From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man - Chapter 416

c405 Fierce battle, evacuation

The lightning attack aircraft formation has launched a bombing on the sea of ​​insects all over the desert according to the instructions of Maggie and others.

Although the bombing area is still dozens of kilometers away from the south and east of the town, Leon, Rico and others can still hear the violent explosion caused by the bombing more than a hundred seconds ago.

The clone who also heard the noise looked to the southeast and asked Leon:

“Do you need us to deliver this batch of supplies to the designated location?”

“Of course, little Jimmy! Suke!” Leon looked behind him with his peripheral vision and ordered two infantrymen belonging to the 226th combat platoon:

“You two act as guides and lead them to the front-line command post!”

“Yes, sergeant.”

The two infantrymen who were deliberately named were somewhat reluctant, but they still followed the clones on the maglev truck and drove to the outskirts of the town in the west.

Although the clones are equipped with equipment and helmets to cover their true faces, the two infantrymen still think that their appearance is too scary.

In addition, the previous suppression by the fierce firepower of the clones left the two infantrymen with a great psychological shadow.

But the two also knew that the two sides were in a short period of cooperation, not to mention that the clones also provided them with weapons and supplies, so they did not complain too much and served as guides for the clones.

Lyon continued to lead more than 400 infantrymen to the southern edge of the town with Rico and other non-commissioned officers.

The clones were in charge of the east, so Lyon naturally did not need to worry too much, but the southwest of the town, which had been occupied by them, was still in a relatively chaotic situation.

So, Lyon instructed Maggie and others on the communication:

“Xiao, Frost, Ace, the advancing troops led by Rico and I are about to arrive at the southern high wall of the town.

At the same time, you must make relatively reasonable arrangements based on the location of all the mixed forces.

We only need 6,000 people to garrison the southern high wall together, and the remaining mixed forces are used to consolidate the occupied areas and be responsible for vigilance, patrols and other tasks.

Don’t forget, those bugs are extremely good at digging holes, and we don’t want to be attacked from both sides by the other side.”

“Okay, Sergeant, leave these to us to dispatch.”

“Yeah.”

After hearing Maggie’s reply on the communication, Lyon said no more.

And without Maggie telling him, Lyon guessed that Honald Thompson and his confidant team had been “dealt with” by Maggie.

Otherwise, the incompetent and cowardly colonel would have “naggled” again on the communication before they reached a ceasefire agreement with the clones.

As for whether he can find an opportunity to permanently “erase” Hornard and others in the future, Lyon needs to adapt to the situation.

At this moment.

He and Rico and others crossed several intersections and finally came to the southern part of the town where the buildings and streets remained intact.

Because the clones needed to “act” with their mobile infantry, when the ceasefire agreement was reached, the clone soldiers stranded in the south had all retreated.

So now on the southern high wall, there are only fixed machine guns and machine guns that “have not had time” to dismantle, and machine guns and machine gun ammunition that “have not had time” to move away.

Then, Lyon and his party who arrived here first climbed the high wall and selected the best defensive position.

At the same time, a large number of infantry were also divided to occupy and use those fixed machine guns and machine guns.

Not long after.

More and more mixed troops arrived here, and also climbed the high wall, selected the best shooting point, and patiently waited for the upcoming Arach “sea of ​​insects”.

Rico, who followed Leon’s example and picked up an AMWS rifle, looked out at the smoke-filled desert in front of him, and saw the thunder attack aircraft flying low from time to time, so he whispered to Leon beside him:

“Sergeant, if we and the group of clones successfully resist the attack of the bugs, what should we do next? Continue to fight them?”

“.”

Hearing this, Leon did not respond immediately, but pondered for a few seconds before saying:

“Given our current situation of being isolated and helpless, it is very unwise to continue to fight them.

But in the current situation, we should consider how to withstand the attack of the bugs.”

As he said this, Leon’s eyes fell on the distance.

In an area about four kilometers away from the town, dense Arachi warrior bugs emerged, and there were also a large number of huge tank bugs that looked like beetles.

In addition, Leon and others also found a large number of jumping bugs that were green all over, like giant fruit flies, flying low with the Arachi bug sea.

The reason why the Raiden attack planes, which had fired all their missiles and bombs into the air, frequently flew by was actually to use machine guns to eliminate the jumping bugs that belonged to the insect air units as much as possible.

Even so, the remaining more than 200 Raiden attack planes were still too “small” in front of tens of thousands of jumping bugs.

Fortunately, the flying height, speed, and agility of the jumping bugs could not compete with the Raiden attack planes, so they could only be suppressed by the Raiden machine guns.

When the Raiden used up the machine gun ammunition

Then the mobile infantry stationed in the town completely lost air support and had to “fight head-on” with the sea of ​​insects composed of various insects.

But Leon didn’t know whether the clone soldiers had other air or ground vehicles hidden.

Or maybe the Blood Angels fleet could provide orbital strikes in critical moments?

But Leon hadn’t made time to carefully examine the “foreign objects” given to him by the clones through handshakes.

According to Leon’s speculation, it may be that the data mobile terminal is stored in detail planned and deployed by the Investigation Department, so that he and Maggie and other investigators lurking in the Federation can better “acquire tens of thousands of expeditionary infantry as their own” use”.

When the sea of ​​insects was only about two kilometers away from the high wall where everyone was—

“Apes!”

Leon pointed his gun forward and said loudly on the communication:

“It’s time to compete to see who can kill the most bugs! But please be sure to pay attention to your remaining ammunition! Don’t rush to empty the magazine!”

“Sir! Yes! Sir!”

On the communication line, a group of mobile infantry responded.

“Very good! Now you are energetic enough to obey my orders.

three!

two!

Fire freely! ”

Ta-ta-ta-!

Bang—bang—!

As Lyon said the word “fire” on the communication line, the southern wall suddenly launched a volley of guns.

More than 6,000 mobile infantrymen either fired bursts or fired rapidly. Only a few recruits forgot Leon’s instructions and just pulled the trigger and emptied the magazine instantly.

Nearly a hundred infantrymen operated fixed machine guns and machine cannons left behind by the clones, and continued to output the sea of ​​​​insects.

Moreover, the high-explosive bombs used by machine guns and cannons have a very strong killing effect on Araki bugs.

In an instant, the bugs at the forefront were knocked down and crushed by guns of various calibers.

However, after a series of events, such as following transport bugs to the sand, being bombarded by lightning formations, etc., the number of bugs is still in the millions.

The mobile infantry led by Leon, Rui Ge and a group of non-commissioned officers alone were obviously unable to fight against such a large number of Zerg troops.

According to past procedures, if the mobile infantry encounters an attack by a sea of ​​​​insects on such a scale, they will usually stick to their positions and wait for evacuation.

The fleet will dispatch transport boats to evacuate the mobile infantry stranded on the ground, and then dispatch bombing formations to “solve the insect sea once and for all.”

But now, where can Lyon and the others get support from the expedition fleet?

soon.

The sea of ​​​​insects approached to a position only more than 500 meters away from the high wall.

hiss–!

howl–!

At the same time, in addition to hearing the deafening sound of gunfire, Lyon and others were also able to vaguely capture the roar of insects.

Ruige, on the other hand, had already emptied all the ammunition in the AMWS rifle, so he had to hold the Morita rifle again and continue shooting forward.

Click-click-click-click!

At the same time, Leon also emptied the magazine and prepared to replace it with the last one.

However, after completing the actions of changing the magazine and firing the bolt, Leon fell into a daze for a while.

Because under their concentrated fire attacks, the corpses of dead insects accumulated more and more, gradually becoming a “corpse mountain.”

If the insects at the rear want to continue to approach the high southern wall where they are stationed, they must climb over or around the mountain of corpses piled up by their kind.

To be honest, even though Leon has seen all kinds of abnormal creatures and alien races, this is the first time he has witnessed such a scene.

At the same time, I also truly felt the Zerg’s insect sea tactics.

The bugs advanced to this point, and at least hundreds of thousands of them were killed by them. But the bugs, like the clones, had no fear or confusion at all, and they continued to press forward tirelessly.

Just then.

Ri~Boom—Boom—!

The sound of large-caliber artillery began to echo throughout the battlefield.

?

Everyone heard the news and went out——

!

Then they saw an armored formation headed by four Hunter-Killer main battle tanks appear within their sight from the east.

Not only that, there are at least two thousand fully armed clone soldiers, using tactical squads as basic units, “swapping upstream” towards the incoming sea of ​​​​insects.

What shocked the mobile infantry even more was that those at the forefront were actually several “giants” four meters tall, equipped with heavy armor, and holding rotating machine cannons or plasma cannons.

For Leon, those giants are one of Atlas’ most mature biological weapons——

Heavy Tyrant.

The heavily armored tyrants controlled by the driver’s consciousness, when advancing forward in conjunction with the hunter main battle tank, were like an extremely sharp blade, directly piercing the Zerg army.

The mobile infantry standing on the high wall can clearly see the rotating machine cannon and plasma cannon held in the Tyrant’s left hand, which can easily tear and shatter the warrior bugs around them.

His right hand can even use punches, arm swings and other movements to directly blast and fly bugs.

! ! !

Almost all of the mobile infantrymen who witnessed such a scene were stunned, obviously not expecting that “humans” or “clones” could do such a thing.

As for the jumping bugs that hover in the sky and sometimes look for opportunities to harvest their heads with their sickle-like claws, they have become the key targets of the clone army.

The clone machine gunner equipped with a .30cal caliber smart machine gun can be described as the “nemesis” of the jumping bugs.

After all, various types of smart warheads can carry out precise shooting “unscrupulously”.

In addition, the turret of the Killer main battle tank is also equipped with a micro missile launcher, which can not only provide air defense, but also provide fire coverage on the ground.

But when used to kill jumping insects, there is always a feeling of “cannon hitting mosquitoes”.

Therefore, the clone gunners of the Killer main battle tank fired hundreds of micro-missiles at the area with the densest concentration of bugs at once.

In just a short moment, at least 100,000 Arach warrior bugs were directly “vaporized” and “evaporated”.

And those tank bugs that can spit out high-temperature flames and are huge in size were directly locked and shattered by the Gauss main gun of the killer.

However, with the suicide charge of the clone army, the size of the insect sea was indeed rapidly reduced, but their casualties became more and more severe.

This puzzled the mobile infantry.

But Leon took the opportunity to say: “Attention everyone! Full fire!

In order to defend the town and reduce casualties for us as humans, the clones of the human empire chose to take the initiative to attack, so we can’t be stingy with the ammunition in our hands!

Eliminate all the bugs!”

“Yes!”

Next.

More than 6,000 mobile infantry led by Leon, Rico and others also increased their firepower in a short period of time to provide cover for the clones who ventured into the insect swarm.

When everyone’s ammunition was running out, the million-scale insect sea had become “a passing cloud”, turning into a pile of corpses like low mountains and hills.

As for the clone army, it also suffered heavy casualties and had little ammunition left.

Even the Tyrant chose to kill the bugs with his bare hands after consuming all his ammunition, and was eventually engulfed by Warrior Bugs that were dozens of times larger than him.

The four Hunter Main Battle Tanks were besieged and destroyed by Tiger Bugs, whose claws could tear through steel and whose appearance was similar to that of Warriors, but whose size was larger.

Now, there were only a hundred surviving clones standing by outside the high wall.

On the other hand, on the mobile infantry side, only a few dozen unlucky guys were beheaded by jumping bugs that broke through the firepower network.

But overall, they did not suffer much loss at all, and they had not had time to use the weapons and ammunition delivered by the clones.

In other words, the mobile infantry only needed to continue advancing to easily occupy the entire town, as well as the various supplies that were deliberately left behind and forgotten by the clones.

Seeing this, Rico asked again:

“Sergeant, what should we do now? Tear up the armistice agreement?”

“Let Maggie, Frost and others try to persuade the clones to accept our prisoners. The clones now pose no threat to us.”

Leon stood up and walked under the high wall, and continued to say to Rico who was following behind:

“Then let each advancing force conduct a comprehensive search of the entire town and control the clones’ supplies, and we will go too.

The rest is how to lead everyone to safely withdraw from New Hope.”

“Okay, Sergeant.”

Then, while Leon led everyone to “sweep” the entire town, he took the time to check the “foreign objects” handed to him by the clones, or

the mobile terminal that stores the smart AI data.

After a brief exchange with the smart AI, Leon learned that the Investigation Department had sent more than a dozen federal escort transport ships and the corresponding federal prisoners to a star port on the surface.

The evacuation route for him and the mobile infantry was to recapture the dozen or so escort transport ships “without injury” according to the arrangement of the Investigation Department.