Standard Terra Calendar 968.M41
The Maelstrom Area, the Blood Skeleton Galaxy, the Blood Diamond Star, the Nineteenth Mine
“Grenade!”
When the comrades screamed When the sound rang out, Hayes immediately turned around instinctively and wanted to lie down, but he tripped over the body on the ground and fell directly to the ground.
Then the explosion of an improvised grenade tore through the air behind him, and he felt a sudden pressure in his ears.
Then everything went black.
I don’t know how long it took before he realized that his ears were ringing and his face was pressed against the cold and hard soil underground.
In the haze of regaining consciousness, he heard the screams and shouts of the men, the sound of laser guns being fired, and the roars and roars of others.
"Hayes!"
Hearing what seemed like someone calling him, he raised his head from the mud and looked around, trying to figure out his location.
This is a mine tunnel about five meters wide and three meters high. The only illumination is the flares thrown on the ground in the distance and the fire of laser guns. He lies face down on the ground, and the pain in his shoulders has been reduced to only slight of pain, while people he knew and unknown around him were in brutal combat.
A week ago, they all thought it was an easy "sweep", but the intricate mine tunnels underground in Happy City became everyone's nightmare.
Those resisters have primitive weapons and backward equipment, but they are familiar with the terrain, they are elusive, they are tenacious, and they would rather die than surrender——
After years of serving as a soldier, Hayes has produced He has a certain inherent concept, that is, as long as they are well equipped and have many weapons, the army will definitely be strong. In fact, he also feels that those "mobs" who only have light weapons, and even many of them are self-made weapons, will not have any resistance, even if they are shrinking. In the tunnel.
But reality slapped him and everyone in the face.
The tactics of these people are very flexible and cunning. Most of the time, they do not confront them head-on. When they advance in groups from a wide area, they hide. Once the team disperses into those narrow mine tunnels, they move around. They attacked, constantly harassing the tired imperial army in small groups, and when the imperial army was about to retreat, they followed in pursuit.
And as a mineral world, the most indispensable thing here is explosives. The red pirates left behind hundreds of millions of tons of explosives. These explosives can be easily made into simple grenades and landmines. After continuously eating After several losses, they didn't even dare to move without a metal detector to clear the way.
But what is even more terrifying is the spirit of these people. Hayes has been in a tense and dark environment for a long time, and he feels like he is going crazy, but those people are like supermen.
He has seen enemies who took off all their clothes and hid in the waste minerals with only a gun in order to avoid being detected by thermal scans.
I have also seen enemies hanging themselves on the shaft with ropes for several days and nights.
There are even enemies who have sealed themselves in underground bunkers that cannot be opened again——
Everything they do seems to be just to take away one or two imperial soldiers, although it seems that these black guns They did not cause a lot of casualties, but as time went by, the number of casualties far exceeded their imagination.
After capturing an underground rail transit hub, after counting, their regiment lost more than 400 people in less than a week, and this was only fifty meters underground. There were still more people below them. A mine tunnel with a depth of more than 200 meters. Almost every step needs to be watered with blood.
During the long period of darkness and fear, the soldiers became highly nervous and suspicious, as if an enemy might jump out of the shadows at any time, making accidental injuries and violence more and more common. The more frequent it became, the more people continued to suffer mental breakdowns, so the soldiers also called this kind of fighting a rat war.
Soon after the battle began, some people questioned why they wanted to fight in a place where such large forces and heavy firepower could not be deployed. They could just seal the mine tunnel and leave it alone.
However, Hayes heard some inside information from Hashet, which probably meant that the superiors wanted to quickly restore production here, so they could only use the flesh and blood of soldiers to clean up the mines full of thugs.
Some people have also proposed using poison gas to kill the traitors in the mines. However, troops have tried this method for a long time, but it has basically no effect. As a mining world led by the Forge World, blood Most of the underground mines in Diamond Star have built extremely complete ventilation and filtration systems. In order to allow underground workers and mining people to work with maximum efficiency, deep wells, medical facilities, warehouses and geothermal heating are often built in underground mines. Power generation and other equipment, and even a fungus plantation, are extremely well planned.
Wanting to trap or poison the people inside is basically a dream, and after years of excavation by the Red Pirates, the underground mine network of the planet has become very different from the original. Even the sages of the Mechanicus I can’t say one, two, or three.
Then, the only way is to let the soldiers go down to this cold, narrow and dark hell, and fight face to face with those who are forced to the dead end.
Hayes once picked up a small, bright rose-red crystal in the ground, as big as the nail of his little finger.
Hashet said that the thing is called Lantai blood crystal rock salt, also called blood diamond -
It is also something that the above people must obtain even if they consume countless lives.
The superiors seemed to still be dissatisfied with their progress. After they occupied the key nodes, they urged them to continue downward and clear out all the traitors in the area. However, the mine tunnels below were more scattered and narrower. Hayes He even accidentally got separated from his squad, and could only follow the rest of the company to fight in the dark and closed mine tunnel.
Then they encountered an ambush. There were many vents and hidden maintenance passages in the deep mine tunnels. They still suffered the disadvantage of being unfamiliar with the environment. Not long after leaving, they were attacked from both sides.
Hayes struggled to stand. He had seen the enemies, dressed in miners' uniforms and rags.
One of the guys wielding a mining pick was shot directly in the face, and his facial features were burned off by the full blast of the laser gun in the blink of an eye, but then the guard screamed and was killed by another The traitor who came from the side was knocked down from behind with a homemade shotgun.
The humans fought in the darkness and flash, their feet slipping and stumbling over the bodies of their fallen comrades beneath them, the details of who won and who lost blurred in the muzzlefire and haze.
Hayes saw the blood, saw the killing, he saw the same brutality and despair from both sides, as if this was the reality of the war after all the noble slogans were stripped away.
Then, as the horrifying sight continued to unfold around him, Hayes' heart began to pound in his chest, and a terrifying thought suddenly appeared in his mind.
Where is his laser gun?
He looked around in horror and realized that he had lost his gun when he fell, but it should be nearby, but the dim light prevented him from finding it.