The Revolutionary Era in One Piece

As the attack became more and more fierce, the reinforcements could only watch from outside the range of the artillery.

For the defenders, every minute and every second seemed like a year. Every time the cannons hit the fort, the defenders in the fort heard a roar.

Soldiers from the Kingdom of North rushed towards the fort in waves, and Li Ye led the revolutionary army and fought bravely with other soldiers guarding the fort.

Under Draven's command, the Norse army's offensive became more fierce. And every time the bombardment of artillery ended, the Norse infantry would launch an attack.

War is cruel. If the defenders are not careful, they may be hit by stray bullets from the enemy.

In this way, the fierce battle lasted for nearly an hour. Almost all the positions outside the fort were captured by the Norse army.

At this time, Galen finally brought his troops to reinforce. Looking at the hesitant army, he was suddenly furious.

Galen originally thought that the nearest army could at least hold out for a while, but he ended up overestimating his own army's ability to withstand the war when it was filled with new recruits.

However, Galen could not reprimand the officers and soldiers too much now, because at this time, Galen still needed this army to assist him in launching a counterattack.

When Galen first learned about the raid, he began to draw up a reinforcement plan. Because it was a night battle, Galen decided not to send inexperienced recruits, but to send in experienced veterans.

However, since the veterans were distributed in various teams and stationed in various strongholds according to the teams, it took quite a long time to coordinate and command the veterans to gather.

Fortunately, just in case, Garen ordered many troops to set up camp in the supply center. Although there are many new recruits, it should not be a problem to support them for a while.

However, just in case, Galen also sent someone to inform them of the battle plan for defending the artillery position in advance.

At the same time, when most of the veteran reinforcements had been assembled and integrated, Garen did not wait for the main force to be fully integrated before setting off. Instead, he led 300 veteran elite guards from the command center to the battlefield in advance to observe the war situation.

As a result, as Galen saw, the fort was in danger under the attack of the Norse Kingdom army. And now the only reinforcements that could be mobilized were still outside the range of the artillery fire, watching the outcome.

This made Garen very angry, but there was nothing he could do at this time. This was the only support force that could be mobilized in a short period of time.

Finally, under Galen's orders and repeated persuasion, the soldiers finally picked up their courage and were able to fight again. But at this time, the army had obviously lost the courage to implement the detachment reinforcement tactics as before.

Therefore, Garen planned to take advantage of the soldiers' newly recovered morale to attack the enemy in one wave. At least he wanted to put great pressure on the enemy's front line and force the enemy to withdraw troops to stop him.

With this backbone, the army will not be defeated quickly, and the veteran troops are on the way to reinforce. As long as they can hold out until the reinforcements arrive and the artillery position is not lost, they can defeat the enemy and win.

In order to boost the morale of the soldiers, Galen decided to lead his 300 elite soldiers as the vanguard. Limestone also volunteered to lead a small team to join them, which won Galen's special praise.

Before the war began, Galen shouted to his soldiers, "Go forward bravely! Defend our country! Charge!"

Then the vanguard took the lead and launched an attack on the blocking army of the Kingdom of North.

Draven, who was attacking the front line, also learned the news, but he did not choose to send troops to support the blocking troops.

Long before the general offensive of the Deya Kingdom Army, Draven had discussed with the army officers that the next wave of Deya Kingdom reinforcements would definitely be the largest in scale and the most brutal in terms of fighting.

However, the Norse army no longer had time to defeat the enemy's main force, and the enemy's other reinforcements would surely arrive one after another. At this time, they had to gather their strength and strive to capture the artillery fort.

Therefore, before the battle, Draven had given a death order to the 300 Norse Kingdom soldiers on defense, asking them to hold back the enemy even at the cost of all of them being killed.

The sniper soldiers are also carefully selected from the army. They are not afraid of life and death and can serve as a suicide squad.

In fact, they performed very strongly. Although they faced the attack of thousands of reinforcements from the Kingdom of Deya at the beginning, the soldiers from the Kingdom of North who were blocking them simply arranged their formations and placed their troops in the positions they had arranged during the short truce.

This also made the attacking Deya Kingdom army underestimate it. It was not until the real battle that the attacking Deya Kingdom army realized how difficult the enemy was.

However, the attack did begin, and it more or less weakened the firepower of the Norse Kingdom's offensive artillery.

It turned out that in order to stop the reinforcements from the Kingdom of Deya, Draven used one of the two artillery batteries under his control to assist the blocking troops in combat. This indeed posed a great threat to the reinforcements from the Kingdom of Deya.

Seeing that the enemy reinforcements were tied down, Draven ordered his troops to launch a larger-scale attack on the only artillery position that had not yet been taken.

At this time, the revolutionary army led by Li was already in control inside the fort, because the previous commander of the fort was killed by a stray bullet while fighting at the fort's firing point.

In order to suppress the firepower point of the fort, Draven organized hundreds of musketeers to fire at the position with volleys. Many soldiers guarding the fort were shot and killed in the exchange of fire between the firepower point and the volleys.

After the commander of the fort was killed in battle, the other people in the fort could not find a commander who could command the support of the people.

Since most of the senior and experienced commanders had died in the previous battles, Lee, who had the most support among the remaining people, had to be the temporary commander of the artillery.

The first thing Commander Li did was to abandon some of the outer firing points. Most of the casualties of the soldiers before had occurred while guarding the firing points.

Although the position of the firepower point is very strong, it is only one point after all, and there are many points along the entire front line. If the entire front line is to be defended, there are not enough defenders.

In this case, these firepower points were clearly at a disadvantage when facing the volleys of the Kingdom of Norse. The defenders would lose one more if they were defeated, and they could not waste their forces in such places.

Under Lee's command, in addition to abandoning the firing points, he also ordered the soldiers to use bombs to blow up all of these outer defense lines before retreating.

This was to destroy the supplies that could not be moved from the defense line and prevent them from being obtained by the enemy. The previous commander may not have retreated because he was reluctant to part with these supplies.

At this time, some of the original defenders asked, "So many supplies? Are they all going to be blown up?"

It's no wonder that few of the soldiers' families were well-off. Seeing so many supplies blown up like this, they would definitely feel reluctant. Even the revolutionary army led by Li couldn't bear to look at the bombs.

Li could only earnestly teach the soldiers, "Don't care about those jars and pots. It is necessary to give them up. Their value is far less than that of comrades and everyone else."

This was what Li learned at a military discussion meeting within the revolutionary party. Mr. Marx and Engels proposed the military policy of army combat, "You fight yours, and I fight mine." Li decided to fight an asymmetric war.

Li then abandoned the outer firing points and only sent soldiers to defend the narrow traffic intersection. He also removed the cannons from the fort and placed them across the positions dug by the soldiers.

In this way, once the enemy attacks from the other direction of the traffic route, they will face our superior firepower attack, and the enemy will not be able to use the advantage of volley guns, so the firepower of both sides will be reversed.

Even if the enemy passed the traffic intersection, they would still have to face artificially elevated positions and bombardment from cannons placed on high ground.

After Li finished his preparations, both battlefields launched a general attack. On one side, the reinforcements from the Kingdom of Deya and the fearless blocking troops from the Kingdom of North fought each other.

On the other side was the Norse Kingdom army, which had just captured all the firing points outside the fort, and was triumphantly attacking the interior of the fort through the positions outside the fort.

Although there were two battles, everyone knew that the final victory or defeat was still based on the interior of the fort. As long as the fort could defend as much as possible until the arrival of reinforcements, the victory or defeat of the battlefield could be determined.