"Sir, it's great to see you're okay!" Whether it was hypocrisy or pretense, when Second Lieutenant Piping saw Zhang Tie, the look of relief on this slick guy's face really made people feel happy. Nuan couldn't bear any ill will towards him. Dealing with such a character was what Zhang Tie was good at in Tang De's grocery store, so when Zhang Tie saw Second Lieutenant Piping, he didn't treat him politely, but directly Hooking Lieutenant Pepin's shoulder, he took Pepin to the office. 『』
After working as a section chief for two weeks, this was the first time Zhang Tie came to the section chief's office in the repair shop.
The office is decorated in a simple military style, with a table, a sofa, a filing cabinet, and a few structural drawings of steam engines and automobiles hung on the wall. Other than that, there are no extraneous decorations. . However, although Zhang Tie has not been here these days, the office is still very clean.
Zhang Tie came to the office and sat down on the sofa, looking at Second Lieutenant Piping.
"Okay, stop talking nonsense. I know you are well-informed. Let me tell you what happened last night..."
Second Lieutenant Piping also found that this officer who came down from the Iron-Blooded Battalion was different from the others. He was easier to deal with. He seemed approachable, but in fact he was harder to fool. As a subordinate, I actually like this kind of commander. What Second Lieutenant Piping is most afraid of is the kind of old-fashioned person who doesn't understand anything but wants to take care of everything. If the Ninth Equipment Section has such a section chief, then what will happen? It's everyone's nightmare.
What Zhang Tie didn't know was that during the two weeks he didn't come here to meet him, his indifferent attitude was recognized by the people here, who thought he was a good officer and section chief.
Before telling the news he heard, Lieutenant Piping also looked at the door of the office to make sure there was no one outside. After closing the door personally, he sneakily approached Zhang Tie.
"I have a friend who is in the air defense camp. He said that many people died last night. An important warehouse in our logistics department was blown up by the Glory Feather's airship!" Second Lieutenant Piping said in a low voice.
"Is it really an explosive?" Zhang Tie asked curiously.
"It's really an explosive!" Second Lieutenant Piping nodded affirmatively, "I heard that this is the Sun God's revenge on our side, because in the past two days, our Crazy Shark airship touched it at night They passed by. Several heavy-duty white phosphorus gel incendiary bombs were dropped in the battle fort where their headquarters was located, killing many people over there and taking a big hit on their morale. Last night's action was a glorious example. Yu’s revenge on us!”
Zhang Tie felt speechless for a while, was it revenge again
Sometimes between countries. The battle between legions is actually no different from a fight between three and five-year-old children. If you punch me, I have to kick you. No one wants to suffer. It's just that this kind of revenge is more terrifying and bloody than children's fights, and more people will lose their lives in such revenge. The people from the Iron Horn Legion were beheaded, so the people from the Iron Blood Battalion had to go up. Cut off the opponent's head as revenge. The legion's aerial troops dropped heavy white phosphorus gel incendiary bombs on the head of the battle fort where the headquarters is located, so they might as well get an airship to come to the logistics base here. The explosives were dropped directly. It made the whole Brape restless.
Zhang Tie felt that perhaps the battle forts on the front line had been prepared for the sneak attack of the Glory Feather. Therefore, the Glory Feathers, who couldn't find a chance on the front line, extended the front line to the rear, and suddenly hit the key point of the Iron Horn Legion. Due to limitations in transportation capacity, logistical support is indeed one of the key points of the Iron Horn Legion.
"Were their airships shot down by us?" Zhang Tie felt that he was a bit of an idiot after asking this question. If the logistics base of the Iron Horn Legion, which is more than a hundred kilometers away from the front line, can let the opponent's airship drop a bomb. If nothing happens, just pat your butt and fly back. Then there is no need to fight this war.
"It's been beaten down, now I feel a little troublesome!"
"Why?"
"I heard that our air defense force did shoot down their airship. Their airship crashed more than 20 kilometers south of Brape, but when our troops arrived there, the other party's airship was on board. Except for a few people who died, everyone else has disappeared, which is the most troublesome. Now no one knows where the remaining people on the airship have gone." Lieutenant Piping sighed. .
"We found not many corpses on the airship, which means that everyone else on the airship ran away. This is the most troublesome, because no one knows where those guys are hiding, whether they escaped or escaped. If they stay, if the other party has intelligence officers who are familiar with and lurking in Brape and cooperate with the escapees, no one knows what those people will do next? What if those guys still have an explosion hidden in their hands? If they want something, maybe they will rush directly to the Parliament Building in Brape and commit suicide bombs!”
The term "human bomb" is not new. For people in the Black Iron Age, this term is proof of the most tragic and helpless era when humans killed each other before the catastrophe.
After listening to these words, Zhang Tie realized why the atmosphere in Brape suddenly became tense. This was not just because of the explosion last night, but it was also confirmed that dangerous elements from the other side were lurking in Brape. Somewhere, even though he was wearing a military uniform, Zhang Tie still had his military ID checked three times on his way out to the logistics base where he is now, and finally arrived at the "Ninth Equipment Section of the Comprehensive Logistics Support Division" repair shop.
In order to catch those people, all the soldiers of a division stationed in Brape took to the streets today and began to set up checkpoints to interrogate passers-by and check their documents. In this way, even if they cannot catch those potentially dangerous elements immediately, they can at least Limiting those people's activity space within a certain range is the only way to deal with those people before they are finally caught or killed.
"Does the Iron Horn Legion have explosives?" The word bomb reminded Zhang Tie of a question that interested him.
"Yes. However, the explosives of the Legion are the most important strategic materials of the empire. Because they are too rare and precious, the receipt and use of all explosives must be personally approved and signed by the commander of the Legion. In the entire Norman Empire, everything The explosives in the empire are all controlled by the royal family. The only two alchemist masters in the empire who can make explosives, after marrying the royal family, are both members of the imperial royal elders!"
Alchemist, this is something Zhang Tie has only heard of in legends. He saw it in the book "A Preliminary Study of Human Race's Special Professions in the Black Iron Age" two days ago. It is better than Alchemist in both legend and reality. Ten times rarer, it can be called the most mysterious, richest, and most terrifying top profession in the Black Iron Age.
Many cities in the Andaman League may be able to piece together a few alchemists like Abian. But there is not a single alchemist in the entire Andaman Alliance. These people spend their entire lives dealing with all kinds of strange stones and crystals. As long as they have a stone in their hands, these people are like omnipotent gods. In their hands, stones and crystals become treasures that can fight, practice, cure diseases, and even improve the attributes of a bunch of metals and machines. As long as they pass through the hands of an alchemist, many ordinary crystals and stones can become worth millions. times. The price is higher than that of gold. Because these people have the true ability to turn stone into gold, this profession is called alchemist. The title "alchemist" is not so much a description of their professional work as it is people's naked envy of this profession.
Alchemists are the only people in this era who can make explosives. A person who becomes an alchemist may be short of everything in his life, but he will never be short of money. Like the Norman Empire, as long as there is an alchemist whose level is found to be able to make explosives and that alchemist is in the empire, there will be a direct royal marriage. Without a word of nonsense, he tied that person to the chariot of the empire by blood and family ties.
Alchemists have many nicknames - "treasure making machine", "walking vault", "omnipotent stone whisperer", "hot warrior in the cold weapon age" and "humanoid nuclear bomb". It seems that because the last name has a strong color of technology before the Cataclysm, many countries in the Blackson Human Corridor regard having an alchemist who can make explosives as a symbol of national strength and status.
The former Andaman Alliance once offered the position of chief minister of the alliance and promised a lot of benefits in an attempt to attract an alchemist to join, but unfortunately it failed.
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At this moment, almost at the same time that Zhang Tie arrived at this logistics base, in a wilderness more than 30 kilometers south of Brape, the airship that caused huge damage and losses to Brape last night was now scattered in broken pieces. On the ground, the airship used for sneak attacks was painted black. The airship's pod was more than 15 meters long. The 50-meter-long hull had been burned to the point where only a deformed rigid frame was left. The rubberized fiber cloth used as the airship's airbag At this moment, except for a small amount of residue, everything else had been burned into large areas of dark, solidified carbide, scattered around the pod and airship skeleton. Among the broken airship pods, some corpses wearing aqua-blue military uniforms were even more visible. It's lying in a strange shape.
A group of Norman soldiers wearing dark red military uniforms had cordoned off the scene. In the blockade, a group of people wearing black windbreakers were looking for something among the corpses of the Sun God soldiers. Several soldiers wearing imperial officer uniforms accompanied those people. The surrounding soldiers under martial law also quietly looked at the group of people wearing black windbreakers with strange eyes, looking at the blood-red gloves on their hands.
These men wearing red gloves are the protagonists in all the darkest and darkest stories of the empire. They are representatives of the cold and bloody side of the Norman Empire. If the soldiers of the empire are a group of tigers, then these people wearing red gloves The man with the gloves is a strange hybrid between the jackals that feed on carrion and the poisonous snakes that spit venom in the empire.
These people come from another powerful department in the empire besides the military - the Imperial Order Review Committee. These people are the "national secret order maintenance police" under the Imperial Order Review Committee.
In Nottingburg, everyone knew that the leaders of the secret police, Viscount Norton and Marshal Lin Changjiang, disliked each other.
Except for their superiors, few people in the entire empire like them.
Because of the explosion last night, these people appeared in Brape like flies smelling a bad smell. This was originally a matter of the Iron Horn Legion, but these people insisted on getting involved. There are two reasons for these people to intervene: First, the explosion is a special national security incident. Except for explosions on the battlefield, the investigation of all explosions in the empire is handled by the Imperial Order Review Committee. second. According to the laws of the empire, the Iron Horn Legion's theater jurisdiction over the Karur Theater is only within 100 kilometers of the front line. Brape has just exceeded this scope, so although the victim of this explosion is the Iron Horn Legion, the Imperial Order Review Committee still has the right to investigate it.
Because the Imperial Order Review Committee in Nottingburg had drafted the Iron Horn Corps and hoped that the Iron Horn Corps would cooperate with these secret police in investigating the explosion, these people came to Brape, so even if they were reluctant, they were sent to assist these people. The officers of the Iron Horn Legion could only look cold. He completed his mission in a business-like manner, and when the other party asked about last night's situation, he informed the other party of the Iron Horn Legion's latest actions and findings.
The leader of these people wearing black trench coats and red gloves was a major, a man in his thirties with silver-white hair and wolf-like eyes with a certain cold color.
"Major. After our troops arrived here, they surrounded the scene and never moved. On the ground 500 meters away from where the airship fell, our soldiers found truck tire tracks. That mark Heading south, it is estimated that those who escaped are supported by others, we... "
The silver-haired man who had been carefully examining the body had a warm smile on his face. He raised his hand and interrupted the officer who was reporting to him what happened last night.
"Needless to say, I have already guessed what happened next. Your people caught up with the empty truck somewhere more than ten kilometers away, but no one was seen. Then you tracked down the empty truck. As for the origin of the truck, it was discovered that the truck was stolen in Brape a few days ago. Then, you judged that those who escaped on the airship had fled south, right? Captain?"
A surprised expression appeared on the captain's face, and the language on his face was one sentence-how did you know
"Captain, congratulations on your success in letting go of the dangerous elements of the Sun God Dynasty. When your attention was attracted by the truck heading south, the remaining saboteurs of the Sun God Dynasty on the airship had already been Escaped to the north. If you could have chased in another direction at that time, you might not have anything to do with us now. The spies hidden in Brape of the Sun God Dynasty obviously know what kind of tricks can fool you... "
The silver-haired major spoke mercilessly, and the captain was so ashamed that he could not speak. The captain was speechless, but a major who belonged to the 21st Division with the captain could still argue a few more words at this time.
"Our soldiers did their best last night, Major Franke. You just took a look here. How can you be sure that those who escaped from the airship would run north instead of south last night?" Woolen cloth?"
"Of course I'm sure!" Major Franka from the Imperial Order Review Committee said expressionlessly, then took off the gloves on his hands, stretched out an index finger, and said it in front of several officers of the 21st Division. In front of him, he squatted down and inserted his index finger into the head of a corpse on the ground. The hard skull of the corpse was inserted like a piece of tofu under this person's finger. Got in.
Major Franka stirred the corpse's skull with his index finger inserted into the head, and then pulled out the index finger that was stained with some red and white juice and brain matter, and put it directly into his mouth, as if he was tasting some delicious food. I closed my eyes and tasted it carefully. Even though the officers of the 21st Division nearby were used to seeing life and death, they couldn't help but turn pale and feel sick when they saw this act of tasting the brains of the dead, especially when Major Franke tasted the brains. The weird smile on his face was even more chilling.
After a long time, Major Franke opened his eyes and smacked his lips in recollection, "These people's brains have the smell of bitter stone flowers. This is the effect of a secret medicine from the Sun God Dynasty used on people. After using this People who plant the medicine will have their body's potential stimulated in a short period of time and their brains will be clear, but their lives will not last too long. This medicine is generally only used on those who dare to take it. People who grow medicine, in the army of the Sun God Dynasty, their only purpose is to die, not to escape, because it is a serious sin for these people to run back. Before coming, everyone on this airship had no Prepare to go back alive, so they must run north instead of south. Running south will bump into your front line, but running north can these people do the greatest damage. In Brape, there are lurkers The spies of the Sun God Dynasty are responding to them, and their airship crashed in the south to give you the illusion that they are trying to escape... "
"This is still your conjecture!" the major officer of the 21st Division argued forcefully with his face still a little pale.
"The people on the airship all died when the airship crashed. It's impossible for those who escaped to have nothing wrong with them. There must be injured or even seriously injured people inside. They couldn't be treated when they escaped, even if their vitality was higher. Strong, the injuries of those people will definitely worsen. If the injuries worsen, they will have difficulty moving, and the difficulty of movement will drag down the team. When it is found that the team is being dragged down, in the style of the Sun God Dynasty, those seriously injured people will be dealt with. As long as we search northward now and avoid the main roads, we will definitely find something..." Major Franka's wolf-like eyes looked at the officers of the 21st Division in front of him, his eyes sharpened suddenly, and his face A slightly disdainful smile appeared on the screen, "Your strengths lie on the battlefield. I'm not here to be your counter-espionage teacher. I just hope that if what I say turns out to be correct, I will be able to do it in the future." Within the time limit, before digging out those potential saboteurs, please do not interfere with my actions in Brape. My time is precious, and I don’t want to waste too long on a few insignificant little characters in Brape. "
Several officers of the 21st Division looked at each other with suppressed anger, and then nodded, damn, if the superiors hadn't sent them here, who would be willing to be with these guys wearing red gloves.
Twenty minutes later, the first body was found in a ditch in the wild five kilometers north of where the airship crashed. The body was buried underground, but because it had not been buried for a long time, and because it was It was sold in a hurry at night. Even though the Sun God made some cover-up to the people over there, he was still discovered by Major Franke.
A second body was found less than two kilometers away from this body...
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