The sole purpose of the men of the 472nd now was to hopefully stall as long as possible so that the evacuated friendlies could get farther away. Those who had already evacuated were the last to be attacked by the encoder generators and were in much better shape than those who had stayed behind, and had a better chance of distinguishing themselves. Only two soldiers from the 472nd Regiment were forced to order to evacuate with the 475th Regiment, both were rookies who had been enlisted for less than three months, were no more than 20 years old, and whose only actual battle in their lives had been killed from the 472nd Mech Regiment's compound, and were even more tender than Zhao Yu.
"I should be a Private First Class now." Zhao Yu grudgingly remembered this matter once again. But in the Seventh Warzone, he no longer had a chance to be promoted.
There were only five people in the squad that stayed behind to help, Gabriel, Christian, and Borg's "Death Bringer" crew.
Booger had parked the new Death Dealer in a rather obscene location, Gabriel had already picked out a sniper position, and only Kristin had been busy, she had spent the last few hours tinkering with the laptop, and according to her, even though she hadn't had time to go to Major Kentis' research center, she had found enough to make a discovery.
"My guess was correct, the encoder generator is a code that sends disordered functions against specific genes of white and black ancestry. It really is the most efficient way to do it, whether it's the Nationals or the Confederates, those two races make up the majority of the army, and directly crushing them would solve most of the problems, if you had to add the genetic traits of the other races, the amount of data would expand by two thirds, instead reducing the efficiency," Kristin announced her conclusion, "I didn't realize that that Kentus was using plain compilation, maybe he didn't even think about what would happen if it was deciphered."
"A genetic attack against the human race ... and not even the mixed race ones." Hunter, who was black, looked at the skin color on his hands with palpitation, "He'll be court-martialed if this gets out."
"Provided it gets out." Kristin grunted, "And this encoder generator is obviously a byproduct, his real achievement is those four wood saws - as you can see, if it wasn't for our equally perverted white-haired private, we'd have been absolutely killed in seconds."
Zhao Yu swallowed, not quite willing to recall the scene, "I think that those four wood saws could take care of at least twenty infantrymen - the kind with power armor."
"That outrageous?" Hunter, who hadn't been able to witness it with his own eyes, grimaced, "I hope there's nothing like that in the pursuers."
About forty minutes later, dark shadows appeared in the mountains and forests in the distance - the enemy that had been in hot pursuit all the way finally caught up.
Four MF1s, two MF2s, a BTX, and over a hundred mecha infantry. It was just as Zhao Yu had said before.
Time was already running out, the other side launched an onslaught as soon as they came up, the two MF2s started indiscriminately bombarding the town from the hillside with the advantage of their long range, for a while the town was filled with smoke and roars, instantly this town that was still just quiet and unoccupied had already started to rapidly develop towards the ruins.
"Finally, it's a bit of the feeling I used to get when I watched war movies." Zhao Yu hid behind a building, looking at the sky full of flying debris actually gave birth to this idea, "Before most of the time are shrinking in the spider, in the outside is also wrapped in power armor, completely no sense of reality well ...."
"They're coming over!" Someone shouted.
Zhao Yu poked his head out, only to see several battle tanks followed by a large group of soldiers, already rushing down the hillside, heading straight towards Hudik Town.
"They're in a hurry, rushing are they? But if they're in a hurry, they should go straight into the town." Zhao Yu grunted, "We haven't launched a counterattack all this time, it's all well hidden, so they can know that there's an ambush in the town?"
Kristin had been beside him as she continued to study her computer, not raising her head, "You destroyed their command vehicle, there's no way they could have detected the town's life response from that far away, but they surely had to hurry up as well, after all, it's going to be dark."
"Well, it's getting dark ...," Zhao Yu shrugged.
It sounded incomparably ridiculous that the army of this era, the army on the North American continent to be precise, was actually as apprehensive about night battles as it was a few hundred years ago. In this continent, the evening is the time of "primitive war", the vast majority of high-tech, especially in the last hundred years of science and technology will be in this period of time into a pose.
"At this time of the day, I suddenly want to thank the aliens." Lieutenant Lee said softly.
The chariot had already rushed to less than a hundred meters outside the town, the artillery roared and the machine guns swept wildly, it didn't take long for the buildings in the near vicinity to turn into piles of rubble, but there was no sign of any resistance. Lieutenant Lee hadn't put even one person within two hundred meters of the town's entrance.
Captain Zorg's expression was grim.
He was really a bit of a mess right now, half of his body was wrapped in emergency bandages, and he could only sit on the transport and direct the battle - honestly, being able to escape from a command vehicle under attack by that crazy MF1 was already a modest miracle in itself, and there was really no way to treat the injuries on his body, which would need to wait until he returned to the base to be centrally treated. But for Zorg, the immediate priority was to complete his mission and take care of that sixth task force. So for now, he sent out all of his men, except for the two or three soldiers around him, and the two remote support MF2s, making sure to clear the town in the shortest amount of time possible.
"It's just crazy." Zorg couldn't help but mutter a word.
Who would have thought that this mission would actually be impossible to accomplish until now? What he had to consider now was no longer a promotion, but not to be transferred to some idle department because of his incompetent command ... That would be a lifetime of not being able to turn over a new leaf.
"Sir!" A soldier ran over, "Forward report, no enemy encounter so far, no firefight!"
Zorg had an even bigger headache.
Could it be that the group had fled first? Then wouldn't the attack he ordered to launch become a joke again? ... So it's not impossible, the number of that squad is already very small, no matter how much interception is futile, right, after all, their biggest wish is to escape ...
Thinking of this, Captain Zorg finally made up his mind, "Give the order to enter the town directly and conduct an all-round search!"
The chariot group stopped pouring fire and covered the infantrymen as they entered the town - just as cautiously as when Zhao Yu and the others entered the town in the first place.
"Dozens of infantrymen who don't even have power armor are going to block five battlewagons and over a hundred mecha infantrymen." Lieutenant Lee looked at the scene in the distance with his binoculars, he hadn't used this in a long time, "Sergeant Borg, you said there was a way to stall for time ... I'm really curious about what's the way?"
Borg was crouching right beside him and didn't enter the cockpit at all, after hearing the lieutenant's question he laughed shamelessly, "I don't know, but I trust my subordinate, he said there's a way."
At this time, Zhao Yu and Kristin were lying shoulder to shoulder on the roof of a house, looking very carefully at the situation a few hundred meters away.
"All of them have already entered the town." Zhao Yu clenched his fist and waved it a bit, "Kristin, is it ready?"
Kristin held her computer and nodded seriously, "It's ready, let's begin."
She stared at the chariot rumbling in the distance, her finger clicking a button on the panel.
For the next few seconds, nothing happened.
Then the Curse erupted.
From an onlooker's point of view, what happened next could be described as bizarre: hundreds of heavily-armored mecha infantrymen, not even showing a single hair, suddenly stopped in their tracks, circled around in a daze, and began to fall to the ground one after another, with the few who managed to hold on stumbling and having to lean on the surrounding buildings in order to stabilize their positions.
At the same time, the several imposing battle tanks also stopped advancing, they stopped in place and didn't move at all, as if they had suddenly fallen into some state of thinking about life, while ignoring the lousy scene of those infantrymen.
In less than thirty seconds, the troops that entered the town had become scattered, unable to maintain even a decent formation!
"This is how we were put down, right?" Lieutenant Lee muttered, finally not forgetting to issue an order, "Attack! Seize this opportunity!"
With that order, soldiers appeared in the windows and doorways of various buildings, launching a frenzied sweep of the enemy troops in front of them - despite the lack of power armor and auxiliary chips, it wasn't easy to miss a shot at this distance, let alone just dangling a bunch of downed dogs, and soon the ambush force was bearing fruit until the enemy's counterattack began.
A group of mech infantry crawled out from the pile of people, began to launch counterattacks in all directions, their marksmanship and speed of movement is equally amazing, and Lieutenant Li's people without the cover of the armor at once casualties, after a few people were easily knocked down, ambushed around the 475th regiment of soldiers did not hesitate to choose to retreat, anyway, at the outset they did not intend to split the winners and losers here, and can now achieve the results have already exceeded the initial projections. It was already more than initially expected that they could achieve the current results.
However, Zhao Yu was quite regretful about this, "Kristin, this coded attack of yours doesn't seem to be very effective."
"What can I do, there's only one generator left, the power output is insufficient, and I can't kill a single person if I rely on it alone."
Zhao Yu craned his neck back a bit, "Looks like those still holding on to the fight are our compatriots ..."
This was what Zhao Yu and the others came up with - using the genetically coded attack tactic that Major Kentes had once used to nullify most of the enemy's fighting ability in one go, and there were of course drawbacks to this plan, the first being that it was underpowered and couldn't kill people outright like Kentes's traps, it could at most put them into a coma, and the second was that it couldn't completely resolve the enemy, Latinos and Asians all still have a fighting chance, while for soldiers without armor protection, even the mech infantry, whose numbers are at an absolute disadvantage, will be a huge threat.
Zhao Yu clearly remembers a battle example: a company that set out in a hurry, numbering less than one hundred and fifty people, encountered a regiment's ambush while on a hasty march, and the battle ended after forty minutes, with the ambushed company wounded thirty-five people, three killed in action, and the ambush force suffering more than seventy percent casualties - this is the first battle that the modern power armor has been put into practice. This is the first battle of the modern power armor into actual combat, but also after this battle, infantry power armor has become the first choice of standard equipment for infantry all over the world.
Whether or not there is power armor is the key to victory or defeat in a battle between infantrymen, and now the two sides of the war in the town are facing this situation: although the ambushers occupy the number of people and the first opportunity, but there is still a part of the unaffected Latino, Asian, or other ethnic minority soldiers who are not affected, and these people are wearing power armor that allows them to exceed the standards of the ordinary people in a number of fights, and generally speaking, these two dozen people would be enough to take out all of the town's defenders.
Unfortunately, however, Houdiniq now had a presence outside of the "normal circumstances".
Amidst the dense gunfire of the Mech Infantry, there was a not-so-attractive sound mixed in. The sound of the gunfire didn't sound any different from that of the others, but every time it sounded, a Mech Infantryman was bound to fall.
"Who the hell is that guy?" Lieutenant Li looked at the bullet-less white-haired man on the roof in the distance and was so surprised that he couldn't even close his mouth, "An Alliance private is it? The war would have ended twenty years ago if the Union Army was all of this caliber!"
Borg scratched his head without any sense of responsibility, "My men said that technically this kid is on our side, and the situation is unique and understandable."
"Strictly speaking?!"
"Ahahahaha that's what he said, I'm not sure ... Well, I'm going to start!" Borg snorted and ran off to MF1, and a minute later the Deathbringer roared to life straightening up and re-emerging as a five meter tall war machine.