Struggle in the Steam Age

"What should we do now?" After letting the maid leave, the emperor's office immediately fell into a heated discussion. Because at this time, even a pig knows that there is a conspiracy attacking the royal family and even this country, but no one knows what the problem is.

Immediately the whole office fell into chaos, because now the emperor and all the children in the palace were unconscious at the same time. The entire palace is obviously in a state of leaderless. At this time, not to mention organizing people to calm down the Imperial Guards outside, even the inside of the palace could not maintain a stable state.

Especially since the old emperor ascended the throne at the age of 16, he has established an image of absolute authority in the 40-plus years of ruling history, and has the ability to say what he says, so that there is no one in the palace who can stand up and make a decision at this critical moment. decider. Therefore, the ministers in the office all got together in a panic to discuss, but after ten minutes passed, they did not discuss any results.

Just as a group of ministers were shuffling each other, the knock on the door came in again. The aide-de-camp opened the door and was quickly pushed aside, and a very young-looking officer walked in.

"Prince Eugene, Your Majesty is still in a coma. What are you doing here?" The ministers who were discussing just now immediately turned their heads to see the movement in front of the door, and then recognized the intruder.

"You haven't discussed anything here, so I think I have to stand up and do something now." Prince Eugene glanced at his uncle who was being rescued by those spellcasters and doctors.

It's not wrong for him to say that, after all, he is now the commander of the new field military division that was dispatched to the capital, and he controls the only army in the capital that is absolutely loyal to the royal family. Not to mention that as the son of the emperor's younger brother, he was appointed by the emperor himself as the commander of this division and fought bravely on the front line. He was recognized both in terms of ability and loyalty.

"Then what's your plan, Your Highness?" Prime Minister Friedrich asked, "Do you want to disperse the army now to deploy defenses in the capital and maintain order in the city?"

"It should be true under normal circumstances, but now you can't do this after His Majesty the Emperor is in a coma." Prince Eugene, an officer who has experienced actual combat, said. "Obviously, whether it's the recent incidents of the Imperial Guards or His Majesty's coma are part of a conspiracy, and the reason why the conspirators put the Emperor in a coma now means that they are likely to use this time to do something— "

At this moment, the door was pushed open again. An officer rushed in and spoke. "It's not good, we were just sent to the camp of the Imperial Guards to arrest people. The officials and the people from the court were either blocked outside the barracks and couldn't get in, or they were blocked by the Imperial Guards in the camp after arresting people. Can't get out."

"Obviously, the other party has already activated it." After hearing the officer's report, Prince Eugene immediately reacted. "Next, they should come up with something that must meet His Majesty the Emperor, and then use His Majesty's coma now and cannot meet them as an excuse to launch a riot."

"Then I'll leave it to you." The prime minister was the first to calm down from the bad news, and then said decisively. "We civil servants are following your command at this time, please arrange the next thing."

As the prime minister who worked for ten years under an emperor like Joseph I who could be regarded as a generation of Mingjun, Baron Friedrich Court is not a person with insufficient ability, and it can even be said that he belongs to the most capable part of the imperial bureaucracy. It's just that he had been dealing with various problems step by step under the command of His Majesty the Emperor before, so he seemed a little flustered when he encountered such a sudden situation.

Fortunately, after Prince Eugene stepped forward, Prime Minister Friedrich immediately recovered from the panic, and then decisively handed over the command to the best commander here, Prince Eugene. With his help, the palace immediately had a unified command and became orderly.

"Because the Imperial Guards are still in their respective barracks, the riots have not yet spread completely. All the officials gather all their relatives and those affairs officers in the inner city into the palace, and I will send some troops to assist You. But nothing is allowed into the palace except food, water and weapons."

After taking over the command, Prince Eugene quickly issued orders immediately. In addition to ordering the relevant personnel to shrink to the palace and begin to deploy defenses around the palace. He also asked those officials to deploy the manpower in the palace, and together with the army, began to build some temporary fortifications to prepare for the next impact.

But what they didn't expect was that the opponent's movements were faster than expected. Just as night fell and before the evacuees could all withdraw into the gate of the palace, the Imperial Guard finally rushed out of the barracks under the instigation of the group of noble officers, and scattered gunshots and explosions began to resound in the streets.

In such a situation, a gorgeously decorated carriage quickly drove along the road in front of the palace to the gate of the castle where the palace is located. It may be because of the surrounding gunfire that the passengers in the car were frightened. The driver of this carriage After seeing the temporary checkpoint on the square in front of the palace, instead of ordering the carriage to slow down, he whipped a whip in the air to force the horse to run faster.

"Stop the car, and at the same time the people in the car get out of the car for inspection, otherwise we will open fire." The soldiers behind the posts piled up with sandbags on both sides of the road immediately raised their rifles and aimed at the carriage, and a second lieutenant also raised the iron sheet The trumpet shouted loudly.

According to the previous order of Prince Eugene, those who came to the palace to take refuge were only allowed to enter the gate of the palace with their belongings. The carriages are arranged uniformly by the military. It is true that some people did not intend to abide by the order, but under the threat of gunpoint, these dignitaries finally chose to compromise.

However, the owner of this carriage obviously did not intend to compromise. After hearing the shout from the sentry post, the carriage did not slow down like other cars, but ran faster after a whip.

"Fire!" As a modern army, once it enters the state of war, it will naturally strictly abide by the orders of its superiors. So the second lieutenant immediately ordered his men to shoot at the horse pulling the cart after discovering that the carriage had not stopped to stop the horse from advancing.

But what he didn't expect was that after the driver swung his whip violently, the whole whip immediately passed in front of the horse with a ball of blue light, blocking the most deadly blows for the horse. bullet. In this way, the few shots that could have killed the horse only caused a few non-fatal wounds to the horse pulling the cart.

And these wounds not only did not hinder the carriage from moving forward, but instead irritated the horses pulling the carriage and made the carriage run faster. The second lieutenant could only watch helplessly as the carriage smashed through the wooden railing placed in the middle of the road like a gust of wind and ran towards the square.

But just after running more than ten meters, the legs of the horses pulling the cart got stuck in the horse trap that several extraordinary warriors had just opened on the stone slabs of the square with their weapons. Because the horse was running fast, the horse's leg was broken on the spot by the horse pit deep in the forearm of these people.

The horse with a broken leg swooped forward and fell forward, while the carriage behind him continued to rush forward according to its inertia. In an instant the straps that connected the carriage to the horse's harness snapped, and the carriage hit the horse.

In the last howl of the life of the horse pulling the cart, the wheels of the cart were thrown off the axle after the collision. Then the whole car turned over and slid forward five or six meters before stopping. Just when the soldiers were about to step forward to check the specific situation, the driver suddenly jumped out from the wreckage of the carriage, holding his long whip in his hand.