Chapter 52: The Centaur Charge
Durant felt as if he was standing on an ancient battlefield, feeling the majesty of the most primitive war force and the fear it brings.
The horses were closer, and the individuals were already discernible through the telescope.
Then he could clearly see that each of the horses had a large human head, and the heads of the men had long hair, which could not be seen in the fluorescence, but could only be seen fluttering like black flags in the rush.
The horses had clear human heads, they opened their mouths and roared, their eyes glowing with a fierce green light, and under the glowing green sky, they looked hideous and terrifying.
You can only truly appreciate the visual effect of magnifying a human head many times and placing it on a horse.
This terror even affected the performance of the elite soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division, Durant heard the continuous fire of a machine gun, from the shrill sound he heard that it was a light machine gun, and now, the target has not yet entered the range of the heavy machine gun, apparently the shooter instinctively pulled the trigger in fear.
Then, without orders, the machine guns on the line opened fire one after the other, and the dense and frantic fire of the rain covered everything, and the flames of the muzzles made the line visible in the desert, a horizontal line made of countless flashes of light.
However, in fact, the crowd of horses was still some distance from the defensive line, and the light machine guns were fiercely fired, but the bullets were all missing, Durant quickly noticed this, and the order for a ceasefire was transmitted, so that the light machine gun fire was quickly stopped in various parts of the defense line.
The flame-like flame of the muzzle of the light machine gun disappeared, leaving only the cross-shaped flames of the M2 heavy machine gun, and only a strip of the impact belt remained.
The centaurs' strikers had already rushed into the impact zone, and it was impossible to see the bullet from a distance, only to see many centaurs suddenly fall to the ground as if they had encountered a tripline, and due to the speed of their spraying, the bodies of the fallen centaurs were rolling forward, and it was difficult to distinguish which centaurs had been shot and fallen to the ground, and which had tripped and fallen.
The following crowd of horses did not slow down because their companions fell to the ground, they continued to rush forward, causing the centaur line to keep rolling forward.
More flares rose into the night sky, and in a dazzling light, Durant was stunned to find that there was another individual in the line of the combination, in addition to the centaurs, which was the modification of the lion and the cowman.
The head of the man who grew on the lion was larger than that of the centaurs, and the disorderly hair on the head of the man stood upright with anger, like the mane of a lion, and the oxen had long horns, and their expressions were hideous because of their anger, because the height of these two was much lower than that of the centaurs, so the proportion of them being shot was also low, and the centaurs were shot more, and the speed of their advance slowed down, so that the lions stood out in the line.
Soon, the restrictions on light machine guns were lifted, and a chorus of strafing was also added, and the addition of light machine guns made the entire transformation of the human formation shape, like a branch facing the wind, and leaves were constantly blown down.
But as the reformers continued to move forward, the firepower of the machine guns became less and less, after all, there was only one defensive position, and there were more and more reformers who were shot, and the smell of blood did not intimidate the others, but further aroused their ferocity, and the speed of the charge was faster.
Durant waved his hand violently, like the sound of a steam train running over the tracks, and the 30mm machine guns on the two Stryker armored vehicles opened fire, and the thick light chain swept towards the transformer in front.
Durant saw through the telescope that a centaur running in front was hit in the head by a piece of shrapnel, cutting off half of his head at once, and the other centaur was directly hit by a high-explosive shell, and the whole person was instantly shattered, and the scattered flesh fell to the ground like mud.
Under the devastation of the machine guns, the entire transformation crowd was littered with such fine pieces of flesh and blood, mixed with entire limbs that had been cut off by the terrible bullets of the dummy bullet...... The reformers seemed to be struggling to advance against a sudden strengthening wind, and each step forward came at the cost of the deaths of countless reformers.
Later, the 25mm machine gun on the wall behind him also joined the battlefield, and the continuous shells blasted a wall of iron and fire in front of him, finally blocking the pace of the transformation man's charge.
However, the wall of fire and iron did not last long, as Stryter's cannon stopped first, followed by the cannon on the wall, which lost its ability to autoload and soon needed to stop and change because of the running out of drums.
The whole battlefield slowly fell silent, and the soldiers collapsed weakly behind the machine guns, their camouflage uniforms soaked with cold sweat, and their eyes were glazed, unable to get out of the nightmare just now.
On the battlefield in front, there was a layer of dust that was dispersing, scattering the light of the flares, covering the entire battlefield in a green halo, and the corpses of the transformed people were blurred in this halo, and the blood on the ground was black, making this wasteland like a large piece of camouflage cloth.
When the buzzing in the ears of the people on the line subsided, they heard the eerie screams of the wounded transants echoing over the battlefield, causing many soldiers to cover their ears.
Durant's face was expressionless, and he ordered the people below, "Tell everyone not to relax, the enemy will definitely not launch only one attack." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Durant noticed a dark shadow flashing outside the watchtower, and a round object was thrown in, smoking on the ground.
"Grenade!"
Durant slammed to the ground.
The soldiers on the ground heard a loud bang and found that the watchtower behind them had turned into a giant torch.
This was the second step of Yang Pingfan's planned operation, first the suicidal charge of the centaurs, the lionmen and the cowmen, fully attracting the attention of the defending troops, and then the birdmen took the opportunity to launch an assault from the air, and the land and air were united. The center's automated defense system had been paralyzed by Amy, so the air defense radar had not been able to detect their approach, and the ground defense forces were all attracted by the suicidal charge of the horses, and even with flare lighting, few people would look up at the sky in a high level of tension.
The raid of the Wingmen was deadly, and in addition to grenades, they also threw a large number of homemade incendiary canisters at the walls, especially those manned gun emplacements and machine gun emplacements, which quickly burned the defenders on the walls to the point of howling wolves.
Breaking up the wall guards, the Wingmen began to parachute. At this time, the ground troops also reacted, and turned their guns one after another to provide support for the strafing of the wall.
The soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division were equipped with night vision devices, but in order to release the flares just now, none of them wore them, and they could not see the enemy clearly in the dark, which greatly reduced the fire support of the soldiers on the ground.