Chapter 12: Burn out the demonic fire of sin
"Heroes...... You're here to save us? The shrunken middle-aged serf trembled, and Malcolm's roar could be heard in the distance. The guy is already shooting the seventh arrow.
"Really...... Isn't it......" In the face of such a weak person, he had to weigh the words, so as not to hurt the guide who came from the new army was helpless. "We don't have enough men to get you out and give you enough food. It's up to you to flee. ”
The soldier's words of guilt sounded no less than God's concern to the serfs. The procession, which was mostly female, limped out of the bungalow, where a pot was erected early in the backyard and flour was boiled. The taste is not fragrant, but the characteristic taste of flour and compressed dry food.
The soldiers threw their share of compressed dry food for the second and third days into the pot. Anyway, the transport plane can come before the early morning, maybe it will drop some good things.
"Have you had enough of it?" Malcolm, who had shot ten arrows with wind magic, finally got tired and crouched on the ground and cried. This is his hometown, but I didn't expect it to become like this in the past six months. Things are wrong, relatives and friends are displaced, how can we punish sinners today to soothe that bit of hatred? "It's not a way for you to shoot arrows like this. Take a break. Tan Shijian was like a close friend, and gently patted Malcolm on the shoulder.
The lieutenant of the captain of the hundred had been dragged into the cellar after being interrogated by the surprise interrogation and dumping the beans, and the other prisoners were piled up in the cellar one by one - digging a pit and burying it was too time-consuming and manpower-intensive, and it would be easy to attract the attention of other strongholds by burning it on the ground, and they would be thrown into the cellar and disposed of with a single burning rocket and firewood--of course, the cellar was also abandoned, but it was better than exposing their whereabouts too early and leaving the corpse outside as an eyesore.
The arson rocket of the individual soldier quickly burst into the cellar wall, and the two soldiers in front of the launcher immediately pushed the cellar door made of stone slabs, and at the same time blocked the door completely with the stone benches brought from the garden.
Except for a hot part of the manor, everything was restored to tranquility. The serfs were sobbing a little, drinking a bowl of mush per person.
"It doesn't matter to us whether you want to stay here or in which direction you want to flee. It is our mission to rescue you on the orders of Emperor Doniva of Elta. ”
The rows of serfs who had drunk a bowl of mush stood up in line and handed the bowls to the next row. There weren't a lot of utensils collected in the farm, and God knows what these slaves usually ate with, the trough? It's incredible just thinking about it.
"We have come to the rear of the enemy by special means, so there is no way to bring you back when we go back. Of course, you can choose to escape into the countryside, or you can choose to take up arms and fight the rebels who have been weakened by us, and our army will not make a choice for you...... It's just that tomorrow this place will be completely burned down......"
Few people are listening. The aroma of flour is more appealing than Malcolm's speech, and that's the power of hunger. Although there is not much salt in the paste and it is not sweet, it is a supreme delicacy for those who are used to eating only bran and whole grains.
"No matter so much, let's withdraw!" Tan Shijian didn't care about anything, it was enough to successfully clear this stronghold tonight, and the three squads patrolling outside at the same time had already marked the location of the magic powder crop clearly, and there would be fighters from the Air Force or the Navy to drop the accurate sea of fire tomorrow morning. "Back to the first rally point!"
Watching the last row of serfs drink to the bottom of the cauldron, the last soldier picked up his rifle and quickly disappeared into the night. A few serfs tried to catch up, but the black-and-green uniforms disappeared into the field after a few bends. These gods had more important things to do than to bring them back to Cierta.
That is to receive supplies and sleep.
Several infrared beacon lights shine obliquely into the air in the bushes with light that is invisible to the naked eye. At this time, the time of the electronic watch jumps to exactly 22:00.
"Is it there?"
"This is not high-speed rail. There is always some delay in the plane...... Shhhh ”
The moonlight leaking from the gaps between the clouds seemed to be obscured by something, and the black fuselage quickly dropped in altitude, and the navigation lights were clearly visible.
"Confirm the infrared signal and start loading the pallet!"
The crew let go of the lock, and the pallet quickly slid towards the hatch, pulling out the bulging parachute behind the tail.
The parachute opens and the pallet is able to adjust its position in the air. In a few seconds, the main umbrella was opened.
"All four pallets have been loaded! Good luck with the normal posture! The transporter rose again and continued in a straight line pretending to be nothing.
The three pallets that were supposed to be put on were sentry robots, camel transport multi-legged robots, tents, hammocks and other large pieces of equipment. The task force camped in the bushes could keep the camp safe with unmanned reconnaissance aircraft that were always hovering over the camp and sentinel robots patrolling the outer line autonomously. And the last pallet to be sent was the compressed dry food that 100 people threw into the cauldron for poverty alleviation and disaster relief - in order to reward them for their victory, they also loaded an extra self-heating food and extra canned meat, which should be a supper.
Of course, patrolling by machines is not exhaustive. They are unable to move during the day, and they are still treated in the old way - sleeping in shifts. In the event that someone else approaches the bushes or is attracted to the manor, everyone will be awakened by the watchdog. Even if this manor is not reduced to ashes tonight, the uninhabited stronghold will definitely attract the suspicion of the defenders of the surrounding stronghold the next day. This is a piece of fat meat that smells of blood, waiting for the bewildered rebels to take the bait.
The grass was sprinkled with insect repellent water, and in a few places it was smoky. The small animals and insects that inhabit the bushes are scattered from all directions on a scale visible to the naked eye, and even many insects in the ground have escaped from the ground. After that, tents with canvas bottoms can be laid on the ground and hammocks can be set up among the bushes.
At the same time, there is also a shift to the irrigation ditch to get water, using a manpower pump to force the water in the irrigation ditch through a multi-layer filter membrane to treat the water to a usable level - of course, before drinking, you still have to add water purifier to boil, the filter membrane may not be able to filter pathogens.
"Most of the serfs went south...... I don't know where they're going. Tan Shijian leaned his eyes on the adjustable scope of the sniper rifle, and he couldn't see clearly, so he took out his officer's telescope. Are conditions better to the south than here? No forced labor? ”
"How far can they go south? Alas, all unrealistic delusions. Eighty percent of them will be caught by other rebel armies. I wish these bastards were all dying. Malcolm veiled his displeasure. In his opinion, the Forces nouvelles should fight until Hirzi recovers Elta - but he also knows how difficult it is to maintain the supply lines of the Forces nouvelles, and how insufficient the forces for a frontal attack are...... That's why he recommended himself to join the "Armed Forces Behind Enemy Lines".
When I think about it, he is very content to be able to fight here, near his hometown. They even have a battle to fight in the next ten days, which is the most interesting battle!
Malcolm finished his silent shift, and it was already three o'clock in the morning. He heated the canned meat in a self-heating packet, ate it with the soup and oil, rinsed his mouth, and went into the tent and fell asleep.
It's hot...... In the dream, he was shirtless, as if he was enjoying himself in an artificial hot spring in Mendong City. Wrong! He snapped his eyes open, and the other soldier in the tent was still asleep.
Malcolm's heart sank. Not good! He jerked out of the tent, only to find a false alarm. The June morning sun was unusually hot, and the heat that made him even more uncomfortable came from the marked fields of magic powder.
The fire was a little hard to control, and the rebels from the surrounding strongholds were scrambling to throw water from buckets into the unfed dragon. However, the fire in a field is destined to burn to the end, and only a field path without combustibles can stop the licking of the flames. It is also because of this factor that the cultivation of magic powder crops, which are adjacent to wheat fields and are not separated by field paths, has not been marked. And the other magic powder fields that were irradiated by the laser were unlucky.
It's over. Several centurions of the rebel army thought in unison. It's better to hurry back to the mountains and forests to be a bandit! But looking around the current Elta, where else can there be room for bandits? Not even a single bird can fly across the borders of Cierta. To rob the Western Crusade of the Bilunar Church and their protectorate? If you don't want to live, you have to be reincarnated early, and you are not looking for this way to die!
The big steel birds pulled long tail clouds, as if to highlight them, and each of them had two flames behind their butts. With a flicker, the flames descended on the fields of magic powder, the rice bowls of them and the serfs.
"Even serfs can't manage it!" The petty officers who managed them in the Twin Moons Western Expeditionary Army would definitely not believe any nonsense such as Big Bird Yakitada. Because all the serfs in that farm had run away, the pot must first be carried by the serfs -- and secondly by the security guards who managed the serfs. Even if the junior officer saw the big bird rain down the flames, he would not believe his superiors, and instead of passing the blame to the big steel bird like making excuses, it was better to quickly pass it on to the subordinates, and the subordinates were just as the high-level leaders of the Western Expeditionary Army of the Double Moon Church thought that they would not be able to use the rebel army.
Hot winds swept across the plains, blowing small dirt bales and bushes on the terrain, which were slightly higher. "Firefighters are not allowed to fire as long as they are not in range!" Tan Shijian had no cigarettes to smoke, so he took out another Mentos to chat for comfort. "If you want to start a war and shoot more than a large training, at least wait for someone to put out the open flames. Don't be anxious, young man, you guys are going to fight these days! ”