Chapter 4: The Zerg Advance
Under the strafing fire of the army's active "QJG02" high-level dual-purpose heavy machine gun, the metal storm whipped by the 14.5 mm large-caliber machine gun can easily tear apart the insect shell. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info sporadically slipped through the net, and it could also be eliminated by the condescending shooting of the soldiers. Compared with large-caliber high-caliber dual-purpose machine guns, the small-caliber modern rifles that the army is now equipped with are very mediocre and need to shoot at vital points at close range to be effective. The power of the weapon is largely determined by the caliber, and the Type 03 and Type 95 rifles are even inferior to the 81 bars in the hands of many local troops.
Protected by a high wall, the swarm is a bunch of live targets under the wall. After getting out of the range of heavy machine gun fire, the fighters will use 40 and 60 shots (40 and 60 mm bazookas) with automatic rifles to eliminate them. After a few waves, even a new fighter can quickly overcome the fear of bugs.
And in the past year, what has really demoralized the fighters is the world outside the walls. The economic and technological development zone in the distance has become a nest of insects, and the distance between the development zone and the suburbs has been ploughed several times by artillery fire, the potholed earth, the ruins left by the collapse of buildings, and the smoke of gunpowder in the craters, although it is early in the morning, but it gives people a feeling that the sunset has ended, and it is dusk. If you see too much of this kind of scene, it will have a very negative impact on the mentality of many people.
Against the backdrop of dusk, there was a dense swarm of insects in the distance.
", these brutes are crazy? How long has it been, and it's coming up again!? All companies and platoons are ready to fight! One of the battalion commanders screamed desperately with a hoarse voice. After a night of fighting, the muddy warriors struggled to get up and leaned against the wall with their guns in hand. The battalion commander's broken gong was still ringing behind his back.
It's been two days and three nights, and the insects have not stopped, this is not the most tragic battle in human history, and the insects under the city walls do not pose much of a threat to the soldiers. Since the construction of the wall, the casualties of the troops have been quickly contained. But this is the most tiring battle in the history of warfare, the soldiers need to shoot non-stop, the recoil of the rifle through the butt constantly hit the shoulder blades of the soldiers, and many soldiers have never fired so many bullets in their lives, and when they are rotated to rest, they can't lift their arms.
Withstanding the impact of the butt of the gun was also a happy thing among the fighters. Because only a small number of troops are equipped with Type 03 rifles that still retain the butt design, for most of the fighters holding Type 95 rifles, this stockless rifle itself has a feeling of not being able to stretch its fists and feet. Exhaustion caused the combat effectiveness of the troops to decline rapidly.
"I repeat, if I don't give orders, no one is allowed to use 40 fires! I'm not afraid to tell you, there are not many rockets, our defense section has less heavy firepower, and when the fight is over, you can bite it with your teeth! No one is allowed to shoot any bugs if they don't go within 200 meters! I asked every bullet to hit this gang of miscellaneous people, and if I couldn't hit it, I put it closer, and then I saw who was holding a gun in that mess, and Lao Tzu burst through him first! ”
On the third day of the battle, the situation took a new turn. For the first time, the bug showed a new ability, jumping up about 40 meters from a high wall, and it was the first time that the bug showed such an amazing leaping power in front of a human. Although this jump was not enough for them to jump over the fence dozens of meters high, most of the jumping insects crashed to death on the wall, and the scalps of the fighters who saw the cracked brains tingle. The bloody scenes, the suicidal ways in which the bugs are not afraid of death, make everyone who sees this scene tremble. The new situation put tremendous pressure on the defenders, who began to burn insect corpses more frequently and reduce the number of corpses piled up under the walls.
Temporary Headquarters of the Bincheng Military Division.
"The insects within nearly a thousand kilometers are coming this way...", the chief of staff had a solemn expression. Days and nights of fighting showed the officers the fragility of the city behind seemingly solid walls.
The garrison of Bincheng City, reinforcements from all over the country, and the remnants of the influx of troops were changed and organized into 10 new divisional units, which defended the entire high wall in sections, known as the Ten Main Divisions. The width of the high wall was not enough to spread out the troops of the ten divisions, and the headquarters divided the high wall into three sections: northwest, central, and southeast, with three divisions as a unit, each demarcating the defense area. There was a lot of pressure on the defense in the middle section, and four divisions were arranged. In addition to the reserves retained by each defense section, the elite troops were also transferred to form an elite division directly under the direct jurisdiction of the headquarters, a general reserve unit at the brigade level, and a third-line unit composed of newly recruited civilians.
"Did the staff come up with a combat plan?"
"Commander, it's been discussed, there are too many insects, only to support the heavy firepower when it is really unsupportable, and it will be counted as a moment to resist it, fortunately, we have a lot of additional troops, if this wave is resisted, most of the insects in the entire Liao Province will be cleared."
"I can't count on the replenishment of soldiers, the soldiers in front are very tired, and once these veterans are withdrawn, those ordinary people who have just learned to touch the gun will not be able to withstand it for an hour." Li Hongpeng knows that ordinary people who have not undergone training and have never been on the battlefield have not formed combat effectiveness at all after a short period of training. The police force and veterans can finally make do with it, and the common people are not even militia.
"Order the Air Force to take off and blow up a barrier for me to blow up this line again, I ask that no bugs come from this line within 30 minutes, and I need half an hour to order long-range artillery to cooperate with the strike." In the command room, Li Hongpeng gave orders in an orderly manner.
"Counselor Tian!"
"Here!"
"Didn't Minister Yan of the Ministry of People's Armed Forces say that he still has a batch of old-fashioned mines, and we will also pack up what we have, and we don't want them all, and as soon as the insect attack is broken, I will immediately send troops to lay out all the mines for me, and I ask that a two-kilometer-wide minefield be arranged at 500 places outside the wall, and the density should be large, so don't be reluctant."
"Yes!"
"Correspondent!"
"Here!"
"Tell all units that after the minefield is arranged, replace half of the veterans, supplement the new recruits behind, and set up a supervision team, and those who escape and retreat will be killed directly."
"Yes!"
"Coordinates, 02020, 24030, countdown to shelling,... 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, fire! ”
Shells whistled from their positions behind the wall, and looking at the dense firelight in the distance and the roaring planes in the sky, the fighters mustered up their last bit of energy to shoot.
Many of the new people on the wall did not even get military uniforms, and they were still wearing civilian clothes, but they simply learned how to operate firearms, and they were like being chased to the wall like ducks. The militia has a variety of weapons in their hands, not only the rifles in service of the Republic Army and the old-fashioned rifles that are being eliminated, but also a large number of antiques, 56-style rifles, 53-style rifles, and grandfather-level firearms can also be seen in the hands of the militiamen. The instructors of the boot camp also used loudspeakers to emphasize the norms of using guns over and over again, and even the opening of the insurance was repeatedly emphasized.
Although the instructor behind him kept repeating that he was not allowed to shoot until the specified distance, there were still recruits who could not resist the pressure and pulled the trigger 800 meters away. And the range of the standard rifle in service in the Republic is only 400 meters, not to mention the old antiques in the hands of the militia.
The veterans began to consciously control the rhythm of shooting, and only strengthened their firepower to shoot in the interval between the recruits' bullets, and many recruits changed their bullets clumsy and slow, because the caliber was different, the ammunition of some weapons could not be effectively replenished, and the entire defense line was in danger. All defense sections are calling for heavy weapons support, and if it weren't for the steady and reliable spraying of flames from several heavy machine guns, the consequences would be unimaginable.
When the firepower begins to wane, the oppressive effect on the swarm becomes insufficient to give the cyborg behind more time to come up and burn the bug corpses. The stacked corpses reduced the distance from the ground to the top of the wall, and bugs began to leap onto the wall with the corpses of their own kind, and although there were not many of them, the troops had begun to suffer casualties again.
The barrels of the discarded heavy machine guns were lined up on the ground, and the ammunition consumption was greater than anyone could have imagined, and most of the old guns had been depleted of ammunition and reduced to burning sticks. The fighting power of humans is weakening, and the bugs seem to be becoming more skilled at storming the walls, and more and more bugs are jumping on the walls.
"Let the capable ones play, we have no other cards to play." Li Hongpeng finally gave this order. If Zhang Jiqian is on the side, he will definitely be proud of his foresight.
The competencies registered in the city were gathered and distributed to the main divisions. This resolution was strongly opposed by those who were able to do so.
"You are sinning! Who gave you the power to forcibly recruit citizens into the army? ”
"You made a promise that you wouldn't force conscription, and now you want us to die?"
"I'm a woman, I still have children, you can't do this!"
There are all kinds of beings, but none of them are willing to go to war. But under the cold muzzle, they still obediently chose to obey. Even the people did not express sympathy for the able, everyone knew that the northern defense line was crumbling, not to mention the capable, as long as they didn't go up by themselves, even if they went up casually, it was good.
Zhang Jiqian sorted out the important supplies into a backpack, and an inflatable dinghy was fixed on the back seat of the bicycle, and made up his mind to run to the beach as soon as he had something to do, and then rowed to the sea. Although the insects are powerful, they don't seem to be able to swim, otherwise they would have come around the wall and mailed them.
The seaport to the east of the city was already full of people.
"Why don't we open the port, we're going to buy a ticket, we're leaving."
"The official's car has been in for several times, are you planning to abandon the city a long time ago?"
"There are so many boats, I can carry a little more people, I have an industry in the south, I can donate them all to the government!"
After seeing the vigorous and resolute actions of the security forces today, no one dared to storm the checkpoints, but there was a steady stream of refugees who wanted to leave by sea, and more than 100,000 people had gathered in the harbor. The company commander in charge of the port border called the above to ask for support, but there were no extra troops to guide the hundreds of thousands of people.
The city has been completely chaotic, and the capable person is the last hole card of the Bincheng defenders.