Chapter 1: A Feast in the Deep Sea (Part 1) 2
Just at the door of the United Nations Headquarters Building, I saw the "knotted gun", "cast sword for plow" and "Peace Bell" Xia Lu and Ye Kexin have taken pictures, but both of them are silently thinking in their hearts at the same time that one person is missing is really unbalanced, after entering the United Nations Headquarters Building, the east side of the front hall is a stained glass with the main color of blue, on which there are many characters that Xia Lu and Ye Kexin can't understand, but listening to the tour guide's explanation, the two of them understand that the theme of the picture drawn on the glass window is peace and love, It is said to commemorate the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Brown, who died in the line of duty in a plane crash. Mr. Hammarskjöld, by the French artist Marc. Chagall designed a gift with notes composed of characters from Beethoven's "Ode to Joy". Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Hearing this, the two girls were really shocked, they didn't expect such a seemingly ordinary stained glass to have such a background, it seems that there is really a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger in the United Nations headquarters building.
Then continue the tour, a variety of exhibits appeared one after another, such as the ivory carving presented by China, the mosaic presented by the United States, Foucault, and many other legendary exhibits will not be introduced here one by one, anyway, it is shocking, after the two women walked around the United Nations headquarters building for two hours, Xia Lu and Ye Kexin seemed to forget that they were visiting the United Nations headquarters building, which is not like the world's highest consortium headquarters, but like a huge art museum, There are some art and science exhibits with great connotation and background, and there are restaurants and souvenir shops inside, even if the two of them are greedy, lying on the glass window and reluctant to leave, but the purpose of this trip is not to play and buy things, so the two women with a reluctant feeling, very reluctantly left the Security Council headquarters building, crossed the public garden and called the taxi company to rent a taxi, and took a car to Columbia University more than N blocks away to go out to teach the study tour round, After having a hearty lunch in the cafeteria of Columbia University, I left Columbia University by car alone, returned to the small hotel where the tour group stayed, and began to sort out the information, but both of them were foodies, and their heads would not turn without food, so they bought a few packets of fries and chicken nuggets in a M book along the way, and returned to the hotel to eat and chat.
Today seems to be the last day of leisure, Ye Kexin and Xia Lu can still play around in Manhattan, and wait until tomorrow, which is the day mentioned in Ye Kexin's letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, on this day, the eyes of the world will focus on Ye Kexin and Xia Lu, the two girls representing the Admiralty, and the speeches of two girls with an average age of no more than twenty-five years old will determine the future of mankind. At least that's what some people think.
At the same time, in the eastern mountains of the United States, somewhere.
The wide room is full of people, even if it covers an area of six hundred square meters, it can't help but feel that there is some land, and more importantly, everyone in the conference room has a nervous look, all kinds of weapons in their hands are loaded, hundreds of deadly bullets will be splashed all over the house as long as someone gives an order, and it will definitely be bloody and bloody when the time comes, but both sides seem to have good discipline, even if the atmosphere is tense and the smell of gunpowder is strong, but no one puts their fingers on the trigger, both sides are just watching, no one dares to really shoot the first shot,
In the center of the huge encirclement, there is a round table, two people sit diagonally, one with thick plate glasses on his face, his hair is unkempt, and his clothes are disheveled, this image is between a street homeless man and a technocratic nerd, but the expression on his face is not dull, but a relaxed face, he put his feet in sandals high on the table, find a comfortable position, and put his hands behind his head, looking extremely leisurely. The other person was much more serious, with a slightly emaciated face with a gentleman's monocle, a neat double split like shoe polish, a straight gray suit spotless, not a white handkerchief in the breast pocket but a red rose that looked very sullen, I don't know what kind of treatment was done, this rose was still as charming as old after cutting the roots, there were a few drops of crystal water on the burgundy petals like a Luo skirt, and a curved handle crutch scraped on the armrest. The wrinkles on his face show that the years have left an indelible mark on his body, but these are not the most obvious, and the scar on the neck outside the neckline seems to tell an unknown history here.
The two sides confronted each other like this, and neither of them spoke, and the two sides referred to all the men with guns in the room and the gentlemen dressed as old men on one side, and only one person on the other side, the sloppyly dressed tech nerd. I don't know what is being discussed on both sides, the gentleman-like old man seems to be waiting for the answer of the young man of the technical nerd, it seems that as long as the young man's answer dissatisfies the old man, hundreds of bullets will greet the young man in an instant.
"How's that, do you have any ideas?" The old man smiled and said to the young man in a deep voice, "I have time to wait for your answer, if you don't give your answer, I can go directly to Su Ling to ask for it, you know my methods, and you know my personality." ”
"Of course I know, the master didn't tell me not to let me tell you the information, but can I put forward a few conditions?" The young man put his feet back on the ground and lay on the table facing the old man opposite.
"Tell me about it, accept me and try to satisfy you." The old man seemed to be interested, and looked at the young man opposite with his head between his hands.
"I think this information should be very valuable, and I don't need it, but it seems that you are very interested in this thing." The young man did not directly say his request, but sat up and picked his fingernails, and said slowly.
"You're also very old-fashioned, don't go around the bush with me and tell me what you offer." The old man smiled, and the deep voice came out again, the uncomfortable sound sounded like a distorted gramophone, there was no trace of hoarseness, but it was so low, as if two asteroids in space had collided together.
"You'll take it." The young man pushed the eyes on the bridge of his nose and gestured five fingers, "Five million dollars, you have acquired my property." ”
"No problem." The old man smiled and clapped his hands, then waved his hands beside him, signaling the big men who surrounded him here to put down the guns in their hands and close the safety, while going off, "May we cooperate happily." ”
"It's a pleasure to work with." The young man also smiled, but the man in black who came to the side weighed the feel of a suitcase that came, and then nodded with satisfaction.
Lifting a blue hexagonal prism from the pocket of his jacket, the young man handed over the small object, which was no more than a centimeter long, to Mr. Bodyguard, who was going to pick it up.
"The latest technology, pure crystal memory chips, go back and plug it into the A&V port of the DVD to watch, which is the research data on the mysterious instruments of the pilgrims." The young man spoke eloquently, then raised his right hand, stretched out his index finger and pointed to the ceiling, adding, "This is the Admiralty version, and I have not studied this aspect myself, so it is inconvenient for me to speak, and besides, that thing is incomplete, and I met resistance when I invaded, so don't expect to find anything useful out of it." Originally, it was just code, I restored it, and the score was exactly the same, but some of the code was too fragmentary, so I gave up, if you have a professional person you can let him try, but I think the chance of success should be below zero. ”
Listening to the young man's words, the old man nodded: "Thank you this time, if there are no other requirements, I will leave first." ”
The old man stood up, waved his hand and motioned for all the big men with guns around him to leave, and then walked to the young man's side with a crutch and a little lame, "Don't get too close to Su Ling, it's not good for you." ”
After throwing down these words, the old man also left with his bodyguards, and the spacious room, which was originally extremely crowded, suddenly became empty, and the sudden change made the young man a little uncomfortable, and he put his legs on the table again, opened the suitcase, and the golden light reflected from the suitcase, and the neatly arranged five hundred grams of gold bars were placed in the suitcase without any insurance. Although ordinary people would be overjoyed to see so many gold bars, the young man took out a piece of rice from the pile of gold bars and looked at it in front of him, frowning.
"Can this thing be spent directly?"
On the lawn, there are dozens of corpses of soldiers and orcs, some of them have been pierced by random arrows, some have their arms cut off, and some have been cut into arteries, the originally verdant grassland has become a hellish scene at this time, the cannons behind them let out an earth-shattering roar, the long rifle in the hands of the musketeer no longer needs to be aimed at such a short distance, as long as a random shot is taken, a person will fall, not much I just don't know if the person who fell to the ground is a human or an orc. The sound of the sword clashing, the loud screams of the soldiers, and the angry roars of the orcs suddenly became lively, and the soldiers who were cut to the ground and did not die for a while were bleeding profusely, screaming loudly, and constantly waving the long sword full of gaps in their hands pierced through the body of the orc beside him.
It's like hell.
This is the battle that occurred after the crossing of the river by the Western Route Army, after the repeated bombardment of the warships, the 5,000 orc army responsible for the shore defense was basically annihilated, the commander of the Western Route Army, General Amber ordered a forced landing after seeing the opportunity, but what I didn't expect was that the army had just landed, and it had not stabilized its position, an orc army of about two thousand people galloped to reinforce, and the five hundred soldiers who landed at the beginning immediately fell into a bitter battle, General Amber certainly would not give up such an opportunity, and immediately ordered the remaining troops to speed up the landing, Take advantage of the fact that the next wave of orc reinforcements did not arrive, and seize this beachhead.
"General, the landing of one percent of the troops has been completed, and the white-knuckle battle on the beachhead is about to end, and in another half an hour, the beachhead can be reinforced and the battery can be established." The lieutenant general in plate armor walked up to General Amber and reported the current battle situation to General Ambo.
"Don't stop, let the troops continue to land, stabilize the road to the camp before dark, the strategic location here is very important, it must not be lost, we have no backup plan." General Amber held his monocular with both hands and watched the scene of the battle on the riverbank, the soldiers who kept landing just ran off the landing craft and immediately entered the battle, and the arrow tower that the orcs had been guarding in the distance kept shooting feather arrows outward, and some soldiers were shot before they landed, and fell into the river, and the blood that flowed out stained this section of the river red. But fortunately, the number of human soldiers far exceeded that of the orcs, the balance of victory in the battle has been seriously tilted, the soldiers shouted and charged forward, the advantage of numbers plus the advantage of weapons and equipment, not long after, the shore defense orc troops on the bank of the river have been wiped out most of them, and the remaining more than 100 orcs are stationed on the crossbow battery at the entrance of the shore defense camp, and they keep shooting the human soldiers who are fighting with the orcs in the camp with bursting ballistas.
This war will not leave a living mouth, the beliefs on both sides are different, and the two sides also have very different living habits, no soldier on one side can get used to the way of life on the other side, rather than keep a living mouth is better to kill directly, although humans will leave a few orcs to send back to the Imperial Capital Science Research Institute for research, but when humans are defeated, orcs will never leave a living mouth, human beings are no different from pheasants and wild horses in the eyes of orcs, collectively known as food, as long as it is a non-toxic creature, orcs will never let go, Except for the combat units on their own side, the orcs can be said to eat everything.
However, this also stimulates the morale of the human soldiers, although the morale inspired by fear will not last too long, but the explosive power is indeed unparalleled, no one wants to leave a whole body after they die, they will be eaten, and it is definitely a nightmare to become an opponent's meal, especially if the soldier is injured but not dead, the fear of watching himself being eaten is absolutely as heavy as a mountain. As soon as you imagine such a scene, there will be a cold and piercing feeling bursting out from the bottom of your heart, which makes people shudder.
"Let's go, we're going to land too." General Amber put away the monoculars, received the cloth bag on his waist, and took the fine iron long sword that he invited a well-known blacksmith in the imperial capital to cast from the battleship sailors on the side, and the thorn pattern carved on the sword body made Amber particularly fond of it, at that time Amber did not propose any pattern to the blacksmith, but said that the sharper the sword, the better, but the blacksmith added the pattern without authorization did not disgust Ambo, but liked it.
Entering the cabin, walking through a long passage in the all-wooden cabin, pushing open the iron-clad wooden door at the end, what appeared behind the door was the wide 02 rear deck enclosed in the ironwood walls, four twenty-six-man steam landing craft were suspended by iron chains on both sides of the battleship, and a group of soldiers was already lined up and ready to board.
The attire of this pair of soldiers is slightly different from that of other soldiers, all of them are hung with unpretentious but very practical single-shot flintlock pistols, a one-meter-long sword hangs on the left waist, and a two-meter-and-a-half long pitch-black spear in his hand, the sharp tip of the spear glows with a sharp cold light under the illumination of the surrounding kerosene lamps, and at a glance it looks as if it will pierce his body, and the helmet worn by ordinary soldiers is not worn on the top of his head, but is replaced by a black round-brimmed hood, and the red feathers on the hood stand proudly as if it is a banner of victory. The shoulder cloak on his body was not dark green, but dark as night, and it looked like a ghost. The uniform has a very handsome armband on the left shoulder, and a sharply shaped knife pierces a dragon. Everyone in the team had perseverance and victory written on their faces, and their sharp eyes were full of determination to die. This pair of well-equipped, well-disciplined, and extraordinary-looking soldiers is directly under the command of General Ambo, and the form of weaving is a bit like the TSAS in the Admiralty fleet, but in this era, even the most powerful soldiers are unable to confront the powerful troops of the abandoned race, such as this kind of refined soldiers, at most, they are only against the enemies of the orc leader, but there are obviously very few such enemies on the opposite riverbank, and dispatching this elite army will definitely become a sharp knife, stabbing the enemy to the vital point.
Looking at the soldiers under the high platform, lined up neatly, An Bo nodded with satisfaction, these soldiers are all strong young people selected from their own territory, the oldest was only twenty years old when they first enlisted, all of them were soldiers who voluntarily enlisted in the army, each of them was loyal to General Ambo, and was obsessed with martial arts, everyone can consciously carry out high-intensity training without the control of military regulations in peacetime, and everyone has great enthusiasm for going to the battlefield. So Amber became interested in a group of young people, and spent a large amount of money to arm these young people with all their weapons, and the protective gear and weapons on each of them added up to nearly ten gold coins, which was equivalent to the expenses of a landlord's foreman family for a year. The effect of such a huge investment is extraordinary, Amber dares to pat his chest to ensure that every soldier here has the ability to fight against ten, even if Amber leads this group of soldiers to face an enemy ten times his size, this trend does not allow any of them to retreat, let alone drop their weapons and surrender with their heads hugged.
- Elite is elite.
Amber secretly rejoiced in his heart.
"We are a sharp knife, a sharp knife that pierces the heart of the enemy. I'm sure everyone understands very well that where we are now, His Majesty's strategy requires us to hack to death all the orcs on the opposite bank. Amber held on to the railing, looked at the soldiers below with burning eyes, and shouted, "Now raise the sword in your hand, pierce the heart of the enemy with it, and win the glory of victory for the Empire!" ”
"Glory of victory, glory of victory!"
The white-named soldiers shouted in unison, and for a time a deafening shout rang out on the wide aft deck, and each soldier shouted loudly as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, as if he had not shouted now, as if he would not have the opportunity to shout now. Looking at the enthusiastic soldier, the joy in An Bo's heart deepened, he took a step back, pulled out the sword at his waist with a bang, pointed straight to the ceiling, and then swung forward sharply, and after a silver fan flashed, An Bo sword pointed straight forward and shouted loudly.
"Queue, board!"
The soldiers seemed to have greeted in advance, and they all slammed the solid wood plywood with the end of the spear in their hands, and the plywood that had been quiet made a deafening sound again, and the air seemed to be shaken, sending out bursts of ripples, and the soldiers followed their respective squad commanders after the knock and boarded the landing craft on both sides.
Ambo, with his lieutenant and two guards, walked up the stairs on the right-hand side to the deck and boarded a landing craft that was not yet full. After securing the weapon in her hand to the iron frame next to the seat, Ambo made it to the seat, pulling the fixture above her head to her chest.
"Ready to sail!" The sailor on the board who was responsible for parking the landing on the water shouted to the horn, and the amplified sound echoed on the empty aft deck, and the thick iron chain and the winch that hoisted the landing craft out of the hull collided with each other and made a loud noise, and the landing craft painted grass green slowly descended to the surface of the water from the north.
The lower reaches of the Moss River are not too turbulent, but they are too wide on both sides of the river, more than five kilometers in a straight line, and the fleet's warships are firing from three kilometers away with long-range firing cannons, so the four landing craft also need to brave sparse ballista attacks and travel three kilometers across the river.
(To be continued)