The earthquake lasted less than two minutes, and when everything calmed down, most of the fortifications collapsed.
The officers and soldiers who escaped have been waiting for Carlson, but Carlson did not come out. As soon as the earthquake stopped, these officers and soldiers swarmed on.
On the battlefield, the officer left the soldier and flees alone is fleeing, and the soldier is fleeing regardless of the life and death of the officer.
According to military law, regardless of whether the officer is alive or dead, his soldiers must find him, even if it is just a corpse, they must also be brought back. Leaving a higher-level officer on the battlefield is a felony even if he escapes alive. The serious one will suffer the capital punishment, and even if he is merciful, he will be exiled.
Carlson didn't come out, he must be in the fortification.
Although it is not clear why, after all, Carlson is an officer and possesses a power converter. Even if the fortification collapses, he can escape unscathed. It is absolutely impossible to die because of an earthquake. But the most urgent task is not to find out the cause, but to find out. Carlson.
To live to see people, to die to see corpses.
However, for officers and soldiers who do not have the original energy converter, even if they have the original energy storage, they cannot be used to drive large-scale excavation equipment.
Besides, there is no large-scale excavation equipment here.
Relying only on the hands of the officers and soldiers, not only the mining speed is very slow, but also consumes a lot of original energy, and it is impossible to find Carlson buried in the ruins in time.
At this time, the slag star is outside.
The situation reported by Carlson has been received by the flagship, and in accordance with the usual procedures, the staff of the Fleet Command has dealt with it after receiving the report.
However, this report was not classified as a general level, but was directly forwarded to the fleet commander.
Obviously, this was something Carlson did not expect.
If you have known it long ago, Carlson will report in more detail and mention some key points when proposing solutions.
Actually, this is useless.
When the fleet commander received this report, he did not give clear instructions, or even give orders, that is, everything went according to plan.
Obviously, the Fleet Commander did not regard the issues Carlson mentioned as problems.
This is not to blame for the fleet commander's negligence, because in Nathan's view, this is not a problem at all.
Building a fortress-level barracks on the slag star was not Nathan's idea, but came from above, which was an order directly issued by the Wanluo War Emperor.
Like Carlson, Nexen was puzzled by this order.
That is a barracks, not a fortress. More importantly, building a barracks on the slag star is not very helpful to fleet operations.
You know, the slag star is a planet, although it is not very large, but its mass is hundreds of times that of an asteroid. Getting a large warship to anchor on the slag star not only requires a lot of raw energy, but also is troublesome. It just takes a lot of time to land and take off. Besides, under normal circumstances, capital ships will not enter the planet’s atmosphere, let alone land on planets, so most of the space fortresses that support the fleet are built on asteroids. If conditions do not permit, even if a space fortress is pieced together with warships, it is much better than building a fortress on a planet. The main purpose of establishing fortresses on the planet is to deploy ground forces and provide support for ground forces' combat operations in the area.
The problem is that there are only ten legions that follow the fleet.
Obviously, there is no need to build a fortress-level barracks for ten legions.
What's more, it is far from the front line, there are no enemies nearby, and there is no hostile civilization. There is no need to deploy too many legions here.
If it is just a transit station, then it is more appropriate to build a space fortress.
The method is also very simple. Put together a few large landing ships to build a space fortress near the Slag Star, which is enough to support more than a dozen legions.
Obviously, Nathan couldn't figure it out at all.
However, like Carlsen, Nathan didn't think much about the order from the Wanluo Battle Emperor, and he was not qualified to question the Wanluo Battle Emperor's decision.
Of course, when this barracks can be built is naturally not a matter of concern to Nexen.
Although the order was issued by the Emperor Wanluo, Nathan paid much attention to it, and let the staff of the command give priority to the relevant information and report to him as soon as possible. However, Nathan paid no attention to the problems Carlsen mentioned. Quite simply, there are no enemies on the slag star, even if the perimeter defense deployment of the barracks is not completed, there is no big problem. Besides, when the large troops arrive, the transport ship will send heavy equipment, and then it is enough for Carlson to complete the construction of the outer line of defense. Obviously, the defense of the barracks is not a problem at all. The key is to complete the construction of the infrastructure in time so that the large troops can have a place to stay after they arrive.
In this case, there is no need to adjust the construction plan, just let Carlson proceed as planned.
However, it didn't take long for the problem to become serious.
When the staff officer sent the news that he had just received, Nexen was still thinking about whether to issue another order to let Carlson concentrate on completing the construction of the barracks infrastructure, so as not to delay time. The command of the Emperor Wanluo is simple. The large army will arrive in ten days, and Nathan must build a barracks for the large army before then. Obviously, one hundred legions can't be left on the landing ship.
"This just happened. We also detected an earthquake outside the Weeping Plain. It was very violent. All the fortifications within a hundred kilometers of the epicenter collapsed."
"all?"
The staff nodded and said: "The specific loss is not clear, but similar earthquakes have occurred several times in the past few days. The crust of Slag Star is very unstable. It is just that the focal point of this earthquake is near the Weeping Plain. It has caused such a serious impact."
"Contact Carlson and let him report the situation." Nathan was a little impatient, because such a big thing happened, Carlson should take the initiative to report to him.
"We can't reach him."
"what?"
"We sent an inquiry, but did not receive a return from him. In addition, his communication equipment has been shut down, and we have not been able to intercept the response signal from him."
"how is this possible!?"
"Maybe it's a malfunction, maybe it's been disturbed by an earthquake. The specifics are still unclear."
"Contact the legion command immediately and send someone over. After finding Carlson, let him report the loss and impact caused by the earthquake immediately."
"Yes!"
Nathan waved his hand impatiently. The earthquake came too suddenly.
Is it just a coincidence
Maybe it's just a coincidence.
Although it felt a little strange, Nathan didn't think much about it. The point is that by coincidence, the focal point of the earthquake was under the fortification where Carlson was located, and Carlsen was in the fortification when the earthquake occurred. Although other officers and soldiers escaped in time, no one has reported the situation to the Fleet Command so far. Of course, the grassroots officers and soldiers of the engineering force not only have no right to report the situation to the Fleet Headquarters, but also do not have the necessary communication tools.
Of course, Nathan believes that Carlson must be alive, maybe unscathed. Perhaps as the staff guessed, it was only the communication equipment that was damaged in the earthquake, so Carlson was temporarily unable to report the situation to the Fleet Command. Before long, he will send the news back.
Besides, the earthquake just happened, and Carlson has to spend some time to understand the situation.
Nathan didn't know that Carlson had already been taken prisoner.
It was not the warlord of the Silicon Magic Alliance who caught Carlson, but Yang Yi.
When Nassen asked the staff to give orders to the legion command, Yang Yi and the others were in the mine tunnel below the fortifications and were evacuating at full speed.
The capture of the commander of the engineering unit with the S-class original energy converter in one fell swoop surprised Yang Yi.
You know, Yang Yi is only a tenth-level soldier, even if the ability to control the original energy is far above that of the Renkui warrior, he has no absolute certainty to control the original energy of Shen Chengwen. Before that, Yang Yi often practiced against Lin Feng, and had never been able to easily subdue Lin Feng, otherwise it was not just a hand-in-hand relationship.
Obviously, a soldier of the Lei Ling clan with an S-class primordial energy converter should not be inferior to a soldier like Shen Chengwen.
However, after controlling the original energy of Carlson and controlling the original energy converter through the original energy, Yang Yi understood what was going on.
This guy has a power converter from the Silicon Charm Alliance!
More importantly, this original energy converter has been damaged and cannot reach the maximum power, so it is far inferior to the S-class original energy converter owned by Shen Chengwen.
Obviously, this officer is not very good.
Of course, Yang Yi knows that the Leiling clan’s engineering unit is not a combat unit and rarely fights on the front line, so the commander of the engineering unit may not be powerful. This guy's original power converter must have been captured, maybe it was given by someone else, but it has never been repaired.
With a hit, Yang Yi didn't dare to delay, and immediately withdrew along the path.
The initial earthquake was not a natural occurrence, but a masterpiece of dozens of officers and soldiers of the special reconnaissance team. In order to avoid being spotted by the enemy overhead, Yang Yi asked Shen Chengwen to take the officers and soldiers of the special reconnaissance brigade to destroy the crust under the fortifications entirely by manpower, which caused an earthquake. The solution is not difficult, only a few load-bearing points need to be destroyed. After losing support, the rock above will collapse, which will trigger a chain reaction, which will eventually lead to the movement of the entire crust, which is an earthquake. It's just that it must be very laborious to completely rely on manpower to destroy it. Fortunately, the officers and soldiers of the special reconnaissance brigade are very tough, and the most they are strength, it is equivalent to a few hours of exercise.
When Yang Yi arrived at the meeting point, Shen Chengwen had gathered the officers and soldiers of the special investigation brigade.
Seeing the prisoners brought by Yang Yi, Shen Chengwen didn't ask much, and immediately went ahead to lead the way.
The commander of the engineering unit is not only to capture a prisoner, but to obtain intelligence, mainly the deployment situation in the barracks. Even if this guy doesn't know much, the information he provided is of great value, such as inferring the next move of the Lei Ling Clan Army. According to Yang Yi's plan, after understanding the enemy's actions, he would decide how to fight the enemy next.
After catching the prisoner, the hard work of the previous few hours was not in vain.
Of course, this is not the place to interrogate the prisoners.