Chapter 21: Departure
After the battle order was issued, there was no impassioned call to proclamation, and there was no exciting pre-war mobilization, and the huge war machine began to operate according to its own trajectory.
"Assemble! Collection ......"
"Inspection of equipment, weapons and ammunition ......"
"Activate the Tactical Helmet Class A Combat Function ......"
"Open the battle map! Keep the combat communication channel open......"
"All of them! Destination - Z0983132 Teleport, go! ”
In the special war environment on Wharton, the rear reinforcements do not need to travel long distances or take transportation, and they can quickly reach the front line directly through large and small teleportation transfer stations.
Even the officers and men of the mechanized units went to the front alone.
Their mechanized equipment can be sent directly to the frontline base through a dedicated large teleportation station, and when the personnel get there, they can pick up their mechanized equipment on the spot and start fighting on the spot!
All the officers and men of the Third Regiment first passed through more than a dozen transmission and transfer stations all the way to a large front-line combat command center base, where they rested for a short time and then directly arrived at the forward position through the base transmission station.
The teleportation station set up in the frontline position is not a fixed conveyor station, but a mobile base armored vehicle with the function of transporting personnel and material equipment.
This base vehicle looks like a thick-skinned double-decker bus, and when it moves, it is a maglev armored vehicle.
When stopping and landing, the left, right, and rear sides of the carriage can be slowly extended outward to unfold and land, and together with the middle area of the carriage, a total of four temporary conveyor platforms of different sizes can be formed.
When Li Yi arrived at the front-line position, he walked out of such a base car.
He, like all the recruits, was stunned to see such an unimaginable means of transportation and such an advanced base vehicle.
As the most important strategic equipment of the front-line position, the armored vehicles of the base are parked in a small canyon below the rear of the position, the position is very hidden, and some camouflage nets with virtual imaging functions are installed around them.
The short distance from here to the forward position requires the soldiers to do it themselves, after all, efficient and humanized military logistics support can only do this at best.
The distance to the forward position was not long, and even the trenches at the forefront of the position did not exceed 200 meters in a straight line.
However, this section of the road was not easy to walk, after all, the starting point was at the bottom of the canyon, and the position was a high ground above the canyon, and all the soldiers had to do now was to climb a steep earthen cliff.
This is not too difficult for the soldiers equipped with boosted and magnetic levitation tactical boots, but the process is a bit laborious, and some climbing skills need to be used.
And this is nothing at all for Li Yi, who can "light work", as long as he is willing, even if he does not turn on the boost function of tactical boots, he can still go up.
However, he didn't want to be in the limelight, and he didn't want to expose his advantage, if he could survive the 1-year service period on the battlefield, it would be the best, not to mention that Captain Wood also demanded that he must follow closely, and did not let him be a top soldier or anything.
Captain Wood was in a mixed mood right now.
When he set off, the division headquarters gave him another secret mission, to be precise, a death order.
The division headquarters asked him to ensure the personal safety of the earthlings and nobles, and if necessary, he could do whatever it takes, even if he sacrificed the lives of the officers and soldiers of the company, he must also ensure that Li Yi survived!
As long as you complete the task, you will be promoted to one level after returning and rewarded with a lot of military merits!
Wood knew very well that with his 22.8 intelligence, he would be the top lieutenant colonel in the Army infantry unit in this life.
If you're in an armored or mecha unit, you'll have a superior private at most!
I am very young now, as long as I don't die, I will be mixed to the top in 10 years, so the so-called promotion level reward is not very attractive.
As a human being, as a citizen of the Empire, he could understand why his superiors had given such a mission order, after all, no matter how you look at it, the human nobles with high knowledge and intelligence have indeed made indelible and great contributions to all fields of mankind, and they are indeed the mainstay of mankind, and they deserve all privileges and deserve to be protected!
But as a civilian officer, as a company commander, Wood was emotionally unable to accept such orders.
He didn't mind letting other companies bear such a burden, and he couldn't let his soldiers accomplish such a task at the expense of his soldiers, he couldn't do it, he couldn't watch more than a hundred brothers die for this man, and he couldn't order them to do it.
On the other hand, the nobleman who needs to be protected turns out to be a high-ranking earl, and his position will be extremely prominent in the future!
This earl, in the future, he will be able to mix to the level of a general in the army, he will be a general in the mecha or the space force, the chief consul of an administrative region or a resource planet in the local area, and at least a ministerial-level boss in the central government, even if he only does scientific and technological research, he is also a high-level talent that various scientific research institutes are vying for!
And what a glorious thing it is to have this lord now by his side and under his protection!
In the boot barracks, Wood, who was a recruit instructor, knew the adult well.
After a long time, he has been very sure that this adult does not speak and act at all without the aristocrats' frame and habits, usually silent alone in a daze, occasionally speaking a few words without a condescending tone, once training or doing serious things, very serious, and the results are also very good!
What's more, it's the military song that became famous overnight!
Wood also knew that the song was not written specifically for slaves or commoners, but for a people.
But a nation contains not only nobles, but also commoners and slaves, not only natural persons, and maybe clones!
In this sense, no matter what status a person is, in the eyes of this adult, there is actually no distinction between high and low!
This is an attitude, an attitude that does not give up to others like other nobles, and does not treat commoners, slaves, and clones as human beings!
This is an attitude of equality for all beings!
Judging from this adult's usual words and deeds, he thinks so and does so!
There are very few such aristocrats!
Perhaps, this order of the division headquarters, if this adult knows, it will definitely be difficult to accept, right?
Based on these alone, Wood felt that no matter what the price was used to protect this adult, it seemed that it was not too much!
While Wood was thinking like this, he secretly decided in his heart that he must protect Lord Earl!
Not for some shitty secret mission, but just because Lord Earl deserves it!
He doesn't interfere with what the brothers below will think and do, but he has faith in them, and I'm sure many of them think the same way.
To this end, Wood also set up a communication channel for the stretcher troop combat group in the command channel, in which there are two people, one he and the other Li Yi, so that it is more convenient to contact each other and understand the situation, and it is also to better protect them.
At this time, Li Yi's voice came from the stretcher group channel: "Xiaode, if someone is injured later, I really have to save it?" ”
Wood had a headache.
It's true that this adult has nothing to say, but sometimes......
Since the failure of that shot, Lord Earl seems to have been on a par with him, and later absorbed some military cognitive chips, and after understanding the relationship between various authorities, he changed his name to him, and what he called "Xiaode" seemed closer.
No way, who made the family a nobleman and have E-level battlefield authority?
Although Wood is an E level in command authority, he is only the lowest F class in terms of battlefield authority, just like a civilian soldier.
Therefore, it is not against military regulations for people to call him so, on the contrary, he has to pinch his nose and agree, otherwise it will be "disobeying the non-combat order of his superiors" and will be punished.
Fortunately, the nickname "Little De" is not unacceptable, and Wood slowly got used to it.
Later, the officers and soldiers of the whole company also called him this way in private, of course, in public, the Earl would still use the normal name to save some face for him.
However, this is the channel of the stretcher soldier combat group, and no one else can hear what he says, so Li Yi is more casual.
"...... later"
Wood hesitated for half a second before saying, "You can just squat in the trench honestly." ”
"That's good!"
Li Yi was very happy, he didn't expect Xiao De to be so easy to speak, it seems that it was really prescient to get himself an earl, and now this stretcher soldier is estimated to be just making a show, which is exactly what he wants!
Wood, who had admired Li Yi a lot just now, suddenly frowned.
It seems that the aristocracy is still the aristocracy, and greed for life and fear of death is their common problem......
But it was nothing, Wood was very understanding of the other party, and he very much agreed that it was good for the Earl to pretend to be a grandson like this.
The upper-class earl with a business score of 57 points, he can't just die, the value he can create for the empire in the future is immeasurable, and I don't know why the empire didn't exclude the nobles when it set the national service system, which is simply a great waste of talents!
Wood is just a civilian officer, the so-called not in his position is not in his position, and when he thinks of this, his thoughts will turn to other places, let the bigwigs above consider these things, just take care of this acre and three points of land!
At this time, Li Yi had already climbed the cliff and was looking left and right.
Except for a few female recruits in the company who were particularly poor in physical fitness, the vast majority of the people in the company had already climbed the small cliff.
On Wharton, there is no difference between female soldiers and male soldiers in terms of treatment, and it is a mix of men and women who go to the battlefield together regardless of gender, as for the problem of coming once a month, it will be perfectly solved by the biotechnology of this world during the soldier, so even if something happens between men and women, there will be no follow-up problems.
Therefore, in Wharton's troops, almost no one treats female soldiers as women, and Li Yi will not have the idea of pity and cherishing jade, after all, the women here are all tall and tall, and they really can't see even a little weakness.
The few female soldiers who can't climb the cliff are more just for show to see if they can attract a few Kaizi of the opposite sex, so that they can live a more relaxed life in the future.
This is actually a means of self-preservation, which is not an exaggeration, and the battlefield survivability of female soldiers is much lower than that of male soldiers, so that the death rate has been high.
Retracting his gaze from the pretending female soldiers, Li Yi sighed slightly and focused on the position ahead.