Chapter 347: Artillery Washing
However, in this way, the speed at which players can pass through the checkpoints has increased a lot. The soldiers in charge of the inspection no longer have to check their equipment one by one - the inspection of the various types of equipment with different structures is the most time-consuming part of the whole process.
At first, only the male players took off their equipment, but later, some female players also began to take off their equipment, covering their private parts with their hands under the gaze of the people around them, and walked up to be inspected by the soldiers.
But fortunately, the Cheng consortium had already arranged a certain number of female soldiers at the checkpoint, so these female players didn't need a man to put their hands on them.
However, Yan Qiu also understood that he took this opportunity to buy the hearts of these players, so he asked the soldiers to bring a large number of blankets and distribute them to the players who passed the inspection, so that they would not shiver naked in the cold wind.
As for the equipment left by the players, it was all transported to a pool of boiling water filled with a special chemical that kills parasitic worms, and then returned to the players after being thoroughly disinfected.
The Kuroshio in the distance is slowly approaching, and the only weakness of the parasite is probably that it moves slowly and is not sensitive, according to Qi Lin's estimate, there is still about half an hour left for the 147th outpost.
Armored vehicles and trucks drove out of the fortress, followed by hundreds of power armor of various types, which would form the first line of defense on the perimeter of Outpost 147 and face the onslaught of the Kuroshio.
In addition, Cheng Yanqiu also conveyed an urgent order to all the soldiers according to Qi Lin's suggestion: at all times, the last bullet must be left in the chamber of the gun - that is reserved for the soldiers themselves, parasitic worms will cause brain death in reality, but suicide by drinking bullets will not.
"All artillery, after three salvos, replace the shells with incendiary and napalm, no one is allowed to approach the corpse of the parasite, and it is forbidden to engage in melee combat with the parasite unless absolutely necessary!"
According to the information that Qi Lin had, the parasite was actually just a corpse, and the real body was a parasitic worm hidden in the brain stem of the corpse, and unless the bullet could directly hit the worm in the brain, it would not be able to really kill the parasite at all.
Even if the parasite's body is swept to pieces by large-caliber machine gun bullets, as long as the body is not harmed, the parasite worm only needs to change the corpse to get up again.
Cheng Yanqiu asked the artillery to replace it with incendiary bombs every three rounds of salvos, also in order to completely burn the corpses of the parasites and the parasitic worms that were not yet dead to ashes.
If it weren't for the fact that there were not many reserves of this kind of ammunition, Cheng Yanqiu would even want to directly bombard Kuroshio with incendiary bombs.
Pieces of armor more than two meters high were erected by the soldiers, trucks and armored vehicles were pressed against the back of the armor plates, and the muzzle of a machine gun poked out of the firing holes on the armor plates, aiming at the countless parasites in the distance.
"Ready—first round, launch!"
With Cheng Yanqiu's order, a total of ten heavy artillery pieces and dozens of mortars roared at the same time in the five fortresses, and a rain-like barrage swept over the 147th outpost, whistling over the players' heads, and falling into the black tide composed of parasites nearly a thousand kilometers away!
"Boom !!"
No matter how strong the parasite's physical defenses were, it couldn't stop the powerful cannonballs, and with the deafening sound of explosions, all kinds of stumps and flesh flew everywhere - this first volley killed at least nearly 300 parasites.
However, this result made Cheng Yanqiu and Qi Lin on the city wall not happy at all, Kuroshio could not see the end at a glance, roughly estimated, the number of parasites in it was at least more than 20,000, and the shells stored in the 147th post were limited, according to this bombardment efficiency, I am afraid that in the end, there will be a considerable number of parasites left that need to be solved by soldiers with machine guns and grenades.
"Second round of preparation - launch!" Cheng Yanqiu waited until the parasites that came up from behind stepped on the corpses of the parasites killed by the first round of shells, and then issued the command to fire again.
"Boom !!"
The second round of shells was a little less effective, killing less than two hundred parasites - the various stumps and corpses on the ground hindered the parasites' progress, and the air wave from the explosion also knocked over many of the parasites, causing their already dense formation to loosen up slightly.
"What is the reserve of shells?" Qi Lin asked as he looked at the slow-moving Kuroshio.
"Conventional artillery shells can support twelve rounds of salvos, incendiary and napalm have only the amount of two rounds." One of Cheng Yanqiu's officers immediately replied.
"This won't work!" Qi Lin immediately said, "We have to give the parasite enough time and space to 'adjust the formation', so that the shells can maximize the killing efficiency, in addition, the current wind direction is favorable to us, the fire is easy to spread, a salvo is too wasteful of ammunition, incendiary bombs and napalm I suggest that the amount of each round of fire be halved and adjusted to four rounds of attacks, so that as many corpses on the ground can be cleaned up." ”
"You have a point!" Cheng Yanqiu nodded and said to the officers beside him: "Let the artillery divide the incendiary bombs into four batches...... No, it is divided into six batches, and the impact points of the shells are coordinated between the units, not all of them are in the same place, and the interval is controlled at about 50 to 80 meters, in addition, all the gun ports are readjusted to the angle, and the shell landing point is pulled in our direction by 50 meters! ”
The officer immediately passed the order, and this time, it was only after the Kuroshio had completely overrun the previous artillery bombardment and the distance between the parasites became dense again that a third round of shells fell on their heads.
"Boom !!"
This round of bombardment killed more than 500 parasites, and Cheng Yanqiu and Qi Lin finally let out a big sigh.
Although the creature of parasitic worms is terrifying, it is fortunate that the IQ is not high, otherwise, if so many parasites are scattered and rush towards the outpost in an encirclement formation, even if all the shells are used, I am afraid that they will only be able to bombard less than a third of the parasites.
"Molotov cocktails, prepare - fire!"
This time, the barrage was obviously much thinner than the previous three rounds, but as soon as these shells fell into the Kuroshio, they quickly burst into flames, and with the help of the wind, the fire quickly engulfed the entire Kuroshio's forwards, whether it was the parasites that were still advancing, or the corpses scattered on the ground, and the parasitic worms that were not dead, all of them were charred in the fire.
The incendiary bombs and napalm were much more effective than expected, not only cleaning up a large number of corpses on the battlefield, but also burning at least a thousand parasites at once.
In particular, napalm bombs cannot be extinguished as long as a drop of gelatinous gasoline is splashed on the body of the parasite, and the entire body and the parasitic worm in the brain are not completely burned to ashes.
"It's a pity, if there are more napalms, maybe we can completely burn the Kuroshio clean." Cheng Yanqiu sighed, the flames only spread a distance of less than a hundred meters before they were extinguished, but Rao was like this, and the damage caused was almost equal to the sum of the previous three rounds of shelling.
"Load regular shells, prepare - damn it, how can there be?!"
Just after Cheng Yanqiu was about to order the fourth round of shelling, the same Kuroshio appeared in the other two directions of the 147th outpost!
"Could it be that several of the surrounding outposts and bases have fallen? We...... Now you're alone?! ”