Before Meng Qingxiao came out of Zhang Ying's tent, someone came in and reported that they saw a group of people running towards this direction from a distance. It was confirmed that it was a company of the Second Division.
Meng Qingxiao came out to greet him, and soon the company came running. The company commander took a step forward, saluted, and shouted loudly: "Report, I am Yao Zhisheng, commander of the 8th company of the 6th battalion of the 2nd division, 6th brigade. I am here under the orders of deputy division commander Fei Junding. Come to report to you and ask for instructions from the chief."
"Very good, your task now is to protect the technical department. From now on, you will temporarily obey the orders of Section Chief Zhang Ying."
"Yes." Yao Zhisheng accepted the order and stood still, saluting Zhang Ying who was following him for instructions.
Zhang Ying did not assign tasks to them immediately, but asked them to set up tents and rest first.
Not only did the Second and Third Divisions send a company over, but the First Division also sent a company over, and because the First and Third Divisions were far apart, they were all sent by trucks.
The three division commanders now understand that not all orders need to be obeyed by the superior. For example, when it comes to protecting the superior, the superior cannot be too arbitrary. Those who should be protected by force still need to be protected by force.
With the manpower of three companies, Meng Qingxiao's pressure was greatly reduced. He ordered the company of the first division to clean up the mutated black locusts, and the company of the second division to clean up the cow carcasses and transport them out to distribute them to the Etruscan refugees.
The weather in Etru in April is still relatively cold. The temperature at night is generally between 5 and 8 degrees, and when the sun comes out during the day, it barely reaches 10 degrees, so there is no need to worry about food spoiling in a short period of time.
The dragon's IQ was still very high. When it released the lightning rain, it did not kill all the cows. Only the stupid cows that ran around after being frightened died, and those that were too scared to move. The cows are safe and sound. After counting by the technical department, there are probably more than 200 cows left.
Meng Qingxiao ordered his men to drive all the more than 200 cows out of the city. Without food, he did not believe that the dragon would not come out. He would definitely not go under the subway station to fight the dragon. .
It is more troublesome to clean up the mutated black locust. Although this thing is a plant, it will not actively attack people, but if you threaten its life safety, it will attack you regardless.
The first division company only cut off a few larger roots, and then they were attacked wildly. Now they can no longer get close to the black locust tree.
Meng Qingxiao frowned and called the satellite phone back to China. The snake bead in the main head of the Yamata snake has been handed over to relevant domestic experts for study. Meng Qingxiao hopes that the Military Commission will temporarily borrow the snake bead. Give him a use.
After a short period of review and approval, the Military Commission agreed, but repeatedly emphasized that Meng Qingxiao must be carefully protected as this is national property that cannot be damaged.
At this time, Meng Qingxiao naturally agreed. As for whether there will be damage later, it depends on the intensity of the reaction of the mutated black locust tree.
The cleanup of mutated ants is also on the agenda. Now Meng Qingxiao finally understands why ants are not afraid of dragons.
Not far from where Xu Haocun and the others fought against mutated ants, there was a large underground square. This was supposed to be a shopping mall, but now it has become a nest of ants.
In the center of the square, there lives a queen ant. It is very large, with a body length of more than 10 meters. Its powerful teeth can tear through gold and iron. Even a submachine gun bullet cannot penetrate the ant's legs with just one bite. It chews up many things in the shopping mall with its teeth to build its own nest.
Although purely in terms of size, this queen ant is much smaller than the dragon, Meng Qingxiao absolutely believes that if these two behemoths fight together, it will be difficult to determine the winner in a short time.
The territorial awareness of animals is based on the premise that their strengths are equal. No lord will be a neighbor with a guy who is much weaker than himself.
To deal with mutated ants, you need to think of other methods. The carrying capacity of bees is limited and they cannot carry heavy weapons. It is difficult to break through the ants' defense with bullets. Moreover, the queen ant is different from the dragon in that it has a large group of younger brothers responsible for feeding. , it cannot be hungry.
At present, there are only two ways that Meng Qingxiao can think of, either smoke or burn.
Smoking is the first choice, because thick smoke is easy to pour inside, but it will be more troublesome to burn it. After all, it is a semi-enclosed environment down there, and the flame is easily extinguished due to lack of oxygen.
They carried smoke bombs. After receiving Meng Qingxiao's order, a drone carried a large number of smoke bombs and threw them into the ant cave. Not long after, a large number of worker ants were smoked out.
The ants on the ground were served by drones. Under constant fire from heavy machine guns, many were killed, but that was the end of it. None of the soldier ants, male ants, and female ants came out. There were also many worker ants that did not come out. They seemed to Not afraid of smoke.
Soon, the smoke bombs that were thrown down were pushed out by the ants underground and all were sent to the ground, leaving everyone stunned.
Weapons expert Dai Zhicong suggested: "You can first throw a large number of grenades inside, blow up the hole a little, and then use autonomous guided missiles to navigate down by yourself."
Zhang Ying shook her head and said: "Premier Audrey said before, you may not be here. Those ants are very smart and chose an underground square transformed from an air-raid shelter. It is a place that can withstand nuclear bomb bombardment. We have No weapon can blast it away. And with all the twists and turns down there, the missile may not reach its destination."
Meng Qingxiao frowned and said: "Now it seems that the air cannon may be the most effective method. Its shooting range of 200 meters is enough to help us push through."
"Well, you can give it a try, but one shot will definitely not work. You need to prepare a few more and fire them alternately. Anyway, the hole can accommodate several people going down at the same time." Zhang Ying also added.
"But we don't have it on hand." Dai Zhicong frowned, "It was developed by other departments. They are very valuable and are unwilling to disclose the development method."
"Nonsense, if it were you, would you leak it? Why didn't you share your glasses?" Zhang Ying rolled her eyes at him.
Dai Zhicong laughed and said nonchalantly: "That's not mine alone. It's a product jointly developed by Xu Haocun and I. It must not be leaked to anyone."
Xu Haocun curled his lips and said, "Don't talk to me. I am now officially announcing that I will give up all intellectual property rights in that system."
Dai Zhicong suddenly said angrily: "Well, Xu Haocun, we are in the same group, but you turned your elbows outward."
Xu Haocun showed no weakness and retorted: "Who is in the same group with you? Sister Ying and I are in the same group, right Sister Ying."
As he spoke, he actually bent down to hold Zhang Ying's arm, and put his head on her shoulder, pretending to be a little girl.
And Zhang Ying's height only reaches Xu Haocun's neck. Their current appearance is really as weird as possible.
Xu Haocun originally thought that Zhang Ying would get angry and kick him after breaking away from him, but Zhang Ying did not do that. Instead, she stretched out her palm to touch his face extremely gently, and then said with a smile: "Be good."
This time, Xu Haocun felt embarrassed. He let go of Zhang Ying and laughed a few times to cover up his inner embarrassment.
As for the others, they watched in stunned silence the whole time without saying a word.
Meng Qingxiao saw some signs, and his status was high enough to allow him to make some mild jokes on his subordinates, so he smiled and said: "Good guy, I think you two are really a good match, why don't you get married where you are. "
Xu Haocun immediately kicked him: "What nonsense are you talking about!"
He really didn't care about Commander Meng Qingxiao's face, and Meng Qingxiao didn't care at all, he laughed and ran away.
Zhang Ying's face turned red and she said angrily: "A dog can't spit out ivory from its mouth."
Meng Qingxiao has been worried about his good buddies. His wife is pregnant, and Xu Haocun doesn't even have a girlfriend until now. So when he found out that Zhang Ying didn't hate Xu Haocun, he wanted to help them. Peeling open this layer of paper, because after all, the status of the two of them is very different. One is the section chief, a cadre at the regiment level, and the other is just a superior soldier.
As for whether the two of them can succeed, this is not something that Meng Qingxiao can control. Anyway, we are all children of the world. If it works, it will be fine. If it doesn't work, we will pull it down. There is no need to tweak it.
Now that he had decided to use air cannons, Meng Qingxiao was not polite and made a satellite phone call to the department that developed air cannons and mentioned the situation on his side.
The person in charge there was really happy when he heard that Meng Qingxiao actually offered to use their weapons. Their current position is very embarrassing. The air cannon sounds very high-end, but there are not many troops willing to use it. If no one is willing to use it, it means there is no funding for continued research and development.
"Commander Meng, don't worry, we have made some improvements to the air cannon. This time we can greatly shorten the time of compressing the air. It only takes 4 seconds to fire a shot. Although the recoil has also increased a bit, but for It’s definitely not a problem for evolutionists.”
This time, Meng Qingxiao did not need to go to the military department for approval. The person in charge of the department took care of everything. It only took 26 hours to deliver the first batch of air cannons, 200 in total.
Meng Qingxiao was also impressed when he got the improved air cannon. The air compression time of this weapon has not been reduced, it is still 10 seconds, but they suddenly came up with the idea of bundling the three barrels together and using them at an interval of 10 seconds. /3 seconds alternately compresses the air, which immediately greatly shortens the firing time.
Another advantage of this weapon is that its barrel does not get hot easily. Only the heat energy generated by air friction has minimal impact on the barrel, which allows it to fire continuously.
In view of this, they have also improved the firing system. It is no longer like a traditional pistol where you have to pull the trigger to fire once, but like a machine gun, as long as you hold down the trigger, you can fire continuously until the battery in the handle is full. Until all is consumed.
The battery can also be replaced like a magazine, and one battery can now only fire 30 rounds.
Meng Qingxiao tried it once and found that he could indeed fire one shell every 4 seconds. The range was still 200 meters and the power had not changed. However, the recoil had increased a lot. Although he was mentally prepared, he still didn't expect it. , I couldn't hold one hand, and I only fired one cannonball and injured my wrist.
