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Fang Ge yelled, "What? Cannons, there really are cannons? Nong Xiaowu!"
"exist!"
"Take ten men with you and charge out. No matter what, destroy the enemy's artillery. Quickly!"
“Yes!”
Nong Xiaowu immediately took 10 Marines, 3 of whom each carried a rocket launcher, and rushed to the back of the castle. At this time, the whole town was ablaze with flames. Houses, woods, and haystacks were all burning, and there were crackling sounds everywhere. However, the thick black smoke rolled in with the wind, not only choking people to death, but also making the vision very blurred. There were shadowy figures dozens of steps away, and the enemies rushing towards them from a distance were like ghosts and could not be seen clearly.
"Shoot! Shoot!" Nong Xiaowu shouted, and his soldiers immediately pulled the trigger. Two rockets whizzed away in an instant, leaving two dazzling tracks.
Boom! Boom! Two balls of fire suddenly exploded in the thick smoke, making a deafening sound. The ground also trembled twice. A group of enemies who rushed out of the street were blown to pieces. A severed arm even flew in front of Nong Xiaowu and hit a pile of horse manure with a bang, splashing his clothes.
At this time, let alone splashing onto the lapels, even if it splashed onto the face, there was no time to wipe it off. The whole town was echoing with shouts of killing, and it was a mess. Fire, gunshots, and explosions intertwined like waves. There was no idea how many enemies had rushed into the town.
Isolated and helpless in such a remote foreign country, Nong Xiaowu and his colleagues also had to protect nearly two hundred helpless civilian staff members of the mission, think tank scholars, and scientific and technological personnel, making it difficult to retreat.
If it was daytime, it would be fine. But in this strange town at night, the enemy situation is unclear. It is hard to judge how many enemies there are. It could be thousands or tens of thousands. No one can be sure. Everyone is inevitably worried... ..
After the enemy who rushed out of the street was blown away, as the two balls of fire rose, the scenery in the night suddenly became much more real.
At this moment, his subordinate Liu Jingsan shouted loudly: "Sergeant, look! Artillery! Enemy artillery!"
Nong Xiaowu also saw that, on the other side of the two rising fireballs, there were enemies working together to push two cannons, but they stopped in fear due to two sudden violent explosions. The enemies beside the cannons were in chaos, but it could be seen that they were reloading ammunition in an emergency.
"What are you waiting for? Boom! Boom!"
“Yes!”
At this moment, Nong Xiaowu shouted again: "Get out of the way, the enemy is attacking from the right..."
With a few whizzing sounds, several powerful arrows shot in. One of the arrows passed by Nong Xiaowu's nose, which frightened him so much that his scalp went numb. His subordinate Wu Lang was shot in the thigh by an arrow, which almost pierced his thigh.
Wu Lang screamed in pain and fell to the side. The rocket on his shoulder hit Nong Xiaowu, almost breaking his ribs. He endured the pain. He roared, picked up the rocket, aimed at the sneak attacking enemy on the right, and quickly pulled the trigger.
Chirp!
The rocket fired with raging fury, boom! Another ball of fire rose up, and dozens of enemies attacking from the right were blown to pieces. Screams continued.
On the other side, Liu Jingsan and his men fired two rockets at the same time, shooting them towards the end of the street. The rockets flew very low. They were like two flying ghost fires. In an instant, there were two loud noises. Boom! Boom! The fierce explosions made people feel that the earth was shaking. The houses on the street collapsed with a crash. The two cannons in the street were also blown over, and even the barrels were twisted into a knot. The enemies who were urgently reloading were blown away with broken limbs and arms flying everywhere... ... ...
"Retreat! Retreat!" When Nong Xiaowu saw that the mission was accomplished, he and Liu Jingsan immediately rushed forward to hold the injured Wu Lang and retreat into the castle.
In front of the castle, Fang Ge organized a counter-charge with rockets, thunder bombs and fierce explosions, which made people's eardrums hurt. Balls of fire rushed up in the fierce explosions, blowing the swarming enemies to pieces. Those who were lucky enough to survive fled out of the town screaming.
The night wind blew, and the entire town of Nongweier was shrouded in raging fire and billowing smoke. After Fang Ge repelled the enemy's first wave of attack, he did not dare to chase after them. Although the enemy in the front was repelled, who knew if this was the enemy's strategy to lure the tiger away from the mountain.
The Marine Corps' primary mission is to protect the members of the delegation. If all the members of the delegation die, it will be useless even if all the Fronde rebels are killed. This will inevitably make Fang Ge and his men a little restrained and unable to pursue the victory and expand the results of the battle.
In this wave of counterattack, more than ten people in Fang Ge's team were injured. While he asked the military doctors to provide emergency treatment, he also ordered the defense of the castle to be strengthened. He also set up multiple firing points around the castle wall and asked the soldiers to guard these firing points with rockets and thunder bombs. All orders and soldiers' responses were given by shouting, and the atmosphere was very tense.
The choking smoke made people cry. Zhang Haoran and others sealed the doors and windows of the two rooms with clothes, and wet their sleeves with water to cover their mouths and noses, and finally they felt better.
"Commander Fang, how is it? How is it? Has the enemy been repelled?"
"Master Zhang, please wait inside. The enemy's first wave of attack has been repelled, but we are still unsure of how many enemies there are and whether there will be a second wave of attack. Master Zhang, rest assured, we can handle it. Please go back to your room..."
It was dark at night and the enemy's situation was unclear. This was what made Fang Ge most uncomfortable. You didn't know how many enemies you were fighting, you didn't know what other tricks the enemy had, you didn't know anything. All you could do was hold on here. This was very frustrating for the Marines who were used to bullying the enemy.
The French Fronde got its name from the fact that people in Paris who opposed Mazarin's policies threw stones at the doors and windows of people who supported Mazarin at night, causing a riot, hence the name "Fronde".
They were also good at sneak attacks. When they were scattered, they were civilians, and when they were gathered, they were soldiers. This was why Mazarin mobilized a large army to suppress them repeatedly. The Fronde was not just a rebellion of the lower and upper classes of French people. In fact, it was the French aristocracy and the bourgeoisie who led the rebellion.
That night, they repeated their old tricks and used the cover of darkness to defeat the French soldiers escorting the Qin envoys. But what they never expected was that after they rushed into the town, they hit a wall.
The Qin army's rifles, thunder bombs, and rockets were all more terrifying than the other. They were thrown out without any cost, and there were violent explosions everywhere, killing and wounding the slingers who swarmed in. Their corpses were piled up everywhere, almost filling the streets of the town.
The two cannons they had managed to get were blown up without firing a single shot. They had fought the French before and experienced the baptism of fire, but they had never seen such fierce firepower.
There were actually only more than 3,000 slingers that attacked that night, and more than 400 of them died in the first wave of attack, which meant they were completely crippled.
Fang Ge was nervously waiting for the second wave of enemy attack, but there was no movement outside the town. The soldiers sent out for reconnaissance reported that the enemy had withdrawn, but Fang Ge still didn't quite believe it.
"Really? Are you leaving just like that?"
"Report to the general, at least we can be sure that there are no enemies within a mile around the town."
"Explore further and expand the reconnaissance range to prevent the enemy from having any more tricks."
“Yes!”
That night, Fang Ge and his companions did not dare to sleep and carefully watched until dawn. They found that there were corpses outside the town, many of which were incomplete, with intestines everywhere. It was like hell on earth, with gusts of fishy wind and nausea. Gore, the French Foreign Minister who was responsible for welcoming the Qin delegation, vomited on the spot.
Even Fang Ge was somewhat stunned. The battle last night actually didn't last very long. In order to prevent the enemy from rushing into the castle, they threw thunder bombs and fired rockets without any cost.
But it was night after all, and the air was filled with thick smoke, so it was like we were firing blindly, bombing wherever there were many people, and we didn't know how many enemies we killed. Now we understand that the enemy did not launch a second wave of attack because they were obviously scared by the fierce firepower.
A total of 16 Marines were injured and two were killed. This was the first casualty since the mission entered Europe. This made Fang Ge very angry. He grabbed Gore and shouted, "If you don't give me an explanation, I will charge into Paris and flatten it!"
Gore was a thin man in his fifties. His hat had fallen off last night, his hair was messy, and there was charcoal stain on his face. Fango was holding him like an eagle holding a chicken, and his face turned red from holding his breath. In a panic, he was mumbling something in French.
Zhang Haoran stepped forward and advised: "Commander Fang, please let him go for now. The soldiers will not sacrifice in vain. When I arrive in Paris, I will definitely ask France for an explanation. If they are perfunctory, I don't mind Commander Fang turning Paris upside down."
"Master Zhang, you said this!"
"Yes, that's what I said!"
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