In the early hours of the next morning, the rainstorm came as promised!

Bean-sized raindrops fell to the cracked earth, and the small droplets were absorbed the moment they touched the ground, and not even a mark could be left, and the drought-stricken land greedily absorbed the nectar from the sky to heal the scars on its body.

A convoy of winding dragons is hurrying in this pouring rain, dozens of forward mechs are followed by various heavy vehicles with strong firepower, and most of the light armored vehicles with good firepower are arranged on both sides to guard the two wings of the entire transport convoy, in addition to some rangers on individual motorcycles cruising in the group of vehicles on both wings, once they find anything abnormal, they will immediately go to the scene of the incident to check.

The incessant torrential rain muffled the sound, diluted the smell, washed away the traces, and the soldiers of the entire base quietly entered the wilderness under the cover of this heavy rain, advancing towards the depth of the defense laid out by the Alliance.

In this bad weather, most of the mutants followed the instincts formed over thousands of years and retreated into their nests built at zero hour early, and the Alliance soldiers who were preparing to break out walked hundreds of kilometers with little respectful resistance.

That's where the good luck ends!

The fresh wind sent away the clouds, the heavy rain that lasted for several hours gradually stopped, and after a burst of rainstorm, the calm plain was particularly vibrant in the slanting wind and drizzle, and the green vegetation scattered everywhere was desperately sprouting after absorbing enough water, and did everything possible to grow wildly.

In the puddles that have been filled again, many animals that have been thirsty for months come out of their hiding places to release their thirst for water, even ignoring the predators in front of them.

The scenery of the Great Plains is so harmonious and beautiful, but at this time, Shi Lei's mood is as gloomy as the sky full of dark clouds just now.

The cessation of the rainstorm represents the normal activities of the xenomorphs, and their huge convoy of tens of thousands of people cannot avoid the eyes and ears of the xenos, and they will definitely be hunted by a large number of xenomorph communities in the future.

"Drop~"

After continuing to walk forward for a while, the personal terminal on Shi Lei's wrist made a dysprosium sound, and the yellow standby light turned green

"Whew~"

Shi Lei, who was sitting in the mecha, took a long breath and relaxed a little. It seems that they have broken away from the electromagnetic barrier area set up for them by the xenotactic master according to the predetermined plan, and finally regained contact with the Alliance, and from now on they will be able to get the tactical support of the Alliance!

Looking at the current retreat task on the terminal, Shi Lei immediately called the headquarters

"Command headquarters, I am Colonel Shi Lei, and I am now leading a team of tens of thousands of survivors in retreat, hoping to get support from the headquarters!"

Out of the importance of this team of survivors, Chang Tianle personally answered this communication request, looking at those heavily armored soldiers covered in the smell of gunpowder, the corners of Chang Tianle's eyes suddenly moistened

"Good, good! You're all good boys! We will do whatever it takes to get you back! ”

Turning off the communication, Chang Tianle thought for a while and said to the adjutant beside him

"You go, Admiral Fred came to him, and said I have something to discuss with him."

The adjutant answered the call and left.

After this xenomorph raid, they rebuilt the command center after returning to the alliance, but because the lost personnel could not be in place immediately, the entire command center was very deserted, Chang Tianle looked at a large blue sign that appeared from the occupied area not long ago, and whispered to himself:

"I'm running out of time! Hopefully we can hold on until this group of children comes back......"

……

After receiving the exact reply from Admiral Chang Tianle, Shi Lei began to prepare for the retreat.

First of all, it is necessary to find an open space with a relatively hard ground and build a platform that is convenient for the take-off and landing of landing ships, and the other is to install a basic defense system. Fortunately, in addition to the fighters of several infantry regiments, there are many engineers like the 404 Logistics Regiment in this team, and the construction of those infrastructure is progressing very quickly.

All that's left is to wait!

Shi Lei thought uneasily.

However, he was not wrong in what he expected, a large team like theirs could not escape the eyes and noses of the xenos. In a few hours, there were more and more xenomorphs hiding a few kilometers away to watch them, and soon the stars on the radar of the Ice Emissary turned into a continuous red tide, exerting the Ice Emissary's field of vision to the limit, and you could also see many special elites who were more than ten meters high.

The heavily armored soldiers had dug some bunkers and trenches with the help of the engineers, but they didn't know how effective these improvised defenses were! It's also the first time they've fought a large-scale defensive battle with xenos in an open field!

In the past, they usually played the role of attackers, and the tactics of defending against a large number of xenos instead of fortresses and fortresses were still largely theoretical, and the closest reference case to this was the encounters between the buffer zone outcasts and merchants and xenomorphs, but that usually ended in the total destruction of those people.

When there were no more cones to stand a few kilometers around, the alien population began to move, first taking one step and stopping three steps, then slowly increasing the frequency, until finally there were only about a thousand meters left, and it turned into a rapid charge.

"Fire!"

By the time the xenos came within 800 meters, the orders to fire came one after another, and all the vehicle-mounted weapons and the newly installed firepower platform spewed out long tongues of fire, and the hot solid shells clanged and smashed down on the armor plates and then slid down from above to the wet ground.

Live-fire weapons have a good effect on unarmored targets in the African Plains, and the hot warhead that spun in the air drilled in front of the xenomorph, and then burst out from behind with a large mass of internal organs into the body of another xenomorph, and many of the xenos before the overrush were directly broken into several pieces and scattered to the ground.

The crazy xenos trampled on the stumps on the ground and continued to move forward, not because their companions who were lying on the ground in front of them hesitated for even a second, and after countless xenobee chrysalis passed, the mutilated creatures on the ground turned into a mass of meat sauce!

Soon the alien population rushed to within 500 meters, more orders to open fire came, and each combat team, led by its own captain, began to attack the targets assigned to them by the data link.

With the tactical support provided by the Alliance, the combat effectiveness of the heavy infantry has more than doubled compared to before, and they are extremely accurate to strike at the fish that have survived from the heavy fire nets such as machine guns, and knock these mutated creatures that want to rush in to the ground one by one.

If the alien population only arranged this level of charge, it would probably not be possible to even get within 100 meters of the defensive position, let alone annihilate the team.

The xenos seemed to figure this out, as the attacking xenos retreated like a tidal wave after a strange cry, and rows of mutated rhinos emerged from behind them.

These creatures, who were already behemoths in the past, have grown several times larger after evolution, and their epidermis has become more resilient and thick, the only thing that has not changed is the deep resentment towards humans in their eyes.

Just because their horns can be made into beautiful crafts, those humans have been hunting them for thousands of years, old, small, male, female, and even pregnant ones refuse to let go! Now this horn has other uses!

The mutant rhinos began to run to warm up, slowly accelerating, and finally the ground trembled as they pulled their legs and ran wildly!

Heavy weapons fired!

The intense fire swiped rows of white marks on the mutant rhinoceros' tough skin, but there was no way to seriously hurt them.

Other xenomorphs have a show! They also joined the charge behind the mutant rhinoceros herd.

Shi Lei saw that the heavy firepower could not stop the charge of the mutant rhinoceros, so he rushed forward with his weapon and shouted

"Mecha troops, follow me to assault, we must contain the charge on the opposite side! If they break up their defensive positions, those infantry brothers face a massacre! ”

Without a word, the few dozen mechs left in the team rushed out with the Ice Emissary, targeting the herd of mutated rhinoceros that were running wildly.

It's a decisive battle of light cavalry versus heavy armor!

With a raider of less than ten tons, it is undoubtedly a mantis arm to shake a mutant rhinoceros of at least twenty tons.

Shi Lei naturally wouldn't be stupid enough to be tough, and after approaching the mutant rhinoceros, the trident in his hand lightly tapped on the head of a galloping mutant rhinoceros, and he swung away with the impact of the mutant rhinoceros. A bit of ice spread from where his trident was pointed, and the galloping mutant rhinoceros was wrapped into an ice sculpture with great speed.

The inertia caused the ice sculpture to tumble and crash into the makeshift cover of the Engineers, shattering to the ground.

Don't look at Shi Lei's ability to deal with mutant rhinoceros so easily, it is based on excellent physical performance and his own special physical fitness, most of the raiders who directly fight against mutant rhinoceros still suffer a little bit of loss, but they also successfully attract the hatred of those mutant rhinoceros, they use the powerful mobility of the mecha to flexibly guide the direction of the mutant rhinoceros' attack, and wait for the opportunity to shoot the mutant rhinoceros' ears, eyes, anus and other weak defensive places with electromagnetic rifles.

The attacked mutant rhinos left behind the fragile xenos behind them and turned with red eyes to chase the tins that were constantly hurting them, exposing the xenos who wanted to rely on their cover to rush into hand-to-hand combat in the position to the formidable firepower of the Alliance soldiers.

Even though the raiders did a very good job, due to the small number of them, the positions in some places were broken by the mutant rhinoceros, and hundreds of hoplites were knocked away by the mutated rhinos along with the improvised fortifications, and then fell to the ground to be dismembered by the aliens.

"!"

A veteran with a non-commissioned officer logo on his heavy armor threw the electromagnetic rifle in his hand that was ineffective against the mutant rhinoceros attack to the ground, tying several offensive ** on his body together

"Xiao Liu, bolt, cover me, I'll go kill it!"

"Captain, you're ......"

"What are you? You TMD less nonsense, can you do it? I'm afraid that before I get close to that big guy, I'll let those disgusting things be dismembered! Wait a minute, don't hurt me! ”

The captain's eyes were fixed on the mutant rhinoceros one hundred and eighty paces ahead, and he approached from the trench with his waist bent.

He also knew that he would die and die, but if he didn't go, even the team members around him would not survive.

It's better to die one than a bunch of people!

There was no trench in front of him, so he reluctantly climbed onto the ground and took cover from the corpses and debris all over the ground, and quietly approached the mutant rhinoceros, after the mutant rhinoceros entered the defensive position, chased after the fighters, and used his sharp front feet to pierce the alliance soldiers in the heavy armor, hanging them in a string like a sugar gourd, and he didn't know whether it was used to show off his might or prepare to bring it back as rations.

"Bastard!"

The captain's fingers in his heavy armor were a little white from pinching too hard, and he rolled several times in succession and hid in a pile of rubble, quietly waiting for the mutant rhinoceros to arrive.

The Coalition soldiers in this section of the position had been slaughtered by the mutant rhinoceros and the xenos it had brought, and it was expected that it would not be long before it would want to cross the road to kill its own teammates.

The captain waited patiently in the ruins, but the unexpected happened, and it was a normal mutant like a wild boar who came first. Seeing that it was about to go to ruins.

"Here! Idiot! Look here! ”

His own team member Xiao Liu jumped out of the trench and fired three shots at the wild boar.

Regardless of whether Xiao Liu hit the wild boar or not, the xenomorph was successfully provoked, spread its limbs and ran towards Xiao Liu, passing by the ruins without noticing the abnormality inside.

The mutant rhinoceros's attention was also grabbed, and it trotted and paced, and as soon as it reached the ruins, the captain jumped out of it, his right hand clutching the arm of a corpse hanging from its horn

"Brother, offended! But I'm sure you'll forgive me, right? ”

With his left hand, he pulled off the safety that had been prepared for a long time, and put his arm into the mouth of the mutant rhinoceros.

"Boom!"

With a loud explosion, a ball of flames erupted from the mutant rhinoceros's mouth, and its body fell to the ground with smoke and its head already blown to pieces.

"I knew I could cough...... Ahem......"

As he coughed, a black mass was spat out, and he frowned

"It seems that there is no way to go back to see Ah Hui and Xiaoya this time......"

The captain, who had been tossed aside by the powerful shockwave, remembered his family's smile of relief, and in a trance he seemed to see his daughter running towards him with open hands and smiling, while his beautiful wife smiled softly from the side

"Little girl......"

The captain's outstretched hand froze on the spot, and his pupils quickly dilated......

Shi Lei watched the soldiers of the alliance clean up the battlefield, gathered the corpses of his comrades, and sadly served them. He is basically numb to this kind of thing, he has experienced too much of this kind of thing, so much that he will no longer make waves in his heart, if he doesn't want to get hurt again, it's good not to make friends, why add unnecessary troubles to himself? Many people say that he is too cold and unkind, but who knows that he was also full of enthusiasm in the past?

Why do we pay like this? What do you want to get? Is that right?

Dozens of colorful auroras shot into the sky from the primeval dense forest hundreds of miles away and swept left and right, Shi Lei was immediately awakened, he looked at the sky along the tail end of those auroras, and just saw one after another dazzling light spots comparable to the sun erupting above the sky.

Shi Lei glanced at the tactical map on his terminal, and looked back at the light source that was still emitting dazzling light

"Power furnace explosion? Depend on! ”