Chapter 102 Chapter 6 Occupy the Red Lion

When Tang Long attacked those battleships, the twenty guarding hive defense ships did not know whether to come to support them or stay where they were. Asking for their support, my speed was as slow as a snail; standing still, I couldn't bear to watch my colleagues being humiliated by the enemy one by one. Finally, the commanders of the 20 hive defense ships made a decision, and the 20 hive defense ships slowly moved towards Tang Long. They were ready to fire Tang Long with all their guns when they reached the range. , 200,000 main gun-level cannons attack together, I believe no one can resist it.

"My lord, those hive warships have moved!" The correspondent reported nervously. She had seen the power of the hive warships. If her warship was bombed, it would definitely be over. Tang Long glanced at the screen and said with a smile: "Don't pay attention to him, their speed is the slowest among all warships, let me know when they are approaching the shooting range." "yes." The little girl replied a little nervously. The people on the other battleships also heard Tang Long's words, and they all smiled, looking at the hive battleship slowly moving on the screen.

They are very happy now, they didn't expect that the lord just commanded himself to shoot the main gun three times, and he got rid of the enemy's fifty warships, and they were not destroyed, but prisoners! Those fighting soldiers just now fought each other over who could accompany the engineering soldiers to board the enemy ship! Such a glorious opportunity cannot be given to others. If he is also a fighter, he will definitely fight with his brothers first. And the fighters on Tang Long's flagship were very annoyed. My fighters were the smallest of all the battleship fighters, with only one hundred people!

Although people like myself dare to say that they are the most powerful of all fighters, but the most powerful people have no chance to board the enemy ship. When I think of this, I sigh in my heart. In the end, all these fighting soldiers went to the captain Liu Dong to complain, and urged Liu Dong to ask the lord for a chance to fight in the enemy ship. Of course Liu Dong didn't dare to make this request to Tang Long, so he could only falter and haw the request. The engineers dispatched were very fast, and they came back in a landing craft in a short while, and at this moment the little girl correspondent shouted nervously again: "My lord! There are still ten seconds,

The hive warships were about to enter their effective range. Tang Long jumped up and shouted: "Keep this distance, and all retreat! Open the missile port, and each ship has 100 self-guided missiles. shoot! " As soon as Tang Long's words fell, the warships that started to retreat immediately fired a hundred missiles each. Although the missile soldiers didn't know what the Lord ordered to launch such a small number of missiles, what was the use of, but they still obeyed. Seeing those missiles slowly chasing after the hive warship, Tang Long immediately ordered: "As soon as those missiles are destroyed, immediately discharge a thousand hidden mines!"

Hearing this, the missile soldier who was a part-time sea mine soldier immediately looked nervously at the missiles on the screen, and as soon as these missiles exploded, he immediately pressed the release button. Twenty hive defense ships were blown up. After much difficulty, when it was about to enter the shooting range, the energy had been charged, and those cowards retreated!If you retreat, you will retreat, why do you always leave a gap of ten seconds? leave?Seduce us?It made our teeth itch with hatred! However, these hive warships that wanted to bite were immediately taken aback by the 2,300 missiles flying in. Compared with the speed of the laser beam, the speed of these missiles was ridiculously slow.

Generally, missiles are used when attacking at close range. How can they launch missiles at such a distance? The commander on the hive battleship thinks so, but the soldiers who control the artillery fire button don't think so. If it was a light beam, they would be shot without seeing it at all, and they would not be able to react. But the slow-moving missile allows them to see it with the naked eye. When they see the missile rushing towards them, it is of course a conditioned reflex to press the launch button. Thousands of beams of light flashed, and the more than one hundred missiles that were chasing were blown up and exploded.

Originally there was only one hive battleship, which fired out the charged energy, but I don’t know if it took the lead, or the soldiers who controlled the artillery buttons, who didn’t believe in defense. The reason why the Yuxiao Cannon can shoot these missiles down, in short, 20 hive warships fired 200,000 laser beams for the 2,300 missiles at once. The filled energy was used up all of a sudden. Knowing that it would take a minute to fully charge the commander, he was so angry that he jumped up and down and cursed!However, he had no choice but to continue to move forward while filling up his energy.

Originally, he wanted to slow down, or stop to recharge his energy before moving forward, but when he saw the opponent retreating desperately, he thought that the opponent was afraid, so he continued to move forward indifferently. The moment Tang Long saw the missile explode, Tang Long's missile soldiers suddenly pressed the mine release button, and 23,000 black mines were quietly distributed in front of Tang Long's fleet. At this moment, the missile soldiers are still very skeptical, what are you doing with so few mines, because generally, if you want to stop the enemy, you need to put at least a million mines to cover an area.

Like now, only one percent of the stock of each warship is released. After Tang Long gave the order just now, he left the command chair and tiptoed to the back cabin, but was unfortunately discovered by the adjutant Yuna. Yuna immediately asked nervously: "Master, where are you going?" She complained in her heart, what is this guy Tang Long doing, leaving the command chair during the battle? Seeing that Yuna had discovered him, Tang Long approached Yuna's ear and said in a low voice, "Be quiet, I'm going to shit, I can't help it." Yuna was shocked, and after a while, she blushed a little, and asked in a flustered whisper: "Then you don't need to command?"

"Hee hee, don't worry, I brought a communicator, so I can command at any time." Tang Long pointed to the communicator worn on his ear, and then ran away in a hurry. As a result, Yuna could only shake her head helplessly at Tang Long's back. Seeing that Tang Long was not there, Li Liwen immediately ran over to Yuna and asked, "Eldest sister, where is the lord?" Yuna looked around, and then whispered next to Li Liwen's ear: "Shut up, my lord has gone to the tuba." She knew that Li Liwen was obsessed with Tang Long as an idol, so in order to make Li Liwen sober, she deliberately didn't use more elegant words. Of course, she couldn't tell Tang Long's original words. If she had spoken the original words, the little girl Li Liwen would probably stop being infatuated with Tang Long immediately. "Uh..." Li Liwen was stunned for a moment, looking at the slowly approaching enemy ships, then at the long passage, and then at Yuna. Of course Yuna knew what Li Liwen was thinking, so she could only whisper helplessly: "I can't help it, people have three urgencies, I can't bear it." Li Liwen nodded dejectedly, she could tell from her appearance that, like those star fans, once she knew how her idol was eating, drinking, and messing around, she would immediately put the perfect light in her heart Fai's image is broken. Seeing Li Liwen's appearance, Yuna knew the plan was successful.Yuna is not against Li Liwen's obsession with Tang Long, she is against Li Liwen's obsession with Tang Long as an idol. However, Yuna and Li Liwen didn't know that Tang Long didn't actually go to the toilet. He ran to the combat room. While looking for a special mech to put on, Tang Long used the miniature microphone he just put on to order: "After the enemy ship touches the mine, each ship immediately launches a thousand electromagnetic interference missiles! At the same time, immediately concentrate the energy of the shield on the bow of the ship, and rush to the enemy's side at full speed to activate the fighting bridge!Combatants from each ship are ready to fight! " The flagship fighters who were still watching Tang Long put on the special mecha in a daze, immediately cheered and began to organize their equipment in a hurry. Liu Dong was not as excited as his subordinates, but immediately knelt down in front of Tang Long and persuaded in panic: "My lord, you are a body of ten thousand gold. You can't take any risks. You may not be able to capture the lord." Enemy ship, I implore my lord not to take any risks! "He kowtowed again and again. Those fighters who heard this came to their senses, the person who wanted to fight with him was his master. The lord is the guarantee of a better life for yourself and your family in the future!How could he be allowed to directly participate in the fighting?He should be directing us to fight in the command room!Thinking of these, They immediately followed the captain and knelt down, begging Tang Long not to participate in the fight! "Don't be wordy! I order you to get ready!" Tang Long didn't bother to talk to them, and after he was fully dressed, he was the first to go to the battleship bridge and wait. Liu Dong saw that he had no choice but to wear the mecha while secretly ordering his subordinates to protect Tang Long's safety at all costs. Although the speed of the hive warship was slow, it quickly entered the minefield. A relatively unlucky hive warship encountered three mines first, and the warship was shaken violently. Then several more ships were blown up and shook violently a few times. The soldiers who knew what was going on immediately shouted in a panic: "We have entered the minefield! Hurry up and fire the mines!" The protective cover of the battleship has no protective effect against this kind of close-range damage. This is why the warship of the Tang family was bombarded by the fighter jets of the Caesar family last time. And the reason why the soldiers of the hive warships panic so much when they find out that they have entered the minefield. Hearing the shouts of the soldiers, the commander immediately jumped up and cursed: "Damn it! If anyone dares to fire without obeying the order, I will kill him!" As soon as the commander finished yelling, he saw ten times more missiles flying towards him than before. Before he could react, the radar soldiers reported to him in panic: "Report! The enemy ship suddenly rushed towards us!" The commander, who was confused by this series of events, immediately shouted in fright: "Fire! Fire!" The soldiers of the Caesars, who had been waiting for this order for a long time, of course pressed the button immediately. As a result, 200,000 beams of lasers sprayed out again, and the mines blocked near them were the first to be vaporized, followed by those 23,000 missiles. However, these missiles were originally It is going to be detonated, so even if it is destroyed, it doesn't matter. Of course, Tang Long's warships were also shot by many guns, but these hive warships were all fired indiscriminately, and the energy of the protective shield on Tang Long's bow was adjusted to the highest level, so Tang Long's warships did not What kind of damage is just consuming the energy of the dozens of degrees of protective cover. The Caesars' radar soldiers who were monitoring the screen were relieved when they saw the missile explode, but immediately realized that the radar and other electronic facilities were useless, and the screen became pitch black. Now the radar soldier panicked again, raised his voice again, and shouted loudly: "It's bad! Those missiles are electromagnetic interference bombs!" The commander, who was already smoking from the seven holes, jumped up and cursed angrily: "What a fart! Activate the electromagnetic interference removal device for me!" "Yes Yes!" The radar soldier slapped himself, the device to eliminate electromagnetic interference, no matter military or civilian, any spaceship has this device, how can I be so idiot that I can't press the button first button, and then report to the officer? Devices to eliminate electromagnetic interference will be so popular, mainly when navigating in the universe, they will encounter interference from the cosmic electromagnetic star field at any time. However, this device has a shortcoming, it cannot clear the interference immediately, and the most advanced device today also needs two minutes to clear it. The electromagnetic interference removal device on the hive defense ship needs four minutes to clear the interference. During these four minutes, it is impossible to detect the outside situation at all, and it is impossible to use communication. , that is, become blind and deaf. Of course, for military warships, there is another way to quickly eliminate this electromagnetic interference, and that is to launch anti-electromagnetic interference missiles and make them explode around themselves. It's a pity that the hive defense ship is a battleship like a mobile turret. It is impossible to be equipped with missile launch ports, and it is impossible to have anti-electromagnetic interference missiles. As soon as the twenty-three X-ships fired their missiles, they immediately followed Tang Long's order and advanced rapidly. The speed of the X-ships was not fake. It only took a dozen seconds to reach the side of the hive battleship. As soon as the battleship docked beside the hive battleship, it immediately activated the combat bridge. It is said that it is a combat soldier bridge, but it is actually nothing more than a huge circular channel composed of hundreds of small screw laser drills. The laser drill shot from the fighting compartment penetrated into the body of the hive battleship. As I said just now, the shield of the battleship has no effect on close-range damage, so for It is not surprising that the laser drill can penetrate into the hive battleship so quickly. From the outside, the Hive Battleship just had an extra channel connecting to the X Battleship, without any other damage, but for the people inside the Hive Battleship, it was a disaster. The soldier who happened to be at this connection position in the hive battleship was cut into pieces by the laser drill without knowing what was going on. When the large drill composed of hundreds of laser drills began to slowly split apart, hundreds of laser beams shot out from these small drills, shooting the surroundings like a honeycomb. With just these two moves, all the people near the drill were dead. Although the soldiers farther away knew that it belonged to the enemy, they didn’t know what it was. They just backed away in panic. . At this time, an old soldier of the Caesars family suddenly remembered something and shouted: "This is the combat bridge! Get ready for combat!" As he said that, he took out the pistol at his waist, but when he saw the enemy soldiers coming out from the combat bridge, he was so scared that even the gun fell to the ground. Because the fighting soldiers who came out were actually a group of fighters wearing mechas! This old soldier knew very well that his small laser pistol couldn't do any damage to these enemy troops at all. Since you can't beat it, you have to surrender. Although the veteran's yelling made the soldiers of Caesar's family understand what happened, they all stood there stupidly, without the veteran's reaction of pulling out their guns. At the moment, they only have one thought in their minds: "Fighting soldiers? Oh my god, in the era of warships bombarding each other, there is still fighting fighting? I have only learned how to control the computer, how to calculate the position, how to analyze the configuration of the battleship, and even practice shooting is just for fun. What skills do I have to fight them? " As I said before, fighters are generally used when conquering ground cities. In this era, there are very few people, or it is very difficult to have the opportunity to fight fighters on battleships. fight. Why is it difficult to have a chance?Because in general battles, before the warships of both sides approach, the opposing sides will start bombarding each other. , So, where do you need to fight with any fighters? When this group of weak soldiers saw the two-meter-high mecha soldiers coming out of the fighter bridge, they immediately reconfirmed that they could not fight these fighters at all, and immediately raised their hands. Hold high, all surrender. Tang Long, who was wearing a mech, did not hold the matching thunder gun in his hand, but a continuous-firing submachine gun.After all, the firepower of the thunder gun is too strong, and it is very likely that the place where he rushed It's the power furnace. If you accidentally shoot the power furnace and cause the whole ship to explode, you will die unjustly. Tang Long, who was ranked first at the entrance of the bridge, tightened his submachine gun excitedly. He could imagine being shot by the enemy as soon as he rushed out, so he began to speculate in his mind. How should I dodge, how should I counterattack and destroy all the enemies, and at the same time I was also thinking whether I should go out slowly to increase the intimidation effect, or get out and shoot with a gun Woolen cloth? However, before he had decided which method to use to get out, the bridge port had been slowly opened, and then he was pushed by someone, and he just walked out inexplicably. The soldiers of the Meteorite didn't push him on purpose, they just wanted to get out of the bridge first, so as to eliminate the danger for their lord. However, it is obvious that the bridge entrance is not big enough to allow two people to pass through, and when Tang Long stood in the middle, the two sides became narrower.The soldiers squeezed to both sides, and Tang Long couldn't do it unless he came out. Seeing Tang Long being squeezed out, all the soldiers turned pale with fright. They wanted to help, but instead they became as if they wanted to murder the lord. What if the lord has anything to do with it?so they Immediately ran out rolling and crawling, hoping to block the attack for the lord. But when they came out, they were all dumbfounded, because there was a large group of Caesars soldiers standing in front of them, all of them raised their hands and surrendered. Although after seeing all this, Tang Long was as stupid as the soldiers, but Tang Long quickly reacted and ordered: "Leave ten people to guard the prisoners, and the others will follow me to attack the command tower." ! " After speaking, he ran towards the entrance of the passage, and of course the soldiers followed immediately, leaving ten unlucky ghosts in the last row to guard the captives. The commander of the Caesars' hive defense ship was still jumping and howling in the conning tower. He was blind and didn't feel at all that his battleship had been stabbed in the waist. Although the cannon has been fully charged again, the devil knows where the enemy is now. If he fires it casually, wouldn't he have to wait another minute for recharging? This minute is enough for the enemy to beat him to pieces. Now he can only wait for the electromagnetic interference to be cleared, while waiting for the enemy to attack first. As long as the enemy attacks himself first, even if his own radar cannot be used now, the radar operator can still calculate the enemy's position through the vibration generated by the protective cover.for own battleship With a 1,000-degree protective shield, he is still very confident that he will strike after he strikes. Although only a few minutes passed, the radar operator felt as if centuries had passed before the electromagnetic interference was finally eliminated. The radar officer had just reported to the commander that the electromagnetic interference was cleared, and he let out a surprise: "Strange? Where is the enemy?" Only then did he shout in horror, "No! The enemy is right beside us!" The commander who had just breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the good news from the radar officer, and was about to find the enemy to vent his anger, was so frightened by what the radar officer shouted in a terrified voice that his heart almost jumped out. He is not an idiot, and he is a bit smart. He immediately thought of what the enemy ship was doing when he ran beside him. He immediately took out his pistol and shouted: "Everyone is on alert! The enemy ship fighters have entered!" coming. " He didn't call for fighters to dispatch, because his battleship was not equipped with fighters, and not only his battleship, but all hive battleships were not equipped with fighters. Breaking out in cold sweat, he could only whine in his heart: "This time, we're in big trouble!" "Come on!" Tang Long rushed forward immediately, as soon as he saw that the opponent dared to aim a weapon at him, he would immediately pull the trigger and shoot the opponent into a honeycomb. The soldiers at the back were even more mighty, surrounding Tang Long and shooting forward desperately, as long as anyone entered the warning range formed by them, they would immediately be turned into pieces. Tang Long couldn't help being very upset seeing this scene, because he was in the middle of the warning range, so he only killed two enemies, and never pulled the trigger again. The energy box of the submachine gun can only store the energy of 300 beams of lasers, so the fighters need to replace the energy box after a few random pulls of the trigger. Under the assault of ninety such mighty submachine guns, wherever Tang Long and the others passed would be full of bullet holes.And the soldiers of the Caesar family who saw countless laser beams jumping all over the room, no Turning around and running away means lying on the ground and shouting to surrender. Of course, all those who dared to run out to resist are finished. Naturally someone will take care of the management of the captives, so Tang Long doesn't care. He is now changing the magazine while muttering: "It's really annoying, there will only be chi-chi gunshots, and The handle of the gun does not vibrate, and there is no excitement at all. " While talking, Tang Long walked forward surrounded by soldiers. Along the way, Tang Long and the others did not encounter any decent resistance, and soon came to the command tower. The commander who was holding a pistol and was about to fight to the death, saw the enemy army in full mecha , aimed at himself with a submachine gun, couldn't help but his legs went limp, and said tremblingly on the ground: "I...I surrender!" Tang Long sat on the command chair before leaving, took off his helmet, combed his hair, and then glanced at the commander lying on the ground and said, "You are the commander of this fleet, right?" "Yes, yes, the younger one is the commander of this fleet. I don't know what orders do you have?" The commander lying on the ground hurriedly said with a humble smile. Although he was a little surprised at Tang Long's youth after seeing Tang Long's face, he knew this when he saw those mecha fighters closely surrounding Tang Long and watching the surroundings very nervously. Young people are not small characters like fighting captains, so of course they can be as humble as they can be. I hope this adult can spare me, or let me reuse myself. In these family battles, the captive generals were either killed or treated as servants, and the best thing was to be taken as retainers by high-ranking adults. The treatment of the soldiers is very ordinary. Generally, after they are captured, they will not do much to resist. Anyway, to them, it doesn't matter who is the master, as long as they don't kill themselves. It belongs to the standard, and if you see whoever has a big fist, you can talk to whoever you are. Of course, not all family soldiers are so weak, like those soldiers of the Tang family who have been brainwashed, they will not stop resisting so easily. This is also the reason why the Tang family with only one administrative star was able to confront the Caesar family with two administrative stars for so many years without being destroyed. "Generate all the warships and order them to stop resisting. But I believe that most of the warships have been occupied by us at this moment." When Tang Long said this, he couldn't help laughing. Could he not laugh?I was forced to go out to fight, but I didn't expect that I won fifty high-level battleships just by consuming a little energy. Battleships and 20 hive battleships, hehe, my own strength has jumped a few steps in an instant. "Yes, I will inform the whole army and let them stop resisting." The commander quickly nodded in agreement, and then walked out of the wall of mech warriors with a smile on his face, letting his communicator pass the order. Not long after the order came out, the correspondent said to the commander with a bitter face: "They have surrendered a long time ago." The commander was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but soon he smiled, nodded and said to Tang Long, "My lord, all the warships have surrendered." Tang Long nodded, and just when he was about to say something, an anxious voice suddenly came out of his armor: "My lord! Why did you run to the enemy ship? Didn't you say you were going... Come back quickly , My lord, you need to command the entire fleet! " Yuna paused suddenly because she didn't want the soldiers to know that Tang Long escaped using Shidun, lest Tang Long would lose face in front of the soldiers. At this moment on the Meteorite, Li Liwen's eyes were shining, and she muttered obsessively to herself. Seeing this scene, Yuna could only sigh helplessly. It seemed that Li Liwen was even more obsessed than before. Tang Long. Tang Long pursed his lips and muttered: "Really, how did she find out? Who is betraying me?" When he said this, that Liu Dong's body shook and he hid secretly. Behind Tang Long. He was the one who told Yuna about Tang Long's whereabouts, and he didn't mean to betray him. He was just afraid that if something happened to Tang Long, other retainers would blame him. He wanted everyone to know that it was him. It has nothing to do with me that the lord came here to be a combat soldier. Since Yuna didn't know the communication number of Tang Long's mecha, she had to turn on the full-frequency call, so all the fighters wearing mechas knew the conversation between her and Tang Long. Fighting together on the front line, they couldn't help but be moved and cheered, making the soldiers of the Caesars think they were cheering for victory. Because the commander was standing in the front, he heard Yuna's words. At first he thought Tang Long was a general-level character, but who would have thought that the twenty-three warships outside were all He controlled it, so he is at least a family elder?I've never heard that the Tang family has such a young elder. As for why he didn't suspect that Tang Long was the Patriarch?As the hostile Caesar family, of course there is information on the main members of the Tang family, so there is no possibility of admitting mistakes. "Okay, I'll go back later. You ask the ships to send engineers to receive these warships, and the fifty battleships also send some engineers to help them repair the command tower. The materials needed The transport ship behind has it, so that the transport ship can drive over. " While giving orders to Yuna, Tang Long left the command chair and began to admire the equipment structure of this hive warship. After a while, the normal interface between the hive battleship and the X battleship was connected, the combat bridge was retracted, and the holes on the hive battleship were repaired. Tang Long, who had already copied all the data in the flagship database of the Hive Battleship back to the Meteorite, had someone input the data into the computer, and at the same time asked the correspondent to send a notice to Red Lion to persuade him to surrender. At this moment, the Red Lion Star is already in chaos. Some rich officials and rich men who own spaceships hurriedly packed up their belongings and left the Red Lion Star with their families in a hurry. But they didn't escape very far. Can ordinary spaceships be as fast as X-ships?So they were all captured by the X-Fleet that came after them. All of a sudden, those who hadn't boarded the spaceship didn't dare to move immediately, and they all crowded in the Governor's Mansion of the Red Lion in panic. Of course, only those Kai People from the Sa family, ordinary civilians don't know what happened yet. The members of the Caesar family never imagined that their fifty battleships and twenty beehive warships were actually defeated and captured by twenty-three enemy ships. Although I can't believe it, but now that the enemy's persuasion notice has been sent, it is true, and there is no way to escape, what should I do?Ask Caesar for help?as early as fifty When the warships were defeated, they asked Caesar for help. Originally, Star Caesars was planning to dispatch 100 warships to come to support, but when the news that 20 hive warships had been captured reached Star Caesars, half of the 100 warships that had been mobilized, He was actually transferred back!Isn't this a desperate situation? Thinking that the family would not be saved, and that there was no escape for them, the retainers of the Caesar family discussed and gritted their teeth and sent Tang Long a surrender message. Of course, they would not forget to add The additional requirement is to ensure the safety of the lives and property of one's own people. For this point, Tang Long immediately agreed, he still doesn't like those people's things. So Tang Long brought hundreds of landing craft to the Governor's Mansion of the Red Lion Star. In the air, Tang Long saw that the buildings of the Red Lion Star were different from those of the Zhongzhou Star. The structure is made of glazed tiles, and the Red Lion is made of stone pillars. To put it bluntly, it is like the difference between the Eastern and Western architectural styles of a certain ancient planet. Tang Long, who got off the landing craft, ignored those retainers of the Caesar family who came to greet him with a forced smile, and ordered: "Immediately confiscate all aircraft and order them to be transported." The loser spared a few ships to land on the Red Lion, and I have a task for them. There is no need for Yuna to do this kind of trivial matter, and naturally there are subordinates to deliver orders. Tang Long came to the Governor's Office of the Governor's Mansion, sat in the first place, glanced at the retainers of the Caesar family who followed, and asked coldly, "Who is the highest official here?" A middle-aged fat man with a shiny face shivered, walked out and said anxiously: "Is that right? I don't know what orders Master Tang has?" Why did he know that Tang Long was from the Tang family?Oh, Tang Long is now wearing the military uniform of the Tang family, and the battleship is painted with the Tang family's blue dragon crest, how can it be mistaken. "Let me introduce the heads of your various departments." Tang Long said lightly. Hearing Tang Long's words, the fat man immediately introduced the heads of various departments in detail. The people whose names were called all came out in panic. They didn't know that the Tang family what the conquerors will do.