Chapter 681 Fortress Canon

"What a big joke, relying on those mob also want to attack our fortress?" A man with a greasy face and fat figure like a bucket stuffed himself into a leather chair. While drinking wine, he smiled and said, but this chair seemed to be too narrow, so the fat man didn't sit very well and sighed, "It seems that another chair has to be made."

Another tall man shook his head and sighed, "It's been almost 20 years since you came to Cannon, and you have changed at least five chairs. Dear leader, you seem to have to pay attention to your weight.

This man has long and straight black hair and slender hands and feet. The facial features are exquisite and exquisite as if they are too perfect. Things that are too perfect sometimes seem terrible, just like this man. He looks cold, like an emotionless machine. Essien, a man named Lei Ming, has known him for a long time. When the Cannon Fortress was built, the man came to the fortress with a piece of paper from the papal chamber and designated him as the commander of the 6th branch of the Order, and the previous commander had died in the battle of the blood-stained road.

The thunder that came to Cannon Fortress that day is what it is now. Nearly 20 years later, this man is still the same. It seems that time has lost its role in him, and the thunder's ability, appearance and even habits remain amazingly consistent. People who don't know Lei Ming may think it's nothing. If they know him and don't have enough strength to understand him, they probably think he is weird.

Only Essin, who is also the commander of the army, will understand the horror of this man. He is like a machine that will never go wrong, maintaining terrible accuracy. Essien knows that even a self-disciplined person. When he enlarges his life, he will always find some subtle fluctuations. Or mood, or something else. But since he met Lei Ming, his daily routine of life can only be described by machinery.

Wherever it should appear every day, the thunder will be there. He won't be a second late or a second early. It's always just right. This reminds Essien of some rumors related to some secret experiments in the Pontifical Council. These experiments are confidential, and they are so important that once they are leaked, they may disintegrate the pillars of the faith in the Pope's Hall.

Because those experiments really violate some taboos in the canon.

And the fact that Lei Ming has to return to the Pope's Hall in March every year aggravate Essine's conjecture in this regard.

Although on the surface, he went back to the Pope's Hall to report his duties. But as far as Essin himself is, the quarterly report is just a matter of remote communication. Only on Hanukkah once every three years, the legion commander, who weighed nearly tons, had to return to the city of New Rome.

Difficult to move out of the chair, and the overburdened seat scattered into a pile of parts in a moan. Essien sighed, "Now it's the sixth one."

Lei Ming looked at him flatly and said quietly, "Leacon, Essien, I think it is necessary to pay attention to the message conveyed by the head of Yafidi."

"What do you think is the importance of?"

Essin circled in the command room and couldn't find a suitable chair, so he simply sat on the ground.

Add sentry posts and maintenance equipment. If I remember correctly, your knight has not been in operation for almost a year, and I suggest you have a comprehensive inspection today in case of emergency. Lei Ming gave a few suggestions in one breath, and finally said, "We have to send an elite reconnaissance team to the Broken Bay to see. If the pirates attack, it will be the nearest landing point."

"Okay, okay, do as you say. But I still don't think it's necessary. Cannon is not the soft egg-like Farrow, and the iron wall can't be torn apart by a group of pirates. It would be better if they really fought. I have forgotten how long it has been since we fought. Essien said excitedly, with a fat face blushing. But his face darkens and he said, "But the inspection of the Knights of the Round Table will be avoided. Damn it, I don't know if I can squeeze into the driver's compartment now."

Lei Ming looked at his fat body, and there was a wisp of sadness in his eyes. He is worried about not Essine's weight, but his combat strength. Too long peace and alcohol may have caused the commander to fall to the lowest baseline. As for himself, what his strength was 20 years ago and what his strength 20 years later. It has not decreased, but it will not increase.

From the perspective of time, it is not a good thing not to increase or decrease.

This day, Cannon hasn't been so lively for a long time. The working slave watched doubtfully as the soldiers carried the equipment that had been shelved in the warehouse for a long time and began training in the square of the fortress. Usually, there is no such training, but it is rare to see it a few times a month, and today is not the day of training. If all the soldiers of the Knights of the Pope's Hall are pulled out of the military exercise, you will find that Cannon's soldiers are fatter than other knight groups. There's nothing we can do about it. Who made Cannon's life too good?

Other knights usually have to fight pirates or something, but no blind pirate will attack Cannon. So in the Knights, being able to become a soldier in Cannon is like a vacation. Therefore, Cannon's soldiers are not much different from Essien. After staying here for a few years, you will find that you have gained a lot of weight.

But not many people have noticed that their physical strength, reaction, will and fighting instinct are decreasing accordingly.

While the soldiers of the Knights were training, the dusted artillery, anti-aircraft machine guns and other equipment on the walls of Canon finally waited for the opportunity to be repaired. It's just that the thunderous order was issued, and the repaired soldiers didn't seem to be so careful. As they checked the weapons, they talked and laughed in a low voice, so something was missing from under their noses, and the soldiers did not notice it at all.

The only one who is working seriously is probably the mecha technician who inspects the two round table knights. After all, this is the pedestal of the two legion commanders. They know what can be dealt with sloppyly and what must be done. But in the final analysis, no one believes that pirates will hit the iron plate so fearlessly.

In the afternoon, a team of light locomotives drove out of the fortress and walked along the Emerald Forest towards the broken bay. They are the guards under Lei Ming's command and have a level above ordinary soldiers. More importantly, they are serious, careful and efficient. Even living in a comfortable environment like Cannon, they have never lost the sharp edge of the past.

For them, Lei Ming was very relieved.

The fleet is like a dagger, and the cold metal light passes through the green emerald forest, forming a sharp contrast. There are some wild animals living in the forest, most of which are harmless. And the more powerful muta beasts died early under the development of the road stained with blood. In those years, the Pope's Hall was not a war, and all efforts must be used in the first battle. And the meaning of full power is not something that can be satisfied by defeating the opponent. It usually refers to the extermination. In the Dark Ages, there were at least ten thousand species extinct in the western continent.

Without the source, there will be no evolution and growth, which is also the reason why the alien and higher mutagenic beasts in the western continent almost disappeared.

Human independence was indeed a good thing at that time. At least most of the resources in the western continent are under the control of human beings, but from the perspective of the whole era, they do more harm than good. Without competition, the western continent is like the fortress Cannon, and human evolution has slowed down. You may not see anything in a short period of time, but if the time is a hundred years. So today of the fortress Canon is the tomorrow of the western continent.

It's just that few people will think about such a long-term problem. Most human beings will only focus on the present, and few will look at the disadvantages that will not appear in a hundred years. Living in this era of imprepableness, you can see that you can be called a wise man ten years later. If you can see through a hundred years, you are already a saint.

Unfortunately, there are countless mediocre people, but few saints. Looking at the whole world, probably not many people will take such a long view.

At least Hodel won't.

He was the captain of the "Lightning" of the Guards under Lei Ming. He was only a 15-year-old teenager when he followed Lei Ming to Fort Cannon. At that time, he was still ignorant and joined the army with a cavity of blood. Because it has good potential, it has been cultivated by thunder. Now he is the second person in the Sixth Legion under the thunder.

Hodel, who is thirty-five or sixty-six, has short white hair written capablely, but has a pair of flexible eyes on his square face. He is a rigorous but flexible person. During his years of service in Cannon, Hodel spent at least half of his time in the fortress every year. With the approval of Lei Ming, he continued to fight in front of various legions and participated in many activities against pirates.

Other legions also welcome such a person who has the ability to reach the seventh level. Hodel is only one step away from the higher level.

At sunset, Hodel came to the Broken Bay.

This is a strange geographical environment.

The coastal trend of the western continent comes from west to east, with a gentle coastline. But when I got here, there was a sudden depression of an n-shaped terrain. If the mainland is an irregular cake, then the broken bay is like a small corner of the cake, which is also the origin of the name of the bay.

The coastline of the mainland extending eastward from Farrow is not beaches or various shallow beaches, but towering rock walls. The rock wall is not only a natural dam on the outer edge of the continent, but also a barrier against attack from the sea surface. Only when you come to the fractured bay will the ship be able to sail a little inland because of this strange fracture surface. Even the fortress Cannon built a simple wharf here in the bay, but the wharf was discontinued as early as ten years ago, and now there are only the wreckage of some facilities left.

The coastline continues to extend to the east and then turns north, and then a relatively gentle sandy beach will gradually appear. Therefore, if pirates come to attack, there is no other way but to land in the broken bay.

When the motorcade arrived at the bay, it was already dark. Hodel and his team members spent a night in the ruins of the bay pier and began to search near the bay the next day. They checked very carefully, but there were no traces of a large number of landings in the bay and docks. From time, if Farrow's attack was just a pirate's blat, the main force should have reached the bay long ago.

However, except for a few isolated islands, there are no traces of ships on the sea, let alone the huge fleet. Hodel frowned and reported the news to Lei Ming. Then the guards stayed nearby for another night and returned to the fortress the next morning.

"Look, I said it was impossible." Essien grabbed the wine bottle in one hand and swept the food in front of him into his big mouth with the other. The leader's mouth is like a black hole, eating nearly tons of food every day.

Lei Ming still stood at the window, looking at the vast sea facing the other side of the fortress: "Hodel did not find any pirate's whereabouts, but that doesn't mean we can relax. Chief Essien, I suggest that the previous order must continue and that some people have to be sent to the Broken Bay. That dock may have been abandoned for too long, and we have to reconsider building it.

"That's not good. The men of the Pope's Hall won't allocate more funds for us." Essien frowned.

Lei Ming looked at the food on his table. Essing shivered and then protested angrily: "I warn you, Lei Ming, you are not allowed to think about my food. This is the only pleasure in my life!"

"If you can cut the food supply by half, let alone a dock, we have built ten." Lei Ming said blankly, "Mir Essien, sometimes I suspect that what you eat is not food, but gold coins. Pils of gold coins.

Leaving this sentence, Lei Ming said that he would check the training of those soldiers. After he left, Essien frowned and said, "How can a guy like you understand my pain? There is no war to fight, and no woman can fight. If there is no more delicious food, I can't find the fun of life. Oh, forget it, just eat less today."

Esien did eat a little less today.

However, it's just a little bit.

It's another night.

But tonight, the beasts living in the emerald forest can't be as calm as usual. They should have returned to their nests to rest at this time, but now, they have left their nests far away. The direction away from the beasts is closer to the direction of the fortress Cannon.

Half a kilometer away from the edge of the forest, a group of night birds want to fly. But as soon as I spread my wings, I found that no matter how I flapped my wings, I couldn't fly into the sky. The air that usually has no resistance becomes as sticky as a swamp, and the invisible force field binds these birds not far from the canopy. Then another force field passed through the birds, and the birds stopped any activities and fell down one by one.

The birds that fell on the soft ground have lost any vitality.

Countless dark shadows passed quietly through the forest, and they were like a black undercurrent, quietly flowing in the forest. The undercurrent refers to Cannon, the fortress at night.

Although it was late at night, Cannon still lit the lights. In a golden pupil, you can even see a soldier yawning in the whistle on the high wall of the fortress. The owner of the pupil is Zero, and behind Zero, there is no Neppoon in Hodel's report!

They actually arrived a long time ago, and on the morning when Essien received Farrow's message, the fleet of the Nepion quietly arrived at the Broken Bay. However, the fleet did not stop. After leaving a total of 3,000 members of the Nepto Regiment, the fleet stayed away from the sea area according to Zero's order. Zero and the Sea God Group poured into the Emerald Forest at the first time. Although the number of Sea God Regiment is large, the Emerald Forest is large enough. The vast primitive forest has more than 3,000 people, and although the thunderous guard is elite, it does not have the strength to check the whole forest without leakage.

The Nephen Regiment even stayed in the forest for a day. It was not until the thundering guards left that they started to the fortress.

Now, Cannon is right in front of us, and the defense is ordinary.

"Act as planned." Zero said lightly.

So the crowd came out, and behind the destroyer, it quietly followed a team. There are only 70 or 80 people in this team, but the popularity is calm. Like a sharp sword tied in the scabbard, although the sword has not yet come out of its sheath, it has hidden a sharp edge. This team is a group of capable people whose average combat effectiveness is in the sixth level.

Under the cover of night, the trident quietly passed through the forest and quietly touched the fortress.

The weather is already autumn. When autumn comes, will winter be far away?

Although it is only autumn, the weather at night has become cold, which makes a set of knight uniforms a little thin. So a sentry on the wall couldn't help shrinking his neck. He yawned and calculated how long it would take to change shifts.

The wall of the Cannon Fortress is 30 meters high and wraps the main building of the fortress in a arch. There are five sentry towers from west to east on the wall, each equipped with two anti-aircraft machine guns and ten sentries. In addition, there are four hurries and several hidden whistles in other parts of the city. There is an inner wall behind the city wall, and there is a road between the inner and outer walls.

This road called "Between Death" can deliberately open the gate to let the enemy in when needed, and then trap the enemy in the fire point of the inner and outer walls between death to annihilate the enemy. Naturally, in Cannon's 20-year peacetime, such a design is useless.

After the city wall is the square area, and there are several areas such as warehouse areas, slave houses, military houses, command stations and mecha warehouses nearby. The buildings in each area seem unplanned, but in fact the space between buildings is very limited. It makes the passage in the fortress twisted. If you are not familiar with the fortress, it is not surprising that you will even get lost in this place without any road signs.

This design takes into account that once the enemy breaks through the two walls inside and outside, it can take advantage of the special environment here to divide the enemy to the greatest extent. While reducing the impact of the enemy, it also allows the hosts of the fortress to turn the frontal battle into street fighting.

This is the Cannon Fortress, a "city" designed entirely from the perspective of war.