Chapter 1786 The Longest Day (2)
“Crying?”
Looking at the nervous Hasek, Hayes scratched his head and said:
"Uncle, didn't you say that fighting is just the same thing? What?"
"Talking and doing it are two different things. What do you know, you little brat!"
Before the words were finished, the whistle sounded, and then the team began to move and came to the flight deck. The huge transport aircraft parked there had lowered the ramp. Through the observation window in the distance, one could already see the transport aircraft flying towards the planet.
While the officers were punching and kicking, the soldiers entered the more crowded transport planes. Each transport plane was filled with 1,000 people, divided into upper and lower floors, and everyone could only stand.
As the ramp closed and the cabin fell into endless darkness, Hayes could even hear the nervous gasps of the people around him.
A sudden shock under their feet told everyone that they had left the transport ship.
I don’t know how long it took, but the ground began to shake again, but this time it was more intense and lasting. Hayes vaguely heard Hasek talking about "atmosphere" or something like that.
At this time, the lights came on, and a middle-aged political commissar appeared in the cabin near the cockpit with a microphone. Next to him was Chief Ayi, whom Hayes knew.
"Listen to the letter sent by a great mother! This letter is written to her son on the front line!"
Suddenly, the transport plane shook violently. , it seems that the scream of metal scraping can still be heard, and the soldiers all let out a low cry of fear, but the political commissar still gave an impassioned speech.
"Perkins, my child, I know that all this is for the Empire of Man and the Great Throne! I know that you are dedicating your life to the most sacred cause!"
Pop ——
With a sound that sounded like something was being torn apart, the transport plane plummeted downwards. Immediately, everyone instinctively squatted down, trying to lower their center of gravity.
The political commissar also looked around, then turned back as if to ask something. When he turned back, he continued his speech.
"Everyone here knows that you will never retreat! Everyone here is proud of you!"
Suddenly, Hayes heard a unique scream, and then A sudden row of bullets fired from enemy anti-aircraft weapons or fighter planes penetrated the belly of the transport aircraft from below, until they hit the top armor of the transport aircraft and splashed sparks.
At that moment, Hayes heard the screams and saw the blood mist and human body fragments shooting out less than 20 meters away from him. Then he felt that his cheeks seemed to have some warmth. It was something warm, so I reached out and touched it, and when I looked closely, I saw it was scarlet liquid.
".Your father died! Your brothers died! Revenge them and pay back the blood debt from the abominable heretics!"
The transport plane was shaking more and more, and occasionally bullets penetrated the belly of the plane, because the crowd was always dense. It can take some people away.
Some soldiers collapsed, squatting on the ground and screaming, or crying in their arms. Upon seeing this, the political commissar immediately roared:
"Shut up! Shut up! No cowardly behavior!"
As he spoke, Hayes watched as he suddenly pulled out his pistol, and then pulled the trigger at the nearest guy who was shaking and crying. As the soldier's head was penetrated by a bullet, almost all the sounds disappeared. . The political commissars held guns and began to patrol around the crowd. Hayes was shaking all over, but he was holding his breath and did not dare to breathe, nor did he dare to look at the corpses on the ground - today was the day he had seen the most corpses in his life.
Finally, the transport plane landed. The moment the hatch opened and the moment he saw the long-lost sunshine, Hayes almost suffocated.
The huge mountainous hive city is boiling like a volcano. Violent explosions are constantly sweeping through its lower part. At the same time, it is also spraying lasers and fire rain all around. Those densely packed giant anti-aircraft guns on the hive city spiers Although many were destroyed, a considerable part of them continued to clean the sky under the protection of the void shield. The loud noises of various explosions almost covered all sounds. The air was filled with a strong smell of blood and burnt smell, and The smell of various engine oils.
Not just him, all the recruits in the cabin were shocked. For a while, no one dared to move.
Seeing this, the officers and political commissars quickly pulled their clothes and dragged them out of the cabin.
"Quick! Come out!"
Hayes staggered and was pushed out by the crowd. The officers pulled the soldiers' clothes and kept asking them to speed up. The political commissars held the regimental flag high and stood on a high place shaking and shouting.
“Commander Arash has ordered not to retreat even one step!”
“Draad will be liberated!”
“Follow your company! Anyone who dares will be shot immediately!”
Suddenly, a loud noise almost knocked Hayes to the ground. He covered his ears and turned his head to look. He saw a dozen huge self-propelled guns hundreds of meters away, their barrels pointing diagonally toward the sky, spitting out flames. , he vaguely remembered that this thing was introduced in the Imperial Infantry Armor Identification Manual, and it seemed to be called a Basilisk.
"Go! Go! Don't dawdle!"
Hayes followed the team forward in a daze, and the short man seemed to be drowned in the crowd.
I don’t know how long he walked, but he suddenly felt his feet slipping and almost fell. He looked down and saw that the ground had turned dark red at some point, and the blood was mixed with mud, making the surrounding area look like a bloody field. In the mud pond, at the same time, among the various noisy sounds, he heard screams, moans and cries. Looking out through the cracks in the crowd, he saw many stretchers on both sides of the road, with many struggling soldiers lying on them. , most of them have mutilated limbs, the wounds are bloody and bloody, and white bones can be seen, and some are even worse. One of them has lost both legs and left arm, and has a gash in his stomach. His comrades are working hard and stuffed his intestines back into his abdominal cavity.
Several medical nuns wearing black armor and white gauze hats are busy between the stretchers, but their number is too small to cope with so many wounded soldiers. Many of the wounded can only be injected with some anesthetics to temporarily relieve their pain. Some of the injured were handed over to medical servitors for simple suturing and fixation, but even so their young cheeks were already covered with sweat, and everyone looked very tired, including the priest carrying a portable incense burner. Among the wounded, on the one hand, they provide spiritual help to these wounded soldiers, and on the other hand, they also offer final prayers to those who are about to die.
Every moment stretchers covered with white sheets were being carried away, but more would soon arrive.
As soon as he walked through the medical area, before Hayes could recover from his nerves, he saw a group of people coming towards the other end of the road.
Everyone of them is basically injured, their clothes are ragged and their faces are gray. Not only are their formations scattered, but also the officers are listless. Their guns and helmets are casually carried on their shoulders or in their hands, like a group of walking zombies.
Suddenly, inadvertently, Hayes looked at one of them. He saw the pity and despair in the other person's eyes. The man was not very old. He looked about eighteen or nineteen years old. It was bandaged and one ear seemed to be gone.
When Hayes looked away, they were already very close to the burning hive in front of them. The roar of the explosion was still continuing. He could only stagger towards the purgatory he had never experienced in his life. ——
(End of this chapter)