Chapter Eighty-Five: Escape
On the battlefield, if the main general is killed, the soldiers will generally become uninterested in fighting and retreat one after another. But now the news is only that the command mecha has encountered a sneak attack, and it does not say that Colonel Takahashi has been killed in the attack. Therefore, several squadron leaders of the Takahashi Brigade, who were slaughtering guerrillas in the woods and stealing military merits, immediately ordered their soldiers to quickly move closer to the small hill where the command mecha was located. The first is to capture the culprit who dared to sneak attack the command mecha, and the second is to show loyalty to his commander!
In the eyes of a few low-ranking officers of the empire, killing a few more rebels who are similar to rags is much more important than rescuing their own commanders!
Of course, not all the Imperial troops ran away from the hill at this time, and a small number of Imperial soldiers remained behind to continue to besiege Hank and his partisans.
But after all, there are not as many Imperial soldiers around Hank as they were just now, and the two skeleton mecha squads have also disappeared without a trace, so Hank, Emma and other guerrillas finally have a chance to break out of the woods!
At this time, Bai Jie saw a Glory mecha with its chest armor blown up running over from the woods, and as he ran, he was still using mecha energy cannons and machine guns to continuously strafe the surrounding Imperial Army soldiers.
Tom?
Just when Bai Jie was pleasantly surprised to see that Tom was really alive, the nasty voice of Fat Tom came from the communication channel in the headphones.
"What the are you doing? Don't hurry up and run away with Lao Tzu! ”
At this moment, this vulgar language of scolding sounded to the ears of all the guerrillas, including Bai Jie, as if it were the most beautiful voice in the world!
Just now, they were all ready to die in battle, and even Bai Jie didn't plan to get out of this forest alive tonight.
At this time, all the guerrillas did not hesitate at all, they followed Tom and Emma's two Glory Mechs, and with the mechs in front of them concentrated their fire to help clear the way, they all ran bravely towards the depths of the woods.
There were only a dozen or so partisans left alive and able to run, and the rest had already fallen under the guns of the Imperial Army.
Without the threat of the skeleton mecha, the two Glory mechs were obviously much easier to deal with the infantry of the Takahashi Brigade.
While Tom shoots the surrounding Imperial soldiers with his energy cannon, he also manipulates the mechanical arm to grab Hank, the team leader who is holding a machine gun and firing wildly, from the ground.
Hank, this guy has already killed the red eye, after he was caught by Tom's mechanical arm, he condescendingly continued to shoot at the Imperial army below, and a few shuttles swept down a large area!
At this time, Tom asked a few nearby guerrillas to climb onto his mech, and then his Glory mech ran into the depths of the woods with a few lives on it.
Emma and Bai Jie also followed Tom's example, using the mecha to carry the remaining few guerrillas on their backs, and then closely followed the fat man in front, and finally escaped from the encirclement of Takahashi's brigade smoothly.
At this time, on the hill that Tom had attacked just now, the scorpion command mecha that had been cut in the right shoulder had already opened the hatch, and Colonel Takahashi walked out of the mecha with a blushing face.
Although most of the guerrilla rebels in the woods under the hill had been killed on the spot, only a few dozen people and two tattered mecha that had been beaten to pieces escaped in the chaos, but in Colonel Takahashi's opinion, this really could not be regarded as a perfect battle of annihilation, especially since his own command mecha was actually attacked by the enemy!
If he went back with an alloy ion light knife inserted in the command mecha like this, his uncle, Major General Hashimoto Naoto, didn't know what kind of contempt he would look at himself.
Thinking of this, a nameless anger swelled up in Colonel Takahashi's heart! He looked at the alloy ion light knife that was still inserted in his mecha's shoulder, and suddenly smashed his fist on the protective armor of the mecha, making a "bang" sound!
All the skeleton mechs present and the soldiers and officers of the Imperial Army who came running over one after another lowered their heads, silent and did not dare to speak.
After a long time, Colonel Takahashi raised his head, he glanced at the officers and soldiers around him, and squeezed out a few words from between his teeth, "Catch up!" Kill them all! ”
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Finally breaking through the encirclement of the Imperial army, Tom did not dare to stop for a moment, and drove the mech towards the deepest part of the woods.
Hank, the leader of the robotic arm, laughed out loud, "I knew you had nine lives!" Definitely can't die! ”
The other four guerrillas hanging on the Glory mecha were also laughing, congratulating themselves on the fact that they had escaped death, while laughing and scolding at the embarrassed appearance of their companions opposite.
"What about the logisticians and their families?" Tom, who was in the cockpit, asked with an external megaphone as he maneuvered the mech to continue running.
"I don't know." Hearing Tom ask about this, several guerrillas who were still in high spirits just now fell silent. They had been looking for the non-combatants who had escaped from the tunnels for a long time last night, but they had not been seen until they were finally surrounded by the Imperial Army.
"Are you still alive?" Unexpectedly, Hank and the others did not find Annie and the others, and Tom's heart became even more anxious.
Although the female demon bullied herself every day, she either beat or scolded! But suddenly one day she was no longer by her side, and she would still think about her.
Bah! What the fuck isn't this fucking shit?
"I guess I'm not dead! We searched everywhere and found no body. Hank, the leader of the robotic arm, replied sullenly as he held his light machine gun.
Speaking of this, I remembered that so many lively teammates around me just now had turned into cold corpses at this moment, and several people on the mecha were silent for a while.
Suddenly, Tom was surprised to find that the two Glory Mecha that were still following him just now were no longer visible!
"If you run for your life, you can still lose it!" I realized that maybe I was running too fast just now, and the two guys behind my ass couldn't keep up. The helpless fat man had no choice but to turn around and go back the same way to find Emma and Bai Jie.
After running back for two minutes, Tom finally saw the two Glory mechs in a clearing in the woods in front of him, but strangely both of them stopped.
"What the hell?" Tom muttered as he drove the mech over.
When he arrived, Tom actually saw that at this critical moment of escaping, Bai Jie and Emma had already walked out of the mecha cockpit! And the guerrillas who were originally hanging on the mecha are now jumping back to the ground, and they are hugging around, and they don't know what they are doing?
"Are you tired of running or do you want to die?" Tom yelled at Bai Jie with an external megaphone.
Seeing Tom running back, the crowd automatically dispersed.
Only then did Tom see that Bai Jie and the others were surrounded by a little girl, who was dirty and runny, and was holding a compressed biscuit in her little hand and nibbling on it.
"Alita!" At this time, Hank, the team leader, shouted.
"Uncle Hank!" The little girl also recognizes Hank on the robotic arm.
"What's going on?" The fat man didn't figure it out.
"This girl is the one in the base! When Anne and the others were captured by the Imperial Army, she was the only one who escaped! Bai Jie shouted at Tom in the cockpit of the mech.
Then, in a few words as short as possible, Bai Jie told Tom the general story of what had happened.
It turned out that Bai Jie and Emma's mecha had a few surviving guerrillas hanging on them, and after following the fat man all the way through the woods for a while, they finally tired their fingers to cramps!
The mecha operation level of the two of them was too far away from Tom, so it didn't take long for them to gradually lose track of Tom's speed in front of them, and they were thrown far away.
A little frustrated, Bai Jie and Emma simply slowed down the mecha's pace, but just at this time, they saw a little girl running out of the woods.
This little girl obviously knew the two Glory Mechs in the underground base, so she got out of hiding and stopped Bai Jie and them.
Emma and the partisans, of course, knew the little girl. Her name is Alita, she is only nine years old, she is an orphan, and she usually has a good relationship with the group leader Hank.
Alita tells Emma that after the logistics staff and family members in the underground base escaped from the tunnel, everything went pretty smoothly at first. But after they fled into the grove, it wasn't long before they ran into the group of Imperial soldiers who were chasing after Tom.
Several logistics officers with pistols wanted to go up and resist, but they were all killed quickly. The rest of the people are all old and weak, women and children, including Anne herself, who is also a commodity who does not dare to tie up chickens! So in order to survive for the time being, in front of dozens of soldiers of the Imperial Army with loaded guns, they had to obediently tie their hands and capture.
Only Alita, taking advantage of the lack of attention, burrowed into a pile of bushes next to her alone, and was lucky not to be caught together. In the end, Alita watched as all the non-combatants of fifty or sixty bases were escorted away by the Imperial Army.
Emma asked Alita where the Imperial soldiers would leave last, and Alita didn't hesitate to point to the city.
Hearing this, Tom finally got it a little bit. It turned out that Anne had met the Kuroda squadron that had come to chase her, and then was captured by the Imperial Army and taken to the city.
"What now?" Bai Jie asked.
"Let's go get them out first!" Emma shouted.
"Save the fart! You're still running away! The fat man in the cockpit scolded.
"Get rid of the pursuers behind first, then find a safe place, and then we will discuss the matter of saving people. Let's go, those Vilia bunnies might be catching up! With that, Tom turned around in the Glory mech and continued to run deeper into the woods.
Emma and Bai Jie also quickly climbed into their respective cockpits. Bai Jie hugged Alita together, and the little guy couldn't occupy too much of a place anyway. The other guerrillas climbed into the mechs and sat down, and then the two Glory mechs followed Tom and continued on their way.
Tom drove the mech around the woods, and this time he slowed down as much as he could, so that Emma and Bai Jie, who were behind him, could keep up with him.
Now the white glory mecha is becoming more and more proficient in driving, and can follow Tom and no longer be thrown away.
The three Glory mechs ran in the woods for more than an hour, and suddenly an open field appeared in front of them. Looking closely, it turned out that Tom and the others had finally run out of the woods and reached the edge of the prairie on the outskirts of the city.
On the grassland, the grass still grows and the warbler flies, and the flowers are everywhere, a harmonious and tranquil scene. Walking on this land covered with flowers and grass, smelling the fresh and fresh smell of the earth, people will always feel a peace in their hearts, and people will always reflect on why they will raise bloody butcher knives to their own kind, and use the bloody smell of death to cover the fragrance of flowers and plants?
Perhaps, since primitive times, humans have been accustomed to using the same methods against their own kind while raising stone knives and sticks to the animals around them.
Because, isn't man also an animal?