Located on the border of the empire, Changyang is nominally only a town, but its scale is beyond the combined size of two or three prefecture-level city units within the empire. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The reason is simple, Changyang has been in existence for 609 years.

Its history even goes back to the chaotic times before the Empire was founded!

And the reason why it has been able to exist for so long is because Changyang is not only the second important stronghold of the Song historians, but also the first place to launch a counterattack against the xenomorphs, and at the same time, it is also the place where the humans successfully held on after being defeated and retreated by the xenomorphs.

Looking out of the porthole of the plane, a "town" laid out like an open folding fan on a stable shelf is quietly bathed in the morning light and spreads out towards the horizon.

On the side of the empire, at the head of the folding fan, there are dozens of bungalow earthen houses in a circular distribution, the original town buildings have long since disappeared in the smoke of war, I don't know how many times it has been renovated, but at least it is a few decades ago.

It is said that the Black Gold Emperor once lived in such a house, and in order to remember the history of the empire, these earthen houses have been constantly maintained and renovated, and have been preserved.

The buildings are surrounded by a five-metre-high, two-metre-wide, ninety-three-metre-long earthen wall that connects the woods on both sides, forming a primitive line of defense.

Outside the earthen wall are thousands of square meters of burnt ruins, rocky and overgrown with weeds. This is the first recorded xenomorph invasion. The town of Changyang, with a population of nearly 1,000, was in ruins in two days.

Beyond the ruins, the part that makes up the fan is a defensive military area that has been expanding since the establishment of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, and it is also a "dream paradise" for newcomers.

The last plane was not an ordinary plane, but a military transport plane specially sent by the military region, Yi Qiao had already flown twice, and if you evaluated its comfort, Yi Qiao didn't even want to give the lowest star.

There is a world of difference between the civilian and military products of the Empire. Civilian products pursue comfort, while military products are on the basis of ensuring the safety of users, blindly pursuing efficiency!

For example, now, Yi Qiao's physical fitness is strong, but his head is a little uncomfortable, and the other companions without exception have fallen into a vomiting tank specially prepared for recruits and vomited.

This reminded Yi Qiao of the researchers who had been with him before, and even because some people had a phobia of airplanes, they would rather take a car and spend several months than get on a plane!

Coming to meet the plane were two stout men in combat uniforms, with their feet and shoulders together and their hands behind their backs.

It is easy to get off the plane last time, there is no waiting hall here, so you will get down to the wide airport.

"Well, is this water for us to drink?" Yi Qiao looked around, there was no transportation such as a pick-up bus around, only two forklifts for goods and a few transport planes waiting to fly, and next to the two soldiers, there were three buckets, which were filled with water.

The soldier standing slightly behind looked at Yi Qiao from head to toe with sharp eyes, and then put his right foot on his left foot, leaned forward with his right hindarm 45 degrees, and quickly raised his right forearm from front of him, stretched out his palm, put his fingers together, palms down, thumbs close to his heart, and said loudly:

"Report, the new recruit Storm Fang 5691047, he is currently in good condition and has passed the first test with the first place score, please instruct!"

"Roger, Imperial [note 1] 56, point out the mistake of recruit 47!" the older officer ordered.

"Yes, sir!" After speaking, Yu Shi 56 put down his hand, took two steps forward, stood in front of Yi Qiao, and said solemnly: "Because you have just joined the army and performed well, I hereby excuse you from making your first mistake, remember, recruit 47, every conversation you have with your superiors must start with a 'report' and end with 'Please instruct'! Accept the order and reply with "Yes"! Repeat!"

Yi Qiao immediately reacted that the "Recruit 47" in their mouths was himself, and then listened carefully to the words of the Imperial Soldier 56, imitated him in a saluting posture, and said loudly: "Yes! Start with 'report' and end with 'Please instruct', accept the order, and reply with "Yes"! Please instruct!"

Imperial Soldier 56 glanced at Yi Qiao in surprise, obviously he didn't expect Yi Qiao to be so clever and noticed this detail, but the soldier's style made his curiosity much lower than ordinary people, so he turned around and saluted: "Report, Recruit 47 has understood his mistake, please instruct!"

"Stay put!" the older officer nodded, his gaze fixed on the group that was gradually recovering.

It is very normal for people to come to serve in the military with a mix of good and bad, from men with strong bodies to girls who look petite and cute, with low physical fitness, and boys with black round-rimmed glasses.

It took half an hour, cleaned the mouth and their own vomit with the prepared water, and it was only after everyone was assembled in front of the two servicemen.

Standing in front of the team, Imperial Sergeant 56 scanned the square team again with an extremely critical gaze, turned back to face the older officer with a standardized turn, and saluted: "Report, the Reserve Wind Fang has been assembled, please instruct!"

"Homecoming. The older officer ordered.

"Yes. Warrior 56 withdrew his hand and turned left to walk to the side of the first person in the first row of the line.

The eyes of the older officers swept over the cheeks of the crowd who were still a little pale because of vomiting, some of them were young, some were mature, some were immature, but here they were all the same.

The older officer said in a deep voice, "To be honest, I'm disappointed, because your performance tells me that if the Empire needs you to go to war now, then you are the squad that will go and send heads to the xenomorphs. ”

Hearing this, the faces of the young people were a little red, and the older ones looked like they wanted to say something but didn't dare to say it.

"Well, I see you have something to say, say it out loud. The officer's thick dark eyebrows raised, and he stretched out his hand to point at the second person in the third row.

The man should have finished his college studies at his age, dressed in an ordinary white-collar dress, white shirt, gray trousers, and rimless glasses with pale gold frames, and when he heard himself being called, he looked at the people around him and said: "We are here to fulfill our service obligations, and you can't send us directly to the battlefield, this is against the "Iron Law"!"

This man is very smart, deliberately uses words like "we" and "obligation", and at the same time moves out of the mountain of "Iron Law", wanting to create a sense of identity in the hearts of everyone, so as to use the situation to oppress the officer.

"If you've been coming to the army with that mentality, I can say that you're going to be the thirteenth percent. In the meantime, recruit 47, you come out and repeat the rules you just made. The officer was indifferent to his boring words and ordered Yi Qiao.

"Yes!" Yi Qiao walked to the front from the seventh position in the fifth row, turned to the crowd and said loudly: "Every time you speak to the commander, you must start with "report" and end with "please instruct", accept the commander's order, and reply with "yes"!"

"Report, Recruit 47 has finished retelling, please instruct. ”

"Homecoming. The officer nodded, as if slightly satisfied with Yi Qiao's performance.

"Do you hear me?" the officer asked.

"Hear me clearly. "The voice was undulating and untidy.

"Do you hear me?" shouted the officer.

"Hear me clearly!" This time it was much neater and louder.

The officer looked at the group of recruits and reprimanded loudly: "Remember, in the barracks, you must answer your superiors loudly! Recruit 22, because of your performance just now, you deducted 50 percent of the recruit's preferential treatment, don't talk nonsense, now you are under the leadership of the Imperial Soldier 56, go and complete the second test." ”

The man with glasses didn't have time to speak when he was directly interrupted by Imperial 56.

"All of them, turn left. Hearing the order, Captain 56 trotted to two meters to the left of the fourth row of the line.

Turn left fast or slowly.

Imperial Soldier 56 frowned slightly, and said: "I will lead the team, you don't need to maintain the formation, and the last person will deduct fifty percent of the preferential treatment for recruits." Let's go. ”

After saying that, he turned his head and ran, so that the recruits did not react for a while.

"The preferential treatment of recruits seems to be a very good thing, but there are 18 women here, doesn't it seem unfair?" Yi Qiao thought about it, and didn't do anything to help the weaker women, but set off in the middle of a group of leading men.

Although everyone didn't know what the recruit preferential treatment was, it was obviously a good thing, and no one looked like they had been deducted half, and they all started running with their feet open.

Except for a few people who were more sober-minded, everyone else thought that the destination would not be too far away, and did not have the slightest idea of reserving physical strength.

It's not a helipad for helicopters, so it's so large that it takes 14 minutes for one person to get out of the airport at the earliest.

"The 47 just now must have won a high impression score in front of those two officers because of his good performance in the first test, so I must get the first place in this link to save my impression. Huang Yufei, who ran first, thought to himself.

He has trained in long-distance running, and he guessed that this test should be a test of physical fitness, so he is confident that his endurance is definitely in the top three in this group, so he plans to start to exert his strength first to maintain the first position, and then adjust his speed to maintain his physical strength.

And it was such a distance, and many people began to shout in their hearts that they were tired, but they were afraid that they would be overtaken by others, and they rushed forward with a breath of breath.

Yi Qiao mixed in the first group, and had the leisure to observe the situation behind: "There are three girls with good physical fitness, and the rest are very normal girls, who ran for a while and started to leave, most of the boys graduated from college, and four of them look like they are only fifteen or sixteen years old, at this age, is it a dropout?"

Retracting his gaze, Yi Qiao didn't have the heart to waste his attention on this group of people anymore.

The pursuit is different, the way of doing things is different, some people just to complete the service, will follow the general trend, in order to not blame the public, some people in order to join the army, strict requirements on themselves, not with the lazy people in the same stream, some people in order to go home early, thinking about how to get some military merits in exchange for the opportunity to go home.

Out of the airport, it is the real Changyang military camp.

The construction here is arranged in such a way that the warehouses are centered and the barracks are surrounded by the periphery. The warehouse is the stronghold, where food, weapons are stored, and meetings are held, and the area in charge is around 1,000 people.

Although the layout of the warehouses will increase the amount of construction and its complexity, it effectively ensures that it will not be destroyed by the enemy, and weapons can be issued in time to ensure efficiency.

Efficiency, is the word that runs through the entire empire and the army.

Note 1: Priest: Similar to the title of instructor.