Struggle in the Steam Age

"What should we do now?" After letting the maid leave, the emperor's office was immediately caught up in heated discussions. Because at this time even a pig knew that there was a conspiracy attacking the royal family and even this country, but everyone didn't know where the problem was.

Immediately the entire office fell into chaos, because now the emperor and all the children in the palace were in a coma at the same time. The entire palace is obviously in a state of no leader. At this time, let alone the organization of personnel to quell the outside guards, and even the interior of the palace could not maintain a stable state.

In particular, the old emperor has established an image of absolute authority in the history of more than 40 years of rule since he became the throne at the age of 16. The person who decides. Therefore, the ministers in the office all got together in a panic to discuss, but ten minutes passed and they did not discuss any results.

Just as a group of ministers bucked each other, the knock on the door came in again. The attendant opened the door and was quickly pushed aside, and then a very young officer walked in.

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

"You haven't discussed anything here, so I think I have to stand up and do something now." Prince Eugene took a look at his uncle who was being rescued by the casters and doctors and said.

It is not wrong for him to say that. After all, he is now the commander of the new-style field division who has been 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 personally appointed by the emperor as the teacher of this division and fought bravely on the front line. He was recognized both in terms of ability and loyalty.

"Then what are your plans, Your Highness?" Prime Minister Frederick asked, "Should we now disperse the army in the capital and maintain order in the city?"

"It should be the case under normal circumstances, but now you can't do this after His Majesty is in a coma." Prince Eugene said as an officer who has experienced actual combat. "Obviously, both the recent incidents of the Imperial Guards and His Majesty’s coma are part of a conspiracy, and the reason why the conspirators let the emperor comatose 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 said. "No, we were just sent to the Imperial Guard camp to arrest people. The officials and those from the courts were either blocked outside the camp and unable to enter, or they were blocked by the Imperial Guards in the camp after they caught people. Can't get out."

"Obviously, the other party has already started." After hearing the officer's report, Prince Eugene immediately reacted. "Next, they should come up with something that must meet the emperor, and then use the current emperor to be unconscious and unable to meet them as an excuse to launch a riot."

"Then I will beg of you next." The prime minister was the first to calm down from the bad information, and then said decisively. "We civil servants are observing your command at this time. Please arrange the next thing."

As a prime minister who served ten years under the emperor, such as Joseph I, who can be regarded as a generation of emperors, the baron of the court of Frederick was not a person with insufficient ability, and he could even be said to belong 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, so he seemed a little frantic when encountering this sudden situation.

Fortunately, after Prince Eugene stood up, Prime Minister Frederick immediately recovered from the panic, and then decisively handed over the command to Prince Eugene, the best commander here. With his help, the palace immediately had a unified command and became organized.

"Since the imperial guards are still in their respective barracks, the riots have not yet fully spread. The officials will first gather their relatives and those officials in the inner city into the palace, and I will send some troops to assist. You. But apart from food, water and weapons, everything else is not allowed into the palace."

After taking over the command, Prince Eugene quickly issued the order. In addition to ordering the relevant personnel to shrink towards the palace and begin to deploy defenses around the palace. He also asked the officials to deploy the manpower in the palace and start building some temporary fortifications with the army to prepare for the next shock.

But what they didn't expect was that the opponent's movements were faster than expected. Just as night fell, and before all the evacuees had time to withdraw into the palace gate, 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 sound in the streets.

In such a situation, a beautifully decorated carriage drove quickly along the road in front of the palace towards the gate of the castle where the palace is located. It may be that the surrounding gunfire made the passengers in the carriage fearful. 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 threw a whip in the air to force the horse to run faster.

"Stop, and the people in the car get out of the car for inspection, otherwise we will open fire." The soldiers behind the posts piled up by 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. Shouted the horn.

According to the order of Prince Eugene, those who came to the palace to take refuge were only allowed to enter the palace gate with their belongings. The carriage is arranged by the military. It is true that some people do not intend to abide by order, but under the threat of gunpoint, these high-ranking officials finally chose to compromise.

However, the owner of the carriage obviously did not intend to compromise. After hearing the shouts from the post, the carriage did not slow down like other people's carriages, but ran faster after a whip sound.

"Fire!" As a modern army, once it enters a wartime state, 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 to stop the horse from advancing.

But what he didn't expect was ~www.wuxiahere.com~ After the coachman waved his whip violently, the whole whip immediately waved past the horse with a blue light, blocking the horse. The deadliest bullets. In this way, the few shots that could kill the horse only brought a few non-fatal wounds to the horse pulling the cart.

These wounds not only did not hinder the carriage from moving forward, but angered the horses that pulled the carriage to make the carriage run faster. The second lieutenant could only watch as the carriage hit the wooden railing in the middle of the road and ran toward the square like a gust of wind.

However, as soon as they ran more than ten meters away, the legs of the horse pulling the cart sank into the horse trapping pit that had just been opened by a few extraordinary warriors directly on the stone slab of the square. Because the horses were running fast, the horse's legs were broken by these people's forearm deep traps.

The steed with the broken leg swooped forward, while the carriage behind him continued to rush forward with inertia. In an instant, the belts of the harness connecting the carriage and the horse broke, and the carriage hit the horse.

In the last scream of the horse's life, the wheels of the carriage flew out of the axle after the collision. Then the whole carriage turned over and slid forward five or six meters before it stopped. Just when the soldiers were about to step forward to check the specific situation, the coachman just suddenly jumped out of the wreckage of the carriage, holding his long whip in his hand.