Chapter 46 The third stage
In this core area of London, the small-scale battle between the Reincarnators and the Apostles did not actually affect the war between the Crusaders and the British police.
To be fair, the British military and police were working hard. After the invasion of the Mobile Crusaders, British police officers from all over the city fought and retreated. Nearly tens of thousands of people gathered in the city center of Buckingham Palace and Hyde Park, and reorganized the defense line with favorable terrain.
Because it is in the core area of London, the air defense system here is the most complete. In the early stage, several beautiful counterattacks were fought and many Crusaders were shot down.
Although the crusaders of the Holy See have been formally trained, the Vatican is not a country after all, and they do not have complete military organization capabilities. Strengthening soldiers are quite unfamiliar with this modern war. After the number of people reaches the battalion level, they don’t know how to fight. They will only charge in a swarm, increasing casualties.
However, the personal abilities of the strengtheners are far superior to ordinary troops after all. Except for North London, the Crusaders who controlled other cities in London gradually concentrated most of their strength on the last hard bone.
After the Crusaders in this area exceeded 2,000, the quantitative change finally led to a qualitative change, and the British police's ground defense line was broken through by them with their brute force.
Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park, Downing Street, and Westminster Abbey fell one after another. The once bustling and bustling central London was full of corpses, and the British resistance ended in the most tragic way.
Of course, the Crusaders who won the final victory also suffered heavy casualties. In addition to the losses in North London, more than half of the 6,000 people were killed, and the rest were injured. Many of them lost their ability to strengthen due to excessive outbreak potential.
However, the end of this war was a good thing for the apostles. The overall number of apostles who had just ended the foreign war remained at about fifty people. Just as there was a little flame of internal fighting, it was destroyed by the surging Crusaders.
It was also because the Crusaders poured into the city center that the apostles soon discovered that there was another opportunity to obtain compensation. In the passive battle with the Crusaders, they actually obtained the apostle's items to a greater or lesser extent.
Although these dropped items are only worth hundreds of broken crystals, they are also profits after all. At this time, the apostles remembered that compared with some ordinary humans, the crusaders were all enhancers. Even if they were not as good as Captain America, the top superhumans who had a major involvement in history, also had the value of killing.
However, although the crusaders will also drop items, problems will also arise. The crusaders are basically in groups, holding modern weapons and air support from armed helicopters. Professional apostles can kill one person and two people, but at the same time they will also be besieged, and the risks and benefits are not proportional.
So, these apostles naturally thought of the target of higher value and relatively less risk, that is, the Avengers, Green Hunters, and other plots supported by various parts of Europe, superhumans.
According to common sense, they would not have thought about these people. After all, most of the apostles in this world are only in the first-level level, and attacking the top superhumans in the Divine Comedy world, it feels a bit overestimating their abilities.
But the situation is different tonight. The British government has completely collapsed. All plots are beyond humanity, not only do they not get help from national forces, but they are in the enemy's territory.
However, in the early battle with the Reincarnationists, the apostles formed at least a small team of three or four people, and they could also form alliances with other teams depending on the situation. If all kinds of abilities in the team are equipped, they already have the ability to attack the plot powerhouses.
More importantly, once a plot character like Captain America and Iron Man is involved in the history of this world, although the benefits are not much to each apostle, it is more than enough to offset the punishment used to offset the main plot.
After realizing this, the apostles began to withdraw from central London and rushed to North London before dawn had arrived.
"Captain Qin Lun, your prediction before the war seems to be fully realized!" Les said quietly on the team channel.
"The battle has entered the third stage!" Ignoring Les' weird joke, Qin Lun and Grant looked at each other and smiled.
In fact, after the reincarnation invades this world, the apostles are destined to attack the plot's strong men. Just imagine, if Qin Lun and Grant had not had the strong intervention, the apostles and reincarnation should have been distributed all over the world.
As long as the reincarnation attacks the apostle, no matter what the result is, the relationship between the apostle and the plot characters will be destroyed, and the main plot is likely to be unable to continue.
Because of the proportion of people, even if the apostles win the battle, their losses cannot be compensated. Most people must attack the characters in the plot, and because they cannot get support, their situation may be worse than they are now.
Before planning the London Campaign, Qin Lun and Grant had already realized this. For Major Montana, the battle only had two stages. For Qin Lun and others, the so-called second stage of the battle could be guided to separate it from the third stage.
Fortunately, despite the confusing early stages of the battle, the apostle battlefield and the plot battlefield were eventually divided into two parts. Most of the apostles were concentrated in the inner city of London under the deliberate guidance of Qin Lun and others. While fighting with the reincarnation masters, they then retained most of their strength.
"Our risks have been reduced to a minimum, it depends on how much profit we can get in the end!" Grant said in a good mood and full of confidence.
Grant's confidence is not without reason. Although he decided to fight against a powerful man like Lancelot, even if he lost, they could escape with the apostle team he arrived. Compared with the previous situation of danger, life safety was at least greatly guaranteed.
"Haha, don't be too careless! I don't know the type of sacred objects in Lancelot. If it weren't for the restoration of the Holy Grail, but for the Longineus gun, we would have lost our lives." Qin Lun reminded with a smile.
"The other apostles have come for a while. Will we do it right away?" Grant looked at Qin Lun and asked with some admiration. He knew that the situation had developed to this point, and most of the credit would be attributed to this companion.
"No, wait a little longer, Monica just heard the news that Death River came to this side. Alcatel and other plot powerhouses seemed to have signs of merging together." Qin Lun frowned and sighed helplessly, "We all misunderstood the influence of Integula on Alcatel. This vampire who has lived for hundreds of years actually has such a deep affection for an ordinary human."
"Does it need to change the plan?" Grant spread his hands indifferently. "Anyway, you make the decision, it doesn't matter if you don't have the holy objects. The remaining Avengers and Green Hunters are also good goals."
"No, it's all this time, how can we give up again!" Qin Lun grinded his teeth, narrowed his eyes and smiled, "The strength of the Allied superhumans has dropped to the lowest point, and the Crusaders have no support in North London. Even if they are allowed to join us, we actually have a chance to attack!"
"You mean... Hans and the others?" Grant pondered for a moment, and soon remembered his advance commando. He immediately frowned and asked, "The situation is a little wrong. With the strength of their team, it seems a bit too quiet!"
"Haha, you finally noticed it. I think this should be Montana's arrangement." Qin Lun smiled and shook his head. "This London battle itself is to try to preserve the vitality and eliminate the Allied superhumans as much as possible. Now the battle process is perfect beyond imagination, and that fat man will naturally shrink his strength."
In fact, Qin Lun's judgment was a bit unjust for Major Montana. This fat Nazi man's fanaticism about the war was far beyond Qin Lun's imagination. At the moment of the battle, the reason why the commandos led by Hans were not very disturbed was that they also carried out other tasks other than the battle.
As Qin Lun speculated before the war, the Montana Major put a lot of effort into provoking internal strife between the Allied Superhumans and the Hell Private Organization. He did arrange a traitor within the Hell Private Organization that no one expected. That is, the old housekeeper Walter who has been serving the Van Helling family and watching Intgula grow up.
Walter is an excellent vampire hunter. From the generation of Intgura's grandfather, he has been the trump card of the hell private organs.
However, in addition to being an ace hunter and steward of the Van Helsing family, Walter is also a combat maniac nicknamed "Death". Walter's battle** is very similar to the war desire of Montana in some ways, and they are extremely paranoid.
Walter and Intgura had different views and did not recognize Alcatel's existence and were extremely eager to fight with vampires. However, Alcatel never acted rebelliously and had helped the young Intgura suppress his uncle's power-grabbing and rebellion. He had to bury this wish in his heart.
However, as his body grew older, Walter's desire to fight Alcatel's life and death became increasingly fierce, and he ultimately failed to resist the temptation of the Montana Major.
He left behind his loyalty to the Van Helsing family for the first half of his life, accepted Dr. Schal'er's human transformation, returned from his old age to his youth, and sought a final battle with Alcatel.
At the beginning of the war, although Qin Lun was intercepted by Alcatel and did not catch up with Intgula, the commando led by Captain Hans stopped the Rolls-Royce he was riding in again before Intgula returned to the headquarters of Hell.
At that time, "God of Death" Walter was taken back by Captain Hans by posing as a severance. It was precisely because Hans first completed this important task that the commando calmed down for a while and hid in the dark waiting for Hans' return.
But when Hans returned, Integura had liberated Alcatel due to the massive attack of the Crusaders. The Millennium Bug Commando and the Allied Superhumans were trapped in the quagmire of the dead.
Chapter completed!