Chapter 617 Tragic
The 2nd Heimu Mechanized Infantry Regiment located in the west city of Tewei City was originally a vacant land belonging to the Squid Kingdom.
Later, due to the threat of genetic warriors, the Squid Kingdom government specially transferred this elite force to set up defense.
Not far from here is the headquarters building of the General Staff and the Military Operations Command Committee.
The military strength of Squid Tai Kingdom is not bad. Although the land area is small, it has 130,000 regular troops. It has 3 armored divisions, 2 division headquarters, 3 regional division headquarters, 4 mechanized infantry brigades, and 3 rocket launchers. The battalion has thousands of main battle tanks and armored vehicles, thousands of various types of towed artillery and self-propelled artillery, and hundreds of combat aircraft.
The Squid Kingdom, which has a large amount of capital, is not short of money, and its relationship with the beautiful country is very good. It has purchased a lot of advanced equipment from the beautiful country. This is the reason why he can dominate in the Middle East.
In addition to the squid soldiers stationed here in the 2nd Heimu Mechanized Infantry Regiment, there was also a reinforced battalion of beautiful soldiers stationed recently.
Of course, they came here in the form of mercenaries. This unit belonged to a synthetic reinforcement battalion under the 35th Infantry Division of the Beautiful Country. There were about a thousand soldiers and they had just entered Tevi City for three days.
"What's that sound?"
Hawks had just finished his morning exercise. As a recruit of the Beautiful Country, he looked up and around. He seemed to have heard an explosion from a distance just now.
"The sound seems to be coming from the east."
Next to him, his friend Will, who was also training, shrugged. He put his arm around the shoulder of a Squid Kingdom soldier and asked with a smile: "Hey, buddy, you are having a fireworks show today. It feels like the city is quite lively!"
"Today is not a holiday, nor is it."
Before the Squid Kingdom soldier could finish speaking, the piercing air defense siren started to sound like crazy, and nervous orders came from the loudspeaker.
"The soldiers immediately entered combat positions. We were attacked. Repeat."
Hawks' expression was stunned. Hearing the piercing air raid sirens beside his ears, he subconsciously looked at Will: "Will, what is going on?"
Will didn't answer his words, but looked blankly at the sky.
Following Will's line of sight, Hawks also looked up and saw black dots appearing in the sky, falling towards this side.
"Air strike!!!"
Hawks' hands and feet were cold, his lips were trembling, and he was so scared that he didn't know what to do.
They had only been here for three days, and the camp had just been set up. They didn't know where to go to avoid air raids.
boom!
Before Hawks could think of a way, more than a dozen black shadows fell into the camp.
Those black shadows were cluster bombs, which detonated in mid-air before they even hit the ground, splitting and popping out hundreds of small bombs.
In an instant, an iron rain fell from the sky, and a large number of steel balls and shrapnel swept in all directions under the impact of the explosion shock wave.
In front of this kind of weapon, the fragile human body was like falling wheat waves, being harvested in patches, and blood and screams enveloped the entire camp.
Hawkes was lucky that he was not injured by the explosion, but he was petrified.
He had just joined the army for only half a year, and this was his first time on the battlefield, but now he was witnessing the sharp shrapnel smashing each soldier into a sieve, the shrapnel cutting the human body into pieces, and countless comrades in his ears. A dying cry.
His friend Will, who had been talking to him just now, only had half of his head left. The other half was scratched by a bomb fragment and fell to the ground, with his brains bleeding all over the floor.
The smoke of death made Hawks's mind go blank. He just stood in the field, surrounded by hundreds of people, and he was the only one standing alone.
boom!
Another violent explosion came, and Hawks turned his head dully.
It was seen that the headquarters building of the General Staff of the Squid Kingdom and the Military Operations Command Committee were hit by two ground-penetrating bombs.
The ground-penetrating bomb first penetrated the building, and then penetrated deep into the military bunker beneath the building. Countless waves of mud spewed out from the ground.
The building slowly collapsed in the explosion, creating a huge crater twenty meters wide.
The senior command officers who hid in the air defense bunkers after the air strikes were buried deep underground forever along with these two ground-penetrating bombs.
More bombs are still falling. Thousands of soldiers are stationed here, and it has obviously become one of the key targets of the enemy who attacked here.
Heavy aerial bombs fell on the military camp one after another, exploding horrific craters. Each crater was surrounded by human remains, broken arms, and blood.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Faq, God!"
Hawks yelled in collapse, and he began to instinctively open his legs and run out desperately.
In fact, he didn't even know where he was running. He only knew that he couldn't stop. He was completely confused.
There were some soldiers who had survived by chance, and everyone was running away and hiding. From time to time, someone was unlucky and had his body torn apart by bombs.
The power of those air-dropped aerial bombs is too high. Once they fall, they are not safe even hundreds of meters away. Those who get closer will be directly shattered into minced meat by the explosion. Not to mention the whole corpse, not even a single intact piece of meat will be left.
After escaping to a high ground with a broken building, Hawks' mouth opened wide. He suddenly stopped escaping and stared ahead in shock.
In Hawks' horrified field of vision, he saw Tevi City, the capital of the Squid Kingdom, in front of him. Explosions there occurred one after another, and flames shot into the sky, illuminating every corner of the city.
On the streets, people were panicking and running in all directions, their expressions distorted in extreme panic.
Countless black spots fell from the sky, which were bombs and missiles. Under this air strike, houses were destroyed one after another and rubble was scattered, unable to withstand the ruthless blow from gunpowder and steel.
The 238.4-meter-high Azrieli Sarona Tower, a building on the surface of Twi City, was blown into two parts. The collapsed half of the building fell to the ground, and smoke and dust billowed out. Many squid were collapsed in despair. The building that came down was smashed to pieces.
There are also only ruins of the solemn Squid Temple. The weather-beaten classical buildings were also turned into the dust of history in this sudden air raid.
Thick smoke billowed over the entire city, and sparse anti-aircraft firepower occasionally tried to fight back, but they would soon be blasted by precision-guided bombs, destroying those anti-aircraft missiles that tried to intercept on the ground.
Even the factory areas outside the city were not spared. The bombs were like death's scythes, ruthlessly thrown at the many factories, and the flames instantly devoured everything.
Huge explosions followed one after another, strong air waves overturned factory machines, and dust flew up, blocking the sky.
The capital of the Squid Kingdom trembled and whined under the air raids, like a ravaged young woman. It was devastated and miserable to look at.
boom!
Suddenly a bomb fell far away from Hawks.
It was an aerial bomb weighing two tons. A platoon-level unit that was originally assembled there disappeared instantly. It was blown to an unknown place by the aerial bomb, and then a shock wave swept in all directions.
"Shit!"
Hawks only had time to curse, and then his whole body was knocked down by the shock wave, and he also passed out.
After an unknown amount of time, when Hawks woke up again from a daze and shook the floating soil on his body, he realized that the air raids and bombings had stopped.
The Tevey City that appeared in front of Hawks had already become lifeless. The face of the city was no longer recognizable. The streets were filled with vehicles that had been burned into empty shells. Amidst the smoke and the burning fire, only a few bodies were left. A cold corpse.
"Is there someone there!"
Hawks looked at the time and saw that just over half an hour had passed since the bombing. The Tewei City in front of him was completely unrecognizable. Feeling lonely and helpless, he chose to shout loudly and even used a radio to call his teammates.
No one responded for a long time. Just when he felt a little discouraged, the ground beneath his feet shook slightly.
A Squidward Meva tank appeared at the corner of the street, followed by a second, third, armored vehicle, and soldiers.
There was a mixed force of Squid Kingdom soldiers and Beautiful Country mercenaries. It was a gathering of survivors from the air raid. There was not much heavy equipment left, and there were hundreds of people scattered here and there. Many of them were wounded. , morale was low and looked very miserable.
"Hi, hi, hi, brother, I'm here."
Hawkes was overjoyed and ran forward rolling and crawling.
"Gather, the soldiers who are still alive will move closer to us immediately. The civilians should evacuate and hide. We don't have time to protect you now."
This army kept shouting with loudspeakers. Some civilians wanted to beg the army for asylum and help, but they were immediately and ruthlessly rejected.
Hawks successfully joined the team and was immediately asked about the situation by the leader of the team, a squid leader named Kenyant.
"Which army are you from? Are you the only soldier?"
"The enemy. Who is the enemy? I was originally stationed next to the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Regiment of Heimu. Now they have all been bombed and flattened."
"It must be the Jieco Group. They have all declared war on us. The Jieco Group sent the air force to bomb this time. They carried out blanket air attacks on our command center, air defense system, heavy troop groups, arms and ammunition depots, etc."
Hawkes, who had successfully joined this force, became more and more numb as he asked more questions. There were originally 30,000 soldiers stationed in Tewei City, including many mercenaries from the Beautiful Country. However, they suffered such an intense air attack and the losses were too great. This made Hawks feel sincere fear.
Similar emotions of fear were felt by most of the soldiers present. Everyone was frightened by the tragic casualties caused by the air raid.
"Everyone, listen to me, the air strike is over, our country's fighter planes have taken off, we must find those damn bombers and tear them all into pieces."
The Kenyant commander shouted loudly to boost morale.
But more people at the scene still looked panic-stricken, and the effect was very limited.
Take Hawks, for example. He no longer thinks about revenge. He just wants to go home to his mother and then go to the Black Palace to demonstrate and kick the butts of the Congressional gentlemen who sent him here to die.
(End of chapter)