The creaking of the tracks mixed with the chirping of cicadas on the roadside, but the team returning from victory was deathly silent.
Not long ago, they cooperated with infantry in wheeled armored vehicles to raid a village at the foot of a mountain.
There are only a few decent houses in the whole village, and the only valuable things are the diesel generators and tractors bought from the Weiland people.
It’s a shame that the brothers in the reconnaissance team were able to find this ghost place.
There is no decent road from Miljans County to this village.
Of course, what is even more hateful are those Borneo soldiers.
Those guys left the stolen equipment and supplies here, and even encouraged the villagers to attack them. They could only open fire on the villagers...
At least thinking this way can give them some comfort.
Carver still remembers that on the way to the battlefield, the gunner Valk in the team kept clamoring to break his "111" record. The correspondent Jesden and the loader Joe even debated which bar in Saipan Harbor had the best girl.
Liang Zheng's face is red and her neck is thick.
But now, Valk seemed to be mute and didn't say a word, not to mention how many people he had killed.
Jasden and Joe were still chatting, but the blunt topic was so awkward that people couldn't help but clench their toes.
In the end, only his commander, Buck, remained silent as always, always doing what needed to be done and saying what needed to be said.
Carver suddenly recalled that it seemed to be the same when he was in Evernight Harbor.
Everything seems to have changed, but nothing seems to have changed...
For a moment, Carver suddenly had an idea that he had never had before.
It would have been nice if he had not picked up the recruitment flyer at that time, but walked two more steps to the familiar farmer's market and used the scholarship money he saved to buy a tractor and drive it home.
The one I have at home happens to be worn out.
His father always talked about getting a new one. He originally planned to give the old man a surprise, but like most people in Wilante, he took the flyer to the recruitment point and shouted to sit in for the marshal.
Into the tank.
However, after walking onto the battlefield in a daze, he discovered that what he saw and heard was completely different from what he imagined...
As he thought about it, he unconsciously became distracted.
At this moment, a generous hand grasped his shoulder.
"Watch the road."
The commander's voice suddenly woke up Carver from his distraction. He stepped on the rudder and drove the tank back to the blurry road, finally not driving one of the tracks into the ditch.
In order to ease the stiff atmosphere in the carriage, Joe smiled at him.
"Can you do it? Why don't you let Valk drive it instead?"
"Okay." Carver smiled awkwardly, knowing exactly what he meant.
However, Valk, who was sitting not far from the back of his head, seemed not to hear and just sat there in silence.
The atmosphere became cold again.
A group of people were silent.
Carver thought he would spend the rest of the journey in this silent atmosphere, but he didn't expect a harsh and short buzz to suddenly break into his eardrums.
"call out--!"
The flickering flames were like daggers tearing through the jungle, dragging a narrow column of white smoke towards the wheeled armored vehicle driving not far in front of them.
Sparks from the explosion flew everywhere, followed by black smoke rising from the hood of the armored vehicle.
The rear door of the wheeled armored vehicle suddenly opened, and soldiers wearing exoskeletons quickly jumped out of the vehicle carrying rifles.
At the same time, bursts of gunfire came from the forest, and the tracers shot like raindrops towards the Weirant team using the armored vehicle as a cover.
"It's the Iron Fist! Damn it, our rocket launcher!" Carver yelled and instinctively pulled the handbrake.
The carriage was in chaos. Loader Joe quickly stuffed high-explosive bombs into the gun barrel, while correspondent Jesden yelled at the radio, trying to contact his teammates in front.
The encounter broke out in an instant, and everyone entered a fighting state almost instantly!
"It's the guerrillas!"
"Ten o'clock!"
"fire!!"
Valk's movements were still as quick as before.
That steady and hard blow burst out of his chest as he roared, exploding into a cloud of sparks in the woods not far away.
Without stopping, he fired a high-explosive round, then quickly adjusted the muzzle and fired at the woods with the coaxial machine gun on the tank.
In conjunction with the wheeled armored vehicle whose engine broke down, the two vehicles unleashed a hail of bullets that opened a net of death among the dense woods!
The gunfire from the Borneos died down for a while, as if they had suffered a lot of casualties.
However, soon, the gunshots that had taken a break resumed again, and they were even more fierce than before.
Not long after, a rocket came out of the jungle and hit under the turret of the armored vehicle.
The metal jet penetrated the bulletproof lining and hit the ammunition rack hidden behind the armor without any bias!
"boom--!"
The flames of the explosion blew off the armored vehicle's turret, followed by a crackling explosion.
Unprepared, half of the ten-man team that used the armored vehicle as a bunker was knocked down by the explosive ammunition. The remaining few people looked embarrassed and could only die under the machine gun fire.
Drilling in the woods.
"Damn it! We have to get out of here quickly!" Buck, with a sullen face, punched the car hard.
"These gangs of Paros are here to take revenge..." Correspondent Joe was so frightened that his lips turned white and he was trembling.
The loader, Jesden, was also confused. While stuffing shells into the barrel, he kept cursing "fuck" in his mouth.
"Why is it at this time?! Why didn't they come earlier!"
There were no mission aircraft nearby, and they had no air support they could call.
Even if air force brothers make an emergency takeoff from the airport in Saifan Port, by the time they arrive, it will be too late.
"Carver! Drive quickly! Wait, what the hell are you doing!"
"The track is broken! I'll go down and fix it! Cover me!"
"No! You stay in the car and let Joe go -"
Captain Buck roared, but it was too late to stop him.
Carver, who was full of enthusiasm, had already opened the hatch above the cockpit and got directly outside.
It might be a better choice to let the correspondent out, and it would be safer to climb out from under the carriage, but he didn't know why he did it.
Bullets were flying overhead, but he seemed not to hear them.
The surge of adrenaline had numbed his sense of pain and fear of death.
war--
This is war!
Perhaps it was the Marshal's blessing that none of the bullets flying in the sky landed on him.
He struggled to tear off the tool box hanging on the back of the tank, trying not to care about the machine gun and the roaring barrel above his head. He rolled sideways and lay in front of the track, trying to remove the broken segments and replace them.
new.
However, at this moment, his good luck seemed to have run out. An armor-piercing round hit the side armor of the tank, not even two meters away from him!
The deafening explosion almost shattered his eardrums, and the hot shock wave almost knocked him unconscious.
Fortunately it was an armor-piercing bullet!
If it had been high-explosive or something else, he might have returned to Triumph City.
"Oh shit--!"
Carver took a deep breath as he felt a heartbreaking pain in his calf.
He did not dare to look at the wound. He struggled to get up from the ground, picked up the fallen segments, and reconnected the broken tracks almost with muscle memory.
With his unremitting efforts, the tank finally miraculously started moving again.
At this moment, Borneo soldiers carrying rifles rushed out of the jungle.
"Ahhh!"
"Kill!!"
They grabbed assault rifles and opened fire to attract the firepower of the tanks while charging forward desperately. Amidst the chaotic gunfire, one of them even held up a sparking explosive package and roared like a madman.
Pounced up.
Carver almost instinctively pulled out the gun from his waist and pulled the trigger at the man.
The marksmanship learned in the military academy came in handy.
A few banging gunshots were even more effective than the coaxial machine gun that fired suddenly, shooting the guy holding the explosive bag to the ground.
The deafening explosion sounded again, and the spreading shock wave directly hit his chest. Carver groaned and fainted completely.
In a daze, he seemed to have auditory hallucinations and heard the quarrels among his friends in the carriage.
"We have to go!"
"Carver's still out there!"
"That's too late!"
"..."
Maybe they didn't quarrel at all, but it would make him feel better to think so.
As if it thought it couldn't save him, the tank sped forward.
It is a light tank after all.
Even if the road conditions in this area are quite bad, running on two legs is much faster...
In a daze, Carver felt his collar being grabbed.
A group of people surrounded him and picked him out of a puddle of mud.
A man with a face covered in blood took out a dagger, probably trying to dig out his heart alive, but before he could do it, he was stopped by another Borneo soldier.
"Enough, enough people have died."
The man with his face covered in blood roared loudly at the officer-looking man.
"But he killed my brother! My biological brother! And that village! How to settle this account!"
Carver gasped and looked at the two of them, then glanced at the pairs of hateful eyes around him, his face full of horror.
But the officer's next words made him feel as warm as a spring breeze.
"They are also victims, and we are not the only survivors who suffer."
Later, the officer said something else and recited some incantation, which actually calmed down the man who was covered in blood and looked like a demon.
Carver watched him walk up to him, his Adam's apple moving up and down, and wanted to say thank you, but couldn't.
The man spoke first.
"your name."
"...Carver."
"My name is Amin." Amin looked at him and straightened his collar, "Carver, you are captured."
This man's conversation was completely unlike that of a native of Borneo. For a moment, Carver actually had the illusion that he had traveled back to Evernight Harbor.
"I surrender."
When he said these words, there was no trace of guilt in his heart, and he even felt remorse and apology.
He thought of the villagers he killed. Although he did not pull the trigger himself, he was also sitting in the car at that time.
He thought again of the young man carrying the explosive bag. Although he would be the one who died if he didn't shoot, he still couldn't help but regret it...
"We accept your surrender." Looking at Carver who looked ashamed, Amin smiled kindly and continued in a gentle tone, "We also hope you will cooperate with us."
…
Gray Wolf Army Command Headquarters.
Gopal, the commander-in-chief of the Gray Wolf Army who was pacing back and forth in front of the map, rarely lost his temper and cursed.
"This bastard! He really forgot his last name!"
"Operation North Wind" was a resounding victory, even far exceeding initial expectations, but he was not happy at all.
Because just now he received news that a hundred thousand troops were advancing towards Snake State.
Such a ferocious offensive was common on the northern front, but it was unprecedented on the southern front.
Unlike Gopal, Savar stood in the command tent with a calm expression.
When Gopal finally calmed down a little, he spoke slowly.
"Mr. Zaid said that with the vengeful character of the people of Weiland, they will definitely come back with revenge. But don't worry too much, our enemies are not monolithic."
Gopal's heart moved, he stopped and looked at Zaid's follower.
"Then if we have a phone call with the informant at this time, let the power within the Southern Army's logistics system operate a little..."
Savoie didn't wait for him to finish, and interrupted his unrealistic thoughts with a slight cough.
"No, this operation approved by General Gulion is precisely to take this opportunity to knock on the logistics system of the Southern Army. We have offended some informants by not following common sense. If we ask them for help for this kind of thing, it will only break the relationship.
The hidden thread we finally developed."
Gopal said calmly.
"What should we do?"
Sava: "Endure."
Hearing this unexpected answer, Gopal's brow twitched sharply.
"Then what if they break into Snake State?"
Sava smiled slightly.
"That's just right. Shah Rukh is always stumbling behind our backs. He wants to use us as cannon fodder and exploit us. We just use our strength to make these 100,000 people act like a million people!"
"If their momentum is not enough, we will build momentum for them! If Shah Rukh doesn't want to use his own bodyguards to fill the line, then he has to untie the rope around our necks and give us guns! Give us food! Then give them to us.
!”
As for occupying Snake State, that's not the case.
Considering strategic needs, Gulion is unlikely to spread his chips to the south where the threat is minimal.
I completely offended my own logistics system, risking the outcome of the entire chess game to get a tasteless piece of chicken rib...
As long as General Gulion was a normal person, it would be impossible for him to do this.
In other words, Grove is still dreaming that he can turn the tide with his own cleverness and make Snake State another focus of the entire battle.
Really smart people follow the trend, and those who are clever will only be crushed to death by the general trend.
A hint of surprise appeared in Gopal's eyes, and he stared at Savar intently.
"...This was all Zaid's idea?"
Sava smiled faintly, but did not answer directly.
"Except for General Grove's fake show, which was beyond his expectation, the rest were all deployed by him personally. Commander Absek once gave Mr. two difficult problems, and now these two almost impossible problems have been solved.
solved."
Gopal laughed heartily after hearing this.
"Interesting, hahaha, so damn interesting."
After a while, he seemed to have laughed enough, and stared at Sava relaxedly and continued.
"What about this Grove? Although this guy is my subordinate, his disobedience to orders is a big problem. I'm afraid he will do bad things again in the future. If you want to deal with him, just go ahead and do it without taking my opinion into account. Even
It’s fine for me to do it.”
"General Grove is not a bad person in nature, he just takes honor more seriously. Why should we deal with such a good person? Besides, the plan he brought also has your signature and your husband's signature. Why should we deal with him?"
It’s not just a slap in our own face, it’s also a slap in the face of the alliance.”
Savar glanced at Gopal thoughtfully with a strange expression and imitated Zaid's tone of voice.
"A good job is rewarded, and it is rewarded heavily!"
…
"...Recently, according to a call back from our reporter stationed in Tiandu, Borneo, the Borneo Southern Front launched a surprise attack on the Southern Army Corps troops stationed in the Langzhou area in the early morning of September 11."
"This operation is codenamed 'Operation North Wind'. The commander is General Grove, the No. 2 figure in the Gray Wolf Army. The participating troops are led by the Borneo 1.01 millionth team, with a total of more than 90,000 people. The relevant combat units are in this operation
A large amount of light equipment and human transportation were invested in the operation, and they were broken into pieces and penetrated into the area actually controlled by the Southern Army to a depth of nearly 100 kilometers."
"According to an interview with General Grove himself by the Golden Gallen Port Branch of the "Daily Survivor", this operation can be called a complete victory. The Southern Front that launched the offensive achieved an impressive record of annihilating more than 30,000 enemies with only 2,000 casualties.
! In addition, this operation destroyed more than 50 logistics hubs, 17 production facilities, seized nearly 100,000 pieces of light weapons, nearly one million ammunition, 20 field guns and more than 200 heavy machine guns, etc."
"According to public information from the relevant media in West Sail Port, this operation resulted in 500 Wilantes and 3,117 servant soldiers casualties. Although the Southern Army lost as much as 90 million dinars in military supplies during this operation, it suffered
The destroyed stations and production facilities have been basically restored to use after a week of preparations. In addition, due to the use of drone units and new artillery, the Southern Borneo Front also suffered nearly 10,000 casualties."
"Due to the large discrepancy between the casualties and battle damage figures between the two sides, this station will only state the statements of both sides."
"In addition, the Absak authorities highly praised this operation and strongly condemned the brutal behavior of the Southern Army in Snake State and the large number of civilian casualties caused during the counterattack. The relevant spokesperson of the Southern Army expressed the hope that the guerrillas would not
Using civilians as shields, Vaillant soldiers on the front lines will protect the alliance between the Legion and the Empire at all costs, and eradicate all rebels at all costs."
"Currently, Shah Rukh, a powerful figure in southern Borneo Province who is at the forefront of the controversy, has not expressed his position on this operation. However, according to our reporter's understanding, this operation has indeed been approved by Shah Rukh himself and the top brass of the Gray Wolf Army.
"
"Previously, Shah Rukh's action of standing still in the face of the fall of Lang State has been controversial in all walks of life in Borneo Province. There are even rumors that Shah Rukh's men have been colluding with the internal forces of the Southern Army. But now this powerful attack,
To some extent, it can be regarded as a response to many rumors."
"Relevant analysts at Golden Gallen Port claimed that Operation North Wind, as the first large-scale offensive under Shah Rukh, may become a turning point in the current stalemate. However, some analysts said that this operation is not as good as it is in terms of scale or results.
It is difficult for this operation to have a substantial impact on the strategic deployment of the Southern Army unless Shah Rukh invests more money."
"After the incident, the Southern Army quickly dispatched the 60,610,000 troops and more than 100,000 servants to the southern part of Langzhou, and deployed a large-scale military operation code-named 'Falling Leaves'. This seemed to be an attack on the 'North Wind'
Respond."
"In addition, according to sources in Sailsport, a bust of General Grove was added to the newly issued playing cards in the Borneo theater of the Southern Army, and a bounty of 100,000 dinars was marked."
"Currently, the highest bounty on poker cards in this series is still Esher, and the Southern Legion's bounty on him has been increased to 5 million dinars..."
"In addition, we would like to remind you again that it is illegal for any Alliance citizen to participate as a mercenary in a war not authorized by the Alliance authorities. Relevant practitioners should accept orders through formal channels and remember not to take risks..."
"Shuguang City News reports for you!"
In the tavern in Weifu City, the TV hanging on the ceiling of the bar is showing news from Shuguang City TV Station.
Speaking of which, Shuguang City TV Station has been around for some time.
I remember that when Boulder City was undergoing great changes, it was this TV station and Dawn City's Survivor Daily that tracked and reported on the situation in the city. Now, this TV station's vision has expanded to places thousands of kilometers away.
Just like Alliance cable.
Sitting next to the bar, the mercenary wearing a mechanical prosthesis was drinking beer and grinning at the picture on the screen.
"Grove... is another new name. There are quite a few number two figures in Borneo Province."
The drunkard sitting next to him burped and said mockingly.
"You must have remembered wrongly. He is the second-ranking figure in the Gray Wolf Army. I'm afraid he is not even ranked in the entire Borneo Province."
This war has been going on for almost half a year, and something big happens almost every two days.
I am afraid that in the entire Weifu City, only guys like him who hang out in pubs to kill time after work all day can remember the plot of every episode of the news program.
Since the print media and entertainment industries of the Alliance are still in their infancy, although the Alliance has gradually popularized a series of print media terminals such as televisions, the people who pay most attention to the news are the drunkards who need to rely on the news to get drunk.
The mercenary looked a little embarrassed, coughed and changed the subject.
"The Gray Wolf Army... what the hell is that? Why have I never heard of it?"
"It's not your fault," the drunkard burped. "I sit and watch the news every day, and I haven't seen them on camera a few times. This is probably their most recent highlight moment."
As soon as he finished speaking, another middle-aged man sitting next to him interrupted with a smile.
"I see your memory isn't very good either. These guys obviously made headlines several times last year."
These words opened up the conversation, and everyone sitting in front of the bar started talking about it.
"When you said that, I remembered that they were the guys feeding the fish by the French Fries Port?"
"Also in Golden Gallon Port, the Burning Legion was retaliated and drowned in the Everflowing River."
"Haha, there are all the old people in Yanhe. I heard that this army has been trained by McClun and has produced many outstanding officers."
"McClan..."
"Then he is still defeated."
"Hahaha."
The tavern was filled with a cheerful atmosphere, and there was laughter and laughter in front of the bar.
I heard that McClun helped the Xilan Empire a lot, but after the empire fell into chaos, this guy lost his voice, and he didn't know what kind of evil he was holding in his stomach.
Of course, it's possible that this guy has changed his past and turned a new leaf after some transformation by the alliance.
As for the guy named Grove, no one remembered his name.
But this is normal.
Isn't the number two figure in a certain army in Borneo Province, thousands of kilometers away from the Alliance, just a nobody to the survivors living in Jinchuan Province?
I want them to remember that they have to have a nine-figure savings or do something earth-shattering.
The last news from Dawn City, I'm afraid they will have forgotten this name in two days...
Other news began to play on the TV, especially the proposal submitted by Settlement No. 1 to establish an immigration bureau. A lot of time was spent on it.
This is probably the most controversial topic in the league recently.
Although the proposal has been criticized by radicals and "regulated persons", it is still supported by a wide range of conservatives and coalition citizens.
After all, from a practical point of view, who doesn’t want their identity to be more valuable?
What's more, a series of unpleasant things happened before.
At present, the Alliance Representative Council has officially accepted the application submitted by the local representative council of Settlement No. 1, and has conducted a public review on whether the proposal is unconstitutional.
However, the local representative meeting in Settlement No. 1 has obviously made sufficient preparations and is unlikely to make any mistakes in such details.
This proposal will probably enter the voting process soon, and there is no suspense about its high probability of passing.
After all, the representative who put forward this proposal is said to be a radical.
It seems that strengthening the management of immigration has unknowingly become a consensus between radicals and conservatives.
While everyone in the tavern was chatting about other topics, the mercenary sitting in front of the bar was still thinking about the news about Borneo.
The war there became more and more lively, and he couldn't help but think of going there to make money.
It's not that he wants to earn the bounty. What he wants is silver coins, not dinars. Besides, the source of the property is hard to explain.
He mainly thought that it was getting harder and harder to make money in the eastern part of Central Continent with the combat prosthetic body he wore, so it would be better to go to Borneo Province and find another job.
Taking a sip of beer, the mercenary muttered.
"But having said that, I didn't expect that the legion's highest bounty target would actually be a Borneo."
"My name is Isher. I heard that the guy beat up the Southern Army in the three northern states and it was painful." The drunkard on the side said with a smile, seeming to be proud of his good memory.
Another guy next to him interrupted and said with a smile.
"After all, it is a poker card issued by the Southern Army Corps in the Borneo Province War Zone. If the heads of Borneo people are not printed on it, why should you be printed on it?"
The mercenary asked unexpectedly.
"By the way, who has the highest reward in the entire Southern Legion?"
"I heard he is our manager."
Everyone looked at each other and said nothing. After a long while, they sighed.
"..."
"Damn, these Wilante people really dare to think."
"If you want to eat shit, if you want to touch that adult, you should first step over my corpse!"
"Hey, when the time comes, will it be your turn to show off?"
Maybe Chu Guang himself doesn't remember those trivial things very clearly, but everyone here remembers that he once smashed the monsters of the Torch Church into pulp with a single swing of his hammer, and took No. 404 to escape
The residents of the place rushed towards the land corroded by the plague, regardless of their own safety.
Of course there are elements of exaggeration in this, but in fact it is not much different.
Perhaps it is precisely because of these increasingly outrageous reputations that there are many Weirant people in the alliance, but no one dares to worry about the bounty of hundreds of millions.
Of course, it might be for other reasons.
The manager really did take those wastelanders into consideration.
Whether it's the wastelanders from the eastern provinces or the Velanters from the distant world...
At least the people who unite around him are standing together for the same goal.