Chapter 39: The Decisive Battle of the Copper Furnace Base (Part II)
The defectors of the chariot unit were contacted by insiders, officers who wanted to preserve their status and fortune by surrendering to the watch base. The informant's intelligence was: "Pinault is in this area, the elite troops of the Combine have hidden him in the command center, we have to find him one by one." ”
This piece of information was of no practical use other than to make Renault more convinced that Pinault was in the command center.
"Very good, let those informants find me useful information as soon as possible. Well, let's have a contest, and if your informants don't send a piece of useful information before my troops find Pinault, then I'll treat them as ordinary prisoners of the Combine and live in the mines for the rest of their lives. ”
Reynolds' words frightened the Combine intelligence officers and hurriedly went to contact the informants. Renault continued to shout to the fighters behind him, "The raiders and marines march forward in a mixed formation and blow open their gates with grenades. ”
Renault had 200 soldiers to command, and in addition to the 60 people needed to block the building, he also had 140 troops in his hands, so he left a reserve of 40 people, and the remaining 100 men rushed in, entered the command center from all directions, and launched a comprehensive search.
The elite of the Combine Army will also not be able to resist the "invulnerable" enemy.
"Come out, General Pinault, and we'll give you a fair trial." Renault shouted all the way with the Spike Rifle, and the Combine soldiers who prevented Renault from bringing him to trial were smashed to pieces by the Spike Rifle.
The rooms on the first and second floors were breached one by one, and none of the recalcitrant, surrendered, and frightened Combine forces were Pinault, nor did they have Pinault's cronies, let alone know Pinault's traces.
Renaud and his Special Ops team made their way to the first of the three safe houses provided by the informant, while the other teams blocked the second and third rooms, respectively.
"Ready? Brothers! “
"Received location, approaching ......"
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"They should have died like a warrior fighting the swarm! Or return with glory and wait for the Earth Federation to reclaim the colony star! That's not where they should be! ”
Su Lin was still chattering and scolding Ji Tianping, as if she was sure that she was still valuable, and Ji Tianping would not kill people because of a few scoldings from herself. What Su Lin didn't know was that Ji Tianping had enabled the sound shielding, the mask covered the entire head, and the information from the front line was quickly sent to the mask platform, so that Ji Tianping knew the movements of the front line clearly.
"They, in the end, are also the troops that resist the swarm, they have merit, there is no need for us to continue to expand the results of the battle, the achievements of the civil war are not worthy of praise, we can only continue to wait for news from Renault.
Outside the safe house, Renault did not let the raiders bombard it with grenades, because the corridor outside the safe house was small and easy to be injured by mistake; Second, Renault still has the intention of capturing Pinault alive, and the living Pinault may be better able to force down the recalcitrant Combine forces in the corner of the copper furnace base.
"Is the bomb planted?"
"Everything is set up!"
"That's OK, Team A, Team B, Team C, attack at the same time!"
The directional blasting explosives on the door of the safe house were activated at the same time, and the walls of the safe house were also installed with explosives, and Renault would not be foolish enough to install the established route and run headlong into the guns of the Combine.
The explosion tore over the door and blew the walls open, but when the smoke cleared and everyone was surprised to see the scene inside the safe house, except for a pile of disorganized boxes, there was no one in the safe house, not even a single miscellaneous fish.
"It's Team B, and the safe house is empty."
"It's Team C, it's the same situation, just a bunch of boxes."
Renault walked a few steps inside, and suddenly, an inexplicable sense of fear came to his heart, this safe house felt very weird, and Renault hurriedly shouted: "Everyone, get out of the safe house!" Everybody get out of the safe house! ”
The intuition of battlefield veterans is often more effective than some high-tech equipment, because they have experienced the same dangerous situations and survived, and they are all too familiar with that feeling. When the Marines heard Renault's order, they immediately began to retreat without thinking.
But the flames of the explosion are always faster than the Marine's feet. That's right, all three safe houses are equipped with boxes and boxes of explosives, and the countdown to self-detonation will be activated whenever the structure of the gate and wall is damaged.
Flames, blasters, and fragments quickly swept through the corridors, and in the nick of time, all the raiders volunteered to stay behind the Marines, using their enhanced power armor as a buffer to defuse most of the damage caused by the explosion.
More than a dozen Marines were wounded, and one of the raiders' arms was permanently missing from a sharp metal block with tremendous kinetic energy.
Ji Tianping lost contact with the front line at the first moment of the explosion, and hurriedly began to call for help to Renault and the members of the special operations team.
"Damn the Combine, they have a problem with their intelligence, there are a lot of bombs planted in the safe house, we fell into an ambush and we lost a lot of good brothers......"
Ji Tianping: "Oh, shit! This Pinault is really a cunning fox, damn bastard, he's finished, he won't enjoy his house arrest anymore, I'll execute this guy who killed the Marines!" ”
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At this moment, in the basement, Pinault had completed his execution of several officers.
Ten minutes before the explosion, Pinault was still in one of the three safe houses, but his suspicious personality always felt that someone around him would betray him, so he deliberately leaked his information about the safe house and immediately moved to the basement. This is the Combine bioweapons lab, a place known only to Pinault and his most loyal lieutenants.
The four officers sold Pinault's information in the safe house to Ji Tianping one second, and the next second they were arrested by Pinault's personal guards and taken to the biological laboratory for execution. Once again, Pinault executes the officer who betrayed him, gaining the upper hand in this conspiracy contest.
But the overall situation in the Coalition is still very pessimistic. By the time Pinault was moved from the safe house, thousands of Combine soldiers were known to have suffered casualties and surrendered, with negligible losses from the Marines. The chariot battalion also completely collapsed, and the surviving part was fooled into joining the watch base by the defecting officers.
"However, this victory will definitely belong to our Copper Furnace Base, and my loyal Combine soldiers will wreak havoc on the enemy in every corner of the base, and as long as we continue to stay in this laboratory, we will be able to wait for our victory safely."
Pinault somehow got the confidence that he could win, and added: "There's still a lot of nutrient solution here, hahaha, the Marines can't find here, we can wait here until they die of old age!" ”