StarCraft: Tyranid Empire

Chapter 190 Battle in the Canyon

At 17:[-], the vanguard of the Alpha Squadron performing the pursuit mission exchanged fire with the Revolutionary Army's Harnack and Tychus divisions at the bottleneck of the desolate canyon.Compared with the wide terrain in front of the canyon, the bottleneck mouth is like the thin neck of a bottle. The distance between the rock walls on both sides shrinks and narrows rapidly, and the narrowest point is only a hundred feet.

It was like a pocket that had suddenly tightened, and the forces of Harnack Hank and Tychus Finley were just like the ropes that tightened the pocket.

The position of the Revolutionary Army is located in the rear two-thirds of the bottleneck of the canyon, less than twenty miles away from the canyon exit, and after that is the command center of Fort Martin where Augustus is located.That is to say, if the troops of Harnack and Tychus cannot hold this place, then Augustus will face the soldiers of Alpha Squadron directly.

The position was built by excavators and construction vehicles using steel fenders, concrete and battlecruiser armor, separated by bunkers and two command centers that served as fortresses.

"Mengsk really knows how to call people to do coolies for him. We are suffering and suffering here, but he is sitting in the command center at the rear and having a good time with that female agent and female nurse." In a bunker surrounded by protective steel plates, Tai Case was sitting on a stool, lighting a cigar, next to a Whisperer machine gun.

"One with red hair and one with blonde hair."

The bunker was so small that it could only accommodate the burly Tychus and Harnack in the firebat armor.And after wearing power armor, even standing would not be too tiring, and Tychus moved the stool and sat down with Erlang's legs up, which made the already narrow space even more difficult to accommodate a few people.

Although the two of them are the highest-ranking commanders here, the officers under them will never imagine that Tychus and Harnack just fought over this stool, and the winner is already obvious. up.

These two villains always see each other at the first glance when they are doing bad things, but they will immediately turn against each other when they share benefits.

"Do you think the boss knows women's butts and thighs just like you?" Harnack was still angry about what happened just now: "You will pay the price for this kind of thing sooner or later, and then don't expect the boss to be like before. Then bring someone to rescue you!"

"He just wants me to owe him a favor, do you understand?" Tychus pointed at his head: "Aristocrats like them only think about the exchange of benefits, and everything is business, without friendship. "

"You don't think there are brothers who share life and death in this world, do you? When I get caught by the Federation or something else, will he really fish me out at all costs?" In any case, Tychus never Believe anyone, don't believe that love is stronger than gold.

"Huh? Little brat."

"If it was the boss, if that man's name was Augustus Mengsk, then he would have done it." Harnack said, "You piece of shit, if you betray us, I'll burn you into ashes."

"Hehe—" Tychus stood up grumblingly: "I'm only working so hard for money—"

"Shut up, I've heard about it at least seven or eight times." Hanak cursed a few words, then pointed to the observation port in front of the bunker and said, "They're here."

"Pyromaniacs, start grilling," he said on his unit's command channel.

"Light your matches."

In the dark night, flash bombs lit up the night sky.Soldiers of Alpha Squadron, fully armed and in white power armor, rushed towards the positions of the Revolutionary Army one after another on the sandy red land.

Alpha Squadron in white power armor and Revolutionary Army soldiers in crimson power armor fired at each other. Nail-shooting bullets several times the speed of sound, copper-plated steel blunt bullets, and pointed depleted uranium bullets formed a rain-like dense barrage.

There were more than [-] soldiers in this narrow area, and several thousand fired simultaneously on the spread lines.About two battalions of the Revolutionary Army were Harnack's firebat units, and a wall of plasma flames lit up half the rock face.

The power armor of these firebats was jointly designed by chief engineer Rory Swan and the armor technician of the magic of heaven. After all, the latter participated in the design and development of Hiram Fick of the firebat power armor.

The Firebat power armor of the Revolutionary Army is different from that of the Federation. They use the improved CMC-300 instead of CMC-250. The face shield and breastplate of the power armor are thickened and coated with a heat-resistant coating. For the comfort of the wearer, the plasma fuel tank behind the power armor also adds a thermal barrier.

It is reported that the armor technician is still participating in the "Reaper" power armor and twin-turbo jump backpack research projects planned by Augustus himself.It is envisaged that soldiers wearing this power armor will be able to climb hundreds of foot cliffs and fly in the air like Superman.

And Colonel Hanak Hank based on his own experience in using firebat armor suggested adding double fuel tanks to these to enhance battery life and avoid the embarrassing scene of burning halfway.

In addition, Swann also added granular scorching agent filaments to the plasma fuel tanks of the Revolutionary Firebats and other Pyromen, allowing the flamethrower to spew out more powerful blue plasma flames.

In Swan's words: "Lan Zhanzhan, shiny."

This turned the flames of the Revolutionary Army's Pyro units into a glowing blue, and their commander, Harnack, was obsessed with creating an epic conflagration and committed to making his Pyro Become the most notorious pyromaniac.

In some of Harnack's battalions, the only requirement for recruits was whether they would fill out a questionnaire that they had played with fire as a child.

As a result, when several skirmishers of the Alpha Squadron rushed to the Revolutionary Army's position under the cover of the arc light tanks and Goliath armed robots, they were immediately covered in blue scorching plasma by the Revolutionary Army's fire-breathing troops.

When Alpha Squadron's self-propelled artillery and electromagnetic cannon fired, the rumbling sound of the cannon resounded throughout the canyon, like the roar of Thor, and the electromagnetically accelerated kinetic energy shell fell on the position of the Revolutionary Army, setting off a series of hundreds of feet high, made of sand. composed of spring columns.

The first round of shelling caused heavy casualties to the revolutionary army on the position, and accidentally injured a considerable number of resocialized soldiers who had rushed to the position.

Of course, the artillery commander of Alpha Squadron just pretended nothing happened.

At the same time, hundreds of wraith fighter planes and heavy bombers converted from APOD-33 transport planes immediately took off from a military air port built by Augustus near the desolate canyon in advance.

In the eyes of the soldiers on both sides, these fighter planes looked like firebirds riding orange-red flames. They bombarded the artillery positions of the Federal Army with the anti-aircraft missiles of the Alpha Squadron Goliath armed robots. Just misfired.

It took two hours for Alpha Squadron's assault force to retreat, leaving behind hundreds of corpses in power armor.The revolutionary army did not suffer much better than them. Due to the lack of sufficient power armor and heavy weapons, even the most elite revolutionary army would need to pay more heavy casualties to repel Alpha Squadron's resocialization attack.

After the first round of attack, the Alpha Squadron only paused for more than ten minutes before launching another onslaught.

This time, Colonel Edmund Duke, who arrived later, personally led the commando to launch an attack. He didn't notice that a large-scale rebel army had blocked the entrance of the canyon and was advancing towards his back at full speed. .

(End of this chapter)