8.5 Dangerous journeys(1/2)
In the melodious bells of the Saint Sok, the antenna pot lids on the celestial tower aimed at the airship floating like clouds in the sky dozens of kilometers away.
The wind outside the Celestial Tower building was blowing very violently, and the atmosphere solidified in the gorgeous communication hall inside the Celestial Tower.
His Majesty the Emperor and many superior nobles are discussing the Northern War.
The emperor and nobles sat on the edge of the white marble table. The seat back behind each person was very high. The higher the title, the higher the chair back, and had exclusive family patterns.
The seats of the two great nobles in the north, Gun Flame and Dragon Teeth, are now vacant. The chair back of the Dragon Teeth family is a relief of the dragon spitting fire, while the chair back of the Gun Flame family is a relief of the musket spraying flames.
Now, one is commanding the battle, and the other is busy moving the industrial center backwards.
The development of the war process is a competition around important military and industrial centers. The lack of two key figures makes the conference a little poor in direction.
Of course, these two powerful nobles were not present, and there were no voices to question the emperor's current decision-making, which also made the highest meeting of the empire less embarrassing.
The current meeting is chaired by the emperor. The crisp sound of the long metal putters and metal chess pieces colliding echoes in the hall.
The emperor pointed to the emerald green and undulating sand table: "According to the latest battlefield information, at 9:00 am on the 30th, we fought back at the canal ferry crossing and temporarily destroyed the plan of the Hela people to force the canal to cross the canal before the 30th afternoon."
The Grand Duke of Heling looked at the distance between the explosion point and the attack site on the sand table, and interrupted, "Has the Cang of Binghe entered the northern battlefield, right?"
The emperor shook his head gently: "It's the attack of the long-range rocket."
The emperor ended the topic lightly with a irresponse to the question. The nobles looked at the emperor but did not continue to ask.
The Grand Duke of Heling asked about Gun Flame Bing Ke, not only focusing on the situation of the war, but also on the attitude of the royal family towards the two major families in the current war.
If the royal family admits that Binghe has arrived on the battlefield, then Binghe is now surrounded by pure professional troops with the same lineup as Wester's time. It represents the royal family's political attitude towards the north and will be a violent suppression of the Longya family.
But now, the emperor expressed his opinion in a vague way of "I know this". This made the atmosphere in the hall very unstable, and everyone became cautious about the situation of the battle.
Under the calm surface of the emperor, he was helpless and puzzled. With decades of experience in power struggle, he was helpless in the face of Binghe's young impulse.
Traditional politicians were very concerned about gains and losses. In the past, as long as His Majesty the Emperor curbed and stopped a little, the nobles would immediately obey and stop.
Now Binghe is surrounded by knights sent by the emperor to prevent contact between other military nobles and Binghe, and the emperor clearly showed that he would not support the "single action of gun flame Binghe". The emperor's monologue: "My meaning is already very clear, right? No need to say anything else, right? Why don't you understand until now?"
If ordinary politicians had long known this, they would have been retreating and obedient to the emperor's arrangements on the chessboard. However, the gun flames and core still carried out things that were not to be done.
Judging from the strategic sand table, the Northern Legion has retreated to the western coastline, and a huge gap has been exposed in the land northeast of the Black Sea.
If the attack of the Hela people is compared to the flood, the current Gun Flame Family territory is at this flood discharge.
The Grand Duke of Longya, who lost his territory, still maintained the organization of nearly 100,000 troops and built a defensive position on the Mediterranean coast. Four hundred airships and seven hundred cars supported the current war situation. The Grand Duke of Longya himself could evacuate from the front line at any time. The reason for the Grand Duke of Longya to fight now is to safeguard the family's interests in the north.
In the old territory of the Gun Yan family, although Bing He had withdrawn all industrial products and materials, Bing He, who had no reason to fight to the death, now insisted on staying in this dangerous position.
Just as Binghe, who adhered to the principle that "the country is the greatest, the people are the second, and the king is the least", did not understand the "naiveness" mentioned by Kofi, and the nobles of the empire did not understand the reasons why Binghe practiced now.
After the battle situation on the sand table was introduced by the staff officer, the emperor leaned on the seat with relief patterns and rubbed his temples. The emperor stretched out his hand and began to make combat arrangements.
"Gaugust, you are responsible for forming the Northwest Legion." The person who was called stood up immediately.
"Cami, the Southern Legion is preparing, I will give you two months to quickly arrive in Tieli Town."
"Canghong," the prince is now in contact with the Empire through relay airships on the Imperial Mediterranean Fleet. After he was called, he immediately stood up like everyone else at the meeting.
"The Imperial Royal Cavalry Division, the 12th Division, the 7th Division, the 14th Division, and the 36th Division form the Central Army, led by you, and quickly rush to the north."
The emperor's order made the nobles in the hall intertwined their eyes. According to this order, this was the first time in history that Saint Saucer handed over more than 300,000 troops to a commander.
In the past, he was unable to complete the assembly of 300,000 people, and the logistics and transportation capacity of the Imperial Capital Automobile Factory made His Majesty the Emperor's decision reasonable.
[Gun Flame Territory, Northern Experimental Base]
In the equipment library, in the two rows of mechanical warehouses, sixteen sets of Dragon Guard combat mechas are embedded in them.
In order to deal with the battle situation in the north, Binghe has now carried out some complex debugging on the Dragon Guard mecha, including loading more automatic balance reaction systems to make it more stable and lowering the operating threshold to higher-level soldiers.
In the mechanical compartment, threaded nails lock the hatch door, Bing Ke, four knights, and eleven high-level soldiers enter the Dragon Guard mecha control compartment.
Binghe turned on the electronic communication system of the mecha and confirmed that the cockpit system of these Dragon Guard mechas was operating normally, and the control mechas walked out of the groove.
In the cockpit, wires connected by Binghu mechanical gloves swing with Binghu's operation.
Binghe opened the microphone and narrated in the public channel: "Now turn on the development technology, click on communication on each equipment, adjust the first interface to the map viewing state, and I can share the map information with you."
The perspective of a person's aircraft is extremely important. According to the standards of Earth aircraft, the design of the Dragon Guard's low-altitude flight has a narrow perspective. It is very likely to fly on complex land and hit a tree.
The observation of the superficial perspective of the nuclear field and the information chain on the mecha are the core of the entire Dragon Guard formation.
Binghe: "The battlefield is very complicated. I suggest you always pay attention to the road conditions and try to avoid trees.
The following introduces the main performance of the Dragon Guard mecha. The mecha is fuel-powered, the combat range is within a range of 300 kilometers, the weapons and equipment are assault guns with 600 rounds, and you still have nine grenades, which can be blasted when encountering the enemy's heavy equipment. Of course, it is best for everyone to stay away, this charge is three times that of ordinary infantry grenades.
Okay, now we will conduct operation training. I will provide you with guidance and training one by one. Please keep in touch with my information link during flight."
After reading the operating manual for a while, Binghuo read the script.
The knights activated the Dragon Guard's power system. After feeling the surging power of the mecha, their excitement and curiosity about the mechanical car quickly made the knights' previous political hesitation and hesitation be thrown behind.
St. Sok Chongming was one of four knights sent by the royal family to Binghe.
He controlled the mecha, and after leaping twice, he began to run and jump continuously. The running and jumping movement was like a kangaroo, and of course the movement was larger. The trajectory of flying close to the ground was very similar to the trajectory of stones floating on the water surface, and the speed was very easy to reach 80 meters per second.
The practice of this knight immediately aroused the desire of others to try.
The knights present had inquired about the Dragon Guard military preparation project two months ago. At that time, Chen Jia, a disciple of Bing Ke, chewed ice cream while shouting to the knights: "That's new equipment, it's expensive, and it's not something that ordinary knights can afford."
On the experimental field for several kilometers, the engine roared for half an hour, and the operators were repeatedly reminded not to hit the tree's core. They spread their metal wings and whizzed by the low altitude. The saplings of the exercise field with sharp blades on the edge of the fins were shaved into flat heads.
Chongming, who was the first to familiarize himself with the operating system of the Dragon Guard, came to Binghe and asked through private communication: "Mianxia, the Dragon Guard is very good, but do we really need to use it in such a hurry?"
The Chongming who has something to do in the face of the conversation.
Binghe, who summarized various mechanical data feedback in the cockpit, responded in a formulaic tone: "This kind of equipment is designed for the medium and low-level professions. Now it is still experimental equipment, the actual effect is geometric, and it can only be evaluated after the actual combat is over. Alas! I originally wanted the West to help me experiment, but now, the weapons I designed seem to be used first."
Chongming said, "Crown, the Empire just lets you."
The knight tried his last effort to convey His Majesty's will to Binghe, but the words came to his mouth. Facing this rigorous and serious fortress, Chongming's momentum was a little shorter.
Binghe waved his hand and said, "Don't say anything else, please get familiar with it as soon as possible. I don't want operational errors to become a factor in the failure of the Dragon Guard Mecha's first battle."
Chongming said, "The Empire can completely support you to create the Dragon Guard alone." This tone was a little soft and hard.
Binghe ignored it, as if he was focusing on the system of the operating interface. After a few dozen seconds, Binghe said: "We don't have much time and we must accelerate training. The new tactics are dangerous. By the way, don't be afraid. In actual combat, you follow me."
Chongming: "..."
As a knight, Chongming can give advice when the superior profession is timid and stupid, but now he is unable to explain it.
[The damaged pontoon bridge was repaired within four hours]
The residue and corpses on the edge of the river have been cleaned up. The Hela people's steam locomotive dragged a large amount of wood and re-bounded to form a pontoon bridge. A large number of people quickly passed through the pontoon bridge and lined up on the south bank.
The efficient actions of the Hela people made Binghe, who has been paying attention to the situation of the war, very curious.
Binghe has traveled to many countries on the mainland and has some understanding of the social situation in many countries. The social dispatch in the Steam Age is far inferior to the social dispatch of the overall war during World War II.
But in this war, the Hela people still used steam engine logistics. In terms of the number of steam locomotives, and soldiers recovered from stable speed after several hours of chaos, Binghe was surprised.
Binghe can only find reasons to explain: "This is a nation with a deep nomadic style. It has a high degree of obedience to the strong. Living in a cold area naturally maintains an organizational nature that obeys the strong. Of course, this organization is top-down. Once the leader is missing, or the group cannot detect the leader, it will be confused."
But what is the truth? Binghe’s current speculation is just speculation.
On the night of July 2, it was covered by fog on both sides of the river.
Bai Xun quickly crossed the canal under the escort of fourteen high-level knights. So many knights around Bai Xun's side have surpassed authority.
The boy squatted on the edge of a huge crater and remained silent.
This crater was caused by one of the two missiles thirty hours ago. Now, the crater of half the size of a football field has accumulated water one meter deep.
He pinched a handful of soil at the edge of the crater, his fingers moved, and the soil turned into fragments and leaked from his fingers.
Bai Xun stood up and threw the remaining stones in his hand back into the puddle in the rebound crater. The water at the bottom of the pit became a little muddy.
Bai Xun looked up at the southeast direction, with a lot of doubt on his face and murmured to himself: "That guy, smashed a wave of missiles at us, have you escaped now? If that's the case, it's going to be trouble."
Bai Xun stretched out his hand toward him, and the knight on the side took out a display with a crystal interface and handed it to his hand.
This monitor records the scene of the warhead falling thirty hours ago.
Bai Xun stared at the picture on the monitor and asked the knight beside him: "What's new happening in the southeast direction."
The Knight on the side said: "No, according to past information, the fortress of the Gun Flame House has not used such warheads much in the West area, so they may not have too many."
Bai Xun pulled the image on the interface with his fingers and asked, "What's going on with the Northern Legion now?"
Knight: "We have compressed the Dragon Tooth Corps to the western coastline. But now, we are facing strong resistance."
Bai Xun nodded and said, "Well, um, um, then let's solve this here first." Bai Xun pointed his finger at the territory of the Gun Yan Family on the interface.
The knight looked along Bai Xun's fingers, then lowered his head and reminded: "General Jing Cui's troops have arrived at this position." On the map, the vanguard of the Hela people was only forty kilometers away from the Gun Flame Territory.
Bai Xun said arbitrarily: "It's not enough, I'll send three more legions. Let the Lunges division and Akra division bring me the troops here, and at the same time pass on a message to me, the guy who exploded my bridge made me very angry. I will burn everything in the territory of the gunfire." Bai Xun was really worried that Bingke would run away. For Bai Xun, entanglement and become an old enemy was the most troublesome thing.
The Knight tried to stop him and said, "Your Highness, if we mobilize in this way, our troops on the front will be greatly weakened. Is it too much for the Eastern Front to use an army of 80,000 people to deal with this area that has proven to have no strong forces?"
Bai Xun looked at the knight coldly: "Don't question my decision now."
At this moment, a messenger stopped on a horse fifty meters away. The two soldiers fumbled up and down with their hands to check, and the messenger was released. The messenger ran to Bai Xun and handed the secret message to Bai Xun.
When Bai Xun saw that the cover of the telegram was sent from his mother, Bai Xun frowned and said, "What's going on? Well, this?" Bai Xun's face suddenly froze. The knights on the side were curious about the content of the telegram, but for the sake of superiority, they kept quiet.
To be continued...