Chapter 218: Don’t want to cross, ice blocks the river

A high-latitude volcano near the West Sea began to erupt violently without any signs. The glaciers that had accumulated over millions of years began to melt at a speed visible to the naked eye. The ice and snow within a radius of hundreds of square kilometers of the volcano were mixed with melting slurry and spread to the low-lying areas.

Wherever the melting slurry passed, the snow field where there was no grass growing, was even more smeared. The hot and red rock awards were intimately in contact with the cold ice, making a hissing sound of barbecuing, and the steam with black and gray sprayed towards the sky wildly.

What followed was a strong earthquake of magnitude nine. Fortunately, the earthquake's source was extremely deep, and the intensity after it reached the surface of the earth was greatly exhausted. Moreover, the surface of this planet that had been fighting for decades did not have too many artificial buildings except for the military mechas walking in the wilderness, so it did not cause too much personnel losses.

The volcanic eruption and the arrival of earthquakes were just a kind warning from nature to both sides busy fighting on this planet. The overall temperature of the 5460 northern hemisphere began to rise slowly. In this terrifying astronomical phenomenon, the federal ground forces had a total of seven reorganized divisions and were evacuated to the south at high speed.

On the banks of the Ice Peak, there is a small imperial army stationed in the alley. They first discovered the enemy's abnormal movements. They were already used to fighting day and night without sleeping, and were shocked to find that for four hours, although the federal shells were still bombing, the difficult federal troops never attacked again.

The company commander thought silently for a long time, and pounded the wall of the cold-resistant cement fortifications with his hands. He crawled out of the alley with a machine gun. The sludge mixed in on the damaged military uniform, making him feel that things were a little strange, and the battlefield was quiet and a little scary.

Climbing through the thick ice cubes used to block federal bullets with difficulty, the company commander stood up with a gun on the ground. He looked at the extremely empty snow field in front of him, and the silent federal barracks opposite him, surprised and didn't know how to speak.

The federalists evacuated?

He was squeezed by the fierce battles and the despair of being abandoned and was about to go crazy. He was silent for a long time before confirming this fact. He grabbed a handful of snow and rubbed his face covered with dirt until he wiped the root of his white beard and was about to bleed. He woke up to the cold, turned around and ran into the alley with ecstasy face, and shouted loudly in a hoarse voice: "The Federalists have retreated! The Federalists have retreated!"

The soldiers of the imperial soldiers in the depths of the fortification were stunned for a long time, and then they believed the company commander's statement. They stood up with difficulty, laughed and cried loudly, beat each other, and hugged each other.

The lucky celebration of escaping death in the alley did not last long, and the laughter of people gradually became smaller, because they heard a strange sound that they had never heard before, coming from the deepest darkness in the alley.

The company commander listened for a moment, suddenly his face changed drastically. He grabbed the guns beside him, rushed towards the side door of the alley deep underground, and shouted loudly: "Prepare for battle!"

A rumbling sound came faintly from the depths of the alley, which was extremely heavy and powerful, and it was not clear at first, but in a very short time, it became as loud as a war drum.

The soldiers of the Empire lie on the ground, staring at the dark and dark roads nervously and fiercely. They didn't know what these terrifying sounds were. They subconsciously thought it was the new Mecha weapon of the Federation people. Only heavy metal equipment could make such a loud sound, which seemed to explain the sudden evacuation of the Federal Army opposite the glacier.

What came was not the new federal mecha that could penetrate deep into the glacier, but an existence that was more terrifying than the mecha group.

The company commander of the Empire, who was guarding the front and back, heard the loud noise like thunder, his eyes shrank rapidly. With a trace of dark light, he saw clearly what it was, and his body trembled violently because of fear. However, he had no time to turn around and shout, and he was hit hard on the wall and turned into a bloody corpse.

Thousands of tons of cold water, wrapped in heavy and sharp ice, accumulate at the top and cracks of the glacier, and rages inside the glacier at an extremely fast speed along the underground river created by nature. Then, it finally entered the underground tunnel network that the imperial people had built for decades, and under tremendous pressure, it turned into an unstoppable torrent of ice and gushed out!

With a loud bang, Ling Liu rushed into the alley of the Imperial Army, roaring and thundering on the hard cement wall, making a roar like thunder, and then ran out unscrupulously, turning into a fountain on the steep cliff of the glacier, shooting towards the blue sky in the morning light, until it was dozens of meters high before it fell unwillingly.

In a very short time, Liu Ling, with an astonishing amount of water, destroyed all the offensives in the alley. As for the imperial soldiers, they didn't know where they were washed away, and it was difficult to see even a trace of blood in the alley.

A few minutes later, the pressure in the gaps inside the glacier gradually balanced, and the flowing lure calmed down. The washed-out alley was filled with cold water, and it was as blue as a deep lake without knowing the bottom. There were dense ice lures and occasionally a few broken empty boxes floating on it.

The temperature is still not high. Not long after, tens of millions of tons of cold water in the tunnel slowly condenses into ice again. Wait for a few days when the temperature is higher, they will melt again, roar again, or maybe condense again. If this is repeated countless times, you may find an opportunity to lucky enough to rush into the grassland neighbors in the south who have been away from for more than two thousand years.

The dark alley was quiet and silent, with occasional sounds of water rippling and cracks sounded. The bloody battles of the federal troops could not reach the place, and the last position of the Imperial Expeditionary Force turned into a dead place under the power of nature.

Several small sub-bases hidden in glaciers in Area K were all destroyed by Liu Ling. The veteran General Ambri had already learned of this unfortunate news. With the help of the guards, he slowly walked out of the base gate and looked at the sky in the east. Looking at the extremely clear lines of volcanic black smoke, a trace of complex emotions flashed through his old face.

If it were just a small volcanic eruption and earthquake, it would not have spread to the last base under his feet, the old general thought silently.

However, he was in a cold mood, knowing that this was just a self-comfortable statement - if it was really just a small Liuling caused by a volcanic eruption, why did the Federalists withdraw? The Empire did not have enough cutting-edge computers to conduct research on this aspect, but the Federation had it.

"Let the remaining troops be dispatched, use the final reserve of armed forces, and at all costs, to hold back the federal troops retreating south."

"Don't try to intercept their combat troops, and target their attacks on their quick-condensing cement warehouses and engineering mechas."

The old general Ambry looked south with his eyes and said indifferently: "Remember, at all costs, no matter what level of officer, you must at least keep me a federal soldier."

"Yes, General." The guard officer beside him replied.

General Ambry squinted his eyes and looked at the white snow in front of him. The wrinkles on his face were like snow layers blown by the wind. After a long silence, he added: "I know you are not afraid of death... but this time you cannot be afraid of death, because this may be our last chance to not be afraid of death, and I will accompany you."

In some places in the glacier areas of the planet, it was still late at night, and in some places it had already ushered in the early morning. The last soldiers of the Imperial Expeditionary Force on this planet walked out or climbed out of the narrow alleyway. These supplies were exhausted and the remaining soldiers who were about to be exhausted and had no time to breathe the fresh air that had not been exposed for a long time. When they looked at the blue sky that had not been seen for many days, their eyes were filled with a faint and close to death. They hunched their bodies silently and strongly, holding their companions, and running towards strategic nodes in all directions.

Nearly 10,000 imperial soldiers didn't know what was happening on this planet, and they didn't even know that there was a volcano in Area K. The violent vibration the day before yesterday was a major earthquake in the distance. They only knew that this was the order of the superior and their last chance to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor. So they walked out with guns and in the flat snowfield in broad daylight, to block or pursue federal troops whose equipment was far better than themselves and whose people were dozens of times more than themselves.

How crazy is this?

The volcanic ash in the sky in the distance was blown away by the cold wind at high altitude. In the eastern sky in the early morning, the planet was so clear that it seemed to be unreal, and a black line could be faintly seen outside the atmosphere.

That was the federal fleet in outer space.

At the entrance of the Imperial Base at the height of the Ice Peak, General Ambre, who was standing in the wind and snow to deliver the last journey to the soldiers, was knocked down by his guard officer and forced into the solid base.

More than sixty milky white light columns were launched from the warships in space and instantly entered a clear and sparse atmosphere. With the help of the precise positioning of the Charter Network, they fell fiercely towards the snowfield.

There was no too much violent sound, and the light column that was adjusted to the attack covered area, turning countless imperial soldiers who were moving forward arduously in the snowfield into light smoke, melting countless ice and snow, and falling snow peaks fell and disappeared. The whole process was like an accelerated spring, but it seemed so terrifying.

Just this round of warship main gun attacks had already destroyed the energy quota for the two years of the federal peace period. However, the imperial officers and soldiers who were shouting for futility to avoid and even curse at the sky, found in despair that dozens of milky white light beams blasted down from the sky.

Faced with the madness of the Imperial people, the federal response was also crazy.

The ground forces of the seven federal divisions accelerated their retreat to the south under the cover of the fleet at any cost. After seeing the milky white light columns, the suspicion and anger that was heating up in the barracks suddenly disappeared.

The officers and soldiers still did not know the real reason for the sudden retreat, but seeing that the Federation used so much crystal mine energy quota and launched a cluster space attack that had not been seen for many years, they knew very well that things must have been nervous to a certain extent.

Three days later, the retreat organized by all federal forces finally succeeded. All ground troops retreated to four military airports in the southern hemisphere, and then returned to space by countless military and civilian space ships urgently recruited by the government.

Only a few special forces and researchers remained on the surface. They were responsible for monitoring what happened on this planet and silently observing the end of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, and Xu Le also stayed.

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