War Lord

Oran left, but she visited the fort again a week later. This time she brought a basic version of a biological modulation system, twenty research assistants and an intelligent management system.

The fifth floor of the main building of the fortress has all been transformed into a biological research room. Although in terms of implementation, it cannot be compared with the laboratory in the previous Horizon company base, at least the most basic modulation work can be carried out. Zero plans to add another expanded version, but Istar will not be able to deliver it until a month later, but now these devices are enough for pre-modulation.

It took two days to install the equipment and debug, and the fifth floor has become a forbidden area, and only zero can come and go freely. Other people need to use identification to ensure the confidentiality of information.

As for the intelligent management system brought by Oran, it was quickly put into practical use. A smart brain host was placed in a room on the fourth floor, and five operating sub-computers were connected. At the same time, the recording terminal was placed in three small towns, including the fortress and Marley, and it took nearly a week for workers to soldiers to do an identity registration, and back up the information in the smart brain host.

At the same time, a smart card was issued to every zero service person, through which they can complete the point update through the recording terminal when they pay zero salary or when they trade certain supplies and food.

At this point, the zero-collar underground economic system was established, and the points system was used in accordance with Asgart. It is carried out at the ratio of 1 gold coin for every 10 points, which reduces some unnecessary links in the zero financial operation, thereby saving a lot of time.

Oran also provided zero with five information staff to manage the system for him, which is a gift from Istar.

Next, the fortress and the three towns went into full swing. The Fortress of Canon is mainly mining and training soldiers. With a steady stream of workers and recruits, several mining areas can finally be fully operational, and the value of resources produced per month has reached more than one million gold coins. On the other hand, two thousand recruits were recruited. Most of them came from the outer islands where life was difficult. Therefore, these recruits were very determined by nature and were not much worse in terms of physical fitness.

What they lack is combat experience. In this regard, the soldiers on the Destiny still train them.

The original fortress area of ​​Canon can't accommodate so many people. Zero can only set up simple shanties near the fortress or even on the edge of the mining area for the workers to live in. The soldiers lived in the original fortress barracks. After the former slave camp was transformed, it could accommodate nearly 5,000 soldiers.

The three towns of Marley, Montgomery, and Tucson also operated. After the soldiers in the Pope’s Hall were beaten away, the residents of the towns did not escape. For them, it doesn’t really matter which town is occupied. What’s important is that Zero still provides food and lodging, and it also increases their salaries. Of course, there was resistance, but after the soldiers suppressed it several times, they accepted their fate.

The principle of zero is very simple, work for him, then everything will be business as usual, and even the treatment will be better than before. But if it makes trouble, especially if it incites other people to resist, it will be ruthlessly suppressed. There is no compromise in this regard. His kindness is aimed at his own people, so those who are unruly or have unpredictable minds will only give them cruelty.

His enemies are far away, and Zero has no time to stay for these branches, only to prune them with the fastest means. After the first two weeks, the order of the three towns was re-established. The factories in the towns of Montgomery and Marley continued to operate, producing food and clean water in an endless stream. The restoration of order in Tucson Town will be faster. Most of the residents in this town are family members who accompanied the army. Their family members died in battle and forged a blood feud with Zero, so naturally they would not work for Zero.

Zero didn't want to kill them. This would give him a brutal name, and he didn't want the Pope's hall to use it to make an essay. A lord can be harsh and iron-blooded, but if it is cruel, then the meaning is completely different. Therefore, he only chose to expel them, and also gave them enough food and water so that these people could reach another city, Cage, 500 kilometers away.

There are hundreds of these people, and once they all flood into Cage City, it should have an impact on their food reserves. At that time, how to arrange the families of these war dead will become a headache for the Pope's Hall. If it is not handled well, the Pope's Hall will be criticized.

The rest are basically the families of the two hundred surrendered soldiers. For the surrendered soldiers, they will be scattered and assigned to work in the mining area. The soldiers and their families knew that the Roman city could no longer go back. Under Sauron's high-pressure policy, the Knights basically executed the surrenders. In other words, even if Zero agrees to release them, they will be executed if they are caught, and their family members will become slaves.

Under such a regulation, the Pope’s Hall undoubtedly pushed the soldiers to the zero side. At least stay here at Zero, they can still live, although they all know that the Pope's Hall will come back sooner or later. But if they are not defeated in a day, they will be able to get asylum. Choose between dying immediately and dying later. Most people know how to choose.

As a result, he got more than 400 workers, plus the new workers he recruited. After training, he also restored most of the production capacity of the arsenal.

Now, this fortress occupied by Zero and the three small towns are extremely busy, and Zero himself is also very busy. But the high-ranking Pixels have nothing to do. They only think about when the Pope’s Hall will come over so that they can move their rusty hands and feet.

In the third week after Canon was occupied, a team of scouts outside Tucson discovered that an army had finally arrived from the city of Cage, 500 kilometers away.

The commander is Mesa, the deputy commander of the 2nd Corps, who escaped from Tucson. This time he integrated three major towns in the surrounding area, including Cage, with a total of 5,000 soldiers, 100 Paladins, and 30 Griffins. The knight's mighty combat power is coming to Tucson.

Mesa wants to be ashamed, and retake the military base in Tucson. Su was very happy when he heard the news. She called Berion who was staying in Tucson, and then took three hundred soldiers and sneaked towards Mesa's army.

Mesa's fighting style has always been steady and steady. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to recruit so many soldiers in one go. It was intended to flatten out Tucson's enemy forces with a numerical advantage. But as the army has more people, it is natural that the march cannot be fast. Advancing at a speed of 100 kilometers a day, by the evening of the fifth day, I saw Tucson at night. Mesa ordered the entire army to rest and formally attack tomorrow morning.

But on the same night, Su led the team to touch the door. After she handed over the soldiers to Berrien, she single-handedly slammed into the barracks in Mesa. We must know that Mesa's army is stationed in the field, there is no danger to defend. Although the barracks were arranged very rigorously, it could withstand the rush of the 9th Destroyer, so he sang forward all the way and went straight to the main camp of Mesa.

In the end, if it weren't for Mesa's intensive mecha force to fire on Su, maybe Mesa would have died that night.

Under the strong firepower of the mecha units, they had no choice but to withdraw. After meeting with Berrien’s team midway, and after rushing to the left and right, Berrien sent a furious rage to Mesa Barracks. The continuous electric fire formed a bright line of fire that separated the chasing soldiers, and blew it up by the way. After a dozen or so Paladin mechas, Mesa was furious and helpless.

Only in this raid, Mesa lost hundreds of soldiers and more than a dozen mechas, causing the morale of the Knights to plummet.

The next day, Ling who received the news brought Hooke and Manshan's battle group over, and Haiwei Yeliu and other high-ranking members also followed. At exactly nine o'clock in the morning, Mesa launched an attack. First, thirty Gryphon knights lifted into the air, they are the most advantageous aerial firepower of the Knights. Griffon Rider’s light machine guns posed a threat to ordinary soldiers, while pocket missiles were firepower that high-ranking players were unwilling to face.

Mesa's first wave of offensive is obviously to form an air suppression on Tucson, and it is indeed tactically correct. It's a pity that there are a lot of abilities on the zero side, especially those with abilities in the element domain like Berion, who have obvious advantages in such a battlefield. What's more, Zero also updated a batch of equipment from Istana. As soon as the Griffin Rider lifted into the sky, under Zero's order, the soldiers who had occupied the commanding heights immediately picked up the Ahn'Qiraj that they had just purchased.

When the Griffin Rider flew close, they were greeted by the powerful air-control firepower net constructed by Ahn'Qiraj guns, as well as the thunder and lightning fire constantly released by Berion's hands. In such a situation, even if the Griffin Rider had already thrown out the guided missile, the zero-side firepower net had already intercepted and detonated it before it landed on the ground.

Seeing this situation, Mesa's face was gloomy and gave the command of the general attack. As a result, hundreds of Paladin mechas were scattered everywhere along with ordinary soldiers advancing towards Tucson. From a high altitude, five thousand soldiers formed a magnificent wave, which was fully pressed toward Tucson.

Finally, all-out fighting broke out outside Tucson.

After occupying Tucson, zero considering the Pope’s Hall is coming, this city will definitely become the front line of the war. Therefore, although Su and Berion were idle some time ago, the other soldiers did not rest. Apart from leaving about a hundred people for the purpose of maintaining order, the others went to dig fortifications outside the town. In addition to the trenches, several unusable armor plates were sent from the steelworks in Marley.

They act as a cover for fixing outside the trenches, and they have people cut square holes on them so that soldiers can shoot after the cover.

These arrangements finally come in handy now, even if the armor plate allows the Paladin mecha to fire, it can last for a while. 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 had encountered unexpected and tyrannical resistance, he ordered the removal of the armor plates first.

As a result, nearly half of the mecha's firepower was aimed at those armor plates, and soon, two sides were blasted into slag. Seeing this situation, zero has no more reservations. One point towards the knight's mech, and the zero lunch rushed towards this unit first. His meaning is obvious, that is, to clear the opponent's power armor first.

Following the participation of a group of abilities such as Zero, Hook, Wild Mountain, Ye Liu, and Hai Wei. The Paladins of the Mesa army were quickly attenuated, and the Griffin Riders were also eliminated one by one with the cooperation of Berion and Ahn'Qiraj. When the casualties of the mecha troops exceeded two-thirds, the scale of the war began to tilt towards zero.

After the mecha troops were almost cleared, the zero class began to rush in the Mesa army. In the face of these killing gods, ordinary soldiers could not stop them. Zero and they didn't compare themselves to those ordinary soldiers, their target was a figure of the opposing officer's rank. These people are like the nodes of the entire command network. When these officers were also downsizing, Mesa found that he could not command the army.

The battle lasted from daytime to afternoon, and finally came to an end.

Mesa’s army killed more than 3,000 soldiers, and the mecha army was almost wiped out. Most of the people at the chief level were killed and injured, and even Mesa himself died in Zero's hands. About 500 of the remaining Knights soldiers chose to surrender, and the rest fled back to Cage City.

After the war, more than 700 soldiers died in this zero battle. Most of them died in the bombing of the armor plate by the enemy. Compared with the loss of the Knights, the zero side can only be regarded as a minor injury, but if there are too many high-levels under the zero, it will not be able to clear the opponent's mecha troops in time. That way, there will be more people dead. There are not many equipment recovered this time. Most of them are ordinary equipment, and the return cannot be compared with the previous few times.

Only after this battle, there are no forces that can pose a threat to zero within nearly a thousand kilometers. The next morning, Ling brought a thousand soldiers and a few high-ranking soldiers and went straight to Cage City. Three days later, the virtual city was broken by Zero in a few seconds. The size of Cage City is not small, about the total area of ​​the three towns of Marley. Here is the recruit training camp of the Holy Seal Knights. It was only then that Zero knew that the army convened by Mesa actually had 3,000 people still in the training camp. Recruits.

Basically, the soldiers in the training camp were transferred to Mesa. It is no wonder that the remaining soldiers are simply not enough to resist the zero attack. After the news of the defeat of Mesa reached the city, the mayor of Cage and some officials had already evacuated the city, leaving only more than 20,000 civilians at zero. They had to guard such a city unless they had to be transferred again. A thousand soldiers.

But Cage City is located on the plain, and there is no danger to guard. Zero asks itself that the current strength is not enough to swallow a big city like Cage, so the residents of Cage City have only enough supplies for ten days, and others can take away. Take away the supplies as far as possible. Among these materials, Zero takes food and water first, 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 are twenty Paladin mechas. With them, plus the remaining Knights of the Round Table, Zero has a mecha squad.

As for the living problems of the residents afterwards, it will naturally become another headache for the Pope’s Hall. And as long as it can make the Pope's hall a headache, Zero is willing to do it.

When he returned to Tucson, he received an unexpected message.

Oran is here again, but this time, she also brought the mysterious funder behind Istar.

Ling returned to Cannon that day, and when he arrived in the evening, he first saw Oran. Oran had already heard of the battle outside Tucson, and said: "Master Zero, congratulations on your defeat of the Pope's Hall again."

Zero said in no way: "It's just a small victory, not a serious setback. You're overwhelmed."

"No, you are humble. Defeating an army of five thousand people from the front is not a trivial victory."

"The quantity does not explain the problem."

"When the number is large enough, that is a problem." Oran smiled.

Zero Wu intends to continue entangled with her in this matter, he changed the subject and said: "I heard that you are not here alone this time."

"Yes, I also brought the adult who supported us behind the scenes."

"I don't know who is in the Pope Hall?" Ling asked casually.

The two came to the command room on the fourth floor. Oran stood outside and said, "You will know it when you go in, and I promise you will be surprised."

"Oh? The one who surprised me, wouldn't it be the young pope." Ling joked and opened the door.

There was only one person in the command room. He stood in front of the French windows and looked at the inner city of the fortress. He was wearing a cloak that wrapped his whole body together, and even his face was buried in the shadow of his hood. When Zero came in, he sighed with emotion: "The current Canon can only really talk about the iron wall."

Zero also walked to the window, and the evening sky light painted the fortress with a golden color. The outer city wall composed of armor plates has been basically assembled, and in a few days, the gate will be completed, and then heavy artillery turrets and anti-aircraft machine guns will be installed on the city wall, and the defense power of the fortress will jump several levels. The city wall composed of a row of metal armor plates, flowing with the luster of metal in the sky, really deserves the word "iron wall".

"Nothing in this world is eternal. No matter how strong Canon is, it cannot never fall. Just like Sauron, it is impossible to sit on the throne forever." Petty said in a flat tone.

The man in the cloak shook slightly ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and turned his head, and from the shadow of his hood, he could see a pair of bright eyes: "You have the confidence to enter Rome?"

"Not to have confidence, but to be sure."

"I really don't understand, where does your faith come from?"

"It's very simple. In front of the peak I want to climb, Rome is just a small hill." A simple sentence of zero reveals strong self-confidence.

"In other words, during your ascent to the top, the hillside of Rome is just an obstacle that you will inevitably jump over. I understand, strange outsider, although I don’t know where your end point is. . But I’m very happy that I can spend a short time with you in your life journey.” The cloak man finally pulled down his hood, revealing a handsome and sunny face: “Meeting for the first time. , I am the current Pope Paul VI."

Zero's pupils shrank slightly, and then a wry smile appeared. He said casually, and he really got it right.

Istar’s behind-the-scenes supporter turned out to be the contemporary Pope!

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