Chapter 168: Sortie

"Thirty kilometers away?" Qin Hao frowned, if he was allowed to travel thirty kilometers alone and enter the area controlled by the Zerg, it would naturally not be a big problem, but the key was that what he wanted to get back was the materials airdropped by four heavy transport planes!

The materials delivered by the four heavy transport planes weighed at least dozens of tons, and it was impossible to tow them back without eight all-terrain armored transport vehicles, but with a convoy to the controlled area of the Zerg, Qin Hao didn't dare to pack a ticket for this kind of work!

"Can't even you?" Nicole looked at Qin Hao with a look of hope and asked.

"It's hard to ......" Qin Hao said with a solemn face, he is very self-aware of himself, although his current strength is good, but it has not reached the point of rampaging the Alpha Star, not to mention anything else, in case he encounters the silver-horned giant beetle, Qin Hao himself will not be able to settle at all, although he has the ability to escape, but what about the convoy?

"But those supplies are very important to us, especially the equipment used to repair the engine......" Nicole also looked sad.

"Can't the fleet be allowed to do another airdrop?" Qin Hao asked.

"Everything else is easy to say, but there is only one set of equipment to repair the C2 engine, and if you can't get it back, you have to transfer it from the rear, and it is estimated that it ......will take at least ten days," Nicole said.

"No, we don't have that much time to waste." Qin Hao said.

"But ......" Nicole also didn't want Qin Hao to take risks.

"Forget it, you can only gamble!" Qin Hao gritted his teeth, now at this time, he can't care about calculating the risk, as long as it is possible to succeed, it is worth a try!

"You ask Lieutenant General Cohen to help me prepare a convoy, I need fifteen all-terrain armored transports, twenty-two tanks, and five thousand marines!" Qin Hao said that his mouth was the armored strength of the two motorized infantry divisions.

The reason why Qin Hao wanted so much equipment was actually prepared for loss, he didn't hope at all to hide from the eyes and ears of the Zerg and smuggle away the supplies, because in the Alpha Star, the ears and eyes of the Zerg were all over the planet, and it was impossible for humans to dispatch so many vehicles not to alarm the Zerg.

Therefore, Qin Hao planned to use some transport vehicles and tanks as bait to lure away most of the insect swarm, so as to find an opportunity to smuggle the supplies back.

This time, Qin Hao was already mentally prepared, his team might lose more than half, and he might not even be able to bring back a third of the airdropped materials, but he was bound to repair the equipment for the C2 engine, because it was urgent to repair the engine of the Federation Glory.

Although the outpost guard and defense line can be built soon, and the energy of the Federation Glory can be greatly saved, for every day of delay on the Alpha Star, the risk of their entire army being wiped out will increase several times, so Qin Hao knew in his heart that they could not afford to delay.

"Good! I'll tell my dad about it! Nicole turned and left.

Qin Hao took a deep breath, went back to the room and simply cleaned himself up, and then prepared to go.

There wasn't much time, and Nicole returned.

"Qin Hao, my father agreed to your request, and he asked you when you will leave?" Nicole said to Qin Hao.

"The sooner the better, I don't want those bugs to ruin our supplies!" Qin Hao said.

"Hmmm! My dad thinks so too. Nicole nodded, and then said to Qin Hao: "Now that my father has asked the adjutant to assemble the troops, you can come with me." ”

"Good!" Qin Hao agreed, and then followed Nicole to a hall inside the battleship.

This should be the camp of the armored troops, Qin Hao took a general look, there are about fifty taels of tanks parked here, there are about forty armored personnel carriers, and there may be about thirty or forty transporters.

"Qin Hao, you're here!" General Cohen took the initiative to greet him.

"Hmmm! General, would I like to add a few more armored personnel carriers? Qin Hao said, he didn't know that there was still this kind of equipment here, otherwise, he would definitely want it, because although this armored personnel carrier is not as strong as a tank, it provides some protection for the soldiers.

"Hmmm! No problem, I'll give you all these forty armored personnel carriers! "General Cohen also made a mistake this time, in order to get back the equipment for repairing the C2 engine, he threw almost all the armor into it!

"Good!" Qin Hao nodded, this large armored personnel carrier could carry fifty heavily armed marines and had good fire support.

At least 2,000 Marines could ride in all 40 armored personnel carriers, and they would form an effective defensive ring to protect soldiers marching on foot from frontal attacks by the swarms.

About half an hour later, all the vehicles and soldiers were assembled, fifteen all-terrain transporters, which were used to transport supplies, twenty taels of tanks were the biggest card in Qin Hao's hand, and the remaining armored vehicles and marines, to be honest, Qin Hao brought them with a large part of courage, and when they really encountered a large-scale swarm, they were cannon fodder at best.

After all, in the absence of bunkers and air support, motorized infantry encountering swarms in the field is basically equivalent to being slaughtered, although those armored personnel carriers can provide some cover, but in the face of an incalculable number of swarms, these armored vehicles are just a comfort.

"I'm sorry!" Qin Hao said to these marines silently, but for the sake of the entire Federation Glory, for more soldiers and crews to survive, sacrifice is necessary.

"Let's go!" Then Qin Hao raised his head, and he ordered loudly.

"Yes!" The soldiers replied in unison.

Then the engine of the armored car started, and the twenty-two tanks opened the road in front, and Qin Hao commanded the huge convoy to drive out of the Federal Glory and drive towards the location of the supplies.

"Have a nice trip! Brothers! As they passed by the outpost bunker, the soldiers inside greeted the attacking soldiers with a smile, and no one knew if there would be a chance to meet again, but everyone had an indifferent smile on their faces.

These marines are all veterans, they have been fighting for more than seven months on Alpha Star, and every day new troops are filled in, and then they are exhausted by the Zerg, and then they are filled in with new troops, so these veterans have long been accustomed to seeing life and death, and it is no longer empty words for them to regard death as home.

The mighty convoy drove out of the range of the Federal Glory's close defense guns, and the motorized infantrymen who were protected by the armored vehicles in the middle all clenched their electromagnetic rifles in their hands, and after getting out of the protection range of the close defense guns, the only thing they could rely on was the rifles in their hands!

(End of chapter)