Volume I, Section 218, Air Combat

These cat people run extremely fast and have no rules to follow. They scurry lightning through the ruins of houses on both sides of the street, running over the heads and shoulders of countless mutated creatures, stepping on the bodies of their companions, and sprinting towards the human positions that rained bullets.

"To block them must be to block them————"

At the same time as the Colonel roared, a cat-like humanoid had already lunged down in the air, waving its sharp claws and letting out a high-pitched scream, skimming the body of one of the heavys.

It was a soldier who had been injected with a first-order enhancement potion. After evolving, his vision made him see the ugly face of the cat man. The soldier instinctively lowered the machine gun, raised his left hand to block, and grabbed the cat-man by the neck with his right hand, pushing the cat-man to the ground from the side. Then he swung his fist and smashed it down on the bloodthirsty face.

At this distance, he could not turn his gun to shoot, and could only defeat his opponent in hand-to-hand combat.

By the time the soldier got up from the ground, the cat man had been smashed alive into a pile of mud.

He gasped for breath and stood still. The moment his head lowered and his gaze made contact with the underneath his body, the soldier suddenly froze, then his body was crooked, and he fell down with a bang.

He was covered in blood. The entire chest and abdomen were completely slashed, and the cat-man's powerful hind limbs kept slashing at the soldier, claws cutting through the skin and muscles, tearing the internal organs, dragging the intestines out of the body, and the kidneys and lungs were completely mashed and smeared on the surface of the turned flesh, trembling like a thick layer of fresh meat sauce.

"Bastard, I'm going to kill you damn bastards————"

An ensign with an angry face rushed into the fortifications, smashed a pile of grenades, grabbed the heavy machine gun that belonged to the soldiers, pointed the muzzle of the gun at several catmen who were about to pounce in the air, and threw the blazing rain of bullets out of the air. The warhead with huge impact instantly exploded a large area of blood, and the sneak attack cat man was knocked off the spot, screaming and falling.

The lieutenant's furious mood calmed slightly, and just as he was about to continue shooting, several dark shadows had already rushed through the smoke and dust. There are bloody corpses that have evolved the ability to run, cats and ratmen who are agile, and locust-like humanoids who have the ability to glide short distances...... They swarmed upward, unoblivious to the rain of bullets slanting around them, aiming at the second lieutenant who was in control of the heavy machine gun.

In the panic and screams, the second lieutenant's neck was bitten through the spot, and his left arm was torn off his shoulder.

"Ah————h

The lieutenant's eyes widened suddenly, and he screamed, grabbing the dog man biting his neck with one hand and twisting it around, and scratching back and forth between his chest and abdomen with the other, his face full of unspeakable fear. Seeing this, the two soldiers next to him hurriedly rushed over to help, grabbed the hind limbs of the rat man and dragged them outside. By the time the black, dirty, triangular head was pulled out of the lieutenant's body, the nezumien's mouth was filled with pink lobes, bright red hearts, and white bone fragments. It "squeaked" and chewed, ignoring the fists of the resentful soldiers, just gnawing hard, not dying.

"Quick, fast fire"

"The cannon must be released immediately. Also, to speed up the cooling and energy storage of the laser generator, it must be fast"

"Order the armored forces to move forward, those damn monsters must be stopped————"

One order after another was quickly transmitted from the rear to the front of the position, the 517th Division, the Ul0th Armored Division...... All the troops are fighting back with all their might, and various weapons are unleashing amazing firepower and energy. The armored fighting vehicle quickly turned, moving back and forth along the road outside the position, and fired a dense rain of bullets at the mutated creatures that broke into the position.

The powerful electromagnetic cannon is constantly releasing energy. With each shot, a path of death filled with flesh and blood is crushed. However, this straight-line weapon, like the laser generator, takes time to recharge, with a firing gap of more than ten minutes. When they can't function, a frenzy of creatures can quickly take over the vacated streets.

Hundreds of thousands of mutated creatures have died, and their corpses are covered in a thick layer on the ground, reaching or even exceeding the height of the bungalows on either side. Behind the "wall of flesh" that the soldiers could not see from a normal perspective, the mutated creatures that ran wildly had trampled and trampled on a damp and sticky, sloping blood path. They swarmed across rooftops, above vehicles and in the middle of buildings. Swift cat-people, dog-people, and rat-people rushed to the front, followed by sluggish and bulky cow-shaped and pig-like humanoids. Among them, there are also a large number of spiders, cockroaches, ants, beetles and other creatures with shapes. Humanoids are constantly gliding down from high places in the air, and they obviously take the shape of locusts, chickens, ducks, bats, etc. Although it can't fly like a bird, it can glide dozens of meters away in an instant, and the speed is amazingly fast, and with the first-order enhanced vision power that the soldiers have, they can only barely see a vague figure.

They formed a large formation, each performing its own duties, and although there was occasional pushing and shoving with each other, and the camps were crowded, they appeared to be in an orderly manner, advancing in the passages they occupied. Viewed from the air, the human positions set up outside the city resemble craters that unleash huge destructive energy, and the mutant biota resembles huge icebergs engulfed in the sea. Slowly moving and approaching each other, two strands of energy that could not be contained violently collided, grinding at the territory they occupied. When one side's endurance and foundation are consumed, it will become food for the other side to gnaw on.

The amount of scientific and technological power possessed by mankind is gradually showing weakness in the face of huge numbers.

Mutated creatures continue to break through the front lines, and the soldiers have abandoned their heavy machine guns and, led by officers, take on sharp carbon battle axes to confront the monsters. Each swing of the steel axe brought a splash of blood and death, but more mutated creatures rushed into the position, fearless to pounce on the soldiers. The division of labor between them is terrifyingly tacit, with a large number of humanoid attacks such as rat and ant-man with jumping ability, attacking the waist and leg down. They don't seek to kill their opponents with a single blow, but only use their best methods to entangle their opponents, cut limbs with their mouths and jaws, bite off their throats, or fly through the air to kill the weapons in the soldiers' hands and disable the weapons in their hands, and the rest of the mutated creatures rush up to tear the soldiers alive and eat them with numerical superiority.

Zhang Shengfei's stomach began to churn———— bloody and cruel images on the screen hit his brain like an electric current, stimulating neural circuits to produce a fear response. Nausea is just one of them, and the negative effects on the body are no less than tremors and limb spasms.

"Immediately send the ———— of the Army Aviation Attack Squadron"

He pushed away the crowd in front of him, stumbled to the podium, and almost screamed orders into the microphone.

"Order the reserves to go into a counterattack, they must hold their positions to the death, and no one is allowed to retreat."

"Request support from the Air Force."

"Convey the relevant situation to the military department, let them formulate countermeasures as soon as possible, ask for reinforcements from the adjacent theater of operations, and ———— as soon as possible."

With one command after another, a strong air flow soon appeared on the top of the hill behind the position. A few minutes later, the sky was already covered with layers of helicopter gunships. They hovered in the air like dragonflies, swept through the leaves and dust of the trees, marched in formation to the deafening sound of engines, and crushed towards the scuffling city.

A total of 237 helicopters of different types, all the ground aviation capabilities of the 184th Group Army, are also the most rear-back counterattack troops in Zhang Shengfei's hands, except for the reserve divisions.

The sudden addition of air force brought the surging creature frenzy to a halt. Rockets from the air exploded on the ground, splashing dirt and all kinds of debris high, blowing up the monsters gathered around.

These rockets have been modified to strictly control the amount of charge, and the explosion power is limited, but the fragmentation effect is still obvious, and the crowding density of mutated organisms is too large, and each explosion can cause a large area of casualties.

"Sudden Sudden Sudden ————"

The wheeled cannons under the wings began to spray a rain of bullets, and in a circle-and-dive motion, the mutated creatures gathered on the ground were either blown away by the cannonballs or crucified on the spot. Humanoids with locust and avian genes can only glide at low altitudes, and cannot fly to the altitude corresponding to helicopters. After several attempts at the assault but being shot down in the air, they began to change tactics, ignoring the helicopters flying in the air and instead charging at the human positions outside the city.

More and more mutated creatures are pouring into the position, and machine guns and multi-mounted cannons are no longer able to stop the spillover of the creature frenzy. Their impact is no longer confined to the road, but spreads to the left and right, spreading to nearby residential areas. As an indispensable means of defense, the guard detonates the bomb set in the corresponding area again, but due to the terrain limitations, it cannot receive a better effect.

In the command post, looking at the screen of flesh and blood, Zhang Wen's eyes were full of disbelief.

"Why is this happening? I...... I must be dreaming......"

All this is not the scene I imagined at all.

This should be a very easy fight. Just like Su Hao's victory in the battle of Lujiang, he only needs to set up defensive positions, lock the direction of movement of mutated creatures with dense firepower, and use pheromones to disturb them and make them advance along the predetermined path. Then, detonate the mine, use metal fragments to shoot in large numbers, and end with a wide area of suppressive fire. After the last, send out infantry to search and kill the remaining monsters.

Yes, this should be the result I expected, and this is what the campaign plan should achieve. With the annihilation of millions of mutated creatures at one time, coupled with the influence of my uncle Zhang Shengfei in the military department, I believe that it will not be long before I can replace the major badge on my shoulder and become a lieutenant colonel, colonel, and brigadier general......

The incomparably beautiful fantasy was shattered by the cruel reality.

The image on the screen is changing perspectives.

A lot of humanoids slipped into a building with the "Industrial and Commercial Bank of China" round square-hole coin logo. They look like frogs. These humanoids have thick, muscular hindlimbs that are visibly degraded, leaving only the part of their chest that cannot be closed. They jumped, slowly climbed to the top of the building, or to the higher floors, smashed the windows, and stared at the helicopter with their eyes that turned into vertical pupils.

"Oh my God, they know how to use the terrain ......"

Zhang Wen quickly saw the problem. Trembling all over, he raised his arm, pointed at the screen, and screamed in a ghostly voice: "Quickly order the helicopter to get out of those buildings————

Before the words fell, the frogoid on the screen had already moved.

They targeted two helicopters flying past the roof of the building in a formation.

The roof of the building is about 100 meters away from the plane. The frogman kicked the ground with his strong hind legs, and jumped dozens of meters high in an instant like a cannonball. The powerful explosive force of the body could only make them jump to this height, and at the moment when the body lost its momentum and was about to fall, the frogs opened their mouths one after another, and popped out a sticky pink tongue that was more than 20 meters long.

The tongue sticking out in a straight line accurately glues to the helicopter landing gear, and it flexibly circles around to hold it firmly. The sudden increase in weight caused the helicopter to shake for a while, and the pilot hurriedly grabbed the lever to restore stability. Just as the plane swayed to regain its level, more frogmen jumped out of the rooftops and windows. They clinged to their companions, who had already glued their tongues to the plane, and climbed upwards like arhats. The drastic increase in weight caused the plane to shake again, and the frogmen soon formed a line between the air and the rooftop. It feels like a bunch of hideous-looking monsters flying kites.

The helicopter swayed left and right in the air, eventually losing control and crashing into the ground diagonally.

The picture frozen on the screen is the camera through the cabin, capturing the frightened and distorted face of the pilot.

It's not just frogmen who fight back with this weird approach.

Thousands of humanoid geckos climb up the walls, their agile movements and swift speed are simply scalping. They leapt out of the roof, raising gray parabolas in the air. The way these monsters work together is impressive———— they form different squads depending on the helicopter's position, and they jump in order. Before the first gecko man reached the end of the jump, the other one who jumped behind had already stepped on its back with its hind limbs, and stepped on the front one as a stepping stone to gain new momentum and continue to move forward. Above its head, another humanoid jumped again. Farther away, they also cooperated with each other, continuing to extend the distance to the helicopter.

Gecko-like humanoids continue to fall from the sky, crashing into the rebar-lined ruins, shattering beyond recognition. Occasionally, the luckier guy was seriously injured and did not die, and was also pierced by the hard steel bar, and could only lie in the dusty pile of rubble screaming and waiting for death.

These humanoids did not die in vain, and the companions who flew on them had already pounced on the helicopter. They hook the tail with their tongues or claw tightly against the surface of the cabin. Due to the inaccurate landing point, several humanoids were directly ground into minced meat by the propellers, and the plane was unbalanced and loaded onto the building. Realizing this, the humanoids changed their attack methods and directly rammed the helicopter propeller with their bodies. A thick rain of flesh and blood suddenly splashed in the air, and more and more planes fell out of control, and huge fireballs covered in black smoke rose on the ground.

Without air support, the battle on the ground suddenly became difficult. The frenzy of the composition of mutated creatures continued to advance, soon overwhelming the entire forward position.

The nimble cat-men and dog-men went straight over the armored units, leaving behind the fiercely firefighting vehicles. Many humanoids genetically infected with pigs and cattle have evolved to be hugely large. They are over four meters tall and have a thick cuticle growing on their shoulders...... The 7mm warhead left bullet holes the size of wine cups in their bodies, but instead of slowing them down, it only stimulated the ferocity of these giant humanoids even more.

A pig-man with fangs roared and lunged forward on all fours, his speed undiminished despite being shot through the eyes by a large-caliber machine gun and bleeding profusely. It went berserk, thrusting its protruding muzzle into the bottom of the marching vehicle, completely overturning the entire vehicle, and slamming its head into the car with all its might.

Several nezumi were lying on the shoulders of a cow-like human, and with the force of their impact, they lunged down towards a soldier. In a panic, the soldier hurriedly grabbed a carbon battle axe and swung it in the air, cutting off the necks of two ratmen, while the other rat-man took advantage of the chaos to burst in front of him, waving his claws and slashing his head and face at the soldier.

The soldier felt that his eyes suddenly went black, and a large eerie red color instantly occupied his sight. Immediately afterward, there was a sharp stabbing pain in the orbital area, and there was a terrible pain of the nervous tissue being dragged outward. He reached out with fear and found that both eyes had been gouged out, and the unacceptable reality stimulated the soldiers to make even more crazy moves. He threw away the tomahawk in his hand, turned around, and ran back and forth like a madman, his hands scratching at his face, and his mouth let out a terrible scream.

"Don't panic to hold your position, seal them off with machine guns————"

A major rushed forward with a dozen soldiers, picked up his battle axe and met the bull-shaped man in the front direction. He roared angrily at the right leg of the oxman, nimbly avoiding several flying bloody corpses, and shouted desperately with an incomparably loud voice, encouraging the people around him, desperately maintaining a position that could collapse at any time.

"Take control of that combined cannon, and the rest of the men form a skirmish, ready to defend the Heavy in close-quarters combat. Don't be afraid, they're just the lowest mutated creatures, not our ...... at all."

Before the word "hand" could be spoken, a beetle-shaped humanoid had already swooped in the air. It opened its mouth, its body contracted suddenly, and it spat out a foul-smelling cloud of thick green slime, which sprayed at Colonel Lu head-on, instantly enveloping his whole body, and the body covered by slime suddenly burst into bursts of white smoke and made a terrifying "hiss" sound