Revised Edition, Volume 20, Like Paradise, Chapter 3, Red Reflection and Remnant Sun
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Thick dark clouds covered the sky, and a bitter wind mixed with cold rain swept over the sky, which was not suitable for the summer climate, and there was a gloomy and miserable atmosphere everywhere. Hundreds of soldiers, the last remaining loyal troops of the Second Army, struggled to move slowly up the slope.
There were now hundreds of people scattered across the site of the Chang Hatian military camp on the ridge, most of them with wounds, and the rain soaked the bandages, soaking out the blood and complaints of the wounded soldiers. Everywhere there are people walking around, but few are really trying to build a position. As the commander of the First Army, Mei Weifeng no longer had the heart to bother to reorganize the troops at this time, his army general's uniform was soaked in muddy water, and the once shiny uniforms, medals and epaulettes had also become dull. However, in this case, what does this uniform and epaulettes of the Huang Shogunate Army General indicate? Rather, it seems like a great irony.
A man dressed in evangelical missionary clothing walked up to Mei Weifeng, put on a smile and said, "Admiral Mei, we only need to exert our strength and climb over that mountain and walk another two hundred kilometers to reach Crow Ridge." There will also be a way to replenish the lost subordinates and equipment soon. ”
"Do you still want me to believe in you?" Mei Weifeng snorted: "How powerful can Crow Ridge be?" It was the Twilight Forest with the most psychic people in Feria, and it was only thirty kilometers away from the Phantom Academy! ”
"Twilight Feria is now in Nebuchu, and although there are some spirit people stationed in the Phantom Academy, it only takes one surprise attack to capture it, and then we will ......"
Mei Weifeng couldn't help but shout: "Shut up, no matter how fanatical you are, you have to have a brain!" ”
The person who was scolded was annoyed and said angrily: "General, you have failed repeatedly, and now you are afraid that you are not qualified to say that others have no brains, right?" ”
"It's been like this weather for the past few days, so the Air Force hasn't been able to come and join in the fun, but just Jiang Xu's troops are enough to make people nerve-wracking. Before the official battle, it is really hard to imagine that there will be such a big difference in strength between our two armies. Mei Weifeng ignored this person, stood up with a muttering to himself, and looked around, but he couldn't find anything that made his mood feel better. He suddenly stretched out his hand and called a guard on standby to come over, and asked, "Is there any news from Zhu?" ”
The guard replied: "There has been no news from the chief of staff, but last night's blocking battle should have been a failure." ”
"Who is the other party, do you know who they are now?"
"The large forces of the First Army have also dispersed, and now it should be the 1874th Battalion of the First Army that is pursuing us. After last night's battle, there were probably only about 200 of them left. ”
"We still have three hundred and sixty-nine? It seems that the number of people is superior. Mei Weifeng suddenly laughed loudly, although the laughter was like a ghost crying wolf, he still laughed so much that tears came out: "When did it fall into this field?" Most of these people are the Luhejiao garrison division I brought out from Folle, and they are strong with heavy firepower! Even infantry melee equipment is equipped with level B, how can it be defeated so quickly? ”
No one dared to answer these words, but the noisy camp was silent for a while, and only the whirlwind still whined.
After a short time, several flags appeared in the woods in the distance, and someone shouted over with a loudspeaker:
"The Guards Regiment of the Second Army on the opposite ridge, surrender quickly! Your chief of staff, Zhu Jiyue, has been killed, and there are no other troops in this area, and you have no way out! After all, everyone used to be a family, and I don't want to drive you to a dead end, so I'll give you an hour to think about it......"
There was a bang, and the loudspeaker of the shouter over there flew high into the sky, and it turned out that the sniper on the ridge couldn't listen to it and fired without authorization. Although this bullet couldn't penetrate the First Army's Grade A Army Demon Armor at all, it only shook the shouter out of a nosebleed. The other soldiers of the First Army immediately cursed, if it wasn't for the fact that they had not returned their strength to this point in pursuit just now, they would probably be charging at this time. Mei Weifeng shook his head at the sniper and said lightly, "There's no need." ”
After thinking for a while, Mei Weifeng stood up, walked around the camp, called the non-commissioned officers to his side, and said earnestly: "You have all followed me from Furle to the present, and I feel very sorry for you when you come to this point." You go down and ask at once, and if you want to go, you can go, they want me, and you will be fine. ”
"Commander, how can you say that!"
"We are born as military commanders, and dead as military commanders' ghosts!"
Mei Weifeng scolded: "Shut up! As a big husband, I should bear my own responsibility, where do you little hairy people need to die for me? ”
"Commander, don't say anything. If I wanted to leave, would I always be here with you? Let's fight with them, let them know that the Second Army is not a bad seed! ”
"Yes, we're not leaving!"
"It's really blood that has nothing to do with reality." Mei Weifeng smiled dumbly, beckoned these people to sit down, and said solemnly: "You have all seen the battles in the past few days, first the 163rd Airborne Regiment, which is really very tenacious!" I thought that with the heavy firepower of our army, even if I encountered three or five MG squadrons, I would not lose my color, but in the end, the 163rd Regiment withstood it! Then there is the First Army, their personal combat quality is really outstanding, Jiang Xu is well trained! ”
Someone shouted unconvinced: "If it is a competition in the formation system, we will not lose to them!" ”
"The problem is here, if it is to be a formed battle, Jiang Xu will not let the troops be so scattered and blindly pursue, he just understood this point and let the troops pursue at will with the battalion and company system. Their melee combat ability is indeed very strong, and you are all the bravest warriors, and your equipment is not bad, so you have been able to survive until now. The recruits who were replenished after seven years of the expedition are almost all gone now. Mei Weifeng suddenly came back to his senses as he spoke, realizing that now was not the time to praise the First Army, and immediately shouted: "Despite this, we still can't give up!" Now that the weather is bad, the air force cannot intervene, the First Army is completely scattered in Ciendom, and there is only one battalion pursuing us, and from the analysis of the situation just now, they are at most two hundred and twenty or thirty men, which is much smaller than ours, and they need to withstand our heavy firepower, and we are advantageous......"
"Yes, swear ......"
"Spelled ......"
The impassioned words of the non-commissioned officers reached Mei Weifeng's ears, but they were extremely weak, and he could hardly hear what they were saying. After decades of fighting, no one is a fool. What the current situation is and what the future will be like, it is almost clear at a glance.
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After a short and bitter battle, the battle between the two tired armies, who had been toiling for days and nights, was over, and the blood-boiling oath was all lost in the cold rain and wind. Tieling, which was full of broken spears and broken swords, was strewn with corpses, and the blood and mud mixed together, dyeing this part of Tieling Mountain a dark red color. Mei Weifeng, who was personally wielding a pistol and a command knife to fight, was now leaning against the two corpses, already with more qi coming out and less qi entering. The soldier of the First Army, whom he had finally killed, pierced him in the chest with a sword that was deep into the hilt of his sword, and he saw that he was already seriously wounded beyond his ability. At this time, the sky suddenly cleared, and the dim blood-red sunset shot several red rays through the clouds, showing the miracles of heaven and earth on the cruel battlefield of this Shura field. Mei Weifeng, who has begun to deviate from his faith in the past few days, no longer sees this as the coming of the gospel - the messenger of the gospel died behind him, just gasping and sighing: "It's so beautiful." ”
Not far away, a corpse suddenly moved, and a small soldier of the Second Army emerged from below. He shook his head for a long time to confirm the current situation, hurriedly ran to Mei Weifeng, and shouted: "Army commander, army commander, we have repelled the enemy's attack!" ”
The 1874th Battalion was indeed defeated, but the remnants of the 2nd Guards Regiment on the ridge were also completely wiped out, and there was no one left to fire at the heavy firepower, and the 1874th Battalion below would soon find out, and they would win the next battle as long as they had two more capable soldiers, because now they only needed to come and harvest the heads. However, Mei Weifeng was unwilling to dampen the enthusiasm of this young man, and smiled faintly: "Yes, you are all brave and play well!" Even a Class A powerhouse like the First Army was repelled by you in hand-to-hand combat. ”
"Commander, there are still people down there, they will definitely come again, I'll take you to withdraw!" Even if I carry you, I'm going to carry you to Raven Ridge! Someone there will answer us, right? We can start all over again, right? ”
"What's your name?"
"Commander, have you forgotten, I am your former herald Xiao Bu, Bu Minchen! You personally arranged me in the front-line army. ”
Mei Weifeng finally thought about it and smiled hard: "Hehe, it's not easy for you to live until now." So, just try to live, I can't do it. ”
"Commander, you can't say such depressing words!"
"Xiaobu, it's right for a good man to have passionate ambitions, but if you take the wrong key step, you won't have a chance to start all over again." Mei Weifeng stared blankly at the sunset in the distance, and said slowly: "I am also a person who has been ambitious, and I want to do something according to my own ideas, so I will turn my back on the general." But now it seems that I was probably wrong, the Evangelical Church will not have any future, and the strength of the general is far beyond what I had imagined in the past. He must be going to the end, I can't see it, I can only ask you to live well for me and help me see that scene. My head is worth some money, so I'll give it to my head!"
Without giving this soldier a chance to persuade at all, Mei Weifeng picked up a mud-stained pistol from the ground and stuffed it into his mouth.
After the last gunshot rang out at Tieling, the rebellion of the Second Army ended in the afterglow of the bloody sun.
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The origins of the Second Army's rebellion began at the end of June. At that time, some strangely shaped creatures of meat suddenly appeared in the markets of Nebuchu City, and although they did not taste particularly good, they were especially cheap, causing the people of Feria to rush to buy them, and then there was a large-scale phenomenon of mild food poisoning. The news reached the commander of the Feria garrison, Hegenberg, who immediately found Jiang Xu and conducted an inventory of various markets together, seizing dozens of tons of unknown meat. When the source was traced, it was found by some Feria civilians hunting in the eastern wilderness near Jash.
Those ignorant and foolish people did not know what kind of creature they were in front of, but they thought that it seemed to have no fighting power, and it was very easy to catch all over the mountains and fields, so they caught it and slaughtered it and sold it to the city of Nebuchu. That area is really sensitive, Chang Hate Tian and Simba led the army to investigate, and it took three days to capture more than 100,000 nameless creatures and all of them were harmless, and the test results came out: these creatures did not belong to any of the Nebuchu biota, and from the results of the DNA test, they were very close to the mutant dragon clan developed by SD back then. Simba immediately rushed back to the city to search, and even copied Overmars's left-behind office, and copied out a total of more than 60 evangelical conspirators suspected of this matter, a number of instruments and equipment, and obtained dozens of confessions that they relied on the information left by SD to develop a new generation of dragons.
SD was too impressed by the two shogunates, so Simba's raid did not arouse Overmars's accusations. It's just that as soon as that guy entered the dungeon, he was very ruthless, and I am afraid that none of the confessions obtained were not forced by torture. If we ignore the confession, the equipment that has been confiscated cannot directly explain the problem, and those evangelicals can say that they are developing a new generation of artificial meat or something. But Simba's methods can be described as thunderous, and he didn't give people time to think of a good excuse before he wantonly began to carry out the expansion of the rebellion. In order to avoid harming themselves, various sects of the Evangelical Church have issued statements claiming that they have nothing to do with this matter, and that those who have been arrested are fanatics and conspirators who blaspheme the Lord God, and should be arrested, beaten, and killed. But soon they found out that it was not okay to say so, Huo Shuxiang also liked to pretend to engage in some judicial process adjustments, while Simba didn't care about this at all, and used the most direct way for soldiers to deal with this matter.
"When Xin captured the conspiracy, I applauded him; When he arrested the Jianghuai faction, I still didn't say anything; When he persecuted the Romans, I trembled and remained silent; When his magic hand reached out to our faction, he suddenly found that there was no one left to speak for us. ”
- Evangelical fundamentalist leader Huo Shan in his diary in Nebuchu prison
A week after Simba's arrest, the remnants of the evangelical forces on Overmars's side began to organize protests, and the radical forces of the evangelical religion finally couldn't bear it anymore and instigated Army General Mei Weifeng, who had long been secretly developed into a loyal believer, and his henchmen to set off a "begging Xin" riot. At that time, the Second Army was indeed the strongest in the city of Nebuchu, and probably Mei Weifeng had already taken the heart of capturing or killing me by decapitation and replacing him, so not only did he boldly raise an incident, but also completely ignored the name of "asking for Xin", and directly targeted the attack on the Ice Spring Palace, the summer residence of the former Feria royal family, where I was located.
Mei Weifeng effectively took advantage of the chaotic situation of the factions in the city and bought the most ample time - there was no warning of the incident that night, and under the deliberate sabotage of the special service company of the Second Army, the city was in chaos, and all kinds of true and false information were circulating everywhere, until dawn, most of the troops did not understand what was going on and what they should do. Even Jiang Xu deceived Mei Weifeng, thinking that he was starting to suppress the rebellion, so he did not mobilize the troops, and did not lead the army to quell the chaos until he received accurate information near dawn.
However, the 163rd Airborne Regiment, which was responsible for guarding the Ice Spring Palace, bankrupted Mei Weifeng's plan, and they held out all night under the heavy artillery bombardment of Mei Weifeng's rebels. After all, only one of his henchmen was the only one who followed Mei Weifeng to make trouble, and he suddenly collapsed and withdrew from the city. Jiang Xu personally led the 1st Army in pursuit, and completely quelled the rebellion on 5 July.
After getting the news that the rebellion had subsided, I called Hanhan, Simba, and Hongxiang over. Except that Jiang Xu is still in front of him and has not returned, it can almost be regarded as a cabinet meeting. I told them all to sit down and said, "I'm annoyed, let's just talk." ”
Han Han shrugged and said, "Jiang Xu has made a great contribution this time. But he probably didn't want that kind of credit himself. ”
I sighed leisurely, "It's a painful lesson. I never wanted to be at war with my own people, and Ovimas attacked Adams, and I didn't approve of it from the bottom of my soul. But the civil war started first on his side, which is really embarrassing. ”
Hongxiang became vigilant: "You don't want to carry out an ideological rectification education campaign, right?" ”
I rolled my eyes and said, "I'm not old enough to be confused. ”
Simba sat next to him and didn't speak. This rebellion, probably he was the most uncomfortable. Since the establishment of the new-style army, Jiang Xu has only been nominally under its command, but in fact it has become a system of its own. After Jiang Xu entered the cabinet, the restraint between the two was only the hat of the chief and deputy commander of the Nebuchu Front, in fact, he could be said to be the leader of the two major systems of the army, but Jiang Xu could not compare with Simba in terms of experience and reputation for the time being, and he had always treated him very respectfully with the attitude of the old chief. However, the cause of this rebellion was that Simba persecuted the evangelical religion too hard, and the main body of the Second Army was directly under Simba's direct command, although no one below me openly blamed him, but it can be said that it was another heavy blow to his political prestige. I know that he has been depressed all this time, but it is impossible to speak out to comfort him after a day of rebellion. Seeing that he was still gloomy at this time, he comforted: "Don't think about it, this matter is caused by hidden dangers buried for many years, and you can't be completely blamed." ”
"I think the establishment of the rule of law must be carried out as soon as possible." Simba suddenly said something else: "Evangelism is inextricably linked with the Roman Order, the Three Hundred and One, etc., and no effort is spared to engage in conspiracies, but it is impossible to really succeed." But is Mei Weifeng really only doing this kind of thing because of the call of the sect? I'm afraid there are huge ambitions to do this. Establishing a legal system, changing the system of government, and making everything work in a proper manner is the basis for ensuring sustained and long-term stability. ”
It was rare for Simba to say such insightful words, and Han Han and Hongxiang were surprised and agreed. I nodded and said, "You're quite right, but there are still big difficulties. Jiang Xu had already sent me two plans, and I looked at them and directly called him back to ask him to rewrite them, which was not enough to be discussed. I personally promised the interests of the two families in the heavenly realm and the spiritual realm, although the friends of the illusory realm did not send out the army, but they have also provided great help, and now that peace has come, it is time to settle the account, and what should be fulfilled must be fulfilled. But to what extent will this not become a world of heaven or spirit, but a place where the people of the four realms coexist and prosper, Jiang Xu has not yet formed a good plan. Hanhan, would you like to help me? ”
Han Han smiled faintly and said, "Don't look for me." ”
"I won't force you, you can just help me worry about other things. It's already very difficult to deal with that side, and these things can still be delayed, so let's drag it out first. I walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, looked into the distance and sighed: "After Guo Yingying left, how many changes have there been?" Three times? ”
Hongxiang reminded: "If you count the Space Force, there are five times. ”
I sighed, "He really wants to do it again, and he has a lot of scruples, so I can't wait impatiently." Since it is destined to be impossible to grow old, kill you as soon as possible, and only those who survive can do what will happen later. (To be continued.) )