Chapter 144: Insect Plague
The city walls, as far as the eye can see, are tall and majestic dark gray city walls. The 20-meter-high behemoth of masonry www.biquge.info brick and stone is square, enveloping the 752.83-square-kilometer Jinling City, and the safety of 6.59 million people depends on this vast project that can be called a miracle.
The magnificent city wall is located on the vast plain on both sides of the Yangtze River, this whole circle has been going through the continuous reinforcement and repair of masonry buildings almost every moment for several months, and every brick and iron addition adopts the architects' experience in urban defense learned from the iron-blooded siege warfare, the whole fortification is surrounded by two ring walls, connected by a cast iron suspension bridge in the middle, and the wide space between the city walls can be used to throw fuel or water into the river according to the situation, of course, in order to ensure the strength of the city wall, The space in between has always been empty.
The inner side of the outermost wall is filled with a mixture of crushed stone and flint, and then cement is poured. The thickness of the outermost layer of the city wall reached an astonishing 5.9 meters, and in addition to tanks, including light infantry vehicles, could even pass on the city wall, and in fact, in order to ensure that the reinforcements between the various walls could be fast and effective, the military did deploy a number of armored personnel carriers on the city wall, not only to transport troops, but also to effectively supplement the existing defense system on the wall when the swarm attacked the city wall or there were too many flying units.
There are no particularly towering buildings on the entire city wall, and it is almost a flat state, after all, one does not need to climb high and look far, and the other is easy to become the target of the opponent's firepower. Some bulges slightly above the horizontal plane are the 23 mm twin anti-aircraft guns, this large inclination angle can rotate the mechanical platform can carry out all-round strikes on the air to the ground, as a suppressed large-caliber machine gun, the anti-aircraft gun with a range of 2000 meters is equipped with a frontal protection crew plate to prevent fragmentation killing, and one person is responsible for rotating and moving, and one person is responsible for firing, which fully guarantees that its fire output will not have the slightest delay.
In order to highlight the tall advantages of the city wall, a wide trench was dug at the bottom of the city wall to surround the entire city, and the Yangtze River water was introduced to form a moat. The moat and the waterway that flow through the city are not directly connected, partly to prevent the mines and other traps deployed in the moat from drifting into the water supply channel and posing a threat to the citizens, and partly to prevent the insect-dead insects from contaminating the precious water source.
A large number of heavy artillery that had been sealed up due to the reform of the armed forces after the reform and opening up that no longer met the needs of modern rapid response warfare were re-sealed, and a number of artillery batteries buried deep under the surface were established within the city walls, which could be closed by camouflage nets above the surface and steel plates controlled by mechanical gears in peacetime to avoid being corroded by rain. Even after the swarm air unit breaks through the air defense network and enters, it can also effectively protect these precious firepower from destruction. In wartime, as long as the steel plate on the surface is opened, these cannons with a caliber that are completely unsuitable for the times will slowly poke out of the hideous giant mouth with the operation of the artillery, they are the fangs of this fortress-like city, in the repeated and scattered impact of the previous swarm, they are enough to ensure that the swarm is torn to pieces by the furious artillery fire before it rushes to the moat.
It's just that today they are not completely prevented.
The heavy artillery deployed behind the city wall roared in unison, and the 155mm caliber howitzer threw the rocket-fired grenade out of the plain 14 kilometers away, 4.15 kilograms of explosives and 8,000 small steel balls covered a full 6,000 square meters of space at the moment of the projectile explosion, and the five poison flies in the center suddenly turned into a rain of blood. The jumping insects and cockroaches that were torn apart and then gushed out of the hot air currents overturned were not only suffering from the pain caused by boiling water poured on their bodies, but also corroded by the green blood rain of the poison flies, and before they could let out a miserable howl, they were trampled into a deep mud mixed with the fragrance of grass by the same kind of people behind them.
In the words of a lieutenant stationed on the first wall - "They are overwhelming!" ”
Everything in front of me is really involuntarily reminiscent of the scene of the Yellow River bursting, the same devouring everything, the same unstoppable, but this is not water, but insects as dense as water!
Never before had there been such a large insect influx since the walls were erected, and the entire sky was shrouded in smoke and dust from the claws of the insect swarm, and the terrifying sound of "whoosh" arthropods rubbing reached the ears of every soldier on the wall.
This is a scene that has never been seen before, and perhaps only compared to the rout of the city full of insects on the first day of the apocalypse. And now, they're back!
Without warning, several huge tunnel worms emerged from the vast plains, and they cleverly avoided the minefields that were densely scattered in the open area outside the city, so as to smoothly connect the hives or cities that did not know where they were, and teleported the endless army of Zerg here. The jumping insects fearlessly rushed into the minefields that the heavy units were unwilling to approach, using their flesh to clear a road to the city for more follow-up troops.
The blast was shattered by the most brutal and efficient way possible, and the earth trembled in every second of the explosion, covering the earth with sparks and flying dust, and the air heated to the point that it had condensed and turned into a thick fog completely obscured the vision of both sides, and a red was spreading with the mist, which was the blood sprayed by the incalculable number of insects that had been torn apart and stained the air with blood.
The swarm didn't care about the heavy casualties in front of them, as if they didn't care about attrition in battle, when in fact, they did have the strength to care. From the moment the worms in the pit came out of the ground, the swarm of worms gushing out like open water pipes has not stopped for a moment! They've either moved an entire city of bugs, or two!
The flying flesh and the howl of the dying made the vast minefield outside the city feel like hell, there was no order, only the swarm that blindly charged forward made this massacre extremely bloody and weird, the front team of the swarm left behind a thick layer of corpses, and the follow-up rushed forward without any interval at all. The coverage of the minefield is being rapidly consumed at a speed visible to the naked eye, in order to slow down this speed, a huge cluster of heavy artillery began to cover fire, and a dense rain of bullets fell head-on, although countless living insects were blown into tight pieces of flesh, but for the soldiers standing on the city wall waiting solemnly, they did not feel the slightest reduction in the enemy, but a sense of futile powerlessness gradually rose from the bottom of their hearts.