Volume 1 Red Flame Chapter 13 Stealing beams and changing pillars
The four of them traveled all the way through many peaks and forests, and under the guidance of the map, they reached the peak of the mountain where the entrance to the rear of the rebels was. The peaks stretch from the end of the floor line and stop here. It seemed to be walking too hot, and it took off its coat and put it on its shoulders, so that the smooth blue rock mass could be seen in full view, and only a wisp of green was left to descend from the peak, while the rest of the place was a towering cliff.
The cliff has a vertical drop of more than 600 meters, and the entrance to the rear of the rebels is next to the wisp of greenery, and the large striking stone on it shows us the direction, although it is impossible to be so striking if we do not know it in advance. The four of them flew over slowly, very slowly, trying to minimize the working noise of the backpack. The entrance of the cave became clearer and clearer, and finally the four of them landed firmly at the entrance of the cave.
The entrance of this upright sandstone is obviously much wider than the previous one, five or six meters high, four or five meters wide, the rock lines in the cave wall are relatively clear, the cross-section of the pit is basically a regular rectangle, the cave wall is straight up and down, and the top of the cave is also very smooth, which is obviously different from the pit of the enemy's forward position before, and it should be made by large machinery. We took out the polymer shock absorber from the additional mission backpack and put it on the two feet of the mech, so that the ground noise is very low when we move. There are a lot of things in the backpack for this mission, including high-energy time-lapse bombs, high-energy small laser guns, No. 40 carbon fiber rappellines, etc., and I don't know how many can be used.
Hans was at the front, Doug was second, I was third, and Bilak was behind. After advancing nearly a kilometer, there was a three-way intersection indicated by the map, so we followed the map to the right, and after 500 meters there was another three-way intersection, and according to the map, about a kilometer in front of the middle intersection was the headquarters of the rebels. Everything seems to be going well, along the same lines we originally expected, and hopefully the situation at Command will be the same as in the intelligence. At this point, standing at the intersection, Hans stopped.
"What's wrong!" Doug Che asked.
"I think we still need to explore these forks in the road first."
Hans opened the visor of his helmet and whispered. Birac and I nodded, and Doug nodded in agreement after a moment's thought. I think Hans meant to find out the situation first, this cave is so complicated, who knows if the situation on the side fork is the same as the intelligence? Even if the mission is completed, it will be safer to retreat if the situation is clear! This is going deep into the tiger's den, and if you are not careful, you will die. So they worked in pairs, Hans and Doug to the left of the fork, and Billac and I to the right.
After a while, the two of them saw another hole, and I released a "praying mantis" as usual, and the cute little guy quickly crawled forward, and after a while, the scene in the hole came back. It was the repair site of the enemy mechs, and there were broken mechs piled up everywhere, and the less damaged ones were neatly lined up for repair, and only two older rebel personnel were repairing in the cave. And more mechs are randomly piled on the ground, basically becoming a source of accessories.
Those two people should be doing the final adjustment on a mecha, the working status of the mecha headset is obvious, and there are a few quite complete mecha next to it should be adjusted. This cave is also a mecha repair station according to intelligence, but the difference with intelligence is that there is usually a squad of mecha guards but there is none.
Billac and I cleared the nearby fork in the road and then retreated, and went back to the fork where we started to wait for Hans and them, and in a short time Hans and them returned. I opened the mask and asked, "How?" ”
Hans's face was a little ugly: "We may be in trouble, the direction we probed is also the same as the intelligence is the accommodation area, but this time it may be unfortunate, there is a small team of more than 20 armed rebels, note that it is the rebels and not the mecha, the command headquarters has also probed just now, it is the enemy's command center, but there are also six mecha guards." ”
Everyone was shocked, the previous situation was that this command basically had no armed personnel because it was in the rear, and there were only two or three guards at most, but now there are six mechas, if there is a battle, as long as the commander with a little brains divides the squad of more than 20 people into two ways, all the way to rescue the headquarters, all the way to copy our back road, and then casually call some mecha back for reinforcements, then we only have a dead end. And if it's a mecha, it might be programmed to rush towards the headquarters, and in this case, we may still have a way to live.
Hans glanced at us leisurely, his gaze should have been inquiring. The three of them glanced at me and turned to me. I couldn't help but be stunned and whispered, "No matter how you look at me, I'm not a commander." ”
Bilak glanced at a few people and said, "We veterans have an unwritten habit of letting the youngest member of the team make a choice when they encounter something with basically the same probability, left or right. ”
I was surprised by this habit, and I looked at Hans. Hans nodded to indicate that Birac was right.
"Can you tell me why?" I asked cautiously.
"Protecting young people on the battlefield is a veteran's duty. If a veteran should not choose for the young man in a very dangerous situation, that is to say, let the young man come according to his own wishes, so that even if an accident occurs, it is his own choice. Hans explained.
Suddenly, I had never felt that these veterans were so tall, and I couldn't help but stand up and salute everyone with a standard military salute. Looking at the expectant eyes of the three of them, I believe that they actually have an idea, just look at my performance.
"Cowardice before fighting is not the true character of a soldier, and you still have to fight." I said firmly.
"Good boy!" Hans patted me on the shoulder. Birac and Doug Che nodded and smiled. Looking at the satisfied expressions of the three of them, I knew that the original guess was correct, they must want to fight.
"But now that you're up to me, you're going to listen to me."
I'll see their reactions as I speak. Doug stared straight at me, Bigak frowned slightly, but Hans still believed me and smiled: "Let's talk about it, how to fight!" ”
I motioned for them to come up, and after a whisper, the three of them laughed, and Hans said, "Yes, very well, just do it!" ”
Birac and I stood offline at the entrance of the maintenance mecha we had just explored, holding only a small laser gun in our hands and touching the hole, I felt relaxed all over my body without the restraints of the mecha, and my senses seemed to be much more sensitive. The two mechs that I took off, Hans and Dougcher, were waiting outside the cave, and it was enough to clean up the two unsuspecting mechanics, Birac and I, and it could be bad if there were too many people.
The two mechanics were concentrating on their work, and they didn't even notice that the two enemies had infiltrated. When we got close, Birac and I rushed forward, and the muzzle of the black hole obviously scared both of them. An eye bulging straight turn, but it was firmly controlled by Birac. Another person with gray curly short hair was stunned for a moment, and exclaimed, "You are from the Alliance, how did you touch here!" ”
"Both, don't worry that we are both earthlings, I have no interest in killing my fellow people, as long as you cooperate well." Birac said as he cleaned up the not-so-honest one. He took out a rope and tied him tightly in a few strokes, and sealed a mouth closer.
"This uncle, I just want to borrow your mecha to use, please cooperate." I pointed my gun at the curly-haired man, and I said it quite politely, and there was no hatred in my heart that he was a rebel.
"Okay!" The curly-haired old man looked at us and seemed to resign himself to our fate and said, "A few of them!" ”
"Four!"
"Four?" The old man looked surprised, but he was not surprised when he saw Hans and Dougcher enter. The old man is very cooperative, and he cooperates like guiding a familiar partner. Some of the special things about the four repaired mechs were explained under our inquiry. If it weren't for the fact that we are also veterans of mecha operation, I really doubt that he has done something.
"Why are you so cooperative!" I couldn't help but ask.
The old man sighed and said, "They are all earthlings, why bother!" I'm so cooperative, I just ask you to hurt fewer people, and as for the mecha, you can fight as much as you want. ”
We were very surprised, for fear of fraud, and Hans tried it and felt that it was okay. After that, we walked towards the headquarters in the rebel mechs, and our four mechs slowly followed after setting up a simple program, and it didn't take long to reach the cave where the rebel headquarters was located.
Hans made a gesture, and the four mechs slowly walked inside. This cave is very large, and the walls and halls of the cave are rarely decorated, unlike other caves, the rocks are bare, and it is supposed to prevent water from the mountain from entering the cave. There are two command platforms in the cave, and the 3D projector on them constantly projects the battlefield situation, and it seems that the auspicious attack is very effective. Twenty or thirty commanders were constantly exchanging things around the command platform, zooming in on a certain battlefield detail from time to time for heated discussions, as if they didn't notice that four mechs had entered.
There are six mechs guarding the perimeter of the command platform, for a total of three groups of two in a group. We divided into two groups according to the original plan and walked towards two of the rebel mechs, everything seemed to be going well, one of the rebels glanced at us a few times and went to his own business, and didn't ask anything, just now we discussed that if the rebels asked, they said that the front commander sent us to change the mechs, and now no one asks questions, that's great. As we got closer and closer to the mecha, my heart couldn't help but pound violently, and I still couldn't calm down!
"You guys are from that team, why are you here now, didn't you say that six team members came to change these six mechas!"
A voice asked suddenly. Oh my God, it turns out that we actually stumbled into each other, and there was a real change of guard, and my heart muscle cells were more alive. The plot has changed, and the three of them all look at Hans in unison. Hans made a palm down gesture with his right hand, and then put his four fingers together and pointed at him, which is the code of our agreement - "no hurry, everything is with me".
Hans naturally stepped forward and replied: "We are from the sixth squad, the captain asked us to come first, and we will report on the battle situation at the front by the way." ”
The person asking the question stopped asking and looked down at the screen again. And we finally walked to the side of the rebel mecha smoothly, and the three eyes of the two mecha heads turned around, looking at us who were Mo Sheng. I looked over to Hans, and saw Hans's right hand clenched into a fist, which was a code for action.