Chapter 1424: Escape and Pursuit (I)
More than a dozen members were lifted into the air, their bodies twisted into irregular shapes from the impact of the steel-hulled bomb. The shrapnel penetrated directly through the field combat uniform, blasting large swathes of skin into a bright red paste. The enemy's offensive did not stop, and there was no break in the middle.
The muzzles of the guns in several directions were aimed at most of the people who had not yet found cover in the confusion, and fired directly. Several crossbow arrows also traveled a distance of forty or fifty meters, accurately reaching the bodies or feet of several people. Half a breath later, it exploded. It's only one-third as powerful as a steel-hulled bomb, but it can still turn a small half of its body into flying fragments.
"Spread out!" At this moment, the voices of Isha and Toynby and others came from the front, and several flames ignited around the team. A bright red tongue seemed to be pinching the time when the flames rose, and suddenly crossed a distance of more than ten meters from the side, and the moment after the two people were pulled away, in the sound of "snort", it was under the dead leaves on the ground in the direction of the enemy's attack, and several thick pieces of smoke suddenly rushed out, forming a solid wall of white smoke in the blink of an eye, completely blocking the field of vision. Several unorderly strafing shots entered the smoke, without even a slight ripple. After discussing it, the counterattack stopped at this point, and Kasia also lowered his hand, shook off the six white smoke cartridge casings in the drum, and reloaded the bullets while thinking about something.
The smoke was like a signal, and the enemy's attack stopped in an instant, except for the movement of Isha and the others and the painful sound of some people, the place fell silent in an instant, and if it weren't for the blur of corpses on the ground, it would have been as if nothing had happened here.
The few remaining members of the team were a little distracted at this moment, and only a few seconds later, someone woke up from the attack just now, quickly took out the fuel they were carrying, and used the flames around the team as a node, and quickly let a ring of fire surround the wounded and the remaining people.
Isha then made a gesture to the surviving to drag the wounded behind the ancient tree as soon as possible. In her perception, dozens of meters behind the smoke, the enemy didn't seem to have gone far, and it should be a squad of four people. After the sudden appearance just now, the breath disappeared one after another. It's like stopping next to a few ancient trees. Isn't there any movement at the moment, preparing for the next attack?Isha looked at the ring of fire that surrounded the team as she thought, and after calling out "Muriel", she didn't get a response, and wanted to repeat it again, but suddenly hesitated, and the words that came to her lips became Toynbee.
The ring of fire burned more intensely after a few seconds, and the wounded moved behind the ancient tree. Toynbee went to Isha's side at this time, and when one of them observed one direction, he spoke softly, "There are seven and five wounded left, two captains, and γγγ Muriel is also γγγ."
Without finishing his sentence, Toynbee exhaled softly, and there was a brief silence. There were still more than thirty pieces of shrapnel embedded in half of his body, and the blood seemed to have stopped, "The first wave of black attacks is close to twentyγγγ and the attacking enemy is either the captain of the patrol team or the like, or the beast cavalry." β
Isha didn't respond, just looked to the side. The blood from the corpses stained the dead leaves red, and the expressions on the faces of many remained unchanged until they died, and they remained the same as when the team stopped. Muriel's body remained on the flanks of the team, unable to even turn around. The hole in her chest was the size of a fist, several times larger than the others.
Her gaze lingered on that face for a few seconds before Isha took a deep breath and looked blank. One of the remaining captains walked over and shook his head at Isha.
In fact, the rest of the people were wounded, but the injuries were limited to shrapnel from steel-hulled bombs. The other five were hit by enemy strafing and had several bullet holes in their bodies. Three of them were dead when the captain arrived, and the remaining two were in a coma, death was only a matter of time before they died, but at least it wouldn't be painful now.
"Cover each other's evacuation!" Isha spoke, looking at the seven people around her, her expression calm as if she was completely frozen, "I'm broken." β
Toynbee wanted to speak, but Isha looked at him, her eyes were so sharp that she suppressed all his words.
Relying on the cover of the smoke wall, several people shuttled between the ancient trees. As Isha left, she looked at the corpses behind her, as well as the lifeless people behind the bullet holes behind the ancient trees, and finally looked at Muriel, muttering something that no one could hear, and then carefully evacuated.
After more than 100 meters, the smoke wall dissipated somewhat, but the enemy did not pursue it. The speed of the seven people became faster, and after running for thousands of meters, they stopped and began to urgently treat large and small wounds on their bodies.
At the same time, on the other side, a team of five people stopped at the corpse. One person swept away the dead leaves with his feet more than ten meters away, and the black with the thickness of an arm was curled up together, still struggling weakly. The man bent down to lift it up, only to find that there was a tightly wrapped tactical knife between the blackened body, piercing through its deadly parts.
"The enemy grasped the timing well, it should be when the Black Snake was preparing for the next attack, and this tactical knife flew over and stuck here. The man said to the other four people with a simulated "bang" sound when the tactical knife flew in.
"What about them?" asked the captain-like of the four people beside the corpse. One of them pointed to the side. Then the five of them walked over, and then stopped in the middle of the ancient tree.
There were five corpses along the way, all of them in the shape of running and suddenly tripped over something, four human, and a huge lizard with faint breathing. Starting from the corpses of the members of Isha's team, the nearest two people were only thirty meters away, then the corpses of the lizards, more than forty meters away, and finally the two corpses around the five people at this moment, who ran a distance of about eighty meters before they died.
"With the exception of the lizard, which had two bullet holes, the other four were killed by a single shot from the enemy. Someone crouched down and observed the terrifying holes that had exploded in the corpse's head and chest, "Large-caliber weapons." β
"Warheads. The man who had gone to the front to look around walked over and threw over two deformed bullets, "It's a very delicate manufacturing process, but it's not the usual manufacturing method within the Flame Alliance. Presumably from the other two mega-countries that flowed into the smaller ones, and then went to Larsa, where the enemy bought high-quality bullets. β
"Looking at the preparations made by Gore and Boers around them, after meeting the captains of the two patrol teams, they caught traces of the enemy, probably hoping to annihilate them all here. Gore has nearly twenty black snakes, and if they are unprepared, a surprise attack can kill a dozen people. With all the other preparations, without this tricky guy on the team, Gore and Boers might have made it. β
"But now the bodies of both are getting cold. The captain snorted, "The two of them have been told in the communication that it's okay to delay the enemy, but don't have other ideas. The enemy first sensed our encirclement, then alerted the other safe areas, so that all bombing plans were less than a third of what was expected, and then it was not so long ago that the dragons were bloody. If neither of them combined can make the two of them sober, we can't do anything about it. Merit is indeed important to us, but we have to consider ourselves before we have an idea, otherwise the result is what they are now. As he spoke, the captain kicked the corpse next to him and shook his head.