C2663 Salbrucon (1/2)

The fire that had burned all night was finally extinguished in the early morning, but thick smoke still rose into the sky. All the civilians and soldiers in the city had faces full of grief and indignation as they looked at these late reinforcements in silence.

The corpses of the fallen soldiers were carried out of the city and laid on the grass. They could only bury them early in the summer heat.

The old priest's hair was a mess, and his robes were stained with mud. He was praying for every soldier's death, his expression extremely pious.

Graveyard after tomb was dug out one after another. The shallow grave was not even half a meter deep. Warriors that had fought for an entire night did not even have a thin leather coffin. They were only buried hastily with a roll of felt.

”Did those damn Chinese do it, too? All these pagan s will go to hell! Attack, attack... The artillery will follow the main force and attack the damned Germanic barbarians! ” Flosad roared.

Forty thousand troops were swallowed up by the fury of revenge, and their long lines of marching began to change as units spread out across the wilderness in a heavy offensive formation.

Looking down from the sky, the military formations were like thick, square bricks that were placed on the ground. They were like a mountain pressing down on a peak as they moved towards the northern border river, the Saar River.

On the other side of the river was the border town of Germany. The patrolling guards on the city wall had long seen the smoke and dust on the southern horizon, and they knew that what was coming would eventually come.

”The enemy has appeared. Five kilometers of the horizon is filled with smoke belts …”

”Explosion of the railway bridge and the stone bridge … Artillery ready to fire... ”The enemy has appeared …”

In Flosad's field of vision, it suddenly erupted with many flashes of light and smoke that rushed into the sky, followed by a sound like thunder in his ears.

”Damn it!” Prussian blew up the bridge over the river, and even railway bridge was blown up? This group of turtles … ”Let our engineers do it!”

Also, send a telegram to His Majesty, the Prussian does not have the guts to fight against us, the France.

”Hahaha …” We have all overestimated these Germans, they don't even have the strength to fight with our France! ”

There was a railway link between France and Germany, and trade between the two countries was very frequent during the non-war period, only because the war temporarily prevented trade between them.

It goes without saying how important the railway line was to them. Seeing the Prussian exploding on them meant that they had no intention to attack.

Without the transportation support of the railway, the Prussian army could only return to the most primitive mode of supply. That kind of backwardness wouldn't be able to support the consumption of hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

Boom! Boom! Boom! The French artillery began firing at the other side of the river. The heavy bronze cannons fired a shell with a delay fuse towards the Prussian army's position on the other side.

Boom! Boom! Boom! In Salbrucon City, clouds of dust exploded, following that, Prussian army's cannons started to counterattack.

The Salbrucon was a trap set up by the Prussian. The citizens of the city have long been evacuated, and at the moment, there was only a single division standing guard, equipped with the most primitive weapons.

Cannons were eliminated when they were Poo War s, and their firing speed and accuracy were not even comparable to that of the French army. Adding to that, there were not many cannons in the first place, so the strength of the counter-attack was minimal.

With this, the morale of the French army rose. The engineers began to speed up the erection of the pontoon bridge, and the boats were pushed into the river by ropes. The undercover experts quickly swam to the opposite shore with the support of their own forces.