The 221st Chapter Night Battle (4)

The battle in area C is still in full swing. The spiked metal bullets of various calibers of the marines are shooting at each other with the denser bone spurs fired by the monsters.

Every second, there are countless snake-like insects, which are torn into pieces of broken meat by the bullets of the extremely high-speed spike electromagnetic rifle. Countless red and green blood, body fluids, and venom almost mix the entire collapsed area into one. A piece of flesh and blood piled up from blood, flesh and bug corpses.

At the same time, every time the marines take a risky shot, there will always be a few unlucky ones who will be nailed to the weak part of the armor by those bone spurs, and then screamed under the poisonous damage of the bone spurs. Dropped their rifles and rolled on the ground, or, some turned and ran, trying to run to the barracks to seek treatment with professional medical equipment?

It's a pity that people like them are often nailed to the back by more bone spurs within a few steps, and then quickly fall to the ground, unable to move anymore...

"Damn! What happened to the tank unit? Hurry up and fire, we need artillery support! More support!!!"

After taking the risk of getting up and emptying a clip, Galen had to retreat behind the rock and once again called for long-range artillery support from the tank troops.

Now, because of the risky shooting just now, Galen's shoulders and head were all bitten by that bone spur-like thing, and he was bitten by several nails!

Fortunately, the armor of these important parts of his body is relatively thick, almost 40 to 50 millimeters thick, and those bone spurs can only be nailed into the fine steel armor for less than 30 millimeters, and they are destroyed. successfully resisted.

At this time, when Galen put away the armor plate on the 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 faint blue-green strange light was inserted half way and nailed to the mask. After it was inserted into the glass, it happened to be firmly blocked by the armor plate that was put down just now?

Looking at the sharp direction of the bone spur, 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 the helmet according to the standard combat procedure during the battle just now, I am afraid that the current self would definitely be pierced by this bone arrow and die, right?

"Stop it, Galen! I advise you not to do that!"

When Galen's mechanical arm slowly grabbed the bone spur and was about to pull it out forcibly, Darius, who was next to him, saw it and quickly spoke to dissuade him.

"Once pulled out,

You are dead! In the atmosphere of this planet, there is a large amount of highly toxic and corrosive steam. The correct way for you now is to ignore it. At the same time, it is best to slightly increase the air pressure circulating inside your armor power suit. "

After finishing speaking, Darius pointed to his helmet, and traces of tiny white gas were leaking from his own mask. When the air with water vapor leaked out and came into contact with the low temperature environment of the planet at night, it turned into this burst of white water vapor.

Like Galen, at this time, Darius' head and shoulders were also densely pierced with those ferocious and sharp elongated bone spurs, and even the four searchlights on his chest and next to the helmet were all pierced. Three were broken!

And the high-strength bulletproof glass shield on his face even got two bone spurs pierced into it. Like Galen, he was fortunately blocked by the armor plate and was stuck tightly and lost his kinetic energy.

Now, Darius felt that both of them should feel lucky, because these bone spurs did not break the glass shield, but were just stuck tightly by the glass, although there is a slight air leak now.

However, after he immediately increased the pressure of the air circulation in the armor, the poisonous gas from the outside could not enter temporarily under the action of the high internal pressure, and the gas tank carried by his armored power combat suit, according to At the current rate of leakage, at least several hours have passed by the time the leakage is almost complete? By then, no matter the winner or loser, the battle should be over, right?

"Oh! Yeah... ok, thanks for the reminder, buddy!"

Dazed for a moment, Galen finally realized that he almost did something stupid just now, and quickly stopped his hand carefully, and immediately increased the air pressure circulating inside his armor.

He finally remembered now, on this planet, the external pressure of this island is about 1.2 times the standard atmospheric pressure of the earth?

Then, as long as he increases the air pressure of the inner circulation environment to 1.3 times or more of the standard earth's atmospheric pressure, 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, and instantly plowed towards the formation of the snake-like 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, and suffered heavy casualties, those base command centers were not far away. The tank units, who had made a fuss, fired again just in time.

The artillery shells are continuous, and the long-range 120mm large-caliber electromagnetic artillery shells roared and attacked one after another, constantly smashing into the formation of the dense snake-like insects that continuously fired bone spurs at the defense line of the landing team and approached the past. In the past, explosions, flames, thick smoke, shock waves, and splashing gravel and steel balls instantly blocked the impact of the bugs again.

boom! boom! boom!

The long-range artillery bombardment continued, and the marines could finally take a breather, and calmly poked their heads out to shoot those bugs that slipped through the fire.

Countless bugs that jumped out of the caves had to be beaten back again under the terrifying artillery fire of human beings, and under the metal storm of roaring and shooting of the marines who had recovered their breath. ...

When more than a minute passed, when the artillery fire of the tank troops temporarily stopped, on the battlefield of humans and insects covered with gunpowder smoke and blood and flesh, except for the occasional few insects running around in panic, they were shocked by sporadic gunshots. In addition to killing by name one by one, outside the entrance of the cave, on the ground, there is no longer a single moving bug.

"it's over?"

"Maybe……"

"..."

Looking at the chaotic battlefield full of bugs and the corpses of human marines, the blood of humans and bugs is smoking, and the surrounding rocks are full of bullet holes or densely nailed with bone spurs like hedgehogs. On the ground and on the ground, all the marines who were still panting couldn't help but fell silent.

To everyone's surprise, tonight's night attack launched by the bugs, even though the human side was prepared, could it be so brutal?

They are hundreds of marines, hundreds of shotguns or electromagnetic rifles of various calibers, and they have paid so many casualties when they predicted the enemy's situation in advance and made all preparations?

The interested ones among them glanced at the radar in the lower right corner of their respective panels. On the display interface, they could clearly see that the green bright spots belonging to the friendly army were at least one-third less than before? If the life signal goes out, they 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 insects killed by them, and there may even be more than tens of thousands, but...

This sudden loss of more than 200 companions still made the human side feel a little unacceptable. This level of casualties was a bit too high for them!

After all, there are less than 140,000 people in the entire Colonial Spaceship Hope that is still in orbit, excluding those who are old, weak, unsuitable for the battlefield, and other men and women of the right age who must be in important positions and can be recruited by the Hope , it is estimated that there are less than 30,000 to 40,000 people, right?

"..."

After the roaring gunfire and explosions stopped, not only the human side was silent, but even the bugs seemed to have died down. Except for the cave, there seemed to be faint bursts of ear-piercing noises from the bugs. Other than the hissing, they were no longer active on the ground.

"Hey, Darius? Are those bugs afraid to rush up?"

Looking at the battlefield in Area C, which is full of all kinds of broken insect corpses that were 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 at the past, except for the thick layer of broken corpses that fell down on the way of the bugs' charge, at the cave entrance of the collapsed area more than 300 meters away, the corpses of those bugs were like hills, Just pile up the whole cave to a height of more than ten meters, like a raised ant nest entrance?

Just now, when the tank troops were in chaos, the worms charged again in the third wave, as if they swooped down directly from the worm mountain. It has a certain influence, and also slightly speeds up their charging speed.

"I don't know, I hope..."

Da da da! !

While answering Galen's question, Darius fired impatiently, using his electromagnetic rifle with a red barrel that had already been shot, and shot a four-legged bug monster trying to squeeze out of the pile of corpses. , blasting its disgusting head with a few shots, turning the other party into a part of the sea of ​​corpses and blood.

"Then why don't they rush out now? Is it because they have died too much, so they are afraid?"

Looking at the corpses piled up like mountains of bugs on the battlefield, Galen felt that his guess should be quite reliable.

Those bugs, by visual inspection, at least lost over ten thousand, right? Are you still not ready to retreat?

If the attacking side were replaced by humans themselves, if they really killed and injured so many troops in such a short period of time, they would have collapsed early in the morning, right?

He couldn't understand these bugs now, did they have no brains? Or die in a fight?

Or, there are too many of them, so they don't care about casualties? Want to use the endless sea of ​​insects to directly submerge yourself, the human ground base, and completely drive humans out of their planet?

After thinking about it, Galen still couldn't figure out what was going on with those bugs, so he could only throw down the C-15 spiked electromagnetic rifle in his hand that was also red with the barrel, and from the second shot In an equipment box on the defense line, a new electromagnetic rifle was pulled out from a weapon box that was transported here by SCV engineers and stacked neatly with rows of new rifles.

Fortunately, they human beings have already made preparations before this. On the second line of defense, when preparing for the defense line, SCV engineering vehicles transported a large number of weapons and ammunition boxes from the barracks capable of manufacturing light weapons resettlement point.

On the ground around the defense line of the marines, in those equipment boxes, there are neat rows of brand-new electromagnetic rifles and a large number of full magazines, enough to ensure that the soldiers can continue this high-intensity defense fight.

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 should be to directly replace the barrel parts.

It's just that, now that the battle situation is urgent, they don't have time to replace those troublesome weapons. Moreover, in this interstellar era, the manufacturing industry is extremely developed, and human beings are not short of metal resources for making rifles, so ah, it's better to replace them directly. Compare the new ones with reliability.

Anyway, if the gun barrel is red, it will be thrown on the ground. After the new gun in hand is also red, the one that was dropped before is probably cooled down. Then, they can pick it up and continue to use it?

"I don't know! How about you go and see the situation yourself?"

Darius glanced at Galen angrily, and then followed his example, dropping the overloaded weapon in his hand.

Then, he dragged his heavy feet, manipulating the armored power suit a little tiredly, walked over, and randomly selected a brand-new electromagnetic rifle that looked pleasing to the eye from the equipment box, and picked up a full-loaded electromagnetic rifle at random. Clamping the box, he walked back directly to the position he had just hidden.

Darius felt that in the half hour today, he almost fired tens of thousands of bullets, right? Every time, after inserting the magazine, the trigger is directly pulled and does not move until the bullet is finished. During this period, the weapon surprisingly does not have any major problems, which already shows the excellent quality of UPL military products.

"Uh... let's forget it then."

He, Galen, was not stupid, so how could he foolishly ran to the entrance of the cave to observe the situation? If those bugs rushed out suddenly, he wouldn't even have a chance to escape!

"This is……"

In the command center, Commander Doug and other military personnel are staring at a picture in a daze.

It turned out that after the insect swarm was suppressed by artillery fire again, they sent a small drone to enter the crypt with a remote control, and saw the situation inside: a huge mammoth insect , is just enough for it to walk in the cave, slowly moving forward.

Hiss! !

Suddenly, a snake-shaped bug discovered the human reconnaissance aircraft. After it hissed, countless bone spurs shot towards the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft at the top of the cave, interrupting the reconnaissance screen in an instant.

"Attention all marines! The big mammoth bug of the other party is about to crawl out of that burrow, be careful!"

At this time, in the base command center, the voice of Commander Doug rang from everyone's channel again.

In fact, there is no need for Doug to remind, all the marines can already vaguely feel the vibration of the ground now.

Then, they unconsciously thought of the horrible creature that was still lying on the beach, burned to the point of a huge skeleton.

"..."

Now, something big is going to happen!

Galen and Darius, the captain and second lieutenant commander of the two marines, looked at each other, and each saw a trace of fear in each other's eyes.

Now, just those two calf-sized monsters and snake-like bugs with long-distance shooting ability have already stretched their simple defense line and made them extremely difficult!

And now, if one or two of the terrifying giant creatures that appeared a few days ago appeared from that cave, then their current line of defense might be destroyed by the opponent in an instant?

"Tank troops, stand ready to support us!"

Darius immediately requested support from the siege tanks near the command center of the rear base.

The battle during the landing a few days ago has proved that the light weapons of the Marine Corps are useless against monsters that are huge and have 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 hoped that the gunners of those tanks could 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 Anne burned the huge monster with a fire, so he immediately called the other party.

In his opinion, if little Annie took another shot to deal with the big monster that was about to appear, wouldn't they be unable to continue?

"It's coming, it's coming, it's coming soon! What are you in a hurry for?"

Little Annie's dissatisfied murmurs and excitement about the upcoming big monster finally rang through the channel.

"By the way, that big monster, has it come out?"

She just went to the command center of the base for a stroll, and by the way, she used her tank gun to help shoot down three big 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 may also be able to easily deal with those without too high armor. However, with the small caliber of a rifle, how can it be as enjoyable as a tank gun?

Under her direct bombardment, no matter how fast those insects fly, she can use her mind to lock and predict the opponent's position, and after casually bombarding them, she can directly smash the opponent into pieces !

For little Annie, it is not too simple for tank guns to fight flying insects!

As long as you know the flight method of the shell, plus the position of the enemy in the air, and then count a little bit of prediction, and add the time when the shell is flying, you will be sure to hit one!

She couldn't figure it out, how did those eight tanks get chased by three big bugs just now? What a bunch of stupid guys! Those flying insects are not flying high, and the eight of their tanks raised their muzzles and aimed at them. Even if they couldn't shoot one at a time, they would always be right, right?

"Annie, hurry up and support! It's coming out soon!!!"

Galen started shouting anxiously in the channel again.

Because, he found that at the entrance of the huge cave in the distance, the corpse of the worm 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 scythe on the other side!

Soon, after the huge monster got out, it just slapped and pulled it casually, and with only two strokes, it directly scattered the piles of bug corpses piled up near the cave, and then quickly cleaned them out near the entrance of the cave. A slightly gentle passage.

Roar! ! !

I don't know if this huge monster was stimulated by a large number of bug corpses and blood, so when it crawled out of the hole, it roared angrily.

After a while, it also started to angrily use the two pairs of huge bone scythes in front of it, constantly waving at the bug corpses around it, and splashed the bug corpses and corrosive blood everywhere, sometimes Some even flew over a distance of more than 300 meters, directly causing quite a mess to the marines on the defense line.

It didn't take long before it emptied most of the bug corpses near the entrance of the cave, and revealed the dense swarm of bugs that followed it, still in the sloping cave, the four-legged and the legless ones. , all mixed together.

"Oh, I'm in big trouble now..."

Seeing this situation, even Darius, who never knew what fear was, felt that this time, they might face the biggest trouble tonight?

"I'm coming!"

Just as Darius' sigh fell, Little Annie's crisp voice continued to sound in the channel.

"Aha! I've already seen that big bug, don't grab it, it's mine!"

In the distance, when Galen was about to say something, a red-painted tank was galloping at high speed, bringing up clouds of smoke and dust in the dark night, and rushing towards Area C.

Then, while driving at high speed, Little Anne turned the two 80mm double-barreled cannons of the tank, aiming directly at the head of the big guy who was roaring wildly.

boom! boom!

Two consecutive roars of artillery sounded, and the tank driven by Little Anne accurately hit the monster's huge head with the two 80mm double-barreled artillery while driving at high speed.

Roar! ! !

As a matter of course, the monster roared in pain at the first moment.

After the flames of the explosion, everyone could clearly see that the monster's ugly head covered with fangs and bony horns had been almost shattered by two cannonballs?

boom! boom!

Only a second later, there were two more cannon shots, and the two shells roared and hit the bone armor of the monster's lowered head, blasting out two small craters.

It's a pity that this worm's vitality is extremely tenacious. Except for the shelling that hit its mouth at the beginning, which made it thinner, like the next two shells, this kind of shelling on the thick bone armor on its head, It can only make it suffer a little injury and become more violent, it can't directly kill it.

Roar! ! !

With another roar of the huge monster, it started to move forward, running towards the defense line of the human marines.

And the bugs in the cave behind it also screamed at the same time, like a group of small ants, and started to run wildly behind the huge monster.

Da da da! ! !

Without the commander's order, all the marines shot first when they saw this situation.

From the muzzles of their flaming guns, countless spike bullets, once again like an endless metal storm, shot towards the insects overwhelmingly.

"Damn it! Everyone, aim for those little bugs! Leave that big guy alone!"

When he saw the monster start to charge, Galen also fired immediately,

However, when he discovered that other people ignored the little bugs following the big monster and unconsciously raised their guns to sweep the giant monster wasting bullets, he finally couldn't help but shouted in the channel. shouted loudly.

In the past few days, they have used dozens of fresh lives to prove that the light weapons of their marines cannot effectively damage the monster with thick horny armor and rough skin.

Da da da……

whoosh whoosh...

"Shoot those little bugs! Don't panic!"

At this time, on the battlefield, the sound of the rifles of the marines firing, the deep sound of the snake-shaped insects shooting bone spurs and piercing the air, and the shouts of the frontline commanders all rang out together.

At every moment, some unlucky marines were hit by bone spurs and fell down. At the same time, more bugs were smashed into pieces of flesh or tattered by the spike bullets like metal storms. Succulent pockets.

However, they still followed the huge monster with an indomitable momentum, charging forward and backward together.

boom! ! !

Suddenly, a huge artillery shell exploded directly at the weak joints of the huge monster's thick four-hoofed elbow joints, making its thick scales unable to withstand the huge damage of the 120mm siege shock gun, and was directly blasted It had to be torn open, exposing the muscles and bones and bloody muscles inside.

Aww! ! !

This cannonball was fired too trickily, but it just hit the weak part of its leg?

Then, the body of the huge monster that was still charging, after one leg was injured, tilted and fell directly to the ground. 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 went directly through its chin, and instantly Its unprotected head was blown into a pile of tattered pieces...

Boom! ! !

Finally, the roar of the monster stopped abruptly. Its bulky body, which was still trying to struggle to get up, finally fell powerlessly to the ground. After crushing a bunch of rushing bugs, it was silent again... …

"Haha! It's really useless, it was solved in just two shots?!"

In the channel, Little Annie's unscrupulous laughter came again.

It turned out that it was just now, when Little Annie found out that the tank's 80mm double-barreled tank gun was not powerful enough, she immediately switched to the siege mode.

Then, when the monster ran more than half of the distance, before the marines were about to collapse, her attack finally arrived in time. Just two attacks with an interval of three seconds killed a huge monster and at the same time let The bugs have lost their greatest support!

Da da da……

"Others, don't stop! Keep attacking!"

Darius and Galen still roared loudly in the channel to the marines who were dazed after seeing the death of the monster.

At this moment, even though the big monster leading the charge was dead, those big dogs or snake-like insects still recklessly climbed up the fallen corpse blocking the way, and continued to charge towards their human position. Even, the monster's huge corpse 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 that had been rearranged and adjusted to shoot Zhuyuan fired their 120mm arc-light shock guns at the swarm again, and once again sent the swarm in time. The momentum of the charge stopped.

Originally, they actually planned to bombard the giant bug.

But who would have thought that before they calculated the shelling data, the opponent would have already been beaten to the ground? Therefore, they had to hastily change to shelling those little bugs, using artillery fire to block their charge.

"Hahaha...boys, your Captain Planck is here! Pay attention to cover me! Otherwise...uh!"

Suddenly, in everyone's channel, there was a voice that Galen didn't want to hear the most, and then, as expected, the other party also hiccupped a lot?

Don't think about it, this should be what Commander Doug said before: that Captain Planck who drove the transport spaceship to make a temporary guest bomber!

Now, he is finally transporting a modified large fuel tank, and from a high altitude, he swoops down towards the battlefield in Area C of the base and flies down at high speed.

"Hahaha... Alien worms, your pre-ordered courier has arrived! Remember, you must give Master Plank a good review!"

When the transport spaceship passed over the cave at high speed, the hatch in its belly suddenly opened.

Then, a huge, almost the size of four siege tanks combined, a large incendiary tank filled with various incendiary materials, fell accurately into the huge hole, making a loud noise, After smashing and pushing the worm, relying on the huge inertial kinetic energy brought by the spaceship, it rolled directly into the inclined cave...

Then, throwing away the heavy armored transport spacecraft, under the control of Captain Planck, the bow of the ship was suddenly raised, and it jumped straight up to the sky.

"Little brats, don't say that Master Planck didn't warn you, now, you'd better find a place to lie down and hide immediately, otherwise, hehe..."