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Volume 1 Chapter 16 Siege of the Base (1)

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    Chapter 16 Siege of the Base (1) ()

    Yi Lexiang feels a little helpless. Ever since he entered Anokhi's peaceful life, he has been far away from him.

    Leading three platoons of soldiers, they quickly rushed to the eastern defense area of ??the Fourth Regiment. Along the way, there were engineering mechas and other engineering machinery damaged due to magnetic storms. Without heavy lifting equipment, they could only be discarded there at will.

    Climbing onto the heightened and reinforced metal defense wall, the vast Anpiao Astronomy, without individual defensive armor, prevented the soldiers from obtaining detailed battlefield information. They could only passively stand on the high metal wall and wait silently.

    The vegetation near the defense line has long been cleared away, and several abandoned mine-laying tanks parked alone not far from the metal wall.  Yi Lexiang knew that under this seemingly peaceful grassland, except for a few reserved safety passages, there were about 500,000 old-fashioned trigger-type anti-personnel mines and anti-armor mines.  The entire base is surrounded by a huge ring-shaped mine array. These old-fashioned trigger mines were modified by the Logistics Engineering Department in a few days using original space mines and induction mines.

    A huge explosion was heard faintly from the distance, which was the western defense zone facing the forest.  Yi Lexiang leaned gently against the cold metal wall and looked at the billowing black smoke rising in the west. After experiencing several brutal battles with native creatures, he no longer had the original tension and fear.  Perhaps for the native creatures of the Anokhi planet, humans are outsiders who have invaded their homeland and are their enemies.  So far, the Academy of Sciences still cannot find out what causes these protists, which have not yet evolved intelligence, to attack humans.

    "Look!" Zou Yuancheng shouted softly. Zou Yuancheng was the first soldier Yi Lexiang met when he arrived at the third platoon. He was in his thirties and was proficient in long-range sniping. Before coming to the task force, he had been in a reconnaissance battalion of a certain regiment.  sniper.  Originally, the sniper should not be assigned to fight on the front line. Unfortunately, the electromagnetic storm destroyed his precious ultra-long-range sub-beam sniper rifle. Now he can only huddle with everyone behind the metal fortifications with his semi-automatic depleted uranium gun as an ordinary infantryman.  .

    Perhaps because of the sniper¡¯s keen observation, he was the first to notice the anomaly. Yi Lexiang squinted his eyes slightly. He could only see a few small black dots rushing toward the defense line because the distance was too far.  As the distance got closer and closer, everyone soon discovered that several "Fox" reconnaissance mechas were rushing towards them. They should be a reconnaissance team sent by the division headquarters.  A few minutes later, those mechas rushed under the metal wall of the first line of defense. One of the mechas opened the closed cockpit. The tired-looking pilot didn't bother to wipe the sweat off his face and shouted loudly.  shouted: "Level 1 alert, a large group of thunder scorpions and stoneclaw beasts are approaching. Contact with the enemy is expected in twenty minutes."

    The Academy of Sciences used Skynet¡¯s holographic images to study the Anokhi protozoa that have been detected, and also named some creatures that pose a threat to humans. Thunder Scorpions and Stoneclaws are two of them.

    The mecha warrior's words did not cause any panic. The veterans just silently carefully checked the weapons in their hands.  Everything was still as calm as before, and only the constant running of the messengers could make people feel a hint of the tense atmosphere before the war.  Yi Lexiang was obviously not used to it when he saw Zou Yuancheng constantly fiddling with the semi-automatic depleted uranium gun in his hand.  Zou Yuancheng saw Yi Lexiang's questioning look and smiled sheepishly, "It's been a long time since I've used it. I'm not used to it." He gently leaned the depleted uranium gun that he had checked countless times against the wall, "Oh  , I really miss my ion beam sniper rifle! I wonder if the maintenance soldiers at the regiment headquarters can repair it for me?"

    A gun is like a life-and-death partner for a veteran. Losing the gun on the battlefield is like losing one's own life.  Yi Lexiang also gradually understood the feelings of veterans, because guns can save your life on a war-torn battlefield.

    The artillery fire in the eastern defense zone became more and more intense, and soon the northern and southern defense zones also opened fire one after another. Now only the western defense zone is still silent.  Judging from the sound, the native organisms should be moving out from the direction of the forest and gradually surrounding the base.  Yi Lexiang secretly wondered, are these low-level creatures so smart?  Wolves on Earth also adopt some simple strategies when hunting, but how do different groups of organisms do this?  The wolf pack has a wolf king. Could it be that they also have their own beast king? Thinking of this, Yi Lexiang was also startled by his own thoughts.  If there really is a beast king in charge of the forest covering one-third of the Anokhi planet, then the situation of the First Division

    A loud "boom" woke up Yi Lexiang from his wild thoughts.  A gray line in the distance is gradually approaching the defense line. It is a herd composed of countless thunder scorpions.  Just now, a thunder scorpion running in front touched a mine buried underground. The huge impact threw the three-meter-long body of the thunder scorpion into the sky. The unique blue blood of Anokhi creatures scattered with broken limbs.  .  As the gray line moved forward, more mines were triggered.  Along with the sound of explosions one after another, the sky seemed like a blue rain of blood.

      Looking at the approaching scorpions, Yi Lexiang felt a little chilly. This was the first time he encountered thunder scorpions, a native creature unique to Anokhi.  Unlike scorpions on Earth, thunder scorpions have a longer body with only four legs. There is a pair of claws like crab claws in front. The thick carapace covering the body has a circle of curved spines on the edge. There is a lightbulb-sized thorn at the end of the tail.  A strange organ that looks like a budding flower.  Most thunder scorpions are 3 meters long, and there are some giant thunder scorpions that are 6 meters long. The carapace on their bodies shines with a metallic luster, and they suddenly look like tanks with weird shapes.

    Behind the dense group of thunder scorpions, the tall figure of the stone claw beast can gradually be seen.  Compared to the ugly body shape of the Thunder Scorpion, the Stone Claw Beast is obviously much more normal.  However, its body, which is even more than five meters tall than the "Leopard I" mecha, is even more shocking. It is covered with cuticles that look like stone, and three sharp white claws protrude from the wide soles of its feet.

    As the scorpions approached, the mecha battalion of the regiment standing behind the metal wall slowly opened the missile launcher on its right shoulder. This was the only mecha battalion of the fourth regiment. As a reserve team, they could only be used as mobile forts at the moment.  to use.  When the Thunder Scorpion swarm entered the attack range of the missiles, the missiles trailing long white smoke quickly flew over the metal wall towards the rushing scorpion swarm.

    With their huge numbers, the Thunder Scorpions are biting away at the mine formations on the perimeter of the defense line. Some Thunder Scorpions have rushed to a place less than 300 meters away from the metal wall along the reserved safe passage, with their flower-like organs at the tail raised high.  A jet of yellow viscous liquid spurted out.

    "Damn!" Yi Lexiang couldn't help but cursed when he saw this scene.  This thing can actually attack from a distance.  A soldier who was unable to dodge was hit by the yellow liquid. When the liquid hit his body, it made a "chichi" sound, which sounded like the sound of boiling oil poured on raw meat. The soldier only let out a brief scream.  Then he fell to the ground without making a sound.  A medical soldier ran over quickly, leaned down and did a brief inspection, and shook his head at the nervous-looking soldiers next to him.  The yellow mucus sprayed by the thunder scorpion chemically reacts with a certain gas in the air to produce extremely high temperatures. When it hits the human body, it will produce an effect similar to human white phosphorus bombs, which will stick to the surface of the skin and burn continuously.

    As more and more Thunder Scorpions broke through the mine array, yellow slime balls hit the soldiers on the metal defense line like raindrops.  The soldiers had to hide behind the bunker and curse loudly. The shooting range of the depleted uranium guns was only less than 800 meters, and they could not attack the Thunder Scorpions that were still 1 kilometer away.  Seeing the infantry on the metal wall being suppressed, the mechas behind them desperately fired missiles in an attempt to interrupt the long-range jets of the Thunder Scorpions. However, without the guidance of Skynet, the shooting accuracy of the originally precision-guided missiles was greatly reduced.  Those slime masses with extremely high temperature stuck to the metal walls of the defense line and kept bubbling and emitting a faint yellow smoke and pungent smell. Yi Lexiang leaned tightly behind the metal bunker and covered it with his hands.  He sniffed and murmured to himself: Is this yellow smoke poisonous?  He looked to the side and saw that most of the soldiers were bending over to avoid the yellow mucus balls like him. From time to time, an unlucky soldier was hit by the splattered mucus and let out a scream.

    This battle was really useless, Yi Lexiang muttered angrily.  He stuck his head out slightly and observed the scorpions in the distance. No matter how powerful these things were, they couldn't keep spraying.  Soon he discovered a group of scorpions that had been spraying for ten minutes, and some of them were crawling towards the defense line under the cover of other scorpions.  With his head retracted, Yi Lexiang felt a little dizzy for a moment. The damn thunder scorpions actually attacked in different levels. The scorpions that finished spraying the mucus would automatically move forward and attack the rear. The scorpions continued to emit mucus to cover each other.  Yi Lexiang made several gestures to the soldiers in the third row, asking them to follow his instructions and prepare to fire.

    To calm down the tension a little, NetEase Lexiang silently calculated the slime balls flying in the air through his mental power, looking for gaps in shooting.  The speed of the slime sprayed by the Thunder Scorpion is not very fast. It takes about 10 seconds to cross a distance of 100 meters, and it only takes 5 seconds for a skilled soldier to fire a magazine of a depleted uranium gun. As long as the actual machine control is accurate, there should not be much danger.  Otherwise, it would be even more troublesome if the Thunder Scorpion crawled in front of the metal defense line.

    "Hit" Yi Lexiang stood up suddenly and fired wildly at the approaching Thunder Scorpion.  The soldiers in the third row stood up together with Yi Lexiang without hesitation, and suddenly the defensive position of the third row erupted with gunfire.  After firing a magazine, he had no time to see the effect. He shouted: "Hidden" and Yi Lexiang quickly hid behind the metal bunker.  With a slight sigh of relief, Yi Lexiang came and took a look around. Fortunately, he had grasped the timing well and there were no casualties in the three rows.  Several soldiers stretched out their thumbs at Yi Lexiang with a smile on their faces.
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