rise of empire total war

411 Threat
"This is a shame for the alliance. Since the alliance was founded in 180, Patridava, as the seat of parliament, has never been attacked by hostile forces. Today it was attacked from the sea by the Winsters!"

In the Patridawa city council, the speaker-general pointed in the direction of the port and yelled loudly at the MPs. It is no wonder that he was so excited, because in the more than 100 years since the establishment of the alliance, only in his office The heart city of the alliance was attacked by the enemy. Even if he thought about it with his ass, he knew what kind of negative words future historians would use to describe him.

The bombardment by the West Navy lasted for an hour. During this hour, the port of Patridava City was almost bombed into ruins. 90.00% of the buildings inside collapsed, and the remaining buildings that did not collapse also had one or more buildings. or less damage.Hundreds of civilians also fell on the gravel-paved streets. The bodies of many of these dead civilians became a pile of fragments that could not be recovered. Or they did not die in the shelling, but were running away. He fell to the ground and was trampled to death by the panicked crowd following behind him.

Not only that, the tall lighthouse was also hit by several shells from the middle, and collapsed. The upper half of the fallen directly hit the urban area heavily, and overwhelmed a piece of residential buildings, causing countless casualties.Several sections of the city wall enclosing the port also collapsed. It can be said that Patri Dawa suffered heavy losses from this attack by the Winsters.

At the very least, the ruined port area will not be able to restore its former prosperity in the next few years.

"Mum—mother—where are you..."

"Eileen! My Elena, come back quickly, I won't force you anymore..."

"No! My home! Everything about me, my family, is gone!"

"..."

Walking in the noisy ruins, hearing the miserable cries of civilians, Mauricio's mouth was slightly open, his eyes were empty, like a walking corpse, his body was covered with dust and solidified dark red blood, and in some places The clothes were also torn, revealing the bloody bruises inside, but he still walked slowly as if he didn't feel the pain at all.

pat.

Suddenly, he kicked a relatively soft object, which flew forward half a meter with his movement, and rolled a few times on the gravel-filled street.He suddenly moved, and looked down at what he kicked. It turned out to be a wrist with bones exposed.

Seeing this cut wrist, Mauricio finally couldn't control it, and knelt down on the ground with a plop, crying bitterly.

Although Mauricio was dissatisfied with his parents, they were his parents after all, and now, his parents were all killed under the shelling of the Winsters, not only his parents, but his brothers and sisters who stayed at home They were all buried by collapsed buildings, and he was the only one in the family who survived.

"I will avenge you, I promise Sea God, I will make the Winsters pay the price." Mauricio said angrily, his fists were clenched tightly, his arms were bruised due to excessive force, If you look carefully, you can still see a little blood slowly oozing from the gap between the fingers in the fist.

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The bad news of Patridava's shelling quickly spread throughout the Acarnanian Alliance, and also to the front lines of the battlefield, arousing the anger of all citizens and soldiers. All the alliance countries or city-states demanded that the Alliance Parliament take action. To retaliate against the Winsters who dared to commit such a crime, the frontline army commanders also asked Casciano to order an attack, but they were all suppressed by Casciano. Although it is the best time to attack, he is cautious. I still hope to wait for the reinforcements sent from the rear to arrive before launching a general offensive.

At the request of all the alliance countries and city-states in the alliance, Patri Dawa's parliament finally announced that the Kingdom of Winster was an old enemy. They joined the war to fight against the evil forces from the Vardasia peninsula.

For a time, the entire Acarnanian Alliance was running at high speed like a well-oiled war machine. A large number of male citizens of the right age or free people were recruited into the army. They either provided their own weapons or were uniformly distributed by the government. front.The shipyard is also working overtime. A lot of suitable wood was sent here. With the efforts of the craftsmen, many ships were launched and delivered to the navy, and sailors were successfully recruited in a short period of time. The new warships are eager to try, just waiting for the arrival of actual combat.

Under the lobbying of the alliance envoy, the other three allied countries also readily joined the war and formally declared war on the Kingdom of Winster.The day after the declaration of war, the navies of the three countries began to unite and marched towards Paisikia, the naval stronghold of Winster. After learning of the plan of the allied forces, the navies of the Acarnanian Alliance, in order to avenge their shame, also defeated Luo Under the leadership of Denis, he joined the Allied forces and returned to the battlefield.

The four-nation coalition forces are huge in scale, adding up to more than 380 warships, which almost occupied the entire sea surface on the Osa Sea. people notice.Faced with this unprecedentedly large fleet, Sigurd had no idea of ​​going out to fight at all. There were only 49 Hawker gunboats moored in the Paisikia naval port. Enemies several times their own were overwhelmed.

The enemy they faced this time was not the Acarnanian Alliance, which only had more than 100 warships, but the four-nation coalition, which had more than 380 warships in total. Only the city walls of Paisikia could barely defend against the enemy's attack. .However, if Paisikia is blocked, supplies on the Osa Peninsula will be completely cut off. Food and grass are fine and can be collected from local vassal states, but ammunition supplies can only be obtained from the port of Paisikia. , once they run out of ammunition, the line infantry still in the Osa Peninsula can basically consider changing their equipment and returning to the cold weapon era.

With this in mind, Sigurd took it upon himself to increase the amount of ammunition and food delivered to the front before the enemy fleet arrived.The siege of Paisikia was bound to last for a long time, and until the end of the war, the armies on the peninsula could only rely on these supplies to survive.

At the same time, when the port of Paisikia was about to encounter the enemy, Richard, who was far away in Nord City, the capital of the kingdom, suddenly received a report from the Firearms Research Institute. mood, and will soon change the firepower configuration of the new army...

(End of this chapter)