Thirty-ninth: Longbow Cannon
After the circumferential activated the phantom system and left, Bernard apparently discovered the anomaly as well.
With the support of Jia Fuxing, he left the command post in the entrance and exit tunnel, and hobbled around the wall, the difficulty of the mountain road brought a lot of advantages to the defense, the heavy weapons of the enterprise alliance could not be transported, and the fortifications were not damaged much.
Cheng Xu looked at him with interest with his rifle: "Bernard is so old?" ”
"Dude, you and the general look like they're the same age."
Han Tie was dragging the corpse next to him and throwing it under the wall, looking back at him and commenting with a serious face.
Cheng Xu joined the army at the age of sixteen, and he is not yet sixty years old this year, but he is full of wine and gambling, and he does look like he is not old and decrepit, he is so angry when he hears this: ", I'm more than twenty years younger than him!" ”
But halfway through the scolding, the voice suddenly stuck in his throat, and a blood hole appeared silently on Han Tie's temple in front of him, and the other end of the blood hole was at the corner of the mouth of the other half of his face, as if it was pierced by a sharp arrow falling from the sky, but there was no sound of breaking the wind, and there was no trace of the arrow.
"Hide against the wall!"
Cheng Xu yelled.
Han Tie's corpse and the corpse he was dragging planted down the city wall and landed at Bernard's feet, Bernard leaned over and looked at it, quickly straightened up, his eyes were in a trance.
"Longbow! Find cover! ”
As he spoke, he held Jia Fuxing's shoulder, and the two of them quickly hid under the roof of the wall.
In the blink of an eye, in the courtyard behind the wall, several bandits who were carrying ammunition fell silently, and the top of their heads and chests seemed to be pierced by invisible arrows, and blood gushed and killed them instantly.
Amiko, who was also on standby under the canopy under which Bernard and Jia Fuxing were hiding, gave Bernard a resentful look and took two steps back.
"Sarah, do you remember what I taught you?"
Bernard asks Amiko questions like an instructor training recruits.
Amiko turned her back to him, observed the enemy situation outside the wall through the shooting hole, and replied in a cold tone like an endorsement: "Sniper-type parasitic system, longbow, effective killing range of five kilometers, one to ten parasitic robots are activated at a time to form stealth arrows, and the host remotely controls the arrows to find the target." ”
Bernard nodded and continued to ask, "What about weaknesses?" ”
Amiko left the shooting hole, her arms folded in front of her chest and leaned against the wall: "It takes too long to retrieve the parasitic robot, with firing intervals of up to ten to thirty seconds, and due to the host's limited attention span, it is vulnerable to attack when controlling the longbow. ”
Bernard is not satisfied: "So what should we do now?" ”
Amiko snorted, didn't continue to answer, walked up to Mozart, and gave him a cruel order: "New little brother, go and send a signal to let the stupid bandits who are in charge of hunting and growing vegetables gather in the courtyard." ”
Mozart was at a loss for the pile of shell casings and empty wooden boxes beside him, and he was afraid of the power of the longbow to let his men carry the ammunition.
Mozart frowned, apparently guessing Amiko's intentions, and after thinking that there seemed to be no better way, he walked to the edge of the canopy, pulled out his flare gun and shot it into the air.
Orange flares crossed the sky, and ten minutes later, more than 200 farmers were driven by several armed bandits and converged from tents in various corners of the barracks.
The longbow kills invisibly, people continue to fall along the way, bandits also shoot the escapees in the back, and by the time the farmers have assembled in the courtyard, there are already more than thirty corpses in the depths of the barracks.
"Move ammunition! The faster you move, the safer it is."
At Mozart's order, the peasants spread their legs and arms and fled back and forth with great fear, and in about ten minutes they were able to replenish the ammunition for the light and heavy weapons.
Cheng Xu took advantage of the fact that the longbow was more attacking the old and weak in the courtyard, and arranged for his men to bring some hay bales to the wall, and set up some simple anti-arrow sheds on top of the wall.
Bernard under the wall laboriously gave the order in a loud voice: "Captain Mozart, artillery fire is ready, covering a five-kilometer range..."
But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Cheng Xu in a louder voice: "Brother Bernard, don't you think it's a little strange?" ”
He shrank his head and shouted under the wall: "The longbow parasitic system is used for special operations, this kind of siege battle, there is no point in using it, it's better not to waste shells." ”
Bernard was naturally aware of this somewhat strange arrangement, and the soldiers of the Enterprise Army still did not charge during the Longbow attack, and he did not understand the purpose of the Longbow attack, but the purpose of his order for artillery coverage was not just to force the Longbow back.
"The artillery fire covers a five-kilometer range, and the shells are gone, and I want to see the mountain fires and burn out this group of corporate lackeys!"
Bernard's long beard trembled, and the field artillery immediately began to bombard, the mountains in the dense forest shook, the fire and smoke covered the sky, and the screams of humans and beasts dying could be heard in the interval between the cannons.
After playing a round of 16 rounds of ammunition, Mozart scratched his head and asked: "I saw Brother Zhou go up to the city wall just now, why didn't I hear him speak?" ”
"Zhou Zhen is here?" "Daddy is here?"
Bernard and Amiko's eyes widened at the same time, Bernard was not told, and Amiko had no time to pay attention.
Cheng Xu slapped his thigh and complained about his ineffective mind: "It's over!" Don't shoot! Lao Zhou went to the enemy camp! ”
...
Half an hour ago.
Crossing the enemy camp was easy for Zhou Zhen, who carefully observed the enemies around him.
The enterprise army is really different from the energy war in those years, when it was unified training and unified equipment, no matter how big the organization, the command was like an arm, standardization, high efficiency, is one of the keys to the enterprise to defeat the government.
In today's enterprise army, there is a clear difference between the troops of the four major enterprises.
The Shennong group had a large number of soldiers, and the soldiers were relatively conventional, mainly single-shot rifles, and there were no machine gunners and snipers.
Moyez Tech's soldiers are fully equipped with protective gear, wearing nano-material bulletproof suits and bulletproof helmets, looking like robots.
The soldiers of Nunn Logistics were the most demoralized, like a group of medieval crusaders, wearing bulletless iron cuirass, armed with all kinds of cold weapons in addition to conventional weapons, and everyone shouted the name of the goddess Atun.
Kronos Energy has one of the world's last large arsenals, and its soldiers are each like an armory, with a squad equipped with a light machine gun and a sniper, and the standard armament is an extremely expensive automatic rifle.
In addition, there are miscellaneous troops sent by other companies, scattered in small squads of varying numbers in the dense forest.
There was a complete lack of coordination between the troops of the various enterprises, and even medical resources were refused to be shared, and a medical soldier from the Shennong Group walked across the battlefield to search for his wounded companions, passing by several wounded Mayez soldiers who were groaning for help, and he stepped over the wounded soldiers, without even looking at them.
Such a situation seemed to be exploited, Zhou Zhen thought as he advanced, he was sure that although these enterprise soldiers seemed to be fighting separately, they must have a command center that controlled the overall situation, otherwise it would be difficult for them to retreat in an orderly manner after the whistle just now.
Walking beyond the warning signs, Zhou Zhen couldn't help but cover his mouth, the scene in front of him made him feel like he had returned to the past, the path down the mountain had been carved out into a smooth road, three nuclear armored transport vehicles were parked in the middle of the road, and hundreds of sappers were using smokeless explosives and primitive axes and saws to cut down the trees in front of the vehicles.
Zhou Zhen climbed a big tree next to the transport truck, and the goods on the top of the bush could be clearly seen, the first and third vehicles were full of heavy howitzers and high-explosive ammunition, and the second car sat around 20 heavy soldiers who could not see the company's affiliation, they were wearing a full set of nano bulletproof armor, holding light machine guns equipped with grenade launchers, and five of them were also carrying individual rocket launchers.
On the board in the center of them was something very familiar, a box made of Maya, exactly the same as it had been in the energy war forty years ago, or rather, one of the boxes in the warehouse at that time.
Zhou Zhen felt his heartbeat speed violently, his brain was spinning rapidly, it was impossible for a single box to be used as a cover, to collect the souls of the dead in this battle? This method proved ineffective forty years ago.
The only plausible one is a terrible speculation, antimatter.
Could it be that the corporate alliance wants to attack the bandit barracks with antimatter? Although humans are good at killing their own kind with all resources, but using antimatter as explosives? This is the first time in history.
He thought deeper, and his back was even more cold, the only known reliable source of antimatter was energy experiments, could it be that Jiro Oshima was also behind the support of this operation? If this is the case, then why didn't Thomas stop or reveal even the slightest hint of information to the Squirrel Company or himself?
At this moment, a Kronos officer, dressed in a blue overalls, stepped out of the first armored car and climbed into the second vehicle, and the heavily armored soldiers stood up and saluted.
Zhou Zhi jumped to the lower branches so that he could hear the conversation between them.
"Keys."
The officer hooked his finger at a heavily armed soldier.
The heavily armed soldier unloaded his backpack and took out a tablet-style device and handed it to the officer, who opened the device and fiddled with it twice, and the top of Maya's box slowly parted to the sides.
At first glance, the box seemed empty, but Zhou Zhen was very familiar with the contents, and in the center of the inside of the box, a very inconspicuous miniature Maya box was suspended, the box was only the size of a pill, exactly the same as the one he had once been.
"You can't wait for the fools of the Shennong Group to cut down the trees slowly, you come with me."
The officer picked up the Maya box and stepped out of the armored car, and twenty important soldiers followed one after another, forming a human fence around him.
Zhou Zhen followed closely, and the officer walked into a dense forest occupied by Kronos soldiers, found a tall cedar tree in the center, whistled, and jumped out of the tree a woman with a telescope in her hand, the woman was wearing a camouflage uniform full of branches and leaves, and a pair of crossbows were hung on her shoulders, and her face was painted with oil paint to see her face clearly, but her eyebrows and eyes were slender and soft, and her pupils were as green as a deep pool in the mountains.
The officer handed the Maya box to the woman and asked, "Can the longbow be given out?" ”
The woman took the box and weighed it, her eyes shining with surprise, and she played with it for a while before nodding.
"Well, evacuate to the command vehicle after a successful delivery, and I'll wait for you for thirty seconds before activating the detonating device."
The woman gave him a silent salute, and then climbed to the top of the tree with swiftness.
Detonate? Zhou Zhen's premonition hit, and he hurriedly took two steps forward and jumped to the top of the tree behind the woman.
But it was still a second late, and as soon as he stood firm at the top of the tree, the woman turned around and pulled out the short knife at her waist and slashed at the branch where he was footing.
The phantom could not completely eliminate gravity, and before Zhou Zhen could think about how he had exposed his whereabouts, his feet were already in the air, and his body fell to the lower branches.
He quickly steadied himself and reached out to grab the branch, but when he climbed to the top of the tree again, the woman was nowhere to be seen, except for the branch on which she had stepped and swayed.
Is this a monkey or a human? Zhou Zhen was secretly surprised in his heart, and hurriedly looked around, but in the past few seconds, there was a rustling sound from the adjacent tree beside him, and the Maya box flew out of the dense leaves, and disappeared into the air in a parabolic acceleration.
There was also a starting device, Zhou Zhen couldn't care about chasing the mysterious woman, he jumped off the tree in a flash, and rushed in the direction of the command car.
At the critical juncture of six or seven paces away from the command vehicle, a creepy whistling suddenly came from overhead, followed by the rumbling of artillery in the direction of the barracks.
Less than a second later, the heat wave was rolling, the flames were soaring, and Zhou Zhi's body was blown into the air by the explosion, and he was thrown to the ground again, every joint emitted a sharp pain, and the scorching impact seemed to tear his body apart.
In front of him, the command vehicle in the middle was blown to pieces, and the two vehicles around it also caught fire one after another, and the officer's clothes were burning, and he jumped out of the car screaming, pressed a few buttons on the platform computer in his hand, and then fell to the ground and rolled and shouted.
Zhou Zhen endured the heat and pain, activated the phantom device again, flashed over and picked up the tablet, and the broken screen flashed with a prompt: "The password is correct, the Maya box is opened, and the amount of antimatter storage: 0.3 grams." ”
"No!" He screamed and ran towards the barracks.