Chapter 915 True and False Smart People (1/2)

The creaking of the tracks mixed with the chirping of cicadas on the roadside, but the victorious team was dead silent.

Not long ago, they cooperated with the infantry riding wheeled armored vehicles to raid a village at the foot of a mountain.

There were only a few decent houses in the whole village, and the only valuable things were the diesel generators and tractors bought from the Willant people.

It was also thanks to the brothers of the reconnaissance team that they could find this damn place.

There was not even a decent road from Milyangs County to this village.

Of course, the more hateful ones were the soldiers of the Borneo Kingdom.

Those guys left the stolen equipment and supplies here, and even instigated the villagers to attack them, so they could only fire at those villagers...

At least thinking this way could comfort them.

Carver still remembered that on the way to the battlefield, the gunner Valk in the team kept shouting that he wanted to break his "111" record, and the communicator Jesden and the loader Joe were arguing over which bar in Xifan Port had the prettiest girls.

But now, Valk was like a mute, saying nothing, and not even a word about how many people he had killed.

Jesden and Joe were still chatting casually, but the awkward topic made people unable to help but clench their toes.

In the end, only his tank commander Buck was still silent as always, always doing what he should do and saying what he should say.

Carver suddenly recalled that it seemed to be the same when he was in Evernight Harbor.

Everything seemed to have changed, but nothing seemed to have changed...

For a moment, Carver suddenly had an idea that he had never had before.

If he hadn't picked up the recruitment leaflet at that time, but walked a few more steps to the familiar farmer's market, and used the scholarship he saved to buy a tractor and drive it home.

The one at home happened to be worn out.

His father always talked about changing to a new one, and he originally planned to give the old man a surprise, but like most Willant people, he took the leaflet to the recruitment point in a hurry and shouted for the marshal to sit in the tank.

However, after walking onto the battlefield in a daze, he found that what he saw and heard was completely different from what he imagined...

As he thought about it, he was distracted unconsciously.

Just then, a broad hand grabbed his shoulder.

"Watch the road."

The commander's voice woke Carver up from his distraction. He stepped on the rudder and drove the tank back to the unclear road. Finally, he didn't drive one track into the ditch.

In order to ease the stiff atmosphere in the car, Joe smiled at him.

"Can you do it? Or let Valk drive."

"Okay." Carver smiled awkwardly, and he really meant it in his heart.

However, Valk, who was sitting not far from the back of his head, seemed to have heard nothing and just sat there in silence.

The atmosphere was cold again.

A group of people were silent.

Carver thought that the second half of the journey would be spent in this silent atmosphere, but he didn't expect a sharp and short buzzing to suddenly break into his eardrum.

"Swoosh!"

The flickering flames were like a dagger tearing through the jungle, dragging a long and narrow white smoke towards the wheeled armored vehicle not far in front of them.

The sparks of the explosion flew everywhere, followed by black smoke floating from the hood of the armored vehicle.

The rear door of the wheeled armored vehicle suddenly opened outward, and the soldiers wearing exoskeletons quickly jumped out of the car with rifles.

At the same time, the sound of gunfire came from the forest, and the tracers shot like raindrops at the Willant team that used the armored vehicle as a cover.

"It's Iron Fist! Damn, our rocket launcher!" Carver roared and instinctively pulled the handbrake.

The car was in chaos, and the loader Joe quickly stuffed the high-explosive bomb into the gun barrel, while the communicator Jesden shouted at the radio, trying to contact the teammates in front.

The encounter broke out in an instant, and everyone entered the combat state almost in an instant!

"It's the guerrillas!"

"Ten o'clock!"

"Fire!"

Valk's movements were as fast as before.

The steady and accurate blow burst out with his roar, and exploded into a spark in the woods not far away.

He did not stop, and fired a high-explosive shell, and then quickly adjusted the muzzle, and used the coaxial machine gun on the tank to shoot at the woods.

In conjunction with the wheeled armored vehicle whose engine broke down, the rain of bullets fired by the two vehicles opened a death net in the dense woods!

The gunfire of the Brahmans died down for a while, and it seemed that they had suffered a lot of casualties.

However, soon, the gunfire that had rested for a while started again, and it was 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 squarely!

"Boom!"

The flames of the explosion blew away the turret of the armored vehicle, followed by crackling explosions.

Caught off guard, half of the ten-man team that used the armored vehicle as a shelter was knocked down by the ammunition that exploded. The few remaining people were in a mess. Under the machine gun fire, they could only run into the woods desperately.

"Damn it! We have to get out of here quickly!" Buck, with a gloomy face, punched hard in the car.

"These Brahmans are here for revenge..." The communicator Joe was so scared that his lips turned pale and he trembled.

The loader, Jesden, was also confused. While stuffing shells into the barrel, he kept cursing "fuck" in his mouth.

"Why is it now?! Why didn't they come earlier!"

There were no mission aircraft nearby, and they had no air support they could call.

Even if there were air force brothers who took off from the airport in Saifan Harbor, it would be too late by the time they arrived.

"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--!"

The heartbreaking pain in his calf made Carver take a breath.

He didn't 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 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 tank's fire while charging forward as if they were dying. And amidst the chaotic gunfire, one of them held up a sparkling explosive bag and rushed forward, roaring like a madman.

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 fight at all, but it would make him feel better to think so.

As if it felt that it could not 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, and then at the pairs of hateful eyes around him, with horror written on his face.

But the officer's next words made him feel as warm as a spring breeze.

"They are victims too, and we are not the only survivors who suffer."

Later, the officer said something else, and he didn't know what spell he recited, 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 he 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 had 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 feel regretful...

"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 Headquarters.

Gopal, the commander-in-chief of the Gray Wolf Army, who was pacing back and forth in front of the map, lost his temper in a rare moment, cursing and cursing.

"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 Weilant people, 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..."

Sava didn't wait for him to finish, and interrupted his unrealistic thoughts with a slight cough.

"No, this operation approved by General Guion 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 secret line we developed with great difficulty."

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.

"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 us !”

As for occupying Snake State, that's not the case.

Considering strategic needs, Guion 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, while those who are clever will only be crushed to death by the general trend.

There was a hint of confusion in Gopal's eyes, and he stared at Savar intently.

"...Is this 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 deployed by him personally. Commander Absek once gave Mr. two difficult problems, and now these two problems are almost impossible to solve. solved."

Gopal burst into laughter hearing this.

"Interesting, hahaha, so damn interesting."

After a while, he seemed to have smiled enough, and stared at Sava with a relaxed look and continued.

"What about this Grove? Although this guy is my subordinate, disobeying orders is a big problem. I'm afraid he will do bad things 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 up to me to start.”

"People like General Grove are not bad in nature, but they just value honor. Why should we deal with such a good person? Besides, the plan he brought also has your signature and your husband's signature. How can we deal with him?" "It's not a slap in our face, it's a slap in the face of the league."

Savar glanced at Gopal thoughtfully with a strange expression and imitated Zaid's tone of voice.

“A good job is rewarded, and it must be rewarded heavily!”

…

"...Recently, according to a call back from our reporter stationed in Tiandu, Borneo Province, the Southern Borneo Front Army 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 great 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, and seized nearly 100,000 pieces of light weapons, nearly one million ammunition, 20 field guns, and more than 200 heavy machine guns. "

"According to public information from relevant media in Xifan Port, this operation caused 500 Weilants and 3,117 vassal soldiers to be killed or injured. Although the Southern Corps lost military supplies of up to 90 million dinars in this operation, the damaged stations and production facilities have basically been restored to use after a week of preparation. In addition, due to the use of drone troops and new artillery, the Southern Front Army of the Borneo Kingdom also suffered nearly 10,000 casualties."

"Due to the large discrepancy between the casualties and damage figures of both sides, this station only states the statements of both sides."

"In addition, the Abusek authorities highly praised this operation and strongly condemned the Southern Corps' barbaric behavior in Snake State and its counterattack. A large number of civilian casualties were caused in the incident. The spokesperson for the Southern Legion said that he hoped the guerrillas would not use civilians as shields, and that the Willant soldiers fighting on the front line would defend the alliance between the Legion and the Empire at all costs and eradicate all rebels at all costs. "

"At present, Shahrukh, a powerful figure in the southern part of Borneo Province, who is at the center of the storm, has not made any statement on this action. However, according to our reporter, this action has indeed been signed and approved by Shahrukh himself and the senior officials of the Gray Wolf Army. "

"Previously, Shahrukh's move to remain silent in the face of the fall of Wolf State has been controversial in all walks of life in Borneo Province. There are even rumors that Shahrukh's subordinates have always had interests linked with the internal forces of the Southern Legion. And if Today's powerful attack, to some extent, is a response to many rumors. "

"Analysts in Jingalon Port claimed that "Operation North Wind", as the first large-scale offensive under Sharuk, may become a turning point in the current stalemate. However, some analysts said that no matter from the scale or the results achieved, this operation is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the strategic deployment of the Southern Army unless Sharuk invests more money. "

"After the incident, the Southern Army quickly dispatched the 600,000 and 610,000 troops and more than 100,000 vassal troops to the southern part of Langzhou, and deployed a large-scale military operation code-named "Falling Leaves", which seemed to be a response to "North Wind". "

" In addition, according to sources in Xifan Port, a bust of General Grove was added to the newly issued playing cards in the war zone of the Southern Legion's Borneo Province, and a bounty of 100,000 dinars was marked. "

"At present, the highest bounty for this series of playing cards is still Isher, and the Southern Legion's bounty for him has increased to 5 million dinars..."

"In addition, this station reminds again that any citizen of the Alliance who participates in a war not authorized by the Alliance authorities as a mercenary is an illegal act. Relevant practitioners should accept orders through formal channels and remember not to take risks..."

"Dawn City News reports for you!"

In the tavern of Weifu City, the TV hanging on the ceiling of the bar is showing news from Dawn City TV.

Speaking of Dawn City TV, it has been a few years.

I remember that when the Great Stone City was transformed, it was this TV station and the Survivor Daily of Dawn City that tracked the situation in the city, and now the vision of this TV station has expanded to thousands of kilometers away.

Just like the cables of the Alliance.

Sitting next to the bar, the mercenary with a mechanical body drank beer and grinned at the screen.

"Grove... Another new name. There are quite a lot of second-in-commands in the province of Boro."

The drunkard sitting next to him burped and said with a smile.

"You must have remembered it wrong. He is the second-in-command of the Gray Wolf Army. I'm afraid he wouldn't even be ranked in the entire province of Boro."

This war has been going on for almost half a year, and a big event happens almost every two days.

In the entire Weifu City, I'm afraid only guys like him who spend all day in the tavern after work can remember the plot of every news program.

Since the print media and entertainment industry 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 the most attention to the news are the drunkards who need to drink with the news.

The mercenary looked a little embarrassed and coughed to change the subject.

"Grey Wolf Army... what the hell is that? I've 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 many times. This is probably their latest highlight."

As soon as he finished speaking, another middle-aged man sitting next to him laughed and interrupted.

"I don't think your memory is very good. These guys were on the headlines several times last year."

This opened up the conversation, and the people sitting in front of the bar began to talk.

"Now that you mention it, I remember that they were the guys feeding the fish by the French Fry Port?"

"And in Golden Gallon Port, the Burning Corps that was retaliated against was drowned in the Yongliu River."

"Haha, drowning in the river is a thing of the past. I heard that this unit has produced many outstanding officers after being trained by McLen."

"McLen..."

"Isn't that still a defeated general?"

"Hahaha."

The pub was filled with a happy atmosphere, and there was laughter in front of the bar.

I heard that McLen helped the Xilan Empire a lot, but after the empire was in chaos, this guy became silent, and no one knew what evil he was up to. Of course, maybe this guy has changed his ways after being reformed 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 must 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 in recent times.

Although the proposal has been criticized by radicals and "regulated persons", it is still supported by a wide range of conservatives and citizens of the Union.

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 the 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. It would be better to find another job in Borneo Province.

Taking a sip of beer, the mercenary muttered.

"But having said that, I didn't expect that the target with the highest bounty on the Legion's head would actually be a Borneo."

"My name is Isher. I heard that the guy beat up the Southern Army in the three northern states to a great deal of pain." The drunkard on the side said with a smile, as if he was proud of his good memory.

Another guy next to him chimed in 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, step over my corpse first!"

"Hey, will it be your turn to show off when the time comes?"

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 rushed towards the land corroded by the plague regardless of their own safety.

There is certainly an element of exaggeration in this, but it is actually 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 Velantans from the distant world...

At least the people who unite around him are standing together for the same goal.