While the people of the new town were working the construction, the infantry led by Ohno and Sori finally arrived at the gem mine from which everyone had escaped after a long trek through mountains and rivers.

The advance force arrived ahead of schedule and had already carried out several rounds of tentative surprise attacks. It caused a certain amount of unrest to the guards of the mines, but it didn't stop there. Compared with the last time when they led 3,000 people to break through and leave, this time they wanted to rescue their wives and children, but it was not so simple.

The arrival of more than 1,000 infantry greatly boosted the confidence of the advance troops. Although there are not many battles in history in which one enemy and four were finally victorious, the tactical analysis of each war is recorded in detail, and along the way, Ohno conducted a detailed analysis of the information he had at hand, and also carried out a detailed division of labor according to the current situation of his own army.

One blow of strength, then decline, three and exhaustion. According to this theory of a certain military strategist in Chinese history, Ohno succeeded in fooling the defenders of the mine, and when his own morale was great and the enemy was taken lightly, he attacked the mine in one fell swoop, obtained the strategic high ground, captured thousands of enemy soldiers, killed 2,000 enemies, and the rest abandoned the mountain and fled.

The infantrymen recognized the women and children in the mines, and those who did not find their relatives were also expecting to rush to the new city to reunite.

However, it was not so easy for them to retreat when they came to the treasure mountain.

Although Lie put part of his troops in the mines during this time, his main focus was elsewhere. He fought all the time, captured more and more people, and under his training, some of the captives were also transformed into his soldiers, and some became his logistics. In the past, the city of Smelting and Casting had killed thousands of people, but now it was completely different, and he had more than 20,000 troops at his disposal.

One thousand against four thousand, Ohno won quite easily. But when Lie once again mobilized thousands of troops to surround the mine, it was not so simple for him to break through.

And Lie had to exterminate them with all his might, not purely for the sake of this valuable mine, but because he couldn't let this force continue to harass his progress in the war. Lie fought everywhere and hardly encountered any very difficult opponents, but Ohno and the others, first took away the first batch of prisoners of war that he had worked so hard to get, and then came to rob his mine after a few months, how could he swallow his anger?

The two sides have been locked in a long stalemate.

Maybe Lie was trying to trap them here.

Without sufficient food and grass supplies, it is not a particularly difficult thing to endure in the autumn, when food is still abundant. But the weather has begun to cool, and winter is about to begin, and by winter they can't break through, and things are not the same thing at all.

The troops, the elderly, the weak, the women and the children, together there were about three or four thousand people to eat, and they had to face various surprise attacks launched from time to time at the foot of the mountain, and it was indeed a very difficult thing to survive the winter here.

Sun Xiuqing learned about their plight through the communication of Ono and Ono, but after all, far water could not save near fire.

Just when everyone was at a loss, one late autumn evening, Su Li called Ono, Ono and the commanders of the infantry to have a battle analysis meeting.

More than a dozen people gathered around Ohno's laptop and watched a video of Su Li's choice. Here's a video about the use of ** in war.

After reading it, everyone fell into a deep silence.

"Three or four thousand people are trapped here, without food, and in the winter there is not even a shadow of wild beasts, so they can only starve to death. We must break through before the first snowfall, and arrange to return to the city as soon as possible as long as everyone can support us, or in a few months, not only the women and children outside, but you and I will all starve to death here. ”

"Either you die or I die, that's our only choice."

Su Li's words are never beautiful, but they often hit the heart.

**, many of you here are seeing this kind of lethal weapon for the first time, and for Ono and Ono, they have watched a lot of film and television works with Sun Xiuqing, and this thing is not unfamiliar. However, Sun Xiuqing never said how to make this thing, and he also showed the idea of not wanting this thing to be used here.

They didn't get to the last step, and they never used their brains to do it.

But at this point, it was already the last moment.

Even in the new city, people hide in warm houses in winter, hugging the fire, and feel that the long days and nights are unbearable, and the people who survive in the wild are even more difficult. Every winter, many elderly people and children freeze to death and starve to death, even in the best cities.

If they are trapped in this barren mountain and wilderness, what awaits them may really be the greatest disaster in their lives.

Everyone looked at each other, and after an unbearable silence, someone slowly raised his right hand.

"I agree to use."

With the first, the second, the third, and soon, everyone except Ono raised their right hands. Su Li looked at the two of them with burning eyes.

Finally, Ono also raised his hand. Ohno suppressed the last hesitation in his heart, and slowly raised his right hand.

Unanimously passed.

Su Li was in charge of finding raw materials, and the team privately chose a secluded location of dozens of people in the mountains behind the mine and began the deployment of **.

Three days later, in the afternoon, Ohno gathered everyone away from the back mountain and gathered in the open space of the mine.

And under a boulder in the back mountain, Su Li asked people to dig out a small hole the thickness of a finger, pour it into the prepared **, and connect the lead.

The onlookers retreated to a place hundreds of meters away to hide, and Su Li lit the fuse herself. A few seconds later, with a violent explosion, the boulder, which was three people high, disappeared in an instant, and the stone chips flew hundreds of meters away, smashing out of shallow holes in the ground.

The assembled people didn't know what was happening, only heard a loud bang in the distance. And the commanders who were fortunate enough to watch not far from the explosion, after seeing such a power, after a brief period of fear, they began to high-five and celebrate! With this thing to help, are you afraid of the guards who are surrounding the mountain? No matter how strong their bodies are, they can be stronger than the rocks in the mountains?

In this way, with the assistance of **, the infantry of Xincheng was like a divine help, and quickly broke through the encirclement of the defenders at the foot of the mountain. But the tragedy of the war became more and more obvious at this time, they almost stepped on the enemy's flesh and blood and left the mine, and the wounded soldiers captured were seriously injured, they were either blown off their hands and feet, or they were injured by the remaining strength of the **, and they were covered in blood and dirt.

In any case, the team in Xincheng has finally completed the plan to find relatives, and as long as they return to the city safely, they will be considered to have successfully completed the task. However, when Ohno arranges for everyone to return to the city, Su Li says that she will continue to fight Yeol.

"Are you crazy? Snow is about to fall, and the coldest day of the year is coming, so it's good that we're alive, and going back to the city is the wisest choice. ”

Ohno learned of her idea and was the first to want to oppose it.

However, Su Li insisted on her decision: "You know that Lie is still waging war everywhere, and I must stop him. These people you rescued had nothing to do with you at first, but now they live and die with you, and at this moment, those tribes that have been conquered by the martyrs, do they deserve to perish like this? ”

From this angle, Ohno is powerless to refute. "But, after all, we are not gods, and we can't control that much. Now I want to care about the lives and deaths of my companions, and I want to send them back. ”

Su Li said: "You can send them back, I have no objection. Leave me a hundred men, and I will take them to fight against Lie. ”

"A hundred? No way, you're hitting a stone with an egg. ”

Su Li didn't eat oil and salt, and the two broke up unhappily. Ohno informed Sun Xiuqing of this, and this was the first time they had contacted Sun Xiuqing since they decided to use **. He told her that he had won the victory and successfully broke through, but he did not say a word about the reason for the victory, only told her that Su Li had decided to take a hundred men to stay and continue the battle with Lie.

Sun Xiuqing didn't delve into the method of victory, she was not at the scene after all, she didn't know the difficulties and obstacles there, and thought it was not a very difficult thing. But she also felt strange about Su Li's insistence, after all, Su Li is the developer's person, and the developer's position is to try not to participate in the war, why does she have to do this?

Sun Xiuqing approached the developer and asked if this was what she meant.

The developer, however, said that he was unaware and surprised.

Su Li wanted to stay and continue to fight Lie, but it wasn't what the developer meant. Could it be that Su Li, as an artificial intelligence, has her own will?

"Su Li's matter, I will investigate it thoroughly. You let your companion decide for himself what to do. ”

Sun Xiuqing asked Ohno to bring everyone back first. Su Li, on the other hand, selected fifty members of the infantry and left the main unit.

On the third day of their return to the city, the army encountered the first heavy snow of winter. The snow was so heavy that it even caused them to get lost in the wilderness, and Ohno and Ono's laptops and computers had no information about the world, let alone navigation, and they returned to the city based on experience and a sense of direction, but the thick snow eliminated this.

People were tired and hungry, and some elderly people and children, who were already weak, were now even sicker. On the one hand, Ohno sent more people to hunt and bring back as much food as possible, but on the other hand, he had to choose a suitable place to camp and arrange the elderly and children to the caves they encountered along the way, and take care of them when they were well sheltered from the wind.

In addition to the elderly and children, young people are also increasingly unable to bear it. The procession was barely able to move, and they eventually had to come to a complete halt.

The lake had already covered with thin ice, and overnight the ice thickened so much that two or three adults stepped on it together without shaking. On such a morning, Ohno and his companions went out to dig ice, hoping to catch some fish in the water to satisfy their hunger.

At this time, he suddenly heard a burst of screams from the shore, and from the distant and faint shouts, he heard: Someone has attacked!