"Ahh

Looking out the window at the endless sun-covered sand dunes, the Battlefield Atmosphere Team sitting in the jeep sneezed without warning.

Colway, who was sitting next to him, spoke.

"This is already the northwest corner of Luoxia Province, and it will be a little cold at night, do you need a blanket? My friend. ”

"No, I'm fine."

The Warfield squeezed a forced smile out of his face, and his gaze continued to cast on the sand dunes in the distance, where long lines and exhausted soldiers could be seen.

At this moment, they were marching in the rear of the 2,000-man team under the 50,000-strong team, and the target was Oasis No. 2, where the Falcon Kingdom was located.

He had to follow Colway's troops for a while before reporting to the 50,000-strong troops.

The defeat of the 40,000 troops had deprived them of the ability to continue to maintain the No. 3 Oasis Front, and now the entire army in Luoxia Province was deploying its forces to shrink its defenses to the westernmost part of the desert.

Fortunately, Colway's immediate supervisor was a smart man who made the decision to transfer decisively as soon as he received the order.

It was precisely because of this that they had barely seen the shadow of the Alliance, and had already fled to the edge of Oasis No. 2.

In contrast, the 70,000 and 80,000 teams were not so lucky.

I heard that just yesterday, the 80,000 troops encountered the Skeleton Corps of the alliance on the Gobi Desert a hundred kilometers away, and without the protection of armored forces and bunkers, the whole battle completely turned into a one-sided massacre, and it did not even last for half a day.

Patting the pangolin on the shoulder, Colway picked up the binoculars and glanced ahead at the yellow sand, vaguely seeing two tall cacti and swaying sea buckthorn grass.

Vegetation began to appear in large numbers.

They are not far away.

"There's Oasis No. 2 ahead."

Although he was about to reach his destination, he couldn't see half of the joy on his face, and his furrowed brows were even covered with a faint layer of solemnity.

They managed to escape the Coalition's pursuit.

But also lost everything that has been won in the past few months.

He could be sure that the Legion's strategic deployment and tactical use were above the Alliance's, but the Coalition's Army's offensive intensity was still beyond their imagination.

Those people are like they can't be killed.

If it weren't for the fact that those people were so smart and bled that they could not help but wonder if they would be clones or androids.

What's even more frustrating is that he is good at summarizing experience, but this time he is even confused about where he lost.

Even if supply is a big problem, they have an army of 100,000, how can they not be beaten by more than 10,000 people, right?

"Do you have any plans for Oasis 2?" The Warfield asked, looking at a worried Corway.

"The plan is that there is no plan", Colway put down the telescope in his hand and said in silence for a long time: "I heard that there is chaos on the side of the General Command, and we expected to be able to hold out on to Oasis 3 until at least next month, but now we have abandoned the position of Oasis 3 half a month earlier than expected, which means that we must rely on the backward infrastructure and limited industrial capacity of our allies to fight for another month." ”

"It's tough." The battlefield guy gave a conservative assessment with a clear conscience.

"It's not just hard!" Colway narrowed his eyes, trying to see through the rolling sand, "Don't talk about that, there's Bicester Town ahead." ”

Bicester Town is not an oasis, but sits outside the Oasis just as Petra Fortress is to the Hump Kingdom. However, unlike Petra, which has commercial properties, this border town is a completely fortified city.

Built by the Willantes with the help of the Falcon Kingdom, the town is surrounded by rows of concrete triangular piles like a river, with concrete bunkers behind it.

In the center of the town there are also anti-aircraft positions, a logistics center and an airfield.

There are no civilian facilities, let alone civilians and families living here, and apart from a small garrison, most of the population is made up of conscripted servants.

If the terrain level of the outer defense line of Oasis No. 3 is 3 and the fortification level is 1, then the situation here is diametrically opposite, probably "1 terrain, 3 fortifications".

After passing through the outermost checkpoint, the crowd quickly saw potholes in the mud and a fairly straight dirt road.

On either side of the dirt road stood tanned, red-skinned, shovel-carrying local laborers, mostly residents of small nearby villages.

The Battlefield noticed that they were looking over his side.

The malnourished faces were lifeless, and their pupils were like a layer of gray that could not be colored. Although they were covered in whip marks, there was no resentment or anger in their eyes.

It's more numbness.

The Warfield unexpectedly saw a gloating relief in the eyes of a laborer, even though he hid the expression on his face very carefully.

It seems that among these slaves, who are not much better than slaves, there are also wise men.

They already had a premonition that the war was coming to an end.

The Warfield couldn't help but think of the nobles in the Falcon Kingdom.

Of course, they can't resist the rule of the Willants, but what will they think at this moment when anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Willantes are about to be defeated.

He suddenly looked forward to the expressions on the faces of those people.

At the end of the dirt road is a checkpoint.

The soldiers on duty had seen them for a long time, and after confirming the number, they raised the railing and let them go.

Just as the Battlefield looked at the concrete building in the distance and fell into a reverie, a man in a luxurious costume walked by the side of the road.

He had a straight nose, slightly curly hair, and looked like a desert dweller, but his status was clearly much more noble than the laborers they had encountered.

Colway beckoned, motioned for the driver to pull over the jeep to the side of the road, and ordered the rest of the troop and supply trucks to move on.

The nobleman took the initiative to walk to the side of the car and said respectfully.

"Dear Lord Coleway, the contemptible man is the mayor of Bicestertown, Widelier, and allow me to extend my sincerest greetings to you on behalf of the three hundred soldiers of Bicestertown.

In the face of Widelier's former and backward compliments, Colway didn't talk nonsense with him, but just threw a list in his hand.

"I need the supplies on my list, especially the fuel that the truck needs, and I want to see them before the sun goes down."

The list is signed by the Logistics Office.

However, when he heard the second half of the sentence, Widelier's face showed a sad color. "But...... The sun has set. ”

"That's in two hours." Colway said impatiently. He didn't want to waste time here.

"Okay, okay, sir!"

Widelier nodded nervously, and immediately urged the men next to him to do so, and then looked at him with a flattering smile: "By the way, my lordship, how long do you plan to stay here?" I've got you covered--"

Seeing through his thoughts at a glance, Colway unceremoniously interrupted him: "Stay until tomorrow morning, I'll be in the barracks."

He is not afraid of a decisive battle with the Alliance.

But only after his soldiers got enough ammunition and weapons. Otherwise, it's no different from sending them to death.

Hearing this, a trace of disappointment flashed in Willel's eyes, and it seemed that these people would not stay to help him.

With more than three hundred defenders, it is simply impossible to match the alliance.

But he didn't dare to say anything, let alone complain, so he could only bow his head and say resignedly. "Yes, sir."

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Under Colway, the 3,000-man squad was stationed in the barracks in the northeast corner of Bicester Town.

The morale in the camp was a little low, and after the soldiers had finished eating, they gathered in groups of three or five and whispered: "Have you heard?" General Griffin disappeared......"

"Gone? How can it be? ”

"Spreading this kind of rumor, are you dying?"

"It's impossible to disappear, but it's been a little weird lately, and we didn't see anyone from the Alliance or any other troops along the way."

"What is Command doing?"

"I don't know, maybe General Griffin is planning some big moves, I believe that as long as he is serious, the alliance will definitely not be his opponent."

"Shh......h Stop it. ”

One soldier pointed to the pangolin as he passed by, and the other soldiers stopped talking. Everyone knew that this was a close confidant of Coleway.

Although it is rumored that he has been transferred to the direct officer corps of the 10,000 people as an advisor, he is now nominally a direct subordinate of Colway.

Nobody likes to be beaten up and reported.

But the Battlefield didn't bother to pay attention to them.

Although he was curious about Griffin's situation, he didn't think that a few big soldiers could grasp the movements of the Legion's supreme command in Luoxia Province.

found a pit where no one lined up and squatted, and the battlefield guy who had just eaten dinner went offline and hurriedly had breakfast, and by the way, he went to the forum to see where the good brothers had gone.

According to the information I provided in the darkest, his original position G53-7 has been taken by the Stormtroopers.

Perhaps because his centurion was transferred, the ten-captains who had been promoted from the Falcon Kingdom did not resist for too long and decisively chose to surrender.

Probably fearing retaliation from the Alliance, those people racked their brains to put all their previous records on the head of the "Pangolin" alone.

The unit that took over the G53-7 heights and the captives was the Lion Kingdom Army under Prince Winter.

Now the name of the pangolin has been passed down by word of mouth to the lion kingdom, and it is described as a demon who eats children in the middle of the night.

Looking at my most colorful description on the forum, the battlefield guy was also powerless to complain for a while. He was sure that there was something to add fuel to the rumors.

And what left him speechless the most was that these dogs didn't make drafts at all when they bragged for him. Why did he do everything!

"Damn, my legs are numb."

The war guy, who had been in the pit for a while, had just pushed open the door of the toilet and came out, and bumped into a beautiful woman with big breasts and a high nose.

"Hey" Seeing that the pangolin finally came out of the toilet, Penny didn't think about how to talk, so she could only say without words, "You've been squatting for a long time." ”

It's okay to mention other things, the battlefield guy was nervous for a while when he mentioned it, but he still coughed and said calmly.

"I'm afraid of cracking the wound...... I didn't dare to push too hard. ”

It's the truth.

The shell that almost sent him away last time still has a few shrapnel stuck in his body and has not been taken out.

Penny couldn't help but twitch her cheeks, but soon realized that the joke didn't seem a good thing, and forcibly held it back.

"Sorry, I don't want to laugh, but ......"

Seeing that she was holding back very hard, the battlefield guy sighed and said, "It's okay, just laugh if you want to."

The two chatted a lot along the way of the escape, although not to the extent that they talked about everything, but at least they had become friends who could talk a few words.

Of course.

In order to maintain the character of the "cold face master", most of the time the battlefield listens to her with his mouth closed, and only occasionally interjects a few words.

As for what he likes or dislikes, that's all he brags about on the forum.

Anyway, no one will confirm it, as long as the dog can't plan to debunk it, it depends on his mouth to blow it.

"No, I'm not going to laugh." Coughing a few times, Penny looked at him seriously, took a deep breath and said, "My father told me to go back." ”

"Your father?" The Warfield looked at her in surprise.

Although he had talked a few times along the way, it was the first time he had heard her talk about her family. Penny nodded earnestly.

"Well, he said I had to get out of here."

"Congratulations, you're ready to leave this land of right and wrong."

The Battlefield smiled faintly, but to his surprise, Penny suddenly threw out an unexpected proposal.

"Can you come with me?"

The moment he heard this, the battlefield guy was stunned, and seeing her expression that didn't look like a joke, he frowned lightly and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Penny said with a dodgy look in her eyes, "It's not interesting...... It's just that I can't go back that far alone, and although the command promised to send a team of 100 to escort me, I feel safer without you, so I want you to send me back. "What is the reason for this?

The battlefield couldn't laugh or cry in his heart.

He could clearly sense that she was not telling the truth, so he looked her in the eye seriously and said, "I swore that I would fight until the last moment for His Majesty the Marshal, and I would not go anywhere in order to realize the ideals of that lord."

A hint of anxiety flashed across Penny's face, and she finally couldn't help but say, "Your loyalty is touching, but this is not a war ordered by His Majesty the Marshal, and do you think there is any hope of winning this war?"

The warfield guy looked at her with a serious face: "We haven't lost yet, as long as we wait for the weapons to be delivered to the front line, we can immediately launch a counterattack!" ”

"I know you're brave, but...... One person can't change the outcome of the war, not to mention that you are already injured, wake up! ”

Seeing that the man in front of him was still stubbornly unmoved, Penny gritted her teeth, glanced left and right, walked to his side and said in a low voice: "I'll tell you something, don't tell anyone else...... Including your chief. ”

The battlefield guy was happy in his heart, but his face was silent: "You say."

Penny stared at him intently, "You swear to me first. ”

"I swear by the name of the pangolin, the faith of the god of the bighorn deer, and my loyalty to His Majesty the Marshal...... I definitely won't tell the second person about today's conversation. He raised a finger to his temple, and the Battlefield looked her in the eye with a solemn expression.

A red cloud appeared on Penny's cheeks, and she embarrassedly avoided the "fiery" gaze and looked to the side.

That touch of shame was particularly dazzling in the moonlight, so that a serious warfield guy who was talking nonsense couldn't bear to continue to lie to him.

After gathering her thoughts for a moment, Penny whispered, "Triumph City has sent a governor over."

The battlefield guy was slightly stunned: "Governor?"

Penny nodded lightly: "Yes, the governor of the Falcon Kingdom, he brought the order of the Marshal's Mansion, which was directly issued by the commander of the Eastern Legion."

The Warfield swallowed unconsciously.

“…… What is the command? ”

Penny smiled wryly and shook her head, "I don't know, all I know is that it may be related to armistice negotiations."

Hearing the word armistice, the whole person was stunned: "Truce...... Can His Majesty the Marshal accept such a loss? ”

Penny sighed softly and said: "That's not something I can guess, and this has nothing to do with whether it is acceptable or not, the core interests of the legion are not in the east, and the war is completely the arbitrariness of the front-line troops and the connivance of the eastward expansion faction, the commander of the Eastern Legion, Salon, cannot accept the failure of the expedition to the Great Rift Valley, so he instigates the marauder tribes of the river valley province and the vassals of the Luoxia province to prepare for the second expedition."

The Battlefield looked at her in disbelief.

If this is true, it is very big news, and it may affect the next strategic plan of the alliance.

To confirm, he cautiously asked, "Is this ...... Did you come up with it yourself? ”

Penny shook her head: "My father served as a civil official in Triumph City, although he was not a high-ranking official, and it was thanks to his help that I was able to come here. However, when I came here, I realized that the news sent from the front to the rear had been processed, and that it had been processed once before it was sent to the Triumph, and that the progress here was not at all as smooth as Griffin claimed. ”

"Triumph City can accept that Griffin and McLaan maintain the status quo in the province of Luoxia, and the core interests of the Legion themselves are not far to the east, but neither the eastward expansion faction nor the people can accept it, and the Enterprise snatches the vassals belonging to the Legion from the hands of the Legion.

"Actually, it's not just Triumph City that can't accept it, the academy also can't accept that Luoxia Province completely falls into the hands of the enterprise, if it really develops to that point, and the alliance occupies the Falcon Kingdom with the support of the enterprise, do you know what will become of this place in the end?"

Looking at Penny with a serious face, the Warfielder's Adam's apple moved, and he asked cautiously, "What will it become?" ”

Penny continued earnestly, "Triumph City will declare war on the Enterprise, it will be an all-out war across the entire Middle-earth continent, a reckoning with the history of a hundred and fifty years ago, and the Academy will not like us, but they will allow us to pass because they also hate those on the East Coast. ”

A flash of realization suddenly dawned in the Warfielder's heart.

"Wait...... That's why Griffin shrunk the line here? ”

Speaking of which, he had been thinking about it before.

While it was wise to retreat to Oasis 2, Griffin gave up too decisively – or too quickly.

This is somewhat unusual.

Penny shook her head, "I don't know, maybe he didn't think it that way at first, but he's clearly been pushed to this point." From his point of view, even the best outcome is the worst outcome for him. ”

"Only by sacrificing these 100,000 troops along with the Falcon Kingdom in the most extreme way, and letting those Willant officers be captured or even executed by the coalition forces of the Alliance and the Enterprise, will it be possible for him to unite their families, unite the factions behind them, and agree on the controversial proposal of the Second Expedition."

When she said this, a faint trace of trepidation and uneasiness appeared in her eyes: "I don't want to think so, but that's the way it is."

"That guy is crazy."

At the same time.

Aboard the Iron Heart.

Chu Guang, who was dealing with official business, suddenly received a communication request from the direction of the Golden Lizard Kingdom. Holographic screen.

A middle-aged man wearing a silver-gray robe with blue stripes on his clothes nodded slightly to him and introduced himself in a gentle tone: "Hello, Dear Mr. Manager, I am a B-level researcher from the Special Planning Group of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Academy, Li Ke. ”

Looking at the B-level researcher in front of him, Chu Guang's eyes couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

Just a few days ago, his side made them suffer a dark loss, but he couldn't see the undulating expression on his face at all.

It's as if nothing happened.

Seeing that the other party didn't plan to take the initiative to mention the matter of the beacon team, Chu Guang wouldn't take the initiative to say it, and he pretended that nothing had happened and smiled and said, "Is there something wrong?" ”

"Of course, if it weren't for something important, I'm sorry to disturb you so abruptly."

Li Ke smiled slightly, but the next sentence was unexpected by Chu Guang.

"We are here to save you."

Chu Guang was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Save us? ”

"That's right," Li Ke nodded slightly, "Not only you, but the survivors of the entire Luoxia Province, and even the southern part of the River Valley Province, are facing an existential crisis. If this regional conflict turns into the Legion's second expedition, years of your business will be reduced to ashes. ”

Chu Guang's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Is this a threat?"

The man in the hologram shook his head and whispered, "No, it's for the peace of those innocent people, I hope you can sit down and talk." Chu Guang smiled and said in a joking tone: "Interesting statement, I want to ask you, where were you when a certain big nose sent a nuclear bomb to the Valley of Loss?" ”

As if expecting to turn the conversation to the nuclear bomb, Li Ke, who was standing on the holographic screen, sighed softly and said, "We are also surprised that they will use the nuclear bomb, but at this point, we can only avoid the second and third nuclear bombs being sent here." ”

"The oasis of the Luoxia Province is one of the few legacies left to us by the Age of Prosperity, and this declining civilization cannot afford to lose more."

"We didn't provoke this war, we just stood on the position of a third party, and I hope you can take it for the sake of the overall situation."

"Of course, we won't make you give up the benefits you've already received for no reason."

Chu Guang didn't speak, but quietly waited for him to continue.

Li Ke paused and continued: "I heard that you have a nuclear fusion reactor, but the power generation has been kept to a minimum, so we deduce that your helium-3 reserves should not be much, right?" ”

Chu Guang wanted to say that it was actually because he couldn't use up so much electricity, but of course he wouldn't do this kind of behavior of revealing his old secrets.

Seeing that Chu Guang still didn't speak, Li Ke defaulted to his guess, and immediately showed a faint smile on his face, and continued: "1000 cubic meters of liquid helium." ”

Chu Guang said disapprenousively: "What do I want that thing for?" ”

"I'm talking about helium-three."

The moment he heard this, Chu Guang's pupils contracted slightly.

He didn't know how much a thousand cubic meters of liquid helium weighed, but he knew very well that a thousand cubic meters of liquid nitrogen was at least 127 tons!

What is the concept of 127 tons of helium-three?

If the electricity is generated entirely by nuclear fusion, even taking into account the energy conversion efficiency, this huge amount of energy will be enough for a city of one million people like Singapore to consume for 127 years!

And if it's global, it's enough for seven billion people to waste an entire year!

With such a terrifying energy, let alone him, I'm afraid even the ideal city will be excited.

After the disruption of the Earth-Moon flight, fusion fuel has become almost non-renewable.

Although the alliance does not need such a huge amount of energy for the time being, he happens to hold a black box in his hand that can produce nuclear fusion electricity.

Whether it's a large aircraft or power armor, as long as it can get enough nuclear fuel, the alliance has a way to get it. However, what Chu Guang didn't understand was why the academy was willing to give such an almost non-renewable strategic resource to the alliance. Aren't these guys the most taboo about "waste"?

As if to see the confusion in his eyes, the researcher named Li Ke continued: "Of course, we will not pay you directly for this energy, but we will give you a coordinate to find this batch of "goods". ”

Boy.

It turned out to be a blind box.

As soon as he heard that he had to go and fish it himself, Chu Guang's interest instantly weakened a little, and he leaned back in his chair: "It's been two hundred years, how do I know if it's still there." ”

Li Ke said in a firm tone: "It is definitely still there, and we have a way to confirm that the security system of that facility is still working, but it is difficult for the academy to recover it...... It's still a little far from the swamp after all. ”

It's a bit of a distance......

That is, to the south of the province of the River Valley?

Although Chu Guang had guessed before that there would be some nuclear reserves left on the wasteland, he didn't expect that there would be so many!

Chu Guang looked at him quietly: "Is Luolu Province worth 127 tons of hydrogen to you?"

Li Ke said in a very soft voice: "Whether it's worth it or not is our business." ”

The index finger tapped on the desk, but Chu Guang did not give a direct reply.

This is related to the future strategic direction of the alliance, and it is also related to the situation in Luoxia Province. He needs to consult with others before making a decision.

"I'll think about it."

Seeing that the young leader did not directly reject him, Li Ke breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and a soothing smile appeared on his face.

"Please do it."

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