Seven Hundred and Ninety-Seven 1 Road to the North

The engines roared, one large and twelve small, a total of thirteen hovercrafts lined up on the edge of Lake Albert. After the air current lifted the hulls, the fleet immediately drove onto the lake, lined up and galloped towards the northeast.

Twelve ships in the fleet belong to the US military. In addition to US soldiers, there are also infrasonic cannons removed from armored vehicles. The US military is preparing to use these to disperse flying ants to prevent the fleet from being attacked by flying ants.

Fortunately, the US military's armored vehicles adopt a modular design, and the disassembly and assembly of the infrasonic cannon are very simple.

The largest hovercraft belongs to China. It is not accurate to say it is a hovercraft. To be precise, it is an "air cushion hedgehog"!

This nickname was given by American soldiers, because after the ship was assembled, there were metal thorns more than one meter long all over the hull. These slender spikes were designed to deal with giant ants. The thorns and thorns The distance between them is very clever. If a giant ant pounces on the boat, its only fate will be to be impeded by the spikes. Unless the spikes break, the giant ant will never touch the hull.

Moreover, the metal thorns not only protect the hull, but are also covered with metal thorns on the fan casing, firmly protecting the fragile fan. Even if the flying ants perform a suicide attack, they will not be able to touch the fan, ensuring maximum safety.

Ye Han was very satisfied with the hovercraft and even had a special conversation with Gao Kai, shamelessly praising Gao Kai.

What surprised Ye Han even more was the active sonar on the ship. Despite its small size, it was really powerful. When it was turned on, it could generate more than 200 decibels of sound waves underwater. Those giant insects underwater were simply Don't dare to get close.

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 the echo. All the soldiers need to do is release sound waves every few seconds.

There are infrasound waves on the water and sonar underwater. The fleet is not much better than being armed to the teeth.

After the fleet set off, the soldiers finally breathed a sigh of relief. Ye Han divided the soldiers into three shifts and took turns sailing the ship to keep watch to ensure that the soldiers had sufficient rest time.

When the fleet first set off, there were only a few flying ants nearby, but after traveling a certain distance, the flying ants in the air began to slowly gather, gradually forming a large cloud of insects, and the annoying buzzing sound was overwhelming and endless.

Fortunately, there are infrasonic cannons.

As for underwater, Ye Han never found that the giant insects dared 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 sailed smoothly into the White Nile.

Perhaps because the river is relatively shallow, the sonar never found giant insects after the fleet entered the White Nile. However, Ye Han felt that the possibility of not having giant insects in the water was very small. The worst is that all the insects were hiding at the bottom of the river. , so the sonar didn’t detect it.

To ensure safety, Ye Han ordered the sonar to remain as it was and not to shut down even if nothing was found.

The surface of the river is not as large as that of an open lake, and the distance between the two banks is not very far. With Ye Han's eyesight, he can easily see the situation on the bank.

Observations revealed 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, and they drowned completely in a short time, so that there were ant corpses on the river near the fleet.

There's no way to get into the water anyway, so let them chase you if you want.

There are not only giant ants on both sides of the river bank, but it won't be long before you encounter a village hidden in the dense vegetation. Several years of wind and rain have destroyed these villages deep in the jungle, and many villages have completely disappeared. , only part of it can still see the outline, and occasionally broken bones can be seen on the shore.

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

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

He immediately stood up, activated the telescope function of the armor, and pulled the city before his eyes.

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 popped up among the vegetation, stubbornly telling the past of this place.

There are far more cities buried in the insect plague than this one, and many soldiers are 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, and some soldiers even instinctively held their rifles.

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

This is really a new situation.

Not only did the fleet not get close to the bridge, but they circled around and got farther away. Ye Han vaguely realized something when he saw this scene. As expected, after a while, several bright lines fell from the sky, and the bridge spanned the two sides. The broken bridge collapsed after being hit by a bright line. Hundreds of giant ants fell into the river, and the water suddenly became chaotic.

Ye Han noticed that there were several bright lines falling not far ahead. Not only were there faint explosions, but also billowing smoke, and they didn't know where they hit.

The fleet immediately moved forward, and the US military hovercraft opened fire 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 under the water.

The fleet made a nearly ninety-degree turn before they had sailed very far. It wasn't until the fleet passed that bend that Ye Han saw that there was also a bridge in front of him, and it was the kind of highway bridge with very high construction standards.

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

The U.S. military immediately increased the power of its infrasonic cannon. The large swarms of giant ants on the broken bridge immediately dispersed. The giant ants that climbed up the bridge pier fell back into the water as if they were electrocuted. The fleet passed quickly regardless of the situation.

The fleet also encountered several cities in the subsequent 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 smooth. In the evening, after nine hours of continuous sailing, the fleet had sailed more than a thousand kilometers and arrived in the northern part of South Sudan, and was about to enter Sudan.

After replenishing fuel by airdrop, the fleet headed north overnight with no intention of stopping.

Setting off overnight was the decision of the Americans, but it also received unanimous support from Ye Han and all coalition soldiers!

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