A Taste of Modern Artillery Bombardment

In the city of Elvas, the Portuguese forces were making feverish preparations for the impending onslaught by the combined might of the Kingdom of Spain and the Republic of France. 

Soldiers hurriedly erected barricades, positioned cannons, and reinforced the city's defenses with grim determination.

Marshall General of the Portuguese Army, João de Lafões, paced along the fortified walls, his eyes scanning the defenses being constructed. Despite seeing the hard work of his men and the locals, he couldn't help but sigh pitifully.

There was no way the Kingdom of Portugal could stand against two European powers. The Kingdom of Spain, they could handle, but the Republic of France? The country that had conquered Northern Africa and the Middle East, defeated the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Naples, forced the Russians to leave the coalition and made them her ally, and created a defensive alliance with Prussia, Sweden, and Denmark-Norway.