Chapter 151, The Big Iron Can of Death
Aiaro Lacrocha, a private of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, had never imagined that such a horrific scene would appear in front of him in his entire life, even if he counted the time he spent dreaming.
It can be called devastating!
He, a little soldier, didn't know what kind of orbital strike plan there was above. He only knew that a meteor shower passed through the sky and hit the core area of the ruins of the tower in the distance. Immediately afterwards, there was a landslide!
Not to mention the blowing, blazing wind, the shock wave, the huge sound... At the very least, what Guang saw in front of him was enough to surprise him.
It was as if there were two big suns and many small suns rising deep in the ruins of the tower. Then, the ruins of the tower that he had been familiar with for the past few years changed.
Although it is a ruin, there are still 'iconic buildings' here. Many high-rise buildings in the city have collapsed, but a considerable number of them remain in place. It makes sense that Takamatsu buildings, built with the technology of the pre-war era, have stood for hundreds of years. No matter how dilapidated it looks from the outside, it just can't fall down. Many battles took place around these tall buildings from the pre-war era, and the bullets and artillery fire failed to do anything to these buildings.
Even if the 155mm howitzer hits the buildings that have not collapsed, it will only scrape some skin off, or mess up the already messy structures inside, and completely collapse the building, but it has never happened.
But this huge wave of bombings that dropped from the sky not only did it, but also went too far.
Not only have the ruins of pre-war high-rise buildings collapsed, but there is no longer even a jungle of high-rise buildings in the central area. Looking deep into the ruins from La Crocha's perspective, it was as if some monster had taken a bite out of the steel jungle, with a large piece missing.
Before he could recover from the shock, a series of whistling sounds came from above his head.
This sound was familiar to him, he had heard it all the time in the past month.
But it has never sounded so dense.
Before he could think about it any more, the company commander's orders were conveyed layer by layer. The squad leader gave the order to set off. He quickly put away his thoughts and followed the team closely.
As he made his way to the front, he felt hot all over. He himself couldn't tell whether it was caused by the rapid march or the excitement that came from the bottom of his heart.
Continuous rumbling and explosion sounds came from the direction he was going. That was the sound of artillery hitting the green-skinned orcs' position.
As he advanced, he was still nervous, fearing that a tin barrel artillery shell would be fired in front of him, or a green-skinned armed pickup truck would appear. These things have been their nightmare for some time in the past.
But none of these appeared.
When he followed his comrades and arrived only one or two hundred meters away from the green-skinned orcs' position, he clearly understood why there were no obstacles on the road ahead:
Those greenskins have been blown over, so where is there any remaining power to stop them? Those tin barrel artillery pieces and those armed pickup trucks might have been blown up long ago.
He only waited here for five or six minutes, but he had already seen hundreds of artillery shells hitting the position in front of them.
Such intensive bombing made his head numb.
To be honest, La Crocia was still very scared to stay in this position.
If the cannonball was slightly tilted, it would hit his head; even if it didn't hit him, he could still clearly feel the power of the cannonball from only a hundred or two hundred meters away.
Even the officers went out of their way to warn the soldiers below that when they lay down on standby, they were not allowed to put their chest and abdomen on the ground. Even if it was uncomfortable, they had to prop up their bodies, in order to avoid the shock wave coming from the ground. , shocking the soldier's internal organs.
He just stood there and waited for seven minutes. According to what the monitor said, they arrived earlier than scheduled. La Crocha didn't understand this either. He didn't even own a clock.
All he knew was that the time had come and it was time to charge.
In fact, it's still a bit scary.
It's not that I'm afraid of the green skins. How many green skins can survive after being blown up like this? Even if there is a lot of life, it is nothing more than confrontation. If you have a gun in your hand, if you get too close, you will mount the bayonet and fight.
What he was afraid of was that if the artillery brothers behind him shook their hands, it would be the end.
But he rushed forward anyway. After crossing a distance of two hundred meters, they entered the greenskin's position and quickly searched for any possible greenskin defense points.
Sporadic resistance fire came out.
Obviously, not all greenskins are really dead.
In the collapsed houses and in the narrow holes formed by the collapse of multiple layers of reinforced concrete, there were still some green-skinned orcs who had survived the bombardment.
After the human soldiers launched an attack, they appeared from all over the place, howling and counterattacking.
But there are too few of them.
Three appeared in front of La Crocia. He and his comrades started shooting immediately. In their row, the three teams were not far from each other. More than thirty guns were aimed at the three greenskins, and intense firepower was fired at them.
The greenskins also fought back with guns, but each of them only had time to fire two shots before taking nearly a hundred bullets and being killed. And the result before their death was nothing more than breaking a soldier's leg.
A soldier with a broken leg will have his comrades drag him back, and people from the follow-up logistics support company will take over and relay him back to the field hospital in the rear.
The remaining people continued to advance.
The artillery fire from the rear is still continuing, and the firepower is attenuated a little compared to before, but the bombing area has also changed from the original full coverage of the greenskin position to a smaller area, covering only about two hundred infantry in front. An area of about 1 meter.
In coordination with infantry and artillery, after they complete the clearing of the current area, the bombardment will continue to push forward two hundred meters, and in the vacated area, they will continue to explore forward.
This process will be repeated four times until the position is penetrated with a width of about 800 meters.
To be honest, during the whole process, the only thing La Crocha was afraid of was the trembling of his artillery hands. The heavy artillery was always blasting about two hundred meters in front of me, which was really scary.
As for the greenskins?
He did see green-skinned corpses all over the ground, and they were so rotten that it was difficult to find a whole corpse. Occasionally, a few alive would appear, and being shot at by dozens of guns at the same time, they were not a threat at all.
To be honest, apart from the fear caused by his own artillery, La Crocha's biggest feeling is...a bit boring?
Of course, he knew that his feelings were slightly ridiculous.
Further forward, he and his comrades entered a ruins with four walls. The roof of this house was covered by a resting concrete slab. A shell should have been fired into it before, and there was still smoke coming out.
There is a half probability that it is empty inside; the other half probability is that there are green skins that are dead and inhuman shape, or there are green skins that are not in human shape and are still alive. If you encounter the latter, just give them a few shots to end their lives.
But despite this, according to tactical ethics, they still had to go in and take a look to make sure it was clear inside.
This time, they encountered a small probability event.
There was a gunshot, and half of the face of the first brother to enter exploded. His helmet was blown away by the large-caliber green-skinned firearm, and his whole body suddenly fell back.
La Crocha is second.
He subconsciously took a step back and pulled away so that he could raise the gun more easily. The G9A assault rifle began to shoot wildly into the dark space.
He couldn't see the target, so he could only hit like this.
The brothers in the same team behind him also rushed over and poured bullets into it just like him.
La Crocha was the first to empty the magazine. He straightened the bayonet skillfully, and then waited until the other brothers ceased fire and was the first to rush in.
In the darkness, he vaguely saw a humanoid monster much taller than him, coming towards him, carrying a strong stench.
His mind was blank, but his hand thrust the bayonet forward in the most standard posture.
Then, there was a strong resistance and he stabbed something.
He pushed the bayonet forward with desperate force and turned the handle of the gun. The resistance took his body back a few steps, but soon lost its strength and was pushed down by him.
La Crocha himself fell down.
He felt that his clothes were wet, stained by the smelly blood.
Immediately, several comrades from the same class rushed in from behind. Someone reached out and pulled him up, while someone stabbed the body under him with a bayonet.
That greenskin is indeed dead.
After leaving the narrow shell-proof hole in the ruins, through the light, La Crocia saw that he was indeed in a sorry state now, with his body covered in blood.
But they should all be green-skinned. He didn't feel that he was injured, but he just used too much force on his arm and felt a little weak now.
Gradually coming back to his senses, he was pleasantly surprised that he actually killed a greenskin with a bayonet!
Although that guy probably took a lot of bullets and was seriously injured in the previous shooting, he was the one who stabbed him to death after all.
Looking around, he found that there were only six people left, including himself.
The person who had just entered in front of him and was shot in the head was the fourth person in his class to die.
Only two died today, and two more died in the past half month. Their class has not received new soldiers.
He became a little more awake, and the previous 'boring' thoughts had long since flown out.
The squad leader came up, patted him on the shoulder, and shouted in his ear: "Well done! But Private! We don't have time to rest now! Keep going!"
War is still cruel.
……
Li Kexi also felt that war was cruel.
The heavy artillery had helped them clear out a wave of enemies, especially the dense artillery fire. There were not many enemies left, but his soldiers still paid a heavy price in the close-range clearing.
Of course, there is no such exaggerated ratio as La Crocha's infantry squad with six to two deaths. La Crocha's class was relatively miserable because they were mainly in the vanguard.
The overall casualty rate of the entire regiment is around 2%. They sacrificed about a hundred warriors and wiped out more than two hundred greenskins that popped up sporadically. As for the overall number of greenskin deaths in this position, it's hard to calculate. The heavy artillery in front had been firing for more than an hour, and the number of shells that landed here must be at least 5,000. Five hundred of the dead greenskins were at least 500.
Of course, this is an estimated number. Many corpses were rotten like that, or were buried under the rubble. It is unclear, but it can only be said that there are many more than 500.
The shelling has basically stopped now. It is estimated that the artillery shells have been fired.
However, the target area that their 3rd Infantry Regiment needs to conquer has also been cleared by them.
The two combined battalions of the 1st Quenching Brigade quickly penetrated through the gap they opened, and then started to outflank the greenskins, one from the south and the other from the north.
Friendly forces in other directions have also begun to attack across the board.
Two battalions were left to guard this position and cut off the connection between the greenskins at the northern and southern ends of the battle line, while most of the rest followed the battalion commander of the 1st Brigade and 1st Battalion, Major Perbov, to penetrate northward.
However, it was the southern part where the greenskin positions were separated that ended the battle first. There are not many greenskins surviving there, especially in the southernmost part. It was captured once before by the 4th Regiment of the 7th Garrison Division, and the position and fortifications were completely destroyed. Later, after they retreated, the greenskins reoccupied it, but The rebuilt fortifications were obviously still rubbish, and the shelling had killed almost all the greenskins there.
Compared with the southern position, more troops were theoretically invested in the north, and the 3rd Independent Regiment also joined the siege of the northern enemy.
But there are so many living greenskins there, and more importantly, there is a greenskin boss.
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The performance of green-skinned orcs is completely different whether they have a powerful leader or not.
When there is no boss, they will fight among themselves, cannot get together, and are reckless and brainless; when there is a boss, although they are still reckless and brainless most of the time, they can at least act in a unified manner.
And Roast Ax is such a charismatic orc boss. He is the second-largest person in the clan, second only to the meat-tearing boss. There are many boys who take orders from him, and they are also very strong.
He knew that according to the plan of the elders and the meat-tearing boss, they were about to launch a full-scale attack on those shrimps. Many big booms, as well as many big cars and cans, were all ready. The meat-shredding boss even sent the second-largest one to the front line in advance to appease him.
It was bigger than the murder can. The elders called this thing the big iron can of fear.
Even if you want to drive this thing, you have to cut off your legs and feet, connect them to the machine, and insert many tubes into your head and spinal cord, you will never be able to leave it in this life.
But...so what?
With such a powerful thing, you can chop and chop more happily, shoot and shoot more happily, and have multiple blasts... No greenskin would want to get out of such a thing, right?
After getting into this big iron tank, Roast Ax was suffering pain and torture every moment, which could only be relieved by killing people. He couldn't wait to lead his boys to kill all the shrimps right away.
But the meat-tearing boss kept telling him to be patient, patient, patient.
If you endure it patiently, you will endure the earth-shattering bombing.
What about more large machinery support?
All gone!
What to do now? So far, there are shrimps in all directions. If this continues, no matter how powerful he is or how brave his boys are, they will all be doomed.
At his call, at least four hundred green-skinned orcs gathered around him.
He took this group of greenskins and began to break out eastward.
There is quite a bit of meaning in this journey where the gods are blocking the gods and the Buddhas are blocking the Buddhas.
Baking Ax, who stuffed himself into the big iron can of fear, is four meters tall. He is much taller and stronger than the average murder can. The strength of this armor has even surpassed the power armor of the Space Marines.
When the bullets were fired, the effect was very poor and could not break the defense at all. A battalion commander organized a dozen rocket launchers and fired intensively at one go, killing several greenskins. However, the grilled axe, which was regarded as the main target, was eaten head-on. These bombings were carried out, but the damage suffered was not serious at all.
That guy even targeted the battalion commander and charged forward. He chopped down melons and vegetables on the soldiers who blocked him along the way. He fired multiple machine guns and swept across with wheeled saws. Dozens of infantrymen along the way were slaughtered.
The battalion commander saw that the situation was not going well and wanted to retreat, but he failed. The instructor was killed by a machine gun, and the battalion commander was cut in half.
The entire battalion was destroyed, and even this gap was difficult to be filled by other troops for a while.
Fortunately, Purbeuf's battalion was well inserted. But even so, the interception process is extremely difficult.
Whether it is the Edifier V or the locally produced ‘Challenger’ tank, there is always the danger of being demolished in front of that fearful big iron tank!
The machine gun on the armored vehicle is not easy to hit the big iron can. Despite its wild shape and huge size, its flexibility is actually not weak, and the turret's hit rate is not that perfect. Even if a considerable number of machine gun bullets hit, they will only make small dents on its metal armor plate, unable to break the defense.
To put it bluntly, the caliber is still not enough.
Even the 76mm tank gun of the Challenger tank is a bit unsightly. Mainly due to local artillery technology, the muzzle velocity of the artillery shells is not very good, and the caliber alone is difficult to penetrate armor.
Of course, the overall effect is better than that of machine guns.
Unless there are really hundreds of rounds of machine guns, bombarded extremely densely, or dozens of rounds of 76mm tank guns successfully hit, then under the effect of metal fatigue, the armor of this fearful big iron tank will be destroyed Beat it to pieces, otherwise there's still nothing you can do about the roasted axe.
On the contrary, he was able to get close to the armored vehicle. The huge iron clamps could even clamp the front of the armored vehicle and even deform it; the multi-barreled machine gun could break through the defense and kill the driver inside if it fired directly for a few seconds; The serrated teeth will spark sparks all over the sky when cutting through armor plates...
In this way, he used various methods to destroy two armored vehicles and two tanks.
Infantrymen came up and tried to attack again with rocket launchers, but they could only achieve a relatively weak effect and could not make a final decision.
If you want to destroy this big iron tank of fear, you have to make enough sacrifices and blow it up with enough firepower. Drops of water can still penetrate stone, let alone thousands of bullets and artillery fire of all kinds hitting it.
But the sacrifice that had to be made was too heavy. Before the roasting ax was blown to death, our side didn't know how many people would die and how many tanks would be damaged.
Another plan is to use a 155 howitzer to blow it up.
This is reliable enough. If you hit two or three shots, or even just one shot, you may be able to complete the destruction mission directly.
However, this plan will also be accompanied by huge casualties - mainly from friendly fire.
But there is no other way.
If nothing else is done, the human forces will not be able to survive the destruction of this giant steel beast, and will be penetrated by the orcs, allowing the orcs to break out.
Purbov gritted his teeth, ordered some troops to surround them, and at the same time called for artillery strikes to the rear.
Within the coverage area, there were many soldiers from the first battalion of his Xifeng Brigade.
When the artillery fire came down, many of his brothers would be killed in it.
His heart was bleeding, but not only could he not let his soldiers withdraw, but he also strictly ordered them not to retreat.
This is to exchange the lives of soldiers for victory.
"Let our soldiers withdraw."
At this moment, such a sentence appeared in Perbov's mind.
This is the voice of the Governor.
Purbov was stunned for a moment, but he immediately reacted and changed his order, asking the soldiers to retreat.
As the armored vehicles and infantry began to retreat and hide in the bunker, the fearful big iron tank was about to pursue them.
However, suddenly a strange force froze it in place.
It was not completely still, but as if it had lost its controller, its body paused.
This is Gu Hang’s move!
The Governor personally followed the attacking troops and came to the battlefield.
It's not that he's worried about his own safety. This is a battle that must be won, and as a psyker, he doesn't have the ability to protect himself. In this battle, as long as he didn't want to die, he probably wouldn't be able to die.
At the same time, his arrival can not only boost the morale of the troops, but also solve some special problems.
Just like the green-skinned leader we met now.
His psychic ability has played an important role!
To deal with this big iron can, Gu Hang certainly had no interest in simply wrestling with the opponent. That would be a very stupid act. Although his psychic strength is not low, it would be unwise to fight against such a mechanical monster with a body of steel.
What he controls is the green-skinned leader himself inside the tin can.
Obviously, the green can is very powerful, but it does not have a certain degree of psychic resistance that the Space Marine power armor has. This big thing has no protective effect against psychic energy.
However, this green-skinned leader's 'waaagh' force field is quite powerful. Gu Hang almost tried his best to attack the part of his soul that represented the central nervous system through his soul cutting ability.
This is difficult, only a little easier than killing this soul. Gu Hang's attack can only make it temporarily incapacitated, and he will return to normal after about a minute or two.
However, this period of time is enough for the 155 howitzers from the rear artillery position to fly over.
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6k! There are still 1.9W words left in the remaining three days.
A bit of a challenge.
(End of chapter)