The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 289 Controlling the Slave City-State (Please subscribe, collect, and vote)

The city of Meereen is located on the northernmost coast of Slaver's Bay, on a sandy cape near the mouth of the Skahzadan River. To its east is a series of hills, and behind that is a sandstone mountain range. In the past, countless mercenaries went to Lhaza to burn, kill and plunder through the Kaiser Pass on the mountain range.

On the bridge of the flagship, Ryan looked at the city from afar with a telescope. The city was surrounded by a circle of tall and thick walls made of colorful bricks, and there were defense towers protruding from the walls at intervals. According to the former slaves who escaped from here, the bronze harpy heads on the walls could spray boiling oil at the enemy. The most impressive thing about this city was the tall pyramids.

"It looks strong, but I don't think this city can hold out for long." Ryan ordered ten gunboats to go out of the port and sink any ships that tried to escape. The other five gunboats covered the transport ships and landed on the edge of the wilderness outside the city.

When Ryan and his men landed, the city walls were also in a state of chaos. Many soldiers wearing copper-scale armor and holding spears could be seen running around on the fortifications.

Since this was a surprise attack, the city had no preparations at all. Ryan ordered 3000 soldiers with 600 robots to sweep the slave estates in the suburbs and mountains and liberate the enslaved compatriots. He camped outside the city gate with 5000 people.

The day was uneventful. Ryan and his men needed time to rescue the slaves in the surrounding estates and mines, while the city was in chaos due to the sudden attack and could not come up with a response plan for the time being. Three days passed in this confrontation. Except for the gunboats that sank five or six ships trying to leave the port, there was no conflict. The army that went to the countryside to liberate the slaves killed 1200 slave armed forces with zero casualties, and rescued more than Lazarins who had become slaves and thousands of people of other nationalities.

After a rough physical examination, these freed slaves were sent back to Laza by steamship. Some soldiers even looked for their relatives who had been abducted long ago. This made everyone's desire for war even stronger.

On the third day, the city gate was opened. The spearmen came out of the city and formed a dozen square formations, slowly advancing towards Ryan's camp. At the same time, under the escort of the army, a group of slave owners wearing silk sat on the seats on the city wall. They laughed and pointed at the Lazarin army below the city, as if they were watching an interesting drama.

"Are they crazy?" The staff officers nearby looked incredulous. Everyone now knew the power of the weapons they held, and the Lhazarin, who had been instilled with memories and blessed with faith, were all elite warriors. They didn't understand why the army in Meereen would abandon the city walls and run out to die. They couldn't understand why the rulers of these cities were watching them like a show.

But the enemy's stupidity was also a good thing, and soon the Lazarin army also formed into square formations with company units. In the gaps between the square formations were steam artillery robots or steam machine gun robots.

After the pikemen on the opposite side left the city gate for a distance, the Lazarin army opened fire. The battlefield was immediately filled with white steam, and the dense pike formations were easily swept away by the bullets fired by the steam machine guns, while the shells loaded with explosive cherries were thrown by the steam cannons into the army formation and the city walls, exploding into flowers made of flesh and blood.

Each soldier was equipped with an air rifle that could fire 20 rounds in a row. The effective range of this air rifle was about 13 meters. A 300mm bullet could penetrate a cm thick wooden board meters away. The soldiers gave this magical weapon a poetic name: the wind gun.

They used wind guns to easily knock down those escaped fish that rushed out of the smoke one or two hundred meters away, while the logistics soldiers shuttled back and forth between the shooters and the steam filling station to replace the gas cylinders 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 expect that it would be so easy on the battlefield.

Before setting out, these soldiers actually stepped onto the battlefield with the determination to die. Because they had been deeply traumatized by the invasions for many years, they went to the battlefield with the idea of ​​fighting to the death for the gods and their hometowns, but they did not expect victory to come so easily. Finally, the smoke cleared, and the battlefield in front of the city gate was revealed to everyone: the bodies of the spearmen wearing bronze armor fell densely on the ground, and many of them were even killed in a square formation in an instant. A large number of scattered limbs were scattered everywhere, and only a few lucky ones wandered in a daze on this battlefield full of corpses.

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

"Charge, charge in." If you don't seize the opportunity at this time, you are a fool. Under the command of the officers, the Lazarin army quickly rushed through the unguarded city gate. After losing most of the troops and commanders (the slave owners who ran to the city wall were basically wiped out in the first round of bombardment, and the city was completely without command.) The Lazarin army completely eliminated the resistance in the city with single-digit casualties and occupied Meereen.

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

The answer they got was somewhat ridiculous. When they attacked the surrounding slave plantations, some slave owners took advantage of the chaos and ran into the city. After the people in the city knew that they were attacked by Lazarins, they arrogantly thought that the slaves had come to them based on their previous impression of the Lazarins. That’s why they ordered the army to take the initiative to attack and even ran to the city wall to watch the show. In their eyes, this battle was just a good-looking fight. Their army could easily crush these Lazarins.

Unfortunately, Ryan completely led the Lazarene into the industrial age in a short period of time, making the outcome of the war completely different from what the Meereen slave owners had imagined, and they became the ones crushed by the wheels of history.

After the war, Rose Crystal came here and used the divine fire to absorb the masterless faith in the Temple of Holy Grace, while implanting her own faith in the city. With the appearance of miracles, within a week, most people in the city began to believe in Rose Crystal, who occupied the position of the Supreme Shepherd God in the name of the Supreme Crystal.

One side effect of this behavior is that Rose Quartz can easily obtain enough information from believers, making it much easier to eliminate the rebels later.

After completely wiping out the rebels, a large number of administrators trained in a crash course took over the city, starting the process of modernizing the city.

The army moved south along the coastline, and other slave cities were as vulnerable as Meereen. It took only two months for Yunkai, Astapor, New Ghis, and a series of small settlements to be captured and controlled, even if they were well prepared for battle. Whether it was the scattered mercenaries, the tough Unsullied, or the elite legions of New Ghis with armored elephants, they were all vulnerable to the dense rain of bullets from the new army. The heavy walls could not stop the attacks of magic and artillery, not to mention that the majority of slaves in the city were not on the same page with the defenders.

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

After finally taking control of the western part of the Slaver's Bay, with the four slave-owning cities of the Ghis civilization as the core, Llane returned to Meereen, because there were more important things waiting for him here than war.

(End of this chapter)