The sunset faded, the night fell, and the sky in late spring seemed to stretch out like smooth navy blue satin. The snow-capped mountains were rolling, the stars were shining brightly, and the surging sound of the Hailan River passing through the mountains came with the water vapor. A good sight.
But how could anyone in the Sulfur Springs Base care to appreciate it?
Company Commander Xia Xiaoyuan held the telescope and adjusted the magnification to the highest level. He vaguely saw the smoke and dust billowing up on the horizon. The air-conditioning poured in and brushed his forehead. He put down the telescope, and in an instant, his eyes were filled with flames!
A long streak of red swept across the sky, and the frost clouds in the distance trembled with orange light and shadow, creating a very clear boundary, and the rumble sounded like spring thunder.
Xia Xiaoyuan was a veteran in the army and had experienced many wars. He immediately recognized that it was a barrage created by large-caliber aerial bombs and heavy artillery. Maybe in an artillery position in Qianshan, there was an artillery company commander of the same age as him, following the calibrated shooting elements, waving the command flag, and telling the 155mm howitzer in front of him to open fire!
There was also the Wuzhi cluster that had just passed over his head not long ago. Each one of them carried hundreds of honeycomb rockets, heavy cannons, ground-attack missiles and other powerful firepower. Each of them had the ability to destroy a city. Now, such terrifying ammunition is being launched into a barren land. Oh, he remembered, this place is called Qin Lake, and this place name was mentioned in the telegram from the headquarters a few hours ago.
The reconnaissance plane reported that a large-scale beast tide suddenly broke out in the Qinhu area and will arrive at your location within eight to twelve hours. Lu Hangbing is already on the way. Your troops must stay where they are, slow down the impact of the beast tide, and wait for the transport plane to evacuate!
This is the content of the telegram. After the fierce battle in the reserve tunnel failed and the rescue of the trapped troops failed, Xia Xiaoyuan received the second bad news.
No, this shouldn't be called bad news, this is an order, a mission to stick to.
Xia Xiaoyuan held on to the brim of his helmet with a stern look in his eyes. He could smell the brutal and brutal atmosphere hundreds of kilometers away. This was war, war!
"The beast tide is fifty kilometers away! It will arrive in ninety minutes!" The deputy company commander walked up to the wall and handed the console to Xia Xiaoyuan.
The screen on the control console was the last scene transmitted back by the hand-thrown drone. In the blurry screen of more than ten frames, an overwhelming tide of beasts was rushing forward, too many to count. In the last frame, a bloody mutant beast jumped high and blasted the drone.
Xia Xiaoyuan recognized the mutant beast that was the main force of the beast tide, the spiny beast, which was a ferocious carnivorous species that lived in caves. When it reaches adulthood, its whole body is translucent and bright red. It is about 1.5 meters tall when on all fours and up to 2.2 meters when standing. There are three walking claws at the end of each limb and a longer sharp claw in the middle. The toes are densely covered with barbs, so it is Very good at climbing in mountainous and hilly areas. The head is shaped like an adducted spindle, and the biggest feature of the Spiny Beast is its head. The entire head is made up of two upper and lower jaws! Once opened, it can completely bite the head of a buffalo-sized prey, with eyes as small as mung beans arranged on the upper jaw.
This extremely ferocious mutated beast also has a kind of bone spurs, which are distributed along the central axis from the head, along the spine to the tailbone, hence the name "Spinous Beast".
Although the spiny beast is a carnivorous species, its status in the alien food chain is not high. Everything has natural enemies!
"Sprinkle all the lizard blood in the basement, as much as you can, and then ask all the people on the periphery to withdraw. The ammunition will be stored centrally. If there is insufficient manpower, it will be transferred and moved again!" Xia Xiaoyuan ordered.
Soldiers were pouring a black, semi-solidified liquid that resembled thickened oil into trenches dug outside the base. There are a large number of gasoline barrels on the pile of firewood next to it, but they cannot wait until it is completely boiled. They only need to pour it in after it has thawed slightly, and then pour in as much boiling water as possible to dilute it.
The diluted lizard blood turned dark brown, and a faint aroma began to fill the air, but it was not a refreshing floral fragrance. The lizard dragon is a subspecies of the eidolon mutant beast. The subspecies, or deformed species, is particularly violent and deadly in temperament. It is huge in size and is a high-level predator in the alien food chain. The blood of the lizard dragon can effectively deter low-level mutant beasts. , making him wonder and wander. This buys time for the defenders to defend against the beast tide.
What the soldiers found in the basement, apart from weapons sealed tightly with oil, were barrels of deformed blood that could be mixed into pheromones. This is a standard material for every Renaissance Army reserve camp. It can be used for simple animal and insect repellent, so it will not be taken away even if you evacuate. However, the memory of the fortress stronghold being crushed by the beast tide and the black tide is still rooted in the minds of the previous generation of soldiers, and the blood and parts of the advanced deformed species have a wide range of uses. The venom of the blue-fronted spider is refined into top aviation fuel that is better than high-octane fuel. The skin of the human wolf is the best material for optical invisibility cloaks. The dark species in the ruins of Yanqi is the marrow of the Nightmare. Blood can even be used in the "Suirenshi" nuclear reactor. So many and so many.
Xia Xiaoyuan arranged the base camp defense. As the main company commander of the main force group, he fought many tough battles. Although he was mostly on the offensive, he was not only familiar with the defensive battles, but also had many skills left in the basement of the Sulfur Spring base. Heavy weapons, although there is no gun with a caliber higher than 20 mm, two twin Type 02 anti-aircraft machine guns, plus two Type 85 heavy machine guns are enough to create a cross blockade, and the instantaneous firepower can completely suppress the beast tide!
The deputy company commander took the order and left. Xia Xiaoyuan looked at Chen Xiaoxiang aside and listened to her report.
"Eleven people, only four came back? Are you saying you want to blow up the tunnel?"
Blow up the tunnel? How much dynamite does this require? Just blow it up?
When Xia Xiaoyuan led the team to try to open the underground city tunnel earlier, he sent a report to Yanqi headquarters to inquire about the situation, but the reply he received was that the headquarters knew nothing about it. What if you blow up a tunnel without the proper floor plan or structural diagram, causing collapse and causing the base above to sink? Since those spiders can't get out of the tunnel, close the blast doors!
In order to respond to Shen Rusong and others, the company dispatched a platoon of exoskeleton infantry. Not only did the response fail, but the battle failed and the only dozen exoskeletons ran out of power. Blasting is a waste of manpower and technology. Gao Keming led The engineers who were waiting were intensively laying mines in the area. How could they send the defense personnel to seal the relatively safe tunnels now?
But after thinking about it again and again, Xia Xiaoyuan was still not convinced that just closing the explosion-proof door would be enough. He gave an order to the engineering team led by Gao Keming. After laying the minefield, blow up a section of the tunnel leading to the underground city!
"Can Shen Rusong and the four of them save their lives?"
Xia Xiaoyuan briefly asked Shen Rusong and others about their situation, and after receiving a positive answer, he stopped asking.
He is the captain of the company and bears the responsibility for everyone's lives!
"Just keep them alive!" Xia Xiaoyuan stopped Chen Xiaoxiang who was still talking and said seriously: "Get ready to fight! Xiao Chen!"
"Make sure the horses, especially your war horses! Wear a blindfold! Wear a halter! Don't be alarmed, you will need it later!"
"Yes!" Chen Xiaoxiang put his legs together, clicked the heels of his boots with a "pop" sound, and took the order to leave.
Xia Xiaoyuan held the railing covered with red rust with both hands. He took off his gas mask and hung it on his waist. He looked at the soldiers gathered in the base, knocked on the railing, raised his gun, and shouted: "Comrades! Comrades! "
"I'm here! From now until dawn, I'll be standing here! Stay at the front!"
Xia Xiaoyuan pointed to the night sky. The dark clouds covered the night sky with stars. Where the sky and the earth met, a bright red suddenly burned out!
"You all saw it! A squadron of military personnel passed by! There was also a squadron of fighter planes and an artillery division bombing those wild dogs and beasts. They are all scum! They came over to give us credit!"
"We have high walls! Deep ditches! Machine guns! War horses! It doesn't matter if you are scared! I was more scared than you when I went to the battlefield! When the rocket launchers came later, my legs shook with fear! But we are glorious soldiers of the Renaissance Army! Look at it! For the comrades around me, think of the helicopters and our flag!"
The company commander pulled the bolt of his gun and fired into the sky. There was a clear echo. He patted his armband vigorously, the Gear Wheat Ear Badge! Roared: "So, let them come!"
"Let them come!"
"Keep fighting! Restore the motherland!"
The soldiers looked at their companions beside them, spending time together day and night, the brothers and sisters sleeping in the lower bunks, and the heavy steel guns on their shoulders. What is reliability? This is the sense of reliability. They all glanced at the sky, sky! The sky is ours!
"Keep fighting! Restore the motherland!!!"
People raised their arms and shouted.
Time passed by, and people were doing final inspections before the war, and the fierce red on the horizon spread to the sky and turned into a red curtain of fire! The heat was getting bigger and bigger, turning half of the night red. The south wind was raging, blowing the shields of the helmets. The small tactical drones could not hover and were hovering near the camp, but they did not need high-altitude vision. The soldiers We can still see clearly that the beast tide is coming.
They are coming.
Smoke and dust filled the sky, and the red curtain of fire was covered, like an incoming sandstorm. As soon as the beast tide advanced, it wiped out a touch of color behind it, turning into a ruthless black and brown haze, but the wildfires exploded underneath. , is the blood that sticks and flies away, like a terrifying beast crawling out of a pool of blood. The noisy and cold howling sound became clearer and clearer. Amidst the abnormal trembling sounds of thousands of twisted creatures, everything dimmed instantly.
They are coming.
