Reincarnation Paradise

Chapter 93: Go and Reinforce "Loas"

"Reincarnation Paradise ()"

The steel fortress, right in front, on the towering No. 0 turret.

boom!

Excited by the heavy artillery, a red laser beam was ejected from the muzzle, which slanted towards the ground below. As the soil flew horizontally, the pressure punching device in the barrel raised the muzzle like a technological holy sword piercing the ground in front.

Where the thick laser beam of the bucket passes, all the wild boar riders, together with the mounts under them, turned into red slurry and scattered on the ground, scorching the ground to a sizzle. Burns, the scene will only appear.

After the heavy artillery ray swept, an area nearly five meters wide was cleared straight forward, and the area swept by the red laser beam exploded one after another.

The heavy artillery weapon is the strongest sword of the family. In the past, no one could stop this strongest sword, but today, this strongest sword seems very weak.

when!!

A spiral cone gun was nailed to the middle of the No. 0 turret, and in the next moment, there was a deafening explosion, but this was nothing to the majestic No. 0 turret.

In the open space directly in front of the steel fortress, the wild boar rider and the family soldiers are fighting here.

In the melee, a soldier of the family raised his sword and slashed at the rushing wild boar warrior.

With a bang, the sword and the heavy hammer intersected, and the force of the sun on the heavy hammer caused the flame to explode.

The soldier of the family member immediately felt a huge force coming from his hand. He clenched his teeth to resist the impact of the cavalry, coupled with the power of the flame explosion, which made his hands holding the sword numb, and the boar rider who was blocked by him was uncomfortable. The basic qualities of soldiers are there.

At this moment, the mount under the wild boar rider threw out its claws and spread out. Taking advantage of the unbalanced body of the family soldier opposite, the two front paws firmly grasped the family soldier.

Taking this opportunity, the wild boar rider on his back completed his breath, holding the hammer in both hands, making a brutal cross-strike.

boom!

The soldiers of the family members were smashed into the air, but the combat uniform on his body saved him from death, but he hadn't landed yet. With the momentum of the charge, a wild boar rider smashed his head with a hammer.

Wild boar riders can't kill the soldiers of the family in one strike, but they can not only charge with the aid of mounts, but also natural two-on-one.

If singled out, the boar rider can beat the soldiers of his family to autism. "Hammer Specialization, Lv.45" is not a display, plus "Beast Riding, Lv.48", which makes every wild boar rider not only possess Core combat skills, as well as superb riding skills.

On the battlefield, three heavily loaded tanks charged side by side. Behind them, hundreds of cavalry units charged with them.

Amidst a muffled noise and a horrible howl, the family soldier in front was hit or stepped on by three heavy tanks. When a heavy tank stomps on the head of a family soldier, the scene is like an elephant stepping on and bursting. Like a watermelon.

The heavy tank opened the way in the front, and the cavalry squadron with hundreds of people in the rear was like a steel powder crushing machine, hammering the soldiers of the families who survived to crush.

Where the cavalry rushed through, there were few complete corpses on the ground. They were either trampled by heavy tanks or smashed to death by wild boar riders.

Looking down from the sky, the steel fortress battle at this time was spectacular to the extreme. The entire steel fortress was a frontline fortress surrounded by a steel city wall tens of meters high, which is why it is called a steel fortress.

As a T0-level fortress, the steel fortress cannot move, but each T0-level fortress has its own strengths. The strength of the steel fortress lies in the surrounding steel walls and the five giant turrets on each wall.

These are part of the steel fortress itself. In order to nurture this T0 fortress, the family alliance consumes a huge amount of various metals and allows the steel fortress to devour it to improve the defense of the fortress wall.

The surrounding areas under the four walls are full of melee family soldiers and wild boar riders. The turrets that stand on the walls either carry out a salvo of gunfire or sweep through death lasers.

This time our side came out in full force. The 500,000 wild boar knights all played, and the Sun Fortress were brought out.

This time, Su Xiao’s goal is to take the steel fortress. He has long been attracted to this fortress. Although its area is smaller than that of Freedom City, fortunately, it is protected by a steel city wall. This is all part of the fortress. After these walls are breached, they can gradually heal themselves, provided that enough metal is fed to the fortress.

At the moment, his original base camp in the border area has not set up any defenses. Su Xiao's plan is to capture the steel fortress as quickly as possible, and then let the pigmen and female pigheads in the rear migrate to the steel fortress.

In this way, one's own foothold is firmly established, and if you continue to fight forward, the steel fortress will become your own rear protection, and the sun fortress will be sent forward to load various supplies and supplement the battle-damaged wild boar rider.

The steel fortress must be taken, this is the qualification to continue to move closer.

The storm pterodactyl hovered in the low altitude, rushing past the melee soldiers. It was Su Xiao on the dragon's back. He did not let the storm pterosaur fly too high. He didn't want to be fired by heavy artillery weapons.

On the battlefield, the soldiers of the family were killed until they were defeated. They were all wearing black combat uniforms. From the sky above, they looked like a dark tide. The wild boar knights urged the sun with all their strength. All floating cash and red virtual flames.

From the sky above, the surrounding golden cavalry tide completely surrounded the black tide under the city wall and swallowed it at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Why don't the soldiers of the family members stick to the wall?It’s not that they don’t want to, but they can’t. The hole in the east of the city that was knocked out by 20 heavy tanks in turn represents. If the direction is not set under the steel city wall, the total of more than 600 heavy tanks will take less than 5 minutes. The steel city walls on all sides became a hornet's nest.

One or two heavy tanks cannot break the defense of the steel city wall. The problem is that their impact comes with a high-intensity flame explosion effect. After a few consecutive collisions, the steel city wall will be burned to red, and the defense power will be sharply reduced. After dozens of reloaded Tuckers hit each other with full force, they could knock out a huge hole with molten iron dripping around.

The huge breach in the east wall of the city has become the area where the two sides have reached the worst bloody battle.

Another thing is that once the wild boar rider rushes under the wall, the mounts under them will use their claws to climb up.

Although these war beasts are far inferior to wolf riders in terms of climbing, wild boar riders can pile human walls. They and their mounts are very strong, and they are not afraid of being trampled on by their comrades.

If the wild boar riders get to the wall, they will let their mounts climb the wall first, and the kinsmen behind them will swarm up and pile up a rampant human wall within a short time.

At this time, on the nearly eight-meter-wide city wall, an elite wild boar rider waved the warhammer in his hand, smashing the soldiers of the surrounding families and flying around. Not only was it tall, but the mount under it was also a little taller.

boom!

There was a loud noise, and the elite wild boar rider and the mount under him staggered back. They were located directly in front. A soldier of the family was manipulating a machine gun fixed on the side of the city wall. One should be called a cannon shell. The bullet shell fell to the ground with a bang, and gun smoke was still rising above it.

The thick smoke from the bombardment dissipated, revealing the figure of an elite boar rider. Its chest was sunken, and a large spiral-shaped bullet stuck in the center of its chest. It grinned with blood-stained teeth and eyes. Staring at the family soldier who bombarded it with machine guns.

The soldier felt his scalp numb, his four fingers clasped the cannon's trigger, and the burst bullet was shot out like money-free, not paying attention to the overheating warning that had begun to shrill.

Under the bombardment of a burst of explosive bombs, the elite wild boar rider stood in front of him with one arm, urged the beasts under him to charge, rushed to the machine gun, with a full blow.

With a bang, the machine gun fixed on the side of the city wall was lifted, and the howling family soldiers flew under the city wall. After flying about a hundred meters away, they slammed into the head of a heavy tank.

The head was hit by the heavy tank, and he shook his head from side to side. Those eyes, which were small compared to the size, looked around who hit it. It wanted revenge.

Suddenly, the heavy tank heard the sound of machine guns. It turned its head to look and saw a living chariot, as well as the family's soldiers who were laughing and controlling the machine guns.

This heavily loaded tank glanced at the cannon and base that hit its skull on the ground, and then at the cannon fired on the tank not far away. After confirming that the two things were similar in appearance, it roared towards the live battle. car.

Compared with the battlefield in the surrounding direction and the city wall, the situation of the No. 0 main turret is simply a disaster.

The No. 0 main turret is the tallest building in the steel fortress. At this moment, the 100-meter-high cylindrical turret is staged in the scene of a disaster movie. A famous wild boar rider controls the mount and uses his claws to climb the main turret. More than a dozen soldiers from the family members fired down with machine guns in horror.

The main turret, which is a full 100 meters high, has a cylindrical shape. From the bottom to the upper middle part, the wild boar riders are already covered. Just by seeing this picture, you can imagine how desperate the soldiers of the dependents on the top of the turret are. They are shooting now. The cooler you are, the worse you will be after being caught.

The scuffle lasted from more than ten in the morning to one in the afternoon. The reinforcements coming from the surrounding area were beaten back one after another, while the original garrison in the steel fortress was beaten into two strands.

One is the "Sixth Unit" led by Brigadier General Retz, with a strength of around 90,000 to 100,000.

I have to say that Brigadier General Reze is really capable, knowing that things cannot be done. The 300,000 frontline troops are not the opponents of the Sun Legion. He decisively abandons the steel fortress. This seems to be a superior location, but in fact it must be a fort that has no tactical significance. , Led the soldiers of the family members of the "Sixth Unit" to break through the back of the battlefield.

As a result, Brigadier General Leyze succeeded in breaking through. The heavy artillery-class weapons were really difficult to wash the ground, but he was a cavalry. Su Xiao sent a 100,000-scale pursuit force to pursue Brigadier General Leyze.

In addition to the "Sixth Unit" led by Brigadier General Retz, at this moment, there is also a defender from the family's side in the Steel Fortress, who is struggling to guard the fortress. It is the daughter of Brigadier General Retz and the defender led by Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na.

The size of this defender is more than 50,000 people. With Wen Na's rank, he is not qualified to command and mobilize so many soldiers. The situation is critical now, so naturally no one cares about this.

At 1 p.m. that day, when the generals stationed in several other dependents’ troops in the surrounding area believed that the steel fortress was completely lost, Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na contacted the outside world and said that they were using the buildings in the center of the steel fortress to resist the enemy. The charge.

The general meaning is that although the city walls and other areas have been occupied by the enemy, their defenders have stabilized in the center of the steel fortress and urgently need external reinforcements.

According to Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na himself, the surrounding city wall has been knocked out too many holes and has lost its defensive value.

Can't Su Xiao kill this defender?Of course, he left it on purpose.

He is surrounded by more than 50,000 defenders under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na. It seems that due to the terrain, the cavalry cannot charge and cannot take down the defenders. In fact, he is waiting for other troops to reinforce it. .

According to his understanding, the family members not only stationed the steel fortress on the border, but also the core defensive point, the border areas on both sides, there are six other units, the total strength of at least more than 600,000.

The previous intention of the Alliance Marshal He Kandiwei was already very obvious. First, he was to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, let Su Xiao go to attack the Beasts, and then take the opportunity to station troops on the border and prepare to eradicate the Sun Fortress.

As a result, Su Xiao beat the Beast tribe to death, and wailed the Beast tribe. Before the dependents could mobilize much troops, the Beast tribe surrendered.

Even if I want to come, they are all about to be beaten to the "big gathering place." Can you not surrender? If you don't surrender, the Beastmaster will not be far from becoming the overlord spirit.

In the Iron City, flames were still burning on some buildings, and the closer to the center, the denser the buildings. Several blocks in the center were already occupied by Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na at this time.

Su Xiao stood on the top of a second building, watching the flames roaring in the distant block, the steel fortress was more like a city than a fortress.

It is spread out as a whole, surrounded by city walls, and the vast area inside follows the play of the builders. It is not an exaggeration to say that this is a dream-level base camp.

On the other hand, the Sun Fortress, after hundreds of them are spread out, they are not as big as the Steel City, but this cannot be said that the Sun Fortress is weak.

The smell of gunpowder diffused in the surrounding area, and Su Xiao looked at the communicator in his hand. This was a few minutes ago when an enemy soldier arrived at the cost of being captured. The commander of the city's garrison, Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na, wanted to talk to him.

The communicator in his hand sounded, Su Xiao connected it, and there was a noisy voice, and there were many wounded in the opposite position.

"Hello? Hello, are you sure you are connected."

"Yes, Madam Lieutenant Colonel, I'm sure I'm connected."

"There is no sound from the other side."

"That's because the other party didn't speak."

"Ah~, I know."

Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na's last sentence was slightly embarrassing.

"Are you looking for me?"

Su Xiao spoke.

"Lord Sun, I hope you will accept our surrender. We have been besieged by your side, and there is no need to slay them."

"I reject."

"You really have to... kill us before we stop."

"Ok."

Su Xiao smashed the communicator in his hand and threw the wreck aside. Before he hit the enemy's reinforcements, how could he accept Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na's surrender.

...

Twenty kilometers north of the Iron City.

A group of dependents is marching hurriedly towards the Iron City. At the head of the team are two living tanks. When one of the tanks ran over the gravel on the ground, an explosion occurred.

With a bang, the explosion lifted the heavy body of the living tank a bit, but did not overturn it. The colonel of the dependents in the rear armored vehicle leaned forward to see this scene and ignored it until a few flare bombs lifted into the sky, and no marginal objects could be seen around it. The wild boar riders came together.

The mobility of the wild boar fighters has reached a level of horror. First of all, they are cavalry, and then there are bonuses from the war lord.

"The six effects of the Lord’s Authority (passive), each triggered, can stack 1 layer of the'Lord's Pride' effect, and the marching speed of all soldier-type units under his command will increase by 12% (after the Lord's Pride effect is stacked for 6 layers, The marching speed of all soldier-type units is increased by 72%).

In addition, there is also the "hunting (passive, Lv.33)" mastered by the pig mount, which increases the running speed by 23%.

With these bonuses accumulated, it is completely conceivable how strong the Boar Rider's mobility will be.

After the siege lasted 40 minutes, this 30,000-scale reinforcement team suffered heavy casualties, and the more than 8,000 soldiers of the dependents who survived were captured.

This scene continues to occur in the surrounding area. Although our side has stormed the Iron City and was bombarded by heavy artillery weapons, with about 30,000 casualties and casualties, there are nearly 300,000 wild boar riders besides the chasing troops and the defending troops. Can be extracted.

Su Xiao made these 300,000 wild boar knights incarnate into hunting troops, they specifically besieged those enemy troops who came to reinforce Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na with the intention of besieging the Sun Legion in the Iron City.

Encounter a small number of enemy forces, first encircle, then charge, disperse the enemy, and finally quickly eat away.

If you encounter a large number of troops, such as reinforcements with more than 100,000, just ignore it. When the opponent attacks the steel city, the hunting troops will stab the enemy chrysanthemum|flower from behind.

Among them, the most brutal stabbed by the hunting troops was the "Eleventh Troop" under Lieutenant General Whitley. A total of 140,000 soldiers came to help, but the defenders and the hunting troops were sandwiched and beaten. It was really full of injuries. 140,000 family members, when the raid went out, even less than 50,000.

Soon, these 50,000 soldiers of the family discovered a truth. Two-legged soldiers really can’t run four-legged ones. They ran in front, hunting troops dangled from behind, and occasionally charged. After charging four times, this The commander of the force surrendered.

After Brigadier General Retz was repulsed, Lieutenant General Whitley became the commander-in-chief of the "Border War Zone" again. He had just thrown out this pot not long ago, but who would have thought that this is a whirlpool pot, swaying over Brigadier General Retz's head. Later, he snapped it on Lieutenant General Whitley's head again.

The area between Liberty City and Steel City, where the "Second Force" is stationed, is in the temporary headquarters.

Lieutenant General Whitley sat in the first place, flanked by a group of generals of the dependents, including Brigadier General Ryze with a bandage on his head and one arm in plaster.

"Lord General, what shall we do now? Do you want to abandon the defenders in the steel city?"

The major general of the family members who spoke, glanced at Brigadier General Leizi while speaking. The commander of the besieged army in the city was Lieutenant Colonel Wenna, the daughter of Brigadier General Lezi.

"Rez, I want to hear your opinion."

Lieutenant General Whitley spoke in a deep voice. Hearing what he said, Brigadier General Rez stopped talking. After thinking for ten seconds, he said:

"I propose that... abandon the defenders led by Lieutenant Colonel Wenna in the Iron City. They are hopeless."

When he said this, Brigadier General Retz sighed for a long time. The whole person seemed to be a bit old. Everyone knew that this decision was correct. But for Brigadier General Retz himself, he thought his decision was Wrong, but he had no choice.

"Statistical damage."

Lieutenant General Whitley spoke, and the adjutant next to him picked up the documents that he had prepared long ago. When more than 270,000 battle damages + captured war reports were passed into the ears of the generals, everyone was in an uproar. I felt that the soldiers under his command had been casualties or captured so many.

It is no wonder that this is the case. The small units in the east and the west were wiped out. Sometimes a few hundred people, sometimes one or two thousand people, seem to be not many, but when added up, it is a terrible number.

In addition, the tragic defense of the Iron City at the beginning, and the'Pricked Chrysanthemum|Flower Battle' that made Lieutenant General Whitley almost want to kill himself with a bullet. These two battles had the highest number of deaths and injuries among soldiers of the family members.

Whenever this sounded, Lieutenant General Whitley felt dizzy.

boom!

Lieutenant General Whitley's fist slammed on the wooden table in front of him. If the trial investigates this matter, it is true that he will suffer.

The current border defense line is not as simple as being breached, but exploded. The enemy army is strong enough to make Lieutenant General Whitley, Brigadier General Retz and others a little confused.

At this moment, a messenger with blood on his body rushed into the command post, and he said anxiously:

"Lord General, the enemy cavalry rushed into our territory!"

"Where? Liberty City?"

Lieutenant General Whitley's face was trembling, Liberty City, as the capital of the "post tower", was the hometown of Lieutenant General Whitley.

"No, a 20,000-thousand-thousand light cavalry from the enemy army followed the coastal area and raided Loas."

"Loas?"

Lieutenant General Whitley showed a different look, and the trial house was in "Loash." Today's fiasco on the border, all the officers on the scene, no one can escape their responsibility, and will face trial in the trial house.

And now, the enemy’s elite light cavalry forces are attacking "Loas". If the trial site is blown up, doesn’t it mean that no one will judge them in a short time? They can rely on their contacts. , And strive to make up for it.

Thinking of this, Lieutenant General Whitley looked around at a kind of dependent generals present, and no one spoke.

"Reinforce "Loas" quickly, Major General Dart, your fifteenth troop."

"Hey?"

Major General Dart was a little dazed. He had a "heavy load + heavy artillery mixed unit", and at that speed, when he arrived at "Loas", "Loas" had been defeated.

It is not unreasonable for Lieutenant General Whitley to make such an arrangement. It is difficult for the other dependents to block the Sun Legion, but facing the Iron Bastard under Major General Dart, the Sun Legion really feels a headache, with too many heavy artillery weapons.

The ten fingers of Lieutenant General Whitley crossed, what he said in his heart at this time was:'No one can judge Lao Tzu, and neither can the court.'

...

Steel City, the central city.

The streets were full of corpses, and the buildings on both sides were burning. Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na was sitting on the steps with a strange knight's stabbing in his right hand.

This weapon is a combination of spears and swords. It is the kind of weapon that is in the process of fighting the sword, and suddenly points the tip of the sword at the enemy, telling the opponent, my lord, that the times have changed, and then pull the trigger of the hilt, and a penetrating projectile penetrates the enemy. Vital.

Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na is not a weak woman. At the age of 26, she has no shortcomings except for being a little short-sighted.

The sound of the sharp claws stepping on the ground was transmitted to Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na’s ears. She took a deep breath of the hot air and pressed the sharp blade against her neck. Her eyes were closed tightly, and she was about to break herself when she gestured. Humiliated after being captured.

"If you die, who will lead the remaining family soldiers to surrender."

A voice came into Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na's ears. She opened her eyes and saw a man wearing a black feather cloak with a soul stone in his hand, sitting on the opposite building.

Seeing this person, Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na felt a little familiar, and she suddenly remembered that this person seemed to be the Lord of the Sun, leading the source of all this war!

Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na's heart beat immediately, his heart pounding, please don't get me wrong, it's not that Su Xiao is lucky, but Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na is about to attack and kill Su Xiao.

"My guards happen to be away, this is a good opportunity."

Su Xiao bit the soul crystal in his hand, and chewed.

Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na on the street sat up from the steps. Her heart beat faster. She sensibly told her that this must be a trap, but luckily told her that this was an opportunity, and she had only one chance in this life.

"I surrender."

Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na acted to release the spear and sword in his hand, and in the next instant, she disappeared in place and appeared beside Su Xiao.

'The bee stings through the bone.'

The spear and sword turned into a sharp light, pierced on Su Xiao’s neck, Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na’s eyes were ecstatic, and then, she turned into petals of flesh and blood, thin as cicada wings, and the blood mist was blown away by the wind. This is cruel. Combination with beauty.

Severe pain came, and Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na sitting on the steps took a deep breath, her pupils contracted sharply due to the death experience.

On the opposite roof, Su Xiao, who was holding the soul crystal in his hand, just about to take a bite, suddenly stopped. He felt as if something had happened, but nothing happened. The source of all this was concentrated on the opposite family member On the officer.

He first thought whether he encountered the ability to look back in time, which caused his memory to be lost retrospectively, but after another thought, it was not the case.

The reason why Su Xiao is so sure that this is not a time element ability is because he knows a dog thief of the time element. The dog thief is called Sin Yas. Su Xiao and each other can barely be regarded as friends.

Excluding the ability of the time element, that is a very powerful ability to predict. The female officer on the opposite side has foreseen something, and that's why it has this strange sense of loss.

Su Xiao estimated that the other party had foreseen something would happen, so he didn't take action, which caused his own action trajectory to change, so he felt this sense of loss.

Or in other words, according to normal development, he may have killed the opponent, and because the opponent did not take the initiative to attack as expected, the opponent did not die.

Su Xiao has met people who can predict or predict, but foreseeing things in a short period of time, foreseeing such an accuracy, he has seen it for the first time.

The exile broke away from Su Xiao's cuff and struck Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na in the next moment.

With a bang, the exile was nailed to the stone pillar next to Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na's ear. With Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na's reaction speed, he couldn't escape the blow.

This kind of ability is true to Su Xiao's surprise, and it is worth studying.

"I surrender."

Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na released the sword and spear in her hand and raised her hands. This time she really surrendered. She had just attacked Su Xiao in anticipation. She felt like she was a little bird, With astonishment courage, he pecked the beast's nose severely. At that time, she didn't feel anything. Afterwards, she couldn't help but tremble with fear in her heart.

Lieutenant Colonel Wen Na just surrendered, Su Xiao received a lot of prompts.

[Reminder (Reincarnation Paradise): You have breached the border defense of the dependents.

[This is a world historical event.

[You get the victory badge×3.

[Victory badge: a unique resource for world battles, a victory badge can be converted into 1.5% to 3% of the source of the world in any native world (if used in this world, a victory badge can be converted into 5% of the world source of).

[You get a certificate of honor. If you hold this item to form an adventure group, the initial level of the adventure group will be A level (the adventure group level is ESSS level).

...

[Hint (Void Tree): You have captured the Steel Fortress (Steel City).

[You have met the following conditions.

1. Soldier-type units under his command kill more than 250,000 enemies (overreach).

2. Win more than 3 local battles (overreach).

3. Destroy an enemy T2 fortress (overreached).

4. You or your elite unit, kill 2 enemy colonel-level officers (overreach).

[Your exchange level in the title store reaches Lv.7, and you will be able to redeem the title of Seven Stars.

[Because you are upgraded to the exchange level Lv.7, the conditions you have reached have greatly exceeded the required upper limit of 1972%. Re-judgment...]

[Reminder (Void Tree): Your redemption level will be upgraded to Lv.8, and you can redeem the eight-star title in the title shop.

[This grants it...]

[Warning (Void Tree): After checking that your reputation value is lower than the average line by more than 80%, and repeatedly ignoring the warning of the Void Tree (more than 30 times), this reward will be withdrawn, and the reward will be converted to the following.

[When you redeem the 7-star title in the title store, redeem the first 7-star title, and the price will be reduced by 99%.

The title store will open soon.