Chapter 88, Artillery (please order first!!!)

Author: red heart cloth

Chapter 88, Artillery (please order first!!!)

Bradford came up with a sinister plan.

Pretending to agree to Norris's condition of giving up resistance, then going back on his word and killing him.

Lambert was somewhat tempted by this plan, but ultimately refused to do it.

Indeed, as Bradford said, doing so will save a lot of effort, at least there will be no need to fight. In a hard attack, thousands of people, even ordinary workers, will be armed, basically only equipped with light weapons.

But after all, it is defended in a reinforced factory. If you want to conquer it, you need to put in some effort and even have to bear a lot of casualties.

But Lambert still plans to do it.

The main reason was that he didn't want Gu Hang to be known as a treacherous person.

In private, any means is acceptable, but on the surface, as a ruler, credibility is very important. In a sense, it even represents credibility and whether the policy is easily believed by the people.

In this case, you have to pretend to be aboveboard.

Being clever here may indeed save a lot of effort in solving the Norris problem, but the price of taking shortcuts at this moment may be doubled from other places.

After making this decision, he also used it to mock Bradford, saying that he could only be a businessman in his life and would never understand the structure of politicians who do great things.

Bradford was speechless.

Lambert's actions also received additional support.

He mobilized two infantry battalions that entered the city with the governor, and also pulled out a dozen heavy cannons from the captured military weapons, and made a gesture of storming.

Norris sent an envoy to discuss the terms of surrender, but Lambert once again refused.

Lambert asked all those who resisted in the factory to surrender unconditionally, lay down their weapons, and await the trial of the Governor.

It was an ultimatum, and Lambert would only give them an hour.

The news was brought back to the factory by the messenger, and everyone inside was silent.

After an hour, when no one came out to surrender, Lambert ordered the war to begin.

He was roped in to help Purbov and ordered his 2nd Battalion to start playing with the newly acquired big toy.

Those were five 155mm howitzers; the 6th Battalion next door, which was brought in to work together, also had five captured artillery pieces as battalion firepower.

Ten heavy cannons opened fire in unison, and shells were fired into the factory one after another.

After one volley was fired, billowing black smoke billowed out of the factory.

The governor's soldiers did not rush inside.

When the enemy is completely surrounded, it would be foolish not to make good use of the heavy artillery. It would be a fool to use the lives of soldiers to fill it. Anyway, there are a lot of artillery shells in stock. Ten artillery guns will fire a dozen or twenty rounds.

After the heavy artillery bombardment is over, let's talk about the infantry going in to clear it up.

During this process, Lambert also received additional assistance.

Sister Gerrit came here with six nuns.

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This was not the first time Lambert had met the Sisters of the Lily of Mercy.

To be honest, he prefers these battle nuns who always have gentle smiles on their faces compared to the phoenixes who have dark faces all day long and look like they should not let strangers in.

Although there is a war, these nuns are still ruthless.

However, since we have seen each other before, this was the first time for us to communicate, so Lambert seemed a little cautious.

"Nice to meet you, Mother Superior, thank you very much for coming to our aid."

Gritte said: "You're welcome, we are all fighting for the empire. Mr. Lambert, I have heard about what your family has been through. It is a pity that this kind of thing has happened to you."

"Thank you. However, I remember that you and your subordinates should be investigating the traces of the cult in the city? How can you have time to participate in the battle here in the factory?"

Garrett responded: "There is evil hidden in this factory. Moreover, the activities of the cultists may be related to the disaster suffered by your Hodgson family."

Lambert immediately took it seriously.

"Can you tell me?"

"It's okay."

Then, the head nun told Lambert, the descendant of the victim, in more detail what she had discovered during this period.

She went to investigate the death scene of old Hodgson and found the remnants of heresy in the Hodgson family mansion.

Therefore, she believed that heretics were involved in the assassination of old Hodgson.

The other sisters went to investigate other clues, and she came here with six people.

At the beginning, the mastermind who planned to assassinate Hodgson was Mondoc, but that man was already dead; the remaining two participants were both here, and she came here to understand the situation.

After learning about this, Lambert immediately dragged Bradford out.

In the details about old Hodgson's death that this guy revealed before, he never mentioned anything about a cult.

Bradford was also confused after hearing the head nun's inquiry.

He doesn't know!

He didn't lie. He had reached this point. He was trying hard to survive and possibly get a reduced sentence. If he knew about the cult, how could he help the cult members hide it? He wished he could use those brains

The broken ones were sold out.

But he really didn't know about it. Mondoc was the mastermind behind the assassination. Bradford only participated in the aftermath and carve-up. He didn't care how the assassination was carried out.

In his opinion, it is not difficult for Mondoc, a guy who holds the military power of the Alliance, to do this.

Indeed, it turned out that the Hodgson family disappeared from their own mansion one night.

After confirming that Bradford was indeed not lying and that there was no aura related to a cult found on his body, the head nun let him go.

Then, she set her sights on the factory area in front of her that was still being bombarded by artillery fire.

There, there was the last plotter involved in Hodgson's assassination, that is, Old Norris.

In that factory, she could feel the fluctuations of the evil energy of the storm.

That is heretical sorcery energy - extraordinary power that does not believe in the God-Emperor but comes from praying to others is heretical in the eyes of the state religion.

Some radicals even believe that spontaneously generated psykers are heretics, and that there should be no legitimate psykers in this world.

These extremists are usually accused of being heretics by the Imperial Spiritual Society. War of words between the two sides is a daily occurrence, and even physical destruction of each other is a common occurrence.

Holy Mercy Lily is not that kind of extremist, otherwise the first person they would be hostile to would be the Governor himself.

It's just that members of the state religion, no matter what faction, will deeply hate the extraordinary energy that comes from other extraordinary creatures, through the connection of faith, and through heretical rituals.

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