Interstellar Soldier

Chapter 444
The earthquake lasted less than 2 minutes, and when everything calmed down, more than half of the fortifications collapsed.

The escaped officers and soldiers have been waiting for Carlson, but Carlson did not come out.As soon as the earthquake stopped, these officers and soldiers swarmed up.

On the battlefield, when an officer leaves a soldier and flees alone, he is running away, and when a soldier ignores the officer, he is also running away.

According to military law, regardless of whether an officer is dead or alive, his soldiers must find him, and even if it is just a corpse, he must be brought back.Abandoning a superior officer on the battlefield is a felony even if he escapes alive, and if it is serious, he will be sentenced to death, and even if it is extenuating, he will be exiled.

Carlson didn't come out, so he must be inside the fortification.

Although I don't know why, after all, Carlson is an officer and has a primary energy converter. Even if the fortifications collapse, he can escape unscathed. Carlson.

Live to see people, die to see corpses.

However, for officers and soldiers without a primary energy converter, even if they have a primary energy storage, they cannot be used to drive large excavation equipment.

Besides, there is no large excavation equipment here at all.

Only relying on the officers and soldiers' own hands, not only the excavation speed is very slow, but also consumes a lot of original energy, so it is impossible to find Carlson buried in the ruins in time.

At this time, outside the Slag Star.

The situation reported by Carlson has been received by the flagship, and according to the usual procedures, the staff of the Fleet Command has processed the report after receiving it.

However, this report was not classified as a general level, but was forwarded directly to the fleet commander.

Clearly, this was something Carlson hadn't expected.

If he had known it earlier, Carlson would have reported it in more detail, and mentioned some key points when proposing a solution.

Actually, it doesn't help either.

When the fleet commander received this report, he did not give clear instructions or even give orders, that is, everything went according to plan.

Apparently, the admiral did not see the problems Carlson mentioned as a problem.

This can't be blamed for the fleet commander's negligence, because in Nathan's view, this is not a problem at all.

It was not Nathan's idea to build a fortress-level barracks on Slag Star, but an order from above, that is, directly issued by the Wanluo War Emperor.

Like Carlson, Nelson was puzzled by the order.

That was a barracks, not a fort.More importantly, building the military camp on the slag star is not very helpful to fleet operations.

You know, the slag star is a planet. Although it is not very big, its mass is hundreds of times that of an asteroid.Landing a large battleship on the slag star not only requires a lot of raw energy, but is also very troublesome. It takes a lot of time just to land and take off.Besides, under normal circumstances, capital ships will not enter the atmosphere of a planet, let alone land on a planet, so most space fortresses supporting fleets are built on asteroids.If the conditions are not allowed, even if a space fortress is pieced together with battleships, it is much better than building a fortress on a planet.Building a fortress on a planet is mainly to deploy ground troops and provide support for ground troops' combat operations in the area.

The problem is, there are only ten legions following the fleet.

Obviously, there is no need to build a fortress-level barracks for ten legions.

What's more, here is far away from the front line, there are no enemies nearby, and there are no hostile civilizations, so there is no need to deploy too many legions here.

If it is just a transit station, then it is more appropriate to build a space fortress.

The method is also very simple. Putting together several large landing ships, a space fortress that can support more than a dozen legions can be built near Slag Star.

Obviously, Nelson couldn't figure it out at all.

However, like Carlson, Nelson didn't think too much about the order from the Wanluo Warlord, and he was not qualified to question the Wanluo Warlord's decision.

Of course, when this barracks can be built is naturally not what Nelson cares about.

Although the order was issued by the Emperor Wanluo, Nathan attached great importance to it, and asked the staff of the headquarters to prioritize the relevant information and report to him as soon as possible, but Nathan did not pay much attention to the problems mentioned by Carlson.It's very simple, there are no enemies on Slag Star, even if the military camp's outer defense deployment is not completed, it's not a big problem.Besides, when the big troops arrive, the transport ship will deliver heavy equipment, and it will be enough for Carlson to complete the construction of the outer defense line.Obviously, the defense of the barracks is not a problem at all. The key is to complete the construction of infrastructure in time so that large troops can have a place to stay after they arrive.

In this case, there is no need to adjust the construction plan, just let Carlson proceed according to the plan.

However, it didn't take long before the problem became serious.

When the staff officer sent the news he had just received, Nelson was still thinking about whether to issue another order to let Carlson concentrate on completing the construction of the barracks infrastructure to avoid delays.The order of Wanluo Warlord is very simple, the large force will arrive in ten days, and Nathan must build a barracks for the large force before then.Obviously, one hundred legions cannot be allowed to stay on the landing ship.

"This just happened. We also detected an earthquake outside the Weeping Plain. It was very violent. All the fortifications within a radius of [-] kilometers from the epicenter collapsed."

"all?"

The staff officer nodded and said: "The specific loss is not clear, but similar earthquakes have occurred several times in the past few days, and the crust of Slag Star is very unstable. It's just that the epicenter of this earthquake is near the Weeping Plains. That’s why it had such a serious impact.”

"Contact Carlson and ask him to report the situation." Nelson was a little impatient, because such a big thing happened, Carlson should take the initiative to report to him.

"We can't get in touch with him."

"what?"

"We sent inquiries but did not hear back from him. In addition, his communication equipment was turned off, and we were unable to intercept his reply signal."

"how is this possible!?"

"Maybe it was a malfunction, maybe it was disturbed by the earthquake. The specific situation is still unclear."

"Contact the Legion Command immediately and send someone there. After finding Carlson, ask him to report the damage and impact caused by the earthquake immediately."

"Yes!"

Nathan waved his hand impatiently, the earthquake came too suddenly.

Is it just a coincidence?

Maybe it's just a coincidence.

Although he felt a little strange, Nelson didn't think much about it.The point is that, by coincidence, the epicenter of the earthquake was under the fortification where Carlson was, and when the earthquake happened, Carlson was inside the fortification.Although other officers and soldiers escaped in time, no one has reported the situation to the Fleet Command so far.Of course, the grassroots officers and soldiers of the engineering force not only have no right to leapfrog to report the situation to the fleet headquarters, but also do not have the necessary communication tools.

Of course, Nelson believed that Carlson must be alive, perhaps unscathed.Perhaps, as the staff guessed, it was just that the communication equipment was damaged in the earthquake, so Carlson was temporarily unable to report the situation to the Fleet Command.It won't be long before he sends a message back.

Besides, the earthquake had just happened, and Carlson had to take some time to find out.

Nelson didn't know that Carlson had already been taken prisoner.

It wasn't the war king of the Silicon Charm Alliance that caught Carlson, but Yang Yi.

When Nathan asked the staff to give orders to the army headquarters, Yang Yi and the others were in the mine tunnel under the fortifications and were evacuating at full speed.

Captured in one fell swoop, the commander of the engineering unit with an S-level primary energy converter, even Yang Yi was a little surprised.

You know, Yang Yi is only a tenth-level soldier, even if his ability to control the original energy is far superior to that of the leader fighters, he is not absolutely sure of controlling the original energy on Shen Chengwen's body.Before that, Yang Yi often practiced against Lin Feng, but he had never been able to easily subdue Lin Feng, otherwise it was not just a relationship of holding hands.

Obviously, a Leiling soldier with an S-level energy converter should not be inferior to a leader like Shen Chengwen.

However, after controlling the original energy on Carlson's body and controlling the original energy converter through the original energy, Yang Yi understood what was going on.

What this guy possesses is actually an original energy converter of the Silicon Charm Alliance!
More importantly, this primary energy converter was damaged and could not reach the maximum power, so it was far inferior to the S-class primary energy converter owned by Shen Chengwen.

Obviously, this officer is not very good.

Of course, Yang Yi knew that the engineering troops of the Lei Ling clan were not combat troops and rarely went to the front to fight, so the commander of the engineering troops might not be very good.This guy's original energy converter must have been seized, maybe it was a gift from someone else, and it has never been repaired.

After a successful blow, Yang Yi didn't dare to delay, and immediately retreated along the way he came.

The initial earthquake was not a natural occurrence, but the masterpiece of dozens of officers and soldiers of the Special Investigation Brigade.In order to avoid being discovered by the enemy overhead, Yang Yi asked Shen Chengwen to lead the officers and soldiers of the Special Investigation Brigade to completely destroy the crust under the fortifications by manpower, which caused an earthquake.The method is not difficult, it only needs to destroy a few bearing points.After losing support, the rocks above will collapse, which will trigger a chain reaction that will eventually cause the entire crust to move, that is, an earthquake.However, it must be very strenuous to destroy completely by manpower.Fortunately, the officers and soldiers of the Special Investigation Brigade are very strong, and the most important thing is strength, which is equivalent to exercising for a few hours.

When Yang Yi arrived at the rendezvous point, Shen Chengwen had already gathered the officers and soldiers of the Special Investigation Brigade.

Seeing the captives brought by Yang Yi, Shen Chengwen didn't ask any more questions, and immediately went to the front to lead the way.

The commander of the engineering unit was captured alive not just to capture a prisoner, but to obtain information, mainly the deployment situation in the barracks.Even if this guy doesn't know much, the information he provides is still of great value, such as inferring the next move of the Leiling Clan Legion from it.According to Yang Yi's plan, he will decide how to fight the enemy after he has figured out the enemy's actions.

The prisoner was captured, and the hard work of the previous few hours was finally not in vain.

Of course, this is not the place to interrogate prisoners.

(End of this chapter)