"What's that sound?" The patrol member of the noble army who was walking on the road suddenly heard something strange - he checked with his eyes to the soldiers around him, and got the same answer. It's not his own delusion, it's not groundless, but there really is some voice.

"Sounds ...... It looks like someone is making noise. The other said uncertainly. The group froze in place at this moment, as if trying to confirm the latest information.

"What's going on?" The leader of the team was sitting peacefully in the captain's plane in the center of the line. Seeing that the vanguard had stopped advancing, he immediately turned on the wide-area guidance wireless communication and asked questions.

The soldiers told him about the strange voices they had just heard—if it was just one or two people who said that, he might not take it seriously, but since so many soldiers, and even a few junior officers whom he trusted quite a bit, said that there was a problem, he naturally could not sit idly by. Soon, he motioned for the whole group to stop and pay attention to what was happening around them.

Each soldier held his breath and did not dare to make the slightest sound, for fear of disturbing his thinking. The air was frighteningly quiet, and there was an indescribably eerie atmosphere. However, half a minute later, a loud noise, which everyone had heard, reached the chief's ears clearly.

The sound of something shattering was echoing like an aftermath — and the patrol leader gave his own orders. Two groups of infantry, twenty men in all, at his command, entered the source of the sound—a river and tidal flat in a hilly area that connected to the regular army garrison, with forests along the way, but not too far according to the map. In retrospect, it could have served as an outpost for regular army soldiers, as they could easily see the road a little further into the mountains. If the regular army were attacked from this side, the soldiers stationed nearby might have issued a warning to prepare the main forces of the Imperial army in the hills.

Soon, the two vanguards sent a report - at the end of the forest, they saw several makeshift tents, which appeared to be soldiers of the regular army. When they got the news, the soldiers stayed there and observed, and reported that they seemed to see that the soldiers seemed to be arguing with someone, and asked for instructions on what to do next.

"From their mouths, I think we can ask for some information about the base camp of the regular army. Don't let them run. "Stay where you are, be vigilant at all times, and report any movement to me as soon as possible." Now, the mechs are going to deploy at the western junction, and the rest of the men will follow me around the eastern front, take them as quickly as possible, don't make a move, and don't give the regular army a chance to rescue them. ”

"That's the order." Heliga listened to it - the patrol leader of the aristocratic army thought the same way as his own, and he was more interested in the success of his mission than efficiency. Therefore, he chose what seemed to him the safest method, first spreading out his troops, and then attacking, blocking all enemy retreats.

Heliga, the place where the regular army was stationed, had already seen it—there were only about one or two dozen soldiers in it, and they were resting in their shifts at the moment, and they didn't even notice the movement here. Heliga's pitching technique was directed only at the soldiers of the noble army, and the soldiers of the regular army heard nothing. Naturally, they were unaware of the fact that they were surrounded by groups.

According to Heiliga's previous calculations and estimates, the mecha troops will definitely be sent to guard the more spacious west, where there is no muddy land and woods to cover it, and the space is spacious enough, so it is more suitable for mechs to play. And on the eastern route, it was more suitable for the infantry of the brigade. In fact, it was true, and the officer of the noble army did arrange it in the same way. But in this way, even if only temporarily, the two forces that could have cooperated with each other were separated.

Heliga sat back and watched as this happened, and it wasn't long before the confused regular army soldiers were captured by the aristocratic army. There was not even a fierce battle between the two sides, because of the actions of the noble army, the regular army did not receive any signal at all, and there was no time to organize an effective counterattack. After arresting all the regular soldiers and urgently searching their camp, the captain gave the order to the mechs to return. It's just a little bit of an accident.

"What do you say? Acid? The commander really suspected that something was wrong with his ears this time, even if he did hear the voice of the mecha pilot, "How could such a thing appear in such a wilderness?" ”

"We don't know either...... I just received a notification from the sensor, so I left the cockpit and took a look. True, the entire leg has been corroded and is now unable to walk. The driver's voice was full of innocence, "That's right, right?" What happened just now. ”

"Yes......" the companion who was named immediately chimed in, "we also suspect that it is some kind of enemy trick, but after waiting for a long time, nothing further seems to have happened. ”

"Ask the regular army soldiers if they did it. Or at least they should know something, right? The captain frowned and gave orders to the soldiers in reserve.

"Yes." As he spoke, the soldiers of the noble army found the soldiers of the regular army and tried to question them by coercion and inducement. In this regard, the captain of the regular army said that he really did not know anything - even if the aristocratic army used a little extraordinary means. In this case, he had no choice but to report truthfully to the captain of the noble army.

Then asked. Well, you guys should stay here. I'll go over there and see what's going on with those two idiots. The captain thought for a moment and said - after all, it was not yet time to return to the garrison, and it was not convenient to take these prisoners, who were equivalent to dragging oil bottles, with them at this time. Besides, except for this fly in the ointment episode on the side of the mecha soldiers, today's gains are not small - after all, this is the first time that a suspicious person from the regular army has been caught on patrol in the past few days.

So, after leaving some soldiers to stand by and "interrogate" the regular army soldiers by the way, the captain set off with two other mechs under his command and a small group of infantry.

Hiding in the shadows, Helliga knew that his chance had come.