After a few battles, there are not many subordinates who can still keep up with Hawkeye's footsteps. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In fact, Koji underestimated the strength of the Federation's secret intelligence department, and Hawkeye and his men were able to survive against almost an entire city's land army, which should be said to be elite.

If it weren't for the fact that there were a few burdens in the team, Hawkeye would have been able to withdraw to the safety of the rear to take on the next mission.

Hawkeye and his men successfully found out that Gagu City and Zakun City were secretly contacting intelligence, and recently Shun Teng discovered that the interests of the two sides have been more involved in recent years.

During the operation, Hawkeye met a dignitary in Gagu City, who offered to provide confidential information about Gagu and Zakun City, provided that he and his family were safe.

For this reason, Hawkeye had to reveal his whereabouts and escort the witness to retreat.

Then, like a honeycomb that has been poked out of a hole, the city of Gagu sends troops in pursuit of Hawkeye and his men at any cost.

From street battles in the city, to chase battles in the suburbs, to counterattacks in the forests outside the city, the battlefield finally stretches all the way to the coastline that seems to be the back road but is actually desperate.

Along the way, Hawkeye and his men face off against Gagu City agents, local guards, city defense forces, and finally intercepted by the Coast Guard.

Encountered private cars, police explosion-proof vehicles, military armored vehicles, tanks.

There are also littoral combat ships that are now blocking the way out.

Lurking in the woods at an abandoned lumbermill, Hawkeye has been given respite to recover.

Through the window of the factory, you can see the blue sea outside, and the warships of the Kagu Navy are vigilantly deployed on the sea, blocking the surrounding sea area as far as the eagle eye can see.

In the mountains and forests behind them, there are a large number of Kagu city defense troops and military dogs searching for any clues left by them.

Coming to fight overnight exhausted everyone, including Hawkeye, who already felt the numbness of his injured left leg that seemed out of his control.

After a simple rebandage, Hawkeye was again faced with a choice, and this position would soon be discovered, and it would inevitably be covered by naval artillery fire, even if it was lucky enough to avoid naval artillery bombardment and the tail sweep of land troops.

He must find a safe way to escape.

"Eat something."

A piece of dry military ration was handed to Hawkeye.

Hilgard himself nibbled on hard dry food and sat down casually beside Hawkeye.

Born into a fine family and persisted in decades of reserve? Hilgard had lost it when he was on the run.

"Thank you...... It's been hard work along the way, sir, and when you return to the Federation, what you have lost will be doubled, I assure you. Hawkeye had a high attitude towards the down-and-out middle-aged man in front of him.

Almost every major city in the Federation has its own route to the sea.

Almost every city has its own maritime defense, and the Federation has always turned a blind eye as long as you don't die and blatantly jump out, as if you didn't see anything.

Why does the Federation have to make a fuss about the incident in Zakun City this time?

It's ridiculous to go through the legal process and negotiate with Zakun City for so long?

Because even the Federation has taken a fancy to Zakun's naval technology and wants to take over the systems it has invested in this area, including secret shipyards and workers.

A large part of the reason for this is the man named Hilgard, who was originally born into a nobleman in the city of Gagu and accepted the invitation of the city of Zakun to serve as an important member of the Ministry of Coastal Defense.

In fact, it is a senior engineer in the shipyard.

Hilgard is a household name even throughout the Federation.

He has created countless achievements for mankind in his past life, single-handedly led to the rise of the federal city defense navy, and the shipbuilding industry system now used by the federation is a combination of him.

He showed humanity a new way to resist the deep-sea fleet in addition to the ship, that is, the warships built by the humans themselves.

It's a pity......

That's not a pretty thing.

In the Brave Ship Ladies holding the front line, the Commonwealth is more like opening a Pandora's box.

The rise of the city defense navy triggered a series of balance disruptions, resulting in competition and encroachment of interests between various regions of the federation, and a reshuffle of power.

Some say that this is the process that the Federation must go through, which will bring more fresh blood and ideas to the current Federation, and the development of the near and more rapid.

In fact, the general trend of the whole society is indeed progressing as expected.

For example, the city of Zakun built a battleship-class industrial ship with the help of Hilgard.

Past.

Even now.

In many parts of the Federation, it is impossible to build a ship that can be called a warship.

But in Zakun City, they can already build battleship-level warships through their own human abilities and the cooperation of the goblins.

The displacement is more than 20,000 tons and 30,000 tons.

Thick armor protection, 380 mm and even larger caliber gun configuration.

It is precisely because of this that Zakun City has the confidence to build a fleet that exceeds the limit in violation of federal regulations, including a battleship shipwive, whose fleet consists of four battleships.

Four battleships.

This weight can be said to be the level of a country in the original world.

But Zakun was not satisfied with this, he needed more warships, more naval soldiers, and more sources of supplies at sea, so he ended up opposing the Federation.

After learning that Zakun's greed was uncontrollable, Hilgard refused the lucrative offer and chose to return to his hometown.

It is also because of his existence that the relationship between Gagu City and Zakun City is much more complicated than it can be seen on the surface, and of course it is much closer.

If it weren't for Hilgard's refusal to provide only conventional advice on the same plan for Gagu City, it might not be as simple as a Zakun City that is now being targeted by the Federation.

Such a star-like figure.

Hilgard enjoyed high privileges in the city of Gagu but lost his freedom to a certain extent.

After encountering Hawkeye by coincidence, the Grand Engineer resolutely gave up his superior conditions in Gagu City and decided to escape control.

As a result, he was pursued by the forces of Gagu City.

The attitude of the city of Gagu can be seen in the orders it gives to the soldiers.

To see people alive and dead to see corpses, Hilgard must not be allowed to escape its control and be taken over by the Federation.

It was because of the importance of Hilgard's identity that Hawkeye didn't even dare to report his news to the surrounding federal bases, but directly notified the federal superiors through a more hidden secret line.

And then there's the current ambush situation on all sides.

"It's not too late to talk about my business when I escape, I'm afraid of ......"

Hilgard didn't look very confident, and he knew that he and his family were slowing down the team's efficiency and had missed the opportunity as a result.

The city of Gagu sank all the ships you could see in the area, and the ones you saw at sea were the warships of the Maritime Guard in the city of Gagu, but in the outside world they were pirates.

The city of Gagu let its regular army play the role of pirates, just to keep Hilgard from escaping its sight.

"Don't worry, I've already asked the base for help, and you should know that we've recently had a Navy Admiral."

In such a disadvantaged environment, Hawkeye still maintained confidence and said.

An official Admiral of the Navy.

That's a naval fleet that's on the scale.

Hilgard, who has built ships for almost his entire life, knows best what advantages and disadvantages the warships and those ships built by humans themselves.

The natural advantage is that it is easier to form a scale.

It doesn't need to carefully select qualified people from the entire federation of school-age personnel to accept the awakening transformation, and then carefully train the right ship girl to finally form combat power.

In terms of overall input costs, the consumption of human beings to build their own warships is smaller than that of the admirals to select excellent ship girls, and the waste of a admiral on building ship wives every year is astronomical.

The shortcomings are equally obvious.

In terms of high-end combat power, human beings can't do the magical battlefield play of high-level ship girls.

The strength of the fleet in Zakun City was the most clear, and it was still far from a fleet of ships of the same size, an almost insurmountable gap.

Thinking of the ship's mother.

Think of the rumored Admiral.

Hilgard couldn't help but exude undisguised envy.

Many people know that when he was younger, Hillgard's most important hope was to become an admiral.

However, he failed in the final awakening stage, and the elves were unable to build a spiritual network on him that could connect with the ship girls.

"Hopefully......" Hilgard sighed as he nibbled on the dry food.

“……”

Hawkeye didn't say anything more.

What Hilgard was worried about was what he thought.

Although the signal for help has been sent for half a day, it is still difficult to get help from the base.

It is impossible for others not to know that the warship on the sea is the official fleet base of Kagu City, and after seeing it, they will have concerns and doubts.

Maybe it will take some time for them to decide on the results.

After thinking about it, Hawkeye still comforted:

"Don't forget the Admiral, he has the privileged autonomy to let him go wherever he wants, I have been in contact with the Lord, he said that he can provide me with fire reinforcements at any time, maybe he is already on his way."

Hawkeye's words didn't get the response he expected.

Looking up in confusion, he saw Hilgard's ears pricked up as if listening to a distant voice.

"Mr. Hilgard?" Hawkeye also calmed down trying to discern something from the air, but all he heard Naruto the dog in the distance who had been approaching since just now drank.

"Shh~"

Hilgard's expression became more and more suspicious.

It seemed as if he had sensed something, and Hawkeye waved around gesturing everyone to silence.

Even the noisiest child was covered by his mother and chased down the screen to breathe, and the whole factory suddenly returned to its original tranquility, except for the increasingly approaching search sound like a death talisman.

Personnel in the distance cheered.

The echo of the locomotive in the mountains and forests.

The chirp of a spirited military dog from time to time.

There seems to be some kind of shrill whistling faintly.

And also......

Shocks in the air!

Suddenly, Hawkeye felt a kind of explosion and fluctuation, like a muffled thunder at the end of the sky.

This voice was unfamiliar to many people, but Hawkeye and most of his subordinates subconsciously looked out the window at the sea.

This long howl of breaking through the air, this sense of long distance, and this thunderous roar, which can only occur when large-caliber artillery shells explode.

And it's from the sea.

And then......

What they saw was the rapid sinking of a battleship that turned into a huge fireball.

It wasn't even sunk, but the steel battleship was directly reduced to countless fragments under the explosion of great power.