Chapter 43: Extreme Caution
"It's not all, is it?" Offe Mondridge caught the concealment in the other man's eyes. "The temptation of eternal life, as you say, is the greatest temptation for all mankind. Your researcher should choose to take that risk. ”
"You're right, there are a lot of us who want to take the risk. But now I'm going to put it another way, now that all of us humans are faced with this choice, if we continue to study, the whole race may become a slimy slime slime-like object, civilization will collapse, and it may also be immortal, and the possibility of each of the two being possessed is unpredictable, what choice will you make? ”
"Of course I would have decided to abandon this research if I was rational, but if I was emotional and fanatical......"
The car bypassed the traffic control and stopped in front of the checkpoint at the military port. The co-pilot's agent got out of the car without saying a word to verify his identity - if it had been before, the combination of this license plate and this model would have allowed the sentry to raise the road card without looking, but now in wartime, everything can only be done according to the regulations.
"Then let me give you another example, if the Elta Empire had been holding 'trade' from the beginning, and your church had crossed the portal with the idea of 'research' from the beginning, why did these two become so embarrassed today? The malice of Elta's old empire and the Church of the Two Moons has naturally been countered by us and the laws of this world, but isn't there a higher existence in your world? That's what it means. The gods of the present world and the elves can be understood as their civilized bodyguards, and it is understandable to go to other people's homes to be smart, but it is not good to take other people's bodyguards away, right? ”
"The true God who has left us for tens of thousands of years...... Is it? "Offet Mondrich finally understood where the main man should be.
"Tens of thousands of years is not a very long time. The planet on which you and I stand has gone through 455,000 years of history, and about 300,000 years have passed since the existence of living things, and protozoa should have been 100,000 years old. And if we take into account the evolutionary history of human beings on our earth, we are not yet humans, and our human ancestors apes should have appeared 50 million years ago - yet our writing is less than 10,000 years old. And the fact that God came down in your world from tens of thousands of years ago to the present day makes us very curious and incomprehensible. We don't dare to go into the unknown world like the Eltas, so we now have to turn to the elves and ask them if they're going in the wrong direction every step forward......"
"Wouldn't the bloody amputation of Ukrosatia cause the wrath of the true gods or elves?"
The translator replied with a wry smile: "Believe it or not, she finally agreed under the premise that there was no pain in general anesthesia, and now she is completely willing to accept the experiment, of course, we will also give her the corresponding reward, and the freedom to relax." ”
"I don't understand. But your caution should always be justified. Offe Mondridge took in too much information and felt a little tingling in his scalp. Fortunately, during the conversation, the car had passed through the various equipment and vehicles lined with the docks, and drove straight to the majestic giant ship like a mountain.
"The more we know, the more we don't know, and the more we fear the unknown. The more fearful we are, the more cautious we are in our future decisions. If our decision-makers slapped their thighs and decided to wipe out the civilizations of the Twin Moons, or even the inhabitants of the Twin Moons, would we still have a chance to learn the mysteries of the 'True Gods'? Or is the 'true God' still watching us? ”
The interpreter's words came to an end, and the two of them opened the door and got out of the parked car, and the giant ship berthed in front of them was the Qianli Cloud Road and the destination of the last car pick-up -- the amphibious assault ship "Yangtze River."
After the first two decades of the 21st century, PLAN, which was frantically building amphibious ships, suddenly found that there was a shortage of stocks - not a shortage of steel, or a shortage of engines like the Northern Alliance in the north, nor a shortage of talent or funds, but quite the contrary - there were fewer and fewer mountain names that could be used to name amphibious ships.
This is very embarrassing: most of the famous Wuyue are pressed on the traditional landing ships of two or three thousand tons, while the little-known Yimeng Mountain swaggers and swaggers with the Kunlun Mountain of the Queen Mother of the West and calls them brothers. Even more embarrassing is yet to come, and if we do not quickly change the names of those tank landing ships that have taken up good holes, the new straight-deck amphibious assault ships will have to use names that have never been heard of......
In order to solve the problem of naming the new generation of straight-deck amphibious assault ships, the Hezi was turned out of the old paper pile of history and carried forward again -- in fact, it was named the "Yellow River Ship" after the uprising of the Second Fleet of Kuang Lang Dang's coastal defense, and it was the same as the 12 other Hezi ships of the same class left over from China Merchants were LSM medium tank landing ships produced by the North American Federation in World War II. Later naming conventions also clearly stated that the river number was used for infantry landing ships.
But where to go now? After a discussion, the infantry landing ship changed from a little brother to an indispensable brother in the amphibious fleet, and the name of the amphibious assault ship was decided.
Now the ships of the same class as the Yangtze River ship, the Yellow River ship and the Pearl River ship, are preparing to command the Black Tiger to dig out the heart, and it will be difficult for Efmontridge and his party to get on board even if they can receive permission. After all, there are no extra carrier-based transport planes on the two aircraft carriers to ferry, and the task force will not allow such a meaningless transfer.
Therefore, their destination can only be here, the amphibious battle group of the Yangtze River ships that is loading troops and heavy equipment, and has not yet left the port.
In order to cooperate with the landing of a large number of conventional landing ships without fire support capabilities, vertical landings and landing groups are required to suppress the enemy at the beachhead and the inland extension of the beachhead with firepower. Air Force fighters cannot cross the strait all the time to prepare for bombing or close-field support, they can only clear a large number of fixed targets that are responsive, can be detected or have been located in advance.
For example, targets such as the "Guhai Position" and the "Haifeng No. 7 Squadron", which deployed Hsiungfeng-2 missiles, which can pose a threat to the ship group, were taken care of in the first wave of the war. 4 battalions, 13 companies, a total of more than 100 sets of Hawker launchers were also destroyed, at least seventy percent; The 661st Missile Battalion, the 667th Missile Battalion, and the 663rd Missile Battalion, which deployed the "Tiangong" and "Patriot" missiles, were almost completely wiped out.
However, it can be said that there is little threat to the landing ship group head-on? No, the resistance hidden in the jungle and houses will not show up until the landing boat group appears. They will take advantage of the long flooding time of the traditional landing ship regiment to fight back and delay the landing - yes, now that the defeat of the Dumbamaru has been quietly decided, all they want is to delay the time and provide a way out for the search for mediation. Although it can't disrupt the situation of the battle and the general trend, it can't be quickly resolved is equally fatal for this side.
However, once they landed and controlled the solid beachhead, a steady stream of military and logistical supplies would be sent directly to the island through the non-threatening strait. At that time, the remnants of the defeated army of Mishimaru could only rely on the terrain of the city and the dangerous mountain passes, and there was no way to fight back.
Therefore, a successful landing operation is a seventy percent guarantee of a complete victory in the Battle of Mishimaru. And this is also true for the former member of the Bilunar Church heresy and the director of the Western Crusade, who is entering the ship along the boarding ladder, and the "revenge operation" he will personally lead in the future.
For Eufael Mondridge, this was his first encounter with a war machine that had no magic and was powered entirely by another force.
"Are all the cabins made of steel?"
"Yes, only steel can hold up more steel." Uffel Mondridge's questions quickly became Chinese, and the answers of the exclusive docent were relayed into a language that Uffel Mondrich understood.
"Even though I know the principle of emptying the volume of water, the feeling of walking in this steel city is still incredible."
The same watertight doors, the coated floors that echo steel and rubber, the sounds of announcements echoing inside the ship, and the various pipes fixed to the walls of the cabin corridors may seem normal to us, but to Offy Mondridge they are truly postmodern landscapes.
"There's the vehicle deck up in front of here, and we're going to go across it to the other side of the ship, and then to the bridge to show our faces." The chief of staff who served as the docent raised his hand and looked at his watch and added: "There is still plenty of time, and if the dignitaries wish, they can also visit here for a while." ”
With that, he covered his head with his hands and lowered his head to lead the way out of the watertight door of the stairwell.
"Actually, I saw cars driving into the hull along the bridge just now, so I thought there should be a place to store those cars, but I didn't expect this to be this big!" Ofe Mondridge excitedly looked at the garage-like vehicle deck area in front of him and said loudly.
It's not that he's overexcited, it's that the noise and size of the place make him speak loudly. They were located right near the trestle where the vehicles were loaded, and the entire cabin was filled with the sound of tracks rubbing against the ground, the sound of the conductor's horn, and the vibration of the engines.
The soldiers who were maintaining and fixing the vehicle did not pay attention at the beginning, and when they saw a foreigner touching this and looking at the front and back of the car, they couldn't help frowning, but most of them chose to remain silent after seeing the two lieutenants who were not small in their background, and continued to bow their heads to make their own preparations
"What are you touching Lao Tzu's tank?" Offe Mondrich was pondering the barrel and marching lock of a 96A, when he heard someone in the commander's tower shouting at him. "It's still crooked, who put it up?"