Chapter 101: The Salvation Army's Expedition
Former Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
"Boom!"
With a loud bang, the heavy mine exploded not far in front, and dozens of people who were charging were directly blown up, and the severed arms and stumps scattered in the sky, like red flowers.
It's just that a few of those corpses disappeared directly out of thin air while they were still in the air, as if they had never appeared.
"Be careful, these guys have planted mines! Hold off the attack! Nick roared.
In front of him were trench positions guarded by tens of thousands of men.
It was the position of the barbarians who called themselves the scientific race.
Based on the missile launch trajectory and the frequency of the electromagnetic pulse, as well as their own knowledge of the Eagle Nation's military facilities, and various other complex mathematical calculations, the assembled players determined five locations on the North American continent as the location of the Eagle Nation's intelligent nuclear strike system.
Yellowstone National Park is one of them.
In reality, Nick has traveled here many times, soaking in hot springs, seeing supervolcanoes, and having picnics with family and friends, and he loves it.
It's just that he never dreamed that in the "real apocalyptic game", Yellowstone National Park would become one of the servers of the intelligent nuclear strike system.
What he didn't expect was that there were several large shelters here, which seemed to be the barracks of the original nuclear strike system guard troops.
Hundreds of years later, the people in the large shelters have largely forgotten about the technology of the past due to the harsh environment, but they still remember the mission of guarding the nuclear strike system.
These people gradually evolved into a tribe called the "Science Clan", and the underground bunkers of the nuclear strike system were their holy ground!
When the player's army arrives, they are immediately attacked by the "Science Clan".
After all, this "scientific tribe" tribe evolved from the people of the Vault, and as such was armed with advanced gunpowder weapons, and even mines and grenades, which made this battle extremely fierce.
On the player's side, there is an expeditionary force of nearly 30,000 men.
In addition to the nearly 10,000 players, the rest are NPCs they have mobilized from all over the world.
The players have promised the NPCs that they will end the apocalypse and bring eternal peace to the land.
There are many diplomats and politicians among these players, and their eloquence is excellent, so they can be considered to have brought in a lot of reinforcements.
Yellowstone is already the fourth of five server locations.
Two of the first three positions were guarded by auto-defense robots, but fortunately, they were relatively dull, and although many people died, they were eventually captured and the server was blown up.
The third is located at the foot of President's Hill in the former state of South Dakota.
There was also a tribe of several thousand people stationed there, but fortunately, with their strong firepower, the tribe was wiped out.
In the end, the granite with layers of explosives was blasted up to tens of meters thick, and the server inside was finally destroyed.
During this time, many players returned to the respawn point after dying, but all of them rushed to the spawn point immediately after respawning.
And the Yellowstone position in front of me is the most difficult bone to gnaw.
The opposing machine-gun position alone gave them a headache.
Although they also had firearms, they had no heavy weapons, let alone airplanes.
At this time, the battle seemed to return to the machine-gun trench warfare of World War I, and there was no good way to do it except to keep stacking corpses.
"Da ......" bullets rained down, and the player's team was crushed behind a hill, unable to lift their heads at all.
“Mother Fucker!” Nick hid behind a boulder, felt the stone chips flying, and couldn't help but curse.
Although the "Scient" tribe has otherwise degraded and has no technology at all, it still maintains the high level of use and manufacture of weapons.
Nick could even see the tattered Eagle Nation military uniforms worn by some of the high-ranking tribesmen on the other side, apparently their elders had also passed on their military literacy, but they didn't know if they needed to wipe their boots.
"Brigade commander, do you want to call for artillery support?" One of Nick's players asked.
After more than a dozen battles and dozens of battles with the wasters, nearly 10,000 players have gradually formed a tight military system.
10,000 men formed a regiment, one brigade for each thousand, divided into ten brigades, of which Nick was the commander of the sixth.
In this battle, the 6th Brigade under his command was the attacking team, rushing to the front.
Behind him, the players spread out and hid in the grass according to the principle of "three-three" infantry charge.
This classic infantry tactic was specially taught by a player with a majestic voice, and it was the specialty of a large country in the East in the Korean War.
Nick asked in a deep voice, "Where is the demolition team?" Are the 1st, 5th, and 7th Brigades in place? ”
"The demolition team is still about twenty meters away from the target, but it is already easy to spot, and the corps commander has ordered a general attack in a minute."
The player as a herald said, holding a walkie-talkie made from various parts in his hand.
Most of the electronic equipment in the entire legion was basically saved by various experts from various parts found in the ruins.
Rao is used to the high degree of freedom of this game, which also amazes them.
"Hmm......" Nick looked through the cracks in the rocks at the enemy positions in front of him and said, "We're not close enough, tell the artillerymen, open fire in ten seconds!" ”
They didn't have many shells in total, and they could last five minutes at most in the form of barrages, and it would be a waste to hit early.
As soon as he finished speaking, Nick waved behind him, stepped out of cover, brandished his automatic rifle, and charged towards the enemy position.
Behind him, thousands of player and NPC soldiers immediately got up and followed, charging as they fired.
The machine gun position in front of it spewed tongues of fire, knocking down dozens of people in an instant, and the players who were hit immediately disappeared on the spot.
There are also players who step on the mine again and are blown up to the ground.
It's just that they can't take care of this anymore.
By the time they had rushed out of the tens of meters, ten seconds had passed, and the sound of shells whistling came from a distance, hitting the center of the trench in front of them and around them, kicking up puffs of sand and dust to cover the charging soldiers.
The morale of the player's side is boosted and they continue to charge wildly.
Soon, shouts of killing were heard from all directions at the same time, and troops from other directions also charged.
For a while, there were deafening gunshots and explosions everywhere, and the players just felt excited, as if they were really in the middle of the game's battlefield.
It's just that the artillery bombardment that they had just rushed to half the distance suddenly became much thinner, but it was some of the shells they collected that exploded directly!
At this moment, the people of the "Science Clan" tribe immediately began to fight back, and the sound of heavy machine guns and automatic rifles rang out continuously, and the soldiers in the player's army fell to the ground one by one, like wheat harvested by a scythe.
Nick killed one of the gunmen in the enemy position with a single shot, then collapsed in a crater, looking in the direction of the enemy position and gritting his teeth.
This bone was so hard to gnaw that they didn't have many heavy weapons to get past the enemy's machine-gun trenches.
At this moment, there was a sudden muffled sound of "boom" from the ground.
Then the ground shook violently, as if an angry dragon had awakened from the ground.
Then I saw a huge crack in the direction of the position of the "Science Family", and then the hot magma gushed out of it, and many "Science Family" people were directly burned to ashes!
The earth seemed to turn into a boiling bowl of soup in an instant, and puffs of lava emerged from the enemy positions, then detonating the remaining ammunition.
The detonation of explosives and mines immediately turned into a grand fireworks display, in which the "scientific family" was nearly wiped out.
A blue flag fluttered with the bright red word "SA" in plain sight, which was exactly the name the players had given to the team.
Salvation Army.
"Hahaha, Mr. F, brigade commander, we're done! The servers here are also burned to ashes! A comrade-in-arms on the side laughed with a communicator.
Mr. F is Nick's pseudonym in this game.
Apparently, the demolition team of geologists and volcanologists managed to find a weak point in the Yellowstone supervolcano, triggering a small volcanic eruption with a single blast, destroying the hidden nuclear strike server and the "tech family" in one fell swoop.
Because of the natural deterrent power of this dormant supervolcano to destroy the planet, it will not be used as a strike site by any nuclear striker, and the abundant geothermal energy can continue to provide energy, making it an excellent strategic shelter.
This is also one reason why the nuclear strike server is here.
However, this has also become a weakness that players take advantage of.
"Hmm......" Nick nodded, looking into the distance and said, "The hardest part is next...... Cheyenne Mountain ......"