Chapter 354 Airborne Operations (XII)

At least ten steam mechs were gathering and approaching their position, and the gray-clad soldiers hiding in the ruins were approaching them through cover.

Their appearance meant that the defense line formed by the defense forces stationed at the portal was in full retreat.

The area where Eno was located was the only remaining salient on the front line. A complete line of defense was constantly repelled, and the part that remained became a surrounded salient.

In the distance, the steam mech pulled out his spear from the tree man's body and pushed the tree man, who had lost his vitality, to the ground. The steam spider used its sharp shovel-like limbs to cut the flesh of the troll, cut off its body, and completely destroyed it with steam surges.

The gray-clad soldiers who then arrived at its side raised their bolt-action rifles and accurately killed every enemy who could still raise their weapons, and used bayonets to fight the line infantry attacking them.

There was no monster infantry to maintain the line, no military law supervision by the war supervisor, and even lacked the firepower support of the war mage.

The line infantry inevitably retreated in front of the mechanical constructs and the enemy infantry squad.

The only remaining war mages were ultimately unable to resist the continuous fire suppression. The lucky war mages were dragged and rolled back to the second line of defense by the line infantry after being injured.

The unlucky war mages lay on the ground. Their knowledge and wisdom could not change their fate of being just high-end consumables in this war.

And the real bottom-level consumables, those line infantry whose names were not even worthy of being remembered by their superiors, lay on the ground.

The line infantry with different death conditions fell on their bunkers, pierced by electric arcs and partially carbonized, melted in the surge of superheated steam, and pierced by lead bullets and spilled a pool of blood.

Among them, he also saw at least three destroyed steam wreckages. From their appearance, Eno could barely judge that they were mechanical constructs using electricity and spears.

There were also some gray-clad infantry bodies that were obviously different from the line infantry, and they fell in the array with the long-pole rifles in their hands, with different scars on the ground.

In the ten-minute high-intensity war, the territory troops had already created heavy casualties for the garrison troops that they had never experienced since their establishment.

Eno took a deep breath, and the longbow in his hand, which was surrounded by magical aura, was lowered. Do you want to fight... With this longbow in his hand, you can destroy at most three mechanical structures.

So the first and fourth advance teams encountered such an offensive, Eno suppressed his increasingly confused thoughts, if the advance teams he sent encountered such a fierce and tragic offensive.

It was no surprise that they were completely wiped out.

The voice of the adjutant woke him up from his trance.

She shook her shoulders, trying to wake Eno up.

"Sir, the follow-up troops are still being mobilized... There are already war mages with new arcane focusers..."

We can still fight, we still have a chance to fight.

The battlefield was brutal, but the casualties of the advance team were not that great.

"......"

Eno looked at the ruins around him, and it took him a while to remember that this was originally a warehouse, not a battlefield.

He looked at the unranked officer standing next to the flagpole without a flag in the distance, the enemy commander.

The commander who commanded the Iron Legion waved his hand, and the portal went out in an instant.

The portal in the distance was under the control of the enemy commander, who could open and close the door that connected the two worlds at any time.

Eno didn't know why the other party could bypass the Empire's magic permission to complete the control of the entire portal in such a short time.

Failed, an advance team that couldn't even defend the portal was doomed to fail.

What he had to do was to keep as many veterans who had experienced the baptism of war as possible for the Empire, so that the Empire would not be unprepared in the next war.

This war had lost its original meaning, but it had not completely lost its value.

If the Empire could still hold on until then...

The other party had already thrown out a letter of surrender and put forward the conditions.

"Surrender."

He thought, sighed, and turned to look at the adjutant beside him.

Even his adjutant's face was covered with dust and there were several tiny wounds on his face from the fragments.

"Adjutant, please help me amplify the voice for them."

Eno put down the longbow in his hand, and the soldiers and constructs that surrounded him all stopped and looked at him.

He didn't know whether these soldiers were ordered by their commander or they were trained to be like this, but the gunshots not far away told him very clearly that the war was not over yet.

The longbow folded and closed in his hand.

Confrontation, alert.

"I want to talk to your commander."

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Talk, negotiate.

The two sides put together a set of temporary chairs and placed them in front of the portal.

Jilin's goal has never been to kill them all. The annihilation of the advance team was just a bargaining chip for him to force the other party to sit at the negotiation table.

In order to pass the system's tasks with the highest possible score, Ji Lin must reduce the negative impact as much as possible.

The two sides shook hands to show friendship. Even though the smoke in the air had not yet completely dissipated, Eno could smell the lingering smell of gunpowder in the air.

They were about to have peace talks in a place that was still a war zone half an hour ago... What a irony.

Eno laughed at himself in his heart.

"Ji Lin, the commander-in-chief of the Linyang Rapid Reaction Mobile Battalion."

At the same time, he observed the human in front of him. He was younger than he thought. Judging from his face, he was only in his twenties. He wore a gray military uniform without a rank, and his short middle hair was pressed down by a military cap. Although his appearance was not as good as the natural appearance of the elves, he was also handsome among humans.

A young man of this age should still be studying in the academy.

Rather than an excellent commander who commanded two annihilation wars and one airborne operation.

"Commander-in-chief of the Seventh Investigation Vanguard of the Magic Empire, Enor Skoll."

Both parties sat down.

"I'm glad that we are all sitting here now, instead of continuing to invest troops in the war."

Continue this war that continues.

Ji Lin took out the conditions that had been prepared long ago and placed them in front of Enor.

"You are not allowed to carry heavy equipment when you retreat, but you can carry light equipment and personal belongings back."

The arcane focusers must be left behind. These weapons represent a very valuable technology.

And they have recovered enough samples of the magic rifles, and there is no need to obtain more new samples... He also didn't want to risk the failure of the negotiations and order these people to disarm.

Retaining certain weapons and completely disarming require completely different bargaining chips in negotiations.

The adjutant sitting next to Eno gritted his teeth and could only suppress his anger in front of those white armored soldiers holding light blades.

"I agree, as long as our people can evacuate safely."

Eno nodded and asked.

"Are our monster infantry and tree people also safe to evacuate?"

Ji Lin answered.

"Of course."

"Just now... why..."

Eno's adjutant opened her mouth and asked hesitantly.

"That's my ability."

Ji Lin smiled and said without any ripples in his heart.

He can call for another wave of strategic support like this, and there is only one last wave.

The purpose of the plan is to make the opponent believe that he has this ability, and he has proved to Eno that he has the possibility of destroying them all.

"I don't think you have many times of ability, otherwise you wouldn't have dragged it until now to start a decisive battle with us."

Eno smiled bitterly and pressed the shoulder of the adjutant next to him.

"If you have the ability to destroy us all at once, there is no need to wait for me to deploy all the troops."

Ji Lin did not comment.

The garrison commander of the camp looked at Ji Lin, who had returned to an expressionless face. The other party had no intention of continuing the discussion on this topic.

Words are precious.

After the brief negotiation, an unprecedented sense of fatigue surged into Eno's heart. He did not think about the impact of his surrender on his future.

At most, as a commander, he would take all the responsibilities and die to apologize.

He thought.

But at this time, he did not think about the proposition about tomorrow, as if he was asking Ji Lin a question, and as if he was questioning himself.

"What on earth are you?"

Ji Lin did not answer.

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