Chapter 146 The Battle of Appalus (3)

(3 of 9 updates)

"Hey..." The tire ran over the road, and a scratch was drawn on the hot asphalt road.

In front of the city gate, a platoon of 24 heavily armed guards was patrolling back and forth. Machine gun bunkers protruded from the sand on both sides of the road, and chess pieces were generally distributed around. Near the barrier is a rapid-fire turret, and the black muzzle is facing the morning sun, reflecting the shining halos.

"Stop." The black lieutenant in charge of the patrol waved his hand, and several soldiers with guns rushed forward, standing on both sides of the car door with serious faces.

The black lieutenant held the scanner in his hand: "Please get out of the car and check."

"What, check?" Aros poked his head out of the car window: "Didn't you hear the news?"

"Received." The black lieutenant nodded and repeated again: "Please get out of the car and accept the inspection!"

"You still need to check after receiving it?" Aros sat motionless in the carriage.

"I'm sorry, please cooperate with our work." At first glance, this guy is a deadhead, facing Aros, who has a higher military rank than him, he still looks businesslike.

"Okay, I will cooperate." Aros opened the car door, jumped out of the car, and raised his hands up, allowing the black lieutenant to take the detection equipment and take pictures all over his body.

The serial number of the power armor, crew information, appearance, and dna code have long been synchronized to the military database by the star track command center. No matter how you check it, Aros's identity is also an upright captain of the empire.

There was no abnormality detected on Aros, the black lieutenant walked to the other side of the armored vehicle, reached out to pull the door, and said in a blunt tone: "Please get out of the vehicle for inspection."

Tang Fang frowned, whether this guy is blind or mentally ill, he does things so rigidly, you must know that the bureaucratic style of the government department works from top to bottom. Speak in a serious tone.

No wonder this guy is in his 30s and still holds the rank of a small lieutenant. With his style of acting, he didn't hang around with the rank of a second lieutenant until he died of old age, which was already taken care of by his superiors.

His ass hadn't moved yet, and Howson couldn't help it. He kicked the car door with a "boom", slid his toes forward, and clasped the front of the black lieutenant's open helmet with his right hand, "Hmph, grandson, the young lady is pretending to be a master in front of me. Look, look, old man Two levels higher than you, captain, do you understand the captain. Fuck..."

Tang Fang and Aros' faces turned dark,

This kind of thing can only be done by Howson, and it is really a loss of the majesty of the officer to fight fiercely with his subordinates. But well, don't do it. Then it wouldn't be him. What's more, his approach is quite depressing.

"Wow."

When Howson was competing with the black lieutenant with a fierce face, there was a sound of pulling the safety bolt around him. Tang Fang turned his head and saw that three or five recruits pointed their guns at Howson. But those veterans and those with active minds remained indifferent, as if petrified.

"You really want to check me?" At this time. Tang Fang opened the car door and jumped out of the co-pilot. The golden rank of lieutenant colonel on his shoulders shone brightly in the morning light.

The black lieutenant was held down by Howson on his helmet, like a seven-inch black-spotted viper, no matter how hard he struggled, it was of no avail.

"Saru Bama, what have you done! When I went to take a pee, you made such a big mess for me." A 27- to 8-year-old captain officer came angrily. Not far behind him was a major with a gloomy face like swill.

Tang Fang tilted his head and gave Haosen a wink. Only then did Yijin snort coldly, and let go of the black lieutenant with some reluctance.

"Hi sir, I am Hood, the commander of the 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 'Barrier of the Brave' City Defense Army." Saluting Tang Fang, Hood turned and walked in front of the black lieutenant: "Sarubama, you have done a good job for me! The telegram from the military department, your face is correct, what kind of inspection do you need to do, you are a thing that is not enough to succeed, but more than to fail."

When Hood got angry at Sarubama, the major came up close, looked at Tang Fang's face for a long time, and then saluted with a strange expression: "The commander of the first battalion of the 'Barrier of the Brave' city defense army, Bentham? Duncan has seen the sir."

The middle school principal in front of him was too young, five or six years younger than him, which made him a little dazed.

"Roy Dale." Tang Fang replied with a forged name.

"Lieutenant Colonel, I'm sorry, I surprised you because I came late." Bentham said respectfully. He rushed here after receiving the news from the liaison officer, but he didn't expect to be a step late. Damn Bentham, how did he explain to his subordinates that he had such an inconspicuous guy guarding the city gate. You must know that the three special commissioners in front of you are sent by the military department, and they are officers directly under the Governor's Mansion. Once you annoy him, I'm afraid they won't be able to eat and walk around.

"Don't gossip, just open the city gate." Tang Fang glanced at him and said lightly.

"Quick, quick, open the city gate." Bentham turned on the communicator and ordered in a low voice.

"Boom." The huge city gate with a thickness of several meters, made of titanium alloy, depleted uranium material, and inert zero source element crystals, moved its bloated and clumsy body slowly towards the two sides like a gluttonous beast awakened from hibernation. side open.

Tang Fang opened the door and sat back in the co-pilot, greeted Aros and Howson to get into the car, then turned to look at Bentham and Hood, sweeping over with haughty and indifferent eyes: "I'll take a step first, as for the loading and unloading personnel , think of your own way."

"Yes, yes, yes." The two nodded repeatedly. Such a young lieutenant colonel is Lord Aldrich's confidant, so he is definitely blessed. He is young and promising, and his future must be limitless. Such a person, even if he is not a descendant of a nobleman, must be a peerless genius.

If Tang Fang treated each other with soft words and kind words, they would actually feel suspicious. The more arrogant and rude he was, the more Bentham and others felt normal, because this was the Croatan Defense Force. , and even the rules of the game in the military and political circles of the empire.

The status gap between officers with aristocratic background and civilian officers can be seen from this. If you use Howson's adjective, it is "cheap", so low that it blends into the blood, bone marrow, and even the depths of the soul. People like Bentham and Hood have long been rotten and moldy in the sewage of the empire. The spine is bent and deformed.

"Hood, lock him up for half a month. Let him reflect on himself." Tang Fang and the others disappeared before Bentham showed a grumpy expression on his back.

"Yes, yes, don't worry, Battalion Commander. I'll definitely fix him." Hood cast a "I want you to look good" look at Salubama, and winked at several soldiers beside him. The few people didn't allow Sarubama to say anything, and escorted him to the confinement room.

"Go, go to Erlian, tell Jiang Deyi to find 20 people, and gather here immediately."

"Yes." Hood took the order and went.

Bentham turned his head and glanced at the slowly closing city gate, and he could still see the back of the armored vehicle fading away through a gap.

About half an hour ago, the polar-orbiting military satellite over Frey Continent suddenly sent a top-level ciphertext telegram, to the effect that the Governor sent an escort to escort 40 "Heavy Warriors" to the Eastern Front. .

After the combat command center received the telegram. An assistance order was sent to him immediately. That was the highest level of cipher text, and the identities of the three of them were the entourage of the governor. He couldn't afford to provoke such a person even with ten of them. Regarding Tang Fang's identity. Not to mention doubts, he didn't even think about it.

At the same moment, the armored vehicle successfully passed through the so-called mountain-like indestructible steel defense line.

Howson put his feet on the edge of the car window, and his wretched smile extended from the corner of his mouth to his ears: "Hey, don't mention it, Tang Fang, you just pretended to be an imperial officer. There are really some noble children pretending to be calm look." He suddenly remembered that when he was in the army, he always liked to point fingers in front of the soldiers, but was scared by a stray bullet at a critical moment, the little white-faced officer who looked more girlish than a woman.

Tang Fang glanced at him from the rearview mirror, smiled slightly, and said nothing. "Barrier of the Brave"? The Great Wall of Steel that is difficult to break through even nuclear bombs? But so what? Not a single shot was fired. Without mobilizing a single soldier, he just walked in with such a swagger.

Perhaps Bentham would think that there were only three of them, and even if they tried their best, they wouldn't be able to make much trouble. However, Aros and Howson are like mirrors.

It wasn't just three small fish that Bentham let in. It's a real dragon crossing the river, or a dragon with a lot of swallowing dragons... Whoever wants to underestimate the guy who sits upright in the driver's seat and looks like a newly married daughter-in-law, in the end, he will definitely Suffering.

An hour later, the armored vehicle drove into the outer edge of the Appalus military industrial base. There are many raw material tanks, reactors, smelting kilns, tempering workshops, crushing machines... etc., and so on, you can smell it from a long distance. A smell of charcoal and smoke.

This place belongs to the outer ring of the military industrial base, and there are large and small mineral smelting enterprises. Eighty percent of the minerals produced by the Southwest Mineral Resources Base are transported here, refined and smelted, and then sent to the heavy military factory in the middle of the base to be processed into various ships and vehicle accessories, and then transported to Kane? The Marquis Rudolf governs the fleet and naval port. Or directly assembled into finished products, which are used to enhance the combat capability of the Croatan Defense Force and exported to other princely states inside and outside the empire.

Under Tang Fang's guidance, Aros stopped the armored vehicle next to a steel factory. The three jumped out of the car, Tang Fang looked up at the closed-circuit surveillance camera on the signal light pole across the road, and walked over.

At the same time, in the super-large monitoring room of the "Barrier of the Brave" command center, nearly a hundred staff members slumped crookedly on the seats, or chatting and farting, talking about gossips and gossips, or closing their eyes, taking a nap and returning to sleep. , or gather in one place, throw sieves and play cards for entertainment and gambling.

When Tang Fang approached the signal light pole, a dedicated guard was yawning and looking at the array of closed-circuit monitors in front of him. The command center had already reported the "escort" incident, and he was not surprised when he saw the armored vehicle. But...but why did they stop? pee? Or are you tired and want to take a break?

In other words, the way this kid looked at the surveillance camera just now has a creepy feeling. Hey, he's walking this way, he... what does he mean? He... what is he going to do?

The guard's mouth grew bigger and bigger, and his eyes became brighter and brighter. The former was spontaneous, while the latter was caused by the reflection of the jumping and flickering electric light in the monitor.