale operations. Fortunately, the commander on the side of the court immediately used his own advantage to eliminate the grassroots officers and noncommissioned officers of the Janissaries who came to attack the headquarters, making the battle situation more favorable. The direction of the melee on the side of the court.

The temporary medical clinic on the ground was set up in an activity room on the first floor of the dormitory. When Lawrence walked in, he saw that the operation was quite regular: some were sorting the wounded, and some were helping the wounded to clean up. Bandage the wound and fix the bone with splints and bandages.

   "I think this place should not be able to use me for the time being." Seeing the orderly operation of this temporary rescue center, Lawrence finally knew why the person in charge just ran to the front line to transport the wounded. After all, it can run normally without any personnel command for the time being, and as a responsible person, I am definitely not willing to stay here idly.

   Soon, Lawrence followed a stretcher team and ran towards a city wall. Because it is now in a state of melee, the grassroots commanders and heavy weapons of the offensive side are also suppressed. Therefore, the referee that has a bunker and a stronger individual has a greater advantage on the battlefield.

  This caused Lawrence and the others to run up the wall and they were not as busy as they had imagined. At the same time, he took this opportunity to look out of the fortress through the gaps in the female wall of the wall.

It's around 9:00 pm. At this time in his dormitory a few days ago, Lawrence could see the gas lights on the street through the windows and the little lights revealed in the windows of the rooms on both sides of the road. The capital of the Holy Visby Empire Wendo Bona lights up into a beautiful city that never sleeps.

But now everything has changed. A firelight leaning against the city wall proved that the rioting guards destroyed the gas factory. This caused the gas lamps that were originally illuminated on the street to go out at the same time, and the sound of guns and guns on the street from time to time also caused it. The residents in the room shivered and hid in a place where they felt safe at home, not daring to light the candles and oil lamps in the house.

   But this does not mean that the surroundings are very dark. In Lawrence's sight, the whole city is now bright red as if it is in the crater of the fire.

   After the Praetorian riots began, in addition to the organized guards that were organized to occupy various vital sites, at least half of the guards rushed out of the barracks and dispersed directly to various places to start looting. As the Janissaries who have been stationed in the capital for a long time, the rebels naturally know where the most oil and water are. So as soon as I left the barracks, I went straight to the bustling commercial streets.

   Although the shopkeepers who set up shops in such places will hire a security company to take care of the security business, the security guards with guns usually maintain order and deal with some thieves. But the army facing these rebellions is far from an opponent.

Therefore, as the rebels killed the loyal security personnel and smashed the door of the shop and entered the robbery, the chaos inevitably intensified. Not to mention the group of rebels also set fire to the shop after the robbery. In the process, the remaining gas in the gas pipes was ignited, causing a series of explosions and larger fires.

   What's bad is that the explosion of these buried gas pipes also caused the buried water pipes to be broken and damaged, unable to provide enough water for the surrounding fire hydrants and faucets. At the same time, bullets that screamed across the street quickly and shells that exploded from time to time stopped those trying to put out the fire.

   Under such circumstances, the whole city seems to be burning. The only good news is that the capital Wendo Bona reduced the use of wood during construction because it considered the possibility of a large-scale street fighting. At the same time, it also left enough fire belts, so it did not cause a terrible large-scale Fire.

However, the flames that were ignited everywhere in the city still made the night sky of the entire city burned red. At the same time, because of the continuous chaos caused by the rebels, many security personnel were dispersed and the ruffians who usually lived in the darkness of the city. The rascals also took advantage of this time to take advantage of themselves.

"This is a rebellion." Just when Lawrence bandaged a senior inquisitor whose shoulder was wounded by gravel that was blown by a shell after going out to investigate, the inquisitor said~lightnovelpub.net~ really nothing Thinking that the second prince led the imperial guard to launch a rebellion at this time, and hurt so many innocent people, what do you think these citizens did wrong, and they should encounter such misfortune—"

"Are you saying that this rebellion was led by Duke Singidunum?" Lawrence widened his eyes. He had previously learned from his father that the second prince’s mother was an ordinary human concubine, but He himself was also very popular with the emperor himself, which can be seen from the fact that he won the title of Duke Singidunum when he was an adult.

   But other than that, this prince is like a transparent person in the royal family. Apart from being keen on holding dance parties, hunting and other activities, he doesn't have much sense of existence.

   You must know that the inheritance of the nobles in this world is closer to Lawrence’s previous life in Europe than to his own country. In other words, the order of title succession depends solely on the identity of the noble’s spouse, the time and gender of the heir’s own birth. If it is not for the obvious defect of the heir, there is basically no replacement of the heir.

   So those noble children who do not have inheritance rights tend to do their own things directly, rather than the emperor’s sons fighting fiercely for the throne as in the ancient motherland of Lawrence’s previous life.

   Therefore, like the second prince, there are not too few noble children who usually seem to just eat, drink and have fun, so few people have paid attention to this prince, who is not special.

  

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