Chapter 15 From the dagger behind the down
When the sky was shining again, a convoy slowly drove out of Pendulum City. The speed of the convoy was clearly affected by the full load of supplies, and in addition to the specialized transport vehicles, there were even several armored warfare vehicles with trailers towed behind them, which were piled up with the scorpion-related equipment, equipment, and human corpses of the Calamity Scorpion, and the awning was raised high. These are all money and resources. The convoy was escorted by an armored personnel carrier at each end, keeping the formation moving at a constant pace, and such caution was necessary in the dangerous wilderness, but the prominent Dark Dragoon logo on the body was enough to keep the discerning enemy out of the way, and the uninformed mob was only slaughtered in the face of the Dark Dragoon's firepower.
On both sides of the convoy, there are faintly rolling hills. The mountain is not very high, and it can only be regarded as a rocky hill at best. There was no snow at the top of the hill, and there was no vegetation in sight, except for a few dry trees halfway up the waist, stretching their coiled branches in the cold wind.
A solid, heavy boot stepped onto the top of the hill, and the light brown bare rock, apparently unable to withstand the heavy pressure of the boot, groaned and began to crack. A small grass that had clearly mutated stubbornly poked out of the crevice in the rock, pasted the blade of grass to the boot with the agility of a plant at all, and then cut the boot with the sharp and tough serration of the edge of the blade. The very delicate-looking blade of grass sawed on the rough rubber surface of the boots made a tooth-sore sound and left white marks.
With a single crush, the boots crushed the ferocious grass into several pieces. Then, the boots took another big step forward and stood on the edge of the mountain.
The owner of the boots was a tall man, and the flesh and scars on his face outlined a fierce and hideous face that could not be concealed. Holding a tactical telescope in his right hand, he looked at the convoy winding southeast on the distant plain, and looked at it for a while before putting down the telescope and saying, "They are not in the convoy, these two cunning fellows." ”
A rough, hoarse female voice sounded beside him: "The people of the wilderness are cunning and as tenacious as cockroaches. Don't underestimate them, Kavon. ”
"Maria, shut up!" Lieutenant Colonel Kavon rudely interrupted the woman: "I like the bugs of the wilderness more than you, a man or a woman!" I like to be cunning guys, so that the process of catching will be full of fun; I also like people with tenacity who can live longer in my hands and bring more joy. ”
Maria, who had only half of her face, was clearly not afraid of Kavon, her red hair fluttering in the cold wind, not like a fire, but like a clump of blood-stained grass, and the metal mask glowed a faint gray glow under the dim sky. Hearing Kavon's words, she sneered a few times, as sharp as a seagull and even with a faint echo, and said: "Your big words don't match your strength, Kavon's 'Lieutenant Colonel'!" ”
Maria deliberately emphasized the rank of lieutenant colonel, causing Cavon Horan to turn around, each scar on his face and neck oozing a faint glow of blood. Looking at his hideous face, most people may be afraid, but this does not include Maria. For the equally infamous Scythe Cavon in the Dark Dragoon, Maria once made a classic comment: true deterrence is not done by scars on the face. Of course, Kavon was able to climb to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and it was certainly not just because of his appearance that he was scary enough. He was furious when he heard Maria's comment relayed by others, but in the end, he didn't come to the door to fight the bloodthirsty Maria to the death.
In this mission, two people who have long had a grudge were arranged together like this, and I don't know if it was deliberate or just a coincidence.
Calvon gave Maria a cold look, an ultimatum-like warning in her eyes that made her swallow back the taunt that followed. After all, the two men are equal in strength and have the same ruthless methods, the difference is that Kavon is more cunning and Maria is more brutal. The two people scruple about each other and don't want to really clash to the point where they need to fight. What's more, if there is infighting because of a battle of words over just one sentence, which affects this plan, then the fate of the two of them will be more tragic than death.
Seeing that Maria was stopping, Kavon didn't bother with it, but opened the tactics board and asked, "Lynch, where is your position?" ”
There was a low laugh from the tactical board until Cavon was getting impatient, and then Lynch said, "This can't be sued to you." I can see their convoy though. ”
Calvon cursed in a low voice, and did not ask Lynch where he was, but asked bluntly, "Is it useful to attack this convoy?" ”
"It's definitely useless!" Lynch answered Kavon's inquiry bluntly: "They already knew the news of our arrival, and they let the convoy drive back to Dragon City like this, which is clearly a decoy for us to reveal our location." ”
"Dragoons should be very fond of their servants, maybe we should try." Kavon looked at the slow-moving convoy and looked hesitant.
This time, without Lynch speaking, Maria retorted to Kavon, and she sneered and said, "Sue is not the kind of person who can be soft-hearted. If you have a little sensitivity to numbers, you will know how high the mortality rate of the warriors under Su is. And judging by what he's done, I don't think you'd be more ruthless than him in the same situation, Lieutenant Colonel Kavon. Again, she emphasized the last two syllables.
Kavon was surprisingly not angry, just smiled and said, "I don't need to judge Sue's character, just try it casually to know." Amayo, do it! ”
A gruff voice came from the tactics board: "Listen to you, head!" ”
Dozens of kilometers away, in the clouds, two drones suddenly flew out, without any markings on the fuselage. They are much larger than the Calamity Scorpion's drones, with two missiles each hanging from their bellies. The two drones roared close to the convoy, with no intention of hiding their whereabouts at all, and a total of four small missiles radiated a cold chill. Anyone with some common sense will know that the power of missiles should never be judged by their size.
At a distance of ten kilometers, the traveling convoy spotted the two drones, and it was clear that there were people in the convoy who had the ability to perceive the domain. As the screeching sirens sounded, the convoy immediately dispersed over the field, and from a distance, the scattered formation was quite orderly. The anti-aircraft machine guns on the roofs of the two armored personnel carriers began to roar, raining bullets into the sky, regardless of whether they hit the two drones that were out of range.
Swift and nimble drones are like two falcons, swooping down from the sky. Unless someone has reached the fifth level of psionic weapon control, ordinary warriors can only rely on extraordinary luck if they want to use an anti-aircraft machine gun or an anti-aircraft cannon to take down a drone. Obviously, these ordinary fighters could not have met this condition.
The wings of the two drones fluttered, and the four missiles left the belly of the aircraft one after another, drawing a striking trajectory in the air and shooting at the scattered trucks. Unlike in the old era, the wake of these four missiles is a strong purple color. This is typical of the "Bauhinia" surface-to-surface missile.
Most of the convoy members were veterans of many wars, and they knew a thing or two about the famous weapons and equipment of the Dark Dragoons, and almost at the same time as they saw the four purple trails in the air, they jumped out of the transports one after another, looking for a type of ground that could be hidden, and no longer cared about the vehicles and what was on them. The veteran in the armored combat vehicle exposed his upper body, and a series of bursts of fire accurately broke the lead rope of the towed trailer, and the combat vehicle immediately accelerated and disappeared. The two armored personnel carriers turned around, desperately trying to get out of the missile-covered area, and the fighters operating the anti-aircraft machine guns also scrambled back into the armored vehicles and closed the hatches securely. They don't care about the drones in the air anymore, and they can't hit anyway. And even if there is a possibility of hitting, it is now important to save your life.
There are also many warriors belonging to Su in the team, although they have not been in the sequence of the Dark Dragoon for a long time, and they do not know about the war of the new era, but they are all very experienced in combat. Seeing the unusual reaction of Ricardo's soldiers, they immediately tacitly complied. Only a few rookies were confused by the strange behavior of their teammates, some stood still and froze, and some continued to slam on the accelerator of the transporter, trying to keep up with the armored vehicle with far more power than them.
The landing point of the four "Bauhinia" missiles formed a serpentine shape and quietly exploded. Four faint purple mist clouds instantly formed in the air, and the area covered by the mist was tens of meters in a radius. From the air, it looks like four beautiful redbud flowers. Then four faint firelights lit up in the center of the purple mist, and the four clouds of purple mist instantly turned into terrifying fireballs and rose upward. The flames swirled and swirled, red and black, and finally turned into four small mushroom clouds that rose into the sky!
The terrifying heat and shock wave swept the battlefield in an instant. Most of the trucks did not have time to escape the explosion and were swept into the flames. Some of the vehicles that managed to escape the fire were lifted high by the shock wave and planted to the ground. Although the sea of purple flames had existed for less than a second, almost all of the affected vehicles were burning and exploding.
The veterans who were lying on the ground, almost every one of them had a fire on their bodies. They quickly took off their flaming uniforms and rolled on the icy ground to extinguish the embers on them. However, only a few particularly strong warriors were able to do so, and the rest died quietly surrounded by purple flames. The soldiers who survived the flames were also seriously injured, but if they could still struggle to tear open the emergency medical kits and inject them with antibiotics, their lives should be saved.
After the four giant redbuds bloomed, the plain was already a mess, more than a dozen trucks were burning, and small-scale explosions occurred one after another, throwing red-hot metal pieces dozens of meters away.
On the periphery of the burning embers, the vehicles that had narrowly escaped came to a halt. One by one, the soldiers stepped out of the car and silently watched the fire that was still hot. Even those veterans who survived from the North lost their claims under this sudden and tragic blow. There was a terrible silence in the communication channel except for the rustling of signal interference, and there was not even screaming.
"Save people, there are still alive!" I don't know who shouted, almost all the veterans rushed to the fire, which was still full of flames and explosions. As they ran, they took out their medical kits and prepared to help their brothers who could not help themselves.
"What a touching scene!" Standing on the top of the hill, Lieutenant Colonel Kavon admired without the slightest hint of sincerity, and he turned to look at Maria, and said mockingly: "If I am wounded on the battlefield, I must not expect you to save me." It could even be said that it is better not to let you see me. ”
Maria smiled seductively and said, "I will save you and make you my pet." As much as I would love to chop you up, the rank of lieutenant colonel is enough to make you a very special pet. Her slender fingers ran over her red lips, revealing her snow-white teeth, "I'll fatten you up and cut you a little piece of meat down every day." ”
Kavon stared at Maria, just laughing a few times and not saying anything.
In another hidden cave, Ricardo slammed the cave wall and cursed: "These scumbags! Dare to use the 'Bauhinia' missile on your own people! There is ample evidence this time, as long as I can't die, I will let these scumbags know the consequences of doing this! ”
"They didn't want you to go back in the first place." Sue leaned against the cave wall, her eyes slightly closed, as if she had fallen asleep. His voice was flat, in stark contrast to Ricardo's anger. In fact, the convoy also included many of Su's subordinates, and the proportion of casualties should be higher. Because Ricardo's warriors are far more experienced in combat, and they know how to save their lives in extreme situations.
But being calm doesn't mean not caring. Ricardo looked at the bloodied right fist, and also became calm, and said, "You are right, since they dare to use Bauhinia flowers, they have no intention of letting us return to Dragon City alive." The guy behind the scenes, this time the cost is indeed not small. ”
Su suddenly remembered a question, so he asked, "How much does a Bauhinia missile cost?" ”
Ricardo was stunned, a little puzzled why Sue asked this, but still replied seriously: "About 200,000 pieces, four pieces are a total of 800,000." ”
Su straightened up, looked through the hole, looked at the sky that was still rising with black smoke in the distance, and said: "Bauhinia missiles are 800,000, and our convoy and materials are worth more than 1 million, but they can be easily destroyed, which means that the reward behind this matter must be more than 2 million." And then there's the traps that are laid to catch big fish...... Their goal this time is worth more than 10 million. ”
Among the people who have a relationship with Su and Ricardo, what kind of target is worth tens of millions, and what position the target is currently in, are all about to come out.
Su walked to the entrance of the cave, looked at the gloomy sky, smiled and said, "A good hunter never forgets to surprise his prey." We're no exception. So, we should ditch these three guys now and go north! ”