Chapter 18: Another Evacuation Point
The command room was in a hangar where planes were parked, and they found the command center on the second floor of the maintenance building, and when they entered, they saw a mess.
The room was littered with all sorts of paper papers that had been discarded haphazardly, scattered all over the floor.
The various electronic products are not turned off, and you can see that the display is still beating information.
The desks, which had been lined up, seemed to be struck by people in a hurry, and some of the chairs were thrown to the ground.
When they entered the airport, they saw that the ground was full of destroyed planes and vehicles, and the bodies of people were scattered everywhere.
Nanz entered the command center, walked straight to the wall where the tactical map was hung, stood in front of the map and looked at it for a long time, then turned to Martinaz and said: "The retreat route is to take the San Pinaro line, and the final meeting point is a civilian airfield on the outskirts of the city. ”
No one talked about the fiasco on the highway, and there was no mention of who left behind and who escaped by themselves, as if those things had never happened at all.
The soldiers who fled to St. Mony's airport counted Lin Bin as a total of eight, and only nine of the more than 40 civilians came safely, and Lin Bin's Ford SUV alone accounted for five of them.
Listen to the accounts of some civilians who found the vehicles and drove towards St. Mony's airport, where they saw the rest of the vehicles being attacked by aliens, and more vehicles were driving to other places.
Martinaz rummaged through his desks, unable to find anything useful, and said, "There is a firefight everywhere, even if there is transportation, and we may not be able to cross the city for tens of kilometers to reach the suburbs on our own." ”
"Sandos is in contact with the Air Force." Nanz turned his head to look at Lin Bin, who walked into the office, and walked over to put away the tactical map on the wall: "I heard that Sandos entered the war zone with a mission, and the Air Force attaches great importance to this. ”
Lin Bin just went to "pick up the corpse", that is, to get supplies from the dead soldiers. He refilled the magazine, and the gun in his hand was replaced with a model with a grenade launch module, fragmentation, blasting, and defense...... and other types of grenades have also taken a lot, and naturally there are TNT explosives that are easy to carry.
"The Air Force will send three helicopters over." Santos came over at this time and first said a good news, and then said bad news without waiting for everyone to be happy: "It's just that the air supremacy on this side has fallen into the hands of those alien mongrels, and we need to go to a temporary base in Santa Monica." ”
The alien air force only appeared for a day, and I don't know what the situation was, and the US military lost air supremacy in the theater.
"Don't look at me like that." "It's not just Los Angeles that has been invaded, it's all major cities on the East and West Coasts. The air base on this side is almost completely 'washed', and there are still rescue helicopters coming over, because I lied about the military situation. ”
No one has any problem with Sandos lying about the military, compared to being able to live, it is not a big deal to be dismantled and court-martialed later, some are justifiable reasons, and the worst outcome is only retirement or jail time compared to death.
"Sergeant." Nanz was very interested, and asked, "Can you tell me what mission you are here for?" ”
"There's nothing I can't say about it so far." Sandos pursed his lips and said indifferently: "After the war, we captured a large number of information transmission edges inside the city, which obviously did not belong to the band on Earth, and it was suspected that it was the command hub of aliens, but we couldn't determine where it was." We entered the theater of operations with the mission of finding it, but unfortunately the formation I was in was shot down as soon as it entered the theater of operations. ”
Modern people are no stranger to bands, radio waves rely on a certain kind of magnetic field to transmit, such as the so-called channel is a kind of band.
"Are there any characteristics?" Nanz was not only intrigued, but asked curiously, "I mean, is there anything special?" ”
Sandos didn't want to discuss this topic for too long, and changed the subject: "The helicopter will arrive at the temporary base in Santa Monica before 22 o'clock. If we hadn't been there before then, they wouldn't have waited. ”
At this time, Lin Bin interjected: "I found a large number of individual missiles in a warehouse, and several boxes with laser-guided indicators. ”
Martinaz asked inexplicably, "So what?" ”
"We should try to carry individual missiles." Nanz had a different opinion, and continued with a thoughtful expression: "If you can, the laser-guided indicator also carries one. ”
When Lin Bin watched the movie before, he couldn't understand how the protagonist's team could carry individual missiles and laser guidance indicators when fleeing for their lives, so it was to prevent those soldiers from being troublesome and not wanting to bring them at all, so they would be cautious and mention that there were so many things.
"Okay." Martinaz said indifferently: "On the premise of not getting in the way of action." ”
A plot bug here can be regarded as just holding it up, otherwise I really can't explain how a group of people who are running for their lives think so much, and they haven't forgotten to take the laser guidance indicator when they run for their lives.
The soldiers who were moving outside walked around and found a few still working tanks and armored vehicles.
"Do you want to drive a tank?" Cohens's expression made it clear that he preferred to have tanks in his ranks: "I can be a gunner, Lotke has been trained to drive tanks, and he has no problem driving at all!" ”
They found that there were as many as five M1A3 main battle tanks that could be operated, and two of them not only had full fuel tanks, but also had sufficient ammunition.
The M1A3 is designed with a crew of three, the commander, the gunner and the driver. The commander also doubles as a communications officer and target guide, and is even able to operate a tank gun to fire. As long as there is a qualified driver, in fact, the other is not a problem as a commander or gunner, and it can fully play the role that its on-board system should have.
The U.S. military, in addition to the combat skills they must know, does not mind learning more skills, resulting in even being an infantry but mastering vehicle skills, and even some infantry have jet driver's licenses, so it is not so unusual to be able to drive tanks and form combat effectiveness.
"That's one M1A3, and two Strykers (wheeled armored vehicles)." Martinaz thought for a moment and added, "We also need a five-and-fifty Humvee. ”
The so-called point 50 is talking about a vehicle-mounted machine gun, not a model of the Humvee.
Stryker is one of the wheeled armored vehicles in service in the US military, which are three-defense reconnaissance vehicles, anti-tank guided missile vehicles, medical ambulances, mortar vehicles, engineering vehicles, armored personnel carriers, command vehicles and fire support vehicles.
The selected Stryker wheeled armored vehicles are of the fire support type, but they can also accommodate at least fifteen people.
Everyone was busy, assigning posts, and at the same time making the necessary fuel and ammunition replenishment, and then picking and choosing what might be useful.
The convoy opened the road with Humvees, the tanks in second place, and two Stryker wheeled armored vehicles followed, setting off in such a formation.
The M1A3 main battle tank can reach a maximum speed of 65 kilometers per hour on the road, and although it can easily speed at a speed of 100 miles per hour, the Humvee and the armored vehicle cannot be compared, but they are obviously very afraid of the fear of insufficient firepower.
The convoy was racing under the command of Martinaz, and as soon as it left St. Mony's airport, it was blocked by a team of alien stragglers.
Lin Bin got on a Stryker wheeled armored car, and because he didn't know how to operate the fire control system, he could only be a crew member. Across from him sat Lincoln and his sons, flanked by twin mothers and daughters.
The enclosed carriage is when you can't see what's going on outside, and when you just listen to the movement but you can know that it's not stopped at all, it's either your own side is constantly firing or you're attacked by aliens, causing everyone to be nervous.
Along the way, they will inevitably encounter abandoned vehicles or something, and if they still take ordinary vehicles, they will naturally have trouble, but there are tanks in front of them that open the road and crash or run over, and the excellent shock absorption system of the Stryker wheeled armored vehicles behind them hardly feels exaggerated bumps.
"Lin!" Sandos roared, "Come here, I'll teach you how to do it." ”
Of course, Lin Bin would not miss the opportunity to learn useful skills and come to the side of Sandos.
"It's actually quite simple." Sandos stepped aside for Lin Bin to sit down, pointing to the handle that looked like a joystick, and then to the obvious screen: "It's like playing a game." This thing is to operate the direction of shooting, the index finger button held is to shoot, and the button of the cap is automatic reloading, regardless of the wind direction and speed on the screen...... With those data, it is enough to press the fire button and shoot at the target that the screen 'cross' is pointing at! ”
In fact, there are other buttons on the console, but this Stryker wheeled armored vehicle is not equipped with missiles at all, and those buttons are useless at all.
Looking through the screen, the convoy will soon enter a tunnel, and you can see that the turret of the tank is adjusting the muzzle orientation, but you can't see the Humvee at the front of the convoy.
If the tank does not adjust the muzzle orientation, it will still go sideways to the side of the hull, and when it reaches the tunnel entrance, it will inevitably be barred.
There are a lot of alien infantry in the tunnel, and in the face of the strong firepower of the convoy, only the part that is slaughtered, only Lin Bin controls the vehicle-mounted machine gun to kill thirteen aliens, and the rest of the vehicle-mounted machine guns must have killed more.
What Lin Bin wanted to complain about was that there were only three reward points for controlling the on-board machine gun to kill aliens.
There was little danger along the way, and it wasn't until the car stopped that they realized they had arrived at the makeshift base in Santa Monica.
It was still a shambled place, with corpses lying on the ground everywhere, and more civilians than soldiers.
"The makeshift base is also an evacuation point, and it's clear that they've had a sudden attack, probably a bombing." After Martinaz finished talking nonsense, he looked at his watch, which showed 21:47, and then said to Sandos: "I hope the Air Force will be on time, otherwise we will come all the way to see our corpses." ”