1054 Focused Sniping
By the time the forces around Freiburg quietly blockaded Freiburg, Freiburg was already in disarray.
Unlike Pretoria, Johannesburg, a city on the plains, Fort Frey is a city built on a hill that was formerly a Boer army camp, and damaged weapons can still be found in the mountains around Freiburg after fierce fighting between the British Expeditionary Force and Boer Allied forces during the Second Boer War.
At the end of the Boer War, the Boer coalition forces near Freyburg laid down their arms and settled in the area, which gradually developed into what is now Freyburg.
The city of more than 10,000 people is actually not very large, covering an area of about five or six square kilometers, with a narrow winding street running through the city, and at the edge of the city is a valley that is not too deep, which is used as a garbage dump by the Freiburg people, and the valley is full of garbage.
After the resignation of Mayor Adela and the Speaker Price became the de facto controller of Freiburg, Price had previously been a member of the People's Party, but after the departure of Jan Smozi and the decline of the People's Party, Price broke away from the People's Party and formed a civil society called the Old Boers.
The "Old Boers" were organized like the Rifle Society, a loose mutual aid alliance with more than 6,000 members locally in Freiburg.
After the Orange Journal published the news of Louis Botha's death, the vast majority of the "Old Boers" believed that the federal government had murdered Louis Botha, and the protests quickly turned into riots throughout the surrounding area, and the "Old Boers" members in the area around Freiburg concentrated in Freiburg, and now there are about 25,000 people in Freiburg.
"Hasn't the radio been repaired yet?" Price also had offices in the parliament building, which had been occupied by the "Old Boers" and became the temporary headquarters of the "Old Boers."
The parliament building and the municipal building are located next to the only park in Freiburg, next to the municipal building is the police station and next to the parliament building is the former telegraph office.
After Freyburg fell into chaos, Agent Brad blew up the telegraph office as soon as possible, and the entire city's external communications were cut off.
Price urgently needed external liaison to secure domestic and foreign support, but communications have not yet been restored due to a lack of necessary technology and related spare parts.
"No, we searched the whole city and didn't find the parts we needed, the police station may have, but the police department is not under our control." Eric Rogil, the nominal head of the old Boers, frowned.
Now the problem is not just communications, the whole of Freyburg is full of organized robberies and murders, the municipal system and the police system have been completely thrown into chaos, and the "old Boers", although they are huge, do not have enough weapons and ammunition, and there is not enough food, these problems are more fatal than communications.
Food for weapons and ammunition in Freyburg has always been relatively scarce, and there is no local arsenal in Freyburg, so all weapons and ammunition have to be imported from Nyasaland.
Agriculture in Freiburg is also not developed enough, after all, it is a mountainous area, the area of farms that can be developed is limited, and the few farms that are the only ones that have been severely damaged after the start of the riots, and the South African company in Freiburg, which originally had two warehouses for storing food, was also burned down after the riots began.
Although the "old Boers" were powerful in Freiburg, they did not reach the level of covering the sky single-handedly.
After the riots began, some city employees and more than 30 police officers held the police station, using sandbags to block the only road in and out of the police station, and the old Boers have now surrounded the police station but have not yet launched an attack on the police station.
"Take down the police station, we have to get in touch with the outside world, or we'll be trapped in Freyburg." Price was anxious, and after the first few days of smooth sailing, the situation had taken a turn for the worse in the past few days, and Price already felt that a catastrophe was imminent.
"Those cops have heavy machine guns and armored vehicles—" Eric Rogier was at a loss, and the "old Boers" had only weak pistols and shotguns with short range, and attacking a police station with machine guns and armored vehicles was tantamount to death.
"Even if those police officers have tanks, we have to take down the police station, even if it's a pile of people, and we have to find enough accessories." Price is not afraid of sacrifice, and he will not lead the charge anyway.
"Okay, I'll get ready right away." Eric Rogier also knew that the situation was critical, and that in the past few days there have often been air force reconnaissance planes hovering over Freiburg, and the "old Boers" are also panicking.
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The police and city staff at the police station combined were just over 100 people, and the highest official was the deputy chief of the police department, Felix, who was killed in the line of duty after leading a part of the police to reinforce the city government at the beginning of the riots.
Unfortunately, the Freiburg police station had only two armoured vehicles, and one of them was still unmobile due to a malfunction and had not yet been repaired, so Felix placed the only armoured car on the only access to the police station, and removed the heavy machine gun from the other armoured car, and placed four other light machine guns in the open space behind the police station gate, and assigned a special person to take care of it.
"No matter who it is, as long as someone dares to approach, they will shoot and warn directly, and if they don't heed the warning, they will shoot directly, and if they hesitate, they will be beaten to death by those bastards." Felix hated the "old Boers" to the core, and the chief Stella did not order the shooting in time when the mob stormed the city hall, and as a result, Stella and a dozen policemen led by him were all beaten to death by the mob, and the death was horrific.
The police in Freiburg were all transferred from other places, and no one in Freiburg wanted to be a police officer, or even work for the federal government, and the resistance of these Boers to the federal government was evident.
With the defense arranged, Felix returned to his office and sat down in his chair to rest for a while.
Felix felt like he had barely closed his eyes when he was awakened by a violent knock on the door.
"Director, someone has crossed the cordon—"
"Why didn't you shoot?" Felix did not hear the gunshots, and the cordon was less than a hundred meters from the gate of the police station and only 150 meters from the line of defense with armored vehicles at its core.
"Those bastards let the women and the children go ahead—" Sheriff Greenton gritted his teeth, his wife and children were in the police station, and if the mob were allowed to storm the police station, then the police station would be as hell on earth as the city government.
When they came to the gate of the police station, the vicious thugs were indeed old and weak women and children who drove the neutral crowd and walked towards the police station.
From a distance, some of the children at the front were still wearing the uniforms issued by the school, and then there was a large group of hundreds of women and old people, who were driven towards the police station by armed members of the "Old Boer", and one of the old men slowed down and was immediately knocked to the ground by a member of the "Old Boer" armed with a short stick, and several members of the "Old Boer" rushed up, and soon the old man was silent.
"Warning shot!" Felix is apathetic, and at this point the slightest hesitation can have serious consequences, and Felix is responsible for hundreds of people inside the police station.
Knock Knock Knock –
The sound of the vehicle's large-caliber heavy machine gun was breathtaking, the machine gunners were skilled in marksmanship, and chains of bullets mixed with tracer bullets flew over the crowd, and the crowd was immediately plunged into even greater chaos.
Felix only then discovered that the "old Boers" had tied the children and women together with ropes so that they could not escape, and that there were many "old Boers" in the crowd, who were hiding among the women and children, and were approaching the police station.
After a brief moment of panic, the crowd continued to move forward, and the machine-gun shooters behind the bunkers could already hear the cries of the women and children.
Mixed with the shouting and screaming of the "old Boer" members.
What to do?
Everyone looked at Felix.
Felix's uniform looked like it had been washed with water.
"Sniper, focus on sniping the 'old Boer' members of the crowd—" Felix had no way out, and could not let the mob storm the police station under any circumstances.
"Limited viewing angles, which could cause other casualties—" The snipers in the office building were not sure, the power of military sniper rifles was huge, and it was normal for a single shot to penetrate three or four people.
"Shoot!" Felix screamed, and the crowd of people who were being held by the mob was less than fifty meters away from the gate of the police station.
Bang!
A sniper finally pulls the trigger.
The bullet hit the head accurately in the head of a member of the "Old Boer" who hid behind a woman with a shotgun, revealing only half of his head.
The bullet that killed the thug continued to fly forward, hitting two more people before losing all kinetic energy.
The crowd suddenly fell into a huge panic, and the cries suddenly became louder, and the members of the "old Boer" in the crowd were in disbelief, they did not expect the police to actually shoot.
Bang! Phew!
More gunfire rang out, and at a distance of less than two hundred meters, many precision shooters could guarantee accurate hits, even without the use of snipers.
As more and more "Old Boer" members were sniped, the "Old Boer" members who were hiding in the crowd finally collapsed, and many of them turned around and ran, and the mob formed a team, even if it was extremely vicious, but it was actually a guerrilla army.
Taking advantage of the chaos of the rioters, Felix took the opportunity to send someone to take all the surviving civilians into the police station, and after a simple count, Felix was surprised to find that all the people in the police station added up to more than a thousand.
Now the whole of Freiburg is in chaos, and the lives of more than a thousand people are also a big problem, and the Freiburg police station, although it has some material reserves, it will not last long.
Fortunately, there is indeed a radio in the police station, which can get in touch with the outside world.
ps: After a busy morning, I finally got into the hospital, and suddenly found that the hospital's business was so good, and the corridors were full of people - I haven't eaten when I got home, and I have a temporary code out of a chapter, and I'll go to the hospital later, and I guess there will be no more at night-