Chapter 2054 Bloody Skeletons (Part 2)
When the assault boat stopped shaking and fell into silence, Hayes first heard coughs and quiet prayers, and then everyone seemed to collectively breathe under the command of some invisible command. Tone, despite some initial misgivings, that they were still alive.
Soon, the darkness suddenly gave way to dim shadowy light as the assault craft's emergency lighting system activated, and then, he heard a familiar piercing voice begin to roar.
"Assemble! Assemble and prepare to disembark, lift your butts and act like soldiers, we have a war to fight, squatting in this iron coffin is courting death!"
Oulani Os's voice was like a powerful whip, whipping everyone up from their chairs.
After releasing the restraints of the seat, Hayes also staggered to his feet. Winter beside him also followed Hayes' example and carefully poked his body with both hands to check whether his bones were broken.
To Hayes's relief, he had no injuries. Although his shoulders were sore and there was a little bruise from the belt, he could survive. Then he turned around and retrieved his laser gun. , Winter's legs were still weak at this time.
"Chief Hayes, look."
Hearing Winter's trembling voice, Hayes looked in the direction he was pointing, which was the chair behind Winter.
A young soldier sat on the chair, his head tilted to a sickening angle, his eyes staring blankly, his jaw slack and motionless.
Hayes knew this man as Telles from the Second Company, but now he was dead, with a thin stream of blood flowing from his nostrils and mouth, staining his chin red.
Then he stretched his head to look at the seat restraints around Teles. Combined with the posture of the opponent's head, Hayes realized that Teles's restraints were not fixed correctly, causing him to land on the ground. The violent jolt broke his neck, and he may have bitten his own tongue, one of the most common non-combat ways of death for recruits.
"May the Emperor take you home."
Hayes reached out and closed Trace's eyes, and Winter sobbed after the initial fear as Trace and He is a fellow countryman and his only fellow countryman in this strange group.
"Hayes, what are you dawdling about!? Let's go!"
Hearing Hashet's urging, Hayes turned his head and responded.
“Coming, coming!”
Then he looked at Winter.
"Take Teles's nameplate. The Emperor may be busy, so you have to take him home."
Winter wiped his tears and took Teles's nameplate. , then grabbed his laser gun and followed Hayes to join the rest of the company, who lined up in an aisle between rows of seats on the upper deck.
During this process, Hayes could even hear the sound of bullets and shells exploding from the outside of the hull. They were being shot at by the enemy, but this assault boat was indeed strong.
The soldiers quickly rushed down the lower deck, assault ramp, and rushed to the exit.
As the bolts were activated, the ramp slowly opened. Under the maintenance of the officers, the soldiers walked out of the four exits in an orderly manner.
Hayes saw this new world, first with a gray sky above his head, and then with a biting chill.
On the ground, there is only a desolate and barren landscape, a treeless flat landscape composed of frozen gray-black dirt, littered with bomb craters and the rusted outlines of burned vehicles.
To his east, he saw the distant landscape, which seemed to contain a small city. The buildings were as gray, ominous and abandoned as the surrounding landscape. It looked like a ghost town, which made Hayes shudder -
A ghost town, hungry for more ghosts.
And he didn't see any other assault boats around, which meant that their battalion was probably out of line.
"A mineral world is really terrible."
Hashet looked at the world and muttered to himself, and Hayes then asked:
"Uncle Hashet, is there a lot of ore in the mineral world?" Hashet shook his head.
“Not entirely, it has many holes, many holes that swallow flesh and blood. What’s even worse is that we still have to get into the holes, but now we have to assemble with the large army first. "
Olanios had ended communication with Arni at this time, and then immediately waved to everyone.
"Leave the landing site, leave the landing site! Our landing coordinates are wrong! There are enemies nearby——"
After saying that, he stopped and looked at the sky with anxious eyes. Everyone heard the sound of artillery shells getting closer and closer.
"Avoid the gun!!"
Someone screamed as the entire battalion frantically ran to the side of the lander for shelter.
A few seconds later, an explosion threw up frozen mud.
"Mortar!"
Arni immediately judged the type of weapon from the sound of the gunfire, and then more gunshots and explosions rang out around them.
The firepower seemed to come at every turn as the sound of bullets and shells hitting the hull on the other side of the lander became so loud that they had to shout to be heard over the roar. increased ominously.
Olanios immediately summoned Hashet.
"We're lucky, whoever's shooting is on the other side of the lander, but we can't stay here forever, we need to find better cover, otherwise their artillery finds range and gets around It’s only a matter of time before the assault boat lands on top of us.”
At this time, the turret on the assault boat also started to fire back, but it could not stay on the ground for too long and needed to get back on track to transport other troops.
There was only five minutes left for Ouranios and the others.
Fortunately, the main force of the regiment was not far away from them, less than ten kilometers away. Arni ordered them to gather at the mining station that had been bombed by the empire, which was also the target they needed to capture.
"Hashet, I estimate that the number of this group of enemies does not exceed 500. You take your company from the left and go around on the Chimera. We attract firepower from the front, and we can only leave after we deal with them."
"Okay!"
For five minutes, the assault boat went out with all its strength, and the soldiers also began to fire suppression shots in the approximate direction of the enemy. The two sides fought fiercely.
At the same time, the Second Battalion carried several Chimeras and began to make a large detour from the left. There happened to be a dry ditch on the side of the landing point, and the enemy's position was relatively low, which could just cover up the huge Chimera armored vehicles. size, while the soldiers followed the armored vehicles and ran as fast as they could.
Hayes ran with everyone, and Winter was also running hard. Ruthless gunshots continued to ring out not far away. The enemy has not discovered them for the time being, but it does not mean that they will never be discovered. After all, the Chimera is still very moving. Big ones.
Soon, Hashet asked Hayes to come to the side of a Chimera and lead his squad to establish a machine gun position.
Hayes finally saw the enemy, lying on the ground, wearing dirty cloaks and wrinkled and patched overalls. Some of them even wore work helmets. Primitive firearms fired at the assault boats, as well as two mortars.
“Hit!”
The gunshots suddenly rang out, and the attackers were startled. Hayes replaced "Hairy Man" Cabri and personally operated the logging gun and fired. When the bullets hit them, red blood spurted out from their chests, arms and heads.
He watched those people screaming and dying, he saw people being killed by falling grenades, corpses torn apart by explosions and shrapnel, heads and limbs instantly dismembered, his eyes kept staring into the distance , every breath he takes is a silent prayer for salvation, and his finger is tight on the trigger.
(End of this chapter)