Steel steam and flame

There were many corpses around, the people who rescued Charlotte and the people who intercepted were mixed together.

"It doesn't look like someone from the Kingdom of Poland." Wolfe squatted next to a relatively complete corpse and said, "It doesn't match the characteristics of the Polandton people, or it's different from this general area." As a native here Aboriginal people, this judgment Wolfe is nothing short of the most convincing.

"I didn't see Charlotte's body either." Vettel came over from the side and added, "He should have escaped smoothly. I don't know why so many people from the Kingdom of Poland are chasing him." With thought, Vettel said to There is a lot of curiosity about this matter. Charlotte was once a well-known figure in the area and had connections with a high-ranking official in Bolanton. Even Vettel's company asked him for help when it set up a supply station here. Everything changed in just one night. People who originally had power and wealth became prisoners that a country sent regular troops to hunt down. The gap was indeed enough to make people interested.

Cassia took a careful look at the interceptors, looking for some kind of unique mark on their clothes or body. But there was nothing. The other party paid so much attention to the identity issue that Cassia did not get any effective information.

After staying here for about ten minutes, the four of them wrote down what they wanted, and then stood together to negotiate.

Encountering the corpse meant that Charlotte escaped in this direction. Several people did not want to be involved in this unclear incident, so they finally agreed to change the destination and temporarily changed the route. It would take several hours to go around, but compared to the possible risks, Vettel and the others thought it didn't matter.

At two o'clock in the afternoon the next day, the four of them were already sitting in a hotel in a small city, eating hot food. It was raining lightly outside, so there wasn't enough light. With experience, the four people did not go to the city's station immediately, but chose to wait and see for a while.

Until the evening, there was no report in the newspaper except for a brief mention that a fire broke out in Filoka Town due to unscrupulous manufacturers and burned down almost half of the town. Even though it is a small kingdom, this kind of control over mainstream information still makes the four people realize that individuals are indeed very small compared to the structure of the country.

After going to the station in the evening, Vettel spent some time contacting the company headquarters to briefly explain the situation, which could be regarded as clear instructions from the company's senior management on the next work. Wolff remains here temporarily, and two more people are transferred from here, a driver and one like Vettel to protect the cargo.

There were five people in total. They prepared weapons and vehicles in the extra material reserves in this small city and set off at ten o'clock in the evening. What drove away was a small truck with reinforced steel plates and bulletproof composite materials inside, and a triple heavy machine gun. Small problems encountered on the road can probably be solved under its firepower.

Cassia stayed in the cargo box with the new protection officer. Every hour, Vettel would open a window directly connected to the cabin and report on the current distance.

It was probably the incident in Filoka that affected Vettel's company. The stations in every town on the route tried their best to give the minivan the greatest help. From the supplies of various needs to the status and convenience of entering and exiting the borders of various countries, almost everything is green. The only time I was stuck for a while was because of factors within the country I was in at the time. Everything went well, that is to say, except that the weather never got better.

The rainy weather comes as soon as it comes, and it seems unwilling to leave. It has been hovering over a large area. The temperature dropped a few degrees as a result, giving it a feeling of late autumn and winter.

On this day, we were less than a day away from the border of the Chil Kingdom. The vehicle is on a finely paved gravel road that will bump from time to time. That's the indentation caused by heavy vehicles rolling over the road. As we get closer to the Chil Kingdom, we hear more and more news about the war during our break, and the scenery along the way also feels like ruins.

It cannot be said that craters can be seen everywhere, but at least they appear so frequently that the eyes will not forget the last scene they saw. It was also at this time that Cassia saw a new type of vehicle in a resting town. It's like an armored vehicle, but the steel plates and various protective plates on its body are thicker, and it no longer uses rubber tires, but steel-connected tracks. It is also much larger than an armored vehicle, with one or two barrels for firing cannonballs. I have never seen its true power, but it is not difficult to tell from the craters or house wreckage I saw from time to time.

Vettel told Cassia that this could be regarded as an upgraded version of the armored vehicle, something called a "tank."

"It is very common in these countries. Many countries even use it as a main war weapon on land. When used with well-trained soldiers, or organized into separate teams, it has very powerful attack power and marching speed."

"But as far as I know, the empire, including the Far Sea Common Country and the Flame Alliance, stopped researching and developing it a long time ago. It can be regarded as giving up on this kind of thing and no longer using it. So. On the other hand, many of the 'tank' technologies in these countries were obtained from the three giant countries. They are no longer developed or used. Naturally, their technologies are no longer secrets and are gradually being sold here. Come, it’s something that can be expected, I think.”

The nature of Vettel's work means that he has been traveling among these countries all year round, and he knows some situations very well: "There is no reason why the empire eliminated them, but I just don't know. As far as the information is known, among the vehicles of the Webley Arms Company , the power of any mid-level ceremonial car can be compared with the main battle tanks of these countries. If the level is higher, not to mention the power, even in terms of defense, it will not fall behind. One side is They only know how to increase the thickness of steel plates, or make interlayers, whether it is hard ceramics, bulletproof materials, or mounting reactive armor. The other side is committed to researching new materials, alloys with more powerful properties, etc. What can't be compared is, Everyone is familiar with meteorite copper, which is the most common metal material on the continent. Many countries around us have not fully understood it, let alone other advanced alloys with various complex processes and ratios."

"I sometimes read, and I remember one thing very clearly. About a hundred years ago, for unknown reasons, the empire sent troops to attack a kingdom. The battle was completely over in less than a week. Of course, it didn't mean that the empire's troops and The army of that kingdom fought for a week, which was just how long it took to reach that country from the empire. I remember that the empire only sent a standard airship fleet, which took seven days to reach the enemy country, and then two Within three hours, that country announced its surrender. From the beginning to the end, what that kingdom saw was nothing more than the shadow of the Imperial airship fleet far away in the sky. As for what the soldiers above looked like, perhaps no one could tell. "