Chapter 426: Pangolin’s Great Contribution
Chapter 426 Pangolins Perform Great Service
Since she boarded the airship, Theresa’s palms were sweating with nervousness, trying to reduce her presence.
However, even though she tried hard to make herself look smaller, the man’s eyes still fell on her.
”Theresa.”
When her name was called, Theresa subconsciously straightened her back and tried to squeeze out a calm smile from her face, but the stuttering voice still exposed her panic.
”Manager, may I ask what you want to do?”
”It’s been two weeks, I want to hear your opinion on the work.”
Looking at the princess who was hesitant and unable to speak, Chu Guang continued patiently.
”Don’t be nervous, it doesn’t matter if you don’t have an opinion, just give a brief summary of what you do every day.”
”Good morning, when I get up in the morning, I will first-”
”Work.”
Theresa blushed when her panicked words were interrupted, and she quickly changed the subject.
”Yes! Well, Mr. Maban asked me to assist the warehouse manager of warehouse No. 3 to check the warehouse account book, mainly to calculate whether the materials in and out of the warehouse are consistent…”
Although she was a little unfamiliar at first, she quickly became proficient. She gave a detailed and concise description of the problems encountered at work, the friends she met at work, and some ideas for improvement.
Chu Guang cast an appreciative look.
It seems that Maban has trained her well. The warehouse manager is one of the most challenging places. This position requires dealing with almost all front-line positions.
From a broom to a bag of bricks and a truck of cement, being able to manage these trivial details can lay the foundation for managing a larger organization in the future.
Of course, what he most expects is that she can have more contact with the masses in the process of participating in grassroots labor.
As he said before, this knowledge and experience will be used sooner or later.
Chu Guang then looked at Prince Summer.
”You should have gotten the result you expected. Before the war is over, I will provide you and your men with a resting place. If you are interested, you can participate in the work of the refugee camp. If you are not interested, you can do it.”
Summer said respectfully immediately.
”Thank you for giving me this opportunity. I am willing to do it. I want to know how you rebuild your homeland.”
Whether for the purpose of understanding the alliance or to please the suzerain, he felt that he had to agree.
Looking at the young prince, Chu Guang nodded with satisfaction.
Not bad, the young man has a promising future.
In fact, the alliance accepted the exile of the honey badger royal family. In principle, they are guests, and they should provide them with basic living supplies.
But wouldn’t it be a pity to not use free labor?
Ma Ban always complained to himself that the refugee camp could not recruit staff with higher cultural literacy, and now they are ready.
What’s more, for this young man himself, this is also a good training opportunity.
”Theresa, you can take him with you.” Chu Guang looked at the tool princess.
”Yes, sir.”
Theresa nodded respectfully, but Summer, who was standing beside her, frowned slightly.
”Sir, I want to know in what capacity the princess of the Falcon Kingdom stayed here.”
”I am his prisoner–”
Theresa spoke subconsciously, but was interrupted before she finished her words.
”I am the one who was liberated by the Alliance.”
When she heard that voice, she showed a surprised expression on her face.
Including Summer, who was standing beside her, she also looked at Chu Guang in surprise and asked subconsciously.
”Liberated means…”
”It means literally. In the eyes of the Alliance, both the residents of Oasis No. 3 and the residents of Oasis No. 2 are victims of this chaos.”
Chu Guang glanced out the French window. The yellow sand floating on the skyline was like a boiling flame.
”We will liberate them.”
…
In the depths of Luoxia Province, the yellow sand sweeping across the horizon was like the rolling magma in hell.
It blocked the sky and the sun, and no light could penetrate.
McLen couldn’t remember how many times he had encountered such bad weather. He only knew that this unlucky day was finally coming to an end.
This was the western border of Oasis No. 9, and the front-line command post of the Legion was stationed in front.
He and his men were only one step away from each other –
”Stop!”
A shout came from a distance, and a soldier holding a rifle stepped out of the gate of the barracks against the wind and sand.
”Idiot, put your gun down! Look clearly who the hell I am!”
Looking at the stunned sentry, McLen cursed and slapped his rifle away, reaching out to grab his collar.
”Find that guy Griffin for me!”
”I’m right here.”
A voice came from a distance, and McLen threw away the sentry’s collar and squinted at the man standing at the gate of the camp.
Black boots and navy blue military coat, as well as the shoulder straps with three stars, standing there was the general commander of the Legion stationed in Luoxia Province – General Griffin.
The drooping jaw and hawk nose and hawk eyes really didn’t look like a tough guy who had been through many battles, but more like a cunning fox.
McLennan hated that face.
He especially hated that man.
”How dare you come back?”
Griffin looked at the embarrassed man in front of him in surprise, and it was hard to tell whether his raised eyebrows were surprise or ridicule.
Without waiting for McLennan to continue speaking, Griffin continued in a slow voice.
”Dealing with a group of natives, a group of wild men in the woods, and being able to lose the Iron Heart, I thought you were so ashamed that you committed suicide.”
A trace of annoyance flashed in McLennan’s eyes, but he still gritted his teeth and endured it, and said in a calm voice.
”Those were not natives at all! We encountered reinforcements from the Enterprise! I know what you want to say, but this is the fact. The Enterprise sent more than one reinforcement, and we encountered the second one! Don’t think you can escape responsibility. It was you who gave the order to transfer me to the southern part of the Valley Province!”
”Yes, I gave the order. I asked you to intercept the injured employee, but I didn’t ask you to confront the people from the Enterprise head-on. Now, those cowards on the east coast have been pissed off. I heard from an informant from the Free State that they built an air base on the south bank of the Tianshui tributary, and planes land there every now and then.”
Griffin stared at McLennan, his eyes narrowed into slits, and the tip of his nose almost poked into his nostrils.
”… And I have been thinking about it for two nights and still can’t figure it out. Even if we encounter reinforcements from the Enterprise, how did you let them snatch such a big airship, and an airship with a shield?”
McLennan’s expression froze, but he was not overwhelmed by Griffin’s momentum. His eyes were also narrowed into slits, and he choked back without any hesitation.
”Don’t put the blame on me. We have already captured the Pioneer. Is there any possibility of peaceful coexistence between us and the Enterprise? Forget it. The war has already started! It has nothing to do with my strategy in the southern part of the Valley Province. If you really want to count it, it is all your unnecessary orders!”
”You haven’t answered me yet, how did you lose the airship.”
”I will naturally explain that to the Air Force Command. I have no obligation to submit a war report to the Army!”
The two quarreled fiercely, although only one person was blushing.
The adjutants, staff officers and other officers following General McLen were silent and could only stand there awkwardly.
The officers behind General Griffin were also silent, pretending that they had not heard.
”… Enough, don’t just talk about me, what about Oasis No. 9? Haven’t you taken it down yet?” Unable to withstand the soul-searching, McLen forcedly changed the subject, trying to use the other party’s incompetence to prove that his failure was justifiable.
However, Griffin just smiled faintly and said sarcastically.
”If your airships were deployed as I said, we would have been reviewing the troops at the palace of the Lion Kingdom now.”
Without waiting for McLen to get angry, he left a little dignity for this poor clown, took the initiative to end the topic, and continued indifferently.
”The situation on the front line is tense, and our military presence in Luoxia Province is a little weak, and we can’t provide much support to the Falcon Kingdom. Although the combat effectiveness of the entourage is good, they have to send people to occupy Oasis No. 3.”
General McLen said disapprovingly.
”We don’t need the untouchables in Oasis No. 3 at all. I suggest that we lock them up and deal with them collectively, and then move some more obedient slaves from the west to fill the manpower gap. In this way, we can free up more manpower and concentrate our efforts on conquering Oasis No. 9!”
”The army doesn’t need your command, you should still command your airship,” Griffin looked at him sarcastically, “We really don’t need the untouchables there, but we need the food produced there. With food, we can supply more troops, and more support can be sent from the west of the Great Desert.”
Centralized cleaning?
How can it be that simple.
Not to mention 1 million people, even if it is 1 million pigs, it will take until next year to slaughter them.
As for bringing some slaves from the west, of course it is not impossible, but large-scale population migration also takes time.
Although they are all pro-war factions, there are also differences of opinion within the pro-war faction of the legion on how to deal with the residents in the occupied areas.
Some people support killing those who resist and taming those who do not resist into slaves. Some people also support using local forces for indirect control, such as supporting puppets.
Under the same educational conditions, a slave who maintains the minimum living standard usually creates only 0.1 to 0.3 times the value of a free man, depending on the work he does. It often takes more than a dozen people to feed a military population.
But vassals are different.
Then its maximum exploitation can also guarantee more than 0.5 times the production capacity.
This is not a scientific basis, but the practical experience of the legion in various occupied areas.
Griffin looked down on the nobles who supported slavery from the bottom of his heart.
His own territory realized a mixture of employment and slavery. Those poor people who received salaries worked much harder than the servants in his manor.
However,
he only had the right to command, and at most he could shoot the junior officers who did not obey his orders, but he had no right to deal with this idiot who obeyed his orders.
And as McLen said, as the person who gave the order, he would also bear joint responsibility if the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Marshal’s Office or the military court held him accountable.
Thinking of this, Griffin became even more annoyed.
”I’ll arrange a car for you tomorrow, and you and your men can stay at Oasis No. 2.”
Oasis No. 2 is the territory of the Falcon Kingdom and the back garden of the Legion in Luoxia Province.
There are endless fine wines and fruits, as well as slaves offered by the Falcon Royal Family.
Griffin didn’t want to see this guy again, and just wanted him to get out of his way.
However, what he didn’t expect was that the guy who ran back with his tail between his legs didn’t agree.
”This battle is not over yet, don’t try to drive me away,” staring at Griffin, McLen said word by word, “Don’t try to drive me away, I’m not going anywhere.”
Once he was driven to the rear, he would no longer have the opportunity to make up for his mistakes, and could only wait for the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to throw a transfer order in his face.
What’s more, he swore.
He would personally take back this place.
He would use the blood of all the wastelanders in the southern part of the Valley Province to comfort the souls of the dead soldiers.
Griffin narrowed his eyes and stared at McLen.
”Your troops have been destroyed. What’s the point of staying here?”
McLen said with an unchanged expression.
”The Iron Heart is now in the hands of the Enterprise. If they have mastered the use of the airship, you will be in trouble. Only I know how to deal with it.”
Hearing this, Griffin’s face changed slightly. He glanced at the officer behind him and asked anxiously.
”Didn’t you withdraw with your men?”
Faced with the murderous eyes, McLen looked a little embarrassed, but still said it with a stiff upper lip.
”…Finold is missing. The incident happened suddenly and he was outside the airship and missed the last flight. That guy is a logistics officer. He probably knows how to drive that thing.”
That guy was not a front-line soldier. His personality was almost the opposite of Rachel’s. If he could surrender, he would never resist.
McLen was more than 90% sure that as long as the Alliance caught him, there would be a way to pry the method of driving the airship out of his mouth.
Griffin took a deep breath and spent a long time to stabilize his emotions.
He had been prepared to face Enterprise’s aircraft, but he didn’t expect that he would have to face not only Enterprise’s aircraft, but also his own 400mm main gun.
”…I will give you a thousand-man team. You will be responsible for holding down the airship. I will request more support from the rear.”
McLen said bluntly.
”Not enough, give me 10,000 people, and the equipment needed to fight against the airship. I know you don’t like me, but we are on the same boat now, you know what I mean.”
Griffin stared at him for a long time, and almost squeezed out a reply from his teeth.
”Okay…”
…
At the same time, on the northern front of Oasis No. 9, a whistling sandstorm just swept past.
The yellow sand that covered the sky and the sun was like the roar of the spirit of the sea of sand.
”Fuck… I thought I was going to die.”
Climbing out of a pile of sand, Zhan Di searched for a while and found an arm buried in the sand, and pulled Korwei out from underneath.
Choking out the sand in his mouth, Korwei wiped his mouth, with a look of shock on his face.
”Thank you.”
”You’re welcome, I’m glad you’re okay.” Zhan Di said loyally.
It has been almost a week since leaving the territory of the Golden Lizard Kingdom. In the past three weeks, he has become more and more skilled as an undercover agent.
Patting his good brother on the shoulder, Kolwe glanced ahead, a hint of joy appeared on his frowning brow.
”We’re here!”
Ahead was the base of the frontline troops of the legion. Although the unit’s number was unknown, the flag flying there could not be mistaken.
Adam and his group, who had been separated from them in the sandstorm, also caught up one after another.
Judging from their embarrassed appearance, they obviously suffered a lot.
Even a wagon carrying goods was scrapped, and the scattered rifles were hung on the camels.
”Are you okay?” Adam, who was walking in front with the camel, shouted at them.
”We are fine, haha! Thank you for the protection of the spirit of the sand sea!” Kolwe laughed and waved his hand, motioning them to come over.
As the sandstorm dissipated, the military camp not far away obviously noticed them.
Led by a centurion, a team of ten people walked towards this side.
”I am the centurion under Captain Rachel of the Ironheart Air Marine Corps. My name is Korwe, and here are my ID and military badge.” Looking at the centurion walking in front, Korwe took the initiative to reveal his identity and took out something that could prove his identity.
Several soldiers looked at each other. The centurion standing in front frowned, took the ID and glanced at it, then looked at Korwe again, with a bit of doubt in his eyes.
”Ironheart? Aren’t you supposed to be carrying out missions in the southern part of the Valley Province?”
As a front-line force, they were fighting the Lion Kingdom and didn’t know the situation in other war zones.
Korwe didn’t answer his question, but responded with official words.
”Something happened over there. You have to ask your superiors for details. Now I want to see your superior.”
The centurion didn’t ask any more questions, nodded, returned the military badge to him, and left the ID.
”I need to verify your identity. Do you want to wait here or come back to the camp with me?”
”Of course I’m going to your camp, otherwise are you going to stand here and eat sand?” Korwe said impatiently.
After checking Korway’s ID, the centurion continued to check the ID of the accompanying merchant Adam. After seeing the order, he quickly let the pedestrian pass.
Following the team of ten, the group went to the military camp not far away.
Since entering the camp, the battlefield guy has been quietly observing the layout here.
Unlike the camps he saw in Luoxia Province, there are few concrete fortifications here. Instead, there are square sandbags, which are made of sandbag walls.
This kind of field camp is quite common in reality. This kind of sandbag has good resistance to explosives and explosions. It can be used as a substitute for concrete and can be easily redeployed.
There are bullet shelters behind almost every wall. The shooting bunkers and sentry towers are covered with desert-colored camouflage nets. Under the camouflage nets is a black heavy machine gun, which should be a 20mm model. It
can only be said to be a standard military base, accommodating about 500 to 1,000 people.
What surprised the Warlord was not the layout of the place, but that he actually saw a mutant in the camp!
It was undoubtedly a mutant.
Although his skin was not green, but a dull gray-black, and his chin was covered with beard, his ugly face was exactly the same as the mutants that the Warlord had seen on Street 76 in Qingquan City…
If the mutants before were orcs, then these people looked like trolls…
The mutant glanced at him, showing his blood-red gums, and then walked towards the camp gate with heavy steps and shaking his head.
These mutants did not seem to live with the people of the Legion, but set up a branch camp next to this military base.
I guess no one would want to live with these cannibals.
Watching the back figure disappearing at the camp gate, the Warlord frowned and asked.
”… Mutants?”
Looking along his line of sight, Kolwe said with a smile.
”Mutant mercenaries, from the Great Desert. Although these beasts don’t have good brains, they are very fierce in battle. They can charge under machine gun fire, and their legs can grow back even if they are blown off. They are thick-skinned and not picky about food, and are simply natural cannon fodder.”
Unexpectedly, the Legion actually gained the services of mutants…
”But why are their skins gray and black?” The Warlord wondered, “The ones I have seen in the River Valley Province… at the border with Jinchuan Province are all green-skinned.”
Korwe said casually.
”The locals in the Falcon Kingdom say that they are cursed by the spirit of the sea of sand. In fact, to put it bluntly, they are subspecies branches, probably caused by the radioactive substances in the Great Desert. Who cares how they came from, anyway, they are useful.”
The Warlord nodded with a dull expression, and he was surprised and secretly excited.
Gray and black mutants…
This information is incredible!
But then again, it feels like it’s not difficult to be an undercover.
Basically, as long as he pretends not to understand and asks, this guy will shake him off in a boastful tone.
To be honest, he was a little embarrassed to be so open
with his heart. Following Kolwe into the depths of the military camp, the Field Man, who was full of emotion, soon made a new discovery.
In a warehouse with an open door, several engineers were squatting in front of a tank he had never seen before, screwing in the screws.
With a curious expression on his face, the Field Man looked at the tanks in the warehouse and asked,
”What are those tanks?”
”The Conqueror X II is equipped with a 150mm heavy howitzer, which is considered a self-propelled artillery. The one next to it is a III, and the turret is replaced with an eight-barrel anti-aircraft machine gun. Although it is used for air defense, the Lion Kingdom has no air force, so it is usually pushed to the front line to support the infantry.”
Looking at the tanks in the warehouse, Korway narrowed his eyes, with pride flashing in his eyes.
”…Our opponent this time is the Enterprise. I heard that the Legion is planning to send a batch of Type 11 tanks over.”
The battlefield guy immediately followed his words and asked.
”What is that?”
Korway also had no doubts, but just paid attention to the distance between him and the businessman Adam, and said in a very light voice.
”I’ve only heard a little about the new heavy tank designed by the Triumph City Army Equipment Research Institute for Gauss weapons. Don’t spread it around… It’s said that the armor of that thing is very hard, and it’s difficult for ordinary hard-core armor-piercing bullets and electromagnetic mass bullets to penetrate it, but it’s also very expensive.”
”Including the pre-war inventory, the ‘Wanderer’ tank is equipped with Meissner effect armor. These are all great gifts we prepared for the enterprise… They probably wouldn’t have thought that those equipment would still be useful after 200 years.” In
general survivor settlements, at most they can get an armor-piercing bullet. The spaced armor of the No. 10 tank is enough to perfectly defend against the metal jet of the armor-piercing bullet.
But for the ultra-high-speed steel needles fired by Gauss weapons, the spaced armor is not effective enough.
General Kolway said with a beaming face, and the battlefield guy took notes with a tingling scalp.
It’s true that you only regret not having enough knowledge when you need it.
Daily communication is actually not too difficult. He doesn’t understand the meaning of some special terms at all, and it’s not convenient to ask in detail, so he can only write them down with onomatopoeia and communicate with other players on the forum when he returns.
Thinking of this, the battlefield guy was full of regret.
He still suffered from his lack of education. If he had known earlier, he would have learned from Fang Chang and memorized a few more words!
Seeing that Korway seemed to be tired of talking, the battlefield guy quickly passed the topic to let him continue.
”Then our tanks have no weaknesses?”
”Of course there are weaknesses. The weaknesses of the Conqueror series are mainly concentrated in the top cover and chassis, so we must be careful to protect these two areas. Especially the chassis, the armor near the escape door is thinner, and it is next to the transmission parts.”
When he said this, Korway suddenly changed the subject and continued with a smile.
”Speaking of which, I heard that the Alliance has a drone that specializes in drilling into the crotch of tanks, which caused the bone chewing tribe to suffer a lot.”
The battlefield guy’s heart tightened and nodded.
”Yes… I think I heard about it too.”
Looking at his good brother’s nervous expression, Korway smiled and patted him on the shoulder.
”Don’t worry, that kind of thing can only deal with the brainless predators. We just need to hang a curtain under the tank’s crotch to entangle the propeller of the drone, or hang a baffle.”
The bomb is only effective if it is detonated directly below the chassis.
If it only explodes on the turret or the body, the shock wave will at most tickle their tanks.
The battlefield guy nodded, not quite understanding, but silently memorized these clues in his heart.
The group waited for a while in the open space.
Just when the battlefield guy had almost understood the situation here, an officer came from not far away and stopped in front of Korway.
”We have verified your identity. We will arrange a vehicle to take you to the command post.”
Korway’s face stretched out a relieved smile and returned a military salute.
Adan, who was not far away, walked up and congratulated.
”Congratulations, Mr. Korway, you will be able to return to your team soon.”
”Thank you for your help, I will remember this favor,” Korway shook his hand and continued, “What are your plans for the future?”
Adan thought for a moment and replied with a smile.
”After the logistics officer here completes the handover of supplies with me, I will probably continue on the road to do the next business. The Lion Kingdom should not last more than two months. While this war is not over yet, I plan to make a few more orders.”
”It seems that we have to separate,” Korway smiled and stretched out his right hand, “But I believe that there will be a place for you in this land illuminated by the sunset in the future. See you later.”
A hint of surprise flashed across Adan’s face, and he smiled and shook his right hand.
”Thank you for your good wishes, see you later!”
Just as Korway said goodbye to Adan, the battlefield guy was looking around, trying to find a place to escape to log off.
The new equipment being sent from the rear, and the mutant mercenaries in the Great Desert…
Such explosive information.
This time it will definitely be a hit!
Tomorrow’s chapter says that it will return to normal
(end of this chapter)
