0973 Man-eating shield machine
When the stormy rockets finally stopped, the British infantry trapped in the street were already in despair, and the few surviving officers were shouting loudly, maintaining their men who were about to collapse completely, while allocating manpower to rescue the wounded who were on fire, and at the same time continuing to consolidate the scattered defensive formation.
However, within 2-3 minutes, the expected bullet strike of the infantry did not come, the militants did not launch a surprise attack after the rockets, and the enemy who was hiding in the buildings on both sides of the street, as suddenly as the attack came, after quickly destroying the remnant convoy, the enemy who was hiding in the cross disappeared without firing another shot.
Encountering such a strange thing, the officer who led the British army was completely blindfolded, and he could only roar loudly into the walkie-talkie, asking his superiors for support and ambulance.
At the critical moment, an elderly non-commissioned officer stepped forward, ran around and began to contact the scattered non-commissioned officers, gather the soldiers who were fleeing in a panic, and then issued a clear order; ambulance to the wounded, covering their first evacuation of the battlefield of blood and fire, and at the same time to prevent the enemy's second round of possible attacks, after counting the number of soldiers in the company, he immediately began to retreat, and decisively abandoned the vehicle destroyed by the rockets.
After a delay of more than 20 minutes, the British infantry, with dozens of corpses of their companions and a large number of lightly and seriously wounded, finally retreated, but the fire and the wreckage of the towed vehicles could not be extinguished for a while, but they could only continue to burn in the same place on the street, emitting puffs of smoke.
At this time, in the VIP audience that Hou Tianming originally prepared for Hou Rui, Sanpai, who was holding a telescope and a number of walkie-talkies and satellite phones on the table in front of him, was coldly watching everything that happened on the street, and when she saw the figure of the last soldier of the British army disappearing around the corner of the street, Sanpao immediately picked up a high-frequency walkie-talkie and reported the latest situation to Hou Tianming, who was in the underground transfer area of the Bank of England.
On the other side, waiting for Tianming, he put down the walkie-talkie, and immediately announced to the people present: "Now there are two news to tell you, the good news is that within two hours, no one should bother us." But the bad news is that our companions in the hospital have also been taken care of by the police, and now the whole of London, or the whole of England, will be trying to kill us. ”
"......" Everyone present, of course, would not be stupid enough to talk to Hou Tianming, after they heard this, they all sped up their busy speeds.
With a "bang", as the laser drill bit finally pierced through the heavy iron door of the vault, the locking parts were finally loosened when the internal structure was destroyed, and then under the leadership of the blacksmith, the men of Group B began to fix a hydraulic device on the large iron door to support the large iron lump weighing 3.5 tons.
While the blacksmith was busy, Hou Tianming took a brief look, and then picked up the walkie-talkie again and began to contact the mysterious Group C, but the situation was just as Hou Tianming expected, at a depth of dozens of meters underground, the telecommunication signal could not be transmitted at all, and as a result, Hou Tianming could not grasp the progress of Group C, and this became the only uncertain factor in the entire plan.
"Squeak and rat......tle" with the opening of the hydraulic device, the big iron door was stretched open little by little, when the crack of the door expanded little by little, and finally opened its arms to Hou Tianming's group of people, everyone present was stunned! Including Hou Rui, everyone looked at the gold bricks like a hill, neatly placed on the shelves and could not be seen at a glance, under the illumination of the vault light, emitting bursts of dizzying bright light.
"Bang bang...... Okay guys, wipe your saliva first, these things are just beautiful stones for now, and they will become money in our pockets after we ship them out. ”
At this time, he raised his hand, lifted the V-shaped vendetta mask on his face, and turned it to the back of his head, and then he clapped his hands and said to everyone.
After sobering up a little, there was no need to wait for Tianming to urge everyone again, the two groups of AB plus the Aryan Brotherhood, one or two, were all like chicken blood, and they picked up the box and roared to the vault.
However, compared with the two groups of people in the rushing AB, the situation of the people in Group C is very difficult!
"Hey, reduce the frequency by 30%, the machine is vibrating so much, and the last 10 meters are also the most critical part. "A man wrapped in a yellow dust suit and able to speak only with the communicator in his helmet, his eyes staring at the machine in front of him without blinking.
In front of this man, a tunnel shield machine is constantly working, and the huge cutterhead set in front of it is spinning rapidly, and at the same time making a huge noise, and countless pieces of gravel and soil are constantly falling down the inclined tunnel and falling into the dark depths of the tunnel.
At the rear of the cutterhead group, a transmission shaft is connected to the main engine 15 meters away, and a total of three people huddle in a small space, while carefully dodging the rotating rotation shaft, while observing the tablet in their hands and the surrounding rock formations, from time to time to make the slightest adjustments to this sophisticated and brutal machine.
This shield machine plus three personnel, they are all squeezed into a narrow tunnel with a diameter of only two meters wide, and the angle of inclination of this tunnel will definitely not be less than 65 degrees, so these three operators, they must drill holes in the tunnel, and then use ropes to fix their bodies, otherwise slide down the tunnel, and will be crushed by the heavy body of the shield machine in an instant.
In addition, when these three people are working, they also have to carefully leave the propeller shaft, which is about 240 revolutions per minute, although four revolutions a second is not too high, but this propeller shaft has more than 1,500 horsepower, and the only thing that can be mixed into it is a slow and painful death.
In addition, behind the entire 30-meter-long shield machine, there are three people, and their work is to move the shield machine forward as a whole every time the shield machine advances 15 meters and begins to stop and rest, and finally cross-fixes it behind the shield machine, so as to ensure that when the shield machine starts again, it can have a stable force point, and then it can not affect the fall of those residual soil and gravel during the tunneling process.
Since three weeks ago, six people in Group C have been dismantling and transporting the TBM to a depth of 175 meters, then assembling it for him, erecting it and starting to drill holes.
Then for three weeks, they worked 18 hours a day, seven days a week, moving slowly forward at 15 meters and 15 meters, eating and drinking every day in this invisible tunnel, tenaciously persevering to this day, and finally in the morning, approaching the bottom of the central vault, about 10 meters away, in a complex rock formation.
All the way to today, seeing that this painful work is coming to an end, the members of Group C are even more energetic, after all, no one can bear the result of falling short!
As the cutterhead group broke through the complex rock formations, the amplitude of the vibration began to decrease, and the excavation speed increased significantly, the head of Group C, the man nicknamed the Blind Snake, took the time to glance at his wrist, and the electronic watch on his wrist showed that it was already 9:42 a.m., which indicated that his work progress had fallen behind by an hour.
Thinking of this, thinking that Hou Tianming was likely to have entered the vault, the blind snake once again ordered in the channel: "Increase the power, we must speed up." ”
“OK。 The subordinate who heard the instructions immediately clicked a few times on the tablet, and then the main body of the shield machine began to roar even more, intensifying the output, pushing the cutterhead faster and more violently, and in just twenty seconds, the soft soil layer of 5 cm thick was cut open.
But as the speed of the shield machine accelerated, the amount of rubble that slipped down the inclined tunnel naturally increased, and as a result, just when victory was in sight, a person next to the rotating shaft slipped very unexpectedly, and after leaning his body, one arm touched the rotating shaft.
The next second, the greased transmission shaft still hooked the yellow dust suit on the man's arm, and then when the man let out a desperate scream, the blind snake and another subordinate who heard the sound just turned around, but they saw that the body of their companion was rotating around the transmission shaft, and the safety rope and iron nails fixed on the tunnel stone wall could not resist the pull of the transmission shaft at all, and flew out of the rock formation with a few "poofs", and did not even play the role of delaying a little time.
"Ah......h
In a blink of an eye, the dust suit on the man's body was tightened and cracked in many places, and then with the fatal rotation, the shield machine also spilled countless blood spots and 360 degrees onto the stone wall, which was quite shocking in a cloud of dust.
"Turn off, turn off!" The blind snake that finally reacted immediately shouted, and as a result, the huge shield machine stopped vibrating and rotating after 15 seconds, and the whole tunnel immediately fell silent, leaving only the low snort of the unfortunate and the light emitted by the headlamps of a few people.
Seeing that the shield machine had stopped, the blind snake and his men immediately approached, but when they got closer, they saw a rather bloody scene;1.