Chapter 136: The Battle of Despair
"Thirty seconds to prepare."
Glancing at Lin Feng, Yang Yi pulled down the mask of the helmet.
Although as soldiers, Yang Yi and the others did not need to use the "Warrior R" system, but for the sake of insurance, everyone hid their true strength.
Quite simply, the Silicon Alliance's siege of the outpost was extremely unusual.
It is undeniable that Sentinel 828 has very important strategic value, but it is of little value to the Human Federation, not to the Silicon Charm Alliance. If the purpose of the Silicon Alliance is to capture Outpost 828, they will send enough troops to destroy the defenders of the outpost as quickly as possible, rather than fighting a protracted battle with the defenders. If the Silicon Alliance is not trying to capture the 828 outpost, it should destroy the outpost directly.
The battle, which lasted for several days, was a problem in itself.
It was precisely because of this realization that Yang Yi decided to go to the outpost to find out.
"Prepare in five seconds!"
The airlock opened, Yang Yi jumped out first, Lin Feng followed, and Jackson and the others also jumped out of the "Shadow" in turn.
Although Yang Yi did not say it explicitly, Jackson knew that the siege of the 828 outpost by the fleet of the Silicon Charm Alliance was likely to be a conspiracy. If you don't figure out the situation, ask the theater command for help, and let the theater command send a fleet to come, and it is likely to be ambushed by the Silicon Charm Alliance.
In fact, this is also the reason why Yang Yi decided to hide his strength.
If the Silicon Charm Alliance was not calculating the fleet of the Human Federation, but someone, then Yang Yi and them going to the outpost as soldiers would be tantamount to throwing themselves into the net.
Driven by the jet thruster, Yang Yi and the others quickly flew towards the outpost.
Although the Warrior R individual system is designed for ground warfare, it is possible to gain some additional capabilities by installing additional equipment. In fact, in addition to individual weapons, the "Warrior R" system is a multifunctional backpack, all subsystems are integrated into the backpack, and additional devices are also installed on the backpack. For example, the individual jet thruster is fixed to the backpack, allowing Yang Yi and them to gain limited flight ability.
Five thousand kilometers is not a short time, but it is not far away in space.
You know, the length of the S-class battleship at the 828 post is ten kilometers.
The battle was still going on, with occasional heavy explosions, and the vicinity of the post was full of blown debris. Compared with these fragments, Yang Yi and others seem very small. Even if the enemy were to monitor the situation near the outpost, they might not be able to spot the eleven human warriors flying to the post at high speed.
At this time, at the rear of the post, near the hangar.
It is said that it is a hangar, but it is actually a semi-open area.
Although the space is huge enough to crammed thousands of space fighters, in peacetime, the military does not deploy space fighters at forward monitoring posts. It is not that space fighters are expensive, but that according to the armistice agreement signed at the time, weapons and equipment of an offensive nature cannot be deployed in the demilitarized zone, and space fighters are included. Inside the huge hangar, there were only a few small patrol boats, to be precise, those that had been blown up.
"Hold on, reinforcements are coming!" Shouting, the major officer continued to fire outside with his gun raised.
In fact, when reinforcements will arrive, or even if they will come, the major officer himself is not clear, it is just a lie to insist on fighting.
Under heavy enemy fire, the door of the hangar, which was two meters thick and made of special alloys, had long been blown to pieces. Although the energy barrier has not disappeared, it is already crumbling under the continuous shelling of the enemy, and it may disappear at any time.
This is the last line of defense of the outpost, and if it is broken by the enemy, none of the officers and men in the post will be spared.
It's just that how long he can hold on, Major Zheng Xiaolong has no bottom in his heart.
After being attacked five days ago, Colonel Qin Qiuming, the commander of the 828 outpost, sent a signal for help and told all the officers and men that the theater command would soon send a fleet over, and all everyone had to do was to hold on and fight the enemy until the moment reinforcements arrived. Unfortunately, the next day, when the outpost was surrounded by the enemy, Colonel Qin Qiuming was killed in the operation of leading the marines to launch a counterattack.
The brutal battle lasted five days and five nights, and Major Zheng Xiaolong officially became the supreme commander of the post yesterday afternoon.
Before that, he was only a major officer in charge of logistics, and he never imagined that he would be able to become a supreme commander, let alone so quickly.
It's not that he's brave, it's not that he's powerful, it's not that he's volunteering, it's that the officers above him have all died.
Zheng Xiaolong has been able to survive until now, mainly because he has been staying in the rear, responsible for transporting ammunition for the officers and soldiers fighting on the front line, and has not fought on the front line.
Will reinforcements arrive?
A massive landing ship approached, carrying thousands of enemies of the Silicon Alliance, mostly humanoid rock demons.
Although this kind of enemy is similar to a human body and less than three meters tall, it is the largest number of troops in the Silicon Charm Alliance, and the weakest combat power, but it is still very strong in front of human warriors. Even with armor-piercing bullets, it's hard to kill with a single shot, and if it's a hand-to-hand fight, a human warrior is no match for a humanoid rock demon.
Seeing the landing ship, Zheng Xiaolong was also helpless.
The main defensive armament of the outpost had been destroyed by the enemy, and the electromagnetic guns and small-caliber machine guns in the hands of the soldiers could not prevent the landing ship from approaching. While the Energy Barrier can block various energy beams from enemy ships, it cannot stop enemies at landing posts. In the fighting of the past few days, most of the officers and men killed in close combat with the enemy, including several senior officers, died.
"Major!"
"Defend it all for me, retreat is death, if the enemy attacks the outpost, we all have to die!" Zheng Xiaolong was scared, but he didn't show it, because at this time, all the officers and soldiers looked at him. "Hold the battle line, even if it is death, you must fight to the death in front of the enemy."
"Boom-"
The ground shook violently, and the enemy landing ship crashed into the post.
Disturbed by the energy barrier, Zheng Xiaolong couldn't clearly see the enemy rushing down from the landing ship, but there must be a lot of them, a large area of black pressure.
On the battlefield, the Humanoid Rock Demons have always won by numbers.
In this respect, it is very similar to the Human Legion.
The difference is that Humanoid Rock Demons are better at hand-to-hand combat. Although the Silicon Alliance has also developed some projectile weapons similar to electromagnetic guns, they have not been widely used. It's not that the Silicon Alliance doesn't have the corresponding technology, but in individual combat, silicon-based life has a natural advantage.
"Don't fire, listen to my orders!"
Behind the gate, more than a hundred officers and soldiers on the three lines of defense held their breath.
Zheng Xiaolong stared at the platform outside the energy barrier, and the hand holding the electromagnetic gun was trembling slightly. Although five days ago he was a logistics officer in charge of managing supplies, now he is not only the supreme commander of the outpost, but also an experienced soldier.
Against the enemies of the Silicon Alliance, the power of the electromagnetic gun is too small.
Because the energy barrier has a certain shielding ability, firing at the enemy through the energy barrier can hardly pose a threat to the enemy, just wasting ammunition.
On the platform outside, the landed humanoid rock demons lined up in a phalanx of ten hundred.
It's just that it's not just humanoid rock demons that have landed.
"Major, what's that!?"
When the soldiers next to him shouted loudly, Zheng Xiaolong had already seen several extremely burly figures appear in front of the humanoid rock demon's phalanx.
Is that......
Iron Armor Battle!?
Zheng Xiaolong's eyes widened, and the hand holding the electromagnetic gun trembled even more.
That's right, it's Iron Armor.
It's over!
Zheng Xiaolong's facial muscles twitched a few times, and he unconsciously looked towards the deep space in the distance.
If only humanoid rock demons had landed, they would still be able to hold on. Put an enemy in and fire at close range, and the armor-piercing bullets fired by the electromagnetic gun can pierce the enemy's body, and even if you can't kill them with a single shot, the dense rain of bullets can turn the enemy into a hornet's nest, and then go up and cut off the enemy's head. No matter how tenacious the vitality of silicon-based life is, it will die without a head. It's just that the electromagnetic gun can't deal with the ironclad furious battle at all.
This enemy, which is more than five meters tall and can even reach ten meters, is a monster made of rocks, and its defensive strength is equivalent to that of a heavy tank. Not to mention the electromagnetic guns used by soldiers, even small-caliber machine guns may not be able to penetrate the rocks covering the surface of the ironclad frenzied body.
With the Iron Armor Furious Fighting in front of you, the humanoid rock demon can rush to the front and play to the advantage of melee combat.
In the face of a thousand humanoid rock demons rushing closely, not to mention more than a hundred officers and soldiers, even if all the officers and soldiers in the outpost are here, it will be useless.
Can this battle still be fought?
Zheng Xiaolong was desperate, and the other officers and soldiers were no exception.
They are not afraid of death, and as long as they can pose a threat to the enemy, even if it is only a small threat, they will continue to fight.
The problem is that the weapons in their hands are simply not capable of posing the slightest threat to the enemy.
This is not a fight, but a massacre!
In the face of rows of ironclad frenzy, any resistance from them was meaningless.
Is there any point in such a fight?
It's just that they have no choice but to fight.
In the 5,000-year-old and five Greenwich Wars, neither of the warring sides has a tradition of accepting prisoners of war, let alone an interstellar convention to protect prisoners of war.
For Zheng Xiaolong and them, surrendering is to let the enemy slaughter them, and they will die a miserable death.
Although no one has experienced it personally, the officers and soldiers know that the enemy will treat captured human soldiers as a snack, it is good to swallow them in one bite, and it is common for them to be torn to pieces. The reason is simple, silicon-based life, like carbon-based life, needs trace elements. For silicon-based life, the carbon-based life of humans is a vitamin tablet. Even if it doesn't taste good, it has a high nutritional value.
The energy barrier shook a few times, and a huge figure emerged, followed by more huge figures.
"Major ......"
"Prepare for battle!" Zheng Xiaolong stood up, since there is no way back, let's die a glorious battle. "Fire, fire all of them!"
The officers and soldiers in the vicinity stood up one after another, and everyone was desperate, but no one fled, because there was nowhere to escape.
It's better to die in battle than to be eaten alive by the enemy!