Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1021

[Chapter 1013 Sweep]

Alden looked at the scene in front of him in horror.

Looking up from above, his soldiers were suffering unprecedented casualties. In the gaps between the Da Yu array, twenty strange-shaped firearms were continuously spitting out flames, and beams of light poured out from the firearms. came out, forming a tight net covering the soldiers in the line.

And as time goes by, the number of such terrifying firearms on the battlefield is increasing, thirty, forty, fifty.

The increasingly dense firepower network accelerated the harvest of lives. Before he could react, all three thousand regular army soldiers fell into a pool of blood, and no one survived.

“Retreat! Retreat!”

Alden screamed. The deep fear completely destroyed his will. He had never seen such a terrifying murder weapon. In front of the attack of the Great Chongqing army, their soldiers looked vulnerable. hit.

It’s just that his reminder was too late. Although the militiamen were not within fifty meters at this time, they were all within the attack range compared to the range of the machine gun.

Shooting the regular soldiers wearing red military uniforms, the machine gun immediately turned its muzzle and fired at the line of eight thousand militiamen.

In one minute, a hail of more than 30,000 rounds of bullets rushed into the dense formation. The militiamen began to receive the same treatment as the regular army.

“This is massacre! Alden, this world must be crazy.” Kenneth’s face was as pale as paper, and his lips kept trembling.

In panic, he turned around, mounted his horse and headed towards the Governor’s Palace without looking back. Now he wanted to leave here at all costs.

Alden also fell into despair. For him, this was not a war, but a massacre against them. Facing such an enemy, they had no power to fight back. No matter how much troops they invested now, it would be in vain.

He could no longer take care of the militiamen who were still on the battlefield. He got on his horse and headed towards the Governor’s Palace. Before that, they had made secret preparations. If the war failed, they would hide in the bay thirty miles south of Wales. merchant ships escaped, who would care about the descendants and free people of these criminals?

On the beach, San Yuzhu looked at the British corpses covering the entire beach in surprise. Although they already fully understood the performance of the machine gun, the effect achieved when it was used for the first time on the battlefield was still unexpected.

After the machine gun opened fire, the battle actually only lasted for more than ten minutes, but within these ten minutes, the war became one-sided.

The unprepared British army adopted the most advantageous line for machine guns, which made harvesting the enemy easy and simple.

Blood dyed the white beach red. San Yuzhu smelled the smell of blood in the air and gave the order again, “Advance to Wales and kill any resisters!” “

Yes!” The soldiers roared high, and the success of the battle boosted their morale. high.

They carried Han-style rifles equipped with bayonets and stepped over the bodies of the British soldiers. In front of them, a small British-style town appeared in front of them.

At the same time, the news of the defeat in the war spread like a plague through the scattered soldiers.

The nobles from the British mainland fled with Governor Kenneth with their wealth, while the free people who migrated for free land were tremblingly waiting for their unknown fate. They did not have as many retreat options as the nobles.

The exiled criminals took advantage of the loss of the supervision of soldiers to break free. They robbed and killed everywhere in Wales to vent their dissatisfaction with being exiled to Australia.

“Bah bang bang…”

In the chaos, San Yuzhu led the soldiers across the beach and approached Wales. At this time, the imperial soldiers no longer used line formations, but adopted skirmishing lines.

The soldiers held Han-style rifles and carefully surveyed the surrounding environment, while shooting the British who were still resisting.

And when they entered the Welsh city, the surroundings suddenly became quiet. There was not a single British person on the street, but through the windows of the rooms, the soldiers could still see pairs of frightened eyes looking at them.

Lei Ming had already landed ashore. He and the division commander Shi Yanjun came to the center of Wales City under the protection of soldiers. Although this war had some episodes, it was generally very smooth.

In just a short period of time they annihilated Australia’s entire military force.

“Report to Commander, we have eliminated the stubborn British soldiers in the city and taken control of the entire city.” Chang Yuzhu gave Lei Ming a military salute and reported loudly.

“Very good!” Lei Ming said happily: “Now I will give you another task. Gather all the British people here. I want to announce to them that from now on, this place belongs to the Chinese Empire.”

San Yuzhu responded. , said to the generals under his command: “Don’t spare any family, drive them all to the fields outside the city, hurry up!”

After that, Chang Yuzhu rushed into the residents’ homes with soldiers like tigers and wolves, One by one the Englishmen were expelled from the room.

Shi Yanjun looked at this exotic city and said to Lei Ming: “Commander, this city is not small. What do you plan to do with the residents here? Kill them?”

“It would be a pity to kill them, since most of the people living here are Let the criminals and their descendants continue to work here as coolies. Their own country treats them the same way, so why should we have mercy?” Lei Ming said lightly. Before coming to Australia, he had a general understanding of Australia. .

To put it simply, there are three types of people in Australia today. The first type is mainly prisoners and the descendants of prisoners. They are engaged in heavy hard work in Australia. Under the supervision of soldiers, they do any kind of work.

The second category is the freedmen who migrated from the United Kingdom. After declaring Australia to belong to the United Kingdom, the British government announced that all land in Australia could be obtained free of charge. So some British people who dreamed of having their own pastures took the risk to come here to herd sheep because of the prosperity of the United Kingdom. Industry requires large quantities of wool, and the unlimited pastures here are perfect for grazing.

The third category is the aristocrats from the UK, which include governors appointed by the British Parliament, military officers and greedy aristocratic businessmen. They use their authority to occupy large areas of high-quality land, and at the same time use prisoners to serve themselves as laborers and obtain a large amount of wealth. .

Now that he has occupied Australia, he naturally has to make full use of the first two categories of people. After all, this is a large amount of labor.

As for the nobles, they fled with their wealth when they lost the war.

Although he wanted to catch them all, these people had already fled completely, and they did not understand the geographical environment here, so they could not pursue them at all.

(End of chapter)