owlsbooks Chapter 388 Jian Qianou (3400 words)
Chapter 388 Jian Qianou (3400 words)
The arrival of the White Eagle Ship Girls can be said to be very effective in stimulating the fighting spirit of the resisters.
Especially after seeing him being held in Anchorage's arms, these resisters were even more excited.
This young naval commander was able to rescue them with such a calm and elegant attitude, which shows that those robots actually have nothing to be afraid of!
After watching Lin Lan and others rush to the city, the resisters upstairs rushed downstairs one after another, and actually began to take the initiative to counterattack in other cities.
It didn't take long for these resisters to join up with the chess warship girls from the Oran Navy Department, and together they began to gradually regain Hongye City.
Lin Lan himself didn't notice that the scene of him being held in Anchorage's arms inadvertently boosted the morale of the resisters and accelerated the recovery of Hongye City.
"We're almost there. The city center square should be in front of us, and around the square are signal towers and news television stations."
The closer they got to the center of the city, the more often the White Eagle ship girls opened fire. Lin Lan, who was held in Anchorage's arms, also guided his ship girls in the direction.
During this journey, he and the White Eagle Ship girls also saw many Hongye City citizens who were driven on the streets by out-of-control robots.
Fortunately for him, none of these civilians were seriously injured.
After the Rubik's Cube energy robots overseeing the work around them were destroyed by Wichita's agile close approach, the citizens also cheered and spread out to make way.
"We're here! That's it!"
Finally, a few minutes later, Wichita blasted away the ruins of a collapsed store floor with a cannon, and the view in front of everyone suddenly became wider.
The Momiji City Center Square has arrived.
Lin Lan almost instantly saw the large steel signal tower pointing straight into the sky on the other side of the square.
But the scene around the square made him frown a little.
This once empty and tidy square is now surrounded by dense steel ruins and the remains of Rubik's Cube energy robots.
Within the scope of the square, it is obvious that there were temporary positions built here before.
A large number of Zhuhai Chamber of Commerce mortars, infantry artillery and mecha wreckage fell in the crater of this temporary position, announcing that this place had experienced a fierce resistance war not long ago.
But right now, Lin Lan didn't hear any movement from this devastated position, and a layer of white snow had accumulated on many bunkers and wreckage.
All this shows that this temporary position has been captured by the Rubik's Cube energy robot, and the resisters have probably been captured.
"Commander, there are no humans or Rubik's Cube energy robots in the square anymore."
Helena used SG radar to scan the square and reported to Lin Lan.
"When our carrier-based aircraft arrived here just now, there were no traces of fighting around here."
Wuwei beside him also stared at the battlefield and added that her words meant that this place had been occupied for a while, and the firefight had ended before they reached Hongye City.
Lin Lan's heart sank when he heard Helena and Wuwei's words.
Since even the defense troops stationed in the square are gone, wouldn’t the news TV station and signal tower have fallen into the hands of the Rubik’s Cube energy robot?
If the host of the Rubik's Cube Energy Robot discovers that he intends to occupy these two facilities and destroy them, his plan will go bankrupt.
Now that the matter has come to this, Lin Lan can only prepare for the worst, and when he looks at the signal tower and is about to give the order to move forward...
"Da da da, da da da da da!" "Boom!!!"
The cold snowy wind carried the sound of guns and gunfire from the front. At the same time, Lin Lan and a group of White Eagle ship girls saw balls of light flashing on the news station building next to the signal tower.
"The news station hasn't been completely captured yet, we still have time!"
Lin Lan immediately realized what this meant. Since there were no Rubik's Cube energy robots around them, it must mean that all the surrounding robots were focused on capturing the news station.
So he immediately ordered the entire army to march across the square to the news station for support.
"Enterprise, you are now taking off fighter jets and using aircraft machine guns to shoot at the Rubik's Cube energy robot troops around the news station building to delay the resisters in the building."
When Lin Lan was walking forward in Anchorage's arms, he suddenly remembered this move and said to Enterprise, Wuwei and others behind him.
Although he chose the HVAR-mounted F6F Hellcat and the trial carrier-based BF-109G for his aircraft carrier-based fighter jets in the port area, they mainly used powerful rockets to attack.
But he remembered that these fighter jets, which were specialized in throwing rockets, were still equipped with mounted machine guns.
At this time, since rockets cannot be used to cause large-scale damage in the urban area, then machine guns can be used to dive and straf.
"receive!"
After receiving his order, Enterprise and the three dumpling-class ship girls faced the snowflakes in the sky, released the fighter jets in their respective ships, and flew in the direction of the signal tower and the news station building.
"I hope it's not too late, otherwise if I go to the nearest other city, I will have to waste at least half a day... Then I will have to wait at least until tomorrow to announce the establishment of the alliance..."
Watching dozens of blue and white fighter jets roaring into the sky, Lin Lan let the cold wind hit her face and silently began to pray in her heart.
He was doing his best at the moment and could only hope that the resisters at the news station and signal tower could hold him and the White Eagle girls away until they arrived.
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In the conference room on the top floor of Hongye City News TV Building, Jian Qianou transformed into a human appearance and was calmly directing the operations of the Tianxing Foundation troops here.
In this conference room with tempered glass windows, in addition to him, there were seven or eight panic-stricken senior executives of Hongye City Tianxing Consortium.
The floor beneath their feet continued to tremble, and the sound of explosions and gunshots penetrated the floors from downstairs and echoed in the conference room.
After Jian Qianou said goodbye to Lin Lan from Hongye Naval Fortress, he used his ability to rush to Tianxing Building in Hongye City as soon as possible, and showed his identity as the old director of Tianou Group and took over the defense force of Zhuhai Commercial Association in Hongye City. .
While he led all the senior officials of Hongye City's Tianxing Consortium to break out here, he also preemptively deployed a large number of defense troops in the square.
However, the firepower of the Rubik's Cube Energy Robot's troops still exceeded his imagination.
The troops in the central square barely lasted long before the entire line collapsed and fell.
In desperation, Jian Qianou could only mobilize all the remaining troops in the news station building and set up three lines of defense based on the floors.
When he was still a human, Jian Qianou personally participated in the war with the Natlan Empire.
In the long years after the taboo power obtained from Liaozhou by the Tianou Group was transformed into a spirit body, he also entered the Oran army many times and held important positions by virtue of his ability to transform his appearance.
Therefore, even in the face of such a critical situation, Jian Qianou still had no fear at all and could command and deploy operations extremely calmly.
Standing next to him was a middle-aged man in his fifties wearing a suit. He was Qian Yuanbai, the original general agent of the Tianxing Consortium in Hongye City.
Qian Yuanbai silently looked at the sudden arrival of the old director of Tianou Group next to him, as if he were an outsider and said nothing, allowing Jian Qianou to issue combat orders.
"Report, sir, the out-of-control robot has broken through to the third line of defense, and will be here soon!"
At this time, a tall soldier holding a firearm, wearing a blue bulletproof vest and with several bloodstains on his face rushed in from the conference room, gasping and shouting the bad news.
Upon hearing such a bad battle situation, the senior executives of the Star Consortium in all the conference rooms turned even paler, and even stood up from their seats, pacing back and forth anxiously.
"Master Jian, the matter has come to this, we should give up resistance."
Just as the atmosphere in the conference room fell into despair, Qian Yuanbai suddenly spoke.
His words made everyone, including Jian Qianou, look at him with doubtful expressions.
"The Rubik's Cube energy robots will not really hurt us. Otherwise, this news station building would have been destroyed by them long ago. How could we have not had any soldiers die so far?"
"So, I suggest not to continue to resist pointlessly, otherwise there will only be more seriously injured people. I believe that robots will not really hurt us."
Qian Yuanbai continued to speak without changing his expression, but his words did not receive any refutation from these subordinates at this moment.
"Sir, sir! Are you kidding me? You won't hurt us? Then, my brothers..."
When the soldiers who had just entered and were still standing in the conference room heard this, they looked in disbelief and looked at Qian Yuanbai with an excited tone and spoke tremblingly.
But before he finished speaking, Qian Yuanbai glared at him lightly:
"Are you qualified to speak here?"
Such understatement made the soldier hold back the words in his mouth, but he lowered his head angrily and quietly clenched his fists.
"If Master Jian and everyone else have no objections, then..."
Qian Yuanbai glanced at everyone in the conference room, and just as he was about to give the order to give up resistance, Jian Qianou's deep voice suddenly sounded faintly in the conference room.
"Qian Yuanbai, who has been the general agent of Hongye City of the Tianxing Consortium for eight years, is Zhao Tianyi's loyal subordinate. He is known for his stable character, and is very nostalgic and does not like new things."
"But you have devoted almost your entire life to the large-scale production and promotion of the third-generation robot in Hongye City."
"You even went against your usual prudent style of doing things and took the initiative to request Zhao Tianyi to use Hongye City as the first pilot city to produce third-generation robots."
"What is the reason that made you suddenly go out of your way and apply for this qualification so persistently?"
Jian Qianou clasped his hands behind his back and watched Qian Yuanbai narrate these secrets. Not only did Qian Yuanbai's expression change, but also the eyes of the surrounding Tianxing Financial Group executives widened.
Only the high-level circles in Hongye City know about these things about Qian Yuanbai.
How did this hunky old director of Tianou Group, who landed just at noon, know so clearly?
"So, so what?"
"Even if Director Jian knows all this, what's the point?"
Qian Yuanbai looked at Jian Qianou coldly, and while asking questions in a low voice, he put his hands behind his back and grasped the metal object fastened to his waist under his suit.
The gunshots and explosions downstairs are getting louder and louder, indicating that the Rubik's Cube Energy Robot's troops are getting closer and closer.
Through the glass window, one can clearly see down the street a steady stream of out-of-control robots rushing towards the building amidst the heavy snow.
The fact is just as Qian Yuanbai said. Even if Jian Qianou says this now, what is the meaning in front of the vast army of Rubik's Cube energy robots?
However, Jian Qianou didn't seem to care about all this at all, but just looked at Qian Yuanbai calmly and continued:
"You lost your daughter in an accident more than ten years ago, and your wife divorced you because of it."
"boom!"
A look of determination suddenly appeared on Qian Yuanbai's face. The general agent, who was over fifty years old, pulled out the gun he had already held in his hand from behind, pointed it at Jian Qianou's head and pulled the trigger brazenly.