Bagram Air Base, the front-line command post of the US military in Afghanistan.

After last night's fierce fighting, the place was in shambles, and after the follow-up troops of the 10th Mountain Division came up, the engineers of the support battalion drove in a lot of engineering vehicles, and they were busy here for a day, and finally filled in the airfield runway that had been blown up with potholes.

The terminal building, the original defensive base of the 82nd Airborne Division of the US Army, has been set up as a temporary headquarters, and the commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, Brigadier General Charles, is responsible for commanding here.

Satellite antennas were erected on the roof of the building, corpses and cement debris were thoroughly cleaned up in the room, countless military LCD monitors were installed on the aluminum alloy shelves, linked to computer hosts with excellent computing speed, and every command transmitted by the rear coalition combat command center was received through radio waves, as well as various monitoring screens.

Brigadier General Charles stood in front of large and small screens, wringing his hands in a daze, his fingers tapping lightly on his chin, his gaze falling on the surveillance screens.

This honors graduate of the West Point Military Academy has rich combat and work experience, and during the first Gulf War, he led a unit deep into Iraq to fight, and was wounded in battle, and is one of the few officers in the US military who has shed blood in Iraq. While serving as a battalion commander, he was also sent to Panama to carry out combat operations.

At this time, he had been promoted to the post of commander of the 82nd Airborne Division for less than half a year, and the start of the war in Afghanistan had excited the professional soldier. Although there were some surprises in the battle for Bagram Air Base, he still believed in the judgment of the coalition command that the Taliban regime in Afghanistan could be defeated within a week.

"General, our vanguard has reached the vicinity of Bamiyan, but something is wrong." A black female officer turned back to her superiors.

"What's the situation?" Brigadier General Charles walked up behind the black female officer and said in a rather disapproving tone, "They can't let the Taliban stone you, right?" ”

"Not ......" black female officer called up the surveillance footage of the vanguard, which was captured through the veteran's on-board camera and a real-time surveillance probe mounted on the helmet, and then transmitted back to the headquarters through the video channel.

The camera was brought out of the picture, and the scene was obviously a little chaotic, with all kinds of armored vehicles of the US vanguard huddled together, soldiers standing on the roof and on the ground, talking, and the surrounding noise came and went, and many soldiers seemed to be amazed.

"Lieutenant Colonel Kearns of the vanguard is going to talk to you, General." The black female officer handed Brigadier General Charles a pair of communication headsets.

The latter took it and pressed the ear to his ear and said, "I'm Charles." ”

"General, we're in some trouble!" Lieutenant Colonel Kearns said with a slight panic in his tone, "The troop movement has been blocked. ”

Brigadier General Charles looked at the situation in the picture, quite dissatisfied, and a nameless fire rose in his heart.

Lieutenant Colonel Kearns is his favorite general, and the reason why he led the lead unit is actually to give this guy a chance to make meritorious contributions, after all, Kearns is also a graduate of West Point, and he is considered his own junior brother, as the so-called fat water does not flow into the fields of outsiders!

"Why are they all huddled together? Why not move forward!? ”

Charles spoke in a very stern tone, secretly scolding Kearns for being a fool, according to the principle of military offense, it is really not the way to march in battle with so many troops huddled together, and if it is covered by a round of enemy artillery fire, the entire vanguard will not even be left with scum.

"I can't move forward!" Kearns said helplessly.

"Have you met the Taliban?"

According to previous intelligence, the main Taliban guarding the Bagram airbase retreated and escaped in the direction of Bamiyan, and through a surprise review of some Taliban prisoners of war who had been resurrected at the airbase, it was learned that there were more than two regiments of Taliban elite troops in the Bamiyan direction.

"It's not!"

As if he didn't know how to explain it, Kearns pointed the probe on his helmet into the distance, "Something unexplainable has appeared ahead, and the troops have to stop and wait for orders!" ”

The camera shook a few times, and finally stabilized.

The sight that caught his eye surprised Brigadier Charles.

A huge light shield rose up from the ground, so big that it was boundless, and colorful light flowed on the light mask, like a semi-circular cover formed by countless rainbows, holding the mountains and land in front of it into the cover.

"We can't tell what this is, so I order the soldiers to stop and wait for your instructions, sir!" Kearns said.

"Is it some natural phenomenon?" Charles desperately searched for all the answers he could think of in his head, but to no avail, he really couldn't confirm this phenomenon, the only thing he could hope for was a natural phenomenon, not a Taliban weapon, and the Taliban would not have this weapon that could create such a science fiction scene, if there were, the world would have been Taliban a long time ago.

"We've tried using an EOD robot to drive into the reticle, but it's ......" Kearns paused in disbelief.

"But what?"

"However, after the robot went in, it lost contact, and our remote control device completely failed, and even the naked eye could not see where the robot was. The mask appears to be transparent, but anything that goes in will look like a stone sinking into the sea, and nothing can be seen from the outside. "It's like ......," Kearns said.

"Like what?"

"It's like the stargate in the movie Stargate, we can't tell where exactly what leads behind the mask." Kearns had a very sci-fi answer.

"Stargate" is a science fiction film funded by MGM, released in 1994, about the discovery of a strange ring by the U.S. military somewhere on Earth, the manufacturing technology of the ring is completely different from that of the Earth, and the history of the ring is very old and can be traced back to the appearance of human beings, and there are many strange symbols engraved on the ring.

The military team, led by Daniel and Colonel Jack O'Neill, traveled through this stargate and entered another parallel universe to explore, in that universe, they discovered that a highly developed advanced race was once based on the earth, millions of years ago, for some unknown reason, they left the earth and went somewhere. So, in order to unearth the buried history and explore the unknown world, countries formed an Atlantis expedition team and reached the city of Atlantis, which flew away from the earth millions of years ago through the stargate.

A senior front-line military commander with two parachute infantry battalions and three mountain division combat battalions used a science fiction movie to explain his difficulties, which made Charles angry at once, and Kearns was so disappointed that he was determined to transfer this guy after this campaign was over, and let him go back to the Fort Brigg base in North Carolina to train new recruits!

"Shut up! Lieutenant Colonel Kearns! Charles was almost so angry that he scolded his mother, "I order you!" Lead your troops forward now! Otherwise, I'll let you take your perverse pig's head to court-martial!" ”