"Speaker, as a member of the Parliament, I have an obligation to remind you. What you're doing is dragging the council into hell!" Shuya shook her head, "I don't want to admit it, but at this time, I found out that Zero was right. This war must end, and the internal friction between humanity is already too serious. ”

Oglock stared at her coldly, and after a long time, he walked over to his desk and rang the silver bell. The door opened, and the old butler entered. Looking at Oglok and looking at Xiuya, the butler lowered his head and sighed softly.

"Take Major General Xiuya to Prison No. 1, no one is allowed to release her without my approval!" Oglok said in a deep voice, "You give me a good reflection there!"

No restrictions were imposed, not even handcuffs were put on Xiuya. However, the order was given by Oglok, and no one dared to disobey it, including Xiuya herself. So she silently followed behind the butler and left, and in the corridor outside the study, the speaker's new huan looked at Xiuya with a mocking expression and said: "Look, isn't this the majestic Major General Xiuya just now? Why did you turn into a mourning dog as soon as you turned around? Go to the prison and stay well, or let me send a few fierce men to serve the major general well?"

Xiuya didn't even have the strength to return her respect, so she just followed the butler away in silence. After they left, the woman's smug laughter rang out in the corridor. Oglok's gentle voice rang out in the study: "Houston, can you come in?"

The woman hurried into the study, and Oglock smiled, reaching out and gently sliding across her face: "You are so beautiful, Houston ......"

"My beauty blooms only for you...... "The woman said charmingly.

"Unfortunately, you're just as stupid. Oglock suddenly pressed her cheek and pulled it back hard, turning the woman's face behind her back!

Horror and confusion froze on Houston's face at the same time, and after pushing her body to the ground, Oglok picked up the handkerchief next to him and wiped his hands: "My daughter, how can you be a bed tool like you who is qualified to teach a lesson? ”

Finally, he threw the handkerchief onto the corpse. Ogllock strode out of the study.

It's another morning.

General Morgan woke up in the morning light from the window, washed up and had breakfast, and then changed into a modest outfit and prepared to go out. Not long ago, Phoenix was under a great threat, and the army led by Douglas, the leader of Valhalla, was far away from Phoenix for a time, and the confrontation was finally over. But after the last experience, the Dark Council did not dare to take it lightly.

Phoenix has become an important supply point for the front line of the council army, and the supplies brought from the council are hoarded in the city and supplied to the front line as needed. If Phoenix is destroyed, it will cause heavy losses to the troops fighting on the front line. Therefore, the front-line commander Hart was personally ordered to reappoint General Morgan, the former master who was extremely familiar with everything in Phoenix.

Along with it, some of the old men in the military in Phoenix City have also been reappointed. They were involved in the defense of the city, which refreshed General Morgan, who had been idle for more than a year. What's more, Rhine, who cooperated with him, was a good and gentle young man, and although he was the main defense of Phoenix, he took care of General Morgan's face on many occasions, which made the general feel happy, and he didn't care about the tough methods of the Augustus family before.

Walking out of the mansion, a car had been waiting for a long time, General Morgan got into the car, and the driver drove the car to the army command post in Phoenix.

Phoenix was built in the middle of an old dam, which of course is now waterlogged, and the towering levee is a natural wall. The original Phoenix City had already placed enough firepower points on the city walls, and after the last incident, the parliamentary army brought in heavy artillery and ground-to-surface missile launch systems, which forcibly raised the defense force of Phoenix City by several levels.

The only downside was the number of soldiers, and the council was unable to put too many soldiers on the Phoenix side due to the fact that the fighting on the front lines was holding them back. Under Rhine's command, there was only one squadron of blood cavalry and two infantry battalions, totaling more than 1,000 people. During the time General Morgan took office, the officers and soldiers of the original Phoenix were activated, and the militia regiment that had recently been recruited and formed brought to the total strength of Phoenix now numbered 3,000.

This amount was placed in the past, not to mention a Phoenix, even to protect the attached wilderness base. What's more, there is also a private army of the Augustus family, the "Fallen Angel", stationed in the army, and these twenty or so capable people have the strength of the sixth order, and the leader is a master of the eighth order. If Phoenix had this kind of strength before, it would have annexed all the neighboring cities.

As for now, this number of troops and capable people is still thin. Fortunately, nothing like this has happened since the last incident, but you can't always pin your hopes on the enemy, so between the front line and Phoenix, Hart made another arrangement.

Two battalions of infantry were stationed on the road to Phoenix, annihilating them in one fell swoop if they encountered a small force, and there was also time to raise the alarm in the event of a large army to prepare Hart and Phoenix.

But even so, now there are obviously many more soldiers on the walls of Phoenix City than usual, day and night.

Due to the lack of troops, the soldiers of the parliamentary army and Phoenix itself were mixed in formation, which was conducive to the commander's scheduling. However, contradictions are inevitable in such an arrangement. It stemmed from friction between two different systems, with the council's armies looking down on these armies that weren't much stronger than the wilderness outcasts, and the soldiers of Phoenix even less liking these powerful outsiders.

Although they generally obey the orders of their superiors, in private, there are invisible boundaries between the two soldiers, which makes it impossible to cooperate in many links. Just like now, he was also in charge of the daytime shift, but the soldiers on both sides of the council and Phoenix were on one side, which seemed a little out of place.

Several Phoenix soldiers were hiding in hidden corners and smoking cigarettes, and one of the bearded men looked in the direction of the council soldiers and said, "When are those pretentious bastards leaving!"

"Don't think about Markey, as long as the war doesn't end, they'll stay here. No, or the war is over they will not go either. In short, that's something that only big people should worry about. A diminutive soldier shook his head.

"Nar is right, we just need to make money, and as for other things, it's not our turn to worry about it. ”

The bearded Markey shook his head, unintentionally looking at the sky outside the city: "Hey, what is that?"

The two colleagues followed Markey's gaze, and in the distance in the wilderness, something black was advancing in this direction.

"It's clouds, isn't it?" said the soldier named Nar.

Markey shook his head and said, "No way, the clouds can't move that fast." Telescopes, which of you can see telescopes?"

"I have. Nar quickly took out the tactical telescope and looked at it, and suddenly gasped: "Monster, it's a monster!"

"What monster?"

"Flying monsters. Nar handed the telescope to Markey.

The bearded man looked equally startled. In the telescope he saw some humanoid beings with bat wings, their pale bodies with a prismatic hedron embedded in their chests. These monsters seemed to be carrying something in their hands, and they were approaching quickly. Suddenly, the vision darkened, and then a faint light flashed. Markey suddenly felt weak, and he faintly heard the shouts of his colleagues behind him.

But what they were shouting, Markey couldn't hear clearly.

Of course, he couldn't hear clearly, and no matter whose head was suddenly cut off, he couldn't keep his hearing. Before the eyes of the two soldiers of Nar, a terrifying creature descended from the sky. It had a humanoid body, a bat-like head, and was covered in fine black scales from beneath which black flames erupted like mist. The monster held a short knife condensed from the dim flames in both hands, one of which had sliced Markey's head open like cheese.

Then the sword flashed again, and Nar and the other soldier remained stiff, their heads flying high. After easily killing the three with the Dusky Blade, the Mobirek rose into the air, and the Dusky Blade was reduced to pitch-black flames, and as Mobirek folded his hands, the black flames formed a fireball in the palm of his hand. Throwing the fireball at the city wall, the fireball exploded, turning into a black curtain of fire that shrouded within thirty meters.

In the curtain of fire, whether it is people, concrete walls or machine guns and heavy artillery, all of them quietly melt!

When they heard the explosions and sirens, Rhein and Morgan, who rushed out of the command post, looked up and saw that above the embankment wall in the distance, fireballs were constantly exploding, and then the high-temperature fire curtain of molten gold and fossils was spread, and everything was included in the list of melted and burned.

A total of six Mobile Lakes rushed to the walls of Phoenix City in a thunderous manner, and they swooped down from above, in an age when there were no aerial units. The soldiers on the wall apparently didn't pay much attention to the sky, so they gave Mobirek a quick shot, and they basically attacked the fire points on the wall. As one fire point after another was knocked out, a large number of Drake arrived. The Grey Batmen flew over the walls that had been caught in flames and flew straight into Phoenix, then threw something at an area like the barracks ammunition depot in Phoenix.

That's a shell from heavy artillery!

It's just that these powerful shells are not fired by a turret, but instead transported and thrown by Drake, and this group of Drake is like bombers, where they fly, the explosion appears. The continuous explosions set off a sea of fire, and the barracks and ammunition depot in Phoenix City were sunk into the flames, and Rhine's face was distorted, and General Morgan was dumbfounded.

After Drake's few trips around Phoenix, at least a third of the area had been reduced to flames and ruins. Sporadic counterattacks were going on across the city, and the attack of the flying creatures came so suddenly that the Phoenix army didn't have time to react in time. By the time they began to fight back, Drake had already begun to retreat, while the high-ranking Mobirek threw Dusk Meltfire to intercept his pursuers and further expand the damage.

When Rhine drove frantically to the city wall, there was a sudden sound of continuous tremors. I saw that cracks appeared in the embankment wall on the left side of the city gate, and as the cracks intensified, the wall ash and gray-white mud began to pour down from the cracks. At the end, with a loud bang, a three-meter-long and wide gap was knocked out of the embankment wall!

Sharp ashes flew, and in the misty dust and smoke, a tall figure suddenly squeezed in. When it appeared in Rhine's eyes, even the Ninth Knight's pupils dilated. It was a giant, almost four meters tall, and it could only squeeze its head through the gap, and its whole body was draped in heavy red armor, and the sharp spikes that extended from the armor made people feel faintly painful.

The golden lines on his body are shining little by little, and the energy crystals embedded in his body are even more radiant. Dragging the monstrous Twin Moon Giant Axe, the momentum exuded from the giant's body told Rhine that this guy had tenth-order strength! When another giant dragged the equally huge war hammer in, Rhine's back began to chill. By the time the five giants appeared under the walls, Rhine's eyes were filled with despair.

Strangely, these powerful giants did not rush to attack, even if Rhine's back was already full of soldiers and fallen angels, the giants did not make any moves. It seems that in their eyes, these people, including Rhine, are not worth mentioning.

Suddenly, the giants spread out on either side, and beyond the gap in the wall they had exposed, a figure entered. When the man walked into Phoenix, the five giants fell to their knees on one knee on either side, their heads bowed, and they paid their most thorough respects to the comer.

"It's you......" Rhine cried out as he saw the appearance of the person who came.

"It's me. Zero said calmly, striding towards Rhine. The giants behind him stood up at the same time, closing towards Zero and lining up. Outside the gap, a dark blue giant with a little bit of size and strength came in, but their numbers made Rhine fall into an ice cellar.

Dozens of dark blue giants silently gathered behind Zero like a mechanical fester, forming a terrifying momentum that made Rhine and the soldiers behind him tremble. Rhine's gaze finally fell on Zero, and he said, "I thought you were on a neutral side. ”

"It was, but I changed my mind because your Speaker gave me an answer that I had to do it. Zero said in a deep voice: "Then do you choose to surrender, or do you decide to fight to the death?"

"Do I have a choice?" Rhine smiled wryly, "You can kill me, but can you spare my people." You can unload their equipment and drive them out of the city. ”

"I won't kill you, but again, I won't let these soldiers go. Zero said.

Rhine said, "What are you going to do with them?"

"First of all, you and those who are capable must be imprisoned. I'll let these big guys watch over you, and if you're smart enough, don't try to run away. As for these soldiers, I don't want to send more troops to your brother in vain, so they must stay. See, I have work arrangements for them. ”

Rhine shook his head and said, "Even if you take Phoenix, Hart will come over soon." ”

"He's going to fight, so the first thing he has to kill is these soldiers. I'll give them the necessary weapons then, so that Hart might hesitate before giving the order. Zero said coldly.

"I can't believe that such an order came from your mouth. Most of the comments I see about you are words related to moderation. It turns out that you also have a ruthless side. ”

Zero said calmly: "Your Excellency Rhine, this is a war, not a game. I think every manager, including your brother Hart, will understand. Only if there are conditions, we must protect the lives of our troops to the greatest extent, even if we have to bear some moral stains. Moreover, there is never justice in war, and when I decided to go to war, I was ready to bear the sin and blood. ”

"Obviously, you're not ready for that. ”

Zero took a step back and said, "Then, please give the order." ”

Rhine nodded, took a deep breath, and turned to the people behind him: "Guys, this is an unequal battle. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, in the name of the Supreme Commander of Phoenix, I hereby order you to unload your equipment on the spot...... We surrender!"

At the beginning, the soldiers of Phoenix and the Council were still struggling, after all, the status of surrender was not pleasant. But when the Twilight army pressed down from the other side of the wilderness, they were wise enough to surrender. Under the surprise attack of two high-level xenomorphs, Zero took down Phoenix City with lightning speed, and then the army of Dawning City took over the defense of the city.

Originally, all the soldiers in Phoenix City were disarmed and temporarily placed under centralized supervision. When Zero saw General Morgan, and saw Zero again, who was still a mercenary back then, but now he is the overlord of one side, Morgan deeply felt that he was old. The two talked secretly in the City Lord's Mansion for a morning, and after Zero left, Morgan was in charge of pacifying the residents of Phoenix.

Morgan was glad that Zero had made it clear that he wasn't going to drag the residents of Phoenix down. As long as they keep to themselves, Phoenix will basically not suffer much loss.

After leaving the City Lord's Mansion, Zero went to prison again. The prison in Phoenix City is not very large, so it seems a little crowded to squeeze in twenty or thirty capable people such as Rhein now. The vicinity of the prison had become the home of Drake and the Ogmar giants, and even if Rhine tried to escape, it would have been impossible for them to do so. Therefore, they are not limited by any ability, and Rhine also sees Zero's strength, so he has no idea of escaping from prison at all.

Rhine was assigned to a cell alone, and when Zero arrived, he was lying in bed in a daze. Zero opened the unlocked cell and walked in, and Rhine said, "You may not believe it, but I'm feeling fine right now." It's ironic to become a prisoner and not have to think about anything. ”