Three days later, the bombing came as expected. Not only that, the government army, which had been besieging the city for a long time, finally broke camp and marched towards the city. Originally, most of the military operations in the city were handled by Colonel Markov. The government army on the other side of the blockade line had little to do with the city except prohibiting anyone from entering and leaving and bombing. But now, a military order came from the government army headquarters, and the large army began to advance into the city. Another full-scale battle is about to begin. The rebels, who had been prepared for a long time, chose to fight. Their advantage is their familiarity with the environment in the city and the support of some people, which once enabled them to maintain the front line in the last full-scale battle. However, this time, the government army was well prepared. Before the army went to an area, the first thing they did was to wash the ground with artillery shells. They brought more than twelve guns this time, a total of sixteen heavy guns, plus the five remaining and repaired ones before, a total of twenty-one guns. Although the degree of age varies, this level of firepower is enough to make the rebels completely unable to raise their heads. The rebels were defeated within half a day of the start of the war. On the other hand, the people in the city were also affected.
The government army adopted a blanket bombing and then advanced in an all-out manner, with a completely ruthless attitude towards the rebels, and would rather kill the wrong people than let them go. In this situation, as long as the civilians showed their heads, they could not escape a bullet, and the soldiers who were red-eyed would not carefully distinguish their identities. Therefore, all civilians, as long as they had the conditions, locked the doors and windows, and then hid in the basement of their own shelters, praying in fear that the fighting would end as soon as possible and that they would not be found by the soldiers. If the shelter did not have a basement, they could only find an old wardrobe to hide, shivering, and wishing for the best. All day long, gunshots, shouts, and explosions were heard one after another above Berglun, without interruption. … "Bang——" The reinforced door of the apartment building was kicked open from the outside, and the simple alarm on the door began to beep non-stop. A group of government soldiers crossed the low wall with the words "Fock the war" painted on it, filed in from the door, and searched everywhere in the apartment building. The last team leader pulled out the pistol from the holster on his waist and shot the alarm on the door, and the beeping sound stopped immediately. "——Report to the captain, nothing was found!" The soldiers quickly searched the entire building and returned to the door to report to the team leader. However, after listening to their report, the team leader didn't know whether it was okay or not. He played with his pistol, glanced at the old children's toys scattered on the ground, and said casually: "Have you searched the basement?" As soon as this was said, the soldiers were also stunned. The government soldiers also knew a lot of things. The basements of such residential buildings were generally where people took refuge. When they entered the door, they usually just checked whether there were any signs of the rebels, and would not deliberately search the basement. After all, there are so many ruins in the city. If they searched one by one, it would be endless, and that was not what they had to do at this stage. But seeing the captain's expression, the soldiers looked at each other, lined up, and moved towards the basement. The entrance to the basement was locked, but this did not bother the soldiers. A soldier stepped forward to check the structure of the door lock, and nodded to his teammates on the left and right. He then took two steps back, and then kicked the door hard!
"Bang!" The door was kicked open and hit the wall heavily. The soldiers raised their guns and pointed them into the basement. But the basement was equally quiet. They searched the upper and lower floors, but did not find any traces of rebels or other people, only many remaining traces of life. "Captain, there are no traces here!" After listening to their report, the captain sighed and put away his gun. "No fun... Let's go." "Yes!" Everyone responded in unison. The captain turned and walked out the door. But as soon as he took a step, a bullet flew from nowhere and instantly turned his head into a bursting watermelon! The soldiers were all horrified. "Captain--!!" "There's a sniper! Take cover!" "Get out of the way--!" The team was in a bit of a mess for a while, and the soldiers tried to hide. But no matter where they hid, a bullet would go through the door, through the window, and even through the wall, taking them away accurately. Soon, the team that rushed into the apartment building was wiped out. On the roof of a seven-story apartment building in the distance, Li You calmly pulled the bolt, changed the bullet, and turned to look at the other side. He didn't come here to snipe government soldiers. In this situation, killing a few, dozens, or even hundreds of ordinary soldiers is not very meaningful, and Li You doesn't plan to do it frequently. After all, if a government army team is wiped out near the shelter, it will inevitably attract the attention of the government army, which will be counterproductive. Just like now. Next to Li You, there was a man wrapped in a rag cloak squatting, holding a knife and carving something on the ground. After carving, he pulled Li You's sleeve. Li You turned his head to look, and it turned out that what the man had carved on the ground was a simple map of the city of Berglund, on which the approximate location of the government forces, the next bombing site, the action plans of each unit and other important information were marked with simple drawings. And this cloaked man, if you look closely, is actually a hideous night demon. Judging from the light flowing in its eyes, it is still a perceptive night demon. This is of course not Colonel Markov, but a bandit who was killed by Li You these days. As for the purpose, it is to be used as a mobile phone. At this time, Colonel Markov, together with another officer, was in the temporary front-line command post of the government army. For the reason of "honorable wounding", Markov was deprived of command. He could only watch and not say anything about the actions of the soldiers, but this was exactly what he wanted. Markov relayed everything he heard through mental links and passed it to Aggie. In order to ensure that communications would not be affected after the war, Li You and Aggie transformed a total of five perceptive night demons in the past few days, scattered throughout the city, just to serve as signal towers and transfer stations at this time. The maximum distance for a perceptive night demon to communicate with its companions is about 300 meters. If the night demon queen Aigi conducts a mental connection, it can cross a distance of 800 meters. Therefore, if all five night demons are arranged in a straight line, plus Markov, then Aigi can hear the message from the headquarters more than 2,000 meters away.
The delay is a little higher. But it is enough. At this time, Aigi was in the underground vault of the bank, and the communication with Markov occupied three perceptive night demons. As for the remaining two, one followed Li You, and the last one hid in a ruin in the middle of the communication section to prepare for an emergency. Li You looked at the intelligence transmitted by Aigi and found that the situation was not optimistic. After the rebels fighting the government army retreated step by step, they dispersed and retreated into the urban area with the most refugee gathering points without hesitation, and very skillfully broke up into pieces and disappeared in the ruined city. And the consequence of doing so, needless to say, all the government troops were attracted here. The small group of government troops that broke into the orphanage apartment building was just a marginal team. Before the main force entered this area, they did not forget to bombard them. Without the Night Demons passing on the message, Li You had already seen that the heavy artillery shells were beginning to fall on the buildings not far away. "... Let's go, we can't stay here any longer." Li You was in the tallest apartment building near the bank. The previous battle had not spread to this area, so it was relatively quiet. But obviously, the war was about to burn to the ground. Li You picked up the gun, took the Night Demon, and rushed back to the bank from the roof. Although it was broad daylight now, the people who were still alive had already taken refuge, so there was no need to worry about anyone seeing him. All the way back to the underground vault, Aggie was waiting at the door, and inside the vault were some refugees brought by Li You in advance. Livia, Erica and her father, Milena from the museum, and Malik and his son, that's all the people. Once the full-scale war begins, the bank's underground vault is the safest place, so they hid here under Li You's arrangement. As for Adam and his wife, Anna, the children, and Marco? They have left Bergeron. Don't forget that Li You has a way out of the city after all. When the situation was not critical before, he could still hide this matter, because he still had his main task to complete, and there were achievements to be obtained. But now, knowing that the battle is about to break out, Li You will certainly not hide it from them anymore. Staying in the city is too risky, and Li You is not so selfish that he must let the children and companions accompany him here to take risks. Therefore, he had already arranged Marco, Adam and his wife and others to take the children out of Bergeron in batches. As for the few people who did not leave, basically the conditions did not allow it. Livia's belly is getting bigger and bigger. After leaving the city through the secret passage, she has to cross mountains and ridges, and her physical condition does not allow it. Similarly, Malik did not leave, and his son Adam chose to stay for him. The situation of Erica and her daughter is the same. As for Milena, she was purely after the artifacts that were sent to the underground vault. She was wherever the artifacts were, so she refused to leave the city. All the members except them had left Berglun and hid in the mountains outside the range of the battle - that is, the location in the ending of Embers Smoldering. Although there were seven children in that team, there were also many combatants, so there should be no need to worry about their safety. So what Li You had to do was to hold on with the remaining few people until the end of this battle. At this time, the others were resting in the vault, only Milena came to Li You and asked: "What's the situation outside?" Li You replied: "Not very good. The rebels were defeated and are dispersing and hiding in various places in the city. The government army is chasing them relentlessly and shelling them to clear the way. This area will probably become a complete ruin after tomorrow."
Milena sighed deeply: "This is really..." Li You waved his hand: "In any case, the underground vault should be safe. As I said before, if there is any situation, I will notify you immediately, you just hide inside, and don't come out no matter what." Milena nodded: "I know." She looked at the doors of the three storage rooms in the vault and said: "All our cultural relics are hidden here. I hope that after the war, people can rebuild the museum and let them pass on history and culture." Her words made Li You sigh and resonate, but before he could reply, Milena turned her head and looked at the first storage room. "By the way, this door seems to have never been opened. What is stored inside?" Li You looked normal: "Over there, the door lock is broken and can't be opened at all. According to the records, it should be empty inside." "So that's it." While the two were talking, Aggie suddenly ran down from upstairs and shouted: "Li You! They are...something is going on! Come up!" Li You immediately pushed Milena into the vault storage room and closed the door: "Wait inside!" Everyone looked at him, but only saw him closing the door. Soon after, there was a faint sound of gunfire outside the door, which lasted for a long time before it stopped. Everyone in the storage room showed an uneasy look. -Outside the door, on the first floor of the bank. Several bodies of rebels fell to the ground, and a small team of government troops occupied the bank. The team leader was reporting to the headquarters on the radio: "...Yes, that's right. A few rebels fled into the bank, and we have killed them all." "We have searched the entire bank. Except for the locked entrance to the underground vault, the rest of the place has been cleaned up, and there are no signs of rebel activities. "Yes, I understand." He put down the radio and shouted: "Everyone, check the ammunition and get ready to go!" "Yes--!" In an inconspicuous corner of the bank, Li You and Aiji watched the government soldiers leave silently and breathed a sigh of relief. "Finally they left, fortunately there was no accident... These rebels are really annoying!" "It was also expected, and we have been prepared for it. Compared to this, what is the current military situation?" "Let me see, the mental connection was interrupted just now, and I have to reconnect first... Got it, Markov really has new news." But the next moment, Aiji suddenly changed color: "Not good! There are government troops outside the city, in the mountains! " Li You stood up suddenly! --Temporary headquarters of the government army. Markov looked at the suddenly mobilized troops, opened his mouth, and asked in a leaky voice: "Why send people to the mountains? There is no one there."
Across the sand table, an old man in military uniform with deep eye sockets and a hooked nose raised his head and looked over. "Markov boy, your jaw is so injured, you don't need to talk, just write it down on paper." "As for why you want to go to the mountains... Humph! I haven't asked you yet!" The old man in military uniform slapped the sand table and said sternly: "Just now, the front-line troops sent back news that a businessman who supported the rebels they captured confessed that the rebels dug a tunnel leading to the outside of the city, and they could transport troops back and forth between the mountains and the city!" "You didn't even find out such important intelligence, how can you be a front-line commander! " Markov lowered his head and said nothing. But in fact, he was receiving a remote message from Edge. After a moment, he raised his head, and a faint blue light began to shine in his eyes.