"Well, that's a long story."

As soon as Chrissy wanted to continue talking to Andy, her companion's shouts could be heard from the troop carrier behind her, so she could only leave a sentence to talk later and hurriedly got into the car.

Andy shrugged back into the car, where the Rangers were looking at a map to discuss their course of action.

"It's supposed to be the safest way to go, and I think speed is crucial."

A ranger pointed to a trail and said this.

"We will think so, and they will definitely think so, we have to think backwards, so this is the most correct choice."

The other Ranger turned to another path.

The two argue until Sass stops them.

"It's not too late to make a careful judgment based on the actual situation when we get to the place."

Andy was also given a map, which was printed and distributed to all the important people, especially the officers who commanded the operation. Although the Brotherhood of Steel has always claimed to be inferior to the Ring of Steel in terms of reconnaissance, their level is still very good, on the other hand, the NcR is relatively lacking in this aspect, in the past, when they were on the home soil, the Rangers made up for this shortcoming, but here in the Eastern Special District, the situation has changed.

Didn't the top people in the NcR military think about it? After all, the Rangers are not directly subordinate to the NcR army, but obey the orders of their highest command, Sergeant Major and the President of the NcR, and theoretically they can refuse any instructions from the NcR officers, even the orders of the NcR generals, which can be fatal in many important combat situations.

If he were to preside over the military affairs of the NcR, the NcR army should try to cultivate a special operations force that is completely the army's own, in accordance with the training methods and combat skills of the Ranger troops, so as to prevent the Ranger troops from being helpless in carrying out all kinds of reconnaissance and assassination missions when they disobey orders, which should be the only and most correct solution to this problem.

Thinking about it, he shook his head, he is not an NcR general, what do you care about so much?

Looking down at the map for a while, this area that was originally inhabited by the tribesmen has been occupied and transformed by the Ring of Steel, there is a relatively wide entrance and exit in the south of the village, which is a corridor sandwiched between the peaks on both sides, and in the end of the canyon corridor near the end of the village part, the Ring of Steel has built a series of fortifications and has many armed personnel stationed, and there are also suspected reconnaissance points and defensive posts deployed at the commanding heights on the east and west sides of the entire corridor.

If you attack directly from the front, the heavy fire at the main gate and the snipers in ambush at the commanding heights on the hillsides on both sides will inevitably give the attackers a head-on blow, and the attackers have no way to dodge and can only foolishly force their way forward while carrying bullets.

To the north of the peaks surrounding the village, there are three narrow paths that have been marked for entry and exit, which are impassable by large troop forces.

Elder Blixley faced this dilemma, it made no sense to send a small force to enter the Ring of Steel garrison from the northern path, with the Ring of Steel's reconnaissance ability, they would easily be discovered and extinguished after entering, but it would be even more foolish to stake all the troops on the front and advance towards the village, even if they fought a bloody way to reach their destination, then the team would lose the will to fight and the ability to fight.

What's more, even in the most ideal state of the military rehearsal, that is, the Ring of Steel is deployed on the front road, and all the defensive nails are pulled out one by one before launching a counterattack, a large force can smoothly advance all the way from the front to the hinterland of the Ring of Steel stronghold, and then the Ring of Steel can also be quickly broken into pieces, leaving various traps to hinder the pursuit of Fort Maxson's men, while moving to the outside along several small roads in the north and finally cutting off the road and escaping.

In this case, the operation will lose any meaning, and lives and bullets will be wasted in vain.

"Attention units."

Andy's walkie-talkie pinned to the belt on his shoulder suddenly rang.

"Speed up the assembly, and in half an hour the whole army will set out, advance as quickly as possible according to the established route, and assemble at the assembly point."

With a snort, the speaker was answered.

"A car received."

"Second car received."

......

Andy also unplugged the walkie-talkie, pressed the button and said yes, and then plugged the walkie-talkie back in.

This time, the number of NcR troops dispatched was not too large, the total number was about two hundred.

At its peak, the NcR Eastern District garrison was close to 2,000 soldiers, most of whom were stationed in Hoover Dam, the administrative center of the NcR Eastern District, and Fort Alashid, the military center, but before 2250, due to various reasons such as combat attrition, desertion, and repatriation from the mainland, the number was less than 1,000; After 2250, due to the repeated attacks of the Brotherhood of Steel, the fall of Fort Alashide, and the subsequent collapse of the order of the various eastern settlements, the total number of remaining defenders is currently less than 500 people, and they are currently scattered in the city of Hoover Dam, the city of the hanging corpses, and the station of Dog City.

It's not an exaggeration to say that the nest is out of the nest.

After opening the map and looking at it twice, the NcR side coordinated the operation this time, on the one hand, as a supplementary force to advance with the Brotherhood of Steel on the front, and on the other hand, to guard the northern path on the periphery, kill any members of the Ring of Steel who escaped from the village, and find an opportunity to use these paths to infiltrate the interior of the village from the north to cause destruction.

The Brotherhood of Steel also said before that due to the strong reconnaissance ability of the Ring of Steel, their scouts could not get closer to get more accurate intelligence information, whether there were only three paths in the north and whether there were additional garrisons on the three paths, and whether there were hidden bunkers in the fortifications inside the village and the commanding heights on both sides of the front entrance.

Although this battle has a good chance of victory against the Hoover Dam-Fort Maxson after the formation of the coalition forces, it cannot be said to be to the point of winning this battle, there are still many things that the two sides do not know well, and there are still many surprises that may occur on the battlefield.

Half an hour later, the soldiers had assembled and boarded the troop trucks, which were large green trucks with wide, slender bodies and roofs supported by tarps and iron rods, and filled with heavily armed NcR soldiers.

After Major Fleming gave the order, the convoy headed east, forming a long line and leaving in an orderly manner.

Seeing this, Andy also got on the Atomic Humvee, started the car, and quickly caught up with the convoy, echoing the troop trucks on the side of the convoy.

Today's weather was exceptionally sunny, and the convoy of troop trucks in the wind and sand was heading eastward, and the Rangers on the Atomic Humvees watched the convoy for a long time, and after a moment let out some sighs.

"It would be nice if one day there was a convoy like this coming from the west to the Hoover Dam."

"That means that the local community will be back in touch with us, and there will be hope for everything... Maybe that day is not far off. ”

The convoy soon entered the interior of the Eastern Special Administrative Region, and some of the tribeagumen saw the convoy from a distance, some of them turned around in panic and fled, while others were so frightened that they lay on the ground and did not dare to move.

Just at the front of the convoy, a small group of Buraku people saw the NcR flag painted on the troop carrier.

"Two-Headed Bear Tribe! They are back in the iron box! Run, run, run! ”

A bronze-skinned tribesman wearing a colored leather headband opened his mouth wide and then shouted at his fellow tribe behind him, watching the convoy of dust and smoke moving straight towards them, the tribesmen could not continue to raise their spears and earthen guns, and turned their heads and fled.

The convoy ignored them and continued eastward.

An hour later, the destination was almost there, and there were still about twenty minutes to go.

Several mutant lizards straightened up as the convoy passed, their eyes with vertical pupils fixed on the convoy, grinning at the bloody mouth, the umbrella-like skinfolds of their necks open and hissing menacingly.

Out of boredom, a Ranger in the Atomic Humvee pushed open the top of the Atomic Humvee and poked his head out with a sniper rifle, putting his eyes in front of the scope and firing at the largest of the lizards, the .308 bullet flew hundreds of meters away from the moving Atomic Humvee and hit the lizard's head, shattering it into a cloud of blood mist.

The lizards were startled, and fled in the blink of an eye, leaving only a headless lizard corpse in its place.

"Bang Bang..."

The Rangers in the car applauded him, and the sharpshooter gracefully replied with his hat.

Andy thinks that they are worthy of being Rangers, and sniping is their most proficient combat technique, but it is said that they can actually master the use of any firearm or weapon relatively proficiently.

Subconsciously swept the side front with V mode to confirm that the lizards had run away. Surprisingly, in the V-mode perspective, in a wasteland opposite the place where the lizards appeared, it seemed that something was coming out of a cave, thanks to the fact that there were no obstacles in the vicinity and Andy's perception was not what it used to be, otherwise V-mode would not have had a chance to detect the slightest change from such a distance.

He immediately reminded him.

"Sas, about two hundred meters in front of the west, there's a cave there, and I seem to see a lot of things."

Hearing this, the Ranger squad leader Sass immediately pulled out his binoculars and looked through the car window, and after a few moments, he took off his sniper rifle and pushed open the top cover of the Atomic Humvee and probed through the scope with his scope.

"Hell, deathclaws!"

When Andy heard this, he held the steering wheel with one hand and quickly took off the radio walkie-talkie with the other hand to inform everyone.

"Northeast, northeast, attention, there's deathclaws infested."

The drivers of the convoy looked away, and before long they saw a huge gray-skinned deathclaw climb up a rock and spread its long, muscular arms, the claws at the end of which were almost as long as its forearms, and the terrible monster with sharp horns and fangs on top of its head seemed to be unhappy with the presence of the convoy, raising its head and roaring into the sky.

The melodious, savage, low roar was heard far and wide, and the hair-raising sound was unforgettable for those who heard it.

What's even more terrifying is that one after another deathclaws appeared next to the stone, and the number of them was probably no less than six, and these deathclaws did not show any fear of the convoy, on the contrary, it seemed that under the leadership of the leader, they were angry at these big metal guys who were making noise underneath.

Major Fleming's voice came over the intercom.

"Don't panic! The cars in the back go all out to the side side by side, shortening the length of the line, and those who have room to shoot can shoot! Get away as soon as possible, these brutes can't outrun us. ”

The convoy immediately began to change formation, from the beginning of the long snake gradually turned into a goose.

The deathclaws swooped down from the heights of the hill, they marched upright, so they only had two long thick legs to move, but with the help of the terrain, these monsters almost half-ran and half-jumped down from the side, and at this rate, the few cars at the back of the convoy were likely to be intercepted by them, and the sharp claws and terrifying physical strength of those monsters could easily overturn the troop carrier and cause a carnage afterwards.

The soldiers in the car lifted the corners of the tarp to form a shooting hole, and poked the rifle out of the muzzle to shoot, but these shots were of little use, and on the bumpy truck, an ordinary soldier with average shooting accuracy used a semi-automatic 5.56mm caliber rifle without sights to shoot at some fast-moving targets in the distance.

The gunfire only angered the deathclaws even more, and the gray-black skinned deathclaw leader rushed the fastest, its immensely strong lower limbs helping it move forward almost like a flight, a jump of five or six meters away.

There were already soldiers on the last truck who were screaming in panic because of these approaching monsters, those terrifying monsters were already close at hand, but the bullets that could be fired at them either missed or were like mud cows entering the sea, either bounced away by tough skin, or blocked by muscles and bones, and did not have an effective killing and deterrent effect at all.

With a loud bang, the gray-black skinned deathclaw leader jumped to the side of a troop truck, its claws piercing directly into the shell, and the tarp was pierced like paper, and the screams of soldiers could be heard from inside. It then raised a sharp claw to thrust it into the front of the car, with the sharpness of the claws of the deathclaw, and this time it was going to thrust the engine of the troop carrier truck into the driver.

If the truck gets out of control and overturns, so does the full load of soldiers, torn to pieces by the death claws that came too late.

Seeing that tragedy was about to happen, Andy stopped the atomic Humvee with one foot of the brakes, opened the car door and raised the heavy anti-materiel sniper rifle in a standing position, and fired at the head of the giant deathclaw with the help of V mode.

"Bang ————!!"

The dull sound of gunfire echoed through the wilderness, and the bullets shattered the deathclaw's head as the Rangers watched in shock.