Chapter XVII: The Battle of the Rassi Heights, Special Operations Division
4,000 km outside Port Will, Lassi Heights.
In the middle of the night, the lights still flickered on the heights of Lassi, and shells streaked across the sky and landed near the trenches.
A kilometer after the front line.
A moan and a howl came.
The chaotic and tragic scene in the tent was very uncomfortable for Anne, the ground was littered with wounded soldiers, patients lying on their backs, filth and garbage all over the floor, and rotting dead dogs.
The wounded were dressed in bloodstained tattered clothes and ate food that had been boiled in a cauldron and had lost its original taste.
At night, rats are running around in the tent, bed bugs and lice are infested, this is the hell that devours all life, rats eat rotten meat, and soldiers are here to meet the end of life in pain.
The strongest legion in the Empire, the First Legion of the Imperial Blade has a total strength of 100,000.
But the colony gathered 300,000 troops.
Among them were nearly 100,000 Forrest volunteers.
The formidable Imperial First Army was bled in the Lassi Heights, and the army of 100,000 was reduced to 80,000, if not the elite, it would have collapsed long ago.
Death is not terrible, what is terrible is that after being injured, you can only meet death.
The army was unable to open the situation for a long time, the baggage was insufficient, and the lack of medicine made the wounded constantly sick.
It's like a meat grinder, strangled with countless lives, and the Lassi Heights at night is more like the tomb of an empire.
Late at night is the time when a person's soul is the most fragile, and it is also the time when the craziest miss.
Anne looked at the night sky, "Charles, are you okay?"
......
Port Will.
May 3rd.
The fog is a little hazy and a little cold.
Early in the morning, Charles arrives in front of the police station building (the world police station with supernatural power will be born early), which is located in the middle-class Kerr district.
In view of the current tense situation, all the police were replaced with wounded soldiers of the Empire, equipped with horses, and all colonial police officers were dismissed.
Walking towards the building painted in Mickey, admiring the special carvings, Charles easily walked into the antechamber and walked to the office on the highest floor, holding the sheriff's police badge in his hand.
There is a sign for the Special Operations Division.
There was a knock on the door, and there was a panic of cleaning and cleaning inside the door, and Charles stood alone in the empty hallway.
The inexplicable words are engraved at the door, dust to dust, earth to earth, transcendent to extraordinary, Caesar to Caesar!
After a few minutes, the door opened, and a small face came into view, with yellow curly hair messy, "Sir, who are you?"
"I'm Charr, the Transcendent sent by the Empire, this is my police card, is this a special operation?"
"Well, yes."
"Governor Cohen introduced me."
"Your strength?"
Charles thought for a moment.
"Tier 4 profession. (Note 1)
"It seems that things are not easy in Port Will. ”
The yellow-haired girl shook her head helplessly and groaned.
"Hello, I'm Kelly, the rest of the transcendents are on the front line, and according to your strength, you have second-level permissions, and you have the right to view the mission.
Walking into the room, it was actually covered with strange grain steel plates, and countless pale white fine lines were connected to the ceiling along the wall.
The thickness of the windows is amazing, and you can't get out of this place even if there is a fire!
The room is decorated with a rudder, which reminds me that this is a harbor and it is normal to have a maritime culture.
The teacups and objects on the table are either glowing with brilliance or simple and exquisite, as if there is an illusion that the world of ordinary people is invisibly separated!
Some of them lose their minds for a short time, because the sense of separation will eventually be extremely acute social contradictions and endless disasters!
His eyes moved to the right, looking at the stack of tall files, and he felt very helpless.
"In other words, our Special Operations Division is an empty shelf. ”
"You can't say that, but it's true. ”
Charles patted his head.
"What's the task now?"
"Our mission this time is to find a batch of arms that are going to be smuggled. ”
"It's a lot of trouble. ”
"So where are we going first?"
"We found ...... , well, one of the subordinates of the head of the colony, because he has been smuggling too many arms lately. ”
Without much explanation, Kelly picked up an archive book, quickly flipped to one of the pages, pointed to a list of shipments recorded on it, and handed it to Charles.
Of all the cargo ships, only one cargo ship always arrives at night...... , and it's also the time when I leave, taking the small river, every few days.
The most bizarre thing is that it docks at a small port close to the canal, which is particularly close to the slums, as if it is going to be transported directly to the slums of the restricted area.
The army only patrolled the city and did not scrutinize the small docks, and the slums were places ...... the governor's palace could not manage.
"These people are probably secretly transporting contraband such as guns and ammunition, and the small port is run by the city council. ”
"With the status of these city councils, what contraband needs to be transported so secretly? These people are all famous local capitalists and aristocrats, all members of the city council, and now they are confined to their homes, and they are not allowed to go out, we can start with the captain. ”
"What to do now", "You need to know the information first." ”
"It's better to go to the slums and explore. ”
Charles covered his head in pain, "Then what are you doing?"
"I'll have to keep putting together the information. ”
Charles was no longer able to complain, "The civilians are so good, they don't have to fight." ”
Time: 8 a.m.
The weather was fine.
Place.
In the small port of the Canal in Port Will, a dilapidated transport ship turns through the small narrow harbor and makes an eerie journey towards the nearby wetland jungle.
The odd thing is that the ship seems to block everyone's sensory vision, and no one who is busy in the harbor notices it.
Slowly approaching the wetlands, the dilapidated transport ship is an eccentric ship with the emblem of the former mayor of the Shavinville family.
After hastily lowering a few dinghys, the roar of the engines sounded again, and the boats disappeared at the end of the canal in black smoke.
Several figures in gray hoods flashed, they looked around vigilantly, the outline of their swords faintly visible under their bulging robes, and their leather boots stepped on the cold mud and walked onto the reed field.
Move the boxes on their dinghy one by one to the reeds. Place the chest in a hidden hole and drop a red stone...... , flashing with an eerie light.
Ten minutes later, another group of hooded figures arrived, loaded them into carriages, and hurried back to the slums.
Note 1: At the Doge's Palace, the breath is around the fifth level, but the charr is only the fourth level, and he is not proficient.
Note 2: Foreshadowing, which will be explained later.