Chapter Seventy-Eight: Despair and Hope
The Lore Stream retreated under Harriman's leadership.
Dozens of mechs that attacked under the banner of Tailiu after disengaging from the lore stream. It also quickly disappeared without a trace.
Come fast. Go fast, too.
Everything, as if it was a nightmare.
All that remains of First Avenue is the scattered wreckage. Burning flames. Wounded and wailing people. and a group of reporters who looked a little sluggish and frightened.
Some closed their eyes. Then he opened it again.
Now. It's still a mess.
This is not a dream, this is a brief prologue, a prologue to the war.
The whole street. It was pitch black, and large and small craters were one after the other. It was the aftermath of the explosion, the wreckage of mechs and flying cars. It burned with a beep and smoke. From time to time there was a deafening detonation of martyrdom.
The streets are littered with rubble debris. A teenager, struggling in agony with his legs. The wreckage of the flying car, thrown by the shockwave, was crushed and crushed by him. There were several corpses lying on the ground, among them. Some were killed by stray bullets, some were killed by bombs, and some jumped from the tower where the fire was set to death.
Wailing. Crying and screaming. And so on.
A photographer stumbled up to the top of the building on the highest point on First Avenue.
Stand on the top of the building that reaches into the sky. in the photographer's head. It's a blank slate.
Distance. In the direction of Waltz Avenue in the central city, it is already in flames. Raging fire. It affected the entire business district. Rising black smoke. Obscuring the entire sky, turn your head and look north, the gunfire in the northern industrial area. It is also getting denser and denser. Behind the white light that swept across the earth, there was an explosion that rolled like thunder.
The photographer rotates the shooting angle. The camera faithfully recorded everything that happened in this city, and he knew that the peace had been broken, and it would not be long before he could do so. Everything that happens in Canterlot will be towards the surrounding cities. and even spread everywhere on the planet Mars.
A fleeting picture. It attracted the attention of photographers.
Zoom in on the high-magnification lens....... The entrance to a dilapidated brick and wood house in the slum. A few people stared blankly at the smoke in the distance. At their feet. There were a couple of travel bags on them, and the barcode on them hadn't had time to tear off. They had just arrived here by shuttle from the spaceport.
The photographer sighed. Continue to zoom in closer, and finally freeze on the face of one of the middle-aged women holding a child.
In the dark brown eyes, there was endless exhaustion and blankness.
She held the sleeping child in her arms. He stared blankly at the man beside him, as if asking what was going on here. Where, so there is no war?
The fire at the Tairyu branch library was extinguished.
Jeffrey, Wei Jianshan, and Tie Qing, stood in the hall with blushing faces, and beside them, there were Baz and Weatheril who gritted their teeth, as well as a dozen or so disciples of Ditailiu who were injured and were receiving emergency treatment.
Except for the groans, the entire mecha hall was silent.
Looking at the mess everywhere, Jeffrey and Wei Jianshan glanced at each other and were silent.
What just happened. It's still a little hard for them to come back to their senses. Seeing that the third elder Sankey hung up the phone with a calm face, Jeffrey asked, "How is it?"
"Can't find it!" Sankey said angrily, "We earthlings have been excluded by them. I didn't receive any notice, the main library and the major branches. Now it's empty. The genre guards and their disciples. It's all gone. ”
As soon as Sangji's voice fell, there was a commotion in the hall.
There is such a big thing as a war, and everyone here has not received any news.
Combined with the attack that just took place in the town of Puluo. Everybody understands what's going on.
Obviously. Everyone present. They all became Cooper's outcasts, and became the substitutes for the dead that he used to sacrifice.
Jeffrey let out a long sigh and said, "We are locals." Have you been notified back?"
Sankey nodded, "The message has been sent." Right now. We're gathering this way. ”
There was silence for a while, Wei Jianshan looked at the disciples who were at a loss in the hall, and then at the dozens of mecha outside the gate. Jeffrey asked, "What do we do next?"
Jeffrey chuckled wryly.
The filth between the traditional power of Tailiu and the villains of Kuber Nakagawa Daiki has long been more than a day or two. When it comes to life and death, splitting is almost inevitable.
Let's be clear. The day of the war. It is the time of the break.
Cooper categorically did not leave himself a trace of hidden danger. If these people die on their own. Tailiu can be controlled by Cooper alone, and he can prevent his own people from being used by others! Not to mention such a big temptation. Even if it's just for a little profit, he can kill the killer.
The Mars Freeport has its own forces in several major schools, and this troubled water. These people can't get involved, and the three of them have core disciples and peripheral disciples under their names, and there are only about 700 people in total. Coupled with the security team and the small mercenary group, there are only more than 4,000 people, and they can't make any waves at all.
What's next? Shopping mall, trading company under its name. Transport fleets, free dockyards in the common system, and other industries. All in the Free Passage of Mars, leaving here, they have nothing. to other places. How easy is it to regain momentum?
Don't say anything else. Just say that in the years that Cooper has been running a place, how many people have been offended by Tailiu's rampant dominance. It made Jeffrey dare not imagine the days after being beaten back to his original form.
Gaze. Unable to help but fall on the fifty neat and murderous mecha guarding outside the mecha hall, Jeffrey, Sankey and Wei Jianshan glanced at each other, and each knew what the other was thinking.
I think about it like that. It has become clearer and clearer.
Not to mention the set of manipulation techniques in the hands of the fat man, just talking about the current situation after breaking with Cooper, he can no longer tolerate the slightest hesitation of his own people, if they want to survive in the free world. It can only be relied on under a large enough tree.
And this big tree. There seemed to be no other choice than the fat man's representative of the Difi League.
looked at Sankey and Emiyama, who nodded slowly. Jeffrey straightened his clothes. Walking towards the gate of the mecha hall, he decided. Promise all the conditions of that fat man, there is nothing to hesitate about. If it weren't for this fat man, these people themselves. It has long been served in one pot!
In the cockpit of the mech.
Helen was blushing and applying medicine to the fat man's back.
Eleven wounds. Six on the back and four on the legs. There is one more. On the ass.
The dead fat man didn't seem to be embarrassed at all, crawling there naked, moaning and moaning, moaning, you call it hurt, but where is the voice of this slut called pain, it is clearly called the bed.
But the more this happened, the more Helen wanted to cry.
The medicine is a hemostatic drug used by the Lelei army, and there is no treatment cabin, so it can only be treated simply.
Several wounds have been taken out, and the red flesh is turned over, and the wounds are deep and bone-seeing, except for the wounds. There are few pieces of skin on the back that are good, all abrasions and heat burns.
Don't say hurt yourself. That's how you look at it. Helen also felt that she couldn't stand it.
If at that time. It's not this guy who pounces on himself. That yourself.........
Thinking about it. Helen's tears began to fall.
"Why the did I pounce on that?" The more the fat man thought about it, the more confused he became, and the more he thought about it, the more scared he became. Throwing yourself on a woman without taking off your pants is ugly, and I've never done it in my life. Erotic mania has become a hero, how can I raise my head and be a man in the future?
I feel sorry for myself. A tear fell down on him.
"Hmm... Well.... I said...." Listening to Helen sobbing, the fat man moaned and turned back and said, "What are you crying about?" Ahh Uh-huh....... People who don't know. What do you think I'm wrong with you?"
"You ........" Helen wiped her tears. Shy and anxious, he said, "Don't call it so ugly, okay?"
"Ouch. My....." The fat man opened his nostrils and mouth wide. let out a melodious moan, and his eyes turned red: "You think I want to." It hurts. ”
"Colonel Tian!" Markwich's voice came from the mecha communicator: "Someone wants to see you." ”
"See me?" The fat man got up with his bare ass and rushed out of the cockpit to take a look. Standing under the mecha was none other than Tailiu's fourth elder Jeffrey.
"Exhibitionism!" Helen, who was brought to the brink by the shameless dead fat man, grabbed a towel. Hit the fat man hard. Blushing and shouting, "Cover up!"
The fat man turned around. Grab Helen and smash the towel over. A silly smile appeared on his face.
Squint to protect it. You can't just show it to people.
He carefully covered his upper body with a towel.
In the mecha, there was a scream.
In the midst of the screams, the fat man pondered that Freeport was in chaos, and Jeffrey's request to see him did not mean that he had finally walked out of the violent seizure of the Freeport of Mars. The most critical step?
Who is the next genre?
Phantom Stream.
A vast star field. Boundless.
Even if the sky is full of stars, the line of sight is heavily surrounded, and people can experience the earth in the universe. There is only reverence for this endless emptiness. and the irrepressible loneliness of the heart.
The Rubik's Cube is surrounded by nine warships. Float silently in the deep void. Everyone on the battleship was busy, except for the intelligence liaison officer, radar officer, and space telescope observer who were nervously watching into space, everyone else was doing their own work, and at this time, there was no time to sigh.
This fleet of pirates, soldiers, and brand new warships. Their first battle will be ushered in.
Fierce soldiers for so long. It's time to get your hands dirty.
The lair of the Demon Eye. It's already been discovered, but. Except for the Devil's Eye. There are several other bands of pirates. These pirate regiments. But they all participated in the original borrowing of ships for the West Covenant to attack the Leray mission, and they also received the destroyers provided by West Lease. or cruisers and other military vessels.
This is no secret in the Freeport of Mars, a pirate group under the banner of the major schools. Piloting these ships to swagger across the Free System. Show strength. Shock your opponents.
It was the first military ship to enter this world after the free world ban was destroyed by war. Their symbolism is more important than their actual combat effectiveness, which means that they have acquired the major schools of the ship land, and in this reshuffle that is about to begin, they have left other local forces behind.
Don't mention anything else. The combat effectiveness and origin of these ships alone are meaningful enough, and many pirate groups mixed with the Free Port of Mars. Evacuated or preparing to evacuate this field.
The plan to attack the Demon Eye was perfected and refined. It has not been carried out until now. I just don't want these pirate groups, which are also lackeys of the West Covenant, to have any possibility of uniting.
It's only after the outbreak of the Genre Wars that they gloat over the demise of other pirate groups rather than chilling their lips!
"Captain Chekov, the target has appeared."
In the bridge command room of the Rubik's Cube, the voice of the intelligence coordinator passed through the communicator. Passed to Chekov's command platform.
"Target confirmed."
Chekov's eyes were staring at the virtual screen on the podium without blinking. screen. It was the intelligence coordinator who accompanied his report and transmitted a comprehensive picture of the radar surveillance and space telescope.
Ten seconds later, the voice of the intelligence coordinator came again: "Six target ships." An armed merchant ship. Three frigates. Two B-class transports, ship numbers D901 and D902, in silver-white livery. The bow camel logo, electronic structure analysis, its volume, shape details are in line with intelligence. The target is confirmed. ”
"The current state of the Second Fleet in the Land of Hairredding?"
"Two reconnaissance ships of the Second Fleet have entered the predetermined position of the Mars system's shipping lane. Facing the Devil's Eye fleet at Mars 18. The Matador Mercenary Fleet and the Camel Merchant Fleet are monitored. Presently. The main movement of the Demon Eye fleet is not yet clear, and its detachments are deployed for defense. Mainly targeting the Broken Mountain Scorpion Pirates located at Harbor 21. ”
"Good. Command Hayreddin. Watch out for lurking. ”
"Understood!"
Chekov ended the call with the intelligence liaison officer and stood up. Sorting out the newly made bandit uniforms.
The blue uniform is more beautiful and powerful than the silver-white military uniform of the Leray Space Force.
I tie the top of the collar habitually. Chekov reached out and turned on the ship's command system. Forthwith. His voice rang out simultaneously on three armed merchant ships that had been refitted and named "Repeaters" and six frigates that had been refitted and named "Bayonets".
"Attack! God said that everything on the earth on those two transports was ours. ”
After a few seconds of silence.
Ten azure earth ion streamers. Suddenly shining from the dark universe.
With six [Bayonet] frigates as the lead, [Rubik's Cube] in the center, and three [Repeater] armed merchant ships in the back, the entire fleet advanced at full speed in an inverted fan attack formation.
The gray-brown planet, where its whereabouts were hidden, was quickly left behind.
on the ship's navigator. An arc is rapidly stretching.
Three minutes later. At the end of this arc. fleet, will enter the attack position with precision.
"The first and second mixed fleets of the Souss Southeast Front, stationed in the Blue Stone Star."
"At the end of the Western Treaty Joint Military Conference, Sober served as the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, and the famous general of the Southeast Star Domain, Yuto Mikami, served as the commander-in-chief of the Southeast Operations Department of the Western Coalition Forces. The generals included Potter, the general of Jeppen. Obuun. Decik Empire General Zoe. Rawlinson, Seuss Empire Claude. Belif and currently in command of the 1st of the South-Eastern Front. 2nd Mixed Fleet Terry Ryanov and Gershkov. ”
"The list of the staff of the Western Coalition forces is as follows: Chief of the General Staff Sober, Deputy Chief of the General Staff Yuto Mikami, and staff members except for Belif, Obuun, and Rawlinson. In addition to Toriyanov, there is also Decik Bidru Crown Prince Anis. Bidrew. The first place of the Naga Federation will be Lavinia. Banning. ”
Looking at the documents in his hand, he listened to the report of the head of military intelligence. In the conference room of the Federal High Command of Leray. President Hamilton and several generals looked at each other and smiled wryly.
Western Covenant can be described as a gathering of famous generals. The Southeast Operations Department was specially set up, including the three most powerful empires of Jeppen, Seuss and Desik. The most famous military general, apparently, after Seuss settled in the Blue Stone Star of the Salgar Federation. Siyo will concentrate all his efforts on attacking Leray's Central Star Field. Completely open up the Leray channel!
After losing the Bermuda Star Field, Lelei has fully retreated to the Lelei Central Star Field. Although Jeppen did not launch a land offensive, but. Its build-up of forces on Bermuda's main planet, Rodbia, never stopped for a moment, with six mixed fleets gathering at the ground-space hop point between Bermuda and Leray's central starfield. Dozens of armored divisions and hundreds of fully mechanized infantry divisions are on standby at any time, just waiting for the Suth Empire to send troops from the Salga Longbow system. They will launch a tidal assault on Leray's central starfield.
And on the Western Front. The First Army Fleet of the Desik Empire has invaded the Gachalin Little Pyrenees system, and is currently competing with Fisicilla for control of the space jump point with the Second Expeditionary Force Fleet in the southeast led by Fisichella. And the newly formed Desik Second Army fleet has completely controlled the east of the Lelei Central Star Field. The public star field north of the Atlantis star field is ready to cooperate with Jeppon and Seuss at any time to flank the central star field of Leray.
The only places to be feared by the Legre Federation now are the Galileo and Newton systems. It's still in your own hands. There were also four mixed fleets of Tatania and Puditok to assist in the garrison. As long as the secret jump point to the Galileo system in the public star field has not been discovered by the Desiks. As long as the little Pyrenees is still in the hands of the Filipino Southeastern Expeditionary Force. Leray still has plenty of room to maneuver.
But. God knows how the situation will change.
The army of the Western Covenant is overwhelming. It's like a levee that is overflowing. No one knows when the crumbling levee will collapse completely. Perhaps, a small ground anthill can make everything irreversible.
"General Bernadotte, is there any news?" Hamilton asked, looking at Mihajlovich in a daze.
"Not yet." Mikhailovich shook his gray-haired head and sighed: "Chakner has already reached an agreement with us. But. The formation of the coalition did not go well, General Bernadotte believed. Chackner is still waiting, they don't want to take the matter on their own at this time, they want to see the attitude of the Republic of Feiyang. ”
"Lips and teeth are cold! They should understand this!" Air Force Lieutenant General Fei Owen frowned and said, "Once the Lelei Pass is occupied by the Western Covenant, the Binarte Empire. Naga Federation. Desik Empire, Jeppen Empire. The Souss Empire will be able to unite in no time! Deployment of troops to the offensive input. Far more aggressive than now, why don't they understand?"
"Don't understand?" Russell, who had been silent, sighed softly. In a low voice: "How could they not understand. It's just that there is no fear. ”
There was silence in the room. Analyzed countless times. Everyone here already knows the intentions of the Republic of Chakna. Bernadotte and the vice-president's negotiations with the Republic of Chacna. This is also confirmed.
The Chakner people think. As soon as the southeast passage was opened. Siyo categorically would not concentrate his main forces on the attack on Chacna. Opposite. To control the insatiable greed of Seuss and Jeppen. Sober would send forces from the southeast to concentrate in the center. Fight with Fyan against the Carlston Galaxy.
Until then. Chackner will go all out. Help Fijan defeat Binart. And, to get the most out of the already weakened southeast star field.
Fei Owen only felt a little bitter at the corner of his mouth: "Chuckner didn't think about it. What if Filiscum loses at Carlston as a result? Then. Are there eggs under the nest? Besides, they are so sure that the Western Covenant will not attack them from the Eastern Front?"
Russell said lightly: "The Chakner people have always been extremely gambling, and they have never been afraid of gambling. The more we dare not gamble on the place. The more desperately they bet, it's the nature of this nation. What's more, this nation is the least afraid. It's war! Take it easy for the war site. There is no other ethnic group that can be compared to the Chakna. ”
"Late strikes are characteristic of Chacner's wars." Mikhailovich said: "From the time of the Earth Federation to the present. It can be found throughout the wars. Not being cornered, Chackner is not afraid. This nation is too tolerant and tolerant. They are more adept at using their unique culture to assimilate other peoples for thousands of years. Flooding other peoples with integration. But. Once this nation has reached a point of life and death, it is absolutely terrible, no one dares to provoke such a country easily, if Sober is a great military strategist and not a madman, I believe. He would rather do it. It is a boiled frog in warm water. ”
"How long can we hold out with the all-out assault of the Combined Forces of the West?" Hamilton rubbed his brow in pain. Asked tiredly.
"The control platform of the new central computer has been established, and the implementation of the wartime planned economy has shown great results in macroeconomic and micro regulation and control in various fields, and at the present stage, the efficiency of resource exploitation has increased by 57 percent. Productivity in the manufacturing sector has increased by 91 percent. In the field of scientific and technological research, the efficiency improvement and the support for the operation of funds cannot be calculated. The head of military intelligence took out a document and read it from the book: "Anyway." Judging from the current situation. Even if you lose the Bermuda Star Field. GDP has not fallen either.
than the same day last year. On the contrary, there has been an increase of nearly five percent, and the major shipyards have temporarily got rid of the dilemma of insufficient raw materials. At full capacity, the construction of a total of one hundred and sixty-three warships, including three Titan-class aircraft carriers, was built economically. We will hold out for at least another six months. ”
Hamilton breathed a sigh of relief and turned his gaze to Russell, who pondered, "Because the ship replenishment is immediate, for now." First. Fourthly, the Ninth Mixed Fleet has been restored to combat capability, with the addition of the newly formed Fifteenth and Sixteenth Fleets and the retreated Bermuda Local Fleet. We were able to defend a total of sixteen mixed fleets, though. The replenishment of troops is already stretched. Many new crew members. All of them have only experience in handling ordinary commercial ships. Moreover, it is necessary to face the galario galaxy, including it. Two-line defense of the Newton system and the central star field of Leray. Difficulties. Judging by the size of our army, once the jump point is lost. We can't support it for two months. ”
"Two months." Hamilton muttered to himself. He knows the current situation of the land of the army, since the beginning of the war. The Federal Army and the Federal Air Force Aviation Marine Corps are two major ground armed units. The number of troops has been changed almost from beginning to end. The construction was revoked and rebuilt in batches, and the soldiers walked out of the training camp in batches. If you go to the battlefield and sacrifice your life bravely, and continue to fight at the current intensity of the war, it won't be long before Le Lei will have no more soldiers to fight.
"Tian Xingjian brought back the [God's] design drawing. We've completely digested it, and the newly developed mechs have been equipped for the 'seed' troops, and now, they're working overtime to produce them. within a month. It is possible to equip the 1st, 3rd and 3rd armored divisions of the Aviation Marine Corps, then. The combat effectiveness of the army will grow exponentially. Mikhailovich smiled. Said to Hamilton. He knows. His Excellency the President, who is anxious, wants to hear this kind of good news most of all.
"Good!" Hamilton swung his fist hard, each time he mentioned Tian Xingjian. He always had all kinds of hopes for victory, the hero he deliberately created. In his mind, it has become a kind of spiritual pillar, artificial intelligence, a [god-given] land blueprint. These. It was all brought to Leray by the fat man. He sincerely hoped that. One day, this fat man, who is currently wandering in the free world, will be able to bring another miracle to the Federation.
Think of fat people. Hamilton asked, "That's right." What is the stage of implementation of the seed plan?"
"All important departments have issued evacuation plans and are currently making preliminary preparations! In the event of a deterioration of the situation, it will be withdrawn in batches to the Petite Pyrenees and enter the Republic of Fiyan via the Croavel bypass. Russell said, "The formation of the troops of the Seed Project has been completed. Currently in the Free Galaxy Collection. After the advance retreat. They will escort the late units to break through the blockade line and retreat towards the Republic of Chakna. ”
"Be more prepared." Hamilton admonished. Suddenly there was silence, and after a long time, he said abruptly: "Three years of war, in the end, in exchange for such a result." For the nationals of the occupied territories. We are all sinners...... Resist with all your might! Let every enemy who enters the central star field of Lelei pay a terrible price!"
Standing up, Hamilton stared at the vast free territory north of the Leray border on the star map, and muttered, "Hopefully, when we leave our land and leave the southeast star field." What we are doing now can bring us the dawn of victory. ”
One hundred and twenty training mechs, thirty escort mechs, and fifty [horizontal knives] were neatly lined up in the wide open-air training ground behind the Tailiu Branch Library building.
Rulin's mecha front. It is a neatly phalanx of whims.
Tian Xingjian stood quietly in front of the phalanx.
Jeffrey. Sankey, Tatsumi Mountain. and stood behind him.
It took only two minutes to reach an agreement. Then, all the disciples under the names of the three elders became members of the bandit army.
Everything was expected by the fat man.
The only thing that surprised him a little was the attitude of these disciples towards the hard battle they were about to face.
If it is described as rushing, the fat man believes that it should be more accurate, he never thought of it. These young folk wives. He would not hesitate to join a mainstream human world's army.
Successively. There is also a machine soldier who rushed to the Tailiu branch library, joining this silent team.
"It's just a wandering army all the time." The fat man looked straight at Weatheril in front of him. He knew this young man who was a few years younger than himself. In the ranking of the Tailiu branch library. After Monroe was him. He and another disciple named Baz Di. They are all the personal disciples of Wei Jianshan. He is also the leader of this group of young people.
"Don't talk about us, even Leray. At this moment, it is also under siege of the West Covenant. The fat man was a little strange: "You are willing to join such a national army?"
"War. There are winners and losers. Weatheril said lightly: "I would like to enter the army of the Western Covenant, but unfortunately, my position is positioned. This road has long been cut off. Right now. You just have to tell us if we fight valiantly. If we accumulate military merits. We have no qualifications and possibilities. Become a military officer in mainstream society. Possess everything that other people can have?"
The fat man was silent. He turned his head to look at the dozens of bandit mech warriors standing behind Markavich, among them. More than half of them are former members of the Redbeard Pirates.
these members. You know the answer to your question. Still, they looked at themselves expectantly.
The fat man suddenly understood everything.
Whether it's a pirate or a Tailiu machine in front of you. Many of them have been ineligible to return to the mainstream of humanity since birth, and the Supreme Council of Mankind has isolated and restricted the free world, leaving these young people to live in such a cruel world.
They are the Wanderers.
If there is an opportunity. They don't mind with their lives and blood. In exchange for an identity, a peaceful life.
The fat man felt that he knew them before. There are some deviations.
Free world. It's the law of the jungle.
Everyone who grew up under this rule. All have the same quality.
Wolf nature!
This trait. Now. In these young pilots. This is especially evident.
Before, these disciples were silent. Even cowering is nothing more than the rules and wisdom of the wolf land - the wolves obey the leader, and they will not easily jump out to provoke the leader. When faced with more powerful forces. They will avoid the edge.
But that doesn't mean their wolf nature is suppressed.
Opposite. Once you have a clear goal, once you have a strong leadership. These young people who grew up in the free world are a group of people who can trek thousands of kilometers in the snow and ice. Tackle the harshest environments. Wolves who fight the most brutal battles!
Of course, that would also require the baptism and training of war.
The fat man smiled.
He patted Weatheril on the shoulder and said, "If you can, you can even become Leray's general!" Go to *** Supreme Union Council!"