Chapter 116 The strange front line, the Battle of Jiacheng
Early the next morning, everyone was united and without any urging from their superiors, they were all dressed up and lined up in the parking lot of the service area.
As the supreme commander, Lin Feng was the last to get up from bed. It was not until Chen Yanyan came to wake him up that he yawned and walked out of the bedroom.
By the time he finished packing, it was already six o'clock in the morning.
The team members were arranged neatly and ready to go.
Lin Feng asked Li Ran and Shen Jie to select those who knew how to drive and those who were quick and agile. They took gasoline and went out on the highway to look for abandoned vehicles.
There are a lot of these cars now, and you can basically see several of them every hundred meters.
And most of them are large, fuel-efficient vehicles such as off-road vehicles and pickup trucks...
In fact, as long as there is enough fuel, they are more suitable for field operations than ordinary cars.
Soon, Shen Jie and others drove back thirty cars from the roadside.
A four-person car can barely accommodate everyone in the 201st Company. As for the more than fifty veterans and recruits who have fled, Lin Feng does not plan to take them with him for the time being.
Firstly, the two parties have not had in-depth contact and do not understand their details. Secondly, as latecomers, it is impossible to directly receive the same treatment as the veteran members of the 201st Company.
The temporary camp also needs to be stationed.
The veterans among the fifty outsiders naturally wanted to continue to follow Li Ran and participate in the insecticide operation.
But some of the frightened recruits have not experienced the storms like the 201st Company. No matter how much force Lin Feng has shown and how much equipment he has promised, it is difficult for them to voluntarily set foot on the battlefield in a short period of time.
It's still a wild battle without any protection.
Coming hand-to-hand with the Zerg in the wild is a hundred times more dangerous than hiding in a fortress.
As long as a black spine insect gets close, it can easily seriously injure a human with its giant jaws.
Whether you are an awakened person or wearing red armor.
It can't stop the bite of the sharp jaws.
With a bite value of several tons, it can easily destroy external armor and cut off flesh-and-blood humans.
On the way to escape, the recruits have witnessed too many comrades-in-arms die tragically in the ruthless attack of black spine worms.
Their body parts scattered on the ground were also eaten by the red beetles under the insect tide, and none of them died...
That horrific scene like hell is still unforgettable. Even when sleeping, I would wake up from time to time and have constant nightmares.
So these new recruits who survived by chance are not in a suitable condition to continue fighting.
Lin Feng didn't want to force them to go to the battlefield again, lest they escape and cause a greater crisis.
It is more appropriate to arrange for them to follow the veterans and take care of the remaining 80 tons of fine steel plates in the camp than to go to fight.
About eight o'clock, Lin Feng's land cruiser drove directly into the mud outside the highway, followed by thirty off-road vehicles and pickup trucks.
Although these civilian vehicles are not as professional as military vehicles, they are much more comfortable than the previous personnel carriers. Moreover, with the sunroof on the roof open, they can also attack the black spine swarms with other teammates.
About ten minutes later, everyone drove thirteen kilometers and saw red beetles emerging from the front line, as well as a large number of holes in the soil.
The pace of the Zerg invasion has not stopped.
Lin Feng announced the stop, took out the shotguns from the storage space from the exit at the rear of the battleship, and distributed one to each team member present.
With 5,000 rounds of ammunition and more than a hundred shotguns, even an army of tens of thousands of black spine worms can be easily dealt with.
After the distribution, Lin Feng immediately ordered to continue moving forward.
But as the team deepened, Lin Feng, through his upgraded telepathy, did not discover that there were Black Spine Worms in the Zerg hinterland, including the collapsed outposts nearby and the fallen outposts far away. .
In addition to the red beetles collecting human corpses, the black spine beetles responsible for daily patrols seemed to have disappeared. Not only in the south of Wucheng where Lin Feng was located, but also on the front battlefield, there was no trace.
Faced with such a strange phenomenon, Lin Feng couldn't help but wonder, could it be that the Queen Mother was frightened and took the initiative to shrink the front line to prevent herself from continuing to harvest her wool?
Although it was a bit exaggerated to kill three tiger spine insects in an instant, it was still a hit. They were caught off guard, and they did not expect that there would be a threat from the sky from humans.
After all, under the joint patrols of the Bluewings and Windwings, humanity’s already valuable flying weapons, such as only a few thousand third- and fourth-generation fighters and hundreds of armed helicopters, have long been Killed in action and mostly scrapped.
These fearless bugs have extremely strong mobility due to their special structure. Heat-sensitive tracking missiles cannot mark them, and laser locking cannot keep up. They stop in disguise.
As early as the beginning of the war, a large number of fighter planes unfortunately crashed into the bodies of hundreds of flying Zerg.
It also indirectly led to the decline of fire support for the army, which was unable to bomb the insect swarm in large numbers.
The Army is fighting alone and cannot support itself...
In the future, it can only launch supersonic missiles remotely and rely on locking the target in advance to achieve penetration at high speed, but even so, it has little effect.
After the failure of the ground-penetrating missile "Decapitation Plan", not only the second-order Zerg, but even the Mother Queen also relaxed their vigilance against threats from the air.
After all, in their minds, the Zerg side has long had crucial air supremacy.
But now this situation has been completely broken by Lin Feng's sudden appearance.
Now, of course, I don’t dare to let the black spine worms pop up and explode with their bodies.
Looking at the empty and lonely loess wasteland, Lin Feng thought of another possibility.
With Cheng Zhan, the parasitic mother, leaking information, it is impossible for the Zerg Queen not to know that humans are plotting a biological genetic modification plan.
If the message the Mother Queen received that day was sent back by the mother body, and it was being chased by human genetic warriors, then it would be very reasonable to send three second-order tiger spine worms to respond.
Three tiger spine worms were directly sent. In addition to ensuring that the parasitic mother was rescued, the most important thing was to test the genetic warriors that humans had high hopes for.
Understand the strength of the genetic warrior's ability and whether it can help mankind and reverse the one-sided war.
A threat to the safety of the Queen Mother.
But due to a strange combination of circumstances, Lin Feng unexpectedly appeared and instantly killed three second-order tiger spine insects, as well as the parasitic mother.
The Queen Mother, who did not know the specific situation, could only believe that this tragic failure was caused by human genetic warriors.
Qin Hu’s combat power will definitely be overestimated by the Queen Mother, who even believes that humans can mass-produce powerful genetic warriors by capturing first-order and second-order Zerg races.
After all, the modified genetic warriors not only have the blessing and increase of Zerg genes, but also can stimulate their own abilities, and their combat power far exceeds those of the same level...
Can do the same in the wild. One against three or more.
In addition, humans can still retain brain consciousness, and their intelligence level is smarter than most second-order Zerg races...
Allowing black spine worms and tiger spine worms to be captured and taken away alive to mass-produce genetic warriors for humans is the worst loss for the Zerg!
So the Queen Mother came to the conclusion that even if her insect swarms were killed on the spot, they could not be captured alive by humans.
So simply cancel the originally arranged patrol mission of black spine insects, and only let the low-level red beetles continue to build nests and collect food for the insect swarm...
And all the black spine insects are arranged Near the mother nest deep underground.
Firstly, it can better protect the upgraded hibernation of the Queen Mother, and secondly, it can also prevent being captured by humans, which will increase the enemy's combat power in vain.
Of course, Lin Feng didn't know this, and the Thirteenth Division, whose morale was low, had been frightened out of the fight with the Zerg, and was even less likely to take the initiative to engage in a field battle with the Zerg.
It is precisely because of this that the Queen Mother dares to do this.
Now this problem is placed in front of Lin Feng.
He didn’t know that the Mother Queen was in an upgrade dormant state. The desolate and strange hinterland of the Zerg at this moment was when the entire Zerg was at its most vulnerable.
If you miss it, the upgraded lv34 mother queen will have more powerful strength and declare her rule in the middle of the third level!
By then, the Queen Mother in the middle of the third level will not only be able to multiply the number of low-level Zerg hatched and controlled, but even the second-level Zerg will also gain ability upgrades after collecting and absorbing human powers.
When the new second-level Zerg enters the battlefield, it will definitely catch humans by surprise.
And as the mother queen of the biological arsenal, she has carried out a specific and targeted evolution of the human strategy of building fortress defense lines.
Even if they hide in a strong outpost and fortress, it will be difficult to escape the Zerg’s iron-footed jaws!
Right now, Lin Feng, the only one who can threaten the Queen Mother to complete the upgrade, is in a dilemma.
He finally boosted his morale and made his subordinates willing to follow him back to the battlefield. Unexpectedly, they encountered such a strange phenomenon.
In order to seduce the Black Spine Worms and attract the attention of the Zerg Clan, Lin Feng then ordered Shen Jie to lead some team members to drive to the edge of the Zerg Clan territory and use heavy machine guns to kill the red beetles near the entrance of the cave. Just like the previous seduction tactics, the massive death of the red beetle swarm was used to attract the black spine beetles to come and check it out.
As the click of heavy machine guns resounded in the wasteland, hundreds of red beetles died in an instant. They hid in the cave one after another, not daring to look out.
As far as the eye can see, in the hundreds of acres of the Zerg hinterland, except for the complex underground wormholes, there is not a single living bug in sight.
Lin Feng frowned even more tightly. Chen Yanyan, who was driving the battleship in front of him, turned around and asked:
"How about we just drive in and search."
"It's a pity that the life radar is not enough. Use energy, otherwise you can explore one kilometer underground."
Looking at Shen Jie and others returning disappointed, Lin Feng fell into deep thought.
He originally planned to use the upgraded lv20 land cruiser as a trump card to deal with the possible emergence of tiger spine insect swarms. Relying on a company of hundreds of Awakeners, they used shotguns to wildly kill the Black Spine army, and then forced the Tiger Spine insects to join the battle.
But I didn't expect that not only the tiger spine worms were gone, but even the black spine worms that usually roamed the streets could not be detected using telepathy.
Now we have to either go home or take risks and lead the team members deep into the wormhole.
The former's efforts will be in vain and the high fighting morale will be wasted, while the latter will have to bear unpredictable dangers.
In particular, these disappeared black spine worms and tiger spine worms are likely to be hidden in a secret cave somewhere. Using shotguns or armor-piercing cannons to fight underground will definitely destroy the cave structure. , causing collapse.
The buried Zerg can still be dug out by red beetles, but Lin Feng will be in trouble.
To fight deep into the wormhole, only a small number of elite team members must be dispatched, and they must mainly use melee weapons to ensure a safe return in the end.
The genetic warriors cultivated by the institute are very suitable.
As for now, Lin Feng feels that only he and Shen Jie can meet the standard. The rest of the team members do not have the courage and strength to start a close battle with the Black Spine Worm.
Unless he can equip everyone with a set of Red Mysterious Armor above level 10, as well as a cold weapon that can break through the defense of the black spine insect shell.
The invisible army of black spine insects has negated the feasibility of this plan.
Just when Lin Feng was in a dilemma, the equipment asked Chen Yanyan to drive the land cruiser and go deep into the hinterland of the insect swarm to conduct scanning and investigation...
Shen Jie, who failed in the seduction mission, walked up to the land cruiser and proposed another option. A solution:
"How about we go further south. I remember the report said that the two Zerg queens invaded Haicheng, and south of the Yangtze River estuary is the coastal city of Ningcheng. , there is also a female queen there."
"It should have invaded Jiacheng now."
"The Zerg there have not encountered much counterattack, maybe they are not so vigilant and can easily succeed. .”
Shen Jie's words immediately opened Lin Feng's mind. At the moment, they did not lack fuel and weapons, and there was no need to stare at the Queen Mother in front of them.
You can completely take advantage of the situation and go south to deal with the Queen Mother who does not have much combat experience.
Anyway, the failure of the Wucheng blockade was only a matter of time, and the soldiers under his command did not have much nostalgia for it.
Where to kill insects instead of killing them?
Of course you have to pick the soft persimmons.
Lin Feng took out his mobile phone and looked at the map he had downloaded before. Jiacheng was directly below Wucheng, only more than 20 kilometers away from their current location.
If you start from the temporary camp in Haicheng Service Area, it is even closer, only fifteen kilometers away.
There is no decent resistance in Ningcheng and Jiacheng, so the Queen Mother there should have successfully expanded into Jiacheng...
After a while, Lin Feng saw Looking at the map, the worries that had just been put down in my heart rose again.
Because judging from the map, if the Zerg Empress who landed in Ningcheng used the road to invade Jiacheng, there is a high probability that she will continue to expand in the northwest direction to the back of Taihu Lake...< br>
This once again cut off the retreat of the Thirteenth Division, as well as Lin Feng and others!
The institute once said that the survival and reproduction of Zerg requires a large amount of water. They will invade the mainland along rivers or large lakes as springboards.
As one of the four major lakes in the Federation, the Great Lake is likely to attract many Queen Mothers.
Once the Zerg get enough water, it will undoubtedly be a huge disaster for Jincheng behind and Huizhou close to the south of the Yangtze River.
Following both emotion and reason, Lin Feng should take action and try his best to prevent Jiacheng's Queen Mother from continuing her journey north.
Thinking of this, Lin Feng immediately agreed to Shen Jie's suggestion, and then summoned Li Ran and other captains to announce the decision.
After everyone reached an agreement, they turned the car around and took the highway to Jiacheng North Service Area.
As the convoy continues to move forward, a large number of wormholes can be seen near the beltway.
There are still many red beetles and they are continuing to dig.
Compared to the red beetles in Wucheng, not only were they not wary of the appearance of the convoy, but they also took the initiative to investigate and attack in order to harvest human flesh and blood.
What they were rewarded with was a heavy machine gun protruding from the car window, firing rounds of large-caliber bullets.
The beatings left their armor torn and their flesh torn to pieces.
However, the successive deaths of companions did not arouse fear in the insect swarm. Instead, a large swarm of red beetles regrouped from the entrance of the cave, intending to launch a general attack on humans.
Lin Feng seemed to have not seen this scene for a long time.
The last time I experienced this was when I was escaping from Sea City before I became an awakener.
It seems that the insect swarm here is really cute and silly.
Thinking of this, Lin Feng immediately ordered everyone to move freely and conduct multiple blooms in team mode.
Anyway, a dozen heavy machine guns can kill hundreds of red beetles, and there is absolutely no value in using shotguns.
As the red beetle swarms died one after another, they fell into pieces on the edge of Jiacheng City. The number of corpses was terrifying, reaching several thousand...
If this was left to Ordinary people can give birth to hundreds of lv9 enhanced people in a short period of time!
Not long after, a large swarm of black spine worms came from inside the city. They passed through the streets and alleys and attacked directly towards Lin Feng's motorcade.
Looking at the swarms of black spine worms attacking in front of me, they are completely unlike the Queen of Haicheng, who has precise control, showing her ability to jump left and right, and avoid shells...
It's all one brain. The army presses the territory.
Lin Feng put down the sight of the armor-piercing cannon and showed a smile...
It's time to teach this inexperienced and arrogant queen a lesson. !
Hundreds of soldiers relied on vehicles to form a semicircular temporary position, with the Master Chief's land cruiser behind them.
Every one of them looked excited, but not afraid, and held the shotgun in their hands tightly.
Even though there are hundreds of black spine worms in the distance, they have already rushed into the maximum range of 5 kilometers...
But in order to kill as many as possible, keep them all here... Everyone held their breath and waited patiently, while the Master Chief, watching behind them, gave the order!
Four kilometers, three kilometers, two kilometers...
As the insect tide approaches...
The last kilometer...
Five hundred meters! !
Looking closely at the menacing swarm of black spine insects.
Everyone’s nervousness was in their throats.
But without an order, one cannot shoot without permission.
This is the moment that best exercises one’s willpower!
It is also the best way to overcome your inner fears!
By the time this group of black spine worms had reached the front row, many people’s arms and bodies began to tremble nervously!
Just listen to Lin Feng standing on the bow of the ship and give the order!
"Fire!"
Hundreds of lv19 shotguns
fired a row of volleys of shells! !
Boom, boom, boom! ! !
Boom boom, boom boom
Are you going to set off cannons on New Year’s Eve?
(End of this chapter)