Chapter 347: Secret Facilities (1)
Ral's two squads, plus Lal's command squad, quickly passed through the tunnel dug by the cockroaches to the location of the concrete wall that had been dug out. It's hard to say what they went through in between, the tunnel dug by the cockroaches went through two sewers, and there was an underground passage that looked like some kind of maintenance passage. Fortunately, there was no one in these places, otherwise there would probably be a crossfire of cockroaches.
But it's actually fast. After discovering that they couldn't directly knock through the wall, they chose a more violent approach: they directly asked the technical sergeant to summon explosives and blow the wall open.
Before the smoke of the explosion could clear, countless bullets were fired from the smoke in an instant. Fortunately, almost everyone stayed away from the blasting site, and most of the bullets were just fired into the air and into the walls dug out nearby.
"Crossfire! Crossfire! ”
It was their first battle, and as the smoke cleared, it became clear who was firing at them. Two men in power armor were apparently lying in front of the gap in the explosion, presumably from the blast, and looked like they were dead. There were also a few people hiding behind undamaged walls and constantly leaning out and shooting at them.
The power armor of these people is brown all over, and looks about the same as the CMC power armor they use, but they all carry what looks like a backpack on their backs, rather than a cold fusion reactor with two exhaust vents on their backs like the CMC power armor. The weapons in the hands of these people are not the usual C-14 assault rifles, but appear to have firearms mounted on both arms, and they shoot directly at them with their arms outstretched, and the guns are also on the back of the hands or forearms.
Regardless of the lethality of these bullets, they didn't want to experience it for themselves, so they didn't know if the bullets would be able to penetrate their power armor, but at least thanks to such a weapon, the opponent's firepower was much faster than theirs.
"**Team is dragging grenades! Hurry up and pull the grenade! ”
The raiders in the two squads employ different tactics. The raiders of Class 76 chose to take advantage of the enemy's fire to throw smoke grenades at the entrance to create an opportunity for them to advance, while Class 14 chose to throw fragmentation grenades directly in an attempt to inflict casualties on the opponent.
Whether it was smoke or anti-personnel grenades, the fire on the opposite side did weaken a lot. Class 76 was responsible for continuing the suppression, and Class 14 was assigned to immediately assault forward, and could not be further suppressed at the entrance. Ral was worried that if he dragged on like this, he would attract more guards, and then he would be in trouble.
Miles immediately ordered the whole class to assault, but he didn't let his men go on immediately, but instructed his subordinates to let their jumping worms directly open the optical camouflage and rush forward, and they followed behind and rushed forward together.
The jumping insects have a much stronger hunting instinct than humans, and they have already heard screams when they try to rush into the mouth in the smoke. These voices also provide them with a guide to move forward. The Marines, who were the first to break through the smoke, saw the situation clearly, and then had no time to say anything else, and immediately opened fire on the Marines who were still active on the ground.
However, after seeing the situation clearly, they couldn't help but lower their guns and swallow their spittle—the power armor of the fallen enemy was torn from the abdomen, and the broken internal organs were floating above the blood in the empty bodies of those people, and almost every enemy was disemboweled—perhaps some of the internal organs were eaten by the jumping worms.
But nausea is only temporary, and their task is not yet complete. After confirming that the entrance was secure, they immediately bypassed the corpses and ordered the hoppers to disperse with themselves to defend the corridor. Reinforcements from the other side arrived almost simultaneously, and a fierce exchange of fire broke out between the two sides. Four-Eyes' squad then rushed into the hallway to join the fight. Under the glare of the hallway, they finally saw each other's faces.
The opponent's power armor was indeed as seen at the beginning, with two guns in both arms like a raider, but only on the forearm, and they fired with their arms aimed at the target. It's still unclear what they were carrying, it could be the same power plant as their reactor, or it could be the ammunition box that fed the gun on their arm.
There was one person who wore a very different power armor. His power armor is much thicker. The opponent's general power armor is not equipped with a shield because he has weapons in both hands, but this person's power armor is equipped with an extremely stocky shield, which can resist the raider's anti-personnel grenades head-on, and almost alone can directly block most of the suppressive fire.
In addition to this, in addition to a larger "backpack", this person had two additional barrels on his back......
I don't know whether to say it is a blessing or a pity, they did not experience the power of these two barrels for themselves, because soon these enemies were killed by their own fire and the jumping insects that suddenly disarmed their camouflage, and the guy with the barrel was not spared, his self-defense weapon was only a pistol, and he could not beat the jumping insects at close range. Although his power armor was thicker, he did not escape the fate of disembowelment.
This invisible jumping insect helped a lot, they successfully caught each other off guard, and the other party didn't expect that a jumping insect would suddenly come out of his back and knock him down directly. Ral was eager to study the other party's equipment, but time was running out, and it was obvious that the other party could not sit still, and reinforcements should already be on the way. He ordered Miles' squad to immediately establish a defense at the breach, and he set off with the command squad and the four-eyed squad to sweep the research institute.
At this time, the stinging snakes and cockroaches of Four-Eyes and Miles finally squeezed in. The four-eyed stinging snake is capable of providing a fairly strong piercing fire, as long as it can ensure its survival.
The place where they blew up was a corridor of the secret facility, the red emergency lights flashing when they first entered, and the shrill warning sound was filtered out by the power armor. Lal let the invisible hoppers scout ahead, and they followed, groping their way down the corridor.
Perhaps as luck would have it, they did not encounter fierce resistance along the way. The mission briefing did not give any detailed information about the facility, and they had to take it one step at a time.
The corridors of this secret facility were so numerous that they had to search room by room so that they had to search room by room so as not to miss possible clues, slowing down their progress. They searched more than a dozen rooms in a row, and they basically looked like dormitories, and the few guys they caught all pulled out their guns and killed themselves before they could say anything, and they couldn't even ask questions.
After losing several people in a row who could be questioned, they changed their strategy, broke down the door and found the person, immediately shot the opponent's arm, incapacitated him, and then asked the medical soldiers to go up to stop the bleeding and bandage him, collect the opponent's weapon and interrogate him.
The plan quickly paid off, as they succeeded in deactivating a target's ability to move while searching a room, forcing them to commit suicide. But the other party's mouth is quite hard, and he has been struggling, and he is still shouting and insulting them, trying to force them to shoot themselves.
After much intriguing, Lal had to change his strategy. He ordered the two soldiers who restrained the man to knock him unconscious, and then left with him back to the arsenal to find his hybrid Isaac. Isaac's psionic power is unimaginably powerful, and he should be able to force this guy to speak in a psionic way.
After taking the guy away, they intend to move on. But it didn't take long for Miles to send a message saying that they were under heavy attack and needed reinforcements. Ral had to take Four-Eyes' squad back to the gap to support Miles in order to prevent the back lane from being intercepted. When they reached the breach, they were confronted by several enemy squads, and Ral and Four-Eyes forced their way through a breach and stormed into the defensive positions constructed by Miles' squad.
After joining up with Miles, Ral regrouped his troops and defensive line. However, due to the several soldiers brought by the other side with cannons and shields on their backs, they had to choose to shrink the defensive line, and only then did they barely repel this wave of attacks. But until the other side retreated, the guys with cannons on their backs brought by the other side never fired. But their shields were really durable, and their C-14 rifles could barely do any effective damage to them, forcing them to retreat by relying on grenades from under-mounted launchers from the rifles of raiders and some of the soldiers.
The only way to deal with that kind of guy at the moment is to either rely on grenade projectiles and try to hit them past the opponent's grenades, or let the hoppers stealth and assault. But those guys are not fighting alone, they also have those soldiers with guns in both hands, although the jumping worms have a chance to kill the shield-wielding soldiers, but there is also a great possibility that they will be killed directly by the soldiers behind.
Not knowing exactly how many men there were, Lal had to pause for a moment, regroup his troops, and establish a defensive position in the gap. But he was really anxious, he was worried that the other party had now begun to carry out the evacuation procedures, and if it was a little later, maybe the useful data would be deleted, but he didn't dare to risk leading the team to set off again, in case the other party seized the opportunity to raid again, and the back road was cut off, they would really become turtles in the urn.