Chapter 2859 Military March (6)
Hearing the description from his colleagues, Hayes imagined a fortress with tall walls, full of shooting holes and shooting towers, and couldn't help but marvel.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, you are really an old fox. What about the farmers in his territory?"
The company commander spat on the ground and whispered:
"Do you think these old dogs will take care of it? He did take in some, but they were all ordinary farmers with some skills. When we arrived, there were corpses everywhere outside the manor, and the river was also filled with floating corpses. It was miserable. Na.”
After hearing this, Hayes also sighed softly, but it was not like he had never seen this kind of thing before. Whether the empire was a dark and cramped nest city or a beautiful countryside, there seemed to be no difference in essence.
While he was silent, the company commander also lamented:
"My father said that in war, human life is worth less than a bug."
At this time, the convoy gradually approached the safe zone. It was originally a small town with a permanent population of more than 3,000, but now its original shape is completely lost. The farmland and forests around the town have all disappeared, replaced by There are a large number of pickets, barbed wire and trenches. Only four main roads can enter the town. Temporary bunkers piled with sandbags, wooden piles and stones form a solid line of defense. There are dozens of towering observation towers with sentries at all times. Surveillance, those searchlights are turned off but at night they will illuminate everywhere all night long. There are servo skulls constantly patrolling in the sky. On the ground, you can also see large beast-like hunting drones like hounds constantly stalking the trenches. Inspection time.
Only this strict defense strategy can ensure that gene stealers cannot penetrate into the town.
The center of the town is now a temporary airport. All the buildings have been knocked down to accommodate the take-off and landing of transport ships. The continuous roar in the sky proves how busy this place is. The 73rd Regiment of the 13th Kermanshah Division is based in the town. east side.
However, when the convoy entered the main road leading to the town, the road became crowded. This temporary road with a width of 15 meters was already crowded with various vehicles and people, and even more than In addition, there were also a large number of livestock and animals that Hayes had never seen before. The soldiers responsible for road order were yelling at the top of their lungs on the roadside, shaking the baton in their hands, trying to move the road a little.
“What’s going on?”
Haisi stretched his head out to look for a while, but didn’t see clearly what was going on. He only knew that there was a lot of people shouting, and there were many people supporting the elderly and young on both sides of the road. Although they are lucky to have survived the poison of the gene stealers, the fate that awaits them is not so lucky. After all, they lost their homes and most of their property. Many people rushed to the safe zone so to speak. They were running around day and night, and had to avoid gene stealers. They had not eaten for several days, and could only sit on the roadside and in the mud in despair. Some people fell to the ground motionless, but they did not even cast a look of sympathy. .
In times of war, no one cares about anyone else.
Although the number of civilians who spontaneously rush from dangerous areas to safe areas is not very large in proportion, the absolute number is extremely huge. It is not because the commanders of the auxiliary army are cold-blooded, but because there are too many people and the limited carrying capacity The tool can't pull many people at all, so it can only focus on saving those key figures. The only support for civilians is to set up temporary positions at transportation points to block the large-scale pursuit of gene stealers for them, and to use landmines and incendiary bombs to build isolation zones to improve their The odds of survival were low, but even so, many civilians died in the wilderness, or were caught or even killed by infiltrated gene stealers.
There are even many gene stealers hiding among the fleeing civilians, so that the most dangerous thing in the world now is the bald head. As long as they see a bald head, both civilians and soldiers will attack immediately.
However, the combat effectiveness and discipline displayed by the auxiliary army still gave local civilians a lot of confidence, making them rush to the safe zone even if they took risks.
But escape, no matter on any planet, is a cruel topic.
Not to mention those serfs who were hungry and well-fed on weekdays, or the few homesteaders and small craftsmen who could barely make ends meet. Although the pastoral scenery is more beautiful than the steel nest, it also means that Its ability to resist risks is worse than that of the hive.
Hayes glanced around and saw many skinny figures kneeling on the ground wearing only a piece of rag, their heads lowered almost touching the ground, and their hands making a holding gesture. This is the most common "prayer" in the state religion. ” gesture, upon which the priests would symbolically distribute a dry and hard piece of holy wafer. But at this time, let alone the holy wafers, even the priests looked nervous and walked in a hurry, trying to push forward with large and small bags.
There are still some people who don’t even have the strength to kneel, so they simply lie on the ground, raising their hands feebly, their chapped lips trembling and repeating such words mechanically
"Give it to those who stutter, you kindhearted people."
Of course, there are also people trying to maintain a difficult existence. Hayes saw a family gathering together cautiously, and they poured water into the dust on the ground. Then the man with a bandage on his head carefully took out a fist-sized cloth bag with trembling hands and poured half of the precious powder inside into the muddy water and stirred it. Hayes knew what it was, mixing mud and food.
He had eaten this kind of thing before, it was called mud cake.
Suddenly he saw a staggering figure.
It was a woman, her body was dirty and muddy, her hair was messy, she only had a coarse cloth dress on her body, her face was thin, yellow with black, as if it were a wood carving, only her eyes were occasionally One round can also mean that she is a living creature. She holds a baby in her arms and keeps mumbling mechanically to the people passing by:
"Save my son. Please. Save." Please save my son.”
But Hayes could see the dried arm like a string exposed from the swaddling clothes. The baby inside may have been dead for a long time. People passing by They all avoided this crazy woman.
Hayes felt very sad to see it, but he didn't know what he should do, or what he could do. He could only withdraw his gaze, close his eyes and lean on the seat.
“There are so many people in distress, but I don’t know how the authorities will deal with these people.”
While these questions were constantly swirling in his mind
“Uncle, uncle.”< br>
Suddenly, he heard Fei Dun patting his shoulder from behind, opened his eyes and said:
"What's wrong?"
"Over there, what are you doing?"
Hayes looked in the direction pointed by Little Feton and found a support on the left side of the road near the barbed wire fence. A small shed was set up, and a man wearing a clean robe stood aside, shouting loudly. There were two strong bodyguards beside him. In the shed were kneeling a group of boys and girls, ranging in age from 4 to 13 years old. More than a dozen people, all dirty and with marks of whipping on their skin, had shackles on their feet and straws stuck in their heads.