What appeared in the telescope was a deserted city. It's a big city, with broken highways connecting checkpoints at the city's entrances. Near the checkpoint, several railroad tracks criss-crossed like snakes, extending to the interior of the city. Looking around, there are large and small, tall and short buildings one after another. High-rise buildings and urban squares are well arranged. The highway crosses a complex trajectory in the city, and the reasonable setting of various overpasses plays a role in speeding up. Undoubtedly, it was a bustling city, if it were in olden times.
And now, the city is deserted.
The road breaks, the overpass collapses, and the mutated plants occupy the railway tracks and moving lanes... …
But the city is not quiet either.
In the urban square, all kinds of alien life are active. They are of various races, some are humanoid, some are like beasts, some are as big as chariots, and some are as small as cats and dogs. The outer walls of the city's buildings are covered with bio-capsules. There are so many of them that they cover up the original appearance of the building, presenting a look and feel like a different world.
As for the passages that are still passable, countless scrapped cars or large obstacles were pushed to the passages facing the Shadow Canyon to block them, so as to cut off the roads that humans can invade on a large scale. In addition, many strange buildings appeared in every corner of the city. They were flickering with fire and emitting thick smoke, like factories in operation.
As for what to produce, no one can guess.
Rows of flames flash across the sky from time to time, like brilliant fireworks, weaving magnificent trajectories in the air and then falling into the city, blowing up fire clouds one after another. The source of the fire is the row of anti-aircraft guns erected by humans at the front of the battle line at the other end of the Shadow Canyon. It's just that the shells of anti-aircraft guns can only fall on the edge of the city, and the threat to the interior of the city is limited.
But as more than a dozen infantry missiles dragged their flames into the air, they brought a real threat to the city. But these infantry missiles skimmed the canyon, over the outskirts in front of the city, and finally came to the sky. However, it will be intercepted by various streamers rising from the city, and finally fireballs will explode over the city, declaring that the attack ended in failure.
The telescope moved in the direction of the canyon, and a steel bridge suddenly appeared in the lens. The bridge spans both ends of the canyon and is magnificent. The body of the bridge is gray, and there are countless lights and fires flickering in it. That was when the workers were welding. From time to time, a crane would transport steel strips up the bridge, and drop them to specific positions according to the engineer's wishes, and let the workers weld them on, thus becoming a part of the bridge.
This bridge named "Arch of Triumph" has already taken shape, and it will become a powerful blood vessel to transport the human army to the enemy's position, provided that it will not be destroyed by alien races.
And everything seen in the telescope is Zero's most intuitive understanding of the front line of the western land.
Zero is now appearing on the sunroof of the armored vehicle, and his convoy is currently driving on the Manhattan plateau. From here, you can use the high-power telescope to see the general situation of the shadow canyon below and the enemy city on the opposite side of the canyon. According to the timetable of the itinerary, the convoy will start driving down the plateau today, and it will arrive at the military camp on the east side of the shadow canyon before noon tomorrow . After resting there for a while, they will be engaged in the war with the alien race in the western tundra.
This is the real battlefield.
Whether it's the smell of gunpowder smoke in the wind, or the roaring cannon that rings in the ears from time to time, they all remind Zero of this.
This was completely different from any battle Zero had ever experienced before. Battles in the wilderness were mostly limited to duels between capable users, or conflicts between small-scale troops. The battle in Shadow Canyon is a group war. In a large-scale battle with tens of thousands of soldiers, unless it is a high-level ability user, the effect of a low-level ability user is not as great as a large number of servants.
And even if it is a high level, due to the limitations of occupations or abilities, the roles that can be played are also different. Just like the battlefield right under our noses, from the perspective of simply killing the enemy, Zero's rogue is not as effective as Berrien's Thunder Hand.
This is the difference between rogues being good at breakthroughs, and Thunder Hands leaning towards positional attacks.
Another sleepless night.
The inability to sleep is not due to fear, but excitement. In the iron-blooded battlefield, struggling in the smoke and the line of fire. This is a life-and-death stage, and whoever survives to the end is the winner. Zero is not a war madman, but he is also excited about the upcoming war. In the test of blood and fire, either transform into a butterfly, or die ugly, there is no third possibility!
By noon the next day, the convoy arrived at the camp smoothly. This is basically the front line of the war, the smell of gunpowder in the air is even heavier, and the roar of anti-aircraft guns makes people almost have to roar to make the other party hear clearly. What's more, it is a sense of crisis that is everywhere, which makes all the people who go to the battlefield turn pale for the first time.
After arriving at the camp, the two army chiefs, Tyre and Sol, quickly held a field intelligence exchange meeting with the camp chief. Then, including Zero, all high-level ability users of Doomhammer were gathered together. The gathering place was in a spacious field tent, which was obviously the strategic headquarters of the Golden Tomahawk. There is a rectangular table in the center of the tent, on which is a topographic map of the west of Shadow Canyon.
"I'm sorry, gentlemen." God of War Tyre acted as the host of the meeting. He used his hands wearing sensor gloves to control the zooming and zooming of the three-dimensional topographic map on the table, and finally fixed the Arc de Triomphe Bridge in everyone's sight: " Due to the urgency of the situation, there is probably no time for you to rest. The adjutant I stayed in the camp just now has made a brief report. They have detected new movements of the aliens in the west of the canyon. There are indications that they will soon There was a massive attack on the Arc de Triomphe Bridge."
Everyone's heart trembled when they heard it.
On the way here, almost everyone present had read the battle reports on both sides of the canyon. The battle report pointed out that at the beginning of the canyon encounter, the Golden Tomahawk tried to pass under the canyon, but encountered strong resistance from the alien race. This led to constant fighting below the canyon in the first two months, with casualties on both sides. It was the end of autumn and it was almost winter. Due to the special terrain of the canyon, coupled with the cold wind blowing from the north, a terrible frost storm was created in the canyon.
This made it impossible for both sides to stay in the canyon, so they retreated to the east and west sides above the canyon using the canyon as the boundary. The Golden Tomahawk was stationed in the east, while the foreign coalition forces occupied a large city to the west of the canyon for rest. In this season of frost storms, the canyon has become an invisible boundary. While resting, Till proposed a bold idea.
That is the Arc de Triomphe Bridge. Tire hopes to build a bridge across both sides of the canyon, so that the Golden Tomahawk army can quickly pass through the canyon. If successful, the alien race would not be able to rely on the natural environment inside the canyon as a barrier to block the pace of the human army. Therefore, this proposal was quickly put into practice, and Tyre also took advantage of the truce to return to Asgard to seek more support.
"Winter is over now, and the frost storm in the canyon has gradually subsided. This has greatly accelerated the progress of the Arc de Triomphe Bridge, but at the same time, it also gave the aliens a chance to hinder and destroy it. So far, they have organized more than Ten small-scale harassments and two large-scale attacks. But please pay attention to one situation, gentlemen." Tyre cleared his throat and said: "According to our observations, after winter, many lives in the alien race have entered hibernation state. I don’t know if you have noticed the bio-capsules on the buildings in that city? That’s right, that is their hotbed of hibernation. And now, they have ended their hibernation and are gradually waking up. So the next attack, its scale Big, definitely bigger than any previous wave, because they're not going to allow the bridge to be built."
"Let me add it next." Thor took his brother's words and said: "The golden battle ax has been seriously injured since the battle, and it will take about ten days before the bridge can be fully passed. Therefore, the following The defense work will be undertaken by our Doomhammer, but now there is a problem, that is, the current progress of the bridge is not enough for all our legion to pass. Therefore, the ten-day defense period can only be assigned to two to three teams .”
"I want to know, is there anyone willing to take the initiative to accept this mission?"
Everyone was silent.
This task is not easy. With two or three teams defending against the biggest wave of enemy attacks after winter, even if Doomhammer is called the elite among the elites, no one is willing to take the initiative to take over this hot potato .
"Well, in this case, I can only appoint directly." Saul also thought that this would be the case, so he was not surprised. He swept across the crowd, and finally his eyes fell on Zero: "Zero, your team is so strong that it is top-notch in our legion. So I hope that under such circumstances, you and your team can stand up .”
"No problem." Zero readily agreed.
Saul admired Zero's unapologetic style. Zero is another plan. In fact, according to his thinking, this war must be fought sooner or later. And fighting early is better than fighting late, starting the war early will allow your troops to adapt to the battlefield environment and the rhythm of the battle faster. Especially at this time, as long as he entered the battlefield earlier and achieved results, Zero would be able to establish prestige within the legion and even the entire frontline army.
With prestige, you have the right to speak. In the selection of some tasks in the middle and late stages, Zero can occupy a more active position. No matter in terms of survival or return, these are things that are absolutely necessary to fight for.
If Zero is afraid of the difficulties in the early stage and chooses to let himself and the army go into battle in the middle and late stages, then even if they perform well, they will be submerged in the torrent of the army. It's the difference between giving a helping hand in the nick of time and icing on the cake.
But even if Zero was willing to act as a pioneer, he didn't want to take the initiative in the atmosphere just now. Man is a creature with commonality, if Zero takes the initiative, the limelight will be exhausted. But in actual combat, he may not get support from his colleagues because of his sharp performance. After all, when everyone was unwilling to attack, Zero stood up, which undoubtedly slapped them across the face.
Under such a situation, when Zero was in danger, there would probably be very few people willing to stand up and help him, especially since Doomhammer's internal teams were full of competition.
But now it is another matter for Sol to propose it on his own initiative, and Zero agrees at this time, which makes the teacher famous.
Afterwards, Sol ordered two more people, namely James, an ability user from the Demon Department in the Mutation Domain, and Staley, a martial arts master in the Fighting Domain. These two are both eighth-level ruthless characters. The former can transform into a terrifying scythe demon, and is a good player in medium and long-range attacks. The other is a melee-type ability user with huge explosive power, who is like a humanoid storm on the battlefield.
It's just that the team of these two people is a bit shabby compared to Zero, among which James is better. He has one sniper, one guerrilla, two ability users in the element domain, and about fifty servants; while Starley only has two guerrillas and twenty servants in his hands, the number of his team members It's not even as good as some low-level establishment members.
But in fact, very few people in Doomhammer have reached the eighth level like Zero, but they still control a large number of middle and high-level ability users, as well as hundreds of ordinary soldiers.
For high-level ability users, their pride is directly proportional to their ability. In their definition, the strength of an individual is already equivalent to an army, so there is no need to cultivate another army. After all, the number of army members is linked to income, even if high-level ability users do nothing, they can still enjoy a lot of treatment in Asgard. They have neither the mood nor the time to build their own army. For them, the attendants and servants of ordinary ability users are just cannon fodder on the battlefield, and they are still the ones who really decide the outcome of the battle.
So from another point of view, Zero is considered to be a very diligent one among high-level players.
After the task is assigned, the next step is to prepare for the battle. The three teams will develop in the afternoon. After leaving the camp, they will pass through the narrow bridge of the Arc de Triomphe Bridge to the other end for defensive work. Zero originally planned to discuss with the two captains how to spend the ten days, but neither James nor Staley had any plans in this regard. Facing Ling's invitation, one refused with a smile, and the other turned around and left without even looking at Ling.
Zero shook his head and smiled wryly. He had heard that Doomhammer was full of arrogant guys, but now he saw it. I am afraid that only Sol can command these people, and Thor, who lacks a sense of discipline, has formed this fighting style of fighting in small groups. To put it mildly, this fighting style is flexible and penetrating. To put it bluntly, without the premise of Commander Sol, such a legion is just a mess.
It can be seen that these ten days will not be so easy. Zero thought.