October 27, 457 A.D.

The eastern battlefield of the Haoyang plate.

Sun Siqiong sat in the commander's mecha, paying attention to the battlefield situation on multiple interfaces in the hemispherical screen in the cockpit.

A large number of rock tanks were fighting at the mountain pass ahead, and both sides had been fighting for forty minutes.

The wreckage of the tanks was about to block the intersection, so they had to be projected at each other by artillery across the mountain. The wreckage was constantly generated, destroyed by heavy artillery, and finally pushed away by new tanks and piled up on both sides of the road. Both titanium steel and the fuel wheel are consumed at this critical place.

Geothermal mist rises from distant ravines across the land, drifting across the sky and casting shadows on the battlefield. In the case of an occasional nuclear explosion, the rising air currents can disrupt the flow of clouds at low altitudes.

Fourteen days ago, Sun Siqiong's corps arrived in this war zone, and now his base has been built.

The twenty-meter-high barrier stretches like a city wall, and the bright energy shield spreads out in the sky like a transparent umbrella.

Titanium steel ultra-long-range heavy artillery, shells smashed down from the sky, smashing on this protective shield and setting off a halo of ripples. As for the titanium steel ground-flying cruise missile group, it is possible to bypass the protective shield, but it is swept away one by one by the fire of the defensive artillery near the outer ring of the rampart.

Some of the fish that slipped through the net will blast violent fires on the walls, but they will only shed a layer of skin on the massive defenses, and will not be able to shake the walls. The construction vehicles in the base will quickly repair the broken walls.

In order for titanium steel to penetrate this defensive line, it is necessary to deploy the heavy artillery group directly in front of Sun Siqiong's defensive line.

However, the titanium steel commanders repeatedly attacked, but they failed to break through Sun Siqiong's armored force group on the front line.

The most central part of Sun Siqiong's base, comparable to the large electromagnetic cannon of the Purple Mountain Observatory, also unceremoniously responded to the three-ton supersonic missiles in the distant mountains.

The warhead, which is filled with all-nitrogen particle salts, is assembled in the cryogenic environment of liquid nitrogen in the turret, and then accelerated out in the electromagnetic track. Each warhead landing can cause a fire cloud with a diameter of 100 meters, and this complete federal base can fire more than 100 salvos at a time.

On average, the sincerity of a wave of artillery is in the amount of thousands of tons.

Under such fire, the infantry has lost its meaning. Units weighing less than 300 kilograms are like straw in a strong wind when they come out of a pass covered with firepower. Even if it is a hundred meters away from the explosion point, it can be blown more than 20 meters.

……

In a confrontation of firepower of this scale, the troops of Lu Qi and the others are not in the core area, and in fact, Sun Siqiong will not let Lu Qi and the others participate in this kind of pure exchange battle.

At present, the essence is that Sun Siqiong took the initiative and launched a decisive battle in the most suitable position. The forward base is already within 150 kilometers of the core area of titanium steel, which can be described as close to the face. In this kind of large-scale engagement, titanium steel is basically a 3:1 exchange. This is inseparable from the full support of the burning wheel.

On both sides of the main battlefield at the moment.

The support force group of the Ranlun deployed the Linlong base to the complex mountain range on both sides, and completed the road network under bombing and destruction. In these strategic areas, missile positions were deployed to intercept titanium steel air power, so much so that now titanium fighters had to go around in a big circle.

Lu seems to be fighting in such a large area to provide deep cover for the Federation, allowing Sun Siqiong to boldly concentrate all his forces to move forward for a decisive battle.

The dialogue between Sun Siqiong and Lu Yi and others became closer and closer.

……

The most expensive thing in the army is not the "king of soldiers" who can lay down dozens of thugs on the streets.

The real award of the title of "King of Soldiers" is a professional and technical service.

For example, the artillery and combat vehicle equipment in various situations are well understood, and the failure can be quickly investigated, and even the newly started personnel can be guided to solve the problem through the air.

Another example is to have very good experience in radar analysis, know when to turn on the plane, and what number of channels to use to deceive enemy aircraft.

Now the fuel wheel widely uses unmanned equipment, and in the confrontation of the whole year, batch after batch of personnel have been rotated. Among them, the most senior non-commissioned officers who have been trained can use micro-mechanical insects to check all equipment, and can guide other junior non-commissioned officers on difficult problems through the information screen, and can lead the team to sum up valuable experience in high-intensity confrontations.

Does Sun Siqiong also lack such talents? Missing, of course lacking!

The combat experience of some high-level mechanical puppets may not be inferior to that of the veterans in this group of people, but the organization and combat enthusiasm cannot be compared. Of course, this can't be bought. - Over the past year, the backbone of the Burning Wheel has also learned about the Federation's equipment and developed a lot of special uses. These systems are directly programmed into Sun Siqiong's intelligent weapons, which indirectly improves the combat effectiveness of Sun Siqiong's corps.

……

Sun Siqiong saw it in his eyes, and he also had an idea, he wanted to control the personnel in the saline-alkali security army. Especially the backbones of Lu Xiang. However, there are many kinds of control.

The most powerful control: It is a case like a mechanical puppet, and the chip directly locks the brain. - Of course, this is absolutely impossible, Sun Siqiong knows that once she does it herself, even if she controls people, she will not be able to obtain the spiritual talents of this group of people.

The second is controlled by desire: if you love money, you give it talent, and if you love power, you give it rights. - Sun Siqiong had promised wealth and promised to give the soldiers under Lu Ru's command federal citizenship, but the effect was not good.

And the weakest control is actually to develop Cigna in cooperation, so that the people under his command are willing to believe that they obey orders.

Sun Siqiong has done a good job in this regard, as an elite born in a famous family, a commander appointed by the Federation. Now it has a high reputation inside the Burning Wheel.

So much so that Lu seems to have such a judgment: Sun Siqiong is a very promising general in the Federation, and Ran Lun should support this general's path to the Federation, which will help the development of Ran Lun.

After investigation, the people who have the above thoughts are not just Lu Ru's team. Throughout the vast ocean, there are a large number of people in the security army organization of the burning wheel who hold this view, and those who hold this view will even take action in certain situations.

In other words, if Sun Siqiong raises his arms in some cases, he can recruit a lot of soldiers from inside the burning wheel.

And such a sign, Lu Boya and Zhou You's views are inconsistent.

Lu Boya's first reaction was that he had to stop him, a student who took the road of reformism, and was turning back the clock on history.

But Zeyo felt that this was a necessary process of history. The so-called historical process is the process of colliding various trends of thought and then determining the true line in practice.

……

The culture on the stars of Fang has made the people here always look forward to a savior. In fact, this is the case in the entire Hui Crab Star Region, who called this the place of 'the gods' watching'.

The plot of the popular "British Lord saves the world" is easy to be exploited by some people. For example, the reason why the Titanium Steel God Society can pull so many people is to proclaim that they are saviors.

Although the vast majority of the people in the Burning Wheel have solved the problem of food and clothing, and at the same time have a certain upward channel, their ideological realm is not significantly separated from the civilians in other areas.

If the Celestial Tour exposes the identity of the visitors of the Star Civilization, it will be the true savior of this planet. In fact, the tour did not gain prestige. On the contrary, in a certain interpretation at the grassroots level, the prestige has been declining.

[Two years ago, I got my "descendant" Lu Boya down, and in the eyes of the people below, it was a break with Lu Boya. Stepping down from the highest position of power is also interpreted as "betraying relatives and leaving in the struggle for central power, and not having the last laugh". 】

Zeuyou, who does not pay attention to prestige, has cast an iron rule of "no matter what position you are in, you must be responsible if you are wrong", which will be a spell that any careerist who wants to gain prestige and cast a halo in the burning wheel must face.

In the feudal system, there is a moral concept of the subordinate to the superior, and even if the superior fails, the subordinate still has to be loyal and assisted, and cannot be second.

But when the public law punishes the high-ranking person who made a mistake, the subsequent high-ranking person faces such a situation: when he makes a mistake, his subordinates have no moral restraint when they are separated.

[The above is the reason why Yuan Datou was betrayed by his relatives after becoming the emperor. After the republic, the elite no longer had the concept of "monarch martyrdom", and those subordinates no longer had the concept of "second ministers". Therefore, Yuan was sold by the elite non-commissioned officers who were brought up single-handedly. 】

Casting Ding! It is not only heated by fire, but also quenched with cold water.

The current situation of the burning wheel is a normal situation of alternating between the old and the new. And now that the external conditions are better, it is best to let the ideological trends charge and collide at this stage.

"In the end, the British Lord can save the world? Or abandon illusions and unite to survive. ”

The mind of the Celestial Tour will reply: "I can't rely on me to say the answer, you have to prove it yourself!" It's not that I'm wise or not, but whether I understand this era? ”

……

Back to the present.

When Lu Boya brought his newly developed weapon and tried to find an experimental opportunity on the front line. As for Lu Xiang, it was natural to introduce Lu Boya to Sun Siqiong's side.

Sun Siqi's commander mecha stood on the city wall, looking out at the titanium steel corps that had been repulsed again in the distance. The supreme commander is planning that if he fights for another seven or eight days, the Titanium Steel Divine Society, which is nailed here by himself, will fall into a strategic disadvantage.

Sun Siqiong, as the general of the Luo Tian plate to support Haoyang, has won a lot of praise in the Haoyang plate.

For the people of the Haoyang Plate, Sun Siqiong is indeed the savior, preserving the 32 large cities in the Heping Zone in the southern part of the Haoyang Plate, providing a key respite period for the remobilization of the local federal forces.

At this time, in the cockpit of Sun Siqiong's mecha, there was a 'click' on the left boundary surface, and a communication prompt in the logistics direction.

Sun Siqiong glanced at it, opened the communication, and said in a relaxed tone: "Colonel Lu Ru, I am very worried about receiving your report, this time is good news?" Or bad news? ”

Lu Yan: "Your Excellency General, this time I want to ask you if you can convey the live situation of the battle of Si Mengguan." ”

Sun Siqiong: "Of course. ”

He opened the screen in front of him, and at this time, the blue armor corps symbol of the Federation appeared densely on the map.

At the same time, vehicles at the front received his orders, and square superimposed rocket launch modules spewed fire from tank vehicles. The rocket arrives and unleashes a small unmanned reconnaissance aircraft to further dispel the fog of war – making the live picture of the front line clearer (as the enemy's laser air defense counterattacks, the live map of the command room will be darkened again).

The artificial intelligence in Sun Siqiong's mecha stylized the situation in each confrontation area on the front line.

Ten minutes later.

Lu Ru suggested: "General, the war seems to be stalemate now. ”

Sun Siqiong replied with a smile: "It's not seeming, but it has always been." Colonel Lu, do you have any ideas? ”

Lu seemed to say in a suggestive tone: "My mentor has brought a newly designed weapon facility, I hope that this time I can find an opportunity to experiment on the front line, if successful, it may be able to bring about a change in the state of the front line." ”

Sun Siqiong was very open-minded and said: "So, what are you waiting for, let me introduce, that senior ......"

Lu Boya appeared on the communication interface and interrupted the second half of Sun Siqiong's words.

Sun Siqiong saw Lu Boya on the interface and found that it was not the gray-haired old doctor in his impression. couldn't help but pause, and said to Lu Boya gentlemanly: "Dr. Lu, your beauty makes me need to darken it here." ”

Lu Boya: "Thank you for your compliment, the war situation is urgent, I will enter the explanation now." ”

……

After twenty minutes of simple scientific explanations.

Sun Siqiong: "In other words, you have to drive this ground effect spaceship to the front line, and then unfold it, and then there will be a wave of destruction light sweeping around." ”

Lu Boya: "Yes, Burning Storm can sustain a tactical strike at the front. ”

Sun Siqiong: "Ms. Lu, I don't think you may know that we have nuclear weapons. ”

Lu Boya: "Eighty percent of the energy of nuclear weapons is lost to form mushroom clouds in the sky, and the secondary damage caused by residual radioactivity is actually not conducive to the attack after the fire strike. (The magnetic pulses of nuclear bombs are powerful and interfere with each other, so they cannot be covered by multiple bombs at once.) ）

Incendiary storms are powered by special fusion reactors, and the magnetic ring diffuses only near the surface (within 100 meters of height) and targets buried at depths of more than 100 meters.

Moreover, the energy of the magnetic ring sweep is provided by controlled nuclear fusion, and when the nuclear fusion reactor burns out, there is no radioactive residue, and within five minutes, our side can launch an attack.

At the same time, you don't have to worry about the crater of a nuclear explosion hindering the movement of mechanized troops. The explosion of ball lightning does not inflict damage. ”

Sun Siqiong: "So, what is the equivalent of the Incendiary Storm?" ”

Lu Boya: "The yield is not the key, the diffusion radius of the magnetic ring is twenty kilometers, if you insist on the yield of this weapon, it should be thirty to forty tons." ”

Sun Siqiong frowned: Less.

Lu Boya smiled: "If you use it correctly, you will find that this is not less." ”

……

After the end of the correspondence with Sun Siqiong.

Lu Boya sat on the 'Burning Storm' vehicle, her mechanical armor ejecting various equipment, and as she prepared to conduct a further inspection of the facility, Lu's communication came.

Lu Boya paused, prepared a little in his heart, and connected the news from his disciple.

On the communication interface, Lu seems to be very worried.

Lu Yan: "Mentor, can your weapon really achieve the effect of the introduction?" ”

Lu Boya glanced at his disciple: "If the effect is not ideal, it's nothing, it's just an experiment." ”

Lu Yan: "However, the effect you said to the general is ......"

He suppressed his voice, because Lu Boya's gaze was rather playful as he stared at him. ——In the eyes of these disciples of Lu Ru, although Lu Boya is obedient to the leadership of Zhou You, and Lu Boya is very simple when Zhou You dominates the strategy, but when they talk to Lu Boya, they often feel: There is a city that does not exist in Zhou You.

Lu Boya looked at the appearance of his disciple's gains and losses, and couldn't help but shake his head in his heart, and his tone was calm: "I'm designing weapons for the burning wheel. The organization decided to support General Sun Siqiong's war. As for the future relationship with General Sun Siqiong, it is also determined by organizational discussions. Your personal opinion can be expressed in future conference discussions. And now, don't substitute some of your thinking into understanding organizational policies. ”

Lu seemed to retire and ended the call.

Lu Boya lowered his head and continued to check the equipment, and when the process test was completed, Lu Boya jumped down from the vehicle, walked a few steps, and held his fingers to his ears, trying to dial the communication of the universe. However, when he raised his hand, he stopped.

Lu Boya withdrew his seriousness, and laughed at himself a little angrily: "Forget it, anyway, I know that guy's character, and I won't really praise me because of this." However, when he said this, Lu Boya's eyes flashed with deep nostalgia.

There is no need to pay attention to the fetters imposed by the outside world, and there is no need to sigh when you are on your own path, even if you fall. - Lu Boya: Can I find such freedom again?

(End of chapter)