Chapter 2: Encounters
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Without pre-war mobilization, without earnest instruction, Captain Smith didn't seem to know what morale was. He assigned tasks in a rigid tone, confirmed everyone's weapons and equipment, and the equipment of anti-armor equipment, and then rushed people to the battlefield.
It is said that it is going to the battlefield, but in fact, the battlefield is in the tunnels and bunkers. The surface has been razed to the ground by bombing, and any attempt to hold on to it is tantamount to suicide.
All we could rely on was cover passages with complex structures and sniper points everywhere. Bringing in the enemy to fight is the only way to hold the position.
I am a Minuteman, armed civilians, with no minimum military training, and I am tasked with assisting others in combat.
Wan Tianhao tried to approach me with a conciliatory expression, but I turned my head and pretended not to see it, and the big man snorted and left. By the time the captain had arranged the battle and turned around, there were just two of us on the scene.
"Why don't you go to combat posts?" With cold eyes and undulating tones, I began to wonder if my decision was wise.
"Go back to your post!" , he was ready to leave.
"However, the squad leader is a coward, he will only push me in front and hide himself in a safe place." After plucking up the courage to finish speaking, my heart jumped into one. To be exact, my explanation is just speculation. There is neither evidence nor actual occurrence. Just by instinct, I judged that I couldn't fight with the squad leader, who was a man who would betray his comrades at any time.
The captain looked at me for a long time and nodded, "Okay, you can fight with me." ”
Temporarily dispersed probes found hundreds of landing craft and landing modules landing less than 15 kilometers from their positions.
"It's such a depravity that the enemy should put the assembly point so close to the position!" , passing through a sniper hole, heard someone complaining.
"What's wrong with underestimating you? Can you still raid their rally points? The other scoffed.
"Do we have what it takes to raid enemy assembly points?"
I asked the captain tentatively.
"No way. Focus on the battle that is about to start, and don't think about anything else. ”
The cold answer was frustrating, and I began to wonder if he would let me die in that tone.
We kept running, and the captain told me to bring a source induction mine, an automatic grenade launcher, and fifteen grenades, five of which were smoke grenades. The weight of the ammunition nearly knocked me down, but he kept urging me to keep up. We circled around the trenches of the position.
Just when I thought my lungs were about to explode, he finally stopped. The roof was blown down, and you could see the irregular red sky when you looked up. The metal structure and steel bars stretched out from the edge of the breach, like our position, although the main structure is still there, the interior is already full of holes.
Induction mines were placed in the breach and hastily buried with concrete fragments.
At the breach, the rumble of the engine was heard, and the enemy was approaching.
"The enemy is coming, and all units should pay attention to concealment and not fall in love with battle. Hold back the enemy and preserve the living force. ”
The captain spoke quickly in the communication, smearing his cold image with a touch of emotion.
The whistling sound continued, followed by a series of explosions. There was a noise overhead, and I looked up in surprise at the falling dust and small clumps of mud.
"The enemy's support artillery fire is making the last hurried fire. Rest assured, this level of bombardment can't step on the top cover. ”
The captain dropped these words and ran towards a sniper hole, and I quickly gathered my thoughts and gritted my teeth and followed him.
The tunnels are designed to be accessible to marines, and the wide roads are wide enough to drive three vehicles side by side. The height of the tunnel from the roof is large enough for the close attack aircraft to move. Our sniper holes are located in the hollows of the walls, so that snipers can lean in and attack, and when retreating, there is a corner cover, and there is no risk of being blocked by low-altitude attack aircraft.
The overhead vibration faded for a few moments, and the roar of the engine grew closer. Rapid explosions and robberies rang out at the entrance.
The comrades-in-arms took the fire.
I think this is the first time we have had a face-to-face exchange of fire with the enemy.
After a while, there was a whistling of air currents, and the screams in the communication circuit were short and terrible.
"Flamethrower. They come prepared. ", the words of the captain reminded me of the remains of my comrades who were burned to death in the bombing. The corpse shrunk to one-third of its normal size, and its limbs showed unnatural twists and stiffnesses. And that's just the tragic situation of those who were affected by the comrades, more casualties, and no corpses were left. The human body, along with the equipment, is vaporized at extremely high temperatures.
The gunfire lasted only a few moments before stopping. The sound of explosions and the roar of air currents kept approaching us in our direction. I don't know if any of the brothers who sniped just now have successfully transferred.
"Automatic grenade, target fork, fire!"
As soon as the captain's words fell, the pre-adjusted automatic grenade launcher let out a thump of the hall. Three consecutive shots, thick smoke rose from the fork in the tunnel, and in the dark tunnel, special smoke obscured detection equipment including night vision devices, infrared detectors, low-light amplifiers and so on. The tactical sight attached to the helmet became an ornament. The image of the fork in the road is only a blur.
The scorching fire dragon burst out and raged at the fork in the road. The heat wave was rolling in with the air currents, and I could smell the dust being carbonized, and the thick smoke could not stand the scorching heat and slowly dispersed.
Slender shadows flickered in the smoke screen, I wasn't sure what it was, and I was about to look closer, when the captain's assault rifle went off. At short point, the three-engine energy nail broke through a distance of less than two hundred meters at a hypersonic speed, and the whistling of the air was piercing and rhythmic, and the shadow was broken in two in response.
"Let's go!" , the captain sprang out with a grenade launcher. I didn't have time to think about why he ran, so I followed, staggering out. Behind him, shards of concrete were scattered, and smoke and fire filled the sniper hole.
We both almost got stuck inside.
"Their grenades will turn around?!"
"Idiot, that's a guided projectile."
We ran to the second sniper hole fifty meters behind, and the fire dragon behind us was in the previous sniper hole. Catching a glimpse of this scene out of the corner of my eye, I got goosebumps.
In the new sniper hole, the grenade launcher is placed in a custom position, aimed at the corner of the tunnel.
"Whew...... Call...... Was that the enemy just now? Skinny very. Helping the captain install the remaining two smoke grenades, I couldn't bear it anymore and asked at the exit.
This is the first time I've seen an enemy, and I didn't expect it to be such a slender shadow. Is it a woman?
"They're not human, they're humanoid, they're machines." , the captain was impatient with my questions. He tinkered with the angle of the launcher while perfunctory me.
"Machines? How can it be? How can there be such a smart machine? ”
Whirling left the previous sniper hole and was approaching the corner. Boom, two smoke grenades were fired, and the corners were blurred.
The dragon scurried up again, followed by a dull plosive.
"Oh no, let's go!"
This time, the captain didn't bother with the grenade launcher, and just dragged the ignorant me to evacuate.
Rubble and fire erupted, and I was still thinking about whether the enemy was a woman or not.
"We can't hold it here, let's go around it." , the captain's command was concise and powerful. I looked at the distant back, swallowed back the question that came to my lips, and ran after the captain.
Without the drag of grenades, running became a little easier, and my hand holding the assault rifle was trembling slightly, and I could finally go to the battlefield with my parents and children to kill the enemy.
With the help of familiarity with the terrain, we bypassed the intrusive enemy and managed to detour behind them.
The dragon was still advancing, the rumbling engine came from behind us, and the ground was bouncing up and down with the vibrations, and it seemed to bounce on cushions.
Enemy reinforcements arrived, and we were caught between two enemy streams. It was impossible to turn around and avoid it, and the captain pulled me into a corner. He pulled out the camouflage blanket he had prepared and covered them both.
Although the blanket shields most of the electromagnetic detection, it is easily distinguishable by the naked eye. Sand camouflage is too conspicuous in the tunnels, and it is a joke to fool the eyes of the enemy at a distance of several meters.
My heart was about to jump out of my throat, and my arms clutched the rifle tightly.
As the tremors approached, I could even see through the cracks in the lower edge of the blanket the crumbling stones that had been crushed by the chariot were bouncing back and forth. The sound of the track colliding with the load wheels is in your ears.
I bet that the closest distance of the enemy tank from us was no more than ten meters.