Chapter 151, Death Tin Can
A private of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, Earo Lacroxia, never imagined that such a terrifying scene would appear in front of him, even if he counted the hours of dreaming.
It can be called destruction!
He, a little soldier, didn't know that there was any orbital strike plan above. He only knew that a meteor shower streaked across the sky and hit the core area of the tower ruins in the distance.Immediately afterwards, landslides and ground cracks!
Not to mention the blowing, fiery wind, shock wave, and loud noise... At least, what he saw in front of him was enough to surprise him.
It seems that there are two big and many small suns rising deep in the ruins of the tower.Then, the ruins of the tower he had been familiar with for the past few years, took a different look.
Despite being ruins, there are still 'signature buildings' here.Many high-rise buildings in the former city collapsed, but a considerable part remained in place.It is reasonable for the Takamatsu Building established by the science and technology of the pre-war era to stand for a hundred years.No matter how dilapidated it looks from the outside, it just won't fall.Many battles took place around these tall buildings of the pre-war era, and those bullets and artillery fire did nothing to these buildings.
Even if the 155mm howitzer hit the buildings that didn't fall down, it just rubbed some skin off, or messed up the already messy structure inside, and completely collapsed the building, but it never happened.
But this wave of huge bombings that fell from the sky not only did it, but also did it 'too much'.
Not only were the ruins of high-rise buildings before the war collapsed, but even the jungle of high-rise buildings was no longer visible in the central area.Looking into the depths of the ruins from La Crosia's perspective, it was as if some monster had gnawed a mouthful out of the steel jungle, and a large piece was missing.
Before he recovered from the shock, successive whistling sounds came from above his head.
He was familiar with this voice, he could hear it all the time in the past month.
But it's never been so dense.
Before he could think any more, the company commander's order was conveyed layer by layer, and the squad leader ordered to set off, so he quickly put away his thoughts and followed the team closely.
In the process of marching to the front line, he felt that he was hot all over.He himself couldn't tell whether it was caused by the fast march or the excitement that came from the bottom of his heart.
A series of rumbling explosions came from the direction he was going.That was the sound of artillery hitting the green-skinned orc positions.
In the process of advancing, he was still nervous, for fear that a shell from the tin barrel artillery would be blasted in front of him, or a green-skinned armed pickup would appear.These things have been their nightmares for some time in the past.
But none of these came up.
When he followed his comrades and came to a place only one or two hundred meters away from the green-skinned orc camp, he clearly understood why there was no obstacle on the road ahead:
Those green skins have been blown up, how can there be any spare power to stop them?Those tin barrel artillery and those armed pickups must have been blasted to pieces long ago.
He only waited here for five or six minutes, but he had already seen hundreds of shells hitting the position in front of them.
Such intensive bombing made his head go numb.
To be honest, staying in this position, Lacroxia was still very scared.
The cannonball was a little bit crooked, and it was about to hit his head; even if it didn't hit him, he could still clearly feel the power of the cannonball just one or two hundred meters away.
Even the officers are still tirelessly warning the soldiers below not to let their chests and abdomen stick to the ground when they lie down and stand by for orders. Even if they feel uncomfortable, they must prop up their bodies. , Shocked the internal organs of the soldiers.
Just stood there for 7 minutes.According to the squad leader, they arrived a little earlier than the scheduled time.La Crosia didn't understand this either, he didn't even own a clock.
All he knew was that the time had come and it was time to charge.
In fact, it is still a little scary.
It's not that he's afraid of the green skin, how many lives can the green skin survive after being blown up like this?Even if he survived a lot, it was nothing more than fighting against each other. He had a gun in his hand, and if he got too close, he would use a bayonet, and the fight would be over.
What he was afraid of was that if the artillery brothers behind him shook their hands, it would be over.
But he still followed suit.After crossing a distance of 200 meters, they rushed into the green skin's position, and quickly searched for defense points where there might be green skins everywhere.
Sporadic, resisting fire came out.
Obviously, not all greenskins were really dead.
In the collapsed houses, in the narrow holes formed by the collapse of multi-storey reinforced concrete, there were still some green-skinned orcs who survived the shelling.
After the human soldiers attacked, they popped up from everywhere, howling to charge back.
But there are too few of them.
In front of Lacroxia, three appeared.He and his comrades started shooting immediately.They lined up, and the distance between the three teams was not far from each other. More than 30 guns were aimed at the three greenskins, and the intensive firepower hit them.
The greenskins also fought back with guns, but each of them only had time to fire two shots before being killed by nearly a hundred bullets.And the result of their battle before they died was nothing more than breaking a soldier's leg.
A soldier with a broken leg will be dragged back by his comrades, and people from the follow-up logistics support company will take over and send him back to the field hospital behind.
For the rest, move on.
The artillery from the rear is still continuing, and the firepower has weakened a bit compared to before, but the bombing area has also changed from the original full coverage of the green leather position to a smaller area, covering only about 200 meters in front of the infantry. left and right areas.
Infantry coordination, after they have completed the clearing of the current area, the shelling will continue to push forward 200 meters, and they will continue to explore the vacated area.
This process will be repeated four times until a position with a width of about eight meters is pierced.
To be honest, during the whole process, the only thing Lacroxia was afraid of was the shaking of his artillery hands.The heavy artillery is always blowing up and down about 200 meters in front of me, which is really scary.
As for the green skins?
He saw green-skinned corpses all over the ground, and they were so rotten that it was difficult to find a whole corpse.Occasionally some alive ones popped up, and they were sporadic, and they were shot at by dozens of guns at the same time, which was not a threat at all.
To be honest, apart from the fear caused by his own artillery, Lacroxia's biggest feeling is... a bit boring?
Of course, he knew that his feeling was slightly absurd.
A little further on, he and his comrades came to a ruin with four walls.The top of this house was covered by a resting concrete slab. A shell should have been shot in before, and there was still green smoke coming out.
Half the probability, it is empty; the other half probability, there are greenskins that are too dead to be human, or greenskins that are not human and are still alive.If you encounter the latter, just give it a few shots and end its life.
But despite this, according to tactical ethics, they still have to go in and have a look to make sure that the inside is clear.
This time, they encountered a small probability event.
With a 'bang' gunshot, half of the face of the first brother who went in exploded, his helmet was blown up by the large-caliber green leather gun, and his whole body suddenly fell backwards.
La Croix came in second.
He subconsciously took a step back, and moved away so that he could lift the gun. The G9A assault rifle began to sweep wildly into the dark space.
He couldn't see the target, so he could only fight like this.
The brothers from the same team behind also rushed over, pouring bullets into it just like him.
Lacroxia was the first to empty the magazine, he straightened the bayonet proficiently, and then rushed in first after the other brothers ceased firing.
In the darkness, he vaguely saw a humanoid monster much taller than him, coming towards him, with a strong stench.
His head was blank, but with the most standard posture in his hand, he stabbed the bayonet forward.
Immediately afterwards, a strong resistance came, and he stabbed something.
With desperate efforts, he pushed the bayonet forward and turned the handle of the gun.That resistance took his body back a few steps, but soon he lost his strength and was pushed down by him violently.
Lacroxia himself also fell down.
He felt his clothes were wet, soaked with stinking blood.
Immediately, several comrades in the same class behind also rushed in.Someone reached out to pull him up, and someone stabbed the corpse under him with a bayonet.
That green skin is indeed dead.
After leaving the narrow ruins bomb defense hole, through the light, Lacroxia saw that he was really in a mess now, with blood all over his body.
But they should all be green-skinned. He didn't feel that he was injured, but his arm was too strong, and he was a little weak at the moment.
Gradually regaining consciousness, he was pleasantly surprised that he had killed a green skin with a bayonet!
Although that guy probably suffered a lot of bullets and was seriously injured in the previous shooting, he was the one who stabbed him to death after all.
Looking left and right, he found that with him and himself, there were only six people left.
The one who just went in ahead of him and was shot in the head was the fourth person in his class to die.
Only two died today, and the other two died in the past half a month. Their squad has not been filled with new soldiers.
He became a little more sober, and the idea of 'boring' had already flown out before.
The squad leader came up, patted him on the shoulder, and shouted in his ear: "Good job! But private! We don't have time to rest now! Go on!"
War is still brutal.
...
Li Kexi also felt that the war was cruel.
The heavy artillery has helped them clean up a wave of enemies, especially the dense artillery fire.The number of remaining enemies was not too many, but his soldiers still paid a heavy price during the close-range suppression.
Of course, there is no such an exaggerated ratio of six dead and two in Lacroxia's infantry squad.In Lacroxia's class, it was a bit miserable mainly because they played the vanguard.
The overall casualty ratio of the whole regiment is around 2%.They sacrificed about a hundred soldiers and wiped out more than two hundred greenskins that sporadically emerged.
As for the overall death toll of the greenskins in this position, it's hard to calculate.The heavy artillery in front fired for more than an hour, and the shells that fell here must have been at least [-] rounds, and [-] on the dead green skins was the minimum.
Of course, this is an estimated number. Many corpses were rotten like that, or were buried under the ruins. It is not clear, but it can only be said that there are many more than five hundred.
The shelling has basically stopped now, and it is estimated that the shells of the artillerymen are almost finished.
However, the target area that their 3rd Infantry Regiment needs to conquer has also been cleared by them.
The two synthetic battalions of the 1st Extinguishing Wind Brigade quickly penetrated through the gap they opened, and then each went south and north, and began to outflank the green skins.
The friendly forces in other directions have also begun to attack across the board.
Two battalions were left to hold this position, cutting off the connection between the greenskins at the north and south ends of the front, while most of the rest followed the battalion commander of the 1st Brigade and 1st Battalion, Major Perbov, and interspersed northward.
However, it was the southern part, where the greenskin position was divided, that ended the battle first.There are not many greenskins surviving there, especially the southernmost tip. It was once captured by the 7th Regiment of the 4th Garrison Division, and the fortifications of the position were completely destroyed. Later, after they retreated, the greenskins reoccupied the place. The rebuilt fortifications are obviously still rubbish, and the shelling almost killed all the greenskins there.
Compared with the southern position, theoretically more troops were invested in the north, and the 3rd Independent Regiment also joined the siege of the northern enemy.
But there are especially many green skins alive there, and more importantly, there is a green skin boss.
...
For things like green-skinned orcs, whether there is a powerful leader or not, their performance is very different.
When there is no boss, they will fight among themselves, get together, and be reckless; when there is a boss, although they are still reckless most of the time, at least they can act in unison.
Roast Ax is such a charismatic orc boss.He is the No. [-] character in the clan, second only to the meat tearing boss, and there are many boys who obey him, and they are also very strong.
He knew that according to the plan of the elders and the boss of Tear Meat, they were about to launch a full-scale attack on those shrimps.A lot of big booms, a lot of carts, and big cans are all ready, and the meat tearing boss even sent him the second largest one to the front line in advance to calm his mind.
It was something bigger than the Killing Can, and the elders called it the Big Tin Can of Fear.
Even if you want to drive this thing, you have to amputate your own legs and connect them into the machine, and insert a lot of tubes into your head and into your spinal cord. You can't leave it in this life.
But... so what?
With such a powerful thing, you can hack and chop more readily, shoot and shoot more readily, and have multiple booms... There will be no green skins who want to get out of such a thing, right?
After getting into this big iron tank, Roast Ax suffered pain and torture every moment, which could only be relieved by killing people.He wished he could lead his boys to slaughter those shrimps right away.
But the meat tearing boss has always asked him to be patient, patient, patient.
Endured and endured, and endured the earth-shattering bombing.
What about more big machinery support?
It's all gone!
What to do now?So far, there are shrimps in all directions. If this continues, no matter how powerful he is and how brave his boys are, they will be finished.
Under his call, at least 400 green-skinned orcs gathered around him.
He took this group of greenskins and began to break out eastward.
On this road, there is quite a sense of gods blocking and killing gods and Buddhas blocking and killing Buddhas.
The roasted ax that stuffed itself into the big iron tank of fear was four meters tall, taller and much stronger than ordinary killing tanks. The strength of this suit of armor had even surpassed the power armor of the space warriors.
When the bullet hits, the effect is very poor, and it can't break the defense at all; a battalion commander organized more than a dozen bazookas, fired intensively in one breath, and killed several greenskins, but the roasted ax, which was the main target, ate it head-on. suffered these bombings, but the damage suffered was by no means serious.
That guy even set his sights on the battalion commander and charged forward. The soldiers who blocked him along the way were chopped melons and vegetables, fired with multiple machine guns, and saw teeth swept across the road. Dozens of infantry soldiers were killed along the way.
The battalion commander saw that the situation was not good and wanted to retreat, but he didn't retreat. The instructor was killed by machine guns, and the battalion commander was cut in half by sawtooth.
The entire battalion was destroyed, and even this gap could hardly be filled by other troops for a while.
Fortunately, Perbov's battalion was interspersed in place.But even so, the interception process was extremely hard.
Whether it's the Rambler V or the locally produced 'Challenger' tank, in front of that terrifying big iron tank, there is always the danger of being demolished!
The cannon on the armored vehicle is not easy to hit the big iron can.Regardless of its wild shape and huge size, it is actually not weak in flexibility, and the hit rate of the turret is not so perfect.Even if a considerable number of machine gun bullets hit, they would only make small pits on the metal armor plate, which could not break through the defense.
To put it bluntly, the caliber is still not enough.
Even the 76mm tank gun of the 'Challenger' tank is not enough.Mainly due to the local artillery technology, the muzzle velocity of the shells is not very good, and the caliber alone is difficult to penetrate the armor.
Of course, in general, the effect is better than that of machine guns.
Unless there are really hundreds of machine guns fired up extremely densely, or dozens of 76mm tank guns successfully hit, then under the effect of metal fatigue, the armor of this fearful big iron tank will be destroyed. Smash it, otherwise there is nothing to do with the roast axe.
On the contrary, he was able to get close to the armored vehicle, and the huge iron tongs could even clamp the front of the armored vehicle and even deform it; the multi-barreled cannon fired directly in a few seconds could break through the defense and kill the driver inside; When the type sawtooth cuts through the armor plate, it will spark sparks all over the sky...
In this way, he used various methods to destroy two armored vehicles and two tanks.
Some infantry came up and tried to attack with the bazooka again, but they could only achieve relatively weak effects, and they couldn't make a final decision.
To destroy this big iron tank of fear, or after paying enough sacrifices, use enough firepower to blow it up.Drops of water can still penetrate rocks, let alone thousands of bullets and gunfire falling on it.
But the sacrifice to be paid was too heavy. Before the roast ax was blasted to death, the own side did not know how many people would die and how many chariots would be damaged.
Another option is to use the 155 howitzer to explode.
This is reliable enough. If you hit two or three shots, or even hit one shot right, you may be able to directly complete the destruction task.
However, this solution will also be accompanied by huge casualties - mainly from accidental injury.
But there is no way.
If you don't think about it, the human army will not be able to survive the time to destroy this giant steel beast, and it will be pierced through, allowing these orcs to break out.
Perbov gritted his teeth, ordered some troops to surround him, and at the same time called artillery strikes to the rear.
Within the coverage area, there are quite a few soldiers from the first battalion of his Xifeng Brigade.
When the gunfire fell, many of his brothers would be killed in it.
His heart was bleeding, but not only could he not let his soldiers retreat, but he also strictly ordered them not to retreat.
This is to exchange the lives of the soldiers for the results of the battle.
"Let our soldiers withdraw."
At this moment, such a sentence appeared in Perbov's mind.
This is the voice of the Governor.
Perbov froze for a moment, but reacted immediately, changed the order, and told the soldiers to retreat.
As the armored vehicles and infantry began to retreat and hide in the bunker, the big iron tank of fear was about to give chase.
However, suddenly a strange force made it stay in place.
It wasn't completely still, but as if it had lost its controller, its body froze.
This is Gu Hang's move!
The governor personally followed the attacking troops and came to the battlefield.
He's not really worried about his own safety, this is a battle that must be won, and as a psyker, it's not like he doesn't have the ability to protect himself.In this battle, as long as he didn't want to die, he shouldn't be able to die.
At the same time, his arrival can not only boost the morale of the troops, but also solve some special problems.
Just like the green-skinned boss we met now.
His psionic ability has played an important role!
To deal with this big iron can, Gu Hang is of course not interested in simply wrestling with the other party, that would be a foolish behavior.Although his psychic strength is not low, it is unwise to fight against such a mechanical monster with a body of steel.
What he controls is the green-skinned leader himself inside the tin can.
Obviously, the green-skinned tin can is powerful, but it doesn't have the degree of psionic resistance that the Space Marine Power Armor has.This big thing has no protective effect against psionic energy.
However, the 'waaagh' force field of this green-skinned boss is quite powerful.Gu Hang almost went all out to attack the part of his soul that represents the central nervous system through the ability of soul cutting.
This is difficult, and it is a little bit easier than killing this soul. Gu Hang's action can only make it temporarily incapacitated. After about one or two minutes, he will return to normal.
However, during this time, it was enough to fly over from the 155mm howitzer in the rear shelling position.
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6k!There are still 1.9W words left in the remaining three days.
A bit of a challenge.
(End of this chapter)