The sky is full of fish belly white, a very light gray, the cool breeze is rustling, the lingering smoke is still unfinished, the new snow is deposited on the old blood, and the world finally has a sense of tranquility and tranquility.

The first rays of dawn shone over the star monument that was still shining brightly, but the beam that penetrated the sky and the earth last night had long since stopped, replaced by a rhythmic flickering guidance signal every once in a while, so the soldiers were quite relaxed, they completed the task brilliantly, the deep space coordinates of the Eagle Valley Star had been transmitted to the fleet, and with the space-based strike and the bombing of the fleet air force, the enemy troops besieging the fortress also withdrew in vain before dawn, and the fortress standing in the wilderness suddenly became silent.

Several all-domain fighters flew in a wedge-shaped formation, as if dyeing a white line in the clear sky, and the soldiers on the city wall watched with great interest as the transport planes landed at the temporary field airfield outside the city one after another, unloading a large number of ordnance materials, and when the iron pilot troops with the battle flag came out of the tail cabin, people cheered and hugged warmly, where the "Phoenix" Titan Mecha of the Celestial Alliance appeared, victory would come!

Tang Ning squinted at the Titan who was long overdue to him, rubbed the corners of his eyes, and stepped aside in silence, and the people behind him couldn't wait to rush over, vying to witness the majestic posture of the iron pilot, as if they had forgotten that only a few hours ago, countless young lives had melted into this Shura purgatory.

Downing climbed over the battlements and jumped onto the Ivan the Terrible mecha with a "bang", this impossibly tyrant fell on the side of the city wall, the left wall was vertically attached to the ribs of the chest, and the right hand with the broken elbow was simply inserted into the hole where the head had been lost, looking grotesque to the extreme.

Downing smelled a fishy smell, caused by the leakage of liquid fuel from the mecha reactor, this high-explosive fuel was only restrained by a simple magnetic field, after all, the only valuable thing on this planet was the locator beacon, whether it was the Empire or the Celestial Alliance, they were just pinching their noses for war.

Tangning weaved through the cracks of the rugged iron spikes, and he tried to observe, looking for any dead trapped in the solidified molten steel. He slid down the chest of the mecha, he ignored the completely different pink palms of Ivan the Terrible, people couldn't pull out the same remains as poured in, and they couldn't dispose of this mecha that was hundreds of tons in a short time, so they could only cut off half of it with a chainsaw, cremate it and bring it back to the fleet.

Deeper and deeper, Tang Ning stopped at a hole about two meters in diameter, surrounded by completely carbonized, he squatted down, broke off a small piece of iron outside the hole, covered his mouth and didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he wiped the piece of iron vigorously, until the gloves were hot, and only the traces of the words "go" and "ten" could be faintly seen.

This is the only trace of a paratrooper named Juan Zihua on this planet that once existed in the world.

Tang Ning stood up stiffly, his eyes were sore in the early morning sun, he actually stepped on the air, rolled over several heels and fell into the snow, but everyone cheered for the iron pilot troops on the city wall, and after almost a quarter of an hour, Tang Ning stood up again, holding the fragment of Juan Zihua's honorary short sword, and staggered into the fortress.

The corpses of fallen soldiers were placed outside the Star Monument Square, Tang Ning spread out a brand new body bag, twisted the edge of the bag with his left hand, and then put the fragment of the short sword and short sword that might still hold a trace of the soul of Ju Zihua, Tang Ning hugged the shroud bag horizontally like a person, and let Ju Zihua lie down with the other paratroopers who died before dawn.

"Found them all?" Tang Ning didn't reply, behind him was Yue Dong and Zhang Yueyang, who were slowly approaching, these two old guys had been in a squadron with Tang Ning since before the expedition, and slowly, Tang Ning was promoted to captain, Yue Dong became Tang Ning's deputy, and Zhang Yueyang also became a senior sergeant major.

"The fallen brethren are here." Yue Dong said.

"Go and call the brothers who are alive."

Within two minutes, the surviving paratroopers were standing in front of their eternal comrades, no one choked and no one cried, death seemed like a common thing for the orbital paratroopers, from the moment they stepped into the drop cabin, they stepped into hell, and then wanted to ascend to heaven, how difficult is it?

"If you have anything to say, just say it quickly, if you have a glass of wine, if you have a cigarette, keep one, and the next time we meet, it will be a military cemetery." Tang Ning said dejectedly. Before leaving, there were more than two hundred people, and now there are less than fifty people who can stand by themselves, and Tang Ning doesn't know whether his chief is doing too badly, or something else.

"Disperse, disperse, go get it yourself." Tang Ning reflexively leaned against an empty ammunition box, waving weakly.

A cigarette was handed over, Tang Ning raised his eyelids slightly to catch it, Zhang Yueyang lit a fire, the extremely strong smell of wind and sand in the fire clouds almost choked his throat, Tang Ning coughed hard, and even made a few drops of water printed on his dry and tired face, and the two of them were so dull and speechless one after another, as if they were very indifferent to watching the paratroopers commemorating the deceased, and when they turned their backs to everyone, they kept wiping their faces and biting their lips.

Tang Ning looked away, holding a cigarette in his hand, and said hoarsely: "Do you remember the last time we played football on Zeus?" I can't fucking forget that you stopped Lao Tzu from at least two shots, and in the last minute of the final game, you guys deliberately tripped over Lao Tzu, which is really weird. As he spoke, Tang Ning laughed a few times.

"The big guy made an appointment to honestly get on the warship and play a friendly match between men, who shamelessly brought the girl here? Bring one and endure it, in the second half, tell me how many girls are shouting and cheering for you? Is this a human thing? ”

"Especially your kid has thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he can't stop the wild bees and butterflies when he goes to the fleet, yes, did you win Miss Bai?" Zhang Yueyang immediately pointed at Tang Ning's nose and scolded him, and the smile that appeared in the next second froze again, making him cry and laugh.

Tang Ning swallowed the smoke and whispered, "This matter is similar to what you guessed...... Huh? What's going on over there? Following Downing's finger, a group of infantry in khaki uniforms picked up the body bags on the side of the square and lifted them onto the construction machinery.

Tang Ning immediately stepped on the cigarette butt, ran quickly to the group of infantry, held the short sword in his hand and shouted: "Stop! That unit's! Who commanded you to go up here and sow wild? ”

When the infantry saw that the person who came was a three-star paratrooper captain, they looked at each other and did not enter or enter, Tang Ning looked at the body bag that was carried casually by the two corners, and his heart was instantly furious, and he scolded: "Carry it back!" I didn't see you guys come over in the fucking war, and the fight was done faster than the bunnies! ”

The scolding was very loud, and most of the eyes in the square were attracted to it, and after a while, an officer was summoned, and he raised his chin and said to Tang Ning: "This is already the mecha parking lot of the Iron Pilot Army, immediately retreat with your people, Captain!" ”

The word "captain" deliberately dragged the floor for a long time, just to show the rank of two bars and one star, Tang Ning looked sideways at the paratroopers who were staring at him, Tang Ning's loud voice did not startle other sad and mourning comrades, a nameless fire instantly jumped into his head, Tang Ning turned his head, forced to look at the high-spirited officer, and said coldly: "What if I refuse?!" ”

"This is a direct order! Captain! ”

Tang Ning didn't talk nonsense anymore, grabbing the other party's collar was a slap! With a "poof", he directly knocked down the officer's nose, and a puddle of blood splashed Tang Ning's face, regardless of the stupid people around him, Tang Ning picked up his fist and hammered it on his beautiful face that was white and clean and had no dust at all. Until Zhang Yueyang dragged Tang Ning alive.

The officer covered his flowery face, screamed, kicked several infantrymen, and howled: "Look! Call the gendarmerie! Call the gendarmerie! ”

Tang Ning spat and said fiercely: "Scream! Scream! I'm telling you to lie down and see the gendarmes! After that, he suddenly broke free of Zhang Yueyang, pounced on him and kicked the officer on the ground and flew out, where were the infantrymen willing to be beaten so unreasonably, and surrounded by all hands and feet, and the paratroopers who had been holding their breath all night saw that Tang Ning was overwhelmed by the crowd, let out a shout, grabbed the scabbard and rushed over, and in the blink of an eye, steel helmets, water bottles, and gun butts flew all over the sky, and the square was immediately chaotic.

Just as the paratrooper infantry was about to shoot a real fire, the explosion of the "bell" made them involuntarily stop, and suddenly looked at a phoenix mecha outside the square that suddenly paused with a two-handed heavy sword.

"Article 22 of the Fleet Ordinance states that under no circumstances are there any insults, brawls, or even group fights between military personnel! Gendarme! Arrest everyone present! ”

Under the gaze of the Phoenix mecha, the gendarmes who rushed to control the group fighters, Tang Ning "hissed" a cold breath, and was wordlessly driven to the corner by the gun-wielding gendarmes to squat down, and asked Yue Dongdao next to him: "Dongzi, take a cigarette." ”

Yue Dong, whose cheeks were swollen, shook his head and said, "It's been distributed to the brothers, hey, boss, you have this title, next time you will collect it." ”

"Next time?" Out of the corner of his eye, Tang Ning glanced at the officer who had been beaten by him before talking nonsense in front of the mecha, he exhaled hot air into the cracked palm, and said sullenly: "Next time? Who's going to collect it for you and me next time? ”

Yue Dong was speechless.

The phoenix mecha "rumbled" to the paratroopers, and the deck opened, revealing a pilot whose face was covered in the blue light of the helmet.

Tie Yu hooked his finger at Tang Ning and said indifferently: "Captain Tang Ning of the 28th Parachute Brigade." Dequeue. ”

The paratroopers were slightly restless, Tang Ning pressed his palm, signaled that there was nothing to do, stood in the ranks, and saluted: "Report, I am Tang Ning!" ”

The pilot leaned down, as if to scrutinize him, and after a while, he took off his helmet and said, "I didn't expect us to meet again in this way, Captain, your temper must have changed." ”

Seeing the slender iron pilot in front of him whose complexion was not inferior to that of the beauty pageant, Tang Ning almost blurted out a sentence that had been in his heart for a long time, and choked down when it came to his throat, and said "haha" twice in response.

The pilot jumped off the mech lightly, the black dragon tattoo on the wrist of his left arm more eye-catching than the tracking pilot pistol stuck in his chest, and he stretched out his hand and said, "Come, someone wants to see you." ”