Chapter 466 Meat Grinder
Madrid's heavy city of raffia has been transformed into a war fortress. There are countless trenches and barbed wire around the city. Whether it is day or night, whistling shells will fly by, and life will disappear from this city almost every moment.
Although it was drizzling in the sky, it could not destroy the war below. Countless allied troops lined up in a square formation and headed towards the city.
Their expression was numb, their eyes were empty, as if they were soulless bodies. Only when their companions were hit by bullets or torn apart by artillery fire would they pause and soon continue to move forward under the urging of the officer.
They were lucky today. The muskets of Ganlasi were affected by rainy days and had a very low ignition rate, which made them approach the position of Ganlasi people.
"Grenade!"
When approaching the trench of raffia, the roars from inside finally moved the Allied forces. Several people in the team turned around and ran away. Before they could run far, they were knocked to the ground by the officers.
Before the officer could continue to order forward, smoked bamboo tubes were thrown out from the trenches. The Allies could no longer maintain their formation and fled around. However, the veterans lay directly underground, holding their heads in their hands to cover their ears.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Explosions continued to sound in the Allied Army. Before the smoke had dissipated, a sharp whistle sounded. The soldiers in the trench rushed into the Allied Army with bayonets and stabbed the still-won Allied Army to the ground one by one.
The Allied Army, who had reacted, was not willing to be outdone, and used bayonets to smash them with butts, and fought fiercely with the silk men.
The hand-to-hand combat was not long, but the bloodiness was beyond people's imagination. In the end, the Ganlasi people who were waiting for it had the upper hand. The remaining Allied forces ran away when they saw that the situation was not good, for fear of being caught up by the Ganlasi people behind them.
Just as they were about to escape back to their formation and thought they were lucky enough to survive, dense gunfire sounded in the formation. The escaped soldiers fell down, and the remaining people stopped, gritted their teeth and turned around and killed them back.
The scattered soldiers and brave men could not break through the positions of the Ganasi people. All they had to wait for were death. Together with those who died in battle, they became fertilizer for this land.
Maybe the attack on the Allies will succeed next time, but the tenacious Ganli Silk men will regain their position. The repeated tug-of-war lasted for more than three months, and both sides fought a real fire, and they seemed to not give up until they razed the place to the ground.
During the Battle of Madrid, the Allied Forces paid 110,000 lives, and the slime was also not easy. A total of 90,000 people were buried under this land. Madrid was like a meat grinder, ruthlessly devouring people's lives.
No one knows when this situation will end. As long as they step onto the battlefield, their lives can only be handed over to God, and no one knows whether they can see the sun of tomorrow.
The Allied Forces counterattacked especially fiercely. Ganlasi fought to the death and established a solid defense line in Madrid. However, no one knew how long Ganlasi could last, and perhaps they would be captured by the Allied Forces in the next moment.
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Just as the fierce battle in Madrid was in full swing, two English warships on the Atlantic Ocean were wandering leisurely.
The sailor on the watchtower put down his telescope, grabbed the flag beside him and waved it for a while. The officer below recorded the information on the notebook and ran quickly to the captain's room.
"Captain Henry! Captain Kate dispatched his chariot and ate your cavalry."
Henry was delighted when he heard this, and took a step on the chessboard, and turned around and said, "Kate, there are times when he makes mistakes.
Tell him that my queen had eaten his chariot, and the next general, he was dead!"
The officer earnestly wrote Captain Henry's words in his notebook, trotted all the way to the watchtower, and told the lookout hand the information.
The sailor who was adjusting the sails on the mast looked at the busy officer and asked in confusion: "Hi! Are the captains so idle? How good is it to play chess in this way? Just go to the Lord's number to play chess directly?"
The older sailor glanced at his companion and scolded, "What do you know? The captain is training the communication skills of two warships. You think with your pig-like brain, you can even complete chess, and there will be no problem with the cooperation and combat between the two sides.
When we meet the Ganli Silk Navy, we can teach this group of nouveau riche a lesson. I want those bastards to give me my balls!"
"Oh! Billy! You are so disgusting. I won't let those hairy squid people approach them, and just pierce their hearts with one sword..."
"Beep!"
While the two sailors were talking nonsense, a sharp whistle came from the Lord's No. 1 not far away. At the same time, the Fearless Watcher waved the flag wildly, making the officer below dizzy.
"Captain! I found thick smoke in the distance, and it was suspected that pirates were plundering merchant ships!"
Henry's eyes lit up when he heard this. He threw down the chess piece in his hand, walked out of the captain's room, and said, "Let's go and see! This damn cruise is boring, and he just happened to train a sailor with pirates."
Walking up the stern building, Henry pulled open the telescope, and was stunned after just one look. The sea in the distance was covered with black smoke.
The black smoke seemed to be shrouded in front of Huan, without any intention of dissipating. After looking at it, Henry put down his telescope with confusion and asked, "Is there a volcano there? Apart from this possibility, I really can't think of anything that can produce so much smoke!"
The officer shook his head awkwardly. Even a fool can tell that it was not the pirates who plundered the ships and produced smoke.
Is there really a volcano erupting? Why is the sea still so calm that there is no wave at all?
Just as everyone was puzzled, a terrified scream came from the watchtower: "Boat! There is a boat there! It's in the thick smoke!
Oh God! They are not Satan's army, they are coming out of the ground!"
Henry frowned when he heard this, looked at the watchtower without saying anything. However, the officer was anxious and ran over and scolded him: "Robert! If you go crazy, I will ask you to catch mice in Dikang!"
"But, sir! There is indeed a boat in the black smoke, but it disappeared in a flash...!" Robert defended, but his voice was getting lower and lower.
Henry raised his telescope again, looked for a while and said, "Play the drum to fight! There is really a boat in the black smoke, be careful that it is the trap of the silk man!
Be careful! This is not a damn exercise!"
The captain spoke, no one dared to neglect. The soldiers in red uniforms beat the war drums, and a group of soldiers appeared on the deck.
The gunner on the artillery deck also let go of the sound of the fixed artillery and began to load ammunition for the artillery. The Englishman moved very quickly and prepared for the battle in less than a quarter of an hour.
The other Lord was not willing to be outdone, and headed with the Fearless to face the place where the smoke rose. Although they suspected that the smoke was caused by the Krassicians, they did not retreat.
Chapter completed!