Abyss Express

Chapter 772 Mission③·Battle for the Highlands

Foreword:

War is simple, straightforward, and ruthless.

——George Smith Patton, Jr.

[Military action file number: X·117·50100274]

[Task code: Wenque]

[Task time: October 30, 2033, 19:47]

[Mission content: Our small vanguard force has arrived near the Danqiu Kingdom in the Axian Mountains, building a garrison in the name of a special military operation and conducting corps drills. ]

[On the political front, General Lewis Hamilton, the diplomatic representative of the Department of Transportation, and Luo Ping'an, the leader of the Blackstone Senate, conducted effective consultations on Daxia Hongfa Temple. Military strikes against the Eternal Alliance and the Danqiu Kingdom rebels can Executed as scheduled. ]

[Sergeant 1st Class Maguire Copenhagen, you answer the call to arms. ]

[The Organization Department has arranged four weeks and twenty-eight natural days of military training for you. Your performance is outstanding and you are a qualified medical soldier. ]

[The BOSS needs your strength and your sharp knife. ]

[The integrated investigation and combat plan of Class 7 is based on the hard work of Class 6. The Mulan checkpoint in Maling Township in Danqiu Kingdom is like two large iron gates. The advance team has already fought two encounters and overcome the difficulties. The hard time has come. ]

[We need Squadron 7 to establish a third FOB beacon on Highland No. 194 at Mulan Pass, which is the hillside at coordinates 504.365 on the tactical map, to gain opportunities for the artillery squadron that will approach later. ]

[You need to allocate your forces reasonably, with Master Chief Hitchcock as the core of leadership and Sergeant Buller as the most important combatant - seize Hill 194 as much as possible and hold on until 20:30 sharp. ]

[Sergeant Maguire Copenhagen, this is your first live mission, may the goddess of luck favor the brave. ]

[When the enemy comes within your range, it means that you are also exposed to the enemy's range. ]

[War is simple, straightforward, direct, and ruthless. ]

In the rainy night, Maguire followed Bullet Boy, walking lightly in a three-person team, and came to a wetland forest.

He couldn't figure out the direction or where he was. When he actually arrived at the core area of ​​the battlefield, he still felt like he was slow and sluggish - he couldn't get into the state for a long time.

It was so quiet all around, the sound of rain almost drowned out everything else.

All the buzzing of insects and howling mountain winds, all roars of beasts or gongs and drums of sentries were covered up by the heavy rain.

"The General Staff and Keshuai always choose the right time to attack." Bullet Boy squatted half-crouched on the bare rock high in the forest in front, raised his right arm and clenched his fist, asking the team members behind him to stop and remain completely silent. He whispered: "In order to reduce battle losses, this is already the third round of attacking the mountain. The last two nuisance operations were too smooth, and the defenders of the Guiyi Sect were exhausted mentally and physically - it happened to be the time for the surprise attack when the wind and rain could wash away the pheromones. ”

Bullet leaned on the ledge and leaned forward slightly. He immediately identified the coordinates based on the direction of the mountain and the characteristics of trees growing toward the sun. He didn't even think of opening the tactical map and taking a closer look - these common sense of combat had already followed Gun. Together with Mr. Takumi’s guidance, it was engraved into his DNA.

"Let's go."

Maguire didn’t know. He didn’t understand why Brother Bullet was crouching and waiting at the edge of the forest. What did these short ten seconds mean to Bullet, the pioneer? In terms of information collection, what did Bullet look like? I didn’t see anything, but I saw everything.

Looking out from the ledge at the edge of the forest, you can see a dark depression terraced field. They extend towards Mulan Pass. After walking another 483 meters, you can determine the enemy's outpost. It is a state where all the people are in the army. The young and middle-aged labor force in the villages and towns and the chieftain militia took turns patrolling the post with weapons.

The intervals between the lights can indicate the density of the soldiers. When dealing with wind and rain, these patrol teams composed of militia officers and soldiers move slowly, and the overall status is almost clear at a glance.

The terrain at the mouth of the valley went down all the way, and the road near the circular mountain wall became more and more difficult to walk. In the end, there was no road at all.

Maguire followed closely behind the bullet, sandwiched between two teammates——

——He paid special attention. There was a hand on his side to protect him, and that was Bullet's little follower who was always taking care of him.

The follower's codename is Tanghulu, and he is also a native Daxia soldier from the Gate of Wonders. Since the beginning of the operation, he has been carrying Dr. Maguire with bullets in his hands. This hand is like the armor protecting the death door, and also like driving horses. Quill's whip, as long as he falls behind a little and is hindered in his movements, Tanghulu will immediately push and lift Maguire, holding Maguire's waist and arms forward.

The walk was fast and urgent. When we reached the dead end, Bullet identified the direction, took out the rock pick and hung it on the rock crevice on the side of the cliff. Like a gecko swimming on the wall, he started climbing - Maguire looked up. , this mountain wall is more than 50 meters high. According to Captain Bullet's wishes, they want to climb to Mulan Highlands. This is the first step for the surprise troops to descend from the sky.

"Medicine, are you okay?" Tanghu Lu did not urge him, but simply asked, "If not, wait here and the captain will pull you up."

"Let's go, I'm from Saladin." Maguire did not insist on being tough, but announced his home: "The hunting group climbed mountains and ridges, I should be able to do it, so we can't delay the opportunity."

This was Maguire's first time climbing a mountain in the pitch-black rainy night. He had received such training in the medical rescue team of Saladin, but this time there was no protection - in order to keep quiet, Bullet Boy didn't even use the rock pick much, just as a life-saving trump card, not to mention the safety procedures of hammering rock bolts.

They made almost no sound, like ghosts, and came to the west side of the brightly lit Mulan Highlands.

At the rock block on the top of the cliff on the west side, Maguire's heart was shocked, and a black shadow suddenly fell on his head -

- He almost screamed in fear, but held the scream back in his stomach.

Tanghulu was at Maguire's feet, pinching the medic's ankle tightly, causing Maguire's face to turn pale and his expression to twist in pain.

Until the heavy object broke through the forest and leaves, fell into the mud and shattered, and a muffled sound was heard - bullets came out from the top of the mountain and pulled Maguire onto the high platform.

The thing that fell down just now was the groom who was changing water and adding food to the horse trough at Mulan Heights. It happened to be the night shift, and the groom became the scapegoat of the patrolman, caught by the bullet and thrown off the cliff.

Maguire saw the corpse in the woods clearly. He was about fifty meters away. His eyesight was very good. He could see the unarmed groom wearing cloth clothes and dying with his eyes open. Almost instinctively, he whispered: "Did you kill civilians?"

Bullet did not reply. He signed with Tanghulu and showed Maguire his index finger to indicate silence. The gun was already loaded.

Maguire realized his loss of composure and how naive and careless he was.

After climbing to the top of the horse trough shack, there was a towering stand in front of him. This place could observe almost 60% of the land in Maling Township. As an artillery position, it was an excellent location.

Not far from the three people, only sixteen or seventeen meters away, was the garrison house of the Shanzi Camp of Danqiu State, and many voices could be heard.

Torches and electric lights were everywhere. There were intricate muddy roads between the tents and wooden buildings. There were also many fresh and deep footprints, which were the traces that had just been stepped on.

They were infinitely close to the state of encountering the enemy and fighting. In this case, it was crucial to fight for the opportunity to attack first. Kindness to the enemy was cruelty to oneself. No matter how weak the armed forces were, they were not "civilians" - bullets killed no simple horsemen.

Everyone who came to Mulan Highlands and worked for this military outpost was part of the violent machine of Guiyi Sect. They were ready. As long as the leaders of the barracks issued orders, every chieftain militia or labor slave could become a bright and dark sentry of the generals, and take up weapons to become a vicious enemy soldier.

This was the fact. Everyone in the seventh class knew more about knight combat skills than Maguire, and understood the survival rules of the battlefield better.

After removing the first sentry in the stable, Bullet won at least 56 square meters of free space for himself, and the three members of the vanguard group had more time to arrange the route and choose the point.

In just a few tens of seconds, Maguire couldn't even understand the bullet's brief command. The sign language combined with the symbols of the spirit's form change quickly released complex information - he had learned this code, but when he really understood it in the complex and dark rainy night and applied it in actual combat, he couldn't keep up with the rhythm.

Fortunately, the bullet did not include Maguire in the assault operation.

Tanghulu and the captain's spirit were entangled with each other. After taking off the heavy raincoat, the two of them acted separately and became two lightnings in the night.

Walking from the northwest slope of Mulan Highland to the southwest trail stone road, the enemy patrol team 1 and team 3 of Shanzi Camp had just completed the handover, just when the three teams walked back to the camp along the outer ring line cliff -

- The bullet seemed to have eyes, and dense gunfire came from the hay pile in the barracks pigpen.

The psychic who led the group had a black panther head and was also the "godly" general of the Shanzi Camp of Danqiu State. This blood-giving freak did not react at all. His two slender panther legs and ankles were smashed to pieces, and then his knees became weak. He saw more than 20 patrol officers and soldiers beside him kneeling down, and there was a sudden wailing.

Thunder flashed across the night sky. Captain Bullet, who was crawling on the second-floor roof of the kitchen, held the QBZ-191 tightly, wiped the water droplets on the sight, and began to cook the flesh and blood of the crazy butterfly with Tanghulu, who was touch and go.

The alarm gong sounded all of a sudden - Bullet did not rush to shoot, but turned the muzzle to aim at the tower on the southwest side of the highland barracks. The night watchman just started shouting, and his head exploded like a watermelon.

The bandit leader still didn't understand what he was being beaten by, nor did he know how many people raided the camp - surrounded by a huge fear, the black panther demon let out a heart-wrenching scream, which naturally made the surrounding officers and soldiers lose their courage.

The bullets were not in a hurry to kill the blood-giving monster, and also used this shrill roar as a weapon. He needed more information. Judging from the houses in the camp, there were at least more than 400 enemies living here. If the chieftains and laborers were counted, there were more than 1,000 people in the entire Mulan Highlands - according to the military system of the ancient feudal vassal forces, these people were in a state of universal military service.

Although this number seems bluffing, in the past few months of fighting with the Shambhala army, Kuai Dao's warriors have also confirmed the iron law of the feudal army-when these blood-given nobles fight, they always regard Homo sapiens as Flesh and blood snacks are used as supply packages. If this kind of mixed force suffers about 30% casualties, the morale will immediately collapse. If a regiment-level or battalion-level leader is wounded or killed, their centurions and thousand captains are killed, and the military flag is taken away, the remaining chieftains and militiamen will immediately disperse.

The situation of encirclement and reinforcements has emerged, and the high-value target whose identity can be determined has been seriously injured——

——For Bullet, the remaining task is to use the supreme art of military operations to command the enemy with various violent tools.

The messenger team, who had just changed their shift and were about to take a break, immediately took up their posts. When they heard the signal of enemy attack, these big-head soldiers who ordered and communicated rushed out of the canteen with curses and ran to the room where musical instruments and drums were stored.

A signal bomb flew into the air, and as soon as the flare was lit, Maguire saw six rose-colored dark red flames emerging from the hills four kilometers away. The marked artillery shell shattered the center of the barracks and school grounds, shattering it into pieces. A marble statue of Emmanuel Buddha.

Immediately afterwards came five flaming Death Gods. They roared in the air and turned into a ball of iron rain and steel slag when they landed. The accuracy of the rockets was very low, and there was still a risk of accidentally injuring the vanguard team, but Sergeant Bullet No hesitation——

——He wants to fight one against a thousand? That’s a fantasy!

Without the superb shooting skills of the gunsmith teacher, nor the ammunition reserves for long-term operations, calling for artillery support is the simplest and most direct method, which can defeat the fighting will of the Mulan Highland defenders in an instant.

These five rockets landed all over the camp. The fragments tore apart the foundations of the wooden buildings. Thermite ignited the grass and fences, taking away more than 30 lives in an instant. For such a dense camp with soldiers, this was It is already considered a saturation attack.

These things happened in just one minute. Maguire's beating heart while climbing the rock had not completely cooled down. It became intense again due to the strong light and sound, and began to make bursts of cramping pain. .

Men in short clothes sprang out from the dwellings lined up on the slopes from the highlands. Most of them were strong men captured by the chieftains. They seemed to have heard the "mighty power of heaven" and saw the fire from heaven emerging between heaven and earth - these people He ran towards the pass like crazy.

Some soldiers who were still willing to fight immediately ran to the wells in the highlands to get water to put out the fire.

The soldiers of the first and second squads who were still resting received emergency orders to change their shoes, clothes and pick up weapons and equipment. It would take at least six minutes to fully enter the combat state. Only by integrating and commanding the various squads can they form effective combat effectiveness.

By the time the fire brigade came into play, many soldiers had already finished their first bottle of water, then covered their stomachs with disbelief in their eyes. Within a minute, their faces turned livid and they died of shock.

Only then did the leader of the officers and soldiers in charge of Si Yao's security at the well come back to his senses——

"——Don't drink the well water! It's poisonous!"

By the time the soldiers of the Guiyi Sect came to their senses, Tanghulu had already poured sixteen kilograms of potassium cyanide into the well water. Even if he breathed in a mouthful of hot water vapor, its powerful toxicity that inhibited respiratory enzymes could kill him within a hundred seconds. An adult.

This combination of punches made the enemy troops at Mulan Pass dizzy. In the chaos and panic, the team that was going to support the Black Panther Immortal was blocked by bullets in the black stone path. He first killed six heralds, Leave a crazy strong man running around beating gongs and drums - wherever the officers and soldiers go, people will always follow the sound of gongs and drums, and the war will naturally become simple and clear.

The bullets only need to be identified by listening to the sound, changing the shooting location and re-selecting the position, changing the magazine one after another, and emptying all the firepower.

Tanghulu and the captain cooperated with each other to find the dead body nearby, put on Shanziying's inner coat, and put on a layer of raincoat used by boatmen on rainy days, and ran around to secretly sabotage. With the combined efforts of the two of them, it only took about ten minutes - it seems The barracks and strongholds that had the advantage of the high ground were met with countless casualties.

The artillery team and rocket vehicles lurking in the mountains and forests only fired one round of attack and rescue fire before they immediately moved away - for fear of being discovered by the psychic elites of the Guiyi Sect.

On the other side, when Maguire was still confused——

——Tanghulu was covered in blood and crawled in through the small window of the stable like a slippery loach.

"Save me! Save me! Save me! Save, save, save, save!"

This kid's face was scratched, his belly was exposed, and there were injuries all over his body.

When Lao Ma went to untie Tanghulu's clothes, he discovered that the soldier's portable elixir had been scratched by the enemy. Under the influence of rain and weather, the bottle of elixir did not completely penetrate into the skin, but was blocked and absorbed by the thick enemy soldiers' clothing.

He was going to take out a knife and cut open the candied haws carrying tool to rescue——

——Not too long ago, a dark shadow rushed in from outside the stable.

It was another panther, another blood-giving monster. She became a spouse with General Zuo Wei in the barracks, and she looked like a fierce and vicious female leopard.

This monster swooped in with its claws on the ground. It was already blind in one eye, and there were scratches on its chest and abdomen from the survival knife. Tanghulu was chased by this beast all the way and fled to Maguire.

Before Maguire could enter combat mode, he didn't even have a chance to draw his sword——

——The female leopard pounced on the candied haws, and rolled the boy into the haystack, rolling in the mud.

I saw Tanghu Lu holding the gun and pressing the trigger. There was a fatal wound in his throat. His head was tilted to one side and he coughed up a few mouthfuls of thick black blood.

The gun flame almost penetrated the waist and abdomen of the blood-giving monster, followed the heart and headed towards the head. The candied haws were missed frequently, and the bullets did not completely cover the door of death.

With his strong will to survive, he took out his last breath, took out his secondary weapon and broke the front paws of the female leopard. The moment he loosened his shoulders and regained freedom, he separated and crawled towards Maguire, trying to hold on while crawling. Hair, lift your head high so that the spinal nerves will not be completely broken and the body will not be completely disabled.

Maguire was shocked by this strong will to fight, but the blood-giving monster behind Tanghulu was not dead. He wanted to attack again. A bright red Morpho butterfly emerged from the steaming flesh and blood, and the ferocious beast The kiss kept getting closer to the candied haws.

"I have called for medical support."

"if."

Tanghu Lu crawled out while vomiting blood. His trachea was clogged with blood clots, and these few words were almost squeezed out.

"If the others from Class 7 haven't arrived yet"

"Don't influence Captain Bullet, don't talk nonsense."

He spoke hurriedly and quickly, and his pupils were dilated, giving him black vision.

"He is in his own position and cannot take a step back. He cannot take a step back."

"Medic, run away."

"I don't have time. I don't have time."

There is not much time left for Maguire to make a choice——

——But at this time, he, the medic, was not needed to make a choice.

According to the battle plan of Squad 7, the second echelon will arrive on the battlefield within three minutes after the attack begins.

Bullet Team has lit up the map, caused chaos, and completed the first phase of the mission.

What Maguire needs to do is to heal his teammates and try to save the life of every soldier——

——As for the "support" mentioned by Tanghulu, it is not just the support from the later members of Team 7.

Specializing in dealing with high-level psykers and powerful blood-granting monsters, the best candidate is Anonymous.

The God of Death, wearing a Morpho suit, descended from the sky. He stepped on the female leopard's spine and broke it. The scene flashed by, and the muzzle of the gun spit out a hot dragon roar. The continuous bullets knocked open the blood-giving monster's skull, leaving a pink and tender piece. of brains.

Under the hood of the golden-blue Morpho suit, the V-shaped visor lit up with cold blue light, and thick black blood splashed on the steel wire armor of the Morpho suit. The electronic eye on the visor pointed slightly towards Maguire Copenhagen. It turned in the same direction and stopped for a few tenths of a second. A ghostly figure quickly escaped from the shack and disappeared into the barracks street, as if it had never appeared before.

The gunsmith has no intention of fighting. The bullet sergeant is fighting one against a hundred, waiting for the backup comrades from the seventh squad, but no support is needed.

After dealing with the blood-giving monster next to Tanghulu, the gunsmith still has a heavier burden on his shoulders and a stronger enemy.

"This is it."

Tanghulu took off his scarf mask and said with a smile in Maguire's arms while vomiting blood.

"That's it. The teacher will definitely come, he is always so fast and always so timely."

"Next time, remember to escape first, medic!"

This kid has never seen Dr. Maguire's soul power, but he just feels that this new soldier needs protection.

"Teacher will never let you down"

"When you are in danger, the angels of pride and virtue will come to you."

"hahahahahahahaha!"

"Heal me quickly, I will continue to fight."