Volume II San Diego 126 Drone Tactics
The wireless thermal energy sensor first captured a large amount of thermal energy from the southwest of Maple Leaf Town, and through analysis, it was quickly confirmed that this fluctuating thermal energy belonged to humans.
At this time, the management of Maple Leaf Town, led by Ye Hao, and several chief experts of the research institute gathered together, looking at the thermal image transmitted through the wireless thermal energy sensor on the screen.
Dr. Rudolph, the chief expert in engineering electronics at the institute, sighed, shook his head and said: "Time is too tight, otherwise we will renovate it, it will not only be wireless thermal sensors, get some cameras, and then let Dr. Green cooperate, we will be able to make an aerial electronic reconnaissance aircraft, then we can know their actions well." ”
Dr. Green, as Dr. Rudolph said, was an expert in aeronautical design, and for him, assembling a few small planes was a piece of cake as long as the materials were available.
Ye Hao smiled: "Experts, please rest assured, you will soon have a lot of resources to support, and then you will have time to study your favorite topics." ”
Ye Hao is not bragging, when Maple Leaf Town survives this crisis, he will return to the modern society to raise materials and support the scientific research activities of this group of science and technology maniacs. He also blamed himself, he didn't care much after getting these cattle people back. Take out any of these things, and it will cause a huge shock to the scientific community by 2019, but it is a tyrannical thing to be freed into the sun in the research institute by yourself.
Several experts surrounding Ye Hao all looked at each other and smiled when they heard this, they didn't have to worry about survival when they arrived in Maple Leaf Town, but the days of eating and waiting for death made them live better than death. Therefore, when they heard that Odom wanted to fight Maple Leaf Town, they immediately actively participated in the defensive battle, and they wanted to hint to Ye Hao their value through such a move.
"This Odom is really cunning, and he actually took a small detour to hide to the north of us. Barnes, the commander of the armored company, did not have the current feeling of a big enemy, but was a little excited, and his aggressive personality made him full of fighting spirit, even if the enemy was outnumbered, he also had the confidence to win.
To the north of Maple Leaf, because of its proximity to the reservoir, there is a dense wooded area outside the wall, which is a powerful terrain for rallying troops before launching an attack.
Ye Hao smiled and turned his head to Lawrence, the commander of the infantry company, and said, "Lawrence, this first appetizer has fallen on your head, treat them well." ”
Lawrence was calm, just smiled and turned away. Soon in Maple Leaf Town, several more cars rushed out, and they buried mines one by one a kilometer northwest of Maple Leaf Town, and then lightly covered them with sand. With the help of the night wind, the traces left behind will soon be blown away, and no one will know that this is already a forbidden area of death.
Not only that, but more than a dozen toy remote-controlled helicopters, their empty bellies, were carefully fitted with fist-sized objects. Soon after, it took off slowly, and soon flew northwest and disappeared under the dim night sky.
After Lawrence left, Dr. Rudolph continued: "Your Excellency Archon (Ye Hao is the lifelong Archon of Maple Leaf Town), don't underestimate the tactics we are talking about, if it is in the face of a regularized digital army, our small means will not be of any use at all. But Odom: What kind of digital troops are they? Just a bunch of militia with guns. ”
Dr. Rudolph is a newcomer who has not been in Maple Leaf Town for a long time, and coupled with his strict personality, Ye Hao is called a relatively formal "Your Excellency the Consul", rather than the "boss" or "boss" like Barnes and others.
Dr. Rudolph continued: "Our helicopters seem to be the size of toys, but the materials used are not comparable to toys, the structure is made of aluminum alloy, and the electric motor has been modified by us, which is enough to start more than 15 kilograms. The empty belly is specially used for bombs. The helicopter is equipped with an infrared camera, which clearly observes everything, and is ideal for reconnaissance and combat. Especially in the dark night, people's vision is insufficient, and small things like the ones we make, even in the daytime, the combat effectiveness is very strong, let alone in the night. Four thousand people, half of them will be able to arrive in Maple Leaf Town by then, which is already lucky. ”
With Dr. Rudolph's explanation, Ye Hao learned that in fact, the toys he thought of had a special term in the pre-apocalyptic army, which was called drone tactics. This tactic relies entirely on a variety of manually operated machinery as the core, taking advantage of the characteristics of small targets and being able to lurk to launch attacks on the enemy.
This tactic, when used properly, is quite powerful. It's just a small toy, and it can produce combat effectiveness that is stronger than that of special forces. This is also a new mode of warfare that has emerged in modern warfare.
Like a remote-controlled helicopter, it's just a rudimentary version, otherwise with enough time and materials, Dr. Rudolph can even build an unmanned helicopter with the ability to distinguish between friend and foe. When the time comes, as long as the target direction is set, it can automatically go to strike at the enemy directly from the air.
Now this menacing Odom seems to be preparing to enjoy this delicious drone tactics, I don't know, they are advancing, are they ready?
In the dark night, a long dragon was stretching, and the light of the flickering torches in the team was advancing towards Maple Town. The scale of more than 4,500 people is already close to 90 percent of the total population of Maple Leaf Town.
When they were about five kilometers away from Maple Leaf Town, the team rested for another half an hour. It's not that Odom doesn't want to be faster, but of the 4,500 people under his command, only 2,000 are soldiers of the Blood Wolf Mercenary Regiment, and the rest can't keep up as cannon fodder. Even his own 2,000 subordinates are already exhausted when they come here. So the trip came and went, at least three hours later than planned.
Odom walked to the front of the group with some anxiety and looked ahead with a telescope, but unfortunately it was night, how far could he see? It was night now, and he wasn't unaware of the dangers of night in the wasteland. Along the way, sporadic zombie attacks still killed more than a dozen unlucky people.
Odom glanced back at the entire team, the soldiers of the two thousand Blood Wolf Mercenary Regiment were better, maintaining a basic formation, and the rest of the people were undisciplined and scattered on the sand. Although he regretted it slightly, he was in danger of wealth and wealth, and there was no possibility of turning back from the arrow he shot.
Half an hour later, the team moved forward again, and under the restraint of their respective leaders, Odom nodded in satisfaction, only the rustling of the march, and no one made a loud noise.
The night is a little cold, and the cold wind blows, which always makes people feel very cold. Everyone in the team was always suspicious, and a pair of eyes were looking around. If it weren't for Odom's obscenity, someone might have escaped.
The team walked more than a kilometer, and everyone was nervous.
The people who were placed in the front were cannon fodder, and Odom was just a group of leaders appointed according to the method of ten-hundred-thousand, and the others were not managed.
A small leader suddenly patted his partner next to him and whispered, "Did you hear a strange sound?" After speaking, he continued to listen intently ahead. The partner who was photographed was a little anxious, and was slapped by the little boss coldly, so frightened that he almost screamed, he covered his mouth stiffly, and said dissatisfiedly: "You want to scare me to death?"
"Buzz...... Buzz ......"
The voices were getting clearer and clearer, and it was not only the little boss who heard them, but also the others who heard the strange sounds coming from afar in the night. This dark night was originally unsettling, but now there is such a strange sound, and all of a sudden, everyone who hears it is a contraction in their hearts, and immediately a frightened look appears on their faces. The front of the entire team suddenly became chaotic.
Humans already know that there are some special skills in high-level zombies, and high-level zombies with special skills are all nightmares for humans.
You won't really encounter high-level zombies, right?
Everyone was taken aback by this idea, and under the shouts of their respective leaders, the people in front of them were quickly organized and threw themselves down in rows on the sand, guns in their hands, aimed at the night. Even a few light machine guns were also erected.
Odom's face turned blue, he didn't expect his luck to be so weak, he hadn't reached Maple Leaf Town yet, he ran into a high-level zombie, or in this dark night, the visual distance was only more than ten meters, with the ability of high-level zombies, and he didn't know how many people would be lost.
When he saw that the team was very dense, Odom's heart contracted suddenly, if he let high-level zombies enter the team like this, the consequences would be a disaster, and he yelled desperately: "Disperse, disperse." ”
The formation that the team had just set up, and in the roar of Odom, several captains of thousands of people also realized the consequences of the dense formation, and they could only let the formation spread out desperately. The entire team is in a mess, and to deal with high-level zombies, it is necessary to have dense firepower, and under the concentrated use, they will not be given a chance. But now...... They simply did not know what to do, whether to disperse, or to concentrate their fire.
As they scurried around, the sound of "buzzing" was getting closer and closer, finally making it clear to all. However, what is overwhelming is that only voices are heard in front of me, and nothing is seen at all. This "buzzing" sound directly crossed the front of the team, and appeared in the sky above the team in the confusion and tension of everyone.
In the dark night, the small mechanical helicopter relied on sensors to determine the location of the team where the blood wolves gathered, and after flying over the team, the data collected by the thermal sensors once again determined the crowded place.
Small mechanical helicopters can only be maintained at an altitude of a few tens of meters in the air due to their size and power. The sound of twenty small mechanical helicopters is still very loud, but fortunately it is dark now, and the range of human vision is pitifully small, and it is impossible to see the small mechanical helicopters flying at a height of tens of meters, and they can only rely on the sound to determine that something is above their heads.
"They're on top of our heads!"
A panicked voice shouted, but it was too late. The improvised incendiary bombs placed under the belly of the small mechanical helicopters that arrived at the target fell from a height of several tens of meters downwards as soon as the fixtures were opened.
With a "boom", a huge light flashed, and then a huge flame erupted. The improvised incendiary bomb, which was only the size of a fist, instantly evacuated the air within seven or eight meters and burned violently, enveloping everyone within the blast range.
The first explosion was just a prelude to hell, and many incendiary bombs fell from the sky, turning the entire area into a sea of fire. The unprepared people howled violently in the heat, but many of the howls only lasted for a few seconds before they came to an abrupt end. An individual engulfed in fire, rolling in the sand, letting out a heart-rending scream, turning the place into a living hell.
Those who were not hit by the incendiary bombs all looked at what they saw in disbelief, and all the movements were frozen, and many people's heads could not turn around.
The fire continued to burn for more than ten minutes before it was gradually extinguished.
The smell of burnt wafting through the air makes people's throats twitch, but just think that the smell is emitted by people being grilled, and more people vomit. When facing the disgusting zombies, the man who never vomited was stupefied by the tragic situation of his own people. Nearly two hundred charred corpses burned beyond recognition, their newly living companions?
Dozens of people who were splashed by the flames, their howls never stopped. Where they were splashed, they were burned alive until the incendiary was burned out. Many people are in this kind of tossing, and the severe pain makes them faint, but they are immediately woken up by the pain. repeatedly, so that they can't live or die. Even if you apply sand, you will not be able to extinguish these incendiary agents.
In the silence of the night, there was a scream, so piercing.
Odom stood like a wooden carving, and the sight in front of him left his mind blank. Two hundred and fifty or sixty casualties, Odom did not have to see it. But he couldn't imagine that he didn't even know what was attacking him, and so many people died in such an unknown way. Even more serious was the morale of the entire team, which had dropped to an extremely low point under this strange blow.
"Damn, it must have been someone from Maple Leaf who did it. Odom didn't care about what was attacking his team, so he could only bite it to death.
The cannon fodder team was a mixed group of people, large and small, and in this chaos, who would remember to obey orders? Some small teams, after seeing the miserable situation of those hundreds of people, retreated in their hearts.
Odom is not a good person at all, and in this case, he was not polite, he pulled out his pistol, killed a few disobedient people, and sent his henchmen to take over the command of the cannon fodder team, which can be regarded as stabilizing the entire team. However, seeing that they don't have any spirit, their combat effectiveness has undoubtedly decreased a few points. Unexpectedly, a small attack would knock out the rustic spirit of the entire team.
Odom couldn't figure out how he had been attacked. Thinking of the sound in the air, many people's faces turned ugly, could it be that there are still air troops in this Maple Leaf Town? But this can't be explained at all, even the Wasteland Administration, there is not even a single plane, how can this Maple Leaf Town have?
After tidying up, the team continued to move forward again, and Odom gritted his teeth and shouted: "Take Maple Leaf Town, and everyone's reward will be doubled." "Now we can only use heavy rewards to boost the morale of the team.
Stimulated by money and material things, the morale of the whole team recovered a little bit, and it became fanatical again. This feeling is like that of a bandit who is about to go down the mountain to rob, but Odom's actions are the actions of bandits.
After marching for more than half an hour in the dark night, it was less than a kilometer away from Maple Leaf Town.
The loud sound of "boom", the sudden loud noise, the sand and gravel on the ground, were suddenly lifted, and the people walking on it let out a miserable scream, and the two thighs were blown to pieces. The splattered flesh and blood made the people nearby splash all over. The strong sand and gravel hit the people around and screamed. A few unlucky people, because they got too close, shrapnel knocked one of them down and never got up again, and several wounded, fell in pain in the sand, clutching their wounds and screaming.
The nervous team, under this sudden attack, all instinctively threw themselves to the ground.
There was another loud bang, and one of the people who fell down touched a mine buried in the dirt. Without any suspense, the mine exploded directly in his chest, blowing up the whole person's upper body into a ball of flesh and blood, and he was already too dead to die.
"Damn, there's mines, don't move them. ”
The experienced veteran soldiers shouted, and people could only lie on their stomachs in the sand, not daring to move, for fear of accidentally touching these mines and following in the footsteps of a few unlucky people.
At this moment, everyone was blinded, and under a calm wasteland, how could there be landmines? But believe it or not, no one dares to move it, and if there are mines, they won't know who you are, and they will all be unlucky.
Recalling the incendiary bomb attack just now, and now entering the mine position again, as long as you have brains, you know that this must have something to do with Maple Leaf Town.
Odom's face was pale, he had never thought that he would be so embarrassed, first with an inexplicable incendiary bomb attack, and then now with a mine, as if the other party had completely calculated everything in it, just waiting for himself to get into it stupidly.
"Where did they get the mines?" said an annoyed Odom, almost roaring. The production of landmines is very simple, and there are many people in the settlements who can do it, but what is the use of landmines? They can only be used for defense, and the use of them is too low, and there is no market at all. What was thought to be ineffective, but at the right time, it brought such a big threat to yourself?