Chapter Forty-Nine: On That Longest Day
"I guess you know it yourself. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info What we want is military intelligence about everything we want to know about the island of Banba. ”
Silence was Peterson's first reaction when he lowered his head. People from another world want to attack their hometown, is this answer nonsense? Of course not, because he knew that the Church of the Two Moons had been prepared against possible attacks from other worlds and Eltas, otherwise he would not have summoned a "reserve" mage like him to become a coastal defense officer guarding the border.
As for the steel floating city hidden under the antenna of the sea seen in the Lancas Islands, which could block the trade routes of the Church of the Two Moons, it was an invisible nightmare hovering over the heads of the church's worshippers, and now everything that the Marine Officer of Elta said in front of Peterson only colored the nightmare and lit his eyes.
A task force of up to twelve large liberation ships is now forming a twin column with Elta's naval flagship "Scepter Constellation" and the living god and new bilunar working ship "Xinsheng" as the core, forming a twin column towards the Lancas Islands - this is the scenery that Peterson witnessed from the tiltrotor seat not long ago, the continuous steel Great Wall for several nautical miles and the columns of coal-burning black smoke all wantonly vent the power of the Elta and the people of the other world, chanting the clarion song that declares their invincibility.
As for how many elite soldiers and fierce generals who had torn the military formation of the Western Expeditionary Army to shreds hidden in the belly of the steel floating city? There was no need for Peterson to think about it, and the ship alone was not a creation that the Church of the Two Moons could defeat.
If the present world God can sink them, why should he hide the truth from the people? The deceived Peterson still has any stupidity and root at this time, but with a pair of cold eyes, he sees this hypocritical and shameless church as clean and innocent.
"I've decided to tell you everything I know." When they looked up again, the officers and agents could only see the projection of anger and resentment in Peterson's eyes—outward expressions of the true feelings of the deceived man. "There's everything about the church that has deceived me for decades on Banba Island, but I want you to promise one thing I want you to ...... Something that can be done. ”
"But it doesn't hurt to say it."
"The Church calls the Erta and you the devil. But I don't think you're doing what the devil would do in the land of Lancas......"
"We're just going to destroy the church." After listening to his conditions, the officer smiled easily. "Our goal is to liberate the Lancas Islands from the 'false god' rule of the Bilunar Church, so that ordinary people like you who have been deceived can embrace the true side of the world."
On the calm seas, the task force continued to move towards its goal—and it was an uneventful day for the rulers of the Church of the Two Moons in the archipelago.
The number of merchant ships coming from all over the country to take off the flag of the Bilunar Church has gradually increased, and it seems that the storage of various materials has improved. As for the refugees who fled abroad, the bishops and archbishops of the archipelago were deeply unimpressed. If they remain on the archipelago, then these rulers must have jobs available to them – not jobs, of course, but wages commensurate with their jobs.
Anyway, with their feet on their buttocks, the church will really not be able to support it one day, and the bishops and priests who have looted a lot of wealth that does not belong to them now and in the past few months can also hide their soft and turn their backs on the Lancas Islands like refugees, find a stable place to live incognito, or go to a small country and wait for the opportunity to make a comeback......
But things don't go so smoothly anymore. At the same time that Peterson was constantly correcting errors in the topographic map and distinguishing barracks and civilian houses on the color blocks of the satellite map, the task force officially issued a new order to the shipping blockade fleet in the Lancas Islands:
"From the time of the issuance of this order, all unauthorized vessels are prohibited from entering the Lancas Islands traffic blockade, and the ships of the former Bilunar Church shall be anchored underground before the end of the Battle of Banba Island, and shall be towed to the anchorage of Banba Island by ocean-going tugs after the Battle of Banba Island; Ships sailing outward from the waters of the Lancas Islands shall operate in the same manner......"
It was another four days since the "bluffing" maritime blockade was re-tightened, and the task force arrived off the coast of Banba Island, when the shadow of the ship appeared in the sight of the Coastal Defense Officer Peterson's priest, and he almost soaked his pants.
It was only then that he realized that the missing little man Peterson was right.
How could it be that what happened in the past few days has already turned the Lancas Islands into a pot of mud porridge, no matter the ships that should have come in or out, many archbishops and bishops and even low-level clergy have been discussing the disguise of refugees and running away, and who can remember Peterson's seemingly babbling report?
It was only now that the calculating and camping priest remembered it, and it was a little too late. Just as he stood on the lookout and turned around with his mouth wide open and was about to light the beacon, the sniper in ambush on the hill nearly two kilometers from the lookout finally found an opportunity to keep the priest's head intact in the crosshair of the computer-aided calculation sight.
The measurements from the wind deflection sensor were fed back to the gun carriage in real time, and a few seconds later the priest was on the ground, his wand not lighting the beacon that would put the island on alert.
"Longwang No. 4 observation post reported that the B2 target has been killed, and it can be determined that the target is dead, and our unit is not exposed now, and continues to carry out observation and garrison tasks in place."
With the intelligence assistance of Peterson, a native, the task force can now know where several key nodes of Banba Island are, and where to grasp these key nodes. As a result, the agents and soldiers on the Ao Guang ship poured out of the nest and lurked near various key points on the island on the submarine to begin the final preparations before the big battle.
As a result, after the observation posts of the "Dragon King" were in place, many tentacles related to the defenders on the island that could detect the outside world were cut off in the mode of decapitation, which almost delayed the response of the defenders on the island for a day.
The task force slowed down in the Yellow Water Sea and began to unload the dinghy in preparation for the landing of the personnel at the most dangerous moment - it was impossible for cargo ships to and from the twin moon churches near Hanba Island not to find the tower-tall steel fleet, but they all shy away from these Yama kings, which made the already pitiful defenders on the island of Banba Island unable to get a head start in time and space.
In the two hours from the beginning of the unloading of the small personnel landing craft from the 0700 fleet, and the Elta marines on each liberation ship transferred to the dinghy through rope ladders and cranes to the 0900 landing fleet officially departing from Banye Island, the sea and land commanders of the entire task force were all worried about the fact that something would go wrong and mess things up - compared with the in-ship transfer and landing platform transfer of the Taiwan attack fleet, this "primitive" landing and transfer means were like the small personnel landing craft shaking in the waves. It's really hard to sweat when you look at it.
But even more surprising than the rope ladder transfer that has appeared in the 21st century is that the defenders of the Church of the Two Moons did not react for the longest two hours, and even the beachhead was silent. The most feared thing about this kind of dinghy attack was the temporary fortifications that the defenders had placed on the beachhead, and if something suddenly got into the shallows of the beachhead, the soldiers who were forced to swim would be in a very troubled situation in the water.
It wasn't until the sound of gas turbines began to fill the entire Banye Island's vicinity of "Peterson Beach" and reached the ears of nearby soldiers and civilians that the defenders of the Twin Moon Church on the island woke up from their dreams and rushed towards the beach from their camp with various weapons.
And poking their heads out of the bushes outside the beach, what was in front of them was an unbelievable scene. The entire open sea of "Peterson Beach" is densely packed with small light-gray personnel landing craft, and in the distance there is a town yard of ocean-going liberation ships that have released them, and there is even a flat-headed open-ended liberation ship on the sea near the best landing point of "Peterson Beach" that is about to seize the beach......
What should I do? The defenders and magicians who witnessed this scene looked at their commander in unison, and their commander also put on a face-hiding expression - "What can I do?" I'm desperate! ”
Even if the infantry above were ordinary medieval soldiers with spears and bows and arrows, what could they do with the hundreds of people they rushed to the beach? They are not those high-level mages who can resist a hundred with one person, and in the face of such a number of ordinary soldiers, even if they have a magic body, they can only be outnumbered and eaten.
The defenders of the Church of the Two Moons shrank their heads back from the bushes, and in the bushes you look at me and I look at you, and they quickly set the tone for fighting with each other—it was at that order that the vanguard forces of the Church of the Two Moons on Peterson Beach turned around and fled, leaving only an unidentifiable suspicious figure for the crew of the flat-headed open Liberation Ship bridge with high-powered binoculars.
Since the vanguard unit that ran the fastest was convinced that there was no way to gain a firm foothold on the beachhead, the follow-up defenders naturally turned around and ran halfway through the road - on the overhead screen of the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft's monitor, the small flow of people who withdrew from the beachhead collided with the large flow of people who were about to rush onto the beachhead, but they used the small one to completely "conquer" the big one and assimilate it into the retreating large flow.
At the same moment, without a hail of bullets and without encountering any formation, the first landing boat "ran aground" on the beachhead at 10 o'clock.