Chapter Twenty-Eight: Retreat

The soldiers of the Interstellar Defense Force evacuated in large numbers, and some companies were so rushed that some companies did not even have transport vehicles, and I saw the old pattern of marching in queues.

The German infantry had been busy withdrawing for two days in a row, either on foot or in trucks.

It took only one day for the large forces to withdraw from the front. But the mecha tank troops I saw that night instead went upside down, and they were maneuvering the rear troops.

All sorts of transports, large and small, soldiers, turned the whole road into mud, and the endless stream of troops seemed to never end.

Shi Archie and I were among the penultimate group of people to go, just a little earlier than the armored troops, because we had to repair or blow up the equipment that we couldn't take with us.

I spent the whole morning planting explosives on those missile launchers. And Shi Archie is much more powerful, he repaired two mecha tanks that were almost scrapped.

The two mech tanks were broken, but Sachie at least allowed them to move and avoid being blown up.

When all the bombs were planted, we lit them and the whole camp turned into a huge fireworks display, which I had never seen in my life.

Due to our short manpower and time constraints, in the end there was even a large railgun that could not be dismantled, so we had to overload him constantly, and then explode on the spot, the dazzling blue light lit up in our position, and many soldiers even thought that the Rosha people were using the railgun.

This task of blowing things up gives us an inexplicable sense of pleasure, like a child building a castle out of sand and smashing it to pieces.

We went only one batch later than the armored forces. It means that we are the penultimate group of infantry, and that feeling is very uncomfortable.

In the evening, the commander of the mecha tank told us that we were ready to go, and that they had already exchanged fire with the vanguard of the Rosha.

We still have one last bit of finishing touches to finish on, and by this time there are already sporadic shells exploding around us.

It seems that the Rosa offensive is fierce, and the colonel, who commands the armored forces, gives us the order to urgently retreat.

In fact, the fear in everyone's hearts has reached the extreme. The order to retreat made everyone go crazy, and they climbed up with every vehicle they could.

There was chaos all around, and Sache had been on the other side of the camp before, and I ran towards a troop carrier, only to be squeezed down by a few sappers who were together.

Then I saw the freshly repaired mecha tank, full of wounded, but no one was going to drive him.

I climbed into its cockpit, and the officer yelled at me, "Hurry up! We have to go right away! ”

Every Star Defense Force soldier is trained to pilot, and I helped the Major drive a mech tank when I was at the Mars base.

But we were a step too late, and a group of Rocha men appeared behind me in a light armored vehicle, and they started shooting at me with laser cannons.

I panicked and entered the parameters to let the mecha tank dodge the fire as much as possible, but there were still a lot of laser cannon beams hitting the tank, but fortunately the tank was still sturdy and did not explode in an instant.

I suddenly found that death was so close to me. This mech tank has no attack capabilities, and it cannot lift off the Rosa. Its armor will hold up for another five seconds at most.

I frantically lit on the control panel, making one last futile evasion move, when suddenly I saw a glare and the armored car was smashed to pieces.

Shi Archie's voice came from the channel: "Yicid, see if I'm powerful!" Ha ha. ”

I found out that it was another damaged mech tank that saved my life, and Saki not only allowed it to move, but also equipped him with a laser cannon.

I said, "Thank you, brother." I thought I was going to confess here. ”

"Don't say a little frustrating, I won't explain it here, otherwise no one will play cards and lose my money, haha. Let's go! Succi replied.

And I suddenly found that the attack just now made this old tank scrapped again.

There was no time to rebuild and repair it, so I immediately said to Archie: "It's over, my tank won't drive anymore!" The hovering mod is completely broken. ”

"Come to me!" Saki shouted.

At this time, I was faced with a multiple-choice question, there was an additional troop carrier in the back of my tank, it was full of wounded, and now the Rosa people could come at any time, should I help them or not, if I helped them move to Saki's side, it would be a waste of time, and everyone might die here in the end.

After a short period of thought, I made a decision, picked up the communicator and said to Archie, "Get out of the car!" I have the wounded here, let's move them over! ”

It took us about 15 minutes to carry the wounded one by one onto another tank, and some of them were so badly wounded that just carrying them almost tortured them to death.

Those 15 minutes were a complete gamble, and even if one of the Rocha people showed up, we could all die here.

But I don't regret my choice, these injuries may never see me again in their lives, but they will surely remember that in that chaotic night on the battlefield of Kuixing, there was a soldier who kept his oath and did not give up on any of his comrades.

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The night of the retreat was extremely difficult, and the worst thing was that it rained heavily.

The worn-out, only moving mech tank broke down so often that every time it stopped again, Saki and I had to rush into the mud to fix it.

This broken tank is like an old man with asthma, the engine is good and bad, and at one point the engine completely stalled for three seconds, and we fell headlong into a mud puddle.

Shi Archie and I had no choice, so we found a steel cable and dragged this mecha tank with manpower, so that his engine part could come out of the mud.

All this reminds me of the training on Mars, when Feng Qiu asked us to repair the mecha tank in the mud in the acid rain, and asked us to work together to drag the mecha tank, and we all thought he was crazy.

But now that it has all come true, I am grateful to him from the bottom of my heart. If we hadn't experienced it in advance, we might not have imagined that we could solve the problem in such a primitive way.

We had been dealing with these problems all night, and we didn't know what happened to the wounded in the back barn, maybe they were all killed by our bumps.

As the day got brighter, Shi Archie and I were sleepy and tired, and the two of us were as dirty as mud figures.

The large forces were already far from the front, and our ranks were pulled out of joint, and only the coordinates of a rendezvous point were given to us above. Ordered us to arrive on time.

But we don't care about being on time anymore, we just pray that this old tank doesn't drop anchor less.

Our lone mecha tank is lonely in the Kuixing Wasteland.

However, my comrades-in-arms did not give up on us, just as I did not give up on the wounded last night, and a company received our signal and waited for us in a camp in front of us, and prepared spare parts for us to repair.

Looking at the comrades-in-arms waiting for us in front, the feeling of being abandoned disappeared in an instant, and my eyes turned red. With such a force, what reason do we have to lose this war?