Chapter 1: Ambush (01)
South Africa, southern Republic of Knubia, mountainous areas, moderate rain, night
The thunder in the sky and the muddy water on the ground are rare, even in the rainy season in this country, it is rare to have such a heavy rain, under the light of the lightning that occasionally pierces the sky, the convoy of trains along the road from far to near, several canvas personnel carriers and a BTR-50 armored transport vehicle along the rugged mountain road, in the darkness the lights are connected end to end, like a giant python climbing in the mountains is crawling slowly......
The so-called roads are actually paved gravel roads, and even such roads are rare in a country where the war has lasted for many years, and most of them have either been bombed to the ground or have become potholed due to disrepair, and the road to the capital can be regarded as quite well maintained.
The convoy staggered forward in the rain, many potholes and potholes were very deep, and it was difficult to judge how deep the puddle was in the dark, but the truck driver was not worried about these, he had walked this road for more than a year, quite familiar, he knew which position was problematic, but the bumps were inevitable, the co-pilot's sleepy lieutenant was awakened, and looked at him angrily on his face: "Idiot ......"
"I'm sorry sir, the road is too bad." The driver looked innocent.
The lieutenant muttered, changing his posture and preparing to continue the half-dream.
"Bang ......" The sudden sudden braking made the lieutenant's head and the windshield come into close contact, and the lieutenant who was about to get angry suddenly heard the sound of the bullet hitting the metal, and the car turned off instantly, and the sound of tearing the metal told him that it was caused by the anti-materiel weapon piercing the engine, he knew what it meant, and he also knew what would happen below, since the other party forced the vehicle to stop, then the next person to deal with must be the driver......
But before the lieutenant could make any effective reaction, a bullet had passed through the glass of the driver's door, and then broke the driver's half of his head, and then broke the lieutenant's cervical vertebrae without stopping, the huge force almost completely tore his neck, only a little skin and flesh were still attached to it, the lieutenant's head hung weakly on his chest, and the door of his head and chest came to a close contact that he had never done in his life, and the only thought in his mind before he lost consciousness was, "This can't ......"
In the loud "......boom", a truck was blown up by a rocket, and then slammed into the ground and emitted black smoke, completely scrapped.
The soldiers in the carriage were hit, almost at the same time as they were attacked, they had roughly judged the direction of the attacker from the sound outside, and they began to jump down as fast as possible, but just a few people swept over with a burst of bullets like a torrential rain, instantly beating the truck to a thousand holes, and some of the people in the carriage who did not have time to get off the car were torn to pieces by the dense rain of bullets, and most of them were instantly reimbursed, and the buzzing sound from the rain curtain made the soldiers who could still breathe in the car creepy, It was clearly a Gatling gun......
A dense rain of bullets and rockets swept through the entire convoy from beginning to end, and in less than a minute all the trucks were turned into piles of scrap metal burning in the rainy night, and the air was filled with the smell of blood mixed with burnt flesh.
In this case, the soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the first round of slaughter calmed down as quickly as possible, they were fortunate to jump out of the car for the first time, as veterans of the war for many years, they knew very well that staying in the car was waiting for death, the enemy's indiscriminate strafing had destroyed all their trucks, and now the only thing that could dodge the bullet rain was the slope under the roadbed next to it, the attacker's tactical design was reasonable, all the vehicles were destroyed under the first round of attacks, and it was obvious that the final goal of the other party was to kill them all, In just a few minutes, a large number of soldiers and trucks had already been killed in the fire, and less than a third of them had managed to escape from the trucks in this first round of attacks, and these people had already climbed down the road without the commander's orders, and hid under the cover of the roadbed, although they had already figured out the specific location of the enemy in the first place, it was not so easy to effectively return fire or get out.
"Formed a battle formation, set up positions, machine guns...... Machine guns, fire suppression, cover for others......" Finally, an officer stood up from the chaos and began to direct the chaotic soldiers to carry out an effective counterattack, but before he could even finish the order, a bullet was shot into his mouth and a bowl-sized hole was opened in the back of his head, and the whole person was instantly carried out by the huge impact force, rolled all the way down the roadbed and fell into the grass below.
"Lie down...... sober soldiers began to greet those guys who were running around, not everyone could stay calm in this situation, veterans would be afraid, but they knew how to save their lives, in this case, the first element was to find cover, preserve strength, and then gather strength to fight back, otherwise they would not even have a chance to fight back, the more panicked they were, the faster they died, they knew very well that the attack was definitely carefully planned, Moreover, judging from the sound of gunfire and the intensity of firepower, although the opponent's manpower is strong, the number does not seem to be too large.
Soon a dozen veterans gathered under the roadbed, surrounded by wailing wounded, others too far away to rush over from the threat of enemy fire, and these dozen men began to discuss how to counterattack.
"Where's Lieutenant Cole?" Someone asked out loud.
"In my ...... There is only half a leg left. Someone replied.
"Sergeant Marcian......" the man shouted again.
"Down there." Someone pointed to the corpses strewn across the ditch under the roadbed and said, "The enemy is cleaning up our commanders, watch out for their words and deeds." ”
"And who's the highest rank now?" The man asked again, and just then a volley of bullets flew over his head, causing him to shrink his neck and quickly lean over the ground.
"It's you, sergeant." Someone looked at him, "All our command staff were taken out by snipers, and now you are the biggest." ”
"Damn ......it," the sergeant scolded, "they're cleaning us up for a purpose." ”
"They have heavy machine guns, one at eleven o'clock and one at two o'clock, it's Gatling, and two mobile shots, it can't be the rebels, the rebels don't have such good weapons, and they don't have such strong combat effectiveness." The soldier wailed, he still couldn't understand why he was attacked so strongly, and there was no other force in the country that was so beyond the combat capabilities of a normal army, including the government army.
"They were all on the ridge across the road, judging by the sound of gunfire and the direction of the firing, they were not very numerous, but they were holding heavy firepower." A veteran next to him said that although he faced such a strong enemy, not everyone was in a mess, and there were still people who stayed awake.
"Dozens of us were slaughtered by the enemy like this? What a shame, check your weapons and prepare to fight back......" The sergeant took a deep breath and prepared to fulfill his duties as a commander, and they were finished in this way, he ran forward along the drainage ditch under the roadbed, issued an order to gather the soldiers, and divided the soldiers into several groups of three, relying on each other to cover each other, attacking, retreating, and defending, maximizing their own strength, and must not wait for being killed any longer.
"What about the people in the car?" Someone asked.
"We can't protect ourselves, we can't control them." The sergeant glanced at the armored vehicle whose tracks had been blown off and said that he had not taken the risk of checking it out, and that it was impossible for him to send someone to death in such a situation, whether the people inside were dead or alive.
The sergeant counted the weapons while gathering men, but the situation did not seem optimistic, they only had one rocket launcher and three warheads in addition to a few AKs, and none of the machine guns were brought down, and now the only thing they could do was to gamble their luck and fight with the enemy to fight their way out, but the problem was that they couldn't see a single person except for the bullets that swept over and the rockets that exploded everywhere, and they didn't have night vision equipment in the dark.
"Flares, confirm the enemy's location first." The sergeant shouted.
As the flares exploded in the rainy night, the whole area was illuminated in a miserable white, and there seemed to be a figure flashing in the strange mountain forest, although it was not clear to see, but finally there was a target, and the government soldiers who were lying under the roadbed with a belly fire immediately raised their guns and shot, and the rows of bullets swept over, and they didn't know if they hit anyone.
"Gather all the personnel over, pay attention to keeping a distance, and accumulate strength to counterattack in the shortest possible time." The sergeant kept giving orders, and this was definitely their only chance to live.
"Boom, boom, boom......" A continuous explosion suddenly occurred in the roadbed in a large area, and the nearly 20 government soldiers who had just gathered from all around were wrapped in the explosion before they could even figure out what was going on......
The sergeant who survived the fall of the flares saw something appear on the road behind him, a beast-like thing with a large size and nimble limbs that appeared on this side of the roadbed around the burning truck, and before he could see what it was, a long fire snake spat out from the back of the thing, followed by a dense rain of bullets, and instantly broke him in two, and the dense rain of bullets continued to sweep past and send the flesh and blood of several soldiers behind the sergeant who were shooting with guns, The sergeant lay in the rain and saw that the thing was moving around flexibly, but the weapon on his back kept strafing, and he also fired rockets from time to time, and he realized that it was no wonder that the enemy's fire was moving so fast, and that there was such a thing as a carrier, which was clearly an autonomously running slaughtering robot......
After a few minutes, the battlefield fell silent, littered with bloody corpses, scattered bullet casings mixed with the flesh and mud on the ground......
The big dog robot stood still on the roadbed after confirming that there was no danger near the detection, and the sergeant with a trace of consciousness saw the figure carefully touching down the high slope on the opposite side in the afterglow of the falling flare, and the position just observed the situation on their side, it seems that the other party has been prepared, has been monitoring their every move, and when they gathered together, they detonated the explosives set up in advance, the purpose is to concentrate on killing them, it seems that all this is in the calculation of the other party, but how can you see a person......