0532 TIDE RISING (5)
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At the outpost of the M Army in the Mute area of Egypt, the commander of Major General Edward stood in front of his office window, looking at everything busy outside with some anxiety: from time to time, there were fighter planes whizzing over the base or taking off and landing on the runway, soldiers running back and forth on the ground and various vehicles driving around, everything was so busy and orderly, but Major General Edward was still very irritable and anxious.
After a while, he asked, "Hasn't the third transport fleet of Future Technology Company arrived yet?" ”
In the office, a lieutenant colonel who had been standing for a long time replied: "I have already been contacted, and I will arrive at the base in half an hour." ”
"Half an hour ......," Major General Edward repeated in a low voice, then turned to look at the lieutenant colonel, "I don't want any accidents to happen to the base again, the kind of thing that happened to the Egyptians, I don't want us to happen to us." ”
"General, we've already strengthened our security three times, so there shouldn't be a problem, right?" The lieutenant colonel asked with some incomprehension, "We are now short of manpower, and we have to expand this base, build new facilities, and strengthen vigilance, and the soldiers are afraid that they will not be able to bear it, they have accumulated considerable fatigue." ”
"Now is not the time for them to rest, they are soldiers, can't they even bear this little suffering? It's better to be tired than to lose your life! ”
"......" was silent for a moment, and the lieutenant colonel finally saluted the major general, "I'm going to give orders, sir." With that, he walked out the door.
After the lieutenant colonel left and closed the door to his office, Major General Edward sat back at his desk, turned on the computer on the desk, and sent out an email.
Five minutes later, the computer "ding" and a replying email appeared in the major general's mailbox. He quickly opened. After carefully browsing and memorizing the contents, he deleted the email, breathed a long sigh of relief, and leaned heavily on the back of his chair: "...... Waited so long...... It's finally about to begin......"
Half an hour later, the sound of a roaring engine could be heard in the sky. A fleet of eight strange-looking transport planes approached the base and began the landing procedure.
The odd shape of these planes is due to the fact that these planes have four sets of engines, all of which are embedded in the overly wide main wings, rather than hanging under the wings, and when these large fleets land, they do not use the runway to slow down after landing, but reduce their speed. Vertical take-off and landing operations were carried out directly above the runway, and eight transport planes landed on the ground almost simultaneously!
This surprised many people who had never seen this kind of aircraft, and they all looked at the military technology of the M Army a lot.
With the vertical landing of these eight transport planes, the four F-35 fighters that escorted them also stopped in the same vertical landing, and it can be seen from the appearance that the engines of these F-35s are somewhat different from the same type of fighters equipped by the M Army before, and their engines look more advanced than the previous models, and it is obvious that they have undergone new improvements.
But for the Marines who saw these new planes for the first time. The ground crew at the base has obviously seen this kind of transport aircraft that can take off and land vertically many times, and with the landing of the plane. Immediately an equal number of tractors will drive towards them, and they will be towed directly to the base's hangar area for unloading and maintenance work.
For this reason, nearly 100 ground crews and marines have been waiting for the warehouse area to start work.
However, when the eight transport planes towed by the large tractor opened their tail cargo doors, all the people waiting at the door gasped, and the cargo in the cargo hold of four of the transport planes stunned everyone. It wasn't until several officers arrived and gave a gag order to all the soldiers and ordered them to secretly transport the goods to the warehouse that the area fell silent.
This scene, naturally, has been sitting in the office, through cameras placed in various places in the base. I used the computer to see what Major General Edward knew, but he didn't react, but watched all this calmly, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.
The four transport planes loaded with classified cargo were directly dragged into the hangar for unloading, while the other four did not do so, because the cargo on these four transport planes was not something that needed to be kept secret.
From these four transport planes, each drove down a Guardian main battle tank of the latest equipment of the M Army, this heavy beast weighing 85 tons after adding external armor, drove down from the transport plane, did not stop in the warehouse or parking lot, but drove directly to the outer positions of the base, it seems that it is directly deployed in the battle position, ready to enter combat at any time.
In addition to the four tanks, each of the transports carried ten of the latest Gordon battle robots, which were also assembled outside under the command of the soldiers responsible for controlling them. In order to prevent these robots from getting out of control, even under the repeated assurances of future technology companies, the military of country M still requires that the AI intelligence level of these robots be reduced, making them less active, and the human soldiers responsible for controlling and commanding them need to give orders or improve the intelligence level. Although its combat capability has been quite limited in this way, it is obvious that the military is still afraid that the robot will lose control, and if there is any battlefield again, the robot suddenly points its gun at its own human soldiers, it will be another scandal of shame.
Instead of being deployed to a defensive point with the Guardian Tank, the robot soldiers went into the warehouse, where the robots were repaired and recharged by technicians, and the soldiers who were in control were left there.
All this seems to be just a pre-war preparatory process.
Late that night, except for the soldiers on duty, all the soldiers of the M Army who had been tired all day had fallen asleep, but due to Major General Edward's orders during the day, everyone, especially those combat soldiers, most of them still slept with their guns on their bodies, and they had heard more than once from the mouths of the commanders that the Egyptian army was raided and defeated by the Sijing army because of lax security a few days ago, so most of them still followed the orders of the major general to strengthen their defenses.
To the southwest of the base, because it is facing the direction of the possible attack of the Sijing people, the defense here is also the tightest, in addition to all kinds of open and covert sentry posts, there are also a considerable number of patrols, these marines driving Humvee vehicles and new wheeled armored vehicles, all their weapons are loaded, vigilantly monitoring everything on the patrol route.
Although the soldiers patrolling and guarding were also cautiously observing all the movements around them, their fatigue also affected their reflexes to some extent. Just as one of the soldiers of the outermost patrol team yawned, a crimson light flashed in the distance, and a Humvee exploded at the head! The sudden blinding fire in the middle of the night made everyone can't help but reach out to protect their eyes!
Someone shouted at the same time: "Enemy attack!" ”
Then, without waiting for the second sound, another Humvee in the middle of the patrol was hit by another crimson ball of light, and the second explosion occurred!
In an instant, the two Humvee cars were destroyed along with the crew members on them, and the rest of the team members also reacted, and the marines who were originally sitting in the car immediately got out of the car, and the team members who operated the machine guns on the car also used the on-board machine guns to shoot fiercely at the direction of the light group! The tracer bullets flickered in the night, which was particularly conspicuous!
And the soldiers who got out of the car also quickly unfolded, looked for good cover on their own, and began to fight back!
In addition to the Humvee, the patrol was also equipped with two new four-wheeled armored vehicles, which also turned their turrets and fired missiles in the direction of the crimson light in the distance! One after the other, eight missiles were launched in one go! It exploded into the distance, and the flames soared into the sky!
The Marines' counterattack not only made the fire in the distance soar into the sky, but also illuminated a considerable range of the night, which allowed the Marines who used night vision devices and relied on the naked eye to see the things with spherical bodies appear in the distant firelight! When both sides were preparing, Sijing people were ready to complete it first! (To be continued.) )