Take the Empire To the Other World

The Lord of Laughter was the high-ranking professional that Maupassant left behind for the final siege. After his death, there was no existence in Reese that could resist the French line infantry.

Naturally, Wang Ziming's military orders were also carried out at the highest level.

In the process of suppressing the riots, Maupassant also issued a ban on guns according to Wang Ziming's wishes (mainly to snatch as many Longzheng rifles as possible). They have a small amount of federal banknotes, and all the Longzheng rifles and ammunition are forcibly seized from them!

Even the most basic black powder will be removed!

This started when the French line infantry had an absolute advantage in the city of Reese. The large number of troops allowed the French line infantry to search for weapons and ammunition from house to house while suppressing riots.

The reason given by the Bluecoats is that their safety will be their responsibility from now on. In order to ensure the safety of the market, no one is allowed to possess gunpowder weapons or even gunpowder!

Unsurprisingly, this act aroused the resentment of the citizens of Reese City, making the chaos more intense.

The ancestors of the citizens of Rees City were either adventurers or mercenaries, or armed farmers who were fooled over. There is still a fundamental difference from the obedient citizens of the Federation. Naturally, they are not willing to buy self-defense weapons at low prices.

What's more, these blue-clothed soldiers don't recognize the purchasing power of federal banknotes at all, but they are using federal banknotes to forcefully buy their weapons and ammunition!

Who dares to endure such an unfair thing?

Although the state apparatus has never been fair to the common people, what the Blue Shirts have done is really blatant!

In addition, the civilians in the colonial area have a fine tradition of fighting with guns, and naturally there are not a few people who resist.

Therefore, Wang Ziming was very pleased to find that the decline of the French line infantry that suppressed the city of Reese began to accelerate again!

In the city that had already been occupied, clashes erupted again because of the mandatory gun ban imposed by the French line infantry. A large number of men, women, and even children took out various weapons treasured by their ancestors and shot black guns at the French line infantry who came to knock on the door. !

Of course, Maupassant's order is also very firm, all rebels, regardless of men, women, old or young, will be killed on the spot!

They don't need prisoners and wounded!

This order turned the armed citizens of Reese City into two extremes. One side became cowering and handed it in. The last bullet was taken away honestly by the French infantry under the search...

The other side has no way out, as long as the first shot is fired, they will fight to the death, because even surrender is death!

Obviously, this order intensified the conflict between the two parties.

For the conquerors, it is unwise to intensify the conflict and not keep prisoners, because it will increase the number of casualties of their own army in the process of suppression, and the gain outweighs the loss.

But for Wang Ziming, this order made him raise his evaluation of Maupassant again in his heart!

The commander-in-chief was rightly promoted, and he won my heart!

With the number of infantry casualties on the French line soaring, the city of Rees has become cleaner and cleaner, and those left behind are basically ordinary people who have no dignity and are willing to kneel and lick the blue-clothed army...

Among them is the Ax Gang and their female boss Angela.

Not only did the Ax Gang voluntarily hand over a large amount of weapons and ammunition, Angela also had a personal discussion with Maupassant, and then the Ax Gang turned into the chief leader of the Blueshirts controlling the city of Reese.

With the guidance of this group of local snakes, the French line infantry suppressed the city of Reese like a fish in water, and the efficiency has more than doubled!

With the help of the Ax Gang, on January 30, 1888 in the federal calendar, Maupassant officially announced that all the "rebels" in the downtown area of ​​Rees had been eliminated.

The population of Reese City dropped by two-thirds at once...

This is only counting the resident population. After all, the resident population has a fixed residence, which is easy to calculate, while the floating population cannot be counted at all...

However, the floating population is either businessmen or armed personnel, who suffered the most in this crackdown and have basically been completely wiped out.

All the shops on the street that were related to food were looted, and the rest were afraid of encountering bandit-like blue-clothed soldiers, so they closed their doors one after another...

The market is depressed!

As a result, the resident population in Reese City has dropped to more than 7,000, and the garrison has exceeded 100,000, not including the garrison outside the city...

However, the battle in the urban area of ​​Reese City is over, but the battle at the port is still going on. After the French line infantry paid tens of thousands of people to seize the port from the guns of the Federation warships, the Federation warships still came occasionally unwillingly. A shelling.

Since the forts in the port were destroyed by the retreating federal soldiers, the French line infantry who occupied the port could only be passively beaten, and finally had to temporarily evacuate the port buildings.

But as soon as the people on the warship landed, the French infantry would launch an attack. After the casualties of the federal warship exceeded four figures, they dared not continue to try to seize the port of Reese...

And the Marine Corps that was originally stationed at the port of Reese City had already been wiped out in the previous repeated battles!

It also included a part of the marines who came from Porto.

Otherwise, even if they seized a mere port and were constantly bombarded by naval artillery, the French line infantry would not have killed or injured tens of thousands of people...

On the afternoon of the 30th, the federal flag could no longer be seen flying on all land, including the port, and both the local forces in Reese City and the federal government had been completely wiped out.

The precious metals in the various banks in Reese City were preserved by the Blue Shirts, and the useless federal banknotes were used as waste to buy various materials from the residents and remnants of Reese City's merchants.

Although Wang Ziming did not allow federal banknotes to circulate in the occupied area, due to the very good currency reputation of the Zilong Federation, people in the occupied area are still willing to trade with banknotes in private.

Of course, for Wang Ziming's army, banknotes can only be spent and never recovered.

The municipal government and officials at all levels in Reese City were swept away. Dong Chengfu, the steward of Yuwen's family who was sad for Wang Ziming, was shot in public.

Liu Tianhe, director of the conscription office in Reese City who had accepted bribes from Yuwen's family to frame Wang Ziming, failed to get a boat ticket when the city was broken, and committed suicide by swallowing a gun at home.

Hu Yuankai, the captain of the guard team who captured Wang Ziming when he just crossed over, was killed in a street fight, and Captain Shi Yuan, Yuwen's confidant, died in the battle of Yuwen's ancestral house, and fled to the mayor of Tomato Town in Reese City. Zhao Wusha did not board the battleship in Porto City, and was killed in the chaos...

But at this time, Wang Ziming no longer paid attention to the fate of these little people. He was checking the gains and losses of the Battle of Reese City.