Chapter 1420: Slaughter and Slaughter (Part II)
Since it was a smuggling team from Larsa, the captain of the hunting flock knew that there would definitely be some people below who were prepared and not affected by the sound waves. In addition, the intensity of the sound waves is mainly to affect the opponent's actions, and the indiscriminate strafing of bombing and triple barrel machine guns does not expect high-frequency sound waves to cause fatal damage.
The flock of birds ended circling under the orders of the captain and prepared to drop a second round of forty-two bombs for a wide bombardment. The arc formation turned into a huge semicircle, and in the communication network, the captain only asked the members of the two wings to suppress the fire through a signal, but in the range that could be seen by the eyes, three members suddenly lost their heads, and a huge hole was blown out of their bodies.
There were still two bullets and one member, and it was only a few breaths since the bombing began, and six members died one after another. While the captain was still thinking, a loud explosion from the flank forced him out of his thoughts. Instinctively raised his head, and the impact of the explosion carried a wave of heat on his body, and the water on his lips was immediately evaporated.
An irregular fireball was extinguishing, and when the eye caught it, the carcass of a game bird, almost blown open in the middle of its body, slowly fell out of the smoke, carrying a long ribbon of smoke, engulfed by the forest below.
"Spread them all out and drop all the bombs!" said the captain, immediately turning the direction of the bird and flying farther away. However, the flanks were affected by the impact of the explosion, and several hunting birds were still regaining their balance. It took less than three breaths, but it was too long in the captain's eyes.
"Cover flank withdrawal, machine gun strafing, triangular area range suppression!" hovering in mid-air, the captain had to turn around and dive towards the target range, the hunting bird spat out two tongues of fire nearly one meter long on both sides of its body, and the dark red ballistic trajectory moved out of two thick lines, blasting the forest below him into a green mobile fountain all the way.
Immediately, more hunting birds followed the captain, and soon formed a formation, and the firepower network was formed in an instant. The continuous sound of birdsong picked up again, enveloping a large area. The forest below created green waves in the wind, and the rattling sound had a tendency to overpower the roar of the machine guns.
The second round of bombardment began at this time, and in the sound of "click", the mounted metal bracket opened at the same time, and the forty-two bombs broke free from their shackles and walked in an arc under the attraction of gravity, without waiting to be submerged in the green forest. A canopy of sparkling sparks lit up at the tops of several bombs, and the space beneath the group of birds suddenly distorted.
The light of the fire gilded the flock of hunting birds brighter from below, and the forty-two bombs did not all have a chain reaction, but half of the bombs were still detonated one after another in the explosion. The spherical shockwave then quickly merged into a single piece, like a soft jellyfish swimming towards the surface of the water, and in the blink of an eye, it pursued the flock of hunting birds that were urgently gaining altitude.
The edges of the feathers on the wings of the bird were scorched the moment the impact arrived, and its huge body could not resist the power of the high-explosive bombs prepared for the enemy. Unbalanced game birds hovered in mid-air, and the communication channel was full of "whirring" for a while. A few people who were close together experienced a brief faint beep in their heads, and they were still trying to pull at the several tough control ropes in their hands, trying to regain control of the birds of the game that had begun to scurry after the effects of the explosion.
In normal training, half a minute to be able to return to a stable state is an exceptionally good result. However, in this state, the time will only increase, and the indiscriminate flight of the game birds will not achieve the effect of avoiding attacks. Several bullets found the most suitable angle and time, and passed through their bodies one after another.
At this time, the flankers finally returned to a stable flight state, and the smoke from the explosion just now was also blown away by the wind in mid-air, and the remaining bombs of the second round of bombing finally exploded in the forest, and the smoke rushed straight up, overflowing from the dense branches and leaves.
At the same time, all the hunting birds that were still under control had been raised to a height of two thousand meters, and the captain looked at it, and less than two minutes had passed since the start of the attack, and a flock of forty hunting birds had lost seventeen people.
The captain believed that the number of deaths in the forest would be several times that of seventeen, but the positioning of the two was different from the beginning. They are the overwhelming dominant side in terms of information, firepower, reconnaissance, and the difference between high and low positions. The captain originally planned to be able to clean up the opponent to about 20 percent by relying on the wide coverage of the machine gun after several rounds of bombardment, and to remove ammunition himself without losing anything. It is clearly not possible to do so now.
"There is an error in the investigation information!" The captain could only attribute the loss to this, and in the information he received, although there were two or three powerful smuggling teams from Larsa in this safe area, the explanation of "strong" was based on Larsa after all. They can be regarded as a regular team in the tribe, not an elite, but also a force that is resident in various regions and uses to handle most things.
After giving the order to drop the remaining dozen bombs at this height, whether they could inflict damage on the enemy was no longer in the captain's consideration. At an altitude of two thousand meters, the strafing of the triple-barreled machine gun was ineffective, but at the same time, the effective range of the enemy's guns was basically there. No one can help anyone, the captain thought, unless the enemy has a sniper rifle. But the smuggling team usually operates in a mostly forested environment, and who would carry a sniper rifle in such an environment?
At least in the captain's cognition, there are such people who use sniper rifles in the forest, or in the primeval forest, but most of them have some mental problems, simply put, their heads are not good. There are several ancient trees hugging each other everywhere, and the special bullet can penetrate up to three ancient trees before losing all of its strength.
The captain took a few deep breaths, and a dozen bombs accelerated to fall, and he ordered all the captains to pay attention to the movement below at this time, and provide useful information for the ground troops in the future as much as possible.
Turning on the communicator, the captain activated the function of assisting in noise elimination, and the "Lord Yas-samaγγγ" report began, and the explosion of the last dozen bombs also rose from below, the captain wanted to explain the situation and convey the wrong information, but the painful birdsong not far away beside him made his whole body tremble.
A game bird was on the verge of losing control, and it had an extra hole in its body twenty centimeters in diameter, which completely penetrated its body from the bottom to the top. The blood splattered from the hole formed a large blood mist in mid-air, which was quickly carried away by the wind at high altitude and melted into the air.
"How is that possible!" said to himself in astonishment, and another game bird not far away let out the same wail. The sound lasted even longer, and along with the person in control of it, was pierced by the bullet, nearly breaking in half. The two birds lost the strength to flap their wings in a few wails, and struggled to fall.
"Evacuate! Evacuate!" The captain didn't care about anything else, and he didn't think about why the people below were carrying heavy sniper guns, and he didn't care about how the other party caught himself at an altitude of two thousand meters. Just drive the birds to fly away and stay as far away from here as possible.
"What's wrong?" Yas could hear the commotion. After an unsuccessful attempt to locate someone close to the Dragon Knight, Yas then received a message from a messenger from Lord Osnia. When he learned that Lord Osnia's personal guards and a considerable number of beast cavalry would arrive at him one after another, every bad message or sound from each team could make Yas's heart beat irrepressibly several times, just like the feeling of being awakened from a nightmare when he was a child.
I'm afraid there's something bad here. Yas's intuition could not be simpler.
"Lord Yasγγγ After a few breaths, a weak voice finally came from the other side in the gasp, "More than half of the losses are lost, the intelligence is wrong, there is something bad in the fifth security area, I don't know which smuggling team it is." We bombed as planned, but within three minutes of the round trip more than half of the men were dead, and the game birds lost six. β
"Evacuate first. Yas was tempted to ask about something else, but in the end he just said those three words. The captain finally let out a long breath, he was afraid that Yas would let him go back to assist and suppress the fire. He had a kind of fear, and when he evacuated just now, several bullets pierced the three hunting birds again, as if with eyes. Until he was more than three kilometers away, the captain didn't feel safe. It's so abnormal, he thinks that he is a proud newcomer who has carried out several missions and has excellent training results in the shooting range, but a person with experience and endurance. The current situation made him feel afraid.
Putting down the communicator, the captain briefly looked around, and after ordering the evacuation, he looked back at the smoke-filled forest, "I hope that the ground troops can win by piling up numbers." β
At the same time, inside the forest, large forces were divided by bombing. The smoke from the explosion spread over a wide area, and the groans of pain and cries for help continued from the time not long after the bombardment to the present.
In a simple attack, the death toll was close to seventy. Half of the personnel were also affected by the impact of the bombing and several rounds of machine-gun fire, with internal bleeding and broken bones being the most common injuries. If there is a battle between the two sides in the forest, whether it is Kasia or Isha and other captains, they think that is the best assumption at the moment. At that time, the wounded still had the opportunity to go to the rear field hospital for simple treatment.
But now, incapacitation, or the weakening of mobility due to injury, is more desperate than outright death. Their result can only be to wait in fear for the enemy to catch up with them, that is, to wait for death. But before dying, there is also the effect of buying a little time for others to hinder the enemy's footsteps.
There is no time to care about the mutilated corpses, all that can be done is to take away the ammunition that is still usable. The wounded were quickly gathered together, and several captains went to them, with the assistance of other members, took half of their ammunition, but left a much larger number of steel-hulled bombs.
Some of the wounded stood up and begged to take him with them, but there was only a cold silence. Most of the wounded pursed their mouths, and occasionally some coughed, but the vast majority of those who chose to stay in the breakout team were prepared for this.
"We will continue to move in the same direction, and if someone is unwilling and wants to keep up, we will not stop it. One of the captains then said in a deep voice, "I'm sorry. The people behind him and the captain bent down towards these wounded, also sorry and thankful.
Isha wanted to leave with a dozen or so wounded, but neither the wounded themselves, nor Toynbee and Muriel stopped her. Taking a deep breath, Isha took note of the faces of the dozen or so people, turned silently and led the rest of the people to follow the dozens of people who had already begun to move forward.
More than 300 people were reduced to 127 people, except for the more than 30 people who were able to move in the sound wave at the beginning, the reason why the others survived was mostly luck. Kasia flanked the group, and there were a dozen or so wounded at the tail of the group struggling to keep up, but after a minute or two, they were no longer visible.
Ahead, the captains began to discuss future countermeasures, or to sort out information about the enemy's attack just now. Kasia dripped blood all the way on the flanks. Judging from the information about the dragon knight announced by the enemy not long ago, Kasia believes that blood has no effect on the enemy, and the other party has a way to deal with it. After all, the other party is a member of the Flame Alliance, and their relationship with Class 2 creatures is like the relationship between the Empire and Steam Power.
The success rate of the breakout has dropped to one percent in Kasia's mind. Surely someone will make it out of the forest alive, will it be a dozen, or a single digit?
When the flock of birds attacked, with the help of high-frequency sound waves and explosions, without being detected, Kasia did eliminate half of the enemy, but the result was exactly what was happening in front of him. The quality and ability are too poor for the regular team, except for Isha's three squads, the loss is smaller, and the death toll of the other teams is more than half,
Equipment, information, coordination, and important team configuration, etc., all imaginable places are weaker than the enemy, and Kasia can't think of a good way. At present, the understanding of the enemy is still in the stage of conjecture, and Kasia has also thought that even if he lifts many restrictions and creates a gap for the last group, he will still be able to act with the enemy's ability to actγγγ
"It still depends on the enemy's considerations, half the chance. I create enough deterrence for the enemy who forms the encirclement network, and the message is passed on to the commander. At that time, there will be two choices in front of the commander, one is to lose a geometric multiple of his own team for a dozen or so, and the other is not to make this exchange, just clean up the majority of the people and maximize the benefits. It's just that the initiative is all in the enemy. "When the results of the simulation came out, creatures with considerable velocity appeared within the range of Kasia's sonic pulses.
There were only two heads, and the effect of distance and the ancient tree had diminished the detection effect of the sound waves, but after a few seconds, a few pulses still depicted the two creatures.
It is a giant wolf, with a height of nearly six meters at both ends and a body length of about thirteen meters. Equipped with dozens of metal bulletproof plates, they had no hair, and the sonic feedback told Kasia that they were all large scales on their palms that were close together. Each giant wolf has two people on it, one is responsible for control and observation, and the other is always holding a communicator. The giant wolf is armed with only a heavy machine gun and no other weapons. At every distance, Kasia noticed that the two giant wolves repeated a single action - waving their claws at the nearest ancient tree.
"Mark, the big forces are still in the rear. Kasia glanced at the time and continued to observe. The speed of the two giant wolves was calculated at the same time.
Thirteen minutes later, Kasia unfolded the maximum detection radius of the sonic pulse, with two giant wolves at the very edge. In the past ten minutes, the giant wolf has disappeared within the detection radius. At this time, there was no immediate return to the normal state of four thousand meters, and after waiting for about half a minute, two giant wolves appeared. As they prepared to shrink the distance, another type of wolf, a dozen or so wolves that were one-third smaller than the giant wolf, appeared next to the giant wolf.
Then the number began to increase, twenty, fifty, one hundred, one hundred and seventy, three hundredγγγ
Once a team of wolves had all entered the sonic pulse, their numbers stopped increasing and were fixed at five hundred and fifty.
Kasia stopped as if she was tired, and looked calmly at the group around her, which quickly overtook her.
"What's the matter, Soriatu?" and without breathing, the team went forty or fifty meters in front of Kasia. Toynbee, who was on the tail, sensed something was wrong with Kasia and ran to him to ask.
"Nothing. Kasia replied, "It's just that I suddenly feel a little tired." β