Chapter XXVII: Landing on Titan

In this emergency, we don't have time to ask each other where they came from, let alone what their names are, I just call them by their code names in the operation plan: C1/C2/etc. Although we didn't know their details in the short time we were in the capsule, in the brief call, I could still hear that they were not fighters of the mechanized elite troops, and they were also selected from the top elements of the special forces to join the operation after receiving space training. Big Yellow Fang also joked with others: "Our mechanized elite troops and your special forces will have a contest this time to see which of our troops has the strongest combat ability!" Colonel Tariq snickered on the side, Big Yellow Tooth was immediately unhappy, he pointed to Colonel Tariq and said, "I said Xinjiang kebabs!" Don't steal fun for yourself, let me tell you, don't look at you as a veteran, I tell you, I have always disobeyed you in my heart, I don't care about your rank today, I want to try with you this time, what's the matter, dare to compete? Big Yellow Fang looked serious. If it were normal, Colonel Tariq would often show his qualifications as a colonel to teach Big Yellow Fang a lesson after being picked up by Big Yellow Fang, but this time, Colonel Tariq did not draw a line with Big Yellow Fang in terms of qualifications, because Colonel Tariq knew that this mission was to operate on Titan, an extraterrestrial celestial body, and the difficulty and hardship were not very imaginable, plus Colonel Tariq had heard that Big Yellow Fang and Lieutenant General Nie Haisheng had performed many space missions together, and his aerospace qualifications were profound. Big Yellow Tooth specially blew in front of everyone, where has he personally seen Lieutenant General Nie Haisheng, it's just a casual bragging) Colonel Tariq He didn't dare to compare, so he was very embarrassed "Hehe" laughed twice, and turned his head to the side.

Big Yellow Fang saw that Colonel Tariq was a little timid, and he came to his senses for a moment, and walked forward a few steps to explain the conditions to Colonel Tariq. And Luo Xiaoming, who was standing on the side, looked at the posture of Big Yellow Fang, isn't this obviously throwing our colonel's face in front of strangers in Group C? So he pulled over the big yellow tooth and said with relief: "Chief of Staff Huang, don't be too upset with the colonel, don't think that our colonel doesn't dare to compare with you, his old man is giving you face, you can't see it yet?" ”

The more Luo Xiaoming said this, the more Colonel Tariq fidgeted on the side, because he always felt that Luo Xiaoming was helping Big Yellow Tooth to stir himself up, and stood in place for a while. And the big yellow tooth was also suffocated by Luo Xiaoming's words, and he broke free of Luo Xiaoming's hand and shouted very seriously: "I said Battalion Commander Luo, are you despising me in front of everyone?" I've been on a few rocket trips anyway, and I just don't think you two guys have fought a few decent battles or participated in a single space mission! And what kind of chief are you all being in such a condition, to be honest, Lao Luo, I don't accept you in my heart! Big Yellow Tooth's words are really reasonable, and I said everything in my heart, but I was also worried about Big Yellow Tooth when I watched the excitement from the sidelines, worried that he would make a fool of himself and sell himself. Luo Xiaoming was about to be worthless when he was counted by Big Yellow Teeth, Luo Xiaoming knew that he was inferior to Big Yellow Tooth in some aspect of his qualifications, and he felt that his military rank was not worthy of his name, and he didn't have a problem with Big Yellow Tooth for a while, so he shook his head embarrassedly. However, Big Yellow Tooth was even more energetic, he looked at the two chiefs who were such straw bags, so he became more energetic in tone, only to hear him shouting at Luo Xiaoming: "Old Luo, don't think it's a big deal, let me tell you, I'm going to compare with you and the kebab today, see what medal Old Commander Zhang can give me when I go back this time......

Who knew that Big Yellow Fang's shouting really set Colonel Tariq, who had been trying hard to hold back his anger, to set Colonel Tariq on fire and say in a heavy tone: "Okay! Chief of Staff Huang! We're all going to compete today, and whoever loses will go back to the recruit company and get retrained! Colonel Tariq roared like this, which really scared me to the ground, because he had always respected me and Big Yellow Fang, two warriors from another plane, but today, because Big Yellow Fang was dizzy for a while, it really made the always kind Colonel Tariq angry. Big Yellow Fang heard Colonel Tariq's vote so seriously and so seriously, and he lost his confidence for a while, only to hear him respond a little timidly: "Good, good, good!" We're done! Yellowtooth continued, "What if I win?" "Glancing at me, he meant that if he won, Colonel Tariq would disagree with his high rank, and he would let me do it for him. When I saw Big Yellow Fang, why did this man do this? You set your own rules and conditions, and what matters to me, so I ignored him and turned my head to the side. Luo Xiaoming didn't say anything, but saw him and the members of Group C talking about this. And Colonel Tariq's words made everyone present stunned: "If you win, I will give you my rank of colonel!" How! ”

The two landing pods with thick bottoms and thin bottoms are tightly locked with the rear landing pods by the link valve near the aft of the front landing pod, just like an hourglass, and we are in the rear landing pod. However, the main purpose of this connection is to drop all the compression weapon modules loaded in the front landing module before the landing module crashes to the ground, because it will take some time for the mechanical weapons that are compressed into the memory rigid materials of the module to recover in an environment like Titan. At this time, outside the observation window, a strong white lightning suddenly flashed, this lightning was like an explosive released from a mine, and the rumbling sound was like what we had heard on a daily basis, and there would be a continuous end after a thunderstorm. This big lightning looks like it lasts about three or four seconds, and its rumbling sound is very much like being covered by some object, this muffled thunder is so loud that it can definitely explode from this side of the sky to that side, and we can even feel the objects in the capsule shaking. But I soon realized that something was wrong, because the thunder was so violent that it was always blowing up around our capsule, and the most suspicious thing was that our capsule was still in Titan's upper atmosphere, and there were no rain clouds here, so how could there be thunder? After a moment's hesitation, I hurried to the porthole to look down, and saw that the thunderbolts were all connected by a very thin lightning branch connected to an electric fireball about the size of a small house, which had passed through the thick layer of cumulonimbus clouds from the surface of Titan and rushed straight out of the atmosphere, aiming at our space capsule. Seeing that the situation was so bad, I turned back to everyone and said, "Comrades! We are now under strong attack from the enemy! Colonel Tariq was shocked: "Oh! They used lasers just now, and now what kind of weapons are they using against us! Big Yellow Fang seemed to be waiting for the day of war and was impatient, only to see him crawl to the edge of the porthole and scold: "These dogs are more hateful than their mother's little Japan!" Wait for Lao Tzu to go down and see how Lao Tzu cleans you up! I said to Big Yellow Fang: "Chief of Staff Huang, don't be in a hurry to scold people first!" You might as well think about how we can dodge their artillery fire now! If you want to talk about how to dodge the enemy's fire attack, there is really no way to dodge the enemy's fire attack, because we are now at the height of Titan, and there is no way to fight back against them, besides, we are not equipped with defensive weapons outside the capsule, and we are in a passive state, and now we can only be beaten. The capsule's cushioned parachute has now entered an effective deceleration state, and after feeling the weight of our body all of a sudden, our intuition tells us that we are now within the range of Titan's atmosphere. The electric fireballs outside the portholes were still exploding endlessly outside our capsule, and the rolling thunder shook several of our members to the point that they couldn't sit still, and the contents of the capsule were tumbling and tumbling. Luo Xiaoming has been controlling the space capsule, and he has manipulated the landing capsule with skillful operation techniques to avoid being hit at this thunderous high altitude. I looked at the spherical explosion mine outside the porthole, and saw that these electric fireballs are somewhat like the anti-aircraft artillery equipped by our troops, from his firing range and ballistic arc, it can be seen that these electric fireballs are very similar to be launched from some kind of jet device, although these ball-shaped electric fireballs belong to the ionization of lightning and lightning, but it is not like ordinary lightning that will change the landing point of the arc once it encounters an object such as a conductor nearby, and these electric fireballs seem to explode in a specific area. It was as if his explosion was pre-programmed.

The electric fireballs outside the porthole were still exploding, and the dazzling white light pierced our eyes with pain. I looked at these electric fireballs as if there was a certain characteristic: when our landing module was at high altitude, the color of the electric fireballs was white, and they were also large, and the power difference when they exploded was not as great as it is now, and now when we entered the atmosphere, we saw that these electric fireballs were much smaller, almost the size of a basketball, and the color was dark blue. However, the power of these dark blue electric fireballs when they explode is extremely great, and when the blue electric fireballs that are far away from us explode, the shockwave that is generated seems to be able to shatter our internal organs. At this time, I seem to feel that these blue electric fireballs will produce some kind of radiation after the explosion, because they will seriously interfere with our radio waves after the explosion, and will produce a lot of noise in our communication system, and it will take a long time to squeak and squeak to recover. I looked at the electric fireball outside the porthole, and after the explosion, the violent shock wave washed away the surrounding dust and air, forming a translucent circle, and a large number of white electric sparks generated after the explosion floated in the air for a long time, like iron slag bursting out of a blast furnace. I asked Luo Xiaoming: "Battalion Commander Luo, how high are we from the ground now?" Luo Xiaoming had been busy answering me seriously, so he just replied casually: "It's about 6 kilometers!" I asked Big Yellow Tooth loudly, "Old Yellow! Where do we land? Where was there no artillery fire? Big Yellow Fang looked at the terrain under the string window around him and said to me: "The direction of attack is at three o'clock, the direction of twelve o'clock and the direction of nine o'clock is a large lake, and we can only land in the direction behind six o'clock!" "But ......" Yellowfang looked at the terrain under the window and suddenly stopped talking. "But what?!" I asked out loud. "There is a piece of Pingchuan that can land after six o'clock, but I am afraid of being ambushed by the enemy!" "How can you say that?" I asked. "The enemy must know that our landing pod will land on a flat place, and they will definitely set up an ambush there in advance, once we land there, if the enemy attacks us, our target will be too obvious!" So it's not suitable for landing there! "So where are we supposed to land!?" Luo Xiaoming was a little anxious. The sound of explosions outside the porthole became more and more intense, and the rolling thunder seemed to blow our landing module to pieces, Colonel Tariq looked at the rolling thunder outside the window and suddenly exclaimed: "Oh! Oh no! We were hit! ”

As soon as Colonel Tariq said this, all the members of the cabin immediately held the buffer belt placed above with both hands, because once the landing module was hit, the buffer engine used for cushioning in the first place would be damaged, and the forced landing by the buffer parachute alone would also produce a great inertial impact. However, when everyone grabbed the buffer belt, they didn't notice anything unusual about our space capsule, and they couldn't help but look out of the porthole in surprise. At this time, there was already a rolling crowd outside the first window, and the vision was blurred, and the visibility suddenly became zero. Although Colonel Tariq was a veteran soldier, and in his soul he had the courage to face danger and see death as home, but the current situation also shocked him to the point of hurry.

The members of Group C who were with us saw the embarrassing portrait of Colonel Tariq and felt that he was a little less knowledgeable, and they couldn't help but look at each other, not that the members of Group C had a good psychological quality, because after the landing module entered the atmosphere, due to the friction between the high-speed movement and the air, it was inevitable that sparks would emerge, and this phenomenon was the same as the meteors we usually saw. However, the specially protected capsule will not be burned to ashes, because there is a special layer of anti-high temperature material on its surface, which can effectively protect the landing module from being burned. It is estimated that Colonel Tariq was so nervous that he had forgotten that we had been trained in astronautics, and that he had forgotten these basics at this critical time. A member of Group C slowly patted Colonel Tariq on the shoulder, signaling that he should not be nervous. Fortunately, Colonel Tariq is a face-saving person, so he is not too embarrassed in front of everyone. But the big yellow fangs who were so slamming at the door kept staring at Colonel Tariq with contempt, which made Colonel Tariq extremely embarrassed. The big yellow fireball outside the porthole has been whirring, and the landing module that has been burned by the friction of the air is now shaking a little, but it is much better than being attacked by the electric fireball, at least we are not being attacked by the enemy again.

I figured in my own mind that the enemy must have mistakenly thought that our landing module had been hit by their artillery fire and was now in a state of crash, so they did not continue firing at us for a while.