Traveling through the infinite wasteland

"Just in time, the last two turrets are done." At the same time that the Blood Prison Commando ended the battle, Ye, who learned through the air guidance crew that he had successfully blown up the last two turrets of the empire, told Garth the news with a smile.

"Great, now the empire's heavy armed forces are gone." Garth said happily. Now that there are no mechas and defensive turrets, the Empire 177 outpost cannot withstand the mixed attack of mechas and infantry with infantry resistance alone. The reason why the outpost is not a city is that there are not enough buildings for soldiers to hide.

The commando waved to the place where the armored troop carrier was, signaling the infantry units behind to follow him and prepare to launch an occupation offensive towards Outpost 177.

Twelve armored vehicles began to advance after seeing the commando's gesture. They have been holding it in for a long time. From the time they set off until now, they can only look up at the mechas defeating the empire's patrols. The reconnaissance troops drove new jeeps to kill the empire's scouts, while they themselves sat blankly. In a troop carrier, nothing helps. Earlier, they also hindered Ye's battle and almost caused Ye to be injured. This ignited a fire in the hearts of this group of infantrymen. They must perform well in front of friendly forces and not let down the face of the army infantry unit and be looked down upon.

The three Commandos climbed up the sand dune where they could see Outpost 177 and stayed there, as if waiting for the armored vehicles and Ye to join them. After Ye Ye also climbed up the sand dunes, Ye Ye couldn't help but be stunned. The imperial outpost in front of him actually had a white flag hoisted. A group of officers surrounded a lieutenant colonel, holding the white flag high, waiting for the federal troops to come and accept them at the gate of the base. surrender.

"Is it over?" Ye asked Gars suspiciously. He had never encountered such a thing like raising a white flag.

"Yes." Garth said hesitantly, and then asked: "Boss, what should we do now?"

faint. I bet this guy has never had to raise a white flag before. Ye thought for a while and then said: "Let the infantry surround them first, and then I will go and talk to them."

Twelve armored personnel carriers surrounded this group of high-ranking imperial officers as quickly as possible, and the soldiers of the infantry company ran out of the armored vehicles. Most of the people formed a ring formation to surround the group of imperial officers, and the rest used armored vehicles as cover. The rifle in his hand was pointed directly at the entrance of the imperial base to prevent imperial soldiers from coming out for a sneak attack.

Night and Garth jumped out of their respective mechas, while Joe and Smith shielded the two from the sun. Although it is already winter and it is still morning, the sunshine in the Tyrad Desert is still very strong, which can be seen from the fact that the external temperature has reached 69 degrees.

"Imperial Lieutenant Colonel Bruce, I surrender to you on behalf of Imperial Outpost 177 in the Tyrad Desert." The Imperial Lieutenant Colonel looked a little haggard, in order not to let the young soldiers under him die in vain. He could only choose to surrender and ruin his life's honor to save these young people.

"Ye, a Chinese special-grade major, accepts your surrender on behalf of the Federation's Terrad Desert Attack Force 177, Lieutenant Colonel." Ye said after giving a federal military salute. These official words are found in the soldier's manual, and it can still be learned by memorizing them all night long.

"Thank you very much, Special Major. I hope your troops will not embarrass my soldiers." After speaking, Lieutenant Colonel Bruce pulled out his own pistol, removed the magazine and the bullets in the chamber, and handed them to Ye.

Ye reached out and took the lieutenant colonel's pistol, which meant that the federal army had officially taken over the empire's outpost.

"Lieutenant Colonel, how many soldiers do you have?" Ye asked. Asking clearly about this successful acceptance base is of great benefit.

"There are two companies with a total of 640 soldiers in the base, plus 107 logistics and medical personnel, as well as us officers. There are 574 people in total. My soldiers are all in the open space in the center of the base. They have no weapons. Please don't make it difficult. They." The lieutenant colonel said dejectedly.

After seeing Ye accept the Empire's surrender, Garth signaled the lieutenant company commander on the side to send a small force to the outpost to check the situation of the Imperial soldiers, and gathered these soldiers into a building for custody to prevent them from suffering from heat stroke.

The first platoon of thirty soldiers in the infantry company, led by their platoon leader, rushed into the base, and soon there was contact. After listening for a while, the lieutenant ran to Ye and saluted: "Boss. There are 547 Imperial personnel in Outpost 177. There are no weapons and equipment. It can be confirmed to be generally safe. Please allow me to lead the troops to search carefully and confirm that it is completely safe. , and then enter."

Ye shook his head and said: "No, Lieutenant, I believe the Lieutenant Colonel did not deceive us. He will not ambush us at the cost of more than 300 lives. That's it, Lieutenant Colonel, we should enter the base." "

Ye turned around and climbed into his tank, and then entered the 177th outpost surrounded by a group of infantry. Under the command of the lieutenant, the infantrymen entered each building in squads of six, searching for Imperial soldiers who might be hiding. What is gratifying is that the searching soldiers have still not found those imperial soldiers who may be hiding, which fully proves the sincerity of Lieutenant Colonel Bruce.

After fully confirming the safety, the scouts rushed to face the empire at the base and set up a reconnaissance line, while the three pilots of Yehe Blood Prison Commando parked their mechas at Base 177 in the open space, and then came down and came to Lieutenant Colonel Bruce again. He had some questions to ask the imperial commander.

After Ye thought about his words, he asked Bruce: "Lieutenant Colonel, can I take the liberty to ask why your base surrendered to us when it still has a certain combat effectiveness?"

Ye's words brought a wry smile to Lieutenant Colonel Bruce's face. The somewhat sad middle-aged man pointed at the ruins around the clearing and said, "I don't want my base to be razed to the ground. In this way, those young men will die terribly." It’s worth it.”

Ye was stunned for a moment. It turned out that he was the one who prompted the surrender of Outpost 177. Looking around the entire open space, there are huge craters on the ground, and flames emerge from time to time among the twisted steel debris. From the appearance, it can be seen that this is a Longbow tank made by the Empire. None of the buildings around the open space are The ones that were intact had either collapsed or were cratered by the impact of gravel. To the west of the clearing, the buildings there were most severely damaged. That's why that's where the Empire's hangar was, where Ye's second round of shelling hit.

Ye, who didn't expect the explosive bombs to be so powerful, looked up blankly at the wreckage in front of him and lamented that such an abnormal-caliber artillery could blow up the main area of ​​the empire's outpost in just two rounds.

Joe on the side couldn't help but whistle. He said to Ye with a smile: "It's the same sentence. Fortunately, we captured this tank. Otherwise, we would be in trouble."

Garth, who was standing next to Ye, also nodded sharply, showing that he fully supported Joe's view.

Now it was Lieutenant Colonel Bruce's turn to be a little unbelievable. He grabbed Ye's shoulders and asked, "You said you captured this tank? Is this true?"

Ye raised his eyes and looked at the extremely excited lieutenant colonel in front of him, and nodded silently. It was a great irony to be defeated by weapons made by his own country.

"Haha, I didn't expect that. We actually lost to the weapons developed by our own scientists, and the tanks produced by our own workers were forced to surrender." Lieutenant Colonel Bruce looked up to the sky and sighed, with a hint of self-deprecation and helplessness in his tone.

"Report." The commander of the infantry company panted and ran to Ye. "We found that all the supplies in the base have been destroyed, boss."

"What? All the supplies were destroyed? Is this true?" Garth squeezed the lieutenant's shoulder and shouted.

"Yes, boss. When my people checked the warehouse, they found that all the ammunition was filled with water. The sealed packages of medicines and food showed signs of being fired by small-caliber automatic weapons. Then these things spilled fuel and became unusable. Got it." The lieutenant said with a sad face, he knew the significance of these supplies.

"Garth. It's not his fault. We should ask Lieutenant Colonel Bruce what's going on, right, Lieutenant Colonel?" Yela took off Garth's hand on the Lieutenant's shoulder and turned to Lieutenant Colonel Bruce. the schoolmaster asked.

Seeing Ye Na's gradually turning cold face, Lieutenant Colonel Bruce didn't have a trace of fear, but felt relieved. He smiled and said: "Special Major, this is the only thing I can do for the empire in the end. Isn't it?"

Ye remained silent and looked up at the lieutenant colonel coldly. destruction of these materials. The loss of supplies for follow-up troops means that the federal logistics supply force must deliver supplies to outpost 177 at least once. This virtually increased the burden on the federal army.

Lieutenant Colonel Bruce stopped his smile and said to Ye: "Special Major, you have completely taken over the 177th outpost. Can you return my pistol to me?"

Ye raised his eyes and looked at the lieutenant colonel's desperate eyes. He could no longer feel any hatred for this man. He nodded silently, pulled out his pistol and handed it to the lieutenant colonel.

"Thank you very much." Lieutenant Colonel Bruce nodded to Ye, carefully took his pistol with both hands, then walked to a building on the side and put the gun against his temple.

"Bang." With a clear gunshot, Ye turned around and saluted the house with a standard military salute.

"Give Lieutenant Colonel Bruce a good burial." Ye said to the Lieutenant. Lieutenant Colonel Bruce's image in Ye's heart has changed from a timid commander who was afraid of death to a good leader who is loyal to the empire and loves to nurse the soldiers.

"Yes, boss." The lieutenant nodded and personally led his guard squad into the house. A soldier with dignity is worthy of respect even if he is an enemy.

After officially occupying Outpost 177, the 3rd Sirius Squadron, which completed its mission, returned to their base, Tris Air Force Base. The third and fourth platoons of the infantry company began to perform duties at simple defense points around the base. The soldiers of the first and second platoons cleared an area for repairs in the base and began to resume the tasks brought by the overnight trek and battle. of fatigue. Yehe and the members of the Blood Prison Commando parked their mecha in a dark place in the open space to avoid direct sunlight on their equipment.

After two hours of repairs, Ye and his soldiers finally waited for the next wave of troops, a company of infantry plus three groups of engineering maintenance soldiers and some maintenance personnel who were ready to do simple repairs and maintenance for Ye and his mechas. . These people will build fortifications in the 177th outpost that has belonged to the Federation, and repair the repairable turrets as heavy fire defense. However, the damage to those turrets was serious enough. After seeing the ruins, the engineers who went to inspect never closed their mouths again and kept sighing. The result of the final inspection was that only two turrets were worth repairing, and the remaining four were better built than repaired.

Because during the battle at night, the entire Imperial hangar in Outpost 177 was blown up, which was a pain for the maintenance personnel of the follow-up troops. Without the help of a robotic arm, these people can only instruct the pilot to use the mecha's arm to plug the inspection cables into the mecha's inspection interface one by one. Some interfaces are beyond the reach of the mecha's arms, and they are powerless. The mechanic has no good solution but to skip the inspection of those interfaces.

The mechas of the Blood Prison Commandos were not seriously damaged, so the maintenance personnel who had completed the inspection early had added camouflage nets to the three commandos to avoid being seen by the empire's possible fighter jets. Although the chance of an imperial fighter plane appearing is smaller than going out to be attacked at night, these dedicated logistics personnel can still do a meticulous job of disguise.

Compared with the three mechas, the appearance of the Night Land King is not very beautiful. The whole body is covered with craters from machine guns. Fortunately, none of the bullets penetrated the armor and entered the interior of the mecha. Otherwise, these would have been extremely responsible. Strong maintenance personnel will definitely dismantle the entire tank and carefully inspect the internal parts. In that case, it will take a considerable amount of time. For this little injury, all it takes is a few maintenance personnel to climb onto the mecha and use armor patching agent to fill the crater. Although these molten metals, which can gradually solidify into hard armor when exposed to air, are not as strong as super-tensioned ceramic composite steel, they are not much worse. The liquid properties obtained by sealing immediately after smelting make this metal the fastest. The perfect choice for repairing armor.

While the engineers and maintenance personnel were busy carrying out their work, the two companies that took over the base had already begun to organize the prisoners to board the escorting armored vehicles. If these people were detained in this outpost, they would be safe if the empire attacked. , if these people make trouble inside, the consequences will be disastrous.

When the entire base is busy, the only ones who can be free are the pilots of the mecha unit. While the infantrymen of the attacking force were handing over the base defense with the two new companies, Ye and the three guys from the Gals Commando were hiding in the command room of the 177 base, blowing on the air conditioner and chatting. (To be continued)