The Revolutionary Era in One Piece

After Draven led his soldiers to the target, they divided into three groups and headed straight for the three artillery positions, hoping to successfully launch the raid before the defenders could react.

Unfortunately, plans cannot keep up with changes. He still didn't expect that there were still people who were not asleep so late.

Originally, they would not be discovered until they reached the front of the position, but now they were exposed in advance and were found by the soldiers who went out for a walk because they couldn't sleep at night.

At this point, Draven had no other choice but to attack. Fortunately, at the beginning of the battle, Noah's army still had a great advantage in numbers and preparation.

Because the conditions inside the forts were worse than those in the camp, the personnel in the three forts were not fully staffed.

There should have been hundreds of people stationed in the artillery position, but now there are only dozens of people defending it, which is less than half of the full strength. Even so, there is no preparation at all.

Thus, without suffering much casualties, the Noah Kingdom army led by Draven captured two unprepared artillery batteries in succession.

However, when they were capturing the third fort, they encountered a bigger surprise. Limestone led his team and some soldiers who were still awake to support the fort.

The soldiers of the Kingdom of Noah who attacked the third artillery position obviously did not expect that the Kingdom of Deya would be able to gather and counterattack so quickly. The Limestone Squad and other soldiers who joined in, no less than a hundred people, directly killed the elite troops of the Kingdom of Noah by surprise.

In this way, a team of 100 men bought time for the soldiers in the fort to prepare. When the soldiers of the Limestone Squad could not resist the attack and retreated, the fort was also armed, and the black muzzles were like giant beasts, roaring at the attacking Noah's army.

"Damn it!" Draven yelled, which meant the failure of the quick raid plan.

What's more serious is that if all three artillery batteries cannot be taken down, it means that the supply from the rear city area to the front city area cannot be completely cut off, and the assault force will become isolated.

Having made up his mind, Draven immediately ordered the artillery batteries under his control to fire to cover his own troops, and left 150 soldiers to guard each artillery battery.

The other soldiers followed Draven to support the third artillery battlefield. They must capture the third artillery before the Deya Kingdom assembled a large force to counterattack.

The roar of the three artillery batteries woke up the entire city of Zaun. Darius also followed the plan and ordered the Noah Kingdom army to launch a feint attack on the enemy artillery batteries in the front city.

The rebellious mercenaries and pirates also pointed their guns at their former allies. The roar echoed throughout the city, and the defenders of the Deya Kingdom in the front city were also delayed and unable to provide assistance to the rear.

Galen had already woken up when the first alarm sounded. When the cannons started firing, Galen already knew the enemy's plan to cut off the connection between the front and rear city areas.

Galen also immediately issued his own combat orders.

"Messenger, hurry up and wake up the troops and order them to assemble. Also let Zhao Xin hold the position in the front city area. The enemy should just be making a feint attack this time." Garen paused and continued.

"Also, tell the soldiers in each camp around the fort to guard the fort and wait for support from the rear."

At this time, the third turret became the focus of the battle between the two sides. In order to achieve the combat goal, Draven quickly changed his formation, and the main force of the raid, with thousands of people, was organized to launch a fierce attack on the turret.

Seeing that the artillery position was about to collapse under the attack of the Norse army, the main force of the Deya soldiers around the camp finally assembled.

But at this time, the assembled troops also encountered an extremely embarrassing situation. With their current strength, they were simply unable to defeat the invading army of the Kingdom of Norse, and there was even a risk of being counterattacked.

Therefore, outside the enemy's artillery fire, thousands of people stared at the enemy. Because, if they launched a general attack rashly, it would be more likely that their support troops would be defeated faster.

By then, the enemy would have no scruples and would have launched a larger-scale attack, and the artillery position would certainly not have been able to be defended.

In this situation, at least the Kingdom of North sent out 300 people to guard the enemy, which prevented the enemy from launching a full-scale attack. But at this time, the situation of the artillery fort did not look good.

Several officers of the Deya Kingdom army looked at their own artillery positions under fierce attack and began to argue anxiously. Some suggested going all out, while others suggested waiting for reinforcements from the rear.

As for the option of harassing the reinforcements, sending too few people would be useless and would waste manpower; sending too many people would cause the enemy to give up the attack and come directly towards us. It was also true that the 300-man alert was just stuck at a point that was neither too high nor too low.

At this time, the fort was already shaky under the attack. The military order from above finally arrived.

The order from above did not require this sole reinforcement to attack and defeat the enemy, nor did it require them to sit back and watch the outcome. Instead, a compromise was taken, which was to send people to support the artillery position.

The point was not to lift the siege of the fort, but to break the enemy's blockade and then get people into the fort. What was lacking in the fort was not supplies, but combat personnel.

Based on this, the troops responded quickly. They used 200 people as a team to break through the enemy's blockade and send people into the fort. After all, the enemy only had a few hundred people and it was impossible for them to block the entire fort.

Another officer thought that it would be enough to send someone up, and it didn't specifically have to be a soldier.

So the officers called up the hundreds of civilians who were still stranded in the barracks after transporting supplies last time.

These people were recruited from the Kingdom of Deya, and their loyalty could be guaranteed. If the front-line troops suffered heavy losses, officers could even incorporate them directly into the combat units to replenish the numbers.

In this way, a team of one hundred soldiers and one hundred civilians was formed, and the battle to replenish the reinforcements began.

The first two attacks were well planned. When the enemy was unable to completely surround the fort, dozens of soldiers entered the fort and effectively supported the fort's defense, stabilizing the originally shaky position.

Draven led his troops to attack, and when they were about to make great progress, the enemy's firepower suddenly increased greatly. Draven quickly contacted the blocking troops and immediately learned the enemy's combat intentions.

As a result, the subsequent attacks were not as smooth as the previous two. After learning of the intentions of the German army, Draven quickly adjusted his plan to target them.

Whenever the Deya Kingdom was about to attack, Draven would order his soldiers to slow down the attack and instead destroy the Deya Kingdom's army that came to their aid.

Under the targeted attack, the German army's subsequent six attacks were futile and not even a single person was sent in.

At this time, more than an hour had passed since the last replenishment of personnel, and the artillery position became shaky again.

Faced with this situation, the officers of the Kingdom of Deya became anxious and organized the ninth offensive. This time, the revolutionary army led by Li, who was disguised as civilians, was also incorporated into the offensive force.

Attacking with Lee was a team led by Limestone, who had already been repaired and volunteered to join the battle.

Before the attack began, in order to ensure the success of the attack, the officers added another hundred soldiers to increase the success rate of the attack.

In this way, the 300-man reinforcements charged towards the fort. The team led by Limestone took the lead in the attack and suppressed the enemy troops in a short time.

At this time, Draven, who originally wanted to use the same trick to defeat the invading army, found that the combat effectiveness of the reinforcements coming this time was much stronger than the previous times, and there were more people, so he guessed that this was the main force of the Kingdom of Deya.

Draven then wanted to annihilate this unit to warn other enemy troops watching the battle from the periphery, so that more troops could be mobilized to attack the turret.

The Norse Kingdom blocking troops on the front line received the order and quickly retreated. According to Draven's idea, he wanted to lead the enemy reinforcements to the depths of his own territory, then surround them with soldiers, and then use artillery fire to help destroy this force.

As expected, the attacking Limestone found that the enemy's resistance was not very resolute, so they attacked deep into the enemy's territory at a considerable distance in one breath, delaying the Norse Kingdom's blocking troops in the rear.

At this time, Draven led 200 elite soldiers of the Kingdom of Norse to make a detour from both wings.

Just when everything was going smoothly for the reinforcements from the Kingdom of Deya, Li discovered that something was wrong and immediately approached Limestone, who was in charge of commanding the operation.

"Mr. Limestone, we may have fallen into the enemy's trap this time." Li said, "We have not been attacked by enemy artillery fire since we broke through the enemy's blockade just now. This must be a trap set by the enemy. They want to lure us in and destroy us."

Hearing this, Limestone calmed down. Indeed, this attack was too smooth and it had not even been bombarded by the two artillery batteries controlled by the enemy.

So Limestone asked Li for advice. "Mr. Li, what should we do next?"

Li also said in a deep voice, "It is definitely too late to return now. If we are blocked by the enemy, we will suffer huge losses. I only have one solution."

As Li said, the blocking troops in the rear had reorganized their battle formation at this time. They were confident that they could block the retreat of the reinforcements from the Kingdom of Deya before Draven personally led his troops to surround them from both wings.

"Quick, quick!" A hundred elite Norsemen on the left wing quickly moved towards the flank of the encirclement. Just as they were about to reach their battle positions, they were suddenly attacked fiercely.

It turned out that the reinforcements from the Kingdom of Deya took the initiative to launch a counterattack towards the left wing.

This was Li's method. Before the encirclement was formed, he created a time difference and took the initiative to attack one side of the encirclement.

In this way, under the fierce firepower of three hundred people, the Limestone people broke through the encirclement of one hundred elite soldiers of the Kingdom of North, and even launched an attack on the main position of the Kingdom of North's offensive artillery.

However, this move was not Lee's suggestion, but the idea of ​​an officer from another group of soldiers. Lee originally wanted to withdraw directly after escaping the siege, but another officer objected.

His suggestion was to imitate the previous action and launch a surprise attack on the Norse army that was attacking the fort, break through the enemy's position and provide support to the fort.

Because the soldiers he led accounted for the largest number of reinforcements at this time, Li and Limestone had to be included in their ranks.

Because the team is now in the enemy's hinterland, if serious disagreements arise within the team, it is very likely that the entire team will be wiped out.

Then, three hundred reinforcements from the Kingdom of Deya raided the position of the five hundred attacking soldiers from the Kingdom of North.

In a short period of time, they really took the enemy by surprise. The reinforcements stubbornly rushed through the main position and at the same time sent a signal to the defenders of the artillery position, asking them to receive the reinforcements.

As for the reinforcements, according to the discussion before the raid, while the soldiers were suppressing other enemy forces, Li led the civilians with weak combat effectiveness and was the first to move closer to the artillery position.

As Li led the crowd, braving the enemy's artillery fire, step by step towards the position where the defenders of the fort were to support them, Draven, who had been fooled, was furiously leading hundreds of soldiers to quickly reinforce the main position that had just been attacked.

The cannons at the other two forts no longer had their brief silence, but roared again.

As a result, facing Draven's furious attack, the reinforcements who were entangled were suddenly under tremendous pressure.

Originally, the reinforcements should have followed the civilians led by Li and moved towards the artillery position, but due to the powerful fire blockade, the troops were unable to break through.

Faced with this situation, many soldiers began to consider retreating and decided to retreat to the starting point before the encirclement was re-established.

The representative officer immediately asked Limestone to lead the team to open up a retreat route and allow the soldiers to retreat.

Even though Limestone was an officer of the squad, he could not go against the wishes of the majority. In desperation, he could only lead his soldiers to retreat, watching the revolutionary army led by Li, disguised as civilians, being besieged in the fort again.

When Li led his men to the fort, he found that there were only dozens of people left inside, and almost all of them were injured.

The largest open space inside the fort was used to place corpses, and at this time the corpses almost filled the entire open space.

Then, the observer of the artillery came over and said to Li Zhongren, "After our reinforcements retreat, North's black-armored soldiers will definitely come up again. You should follow us to familiarize yourself with the artillery position first."

Li had no objection, and the revolutionary army had received military training before, so they could quickly familiarize themselves with the situation of the position. With the roar of the cannon as a signal, the black soldiers' attack began again.

After the ninth wave of reinforcements led by Limestone returned to the position, Limestone immediately requested the tenth wave of reinforcements to be dispatched again.

However, this request was rejected by the officers. To be more precise, the officers were no longer able to mobilize the soldiers and civilians to launch another round of attack.

In the previous attack, no less than two hundred soldiers were killed in battle, and more than half of the civilians were killed or wounded.

Faced with the order to send out reinforcements again, everyone except the team led by Limestone refused to carry out the combat order.

Seeing this, Limestone could only hope that Mr. Li could hold out in the fort longer, at least until the support gathered in the rear arrived.