The battle in Area C is still in full swing. The Marines' spiked metal bullets of various calibers are shooting at each other with the denser and numerous bone spurs fired by the monsters.
Every second, there are countless snake-like insects, which are torn into pieces of broken flesh by the bullets of extremely high-speed spiked electromagnetic rifles. Countless red and green blood, body fluids, and venom almost stir the entire collapsed area into a A land of flesh and blood piled up by blood, flesh, and insect corpses.
At the same time, every time the Marines take risky shots, there will always be a few unlucky ones who are suddenly nailed to the weak parts of the armor by those bone spurs, and then scream in agony under the toxic damage of the bone spurs. Dropping their rifles and rolling to the ground wailing, or some turned around and ran away, trying to run to the barracks to seek treatment with professional medical equipment?
It's a pity that people like them often can't run a few steps before more bone spurs are nailed to their backs, and then they quickly fall to the ground and can no longer move...
"Damn it! What happened to the tank troops? Hurry up and fire, we need artillery support! More support!!!"
After taking the risk and getting up to empty out a magazine, Galen had to retreat behind the rock and once again called for long-range artillery support from the tank unit.
Now, due to the risky shooting that he just got up, Galen's shoulders and head were bitten by several bone spur-like things!
Fortunately: the armor on these important parts of his is relatively thick, almost forty to fifty millimeters thick, and those bone spurs can only penetrate less than thirty millimeters into the stainless steel armor before they are destroyed. successfully resisted.
At this time, when Galen put away the protective plate on his helmet, he was surprised to find that the high-strength bulletproof glass shield on his head was actually pierced by a bone spur? That long bone spur with a strange blue-green light was inserted halfway into the mask. After it was inserted into the glass, it happened to be blocked by the protective plate that had just been lowered?
Looking at the sharp direction of the bone spur, which was facing directly between his eyebrows, Galen swallowed, and then raised his hand with lingering fear, intending to pull it out.
If I hadn't put down the armor plate in my helmet in accordance with standard combat procedures during the battle, I'm afraid that I would have been killed by this bone arrow right now, right?
"Stop it, Galen! I advise you not to do that!"
When Galen's robotic arm slowly grabbed the bone spur and was about to forcefully pull it out, Darius next to him saw it and quickly spoke to dissuade him.
"Once you pull it out, you are dead! There is a lot of highly toxic corrosive vapor in the atmosphere of this planet. The right thing for you to do now is to ignore it. At the same time, it is best to slightly increase your armor. The air pressure circulating inside the power suit.”
After saying that, Darius also pointed to his helmet, and tiny traces of white gas were leaking from his own mask. When the air with water vapor leaks out and comes into contact with the low-temperature environment of the planet at night, it turns into bursts of white water vapor.
Like Galen, at this time, Darius's head and shoulders were also densely covered with those ferocious and sharp slender bone spurs. Even the four searchlights on his chest and next to his helmet were Three were damaged!
The high-strength bulletproof glass shield on his face even had two bone spurs pierced into it. Like Galen, he was lucky enough to be blocked by the armor plate and was stuck tightly, losing kinetic energy.
Now, Darius felt that both of them should actually feel lucky, because these bone spurs did not break the glass shield, but were just tightly stuck by the glass, although it was now slightly leaking.
However, after he immediately increased the air pressure of the air circulation in the armor, the poisonous gas from the outside was temporarily unable to enter due to the high internal air pressure, and the gas tank carried by his armored power combat suit was in accordance with the With the current leakage speed, it would take at least several hours before the leakage is almost complete? By then, regardless of victory or defeat, the battle should be over, right?
"Oh! Yeah...Okay, thanks for the reminder, man!"
After being stunned for a moment, Galen finally realized that he had almost done something stupid. He quickly and carefully stopped his hand, and immediately increased the air pressure circulating inside his armor.
He finally remembered now that the external air pressure here on this planet and on this island is about 1.2 times the standard atmospheric pressure of the earth?
Then, he only needs to increase the air pressure of the internal circulation environment to 1.3 times or more than the standard earth atmospheric pressure. Then it can be guaranteed that no poisonous gas will leak in from the bone spurs and the edges of the glass, right?
boom! boom! boom!
A series of eight rounds of 120mm arc shock cannon shells struck again, instantly plowing through the formation of the snake-like insect swarms that fired bone spurs.
Finally, after the Marines on the second line of defense were suppressed by the snake-like monsters that kept pouring out, they could hardly lift their heads and suffered heavy casualties. Not far from the base command center, I don’t know. When something happened, the tank troops promptly opened fire again.
There was an endless stream of artillery shells, and long-range 120mm large-caliber electromagnetic artillery shells roared in one after another. They kept hitting the formations of dense snake-like monster insects that kept firing bone spurs at the landing team's defense line and approaching them. In the past, explosions, flames, thick smoke, shock waves, as well as flying gravel and steel balls instantly blocked the insects from attacking again.
boom! boom! boom!
The long-range artillery bombardment continued, and the Marines could finally take a breath and calmly show their heads to shoot those insects that slipped through the net under the artillery fire.
Countless bugs that jumped out of the cave entrance had to be beaten back again under the terrifying human artillery fire, and under the metal storm of the roaring and shooting Marines who had recovered their breath. …
When more than a minute passed, when the artillery fire of the tank troops temporarily stopped, on the human-insect battlefield covered with gunpowder smoke and blood and minced flesh, except for the occasional frightened bugs, they were killed by sporadic gunfire. Apart from being killed one by one, there is no longer a moving insect outside the entrance of the cave and above the ground.
"it's over?"
"Maybe……"
"..."
Looking at the smoke and flames, covered with bugs and corpses of human marines, and the chaotic battlefield mixed with human and bug blood, as well as the surrounding rocks that are full of bullet holes, or covered with dense bone spurs like hedgehogs. and the ground, all the Marines who could still breathe, couldn't help but become silent.
To everyone's surprise, tonight's night attack launched by bugs could be so brutal despite the preparations on the human side?
They were hundreds of Marines, armed with hundreds of shotguns or electromagnetic rifles of various calibers, and despite being aware of the enemy's situation in advance and making all preparations, they actually suffered such heavy casualties?
The thoughtful ones among them all took a brief glance at the radar in the lower right corner of their respective panels. On the display interface, they could clearly see that the green highlights belonging to the friendly forces were at least one-third less than before? Those whose life signals are extinguished are all dead, right?
In less than an hour of fighting, they had already lost one-third of their hundreds of marines, nearly two hundred or so?
Although there will only be more bugs killed by them, maybe even tens of thousands, but...
The loss of nearly two hundred companions in one fell swoop made the human side feel a bit unacceptable. This level of casualties was really too high for them!
After all, the entire Hope colony spaceship still in orbit has a total of less than 140,000 people. Excluding those who are old and weak, those who are not suitable for the battlefield, and other men and women of suitable age who must be in important positions and can be recruited by the Hope. , it is estimated that there are less than 30,000 or 40,000 people, right?
"..."
After the roaring artillery explosions stopped, not only was there no sound on the human side, but even the insects seemed to have died down. Except for the cave, there seemed to be faint piercing sounds of insects. Apart from the neighing sound, their moving figures can no longer be seen on the ground.
"Hey, Darius? Are those bugs afraid to rush up anymore?"
Looking at the battlefield in Area C, which was filled with various broken insect corpses that had been shot or blown up, Galen stood up and looked at it for a while, then looked at Darius beside him with some uncertainty. asked.
Now, he looked around and saw that in addition to the thick layer of broken corpses that fell on the way of the bugs' charge, at the entrance of the cave in the collapse area more than 300 meters away, the corpses of those bugs were like hills. The entire cave was piled up to a height of more than ten meters, just like the entrance to a raised ant nest?
Just now, when the tank troops were in chaos, the insects launched the third wave of charge again. They were like swooping down directly from the insect mountain. The hills formed by the insect corpses not only caused damage to the Marines' shooting It had a certain impact and also slightly accelerated their charging speed.
"I don't know, I hope..."
Da da da! !
While answering Galen's question, Darius fired his gun impatiently and used his electromagnetic rifle, which had already been beaten red. , blasting its disgusting head with several bullets, turning the opponent completely into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
"Then why don't they rush out now? Is it because too many people died, so they are afraid?"
Looking at the piles of insect corpses on the battlefield, Galen felt that his guess was quite reliable.
Those bugs, by visual inspection, they have lost at least over 10,000 yuan, right? Not ready to retreat yet?
If the attacking party were replaced by humans themselves, and if so many troops were killed or injured in such a short period of time, they would probably collapse early on, right?
He can't even understand these bugs now. Do they have no brains? Or do you want to kill yourself in a fight?
Or maybe there are too many of them, so they don’t care about casualties? Do you want to use the endless sea of insects to directly submerge yourself, the human ground base, and drive humans completely away from their planet?
After thinking about it, Galen still couldn't figure out what those bugs were about, so he could only throw down the C-15 spiked electromagnetic rifle in his hand, which also had a red barrel, and fired from this second shot. In an equipment box on the defense line, a new electromagnetic rifle was pulled out from the weapon boxes that were transported here by SCV engineers and neatly stacked with rows of brand-new rifles.
Fortunately, humans had been prepared beforehand. At the second line of defense, when preparing the line of defense, SCV engineering vehicles transported a large number of weapons and ammunition boxes from barracks capable of manufacturing light weapons. Settlement site.
On the ground around the Marines' defense line, in those equipment boxes, there are neat rows of brand-new electromagnetic rifles and a large number of fully loaded magazines, which is enough to ensure that the soldiers can continue this high-intensity defense. Combat.
Generally speaking, after the weapon barrel is overloaded, it is easy to explode or affect the shooting accuracy. The correct way to deal with it is to directly replace the barrel parts.
However, the war situation is urgent now, and they don't have time to replace parts for those troublesome weapons. Moreover, in this interstellar era, the manufacturing industry is extremely developed, and humans are not short of metal resources to make rifles, so they should just replace it. Make the new one more reliable.
Anyway, if you hit the barrel of the gun red and throw it directly to the ground, after the new gun in hand is also hit red, the one you threw before has probably cooled down, and then they can pick it up and continue using it?
"I don't know! How about you go over and see the situation yourself?"
Darius glanced at Galen angrily, then followed suit and dropped the overloaded weapon in his hand.
Then, dragging his heavy steps and manipulating the armored power suit a little tiredly, he walked over and randomly selected a brand-new electromagnetic rifle that looked pleasing to the eye from the equipment box. He also picked up a fully loaded ammunition box. He picked up the box and walked directly back to the hidden position he had just hidden.
Darius felt that he had fired almost tens of thousands of bullets in the past half hour today, right? Every time, I put the magazine in and held the trigger until the bullets were fired. During this period, the weapon surprisingly did not have any major problems. This can already illustrate the excellent quality of UPL military products.
"Uh... let's forget it then."
He, Galen, was not stupid, so how could he stupidly run to the entrance of the cave to observe the situation? If those bugs suddenly rush out, he won't even have a chance to escape!
"This is……"
In the command center, Commander Doug and other military personnel were staring at the picture in trance.
It turned out that after the insect swarm was once again suppressed by artillery fire, they sent a small drone and remotely controlled it into the downward-sloping cave, and saw the situation inside: huge mammoth insects. , moving slowly in a cave just big enough for it to walk.
Hiss! !
Suddenly, a snake-shaped insect discovered the human reconnaissance aircraft. After it screamed, countless bone spurs shot towards the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft at the top of the cave, instantly interrupting the reconnaissance scene.
"Attention all marines! The opponent's large mammoth insect is about to crawl out of the crypt, so be on guard!"
At this time, in the base command center, Commander Doug's voice rang out from everyone's channel again.
In fact, there was no need for Doug to remind him. All the Marines could already vaguely feel the vibration on the ground.
Then, they unconsciously thought of the terrifying creature still lying on the beach, burned until only a huge skeleton remained.
"..."
Now, something big is probably going to happen!
After Galen and Darius, the captain and second lieutenant commander of the Marine Corps, looked at each other, they each saw a trace of fear in the other's eyes.
Now, just those two kinds of monsters, which are the size of calves and bugs that are like snakes and have the ability to shoot at long distances, have already stretched their simple defense line and made them trapped!
And now, if one or two more of the terrifying giant creatures that appeared a few days ago emerge from the cave, then their current line of defense will probably be destroyed by the opponent in an instant?
"Tank troops, ready to support us at any time!"
Darius immediately requested support from the siege tanks near the rear base command center.
The battle during the landing a few days ago had already proved that the Marines' small weapons were useless against monsters with huge sizes and thick armor!
Therefore, Darius now only hopes that the 120mm arc shock cannons of their tanks can break through the thick horny armor of the opponent's body, right? Of course, he also hopes that the gunners of those tanks can shoot a little more accurately?
"By the way, where is Annie? Where are you Annie? We need your support now!"
At this time, Galen immediately remembered the situation when little Annie burned the huge monster with fire, so he immediately called the other party.
In his opinion, if little Annie takes action again to deal with the big monster that is about to appear, doesn't it mean that they can't continue to persevere?
"It's coming, it's coming, it will be there soon! What are you in a hurry for?"
Little Annie's muttering of dissatisfaction and excitement about the big monster that was about to appear finally sounded on the channel.
"By the way, that big monster, has it come out?"
She had just gone to the base's command center for a walk, and used her tank cannon to help shoot down three large flying bugs.
After actual combat shooting, Annie now feels that the 80mm double-barreled gun of this tank is indeed much more powerful than her 20mm sniper rifle, although her rifle can probably easily deal with those without too high armor. Flying insects, but with the small caliber of a rifle, how can it be as satisfying as a tank gun?
Under her direct-aimed bombardment, no matter how fast those bugs fly, she can use her mind to lock onto the opponent's position and predict the opponent's position. Then, with a casual bombardment, she can directly smash the opponent into pieces. !
Killing flying insects with a tank cannon is not an easy task for little Annie!
As long as you know the flight mode of the cannonball, lock the position of the enemy in the air, and then add a little bit of prediction, and add the time when the cannonball flies, you can be sure to hit it accurately!
She couldn't understand why those eight tanks were being chased by three big bugs just now and were running all over the ground. What a bunch of stupid guys! Those flying insects didn't fly high, so their eight tanks raised their muzzles and aimed at them. Even if they couldn't shoot one at a time, they would always get it wrong, right?
"Annie, come quickly for support! It's coming out soon!!!"
Galen started shouting anxiously on the channel again.
Because, he found that at the entrance of the huge cave in the distance, the corpse of the insect was moving. It must be that kind of huge monster. It was about to crawl out of the cave, right?
"damn it……"
Sure enough, it came out!
Now, Galen has clearly seen the huge bone sickle of the opponent!
Soon, after the huge monster came out, it just swiped and pulled away the hill-like insect corpses piled near the cave, and then quickly cleaned them up near the entrance of the cave. A large, slightly gentle passage.
Roar! ! !
This huge monster didn't know if it was stimulated by the large number of insect corpses and blood, so when it crawled out of the hole, it roared loudly and angrily.
After a while, it began to angrily use the two pairs of huge bone scythes in front of it to swing at the insect corpses around it, causing the insect corpses and corrosive blood to splash everywhere. Some even flew over a distance of more than 300 meters, causing considerable confusion to the Marines on the defense line.
It didn't take long for it to clear away most of the insect corpses near the cave entrance, and revealed the dense swarm of insects following it that were still in the sloping cave, the kind with four legs and those without legs. , all mixed together.
"Oh, we're in big trouble now..."
Seeing this situation, even Darius, who never knew what fear was, felt that they might be facing the biggest trouble tonight this time?
"I'm coming!"
Just as Darius finished sighing, Little Annie's crisp voice continued to sound on the channel.
"Aha! I've seen that big bug, don't grab it, it's mine!"
In the distance, just when Galen was about to say something, a red-painted tank was running at high speed, bringing up a stream of smoke and dust in the dark night, and rushing toward Area C.
Then, while driving at high speed, Little Annie turned the tank's two 80mm-caliber double-barreled artillery, aiming directly at the head of the big guy who was roaring wildly.
boom! boom!
Two consecutive roars of artillery sounded. The tank driven by Little Annie accurately hit the monster's huge head with its two 80mm double-barreled cannons while driving at high speed.
Roar! ! !
Of course, the monster immediately let out a roar of pain.
After the flames of the explosion, everyone could clearly see that the monster's ugly head full of fangs and bone horns had been hit by two cannons and almost half of it was broken?
boom! boom!
Only a second later, there were two more cannon shots, and two shells roared and hit the bone armor of the monster's lowered head, blasting out two medium-sized dents.
It's a pity that this insect's vitality is extremely tenacious. In addition to the shelling that hit its mouth at the beginning, it was slightly injured, and the two subsequent shellings, which hit the thick bone armor of its head, It can only make it suffer a little injury and become more violent, but it cannot directly kill it.
Roar! ! !
With another roar from the giant monster, it began to move forward, running towards the defense line of the human marines.
The bugs in the cave behind it also screamed at the same time, like a group of tiny ants, and began to run wildly behind the giant monster.
Da da da! ! !
Without the commander's order, all the Marines saw this situation and took the lead in firing.
From the muzzles of their flaming guns, countless spiked bullets were fired at the insect swarms like an endless metal storm again.
"Damn it! Everyone, aim at those little bugs and fire! Leave the big guy alone!"
When he saw the monster charging, Galen immediately opened fire.
However, when he discovered that other people actually ignored the small bugs following the big monster, and unconsciously raised their guns to shoot at the giant monster, wasting bullets, he finally couldn't help but shout loudly on the channel The ground shouted.
In the past few days, they had used dozens of lives to prove that the small weapons of their Marines could not cause effective damage to monsters with thick horny armor and rough skin and flesh.
Da da da……
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
"Hurry up and shoot those little bugs! Don't panic!"
At this time, on the battlefield, the sound of rifle fire from the Marines, the deep sound of snake-like insects firing bone spurs piercing the air, and the shouts of the front commanders all mingled together.
Every moment, there are always unlucky marines who are hit by bone spurs and fall down. At the same time, more bugs are beaten into pieces by metal storm-like spike bullets, and are broken into pieces of flesh or tatters. Fleshy pockets.
However, they still moved forward with indomitable momentum, following behind the huge monster, charging forward one after another in coordination.
boom! ! !
Suddenly, a huge artillery shell exploded directly at the fragile elbow joint of the giant monster's thick four-hooved hooves. Its thick scales could not withstand the huge damage of the 120mm siege shock cannon, and it was directly blown up. It had to be torn open, revealing the sinews and bloody muscles inside.
Ouch! ! !
This cannonball was so tricky that it hit the weak part of its leg?
Then, the giant monster's body that was still charging tilted and fell directly to the ground after one leg was injured. At the same time, it screamed in pain and raised its body that was originally lowered and was still covered by it. The head is protected by the thick bone armor on the back of the head.
boom! ! !
Another 120mm arc shock cannon accurately hit its ugly head raised high up. The powerful 120mm siege shell drilled directly into its chin and instantly hit it. Blast its unprotected head into a pile of tattered fragments...
Bang! ! !
Finally, the monster's roar stopped abruptly. Its bulky body, which was still struggling to get up, finally fell to the ground weakly. After crushing a bunch of charging insects, it became silent again... …
"Haha! It's really useless. It only took two shots to get rid of it?!"
Little Annie's unbridled laughter came from the channel again.
It turned out that that was just now. After discovering that the tank's 80mm double-barreled tank gun was not powerful enough, little Annie immediately switched to siege mode.
Then, when the monster ran more than half the distance, before the marines were about to collapse, her attack finally arrived in time. Just two attacks three seconds apart killed a huge monster, and also killed it. The bugs have lost their greatest support!
Da da da……
"Others, don't stop! Keep attacking!"
Darius and Galen were still shouting angrily on the channel at the Marines who were stunned after seeing the monsters die.
At this moment, even though the big monster leading the charge was dead, those big dogs or snake-like insects still climbed onto the corpse lying on the ground blocking the road regardless, and continued to charge towards their human position. Even the monster's huge body successfully covered the bugs behind it, greatly shortening their charging distance.
boom! boom! boom!
Not long after Little Annie bombarded the monsters, the eight tanks in the rear that had been reorganized and adjusted to shoot at Zhu Yuan once again fired their 120mm arc shock cannons at the insect swarm, once again destroying the insect swarm in time. The momentum of the charge was stopped.
Originally, they actually planned to bombard the giant bug.
But who would have thought that before they could calculate the bombardment data, the other party would already be beaten to the ground? Therefore, they had to hurriedly switch to bombarding those little bugs and use artillery fire to block their charge.
"Hahaha... Kids, your Captain Gangplank is here! Please protect me! Otherwise... Ugh!"
Suddenly, in everyone's channel, a voice that Galen least wanted to hear rang out, and then, as expected, the other party also let out a big wine burp?
No need to think about it, this should be what Commander Doug said before: the Captain Plank who drove a transport spacecraft and made a temporary guest appearance as a bomber!
Now, he was finally transporting a modified large fuel tank, swooping down from a high altitude towards the battlefield in Area C of the base and flying down at high speed.
"Hahaha... alien bugs and bastards, the express delivery for your order has arrived! Remember, you must give Uncle Plank a good review!"
When the transport spacecraft passed over the cave at high speed, its belly door suddenly opened.
Then, a huge combustion tank, almost as big as four siege tanks put together, filled with various burning materials, accurately fell into the huge hole, making a loud noise. After smashing the bug, it rolled directly into the sloping cave with the huge inertial kinetic energy brought by the spaceship...
Then, the armored transport spacecraft abandoned its load, and under the control of Captain Plank, it suddenly raised the bow of the ship and jumped straight into the sky.
"Kids, don't say that Uncle Plank didn't warn you. Now, you'd better find a place to lie down and hide yourself immediately, otherwise, hum..."
