Chapter 132: Hold on, we're going home
The Tyrannosaurus drone whizzed over the wreckage of the helicopter and circled a kilometer away. The landing ship of the fifth squad landed on the ground, and after the soldiers were rushing out, they flew back into the air and stood by.
The leader of the fifth squad was the first to rush to the middle of the wreckage, and he was shocked by the shattered parts and burning corpses everywhere, these drones were simply the hands of death, in addition to the Hellfire missiles, they also dropped a lot of unguided hybrid bombs, and the entire rebel position seemed to be washed by a rain of fire.
"Medic, check the life signals around you and see if there are any people who belong to us." The squad leader glanced viciously at the drone in the distance, turned around and shouted at the soldiers behind him.
"There are two, captain. But both are very weak. ”
"Then find them out quickly."
The Medic pulled out his vital detector and, following the instructions above, found a man wearing Union Special Forces Individual Armor from a pile of parts in Apache.
But this man wasn't the Keitel that Team Fifth was looking for, and the dying Federation soldier proved that he was just an ordinary soldier, regardless of the size of his armor or his rank below his neck.
"Help, save the captain, he's ...... under that pile of scrap metal"
The Medic pressed his ear to the soldier's mouth, and the subtle sound was amplified by the armor and clearly reached his ears.
He was stunned for a moment, reflexively wanting to save the soldier in front of him first, but as soon as his hand touched the soldier's body, reason returned to his brain, and he turned his head and looked at the squad leader, waiting for his order.
The squad leader and the medics looked at each other, and after a few seconds of silence, he spoke: "The medic will save people first, you three, come with me." ”
The team leader is also very anxious at this time, every second that passes, Keitel's life may be more dangerous, according to the current situation, Keitel must be buried in dust, if he can dig it out, it will definitely be better to receive treatment immediately, but in case he is buried too deep and can't dig it out in a short time, then you can't let the medical soldiers watch and stare dryly, right? And this soldier is obviously in urgent need of medical treatment, if the medics are not allowed to save now, and it is difficult for them to dig up Keitel, they will end up with no one alive.
To investigate the pros and cons, in any case, let the medic treat the soldier immediately.
"Captain, the Nanning sent a message, saying that a light excavation robot will be put into operation immediately, so that we can prepare to check it." As the team leader was talking, the voice of the communicator came from the headset.
"Roger, drop the instruction smoke immediately."
More than twenty soldiers formed a circle, and in the center of the circle was a smoke grenade emitting orange smoke.
Not long after, a burning airborne compartment landed in the center of the circle, although the airborne compartment has been reversed several times during the landing process, but the shock wave when it hits the ground is still not to be underestimated, but the shock wave just reached the front of the soldier and dissipated, blowing on the soldier's face is just a continuous breeze, and the Nanning's precise control of the airborne compartment is enough to make all the people of the 22nd century ashamed.
The door of the airborne compartment opened, and a pile of broken parts rolled to the ground, and then moved rapidly in front of everyone, constantly combining together, and the scattered parts were quickly rebuilt into complete entities like a jigsaw puzzle, and a red excavator brandished two shovels three meters long and pressed them to the ground. In an instant, Keitel, who had been crushed by a two-meter-deep cloud of dust, was lifted to the ground by a shovel.
The squadron leader patted the robot on the head in satisfaction and immediately looked back at the medics, who were still treating the ordinary soldier, and it seemed that it was an emergency moment, and it was impossible for the medic to give up his immediate life to save someone else in this situation.
"Correspondent, bring me the communication equipment."
"Yes, Chief!"
The communicator carried a heavy small box on his back and trotted all the way to the squadron leader.
"Can you get in touch with the fleet?"
"It's been a few minutes since I lost contact, but it's back to normal now."
The squadron leader grabbed the microphone and skillfully entered the communication channel password of the Nanning fleet with his fingers.
"Is it the captain of the fifth squadron? What is the situation with Colonel Keitel? ”
"Captain Wang, we have rescued the captain, but he is seriously injured, we can't treat him here, please open the warship's teleportation device and teleport him back to the ship."
"However, our warships have just defended against the opponent's electronic attack, and many systems have not yet returned to normal operation, and if the teleporter is used rashly, it is likely to cause irreparable damage to Keitel."
"Then send a medical ship with a medical microbrain right away, Captain Keitel is in a dangerous situation right now, and he may never have a chance to save him in a minute more." The squadron leader said in his heart that the good guys finally got to the point, and he knew that the bunch of cubs in the fleet were reluctant to take on this responsibility.
"Squadron leader, please calm down, now we don't fully grasp the air supremacy, and sending an unsuspecting hospital ship down at this time is to seek death." Wang Kaixing's voice was still unwavering, as a cruiser captain and commander of a city-level fleet, he had seen the painful wails of ground forces too many times.
"Then you can send a daring pilot." The squadron leader grabbed the microphone and yelled into it. Before Wang Kaixing could react, he had already cut off the communication.
"Chief, what should I do? Do you really want to send a medical ship down? Microbrain said in Wang Kaixing's brain.
"Are you sure you're okay with the hacker who hacked into your system? Are you sure they won't attack again? ”
"Don't worry, sir. I'm trying to search for the other person's location right now. ”
"Very good," Wang Kaixing stood up, pinched his chin and paced back and forth in front of the captain's chair a few times: "Alas, let the Quyanghu prepare to enter the atmosphere, these army guys, if I let Keitel lose a hair on the way back, the responsibility for the death of their commander will be borne by us." It's better to simply transfer a transport ship with complete medical equipment. ”
"Yes, chief, I will immediately order the Quyanghu to get ready."
"Wait," Wang Kaixing exhaled heavily, and touched his forehead helplessly, "Order the Shanglin, Mashan, and Longan to prepare for battle, now the rebel army must still have considerable combat capability, according to the information given by the first detachment, the opponent has heavy weapons such as 155mm howitzers, in case those people suddenly come out of the ground to give the transport ship a few cannons, then we can't eat and walk around." ”
"Understood, a preliminary scan of the planet has been carried out, and no unknown signals have been found on the surface. Immediately send a detector to scan the underground facilities. ”
The captain of the transport ship Quyanghu watched in disbelief at the order from the flagship: lower the shield and prepare for landing.
"What the hell, to land an almost unprotected transport ship in such a dangerous environment? Is the chief crazy? The captain clenched his hands into fists and slammed them on the astrolabe.
"There's no way, Captain, I can only carry out the order." The shipboard microbrain replied helplessly in his brain, in this case, even if the captain is unwilling to go down, he must carry out the order as a microbrain.
The shield barrier of the Quyanghu was quickly absorbed back into the storage bin inside the battleship, and after the microbrain set the course, the main engine of the transport ship stopped running, relying on inertia to slide to the target location, and the remaining course that needed to be corrected only needed to pass through the steering engine.
The transport ship is like a large meteorite that has fallen, flying to the ground with fire all over its body, and the only difference from the meteorite is that there is still a white column of air spraying underneath the "meteorite".
"Chief, there is an emergency, there is a rebel S-400 anti-aircraft missile position twenty kilometers east of the target site." The eager voice of the micro-brain sounded in Wang Kaixing's brain.
"Destroy it for me immediately, the Nanning close-in defense gun is ready, be sure to intercept the missiles that have been launched."
At the time of Wang Kaixing's order, 10 missiles had already been lifted into the air, and when the modified missile was halfway through its flight, the large warheads split apart, and hundreds of bullets emerged to attack the transport ship from different directions.
If this attack method was placed more than 1,000 years ago, the possibility of being attacked to retreat was quite low, but this was the era when the microbrain had been widely used, and the seemingly complex attack had actually been clearly felt, and the missile was a weapon with stiff action and extremely slow speed at all, which was one of the reasons why the missile was eliminated.
The beam fired by the cruiser's close-in defense gun swept each missile with precision, and when the last missile exploded, the missile was still two kilometers away from the transport ship. And only forty seconds elapsed between the missile attack and its total annihilation.
Just five seconds after the missiles were fired, the exposed air defense positions were blown up into the sky by orbital bombs that fell from the sky, and the dust stirred up by the explosion was several hundred meters high. The mushroom cloud soared several kilometers into the air, and the firelight could be seen dozens of kilometers away.
The thrust engine of the transport ship, which is hundreds of meters long, sprayed air jets on the soldiers' faces, but the soldiers did not feel a significant change in temperature, because the spacecraft was descending, spewing out not only high-temperature airflow, but also liquid nitrogen at a relatively low temperature. This is to prevent the rocks on the ground from bursting due to the high temperature when the ship is close to the ground, killing and injuring nearby allies.
"A small team, with the transport ship as the center of the circle, with a radius of 100 meters to build a defensive circle; the second squad, covering the retreat of the wounded; The third team inserted the scanner, and after scanning it, sent the underground situation to the Nanning. The squadron leader put the gun behind his back and gently carried Keitel behind him, "Chief, hold on, we're going home." ”
"Yes!"
Fortunately, the expected attack did not occur, presumably a round of artillery bombardment on the ground by the destroyer made the rebels realize their situation, and the rebels were no longer willing to pay more casualties in exchange for limited federal casualties while losing air supremacy.
"This place, we have lost too much." In the planetary synchronous orbit, on the Quyang Lake, the squadron leader of the fifth squadron walked to the acting squadron leader of the first squadron with two cups of hot tea, "Unexpectedly, the first squadron with the strongest combat effectiveness among us is the only one of our commanders, and none of the other squadrons survived, and there are only these recruits under my command who are left with a complete formation." ”
The bandaged arm of the acting squadron leader of the first squadron trembled, his eyes fixed on the planet outside the window, and two lines of tears silently slipped from the corners of his eyes and dripped into the teacup in his hand.
After a few minutes of silence, the water in the teacup gradually bottomed out, and when he entered the wormhole, the leader of the first squadron drank the rest of the hot tea, stretched out his right hand, which was still intact, and pressed it heavily against the glass, pointing his fingers directly at the distant planet.
"Today's shame will be repaid in the future!"