Late at night, outside the castle of the kings, the siege of the city.

Captain Chalkar Matt, the battalion commander of the first battalion of the Infantry Regiment of Leiqun County, commanded a small team of light infantry to quietly climb out of the fortress at the fortress at the fortress, followed the marks left by the vanguards, and touched the castle located in front of the main gate of the new city of Zhuwang Castle.

Since the Unionists send rifled gunmen out of the city every night, in order not to encounter surprises halfway, Captain Matt took the route tonight was cleaned up in advance by the vanguard.

Through the mouth of a man who claimed to be an internal force, the siege obtained a lot of information from the Southern Front.

For example, they learned that the so-called Southern Front Army was simply a donkey wearing horse-skinned horses, gathering four brigades of infantry, plus a little artillery and engineers, and they killed less than three thousand people.

For example, they also learned that because Jansen Connellis himself loved playing chess, the new fortresses built by the Unionists were coded with chess pieces.

The fort on the bank of the Jinliu River is code-named "Knight"; the fortress on Maggit Island is code-named "Bissary".

The target of the light infantry who sneaked into the death area between the positions of the offensive and defending the two sides was code-named "Queen".

Just by the code chosen by the people of the Union Province, we can also understand how dangerous this large fortress standing in the center of the front line and protecting the entire new city is to the enemy and how important it is to the defenders.

At the same time, in the upper reaches of the Ten Arrow River, opposite the island of Maggit, diagonally opposite the Bishop's Fort.

Captain Woods Frank led more than twenty subordinates to carry four rafts down the river bank in a darkness.

They pushed the raft into the river as little as possible, and followed them into the water.

But instead of sitting on the raft, they stayed in the water, teamed up with six people, pushing the raft against the current and sliding towards the island of Maggit under the night sky.

Standing on the shore, the surface of the Shijian River slowly flowing is as delicate as velvet.

However, once you step into the water, people can immediately feel the huge power contained under the quiet appearance of the river.

There is no sky or earth. The river water wraps you from all directions and oppresses you. It takes you gentle but irresistible to the place she wants you to go.

This is such a force that Woods Frank is fighting against.

The river never stops pushing the raft downstream, and anyone who wants to challenge her will find herself in a doomed battle.

Fortunately, after a few days of trying, Woods also found some tips.

He snatched the edge of the raft with both hands and spread his weight on the raft as much as possible. At the same time, he tightened his lower abdomen, raised his waist, and slammed his legs back and lowered.

The most important thing is not to fight against the river. No matter where the river wants to take it, just try toward the opposite bank.

Woods, who had understood this trick, was no longer as embarrassed as he was when he swam on the first night. The subordinates he selected were also good at water-based skills.

Everyone cooperated with each other and the raft quickly passed through the middle line of the river.

Magite Island is getting closer and closer, and the water of the Ten Arrow River is getting slower and slower, and the destination is so close. Woods Frank's nerves are getting tighter and tighter, and the White Mountain County soldiers escorting the raft are getting smaller and smaller.

The river was silent on both sides, and only the roaring insects responded tirelessly to the flowing water and teased the listener's heartstrings.

Woods widened his eyes and stared at the other side of the river.

Suddenly, a shrill whistle covered all the noise.

A blood-red meteor rushed into the sky with a whistle, illuminating the water on the coast of Maggit Island.

"Go!" Woods shouted without hesitation. He skillfully circled the water, kicked off the raft and swam in the direction he came.

Woods' subordinates even rushed to take off the raft before the captain gave the order, and many soldiers crawled into the water and disappeared from the river.

Their advance action was correct, because the next moment, a series of gunfire burst out on Maggit Island.

The musketeers of the defenders opened fire violently into the river surface from the trench behind the "horse-blocking piles" - the pointed wooden piles inserted in the riverbed by the Palatus, as the name of the United Nations, and the trench behind them.

But since Woods and his men had retreated as soon as possible, all the leads were hit in the empty space.

Some of the leads were hit on the raft and embedded in the wood; the remaining leads were hit on the water, accompanied by the "thump" sound, and only glided in the water for a short distance, then exhausted their strength and fell to the bottom of the river.

At the same time, gunfire was also heard on the river bank on the west bank - Baishan County musketeers began to shoot at Magit Island to cover their comrades' evacuation.

The musketeers of the Federation of Provincial People's Republic of China were not willing to be outdone, and they turned their guns and opened fire on the "rebels" positions across the river.

The two sides were separated by the river, fighting hard to solve.

It was not until the cannons on the Union Fort in front of the Bishops that the momentum of the "rebels" was completely suppressed.

Two rounds of shotguns were poured on the chest wall of the "rebels", and the gunshots on the west bank suddenly became much thinner.

An venting cheer immediately erupted on Maggit Island.

On the fort in front of the Bishop's Fort, Lieutenant Colonel Raymont Montecukoli, who had fired these two rounds of precise shooting, inserted the iron drill back into the brazier, and there was no look of pride on his face.

In the eyes of the artillery lieutenant colonel, shooting across the river from the "rebels" is simply a waste of ammunition.

Even if you use cannons, it is difficult to effectively kill the "rebels" hiding behind the bunker.

However, the number of killers is not the only evaluation indicator for combat. Although shooting across the river is a waste of ammunition, it is necessary to maintain morale.

"At least the rebels are wasting gunpowder," thought Montekukoli.

As expected, the shelling only made the "rebels" temporarily silent. Soon, red light flashed on the chest wall of the "rebels" across the river again and gunfire sounded.

Seeing this, the Union musketeers in the trench also re-entered the blind shooting of wasting gunpowder.

The same thing happened once a night recently, except the night before yesterday, because it happened twice the night before yesterday.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The "Rebels" have never stopped trying to transport supplies to the Bishop's Fort using small rafts.

But in Raymond Montacucoli's view, the rebels were simply doing useless work.

Not to mention the excessively regular operation mode of the "rebels" has completely lost the important advantage of "sudden" offensive operations.

Even if the "rebels" can approach Maggit Island without realizing it, how can they break through the defenses set up by the defenders on the shore with just a few small rafts?

Montekukoli has been strengthening the defense of Magit Island for the past few days.

Nowadays, the shallows facing the west bank of the Shijian River are covered with pointed wooden stakes.

The pointed wooden stakes are half under the water and half on the water, apart from each other, and are arranged in a long, airtight line, like a fence on the water.

Iron rings were also installed on the wooden stakes. An iron chain passed through the various iron rings, turning the scattered wooden stakes into a whole.

Any ship who wants to go to the island from the west has to break through this "water fence" first.

After the completion of the water fence, Montekukoli led his subordinates to dig a circle of trenches along the river bank.

Through this ring-shaped trench, even on the night when you are out of your fingers, the musketeers under Lieutenant Colonel Lodweck can quickly reach any river beach.

Anyone who tries to destroy the water fence will have to bear the deadly firepower from the trench.

At the same time, firepower from across the river is difficult to suppress the shooters in the trench.

Give Raymond Montecucoli some time, and a rammed earth road surrounding Magit Island will appear.

By then, even cannons can transfer positions at any time and quickly support any possible landing location of the "rebels".

Rammed earth roads can also be upgraded to gravel roads, and gravel roads can also be upgraded to gravel paving roads.

As long as the director of the Artillery Science Teaching and Research Department is given enough manpower and time, the entire Magit Island can be turned into a fortress.

Therefore, Lieutenant Colonel Montekukoli was not very worried about the safety of Maggit Island.

Sometimes, he even reflects: whether he was disregarded because of the easy loss of Bishop Fort, and was too much, which completely caused the rebels to completely lose their desire to attack Magit Island, destroying the original combat plan of "tempting the rebels to land on the island and then killing them."

Nowadays, what Raymond Montecucoli is more concerned about is the situation in the new city of Kings Castle.

The ridged trench that grew from the "fence stake" gave him a very serious sense of crisis.

If the rebels make up their minds to fight head-on, then the only way out for the Southern Front is to burn the new city, retreat back to the old city, and defend with the river.

Because Conelis had too few troops on hand, he had to distribute personnel to monitor the movements in the city. If he was dragged into a tug-of-war by the rebels, then the Southern Front would definitely collapse first.

But if we retreat to the old city, then what we waited for the Southern Front would be the death that was delayed.

The Palatus would never forgive a group of the Unionists who burned their capital.

Grove Magnus' rule would completely collapse - no, maybe Grove Magnus would stand up against the burning of the new city.

By then, the Southern Front would be a small group of Gentiles surrounded by hostile Paratus.

They may be able to hold on for a while, and if they are lucky, they may be able to hold on for a long time.

But the possibility of winning will completely disappear.

Yes, win.

Perhaps he was infected by the annoying self-confidence attitude of Jensen Connellis. Even though the situation in the Castle was already in turmoil, Montecucoli never gave up on his hope of winning - although many times, he felt that he was ridiculous.

After all, there are only a few people in this world who can continue to move forward even though they know that the end is failure.

And [the loss of the fortress starts with the loss of hope].

Montecukoli couldn't guarantee that he could "died for victory", but he knew very well that he could not "sacrifice even though he knew he could not win."

From this point of view, Montecucoli admires Jason Conelis again.

He didn't want to explore the inner world of his old colleagues, nor did he bother to do so, but as long as Conelis was still fighting, he would continue to fight.

So, Raymond Montecucoli wants to win this battle.

So, although he is now on Maggit Island, his mind is all in the new city across the river.

As the lighting rockets ran out of alchemy fuel and disappeared into the night sky, musketeers on both sides quickly became tired of "firing random shots into places with bright light."

The sound of insects sounded again, and the banks of the Shijian River returned to tranquility.
To be continued...