On April 3, 084, the Cermoferian army left the fortress of Sermo and marched with 29,000 defenders from three nearby outposts to the Redstone Gardens, a town adjacent to the human army that provided logistical transit for the Feria's outposts. At www.biquge.info the same time, Tang Long and Han Zeng's fleets carried out another troop transportation operation under the escort of the Third Fleet. The operation proceeded relatively smoothly because most of Sermo's air defense positions had been destroyed, and another 30,000 troops were dropped on Sermo Island in one day. After Jiang Xu reorganized his troops, he led 45,000 people to the Red Stone Garden. The two sides didn't have any war letters at all, but they happened to meet unexpectedly, and they confronted each other in the Redstone Garden.

The timing of the arrival of the two sides in Redstone Gardens was unfortunate: the human forces were in full swing, and at first they were even preparing to attack the poor 300-odd Ferian garrison in Redstone Gardens and occupy the town as a foothold. But then he saw the smoke and dust billowing from the back road, and knew that he couldn't afford to provoke it, so he quickly set up camp and set up a gun carriage for the few kappa guns. In this way, it was theoretically possible to bombard the gate of the Red Stone Garden directly, but seeing the increasing number of dense Feria troops over there, Jiang Xu hurriedly ordered to organize the formation and set up the camp, and specially ordered "Don't provoke yourself."

The main battle arms of the Feria Army are generally huge, and the weight of the keel soldiers is generally about 200 to 300 kilograms, and the rest of the four-clawed spiders and gold-armored chariots are more bulky and heavy than the other. The march on Selmo Island, which was swampy everywhere, was extremely painful, so I had to pull out a long snake formation of more than 20 kilometers and move forward slowly. Coulson himself was squeezed into the middle of the line, and he couldn't get to the front easily. He had a well-organized army, and his subordinates did not dare to act rashly without his orders, and stopped at the Red Rock Garden. Because the town of Redstone Garden is too small to accommodate as many troops as Selmo, most of them are still in a daze on the main road north of the town.

The defenders of the Redstone Garden were so excited that they were dizzy when they saw the reinforcements coming in, and they rushed towards the human army camp outside the town. There is no need for these people to line up to besiege and attack. A platoon of mortars was placed in the human army, and the snipers fired another round, leaving these guys who were the first to escape, Long live, leaving more than sixty corpses and escaping. Coulson was able to easily squeeze into the town at this time, and saw that the human army was well-trained, and he felt that he could not be underestimated while tidying up the camp and facing the impact at all. At this time, it was getting late, and the two parties did not even have the intention of continuing to fire tentatively, so they tacitly set up camp for dinner and party.

Redstone Gardens is a very small town on the island of Selmo. Because it leads to the Sermo Fortress to the north, Pioneer Ridge to the west, Luamp to the east, and the North Springs outpost to the south, it is a strategically important transportation artery. The Redstone Garden itself is well-connected and unsafe. However, as long as the road on all sides travels four or five kilometers, the surrounding area is full of swamps and high mountains, and the road is dangerously narrow. The two armies met here, and the fight was quite pleasant, but they could not lose. Because of that kind of broken road, you can't run fast if you lose.

Early the next morning, Coulson drove his army to attack. Jiang Xu had already made people build a camp overnight, preparing to use human troops to deal with this attack first in order to train troops. The human army mostly uses spears, and the Feria army cannot advance if it is five meters away. The Feria army became irritable, and rushed through it, pressing the hundreds of dragon keel soldiers who rushed to the front to pierce the human army's spears. The latter did not care about the death of their comrades, and rushed forward by stepping on the corpses of these poor fellows, forcing the human front-line soldiers to hurriedly abandon their guns and retreat, and continue to use their spears against the top of the back. This kind of rush made the human army who was on the verge of the war very uncomfortable, and for a while the formation was full of loopholes, and they retreated step by step. In less than a quarter of an hour, the Feria army was pressed back more than 200 meters on the whole line, and seeing that it would squeeze the army behind it to no longer have a place to stand, it could only retreat to the south road, and the army's heart was shaken, and there was a danger that the whole army would be defeated, Jiang Xu hurriedly assigned the Taiyan army to fight. Hongda, the general of the Taiyan army, shouted, "Come with me!" He personally led his headquarters to counterattack at the fiercest point of the Feria's army.

Hongda served as the commander of the Northern Corps in Taiyan for many years, and was an extraordinary and fierce general, and his soldiers were also elite soldiers trained in a hundred battles. As soon as they came into contact with the Feria army, the rich combat experience of the soldiers of the Taiyan Army was reflected, and while resisting the enemy with spears, the combat masters in the squad waited for opportunities to attack much more effectively than the human troops. There were only 5,000 sets of demon armor and high-vibration particle knives when they set out on this expedition, and most of them were sent to them after the force assessment, and the Taiyan soldiers who had mastered these super weapons cut down the Feria's soldiers who were besieged by spears like chopping melons and vegetables, quickly turning the situation around, killing the front of the Feria's army and running wildly, and even the Feria's army behind it was also rushed to an unstable footing. Jiang Xu saw that the situation was improving, and immediately ordered: "Injection, charge!" ”

After receiving the order, the human troops in the front row quickly took out the infantry combat agent from their carry-on medical kits and injected them, and in a short time, their eyes became blood-red, their blood was full of blood, and they rushed towards the Feria's army with their spears in their hands. The ancient heavy cavalry method of combat was to use the high-speed momentum of the cavalry spear when the war horse charged to break through the enemy's battle line, and these soldiers injected with infantry combat agents charged with a bit of heavy cavalry style on foot! After the first wave of soldiers came into contact with the Feria army, they used their spears to stab the Feria army on the periphery, and then abandoned their guns and exchanged knives or shotguns to outflank the scattered Feria soldiers nearby.

This infantry combat agent is the result of research conducted by the Shōji Shrine in the Flle base area. After his purification compound, the application of Angel Tears, a superdrug, has made amazing progress in many ways. After the injection of the infantry combat agent, the soldier can obtain about 40% of the explosive power of the original diluted angel tears, and although the duration is also a little less, the psychedelic and physical damage to the soldier has been reduced to one-tenth of the original, which is a remarkable achievement. Although the human soldiers who were injected with the infantry combat agent could not grab the dragon bones and tear them in half with their bare hands like the Leilondo soldiers who were injected with Angel's Tears, the impact after the formation was still very terrifying. Moreover, the short duration and low degree of psychedelia are also beneficial, so that the soldiers can have some sober consciousness when they charge hard, and they can retreat in time after the effect of the medicine has passed, so that the soldiers behind can come forward to fight, reducing unnecessary sacrifices.

More than ten minutes later, the first batch of soldiers injected with infantry combat agents had expired, stopped the frantic attack on the Feria army and retreated, and the latter batch was injected with infantry combat agents and continued to pounce forward. Coulson couldn't figure out why, in any case, why would the human army be stronger than the Feria army? After three charges, the clearing in front of the Redstone Garden was densely packed with corpses. The human army recaptured the original battle line and advanced more than two hundred meters. The Sermoferian army suffered heavy losses and was forced to retreat to Redstone Gardens to hold out.

The ranged units of both sides were already superior in the previous melee, and the Kappa artillery equipped with advanced fire control systems won a complete victory, losing only two guns to eliminate all of Coulson's more than 100 four-clawed spiders. Coulson's troops were then transformed into purebred close-quarters combat units. Fortunately, the Feria Army didn't value long-range troops, and there were no human warships flying overhead - it seems that they had already been damaged in these few troop transporting operations, and they didn't dare to come down easily, so it wasn't a big deal to lose them. Although the human kappa artillery is powerful, there are not many of them, and it seems that the ammunition is very limited, so let him bomb it well, anyway, the Coulson soldiers are outnumbered, and they don't care about being killed by ten or eight more bombardments.

At the end of the battle, the counting of the number of people continued until dark, and it was seen that the day could not be fought again. Jiang Xufang lost 4,800 people, of which more than eighty percent were human troops, and the difference in strength between the human troops and the Heavenly Realm Army can be seen from the comparison of data. At the same time, nearly 4,000 Coulson's troops were eliminated. Because most of Coulson's army was crowded on the road north of Redstone Gardens and could not go south to join the battle, this battle had actually wiped out about half of Coulson's troops to participate in the battle, which made Coulson feel distressed. What surprised him even more was when had a human army ever had such a powerful attack and solid defense? Judging from the situation of this battle, humanity has won all; Judging from the comparison of casualties, the Feria Army is no better than the human army, and the absolute number of the human army can be significantly more than the Feria army, so it is not a way to go on. This is a matter of great carelessness and must be reported immediately. However, the Selmo Army's four-clawed spider team always liked to lean close to the communication equipment, causing all long-range communication equipment to be destroyed by the human kappa artillery. He had no choice but to send a messenger back to Sermo in order to report this new discovery to the Commander-in-Chief, hoping that the Commander-in-Chief's earnest description would take sufficient attention and send some reinforcements in time.

Coulson's messenger failed to complete his mission. It made its way back to the fortress of Selmo, but there was something something wrong with the fortress at this time, which made the messenger hesitate in front of the door and not enter easily. It looked closely at the fortress for a while, and realized that it was not nervous: there was not a single patrolling dragon keel soldier or four-clawed spider on the fortress walls. Although Coulson mobilized a large army to go on the expedition, there were still more than a thousand old and weak soldiers left in the fortress, and unless they were all lazy, it would not be possible for such an empty city to appear. When I looked closer, I suddenly noticed that the Selmo flag on the head of the city was gone, and was replaced by a large flag with a gold violet pattern on a black background. The messenger didn't know what a golden pansy was, but when he saw something like this, the fool knew that a terrible change had taken place in the place where he was tired of living.

After the messenger came to this conclusion, he decided to abandon his current mission within five seconds, and instead went back to report the strange phenomenon to Coulson, who himself judged what had happened, and was not willing to take any more risks anyway. However, at this moment, a piercing scream sounded from the mountains and forests to the west. Two human soldiers in strange armor in strange armor on a bizarre hovercar lunged at it. The hovercar is fast, and it takes no more than ten seconds from entering the line of sight of the messenger to zero contact. At the last second, the stunned Courier noticed two human soldiers smiling at it, and the world as far as his sight could see swirled and floated, quickly dissolving into nothingness.

"Colonel Eva's assault team has captured Fortress Selmore!"

The news reached both in front of me and in the army of Jiang Xu, who were confronting Coulson in the Redstone Garden. When I saw the news, I just smiled slightly and didn't say anything, and at the same time I felt a little sorry that I could no longer experience this extremely exciting special operation with Chen Qi now. When Jiang Xu saw it, it was said that he jumped up in excitement and smashed through the tent, and he didn't know if it was too exaggerated. Regardless of these barracks tidbits, the battle with Coulson's Redstone Garden was too early for Jiang Xu. Human soldiers are generally unrefined, and if it weren't for Hongda's bravery and skillful fighting, the Battle of Redstone Garden might have been a different outcome, rather than the current stalemate with a slight upper hand.

This adventure was not planned in detail in advance, and it was purely Chen Qi's personal whim. After Coulson left Fort Selmo on 3 April, the movement of the army was dusty and immediately watched by stealth reconnaissance boats close to the ground. When Jiang Xu received the news, he was reorganizing the army and setting off, and he had no plans to engage in any special operations at all. But after Chen Qi read the report, he suddenly asked to select capable people to attack Selmo.

If it were an orthodox army general, and given her relationship with me, she would probably not agree to this request. From the perspective of military expertise alone: the journey from the human station to Selmo is really not easy, and it is under the surveillance of the Feria Army of Selmo, so instead of engaging in this kind of trickery, it is better to think about how to fight the next battle. But Jiang Xu himself is a Marine and One Piece background, so he is not disgusted by these routines, but seriously considers the feasibility of implementation. After studying the teleconference with our remote command in the Gonggong Fortress, it was decided not to send additional reinforcements for the time being, and Jiang Xu led the current troops to check with Coulson, with the goal of holding it down. Chen Qi took the opportunity to attack the Selmo Fortress.

So Chen Qi led 500 elites with excellent personal qualities selected from the Taiyan army and the human army, all of them equipped with a full set of demon armor, high-vibration particle knives, and amphibious air-cushion motorcycles, quietly set out from the mouth of the Nanquan River, sneaked along the coastline for a day and two nights, without alerting a single Feria patrol, and successfully arrived at the Selmo Fortress at dawn on the day the Battle of Redstone Garden began. More than 600 stubborn defenders of the gate were lured out of the city and stabbed and plundered by human hoplites on air-mounted motorcycles in the open field outside the fortress, and in less than half an hour the entire army was routed, and they scrambled to flee back to the fortress.

At this time, the garrison was only a few remnants of the old and weak, all of whom were abandoned sons who were physically weak and had little insight that Coulson looked down on, and they were unable to make a decision when they saw the tragic situation of the friendly troops fleeing back, and they did not close the city gate for a long time. Chen Qi's sneak attack troops were all riding air motorcycles, which were much faster than the rout, and when he saw this, he ignored the rout and rushed into the Selmo fortress side by side with the rout soldiers. Although the last resistance was encountered in the fortress, the intensity was already very low, and it didn't take long to kill one-sided massacres and door-to-door sweeps.

In the entire operation and sweeping, Chen Qi's troops only lost eighteen people and wounded more than thirty. The fact that the fortress of Selmo was recaptured at such a small price can be said to have added a decisive weight to the victory side of the balance of victory and defeat for the entire Selmo battle. At this time, there was no air defense firepower on Selmoben Island, and the air defense base on the Musku continent was beyond the reach of the whip after all, and Dai Jiangnan and the others could calmly transport the troops down. In fact, after receiving the news of the capture of the Selmo Fortress, Dai Jiangnan, Tang Long, and Han Zeng had already begun to formulate the next transportation plan, preparing to throw a large army there at dawn on the third day.

These things keep them busy, but none of them seem to have anything to do with me, the titular Supreme Commander. In more shameless words, I just need to grasp the overall situation, I don't need to care so carefully, and the meticulous work is their business. However, in the face of the war situation in full swing, I was unable to take the initiative to make a difference except for formulating a strategy that everyone agreed on at the beginning, which made me feel a little regretful and miserable from doing nothing. Chen Qi is very beautiful below at this time, and there is no way for me to spoil her interest and call her back to accompany me to relieve my boredom. Throwing a big party? No kidding, if the Battle of Selmo is not over, this kind of activity cannot be carried out according to the charter. If I violate the military discipline regulations formulated by Han Han for me, I will only leave others with an excuse of "immorality and disorderly life". When it comes to the position of shogun, the world is so big that it is almost impossible to take a step further, and at this time, must you silently endure loneliness and boredom? It's really not as colorful as the life when I was a small clerk in Yangquan.

With this disrespectful thought of my position, I fell asleep. I don't know how long I slept, but suddenly the guard knocked on the door and came in, handed me a phone, saying that Colonel Eva had called. I shook my head for a while, thinking that I had reached a level of soberness enough, before I took the phone and asked, "Isn't it very beautiful, what is the good thing to think of me, a lonely old man?" ”

Chen Qi became more and more happy when he heard my sour tone, and stimulated me: "Yin and Yang are weird, I want to fight and fight." ”

"Forget it, the client has formulated so many rules and regulations, how can I do it if I don't take the lead in implementing it." I lamented, "It's really boring to work together, you hurry up and finish the battle, and I'll hold a celebration party for you." ”

"You have to tell Jiang Xu and Dai Jiangnan about this, and I am not a general in command." Chen Qi's tone seemed to be in a very happy mood, and suddenly said: "You are all wrong, I almost forgot about important things." I just made a discovery, and it seems that I need you to make a trip, but the reinforcements haven't come down yet, and the Selmo Fortress is in danger here. By the rules you shouldn't come, you see? ”

Chen Qi will not let me share the work easily, and it is naturally more special for me to go down. I suddenly became interested: "What's the matter?" Tell me more! How do I know if I should take the risk or not, if you don't make it clear? ”

"We found a number of indigenous prisoners in the Sermo Dungeon who were held by the Feria Army, most of whom were arrested for tax resistance. In accordance with the pre-established method, they were first resettled and then released back to their places of origin after the end of the war. However, in the depths of the dungeon, he found one who had been severely tortured. ”

Chen Qi's words were suddenly interrupted at this point. I noticed something strange and asked, "Tortured?" What was tortured? ”

"It's so miserable that I don't even dare to look at it anymore." Chen Qi said with trepidation: "The soldiers said that it seemed to be a humanoid creature, but no one dared to be sure!" Selmo is far away from the continent of Furle, and there shouldn't be any human beings, so he didn't pay much attention to it at first. Notably, a pendant was found in the crevice of the guy's dungeon with a picture inside. It should be humans - there are humanoid creatures on this planet, but civilizations are far from evolving to the point of having photographs. ”

What does this mean? My heart beat violently, and my mind quickly turned seventeen or eighteen turns, and I asked urgently, "Are you still alive?" ”

"It's being rescued, I don't know if I can save it."

"I'm going to come over." I immediately decided: "Maybe it's not important, but maybe it affects the whole picture." That's the only thing that belongs to me, and it's time for me to go out. (To be continued.) )