Olan left, but a week later she visited the fortress again. This time she brought a basic version of the biological modulation system, 20 research assistants and an intelligent management system.
The fifth floor of the main building of the fortress has been transformed into a biological research room. Although it can not be compared with the laboratory in the base of zero company in terms of implementation, it can at least carry out the most basic modulation work. Zero plans to add another extended version, but Eastar will not deliver it until a month later, but now these devices are enough for early modulation.
After two days of equipment installation and commissioning, the fifth floor has completely become a forbidden area. Only zero can enter and leave freely. Other people need to use identification to ensure the confidentiality of information.
As for the intelligent management system brought by olan, it was soon put into practice. A smart brain host was placed in a room on the fourth floor, and five operating sub machines were connected. At the same time, it took nearly a week to register the identity of workers and soldiers and back up the information in the smart host.
At the same time, a smart card is issued to everyone who serves zero. When they pay salary at zero or trade some supplies and food, they can update the points in it through the recording terminal.
So far, the zero collar underground economic system was established, and the integral system was used with reference to asgat. The ratio of every 10 points to 1 gold coin reduces some unnecessary links in zero financial operation, thus saving a lot of time.
Olan also provided zero with five documenters to manage the system for him, which is a gift from ISTA.
Next, the fortress and three towns started at full strength. Kanon fortress is mainly engaged in mining and military training. With the continuous supplement of workers and recruits, several mining areas can finally operate at full capacity, so that the resource value output per month has reached more than one million gold coins. In terms of recruits, 2000 were recruited. Most of them came from the outer islands where life was difficult. Therefore, these recruits were very determined by nature and their physical fitness was not much worse.
What they lack is combat experience. In this regard, they still let the soldiers on destiny train them.
Kanon's original fortress area obviously can't accommodate so many people. Zero can only set up simple shantytowns near the fortress and even on the edge of the mining area for workers to live. The soldiers lived in the former fortress barracks. After the transformation of the former slave camps, they could accommodate nearly 5000 soldiers.
Mali, Mongo and Tucson also operated. After the soldiers in the papal hall were beaten away, the residents of the town did not escape. For them, it doesn't matter which town they occupy. What matters is that they still provide food and accommodation, and increase their salary. Of course, there was resistance, but after the soldiers suppressed it several times, they accepted their orders.
The principle of zero is very simple. If you work for him, everything will be the same, and even the treatment will be better than before. But if they make trouble, especially those who incite others to resist together, they will be ruthlessly suppressed. There is no compromise in this regard. His kindness is aimed at his own people. For those who are unruly or have evil intentions, nothing gives them but cruelty.
His enemies are far away. He has no time to stay for these branches and branches. He can only prune them by the fastest means. After the first two weeks, order was re established in the three towns. Factories in Mongo and Mali towns continued to operate to produce food and clean water. The time to restore order in Tucson town is faster. Most of the residents in this town are family members of the army. After the war, the family members of those soldiers who died in the war were expelled by zero. Their families died in the war and formed a blood feud with zero. Naturally, they will not work for zero.
Zero doesn't want to kill them, which will give him a cruel title. He doesn't want the papal hall to bring a composition chapter. A lord can be severe and iron blooded, but if it is cruel, the meaning is completely different. So he only chose to expel them, and gave them enough food and water so that they could reach another city, cage, 500 kilometers away.
There are hundreds of these people. Once they all flow into cage, it should affect their food reserves. At that time, how to settle the families of these war dead will become a headache for the papal hall. If they are not handled well, the papal hall will be criticized.
The rest are basically the families of the 200 soldiers who surrendered. For the soldiers who surrendered, zero broke them up and assigned them to work in the mining area. The soldiers and their families knew that they could not go back to Rome. Under Sauron's high-pressure policy, the Knights basically executed the demobilized soldiers. In other words, even if zero agrees to release them, they will be executed when they are caught, and their families will become slaves.
Under such a provision, the papal hall undoubtedly pushed the surrender to zero. At least stay here, they can still live, although they all know that the papal hall will call back sooner or later. But one day without being defeated, they can get shelter. Most people know how to choose between dying immediately and dying later.
As a result, he received more than 400 workers, plus the new workers he recruited. After training, he also allowed the arsenal to restore most of its production capacity.
Now, the fortress occupied by zero and the three towns are very busy, and zero himself is very busy. Instead, these high-level pixels have nothing to do. Now they only think about when the papal hall will come, so that they can move their rusty hands and feet.
Three weeks after canon was occupied, a scout team outside Tucson found that an army had finally arrived from cage, 500 kilometers away.
The commander was mesa, the deputy commander of the 2nd regiment who escaped from Tucson. This time, he integrated the powerful combat power of three important towns including cage City, a total of 5000 soldiers, 100 paladins and 30 Griffin knights to Tucson.
Mesa wants to be shamed and recapture the military base in Tucson. Su was very happy when she heard the news. She called belline, who remained in Tucson, and then took 300 soldiers and quietly touched mesa's army.
Mesa's fighting style has always been steady. Otherwise, he wouldn't have brought so many soldiers at one breath. He was going to push down Tucson's enemy with a number advantage. But with a large army, the March naturally can't be fast. At the speed of 100 kilometers a day, we saw Tucson in the evening of the fifth day. Mesa ordered the whole army to rest and make an official attack early tomorrow morning.
But on the same night, Su led the team to touch the door. After she handed over the soldiers to belline, she killed herself alone in mesa's barracks. You should know that mesa's army is stationed in the field and has no danger to defend. Although the barracks were carefully arranged, they could not stand the attack of the ninth order destroyer. Su sang all the way and went straight to mesa's main camp.
Finally, if mesa hadn't sent dense mecha troops to fire at Su, mesa might have died that night.
Under the strong firepower of the mecha force, Su had no choice but to withdraw. After meeting with belline's team halfway and killing around, belline gave mesa the barracks a furious rage. The continuous electric fire formed a bright line of fire that isolated the pursuers, and blew up more than ten Paladin mecha, which made mesa furious and helpless.
Only in this raid, mesa lost hundreds of soldiers and more than ten mecha, which greatly reduced the morale of the Knights.
The next day, the zero who received the news drove over with the battle group of Hooke and Manshan. Haiwei Yelu and other high-ranking officials also came. At nine o'clock in the morning, mesa launched an attack. First, thirty Griffin Knights took off. They are the most advantageous air firepower of the Knights. Griffin Knight's light machine gun fire poses a threat to ordinary soldiers, while pocket missiles are high-level firepower that they are unwilling to face.
The first wave of mesa's offensive obviously wants to form an air suppression on Tucson. Tactically speaking, it is indeed right. Unfortunately, there are many people with zero abilities, especially those with the ability of element domain such as belline, who have obvious advantages in such a battlefield. Moreover, zero also updated a batch of equipment from ISTA. As soon as the Griffin knight took off, under the command of zero, the soldiers who had occupied all the commanding heights immediately picked up the newly purchased Angela cannon.
When the Griffin Knights flew close, they were greeted by the powerful air control fire network constructed by anqia gun and the thunder photoelectric fire constantly released in Bellion's hands. In such a situation, even if the Griffin knight has dropped the guidance missile, it has been intercepted and detonated by the zero fire network before it falls to the ground.
Seeing this situation, mesa gave the order of the general attack with a gloomy face. So hundreds of paladin mecha were scattered everywhere. With ordinary soldiers marching towards Tucson, from high altitude, 5000 soldiers formed a magnificent wave, all facing Tucson.
Finally, a full-scale battle broke out outside Tucson.
After the occupation of Tucson, considering the attack of the papal hall, the city will certainly become the front line of war. Therefore, some time ago, although Su and belien were idle, the other soldiers did not rest. About a hundred people were left to maintain order. Everyone else went outside the town to dig fortifications. In addition to the trenches, several unused armor plates were sent from the steel plant in Mali town.
They were fixed outside the trench as a cover, and people cut square holes on it for soldiers to shoot after the cover.
These arrangements are finally in use now. Even if the armor plate allows the paladin's armor to accumulate fire, it can last for a period of time. As for ordinary rifles, they cannot pose a threat at all. Only heavy firepower such as rockets and missiles can destroy these things. When mesa found that his army was encountering unexpected and strong resistance, he ordered to dismantle the armor plates first.
So nearly half of the mecha's firepower was aimed at the armor plates, and soon both sides were blasted into slag. Seeing this, zero is no longer reserved. Point towards the knight's mecha and zero will rush towards the army first. What he meant was obviously to clear the other party's power armor first.
With zero, Hooke, Manshan, Yelu, Haiwei and other capable people participating in the war. The paladin mecha of mesa's army was rapidly reduced, and the Griffin knights were eliminated one by one with the cooperation of berien and angel guns. When the casualties of mecha troops exceeded two-thirds, the balance of the war began to tilt to zero.
After cleaning up the mecha troops, the zero and others began to rush to kill in mesa's army. In the face of these murderous gods, ordinary soldiers could not stop them at all. Zero, they didn't compete with those ordinary soldiers. Their target was someone at the other party's officer level. These figures were the nodes of the whole command network. When these officers were also reduced, mesa found that he could not command the army.
The battle lasted from day to afternoon and finally came to an end.
More than 3000 soldiers died in mesa's army, and almost all the mecha troops were destroyed. Most of the officers were killed and injured, and even mesa herself died in the hands of zero. About 500 of the remaining Knights chose to surrender, and the rest fled back to cage.
After the war, more than 700 soldiers died in this zero battle, most of them died in armor plates and were bombed by the enemy. Compared with the loss of the knights, zero can only be regarded as a minor injury, but if it were not for the high-level of zero's men, there would be too many high-level soldiers, otherwise they would not be able to remove the other party's mecha troops in time. In that case, many people will die at that time. This time, there are not many zero recycled equipment, most of which are ordinary equipment, and the return can not be compared with the previous times.
However, after this battle, there is no force that can pose a threat to zero within nearly a thousand kilometers. The next morning, with 1000 soldiers and several high-ranking soldiers, they went straight to cage city. Three days later, the empty city was broken by zero. The scale of cage city is not small, which is about the total area of the three towns of Mali. Here is the recruit training camp of the saint India knights. Only then did we know that there are actually 3000 recruits in the army convened by mesa.
Basically, all the soldiers in the training camp were transferred to mesa. No wonder the remaining soldiers were not enough to resist the zero attack. After the news of mesa's defeat spread to the city, the mayor of cage city and some officials knew the opportunity to evacuate the city. Only more than 20000 civilians lost their zeros. They should guard such a city unless they had to redeploy another 1000 soldiers.
However, cage city is located on the plain and has no risks to defend. Ask yourself, the current strength is not enough to swallow a big city like cage. Therefore, except for the materials left to cage residents for only ten days, other materials that can be taken away should be taken away as far as possible. Among these materials, zero priority takes away food and water, followed by the equipment of the Knights. If these things are converted into gold coins, there are nearly one million, of which the most valuable is 20 Paladin mecha. With them, plus Canon's remaining round table knights, zero has a mecha team.
As for the future life of residents, it has naturally become another headache in the papal hall. And as long as it can make the papal hall headache, zero is willing to do it.
When he returned to Tucson, he received unexpected news.
Olan came again, but this time, she also brought the mysterious funder behind ISTA.
He returned to Canon at zero that day. When he arrived in the evening, he saw olan first. Olan had heard about the battle outside Tucson and said, "Lord zero, congratulations on beating the papal hall again."
Zero didn't think he said, "it's just a small victory, not a big setback. You're flattered."
"No, you are modest. Defeating an army of 5000 people from the front is not a small victory."
"Quantity does not tell the problem."
"When the number is large enough, that's a problem," olan smiled.
Zero had no intention of continuing to entangle with her in this matter. He changed the topic and said, "I heard you didn't come alone this time."
"Yes, I also brought the adult who supported us behind the scenes."
"I don't know who is the big man in the Pope's hall?" zero asked casually.
They came to the command room on the fourth floor. Olan stood outside and said, "you'll know as soon as you go in. I'm sure you'll be surprised."
"Oh? The one who can surprise me is not the young Pope." zero joked and pushed the door in.
There was only one man in the command room. He stood in front of the French window and looked at the inner city of the fortress. He wore a cloak that wrapped the whole body together, and even his face was buried in the shadow of his hood. When zero came in, he said with emotion: "the current Canon can really not fall on the iron wall."
Zero also went to the window, and the evening light painted a golden color in the fortress. The outer wall, which is composed of armor plates, has been basically assembled. In a few days, the gate will be completed. Then heavy artillery fort and anti-aircraft machine gun will be installed on the wall, and the defense of the fortress will jump several levels. The city wall, which is composed of a row of metal armor plates, flows with the luster of metal in the sky. It really deserves the word iron wall.
"Nothing in this world is eternal. No matter how strong canon is, it can't never fall. Just like Sauron, it can't sit on the throne forever." he used a plain language.
The cloaker shook slightly and turned his head. From the shadow of his hood, he could see a pair of bright eyes: "are you confident of entering Rome?"
"Not have confidence, but will."
"I really don't understand where your confidence comes from?"
"It's very simple. In front of the peak I'm going to climb, Rome is just a small hillside." in a simple sentence, it shows strong self-confidence.
"That is to say, in the process of your climbing the summit, the small hillside of Rome is just an obstacle you are bound to jump. I understand, strange outsiders, although I don't know where your destination is. But I'm glad that I can walk with you for a short time in your journey of life." the cloaker finally pulled down his hood, Showing a handsome sunny face: "when I first met, I was the current Pope Paul VI."
Zero pupil shrunk slightly and then showed a bitter smile. He said it casually, but he was really right.
The backstage supporter of ISTA is the contemporary pope!