"The situation is very obvious. The commander of the Xixuan Federation is unwilling to accept the fact that the army was destroyed by the general's mine warfare under the city of Yaxi, and is ready to retaliate against our follow-up pursuit troops."
In the eyes of everyone's admiration, Wei Ling made a judgment.
"Everyone, since we do not have airborne detection and scanning equipment, we can use armed exoskeletons to stand on different walls, collect data from different angles, send it back to Iasi, and generate a three-dimensional image for the technical experts of the staff department to analyze this How a mine swarm is detonated.”
Seven or eight "brave warriors" and "rangers" ran and jumped on the wall at different locations throughout the circular wall. With a relative height of several meters, they collected images and other data.
After a while, all the images were gathered to Li Kongqing and Wei Ling.
Li Kongqing immediately called the "Blue Bird" vehicle.
In less than a minute, the "Blue Bird" vehicle had flown near the advance team. Li Kongqing immediately issued an order, and the vehicle once again deployed the "Totem Pole" and "True Listen" communication relays.
Soon, the advance team was able to connect to the "Jianmu" barrier system.
After uploading the various collected data to the system, they are waiting for Yaxi's response.
"Thanks to Brother Wei Ling's caution just now, otherwise, we would have suffered a big loss!"
Li Kongqing was a little ashamed.
"Yes, he is indeed an intelligent warlock. I apologize!"
"Yes, yes, it's so dangerous!"
"..."
Everyone expressed their gratitude.
Li Lingyou was naturally happy in his heart, and his joy was evident in his words. His brother had avoided danger for everyone, and his face was naturally bright.
"It's okay, it's okay, brothers, you're welcome. There's nothing wrong with being more cautious on the battlefield..."
Seeing Wei Ling's harmless appearance, what came to Li Lingyou's mind were the first two cases where this guy rushed forward like a tank.
However, Wei Ling's performance now made him feel relieved.
It seems that there are other sergeants doing the work for him. Welling is not a show-off person and knows how to make use of all the resources around him.
After a while, the result of Yasi's judgment came back.
The command of Yasi affirmed the prudence and achievements of the advance team and concluded that this was a mine array activated by electrical signals.
The excitation device most likely collects data through those cameras, and will detonate the mines only when a certain number of people are present. The data aggregation hub is most likely located in the ordinary-looking barracks at the center.
The enemy commander is very cunning. If only a few people enter, he will never detonate such a large number of complex mines. That would outweigh the gains and losses. Only when enough people enter will they detonate.
The reference opinion given by Yasi is that the advance team should first abandon the target stronghold and investigate other strongholds to the north. Later, Yasi will send engineering and technical personnel with large vehicles to collect these stronghold hoardings and mines.
The advance team immediately decided to follow the advice of Iasi and continue to scout the second target north.
"Please wait for me for a few minutes!"
Welling frowned and carefully looked at the three-dimensional holographic image generated by the system integrating all the data.
On the ground outside the barracks at the center point, there were four black-robed corpses, which caught his attention, so he sent a request to everyone.
"I'm going to check on the corpse at the center. You don't have to follow me. There won't be an explosion if there are too many people."
"Okay! Please be careful!" Li Kongqing responded.
Wei Ling jumped into the air and rushed towards the center of the camp. His figure was elegant and light. Every landing point was basically at the corner of the barracks. His steps never landed on the ground, and his figure did not appear in the surveillance cameras. Inside.
The guard behind him followed him like a shadow, his black robe fluttering, like a graceful swallow wearing flowers and playing with butterflies, elegant and calm.
Outside the wall, a crowd of sergeants and warlocks were stunned.
What about the intelligent warlock we promised? Why do you have such outstanding physical abilities?
Several birds flew up and down, and Wei Ling stood beside the four corpses.
The four corpses were not wrapped in body bags, but were arranged relatively neatly, with their backs on the ground.
They are all wearing the traditional mage robes of the Xixuan Federation. The style is somewhat similar to the warlock robes of the empire. There are subtle differences in the details. It can be basically concluded that they are the warlocks of Xixuan.
In Welling's memory, the position of the corpse corresponded to the sound wave image, and there was a composite landmine underneath.
If it explodes, these four bodies will inevitably become debris.
With a thought, a few small streams of water washed away the dust and dirt on the faces of the four corpses, revealing all the facial features.
Three men and one woman, their faces were haggard and dry, but Welling could still tell their age, they were all around twenty years old.
The strangest thing is that none of these four people's looks match Xixuan's facial features, and they all have black hair.
The doubts in his heart became even worse. Wei Ling leaned down and opened the eyes of the deceased one by one to see the color of their pupils.
Immediately, there was a golden wind between the fingers, cutting off a strand of hair from each corpse, and then looked at the guard.
The guard looked at the corpses and the hair cut from the corpses with disgust. From somewhere inside the cloak, he took out several very small bags and packed the hairs separately.
"Sir, how did you know I had a bag?"
"Haha, don't you have condiments? Prepare some bags with different snacks or ingredients. There is a high probability that they will be available."
The guard was a little speechless, but the young master had no plans left.
After looking around and finding nothing else, Wei Ling jumped up and returned to the outside of the apron after a few ups and downs.
Then Wei Ling handed several bags to Li Kongqing and threw out the public information package:
"The corpses of these four Xixuan coalition troops are wearing warlock robes, and they are most likely Xixuan mages.
Their corpses were placed on top of the complex mines, most likely deliberately placed like this by the enemy as bait for us. "
Seeing Li Kongqing nodding his head, he continued his analysis:
"The enemy judged that we had been hit by a large-scale spell and would definitely be interested in their mage. Therefore, all the corpses left here belonged to the mage, and none belonged to other soldiers.
Of course, this is also the other party's conspiracy.
In fact, the biggest doubt is that their biological characteristics are closer to my Daxia race, and their pupils are black. These hair samples, together with their image information I just collected, are submitted to the system for the empire to do genetic testing and analysis. Bar. "
Li Kongqing and everyone else's expressions became solemn.
Perhaps this discovery is the biggest gain of this trip.
Why do mages with Daxia characteristics exist in the Xixuan Federation?
And they are young people of similar age?
According to legend, there are various levels of modified people in the Federation. Are these people also the modified people who were cultivated after collecting the genes of the Daxia ethnic group?
The amount of information covered here is a bit large, and everyone is a little uneasy.
The Xixuan Federation planned the follow-up pursuit of the troops, and did not even think about giving the empire a chance to investigate those corpses. They thought that these four decoy corpses would inevitably accompany the troops entering the walled area and be blown to pieces.
But they didn't expect that there was a warlock like Welling in the imperial advance team who knew everything.
The layout was discovered, and the bait naturally became a trophy.
"If it's so suspicious, why not take those four corpses away together? There are body bags on our vehicle anyway?"
Li Lingyou asked a stupid question.
Li Kongqing rolled his eyes at Li Lingyou and gave an explanation:
"Since they are placed directly above the mines, the other party has no intention of us obtaining these corpses. There is a high probability that moving these corpses will detonate the mines!"
Li Lingyou was speechless, thinking that staying with these guys always made him feel like he had no brains.
Wei Ling nodded and agreed with Li Kongqing's statement:
"Yes, the detonation method given by Yasi is only a reference. Multiple detonation methods are the basic characteristics of composite landmines."
In fact, there were many people in the team just now who had the same idea as Li Lingyou. After receiving the group messages from Li Kongqing and Wei Ling, they were secretly wary and felt that they were still too naive.
Li Lingyou's thoughts were very exciting. He felt that his team had made a valuable discovery, and both Fifth Brother and Wei Ling would be valued and rewarded. He was actually quite happy in his heart:
"I wonder if this mine formation is only found in this stronghold. Wouldn't it be a pity if Wang Xixin and his team didn't encounter it, hehe..."
He followed everyone onto the flying vehicle in secret joy.
After placing the hair samples properly in the corresponding device of the "Blue Bird" vehicle, the advance team set off again and headed north to investigate the second target.
The vehicle slowly took off, passing lightly over the abandoned and malicious No. 1 target stronghold, and flew towards the north.
Target No. 2 was originally a medium-sized stronghold, not far from Stronghold No. 1, only a few dozen kilometers away.
A few minutes later, the flying vehicle saw target No. 2 in the mountain col in the distance.
Before anyone could take a closer look, the red warning lights in the "Blue Bird" cabin flashed, and a rapid siren and system synthesized sound sounded:
"Alert! Missile lock attack!"
"Alert! Missile lock attack!"
Before the autopilot system could make evasive maneuvers or release jamming bombs, several warlocks had already discovered the incoming surface-to-air missile at that moment.
Several golden spirits' spells had been cast the moment they found the target.
"Rust!"
"slow!"
"heavy!"
Fortunately, the incoming attack was slower-moving surface-to-air missiles rather than faster-speed artillery shells and anti-aircraft guns.
The trajectory of the missile that was attacked by multiple spells deviated significantly, and it instantly disintegrated and exploded in the air due to corrosion and high-speed flight.
The vehicle also made a tumbling descent and landed in a nearby mountain clearing.
When landing, Li Kongqing did not forget to drop a "totem pole" that fell into the ground.
The hatch opened quickly, and everyone quickly got out of the vehicle, spread out and hid, and formed formations to guard against the enemy's attack.
With the "totem pole" as a battlefield information support system, sergeants scattered around can communicate with each other and drop packets, and commanders can also promptly dispatch personnel positions and cooperate with each other.
When jumping to download the tools, Li Kongqing was filled with resentment:
Too bad, the number of preparations for "Totem Pole" and "Listening" is seriously insufficient. At most, there are only a few points left.
It seems that he has not yet seen the edge of Patbon and is about to run blindly.
Soon, the advance team members all found their respective positions and were in a state of hidden defense.
The expected artillery fire did not come, and no armored vehicles such as the federal large-scale weapons appeared.
It seems that the enemy in this stronghold is preparing to rely on the stronghold to defend and will not take the initiative to confront the enemy.
Li Kongqing was caught in a dilemma.
The safest solution is to call the Empire's Yasi for long-range strikes. Anyway, the general coordinates are already there, and the opponent also has anti-air missiles. It's unclear whether there are other heavy firepowers, which meets the conditions for calling for support.
But the problem is that remote support is called. If there are many enemies and heavy firepower in the stronghold, this will not affect the team's martial arts merit value.
But if there are only a few enemies in the stronghold and there is no heavy firepower, then the results of the team will not be worth the expenditure of those long-range strikes.
"Brother Wei Ling, what do you think? It seems that the enemy will not come out on his own initiative. Can we push over?"
Li Lingyou dropped the bag privately to Wei Ling.
