Umbrella, The Light of Humanity - Chapter 345

The distance between the 3rd Fleet and the expeditionary force was rapidly shortening, and the two sides were approaching.

However, the expeditionary force has been carrying out alternating salvos of main and secondary artillery. On the other hand, the 3rd Fleet has only been beaten, and has no counterattack at all. After all, the battleships of the Federal Army are inferior to those built by the Foundry World. several epochs.

There are also dense squadron-centered carrier-based aircraft, and these carrier-based aircraft from Vikings, Falcons, etc., also **** Thunder transport aircraft with thermal melt resistance capabilities to fly with the expeditionary force, using giant warships and energy. The shield acts as cover, waiting for the perfect time to strike.

Soon, the 3rd Fleet finally launched a counter-offensive. Live-fire artillery of various calibers, and missiles carrying 300, 400,000 tons, or even one million, ten million tons of nuclear warheads also stood out and rushed towards the expeditionary force. go.

Just looking at the number of barrages, even if it was severely damaged and the troops were sharply reduced, the 3rd Fleet was still ahead of the Expeditionary Force, and this salvo of artillery fire from the 3rd Fleet seemed to carry this infinite anger, and it was bound to give the Expeditionary Force a shot. annihilate.

You must know that their federal army may be a bit biased (weak) in other aspects of technology, such as individual protection and ground armored vehicles, but if it is compared to “nuclear energy”, their federal army is definitely the leader, ranging from individual soldiers to large To the nuclear bomb that can burn the entire surface of the planet, that is everything!

Therefore, the interim commander of the 3rd Fleet believes that as long as tens of thousands of missiles carrying nuclear warheads successfully break through the expeditionary force’s firepower interception network, they can turn decadence and change the situation of comprehensive suppression.

Too bad it backfired.

The first salvos of live-fire artillery of various calibers could not penetrate the expeditionary warships with energy shields at all, and nuclear bombs of various equivalents…

boom–! boom–! boom–!

The flare generated by the explosion suddenly rose, but it didn’t take long to dissipate quickly, returning the universe to cold and darkness.

It turned out to be all the Zeus class in the expeditionary army. When they were about to come into contact with the nuclear bomb barrage, they actively generated and increased the power to instantly spread an energy shield wall, successfully resisting all the nuclear explosions.

The explosion of a nuclear bomb can indeed produce extremely strong destructive power, but its power in the deep space of the universe will be greatly reduced. Moreover, this kind of damage is a “face”, not a “point”. If it is a salvo of electromagnetic main guns, Zeus-level protection The shield is absolutely unbearable, but the nuclear explosion…it seems easy.

The expeditionary force, who had all the salvos, was close enough to the 3rd Fleet, so the carrier-based aircraft formation took advantage of the situation and made a quick surprise attack, escorting the Thunder transport aircraft through the firepower network of the close-range artillery, while dogfighting with the enemy aircraft.

After rushing into the 3rd Fleet Group, each squadron locked in their respective target federal ships and dispersed, creating an opportunity for Thunder to gang up.

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A certain equipment room of a 500-meter-class destroyer…

“Beep! Beep! Beep!” the alarm blared.

“All ready, all ready…” and the repeated mechanical broadcast.

“This is the bridge, I’m Captain Savaney Delater!” At this time, the repeated broadcast was artificially switched to the captain’s real-time broadcast: “The Roger Young is about to be attacked by the enemy. Invasion! Please prepare the motorized infantry to defend against the enemy! Repel them!”

heard.

“Bastards!” A bald captain who had just put on his combat uniform and mechanical skeleton picked up a short, compact commander-style rifle and looked around at the infantrymen who had also changed their equipment and shouted:

“You all heard what the captain said! Although we don’t deal with the fleet, but!! Without the fleet, our infantry are all **** land ducks, so for our ticket, we will drive all the pirates… ”

But “Boom!!!” interrupted the captain’s encouraging speech.

I saw that the leftmost bulkhead of the equipment room, which is also the leftmost bulkhead of the hull, was pierced by the hot melt beam, and the strength of the hot melt beam was not reduced, directly swallowing everything along the way, and many unlucky people were vaporized by the beam. , including the captain who gave the pep talk.

“Huh!!!” The air roared.

The air pressure imbalance caused the air in the chamber to quickly escape, and it would not take long for it to be drained by space.

“what!!!”

“Help!”

“Quick! Climb out!”

It wasn’t just the air that was leaking out. The motorized infantry that had just changed their equipment were also among them. Some guys with slow responses were directly sucked out of the ship, and some were more resourceful, and immediately used the power increase brought by the mechanical skeleton. On the floor, ready to climb out of the equipment room.

“Boom! Pounds!”

At this moment, a Thunder transport plane with its wings retracted rampaged, jumped to the interior of Roger Young, and parked in this equipment room.

Immediately afterwards, the Thunder also ejected a rapidly inflating and expanding “rubber” ball, which blocked the gap along the airflow, successfully preventing the violent tumbling and leakage of the airflow.

And before the surviving motorized infantrymen were waiting to celebrate, the Thunder transport plane had already opened the hatch of the lower nose, so that the infantrymen could see that in the dimly lit cabin, many faint green “eyes” were flashing.

! ! !

The infantry suddenly wanted to raise their guns.

“Tong! Tong!”

But the sound of a muffled gunshot came from a .75 caliber bolter.

“Boom! Boom!” The huge rubber bullet hit the infantry’s body and protective gear.

“Pfft!” A soldier with a rubber bullet in the middle of his abdomen jumped backwards due to strong force, and fell heavily to the ground, spitting blood, and he closed his eyes and tilted his head, wondering if it was death or not. live.

Just a face-to-face.

Just one shot.

Hundreds of infantry soldiers completely lost their mobility and combat ability, laying on the ground and wailing, or could not stop foaming at the mouth, twitching all over, and some were completely motionless.

At this moment, among the movements in the equipment room, it was more the “dong, dong” sound made by the magnetic boots when they stepped on the metal floor.

It turned out that this Thunder transport plane directly sent a platoon to Roger Young, a total of 30 wild wolves equipped with Thor’s hammer Mark 5.

And in the magazines of these wild wolves, it is not the traditional standard bolts, nor the extremely brutal poisonous snake (alien acid blood) bolts, but the rubber bullets they often come into contact with during their training.

Although there is the word “rubber” in the name, it does not mean that rubber bullets are a “safe” and “harmless” thing. You must know that they are shot from the barrel of the bolt gun and hit the Astartes. It will be swollen and blue, and if it hits “mortals”…

The motorized infantry paralyzed on the ground is the best result.

In fact, most of the motionless infantrymen had died. After all, these infantrymen were directly hit by rubber bullets in the abdomen, causing rupture and damage to their internal organs.

The infantrymen who were screaming in pain and twitching all over still had a certain chance of surviving. If these wild wolves came up with standard bolts, the equipment room would have bloodshed long ago, and there would be pieces of meat and corpses everywhere.

Replacing the rubber bullets is a “non-lethal” strategy adopted by Ruth after discussing with the Red Queen, in order to try to avoid too many casualties, otherwise they will charge bravely according to the arrogant advancement of Astartes, especially the Space Wolves. It’s strange that someone is alive after the jump gang battle.

After all, what my father asked for was to subvert the federal government and “incorporate” the population and territory of this galaxy. Unlike the close-range jumping gang battle, if the plundering of the previous jumping gang battle resulted in heavy casualties, it may cause severe casualties. The people’s resistance, rebellious mentality.

In terms of controlling public opinion, the Red Queen may not be as good as her “sister” White Queen, but it is much stronger than humans, so Ruth is also willing to adopt the suggestion of using rubber bullets.

However, the wild wolves, who are used to directly killing the enemy, are a little uncomfortable, so the mobile infantry has suffered heavy casualties.

But the problem is not big, and the wolves who have learned the “lessons” move on.

“Pang!” A wild wolf kicked open the metal gate directly, and then came to the corridor with his brothers.

Immediately after…

“Tong! Tong!” Muffled gunshots echoed throughout the hull of the Roger Young.

This time, in the face of the heavily armed motorized infantry, the wolves will have a heart of “compassion”, aiming at the limbs of the infantry before pulling the trigger.

Facing the heavy infantry with heavy mechanical bones, it will arouse the wild wolves’ desire to fight. They will start directly facing the bullets, remove the armor and mechanical bones of the heavy soldiers, and then give them to those who have lost their protection. The hoplite shot in both arms and legs.

Meet the unarmed crew…

Hit it right.

How can the wild wolf care if you are unarmed or not, it is the wild wolf’s purpose to beat you to the point of incapacitating combat.

Next, this battle platoon was divided into five groups to speed up the sweeping of the entire Roger Young, and the tactical team where the platoon leader was located had already arrived at the bridge.

With another “Pang!”, the platoon leader kicked open the closed metal gate and led the brothers in.

“Da da!”

As soon as they entered, the middle-aged female captain who was broadcasting before led the entire crew to attack with pistols.

“Om ~ hum ~!” But the warhead couldn’t penetrate Thor’s hammer’s energy shield at all.

“Ding! Slap~!” And the warhead that was ejected was still scurrying back and forth in the bridge.

“Ah!” A female sailor with long hair and ponytail was hit by a bullet in her right arm, bleeding profusely.

And this female sailor is actually the ex-girlfriend of hard-boned Corporal Johnny Rigge, who is also the female helmsman of Roger Young, Carmen Ibanez.

In Sui Bian’s impression, it was the green boyfriend Carmen who modified the route without authorization, allowing the Roger Young to discover the asteroid that hit Buenos Aires.

Seeing that the pistol attack was ineffective, and the six wild wolves were still unscrupulous, they walked into the bridge “slowly”. The female captain immediately threw away the pistol in her hand, raised her hands neatly, and loudly ordered: “All stop attacking. ! Stop resisting!”

“Captain?!” Everyone was amazed, apparently not expecting the usual stern and rigid captain to order surrender.

“This is an order!” the female captain shouted again.

“Yes…”

At this point, all the crew members followed the order, threw away the pistols in their hands, and raised their hands to express their willingness to surrender.

The reason for the female captain’s order to surrender is very simple, that is, in the face of absolute strength, all counterattacks are futile. Moreover, she also knows that these iron can giants do not have much murderous intentions, otherwise they will not use rubber bullets. As the captain, she is much more rational and responsible for the young people beside her.

but…

There are always those guys who are conceited that they know more than the older generation and think they can counterattack.

I saw a handsome-looking male sailor. When the wild wolves didn’t pay attention to him, he hurriedly bent down and reached out to pick up the pistol that was still on the ground by him, and then prepared to fight at close range. Launch a sneak attack at the “weak” joint of Mjolnir.

pity…

“Crack it!!” When the bone was crushed by the heavy object, it made a sour sound.

“Ah ah ah!” In line with the men’s miserable shouts, they spread through the bridge together.

“Humph.” A wild wolf stomped on the male sailor’s right hand with his left foot to pick up the gun, made a downward motion, and said in a metallic voice with great disdain: “Trash, don’t think I won’t kill you.”

After speaking, the wild wolf moved his left foot away.

Looking at the male crew member’s right hand… it’s bloody, it’s completely useless, and it’s worth mentioning that this guy happened to be Carmen’s cheating target.

It may be that this guy wants to perform well in front of Carmen, because the wild wolf has no killing intent and is ready to show off, who knows that the wild wolf is not used to it.

The platoon leader of the wild wolf turned slightly, glanced at the male sailor who was holding his right hand on the ground and twitched in pain, then opened his helmet, showing the appearance of short hair and a copper nail engraved on his forehead, and shot a circle. , finally set his eyes on the female captain and said in a deep voice:

“Captain, please instruct your crew to operate this battleship out of the battle line. Don’t worry, as long as you cooperate, we will never deliberately embarrass you.”

“Okay, I hope you can keep your promise.” The female captain nodded in agreement.

off the ship.

The Roger Young, which was seized by the wild wolves, took the initiative to leave the 3rd Fleet under the control of the female captain and the crew, and headed towards the area where the expeditionary force was located.

Looking around, all the ships that were “patronized” by the Wild Wolf Jump Gang turned their direction. In the end, the 3rd Fleet completely disintegrated and could no longer support the battle. The remaining ships, regardless of whether the route was safe or not, immediately opened. The warp drive escapes here.

From the arrival of the 3rd Fleet in the L-03 space to the time when the remaining ships began to escape, the whole process failed to persist for even two hours…

It’s funny. Back then, the 3rd Fleet also let the Hard Bone Company last for two hours. Now, it’s nonsense to last for two hours.

At this time, the expeditionary force released a large number of engineering boats and engineering ships, and began to inspect and repair the captured federal warships.

At the same time, a large number of transport planes and transport boats also carried auxiliary troops and UNSC marines to land on these federal warships to assist the wild wolves in guarding the prisoners.

Statistics after the war show that the losses of the expeditionary force are minimal. After all, the expeditionary force even has energy shields for its carrier-based aircraft and individual equipment. On the other hand, the 3rd Fleet lost four-fifths of its ships in just two hours. Ships, and most of the ships and the Confederate soldiers on them also fell into the hands of the Expeditionary Force.

It can be said that it is a “good start”, then the next step is to let the popular queen fight a wave of “psychological warfare”.

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