Chapter 65: Armed Patrols
The first rays of golden sunshine in the morning announce the official arrival of a new day.
The deserted Mang, originally overgrown with weeds and densely woven like a blanket, connected to the blue mountains in the distance, seemed to be boundless, but in a slightly higher place, there was a group of uninvited guests who were busy.
They excavated drainage ditches, laid barbed wire and mines, and built tents as if they were building a city, and the satellite antennas like pot lids were raised to the sky, the grid-like radar antennas kept rotating, and the thick and tall communication antennas stood tall.
Using the thick trees cut down, the team members set up four guard towers, set up a large number of dormitory machine guns in the guard towers, and arranged personnel to take turns to guard 24 hours a day.
After continuous fighting, the temporary camp has been basically completed, in addition to the access route, a 100-meter-wide minefield has been arranged on the periphery of the camp, and a drum-shaped barbed wire fence has been dug deep to protect the camp.
In the camp, tents for various purposes such as housing, command, communications, medical care, and catering have been put into use, and several members of the 8th team, which are well-skilled, are busy preparing fresh and delicious breakfasts.
The 1st and 3rd squads, using light infantry fighting vehicles and off-road jeeps, drove the tons of supplies airdropped by the naval air transport aircraft back to the camp for storage, and hundreds of tons of supplies would be enough to support the four squads for a long time.
At 8:10 a.m., the last batch of supplies was also unloaded, and a delicious breakfast was prepared.
"It's time to eat!"
With a shout, the team members, who had been busy for most of the night and were already hungry and growling, immediately picked up their lunch boxes and rushed to the field food truck.
The four members of the 8th squad who made temporary cameos as 'cooks' were the first to use the team members, and they were served hot milk, steamed buns and fresh eggs early.
As the captains, Ling Hao and Gao Sen had no privileges, so they had to line up honestly, and then receive breakfast and go back to each team.
Fan Shaohui, who has the nickname of 'rice bucket', and 'foodie' Deng Hua, naturally the first team rushed the fastest, and after getting breakfast, they found a place to squat and eat, and other team members also gathered one after another.
"Deng Hua, can you eat slowly, the starving ghost is reincarnated!"
"You're right, if I don't eat, I'm going to starve, right? Brother Shaohui! ”
Deng Hua looked at Fan Shaohui with a smile, Fan Shaohui, who was tall and tall, was fighting hard, and six steamed buns were not enough for him to toss, so it seemed that he had to increase the amount.
"Uh-huh......" Fan Shaohui replied vaguely, biting off most of the steamed buns in one bite and eating quite happily.
The others were similar, gobbling up breakfast in a short time, and after burping one by one, they finally showed a satisfied smile.
The grassland was quiet and peaceful, and all the special operators enjoyed such a pleasant morning.
The white clouds above the blue sky, the green grass on the earth is like the sea, only the cyan mountains in the distance overlap each other, if there are herds of cattle and sheep nearby, it is naturally the most beautiful scenery.
The team members were busy appreciating, while Ling Haohe and Yu Ming, together with Gao Sen, the captain of the third squad, and Du Hua, the deputy captain of the third team, discussed the patrol route around the digital map in the temporary command tent.
There is an airship hovering high in the sky, always observing all the movements in the warning basin, so the digital map can be refreshed regularly, touch it with your hand to zoom in, and arbitrarily zoom in on one of the three red areas on the map, and the photo taken 3 minutes ago can be magnified very clearly.
"From A01 to A03, the three oil exploration sites have entered the state, where do you say the oil will be produced first?"
Gao Sen zoomed in on the A01 area, and could see that the oil exploration team had set up camp on the spot, the assembled drilling equipment had been erected high, and the two special operations teams on guard were waiting around it.
"We have more than 10 billion tons of oil under our feet, so we should be able to drill oil quickly, right?" Du Hua added.
Ling Hao didn't care, they came to protect them by armed patrols, not to study which of the oil exploration teams was the first to produce oil, after the continuous bombing of the air force, it seems that there are not many monsters in the basin that have survived, but they still have to be 120,000 spirited.
The surrounding freshwater lakes, A01, A02 and A03, the three oil exploration areas, look like the vertices of an equilateral triangle on the digital map, and after zooming in, you can find that the exploration areas divided by the three oil exploration teams are continuous into a ring.
The support camp is located in the middle of the ring, not far from the freshwater lake, and close to any exploration area.
Each oil exploration team is protected by two special operations teams at all times, and they will definitely keep unmanned reconnaissance aircraft covering the surrounding area uninterrupted, and at the same time, there are reconnaissance airships at high altitude to be on alert throughout the process.
Therefore, in the oil exploration area, the security problem is not large, and what the 1st and 3rd teams need to complete is to patrol the perimeter to eliminate all threats without affecting the development of oil exploration work.
After consultations, the two teams set out from the camp, one to the north and the other to the south, and carried out counterclockwise patrols 20 kilometers from the support camp as the center, communicating with each other at least every five minutes to inform each other of their situation.
Five minutes later, the airborne light infantry fighting vehicles lined up in two rows in the camp roared, and the high-horsepower diesel engines rumbled, which was a routine inspection before departure, and the engine, which was the core of the combat vehicle, must be kept working properly.
"We're on patrol, not walking birds, so be careful to bring more ammunition!!"
In fact, there is no need for Ling Hao to shout and remind, the team members all know what to do, although the armed off-road jeeps of the two teams have to stay in the camp in case of emergency, but the patrol team composed of three infantry combat vehicles is still very powerful, and enough ammunition is the key to ensuring the output of firepower.
Boxes of bullets and cannon shells were carried onto the cart, and a few spare fuel tanks were also carried, and with a roar, the chariot set off.
Just like an ancient military camp, the horses made of thick trees block the main road in and out of the camp, and there are sandbag fortifications to control the camp, which is firmly guarded by large-caliber heavy machine guns and multi-barrel rapid-fire machine guns.
The gatekeepers moved their horses away and saluted, and the three infantry fighting vehicles of the first squad were the first to leave the camp, followed by the third squad.
The Luohu Basin is surrounded by freshwater lakes and is an extremely flat and open primeval grassland, if it were in the original world, then such a fertile land is not a place with high grain production, but also where densely populated large cities are located.
Just looking around, Ling Hao couldn't see any buildings of human civilization, the green grass was paved like a carpet, and occasionally a few shrubs stood in the middle, looking at the undulating terrain in the distance, there were even denser woods, and unknown birds were happily foraging.
Between heaven and earth, only the roar of the diesel engine of the infantry fighting vehicle was heard, and the train was in a column all the way, and the tracks collapsed into two clear ruts, as if they were two lines that were always parallel, drawing a graceful arc that swirled on the grassland.
The 001 chariot leading the way and the 003 chariot behind the palace were respectively in charge of the life and Chen Jiaqiang, while Ling Hao, Qian Wei, Jiang Da, and Cao Guichuan were on the 002 chariot in the middle.
Jiang Da, who was proficient in radio communications, was responsible for ensuring smooth communication with the various departments, while Qian Wei monitored the vehicle status of the three combat vehicles in real time through the tactical LAN.
Cao Guichuan is a computer expert, and he is mainly responsible for controlling the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft released by the first team, using the drones that will go out to reconnoitre, planning the route for the convoy, and paying attention to all kinds of monsters that may appear at any time.
"Boss, five minutes left!" Cao Guichuan tapped on the keyboard and said loudly.
Ling Hao nodded, and immediately picked up the intercom to inform the car in front and waiting for the bus, "Play hard, be strong, arrive at BN01 in five minutes, pay attention to vigilance!" ”
"01 Understood!"
"03 Understood!"
The convoy went all the way, crushing countless weeds and leaving deep ruts, and soon arrived at the BN01 point where the air force had concentrated bombing before, because it was very close to the mountains and forests of the hilly terrain and belonged to the edge of the plain.
The Air Force dropped a large amount of sea lizard flesh and blood here, lured a large number of monsters that got up in the morning to feed, and then used medium-range surface-to-surface missiles to blast a rain of metal projectiles to create a corpse mountain meat field like Shura's hell to lure more monsters to come, and then fixed-wing aircraft to carry out horizontal bombing.
Around the three bombing points, the air force was busy for a day, so before the convoy entered, Cao Guichuan shared the footage taken by the unmanned reconnaissance plane from the air to the 002 vehicle comprehensive electronic information system in real time, so that Ling Hao could easily view it.
In the picture, several square kilometers near BN01 are no longer grasslands, but bare and black, and the ultra-high temperature of the fuel air bomb directly carbonized the monster corpses and plants, and the eye-catching black ashes will form a small area of 'black storm' as long as the wind blows.
Therefore, looking down on this area from the air, it is more like the land left over from slash-and-burn farming, and the scorched earth is not covered with grass and trees, and there is still a pungent smell, perhaps the smell of the flesh and bones of those monsters that have not been fully burned.
After the three chariots came to a circular stop to form a temporary defensive position, the team members who activated the 'metal skeleton' got out of the car and started the search, and followed the chariots to slowly move forward to search, which was the tacit understanding unique to the first team.
As a result, naturally, it was disappointing.
The fuel air bomb is enough to form a high temperature of more than 2,500 degrees Celsius, which is enough for the energy crystal to detonate, releasing a huge amount of energy and fueling the power of the explosion.
Therefore, although the gray-black ash can form a sharp color contrast with the obvious color of the energy crystal, which is very easy to be detected by the naked eye, the team members who got out of the car to look for it found nothing, and can only blame the bombing of the air force is too wild, and the team members have not even found a complete monster corpse.
After leaving BN01, the convoy changed to patrol to the east, almost cruising close to the edge of the mountain forest, three infantry fighting vehicles at a certain distance, like lawn mowers, swept and collapsed countless grass vines, the roar of the engine, the shaking of the earth, startled the birds hiding in the grass moost.
Advancing all the way, the armored combat vehicle convoy did not encounter any monsters that could be resisted, but encountered a lot of herbivores such as wild horses and sheep, and there was no Tyrannosaurus in the blue sky, and there seemed to be peace between the vast earth, no war, and no death.