Chapter 1242, Northwest Soldiers

Three Mountain Defense Line.

The Qing Clan’s troops began to retreat under the attacks directed by the AI’s precision.

The soldiers of the Qing Clan had a sense of honor, and they had never fought such a suffocating war before.

Their every move was in the eyes of others, and they were never able to figure out the enemy’s movements.

It was clear that the Gyeong Clan’s position had a storm of metal like the Mountain Dump, and artillery of various calibers, but they were unable to do anything with the enemy.

The opponent was advancing step by step, not giving Gyeong’s forces a single chance.

When the First Group Army abandoned position 171, they planted a large amount of explosives on the position, wanting to lure the AI to occupy it, and then use the explosives planted ahead of time to inflict heavy damage on the AI-controlled troops.

However, after they had withdrawn, the AI’s forces did not occupy position 171 in a big way, but merely sent one person to dismantle all the explosives.

The other side knew every location where the explosives were planted and was extremely proficient at defusing bombs.

Later, Qing’s forces laid minefields where the other side would have to pass through, wanting to use this to block the AI’s advance.

Minefields were one of the most commonly used means in war, and mines were not expensive, and were even somewhat cheap compared to artillery.

This kind of high-explosive property of the mines laid into a huge minefield, if the human troops are afraid to be delayed for several months.

After all, if the mines were not removed, moving forward would only lead to death.

However, what surprised Qing’s troops was that the AI troops passed right through the minefield without even clearing the mines!

When the soldiers controlled by the AI passed through the minefield, the other side seemed to know where the mines were placed in advance and avoided them.

The soldiers in charge of long-distance reconnaissance realized that some enemy troops had turned around a second before they were about to step on the mines.

This kind of operation is really incredible.

It would be fine if only one person could avoid the mines, but the other side was ignoring them all.

It was nothing to be able to spot the mines, but the fact that the other party knew where the mines were but never wasted any time in clearing them was enough to make people’s hearts shake.

For the AI’s army, those known mines were like coordinates that had been marked out, and all combat units would automatically avoid them when passing by them.

It was like a piece of perfect program.

Facing such an enemy, you wouldn’t even know how to deal with it.

All Qing’s forces could do was to use one fresh life after another to fill the holes in their own defenses.

Yet every time it was filled, it was mercilessly re-torn apart by the enemy forces.

Qing Yi gave all his efforts, but it was only in vain.

However, Qing Yi found it very enjoyable, even though he was about to be defeated by the enemy, it seemed like a worthwhile trip to have seen a real war before defeat.

He had learned about the military from elementary school, and every time he saw those famous wars on the information records, he would be mesmerized.

Qing Yi is like a person who spends his whole life, pursuing a truth, and now that he has seen and understood this truth, he is content.

There were three mountains in the Three Mountain Defense Line, and now two had fallen.

Qing Yi stood in the command of the only remaining defense position silently reviewing the situation, the beloved servant beside him whispered, “Sir, according to Chief Qing Zhen’s plan, it’s time for you to leave.”

Qing Yi glanced at his beloved, “I cannot leave.”

The beloved said, “Sir, you have done enough and tried your best. Leave the rest to me, and please retreat to the northwest with Officer Qing Zhuan.”

The soldiers of Qing’s troops did not realize that this was actually a doomed war, and even Qing Zhen, Luo Lan, and Qing Yi were ready to retreat.

The point of this war was for Zero to defeat Qing, or for Zero to think that he had defeated Qing.

There were very few people who knew about the retreat plan, and Xinwei was one of them.

Qing Yi looked at the other party’s serious look and smiled and said, “Two Type A group armies, and one Type B group army will be buried here, how can I as the supreme commander command everyone to throw their heads in the sand one second, and retreat the next?”

Before coming to the Sanshan defense line, Qing Zhen explained that he had to retreat according to the plan, Qing Yi promised to do so, but in fact, he never intended to leave from the beginning.

Qing Zhen’s meaning was clear to him, but could Qing Yi leave? If he were to leave, I’m afraid all the dead souls of Qing’s generals on these three hills would be disappointed.

Qing Yi promised Qing Zhen, but he was just afraid that Qing Zhen would not let him come to the front line.

Qing Yi smiled at his beloved, “You give a word to my second brother, I’m not going back, this is where I belong.”

In a trance, when Qing Yi made this decision it was as if he had returned to his teenage years, just as full of longing and fervor.

He followed his uncle into the military camp behind Ginkgo Mountain until he saw the other two teenagers one day.

Then began a life without regrets.

Just like the Ginkgo Mountains in the fall, full of golden leaves, glorious and brilliant.

……

In the wilderness, a steam train was speeding away from north to south.

And on Ginkgo Mountain, Qing Zhen sat above the Black Lake in quiet contemplation.

There was no one else in the mountain lodge halfway up the mountain, so Luo Lan took on the duty of cooking.

He walked out of the back kitchen with three portions of soy sauce fried rice and handed them to Zhou Qi and Qing Zhen respectively.

Qing Zhen didn’t rush to eat after receiving them, but it was Zhou Qi who wolfed down the food as if he was a starving ghost.

Luo Lan was a bit unhappy: “I say Zhou Qi, I worked hard to cook for you guys, peeling garlic and green onions, washing and panning rice for half a day, and at this time you’re eating fragrant soy sauce fried rice, what do you think you should say to me?”

Zhou Qi was silent for a while and asked, “Anything else?”

Luo Lan: “????”

While he was talking, he saw Xu Conceal hurriedly run in, then said to Qing Zhen, “Sir, the outpost to the east of Barrier 111 has discovered that the monsters that ran out of the Realm Mountain earlier are approaching Barrier 111 at full speed!”

Qing Zhen asked, “Approximately how long will it take to reach Barrier 111?”

“Half a day at most,” Xu Concealment said.

Qing Zhen stood up and turned back to Luo Lan and Zhou Qi, “It’s time to go, the sudden appearance of this monster means that the people from the northwest who came to meet us are almost here, and not surprisingly, it’s Ren Xiaosu himself.”

Nowadays, there was no contact between the southwest and the northwest, but Qing Zhen had his own way of judging the situation.

A true long-sighted person would have been good at looking through appearances to discover what was behind them.

It seemed that the only one who could force an AI to use such a monster was Ren Xiaosu.

Zhou Qi lamented, “Ren Xiaosu has now become the Major Commander of the Northwest Army, and he’s even willing to come and risk his life to save others, you guys have quite a face.”

Qing Zhen shook his head, “It has nothing to do with face, it’s that this war needs me, or it needs one of us to arrive in the Northwest alive, on the way I will tell you the last part of the plan, no matter who ends up or arrives in the Northwest, it will be a decisive help to this war.”

Luo Lan suddenly asked, “Now what are your chances of winning?”

Qing Zhen thought for a moment and said, “Still 30%, but it’s enough.”

With that said, Xu Zou opened the secret passage in the Ginkgo Manor, and Luo Lan asked, “In the past, you and Lao San used to swap identities regularly through this secret passage?”

“Well,” Qing Zhen nodded, “Tough on him.”

This secret passageway was built by the previous power holders of the Qing Clan and had been in use for decades.

Only, in the past, this secret passage was used for those dirty deeds, and there were secret chambers underneath, as well as prison cells, and Qing Zhen even saw over a hundred female withered bones inside after he took over the Ginkgo Manor.

Qing Zhen knew that the ugliest things in the world must have happened here.

The four of them entered through the secret passage, but just after entering the secret passage, Luo Lan froze as he looked at the walls of the secret passage.

The secret passage was studded with wall lamps, and that soft yellow glow illuminated two small, newly carved words on the wall, “Solitude.”

Qing Zhen stood still: “It was carved by Lao San.”

Suddenly, Luo Lan could even imagine that Qing Shen had stood here countless times, waiting to alternate identities with Qing Zhen.

The other party waited silently under the wall lamps, asking for nothing more than to blend in with them and not be so lonely anymore.

Every time Luo Lan thought about his previous words of doubting and questioning the other party, his heart felt hard as if it was being clutched tightly.

He doubted Lao San’s purpose, he questioned Lao San’s motives, testing and sneering over and over again, but Lao San never showed any emotion of anger.

However, Lao San must have been very sad at that time.

“Brother, let’s go,” Qing Zhen said, “We can’t let Lao San die in vain.”

“Well, we can’t let Lao San die in vain,” Luo Lan said with a nod.

The four of them headed towards the darkness of the secret passage, at the end of which vehicles had already been parked, the four of them, one vehicle, would follow the planned route to the rendezvous point.

To the east of Barrier 111, dusk was crawling fast, and above its head, there were still flocks of birds hovering like dark clouds.

When Luo Lan left Barrier 111 with their vehicle, the dusk immediately changed direction and chased straight towards the vehicle.

……

In Barrier 144’s military control zone, tens of thousands of old, young, women and children were lined up waiting to enter the Key Gate.

There was no panic as expected, and the vast majority of people were waiting in the rest area.

There was water and food in the rest area, and everyone had a slip of paper labeled with their serial number, and every once in a while a soldier from the Northwest Army would come to call out the number, and those who were called to the serial number would go out and line up, and follow all the others to the Gate of Keys.

However, the chaotic world has its own life.

There were not only the old, young, women and children here, but there were actually those big businessmen and their families.

Wang Fugui had requisitioned hundreds of their wagons and naturally had to give them some preferential treatment, so they were allowed to leave directly through the Key Gate without having to endure the pain of running around.

As a matter of fact, people with money and power did enjoy some privileges in this world.

Although Wang Fugui could take them as much as he wanted, it was always better to save face.

After these big businessmen came to the military control area, they also had to line up and call for a number just like ordinary people.

But naturally, they didn’t want to wait, so they used gold to buy a more advanced serial number, and went through the Key Gate to Fortress 178 as early as possible.

These big travelers had also purchased properties in Fortress 178, and after arriving at Fortress 178, they could directly leave and enter to live in their own properties in the fortress.

The Northwest Army knew about these things, but did not interfere too much.

The world was just so real.

The grandpa that Ren Xiaosu ordered the soldiers to rack in earlier was in this rest area and became a star.

He told the new refugees over and over again how he had been forcefully racked over by the Major, and then recounted how benevolent the Major was, even caring about him as a little person ……

In his description, it is no longer the soldiers who racked him over, but Ren Xiaosu personally carried him to the military control area. moncler outlet store online

At this moment, moncler outlet store the most emotion in his heart is that the world is changing really fast ah, the Northwest Army even have this kind of means of letting people instantly thousands of miles.

However, just at this moment, suddenly a sparrow carrying a wooden pipe flew into the military control area.

The soldiers in charge of guarding at the high ground had long since received the order to directly shoot down all flying birds on sight.

Bang Bang two gunshots, the sparrow with a wooden pipe was hit by the feathers fluttering, straight toward the ground fell down.

The big lug heard the gunshots and immediately brought people over to check, he didn’t care about the sparrow, but picked up the wooden pipe on the ground and opened it, inside was a note: “In 3 minutes, there will be a missile attack at the entrance of the passageway, please evacuate the crowd. Do not attempt to move the passageway or the entire 144th Barrier will be destroyed.”

The big luminary froze for a moment, there was no doubt that this was a note from Zero.

Zero seemed to have been aware of their means of retreat, so he was going to just destroy their Keygate.

But he couldn’t figure out why Zero had warned if he was going to attack this place through missiles.

So it wasn’t the humans here that the other party wanted to destroy, but that door?

What the hell was it for, huh?

The door itself was movable; after all, with Ren Xiaosu’s operation in front of him, everyone understood that a moving Key Door was actually more reliable.

But now Zero had even blocked this retreat in advance.

It was too late to think about this, and Big Snooze roared, ”Quickly take everyone away, quickly! The farther away from the Key Gate, the better!”

The soldiers didn’t know what was going on, but obedience was a will deep in their marrow, and the Northwest Army quickly moved to come forward as they quickly took the refugees away en masse, all of them retreating towards a place far away from the Key Gate.

The Wang Clan did have a missile force, and although their missile force was nowhere near as good as the Qing Clan’s, it was still terrifying enough.

Nowadays, the four barriers on the frontline were feared to be within the range of the other side’s missiles, meaning that the AI’s army was not far away.

Everyone in the large military control area was fleeing.

The big luminary didn’t dare to bet on whether the warning on the note was true or not, he could only lead his people to leave first!

At this time, however, someone suddenly ran in the direction of the Gate of Keys.

Big Snob turned around and saw that it was Zhang Hao who had opened this Key Gate.

Big lulu roared, “What are you doing, the missiles are about to fall, you’re still running inside at this time, don’t you want to die?”

However, Zhang Hao turned around and said, “Chief P5 gave me an explanation, if this Key Gate is in danger of being destroyed, it has to be shut down before it can be closed, otherwise, those who had passed through the Key Gate in the previous two days would all fall out as well!”

The big luminary was silent, the number of people who passed through the Key Gate in two days was in the tens of thousands, if all those refugees fell back to Barrier 144, he didn’t even know how to explain to Ren Xiaosu.

But the problem was, if he went to close the Key Gate now, there simply wouldn’t be enough time to return again.

To save one person, or to save tens of thousands of people, such an option was once again in front of everyone.

It was a tough choice, and even someone like Big Snob who had seen great storms had a hard time making a decision right away.

But this choice didn’t seem to be difficult for Zhang Hao, who saluted and smiled at Big Huyao from afar, “Officer Zhang Husheng, I am a Northwest Army man.”

After saying that, he turned around and ran towards the building where the Key Gate was located, as athletic as a cheetah.

In the distant firmament, there were three slender missiles dragging their long tails as they flew over, fast enough to break the sound barrier.

More than twenty seconds later, the missiles struck the direction where the Key Gate was located at the same time like thunder, tens of meters in a radius went up in smoke in an instant, but what Big Snooze was worried about didn’t happen, those who had arrived at the 178th Fortress through the Key Gate before didn’t fall out.