Chapter 60: The War Resumes
After entering the cold winter, it is not only the Americans who are sad, after all, although they lost their lives in shootings and natural disasters, their freedom is still there, but the people here in Sokovia, on the other side of the world, have lost their precious freedom.
As the harsh winter approached, the war in Sokovia was still hot, and the government army and the rebels were engaged in a brutal tug-of-war around the two major cities including the capital and the south, and as the fighters became more and more intense, the black hands behind the two factions gradually emerged, such as the rebels' all-American weapons and the dozens of T55AM1 tanks draped in rebellion suddenly appeared by the poor and white government troops.
The continuous heavy snow did not stop the advance of the tanks, but the United Nations humanitarian relief operation fell into a stagnation, Sokovia usually needs food can still rely on its own agriculture to be self-sufficient, but after the start of the war, the country's agriculture was completely destroyed, the government came to a standstill, and even the residents could not be guaranteed to drink water and heat, so the United Nations launched the emergency plan early, organized a large amount of food, drinking water and medicine through the Mediterranean Sea to Sokovia, However, because there are hundreds of kilometers of fronts between the receiving points and the camps, the escort task becomes a problem.
At first, the Indian peacekeepers were responsible for escorting the convoy, but the convoy was ambushed by the rebels several times along the way, and the Indian peacekeepers lost 60 people (one killed and 59 captured).
Nearly a million civilians are waiting to be fed, but the highway that holds them alive and die has been ruthlessly cut off, both the government army and the rebels have ignored these people, in order to fill their stomachs, some people choose to join the army to fight, some choose to do waste pickers, and some people, choose to take risks!
Since then, the country has been in oblivion until a month ago, when the United Nations, which had no choice, chose to hand over the escort mission to the PMC company.
Titan's first response was that a mobile brigade was stationed in the Sokovia border city of Brown on the third day (no other PMC company had signed a contract at this time), and the unit was commanded by a senior officer from the Australian SASR, Bishop Márquez, who liked to wear a wide-brimmed hat that covered one side of the brim, and the cockade of his old unit.
After leading the troops into Brown City, Bishop immediately had a friendly exchange with the mayor of the city, and then the mayor expressed his strong support for the work of the giant.
After getting the cooperation of the local government, Bishop first did three things, the first thing was to set up three blockades outside the city, disinfect and register the refugees entering the city, and at the same time search for the arms they might carry, second, to recruit the local police force, rectify the order of the city, and ban the underground black market, because this work is more hateful, so it was handed over to the locals to do, and third, to hire local homeless refugees and build a large permanent military base (including an airport and reserve warehouse) on the outskirts of the city
As more equipment arrived, Bishop began preparations to open the road, codenamed Red Ball Express.
After the first snow-covered battle in Sokovia, the heavily armed Titan troops arrived in the Sokovia capital with 10,000 tons of food and medicine, as well as some much-needed civilian supplies (generators, fuel, medical equipment, etc.), and handed over the supplies to the UN staff there, six months after the outbreak of the Sokovian civil war, and the camp was without food for almost a month.
Wanda Maximov, who had just celebrated her 14th birthday two days ago, was obediently helping her mother with canned luncheon meat, which she and her mother had received from the big brothers in white hazmat suits after standing in line for three hours in the morning, and the family of four received a bag of flour, some canned luncheon meat, some canned dehydrated vegetables and a drinking water filtration device, and after learning that Wanda had just celebrated her birthday, the big brothers in white clothes gave her a small packet of fruit candy.
"Atlas? Who the hell are those big brothers? Smelling the luncheon meat, Wanda asked her mother curiously.
"They're good people!" Madame Maximov tugged at her hair, in fact, she didn't have a good impression of these foreign mercenaries, she didn't care what they were doing, her only plan was to take care of her children, but seeing her daughter so happy, and those soldiers with weapons and terrifying armor didn't do anything too much after entering the city, she also gave her own objective evaluation.
"Good guys!" Wanda carefully looked at the empty can in her hand, and wanted to firmly remember the letters Atlas and the bottom of the can made in China, since the moment the air defense siren sounded over the capital half a year ago, their family has never eaten a full meal, no bread, no butter, to the recent period, the family almost two days only a little bit of wheat porridge to drink, in order to increase the satiety as much as possible, Mrs. Maximov even dug up the wild vegetables near the house, It's almost time to peel off the wall.
And when Wanda and his brother Pietro, who was born 12 minutes earlier, celebrate their birthdays, there are not even candles on the table, only the happy birthday song of their parents.
"When I grow up, I want to be like them!" Wanda clenched her fists and said earnestly, in the morning she had witnessed the joy of her neighbors receiving their food, and the image of the usually vicious ruffians being pressed onto the truck by those mighty armored warriors, all thanks to the huge Atlas sign.
"We're back!" Mr. Maximov and Wanda's brother Pyro opened the door and entered.
"Mom, I'm hungry!" Pietro, with his gray hair, was as dirty as a mud monkey and grimaced at his sister.
"How's it going today?" Mrs. Maximov touched her son's head and urged him to wash, then looked at her husband, during the day Atlas's personnel had recruited many civilians to help them build sandbag fortifications, and Mr. Maximov was moved by the pay of five dollars an hour, so he signed up.
"Not bad!" Mr. Maximov pulled a crumpled roll of dollars from his pocket, handed it to his wife, and then pulled out a lunch box from his bosom.
"What is this?"
"The lunch meal, those people in Atlas are treated very well, it's all meat!" Mr. Maximov smiled happily.
"Then I'll save it and eat it tomorrow!"
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The arrival of emergency supplies has greatly alleviated the pessimism among civilians, and even the United Nations staff and Bishop have asked to escort a group of doctors without borders, the hospital here has run out of medicines, and many seriously ill patients can only wait for death because they cannot be treated, and the medicine and equipment sent by the giant god have greatly alleviated the urgent needs of the local hospital.
However, the rebels and the government army do not welcome the giant god very much, for no other reason, the warring sides of the repeated bloody battles make them need a large number of reinforcements, if it is okay in peacetime, but in wartime, it can only rely on violent means, when the original relief materials did not come, they can also rely on the materials in their hands to coax some cannon fodder, but now it is good, the cannon fodder is not coming, the big brother's house has a cart of weapons but no one uses it, which makes everyone have a headache.
Of course, the biggest headache is Baron Wolfgang von Stark, who is the king of the mountains in the mountains of Sokovia.
He was born in a Prussian aristocratic family, named Baron Straker, as a nobleman, he participated in the Franco-Prussian War and World War I and World War II, in World War II he became a member of the Hydra, it can be said that the Red Skull is the old team, after the Red Skull followed the whereabouts of the American team, he understood that the general trend of Germany had gone and he decisively ran away, hiding in the mountains to avoid the liquidation of the Allies on **, and because he was injected with the death spores virus, he can live forever, so he has been in Sokovia as an otaku, Continue to delve into the technology left behind by Hydra.
Although he has been hidden in Sokovia, this does not mean that Baron Straker is ignorant of the outside world, after all, the research of Hydra over the years needs materials, and if there are missing people in a region one after another, it will definitely be noticed, but if it is a chaotic area, the disappearance of a little population will seem so insignificant, and the huge demand for human research has naturally generated a corresponding market, and even many snakeheads in Sokovia have set up a complete set of assembly lines. They first send out sentries to find a suitable lone candidate, and then they will use gambling or fairy jumping to lure each other, and when the victim falls into the trap, the snake head will hand over the guy to the Hydra in the vest.
But now the situation is that a large number of snakeheads have been sent to Africa by the armed forces of the giant gods to plant trees, and the import channels for Baron Straker's experimental materials have been completely cut off.
"Atlas! It's too much of a deception! Baron Straker had also heard of this PMC company, but it was just an after-dinner conversation, and he never thought that the other party would appear in such a posture one day.
What about the strong dragon that said that it doesn't suppress the head snake? I'm dignified Straker, who was also the king of the night in Berlin at the beginning, and the number one person who had to chat cordially when he met the lone testicle, was bullied by the other party like this?
Although he made up his mind to let these despicable outlanders know that he knew how powerful he was, Baron Straker would not stupidly shout that I am Hydra and rush out in a reckless wave, and he did not play less in the wave of proxy wars.
Brown advances to the base
A C17 transport plane flying directly from Iraq to Sokovia slowly stopped at the berth, and then a lot of reporters and doctors came out of the cabin, these reporters were going to the capital of Sokovia to conduct interviews, some of them were to sing the praises of the giant gods, and some were invited by some charitable foundations to check whether local human rights were protected, they set off from their own countries, assembled at the giant god airport in Iraq, and finally sent into the war zone by the security forces, what? You say you're a BBC journalist who symbolizes freedom, refuses to obey the unified arrangement and wants to go on your own? No problem, Titans can also provide you with funeral services, what style you want to choose, Western or Eastern, no, Titans in Ghana can also find you seven black people dancing and playing music while carrying the coffin, to ensure that you go painlessly!
Faced with a threat that could endanger his own life, the BBC reporter could only lament that he had no Indians to consume while getting on a plane transporting supplies.
After arriving in Brown City, these reporters can't wait to start reporting activities in the local area, and the sailors run to shoot positive propaganda photos of the giant soldiers patrolling the city, working with the police to arrest criminals, and distributing supplies to civilians, while those reporters who are ready to go out will be thrown garbage or poop by local children.
After staying at the Brown base for about a week, a batch of supplies to the capital was finally arrived, and these reporters followed the flatbed convoy to the Red Ball Express, but what they didn't expect was that in the snow forest not far from the road, there were many malicious eyes on this convoy.
"Morgan! The stakes are high in this mission, so you must be careful! Our drones have found that unknown militants often appear around the highway during this time, you must pay attention! Bishop carefully instructed Arthur Morgan, who was in charge of the escort mission.
"Yes, sir, rest assured, I will deliver these reporters safely!" In fact, Arthur Morgen himself didn't believe that anyone would attack the transport convoy of the giant god at all, you must know that all the items escorted this time are not only a bunch of useless war correspondents, but also a large number of construction equipment and raw materials, which are used to repair the refugee camp near the capital, and there are some volunteers from MSF, and in order to escort them, the giant god dispatched a T740 Titan transformation tank and an armored company, and there are unmanned attack aircraft escorting in the sky. He Arthur Morgan is running naked three laps around the base!
And when the massive convoy, which combined for more than two kilometers, left the city and entered the snowy plains, Arthur Morgan suddenly wondered if he should retract his vow, as drones picked up signs of activity in areas where heavy troops met the forest and the plains.
"Order the drone to strengthen surveillance, not let go of the slightest wind and grass, once you find an unknown weapon, report it immediately!"