The attack on the ant cave was handed over to the company sent by the Second Division. Of course, Meng Qingxiao also had to follow. Although everyone objected, how could he safely let his men go to work desperately, but he watched from a distance .
Zhang Ying was very nervous about this, and also sent her little bee team over to provide defense. Although their power could not kill an ant immediately, it was not a problem to temporarily stop the ants from moving forward.
This time, the company of the first division was responsible for garrisoning the technical department, and the company of the third division was also sent out to cover outside to prevent the dragon from suddenly attacking.
Zhang Ying requested that the entire process be videotaped, so each of their soldiers had a camera with a searchlight attached to their safety helmet. Because it was dark down there, the city had long had no power supply.
Meng Qingxiao and the others entered very smoothly. The powerful air cannon was indeed very effective in killing ants. All mutant ants encountered along the way, even the powerful soldier ants, could be killed with one shot as long as they hit.
However, soldier ants are super fast and have wings, so it is not easy to hit them. They often require the cooperation of three or five people, plus the cover provided by small bees, and then it takes half a day to kill one.
After Wan Qiyan regained her fighting strength, the little cat returned to Meng Qingxiao's side. Of course, Wan Qiyan, who was leading the mission, would definitely follow the little cat. The two girls were both very powerful in combat. With her The two were guarding each other, one on the left and the other on the right. Meng Qingxiao became the only one among them who had never fired a single shot.
When we first came down, it was a long corridor, and it was also a corridor after a few turns. They took advantage of the excellent combination of terrain and weapons. It was super convenient to clean up the mutant ants. All you had to do was keep firing forward. The journey was smooth.
Continuing to go deeper, the front suddenly opened up, and they came to the first air raid cave square. There were more than 60 of them inside and they didn't look crowded at all. At this time, a large number of soldier ants flew from all directions, finally causing them big trouble. They had to retreat, retreat into the corridor and shoot wildly into the hall.
The results were not ideal either. Many people exhausted a battery without hitting a single target. The speed of the soldier ants was too fast. Only a few people encountered a dead mouse, and it took many cannons to kill one.
After observing for a while, Meng Qingxiao felt that this was not going to work, so he came up with an idea to have half of the people stand in six rows: upper, upper middle, middle, middle, middle lower, and lower. There were six people in each row and thirty-six rounds. The artillery shells were fired in a covering volley, covering most of the square, and finally achieved obvious results, wiping out all the soldier ants in the square in one fell swoop.
Wan Qiyan flattered him from the side and said, "Commander, I finally understand why you can be the commander of the army but we can't."
"Oh, why?" Meng Qingxiao asked curiously.
"These are the ideas you came up with. After you said them, we all thought they were very simple, very ordinary, and not surprising at all. But before you said them, none of us thought of them."
When she said this, everyone nodded in unison, and some even said directly: "What Deputy Commander Wan Qi said makes sense, and I think so too."
When he said this, many people shouted: "Oh my god, I have forgotten that there are two chiefs accompanying us, and I suddenly feel so stressed!"
Company Commander Yao Zhisheng also reacted and hurriedly shouted: "Buck yourselves up and protect the two leaders."
"Okay, okay, your two commanders still have the ability to protect themselves. You don't need to protect them. Just keep moving forward." Wan Qiyan ordered loudly, and then whispered, "The commander will be protected by me and Cat Sister." enough."
There is a 20 cm thick metal gate between the First Square and the Second Square. Once it is closed, even if it is not locked, ordinary people cannot push it with their hands. The wheel on the gate must be used to open the door. When it reaches a certain level, the door's own weight can be used to open it easily.
In the past, this door was always open. Since the mutant disaster broke out, someone used this place briefly and then closed the door again. It has not been opened yet.
The queen ant is in the middle of the second square. Those ants entering and exiting the square are not going through the big iron door, but through a ventilation hole on the wall. There was originally a fan there, but the fan has long since disappeared. I think it was bitten by ants.
After the first square was cleaned, no ants emerged from the second square. However, through the short observation of the bees drilling into the ventilation holes, we can see that there are still a large number of ants in the second square. At least the soldier ants have Hundreds, plus hundreds of male ants and a similar number of female ants.
The reason why it is said to be a short observation is because the ants inside are very smart. As long as any drone dares to get into the air hole, it will be destroyed immediately and completely broken into pieces. Zhang Ying lost thirty years for this. There were many little bees, which made her extremely distressed.
Fortunately, she had more than thirty little bees, otherwise they would have been blind to the situation below, and they would have suffered a big loss if they came down rashly.
Two soldiers were responsible for opening the door. The others were still arranged in six columns and six rows as Meng Qingxiao had just commanded. Half of the soldiers were covering from the side. They did not use air cannons, but carried shoulder-mounted howitzers. , when the door opens a gap, fire a cannonball inside. No matter whether it can hit the target or not, first muddy the water inside and mess up the environment.
More than thirty of them would line up and fire inside, and they would stop only after all the cannonballs on everyone's shoulders were fired.
More than 30 rounds of artillery shells are enough for the ants inside to drink a pot.
Taking advantage of the chaos inside, the two soldiers would quickly open the door. At this time, more than 30 air cannons would unleash their power again, shooting volleys inside together. They would not stop until the entire battery was used up.
After two rounds of attacks like this, the ants inside should be almost cleared.
Meng Qingxiao thought about it repeatedly and felt that the plan was foolproof. Others were also very excited and unanimously agreed that this was indeed a good idea.
"Are you ready?"
"Ready."
"Open the door."
Company Commander Yao was very nervous. In order to better command the entire company, he deliberately stood at the connection between the gate and the wall, looked at the faces of all the soldiers and shouted orders.
"Grenade team, the first to prepare, the second to follow."
"Remember, don't hesitate. As long as the door crack is open enough for a cannonball to go in, fire it immediately regardless of whether you see the target or not."
The door opens outwards. Two warriors stand in the middle of the door, one on the left and one on the right, and start to spin the roulette. They only need to turn the roulette. When the roulette reaches the end, the door will open automatically by its own weight.
Of course, Captain Yao would watch from the sidelines, and when the gap in the door they opened was big enough for a howitzer to fire in, he would order them to stop opening the door.
Everyone went according to the plan and everything went very smoothly. When Captain Yao made a gesture to order the door to stop opening, the first soldier of the grenade team quickly moved forward and quickly fired his opener against the crack in the door. Then he did not move at all. Not daring to delay, he quickly turned right and started jogging to make way for the second soldier behind him.
Then came the second soldier. When he came up, the first shell had not exploded yet, so he quickly pulled the trigger and started firing.
However, just when he pulled the trigger, a black object suddenly came out from the crack of the door and hit his chest like lightning. The force was so powerful that it knocked him to the ground. , and the howitzer on his shoulder finally fired, direction: diagonally upward.
At this time, the cannonball fired into the second square began to explode, and the second cannonball fired upward also exploded almost at the same time because the distance between the sky plate and the ground was extremely short.
The soldier on the left who was responsible for opening the door and Company Commander Yao next to him bore the brunt. They were just below the explosion point of the howitzer. With a bang, their heads were blown open on the spot, and they didn't even have time to moan.
At this moment, the steel gate was violently pushed open by the unnamed strongman inside, opening it enough to allow a mutant ant to easily pass through.
It was still just a gap, from the ground to the sky board, but it was enough for dozens of Ant Disk Arhats to pass through, and that's exactly what they did.
Meng Qingxiao was still the fastest to react. After all, he had the most combat experience. He had already started shouting before the explosion disappeared: "Quickly throw away the howitzers in your hands and use submachine guns for fire suppression. Shoot while firing." While retreating, the air cannon team immediately began compressing the air."
However, although his order was timely, the ordinary soldiers under him did not respond in time. Only a very small number of soldiers in the grenade team changed their weapons in time according to the order.
The air cannon team responded in time, because they did not need to change weapons, and the order given to them by Meng Qingxiao was also behind the grenade team, which gave them sufficient reaction time.
Finally, the first ant came into contact with the first soldier, and this soldier had just lost his howitzer. He had no time to react before he was bitten on the face by the ant and fell to the ground with a scream.
Before the first soldier's body had fully landed, the ants that had emerged together had already pounced on other members of the grenade team.
Only then did the sparse sound of submachine guns finally sound, but unfortunately it was no longer possible to suppress the fire.
The hands of the soldiers in the air cannon team were shaking, because none of their comrades in the grenade team had time to retreat. If their air cannons started to use force, they would be blown to pieces together with their comrades.
This is a difficult choice. Should we try to save all the soldiers without firing, and then face the danger that the entire army may be destroyed? Or should we directly fire and sacrifice the lives of half of the soldiers in exchange for the safety of the other half?
Meng Qingxiao's teeth were almost broken. After all, he still had to bear all the sins...
