Chapter 287 Control the slave city-state

The city of Meereen is located on the northernmost coast of Slaver's Bay, on a sandy headland near the mouth of the Skazardan River. To the east is a series of hills, and after that is a mountain of sandstone. In the past, countless mercenaries went to Laza to burn, kill, and loot through the Kasai Pass in the mountains.

On the flagship's bridge, Ryan looked out over the city with a telescope. The city is surrounded by a tall and heavy city wall made of colorful bricks, and there are defensive towers protruding from the city wall at intervals. According to ex-slaves who escaped from here, the bronze harpy heads on the city walls can spray boiling oil on enemies. And the most impressive thing about this city is those tall pyramids.

It looks solid, but I don't think the city can last long with us. After speaking, Ryan ordered ten gunboats to go out of the port and sink all the ships that wanted to escape. Five other gunboats landed on the edge of the open field outside the city under cover of the transport.

When Ryan and the others landed, the city walls were also busy. You can see many soldiers wearing bronze scale armor and holding spears running around on the fortifications.

Since this was a sudden attack, the city did not make any preparations at all. Lane ordered 3,000 soldiers and 600 robots to sweep the slave estates in the suburbs and mountains, while freeing the enslaved compatriots. And he took 5,000 people to camp outside the city gate.

This day was safe and sound. Lane and the others needed time to rescue the slaves in the surrounding manor and mines, while the city was in chaos because of a sudden attack, and they could not come up with a response plan for the time being. Three days have passed in this standoff, with no clashes other than gunboats sinking five or six ships trying to leave the port. The army that went to the countryside to free slaves killed 1,200 slave soldiers with zero casualties, and at the same time rescued more than 20,000 Lazarins who had become slaves and thousands of people from other ethnic groups.

After a general medical examination, the freed slaves were sent back to Raza by steamship, and some soldiers even looked for them there. their relatives who were kidnapped long ago. This made everyone's desire to fight even stronger.

On the third day, the city gates were opened. The pike regiment came out of the city and formed a dozen squadrons, and slowly advanced towards Ryan and their camp. At the same time, under the escort of the army, a group of slave owners dressed in silk sat on the seats of the city wall. Laughing and pointing at the Lazarin army under the city, as if watching an interesting drama.

Are they crazy? The staff next to him showed disbelief. All are now well aware of the power of the weapons they now hold, and the Lazarins who have been inculcated in memory and blessed with faith are elite warriors. They didn't understand why the army in Meereen would abandon the city walls and run out to die under such circumstances. It is even less understandable why the rulers of these cities are watching them like they are watching a play.

However, the stupidity of the enemy is also a good thing, and soon Lazarin's army was formed into a square formation in units of companies. In the gaps of the square are steam artillery robots or steam machine gun robots.

After the opposing pikemen had left the city gate some distance away, Lazarin's army opened fire. The battlefield was immediately filled with white steam, and the dense spear formation was easily swept away by the projectiles shot by the steam machine guns, and the shells loaded with explosive cherries were projected by the steam cannons into the army formation and the city wall, blasting out blossoms. Flowers made of flesh.

Each soldier is equipped with an air gun that can fire 20 consecutive rounds. The effective range of this air gun is about 300 meters. A 13mm projectile can penetrate a five-centimeter-thick plank 300 meters away. Soldiers gave this magical weapon a poetic name: the wind gun.

They used wind guns to easily knock down those who slipped out of the smoke from one or two hundred meters away,

The logisticians then shuttled back and forth between the shooters and the steam-filling station, changing the tanks for the shooters.

Finally, no one rushed out of the smoke, and the Lazarin soldiers put down their rifles in confusion. Although they knew how to fight this kind of war in the memory injection, they really didn't think that it would be so easy on the battlefield.

Before setting off, these soldiers actually set foot on the battlefield with the determination to die. Because they have been invaded all the year round, they have left a deep psychological shadow on them, so this time they went to battle with the idea of ​​fighting to the death for the gods and their hometown, but they didn't expect victory to come so easily.

The smoke finally dissipated, and the battlefield in front of the city gate was revealed to everyone's eyes: the bodies of the spearmen in bronze armor fell to the ground in a dense mass, and many were even annihilated in a phalanx formation in an instant. A large number of scattered limbs are scattered everywhere, and only a few lucky ones are wandering in this battlefield full of corpses.

The battlefield fell into absolute silence for a moment, until a gust of wind blew down the city gate full of bullet holes, revealing the seemingly chaotic streets in the city.

Rush, rush in. At this time, he was a fool who could not seize the opportunity. Under the command of the officer, Lazarin's army quickly rushed through the unguarded city gate and entered the gate. In the case of losing most of the army and commander, (the slave owners who ran to the city wall were basically wiped out in the first round of artillery bombardment, and by the way, the city completely lost command.) Lazarin The army completely wiped out the resistance in the city with single-digit casualties and occupied Meereen.

After entering the city to restore order, the first thing Ryan did was to find a few slaves and ask why those slave owners sent troops out of the city to fight.

The answer I got was a bit dumbfounding. When the surrounding slave plantations were breached, some slave owners ran into the city. After knowing that the people in the city were the Lazarins, they were attacked. The impression of the Lazarin is arrogant that it was delivered to the door by the slaves themselves. Only then did they order the army to take the initiative to attack and even go to the city wall to watch the play. In their eyes, this battle was just a good-looking gladiatorial fight. Their armies can easily crush these Lazarins.

It is a pity that Lane completely brought the Lazarin people into the era of industrialization in a short period of time, so that the outcome of the war was completely different from what the slave owners of Meereen had imagined, and they became the party that was crushed by the wheel of history.

After the war, Rose Crystal came here to absorb the godless faith in the Temple of Holy Grace with divine fire, and at the same time implanted its own faith in the city. When a miracle appeared, within a week, most of the people in the city began to believe in the rose crystal, which occupies the seat of the supreme faun in the name of the supreme crystal.

A side effect of this behavior is that the rose crystal can easily obtain enough information from the believers, which makes the subsequent eradication of the rebels much easier.

After the insurgents were completely wiped out, a large number of crash-trained administrators took over the city. Started the process of modernizing the city.

The army moved south along the coastline, and the other slave city-states were just as vulnerable as Meereen. In just two months, Yunkai, Astapor, New Ghis, and a series of small settlements were captured and controlled, even if they were prepared for battle. Whether it's the loose mercenaries, the tough Unsullied or the elite army of armored elephants in New Ghis, they're all vulnerable to the dense rain of bullets from the new army. And the thick city wall can't stop the attack of magic and artillery, let alone the slaves who account for most of the city and the defenders are not of one mind.

And individual hostile casters who possess extraordinary powers were easily killed or subdued by Ryan and Rose Crystal. Naturally, Ryan also gained a lot of extraordinary knowledge.

After finally finishing the western part of Slaver Bay with the four slave-holding Guise civilization cities as the core, Ryan returned to Meereen, because there were more important things waiting for him here than war.

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