Chapter 82: The Wind and Rain

Mars Planet, beacons everywhere.

No one would have imagined that this world, which has relied on genres and maintained a unique social form for thousands of years, would be so tragic in the event of a war.

The situation has rapidly deteriorated to the point of intolerability.

The melee of the three major genres has turned the entire Mars system into a huge strangulation field. The passage of the Free Port of Mars was completely blocked, and the caravans, smuggling ships, and the free transport fleet fled one after another. Port cargo throughput has dropped by 99 percent! Nearly severed.

For the people of this depleted planet, it is simply impossible to survive without a constant flow of food, energy, and other essential inputs for life. The outbreak of war has cut off the supply of public environmental balance systems, energy, electricity and domestic water systems in many places, and the supply of material inputs has led to the price of food, drinking water and other daily necessities skyrocketing.

The city was divided by many places, and many places had been reduced to rubble by the warring parties, and fierce battles were taking place in every street. Tens of thousands of innocent civilians died in the unrestrained artillery fire.

By the fourth day of the war, the whole free world had become a world of mobs.

No one on this planet is a vegetarian.

When people are unable to obtain the necessities of life and begin to take risks, the law of the jungle in the free world, the people's unforgettable concept of the law of the jungle, begins to play a role. The death toll has skyrocketed. In the streets, looting, raping, killing, setting fire - people who have lost their minds have become thugs. They take the family, the organization, the neighborhood. Forming groups of friends, they are killing people in order to compete for limited living materials.

Shopping malls were looted and buildings were burned.

Stand on the top of the building and look down on the city, whether it is the central city, or the infantry port, the fairy dragon port, the Bering port, the Oslo port. Port Thames, Port of Lille and other important port cities, everywhere thick smoke billowing fire, gunfire, screams. The cries and shouts were endless.

No one would have imagined that the chain reaction of war in the free world would be so terrifying.

The mainstream of human society has experienced a situation that can only occur after years of war, and in this world, it only took four days!

It was a catastrophe.

However, for the three major schools, the situation is still controlled within acceptable ranges.

After the initial scuffle. Three major schools of thought were formed with the formation of the de facto control zone. The battles between each other have naturally begun to decrease in intensity.

Cranes and mussels compete with each other for the benefit of fishermen. No one wants to fight their strength to the bottom and let other genres take advantage. No one is stupid! Although the three-legged war situation is elusive, there is a natural stability.

The fighting still has to continue, and the competition for key industrial areas, transportation arteries and ports is still not giving up an inch of land, and the skirmishes that continue to break out are tragic and brutal. It can be used for a large-scale main battle. But very cautiously.

All three major genres are cautiously looking for opportunities to make a final decision.

And their eyes have never left Canterlot. Everybody knows. That's where the difference is to win or lose!

The central city of Freeport Mars is dozens of times larger than other port cities. As the name suggests, this is the heart of Mars. More than 70 percent of the land wealth of the Mars Free Passage is concentrated here, and more than 60 percent of the industrial manufacturing capacity is concentrated.

In modern warfare, the most important factor that determines victory or defeat is logistical supply. And the central city is obviously the largest material reserve base. The northern industrial zone, the eastern port and warehousing, must be in control.

Whoever wins the central city wins the world.

This is an iron law that everyone has no doubt!

Located in the Thames Harbour Ground Thai Stream Base, it is busy. In the playground, two ground-connected mechs are gathering. All kinds of tall and short personal mechs are mixed together, trying to keep the formation neat. Next to them, hundreds of Tailiu armed men were carrying boxes of old-fashioned ammunition for mechs.

Most of these armed men do not receive any formal military training. Many of them are nothing more than hooligan ruffians who have taken up guns on the fly. Loosen the collar and carry the gun crookedly, doing the work, and scolding endlessly! Only the hundreds of matador mercenaries who were urgently assembling in the distance had the appearance of an army. They are the main force of Tailiu.

Buried 100 meters underground, the same hectic scene was seen in the underground command room, which was covered in thick layers of high-strength concrete and metal armor plates. In front of the console of an old-fashioned small Skynet, dozens of people are busy. The sound of calls and keyboard tapping echoed in unison.

It is said that Skynet is nothing more than a central control system that has been eliminated. The role that can be played, that is, the convergence of the battle situation, communication and command, plus a little bit of anti-jamming ability. As for the real-time monitoring of the battlefield, radar, electronic camouflage and theater management, missiles, air-ground coordination and other functions, there is no such thing as a function at all.

Genres, after all, are not the governments of sovereign states. The genre is armed, and it is not a regular army.

In front of the electronic sandbox in the command room, Cooper paced back and forth, already in a hurry.

Among the three major schools, the one that is currently at a disadvantage is the Tai stream.

On May 31, in order to fight for control of the 9th District of the Industrial Zone in the north of the Central City, the 1st Armored Battalion of the Tailiu Matador Mercenary Regiment and the 7th Broken Battalion of the Broken Mountain Flow fought fiercely for 26 hours.

And on June 2, during a sneak attack on an important bridge in the west section 3 of the Fifth Ring Road in the central city controlled by Tailiu, an armored company stationed by Tailiu for defense was completely annihilated. And this armored company, half of which is the core disciple of Tailiu who has just been sent to his subordinates to build a grassroots command system!

What made Cooper feel powerless the most was that the supplies that Tailiu had transported to the Demon Eye base had been robbed in the PT-8911 galaxy that was so close at hand!

At the thought of this, Cooper wanted to rip off Stillman's skin.

The energy, food, ship parts, weapons and ammunition and other materials loaded by those two large transport ships are all supplies to maintain the operation of the main base of the Demon Eye for half a year! It is also one-third of Tailiu's current material reserves!

Due to the Mars genre war. Gone are the transport ships that dared to dock at the port of Mars. Now, the major factions have to rely on their own armed fleets to seek supplies in the Liberty Dockyard a few jump points away. Only somewhere can you see a fleet of consignments coming and going for trade.

Therefore, the port and the armed fleet are the lifeblood of the major schools. In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the Demon Eye, avoid the loss of the waterway due to lack of supplies, and thus cut off the material source. Cooper gritted his teeth to squeeze out the substance in his hand. to maintain the normal operation of the Demon Eye base.

Who knows, this batch of materials was robbed! If you can't get enough material in a short period of time, according to the current level of material reserves and consumption, Tailiu will run out of food in a short time!

If this was the first heavy blow to Tailiu. Then, what made Cooper pacing back and forth in a panic at the moment was that he had been citing Xiyue, who had been citing him as a backer, actually cut off the news!

Cooper had been in close contact with the intelligence agencies of the Binart Empire for many years.

The intelligence agencies of the Binalte Empire are spread throughout human society, and this is a big net. As for the Free Passage of Mars, which is adjacent to the Leray Passage, they will naturally not let it go. After contact between the two sides. Partial cooperation began. In trade and material scarcity. Binalte gives support to Tailiu, and Tailiu. In one of Binart's research projects, it was cooperated.

That's a new mecha research program!

The research is not only on the new mecha, but also on the new mecha ground controller!

Over the years, Tailiu has secretly provided nearly 200 experimental objects to the Binalte Empire - all of them are Mechanics who have undergone long-term training in mecha control but have lost their ability to control for various reasons!

Among them, there are ten Mecha Knights and six Mech Warlords! The last batch to be sent was Monroe!

This research program. After piecing together the signs for many years. Cooper already had a rough idea of the secret—Biinalter was following the old path of the mind control system!

The control system of mecha has always been the top priority of mecha development research.

Back in the Paleo-Earth era. Auxiliary control systems that can capture the operator's viewpoint and brainwave signals have already appeared. However, the human brain, after all, is not a machine. Each person's different brainwave signals and their different mental states and thoughts limit the development of this auxiliary control system to become the primary control system.

Moreover, armored weapons such as mechs and ancient tanks are fundamentally different, and the increase in speed and the change in combat methods and environment require higher precision of control. At that time, the level of technology could not prompt the mind control system to meet such requirements.

As a result, the classic control mode with the combination of the universal joystick and the auxiliary keyboard has been continued, just like the steering wheel of a flying car.

And human research on the mecha control system has also been divided into two paths. One is a manual control system, supplemented by a computer and a biological control system that captures viewpoints and brain waves. On the other hand, there is a mental control system that countless scientists have been striving for.

Two thousand years ago, with the development of science and technology, a deeper understanding of the human brain, and a mental control system suitable for mecha applications, was finally developed. This kind of system uses special instruments to capture the signals of the human brain and eliminate all interference, and the accuracy rate is infinitely close to 100%. Moreover, there is almost no delay in its instantaneous reaction. Mecha is completely another body of a person!

The emergence of this system was hailed as the greatest invention of mankind at that time. It can be applied not only to mechas, but also to aircraft, ships, manufacturing, and countless other fields. However, it didn't take long for the system to go wrong – it was fatal to the human brain! The human brain was not strong enough to support mind manipulation for a long time, and thousands of early testers suffered brain damage and died or became vegetative.

The problem of damage to the human brain has not been solved for 2,000 years. Mecha also embarked on a different path, and eventually evolved into the current pattern, and thus created the mecha genre.

This secret research of Binarte is the mind control system. Once the research is successful, with the instantaneous reaction of the spirit system, it is enough to turn an ordinary sixth-level mecha warrior into a twelfth-level or even thirteenth-level mecha warrior! Hand speed will no longer be an insurmountable chasm! Arm an armored division with a mind control system and sweep through the universe!

This kind of mind manipulation technique is being studied in many countries and independent research laboratories. This is not some criminal project that is absolutely forbidden and cannot be made public. However, Cooper knew that the focus of the research on the mental control system of the Binalt Empire was not on the system itself.

The direction of their research is - the transformation of people!

Since the control system cannot solve the damage to the human brain, then the human brain becomes indestructible!

In this shocking study, the skull of the tester was stripped of in its entirety. Using modern medical and mechatronic technology, combining a computer with a human brain, and a special metal reinforcement device with a system connection device - that can hardly be called a human being!

Such research, once exposed, will immediately be the end of Tailiu. It's not just a betrayal of the mecha genre. It's also a betrayal of humanity!

Cooper originally thought that with such a secret partnership, the Binarte Empire would support him no matter what. But who knows, since the start of the war, not only have the contacts of the Binarte Empire not expressed support, but even the signals they have sent one after another have also been lost.

Right now. The Tybrook only captured the port of Thames. Half of Xianlong Harbor and a small part of Infantry Harbor. And in the battle of Canterlot, Tailiu has been completely suppressed by the two major schools of lore and mountain-breaking. In addition to maintaining a small territory in the northern industrial region and two connected regions. The rest of the troops have been squeezed out of the central city.

If this continues, Tailiu will be the first to be eliminated!

Just as he was in a hurry, the door of the command room was suddenly pushed open. Nakagawa Daiki clutched an electronic document and strode towards Cooper with a calm face.

Cooper stopped and looked fixedly at Daiki Nakagawa, who had been trying to get in touch with Binalt.

"Got in touch! As a support for us. Binarte Empire. Someone will be sent to assist us! Nakagawa's tone was a little strange.

"They're sending troops?" Cooper was stunned, not knowing whether to be surprised or delighted.

"There are no troops. There is only one person! Nakagawa Daiki said.

"Alone?!" Cooper couldn't believe his ears.

"It's the earth, the man. An experiment! Nakagawa Daiki handed over the communication record in his hand and said slowly: "They, they're just continuing their experiment!" ”

The fat man looked intently at the unidentified mecha unit on the screen of the mecha television.

From a hundred to almost a thousand, there was also close to a regiment of infantry. These flaming mechs hovered over the edge of Protown at all times. and the bandit mecha that was armed, maintaining a distance of more than 30 kilometers.

Although between these mechs and the Tailiu Branch, there is also a defense area composed of local small merchants in Puluo Town, and they have paid for mercenaries. However, the fat man knew that this army was coming for himself!

Xiyo's hidden forces on this planet have finally made a move. And he, the fat man who carried the banner of the Filipino League, was the first to bear the brunt.

"The opposing side has an armored regiment and an infantry regiment. With their current situation, they should attack the local merchant alliance. Markwich, who was standing next to the fat man, reported: "I have observed their movements, they are clean and neat, and the mecha team naturally forms a fixed formation in the march, and the distance is kept standard. It is clear that they underwent long and rigorous military training. ”

"So," the fat man continued to observe on the telescope, his gaze resting on the barrel of the red mech's chest and several bumps all over his body. casually asked, "What about your proposal?" ”

"Avoid it!" Markavich's answer was crisp. As the commander of the bandit army's ground armored forces, the power in his hands now, plus the seventy mechs that had just arrived in batches from the port Audrey, was no more than one hundred and twenty mechs in total.

The new Tailiu and Phantom Stream fighters, which had just been incorporated into the establishment, were far from meeting the operational requirements. Besides, most of their mechs were private mechs, and they didn't have enough combat capabilities - the mecha melee that happened on First Avenue was more like a farce to him.

War, not a game! And this time the enemy is obviously not so simple. Avoiding its edge is the most rational choice of a commander.

The fat man was silent for a long time. "What if you have to fight?" ”

"Bloody battle! Break it all! Markavich's answer was crisper and more powerful than before. He didn't even ask why he was outnumbered.

From the first command of the fat man aboard the Birlan Rose, he had never doubted every word of the Federation hero. That is the most devout worship and obedience. And when the fat man in the Redbeard base points to the statue of a pirate made of californium metal and laughs out loud, this kind of worship and obedience. It has become a life and death dependent.

To outsiders, Leray is almost finished. And these hundreds of soldiers, trying to bring Leray back to life by manipulating the free world of Mars, is tantamount to a fool's dream.

How to look, how this looks like a joke. But. In the eyes of Markavich and all the Lelei fighters, there is still a silver lining in them. If it's a joke, then they're brought together by this quixotic joke! They couldn't be prouder to be a part of the joke!

Even if they fail, even if they die, they are worthy of the ancestors and ancestors of Lelei's land!

They are even more proud. The current bandit army. It is a united and brave top force!

Those who haven't spent time in the Redbeard Pirate Base won't know what kind of trials they've endured. What kind of mecha are driving, what kind of determination do they have-the fat man's fingers are directed, not to mention the more than 1,000 mecha in front of him, even if it is 10,000, they still charge.

The fat man looked intently at the picture of the farsighted device, thinking back to what had happened along the way, for a while. All sorts of thoughts came to my head.

The Seuss Empire has settled in the Salega Longbow system. There was not much time left before they converged with the Jeppen Empire and the Desik Empire to launch a general attack on the Leray Central Starfield Jump Point at the same time.

Leray faced. It's a crash!

The situation is so bad that he can't think of a faster way except for such a dangerous move.

Insulting Cooper's dethronement of Monroe to kill Gandy, and then kicking the Nine Pavilions in a row to stir up the trend of the genre, isn't it just for this day?

It's a tough battle, a battle that you can't avoid and can't afford to lose. Even if it's a nail, you have to nail yourself to the chaotic chess game of Puluo Town, and don't give up an inch of land!

The mutual aid alliance of the genre is already in plain sight. Those small schools and small societies that are confused and uneasy in the chaos are all watching and waiting. At this moment, they were like a truncated trickle, trapped, dried up under the scorching sun. Once they are sure that the Mutual Aid Alliance of the Genres is the way out, they will gather through this opening and become an unstoppable rushing river!

What I need to do now is to win this war!

Lost, he could only withdraw from the Freeport of Mars in disgrace.

If you win, you'll be eligible for the next step!

The farsightedness is adjusted, little by little. The fat man's gaze carefully examined every detail of the red mecha.

chest, head, arms and limbs. The corners of the fat man's mouth flashed with a lewd smile.

If you talk about the understanding of mechas, there are very few mechanics in this world who can be more proficient than Tian Xingjian. Especially after studying Casper's work diary, the fat man's mechanical attainments have reached an unbelievable level. Born as a mechanical repairman, he is hungry for all knowledge about electronic machinery, which is the foundation of his life!

Although there is no logical structural scanning device, such a close observation is enough for the fat man to know a lot of things.

These red mecha are obviously not the military mecha of a certain country. Like those genres, they are private mechs modified with the resources available in this world. It's just a little more advanced. Their airborne guns are metal-hybrid cannons that fire energy. This hybrid gun has a limited ammunition carrying capacity and lethality. The energy shield is also an imitation, using the energy spreader used by ordinary ships for engine circuit compression devices as the shield probe.

Compared to the mechs that are still using old-fashioned projectile weapons, these mechs already have a higher level of range, accuracy and destructive long-range strike capabilities. In a group offense, this ability will be magnified by multipliers. At the very least, ordinary private mechs are completely unstoppable.

But. Such a mecha, the fat man does not pay attention to it. If you judge by the standards of military mechas, these mechs are only at the level of Leleigh's sixth-generation mecha - this is still the evaluation of its melee ability.

The fat man scratched his stomach with his hand pleasantly. It's *** easy to do! Who would have known that on this planet, there are one hundred and twenty eighth-generation mechs with standard military equipment!

It is not an exaggeration to say that the horizontal knife is the brainchild of the fat man.

At the beginning, in order to build the ground armor force of the bandit army. From the very beginning, the fat man decided to choose the best he could find. Therefore, at first sight, he fell in love with the Fallen Angel that Barbarossa had purchased to assemble for the Raider Regimental Humanoid Mecha.

Fallen Angel is a classic product of Mars Freeport Dragon Eagle Mecha Company. It's incredibly fast and explosive. It has excellent coordination. On top of that, this mech has a lot of room for modification. In order to purchase this batch of fallen angels, Barbarossa, as a fan of the Dragon Eagle mecha, did not spend much money. Who knew that after using it for less than two months, it would be cheaper for the fat man occupied by the magpie's nest dove.

The fat man's modification of the fallen angel is a god-given route. In other words, the fat thief transplanted the stolen God-given classic design to the fallen angel.

The composite linkage suspension that only appeared on the tenth generation mecha. Multiplication loop engine accelerator. Single-straight arm universal wheel drive rod, imitation muscle line type protection filling. As long as the three-point compression auxiliary thruster can be imitated, the fat man did not let it go at all. After adaptation, it was transplanted to the Fallen Angel Land.

The most important thing in modern mechanical design is the idea! Although these things are difficult to create, but when the fat man imitates them, it is called a light-hearted and happy.

Of course. Too sophisticated. Something that can't be made with equipment in a bandit's den, such as radar. Scanners, bio-assisted control systems, and some designs that lack materials, the fat man has no choice but to give up. For this, he sighed for a long time. In Leray, these things just take a little more time.

In the key engine part, due to the lack of cooperation with the god-given engine design, in addition to borrowing from the engine accelerator, the fat man simply started a new one, using the guidance of Casper's work log, plus his own research and understanding of various mechas, to redesign an engine.

This engine is also the most critical place for horizontal knives! The ground power it provides is enough to turn an agile private mech like the Fallen Angel into a rampaging beast!

Therefore, although it is limited by the manufacturing environment, materials and equipment, when the horizontal knife is finally finalized, it has been tested and evaluated, and it has firmly stood at the peak of the eighth generation of military mechas.

Eight generations of top-level mechs versus sixth-generation mechs with limited modifications with private mechs - just thinking about it, the fat man can't help but have a bubbling nose. The thought of spitting on the street when I saw so many mecha for the first time had already been thrown out of the clouds. If the number is large, the number of sperm will be large!

Erotic frenzy in the rivers and lakes, the important thing is physique!

Besides, in his hands, he still holds a trump card that is absolutely not available in this world at the moment!

If the wandering genres of the free world are to be focused, they must win a victory that makes it impossible to take their eyes off it.

Annihilate your opponents! Such a victory is sensational enough!

Turning on the deduction system of the mecha computer, the fat man drooled with laughter.

"it!" "Cowards can always find reasons for themselves."

"When sin breaks through the defenses of the heart, no matter how noble a person is, he becomes a demon."

"Selfishness is one of the most despicable human natures. When the selfish find a sufficient reason, their faces are holier than the saints. ”

Ludrite, the capital of Lelei, a Gabo man, knelt reverently in a low, leaky tent on the side of the street, kneeling and reciting the Bible of the Bodhisattvas, "Redemption".

Outside the tents, tens of thousands of marchers were surging and clamouring. In the distance, sirens sounded from time to time.

The murmuring of the Bible continued.

God says that human sin comes from endless desires, and that the world will be destroyed when greed pervades the unrestrained world. Human beings, who will kill each other in the abyss of desire, will put themselves on the altar with sharp blades and blood. ”

"A new world is coming."

The march that took place in the capital of Lelei has spread to all the cities of the capital star.

The opposition parties are trying to guide the people to vent their frustration and anger. Guide them to glorify cowardice as a kind of justice.

And in Lucerne, in Miloc.

All the cities were silent.

The people of these war-torn cities watched coldly on television as the demonstrators demanded peace in the name of justice. They don't understand how impassioned the people in the capital who have not been in the war are at the beginning. Why now, without warning, they have changed their position.

Is it just because war is about to befall them?

The anti-war wave, under the guise of justice, intensified. In human nature, the indulgent meanness has also begun to produce radical changes.

Even if he participated in the march at the beginning, he was still a little cover-up and a little uneasy. However, when individuals merge into hundreds of thousands of groups, what was once a shame has been turned into a truth that can be defended with one's life in the midst of repeated lies.

Under bulletin boards rolling in the streets, they hysterically attacked demonstrators who advocated resistance to support the president. They turned their fears into violence against others.

June 4, 2063.

The situation in the capital of Le Ray has deteriorated. President Hamilton, after his nationally televised address, declared martial law to disperse demonstrators.

On the same day, a meeting of the three parties, led by the Kyojinkai, unanimously called for early parliamentary and presidential elections.

June 5, 2063.

The puppet government, supported by Jeppen, declared the seven states of Bermuda's star field to secede from the Federation of Leray.

On the same day, the Republic of Jeppen, the Republic of Desik, and the Republic of Souss simultaneously issued an ultimatum to Le Ray, demanding that Le Ray immediately stop resisting, open the passage to Le Ray, and re-elect the government. In order to strengthen the persuasiveness of the ultimatum, the two mixed fleets of the Republic of Jeppen and the Republic of Desik simultaneously wanted to launch a warning attack on the east-west jump point of the central star field.

June 6, 2063. The opposition parties recounted Hamilton's charges and held another rally. Ask an independent judiciary to open an investigation into President Hamilton's misappropriation of military spending. and asked Congress to impeach Hamilton for dereliction of duty, war crimes, crimes against humanity.

Although the opposition party's request was immediately rejected by the House of Representatives, the opposition party also succeeded in pushing Hamilton to the top of the wave.

On the same day and night, several army units assembled in the eastern and western districts of the city of Ludit and Yašenk made an unusual move.

Leray, stormy.