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"Zhenhai, your carrier-based aircraft detect the situation below the platform and make sure nothing can get up to the position generator and stairs from Linyuan Realm to Danding Division. Yixian, free up computing power for the coordinate sharing of artillery support, and wait for my order to share the coordinates with the fighting ships and gunboats."
"Yes."
Zhenhai went forward, while Yixian stood in line with Jingliu, having already confirmed their wartime responsibilities.
This kind of cooperation between old comrades, which does not require any extra instructions or public communication, makes Cocolia very envious.
[Captain Yulin, let the mechanical bird and Zhenhai's seaplane go in first, and then the golden man's front formation.]
The Jin people take the lead?
[Yes, Xiaowei.] Although he was a little worried that Kong might be too conservative and lose their chance to win honors and military exploits, Yulin still acted as the most dedicated messenger.
[Attention all units, our ship's water reconnaissance has discovered that the bottom of the stairs is corroded and parasitized by unknown biological matter. Please ensure your feet are safe and check whether the shield generator is working properly——]
Before they had time to confirm the information sent back by Zhenhai, the generals of the third echelon had just entered the thick fog when they immediately saw that the steps of the Danding Commander, where Jing Yuan was leading his troops to charge, were covered with bloody flesh.
[All infantrymen activate the anti-gravity device! ]
Kong's order was passed on to the soldiers through Qian Hu. This time they obeyed the order without hesitation. As soon as their feet felt empty, they were all hanging in the air at the moment of the landslide. They watched with fear as the stairs connecting the Industrial and Manufacturing Department to the Dan Ding Department collapsed and fell into the endless white fog under their feet.
Although they would not have suffered any casualties if they had reacted quickly enough to activate their individual anti-gravity devices, Kong's orders undoubtedly maintained the integrity of the army formation and the toughness of the integrated shield, so that subsequent enemy raids and ambushes did not achieve the desired effect.
Those evil creatures were very cunning. They had arranged these flesh and blood traps in advance, which were different from those organized by Jianmu, waiting for Jingyuan's vanguard to rush in, and then dividing his follow-up forces, cutting off the head and tail to catch the turtle in the jar. Even if they couldn't capture many people, they could delay enough time. But when Yu Lin, who was flying, led the cloud cavalry like a heavenly army and killed them in an intact organization, those secret monsters that were originally abandoned were dispersed at once -
They climbed up from the bottom of the stairs, but before they could seize the opportunity to attack Jing Yuan from behind, they were turned into a meat bun by the tail of Jing Yuan's army and the front of the empty Jin people. The Jin people swung their big saws and chopped at the tree man, and sawdust immediately flew everywhere.
"How did you predict their ambush?" Kokoliado was a little dumbfounded - she seemed to know what was going on when she was brainwashed and had Sora chasing her around the streets.
"Look at the red dots on the small map. I should have shared them all?" 三』∏⒌●_６∫）⑷←ˇ
455.……Why are you still here?
"General, our retreat has been cut off!"
"It's just a flight of stairs. The pilots will ensure that we can evacuate Dan Ding Division smoothly."
The highest "Tao" of the Immortal Boat is "no turning back once you've entered the battle line." Jing Yuan is always prepared to realize that every charge he makes will be his last.
But he was also well versed in the subtleties of wave offensives, and knew that the doctor had some means of instantly deploying troops into the battlefield. He personally led 6,000 of the 50,000 troops to serve as the spearhead of the attack, while the doctor's 3,000 men ensured that the vanguard would not be isolated. The troops under his command did not disappoint Jing Yuan. When the bridge and stairs collapsed, they did not panic at all, as if they knew the trick under their feet in advance. They cooperated with the troops in the rear to immediately capture the upside-down "bats" that were ambushed under the platform.
Now that the remaining bandits were surrounded, Jing Yuan's heart finally settled down - the pressure of the attack was too small, and there must be a trick. Taking advantage of the anti-gravity property of the Xianzhou Dongtian platform, he could set up an ambush in the platform gaps and the repulsion area below that was difficult for the fighting ships to detect. This was a fairly standard tactic, and only monsters like the evil creatures that could rely on their wings, claws and other alien organs to hook and shuttle through the roots of Jianmu for a long time and would not be torn apart by the repulsion field could carry it out.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to stop Yunqi with just a little cleverness.
Each of the formation sword cloud cavalry and spearmen wearing standard equipment may seem to be light infantry, but their integrated armor combined with the strong physique inherited from generations of Xianzhou people enables them to possess individual defense and mobility that is not inferior to that of light tanks - and this is without taking into account the integrated shield for marching in formation.
Six thousand light tanks were running in unison. Even if they only used close combat weapons without heavy artillery, just trampling and ramming them would be enough to defeat those evil creatures with uneven shapes and developments. What's more, Jing Yuan was also a general who was good at using the Jin people.
For a moment, the battlefield gave a sense of déjà vu of a cluster charge of Sentinel mechas and Leman Russ tanks.
In Kong's understanding, Luofu's infantry tactics were boring but very effective. In addition, the efficiency of the battleships was much higher than the previous two days when Xingcha Sea was busy with its own affairs.
The glow above the clouds flashed frequently, and the attack was seen landing but there was no trace of the ship. However, the corrupt roots that the evil creatures had specially cultivated to block the road and act as chevaux de frise were splashed everywhere in the rounds of shooting, and all the evil creatures who tried to rely on them as cover were sent to see the Immortal Star God.
It is unknown how many of these were bombings that were directly guided by the Cloud Riders using their helmets. With visibility so low, there was actually a strange sight of the Army and the Air Force competing for the spoils of war...
The corners of Kong's mouth twitched violently. He predicted that the first battle would be a favorable one, but he didn't expect it to be so smooth - from the neat style of the battleship raids, he could roughly see some of Yukong's fierce style when he was a pilot.
After the thick smoke billowed, the infantry cleared the area around the Qihuang Office at the entrance of the Danding Division to ensure the stability of the bridgehead, and then advanced five miles in an instant until they could see the beautiful scenery of the misty sea under the Linyuan Realm from the western edge of the platform.
The fog was thick at the seashore, but the white mist became thinner as one went deeper into the water, and the water became clearer as one got farther away from the platform. It seemed as if the roots growing from underwater had not polluted the things in the Scale Abyss, or perhaps the evil creatures did not have the ability to pollute the holy land of the Chiming, and only concentrated the evil fog to restrict the entrance and several paths on the slope.
It must be said that although the exterior has been transformed by the remnants of the secret party to become a bit evil and the fog is a bit thick, but apart from the damage caused by the proliferation of Jianmu, the maple leaves in Dandingsi are fluttering and the shadows of the trees are swaying, giving a feeling of autumn, which will definitely evoke the familiarity and intimacy of Liyue people such as Liuyun, and it is indeed a treasure land for cultivating immortals.
"The entire army will rest for a moment and wait for the Jin gatekeepers to enter the battle."
The first thousand people who broke through the formation walked to the maple tree in the square in front of the Qihuang Office and regrouped around the square. Kong also followed the large army and settled in front of the office. From afar, he saw the evil creatures fleeing hastily in the quaint buildings, and thought that Jing Yuan was really cautious.
It's not that he knows the saying "don't pursue a desperate enemy", he's simply waiting for more follow-up heavy firepower to be delivered, and then spend some time surveying the changes in terrain caused by the creeping of roots to confirm whether there are any hidden barriers that are unfamiliar to the locals and cannot be identified by scanning equipment.
"So far, the only ones we've fought are evil creatures?"
Asking his deputy general, Jing Yuan could almost confirm that all the virtual soldiers had withdrawn, and the order given to the secret abandoned pawns by the leader was at most to delay, rather than to firmly resist the steps of the Cloud Cavalry here.
After getting the adjutant's affirmation, he instructed the gatekeepers to half-kneel on the spot. As the Jin men knelt on one knee, the building-shaped mechanisms on their backs opened and closed, and they turned into fixed artillery positions. Fifty heavy artillery formed a fierce firepower position in the square, and began to pour out their anger at the area not far away where there were faint spikes and acid flying due to the passing of fighting ships.
Watching the plasma ball break through the thick fog and fly into the depths of Dandingsi, Cocolia's eyes lit up, while Kong calculated the parabolas of the plasma with a frown on his face, and felt a subtle sense of familiarity.
What is this? Is it the Jin version of a siege tank? Or a Scorpion tail lion rocket? Search QQ group: ⒐●`〇娰∵#ba∪＆４∝陑＋九∝[琳wu cannon?
As expected, the convergence of war forms is inevitable. He can hardly learn anything new from Luofu. Only Cocolia can gain new knowledge on this trip. Even Zhenhai next to him has begun to frown frequently.
This kind of battlefield that didn't require her to use her brain was really boring. Her main task in the naval battle was to guide the bombardment and conduct reconnaissance. Now she was just doing her job in a different place. But no matter how bored she was, she was still extremely vigilant in a different world, and kept reporting to Sora about the movements in the areas that the Cloud Riders couldn't observe:
"Commander, further down is the ancient town of Chiming. The buildings there are low, so there shouldn't be the conditions necessary to set up an ambush. The problem lies in the sea."
"That's right. The land route is basically settled. Help them detect the situation of the offshore waters and follow the edge of the fog. It's not worth it to let the battleship take the risk."
"Yes."
Zhenhai will give a rough detection tendency, also out of combat habits - although the army being ambushed by submarines with guns is a rare case, who knows whether these evil creatures that are not picky about the living environment will suddenly emerge from under the water and fire venom acid bombs at the Yunqi on the shore?
While using a seaplane to observe the shadow of the Scaled Abyss Realm, Zhenhai muttered to himself - although this Luofu is a giant ship, why does the cabin of the giant ship have to accommodate an entire ocean?
...The size of this body of water is almost catching up with the Baltic Sea. It doesn't need a watertight cabin to travel in space, right?
Jiukong saw that she was hesitant to speak, so he could only shrug: [Don't ask, if you ask, just tell me this is a 'Xianji'. ]
While Lin Zhenhai was sharing the information with the fighting ships that were unable to fly close to the water mist, Yu Lin had already arranged the artillery positions of the Jin army in the same configuration as the vanguard army - and ran to Kong to express his gratitude and request further instructions.
㈣【Master Xiaowei, thank you for reminding me.】
8 [Yu Lin, I have another favor to ask you. Ask the brothers to help me get some samples of the plants in the company. You don’t need to pick too many, just a little of each.]
⑷【Respect your order.】
Although Mi had nothing to do with marching and fighting, after witnessing Kong Na's more specific "prediction" ability than Taibu, Yu Lin almost followed him blindly. So this "silent" army, while sticking closely to the general's guards, took some "trophies" that they liked from the grass on the ground and the piles of fallen maple leaves and put them into their pockets in front of the astonished eyes of their comrades.
Yan Qing, who was on the flank of Jiu, thought that these soldiers did not take spoils from the evil creatures, but instead felt lost for the flowers and grass of their homeland that were polluted by the abundance. He also followed suit and took a maple leaf and put it in the inner sleeve of his cloud robe with a sad expression.
Not only him, but even Jing Yuan's guards took some maple leaves and stuffed them into their pockets. This unexpected and unanimous large-scale action, for unknown reasons, made Ling Sha, who deliberately walked past the air force formation, at a loss.
Wu, what are you doing to my Dandingsi?
Half of the Danshi were still under investigation, which made her basically a half-empty commander - the office area was also plundered. Lingsha almost rushed to Jingyuan to cry -
I mean, even if these old men have a huge problem with us alchemists, they shouldn't pull up all the grass in the yard, right? ? Those are medicinal fields! What if the things affected by the abundance radiation can be used as medicine! Not all objects affected by the ancestor of disaster are the source of disaster——
I'm talking about you, the little guard beside the general - others would just pick up a little and then stop, but why are you so addicted to it? Even the grass is not spared?
"Lingqing, what is the pollution index?"
"…It's still within the tolerance range. The deconstruction component only updates one medicine. When the efficacy is reduced by about 2 systems compared to the estimated efficacy, it is more than enough."
The complaints that were on the tip of his tongue finally turned into steady and gentle replies due to Lingsha's repeated patience and Jingyuan's inquiries, without any resentment in his voice.
What would it matter if she complained? If the Dandingsi Cave Heaven was not cleaned up, even if she took all the blame, she couldn't make Luofu's pharmaceutical and medical consultation systems run at full speed - it would be better to be practical and let the army clean up the filth as soon as possible. As for the grass and the terrifying bombing launched by the cloud riders just now... she could only pretend not to see them.
Lingsha is quite shrewd, but the Qihuang Office is Luofu's medical research institute. Jingyuan can tell from her rapid movements as she quickly chases after the front line that she was distressed about the research results and new drugs she had cultivated that were lost in the war.
However, now the Danding Division has already "started from scratch" in a double sense. Instead of continuing the research and taking the risk of being secretly contaminated by the test products, it is better to start all over again, allowing the doctor to collect samples and initiate new research projects. Maybe Lingqing can learn a thing or two from it, and also be able to establish a "connection" with the doctor that is independent of Fu Qing.
Even if it's not a marriage line, it's okay.
"But General, after the Cloud Riders reoccupy the area, how to hold out until the evil fog completely dissipates is another problem. Even if the weather system does its best to remove the fog, the pills for the Cloud Riders and Earth Riders will still be a bit stretched due to the limited materials... I'm afraid we may not be able to supply them, and can only maintain a small force."
"Siduo has already invited a surprise force, hasn't he?" Hearing that Lingsha actually had some intention of cooperating with Yunqi's tactical considerations, Jingyuan, who had just seen blood on his knife, smiled elegantly.
"Ah... So those foreign manpower is going to be used here?"
"The people of Beicheng are not affected by the evil spirit. If Qing Qing can hire people from Cunhu to help fight, I, Luofu, can do the same."
Jing Yuan glanced at Kong, who was explaining the integrated shield array to Cocolia, as well as the difference between Luofu tactics and Beicheng tactics. On the surface, he was clearly showing his support for Lingsha, but there was also a strange feeling of watching the show brewing in the dark.
"Lingqing, you need to explain this matter in detail to Dr. Kong, so that he won't feel that the Alliance is not open enough to him. The risks must be made clear."
"...General...Taiban always said that you have bad intentions. Now I know that this 'slander' is not entirely 'slander'."⑷
For a moment, Lingsha really wanted to tear Jingyuan's cheerful face apart - but he was also stopped by the impulse in his mind.
"Haha, since the envoy Natasha couldn't come, we should exchange some new advances in pharmacology for Lingqing, which would be quite helpful. The doctor can look around the department and ask for help, so let him do whatever he wants."
Is this your company or mine? General?
Lingsha's slender little flower arms were somewhat hardened, and the dragon scales became more rosy. As her anger rose, her words became more delicate:
"Yes, I will mediate with him."
How can it be called mediation, Lingqing? It should be about maintaining relationships.
I don't know why, but Lingsha could see such a mocking emotion in the eyes of this old fox——
I'm obviously not the type who's too love-brained, so why do you squint your eyes and look like you're expecting me to give you something for free?
After bowing slightly to Jing Yuan, Ling Sha, with the mentality of trying everything possible, moved back to the vicinity of Kong's "battle group". Originally, he moved lightly, wanting to use some colleagues in certain departments as a cover, so that his approach would not cause resistance from Kong, and he would not appear so anxious -
But she didn't even have a subordinate Danshi who could be used as a shield. After realizing that she could only "fight alone", she became even more resentful, so much so that Kong was actually slightly attracted by her resentful mood even when his psychic energy frequency band was fully expanded.
"Si Ding, why are you joining the army?"
Yukong and Fu Xuan had given her emergency counseling before - Kong usually didn't use honorifics to address anyone. Once he did, it was clear that he wanted to keep his distance. Lingsha felt even more sad:
"...After all, it's such a large-scale use of drugs. I must personally collect Yunqi's drug use data and act as a toxicology consultant to look after everyone's health. Less than 10% of the Dan Ding Division is able to work, so how can Si Ding dare to be idle?"
Si Ding, who originally wanted to show some apology, couldn't help but complain to Kong - this implicit complaint actually violated the external image she had set for herself, but no, if she continued like this, she was afraid that she would be as depressed as Tai Bu.
456.Hook straight, bait salty
"...Si Ding has just taken office, and he really has a lot of difficulties."
Listening to the girl's resentful tone that was about to solidify into reality and her somewhat weak breath, Sora scratched his cheek.
He thought that he was the one who was offended, but seeing that the girl was busy running around and looked so tired that she looked like a ghost, why did he feel guilty as if he was making things difficult for others?
Kong was a little angry before, but he didn't blame the Chiming in front of him - the responsibility that an individual can bear is limited after all. He can only blame the high-pressure external environment that made it impossible for the top leaders of Luofu to calm down and slowly cultivate the hard-won friendship between the two sides. They kept hoping to use the resources and favors in their hands to exchange for Kong's assistance, which made everyone except Jingyuan seem very impatient...
But even if Lingsha hadn't come to ask him on behalf of Liuyu's will, when Zhu Ming and the general Qing came, they would definitely bypass Jingyuan and make similar tests on him.
Kong was merely stating his attitude in advance so that Luofu and their allies could explain themselves clearly, in order to avoid any rift between him and the two generals who didn't know him well enough - many times misunderstandings arose from this kind of unnecessary internal friction and wrangling.
"Well... If I had not been on such an unstable footing, I would never have made such a request that would be difficult for the Doctor - please forget the previous unhappiness..."
"Nata can't just come to Luofu casually. If we just want to cooperate... I think there is a compromise and mutually beneficial solution."
"……Eh?"