Chapter 403 Counterattack time!
Chapter 403 Counterattack time!
The clouds were like boiling flames, black and red intertwined, and the whole sky seemed to be burning.
The flying rain of bullets seemed unable to stop the black curtain from falling, and the billowing smoke had engulfed a corner of the towering castle. Even though
the flame was as weak as a piece of dust.
But it still shattered the myth of the unbreakable shield.
As the flames burst from the right wing, the soldiers on the land showed surprised expressions, their eyes full of disbelief.
And a hint of uneasiness.
”…What happened?”
”Why did the engine break down again?”
”It seemed like something hit it just now…”
”How is it possible! The defense of the deflector shield is absolute, how could something pass through it!”
”Is that a parachute? Or is it my illusion…”
”Are those lunatics planning to land on the Iron Heart?!”
”What can those people do…at most one or two hundred-man teams.”
Although one side of the engine was broken, no one was worried about anything happening there.
As the least technologically advanced gadget on the Iron Heart, the row of engines connected to the wings often break down, so it’s no big deal if they break. The
most common parts in their airship inventory are propeller blades.
However, the plan of relocation and deployment may be delayed for more than two weeks…
Rachel, also looking in the direction of the Iron Heart, opened her mouth in surprise.
From the moment the commotion appeared in the air just now, the observation cabin of the airship had ignored them.
He didn’t know what those natives had done.
But looking at the airship that had lost balance, he probably understood that he probably couldn’t count on air support for a while.
At least he had to wait until the airship stabilized again.
But…
it didn’t matter.
Retracting his sight from the airship, Rachel looked at a ruin 2 kilometers ahead and squinted his eyes slightly.
It was an abandoned town.
Broken walls were scattered on the bumpy soil, and small country-style villas were covered with vines and moss, and the rain and snow of the years could be seen everywhere.
The town was quiet, with no movement, but beneath the seemingly calm surface, a turbulent spiral was brewing.
Standing next to him.
The deputy, who was also wearing a black exoskeleton, held a telescope and observed carefully, then said in a positive tone.
”The defensive bunker… but it’s very simple, they probably didn’t have time to prepare it.”
About an hour ago, the observation cabin of the Iron Heart discovered an unidentified team of 1,000 people approaching them from the southeast, seemingly intending to enter the urban area of Ruigu City.
Considering that there were guerrillas of the indigenous people active in the urban area of Ruigu City, a certain unit of the Iron Heart immediately judged that this team should be reinforcements sent to support the guerrillas.
General McLennan certainly couldn’t let this team slip into the city under his nose, so he immediately issued an order to the Air Marine Corps, requiring Rachel to stop this force outside the city before it entered the city.
Compared with the small force that attacked them before, an armed force of 1,000 people was undoubtedly a big fish.
Although it was still an ant in front of the legion,
Rachel did not relax his vigilance because of the opponent’s insignificance. After receiving the order, he immediately led three thousand-man teams to cooperate with more than 2,000 entourage troops, divided into three directions, and surrounded the thousand-man armed forces that reinforced the guerrillas in the city.
The plan went smoothly.
With the help of aerial reconnaissance, they successfully blocked the team’s route of advance, forcing it to give up entering the urban area of Ruigu City and evacuate to the south.
Rachel certainly would not let this big fish escape. He immediately mobilized armored forces to block their escape route and drove them to the edge of the forest.
It seemed that they knew they could not escape, so these natives simply gave up escaping and hid in a small town in the southern suburbs of Ruigu City, intending to fight the legion’s pursuers to the death with the limited shelter here.
5,000 to 1,000.
And there was also support from armored units.
Although the exchange of fire had not officially started, the outcome was obviously decided.
Bean-sized raindrops slid down the helmet eyepiece, and the corners of the adjutant’s mouth curled up with a slightly mocking smile.
”It’s a pity that we can’t bomb them first, otherwise the battle should be over within ten minutes.”
”It doesn’t matter.”
Rachel said lightly, took off the walkie-talkie hanging on his shoulder, and said in a cold voice.
”Everyone, open fire freely!”
”The first and second thousand-man teams suppress the west and east sides.”
”The first armored squadron, cooperate with the third thousand-man team to attack from the north!” A
neat response came from the communication channel.
”Yes!”
The war machine started.
Twenty “Scorpion” wheeled infantry fighting vehicles started their engines first, and the twin 45mm gun barrels on the turrets were aimed at the town. They were lined up in a formation like a sharp arrow and rolled forward slowly.
At the same time, the third thousand-man team sent out two hundred-man teams, and divided them into twenty small teams, closely following the infantry fighting vehicles and advancing together.
Each team consisted of two heavy infantrymen holding machine guns and wearing heavy bulletproof armor, and eight light infantrymen wearing basic protective gear.
In addition, thirty “Hyena” light armored vehicles also started their engines and were divided into two groups to cover the two wings of the wheeled infantry fighting vehicle formation.
The quadruple 10mm machine gun installed on the turret exuded a cold light, just like the teeth of a hyena.
In addition, nearly 500 escort troops were also pushed to the front.
These wastelanders held the Ripper rifles in their hands, with bayonets already hung on the barrels, and their eyes were half excited and half afraid.
The rest were nervous and confused.
As cannon fodder troops, they will launch the first round of attacks under the cover of the Hyena light armored vehicles.
However, unlike the regular troops protected by the vehicles.
The light vehicles that set out with them will not follow them into the town, but will only provide them with firepower cover from the periphery.
If they dare to run away…
the thick and long gun barrels will be aimed at them without hesitation.
Looking at the town that had been completely surrounded, Rachel narrowed her eyes slightly, and a trace of joy gradually emerged in her pupils filled with murderous intent.
This joy did not come from killing itself, but from correcting mistakes.
There is no doubt.
Those barbarians who resist order are the root of all chaos and evil.
They rudely occupy the heritage that does not belong to them, squander the grace that they do not deserve with their humble lives, and linger like cockroaches and rats.
Mutants, wastelanders, and those aliens… All barbarians are essentially the same.
Only by expelling all these dirty blood from this land can this land be restored to purity.
Only in this way can the great Willant people rebuild the kingdom of heaven on this planet.
And go to a more distant world to open up new territories.
The first armored squadron was only 1 kilometer away from the town. The twin 45mm guns of the “Scorpion” infantry fighting vehicles arranged in a front arrow formation had begun to vent fierce firepower.
Driven by heavy machine guns, the escort soldiers pushed to the front line shouted like crazy, trying to dispel the fear in their hearts. With bullets whizzing overhead, they pounced on the town like wolves.
At the same time, behind the ruins, gun flames began to flicker with resistance.
However, facing the strafing of heavy machine guns and artillery shells, the gun flames were like candles swaying in a storm, shaky and could go out at any time… The
outermost defense of the town had been disintegrated.
Only more than 100 of the 500 escort soldiers were left.
The combat effectiveness of these wastelanders was quite pitiful, but as cannon fodder, their performance was much better than that of the clone infantry, and they could always burst out with miraculous power driven by the desire to survive. Watching the natives’ defense line shrinking under the crushing firepower, Rachel’s cruel smile on the corner of her mouth became more and more obvious, and a hint of fanaticism –
or madness –
gradually appeared on her face .
”Soldiers! Forward!”
”Use your bullets, bayonets, daggers and teeth… to disembowel these filthy insects! Slaughter them in the most cruel way!”
”Then use their blood to lubricate our tires! Let those barbarians know the consequences of disobedience!”
…
Western District of Ruigu City.
The artillery positions hidden in the mountains were now filled with thick smoke and a mess.
Perhaps intending to leave them for more valuable targets, the enemy did not use the slow-loading 400mm chambered rockets, but used 100mm aircraft cannons.
However, the counter-fire came faster than expected, faster than everyone expected.
Crawling out of the bunker with a dry cough, Yang Shu wiped the dust off his face, searched around in the black and white positions, and finally saw a half-buried hand.
He was delighted and staggered forward, trying to dig out the buried comrade.
However, when he held the hand and was about to exert force, he pulled out the half arm directly.
Looking at the half-broken hand in his hand, Yang Shu was blank for a few seconds, and finally took off his coat silently and wrapped it up.
At this time, a cough came from the side.
Hearing the movement in the ruins, he hurriedly walked towards the sound again, and this time he finally found a living person.
The face was buried in the soil, and the left half was burned black, but the lips were still moving, and there was still a weak breath.
He recognized this face. The young man was called Lu Zi, and he was a refugee from the north like him.
Seeing the captain’s face, the colorless pupils suddenly brightened a little.
”Captain…”
”Don’t move! I’ll help you out!”
Yang Shu moved the stone on him and found a shovel from the side.
Looking at the captain who was digging the earth anxiously, the buried young man coughed dryly and choked out the mud in his mouth.
”Captain, where are our guns…”
”They blew them up! Damn, they were so accurate… Forget about that thing!”
”Captain…”
”What the hell is wrong with you!”
”I… can’t feel my legs…”
The hand holding the shovel paused.
Yang Shu gritted his teeth and continued to dig.
”I’ll buy you one!”
Lu Zi grinned.
He knew the captain couldn’t afford it, and that thing was not cheap.
But he didn’t expose it.
”Captain, I… did we win.”
Yang Shu glanced back at the burning sky, the billowing smoke that filled the edge of the airship, and the strings of tracers that occasionally drilled into the sky.
He was not sure about the situation over there.
But he had no doubt in his heart.
”… Definitely!”
At the same time, at the end of his sight, behind the thick smoke pouring like a waterfall, the cruel and bloody fight had just begun.
The flames from the muzzles jumped on the steel-covered deck like flashing lightning.
The pouring rain washed away the sticky blood and broken pieces of flesh, and the scarlet and broken armor rolled and fell to the ground as far away as the abyss.
However,
even with the continuous casualties, it still couldn’t stop the survivors from moving forward.
The hatch as big as a manhole cover was pushed upwards, and the heavily armored soldiers hung a towing rope on their waists and climbed up the dome through the ladder, trying to stop the burning army from rushing towards the thick and long gun barrel.
However, as soon as one of them showed his head, he was pierced through the head by an arrow, and fell back into the cabin of the airship with the rain flowing in.
Holding an assault rifle in his hand, Ye Shi looked at Fang Chang in surprise.
”Damn, you took the Dawn with you?”
”What else? Keep it for the New Year?”
Fang Chang laughed, but his hands did not stop moving. A high-explosive arrow accurately nailed the hand that was holding the hatch.
The screams of pain were blown away by the air currents at high altitude.
The Marines who fell back into the cabin took the high-explosive arrow with a delayed fuse back with them.
Soon, there was a loud bang, and there were casualties below the ladder. The hot air rushed upward, and the round hatch on top shook.
At this time, Lao Bai’s voice and the sound of gunfire like firecrackers came from the communication channel.
”Don’t get entangled with those infantrymen!”
”Keep moving forward!”
Fang Chang’s expression became serious, and he said immediately.
”Got it!”
Only more than 200 soldiers successfully landed.
It is unknown how many marines and crew members are on the airship. They cannot kill all of them.
Their goal is not to occupy the entire airship.
But to destroy the artillery position on this airship!
Under Lao Bai’s order, the Burning Corps quickly divided into two groups. One group, led by Kuangfeng, went to the artillery area at the front of the airship and headed straight for the twelve ground support artillery in front of the airship.
The other group, led by Lao Bai himself, went straight to the 400mm main gun that stood like a chimney!
A group of people quickly rushed to the side of the gun barrel. Staring at the towering gun barrel, Ye Shi couldn’t help smacking his lips.
”Damn, such a big gun barrel, I feel like people can get in!”
Lao Bai’s heart moved, and he looked at Fang Chang, who was wearing a light cavalry exoskeleton.
”You lead a team to rush through the gun barrel, and I will lead the rest of the people to attack through the hatch!”
Fang Chang nodded immediately.
”I’ll try!”
After saying that, he climbed onto the gun barrel, put his shoulder close to it and gestured. He found that he could just get in, so he immediately waved behind him and went in with his team members without hesitation.
In order to prevent the ammunition from exploding, this kind of large-caliber artillery usually does not have ammunition ready to fire at any time, but is only loaded when it is fired.
As a team of ten people rushed in, the sound of gunfire soon came from under the gun barrel.
There was no time to confirm the situation inside.
Lao Bai immediately called on others to deploy thermite, burning large holes in the dome of the airship.
The armor of the Heart of Steel is not just a thin layer of iron sheet. Under the steel shell, there are also alloy skeletons that serve as supporting structures.
The structure of these steel bars is extremely hard, and even a “switchblade” may find it difficult to blow it open.
Lao Bai immediately changed his mind, rushed to the nearest hatch with his men, and took out thermite to stick it on.
White light flashed, and the hatch cover blew up.
Then he threw a smoke bomb, and Lao Bai, wearing a heavy cavalry exoskeleton, tucked his assault rifle under his arm, jumped into the smoke covered by gunfire, and rushed into the corridor directly below.
More than a hundred soldiers of the Burning Corps filed in, and quickly dispersed in teams of four.
The corridor battle, which was bloodier and more cruel than the street fighting, soon began.
The fighting distance was no more than ten meters.
The two sides used the corridor as a battlefield, relying on the rooms, doors and corners of the corridor on both sides as cover, fighting for every inch of space in the tragic fight.
Corpses can be seen everywhere in the corridor, and the pungent smell of gunpowder covers the stench of burnt flesh and blood, and life disappears in seconds.
In the eardrum-shattering gunshot, everyone was blood-thirsty.
Whether it was the players of the Burning Corps or the soldiers of the Legion!
After killing a bloody path in the corridor, Lao Bai led Ye Shi and quickly rushed to the door of the 400mm main gun compartment.
The two men leaned against the door on the left and right, understanding Lao Bai’s eyes. Ye Shi pulled out the stun grenade stuck in his chest and prepared to break the door.
At this moment, there were two knocks on the door.
Lao Bai was slightly stunned, and immediately stretched out his hand to open the door.
Fang Chang, covered in blood, was standing behind the door.
The exoskeleton was already in pieces, and there were countless bullet holes on the crumbling polymer chest armor. It was hard to tell whether the person was holding the exoskeleton or the exoskeleton was holding the person.
His left hand was holding the wall, and his right hand was holding the LD-47 assault rifle. Blood dripped onto the ground from the downward muzzle.
But even though he looked like this, his expression was still calm, and he even squeezed out a smile.
Before Lao Bai could ask what happened in detail, an explosion came from not far in front of him, and it was swept out of the door with hot air and dust.
Fang Chang coughed and spoke while stabilizing his breathing.
”The ammunition depot is not here… After entering the gun compartment from the gun barrel, I only saw the sighting system and the loader. My team and I killed the gunner, and then attached thermite to the loader, which should be useless now.”
He was the only one left standing here. Obviously, all the team members who went down with him were killed.
But after hearing his words, Lao Bai’s tense nerves relaxed a little.
According to the battle plan, if the ammunition depot of the 400mm main gun is found, the bombs there will be used to pin down the personnel on the airship, or the airship will be directly blown up depending on the situation.
If it is not found, at least the gun barrel must be blown up to paralyze the air support firepower of the legion at all costs!
And now, this goal is obviously close to completion.
Without the 400mm main gun, the anti-ground firepower of the Iron Heart will be weakened by more than half!
”Well done!”
Looking at Fang Chang, who was covered in blood, Lao Bai grinned and said jokingly.
”My girlfriend, you’ve been with me for so long, I was wondering if your skills would become rusty… Now it seems that I thought too much.”
”You do have a lot of ideas.”
Wiping the blood off his face, Fang Chang smiled faintly, adjusting his breathing while correcting him.
”
And I should have said that we are not the kind of relationship you think.”
Lao Bai looked at him in surprise.
”Really?” Ye Shi smiled and frowned.
”You don’t understand this. I enjoy that kind of ambiguous feeling.”
”Get lost.”
Fang Chang rolled his eyes and was too lazy to talk nonsense with this guy.
Just when he was about to say something, the sound of the gun that had misfired before rang again, and bullets whizzed from the side of the corridor.
Everyone fought back while retreating to the gun compartment of the 400mm main gun.
”Damn… these big noses are really cruel. They just killed a team of people, and another team came up immediately.”
Even as an opponent, Fang Chang had to admit that these people were really strong in terms of fighting will.
If they were a group of looters, they would have killed their way through the entire airship by now. They would
never be surrounded here.
There was a chattering noise coming from the corridor outside the door.
It sounded like they were trying to persuade them to surrender.
”You’ve been surrounded!”
”General McLennan promised that as long as you lay down your weapons and surrender, he will allow you to leave here alive.”
There was a lot of noise outside, and Lao Bai only understood half of what he heard, so he looked at Fang Chang who was standing beside him.
”What are they talking about?”
Fang Chang said casually. “They are trying
to persuade them to surrender.”
Lao Bai was stunned, then he looked at the door and cursed.
”Persuading them to surrender? Haha, go away, I climbed up here with so much effort just to surrender? Let him eat shit!”
After cursing, Lao Bai realized that the other party didn’t understand, so he quickly looked at Fang Chang again.
”You translate it for them!”
Fang Chang sighed, and translated this nonsense reluctantly.
The soldiers squeezed outside were stunned by the scolding, but soon came to their senses, and shouted back with a burst of chatter.
This time, even Fang Chang couldn’t understand what they were saying. Seeing several teammates looking at him, he shrugged helplessly.
”It’s probably the dialect of the West Coast…”
Ye Shi sighed.
”What if they are desperate and don’t follow the moral code of war, and directly drop mines or explosives on us?”
Fang Chang laughed.
”It doesn’t matter. Anyway, this is their crystal. If they want to raise the 400mm main gun, just blow it up.”
”Haha, that’s right! If you want to blow it up, just blow it up!” Lao Bai smiled heartily, grinned, and continued, “Anyway, the 400mm main gun has been paralyzed, and our mission has been completed! Now all we have to do is to defend it as much as possible, and then wait for support…”
He took a light breath, focused his eyes on the door leading to the corridor not far away, and rubbed the trigger with his index finger.
”The rest… depends on Kuangfeng!”
…
The command post several kilometers away from the artillery position.
I was the darkest as a messenger, trotting back to the side of Brother Quanshui, and saluted with a full sense of substitution.
”Report!”
”The feint attack group failed to reach the southern city to launch defense! They implemented Plan 3 and retreated to the town beside Highway 417 in the southern suburbs!”
Commander Quanshui nodded, holding a telescope.
”I see.”
According to the original plan, the mixed thousand-man team led by the Silver Corps and other third-line corps will go to the southern city of Ruigu City and rely on the defensive fortifications built in advance to launch defense.
When the bait has tied down the enemy’s large forces, the Death Corps and three thousand-man teams composed of mercenaries scattered in the city will launch a general attack, using anti-tank equipment to annihilate the enemy’s armored units while forcing the enemy to withdraw from the city.
Immediately afterwards, the Skeleton Corps equipped with armored units will join forces with the Goblin Corps’ flying attack formation to launch a fatal blow to the retreating legion.
As for the Jungle Corps, they will carry out the final operation of “air support”.
However, it is impossible to expect every link of the plan to be perfectly executed.
The situation on the battlefield changes rapidly.
While he is playing cards, the opponent is also playing cards.
According to the battle plan prepared in advance, if the feint attack group failed to arrive, they could only retreat to “Town No. 417”, and the focus of the ground battlefield could only be moved from the southern urban area to the southern suburbs.
As one of the alternative plans, the town also had fortifications they secretly dug.
However, compared with the positions they prepared in the urban area, the positions there could only be described as “pitiful”.
Due to the existence of airships, they could not build large-scale buildings in the town with less shelter, and they could only work at night, so they only had time to prepare some simple bullet shelters and sandbags, and there was no underground passage connecting the bunkers.
Standing next to the commander of the fountain, Kakarot frowned and said.
”There are at least three thousand-man teams besieging the feint attack group. I’m afraid they can’t hold on for too long…”
The mixed thousand-man team is mainly composed of some life professional players and individual players with combat experience.
Although there are also awakened people and veterans who have participated in more than 6 battles, their overall combat effectiveness is quite limited, which is obviously incomparable to the regular army of the alliance.
Even though their morale was high and they were ready to fight to the last man.
Commander Quanshui frowned, holding a telescope and looking at the vague outline in the south, he suddenly spoke.
”How many guns do we have?”
”Report! The artillery positions have been completely wiped out! The only supporting firepower left is the last twenty rocket launchers that have not been exposed!” Even though the situation was critical, my darkest saluted with great spirit.
”Where are the planes?” Commander Quanshui asked calmly.
My darkest immediately replied: “The dragonfly transport planes have been completely wiped out, and the Goblin Corps’ Mosquito attack plane formation is still full!”
Looking at Quanshui who was lost in thought, Kakarot, who was standing aside, couldn’t help but say.
”The other side is equipped with a large number of quadruple anti-aircraft machine guns, and that thing is not the kind that the Bone Chewing Tribe put together temporarily. If it is handed over to the Goblin Corps, I’m afraid there will only be one chance… Or I will take a team to support them.” The
Storm Corps still has more than 300 people on standby in the jungle, ready to support everywhere at any time.
However, even if this number of people is added, it will be a drop in the bucket and will be eaten by the other side in a minute.
Not only will it not relieve the pressure on the feint attack group, but it may also put them in a passive position.
It is also impossible to order the Death Corps to attack in advance.
If a general attack is launched in advance before the enemy’s artillery position is paralyzed, once the enemy’s supporting firepower is restored, all targets exposed outside the bunker will become live targets.
”It’s not time yet!”
Commander Quanshui looked in the direction of the Iron Heart, and his originally calm mood could not help but float a trace of anxiety.
Originally, in his expectation, half of the people should be able to land on the dome of the Iron Heart after breaking through the defense line.
However, after the airborne soldiers jumped down, more than half of them were killed or wounded before they landed, and those who successfully landed might not be able to make up two hundred teams.
Even though he had made the worst assumptions and expected the opponent’s combat effectiveness to the maximum extent, the firepower limit of the Iron Heart still exceeded his expectations.
Especially in the end, they actually used the trick of pointing the engine at the sky.
If it weren’t for Luo Yu’s judgment at the last moment, the Burning Corps that landed by force might have been annihilated.
Although he did not doubt the fighting power of those big guys, the victory or defeat in the air was undoubtedly the biggest variable on the entire battlefield.
His thoughts turned quickly, and just as Quanshui was thinking about how to deal with it, a string of fire suddenly flashed in the air.
Suddenly, a ball of fire exploded in the gun bay at the front of the airship, and the burning flames engulfed the twelve gun barrels pointing forward.
At the same time, a thin wisp of red smoke floated out of the barrel of the 400mm main gun almost at the same time.
Although the wisp of red smoke was as faint as a candlelight swaying in a storm in the black fog and heavy rain, the people on the ground could still clearly see its existence.
Staring blankly at the sky, Kakarot muttered.
”Fuck, awesome!”
It really blew up? !
Seeing the flames blooming in the sky, the clouds on Quanshui’s face were swept away, and joy instantly appeared in his eyes.
It worked!
Not only that –
it was even faster than planned.
Without any hesitation, he immediately gave the order.
”The rocket artillery position will open fire immediately! Target the armored cluster on the north side of the town!”
”Also, notify the edge brother!”
”It’s time to counterattack!”
(End of this chapter)
