Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Sky Fortress
Perhaps the world has never cheered in unison for the same thing, but it did happen on this day.
It's called. It does not only refer to the current generated by the directional movement of electrons, but also to the collective state of most human groups. In the vast land of tens of millions of square kilometers, there is no place where it is not in full swing and sweating like rain.
A large number of workers had been waiting for their jobs for several days, and as soon as the power was restored, all kinds of machinery were started as soon as possible. Most of them are crazy and wretched and put into work, and some people shed tears and even fell into a coma because of extreme joy.
After more than a year, mankind has once again entered the "civilized world", although we know that such a "happy" life may only last a few days or ten days, but what is lost and recovered is always cherished, and some people even risk violating the ban and being sentenced to prison in the daytime to turn on the electric light, in order to enjoy such a small artificial light.
But in terms of the level of agitation, civilians may not be the group with the most emotional swings. Others, too.
For example, at the moment, two pilots in the cockpit of the long-range strategic bomber "Sky Fortress", located at an altitude of 15,000 meters above the Pacific Ocean.
It was a formation of 283 heavy bombers, and their target was South America. In fact, this is only one of the teams of long-distance raiders - several other bomber formations have also taken off from the air bases of various countries, heading straight for a land inhabited by xenomorphs and species.
This time, the official code name of the operation was "peace" – for the first time in human history, the seemingly irreconcilable differences and contradictions between nations were abandoned, and the surviving nations formed a joint force. Facing the same enemy together.
But privately, for example, in the cockpit, the two crew members dubbed their operation "Operation Peace-1".
Since it is Operation 1, it means that there is also Operation 2.
In fact, privately, the "Operation Peace 2" operation also has another name - "Operation Peace 2".
I don't know what the bigwigs who chose the name think in their hearts, but as grassroots officers and soldiers, they think that the pronunciation of such a name is quite shocking. Because everyone seems to know that if this wave of long-distance attacks does not achieve the expected results, mankind will use the final force that can be mastered at this stage - nuclear bombs.
The line of sight is quite good, and the sky is cloudless. The shadows of the group of planes above cast diagonally down like a calm cloud of steel. In fact, the two of them had carried out such missions before—at that time, this world was still the world that people knew. And not as later officially explained. "Because of the combined effect of sunspots and supernova explosions, power outages." They flew the same plane over the vast Pacific Ocean into the battlefield and rained down hundreds of millions of tons of high explosives. It was also at that time that they saw with their own eyes the sinking of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier "General Zhenguo", the flagship of the Pacific Fleet, - until then, everyone thought that this war was unsuspenseful.
The word "sunk" is also inappropriate - it seems to have been "dragged" under water, along with the other frigates in the aircraft carrier formation.
The worst thing they had seen before returning home was that the waters near the aircraft carrier formation, which were too close to the coast, were densely packed with human heads—those heads were hideous. A hoarse cry came from his mouth. It's like being born with water. And better at it than any other swimmer.
Even tens of thousands of people have no way to take such a formation. Because this is no longer the time when victory can be achieved by relying on crowd tactics. The problem is that the attackers don't seem to be "in the thousands" – they have almost filled the surface of the sea, creating a vast expanse of land out of flesh and blood. He had never seen so many people gathered in one place. So much so that at that moment he had the illusion that there should be a million of these people.
But a post-war report proved his estimate wrong. At that time, it was not "as many as a million", but it should be multiplied by three.
Three million xenomorphs enter the water from the shore and lurk below the surface. These people are like death squads - the species has somehow activated all the remaining vitality in their bodies, causing them to lie dormant for hours hundreds of meters below the surface of the sea, and then rise to the surface with lightning speed.
Even so, the decks of large warships are quite high above the water - aircraft carriers reach a height of twenty meters. But the xenomorphs don't seem to be planning to rely solely on their own weight to drag the steel fortress into the water. They also prepared other things.
There was a violent explosion beneath the surface of the water near the ship, and it appeared that a significant number of other xenos were carrying explosives with them. In fact, this is not surprising, since many people were members of the government or police forces before they were contaminated. Perhaps the power of ordinary explosives is insignificant for the armor of an aircraft carrier, but when the number accumulates to a certain extent, a qualitative change occurs.
When the aircraft carrier formation on the surface of the sea turned into a dim black spot in their field of vision, they finally saw the fire and heavy smoke rising into the sky.
For the first time, the human navy suffered heavy losses. But almost everyone thinks that most of that is due to insufficient intelligence and too little to the enemy. In fact, the empire did not exert all its strength in the wars that followed, partly because of certain internal struggles, and on the other hand, because it hoped to take advantage of this opportunity to weaken certain forces, such as the United States.
It wasn't until a few months later, with the fall of the thirteen southern states of the United States, that people realized that the species were far more powerful than they could have imagined and were growing at a terrible rate. Thus a large-scale war plan began to be put on the agenda, and attempts were made to establish close ties with the nations with a view to confronting the common enemy with all their might.
However, such an ambitious plan died before it was still on paper – the power failed.
Then came the long "dark period". Losing air superiority, it will be difficult for ground forces to adapt to the methods of warfare of the Second World War, or even more backward than during the Second World War. The consistent philosophy of the Imperial Army was "assault, assault again". Such an army could declare war on 12 countries at the same time 100 years ago and seize the vast land of northern Asia for itself, and 400 years ago it could go on an expedition to the ocean and win the title of "empire on which the sun never sets" from the mouths of the European powers. But now in the face of the most formidable and vulnerable enemy they have ever seen, they have no choice but to defend.
Xenos can be injured like ordinary people in the rain of bullets, and they will also lose their combat effectiveness and life due to injuries and blood loss - they are facing this "vulnerable" enemy, an enemy that has no modern weapons, not even cold weapons.
But the xenos are also the bravest of the warriors. They will not be intimidated by attrition in battle, and they will not be held back by a lack of logistical ammunition. Their fighting philosophy is the same - rush, then assault!
One can imagine the unquenchable anger that has accumulated in everyone's hearts for nearly a year. One of the most frequently mentioned words is "if there is electricity".
Indeed, if there is electricity. If there is electricity, if this world is still the same as before, then the empire's army will do everything in its power to pour the cannons of revenge on every inch of the fallen area with a devastating force. Thick clouds of steel will sweep across the sky, and torrents of fire and metal will wipe out every xenomorph that may exist, even if it is—and fall to the wrath of humanity!
And now they are flying above the vast Pacific Ocean, at an altitude of 15,000 meters. The fleet was loaded with millions of tons of explosives, which in a few hours would be detonated on the land of the occupied zone. (To be continued......)