"Jason Watson?" Lieutenant Colonel Mills couldn't help but look up at the regimental staff officer who came back to reveal the news, "Yes, he was personally appointed by the brigade commander as the commander of the reconnaissance battalion directly under him, the captain battalion commander... The strength of the three companies under its jurisdiction was transferred from our regiment, and one company was transferred from the engineer battalion directly under the brigade headquarters, and the remaining company should be recruited locally if there is no accident, and it should be carried out at the same time as the recruitment of the national army. ”

"3 companies? No wonder Trikas wants someone! The staff officer on the side couldn't help but ask him: "What kind of person can get the will of Trikas and be transferred to the direct unit, because of what?" Just because he stopped a group of fighting recruits? ”

"After a fight, the officer was promoted to one level..."The lieutenant colonel's face gradually became gloomy, and the people on the side saw this scene, and they were faintly panicked in their hearts, "All of us have been promoted to a big level, it's okay, isn't it just that there will be an extra law enforcement team in the future?" Just be careful, there will be a war in the future, and I don't believe that this law enforcement team will stay in the city to maintain order! ”

"From now on, you're a captain! You know how to be at your disposal? Pan Yilong dragged his tired body to follow several officers and staff officers who came to report to him, Tom was transferred away early in the morning, so now only Mino was left with him, recalling what Trikas had said to him, Pan Yilong couldn't help but sigh.

He had always been very surprised that a battalion was actually assigned to a regiment-level cadre and staff officer, and after communicating with a few new sergeants around him, he learned that the scale of this reconnaissance battalion might be expanded, and this could only be the case if there was not enough manpower at present. He followed the group to a civilian area farthest from the city center, not far from the port, where two streets of residential quarters had been set aside as a station, and most of the residents had moved away, except for those who were old, weak, sick, and disabled.

"There are two companies in total, a total of 253 people!" The one who came to report was a second lieutenant named Fei Nan, Pan Yilong stood downstairs at a loss and looked at the busy soldiers around him, his two hands kept wiping his sweat back and forth next to his pants pocket, Second Lieutenant Fei Nan continued to say to him at this time: "Captain Jason, we have an anti-aircraft machine gun platoon and a radio communication platoon that will be added later, a total of 55 people, mainly responsible for air defense and friendly liaison in this area, there are also a few mechanical maintenance workers in it, that... General Trikas has already been on a mission with you, right? ”

"Yes, we are asked to be responsible for the security of the city, and we will be transferred from the army with 2 companies, and 1 company from the local young adults, and handed them over to me for training... Three days later, in the morning, the reconnaissance mission began... Actually, let's deal with those snake snakes in the city, and come here to pull hatred. ”

"Not only to monitor the city, but also to bear the responsibility of military surveillance..."The new staff officer who followed him throughout the whole process reminded him in a timely manner: "Captain, I'm afraid we have carried the black pot for someone, have you heard of the right to free decision?" We have become a sword for the commanders, and have given us the privilege of free judgment, which is similar to that of the Overseers, and we can execute anyone at will, and if he gives an order, we must carry it out unconditionally, and draw all the grievances of the local and the army to ourselves, which is to say that we may not be in a better position than the gendarmes who are only responsible for maintaining order in the army. ”

“sh.it!” Everyone couldn't help but blurt out, "I thought it was a good unit, but I didn't expect it to be a black pot for others... I didn't know I was coming! ”

"I can't go back to everyone!" Pan Yilong came back to his senses and said, "Now that we all know our current situation, what do you say, what should we do next?"

Pan Yilong raised his head and glanced at them, everyone was suddenly dumbfounded, you look at each other and I look at you, I don't know what to say for a while, only the older staff officer glanced at them, and replied: "Don't think I'm ugly, I think we still need to do superficial work, well, of course, there is still performance, but try not to attack your own people, so that there are fewer contradictions between us and various units, to put it bluntly, the sleek style of life almost everyone knows how to do it, In addition to those in the army who have committed major crimes, it is good to ignore the small things as much as possible, and relax like the gendarmerie, we are a combat company, and when it is time to go to the front in the future, the gun should be aimed at the enemy and not at our own people, so that our reputation will be much better! ”

"Where are you from, Chief of Staff?" Pan Yilong glanced up at this person, and the staff officer saluted and replied, "Jiang Kai, Jiang Kai Evans, just call me Evans."

"You're a teacher, aren't you?" Pan Yilong looked Evans up and down, and saw that his hands were very white and tender, so he asked him like this, Evans smiled when he heard this, "I work at the State University of New York, and I am a biomimetic materials teacher... It's a bit too much to say that the teacher. ”

"Yo!" He stretched out his hand and shook hands with Evans, "But I have a little suggestion from what you said just now, we can't do drama in advance yet, because when it was just established, Trikas would definitely be strict with us to do things, I don't want to have no credit and no benefits, and finally kick out the team and leave it for 10,000 years, and the drama must be left behind." ”

"But, then, our colleagues..."

"I'll do it! I'm confident that no one can beat me in this regard..."Pan Yilong said to him: "We mainly have to deal with those local snakes in the city! You don't have to be so polite to deal with those people, it's time to rectify it! ”

"Hmm..."Everyone nodded, offending one is at least more optimistic than offending two at the same time, not to mention that the head snake is not easier to deal with than his colleagues? What kind of astringent would dare to slap the army with his head? Something really happened, it's a big deal with the tank machine gun plus the brigade commander, in a word: as long as the sky doesn't fall, everything is easy to say.

"That's... What do we do next? ”

"Eat!"

...

The mayor of Cherbourg, who had fled back to Paris, was detained by the National Guard as soon as he entered the city, and he was taken all the way to a nearby ownerless farm, where a group of journalists and senior military officials were gathered early in the morning, among which the lieutenant general who had been with Prime Minister Savage was smiling and watching as he was tied up and forced to the ground, and in the grass next to him lay a familiar lieutenant general officer, whose body had long since become cold and black... He was immediately so frightened that he peed his pants.

"M... Midlin? The mayor saw that the colonel of the defending army who died on the front line appeared in the crowd, he was not calm at all, and Midlin did not bird him at all, turned to the lieutenant general and saluted, and the latter immediately said: "As the mayor of Cherbourg, instead of directing the ZF machine to withdraw from the city during the war, let alone evacuating the citizens in the war zone, you have violated the first provision of the United Imperial War Law by taking advantage of the defenders' fighting!" Look at the one next to him, the famous Lieutenant General Klicken, the second-in-command in charge of organizing the West Coast fortifications, actually escaped in embarrassment, and was dragged out of his small apartment by us yesterday, you saw his fate, do you have anything to explain? ”

"Please... Please spare my family, they are innocent! ”

"No one can stay out of the war during the war, and if you dare to do so, it means that you have chosen to abandon the empire and let the rebels run wild, and you must bear the consequences! And your family... Men are assigned to transform ghosts, women are sent to the front-line labor army, my words are finished, let's be executed! ”

"Click!" The officer next to him took out the USP pull sleeve, pointed to his head and said, "Turn around, turn your face around!"

"Bang!" After the gunshot, major media reporters seized the opportunity to take pictures of this death sentence that went down in history, and then, the lieutenant general who had always stood by Porson's side promoted Colonel Midlin, who had resisted the attack of a division in the defense of Cherbourg, on the spot, to be the brigadier general commander of the French 3rd Panzer Corps, and at the same time announced that he would personally lead the two armies with a total of 170,000 combined armies to attack the west occupied by the leftist expeditionary force in the early hours of tomorrow. The French army has already lost a total of 50,000 troops, and the entire French active force is only 660,000. The armies of the left will then be swept across the continent as if they were no one...

But this man did not have the slightest anxiety, on the contrary, he raised his wine glass and sang praises, long before the execution of these two people, the right coalition army had been assembled, hundreds of thousands of people surrounded the city of Paris, advanced Leopard and Leclerc tanks were spread out on the field like a game of war games, thousands of heavy artillery and missile vehicles were inspecting and maintaining in the positions day and night, and at this moment witnessing all this, whether it was the common people, or the right forces or the left agents, who witnessed all this in front of them, They were all stunned by Prime Minister Polsonsavage's big deal this time.

This will be an unusually cruel general battle, the left 300,000 people, the weapons are uneven, most of the artillery that can be brought ashore is still from the Soviet underground warehouses towed 152 plus howitzers, the number is only 400, they have no mobile artillery, even the 500 tanks are rented, there is even a small part of the Indian Arjun, on the other hand, the right, fully equipped, there are more than 2,000 artillery alone, more than 500 mobile artillery, although the armored transport vehicle is not still fully popular, But compared to most countries in the world at that time, the French Combined Army was at least able to achieve technological crushing, not to mention the expeditionary force where even artillery was scarce now.

"We waited so long and paid such a great price to divide the group of traitors and the expeditionary force on the beach, and abandoned the coastal defense line in order to wipe out all the rebels!" He thought so.

...

The expeditionary force on January 2 and the local uprising of the French leftist national army, the national army inspired by the victory of the expeditionary force, called on civilians in many areas of the local area to join the national army, after the leftist unremitting efforts to propaganda work, in the city of Cherbourg has appeared a number of recruitment points, from the original sporadic people to watch and see now nearly 1,000 people enthusiastically sign up, for a time, the French people oppressed by the coalition army began to enthusiastically join the national army, in the suburbs of the city on the farm to receive more professional military training, and on the other sideThis group of coalition troops who rushed from all over the world to help in the war, because there was no order to attack from above, was busy with this short and rare calm time...

The three-day rest and training gave the recruits of the reconnaissance battalion a lot of time to relax, and Pan Yilong was busy and took advantage of the excuse that he wanted to go to the headquarters to change a new pair of boots, and ordered the staff officer Jiang Kai Evans to stay here and listen to the letter, and quietly slipped out of the camp by himself, walking aimlessly in a shady alley near the sea. Music lovers can sometimes be heard playing the piano or cello in the house, because the seaside is humid, and most of the houses are cheap small low-rise buildings with sea views, many ordinary people with financial constraints choose to live here when considering the problems of life, and the depths of the alley are always shrouded in a mysterious white mist, and this leather-like smell blows in the face from time to time.

Pan Yilong looked for the smell of burning and came to the door of a room at the end of the alley, he stretched out his hand to push open the hidden door and walked in softly, only to see an old man with messy hair and a stubbly beard wearing a faded apron, sitting in front of a simple workbench next to the door, holding a welding torch in one hand, pinching a metal skeleton in the other, and using the welding torch to weld a metal wire about two millimeters thick on it, and the strong smell of leather came from here.

"Do you want to get your appliances repaired?" The old man sat there without raising his head, because he was wearing sunglasses, the old man couldn't see what kind of person was in front of him, Pan Yilong didn't answer, and walked straight to the inside of the room, an old counter facing the door had some messy parts in it, as well as two mechanical watches, and next to it stood a plastic box the size of two thumb caps, which contained the miniature parts inside the watch, and he looked up at the shelves standing on the walls on both sides of the room, and there was a wooden photo frame with a sense of age in the cabinet on the right hand side of the old man. Above is a young Asian scientist and a complex microsatellite, happily holding its signal antenna in one hand and reflective glasses in the other, with a series of faded dates printed on the bottom: 1992.06.20

"What is needed?" The old man suddenly appeared behind him, Pan Yilong shuddered, glanced back at him, and said, "No, it's just... Just look at it, now that France is at war, why is an old man of your age still here? What about the family? ”

"Where are you going?" The old man responded to him in an unkind tone: "I haven't saved enough money to go home, so I'm not going anywhere!"

"You are... Chinese? Pan Yilong asked tentatively

"Japan!" The old man said coldly, and then walked around himself and sat down in front of the counter, Pan Yilong nodded, turned to look at the workbench next to the door, and then asked him with a smile: "Do you still have the fun of D.I.Y?" What is this doing? ”

"Assist the prosthetic!" The old man took off his heavy work apron, then got up from the chair and walked over, Pan Yilong laughed, "What, my health is not good, and in the future, my uncle will have to wear this thing to buy vegetables on the street?" ”

"This is the only property I have left to the people of the world in my life..."The old man looked at this half of the metal arm, there was no leather on it, so it looked like the arm of the Terminator T800, Pan Yilong picked it up from the workbench, and found that this thing didn't seem to be as heavy as he imagined, it should also use some kind of synthetic material as the main body, what did it come from? Where did he get it?

"What do you do?" Pan Yilong looked at him, the old man frowned, suddenly turned around and closed the door, he turned his head and looked at Pan Yilong deeply, and asked him: "Answer me a question, do you know Bill. Cloun this man! ”

"Who?" Pan Yilong was stunned for a moment, and the old man suddenly took out a loaded M1911 from behind him, and aimed it at him without hesitation...

"I said... I'm afraid you're mistaken, right? Pan Yilong put down his prosthetic leg, but the old man didn't believe his words, "Convince me!" Give me a reason not to shoot! He said this coldly to Pan Yilong, Pan Yilong shook his head, pressed one hand on the saber at his waist, and walked towards the house while rubbing the counter behind him.

"Only Clounn knows I'm hiding here!" The old man said: "I have helped them develop so many "successful products"! And this group of guys because of a trivial matter, they treated me as a piece of garbage and threw me away, he wanted to kill me, I know, so I waited for him here, I waited for him to kill me, you better explain why you came, I don't want to kill the wrong person! ”

"What do I explain?" Pan Yilong asked: "I haven't heard of this person you are talking about, how can you explain it?" Also, even if I'm the killer sent by Crawn, then why am I standing here with you instead of pulling out my gun when I enter the door? And then waiting for you to point a gun? Is the killer sick? ”

"Maybe it's just your words, trying to confuse me and reveal my secret!"

"Maybe it's just your whim!" Pan Yilong responded to him unceremoniously: "This is a war zone, what fool would risk his risk to come here to do something?"

"And what do you do?" He asked, the gun in his hand trembling wildly

"I'm a leftist expeditionary force! I came to liberate the free world! Hey, why does that sound so awkward? Oh, I was on patrol today and saw that it was smoky, and I was worried that it was a fire, so I came over to take a look, isn't that okay? ”

"Chinese?" He took two steps back and looked at Pan Yilong, "I have never heard that anyone in the Chinese Great Shang Empire dares to join the leftists, let alone join the army, are you also Japanese?" ”

"Yo, you guessed wrong! I'm Chinese! Pan Yilong approached the counter board, and the old man smiled, "Chinese? Settled in country M? The Residence Act of Country M stipulates that only foreigners who have lived locally for a long time and have more than 100,000 fixed assets in the Americas can have permanent residency, oh, and you have to be more than three generations and have no black records, you are so young, you say that you are Chinese, and you have been sent here in the army, which means that you must not be a stupid boy behind a certain family, otherwise you should be stationed in the south for pleasure instead of coming to the battlefield to die, I guess you should be a fugitive, a fugitive who is being wanted by the Empire! ”

"Say whatever you want..."Pan Yilong saw the old man put down the gun and put his hand back in his trouser pocket, "What the hell do you do?" Why hide in this place? ”

"It's a long story..."The old man gradually returned to his former lazy appearance, looked back at the photo in the cabinet, and said leisurely: "My name is Hayami Zongyi, I am an engineer, I was supposed to be in charge of research in a military base, a scientist who manufactures cutting-edge military materials, supramolecular armor is my achievement, and now it has been applied to weapons on a large scale, I am also very happy, I have not worked in vain in half my life, so I was invited to develop new equipment for them, I agreed, alas..."

"The boss of the base is a retired officer of the Air Force of Country M named Bill Crawn, I once studied the stealth material of F22 for the US military, and he was very impressed with me, so he also brought me to be responsible for researching a weapon..."

"He has seven different research projects, which are handed over to the three subordinate research institutes, I am one of them, and there are two kinds of projects I have developed, one is a shoulder-fired ion gun, which can be used to penetrate the main defense belt of all armored targets in active service of the combined army, and it must be able to kill with one hit, and the other is a miniaturized ion cannon, which is required to be installed on the existing soldier's armor under the premise of ensuring its power, and give the soldier a certain amount of self-operation space, so I studied this."

"Another team of Clounn's researchers built the ion cannon, and the young students were so smart that I was too old to keep up with the times, and they saw my research and laughed at it, thinking it was a pile of garbage... I didn't agree with them, and I was fired by one of their supervisors. ”

"They think it's garbage?" Pan Yilong picked up the arm on the table and couldn't help but smile: "Do you know what these soldiers are wearing now?" World War I and World War II military uniforms! Some of them are still using infantry steel helmets produced during the Prussian period, body armor can't be used for one person at the company level, and there is no exoskeleton for each person, and the guns are all kinds of bullets that are not uniform, and where are the equipment you said now? It's all in the hands of the Combine, and if those things are rubbish, then what about us? Having won the Combine with the rags picked up in the garbage heap, what are we? ”

"I'm not here for the Combine!" The old man shook his arm, "To hell with them, my armor is for men, not for dogs, and if they have driven me out because of this, then I would rather give it all than give them any dogs!" I'm not even afraid of the Empire, and I'm afraid of their bunch of damn things? ”

A violent shaking came from the ground, Pan Yilong was stunned after feeling it, looked up at the ceiling, and then the roof suddenly collapsed, a wooden beam rumbled on the desk, the sound of glass and wooden floors breaking instantly hit with dust and smoke, in the chaos, Pan Yilong dragged the old man to fall between the bookshelf and the counter, the collapsed beam structure did not bury the two of them alive, after shaking the mountain for a while, Pan Yilong pushed away the broken wooden board above his head, A family on the second floor is now on the first floor, and no one can see what happened just now under the smoke...

"Shelling! Artillery shelling of the Combine! ”

The people who fled the streets moved away from the warships and high-rise buildings on the harborside, because they knew that the Combine shelling was probably coming here, and the people chose to avoid the garrisons of the expeditionary force, knowing full well where to go and where not to go at this time, so that the ubiquitous underground bomb shelters in Cherbourg became the only place for French civilians to go.

The artillery bombardment of the coalition army was very accurate, the ships of the navy hurriedly started their engines and retreated from the port in order to avoid being hit, and from time to time they also used naval guns to fire a few shots at some woods outside the city, and they didn't know whether they found the enemy's artillery position or simply to cheer themselves up, Pan Yilong and Zong Yi crawled out of the ruins covered in dirt, although the old man was old, but his hands and feet were very sharp, and he didn't need Pan Yilong to help him at all, so he ran back and pulled out the exoskeleton arm from the pile of bricks, and hurriedly ran to the side.

"Captain! Captain Jason! Pan Yilong's radio rang, he was afraid of the bricks on it, and pressed the button in response, and the staff officer Jiang Kai Evans said loudly to himself on the other end: "You hurry back and gather the troops!" The front line scouts of the dog day don't know where they died, the enemy didn't know if they had put their guns in our faces, and the brigade headquarters now asked all troops to go to Dongcheng at once to defend ... Oh, my God! Did you hear that? They shelled us again! Find Hide!! ”

"Xiu Xiu Xiu~" After Pan Yilong heard the faint voice in the air, he hurriedly rushed to the nearby French people who were still in a state of being blown up and shouted to disperse, but before he could run out a few meters, a heavy shell swooped into a three-story small western-style building in front of him, and then there was a loud bang, and the entire small building was instantly shattered by this shell, and the splashed bricks smashed the people who were still standing in place at a speed close to the speed of sound, and the ground meat and internal organs burst all over the street. Pan Yilong was thrown out of place four or five meters away by the oncoming shock wave, the mushroom cloud that rushed to the sky was more than twenty meters high, he lay on the ground in pain and covered his buzzing ears and shouted loudly, but he couldn't hear anything, two soldiers from the reconnaissance unit rushed over to help him up, they called their names loudly, Pan Yilong patted his ears hard, barely heard a little movement, and then said loudly:

"Scouts? Now that I have a mission, come back with me and gather people to organize a defense immediately! Fast! ”