797 Route 1 to the North

The engines roared, and a total of thirteen hovercrafts, one large and twelve small, lined up at the edge of Lake Albert. After the airflow lifted the hull, the fleet immediately drove onto the lake and lined up to the northeast.

Twelve ships in the fleet belonged to the US military. In addition to American soldiers, there were also infrasonic cannons removed from armored vehicles. The US military was going to use this thing to disperse flying ants to prevent the fleet from being attacked by flying ants.

Fortunately, the US armored vehicles adopted a modular design, and the disassembly and assembly of the infrasonic cannons were very simple.

The largest hovercraft belonged to China. It is not accurate to call it a hovercraft. To be precise, it is a "hedgehog"!

This nickname was given by American soldiers because after the ship was assembled, the hull was covered with more than one meter long metal spikes. These slender spikes were designed to deal with giant ants. The distance between the spikes was very clever. If a giant ant pounced on the ship, its only fate was to be blocked by the spikes. Unless the spikes broke, the giant ant would never touch the hull.

Moreover, the metal spikes not only protect the hull, but also the fan shell, which firmly protects the fragile fan. Even if the flying ants play suicide attacks, they can't touch the fan, which guarantees the maximum safety.

Ye Han is very satisfied with this hovercraft. He even talked to Gao Kai and praised Gao Kai shamelessly.

What surprised Ye Han even more was the active sonar on the ship. Although this thing is not big in size, it is really effective. Once it is turned on, it can form more than 200 decibels of sound waves underwater, and the giant insects under the water dare not approach at all.

The people on the boat can not only use sonar to drive away the giant insects underwater, but also determine the location of the giant insects through echoes. What the soldiers need to do is to release a sound wave every few seconds.

There are infrasound waves on the water and sonar underwater. The fleet is not badly armed.

After the fleet set off, the soldiers finally breathed a sigh of relief. Ye Han divided the soldiers into three shifts to take turns to drive the boat and stand guard to ensure that the soldiers have enough rest time.

When the fleet just set out, there were very few flying ants nearby, but after sailing for a distance, the flying ants in the air began to slowly gather and gradually formed a large cloud of insects, and the annoying buzzing sound was overwhelming.

Fortunately, there was a subsonic cannon.

As for underwater, Ye Han never found any giant insects daring to approach the fleet.

In this way, the fleet went north smoothly, and the hovercraft was very fast. In less than an hour, the fleet arrived at the northern end of Lake Albert and successfully entered the White Nile.

Perhaps because the river was shallow, the sonar never found giant insects after the fleet entered the White Nile, but Ye Han thought it was unlikely that there were no giant insects in the water. Maybe the insects were lying on the bottom of the river, so the sonar did not find them.

To ensure safety, Ye Han ordered the sonar to remain as it was, and it could not be shut down even if there was no discovery.

The river surface is not like the open lake surface, and the distance between the two banks is not very far. With Ye Han's eyesight, he can easily see the situation on the shore.

It was observed that there were a large number of giant ants hidden in the jungle on the shore. They even chased the fleet on the shore. Some unlucky giant ants even fell into the river during the chase.

Although the giant ants that fell into the water struggled hard, they had no swimming genes at all. They drowned completely in a short while, so that the ant corpses kept appearing on the river near the fleet.

Anyway, they couldn't get into the water, so let them chase if they wanted.

There were not only giant ants on both sides of the river bank, but also a village hidden in dense vegetation every few days. The wind and rain for several consecutive years had destroyed these villages deep in the jungle. Many villages disappeared completely, and only a part of them could still see a little outline, and occasionally broken bones could be seen on the shore.

No matter who it was, they couldn't help but feel heavy when they saw this scene.

The speed of the hovercraft exceeded 100 kilometers per hour. At noon, Ye Han suddenly saw a city in front of him.

He stood up immediately, activated the telescope function of the armor, and pulled the city in front of him.

It was a typical African city.

The buildings in the city were simple, low and sparse, but the vegetation was extremely dense. Many buildings in the city emerged from the vegetation, stubbornly telling the past of this place.

There were far more cities buried in the insect plague, and many soldiers were not even interested in taking a look.

But the US military ship actually began to slow down. This unexpected situation immediately attracted everyone's attention. Some soldiers even instinctively held their rifles.

The fleet moved forward slowly for a distance. It was not until this time that Ye Han realized that the reason for the slowdown was that there was a broken bridge on the river in front, and many giant ants gathered on the bridge.

This was really a new situation.

Not only did the fleet not approach the bridge, but it circled and moved away. Ye Han saw this scene and vaguely realized something. As expected, after a while, several bright lines fell from the sky, and the broken bridge across the two banks collapsed after being hit by the bright lines. Hundreds of giant ants fell into the river, and the water was suddenly in chaos.

Ye Han noticed that there were several bright lines falling not far ahead. Not only was there a faint explosion, but also billowing smoke. It was unknown where they hit.

The fleet immediately moved forward. The US hovercraft fired as it moved forward. The large-caliber machine guns on the ship killed the giant ants on both sides of the route one by one underwater.

The fleet had not sailed far when it turned nearly 90 degrees. It was not until the fleet passed the bend that Ye Han saw that there was also a bridge in front of it, and it was a highway bridge with very high construction standards.

However, the bridge has now been broken into two parts, and a large number of giant ants are also floating on the water. Some of the giant ants that fell into the water were lucky to grab the bridge piers and escape the tragic fate of drowning.

The US military immediately increased the power of the infrasonic cannon, and the large group of giant ants on the broken bridge immediately scattered. The giant ants that climbed onto the bridge piers fell into the water again as if they were electrocuted. The fleet passed quickly regardless.

The fleet also encountered several cities in the later journey, but the scale of the cities was much smaller. The bridge across the river was never encountered again, but the dock was seen several times.

Except for the heavy rain in the afternoon, the journey was relatively smooth. In the evening, the fleet, which had been sailing for nine hours, had sailed more than a thousand kilometers and arrived in the northern part of South Sudan, and was about to enter Sudan.

After refueling through an airdrop, the fleet headed north overnight without stopping.

The decision to set off overnight was made by the Americans, but it was also supported by Ye Han and all the coalition soldiers!

No one likes to spend the night in a territory controlled by aliens. The more static you are, the more likely you are to encounter danger. It is safer to move forward quickly.

Sorry, I have something to do at home today. I can only write one chapter. I will make up for it tomorrow.