Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

In an instant, the deck of the Qinhuang was shrouded in gunpowder smoke, and cannonballs weighing several hundred kilograms were launched, spanning a distance of seven or eight kilometers, and directly smashed into Hirado Castle.

"boom…"

There was a loud noise, and an orange-red fire suddenly erupted in Hirado Castle.

The Qinhuang's main gun was just like a signal.

As the Qinhuang opened fire, the Hanzu and other warships next to him also launched an artillery attack on Hirado Castle.

Hot shells continued to hit Hirado Castle.

In just a few minutes, most of the buildings in the city were set ablaze by artillery fire.

It needs to be explained here that although Sakura Country has entered the industrial age, people in Sakura Country seem to prefer wooden buildings.

Therefore, more than [-]% of the buildings in Hirado Castle are purely wooden.

In order to achieve the best effect, Wang Hongchang did not ask anyone to use armor-piercing bombs, but high-explosive bombs.

After this high-explosive bomb explodes, it will produce a large amount of fragments and fire.

The fire directly ignited Hirado Castle.

In just a few minutes, fires started to break out everywhere in Hirado Castle.

A large number of people from Sakura Country were running around on the streets, trying to find a safe place.

However, under the indiscriminate bombardment, where in the entire Hirado City is safe?

Many times, when a cannonball falls, it will clear the surrounding area of ​​tens of meters. Neither people nor buildings can withstand the power of naval guns.

Even if some buildings are still some distance away from the explosion, the impact after the explosion can still collapse such wooden structures.

Those citizens of the Sakura Kingdom who were lucky enough not to be blown into pieces would also have their internal organs shattered by the shock wave.

In addition, there were some people from the Sakura Kingdom who were covered in fire. They were rolling on the ground in pain, trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies.

Some people who were not injured wanted to go over and help, but the next shell took them all away.

At this time, the soldiers who originally wanted to prevent the people of Hirado from leaving the city no longer stopped them.

They dropped their weapons and were the first to run away.

The Hirado garrison who had gathered at the port to block Daxia's landing lost all morale at this moment.

It wasn't until this moment that they realized how ridiculous it was for them to rely on the rifles in their hands to block the Daxia warships.

Therefore, Commander Sakura who was stationed at the port quickly ordered a turn in, that is, a retreat.

But if they want to escape Hirado, they must first pass through Hirado Castle.

There was no organization anymore, and they became a defeated garrison. They just rushed into Hirado Castle without any structure.

They were indifferent to everything along the way. They just wanted to escape from Hirado as soon as possible.

For the people of Hirado City who stopped them along the way and begged them to extend their hands and save them, the defeated soldiers raised their weapons without mercy.

I have to say that Sakura is quite cruel. They are cruel to people from other countries and they are also cruel to their own people.

As long as they are blocking them, they can raise their weapons and shoot without hesitation.

A woman with a broken leg holding a child, her face covered in blood, knelt on the ground and looked at the Hirado Castle defenders trotting past in front of her.

She stepped forward suddenly and hugged the thigh of a young soldier.

"Please, please, save my child." Although the woman's face was covered in blood, her eyes were beautiful.

Presumably, this woman was also a well-known beauty in the neighborhood before.

But her face was covered in blood now, and she looked somewhat ferocious.

The soldier whose leg she hugged was obviously frightened by her.

"Let me go!" yelled the young soldier, a little frightened.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but please save my child. My leg is injured and I can't walk, but my child is still young. She shouldn't die here."

"Please, take my child out! I can pay you!"

As she spoke, the woman lifted up her sleeves. The jewelry on her wrists was revealed.

"Please, as long as you can take the child out, these jewelry will be given to you." As she said that, the woman wanted to take off the gold jewelry from her wrist.

However, whether it was because of nervousness or because her hands were covered in blood, the gold bracelet became very smooth.

She couldn't take it off for a while.

"Baga, Xiaolin-kun! What are you doing! Let that woman go!"

"The Daxia people's warships are being loaded now! If we don't leave now, the shells will fall and everyone will die!" The sergeant looked at Xiao Linyou who had stopped and reprimanded loudly.

After saying this, the sergeant ran away without looking back and ignored Xiao Linyou again.

After hearing what the sergeant said, Xiao Linyou was also a little confused.

He just looked at the child that the woman was holding. It was a baby girl, about seven or eight months old.

Although the city is now full of fires and explosions, the baby girl is well protected by her mother.

Kobayashi You only recently joined the Sakura Country army. Before that, he was just an ordinary student.

He looked at the woman with a broken leg and the baby girl in front of him, and he admitted that at this moment, his heart softened.

He clearly knew that his current safety was not guaranteed, but for some reason, he still took over the baby girl by accident.

The black ash from gunpowder smoke made the baby girl's face a little darker, but it could also be seen that the baby girl was very beautiful, and like her mother, she would also be a beauty in the future.

When Xiao Linyou took over the baby girl, the mother with a broken leg finally took off the gold bracelet from her wrist and stuffed it into Xiao Linyou's hand.

Xiao Linyou wanted to say something, but he suddenly heard another scream in the sky.

He understood that those were cannonballs fired by Daxia people.

Subconsciously, he hugged the baby girl and hid in a dilapidated private house.

This house is one of the few cement structure buildings in Hirado Castle. It is very likely that before this, it was the residence of some important person.

"Boom!" A loud noise rang in his ears. Xiao Linyou subconsciously held the baby girl in his arms and used his back to block the gap between the explosion point and the baby girl.

Xiao Linyou felt as if his back had been hit hard with a sledgehammer, giving him the urge to vomit blood.

Still he held back.

After the explosion, Xiao Linyou shook the dust off his body and rushed out instantly. He was worried about the mother who had just broken her leg.

However, when he returned to the street, there was no trace of the mother, only a pile of minced meat.

Judging from the pieces of clothing hanging on the pile of minced meat, the pile of minced meat should be the mother just now.

Xiao Linyou looked at the pile of minced meat, then at the baby girl in his arms, and at the blood-stained gold bracelet in his hand. Xiao Linyou was silent at this moment.

"Although I don't know your name, and I don't know if I can survive in the end, but I promise that I will protect your daughter before I die." Xiao Linyou said solemnly.