Chapter 1391: War (2)
On this day, a strong wind suddenly blew in the middle of the Atoso Mountains, and the rain was like a downpour.
Bean-sized raindrops continued to lap on the foliage, but no matter how hard they wilted, they could not bend the tough petioles.
Water droplets splash on the lush leaves and fall onto the other leaves, flowing down the veins to the tips of the leaves, sliding from the tall branches to the ground.
The seed of the Demon Tree, the giant tree known as the 'Holy Wall', towers high above the earth, surrounded by white clouds and mist, and its dense branches and leaves are like a giant umbrella to keep all the rain out.
It was as if a waterfall was falling from all sides, and the rain from the leaves of the trees divided the world in the eyes of the soldiers into two parts, one was noisy 'outside' and the other was quiet 'inside'.
In the dormitory constructed by the sub-trees, many people were holding their windows and trying to stretch their necks, staring at the rain curtain that was hanging around the giant tree.
It seemed that everything in the world had been far away from them, even the impending war had been forgotten, and the long-lost tranquility of the mind, which had been quite restless.
I don't know if this is good or bad for them, on the eve of the war, let the tense spirit relax, even if it can give them a good rest and mental state, but without the tension, maybe when the Zerg attack, they will not be able to adjust so quickly.
The maid was keenly aware of this, but there was nothing she could do about it.
This was a spontaneous act of the soldiers, and even she couldn't get them all to follow orders and stop paying attention to what was happening in the outside world, and that wasn't her style.
The timing of this rain was not very good, and it would have been nice if it had come after the war......
Selena sighed slightly, her palm caressing the edge of the window, leaning towards the black dragon beside her, and gently leaning on his shoulder.
At this moment, she seemed a little weak, not only the soldiers were affected by this heavy rain, but even she felt a moment of peace.
The complicated and trivial things were far away from her, and after her brain was empty for a long time, she suddenly realized how beautiful the world was.
Squinting his eyes and inhaling gently, the fresh air with a bit of moist breath instantly filled his nasal passages, and the corners of his lips were raised.
Serena looked out the window, Cervantes looked at her, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl up.
The silence lasted for a long time, no one disturbed it, and it seemed that everyone was immersed in this tranquility, and the world seemed to fall asleep with it.
The giant tree also stretched its branches and leaves in due time, making the rain curtain ripple and look more gorgeous, which naturally caused many people to exclaim.
- How nice it would be if time could stand still in this moment!
Such a ridiculous idea has popped up in the minds of many people.
However, objective facts do not depend on will!
A slight tremor suddenly came from the ground.
The tremor affected the tree, causing it to stop moving for a moment, and after a moment of stunnedness, the reacting military fortress suddenly closed the dormitory window.
I saw the vine whiskers staggered and closed in front of my eyes, and the soldiers lying by the window were forced to retreat.
Every soldier in the dormitory focused their eyes on the closed window in amazement, and even some of the soldiers who were lying on the bed reading a book and enjoying the quiet atmosphere were so frightened by the sudden dimming light that they jumped up from their beds and looked around in a hurry.
Soon, the faint fluorescence lit up again in each dormitory, but the alarm also followed.
"Guys, get dressed and report in the equipment hall. The serious voice in charge of the broadcast paused, "The war has begun!"
There was a brief silence in the dormitories, and they were still immersed in the spectacle just now, and they hadn't fully reacted yet.
After a while, the chaotic noise rang out, and the soldiers did not complain, but hurriedly put on their combat uniforms.
For the war with the Arcane Empire, the Duchy of Screaming Wind has been preparing for a long time, producing many power exoskeletons, which were not consumed much in the original war.
For this vanguard army that dares to go deep into the Black Forest, the power exoskeleton is only the standard, and sufficient ammunition supply and advanced weapons and equipment are the most important.
They are fighting on the front lines of the Black Forest monsters, and they also have to fight the terrible Zerg, so naturally they need to be equipped with the best and least likely to malfunction.
Because of the suddenness of the incident, everyone was unprepared, and even the staff of the equipment hall hurried to the ration hall without even putting on their clothes.
"Warehouse! Open the warehouse, there is definitely not enough equipment in the hall!"
"It's open!
"The people from dormitory 178 are here, what about the power exoskeleton?"
The halls were in chaos, the corridors were crowded with people, and soldiers poured out of the dormitories, even with a few stairs and entrances on the same floor.
But even in this chaos, everyone still maintained the most basic order, did not scramble, did not push each other.
They formed several long lines, which advanced slowly and rapidly in dormitory units.
The equipment speed of the power exoskeleton is not fast, but the staff of the equipment hall are already busy sweating, even if they are sweating, they have not stopped being busy.
Boxes of equipment were constantly being dragged out of the warehouse and distributed to each soldier, and the soldiers who had been given the equipment climbed over the guardrail, grabbed the vines and slid down through the hole in the center of the equipment hall.
The soldiers with guns on their backs flowed down the vines to the ground like a stream of water, and in fact, before their feet touched the ground, they had already let go of the vines, jumped down, and then catapulted, running towards the gate as they took out their guns from behind.
The officers were rarely unhurried, they silently put on their equipment and slid down the vines like the soldiers.
At this time, urging will only cause more confusion, and the best thing to do is to do everything you have to do silently, and then wait patiently, and never ask until the situation is in crisis - they have already learned this when they are promoted to officers and learn military knowledge.
Everything was going on in an orderly manner, and the soldiers gathered in the hall below, and on the flat ground beyond the giant trees, but at this time, they still found no trace of the Zerg.
Now that the alarm has been raised, there must be something wrong.
As soldiers, they don't need to think about these things, those are what their superiors only need to think about, what they have to do is to obey orders and complete the tasks assigned by their superiors.
Sometimes the more you think about it, the more it will be a drag, and the more things you have experienced, the veterans have already recognized the facts, and people who are not smart enough, or people who think they are smart, will not only kill themselves, but also kill their comrades.
There have been too many similar things happening on the battlefield, so they have long learned to follow orders, and then exert their strength within the limits of the orders, trying to save themselves when completing the mission.
They have been given the best equipment, which means that their superiors do not want to give up on them, but sometimes the situation is too difficult, and in order to protect their families and country, they can only let some people sacrifice.
If they don't go, then there is a risk that the family in the rear will be harmed by the enemy, which is something that none of them want to see!
"Those bugs are digging tunnels. Cervantes leaned on the window edge with one hand, his cold gaze swaying downward, and said calmly.
The surrounding trees have all been cut down by them, and they have become a growth aid for this sub-plant, and there is no dense foliage to cover the rest of the place, so they can naturally see everything that is happening on the ground.
This was originally the most common attack method of the Zerg, and the situation was still expected by them, but the problem was that before that, the Zerg had already tried to use this method to attack other military strongholds to test their perception ability.
Now that they know they can sense it, why would they use this attack?
Although she was very puzzled in her heart, Serena still reacted to it.
With a gesture of her hand, the staff flew from the side and landed on her hand.
With his five fingers folded, he grasped the body of the staff, and took the head of the staff and lightly touched it in the void in front of him, and the ground around the giant tree trembled suddenly.
All the bulges were flattened in an instant, and the insects hidden under the ground were naturally crushed into meat sauce by the suddenly closed ground, and even the chitin shells were sandwiched into thin slices.
The bodily fluids that erupted from their bodies soaked into the already extremely wet earth without incident.
The maid had long since regained her coldness, and the war had begun, so she naturally had little leisure to enjoy the 'peace of mind'.
The tunnel-digging zergs were killed before they could even scream, but the rest of the insects that walked on the ground and flew in the sky were not affected in any way.
The wind and rain drowned out the roar of the insects' wings, and in the blurry distance, the rain outlined a beetle that refracted the cold light, and it crawled out of the rain curtain in silence, and behind it, countless barbed claws were simultaneously outlined by the downpour.
The insects marching silently broke through the pouring rain and silently crashed into the wall ahead.
Just as they were about to collide with it, their sharp claws suddenly hooked onto the wall perpendicular to the ground, driving their seemingly large, but actually light bodies to climb the wall.
The Kuroshio Tide spread up the wall, but in half an hour, it swallowed it.
The soldiers who broke out of the fortress ran to the soldiers stationed outside, and worked with them to tear off the rain cloth covering the cannon and quickly clean the gun.
They are extremely skillful in this action, and every soldier, during the recruit period, has to receive basic training for all branches of the army until the end of the recruit period and everyone is assigned.
But even if they are assigned, they still need to go through half a month of general education training every year, and only in this way can they ensure that they can be temporarily mobilized when the resources of other branches of the army are insufficient, so as not to make the army have shortcomings.
And when the situation is critical, every soldier can be used as another class, just like now!
Although those trainings were very hard, it was precisely because of those trainings that their battlefield survival rate increased, and the results they could achieve were also a lot more.
If it's to give themselves a higher survival rate on the battlefield, they'll do it, no matter how hard they train!
Behind them, inside the fortress of the giant tree, the door of the ammunition depot had been opened, and the quartermaster wiped the sweat from his sleeve, rubbed his eyes that had accidentally soaked in sweat, gasped, and continued to command the audience.
Shells and bombs were the first to be carried, followed by magazines and bullets and other equipment.
While the others were cleaning the gun, some soldiers dragged out a box of shells that had been specially placed under the gun, took out a sapper shovel to cut the seal, inserted the shovel into the box along the gap, and pried the lid up to open the ammunition box.
The well-packed ordinary shells, blasting shells, and concussion grenades were neatly arranged, and they quickly glanced at them, and casually shoveled the sappers into the ground, and the soldiers picked up the concussion bombs without saying a word and loaded them into the breeches of the guns.
As they did this, the angle of fire of the guns had already been adjusted, and when the shells were just reloaded, almost at the same moment, the muzzles of a dozen guns placed around the giant tree erupted with flames, and the shells slid down the rifling line into the free sky.
The air formed a trajectory around it, and in an instant, the cannonballs were propelled by a burst of force, as if a ray of light was fleeting in the air, and a loud bang erupted in the midst of the swarm.
More than a dozen loud noises shook the air, and even the soldiers standing in the distance felt a little dizzy in their heads, let alone the bugs.
More than a dozen concussion bombs exploded in the insect tide at the same time, and the insects at the center of the explosion were instantly crushed into powder by the violent explosion of sound waves, and body fragments flew everywhere.
Violent sound waves swept through the entire swarm, causing countless ripples in the air, causing all the insects to fall into a moment of stagnation.
It's not that they don't want to move on, it's just that their whole body is paralyzed, and until now, it seems that sound waves still reverberate inside them, constantly pounding their internal organs.
"Burst bomb, reloaded!"
A breath was taken inside the protective mask, the sound of pumping sounded from the filter, and the soldier in charge of loading the shells shouted loudly.
Even if everyone else saw it and knew about it, he had to do it, and it was an uplifting ritual.
The artillery roared again, and this time, it was hundreds of artillery pieces fired in unison!
The vines that shrouded in front of the firing port of the Giant Tree Fortress had been pulled apart by the will of the Giant Tree, and the muzzles of the guns popped out of it, and the gunners adjusted the angle of fire, just in time for the dozen guns placed on the ground to be slapped.
Dozens of machine guns were also pushed out of the fortress, and the tall machine gunners took a deep breath and resolutely pulled the trigger, and the machine guns began to roar and roar.
A metal storm swept through the sky and the earth at the same time, and death quickly descended on the battlefield, but it was the bugs that died!
All of a sudden, the guns rang out, and for this war, they had already hoarded a lot of ammunition, even if they fought for ten days and ten nights, they would not be short of ammunition.
Cervantes and Serena suddenly withdrew their gaze and turned to look at Latinia who had slammed the door open.
The goddess's expression was grim, and she said in a daze, "Leviathan has begun to teleport!"
The war has finally begun!
- It's here again!
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