178AGS
If the zombie epidemic had not broken out, if the Americans had not come up with a task force that would not know soldiers, if the AGS was not the most advanced, powerful, and automated artillery system in the United States, and the turret needed to be manually operated and loaded, if the number of non-commissioned officers who operated the guns was sufficient, there was no need to reduce the six members of the fire control group to three, and one fire controller had to operate the AGS alone, and the duty time of each squad was extended to 12 hours, then this tragedy could have been completely avoided, and the outcome of the entire battle would have been fundamentally changed.
It's a pity that there aren't so many ifs in the world.
As a veteran of the Gulf War, Colonel Brogdon is no stranger to shelling, but this time the howling sound was too sharp and unexpected, he was stunned for a second before he reacted, and only had time to shout a voice of artillery bombardment, and he couldn't even say the word lying down, and a 155-millimeter shell had hit the command center of the infantry battalion very accurately!
Moreover, this is still a thermobaric bomb.
After the bang, nothing was left.
Compared with the tragedy caused by napalm, the effect of thermobaric bombs is still relatively humane, the living people within the killing range die almost instantly, and the center of the explosion can not distinguish whether it belongs to humans or just grass and mud except for the extremely small wreckage everywhere, only the air is filled with an inexplicable scorched smell, yes, it is not a smell, but the fragrance produced after the fat is instantly sublimated by high temperature and then extremely diluted by the air.
Major Honey was lucky for the time being, he was not in the command center of the infantry battalion at the time of the bombardment, but sat in the camp tent and munched on instant food, his position was far away from the center of the explosion, although he was knocked to the ground by the loud roar and deaf in his ears, but it was better than those unlucky guys who were unfortunately burned to death or died of lack of oxygen in the range of thermobaric bombs.
The problem was that the AGS's advanced artillery system could fire 10 shells a minute, and the thermobaric shells were just an appetizer, and just as Major Honey struggled to his feet to break out of the tent to find shelter, the second shell landed on the edge of the THE camp impartially.
This time, Major Honey's good use ran out.
The roaring sound of naval guns not only made the infantry battalion instantly fall into flames, but also shocked all the officers and men up and down the destroyer, at this time Colonel Chandler didn't know what the fire controller had done, he jumped to the fire controller with a strong stride, and he didn't care about any military regulations, and directly slapped the back of the fire controller's head, and shouted loudly: "What are you doing!" Corporal Davis! ”
Not to mention, after this slap, Corporal Davis, who was in a trance, was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes became clear, and he said in a panic: "What's wrong?" I started the AGS as instructed......" When Corporal Davis's gaze fell on the shelling parameters, his face instantly turned pale, and there was no blood at all.
Without waiting for Colonel Chandler to continue to ask, Rear Admiral Honey, who was originally going to the cafeteria, rushed into the war room, waved his hand to interrupt the Navy's ceremonial scene, and said directly: "Why did AGS start?" Where did you shoot? What is the situation? ”
The faces of the artillery spotter and fire controller Corporal Davis, who had just seen the impact of the drone, were also pale, but he, like Colonel Chandler, had no time to speak, and the warning lights on the bridge suddenly began to flash! Piercing sirens sounded at the same time!
"Sir! Enemy attack! An exchange of fire broke out near the medical room on the third deck and forced it to be closed, and the surviving non-commissioned officers sounded the alarm while reporting that an enemy had entered the ship! The communications non-commissioned officer finished talking about the reason for the alarm in one breath, and the ship's internal surveillance was put on the monitor on the bridge at the same time, and the high-definition camera easily captured two figures advancing with guns, both of whom were Asian faces, and they were not wearing the uniforms of the US Navy, and one of the faces was vaguely an Asian who posted the threatening video, the general manager of the country. Zheng!
"It's still a big fish! Close the three decks, open the weapons room, and all the other cabins are closed except for the passage from the war room to the third deck! No one is allowed to move around! Colonel Chandler, you take someone down to clean up these two debris, the best can be captured, and if you can't, kill them on the spot! Be careful, it may be more than just the two of them on board, and in addition, stop receiving the wounded, and if there are still wounded on the transport ship that need to be boarded for treatment, verify your identity first! "Rear Admiral Honey is naturally not a fool, and he didn't need to think about it, and immediately deduced how the enemy armed men boarded the ship, most of them hid in the fishing boat that had hunted dolphins before, took advantage of the chaos to blow up the fishing boat, disguised as a wounded and boarded the destroyer.
Rather than encircling and suppressing two rats in an iron cage, Rear Admiral Honey was more concerned about the shelling incident that had just occurred, especially after the artillery observers dropped the tragic situation of the infantry battalion on the bridge with the simultaneous shooting of the drone at the same time, and the entire bridge fell into a deathly silence.
Looking down from the air, the camp of the Jibu Battalion, which had been subjected to a round of AGS salvo, had been shrouded in smoke in several places, and in the gap between the smoke drifting, it was obvious that the broken corpses and the ammunition and equipment that were constantly detonated everywhere could be clearly seen, and the M1A2ESP main battle tank, which was originally the mainstay of the landing battle, has become a large group of scrap metal, as for armored vehicles, what is it? Has it ever existed?
"Captain! The surviving soldiers of the Jibu Battalion sent a distress message! ”
"Notify the American to send someone to the rescue! Let them be careful to check the identity of the survivors! Especially Asian faces! After Major General Honey finished saying this, he pointed to Corporal Davis, who was still in a sluggish state, and said coldly: "Guard, put Corporal Davis in confinement, no one can release him without my permission!" ”
Immediately, two sailors in charge of the security of the war room came up, and took the lost Corporal Davis to the confinement room, Rear Admiral Honey stared at the back of Corporal Davis thoughtfully, out of the duty of a captain, even if Rear Admiral Honey does not understand his own patchwork subordinates, everyone's file will be read more than once, Corporal Davis is from the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier, as far as the resume is concerned, it is impeccable, if there is no special reason, it is impossible to make such a big mistake, can it be said that the Corporal Davis in front of him is simply fake? A Russian spy?
After the epidemic, chaos has arisen one after another, and the United States and Russia have infiltrated each other for many years, if it were not for China's long-term hidden spies due to ethnic and historical reasons, I am afraid that the excitement in this area would have multiplied several times.
If you extrapolate according to this logic, how many people in the entire fleet are unreliable?
Rear Admiral Honey, who didn't know that his train of thought was completely off, was thinking about the problem of espionage while paying attention to the fire on the third deck. Zheng and the strange Asians who were with him had been cornered, and it was only a matter of time before they were killed or captured, even if they had suicide bombers strapped to them, unless they were in the engine room at the moment and knew how to destroy key parts, they would not pose any threat to the huge destroyer.
Jingling.
A stray bullet grazed Zheng Guozong's scalp and flew by, he immediately shrank his neck, and he didn't probe, but simply stretched out his hand and fired two shots at the side of the corridor by feeling, but one shot missed. "Hey, what is Boss Sheng's plan, just send us to this broken ship?"
Zheng Guozong's soft and sharp voice made Wang Chen frown, he looked at the half of his shoe that was accidentally exposed in the corner of the wall at the end of the corridor, and the other party screamed with a sharp bullet, and then said simply: "What? Are you afraid of death? ”
"Nonsense, of course I'm afraid of death, if it weren't for Boss Sheng appointing you to be by my side, and I know how important you are to Boss Sheng, I would have thought that she deliberately asked me to die."
Wang Chen and Zheng Guozong both know that Wang Chen came to spy on Zheng Guozong, and Zheng Guozong is a bait that Sheng Qingru put on the ship, these two are mixed into the ship by transporting the wounded, and it is also a coincidence, Wang Chen was captured by the CIA on a special mission earlier, and the destroyer that held Zhang Fu, Wang Chen, and Ma Tian at that time was this Zumwalt, although it was carried out of the destroyer in an iron cage last time, it also made Wang Chen take Zheng Guozong to carry a stretcher into the Zumwalt more calmly, At least he won't make low-level mistakes such as not being able to open the hatch and not knowing where the switch is, and then exposing his identity.
The next thing is to wait for the message from Sheng Qingru, and then subdue the doctors and nurses in the medical cabin, and when the two left the medical cabin, they deliberately left the prisoners with flaws, but as the two expected, the alarm sounded not long after leaving the medical cabin.
Although the sound of the siren successfully attracted the attention of the whole boat, as for what Sheng Qingru was going to do next, Zheng Guozong wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask, Wang Chen didn't bother to ask at all, he had enough confidence in Sheng Qingru and believed that the other party would not cheat him. But the situation is already very urgent, the spare ammunition carried by the two has bottomed out, the grenades are used up, and they can still support it for three or two minutes at most, if the situation does not change, they will either be indiscriminately shot into a honeycomb, or disarm and surrender.
At this moment, the alarm suddenly stopped, not only the alarm stopped, but even the normal lights were extinguished, leaving only the faint red light of the emergency lights shining in the corridor of the third deck.
From the Cold War to modern times, the doors of battleships are basically high-end goods such as electronically controlled air pressure, however, in order to prevent the hatch from being locked and trapping personnel in the cabin when the battle is damaged, the setting of power-off hand control is usually adopted, that is, once the battleship is powered off, all hatches can be opened manually, which naturally gave Wang Chen and Zheng Guozong the opportunity to escape, but also made this battle completely out of the control of Major General Honey.
Wang Chen and Zheng Guozong successfully got out of trouble, but the war room exploded! Rear Admiral Honey directly grabbed the phone and hung up the engine room to inquire about the situation, and the reply was that the sailors on duty inexplicably made a mistake, and actually used an axe to slash at the fuse in the distribution box, which directly caused the circuit of the whole ship to be paralyzed, and it was not difficult to replace the fuse, but the whole ship door was closed, and it took time to open the hatch leading to the material warehouse from the engine room.
"As soon as possible! Power up as fast as you can! Rear Admiral Honey looked around the almost dark war room and said coldly, "Is there a way to contact the USS America, the USS New York, and the supply fleet?" ”
Since the other party used some unknown method to affect the consciousness of the sailors, Rear Admiral Honey naturally reminded the rest of the warships and supply ships to be on guard as soon as possible.
"The captain, civilian communication equipment and hand-held intercom are all on the bridge, in the war room...... It is not equipped, and the emergency power supply is only enough to support the ship's telephone, contact the USS America or call the supply fleet If you don't go to the bridge, I'm afraid you will have to wait until the power is on. ”
It is often said that military technology surpasses civilian technology by 20 years, which is true, but on some occasions, this transcendence can also become a fatal flaw, and Rear Admiral Honey can't conjure a civilian walkie-talkie out of thin air, no matter how much he gritted his teeth, he has only one choice, contact the bridge through the ship's phone and let them contact the other fleets in the flag language.
The bridge that had just been on the phone was no longer answered?!
A certain sound with a high-speed rhythm echoed in the war room, knowing that the situation was not good, Rear Admiral Honey finally couldn't bear it anymore, and ordered the non-commissioned officers and sailors around him to be fully armed, manually open the hatch, and go to the bridge as fast as possible!
There is a deck from the war room to the bridge, three hatches, and when the sailors open the second hatch, they can clearly hear a very dense and loud gunfire on the stairs, this is not the sound of small arms shooting, people who have experience in war can hear it, this is the sound of heavy machine guns hitting metal objects! In other words, someone was firing at the bridge of the Zumwalt with a machine gun of 12.7 mm caliber!
The USS New York and the USS America are both equipped with machine guns, both of which are 12.7 mm caliber, could it be said that the fire control personnel on these two battleships have also lost control for some reason?
Fortunately, it wasn't the Phalanx that got out of control.
If the bridge was strafed by heavy machine guns, then the previous communication interruption can be explained, Rear Admiral Honey's original intention to go to the bridge was to call the remaining two warships to support, now this idea may not be implemented, before Rear Admiral Honey decides to go around the upper deck to observe the situation or go to the engine room to restore power and activate the weapon system for self-protection, the last hatch leading to the bridge opens, and a figure flies down!
In the dim red light, the two sailors standing in front of Major General Honey let out a series of screams in unison, and at the same time, a large amount of blood splashed out! Major General Honey, who was blocked by the sailors, was also battle-hardened, knowing that the two subordinates were attacked at such a close distance, they would definitely not be able to save them, so the pistol was loaded and simply used the sailor's corpse as a shield, aimed at the figure and pulled the trigger again and again!
The encounter in the narrow staircase was so rushed that Major General Honey almost fainted from the sharp pain in his wrist before he could feel the deafening buzz of the gunshots!
Subconsciously holding the wrist that splattered blood, Major General Honey finally saw the appearance of the figure in front of him, the head covered with dark armor could not see any expression, under the carapace-like exoskeleton were muscles that had swelled to the limit of human beings, and the figure held a dull saber in both hands.
The Bio-Armorer, which is a Bio-Armored Soldier armed only with a saber.
Obviously, with the blessing of the inhuman power of the biological armored troops, the use of a saber at close range is enough to inflict more facial damage than ordinary firearms, and Major General Honey has only lost one hand, which is already considered lucky.
Immediately afterward, the creature armored soldier ignored the barrel of the gun sticking out from behind Major General Honey and the ensuing frantic strafing, it directly airsomedid with extraordinary agility and strength, and then went through the narrow gap above Major General Honey's head and feet, and the knife in his left hand flashed, slashing the skull of the non-commissioned officer, and the right hand knife landed on Major General Honey's neck while his feet were supporting the wall.
Although Major General Honey couldn't understand what the words that popped out of his hoarse voice, he also knew that the other party was making himself surrender and being able to survive the epidemic, how could he surrender when he was over half a hundred years old and still serving the country? In the U.S. Army after the Vietnam War, there were only generals who died in battle, and there were no generals who surrendered!
It still takes a lot of courage to hit the blade with the neck, but the reaction of the biological armor is much faster than that of an old man who is over half a hundred years old, and the blade only cuts through Major General Honey's skin, and at the same time he retracts the knife, he flips his wrist and snorts down, directly smashing Major General Honey unconscious.
The sailors who followed Major General Honey were not so lucky, and a knife through the throat was a little more neat than the death of his comrades, because his comrades were blocked by the biological armorers as a meat shield, and before they could struggle, they were beaten into a sieve by a rainstorm of bullets!
When the Zumwalt's war room was covered in blood, the captain of the USS America finally gave the order for the heavy machine guns to stop firing, unless he was determined to sink the Zumwalt with the Phalanx or the three F35Bs on the take-off ship, otherwise, there was really not much he could do after watching those biological armored soldiers like Somali pirates, assault the destroyer in a speedboat, and successfully enter the destroyer.
If the Infantry Battalion and THE had not been attacked by the Zumwalt's heavy artillery, the USS America could still send helicopters with Marines to force the Zumwalt onto the Zumwalt, and fight the crew of the Zumwalt inside and out, doing their best to regain control of the Zumwalt, now? Let a group of ground crews, pilots, technical non-commissioned officers, sailors, civilians rush into the small space of the cabin and the hard steel of the biological armored troops that are clearly not human? Sending death is not such a way to send it.
Moreover, from the inexplicable shelling to the sudden grounding of the Zumwalt, these accidents were strange at every turn, and the captain of the USS America communicated with the captain of the USS New York and came to an agreement that all they could do was to be on high alert and report to Washington while ready to sink the Zumwalt.
Soon, Washington's reply arrived.
Authorize the sinking, first peace talks.
The Yankees are not stupid, and they will never be hard when they should be soft.
Manipulating mutant creatures to attack the west, having unknown abilities to influence human thinking, making such a precise combat cooperation, and purely using pirate tactics to capture a stealth destroyer, such a character, at a time when the epidemic has passed and is in ruins, is indeed worthy of an olive branch from the United States, as for the crippled infantry battalion that was bombarded by naval shells, the American people will always remember their dedication to the motherland, and there should be a place for heroes in Ellington National Cemetery.
As for what happens when the bald eagle's feathers are full again after the peace talks?
All enemies are paper tigers.
The disarmed crew of the Zumwalt was escorted to the deck by biological armorers, and the first mate of the New York arrived on the Zumwalt in a rubber assault boat under a white flag and demanded to be in the middle of the country. Zheng negotiated, although the US high-level learned through a top-secret channel who was the real mastermind behind these mutant creatures and armored troops, but out of the protection of intelligence channels, on the surface, they still had to pretend to know nothing and use Zheng Guozong as a raft.
With Sheng Qingru's authorization and Wang Chen's nearby surveillance, Zheng Guozong did not dare to make trouble no matter how unwilling he was, and honestly put forward several requirements for peace talks in accordance with Sheng Qingru's instructions.
Formally recognize the legitimacy of the Mutant Organism's occupation of Papua New Guinea to the Chinese and Russian governments.
A full withdrawal of military forces from the New Guinea region.
If the U.S. government agrees to the above demands, the mutant creatures will return the captured personnel and equipment and the bodies of the dead due to the friction, and establish a consular diplomatic channel to prevent such a thing from happening again.
Watching the pale Rear Admiral Honey and a group of disarmed sailor non-commissioned officers poke on the Zumwalt's helicopter landing pad, surrounded by more than thirty heavily armed bioarmored men covered in carapace, the captains of the other two warships knew that this was the end of the attack.
Soon, Washington came back with a return and accepted the mutant creature's offer in its entirety. The next thing was fairly simple, the prisoners and equipment were returned, and after Rear Admiral Honey underwent amputated limb replantation, he remained in Lae to recuperate, and by the way, served as temporary consul, and the consulate was set up on one of the transport ships of the supply fleet until Washington sent a full consul to take his place.
Sheng Qingru is obviously not worried that after the return of the Zumwalt, the US government will go back on its word, anyway, the results of the peace talks have been announced to China and Russia as soon as possible, but as long as Washington wants to save face, it will not turn its face and deny people in a short period of time, and besides, before the mutant creatures are dealt with with in a safe way, Washington will not act rashly.
The transition is still very fast, after all, no one wants to endure the scorching sun, less than an hour after Washington's receipt, the first draft of the treaty has been drawn up, and it can be signed only after the operation of Major General Honey is completed, in view of how many hours it will take to replant the severed hand, the anesthetic strength has passed, and the signing must be tomorrow morning, Wang Chen and Zheng Guozong simply left the Zumwalt and returned to the port first, leaving only thirty armored soldiers to guard the battleship.
After getting off the boat and landing, Wang Chen couldn't help but stomp on the ground, although the time to implement the tactics was not long, and he had also experienced special missions, but the hardships and dangers involved were indeed indescribable.
Who told Sheng Qingru that apart from Zheng Guozong and himself, there was no 'person' around him who could pretend to be an ordinary person? Didn't they disguise themselves as supply fleet crews and want to get the fungal infected onto the destroyer? Even if Sheng Qingru can use the fungal infected person as a signal amplifier to control the brains of ordinary people at close range, making people think that the wounded are lying on the stretcher, then someone has to carry the stretcher, right?
In any case, the mutant creatures won the first battle and had the last laugh.
Also because of the lack of manpower, the two who completed the task could not rest, and drove to the camp of the Jibu Battalion as soon as possible to assist Sheng Qingru and Zhang Aishi in tidying up the ruins of the camp.
There are still hundreds of meters away from the camp, the air is already filled with a smoky smell of burning, the movements are slightly stiff, and the biological armored soldiers who are not completely mutated are constantly carrying out the corpses that are still intact from the camp under the command of Sheng Qingru and the wounded who are not yet dead and wailing repeatedly, in fact, most of these injuries have more than eighty percent burns, and it is only a matter of time before they die. Even those with small burns are coughing and coughing, and some of them are coughing and coughing, falling to the ground and not moving.
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