"Sir, as a member of the council, I have the obligation to remind you. What you have done is dragging the council into hell!" Xiuya shook her head and said, "I don't want to admit it, but at this moment, I found out that Zero said That's right. This war must end, the internal friction between human beings is already too serious."
Oglock stared at her coldly, and after a long time, he walked to the desk and rang the silver bell. The door opened, and the old butler came in. Looking at Oglock and Xiu Ya, the housekeeper lowered his head and sighed softly.
"Take Major General Xiu Ya to Prison No. 1. Without my approval, no one is allowed to release her!" Oglock said in a deep voice, "You give me a good reflection in there!"
No restrictions were imposed, not even a * for Xiuya. However, the order was given by Oglok, and no one dared to disobey, including Xiuya himself. So she silently followed behind the housekeeper and left. On the corridor outside the study, the chairman's Xinhuan looked at Xiu Ya with a sarcasm and said, "Look, isn't this the majestic Major General Xiu Ya just now? Turned into a lost dog? Go to the prison and stay well, or let me send a few girls to serve the major general?"
Xiu Ya didn't even have the strength to retaliate, she just silently followed the housekeeper and left. After they left, the woman's triumphant laughter rang out in the corridor. Oglock's gentle voice sounded in the study: "Houston, can you come in?"
The woman hurried into the study, and Oglock smiled, and gently slid his hand across her face: "You are so beautiful, Houston..."
"My beauty blooms only for you..." the woman said charmingly.
"Unfortunately, you are just as stupid." Oglock suddenly pressed her cheek and pulled it back forcefully, turning the woman's face behind her!
Horror and doubts froze on Houston's face at the same time, and after pushing her body to the ground, Oglock picked up the handkerchief next to him and wiped his hands: "My daughter, how can you be a **** tool like you who is qualified to teach you a lesson?" What's the use of you, an idiot who doesn't even know where he is."
Finally, throw the handkerchief on the body. Oglock strode out of the study.
Another morning.
General Morgan woke up in the morning light from the window. After washing and combing and eating breakfast, he put on decent clothes and prepared to go out. Not long ago, Phoenix City was under a great threat. The army led by Douglas, the leader of the Hall of Valor, faced Phoenix City from afar, but the confrontation finally failed. But after the previous experience, the Dark Council did not dare to take it lightly.
Phoenix City has now become an important supply point for the frontline of the parliamentary army. The materials transported from the parliament are stored in Phoenix City, and then supplied to the frontline as needed. If the Phoenix City is taken away, the troops fighting on the front line will suffer heavy losses. Therefore, the frontline commander, Hart, was personally ordered to reappoint General Morgan, the former master who was very familiar with everything in Phoenix City.
Incidentally, some seniors in the Phoenix Army were also reappointed. They participated in the defense of the city, which refreshed General Morgan, who had been idle for more than a year. What's more, Rein, who is cooperating with him, can be regarded as an excellent and gentle young man. Although the defense of Phoenix City is dominated by him, he has taken care of General Morgan's face on many occasions, which makes the general feel happy. So I don't care about the Augustus family's previous tough tactics.
Walking out of the mansion, a car had been waiting for a long time. General Morgan got into the car, and the driver drove the car to the military command post in Phoenix City.
Phoenix City was built in a dam in the old days. Of course, the dam has long been filled with water, and the towering dam is a natural city wall. The original Phoenix City had already arranged enough firepower points on the city wall. After the last incident, the parliamentary army brought in heavy artillery and ground-to-ground missile launch systems, which forcibly increased Phoenix City's defense strength several times. levels.
The only shortcoming lies in the number of soldiers. Constrained by the frontline battle, the council cannot invest too many soldiers in Phoenix City. Under Rein's command, there is only one blood cavalry squadron and two infantry battalions, totaling about a thousand people. During the period when General Morgan was appointed to take office, the officers and soldiers from the original Phoenix City were used, and together with the recently recruited and formed militia, the total strength of Phoenix City now stands at 3,000.
In the past, this number, not to mention a Phoenix City, was enough to protect the attached wilderness base. What's more, there is also a private army "Fallen Angel" of the Augustus family stationed in the army. Among the twenty or so ability users, the lowest level has the strength of the sixth level, and the leader is the master of the eighth level. If Phoenix City had this kind of strength before, it would have annexed all the neighboring cities.
As for now, this amount of troops and ability users still seems weak. Fortunately, since the incident last time, nothing like this has happened again, but we can't pin our hopes on the enemy, so between the front line and Phoenix City, Hart made another arrangement.
There are two infantry battalions stationed on the only way that Phoenix City must pass. If they encounter a small army, they will wipe them out in one fell swoop. If they encounter a large army, they will have time to issue an alarm so that Hart and Phoenix City can prepare.
But even so, no matter day or night, there are obviously many more soldiers on the walls of Phoenix City than usual.
Due to the consideration of the shortage of troops, the soldiers of the parliamentary army and Phoenix City itself adopted a mixed organization, which is conducive to the commander's scheduling arrangements. However, in such an arrangement, contradictions are inevitable. It stemmed from the friction between two different systems. The army of the council looked down on these wild troops who were not much stronger than the wilderness refugees, and the soldiers of Phoenix City would not like these powerful outsiders even more.
Although they generally obey the orders and arrangements of their superiors, in private, there are invisible boundaries between the soldiers of the two sides, making it impossible to cooperate seamlessly in many links. Just like now, they are also responsible for the daytime rotation, but the soldiers from the council and the Phoenix City occupy each side, which seems a bit out of place.
Several Phoenix soldiers were smoking in a hidden corner, and one of them with a beard looked in the direction of the council soldiers and said, "When will those bastards leave!"
"Don't think about Markey, as long as the war is not over, they will stay here. No, maybe they won't leave after the war. In short, that's something that big people should worry about." A small soldier shook his head road.
"Gnar is right. We only need to make money. As for other things, it's not our turn to worry about it."
The bearded Mackey shook his head, unintentionally looking towards the sky outside the city: "Hey, what is that?"
The two colleagues followed Ma Ji's gaze, and a dark thing in the wilderness in the distance was advancing here.
"Is it a cloud?" said the soldier named Gnar.
Markey shook his head and said, "Impossible, the clouds can't move that fast. Telescope, who of you has a telescope?"
"I have." Gnar quickly took out the tactical binoculars to look at it, and gasped suddenly: "Monster, it's a monster!"
"What monster?"
"Flying monster." Gnar handed the binoculars to Markey.
The bearded man looked and was also taken aback. Through the binoculars he saw bat-winged humanoids with a prismatic spar embedded in their chests on their pale bodies. These monsters seem to be holding something in their hands, and they are approaching quickly. Suddenly, the vision became dark, and then a dim yellow light flashed. Markey suddenly felt powerless, and faintly heard the shouts of his colleagues behind him.
But what they were calling, Markey could not understand anyway.
Of course he couldn't hear clearly, no one could keep hearing if most of their heads were cut off suddenly. Before the eyes of Gnar's two soldiers, a terrifying creature descended from the sky. It has a humanoid body, a bat-like head, and black fine scales covering its entire body, and mist-like black flames escape from under those scales. The monster held a pair of short knives condensed by dim yellow flames in both hands, and it was one of them that just sliced open Maggie's head like cheese.
Then the knife flashed again, and Gnar and another soldier were still standing still, but their heads flew high. After easily beheading the three people with the yellow blade, this Mobylek rose into the sky, and the yellow blade turned into a jet-black flame. As Mobylek closed his hands, the black flame formed a fireball in his palm. Throwing this fireball towards the city wall, the fireball exploded and turned into a black fire curtain covering thirty meters.
In the curtain of fire, no matter whether it is a person, a concrete wall or a heavy machine gun, everything melts quietly!
When they heard the sound of explosions and sirens, Rein and Morgan, who rushed out of the command post, looked up and saw fireballs bursting continuously on the embankment wall in the distance, and then a high-temperature fire curtain of fused gold fossils spread out. Come on, put everything on the list of melting and burning.
A total of six Mobireks rushed up the embankment wall of Phoenix City in a thunderous manner. They made a surprise attack from a high altitude, in this era that lacks air units. The soldiers on the wall obviously didn't pay much attention to the sky, so Mobylek was able to attack in one fell swoop, and their targets were basically the firepower points on the city wall. As the firepower was knocked out one by one, the large Drake arrived. These gray and white batmen skimmed the city wall that had been engulfed in flames, flew directly into Phoenix City, and then threw some things towards areas such as the barracks ammunition depot in Phoenix City.
Those are heavy artillery shells!
It's just that these powerful shells were not fired from the turret, but were transported and thrown by Drakes. These Drakes are like bombers, wherever they fly, explosions will appear. Continuous explosions set off a sea of flames, and the barracks and ammunition depots in Phoenix City fell into the sea of flames. Rein's face was distorted, and General Morgan was dumbfounded.
After Drake made several rounds in Phoenix, at least one-third of the area had been turned into a sea of flames and ruins. Sporadic counterattacks were going on in the city. The attack of this group of flying creatures came so suddenly that the army of Phoenix City had no time to react in time. By the time they started to counterattack, Drake had already started to retreat, while the high-ranking Mobyrek was throwing the Faint Flame to intercept the pursuers and further expand the damage.
When Rein drove the car crazily near the city wall, there was a continuous shock sound. Cracks appeared on the embankment wall on the left side of the city gate. As the cracks intensified, wall ash and off-white sand began to pour down from the cracks. In the end, with a loud bang, a gap three meters long and wide was knocked out of the embankment wall!
Spikes of ash were flying, and a tall figure suddenly squeezed in from the misty dust. When it appeared in Rein's eyes, even the Ninth Knight couldn't help dilating his pupils. It was a giant, with a body nearly four meters high, it could only squeeze in through the gap. It was covered with red thick armor, and the sharp thorns extending from the armor were painful to see.
The golden lines on the body lit up one by one, and the energy spar embedded in the body was even more radiant. Dragging the ferocious double-moon axe, the aura exuding from the giant told Rein that this guy possessed tenth-level strength! When another giant came in dragging the same huge war hammer, Rein's back began to feel cold. When five giants appeared below the city wall, Rein's eyes were filled with despair.
The strange thing is that these mighty giants didn't rush to attack. Even though there were already soldiers and fallen angels standing behind Rein, the giants didn't make any moves. It seems that in their view, these people, including Rein, are not worth mentioning.
Suddenly the giants spread out to both sides, and a figure walked in from the gap in the city wall where they were exposed. When this person walked into Phoenix City, the five giants knelt on one knee and lowered their heads, showing the most thorough respect to the person who came.
"It's you..." Rein cried out when he saw the appearance of the person coming.
"It's me." Zero said calmly, and he strode towards Rein. The giants behind stood up at the same time, closed to Zero and lined up. And outside the gap, dark blue giants of slightly smaller size and strength came in, but their number made Rein feel like he had fallen into an ice cellar.
Dozens of dark blue giants silently gathered behind Zero like mechanical festering, forming a terrifying momentum, overwhelming Rein and the soldiers behind him with fear. Rein's eyes finally fell on Zero, and said: "I thought you were standing on a neutral position."
"It was originally, but I changed my mind because your speaker gave me an answer that I had to do." Ling Shen said: "So do you choose to surrender, or decide to fight to the death?"
"Do I have a choice?" Rein smiled bitterly: "You can kill me, but can you let my people go. You can remove their equipment and drive them out of the city."
"I won't kill you, but at the same time, I won't let these soldiers go." Zero said.
Rein made a sign and said, "How do you plan to deal with them?"
"First of all, you and those capable users must be imprisoned. I will let these big guys take care of you. If you are smart enough, don't try to escape. As for these soldiers, I don't want to send more soldiers to your brother in vain. strength, so they must stay. See, I have plenty of jobs for them."
Rein shook his head and said, "Even if you capture Phoenix City, Hart will call here soon."
"He will fight over, so the first thing he has to kill is these soldiers. I will issue them the necessary weapons then, so that Hart may hesitate for a while before giving the order." Zero said coldly.
"I really can't believe that such an order came from your mouth. In the comments on your style, most of the words I see are related to gentleness. It turns out that you also have a ruthless side."
Zero said calmly: "Your Excellency, this is war, not a game. I think every coach, including your brother Hart, will understand. As long as there are conditions, you must protect the lives of your own troops to the greatest extent. Even if I have to bear some moral stains. What's more, there is never justice in war. When I decided to join the war, I was ready to bear crime and blood."
"Obviously, you're not ready for that."
Zero took a step back and said, "Then, please give the order."
Rein nodded, took a deep breath, turned around and said to the people behind him: "Everyone, this is an unequal battle. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, in the name of the highest commander of Phoenix City, I would like to order you Disarm... we surrender!"
At the beginning, the soldiers of Phoenix City and the Council still struggled a bit, after all, the status of surrendering soldiers was not pleasant. But when the army of Dawn City came from the other side of the wilderness, they felt wise for their surrender. Under the surprise attack of two high-level aliens, Zero took down Phoenix City in a thunderous manner, and then the army of Dawn City took over the city defense.
All the soldiers from the Phoenix City side were disarmed and put under centralized surveillance for the time being. Zero met General Morgan, and saw Zero again who was a mercenary back then, but now he was the overlord of one party. Morgan deeply felt that he was old. The two had a secret conversation all morning in the City Lord's Mansion. After Zero left, Morgan was in charge of appeasing the residents of Phoenix City.
Morgan is still thankful, because Zero has made it clear that he will not drag down the residents of Phoenix. As long as they keep their game, Phoenix will basically not suffer too much loss.
After leaving the City Lord's Mansion, Zero went to the prison again. The prison in Phoenix City is not big, so it seems a bit crowded to squeeze in twenty or thirty ability users including Rein. The vicinity of the prison has become the residence of Drake and the Ogma giants. Even if Rein and the others plan to escape, it is absolutely impossible to do so. Therefore, they were not restricted by any abilities, and Rein also saw Zero's strength, so he had no idea of escaping from prison at all.
Lein was assigned to a cell alone, and when Zero arrived, he was lying in bed in a daze. Zero opened the unlocked cell and walked in. Rein said, "You may not believe it, but I feel pretty good now. It's ironic to be a prisoner and not have to think about anything."