Interstellar Soldier

Chapter 154 Hell on Earth
"Colonel, the route has been planned and is expected to arrive in 15 minutes."

"Okay, remind me 5 minutes in advance."

Allen's image disappeared, and Lin Feng looked back at Yang Yi who was following behind, then opened the door and entered the conference center of the "Shadow".

Inside, dozens of officers and soldiers participating in the operation were sitting upright, waiting for Lin Feng and Yang Yi.

After receiving the order from the theater command, Lin Feng made arrangements and deployments.Because he was going to the first war zone, besides bringing Yang Yi and others, Lin Feng also added a squadron.It's not that Lin Feng has no confidence in Yang Yi and the others, but that he doesn't quite understand the difficulty of this mission.

This can't be blamed on Lin Feng, but because the theater command didn't explain clearly.

The content of the order is only one sentence: go to the Prometheus star and assist the local garrison to resist the invasion until the reinforcements from the first theater arrive.

Although the Prometheus star is no stranger to Lin Feng and other officers and soldiers of the Special Investigation Brigade, the mission order did not mention the current combat situation, nor did it mention the size of the garrison.As for when the reinforcements from the first war zone will arrive, it is even more unknown.

In the first war zone, the Prometheus star can be said to be famous, comparable to the Huo Shen star.

This planet is located in the hinterland of the Greenwich Meteorite Belt, less than [-] million kilometers away from the ceasefire line. Although it has the size of a planet, it is a lone star surrounded by a gaseous nebula.According to scientists' speculation, the Prometheus star is the product of the star explosion, to be precise, it is a remnant.Over time, hundreds of millions of years later, the Prometheus star will be able to rely on its own gravity to attract the matter in the nearby nebula, and after gaining enough mass, it will evolve into a star.If you're lucky, a few planets may also appear.However, that is hundreds of millions of years later, and whether the Prometheus star can exist stably for hundreds of millions of years is still unknown.

It's not that the area where the Prometheus star is located is unstable, but that its strategic location is too important.

In the Fifth Greenwich War thousands of years ago, an extremely tragic battle took place here.At that time, in order to cooperate with the third theater to enter the Northern Alpha galaxy and launch the military operation of the Battle of Peaceful Dawn, the first theater also launched a combat operation to attack the Prometheus star.Because the third war zone has advanced to the Northern Alpha galaxy, the Silicon Magic Alliance did not stick to the Prometheus star.In addition, the first war zone successfully captured the Prometheus star, unplugging the last stronghold of the Silicon Magic Alliance in the southern part of the Greenwich Meteorite Belt, which is also the reason why the Silicon Magic Alliance signed an armistice agreement and gave up half of the Greenwich Meteorite Belt to the Galactic Alliance. one.

It can be seen that the Prometheus star has extremely high strategic value.

The problem is that it is too close to the center line of the Greenwich meteorite belt, which is the ceasefire line.

Although the value of the Prometheus star is mainly reflected in its location, after the war, according to the armistice agreement signed by the two sides, the area where the Prometheus star is located is a military restricted area. Not allowed.

To put it simply, if the human legion enters the Prometheus star, it can be used as a springboard at any time to sweep across the northern area of ​​the Greenwich Meteorite Belt.

However, the first war zone did not strictly abide by the armistice agreement, and the Prometheus star also has its current appearance.

Before the end of the Fifth Greenwich War, the Command of the First Theater secretly formulated a plan to build Prometheus into a forward fortress-type military base, and dispatched military engineers after the official ceasefire to count the war damage. Go to Prometheus star for a field trip.Subsequently, the First Theater Command began to gather equipment and materials, and also formed a special engineering unit.

It is a pity that the armistice negotiations came to an end before the construction plan formulated by the first theater began to be implemented.

According to the armistice agreement, the first theater can only abandon the plan to build a frontier fortress.However, the strategic value of the Prometheus star has not been reduced.

In fact, the origin of the name "Prometheus" is very interesting.

Unable to build a forward military base on the Prometheus star, the first theater did not give up, but took advantage of the loopholes in the armistice agreement.That is, the two sides can send non-resident paramilitary forces to the demilitarized zone on the grounds of public security, so as to maintain the stable situation in the demilitarized zone.

As a result, less than 100 years after the end of the Fifth Greenwich War, the first batch of interstellar mercenaries and pirates appeared on Prometheus, and a temporary base was built to prepare for the northern part of the Greenwich meteorite belt. , and even expeditions to the Northern Alpha system.

It was also during this period that the first batch of mercenaries and pirates who came here called this planet "Prometheus".

Shortly thereafter, the First Theater sent a security-oriented paramilitary force to Prometheus on the grounds of maintaining law and order in the demilitarized zone, and built a military base there.In the hundreds of years since then, this simple military base has steadily expanded, becoming a huge military fortress, and Prometheus Star has thus become the most important forward base within the jurisdiction of the First War Zone.

However, the Silicon Charm Alliance did not sit on the sidelines.

You must know that the Prometheus star is too close to the ceasefire line, and there is no obstacle in the direction of heading to the northern part of the Greenwich Meteorite Belt.If it is a fleet, even without a space jump, it can cross the ceasefire line within a few hours at one-tenth the speed of light.Starting from this point, all the way to the north, the human legion can successfully invade the Northern Alpha Galaxy, and the Silicon Magic Alliance has nowhere to defend.

Of course, it is impossible to attack the Prometheus star.

In order to deal with the threat from the human legion, the Silicon Magic Alliance has adopted a common method, that is, to create a wave of beasts and let wild silicon beasts attack the Prometheus star.

In the past thousands of years, every once in a while, ranging from 100 years to a few years, there will be a wave of wild silicon beasts visiting Prometheus.Although most of the time, the scale of the beast hordes is not very large, and the silicon beasts are not too strong, the army stationed on Prometheus can completely handle it.It's just that, on average, every 100 years, there will be a large-scale attack of beasts, and there will even be twelfth-level wild silicon beasts.

Whenever such a beast tide comes, the garrison on Prometheus will almost be wiped out.

The last large-scale animal attack happened two years ago, that is, the year Lin Feng joined the special investigation team.

In just a few days, most of the troops stationed on Prometheus suffered casualties.Although the first war zone had partially mobilized and dispatched support troops when the beast horde arrived, the fleet transporting the support troops encountered a twelfth-level silicon beast before reaching Prometheus.As a result, not only did the support troops fail to reach Prometheus, but more than half of them were lost.Because it was unable to summon more troops in a short period of time, the first theater had to ask for help from other theaters.The third war zone sent reinforcements to the Special Investigation Brigade.In that battle, the former captain of the Special Investigation Brigade joined forces with eight warrior-level masters from other theaters to kill the twelfth-level silicon beast entrenched on Prometheus.Unfortunately, they were still one step late.Although all the wild silicon beasts were wiped out in the end, all the local garrisons were sacrificed, and even the painstakingly managed military base in the first theater was devastated.

Because the strategic value of the Prometheus star is too important, the first theater did not give up, but began to rebuild shortly after recovering the Prometheus star.Only one year later, the first theater rebuilt the military base and sent troops to Prometheus again.

Of course, there are not only troops from the first war zone on Prometheus, but also many mercenaries and pirates.

Although the Command of the First War Zone has never admitted it, everyone knows that these mercenaries and pirates who used the Prometheus star as a springboard to explore the northern area of ​​the Greenwich Meteorite Belt and the Northern Alpha Galaxy were actually raised by the First War Zone. Yes, at least with the implicit support of the First Theater.In addition, a small number of mercenaries and pirates are themselves the secret forces of the first war zone, and their existence value is to monitor the movement of the Silicon Magic Alliance in peacetime, spy on military intelligence, and obtain the enemy's military deployment.If war breaks out, these mercenaries and pirates will immediately transform into active soldiers of the First Theater and participate in the battle as a regular army of the First Theater.

Although it was the wild silicon beast that launched the attack, the war between the Galactic Alliance and the Silicon Ghost Alliance did not end here, but lasted for nearly a thousand years.Had the Sixth Greenwich War not broken out, this situation would have continued, perhaps for thousands of years.

Frequent attacks by beast hordes made Prometheus a veritable hell on earth.

Even in a relatively peaceful period, the planet Prometheus is full of dangers, and those who dare to act on the planet Prometheus are all desperadoes.

In this regard, Jackson deeply felt.

Although before meeting Yang Yi, Jackson was already well-known in the mercenary world, and his "Warrior Legion" was not very weak, but Jackson had only been to Prometheus once, and the time he stayed was very short.In Jackson's words, he was a sixth-level soldier at the time, and on Prometheus, a sixth-level soldier is not even a fart.Mercenaries who have been active on Prometheus for a long time need at least the strength of an eighth-level soldier. If they want to explore the northern area of ​​the Greenwich Meteorite Belt, they need a tenth-level soldier.As for going to the Northern Alpha Galaxy, the tenth-level soldier is the lowest threshold, and only those who reach the level of a human leader can hope to come back alive.

Along with danger is an extremely harsh environment.

The Prometheus star is a lone star, and it is a lone star shrouded in a gaseous nebula. Whether it is on the surface or underground, the environment is extremely harsh.

To survive on this planet and endure such an extreme environment is a miracle in itself.

If the Prometheus planet in peacetime is a hell on earth, then the Prometheus star at this time is probably the real purgatory.

(End of this chapter)