Battle on the Insect Planet (8): Support

Most of the mechas took advantage of the collapse of the wall to pass through the wall, but a few mechas failed to seize the critical opportunity and were blocked by the new wall again.

This location was not within the coverage of the camp’s star network, and there was a delay in information transmission with the camp. would those mechas be able to hold on before new fire support arrived?

Xia Ruize pulled the Sealing Bow while running, and more than ten sealing Arrows shot at the Insect Wall at the same time. After three consecutive rounds, more than forty Sealing Arrows created a small gap in the Insect Wall.

But almost the moment the gap appeared, it was blocked by other insects with their bodies. Xia Ruize’s attack had no effect on the huge insect wall.

In the face of the brutal racial war, Xia Ruize finally realized that human power has its limits, and his heart was filled with a deep sense of powerlessness.

Xia Ruize unknowingly slowed down his running speed because of the attack. Cheng Huaiqian, who had been staying beside him, also slowed down his speed and waved his mecha arm to signal the others to continue returning.

Realizing that he was powerless to change the situation, Xia Ruize turned his head away and stopped looking. Together with Cheng Huaiqian who was accompanying him, he chased his comrades towards the camp.

Finally, the mecha soldiers who escaped from the insect pile wall entered the coverage of the camp star network. From then on, the camp could provide them with real-time fire support and cover their retreat. The soldiers could finally put their minds at ease.

While the soldiers were clearing the oasis, the logistics personnel who stayed behind in the camp did not sit there idly. Instead, they laid connected metal floors on the sandy ground around the camp.

These metal floors were strong and thick, and insects would not be able to dig holes and drill out in the areas covered by the metal floors in the future.

The mecha made a loud “bang bang” sound as it stepped on the metal floor, and finally jumped into the camp.

Finally returning to a safe place, the mecha hatch opened, and the soldiers who jumped out of the cockpit were exhausted. They just lay down on the ground and didn’t care about anything else. Their combat uniforms were soaked with sweat.

Logistics personnel held water pipes and sprayed clean water on the mechas parked in the center of the camp to cool them down. The command center transferred the images recorded by the mechas to quickly analyze the battle situation and count the casualties.

Cheng Huaiqian gently took Xia Ruize back to the rest area, where they washed up and changed into new combat uniforms from the closet. Each of them held a bag of nutrient solution that was high in energy but tasteless, sat on the chairs in front of the rest area, and looked towards the southeast of the camp together.

Knowing that the people left behind were in great danger, Xia Ruize still hoped to see someone return.

Half an hour later, a large number of drones withdrew to the camp, but no mecha appeared in their sight again.

All the soldiers who returned to the camp were summoned to the conference room, which seemed even more empty because more than a hundred soldiers had died in the previous battle. At this time, there were only 450 soldiers left in the conference room.

The atmosphere in the less than half-full conference room was dead silent, and the surviving soldiers showed no joy of surviving the disaster, only numbness.

Ten hours after landing on Erdogan, more than half of the humans were killed or wounded, and the wounded were only a minority. The vast majority of them were killed without a complete body and no remains could be found.

If this trend continued, even if they were still alive now, they may not be alive in a few hours.

The big screen in the conference room was playing footage recorded by a drone of the soldiers passing through the insect wall.

The mechas that were blocked by the new insect wall did not wait for the next round of support from the camp. The giant green insects that had never left the oasis before all came out, and the giant yellow insects on the sand surrounded them from the front and back. The rapidly piled up insect piles continued to squeeze the living space of the human mecha soldiers. Finally, countless “flying insects” knocked all the mechas in the air to the ground.

The drone was still recording. Under the sharp forelimbs of the insects, the mecha was cut into countless pieces. Carrying those pieces, the yellow insects quickly disappeared on the ground, and the green insects returned to the oasis again.

It took less than two minutes to go from a sea of ​​​​insects to an empty space.

A new round of artillery fire from the human camp only blew huge holes in the messy ground, but caused very few casualties to the insects.

Seeing the consequences with their own eyes, some soldiers had tears in their eyes.

In the dead silent conference room, a new picture appeared on the big screen.

The camp sent out a small robot that was good at digging to follow the yellow insects into the ground, trying to track down the yellow insects’ nest.

Based on the images sent back by the robot, humans discovered that more than ten meters underground was a huge tunnel that connected in all directions, and the insects were moving quickly and orderly through the tunnel.

Ten minutes later, the robot was crushed by a passing insect and disappeared from the screen.

But in these ten minutes, a huge underground insect empire had been revealed to humans, with countless passages and countless insects…

On the other hand, the drone that followed the green bug back to the jungle made a more important discovery.

The last scene before the drone was destroyed was deep in the oasis, where huge tree roots were connected and countless vines crisscrossed, together forming a huge insect nest. Countless green giant insects of all sizes were moving back and forth in the nest.

The video ended, and the captain knocked on the table and said loudly:

“Cheer up, little guys. I know you feel a little frustrated, but you have to know that the opponent you are facing is a terrifying enemy that can be ranked among the top in the history of the Alliance’s pioneering records.

We now know that those damn bugs are organized and orderly. They will even change their attack methods based on our performance. In addition, different types of insects have means of communication and the possibility of temporary cooperation.

This series of performances made the commander-in-chief suspect that there were some “intelligent” insects hidden among the insects.

Oh, how horrible, how damn terrible!

Intelligent enemies will make it infinitely more difficult for us to explore this planet!”

The captain cursed a few times in an unhappy tone, but seeing that the atmosphere in the meeting room was still dead and the soldiers had no interest in what he said, he had to change the topic and encourage them:

“Little guys, good news has come. The general command has promised to deploy a large number of special forces soldiers to support our development within ten hours, and to deploy HS-9 heavy firepower all-terrain mecha within five hours to ensure your safety.

Of course, the prerequisite is that you have to control the Type 9 mecha in the simulation cabin in the training area for more than an hour.

Relax, your mission will be simple. In five hours, you will work with the logistics personnel to lay more metal plates and expand the scope of the camp.

Believe me, this is a really easy and safe task.

Well, now you have five hours of rest time. Remember to go to the simulation cabin in the training area to test your compatibility with the Type 9 mecha. I believe you will love the power of the Federation’s most advanced HS-9 mecha.”

Of the good news the captain told the soldiers, only the “support” part interested them at all. The soldiers showed no emotion at all when they heard the rest of the news. They even looked listless when they heard the captain adjourn the meeting and leave the meeting room.

Liu Wennian did not rush to leave the meeting room. Instead, he turned his head to look at Xia Ruize, carefully observing his expression, and finally whispered:

“Although I know you’re not in a good mood, I still suggest that we go to the simulation cabin in the training area to try it out first. If the compatibility with the HS-9 mecha is not good enough, go back and rest. If the compatibility is good enough, it’s best to sacrifice rest time and practice the control of the new mecha.”

Liu Wennian said in a solemn voice:

“The command center is not lying about this. The HS-9 heavy firepower all-terrain mecha is the most advanced of the standard mechas currently equipped by the military. I have never operated one, but I have heard that its control method has undergone major changes and the requirements for the driver are extremely high.”

“They’re equipping us, the half-baked recruits, with a new mecha that even the veterans have never touched. Do they think the previous burial objects were not valuable enough?” Cheng Huaiqian sneered.

According to the information they had received when they first arrived at this mission world, the 1,000 soldiers in this pioneering team were randomly selected by lottery from the entire army, and their strengths varied.

Now, after two rounds of fighting, those who were not strong enough were all eliminated, and then they were asked to change their equipment?

Liu Wennian hesitated for a moment, turned his head and looked around. Those who stayed near them were all comrades who had fought side by side for a whole day and supported each other to escape death many times. He lowered his voice and said:

“The command has a lot of information that has not been made public to us. Among this information, there must be some that has moved the general command and the federal top leaders. Only for this reason will the top leaders decide to deploy special forces and give us more powerful equipment.

The key point is here. As the first people to come into contact with the insects, we are valuable in the eyes of the people above. They will not let us sit idle. They will definitely let us continue to go to the battlefield and use our combat experience to provide reference for those who follow and reduce their casualties.

We cannot refuse the mission, all we can do is to improve our survival as much as possible.”

After Liu Wennian finished speaking, the soldiers around him nodded in agreement.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other, and Cheng Huaiqian asked tentatively: “Why can’t we refuse?”

He was really confused. More than half of the pioneer team had been killed or wounded, and the remaining soldiers were just depressed, but no one had proposed to refuse the command’s mission. Weren’t these soldiers afraid of death?

The people around looked at Cheng Huaiqian in surprise, and seemed even more puzzled as to why Cheng Huaiqian would ask such a question.

Liu Wennian showed a helpless expression on his face, and first explained to the people around him: “New recruits, new recruits, understand, understand.”

Then he explained to Cheng Huaiqian: “If we die on the battlefield, our families far behind will be well taken care of by the federal government, but if we become deserters, we will be brought to a military court!

Not only will we live a life worse than death, but our families at home will also be implicated, we will lose our jobs, we will not be able to enjoy citizen benefits, and we will be looked down upon by everyone! Do you want your children to be bullied by other children from an early age and not dare to fight back, and always be inferior to others? “

Well, Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize understood that the punishment here was based on collective responsibility, so even though these soldiers knew that the extremely difficult mission would cost them their lives, they had no choice but to act according to their orders.

A group of more than 30 people left the conference room and headed for the training area. While there were few people around, Liu Wennian lowered his voice and told Cheng Huaiqian: “Don’t say that again. You are already standing here. There are ways to prevent you from even going to the military court and keep you here forever, and even label you a deserter.”