Chapter 85: Lost Contact (2)
Of course, there are exceptions to this rule, such as Major General Craig, who is a professional soldier who is ordered to carry out special tasks.
Today is the fourth star day of the "kitchen knife" task force reconnaissance team arrived in the area of No. 837 of Green Star VI to investigate the missing accident, and the captain is none other than Craig, before that, there were two reconnaissance teams and a rescue team, codenamed "Sparrow", "Slingshot", and "Search and Rescue"-1, who mysteriously disappeared in this area.
As soon as the Green Star 6 entered the "Polar Night", the "Sparrow" reconnaissance team was released into Area 837, and it was also the first team to be put into this area, with the task of searching for front-line hives in this area, laying the groundwork for the "Moss Battle" being planned by the Galactic Alliance War Management Center.
Only one day later, the "Sparrow" team inexplicably lost contact with the front-line command, because a number of reconnaissance teams were simultaneously put into different areas of the Green Star 6 to carry out such tasks, so the disappearance of the "Sparrow" team did not attract much attention at first, the front-line command only temporarily transferred the "slingshot" team from the adjacent 836 area to the 837 area to investigate the situation, but the "slingshot" team also disappeared, which attracted the attention of the front-line command, in order to reduce unnecessary losses, The Forward Command had no choice but to temporarily withdraw all the reconnaissance teams placed on the Green Star 6 and wait for the cause to be ascertained before re-launching.
This time, the front-line command did not take it lightly, and carefully organized a rescue team of 100 people "Search and Rescue"-1, intending to search for the whereabouts of the two reconnaissance teams, but unexpectedly, this 100-person rescue team disappeared again.
With the loss of two reconnaissance squads and one rescue squad and nearly 200 elite special operations personnel, the front-line command headquarters was completely unable to sit still, and the front-line commander, Lieutenant General Zhang Jian, angrily seconded Major General Craig, known as the "detective," from the war management center, and ordered him to thoroughly find out the truth.
Major General Craig was ordered to be in danger, and his only purpose was to find out what caused the three reconnaissance and rescue teams armed to the teeth to be wiped out, so that they didn't even have time to send a distress signal, which was the first place, and the rescue mission was at the bottom.
The "kitchen knife" team is a mixed formation, with a total of 30 people, all of whom are veterans selected from the front-line combat units, all of whom have made countless contributions in a hundred battles, among which the armored warriors, beasts and robots are all ten people, and there are two long-range UAVs UT-886 and UT-887 in the air at a height of thousands of meters in the team, providing them with alert services at all times.
Among the ten Colonization Warriors, Major General Craig has reached the third realm of the planet and is said to have touched the threshold of the first realm of the star, while the other nine are the first or second realm of the planet.
Among the ten beasts, the leader is Colonel Lothar, the third level of the martial school, plus four first- and second-level beast officers of the martial school, and the remaining five are all fifteen or sixteen meters tall, the body is covered with thick clone derived scale armor, and the beast King Kong is infinitely powerful.
The ten robots are all eighteen meters tall and powerful robot King Kong, and the commander is Lieutenant Colonel HE-8, all from the elite "Tomahawk Legion" of the 53rd War Zone, and have killed countless enemies in many battles.
Such an ultra-high-end configuration, the comprehensive combat power is comparable to a miniature Zerg army with more than 10,000 numbers, which also shows the determination of the front-line command to find out the truth.
It's just that in the past four star days, the "kitchen knife" team has gained very little, and the first sensei said that they have encountered some Zerg army, and even the lone alien insects are very paradoxically not seen a few.
The "kitchen knife" team began to search from the coordinate point of the last place where the "search and rescue"-1 team appeared, and the scene of the disappearance did not leave too many clues except for some specially covered firefight traces and some abnormalities in the space energy field, and even the footprints or corpses could not be found.
The last appearance of the "slingshot" team was less than 300 kilometers away from the last appearance of the "search and rescue" -1 team, and the "kitchen knife" team soon arrived at the coordinate location, and then began to investigate and collect evidence, but in the process of collecting evidence, the UT-886 drone responsible for communication and liaison received a very weak distress signal, and the place where this distress signal was transmitted was only 20 kilometers away from the last location of the first missing "sparrow" team.
For this inexplicable distress signal, several officers had a meeting, and after brainstorming, everyone tended to think that this was actually a trap laid by the Zerg, and there must be a big risk for the team to rush forward.
It's just that Major General Craig still has a different opinion, he thinks that "if you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger", since you have already ventured to this place, you can't go back empty-handed, otherwise more than 100 comrades will die in vain, so you know that it is a trap, as long as the back hand is fully prepared, it is still necessary to take a risk, so is the distress signal a trap, what if there are really survivors?
Everyone felt that this was reasonable, so they summarized the conclusions of the meeting into an action plan and reported it to the front command, and after careful analysis, the front command staff committee approved the action plan, and the approval replied: "I will plan it and agree." The General Staff will send two space carriers and one transport ship as reinforcements. Reinforcements are expected to arrive in the target airspace in 10 hours, please pay attention to the ground to guide the air fire. ”
"We have less than ten hours left," Maj. Gen. Craig said, "how far is this from the distress source?" ”
"Four hundred and eighty-five kilometers and seven hundred and thirty-two meters in a straight line, Inspector," replied Colonel Lothar, after consulting the electronic map, "including the distance over the mountains and deep valleys, the total length should be about six hundred kilometers, and if we go at full speed, we will reach our destination in about an hour." ”
"Fix it in place for five minutes," Rear Admiral Craig ordered, "and set off." ”
"Yes!"
Five minutes later, the "kitchen knife" team began to march towards the destination, XT-263 machine King Kong and furious -275 beast King Kong set off first as spearheads, and half a minute later, the team of 28 people followed, and the "kitchen knife" team encountered mountains and rivers and water, always maintaining a speed of 500 kilometers per hour.
"Toot toot!" Major General Craig, who was in a state of armor and was on his way intently, suddenly received a request for a private speech, and it was Colonel Lothar who broke the silence of the communication.
"Colonel Lothar, please." Craig interconnected.
"Detective, there are two bugs on the left side of the group," Lothar, who was at the back of the line, reported to the communications system, "Did you clear them?" ”
"Well, I've seen it a long time ago," replied Craig, "and we're going to get on our way, and we don't have to do that hard." ”
"Why?" Losage asked.
"Just wait and see." The old god Craig is in the way.
The "kitchen knife" team marched more than 20 kilometers to the destination, and soon after crossing the 100-kilometer landmark boundary, with the alarm of "Di", all the team members saw a living bright spot on their individual early warning radar screens at the same time, and the bright spot of the living animal should be a strange insect, which joined the previous team of two strange insects and accompanied the "kitchen knife" team together.
After the two hostile teams accompanied each other for more than ten kilometers, one of the alien insects gradually slowed down, and soon "fell behind" and disappeared from the early warning radar screen.
"Detective, what are those bugs up to?" Lothar asked, "Playing relay demonstrations?" ”
"Scouts are used tactics," Craig replied, "relay scouting and rotating rests, so that the scout's physical strength can be maintained to the greatest extent, and in the event of an encounter, the scout's physical exertion will not be disadvantaged." ”
"Are you sure?" Lothar was still not at ease.
"Ninety percent sure," Craig replied, "I guess there should be a fourth worm at 200 kilometers." ”
"I hope Your Excellency's judgment is correct!" Lothar Road.
In the darkness of the night, the heavily armed and silent "kitchen knife" team followed the undulations of the surface of the Green Star 6 in the faint light of the crimson sky, and quickly marched towards its destination, except for the occasional disturbance of one or two small animals hiding behind dead trees or among the bushes, everything was undisturbed, and the team quickly reached the 200-kilometer landmark.
"Didi!" As expected, the early warning radar alarmed again, and two bright spots of living creatures broke into the radar screen successively, unlike the previous two alien insects accompanying on the left side, the new two alien insects chose to accompany the "kitchen knife" team on the right side, forming a flanking attack on the "kitchen knife" team.
"Inspector, that's what you said," Lothar sped up from behind the group after getting Craig's approval, and said through the communication system, "It seems that the bugs are prepared, what should we do next?" ”
"I won't move if the enemy doesn't move," Craig replied, "and if that distress signal is really a trap for bugs, then they're just 'escorting' us into the trap." ”