Chapter 685

"It's a big joke. Just because the mob wants to attack our fortress?" a shiny man with a fat body like a bucket stuffed himself in a leather chair. While drinking wine, he smiled and said, but the chair seemed too narrow, so the fat man didn't sit very comfortable, sighed and said, "it seems that it's time to make another chair."

Another tall and frivolous man shook his head and sighed lightly: "it has been nearly 20 years since you came to canon. You have changed at least five chairs. Dear Colonel, you seem to have to pay attention to your weight."

The man has long straight black hair and slender hands and feet. The facial features are exquisite, as if they are too perfect. Things that are too perfect sometimes look terrible, just like this man. He looked cold, like a machine without emotion. A man named thunder. Essien has known him for a long time. During the construction of Canon fortress that year, the man came to the fortress with a document from the Pope's hall. The document designated him as the commander of the 6th Division of the knights, and the former commander had died in the battle of the bloody road.

The thunder that came to Kanon fortress that day was like this. In the twinkling of an eye, nearly 20 years later, the man was still like this. As if time had lost its effect on him, the thunder's ability, appearance and even habit remained surprisingly consistent. People who don't know Lei Ming may think it's nothing. If they know him and don't have enough strength to understand him, they probably think he's weird.

Only Essien, who is also the head of the army, will understand the horror of this man. He is like a machine that will never make mistakes, maintaining terrible accuracy. Essien knows that even a self disciplined person. When you enlarge his life, you will find that there are always some subtle fluctuations. Or mood, or something else. But since knowing thunder, his daily life can only be described mechanically.

Where the time of day should appear, the thunder will be there. He won't be a second late or a second early. He's always just right. This reminds Essien of some rumors about some secret experiments in the papal hall. These experiments belong to the secrets of secrets, which are so important that if they are leaked, they may disintegrate the pillar of faith, the papal hall.

Because those experiments really violate some taboos in the canon.

The fact that thunder has to return to the papal hall on a few days in March every year has exacerbated Essien's conjecture in this regard.

Although on the surface, he went to the Muslim emperor's hall to report on his work. But for Essien himself, the quarterly report is just a remote communication. It was only on Hanukkah, a three-year Festival, that the Legion commander, who weighed nearly tons, had to return to new Rome.

Hard to move out of the chair, the overburdened seat scattered into a pile of parts with a groan. Essien sighed and said, "now it's the sixth one."

Thunder looked at him blandly and said quietly, "head Essien, I think it is necessary to pay attention to the information conveyed by head yafeidi."

"Tell me how to attach importance to the law?"

Essien turned around in the command room and couldn't find a suitable chair. He just sat down on the ground.

"Add sentry posts and overhaul equipment. If I remember correctly, your knight hasn't operated for nearly a year, I suggest you conduct a comprehensive inspection today to prepare for emergencies." Lei Ming gave several suggestions at one go, and finally said: "we have to send an elite reconnaissance team to the fracture Bay. If pirates attack, it's the nearest landing point to us."

"Well, well, do as you say. But I still don't think it's necessary. Canon is not the soft egg like fasero. How can a group of Pirates tear the Zhengzheng iron wall apart. If they really fight, it's better. I've forgotten how long I haven't fought a war." Essien said excitedly, with a fat face red. But then his face darkened and said, "but the round table Knight's inspection is exempted. Damn it, I don't know if I can squeeze into the cockpit now."

Thunder looked at his fat body, and his eyes also showed a ray of sadness. He was worried not about Essien's weight, but about his combat effectiveness. Too long peace and alcohol, I'm afraid, have made the military commander fall to the lowest benchmark. As for himself, what strength was he twenty years ago and what strength will he be twenty years later. There is no decrease, but there will be no increase.

From the perspective of time, it is not a good thing not to increase or decrease.

This day, Canon hasn't been so busy for a long time. The working slaves looked puzzled at the soldiers' masters carrying the equipment that had been shelved in the warehouse for a long time, and even started training in the square of the fortress. It's not that there is no such training at ordinary times, but it's rare to see it several times a month, and today is not the day of training. If all the knights in the papal hall are pulled out for military exercises, it will be found that Canon's soldiers are fatter than other knights. No way, who makes Canon's life too good.

Other knights usually have to fight pirates, but no pirates without eyes will attack canon. So in the Knights' order, it was like a vacation to be a soldier in canon. Therefore, Canon's soldiers are not much different from Essien. After staying here for a few years, you will find that you have gained a lot of weight.

But not many people noticed that their physical strength, reaction, will and fighting instinct decreased accordingly.

While the knights were training, the dusty artillery, anti-aircraft machine guns and other equipment on the wall of Canon finally waited for the opportunity to be repaired. But the thundering order came down, and the repairable soldiers didn't seem to care so much. As they examined the weapons, they talked and laughed in a low voice, so something was missing from under their eyes, and the soldiers didn't notice it at all.

The only mecha technician who is working hard is probably the mecha technician who checks the two round table knights. After all, this is the seat frame of the two military commanders. They know what can be dealt with carelessly and what must be done with all their strength. But after all, no one believed that pirates would be so fearless to hit canon.

In the afternoon, a group of light trucks drove out of the fortress and went along the Emerald Forest towards the broken Bay. They are close guards under the command of Lei Ming and have a level above that of ordinary soldiers. More importantly, they are serious, careful and efficient. Even living in the comfortable environment of Canon, they have not lost the sharpness of the past.

For them, Lei Ming is very relieved.

The aircraft fleet is like a dagger. The cold metal light passes through the Green Emerald Forest, forming a sharp contrast. There are some wild animals living in the forest, most of which are harmless. The more powerful variant beast died early under the development of the blood stained road. In those days, the Pope's Hall did not fight, and every effort must be made in a war. The meaning of full strength is not something that can be satisfied by defeating the opponent. It usually refers to the extinction of the nation. In the dark age, at least 10000 species were extinct on the western continent.

Without the source, there will be no evolution and growth, which is also the reason why the alien and high mutant animals in the western continent almost disappeared.

Human dominance was indeed a good thing at that time. At least the vast majority of resources in the western continent fall into the control of mankind, but from the perspective of the whole era, it does more harm than good. Without competition, the western continent was like the fortress canon, and human evolution became slow. You may not see anything in a short time, but if the time is in a hundred years. So today's fortress canon is the tomorrow of the western continent.

But few people will think about such a long-term problem. Most humans will only focus on the present, and rarely look at the disadvantages that will take a hundred years. Living in this precarious era, we can see that ten years later, we can be called wise men. If you can see through a hundred years, you are already a saint.

Unfortunately, there are countless mediocres, but few saints. Looking at the whole world, probably not many people will take such a long-term view.

At least Hoddle won't.

He is the captain of thunder's close guard "lightning". He was only a 15-year-old boy when he followed thunder to cannon fortress. At that time, he was still ignorant and joined the army with only one cavity of blood. Because of its good potential, it has been cultivated by thunder. Now he is the second man in the sixth Legion under the thunder.

Hoddle, who is in his thirties, has short white hair and can write, but has a pair of flexible eyes on his square face. He is a rigorous but flexible person. During his service in Canon, Hoddle was not in the fortress for at least half a year. With the approval of Lei Ming, he continued to fight in front of various legions and participated in many activities against pirates.

Other legions also welcome such a power to reach the seventh level. Hoddle is only one step away from the higher level.

At sunset, Hoddle came to the broken Bay.

This is a strange geographical environment.

The coastal trend of the western continent comes from west to East, which is a circle of coastline with gentle drop. But here, an n-shaped terrain is suddenly depressed. If the mainland is an irregular cake, then the broken Bay is like a small corner of the cake was roughly torn off, which is also the origin of the name of the bay.

The coastline of the mainland extending eastward from fasero is not a beach or all kinds of shallow stone beaches, but towering rock walls. The rock wall is not only a natural dam on the outer edge of the continent, but also a barrier against sea assault. Only when we come to the fracture Bay will we be able to sail inland because of this strange fracture surface. Even the fortress Canon built a crude wharf here in the Bay, but the wharf stopped using as early as ten years ago, and now there are only the remains of some facilities.

The coastline will continue to extend to the East and then turn to the north, and then a more gentle beach will gradually appear. Therefore, if pirates attack, there is no other way but to land in the fractured Bay.

It was already dark when the motorcade arrived at the bay. Hoddle and his team spent a night in the ruins of the Bay pier and began searching near the bay the next day. They checked carefully, but there were no signs of a large number of people landing in the Bay and the wharf. In terms of time, if the attack there was only a pirate feint, the main force would have reached the Bay long ago.

However, looking up, there was no trace of ships, let alone a huge fleet, except for a few isolated islands on the sea. Hoddle frowned and reported the news to Lei Ming. Then the guard stayed nearby for another night and returned to the fort the next morning.

"Look, I said it was impossible." Essien grabbed the bottle in one hand and was sweeping the food in front of him into his mouth in the other. The head's mouth is like a black hole, eating nearly tons of food every day.

Thunder still stood at the window and looked at the vast sea area on the other side of the fortress: "Hoddle really didn't find any pirates, but that doesn't mean we can relax. Commander Essien, I suggest that the previous order must continue, and some people have to be sent to the broken Bay. The wharf may have been abandoned for too long, so we have to reconsider building it."

"That's not good. The Lords of the papal hall won't give us more money," Essien frowned.

Thunder looked at the food on his table. Essien shivered and protested angrily: "I warn you, thunder, don't you think about my food. It's the only fun in my life!"

"If you can cut the food supply by half, let alone one wharf, we have built ten." Lei Ming said expressionless, "commander Essien, sometimes I suspect you are not eating food, but gold coins. Piles of gold coins."

After leaving this sentence, Lei Ming said that he would check the training of the soldiers. When he left, Essien frowned and said bitterly, "how can a guy like you understand my pain? There is no war to fight, no woman to soak. If there is no food, I can't find the fun of life. Hey, forget it, eat less today."

Head Essien did eat less today.

But that's just a little.

Another night.

But tonight, the beasts inhabiting the Emerald Forest can't be as calm as usual. They should have returned to their nests to rest at this time, but now they are far away from their nests. The direction the beasts are far away is close to the position of the fortress canon.

Half a kilometer away from the edge of the forest, a group of night birds wanted to fly. But they just spread their wings, but they found that they couldn't fly to the sky anyway. The air without any resistance became as thick as a swamp, and the invisible force field restrained these birds not far from the tree crown. Then another force field swept over these birds, and they did their best All stopped any activity and fell down one by one.

The birds falling on the soft ground have lost any vitality.

Countless shadows passed through the forest quietly. They were like a black undercurrent flowing quietly in the forest. The undercurrent refers to the fortress Canon in the night.

Although it was late at night, Canon still had lights on. In a golden pupil, you could even see the sentry on the high wall of the fortress yawning. The owner of the pupil was zero, and behind zero was the Poseidon group not in Hoddle's report!

In fact, they had already arrived. On the morning when Essien received the summons from fasero, the Poseidon fleet quietly arrived at the broken Bay. However, the fleet did not stop. After leaving a total of 3000 Poseidon soldiers, the fleet stayed away from the sea area on standby according to the order of zero. The zero sum Poseidon regiment poured into the Emerald Forest for the first time. Although the number of Poseidon regiment was large, the Emerald Forest But it's big enough. The vast virgin forest has more than 3000 people, and although the thunder guard is elite, it doesn't have the strength to check the whole forest without leakage.

The Poseidon regiment even stayed in the forest for a day. They didn't move to the fortress until the thundering guards left.

Now, Canon is right in front of us, and like zero imagination, defense is ordinary.

"Follow the plan." zero said faintly.

So Su went out, and behind the destroyer, he quietly followed a team. This team has only 70 or 80 people, but everyone's momentum is calm. It's like a sharp long sword wrapped in the scabbard. Although the long sword hasn't come out of the scabbard, it has hidden an edge. This team is the ability group of Poseidon Trident with an average combat power of level 6.

Under the cover of the night, the Trident quietly crossed the forest and quietly touched the fortress.

It's autumn. When autumn comes, will winter be far behind?

Although it was only autumn, it was cold at night, which made a knight's uniform look a little thin. So a sentry on the wall could not help shrinking his neck. He yawned and calculated in his heart how long it would be before the shift change.

The wall of Kanon fortress is thirty meters high and arched to wrap the main building of the fortress behind. There are five sentry towers on the wall from west to East, each equipped with two anti-aircraft machine guns and ten sentinels. In addition, there are four fierce guns and several secret sentries in other parts of the city. Behind the wall, there is an inner wall, with a passage between the inner and outer walls.

This road, called "between death", can deliberately open the city gate to let the enemy in when necessary, and then trap the enemy in between death, and annihilate the enemy with the firepower points on the inner and outer walls. Naturally, during the 20-year peace period of Canon, such a design is useless.

Behind the city wall is the square area. Nearby are several areas such as warehouse area, slave dormitories, barracks, command post and mecha warehouse. The buildings in each area seem to have no planning, but in fact, the space between buildings is very limited. It distorts the passage in the fortress. If you are not familiar with the fortress, you will even get lost in this place without any road signs The road is not strange.

This design takes into account that once the enemy breaks through the inner and outer walls, it can use the special environment here to divide the enemy to the greatest extent. While reducing the impact of the enemy, it also enables the commander of the fortress to turn frontal combat into street combat.

This is Kanon fortress, a "city" designed entirely from the perspective of war.