Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 570 570 Two corpses

 The people inside the carriage didn't say anything, they just opened the door. Because they didn't know if the people inside had weapons, neither Xiang Ziyu nor his squad leader dared to approach easily.

"I am the Prime Minister of Qi!" At this time, a man's old voice sounded in the carriage. He spoke slowly and walked out of the carriage as he spoke.

There were still blood stains on his body, and the blood stained his official robe red. He stepped off the carriage a little slowly, and his eyes were bloodshot.

“Where is King Qi?” Seeing the old man stepping out of the carriage, the paratrooper squad leader held up his weapon and asked, “Is he inside?”

"Yes, of course he is inside." The old man smiled bitterly and replied: "He is already dead..."

Long before the paratroopers of Tang State hit the carriage, Jiang Xian of Qi State was already dead. Something was wrong when he got on the carriage. In fact, the King of Qi State was already dead at that time.

He had actually been seriously ill for some days. He had been taking medicine before, but he had just been frightened and had been in shock for a long time. Finally, his condition worsened and he died before becoming a prisoner.

 “Squad leader! He’s injured!” Seeing the Prime Minister of Qi covered in blood, Xiang Ziyu discovered the wounds on the Prime Minister’s body.

I don’t know whether it was due to inability to dodge or to protect Jiang Xian, but there were several **** holes in the prime minister’s body. At this time, the blood was pouring out, staining half of his body red.

The old man is just holding on for a breath, standing in front of two enemy paratroopers, maintaining the last dignity of the country Qi.

"It's a pity that neither the prime minister of Qi nor the king of Qi...you can catch him." The old prime minister trembled and almost lost his balance.

 In fact, he should be dead, but he is still persisting, insisting on standing there, stubbornly unwilling to fall.

In the end, he didn’t know how long it took, but he finally lost all his strength, hit the floor tiles hard, and closed his eyes.

It was only then that Xiang Ziyu and his squad leader stepped forward and carefully looked through the open door to see what was inside the carriage.

 There was a man in rich clothes lying in the carriage. He lay there motionless. There were blood stains on the seat next to him and there were bullet holes from bullets.

Xiang Ziyu got into the carriage, knelt on one knee, and looked down at the man lying on the ground. He was indeed Jiang Xian, and he was exactly the same as the photo that Tang Jun had circulated before.

"It should be him." Xiang Ziyu said to the squad leader outside the carriage: "He is indeed dead, and there are no gunshot wounds on his body."

The squad leader frowned, then jumped on the carriage, pushed Xiang Ziyu away, and fired all the bullets in the magazine at Jiang Xian's body: "There is a gunshot wound now!"

He raised his head and looked at Xiang Ziyu: "Your contribution is already great enough. Remember, this is the honor of our class, our platoon, our company and even our battalion! You know what to say!"

"I understand! Monitor." Xiang Ziyu knew that the credit was not his, so he accepted it calmly.

 They killed the Prime Minister of Qi and the King of Qi! This is the collective honor of their class! In other words, this may become the honor of their entire paratrooper unit!

"Arrest all the other Qi people in the yard and take away those who can! Check to see if there is anything on the way back. If you capture something that can prove the identity of King Qi, take it with you too!" the squad leader said to him. The paratrooper in front waved: "The goal has been achieved, you can retreat!"

"Jiang Xian has been killed! King Qi is dead! Retreat!" The remaining paratroopers also began to shout. They were not here to fight to the death with the Qi defenders here.

 Since the goal has been accomplished, retreat is their best option. Get rid of the contact with the Qi army, and then go to Donghe Bridge to join the 2nd Battalion. This is what they should do now.

Sure enough, soon there was a paratrooper holding his own weapon and running over. He was panting and adjusted his breathing for a long time before he asked: "The 2nd Company Commander asked me to ask, is it true that King Jiang Xian of Qi was killed?" Were you beaten to death?"

"Well! We are preparing to retreat! He is on the carriage over there!" The squad leader pointed to the carriage not far away: "You can go over and visit."

This soldier was indeed honest. He really ran over with his weapon in hand. After taking a look, he ran back and stood at attention and saluted: "I have confirmed it! It is indeed Jiang Xian!"

"Then let your company commander retreat! We have to leave here too! There is no reason for us to fight here anymore." The squad leader changed the magazine, checked his remaining ammunition, waved his hand and prepared to lead people away .

 “Yes!” The little soldier also stood at attention and saluted, then ran all the way, climbed over the courtyard wall and disappeared. He is very fast and is very skillful in jumping over walls.

Just as the paratroopers began to retreat, a sharp hissing sound came from the sky. Two Stuka dive bombers howled from the sky and dropped two 500-kilogram aerial bombs on the smoke-belching manor.

The huge explosion startled the paratroopers who had begun to retreat outside the manor. They could clearly feel that the ground beneath their feet had just shaken.

This is a feeling that was not experienced in the exercise. At that time, they did not have real dive bombers to support their operations.

Immediately afterwards, the two Stukas began to swoop and shoot. They were unwilling to give up everything around the manor, and kept pouring ammunition on the heads of the Qi troops. During the attack, the two Stukas saw the red dragon flags laid on the ground, so they tried their best to avoid places with dragon flags.

But the two Stuka dive bombers that arrived later were unable to see the red flags on the ground because of the thick smoke.

In order not to let the King of Qi escape, these pilots had to risk dropping bombs and once again dropped the bomb inside the manor.

 The good news is that all the Tang paratroopers inside the manor have withdrawn, so no accidental injuries occurred.

 The bad news is that these bombings from the air made all the Tang army's efforts to capture prisoners in vain. In order to ensure their own safety, all the slow-moving prisoners were abandoned or killed on the way back.

"See the thick smoke on the ground! I see the thick smoke on the ground! I am preparing to continue the attack! Pay attention to cover, pay attention to cover!" On the radio, the pilot on the Stuka shouted excitedly to his companions.

Another two Stuka dive bombers turned sharply in the air and dropped a 500-kilogram aerial bomb on the Qi army's position in the air close to the ground.

Two bombs exploded one after another, flying away the Qi troops who were still in chaos at the other end. Not knowing that their King had died of a heart attack, these Qi soldiers were still desperately hoping to regain the manor and stabilize the situation.

 They rushed into the manor, regardless of the planes overhead, looking for anyone alive. But in the chaos, no one knew what happened.

"Strafing! Have you seen that group of Qi people? Fire! Fire!" In the cab of the FW-190 Butcher fighter jet that came from behind, the pilot also shouted excitedly.

Four fighter jets passed by one after another, and the cannons hit the ground and splashed a cloud of dust, causing the scurrying Qi soldiers to fall over.

Like the Qi troops, none of the Tang army planes currently hovering over the manor knew that the King of Qi was dead.

They are still launching attacks according to the plan, dropping bombs one after another as if they are free of charge.

At the same time, the desperate counterattack by Qi troops also made them in the sky more convinced that King Qi was still in the manor at this moment.

So they dropped bombs one after another into such a small manor, regardless of the thick smoke that covered the manor in front of them.

Soon, a Stukane pilot discovered something different. He saw that the paratroopers of the Tang Army were retreating, and the dragon flags that were used to identify ourselves and the enemy seemed to be retreating as well.

 So, he pressed the intercom and reported: "I don't know what happened, but I saw our flag was retreating!"

At his feet, the paratroopers on the ground had retreated to the open locations where they parachuted, and their dragon flags as identification marks were more conspicuous in these places.

After confirming, the pilot continued to report to the radio: "Repeat, I see the dragon flag is retreating!"

Soon, the pilot on another Stuka dive bomber also confirmed the news: "Yes! I also saw the paratroopers retreating! I don't know why, but they are retreating to the open space!"

At this time, the voice of the headquarters sounded in the earphones: "I order you to cover friendly forces and cover the retreating paratroopers! Repeat! Cover the retreating paratroopers! Block the pursuing Qi army!"

“Understood!” the pilot of the Stuka dive bomber hovering in the sky replied immediately.

However, after the two Stuka dive bombers flew more than half a circle around the manor, they still did not see the pursuing Qi army rushing out of the thick smoke.

It seemed that the Qi army had no intention of pursuing them, so the paratroopers of the Tang army who withdrew from the battle walked very calmly. They even found and picked up almost all the luggage and equipment they could find.

So, after circling twice to confirm the situation, the Stuka dive bomber pilot who was ordered to cover the ground troops called again: "Beehive! Beehive! I am Wild Bee No. 1! I am Wild Bee No. 1! I didn't see it. The Qi army is pursuing! Repeat! I don’t see the enemy pursuing you!”

 The pilot in the other plane also reported: "I am Wild Bee 4! I did not see the enemy pursuing me!"

 “I didn’t see it either!” said the pilot in another plane.

"Observe carefully! Observe carefully!" Over the radio, the headquarters said helplessly: "Follow-up troops, continue to bomb the target! Make sure that the manor is completely destroyed!"

 “Yes! Sir!” In the plane that had just arrived at the battlefield, the pilot continued to answer excitedly. After answering, he pressed down his control stick: "I'm starting to dive, cover me!"

His wingman shouted excitedly: "I'm right behind you!"

 (End of this chapter)