Steel steam and flame

After the team landed on the ground, the surrounding frost and powder caused by the landing had almost settled, and a few lamps that were deliberately not very bright illuminated the faces of more than thirty people. Cassia has untied the fixed rope, letting Cassia lie down on the ground quietly and honestly, waiting for these people to carry away the supplies they brought.

After three rounds, when the last box with bullets was being carried away, a member came over and told Cassia that he was in a fortification on the defense line. It took about half an hour for the discussion meeting there to end. .

Cassia thanked him for this information. He and Cassie Hei moved several thousand meters to the side, and did not stop until there was no smell of human surgeons around them at all. After simply saying something to Cassia, Cassia circled around it several times. The armor that was taken off from the body had many inappropriate places, but it didn't affect anything. The weapon modules were all damaged, and there was no thought of restoring them, so all the excess parts were cut off to reduce the load. After checking Cassie Hei's current condition, Cassia thought for a moment before leaving, and then took out a piece of solid red mercury slice from her body and threw it into Cassie Hei's huge mouth.

Cassie Hei doesn’t understand the danger in the future, and Cassia can’t find a good way to make him understand it. He can only feed Cassie Hei a few more solid red mercury slices, hoping that this will keep Cassie Hei in a more feasible mental state. .

Returning to the fortifications, there were still ten minutes left, so Cassia walked around.

The snow had been partially cleared, and the exposed ground was dark and hard. In order to carry heavy equipment and weapons, the temporarily stepped "road" has been sparsely hung with dim lamps, winding among the ancient trees, all the way to the bottom of the two airships. Almost half of the members were walking back and forth on these simple paths, speeding up the transportation of various materials in order to get the airship up to high altitude and leave as soon as possible.

Cassia saw heavy machine guns with cooling systems, fixed artillery launchers, and some unassembled spiral barrels for firing small-caliber shells. Because this is the target end point of most ground teams, except for a few teams that will continue to go deeper, they will only defend here, or retreat, and no longer advance. Therefore, we will try our best to build this place into a fortress that is not easily breached in a short period of time. The dozen or so seat-mounted aircraft cannons that require three-stage operators to carry them together may be the most powerful weapons specially prepared for defense. It has a caliber of 30 mm, triple gun barrels, and is equipped with a cooling device. The matching ammunition boxes are piled in a small pile on the side. The fortifications are also specially built according to the war period model and will not cause a lot of water accumulation due to heavy rainstorms.

In addition to using local materials and relying on a large amount of soil and ancient tree trunks, the defense of the fortifications also has alloy steel plates as interlayers fixed in the compacted soil in some areas that will be attacked by concentrated fire.

The two cruiser-class airships are completely two mobile warehouses with rich reserves. And regarding this incident in the southern forest, the analysis agencies in the big family also expected most of what would happen. Therefore, in terms of materials for building fortifications, some basic things are also prepared.

The entire horizontally expanded defense line was roughly in the shape of an arc, and it took Cassia more than half an hour to walk around it. There are busy figures everywhere, but fortunately there are no ordinary members here, so the huge workload is not too heavy for the entire team.

Around ten o'clock in the evening, the entire defense line became increasingly quiet. During this period, hail fell on a section of the defense line for more than ten minutes. At that time, ice cubes close to the size of two adult fists smashed a large number of ancient branches and leaves.

"The wind has started to pick up." In a quieter corner of the defense line, Hai and Cassia stood under dim lamps. "According to model calculations, strong winds will blow again tomorrow morning. Heavy rain will suddenly come at some point in the afternoon, and it will continue. It will continue until nearly two weeks before there is a weakening trend.”

"This time it may be different." Thinking that the freezing air in the gray and black clouds would become more and more intense, Cassia said, "Take precautions against the cold. This refers specifically to weapons and equipment. The physical strength of the team members is very good. After all, they are also Three-stage surgery. But it’s not a bad thing to have an early warning for low temperature weather that may suddenly come later.”

Haike looked over and didn't ask any more questions. He thought of the frozen fragments of ancient trees he saw in that clearing last night, and seriously stated that he would remind the team members later. Cassia always knows some extra information, and Hao has become accustomed to it.

"The end point of most teams is here. There won't be many teams that end at the enemy's joint base. The main force in attacking there is still Mr. Cassia yourself." Hai continued, talking about the actions after the confrontation between the two. plan, "The two teams that had already set off have arrived near the enemy's joint base. There are many hidden sentries and warning points around, and they can no longer move forward. The information sent back is limited, because there may be high-level surgeons in the joint base. , they don’t dare to act rashly. Now they are retreating some distance and observing from a distance.”

"There are regular military personnel in the enemy's team, so the design and construction of the joint base are based on standard wartime defense fortresses. The enemy entered the southern forest much earlier than we did, so the base was built Very complete. Without a large-scale attack method, it is difficult to destroy the surrounding defenses."

Haike then explained the information observed by the two teams. They are all superficial and partly based on judgments based on one’s own experience. As the enemy's main base, the difficulty of infiltrating it can be imagined. Obtaining this information is also the result of taking great risks.

"Is there any better news?" Cassia asked directly for favorable news.

"The Joint Base doesn't seem to pay that much attention to the defense behind itself." Hai replied, "This is only a relative term."

"Where is Mr. Macquarie and the Imperial Manoma? Is there any latest news?" Taking the simple map handed over by Haike, Cassia memorized the general structure of the enemy's joint base in his head, "Then I will try to go around and rely on the dragon At a similar speed, the extra distance is not very long."

"Maybe it's a trap, or maybe the position behind you facing the center of the southern forest is guarded by special members." Hai expressed his worries, "As long as there is no latest news about Miss Ye Jielin spread in Manoma, even if a heavy rain comes, , I think continuing to wait is the best choice.”

"I know that what is being discussed now is when news has spread."