(9 of 3)

The "......" tires rolled over the road, pulling a scratch on the hot asphalt.

In front of the city gates, a platoon of heavily armed 24-man guards patrolled back and forth, and one after another machine gun bunkers protruded from the sand on both sides of the road, and chess pieces were generally scattered around. Near the rampart was a rapid-fire turret with a swarthy muzzle facing the morning light, refracting a shining halo of light.

"Stop." The black lieutenant in charge of the patrol waved his hand, and several soldiers with rifles swarmed up and stood on both sides of the car door with a stern face.

The black lieutenant had a scanner in his hand: "Please get out of the car and check." ”

"What, check?" Aros poked his head out of the car window: "Didn't you get any news?" ”

"Roger." The black lieutenant nodded and repeated: "Please get out of the car and be checked!" ”

"Got it and want to check?" Aros sat motionless in the carriage.

"I'm sorry, please cooperate with us." At first glance, this guy is a dead brain, and in the face of Aros, who is higher in rank than him, he still has a businesslike look.

"Okay, I'll cooperate." Aros pushed open the door, jumped out of the car, and raised his hands to let the black lieutenant shine all over his body with the detection equipment.

The number of the power armor, the crew information, as well as the appearance and DNA code have long been synchronized to the military number library by the Star Rail Command Center, no matter how you check it, Aros is also a dignified Imperial Captain.

Unable to detect anything unusual on Aros, the black lieutenant walked to the other side of the armored car, reached for the door, and said in a stiff tone, "Please get out of the car and be checked." ”

Tang Fang frowned, is this product blind or abnormal, doing things so rigidly, you must know that the bureaucratic style of government departments is up and down, going deep into the military and political grassroots, facing the commanders with higher ranks than himself, he doesn't know how to treat each other respectfully, and he still speaks in such a serious tone.

No wonder this guy is in his 30s, and he still holds the rank of a small lieutenant. With his style of acting, he didn't get mixed up with the rank of second lieutenant until he died of old age, which was already taken care of by his superiors.

He hasn't moved yet, and Hausen can't help it. "Knock" kicked the car door, swiped forward with his toes, and grabbed the front of the black lieutenant's open helmet with his right hand, "Hmph, grandson, young Nima pretends to be an uncle in front of Lao Tzu." Look, look, Lao Tzu is two levels higher than you, captain, captain understands. ......"

Tang Fang and Aros had dark faces, this kind of thing could only be done by Haosen, and it was really a loss of the majesty of the commander to fight fiercely with the subordinates. But well, don't. Then it wouldn't be him. Besides, his approach is quite relieving.

"Whoa."

Just when Haosen looked fierce and vicious compared to the black lieutenant, there was a sound of pulling the safety bolt around, Tang Fang turned his head to look, but it was three or five recruits who raised their guns and pointed them at Haosen. And those veterans and those who are active-minded do not move, as if petrified.

"Are you really going to check on me?" Then. Tang Fang opened the car door and jumped out of the co-pilot, the golden rank of lieutenant colonel on his shoulders shining in the morning light.

The black lieutenant was held down by Hausen like a black spotted pit viper pinched seven inches, and no matter how much he struggled with his body, it was useless.

"Sarubama. What have you done! I'm going to pee, and you're going to poke me out of such a big Louzi. "A 27 or 8-year-old captain officer came angrily. Not far behind him was a major, his face as gloomy as a pool of swill.

Tang Fang tilted his head and glanced at Haosen. A tendon snorted coldly, and reluctantly let go of the black lieutenant.

"Hello sir, I am Hood, the commander of the 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 'Brave Barrier' City Defense Army." Saluting to the Tang side, Hood turned around and walked up to the black lieutenant: "Sarubama, you did a good job for me!" There is a telegram from the military department, and the face is right, what else do you need to check, you are not enough to achieve, and you are more than defeated. ”

When Hood was angry at Sarubama, the major came to the front and looked at Tang Fang's face for a long time, before he saluted with a strange face: "The commander of the first battalion of the 'Brave Fortress' city defense army, Bentham? Duncan had seen the sir. ”

The principal in front of him was too young, five or six years younger than him, which couldn't help but make him a little confused.

"Roy? Dale. Tang Fang replied with a fake name.

"Lieutenant Colonel, I'm sorry I came late and frightened you." Bentham said with a respectful expression. After receiving the news from the liaison officer, he rushed here, but he didn't expect to be one step late. Damn Bentham, how did he explain to his subordinates, but he made such an eyeless guy to guard the city gates. You must know that the three commissioners in front of you were sent by the military department, and they were officers directly under the Governor's Palace, and once they annoyed him, they were afraid that they would not be able to eat and walk around.

"Gossip and talk, open the gates." Tang Fang glanced at him and said lightly.

"Quick, quick, open the gates." Bentham turned on the communicator and commanded in a low voice.

"Boom." Several meters thick, the huge city gate composed of titanium alloy, depleted uranium material, inert zero source element crystals and other materials is like a gluttonous giant beast awakened from hibernation, moving its bloated and clumsy body, slowly opening to both sides.

Tang Fang opened the door and sat back in the co-pilot, beckoned Aros and Haosen to get into the car, then turned his head to look at Bentham and Hood, and swept over with a proud and indifferent gaze: "I'll go first, as for the loading and unloading personnel, you can figure it out yourself." ”

"Yes, yes, yes." The two nodded again and again, such a young lieutenant colonel, or Lord Aldrich's confidant, is definitely blessed, young and promising, and the future must be limitless. Such a person, even if he is not a descendant of the nobility, must be a peerless genius.

If the Tang side treats each other softly, they will be suspicious, and the more arrogant and rude he is, the more Bentham and the others feel normal, because this is the rule of the game between the Clotan Defense Army and even the imperial military and political worlds.

The disparity in the status of officers with aristocratic backgrounds and civilian officers is evident from this. To paraphrase Howson's adjective, it is "cheap", so low that it is integrated into the blood, bone marrow, and even the depths of the soul, people like Bentham and Hood have long been soaked in the sewage of the empire to rot and mold, and even the backbone has been bent and deformed.

"Hood, lock him up for half a month. Let him reflect on himself. Tang Fang and the others disappeared on their front feet, and Bentham showed a violent and obedient look on his back feet.

"Yes, yes, the battalion commander rest assured. I'll fix him. Hood threw a "I want you to look good" at Sarubama, and glanced at the soldiers next to him. The men did not allow Sarubama to speak, and took him and went to the confinement chamber.

"Go, go to Erlian, ask Jiang Deyi to find 20 people, and come here to gather immediately."

"Yes." Hood took the order.

Bentham turned his head to look at the slowly closing gate, and the back of the armored vehicle could be seen fading away through the gap.

About half an hour ago, a polar-orbiting military satellite over the continent of Frey suddenly sent a highest-level ciphertext telegram, to the effect that the Governor had sent an escort commissioner to escort 40 "Heavy Warriors" to the battlefield on the Eastern Front.

After the message was received by the Operational Command Center. As soon as possible, an order for assistance was sent to him. That is the highest-level ciphertext, and the identity of the three of them is the personal entourage of the governor, such a character, ten of which he can't afford to provoke, the identity of Tang Fang. Not to mention doubt, he didn't even have the slightest crooked thought.

At the same moment, on board the armored vehicles of the so-called mountain-like impregnable steel defensive line.

Haosen put his feet on the edge of the window, and a lewd smile stretched from the corner of his mouth to the root of his ear: "Hey, don't say it, Tang Fang, you just pretended to be an imperial officer." There are really a little bit of aristocratic children pretending to be calm. He suddenly remembered that when he served in the past, the little white-faced officer who always liked to point fingers in front of soldiers, but was scared by a stray bullet at a critical moment, and looked more girlish than a woman.

Tang Fang glanced at him from the rearview mirror, smiled slightly, and did not speak. "Fortress of the Brave"? A great wall of steel that is difficult to break through even with a nuclear bomb? But so what? Not a single shot was fired. didn't move a single soldier, just swaggered in.

Perhaps Bentham would have thought that there were only three of them, and that even if they tried to eat, they wouldn't be able to make much waves. However, Aros and Hausen are like mirrors.

Bentham didn't put in three small fish. It's a real dragon crossing the river, or a dragon with a large number of sky-swallowing pythons...... Who wants to underestimate that the co-pilot who sits in a good posture is like a little daughter-in-law who has just married, in the end, he will definitely suffer enough.

One hour later, the armored car drove into the outer edge of the Aparus military-industrial base, lined with raw material tanks, reactors, smelting kilns, training workshops, and crushing machinery...... And so on and so forth, and from afar, you could smell the smell of coke and smoke.

It belongs to the outer ring of the military industrial base, and there are large and small mineral smelting enterprises. Eighty percent of the minerals produced by the mineral resource base in the southwest region are transported here, refined and smelted, and then sent to the heavy military factory in the central ring of the base to be processed into various ships and vehicle accessories, and transported to Kane? The Marquis of Rudolf was in charge of the fleet and the military port. Or it can be directly assembled into finished products to increase the combat capabilities of the Clotan Defense, and exported to other princely states inside and outside the empire.

Under the guidance of the Tang side, Aros leaned the armored car against a steel mill and stopped. The three jumped out of the car, and Tang Fang glanced up at the CCTV camera on the signal pole across the road and walked over.

At the same time, in the super-large monitoring room of the "Brave Barrier" command center, nearly 100 staff members fell crookedly on their seats, or chatted and fart, talked about some miscellaneous civilization and star gossip, or closed their eyes, took time to nap and go back to sleep, or gathered in one place to play cards and gamble.

As Tang approached the signal pole, a loyal guard was yawning and staring at the closed-circuit monitor array in front of him. The command center had already reported about the "escort" incident, and he was not surprised when he saw the armored car. But...... But why did they stop? Pee? Or are you tired and want to take a break?

In other words, no matter how this kid looked at the surveillance camera just now, it had a creepy feeling. Hey, he's going this way, he's ...... What does he mean? He...... What is he going to do?

The guard's mouth grew wider and brighter, the former spontaneously, and the latter due to the reflection of the electric light that jumped and flickered in the monitor. RP