Chapter 173 How Did It Become a Decisive Battle?
"You retreat." Chen Dalong shouted loudly before his men arrived.
The defense team, which was fighting and retreating at the same time, turned around and ran without saying a word after hearing the shout.
The rescue team led by Chen Dalong has already taken action more than a dozen times in the past few hours. The teams on the A13 defense line have already seen how strong their combat power is.
They knew very well that staying here would be a drag, and the retreat could be said to be neat and tidy.
As the defense team retreated, the mutant insects that surged onto the city wall had no time to disperse and attack other places, and Chen Dalong rushed into the insect swarm.
The two ring-headed knives in his hands were swung left and right, or chopped, or slashed, or chopped, or swept, all using the simplest moves.
However, when these moves are extremely fast, the lethality will become extremely terrifying.
In the eyes of others, the two knives in Chen Dalong's hands seemed to form thousands of knife beams. Wherever he passed, the mutant insects were cut in half.
As Chen Dalong entered the scene, he immediately attracted the attention of most of the mutant insects and launched an attack on him.
At this time, the rest of the rescue team entered the scene one after another.
With Chen Dalong in the front, their pressure was undoubtedly much less, but even so, they did not dare to rush forward like Chen Dalong.
After all, each of these mutant insects that could rush to the top of the city wall can be regarded as the best of their kind. As long as they are a little careless, they may be injured.
So the 9 people following behind, 4 of them are good at close combat, holding cold weapons in the front.
Their task is to create a safe output environment for the companions behind them.
The 5 people who were protected behind were all veterans with superb marksmanship. After becoming evolvers, their strength, vision, and reaction speed have been greatly enhanced.
Da da da!
The 5 people used the sweeping mode. If it was before, even if the sweeping mode was used within 10 meters, the bullet hit rate would not exceed 20%.
After all, in the sweeping mode, 10 bullets will be fired in one second. Normal people don't even have time to move the muzzle of the gun before a volley of bullets is fired.
In this case, a 20% hit rate is the result of their years of training.
Now that they have become evolvers, their marksmanship has been greatly enhanced. When sweeping these mutant insects, as long as the distance does not exceed 10 meters, the effective hit rate of the bullets can even reach half.
This doesn't sound good, but it is actually very terrifying.
An automatic rifle has 30 bullets in a magazine. In the sweeping mode, it can be finished in three seconds. A 50% effective hit rate means that about 15 mutant insects can be killed in 3 seconds.
In the case of the five of them shooting alternately, the efficiency of killing mutant insects is only faster than Chen Dalong.
In just one minute, with the joint efforts of everyone, more than half of the more than 300 mutant insects that rushed up this section of the wall were killed.
However, as the number of mutant insects decreased and they were no longer so dense, the killing efficiency naturally began to decline.
All the members changed the sweeping mode to the bursting mode, and Chen Dalong also changed from being chased by the mutant insects to chasing the mutant insects.
It took nearly 4 minutes, and everyone finally killed the last mutant insect on this section of the wall.
"Is anyone injured?" Chen Dalong put away his two knives and asked.
"No." Everyone said in unison.
No one was injured, which was naturally good news, but Chen Dalong was not happy at all now.
He glanced at the mutant insect swarm that seemed to be getting denser and denser in the distance, sighed and said: "Then everyone, please replenish your ammunition quickly. I estimate that it won't take long before the next wave of attacks is coming."
The others also had a solemn expression when they heard it.
They all felt that this attack was unusual, and they had a bad premonition in their hearts.
Just 5 minutes later, their premonition became true.
Another large wave of mutant insects attacked.
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At the same time, Bai Yinghui on another section of the wall frowned and looked at the mutant insect swarm that launched another attack.
"The frequency of the attack has indeed increased, and it has directly increased by three times. What does your staff's analysis say?" Bai Yinghui asked the chief of staff Jian Yi.
"After discussion in our staff, we believe that the sound of our gunfire has attracted the mutant insect swarm to a certain extent, and their movement speed has increased."
"Originally, we were only fighting the vanguard, but as more and more mutant insects arrive, it is very likely to evolve into a decisive battle next." Jian Yi said with a wry smile.
Bai Yinghui: ???
He looked at Jian Yi, the chief of staff, with sharp eyes and said, "According to the prediction of your staff, the Zerg will probably launch a general attack on the third day after the war begins."
"It's only been a few hours, and you're telling me that we're going to have a decisive battle? What did you predict before? Are you just sitting there doing nothing?"
Jian Yi stammered and said, "There was indeed a big problem with our prediction this time. I am willing to take responsibility for this..."
"Stop! Don't tell me those useless things." Bai Yinghui waved his hand to interrupt the other party and said, "Tell me first, what suggestions do you have for this situation?"
"First, implement the decapitation plan. We have locked on those special mutant insects mixed in the mutant swarm. They should be the commanders."
"Before the decisive battle, we can use the Reaper missiles to get rid of them all at once, which may cause chaos in the swarm. Of course, the swarm is different from humans, and it is only a guess that it can be effective."
"Second, the training plan will end early. I suggest that we directly use the means prepared before to kill as many of their living forces as possible before the mutant swarm attacks, while preserving our combat power." Jian Yi said.
Bai Yinghui nodded after listening. He thought for a while and asked: "What is the current casualty situation?"
"In the past four hours, the number of injured people has reached 7,236, of which 6,404 were slightly injured and could return to the battlefield after bandaging, 832 were seriously injured and could not continue to fight, and 132 died in battle." Jian Yi answered immediately.
Bai Yinghui frowned slightly after listening. This number is much higher than their initial estimate.
The number of seriously injured and killed reached 964, which is close to 1,000.
This was only 4 hours of fighting, and they were facing the vanguard before. If they really faced the main force of the insect swarm, this number would probably increase several times.
And even if the 6,404 lightly injured soldiers can return to the battlefield after bandaging, it does not mean that their combat power can be restored immediately. It is good enough to retain two-thirds.
Thinking of this, Bai Yinghui ordered: "Start the metal storm on the city wall and distribute the new equipment we have developed."
"Finally, let the artillery team be ready. If those mutant insects dare to gather in one place to attack next, then bomb them hard."
Jian Yi nodded immediately and passed the order back to the staff department for them to execute.
After a moment, he asked: "Do we need to increase the number of people defending the city wall?"
The total number of their military, plus the major security companies, and the combat personnel of the enterprises is as high as 60,000.
With so many people, it is impossible to send all of them to defend the city wall. In fact, they have always maintained the number of manpower at around 30,000.
The remaining people will take turns to rest. After all, they are not made of steel in such a high-intensity battle, so rest is inevitable.
Bai Yinghui thought for a while and shook his head, "Let's take a look at the casualties later. As long as it is within the acceptable range, don't increase the number of manpower."
"After all, most of the troops are new recruits, and they need some time to adjust themselves."
As new orders were issued one after another, the trend of the battle was also undergoing tremendous changes.
First, the artillery squad entered the scene. Although the soldiers on the city wall also had grenades before, how could the power of grenades be comparable to that of mortars.
Of course, more importantly, the efficiency of ammunition delivery.
After the mutant insects rushed through the flame zone, they were only 20 meters away from the city wall, so the window period left for them to bomb was only a dozen seconds.
Under this situation, the number of grenades that each person can throw is quite limited.
But it's different if it's the artillery squad.
They have specially modified artillery launchers that can load hundreds of mortars at a time and then fire them out in one breath.
In this case, let alone just a few thousand mutant insects, even if the number doubles or triples, they can be taken away in one wave.
So when the bombardment team entered the field, the mutant insects' previous tactics of breaking through the surface with a point directly failed.
Even later, they did not dare to gather more than 1,000 mutant insects in a certain place.
As these mutant insects dispersed to various parts of the city wall to launch attacks, the metal storm on the city wall was also activated.
The so-called metal storm is actually a series of machine guns embedded in the wall.
These machine guns were installed in the foundation when the city wall was built. After starting, a small hole will be exposed under the city wall, which is the position of the muzzle, and then it will be fan-shaped.
Because these machine guns are placed at the foundation of the city wall, the position of the muzzle is almost level with the ground.
In this case, as long as the mutant insects are dense enough, even if no one is aiming, the fan-shaped shooting according to the set program can have a great probability of hitting those mutant insects.
When the metal storm is activated, the effect is very significant.
The number of mutant insects killed by the metal storm is no less than that of the soldiers on the wall.
The only problem is that the bullet consumption is a bit too much, more than 10 times that of the soldiers.
Therefore, the metal storm will only be activated when the attack of the mutant swarm is fierce enough.
As for the last arrangement, it is to replace the equipment of these soldiers.
There are two kinds of new equipment, the first one is a high-powered shotgun.
The most terrifying thing about mutant insects is their number, but their defense is very ordinary, even worse than that of first-level mutant animals.
So even if the shotgun is not very powerful, as long as it hits, it can kill them instantly.
Moreover, this thing basically has no requirements for shooting skills. For new recruits, it is undoubtedly the most suitable. As long as you aim at the place where there are many mutant insects, you can kill at least a dozen with one shot.
With the shotgun, the efficiency of the soldiers on the wall in killing mutant insects has increased by at least three times.
Shotguns are offensive weapons, and the newly equipped weapons naturally include defensive weapons.
That is the shield.
Yes, each defense team has at least two giant shields.
Compared with other shields, this shield is very different in shape. First of all, it is not vertical, but horizontal.
It is 1.5 meters wide, but only 1 meter high, which is completely designed for mutant insects.
In addition, this shield is quite light because it is hollow inside, and the only thing used for defense is the three-millimeter-thick steel plate in front.
This design is flexible and very convenient to move, and the three-millimeter-thick steel plate can also block 99% of the attacks of mutant insects.
On the other hand, this hollow shield contains a mystery and has a powerful discharge device.
As long as the switch is triggered, the surface of the shield can instantly release high-voltage current, making this defensive shield also a powerful offensive weapon.
As these back-up plans were activated one by one, the situation on the battlefield was instantly reversed.
The soldiers on the city wall became more comfortable facing the mutant swarm again, and the number of casualties was also rapidly decreasing, at most only one-tenth of the previous one.
But even though the situation in front of them was very good, not many people were really excited, especially the military leaders.
Although their combat power has increased, so have the mutant swarms.
Almost every hour, the offensive strength of the mutant swarms will increase by one level.
No one knows how long their advantage can last.
Time passed little by little, and finally a night passed.
When the time came to 6:30 in the morning, a fish belly white had risen in the distant sky.
With the shining of the morning light, the soldiers on the city wall did not survive the joy of a night.
Because as the sun drove away the darkness, they could see farther away, and the mountains and plains were full of mutant insects.
That terrifying number can definitely make people suffer from intensive phobia.
And the huge swarm of insects, like dark green sea water, is slowly but firmly approaching Yangcheng City.
That is the army of mutant insects.
Seeing the scene in front of him, let alone these ordinary soldiers, even Ye Feng felt a little tingling on his scalp.
Under normal circumstances, even if the Dragon King Palace came out in full force, it would be difficult to kill such a large number of mutant insects, and it is more likely to be slowly exhausted to death.
Ye Feng felt that this time he might really have to take action in person to solve the problem.
While thinking about this, his eyes looked at Bai Yinghui in the distance, but he was a little surprised to find that the other party had a calm face.
"Huh! Could it be that the military is confident in dealing with it?"