Volume 1 - The Leaves in the Wind and the Wandering Man Chapter 9 - The Leaves in the Wind

Compared to the chaos and lack of order of the wanderers, although the number of visitors is equally large, the ranks are orderly. They were dressed in uniform and carried a rifle and a long sword. In the crowd, some tall constructed creatures follow the party. There are several models of these constructed creatures, all of which are over 5 meters tall. One of the most striking models of the constructed creatures is armed with halberds and tower shields, taller than normal structures, and surrounded by faint spell shields.

It was an MT-6 heavy combat build, codenamed "Executor II".

This is a new type of combat construct that is more protective and flexible than its predecessor, the MT-5. It is a new type of equipment that was officially installed only last year. At present, there is only one unit in the whole of Carlin, and that is the 2nd Armored Infantry Division. At this time, the identities of these comers, dressed in uniform and armed to the teeth, are self-evident.

In fact, the wanderers had arrived three days earlier, and they had tried their luck in entering Kalenta, but were blocked by the Karenta police. Karenta used all of her police forces to intercept the wanderers outside the city. Since then, these wanderers have not left – and neither can they leave, the northern states have definitively refused to admit them, and Karenta is their last hope. The wanderers then set up a rudimentary camp here, which grew in size as subsequent wanderers arrived. These wanderers still have a fantasy in their hearts: after all, Karenta is the Karenta of the Karlins, the most open city in all of Carlin, and it should not sit idly by and watch millions of Carlins spend the winter in the wilderness, right?

However, Karenta answered this question with the army.

Samuel heard a commotion from above the ceiling, and he knew that the laborers in the cabin and on the upper deck had also seen what was going on. Many of these laborers were homeless people before they found the job, and when they saw this wave of black oppression, they inevitably felt the same way, and sincerely hoped that these compatriots would be treated properly.

Samuel suddenly realized that when the military was involved in such missions, Carlin's air traffic control bureau would generally set the nearby area as a no-fly zone. However, it is intriguing that the air traffic control bureau has not issued any notice now, and it is located on a very busy shipping lane, and I don't know how many passing ships will see this scene, which is definitely a huge mistake for the air traffic control bureau.

The 2nd Armored Infantry Division, which is on a mission, may not be aware of this, or it may be aware of it but does not care, they are military personnel and only need to carry out the task, and it is the task of politicians to eliminate the negative impact afterwards.

They were tasked with destroying the camp of wanderers. Then they will destroy the camp of the wanderers and that's it.

The 2nd Armored Infantry Division soon reached the edge of the camp, and the neat appearance and armed soldiers to the teeth caused great psychological pressure on the wanderers. Not to mention the monstrous, gigantic constructed creatures that mingle with the ranks. With each step of these constructed creatures, wanderers can feel the ground tremble slightly. However, they still resisted the pressure and spontaneously gathered together, forming an untidy but thick wall of people, blocking between the Karlin soldiers and the camp.

I don't know who took the lead, but the homeless men sang. That's "Song of the Wanderer". The original author of the Song of the Wanderers is no longer known, and the song first appeared in the far north of Carlin and spread throughout the country as the first group of wanderers moved south. There have been several versions of it, but as the country's wanderers gradually converged on the Kalenta, the song slowly unified into its current version. The wanderers, of course, had no formal choral training, and the singing was a bit haphazard. But it was such a song that was not sung very well that made the soldiers of the 2nd Armored Infantry Division couldn't help but be a little moved.

Most of the soldiers came from the bottom of the social ladder, and it was inevitable that a few relatives with good relations were unemployed, homeless and eventually joined the ranks of the homeless, and even some soldiers had experienced wandering years with their parents before joining the army. A song "Song of the Wanderer" sings the bitterness of the homeless people all the way from north to south, and also sings the helplessness and struggle of the bottom of the city.

How are we different from them? We all grew up in shabby streets, we grew up in families that weren't wealthy, we didn't go to school much, we didn't have a good education. The only difference between us and them was that we were lucky enough to find a decent job in the military, and this uniform protected us from the effects of the Great Depression. If we hadn't been lucky enough to join the army, we might have been one of these wanderers at this moment, starving, and we couldn't find a single brick and a half in the whole country that could accommodate us.

Samuel and the others, who were high in the air, like other fleets in the past, watched with the mentality of watching a good show to see how the 2nd Constructed Infantry Division planned to deal with this problem.

However, this was not a difficult task for Brigadier General Doug Mercer, commander of the 2nd Constructed Infantry Division, whose solution could be summed up in just two words – fire.

This order shocked the soldiers at the grassroots level and aroused strong resistance from some junior and middle-ranking officers, but it was finally carried out after several officers were shot dead by the gendarmerie.

The wanderers were shocked to see the soldiers raise their rifles, followed by a dense burst of gunfire, and the wall immediately collapsed a corner, and the last image many wanderers saw in their lives was the fire of rifle fire.

The laborers on the Twilight Swordsman were already in a mess, and they didn't expect these soldiers to choose this way to solve the problem. But that's just the beginning.

Toft was the first to notice the anomaly of the 2nd Constructed Infantry Division, some of the tall structures suddenly crouched, the thick metal brackets unfolded and fixed to the ground, and the barrels on their shoulders slowly raised to the sound of gears turning.

Toft was half shocked, and generally shouted in disbelief:

"What do they want to do?!"

At Brigadier General Doug's command, the cannons on the shoulders of these constructed creatures erupted tongues of fire, and a cannonball flew out of the chamber of the cannon, cutting a curve and falling into the homeless. There were no trenches, no bunkers, and the shell exploded directly in the crowd. The human wall immediately turned into a pot of flesh and blood.

More and more artillery finished firing, and deadly grenades exploded in the camp. Fragments of grenades raged in the camp, and many wanderers who had not experienced military training could not dodge, and were hit by fragments, ranging from a few fingers to a fatal one, and Samuel saw a little girl about five or six years old who was hit by fragments, half of her head was cut off, and her brains were splashed in the air. Two seconds ago, her mother was also hit in the chest by a splinter, and at this moment she has fallen to the ground, and she should be dead.

Samuel was also deeply shocked by Doug Messer's handling of the situation, which was the first time in the history of the Carlin army that heavy weapons had been used against a non-insurgent mass incident. Such an aggressive approach is likely to have unpredictable consequences, and if you are not careful, the 2nd Armored Infantry Division will be nailed to the pillar of shame of Carlin, and you will never be able to wash away the sins committed today.

But compared to Samuel's shock, Doug Maiser took it for granted: the police at Karenta had already negotiated with the wanderers before, but had not achieved any results, and the reason why the 2nd Armored Infantry Division had been sent here was because non-force measures had been ineffective, so since force was to be used, what was the essential difference between the use of light weapons and heavy weapons?

But for grassroots officers and soldiers, of course, there is a difference. The gunners were forced to fire the first shell by the gendarme's obscenity, but then immediately began to slack off, delaying the reloading of the second shell, and finally, when the gendarmerie drew their handcuffs and was about to make an example, the artillerymen fired a second round of shelling, and it was deliberately crooked, and landed in the grove on the edge of the camp. In what could have been enough for five rounds of artillery bombardment, the 2nd Armored Infantry Division, as the ace division, fired only two rounds of artillery bombardment, and the accuracy of the second round was ridiculously poor

However, just two rounds of shelling have already taken a heavy toll on the wanderers, and the only thing thankful for is that there will be no third. Major Ivell, Doug Mercer's aide-de-camp, strongly discouraged the use of heavy weapons:

"This is not a purely military operation, don't think with your purely military thinking!"

With the efforts of Ewell,. This suggestion was eventually reluctantly accepted by Doug Mercer, and the grenade was replaced with an alchemical CUI tear bomb.

The wanderers were already frightened by this time, most of them began to retreat to the north, a few panicked to find their lost relatives, some never found their relatives, and some quickly found their ...... The remains of loved ones.

Witnessing the terrible situation caused by their actions, the soldiers had refused to continue firing, and even began to oppose the gendarmerie, the captain of one gendarmerie squad was shot and wounded by an angry infantry company commander, and the entire gendarmerie squad was disarmed, Major Ewell watched this scene with concern, he knew that the team was on the verge of mutiny. Brigadier General Doug was not a straw bag either, and he immediately understood that something was wrong and ordered the troops to halt the pursuit—the Wanderer camp had been destroyed anyway.

At this moment, the camp of the wanderers has been in shambles, a large number of improvised tents have been destroyed by howitzer shelling, the improvised stoves and pots on them have been abandoned by the wanderers who fled north in a hurry, and the wild vegetables and fruits and other food that they have worked so hard to collect are also scattered all over the place. Also discarded were a large number of improvised bags, which contained knives, ropes and other tools commonly used for survival in the wild. It is foreseeable that after the loss of these supplies, the already poor situation of the wanderers will be even more difficult, and many people estimate that they will not survive this winter.

The soldiers of the 2nd Armored Infantry Division watched the vagabond army rush north, without the slightest joy of the victors. There was still a faint smell of blood in the camp, and the sound of sobbing was still telling of the tragedy that had just happened here.

Samuel, Toft, and a shipload of laborers in the air could see more clearly than the soldiers on the ground. The wanderers who had fled were ragged and stumbling, and Samuel and the others, who were far away, could not see their expressions, and did not know whether they were afraid or angry, disappointed or hopeless, or both. All he knew was that Calenta, the hope capital of the Kalin, had closed its doors to them. From then on, Carlin was big, but there was no place for them.

The fleet gradually sailed away from the deceitful wilderness, where the voices of the people were no longer audible, except for the cool breeze of late autumn that blew through the groves on the edge of the camp, and carried up the fallen leaves in the sky. These falling leaves, along with the smoke of gunpowder in the camp, were carried by strong winds to the north, and no one knew where the leaves would eventually fall and where the people would go.