Volume 1 Red Flame Chapter 17 Negotiations
In the Marine Corps headquarters, two group leaders and a group of staff officers were staring at our captive Hinkman. Hinkman smiled and didn't look like a prisoner at all, as if this was his headquarters and everyone else was his prisoner. He laughed for a while and spit out a sentence that almost didn't make anyone angry: "Hello everyone, I'm Sinkman, the head of the Eighth Independent Regiment of the Alliance, and I now ask to negotiate with you." β
"Negotiation, why are you talking to us, just based on your current situation?" Captain Mbo blinked, raised his eyebrows and said mockingly, and the others laughed cooperatively.
Sinkman wasn't annoyed at all, his eyes swept over everyone, and his final gaze stayed on Mbo's retina. He said lightly: "I know the purpose of your coming this time, you are not here to destroy us, you have to find some information." β
Captain Mbo was stunned for a moment, glanced at Tom, and said again at Tom's signal: "Then you can tell me what the conditions are." β
"I ask you to provide a small spaceship, 36 times the speed of light, let all of us leave safely, this place has been discovered by you anyway, you let us wander in the universe!"
"Wandering! I'm afraid you want to fly to another base of yours to continue your so-called independent business! Tom took over and asked sternly, pointing out what Hinkman really thought.
Hinkman grimaced and smiled: "You're so smart, you don't care where you go, we want to be free anyway, and freedom is important." β
"Freedom is important, Mr. Sinkman, but you can continue to live here! I can guarantee that as long as you give us the information we want, you will not be harmed in any way. Mbo glared at Schinkman and offered another plan.
"No, this place has been discovered by you, you let us go this time, it's hard to guarantee that you won't come to destroy us next time!" Hinkman was very firm, and he couldn't change it.
Mbo walked over slowly, until he stopped and said, "Every spaceship is precious, and there are not many spaceships 36 times larger than I know from this expedition, do you want us to go back and report to the Alliance, we gave a precious spaceship to the rebelsβoh! Independence Army? Mbo changed his name at the last minute so as not to provoke Hinkman.
"No, the spaceship is a guarantee of our freedom, compared to the information you want, a small spaceship is nothing, I don't want 365 times more than have considered your actual situation." Hinkman looked stunned and said with great certainty.
Mbo and Tom looked at each other tacitly, and Mbo said, "This is beyond our authority, we need to report to the Fleet Commander." β
"Yes, what I have is patience." Hinkman's triumphant demeanor makes people look very uncomfortable.
"But is it your personal decision or the decision of all of you." Tom asked a substantive question.
"It's my personal decision for the time being, but I can guarantee that as long as you agree to my request, no one else will have an opinion."
"So you know what we're looking for!"
"Yes, but I only know the place, and I need someone else to take it out."
I walked on the position, continuing to inspect the fortifications for which I was responsible, and the days since that detailed assault had been very peaceful, and the tacit understanding between the enemy and us, as if some agreement had been reached, was no longer going on, as if the war had left us. In fact, even if the Marine Corps wants to attack, they basically don't have this ability, the mecha consumption is too large, and even the mecha that has always been treated as a small W has gradually changed its approach, I heard that the fleet is ready to transfer mecha from other places, and the attack can only be carried out when the mecha is in place. The position is getting better and better day by day, time is a good medicine, it slowly wears away people's tension and uneasiness, and everything seems to be getting better and better.
I climbed a position and looked far away, the vast plain showed its charming charm, a breeze sent a few wisps of smoke into the air, the smoke and dust ran and chased among the peaks and forests in the plain, no mountain could stop their steps, and they were very free and free. My face was a little heavy when I suddenly heard someone calling me.
"What are you thinking, my defense specialist?" Yun Hao walked over and asked with a smile, he has been calling me that since he saw my position.
"My father told me before this expedition that you should be nervous when others are relaxed, and you should relax when others are nervous. I'm a little nervous right now. β
"Really!" Yun Hao retracted his smile and looked up at the sky: "The stellar storm has come in the past few days, and the drone has also hid back in the aircraft carrier, shouldn't there really be anything!" β
I nodded and said in a deep voice, "It's very likely, it's a good time if the rebels really want to act, but do they have that many troops?" β
"Who knows!" Yun Hao smiled and said, "It stands to reason that it won't, but we have encountered too many impossibilities here." β
The two continued to talk about the current situation, and from time to time I summoned Xiao Chen, Xiao Zhang, and Hans, who were still patrolling, and everything was normal. The smoke and dust in the distance are getting bigger and closer, and it gradually pounces on us as if trying to swallow us, and the few remaining reconnaissance drones in the sky are still flying routinely in the sky.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Each department enters its own battle position and enters its own battle position. Suddenly, a message came from the headset. Damn, I said that Cao Cao Cao will arrive, I scolded in my heart, it turns out that this smoke and dust also has the credit of the rebel attack.
"Be careful, protect yourself." After I finished speaking to Yun Hao, I hurriedly ran towards the area I was responsible for, while Yun Hao ran towards the central position in the south. The global system shows that the enemy is attacking from the south to the north, and it is the drones patrolling the south of the base that have spotted the enemy. There are not many unmanned aerial vehicles in the sky, and the global information system does not reconnoiter the enemy enough, so we can only see our own troops, and it seems that we can only rely on our own judgment for the time being.
I looked up from the headset to see the information of the global system, at this time the global system is running rapidly, showing in detail the layout of our troops, the current position of the distribution of troops is mainly in the front, a total of 560 mecha in the rear, accounting for more than one-third of the total number of 1365, the front position is divided into left, middle and right three parts, I am on the right a total of 280 mechas, Yun Hao is on the side of a total of 250 mechas, and the left is 275.
I rushed as fast as I could, at one of the observation posts of the first line of defense, and when I looked closely, I saw no sign of the enemy. However, there is more and more information about the enemy army on the global system, and it has appeared that there are about 300 mechs and several large mechs, and the number is still increasing. The enemy was attacking mainly in the central positions, our losses had already begun to appear, and several forward outposts were pulled out.
"Do you want to support the central position?"
Captains from other directions, who were not attacked, sent a message to their superiors, but received a standby reply. The battle in the central position became more and more intense, and Zhang Yang uploaded an interrogation in the small bureau system: "Captain, why don't you support it!" β
"The enemy may be in a hurry." Hans chimed in, and I replied with my approval.
The enemy has a large number of troops, but we have lost the defensive position that we have worked in the first two days, and our losses are not large, and the position is also very stable, but the battle situation in the central position is becoming more and more intense, and I can't help but worry about Yun Hao. With the development of the battle situation, the captain still transferred a little force from the north to the central position.
Suddenly, in the observation mirror in front of me, I found traces of enemy troops, the good guys were densely packed with a large area of about five or six hundred, and there were more than a dozen tracked heavy machines, which were a little larger than the last time I saw them in the cave. It is equipped with multiple laser cannons, and the overall system shows that the enemy has changed the direction of attack, and instead mainly attacked our side, and the enemy army really attacked the east and west, but fortunately, the superiors took a wait-and-see attitude, otherwise it would be very passive.
I'm a little worried, my left flank has a total of about 300 planes, because the main consideration is to prevent sneak attacks, the positions are relatively scattered, but now the enemy is concentrating forces to attack, this battle is not easy to fight. The enemy is advancing very quickly, and the vanguard is only about 3 kilometers away from me. I looked at the mech that was slowly approaching, and suddenly it occurred to me that I removed the laser gun from my right arm and entered a state of visual aiming. A laser struck a mech accurately, and the light of the mech's shield didn't flash, and it was destroyed by me. I was overjoyed that after another laser shot, I didn't look at the results and immediately shifted my position.
I ran to another station to continue my observation, and it was strange that my position was not attacked. I was stunned for a moment, and then I figured it out, presumably the commander of the enemy army, seeing that he was not continuing to shoot from this position, knew that I had shifted his position, and did not even fire a single shot. I couldn't help but get my head up, and it was not easy to fight against a commander like the other party.
After a short pause, the enemy moved forward again and increased their speed. I shot another mech, this time the shield flashed, presumably after finding out that 3 kilometers would not be attacked by a laser gun, and in order to save energy and not open the shield after suffering, the enemy commander still let the mecha open the shield, but I believe that it will only be the front part, and most of the mecha in the back still do not open the shield.
I quickly retreated and retreated to the first line of defense. My position has been attacked by the rebels, and since there is no cheap money, I don't have to stay at the forefront. I immediately sent a message and told Little R to get ready for battle. The rebels are getting closer, and some of our targets are within range of the rebels' precision fire.
"Whoosh! Sou! "The rebel heavy planes fired first, and the false targets on the mountain peaks were exploded one after another. The mechs rushed up with the heavy planes, and when they came within range of our mechs, they opened fire. Two lasers hit a mecha at the same time, only to see a flash of yellow light. The global system shows that there are only fifty or sixty mechs fighting in the first line of defense, and each squad basically puts the main force in the second and third lines of defense, which may be possible in peacetime, but now the enemy is attacking too fiercely, and such a force will definitely not be able to support the first line of defense for long.
"Xiao Chen, Xiao Zhang, you each put 5 mecha in the second line of defense, and all the others are transferred to the first line of defense, no one needs to come over, just have my command of the mecha." I immediately sent a message.
"Yes, Captain! You must be safe. Xiao Chen and Xiao Zhang immediately replied.