Volume I: The Battle of Iasi 0054 Four corpses
"The situation is very obvious, the commander of the Xixuan Federation, because the army was annihilated by the general's mine warfare under the city of Iasi, is unwilling, and is ready to give our follow-up pursuing troops a tooth for a tooth."
In the admiring eyes of everyone, Welling gave judgment.
"Ladies and gentlemen, since we don't have air detection and scanning equipment, we can arm the exoskeleton, stand on different walls, collect data from different angles, transmit it back to Iasi, and generate a three-dimensional image, so that the technical experts of the staff can analyze the detonation method of this mine group."
Seven or eight "warriors" and "rangers" ran and jumped to different positions along the circular wall, with a relative height of several meters, to collect images and other data.
After a while, all the images were gathered on Li Kongqing and Welling's side.
Li Kongqing immediately called the "Blue Bird" vehicle.
In less than a minute, the "Blue Bird" carrier had already flown near the advance team, and Li Kongqing immediately issued an order, and the vehicle once again laid down the "totem pole" and "Di Ting" communication relays.
Soon, the advance team was able to connect to the "Jianmu" enchantment system.
After uploading the collected data to the system, it is time to wait for Iasi's response.
"Thanks to Brother Welling's caution just now, otherwise, I would have suffered a big loss!"
Li Kongqing was a little ashamed.
"That's it, it's worthy of being a wise warlock, and I'm admitting it!"
"Yes, yes, it's dangerous!"
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Everyone sent a message to Willing, expressing their gratitude.
Li Lingyou was naturally happy in his heart, and his joy was revealed, his brother had avoided danger for everyone, and his face naturally had brilliance.
"It's okay, it's okay, fellow brothers, you're welcome, it's not a big mistake to be cautious on the battlefield......"
Looking at Welling's harmless appearance of humans and animals, what came to Li Lingyou's mind were the first two cases of this guy rushing up like a tank.
But now Welling's performance still put him at ease.
It seems that there are other sergeants to do the work for him, and Welling is not a blind person who knows how to use all the resources around him.
Moments later, Iasi's verdict came back.
The Iasi command, for its part, affirmed the caution and results of the advance team, and concluded that it was a minefield activated by telegraph.
There is a high probability that the excitation device will collect data through those cameras, and the mine will be detonated when there are a certain number of people, and the data aggregation hub is most likely on the barracks that looks quite ordinary at the center point.
The commander of the enemy is very cunning, if only a small number of people enter, such a number of composite mines will never be detonated, the gains outweigh the losses, and only after enough people have entered, they will be detonated.
Iasi's suggestion was that the advance team would abandon the target base and reconnoiter other positions to the north, and then Iasi would send engineers and technicians with large vehicles to receive the coamings and mines of these bases.
The advance team immediately decided to follow the advice of the Iasi side and continue to reconnoiter the second target to the north.
"Please wait a few minutes!"
Welling's brow furrowed, and he scrutinized the 3D hologram generated by the system synthesizing all the data.
On the ground outside the barracks at the center point, there were four black-robed corpses, which caught his attention, and he sent a request to the people.
"I'm going to check on the corpses in the center, you don't have to follow, there are few people and there will be no explosion."
"Good! Please be careful! Li Kongqing responded.
Welling jumped into the air and rushed towards the center of the camp, his body flowing and light, every landing point was basically in the corner of those barracks, not a single step fell to the ground, and his figure did not appear in those surveillance cameras.
The palace guard behind him is like a shadow, and the black robe is flying, like a slender swallow, wearing flowers and butterflies, elegant and calm.
Outside the wall, a group of sergeants and warlocks were stunned.
What about the wise warlocks who said they were good? Why do you have such outstanding physical abilities?
A few geese fell, and Welling stood beside the four corpses.
The four bodies, not packed in body bags, were relatively neatly arranged, lying on their backs on the ground.
They were all wearing the traditional mage robes of the Xixuan Federation, which were somewhat similar in style to the warlock robes of the Empire, with slight differences in details, and it could be basically concluded that they were warlocks from the Xixuan.
In Welling's memory, the location of the corpse corresponds to the sonic image, and there is a composite mine underneath.
If it exploded, the four bodies would inevitably be debris.
With a movement of thought, several small streams of water washed away the dust and dirt on the faces of the four corpses, and all the facial features were revealed.
Three men and one woman, their faces were haggard and withered, but Welling could still tell their age, they were all about twenty years old.
The strangest thing is that the looks of these four people do not match Xi Xuan's facial features, and they all have black hair.
Feeling even more confused, Welling leaned down and opened the eyes of the dead one by one to see the color of their pupils.
Immediately, a golden wind between his fingers cut off a strand of hair from each corpse, and then looked at the palace.
Shougong looked at the corpses with disgust, and the hair cut from the corpses, and from the inside of the big body, I don't know where it was, he took out a few very small bags, and put the hairs separately.
"Childe, how do you know I have a bag?"
"Hehe, don't you have condiments, prepare some bags for different snacks or ingredients, there is a high probability that there is."
Shougong was a little speechless, and the son had no last resort.
Looking around, there was nothing else to find, and after giving a message to the palace, Welling jumped up, a few ups and downs, and returned to the outside of the apron again.
Immediately, Welling handed over a few bags to Li Kongqing and threw out the public information packet:
"The corpses of these four Xixuan Alliance troops, wearing warlock robes, are most likely Xixuan mages.
Their bodies were placed on top of composite mines, most of which were deliberately placed by the enemy as bait against us. β
Seeing that Li Kongqing kept nodding, he continued to analyze:
"The enemy judged that our side had been hit by a large spell and would inevitably be interested in their mage, so the corpses left here were all mages', and none of them belonged to other soldiers.
Of course, this is also the other party's conspiracy.
In fact, the biggest suspicion is that their biological characteristics are closer to my Daxia clan, and their pupils are also black, these hair samples, along with their image information I just collected, are submitted to the system, and let the empire do genetic testing and analysis. β
Li Kongqing and everyone's faces became solemn.
Perhaps this discovery is the biggest takeaway from this trip.
Why are there mages with Great Xia characteristics in the Western Xuan Federation?
And a young man of the same age?
Legend has it that there are various levels of transformed people in the Federation, are these people also cultivated transliterants after collecting the genes of the Great Xia ethnic group?
The amount of information covered here is a bit large, and everyone is a little uneasy.
The Xixuan Federation calculated the follow-up pursuit troops, and did not think about giving the empire a chance to investigate those corpses, thinking that these four decoy corpses would inevitably accompany the army that entered the walled area and were blown to pieces.
But they didn't expect that there was a warlock like Welling in the Imperial advance team.
The layout was discovered, and the bait naturally became a trophy.
"If it's so suspicious, why don't we take those four bodies with us, we have body bags on our vehicle anyway?"
Li Lingyou asked a stupid question.
Li Kongqing glanced at Li Lingyou and gave an explanation:
"Since it was placed directly above the mine, the other party did not plan for us to obtain these corpses, and there is a high probability that moving these corpses will detonate the mine!"
Li Lingyou was speechless, and when he stayed with these guys, he always felt that he didn't have a brain.
Welling nodded and agreed with Li Kongqing's statement:
"Yes, the detonation method given by the Iasi side is only a reference, and multiple detonation methods are the basic characteristics of composite mines."
In fact, there were many people in the team just now, and Li Lingyou's thoughts were the same, and after receiving the group messages from Li Kongqing and Wei Ling, they were secretly vigilant in their hearts, feeling that they were still too naΓ―ve.
Li Lingyou's mind was very jumpy, and he felt that his team had made a more valuable discovery, and the fifth brother and Wei Ling would be valued and rewarded, but he was more happy in his heart:
"I don't know if this minefield is only available in this one stronghold, if Wang Xixin and his team didn't encounter it, wouldn't it be a pity, hehe......"
He followed the group aboard the flying vehicle in a whispering joy.
After placing the hair samples in the corresponding device of the "Blue Bird" vehicle, the advance team set off again and headed north to investigate the second target.
The vehicle slowly lifted into the air, skimming lightly over the abandoned and malevolent Target Stronghold No. 1 and heading north.
The second target was originally a medium-sized stronghold, not far from the first stronghold, only a few dozen kilometers away.
A few minutes later, the vehicle saw target number two in the distant col.
Without waiting for everyone to take a closer look, the red alarm light in the cabin of the "Blue Bird" flashed into a piece, and the rapid alarm sound and the system synthesized sound:
"Alert! Missile lock attack! β
"Alert! Missile lock attack! β
Without waiting for the autopilot system to make evasive maneuvers and release jamming bombs, several warlocks had already spotted the incoming surface-to-air missiles at that moment.
Several of the Golden Spirit's spells had already been cast the moment they spotted their target.
"Rust!"
"Sluggish!"
"Heavy!"
Thankfully, it was a slower-flying surface-to-air missile that came at you, not a faster shell or anti-aircraft gun.
The trajectory of the missile that was attacked by multiple spells was significantly offset, and it instantly disintegrated and exploded in the air due to rust and high-speed flight status.
The vehicle also made a tumbling descent, landing in a nearby mountain clearing.
When landing, Li Kongqing did not forget to drop a "totem pole" and fell to the ground.
The hatch opened quickly, and everyone quickly got out of the vehicle, scattered and hidden, and formed a formation to guard against the enemy's attack.
With the "totem pole" as the battlefield information support system, the sergeants scattered around can contact each other and lose packets, and the commander can also dispatch the location of personnel and cooperate with each other in a timely manner.
When jumping out of the device, Li Kongqing was full of resentment:
Oops, the number of preparations for "Totem Pole" and "Di Ting" is seriously insufficient, and there are still a few points at most to prepare.
It seems that he has not yet seen the edge of Paterbon, and is about to run blindly and naked.
Soon, the advance team members all found their own positions and were in a state of concealed defense.
The expected artillery fire did not come, and no large armored vehicles of the Federation appeared.
It seems that the enemy in this stronghold is ready to defend with the stronghold, and will not take the initiative to come out against the enemy.
Li Kongqing was entangled.
The most secure disposition is to call the Imperial Iasi long-range strike, anyway, the general coordinate location is already there, and the other side still has anti-aircraft missiles, I can't tell if there are other heavy firepower, and it has met the conditions for calling for support.
But the problem is that remote support is called, and if there are many enemies in the stronghold and the firepower is heavy, this will not affect the team's martial arts value.
But if there are few enemies in the stronghold, and there is no heavy firepower, then the results of the squad will not be worth the cost of those long-range strikes.
"Brother Welling, what do you say, it seems that the enemy will not take the initiative to come out, let's push over?"
Li Lingyou privately lost the bag to Welling.