Chapter 602 "Assassination" (Part 2)

Captain Galvin immediately shouted "Everyone be alert!", and then he was shot through the head.

In fact, when the carriage full of logs suddenly appeared, everyone had already entered a state of combat.

Because in theory, such large trucks are not allowed to enter this street. Even if some people want to make money, they will choose to come at night, after all, it is not easy to be discovered.

And transporting these woods during the day will easily be targeted by the police and gendarmes and will inevitably be exploited. Even if the police and gendarmes are sent away, pedestrians on the two busy streets in front and behind will also be in big trouble.

The sudden appearance of an obviously overloaded carriage was too abrupt, and when the captain of the guard pulled out his pistol, the coachman on the opposite side was obviously panicked, so the carriage suddenly lost control.

Otherwise, the logs would not be scattered on the ground, but should have hit Baron Brook's carriage.

Seeing that the plan had changed, the attacker was not ambiguous and chose to shoot directly.

After the first gunshot, there was a series of gunshots, but the main target of the shooting was the coachman and the horse.

Unfortunately, the attackers still used muzzle-loading rifles, and even a skilled veteran would need more than 20 seconds to fire a bullet.

The guards accompanying Baron Brooke immediately raised their guns to fight back, killing several gunmen who did not hide in time.

But at this time, a group of gunmen rushed out from both sides of the street, and they all used revolvers, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides.

The attackers wanted to use their numerical advantage to quickly end the battle, but what they did not expect was that only four air rifles suppressed the charge of dozens of people.

The range of air rifles is 150 meters, but in fact, it cannot kill people if it exceeds 50 meters, and even if it is shot at close range, it cannot penetrate 3mm (millimeter) steel plates.

However, air rifles have an unparalleled shooting speed and continuous shooting ability before the invention of submachine guns. Four air rifles rained bullets at the rushing gunmen at a rate of two rounds per second.

15 seconds, 120 bullets, directly knocked down the 20 gunmen who rushed to the front, and the remaining gunmen had never seen such fierce firepower, and they all retreated for a while.

At this time, it was the turn of the lever rifle to show its power, and the fierce and accurate bullets kept reducing the number of attackers.

Of course, there were also attackers who used the commanding heights to shoot cold arrows at the guards. But soon the attackers found the problem. Pistols and muzzle-loading guns had no advantage at all when shooting against lever rifles.

In particular, revolvers seemed to only rely on ricochets and "God" to kill opponents, while lever rifles could accurately shoot them.

At the same time, the attackers found a problem, that is, the expected guards did not stand in front of the carriage to block the bullets with their bodies, but everyone hid behind the carriage.

What's even more outrageous is that the carriage was unscathed after being shot by dozens of rifle bullets and hundreds of pistols, and the leader of the attackers was also anxious.

With the sound of a flowerpot breaking, all the gunmen rushed to the carriage desperately as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

They thought that the silent and fast weapons had been used up, but they miscalculated. Just now, the four air riflemen had replaced the gas cylinders, and the rain of bullets came again.

But this time, the attackers did not retreat, and rushed to the carriage with huge casualties. The guards also knew that the last moment had come, and they all dropped their long guns and drew their revolvers to fight.

The close combat shooting was very tragic. People on both sides kept falling down one after another. Soon the last guard and the last attacker who rushed up exchanged fire and fell to the ground.

At this time, there were nearly a hundred bodies lying on the street. In fact, there was still a team of attackers left, but because the carriage was too strong, long-range shooting was ineffective, so they could only get close to the carriage to ensure that they killed the target.

"Damn! How can these bastards fight so well! They fought for so long, it seems that we can't escape!"

An attacker said very unwillingly.

Another attacker said expressionlessly: "The buyer has paid enough hush money. Our current task is to confirm the target's death, and then the balance will be left to our family."

"Damn it! Damn it!"

The attackers walked to the carriage and found that the entire carriage was welded with steel.

Just as they were thinking about how to open this "steel shell turtle", Klaus overturned the stall next to him, and the air rifle was used again. As the gas in the high-pressure gas cylinder ran out, the last attacker also died in convulsions.

Klaus pulled out his revolver and leaned against the stall to be on guard until the city defense army arrived and lost consciousness.

Looking at the corpses on the ground and the messy streets, there was an illusion of being on the battlefield. They had never seen such a tragic battle.

80% of the attackers were shot dead or died of bleeding, and the situation of the rest was not optimistic.

Eight guards died on the spot, and ten of the remaining thirteen lost consciousness, and the other three also lost their ability to move.

Baron Brooke himself only hit his forehead against the steel plate, with some minor trauma and concussion.

After interrogation, it was confirmed that the attack was planned by a few big families.

What was the purpose? Naturally, it was the position of the central bank governor, because Brooke blocked the financial path of too many people.

Since Baron Brooke was supported by Archduke Franz, those people naturally did not dare to do anything to the latter, so they could only find a way to deal with the former.

So he hired a hundred gunmen to assassinate Baron Bruck on the street in front of the Central Bank, but Franz knew that this matter was far from that simple.

Who had the ability to send away all the nearby gendarmes and policemen, and at the same time make the guards affiliated with the Central Bank stay put.

Just when Franz was ready to investigate thoroughly, Count Schüssel found the former and warned Franz not to continue the investigation.

He knew that this was his mother's intention, so Franz immediately rushed back to Schönbrunn Palace to ask Mrs. Sophie in person.

"Mother, why? They took the initiative to provoke us. Do you want me to swallow my anger? The previous assassination attempt on my father was also the same. What are you thinking?"

Mrs. Sophie: "Franz, I hope you can understand that this country does not belong to you before you ascend the throne.

And by sacrificing Brooke alone, you can get the support of many people."

Franz asked angrily: "Do you want to use a financial expert who is loyal to the country to exchange for the support of a group of trash who only know how to intrigue?"

Mrs. Sophie was not in a hurry. She seemed to have known that Franz would say this.

"Mr. Brooke is indeed a loyal person, but he is not irreplaceable. There is no shortage of people in the empire who are more capable and have better backgrounds than him.

You are not the emperor yet. You need to win over those big families to support you, instead of going against them and forcing them to support your opponents to prevent you from ascending the throne."

Mrs. Sophie's words confused Franz, who didn't know what "opponent" he had. Could it be Maximilian, but that was too far-fetched.

Just the will and Salic Law left by Franz II made Franz feel that he could not lose to Maximilian.

In addition, if his brother was really so foolish, although he would not kill his own brother, he would have to teach him a lesson.