Chapter 18: Infernal Lava
The next thing to do is to blast the fault plate that connects the magma from the depths of the cliff to the sea, otherwise the Shenlong will not be able to sail into the East China Sea. The demolition team descended by helicopter into a huge plate that was already inclined and drilled holes in the faulted plate with an area of tens of square kilometers and filled it with explosives. This blasting uses directional blasting technology, and the explosives are military cast polymer bonded explosives, which are extremely powerful and reliable.
"The demolition team is ready! Please indicate whether it will detonate or not! "After the helicopter of the demolition team left, the intercom called. I turned around and glanced at the Shenlong battleship hanging in mid-air, and asked the old general Qiu Xiaoluo: "General, what else do you need to prepare?" The old general closed his eyes and thought for a while, and then replied: "Please allow me to board the battleship now!" I was stunned and said, "General, this is very dangerous, and accidents may happen...... I thought to myself, maybe the old general is impatient, or maybe he cherishes this battleship so much that he is almost to the point of not leaving an inch. The old general replied, "I am the captain of the Shenlong battleship, and it is necessary for me to live and die with it!" Child. In my opinion, General Qiu Xiaomiao must have an unresolved knot in his heart - the sequelae of the war. The so-called aftermath of war refers to the kind of people who want to kill people immediately when they see knives, guns and equipment. I always thought that the old general would only board the ship alone, but as soon as he stepped onto the deck from the gangway, more than 300 crew members behind him followed without hesitation. I couldn't help but feel a little uneasy in my heart when I saw this formation, and I thought to myself: even if multiple LTL-2600B heavy cranes can ensure the foolproof operation of the Shenlong battleship, it is inevitable that there will be swaying and bumps in the lifting project, and I can't guarantee the safety of so many crew members! The old general joked on the radio: "The Shenlong battleship is already in combat condition, Comrade Liu Yun, you just need to ensure that we can enter the East China Sea!" I hurriedly emphasized: "General, although you say nothing here, no one dares to contradict you, but let the two old marshals Zhang Bo and Lin Yiyang know, they will punish you, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to step down when you are old!" ”
General Qiu Xiaoluo smiled dumbly on the radio: "Huh...... I don't even care about death, do I care about the two of their furry children counting me?" It is no wonder that General Qiu Lao despises Commander Zhang Bo and Commander Lin Yiyang so much, after all, General Qiu Xiaoluo has experienced a hundred battles and is full of courage, since the late Qing Dynasty government period to the founding of New China, and even today's communist society, there is no battle that General Qiu has not participated in. Although the old general, who is more than 100 years old, does have a steely discipline on the battlefield, he is not rigid in these subtleties, and he also moves the two old marshals Lin and Zhang out at every turn. "This person is a year old, and he has a long life, you see that this old general Qiu is a little impatient, and he has nothing to do to find excitement!" Big Yellow Fang chattered beside me. I looked back and saw that there were not only Big Yellow Tooth behind me, but also Gao Changfeng and Xue Weiguo and several soldiers.
I hurriedly played a round and lectured at the big yellow tooth: "You have only been a soldier for a few days, and the spirit of the old general is called 'seeing death as home', and our generation of recruits should be proud of it......!" Captain Gao Changfeng rushed behind me and said, "Comrade Liu Yun, we rushed to prepare for battle only after receiving an order from our superiors, and all fighters must immediately take their places!" When I heard this, I couldn't help but be stunned: "What? Is there an emergency right now? "Yes! It's information from the High Command! Captain Gao said. "No, it won't! I am now the commander-in-chief of the project of the launch of the battleship Shenlong, why didn't the headquarters convey instructions to me? "I'm a little angry. Captain Gao was a little impatient with my tone at this time: "That's because your rank is too low, you are not qualified to ......" When he wanted to say something, I roared angrily: "Although my military rank is lower, my current decision determines the success or failure of a mission!" "Comrade Liu Yun, please calm down! Remember, you're just an engineering commander now! It's me who is in charge of the armed cover of the project! War, I'm coming! Sacrifice, I'm coming! All you need to do is put the battleship down now! Do you understand? Ensign!"
Captain Gao's words were simple and clear, but his words contained insult and contempt for me, a soldier of very low rank. "Okay Captain! Take cover, and the Shenlong will set sail immediately! "My burning heart was as uncomfortable as a basin of ice water that suppressed my fierce flames. I picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted, "Attention the demolition team, now the countdown to detonation is 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 detonation!" "Boom, boom, boom, rumble...... Several pillars of smoke rose from the broken plate nearly three thousand meters in front of us, and the military explosives were detonated by remote control, and a few of us stood on the edge of the cliff and thought that it would take a lot of power to blow up such a huge plate, but after only a few muffled sounds, only a crack was blown out in the middle of the huge plate, just enough to allow a warship to pass. The hot magma inside the plate and the seawater merge with each other, making a violent "sizzling" sound, and white steam spreads out like an overwhelming air. "Let's get to work!" I said to Big Yellow Fang. However, just as I turned my head and was about to turn away from the edge of the cliff, suddenly a huge bag of water, the size of a small mountain, arched over the blood-red sea reflected by magma in the distance. Big Yellow Fang pointed to the strange appearance on the surface of the sea and shouted, "What is the situation! What are the armed groups for? Our engineering team reacts faster than you on the battlefield! Out of the blood-red sea emerged a huge saucer-shaped machine, a kilometer in diameter, with a swirling oblate silhouette and a few beams of blue flames at the bottom, none other than the alien enemy ship carrier from outer space that we had been fearing all along. It left us all stunned as the enemy mothership emerged from the sea and then suspended in mid-air, its flaming propulsion device blowing the water below into a thick fog that enveloped the alien warship in layers of fog. I turned my head to look at Gao Changfeng and Xue Weiguo and said boringly to Big Yellow Tooth: "Let's go, let's just work, let the family do the face-saving work of the limelight!" I picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted to the crane group: "Go ahead!" ”
Although Gao Changfeng, who was standing behind me, was already a veteran, but in the face of such a domineering scene of the alien army, he was already trembling with nervousness at this time, and I saw him hurriedly use the radio and shout: "The gunship will take off immediately!" Directions at 1 o'clock! It takes at least a few minutes to ten minutes for a helicopter to take off from an amphibious landing ship several kilometers away to get to where we are now. Gao Changfeng was not chaotic in the face of danger, and with his many years of marching experience, he knew in his heart that if he wanted to win on the battlefield, he must attack first. Now this alien warship will pose a threat to us at any time, so Gao Changfeng decisively called on the radio to the mobile artillery position located thousands of meters away and with extremely rapid combat response: "The wind calls for a meteor shower, request an immediate artillery attack, repeat!" Artillery fire now! "Our artillery units reacted quickly to the operation, from receiving the order to confirming the target, to opening fire, and in less than three minutes to carry out the first round of strikes on the target. Although I also have the urge to kill the enemy warships on the sea first and then quickly, I am only in charge of engineering on such a battlefield, and it is really not my turn to fight and sacrifice. So I ignored the alien battleship that was eyeing us, and was in charge of hoisting the "Shenlong" battleship with the crane team with Big Yellow Fang. At this time, the incoming sea water and the magma under the cliff converged with each other, and the red-white steam and choking sulfur smell came out, and Big Yellow Fang hurriedly beckoned everyone to put on gas masks.
Suddenly, we heard a sharp whistling sound overhead, and from our experience on the march, we knew that this was a shell fired from our PLL01 155mm towed cannon howitzer. When we looked up, we saw that the sky was already covered with dense red and yellow cannonball tail flames, like meteors falling from the edge of the sky, drawing a long and graceful arc to directly hit the alien warship suspended on the sea. The 155 mm caliber shell is extremely powerful, and a single shell can tear a cruiser in half, even if the saucer-shaped mothership of the alien forces is huge and the enemy target with a huge body, under such a dense artillery fire, I think that this alien battleship can definitely be blown to pieces! However, as everyone knows, the saucer-shaped mothership of this alien force is extremely strong, and the attack of our army's so dense artillery fire only makes it crash back to the sea in mid-air, and the huge fuselage stirs up the sea water dozens of meters high, forming a huge wave in the shape of a circle. When the smoke cleared, I saw that although there was black smoke and flames on the surface of the alien mothership, it did not cause fatal injuries to it. The SX-1 paratrooper and two Type 90 armored vehicles on the cliff are ready for battle, and their mission is to protect the large crane responsible for lifting the Shenlong battleship on the cliff. Just as Gao Changfeng picked up the radio and asked for artillery support again, the alien mothership also adjusted its attitude, only to see that many openings had opened at the edge of the upper part of the huge alien mothership, and then countless saucer-shaped fighters pounced on us like a hornet that had exploded its nest. The appearance of this saucer-shaped fighter is no different from that of an alien mothership, but its diameter is only six or seven meters, and its thickness is less than three meters, and it is also a flat profile and a round fuselage, but from the perspective of their maneuverability, its oblate fuselage seems to have taken into account the aerodynamic shape design, and the flight speed and maneuverability of the saucer-shaped fighter, which completely relies on the flame thruster under the fuselage, is not much worse than our sonic machine.
The group of enemy planes was rapidly attacking us in an irregular formation, and Gao Changfeng knew at this time that even if the artillery had been fired now, the conventional shells would not be able to hit the flying saucer fighters at all. In desperation, they had to tell each tank to be ready for battle and do their best to protect the safety of the crane. At this time, I sat in the command car with Big Yellow Tooth, and in this extremely urgent situation, I methodically directed the operation of each crane. Xue Weiguo stood in an empty flat position between the two rows of cranes and observed the "Shenlong" battleship slowly descending.
The saucer-shaped fighters soon entered the range of the heavy machine guns equipped with the paratrooper vehicles, and our troops fired first, and the 25-mm guns of the two Type 90 armored vehicles fired fiercely, and the sound of the cannons sounded like a drum "Knock knock, knock knock!" "It shook people's hearts. I saw on the display in the command vehicle that the saucer's fuselage did not rotate when it was flying, but it was as agile as a fly. They skilfully dodged artillery fire and bullets as they flew quickly, and a rectangular object stretched out to the left and right of their fuselage, which in my judgment must be the stealth weapons bay of the saucer. I hurriedly shouted on the radio: "The enemy planes are ready to open fire, and all units are ready to protect themselves!" No matter how maneuverable the paratrooper vehicle is, it runs on the ground after all, and the terrain is chaotic, making it difficult to repel the saucer. The saucer that was rapidly approaching us had already begun a fierce attack on our crane group and armed forces, and from the weapons bays on either side of the saucer were fired a terrifying white laser beam and a blue ionization ball with extremely great penetration and blasting power. At this time, there were also fragments of flames on the battleship 'Shenlong' suspended in the air of the cliff, which was the sound of the navy on the battleship because the Shenlong had not yet been loaded with heavy weapons, only the sound of the assault rifles that were equipped with it. However, just as the alien troops' fleet of saucer fighters was preparing for a full-scale attack on us, our army's helicopter gunships arrived.