Central City East District 1, Evergreen Neighborhood.With the roar of the engine, a red humanoid mech turned out from behind the half-collapsed church wall on the street corner.The five-section iron-gray metal paws of the mecha rattled on the broken bricks and rubble of the uneven ruins.The external auxiliary drive rod of the leg is telescopic back and forth.The red upper body of the mecha is cushioned by the hip bone and abdominal suspension system, and the pace of the random armor rises and falls rhythmically, while the hideous energy cannon muzzle on the shoulder, under the action of the mecha computer and mechanical correction device, deviates from the state of body bumps, and always maintains a precise balance of the direction of the suspicious area."
Safety."
Hans.Stepp reported in a dull, deep voice in the communication channel, then minimized the communication volume knob on his helmet.For the chattering squad leader, he was really tired.Pushing the lever and stopping his beloved red Rafale by the fountain in the Evergreen Little Boy's Center Plaza, Slipp turned on the forced ventilation system in the cockpit and opened the canopy a little bit to try to get rid of the lingering smell of oil in the cockpit from the modification of the energy attack system.On the mecha radar, there were no suspicious targets except for the main team that was slowly approaching behind him.Stepp lit a cigarette, tilted his head, and adjusted the optical sight for routine vigilance observation.Evergreen is one of the oldest districts in Canterlot, and Little Boys Rotunda is the intersection of eight main streets.The street, which stretches radially in eight directions, is like a giant Chinese character for "rice", cutting the entire district of Evergreen.Because the Evergreen Zone was built before the climate transformation of the Mars Free World, the lack of tools and materials and the factors to match the environmental isolation cover in mid-air made the first people to land on the planet 6 have to build the low-rise houses in this area in the most primitive way.These ancient brick and wood structures still seem to have an unusual ancient charm.As the climate change progressed, more and more people moved to Mars, and the Evergreen area expanded more and more in all directions.Eventually, this district was connected with several other central areas formed by the containment hood, and became the current Canterlot.Thousands of years have passed, and the houses here have been rebuilt and repaired several times, and they are no longer the buildings they used to be.However, the architectural style of the entire district is still intact.When Slipp was a child, he often followed his parents here.The bare-ass bronze sculpture of a little boy in the fountain of the circular square, and the doves in the square, were his best playmates when his parents went to church to pray sincerely.As a teenager, the taverns on the streets of due south were the favorite places for him and his companions.I don't know how many times they were kicked out because they weren't old enough, and they cheekily pretended to be eighteen years old and went into another tavern until late at night.But now, all these good memories are in ruins.As far as the eye can see, the houses around the square have collapsed one by one, and the ruins that are still standing are full of traces of smoke and fire.The bluestone streets are paved with broken wood and broken bricks, and the pavement of the original street is barely visible.The bronze boy in the central fountain is only half of his body left, and the palatial church has also collapsed in half, and from the outside, you can directly see the broken wooden benches in the church and the crucifix on the front choir wall.The South Street tavern in my memory has been destroyed in the war, and now it is empty, with only a few broken pillars, ruins more than one meter high, and weeds that have grown a lot.Stepp looked up at the sky, and a dove cooed, low, flapping its wings into the air, streaking across the gray sky and flying under the broken eaves of the church.He watched quietly, the only thing that survived in his memory.These pigeons, who have lived here for I don't know how many years, have been inseparable from this place.I don't know if these animals will realize that when they see the world with their smart eyes, all this in front of them means a disaster.Perhaps, without thoughts, they are happier than humans in troubled times.The sound of engines and footsteps sounded, and eleven mecha 66 continued to gather from all directions to the small circular square, which was the person of the reconnaissance team, responsible for the forward guard of the brigade, presumably, had already finished surveying the surroundings.Stepp continued to look up at the half-remaining roof of the church, and it seemed to him that waiting for the dove to reappear was far more important than any other companion."
These damn Puluo bandits."
A Rafale stopped at the edge of the pool, the cockpit door opened, and the monkey-like detection team leader with a pair of triangular eyes jumped out of the cockpit, unchained his pants and peed into the dry pool.kept scolding and scolding: "Let Lao Tzu catch them, you have to give them a good look!"
”Stepp gave the squad leader a disdainful look, dropped the cigarette butt, and slammed the cockpit shut.Give someone a good look......
The only thing these people can do except follow other people's butts in circles and keep a cautious distance from each other to prevent sneak attacks, is to watch the camps being destroyed by others.The fact that the 4th battalion was destroyed has long frightened everyone, including the command.Perhaps, the only one who dares to shout is this monkey who is accustomed to boasting about himself!"
The third group, go and replace the first group.Be vigilant. ”The captain of the monkey squad shook his body, pulled up his trouser chains, and arranged the extended alert task, and when he looked back and saw Stepp's mecha, a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes, and he waved his hand: "Stepp, you also go to ......"
The six red mechs started, stepped on the uneven ruins, and walked towards the southeast.The narrow streets had long been buried in the rubble, and the scattered mechs simply passed directly between the empty ruins of the houses, and some of the brick walls were knocked to the ground by the mechs, kicking up a cloud of dust.Perhaps frightened by the arrival of the mecha, the dove that flew into half of the roof of the church never reappeared.Stepp sighed, activated the mech, and slowly walked through a few companions who were leaning against the mech chatting and smoking, and walked southeast.As he passed a small inn building with a large hole in the front wall, he looked back at the church, and heard the sudden laughter of the monkey captain and his flattering companions.Slipp suddenly felt a little sad, he didn't understand why he was so crazy to join this army in the first place.Starting as an ordinary mercenary, he, like many young people in Freeport Mars, desperately trained and manifested himself in order to join the almost mythical armored battalion in their circle.At that time, their blood was boiling, and they were always holding back their energy, wanting to prove themselves and make contributions!
They believe that there is always a big battle in the free world.That was the only chance for them, ordinary young people who could not become the core disciples of the mecha school, to overthrow the inherent order of this world, to achieve some feats, and to completely defeat those high-spirited machine warriors.They believed that only the Northern Alliance was the real army, and they were thrilled by their persistence when they were brutally trained, and that the Northern Alliance would be a blockbuster in the coming war.Until now, Stepp still remembers his vanity when he whispered to his companions about the Blood Shadow Mecha Regiment, watching the recruits who didn't know anything eager to gather around and listen, and remembering his own shallowness when he mysteriously told the recruits how powerful this almost mythical mech regiment was.Of course, he remembered even more the ridiculousness when he learned that he had been selected to be trained in the Blood Shadow Mecha Regiment, and he couldn't sleep for a few days when he was excited, and he always walked on the road with his chest held high, and he used his eyes to collect people's envious glances without squinting.The mecha was getting farther and farther away from the central square, and looking through the empty ruins, it was vaguely visible that the brigades of the 1st and 2nd Companies of the 2nd Battalion were continuing to cross the wide gentle slope of the city's Highland Garden, two kilometers away, and enter the ruins of buildings in the Evergreen neighborhood.Stepp spat hard.Now, all the mysterious aura of this army has faded.It's a bunch of mongrels with no last name!
And like many people, I'm a wretched worm who is engulfed by mongrels like the monkey squad leader!
In the beginning, I kept telling myself that this was war.Destroying cities, slaughtering everything in sight without hesitation, is part of the war.It wasn't until one day that he learned that most of the high-level officials of the Northern Alliance, and even the grass-roots officers like Monkey, were the remnants of the Nademik Dynasty and their princes and ministers, and the officers of the Guards, that he suddenly realized that in the eyes of these mongrels, the lives of ordinary people are no different from pigs and dogs.Shooting civilians indiscriminately is not a war necessity, it is simply because they want to.However, what if you know it, the battle has reached this point, and you have no way to retreat!
Staple glanced behind him, perhaps, he should find an opportunity to give the monkey squad leader who had killed a dozen civilians in front of him a deadly black gun.Taking over from the first team of the Extended Vigilance, Slipp began the tedious routine monitoring again, with a 360-degree rotating television and a dynamic target scanner to monitor every target that may have moved or is moving.The role of radar here is very small, the stealth mode of the general mecha can reduce the detection area of the mecha to the size of a lunch box, which is difficult to detect, plus the unevenness of the ground is the reduction of the radar detection angle by the terrain, if it is not coordinated with dynamic scanning, this thing is simply useless.In the communication channel with the volume turned to the lowest, the voice of the company commander Elmer giving orders was heard again.Perhaps it was a new message from headquarters about the bandit mech team, and Elmer cursed loudly, his tone similar to that of Captain Monkey.Elmer was furious at the fact that he was being led by the nose by the bandit mecha team.Stepp knew that since the 4th Battalion had been annihilated, the command had ordered the 1st and 2nd Battalions to stay close enough to avoid being broken by the enemy.After all, in addition to the armored battalions of the infantry division with low combat effectiveness, these two battalions of the Blood Shadow Mecha Regiment are the main armored forces of Canterlot and cannot afford to be missed.However, it was clear that the Command did not want to protect itself, or rather, the actions of the bandit armored squad had angered the Command.They easily jumped out of the encirclement formed by the various forces of the Northern Alliance, attacking any target they wanted along the way.Among the targets of the attack were a certain section of the defensive line, the station of an infantry regiment, a logistics transfer station, a warehouse for storing materials, a gun repair station and a bridge.Enraged, the command mobilized almost all the troops that could be mobilized.Trying to limit the space for the bandit mech squad, dragging them down, and annihilating them.Therefore, although they were ordered not to be too far away from each other, the first and second battalions of the Blood Shadow Mecha Regiment still took the main base as the center, and they were tired of moving around, cooperating with the temporary blocking points formed by the infantry to compress them......
Stapp believed that the guy who led the bandit squad was definitely an expert at hide and seek.From East 2nd District to West 1st District, then to East 1st District, and finally back to East 2nd District......
Two Blood Shadow armored battalions, almost lured to madness by their opponents!
Most of the time, they can't even see the shadow of their opponents, and only through orders and messages from the headquarters do they know who the opponent has attacked again and where they have gone, and then they just cancel their previous orders to act, change direction, and continue the pursuit.On several occasions, the reconnaissance team in charge of the proliferation alert almost caught the tail of the opponent.Stapp himself even saw a cyan mecha running over a small hill less than a kilometer away from him with a shy stomach......
But so what, every now and then, there is always a warning from headquarters about the overall disconnect from the distance.If the pursuit continues, friendly forces will not be able to rush to support within the allotted time.And by the time the friendly forces arrived at the corresponding position, those cyan mechs had long since lost their sights.Stepp found it a little ridiculous that he was not only being led by the nose by the enemy, but also by the tail of the friendly army.Such an action really has no meaning except to waste mental and physical strength.After going around in circles for several hours, even the most energetic self in the company is a little tired, and the other companions are probably even more painful.This pointless transfer of running without a goal and repeatedly is a double blow to the body and spirit.Soon, the order was given through the squad channel.Slipper smiled bitterly, no wonder Aylmer was angry, the third company and the first battalion were once again distanced.Coming from the south, they were again delayed by more than twenty minutes because the bandit squad had just blown up the bridge over the river and the sappers had not been able to finish the bridge before they arrived.This also meant that the two companies of the 2nd Battalion had to return the same way and get as close as possible to the river road bridge to avoid the overall disconnection and repeat the mistakes of the 4th Battalion.In the communication channel, there was a lot of cursing and screaming.Stepp turned his head to see that the [Rafale] that had just entered the Evergreen neighborhood was turning in place in a mess, waiting for the mechs behind them to turn away.And the mecha parked in the central square of the little boy was also in a mess, and the fast ones had already started the mechas, and they were rushing to the back, and the slow ones were still closing the cockpit that had just been opened......
What strict discipline and order, there is no shadow at this moment.Complaining is the natural surname of human beings.It is also the most contagious virus.Hours of running back and forth have exhausted everyone and lost their patience.What is even more terrifying is that the trust and obedience to the command, including Stapp himself, has now turned into suspicion......
Those staff officers don't have a backache when they sit and talk, damn, such an idiotic transfer, what are they trying to do?
Beside him, the other six mechs that were responsible for expanding the vigilance had already walked over.Stepp lit a cigarette and watched his companions stand crookedly beside him, and there was a guy who even sat cross-legged on the ground with his ass in control, as if that way, the mech could get a rest.This group is basically a native of Mars, and they often complain and even anger in private about what the Northern Alliance has done during this time.Since the rear team has changed to the front team, then, the matter of vigilance, it is not the turn of these people.Slipp suddenly had a feeling, as if he had just watched a movie and was waiting for the crowd to leave.They don't want to join in the fun.Dynamic scanner, beeping warning sound.Stepley ignored it.This thing can't tell friend from foe.Now the two companies of [Rafale] are crowding around in a chaotic manner, and it is strange that the scanner does not give warning.The warning sounded hysterically, and an agitated Stepp looked up and reached for the switch.Then he saw a picture that he did not forget until he died of old age......
In the ruins in the distance, dozens of cyan mechs scattered and clinged to the ground, flying towards the group of red mechas.Like, in the grass, dozens of hunting green wolves, wave after wave, galloping!
(To be continued)