Chapter 5, Encirclement and Reinforcement

"How did you know we were in ambush?" Clark's words fell coldly into Lid's ears.

"There's something wrong here, I didn't notice it at first, but then I finally thought about it. These crystal mines are not originally here, but those bugs have made them. ”

"Why can't I see it, and how do you judge this?"

"The soil and rocks here are different from those in the mines, so it should not be possible to generate crystal ore. And the timing of the appearance of this crystal mine is also very strange. Reed was about to continue, but Clark interrupted him.

"Have you ever learned to shoot?" Clark asked.

"I taught it all when I was enlisted in the army."

"Alright, go down and get a gun. I'll wait until all the bugs are killed. I'm not done with you. ”

"Yes, sir!" Leed left the command post, leaving a suspicious Clark behind. After a while, Kliman walked into the command post again.

"All the miners are armed, can they hold out for a while now?" Kliman asked anxiously.

"It should be possible, at least for two hours, I hope reinforcements can come sooner." Clark tried his best to hide the worry in his heart and the sweat in his palms. As a manager, he has to be calmer than everybody.

Kriman breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That kid just now, did you see that?" ”

"Yes, where did he come from?"

"I remember him coming from Arkansas. I just arrived here more than a month ago, and now I am a miner in the seventh group. Are you interested in him too? ”

"Kirb, Hobbs, take your men to meet the Matata and them, and be careful not to let the insects control the wings." Clark didn't reply to Kliman immediately, looking at the battle situation on the screen in front of him, he quickly issued a few instructions.

Then he slowly looked at Kliman and said, "This person has a problem, you have to keep an eye on him." He doesn't seem to be that simple. ”

After this reminder, Kliman thought carefully about the previous situation again, and nodded sternly. "Hmmm! Now that I think about it, there are indeed suspicious circumstances. I see, so I'll go down and have a look. So he turned and left.

Of the original 5 Marine squads, only Karin's squad remained in the fort. The Marine squad defended one direction.

The miners also took weapons from the armory, and gave some fire support. So far, there have been no losses other than a few soldiers who had lost them on the foxhole.

After a simple treatment, Li De is no longer in any serious trouble. Before, it was because of the shock wave generated by the SCV explosion, which made him very uncomfortable, and the surface was only some skin trauma.

At this time, Li De also held a semi-automatic rifle, and at a shooting hole in the north, he fired at the swarm outside.

Those bugs don't seem to be attacking strongly anymore, gathering around the periphery, as if waiting for something.

Li De looked at the current situation, five minutes had passed, and those bugs still did not fight. Li De frowned and turned on the one-way call of the communicator.

He originally wanted to contact Clark in one direction, but thinking of the conversation just now, Li De was still a little unhappy in his heart. So he contacted Kliman.

"Sir!"

"Li De? What's the matter? Kliman's tone was noticeably better than he had been in the base office. What happened today shocked him too much, and he was also impressed by this young man.

"Sir, there's still something wrong with the situation."

"Oh? What do you see again? Passing Guò's earlier events, Kliman also thought about it carefully, and in addition to the young man's fighting skills, the earliest warning seemed to be shouted by him first. He felt as if the young man could see things that others couldn't.

"Why are there only giant mantis mantises?" Li De knows.

"How do I TM know. I'm not the commander of the Zerg. Kliman wasn't embarrassed to say that this was the first time he had seen a living Zerg up close.

"Also, do you think we can withstand them if they rush up together?" Li De asked again.

"This, it seems to be difficult." Although reluctant to admit it, Kliman spoke it out.

"Then why don't they go if they have the ability to eat us?"

"That's stupid, they're brainless bugs." As soon as Kliman finished speaking, he realized that he was wrong.

A trap that can trap all of its own people, a successful plan that can hide from the army staff. Can it still be said that they are still brainless bugs?

"What purpose do they have?" Li De said affirmatively.

"What is their purpose?" Kliman still misses the crux of the matter.

"How many troops are there to support this time?"

"I don't know the exact number, I heard Clark say there will be an armored brigade." When Kliman finished speaking, his mouth could no longer be closed. Immediately turned around and ran towards Clark's command room.

"Clark, I'm going to talk to you," Kliman yelled and rushed into the command room. All eyes were on him.

"What's wrong?" Clark looked puzzled. Clark was listening to the captains of several squads report on the damage and make fire assessments on the guò communicator, and the sudden intrusion made him very unhappy. But thinking of the previous task given to Kliman and his current expression, I felt a hint of something bad about it.

"Is it necessary?" Clark confirmed it anyway.

"Yes, it must be talked about separately."

"I'll go on later." Clark spoke to the captains.

"Yes!" Several captains replied.

"What's wrong?" Clark looked at the anxious Kriman and asked again.

"Just now, that kid named Lide told me—" Kliman told Clark about his previous analysis, and Clark's brow furrowed tightly.

"This looks suspicious, what do you think?" Clark is also a smart person, and he didn't think about this aspect because he had to think about survival before, and he didn't think that the bugs would have any tactics. But now it seems that there are indeed big doubts.

"Where are our reinforcements?" Kliman asked.

Hearing this, Clarke's brow furrowed even tighter. He already had an idea in his mind, but he didn't want to accept it. But if he designed such a game himself, this is definitely the best move. With a little chill in his heart, his trembling right hand picked up the communicator that was talking to the headquarters.

"Chief Allen, I think we made a mistake by asking the support troops to return immediately, and at the same time use satellites to do a deep scan of the front line and the area here." Allen is the commander of the forward base.

"What's wrong? Clark, those brothers are here to save you. ”

"We've all been fooled, the bugs didn't want to eat us at all, they targeted the support force in the first place." Clark said anxiously. There was a hint of desperation in his voice, and he only wished that he would still have time to do this.

There was a panicked sound on the other side of the communicator, and the sound of some calls rang out.

"M's, Clark, you're late." Allen's voice pierced Clarke's ear like a needle.

The commander of the unit of the rescue squad was named Haring. He was a tall military academy graduate, now with the rank of major. He usually works in the command headquarters, and when he came to the planet of Seleone, he has been working in the rear base.

Less than a week after he came to the front line, such a situation suddenly appeared, and he introduced himself and accidentally became the commander of this support force.

Colonel Allen, who commanded the front, gave him a whole brigade of people to rescue those thirty or so people, in his opinion, it was nothing more than a fight with a group of bugs, and with the firepower of an armored brigade, it was still very simple to eliminate hundreds of bugs.

In the Federal Army, an armored brigade is equivalent to an armored infantry battalion. This time, the team included 20 tanks, 35 armored personnel carriers, and 40 light armored vehicles, including almost 1,000 troops. And the firepower is extremely powerful.

"Get around the mine and don't get caught in the way of those big trucks." Haring gave instructions from inside the armored transporter, and at the same time looked at the mission carefully in confusion. In his plan, all he had to do was drive the tank to the edge of the battlefield and the battle would be resolved after a burst of shelling.

There was a loud bang, and Harlem was suddenly startled. "We were attacked!" There was a shouting from inside the intercom. "Report the situation!" Harlem reacted immediately.

"The rear team is attacked, and there are bugs in the ground!"

"Damn, shoot ** underground, find those damn things!"

The soldiers immediately stopped and fired into the ground, throwing grenades and grenades into the cracks in the ground, causing a massive explosion underground. There was also a shrill roar from underground, and some green and purple mixed viscous liquid spewed out of the cracks in the surface.

"Pit viper!" There was a roar coming from the communicator. Haring had climbed out of the armored transport and was standing on the roof of the vehicle in command. "Four teams to the north, five teams to the south, to stop the pit vipers. Why hasn't the tank joined the clan yet? ”

"The ground is cracked, and there's no way to support it."

"Don't brace it, just fire." Haring turned to his lieutenant again, "Have you reported the situation here to headquarters?" ”

"Yes, it's already teleported."

"Well, these bugs seem to be on our side. The whole team contracted its defenses, and the second armored convoy supported the west. ”

Gradually, Haring's forces gathered and shrunk together, using the heavy steel plates of armored vehicles and tanks to defend against the Zerg attack.

The main force of the Zerg this attack was pit vipers, a group of more than five meters long resembling a giant pit viper, they did not have tough claws, nor could they bite off human mouthparts, but they could spray green acid.

The acid can be sprayed tens of meters away, splashing onto the armor of armored vehicles and tanks, corroding the metal and emitting a cloud of white smoke.

Because the pit vipers were all lying in ambush underground, they were very close to the armored brigade when they came out, and some were even under the feet of the human soldiers, and the human army fell into confusion for a while.