177 unequal battles
The destructive power of human beings to nature, to put it mildly, only the unthinkable, nothing can be done, especially the things related to fire, since the human civilization staggered to take a step, using fire to change everything around and even the whole world, it has become a deep imprint on the genes and even the soul of human beings, even if the environment collapses and the day of human extinction, it cannot be changed.
In addition, the enemy targeted this time was 100% a soft target, so whether it was the three warships or the army that had already gone ashore, there were all kinds of white phosphorus incendiary bombs, napalm bombs, and thermobaric bombs, and even the ammunition carried by the soldiers was mostly dum bombs and incendiary bombs, and armor-piercing shells and depleted uranium ammunition were only symbolically brought a little.
Relying on the above-mentioned ammunition to set fire to the rainforest in the rainforest that has just had a heavy rain? Mere trifle!
After choosing a combat plan, according to the wind direction, there was no need for the battleship's big killer to shoot, the 120-millimeter mortar was enough to cover the narrow strip of land northeast of Lae, and the napalm exploded in the sky over the humid and sultry rainforest, and the orange-white flames were scattered in all directions, even if the tropical trees tens of meters high covered the rainforest sky with wide branches and leaves, they could not withstand the high temperature of thousands of degrees of napalm, and many trees and vines burned with it, making a crackling sound. In order to give full play to the power of napalm, the interval between each shelling was about three minutes, and as the sound of shelling pierced the eardrums of those present again and again, the black-gray smoke began to rise from the rainforest at a speed visible to the naked eye and spread in all directions, and the ash slowly flowed down the river, and soon formed a large white stain at the mouth of the sea, which was not turbulent.
When the heat, ashes and flames completely covered the rainforest northeast of Lae, finally, the dense forest at the border of fireworks appeared agitated, and a large group of saber-toothed bats with thick smoke suddenly appeared in the air like a monster in hell, and the flight state that can be described as silent compared to the rumbling of cannons pounced on the group of drones circling around and watching! Immediately afterward, the forest meadow, which was nearly half a man so dense that it was impossible to get off its feet, began to produce a wave-like surge, which was clearly a phenomenon that could only be created by a large number of mutant herds passing through the grass.
The bats swarm that pounced on the camp from the sky naturally had drones to deal with, and the rapidly approaching mutant beast swarm in the grass was handed over to the more than a dozen armored vehicles and infantry stationed at the edge of the city, from the captain of the battleship to the machine gunner squatting in the armored car, it can be said that the moment the bat swarm appeared, they were all relieved, or that sentence, the enemy that cannot be seen is the most terrifying, and the enemy that has been exposed is naturally much less threatening, especially under the crazy firepower output of Lao Mei who is the best in the world, as long as it is a carbon-based creature, It's still a carbon-based creature without protection, and it's unlikely that you'll want to survive!
After taking the gas mask handed by the adjutant and putting it on, Colonel Brogdon picked up the germicidal spray and sprayed it on his body a few times, ignoring the pungent smell of the agent, and then continued to command and order the covering artillery bombardment of the herd. In fact, according to the regular epidemic prevention standards, fighting in tropical areas, and after the outbreak of the zombie epidemic, the safest way to completely immune to the erosion of zombie fungi is to inject targeted vaccines and wear protective clothing.
Wearing a full-body protective suit in the tropics with a room temperature of more than 30 degrees? Even if there is a small fan in the protective suit that keeps blowing, the person with the strongest endurance can't bear it for thirty minutes, if you use a protective suit with a thermostatic system, compared with ordinary protective clothing, you need to carry a power supply and refrigeration device, which is equivalent to an extra ten kilograms of weight out of thin air and a body size of three or four circles, which will seriously affect the flexibility of the soldier himself, once he fights with a mutated creature whose speed exceeds the human reaction, the risk of casualties naturally increases greatly. Therefore, from Colonel Brogdon to the soldiers fighting on the front line, they have taken a compromise approach, the vaccine must be injected, the protective clothing is forgotten, and the regular spraying of antiseptics, although it will reduce the effectiveness of the drug with the sweat excreted by the human body, is still much more convenient than wearing protective clothing that affects the movement.
There is no need to describe in detail the few mutant creatures that sporadically dodged the shelling, because their best outcome is only to be hit by various caliber dummy bullets and hollow bullets, and the death is quite miserable, compared to the saber-toothed bats flying in the sky, the death of the saber-toothed bat swarm is even more miserable, these nocturnal animals positioned by sonar in the daytime violate the laws of nature, causing them to react more slowly, and they are very unfortunate to encounter a swarm of drones with high-strength rotors that have been sharpened and sharpened, even if the saber-toothed bats are as if they were dead and all kinds of biting and rushing at the drone. The results were still lackluster, but the drones used their rotors to wreak havoc, causing a rain of flesh and blood in the skies of Lae, and the smell of blood in the air even suppressed the fishy smell of the harbor and the smell of gunpowder everywhere.
When the flesh of the last saber-toothed bat was shattered and fell into the dust, the shelling and gunfire also completely stopped, from arson to armistice, a total of forty minutes, if the rainforest burned to the time when the beasts charged, the time of shelling and shooting was only ten minutes, there were no casualties on the US side, and the ammunition base consumed was less than two, so it can be said that the victory was easy and neat.
Next, naturally, under the cover of snipers, full-time personnel were sent to collect biological samples of these mutated creatures to find out if there were any injured and remnant living bodies...... I can only let the THE team members act temporarily.
Temporarily increase the workload, THE has no complaints from top to bottom, they are the same as the MSS special services, they are all fanatical patriots, and the frontal battlefield is not wide, the depth is not long, four groups of snipers are responsible for covering four groups of collectors, it is not too difficult task.
Major Hanni's marksmanship is naturally top-notch, but he did not carry out a sniper mission, but stood on the armored vehicle after the collectors entered the battlefield, holding a telescope as a lookout, picking up the gaps in the four sniper groups to avoid mistakes, and having him at a glance, both the THE and the collectors can rest assured.
The battlefield that has just ceased fire is naturally a mess, the fire of the American army is more exaggerated than ploughing, the green smoke comes from the remnants of grass and trees ignited by incendiary bombs, all kinds of thin fat bone shrapnel soil grass blades and branches are mixed together, it is impossible to describe this peculiar mixture with color, smell or any other adjective, if it must be compared, it is basically the same as the most common tawny interweaving of Pizza Hut, and occasionally you can see diced mushrooms and sausage slices of pizza, but the pizza is flat, These mixtures come in a variety of shapes, like leavened dough.
Because it was so difficult to distinguish, it was even difficult to find a stump that was enough to identify the species of the creature, and the airtight protective clothing made people feel like they were in a steamer, causing these searchers to complain constantly in the communication channel, and all kinds of words starting with F and S flew around, from zombies to presidents to female ancestors of mutated creatures, basically making them greet several times.
Scolding and scolding, work still has to be done.
Major Hanni held the binoculars and watched the searchers walk in the mud one foot at a time, stumbling and even falling from time to time, and within a few minutes they seemed to crawl out of the dung pit one by one, covered with yellow-brown mud and minced meat, but he did not feel any distress or pity, his heart was like iron and stone was just the basic standard for entering the THE, compared to the experience of these searchers, the training of THE was much more cruel, and wearing protective clothing and sauna was just a trivial matter.
What worries Major Hanny even more is those biological armored soldiers, intelligence shows that these guys have physical fitness beyond ordinary people, and they have extremely strong individual combat ability, and there should be some kind of biological communication between each other, which can make their tactical cooperation seamless and can be said to be the best warriors on the planet today, I am afraid that only the boys under their own command can be comparable to them, the problem is that from the shelling of battleships to the landing and erection of defensive circles and temporary camps, and then to the arson of the forest to force out a large group of mutated creatures, These biological armored soldiers who were supposed to appear couldn't even see the slightest shadow, either they had already fled early and started guerrilla warfare in the rainforest, or these guys were just waiting for an opportunity to strike a fatal blow to the landed American troops!
If she is the leader of the bio-armored forces, what should that Chinese woman with a strange name do in such a situation? It is no wonder that the next target of the attack is no wonder that there are three points, a destroyer located in the sea off the port and anchored as a fixed battery, a temporary camp in the open area of the port, a fully armed infantry battalion, or a small group of troops who go out to the battlefield to collect information, if you let yourself choose, it must be an attack on a small force, and then carry out night attacks, night elevation machine gun strafing, mortars hit and run and other attack tactics, as for whether it is effective……
Major Hanni pouted, from Afghanistan to Syria, the U.S. military has been countering guerrillas for almost 20 years, if those rabbit soldiers who have studied guerrilla warfare for seventy or eighty years make a move, maybe they will have to worry about it, and replace it with inexperienced biological armored soldiers? No matter how high your physique is? Can withstand armor-piercing shells? I am still very confident in teaching them how to behave.
Thinking about things, Major Hanni's eyes were always staring at the searchers collecting biological specimens, something suddenly flashed in the corner of his eye, he held his breath and turned the telescope, a black and high column of smoke came into view, slightly estimated the distance and direction, the location where the column of smoke appeared should be the bridge in the upper reaches of the Markham River in the northwest, there must not have been artillery bombardment, nor incendiary bombs, and the color of the smoke column is completely different from the gray-brown of the rainforest, there must be something strange.
Without further thought, Major Hanni called, "Zumwalt, I'm Major Hanni, the captain of the THE, with the mission identification code Delta Tango hiskey un Ait, applying for a drone approach reconnaissance of the 27th target. ”
"Zumwalt received it, the identification code was passed, and the drone was immediately dispatched, and it is expected to arrive in three minutes."
Hearing the reply, Major Hanni was inexplicably a little irritable, for some reason, a memory from a long time ago came to his mind, when he was still a teenager, and he liked to squat in front of the TV to watch cartoons, those old cartoons often have pictures of Indians attacking white people, without exception, Indians like to use cigarette pillars as a means of communication, very primitive, but quite effective.
Maybe I'm thinking too much, right?
Just as Major Hanni turned his attention back to the search alert, a faint muffled sound reached the Major's ears, and after a few seconds of delay, there was another muffled sound.
The sound is a little fuzzy, it doesn't seem like an explosion, thunder? The Major looked at the sky with some confusion, and there was no sign of thunderclouds.
"If the fleet is attacked, the search team will immediately return to the camp, repeat, if the fleet is attacked, the search team will immediately return to the camp!"
hat? Major Hanni also thought he had misheard, the fleet was attacked? What's the situation, hasn't it been confirmed that there are no other forces around Lae? Anti-submarine equipment is dropped all over the port and beyond, how can the fleet be attacked? What the hell is going on?
Like Major Hanni, who immediately returned to the camp in a hurry, Rear Admiral Honey, the commander of the fleet, was also confused, the explosion occurred near the rudder of the Zumwalt, the power was not great, and it did not cause any impact on the battleship, if this was a torpedo attack, the power should not be so small, modern torpedoes pay attention to one shot, as long as they hit these battleships with armor thickness not much larger than civilian ships, no matter which position, it is enough to send the battleship to the bottom of the sea, is it a miniature self-floating mine?
No, it's not even a miniature mine.
Doubts to doubts, Rear Admiral Honey gave the order for the anti-submarine helicopter to take off urgently and the battleship to leave the port to avoid it, as long as the battleship moves, whether it is a torpedo or something else, it is not easy to attack the battleship in motion.
Before the three battleships finished anchoring, a sound like muffled thunder rang out continuously! This time, it was not the three battleships that were inexplicably attacked, but the supply fleet moored in the harbor!
After all, the supply fleet is a civilian ship, no bigger than a warship with thin skin, and in this level of explosion, it is basically paper paste, and the sound of the explosion is still echoing over Lae, and the distress communication in the public channel is boiling like water into a hot oil pot!
"War room, the location of the enemy has not yet been determined?"
“…… The harbor is not deep enough and there is too much clutter to determine the location! ”
“SHIT!” Rear Admiral Honey, who stood on the bridge and watched, his face was full of wrinkles and his gray beard was full of anger, this inexplicable explosion had little impact on the battleship does not mean that there was no threat, if the rudder was in the middle of the consequence was unpredictable, and the supply fleet was really blown up into a sieve, if there were a few more explosions, it would be considered lucky to sit and sink in the harbor, and it was almost predictable to be overturned and broken and sunk by its own weight, without this batch of logistics materials, how long can it last with just three warships and more than 1,000 armies? Counting on domestic sparks to help? That's not the time it will be!
The three hooligans are not tearing their faces now, and they must have done no less small actions in private, otherwise where did the torpedo that almost sent Sheng Qingru to the sea to feed the fish come from? In order to prevent being attacked by submarines, the rear admiral ordered the battleship to enter the shallow water of the port after achieving absolute superiority in the landing battle, because he was also worried about being attacked by unknown submarines, the shallow water of the port was crystal clear, and it was definitely impossible for the submarine to dive in broad daylight.
Before the attack, passive and active sonar, and drones did not find any abnormalities, which can only show that the other party is very cunning and lurking in the harbor, waiting for the supply fleet to enter the port to handle supplies and the battleship to anchor to launch a fatal blow! Judging from the time when the fleet entered the port, the frogmen who have been lurking underwater for a long time can basically be ruled out, and this kind of deep-water attack submarine is also impossible, I'm afraid it is some kind of guidance robot, right? It would be good if the adjutant who had partnered with him for many years was still alive, at least there was someone to discuss, Rear Admiral Honey frowned, feeling powerless, the lack of manpower caused by the zombie epidemic made the fleet combat full of all kinds of accidents and mistakes, and it was barely competent to fight a tailwind battle step by step, in the event of such an unexpected situation, not to mention that the supply fleet was at a loss and crying dad and shouting mother, it was the bridge where he was full of panicked atmosphere, this was only a dozen explosions, if the opponent's attack escalated, Even if these officers and soldiers can stick to their posts and perform the duties of a soldier, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no mistakes in maneuvering.
You can't let yourself do everything, can you?
"The drone team sent back a message! They were sure that it was the dolphins who attacked the fleet! Some kind of dolphin with explosives! ”
The confirmation of the enemy's identity has progressed, and the staff officer in charge of communications is so excited that his voice is much sharper, and even his words can change the panicked and pessimistic atmosphere of the entire bridge and war room!
It can be seen from the video that after the sea water muddled by the explosion gradually cleared, dozens of dolphins were wandering around the supply fleet, this situation is definitely not normal, and when the drone arrives close to the sea surface to shoot, you can clearly see that when the dolphins float on the surface, they are strapped with some kind of device on their backs, plus there are many dolphin wreckage floating in the sea water around the supply fleet, and it can be basically determined that the weapons that caused the attack were these dolphins!
Since that woman can command the biological armor in some unknown way, she can naturally command the zombie dolphins, but looking at the state of these dolphins, it should be interfered by the turbid sea water, and the built-in sonar system failed, so she did not continue to attack the fleet, which is really a blessing in misfortune.
"Close-in guns! No, depth charges? No! Damn it! Damn it! Rear Admiral Honey stared at the real-time images transmitted by the drone team, and muttered two ship-borne weapons in a row, all of which were denied by him, and then he realized that this battle was really a bit special, and the battleship with the latest high-precision weapons could not find a suitable weapon to destroy those three or two meters long dolphins! The cannon can kill the mosquitoes anyway, but the battleship shoots the dolphin but there is no way to stare dryly, after all, these shipborne weapons are extremely powerful, and shooting dolphins from the angle of the battleship is difficult to guarantee that the supply fleet near the dolphins will not be accidentally injured!
Instead of risking a battleship to engage a two-meter-long guy in hand-to-hand combat, it would be better to send a fleet of drones to drop bombs and give the supply fleet a gun with a grenade to stand on the side of the ship and shoot into the water. At the very least, this kind of direct attack will not accidentally damage the supply ship.
Thinking of this, Major General Honey, who has been in the army for many years and is familiar with the performance of various weapons in military specifications and tactical battles, had a flash of inspiration in his mind......
"The fleet is under attack by self-exploding dolphins and needs support from EFV amphibious assault vehicles?" Colonel Brogdon had not yet turned a corner in his mind when he received the order, and asked rhetorically: "The EFV is mainly for supply personnel, and there are no weapons for attacking objects below the surface." ”
"Here's the plan, Colonel, the warship will use a swarm of drones to drop bombs to destroy the dolphins while providing cover for the supply fleet, we need you to send EFVs along the coast to find civilian ships that can still be used, so that they can patrol with the appropriate weapons and personnel and completely eliminate the suicide dolphins."
This makes sense, whether it is a battleship or a supply freighter, the size is too large, the operation is not flexible, and the soldiers and crews cannot be allowed to stand on the side of the ship too high to shoot dolphins under the water, and finding a suitable ship has become the primary problem to solve, although the attack of small and medium-sized ships in the face of suicide dolphins is likely to cause casualties, it is also better than allowing the dolphins to attack the supply fleet and eventually bury the entire plan.
Moreover, small ships will not sink into the sea in an instant, and the possibility of casualties is not great.
It was a matter of success or failure of the entire attack plan and whether everyone could get home smoothly, and the target of the cleanup was not some mines and torpedoes, but just some dolphins that would explode, as Rear Admiral Honey had predicted, this gang of ragtag troops from all over the United States would always fight with the wind, using EFVs to circle around the port, and soon collected seventeen or eighteen rusty fishing boats and speedboats that could still be used, and began to hunt dolphins under the cover of drones.
That's right, it's really a hunt, these dolphins are strapped with explosives, and they also show obvious mutated biological characteristics full of aggression, but in the final analysis, they are just carbon-based creatures, and in the face of all kinds of warheads, grenades and even harpoons smashed into the water like hail, they can only dodge in vain, passively beaten, when the bottom of the water is muddyed by mud and sand, the remnants of the dolphins are more like headless flies, and they collide around.
In the end, eight fishing boats were blown up, five capsized, three broke, and more than forty sailors of the supply fleet fell into the water, with minor and serious injuries, and were sent to the operating room on the destroyer for emergency treatment.
In the middle of the day, the sun began to bask in the sun, the whole clean-up activity was nearing the end, two dolphin remains were salvaged as samples, and the search mission that had been interrupted before was also completed, unfortunately no suspected human tissue samples were found, Rear Admiral Honey briefly summarized the situation at the scene, and after communicating with the ship's biologists, he directly sent a report to Washington.
Whether the fleet will continue to be stationed and send soldiers into the rainforest to search for traces of the biological armor, or whether it will simply pack up and return to the sea depends on what Washington means.
In fact, Rear Admiral Honey hopes that Washington can agree to the return of the fleet, although the two encounters are one attack and one defense, both of which were won by his own side, and there was no battle damage, but Rear Admiral Honey has been able to experience that fighting guerrillas, terrorists or opening a film with a small country is very different from fighting with mutant creatures, with the strength of the fleet and the port machine infantry battalion, the frontal gang is of course not afraid of any opponent, and it is not enough to deal with the endless treacherous attacks of mutant creaturesAfter all, the infantry of the infantry battalion is the same as the sailors in the naval fleet, there is basically no coordination and no combat proficiency, and the tactical coordination is also full of loopholes.
With such anxiety, Rear Admiral Honey temporarily delegated the command to his deputy, got up and left the bridge to go to the dining room for dinner, neither the first mate of the destroyer who took over his work, nor Colonel Chandler, who was in charge of the war room, could not have predicted that at this time, the operator on duty sitting in front of the weapon console twisted his head, and his eyes began to straighten inexplicably! The young man from Kentucky tilted his head slightly, his eyes were scattered, and the corners of his mouth twitched while muttering, "Command...... Received, second confirmation...... The AGS is ready, the target coordinates are ...... Confirm! Be! Fire! ”
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