Chapter 7: The Only Way Out
In this way, under the direct command of Zhang Yunfan, the position of the fourth base has shrunk slightly, but it has become extremely stable, and the casualties have decreased sharply, but the situation is still not optimistic. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
An hour later, the fronts were still stable, and more than a dozen large-scale attacks by the Zerg were all repulsed.
"Report to the sir, we have repelled another attack by the Zerg, and now the positions are still intact." Second Lieutenant Ace reported the battle situation on the front line to Zhang Yunfan, who was standing on the command platform, with irrepressible joy in his voice.
If, an hour ago, he doubted the operational command ability of the young captain of the transport fleet in front of him, then now, he simply admired this commander to the point of throwing himself to the ground.
In this hour, Zhang Yunfan successfully predicted the direction of the Zerg's main attack again and again through the observation of the Zerg's movements, and then carried out concise troop mobilization, easily resisting the fierce attack of the Zerg.
"Report casualties." Zhang Yunfan didn't look up, at this time, he was clicking on the virtual images one by one to check the specific deployment of each defensive position.
"Three people were seriously wounded, twenty-nine people were lightly wounded, and there are seven hundred and fifty-four people with complete combat effectiveness, and in addition, we have more than four hundred lightly wounded people who can be used as reserves."
"When will reinforcements arrive?"
"There was already a communication. It will take about an hour and a half to arrive! ”
"An hour and a half!?" Zhang Yunfan's brows furrowed deeply, his body leaned forward, and his clenched fists stood on the table to support his entire body hard.
There is no way, he is too tired, this kind of battle of nearly a thousand people is all up to him alone to control all the details. Collecting, organizing, and analyzing, directing almost all of this work is on him alone.
And this kind of high-intensity command action lasted for more than an hour, and no matter how good he was, he would inevitably be fatigued due to excessive mental exertion.
Zhang Yunfan took a deep breath, calmed down, and sorted out the battle process just now in his mind again, the battle losses were a little greater than predicted, were the soldiers too tired? Zhang Yunfan thought in his heart.
I don't know if this is the reason, since the fourth time to repel the attack of the Zerg, the casualties of the various units have begun to be larger than the predicted casualties before the battle, and the situation is still showing signs of gradually increasing. "If this continues, we won't be able to hold on for even an hour!" Zhang Yunfan blurted out.
"What's wrong?" Ace on the side said nervously: "Is there anything new?" ”
"Nope!" Zhang Yunfan sat on the command chair, leaned deeply into the backrest, reached out and rubbed his eyes, and began to say again: "Even in this case, we can't hold the position!" ”
"How is that possible? Judging by the casualties in our positions, it was enough for us to last two hours! ”
"Then have you ever thought that after the number of soldiers on the position drops to sixty percent or half of the current one, what firepower we can have to resist the attack of the Zerg?"
Zhang Yunfan began to seriously doubt how the school in front of him graduated from the second lieutenant graduated from, and the level was too inferior. He rubbed his dry eyes a few more times, and continued, "Even if we can block it, how much ammunition do you think we have to resupply?" If it hadn't been for the gear I brought, you'd run out of ammo fifty minutes ago! “
As soon as he heard this, cold sweat began to ooze from Ace's spine. That's right, even if there is no loss of personnel in their base, once the ammunition supply is cut off, no matter how many people there are, they will be a group of lambs to be slaughtered in front of the Zerg. "Is there any way to remedy this?" He looked at Zhang Yunfan anxiously.
And Zhang Yunfan stared at the map tightly, clueless, shrinking the defensive front? No way! Treat the symptoms but not the root cause. And even if it can last for an hour and a half, what if something goes wrong on the way to support the troops and they can't get there? At that point, there will really be only one dead end!
Zhang Yunfan stood up from the command chair again, looked around, and suddenly, his eyes fixed on the handling robots docked in the fourth hall, and then looked down at the panoramic structure of the base.
"How much stock of high-concentration fuel and large high-energy batteries do you have left at your base?" Zhang Yunfan's brows slowly relaxed, and he asked Ensign Ace, who was staring at the map closely.
"The supplies were full three days ago, and they basically didn't move, and they were all in the underground warehouse!" Ace answered the question with some confusion. "What's wrong, do you need to use it?"
"That's right, this should be our last hope!" Zhang Yunfan stretched out his finger and pressed his temples to concentrate his spirit.
"Withdraw the positions of the teams back to an area, completely abandon the outer positions, and shrink into the interior of the base. Squads G6, 7, 9, and 13 handed over their ammunition supplies to nearby units and assembled in Hall 4. ”
Five minutes later, the troops were deployed, and although the four squads and more than 200 people on standby in the fourth hall looked a little tired, their expressions still seemed to be a little dissatisfied.
Zhang Yunfan shook his head, a little unable to understand the invisible and strange atmosphere that lingered in this base from soldiers to officers. He stood on the podium and said to Ace, "Let them get the fuel and batteries out of the underground warehouse and tie them to those robots." ”
"Yes!" Ace suddenly realized, thinking that he understood Zhang Yunfan's plan. It turns out that this chief is going to do it again. He didn't pause, and went straight to the fourth hall to assign tasks.
After another ten minutes, the occupation of the front line began to be somewhat unfavorable, and Zhang Yunfan had no choice but to extract a part of the lightly wounded and replenish it to the front line.
At this moment, Second Lieutenant Ace came back and said to him, "Report to the sir, it's all tied!" There is still a part of the high-energy batteries that have not run out, and I have already organized death squads and tied the rest to them. Rest assured! It will never be worse than a robot! ”
"I'll go! Your sister's! What the hell is going on in your head!? Zhang Yunfan yelled, he found that he couldn't bear it anymore, "Tear those off for me and tie them to those robots"
"I can't tie it up...
"If you can't tie it, tie it up for me!" Zhang Yunfan felt that he was about to go crazy, so he didn't value the lives of his soldiers, and was he not afraid of the mutiny of the soldiers?
"Yes!" Ace was scolded a little stupid, but he still obediently went out to carry out the order.
On the monitor, when Zhang Yunfan saw the regretful expressions on the faces of the group of young people who were tied with "explosives" but were a little eager to try it out when they learned that they had to be dismantled, hundreds of "alpacas" rushed through his heart.
When everything was ready, Zhang Yunfan ordered the light and serious wounded to be transferred to the confidential warehouse, where the protection was thick and the space was large enough to accommodate everyone in the base now.
After that, he deployed those "bomb" robots in the passages leading to the warehouse, and the reason why they were tied to the robots was not to facilitate movement, but to use explosives to detonate the power furnaces on the robots, which were the real high-energy explosives.
In the end, Zhang Yunfan took advantage of the gap between the two attacks of the Zerg to withdraw all the front-line troops into the warehouse.
"Send a report to the reinforcements!" Zhang Yunfan came to the communication machine that had just been set up in the warehouse, and ordered: "The weapons and equipment of the fourth base are about to run out, and now retreat to the confidential warehouse, and then all the passages will be blown up, and the reinforcements will be rescued after clearing the remnants of the enemy." A detailed composition of the base is attached. ”
After receiving a clear answer, Zhang Yunfan walked back to the temporary headquarters and watched the surveillance footage, at this time, the Zerg had occupied the defensive positions that they had not been able to attack for a long time. Along the various passages towards the rest of the base.
"Are you ready?" Zhang Yunfan said loudly to the surroundings.
"Yes!"
"Seal off all warehouse passages and activate the 'explosives'!"
"Understood!"
"Boom... Rumble... Rumble... ”
Explosions rang out throughout the tunnel, and the explosion of the high-energy battery successfully detonated the robot's power furnace, and the high-energy material in the power unit mixed with high-energy plasma and high-concentration fuel shot into the surrounding tunnel walls.
At that moment, the super high energy storm swept through the base, and even everyone in the depths of the base felt an extremely strong shock, and the Zerg running around the base were directly burned to the ground. The heat also roasted the passage, completely sealing the passage to the warehouse.