Chen Xiaoxiang glanced at his watch and wrote down the approximate longitude and latitude of his location without expression: 48 degrees 77 minutes north latitude and 120 degrees 92 minutes longitude. When she looked up, the slightly cool autumn rain fell on her brows.
The autumn wind is still warm, and the eyebrows are like knives.
The military boots stepped on bricks and tiles that had been weathered for so long that they turned to dust with the slightest step. The fine dust raised bit by bit chipped away at the color of her gear badge, and slowly covered up the blood on her lips.
Everyone in the team beside her was injured.
Chen Xiaoxiang jumped off the sloping tower and returned to the ground, surrounded by deformed corpses. She whistled, and her war horse roared in the distance, but Xunka did not return to her as usual, because it was no longer a war horse, it had become a pack horse.
This horse sprinting on the battlefield, its mane dyed red, is leaving in the opposite direction to its owner. It has never been timid, but it carries the dying cavalry on its back.
The jointed limbs of the deformed oil spider were still squirming. Chen Xiaoxiang ignored it and walked slowly towards the periphery of the ruins. The radiation from the abdominal secretions emitted by the oil spider was so powerful that everyone had to wear a full-face gas mask. Naturally, she can only see with a pair of red and phoenix eyes.
Her lead-lined chemical protective suit was damaged in the earlier battle, and the velvet of the military coat underneath overflowed. As soon as it hit the ground, it was dissolved by the black blood of spiders on the ground. The pungent blood would spread along the north wind. It is not difficult to imagine that How would apex predators react to the smell? By that time, the situation could no longer be handled with the Type 75 hunting rifle behind her, and she didn't have a few 20-round magazines left.
As a cavalry, it is normal to go deep alone. After all, hunting down mutant beasts is the main responsibility of the Renaissance Army cavalry in the Northeast. In addition, this time it is reinforcements, which is even more unshirkable. Therefore, this time the troops were too far away from the communication line. They crossed the Huijiang River and were more than 200 kilometers away from the Beiqin Fortress, and the Mercy Ridge reserve point they wanted to rush to was still nearly 50 kilometers away. If you are marching with a vehicle, there is a forced march with an exoskeleton.
But...I'm afraid, it will be difficult to get there on time.
Chen Xiaoxiang turned around and looked at the ruins, and sighed slightly. She stretched out her hand to smooth out the overflowing hair, and couldn't help but lose sight of the crumbling tower. This tower is the standard pre-war clock tower style in military textbooks, which was very common in the old urban areas of the Northeast before the war. Naturally, for Longshan, whose living area copied the architectural paradigm of the ground, this kind of tower is of the same origin. It’s really easy to think of hometown.
Home on the surface, home underground.
Outside the ruins, soldiers were cleaning up the corpses outside the temporary camp. Many people's exoskeletons were severely damaged. Fortunately, the inertial mechanism allowed people to move without having to exert great effort, which was very important for the troops who had lost their vehicles.
After receiving the call for help, the company was immediately deployed to perform rescue operations. In order to ensure the subsequent advancement of regiment-level troops, the company even obtained a number of additional exoskeletons. But no one expected that this pre-war county site, which had been designated as low-risk, would be attacked by so many oil spiders. This group of powerful deformed species that mutated by sucking oil launched a surprise attack from the ground and caused mechanization. The cavalry force suffered such a huge reduction, with one-fifth of the combat force reduced, and another fifth of the escort force. Only halfway through the journey, the troops were halfway there.
The batteries of the damaged vehicle were removed for recharging the exoskeleton. Chen Xiaoxiang found Zhao Haiqiang on the combat engineer side, saluted briefly and said, "The signal is interfered by geomagnetism and the band is very disordered. I can't send a message even from the commanding heights."
Zhao Haiqiang was wiping the badge on his sleeve with the hem of his clothes. The blood-spattered badge gradually turned dark red, and the white steam sprayed from his nostrils showed signs of condensing into white mist.
He was silent for a while, patted Chen Xiaoxiang on the shoulder, and comforted: "It's okay. Platoon Leader Xu went to get it. It's not a big problem. I can get in touch."
Chen Xiaoxiang nodded and left.
"Hey." Zhao Haiqiang shouted softly from behind.
"It's okay. Those guys in Class 1 have a lot of luck. Look how tough Shen Rusong's fate is. We didn't kill him twice. This time, if something happens to him, I'll eat my own shoe."
Chen Xiaoxiang waved his hand and made a response that was not a response.
While waiting for charging, Chen Xiaoxiang used the visual intensifier to see that the black tide barely stopped on the other side of the river. The reason why he used the word "barely" to describe it was because the migrating group of marching helmeted rats would never stop. will stop. They just slightly bypassed the creek that was temporarily filled with pheromones. As soon as the pheromone smell dissipates, millions of rats will swarm over and eat everything up.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, there was a wolf in front and a tiger behind.
Before it was Chen Xiaoxiang's turn, the battery was empty. The combat engineers dispersed without saying a word. They did not want to vent their strength in meaningless places. Their behavior was forged from compulsory education since childhood and brutal battles during their military service. guidelines. There is no need for the superiors to issue additional orders, they will do things according to the orders themselves.
Pack up the equipment, take the wounded, throw away the baggage, and retreat.
The last scout who escaped returned to the camp, which meant that the wounded carried on war horses had successfully walked away under escort, which also meant that the large army should set off again.
Although the compass was disturbed, the electronic equipment almost completely failed. However, a few temporarily transferred hunters knew the way well. They used an old-fashioned hunter watch with a sextant and pointed it at the sun. The hour hand was aligned with the sun. The bisector of the angle between the hour hand and the 12 o'clock scale pointed to the direction of the sun. south. If you go in this direction, you can still reach the location of the trapped Jaeger team.
Just hope they can hold on.
Following the orders of the officers, the soldiers were divided into two fan-shaped search queues, and exoskeletons in good condition were uniformly distributed to uninjured soldiers to serve as forwards and rearguards.
According to the tactical maneuvers, after losing the vehicle screen on complex terrain, the troops should immediately spread out into a fan-shaped formation to conduct power reconnaissance, protect the joints and achieve the highest firepower density to intimidate potential hostile creatures. If the deformed species follows, they should lure Let them enter the encirclement, gather fire, and annihilate them.
Attack, breakthrough, offensive maneuver, in the dictionary of the Renaissance Army, the word retreat does not actually exist. It is more appropriate to call it "defensive detour". Unfortunately, at this time, the offensive and defensive situation changed.
"Attention, the helmeted rat is about to cross the river. Check the pheromone spray. The rear team will speed up. Repeat..." Xu Bowen said on the walkie-talkie.
The river surface outside the ruins has completely turned into ink color. The large amount of blood in the ruins will delay the helmeted rats for a while, but not for long. The helmeted rat swarm itself is also the hunting target of other predators. Everything has natural enemies. The camouflage pheromones can deceive them for a while, but they cannot last a lifetime.
If you want to suppress the million-level beast tide of Marching Helmet Rats, you must use heavy units at the regiment level or even the brigade level. Apart from the capital Longshan, where can the mobile troops come from?
They are mobile troops, and their mission is nothing more and nothing less.
Some people died, but not completely...
