Chapter Ninety-Six: Dazzling Fireworks
"My second concern is that the Fallen Insects' purpose in intercepting us from the outside is definitely to buy time to evacuate the Mother Insect. We may survive, but if we fail to complete our mission, we may be dragged down by this great battle and suffer a crushing defeat!"
Zhao Bohan sniped two bugs from a distance, then crouched back behind the vehicle for cover, feeling quite pleased.
"How could I not know?" Yu Shuang had been lying prone in the sniper position without ever coming down, and her record was outstanding, but she felt a slight pain in her chest, and the scar on her back was also aching.
"Thank goodness we're not taking responsibility this time," Zhuang Xiao said, referring to the sniper MVP of several squads in the inner circle area.
This time, it's not his team leader who's in charge!
However, less than two minutes after he finished speaking, Chen Yuezhou's voice came through the command channel:
"Wu Shen Team 3, Team 7, and Cheng Feng Team 2, withdraw from the battle and track this batch of Fallen Insect vehicles. The goal is to drive them back to the Mother Nest."
A second command post was established, and all pursuit teams were placed under its command. Yu Shuang was appointed commander, and Zhao Bohan served as staff officer.
Zhuang Xiao was stunned.
Does his mouth carry the weight of law?
The rest of the team were also stunned. Yu Shuang paused for a moment before answering, "Yes!"
There are a total of 12 squads, and 6 have gone out. The combat ratio between the two sides is now even, so we definitely need to select a temporary commander.
Yu Shuang thought to herself, no wonder Chen Yuezhou let her command the bombing of the mother nest, he must have chosen her as his deputy a long time ago!
She was secretly pleased, and answered loudly, "Yes! Commander, please synchronize command authority!"
Command authority is now open, the backup command channel is activated, and all chasing teams enter the channel to begin reporting the situation.
However, the situation is not optimistic, because although the Fallen Insect Convoy is heading west and south as a whole, they are in different directions and are fleeing in different places.
It's like they're being deliberately forced to split their forces!
The Fallen Insect army did not charge in a concentrated manner, but rather split into several groups after withstanding the first round of artillery fire, clearly intending to use their numerical advantage to encircle them!
Deep within the underground mine, the cysts of the slender wisdom insect, invisible from the outside, lit up, urging it on.
What about the large force that came from the south?
As soon as they arrive, taking advantage of the current chaos and division among the humans, we can strike them hard from behind and immediately form an encirclement!
......
However, the cicada's call went unanswered for the time being, as the target of its call was also embroiled in battle.
This 200-bug squadron includes an apprentice priest, a sergeant major, two singers, and two captains.
The apprentice priest is dead, and the sergeant is as big as a small mountain, with a body of steel and a tentacle as thick as a small tree trunk!
Chen Xi was accidentally slapped by the tentacle. He was fine, but everything in his tactical backpack was ruined!
Qi An glanced at the sergeant's posture and said decisively, "One minute. Put me down for one minute. I can hold on."
Chen Xi hesitated, glancing at the other two...
They were all in the center of the splattering green blood, trapped in a sea of fallen insects, and it seemed unlikely they could rescue Qi An in time.
But after Qi An killed an insect beside him, he began to struggle downwards.
Chen Xi had no choice but to put her down and solemnly said, "One minute."
Qi An nodded, and Chen Xi turned around and severed one of the tentacles that was sweeping towards them again with a single stroke!
With his other hand, he grabbed into the broken end of a tentacle as thick as a small tree branch, and was carried into the air by the flying tentacle before letting go.
The timing of the release was so precise that he was being tossed onto the massive sergeant's head, which was as big as a stone block!
Chen Xi clamped the head between his legs and plunged the short knife into the center of its head.
Before the insertion even went in, Chen Xi's arms bulged with veins as he exerted force again.
As his body rolled downwards, the knife sliced the sergeant's head in two, and also cut the cyst in two!
The sergeant's body collapsed to the ground with a thud.
Without a commander, the brigade instantly descended into chaos!
Feng Xu and Gu Liansheng were greatly encouraged and killed even more insects!
Chen Xi immediately returned to Qi An's side and swung his knife to kill a fallen insect that was trying to strangle Qi An with its tentacles.
The dying insect could not close its eyes, as if it was still questioning why Qi An was not corrupted by it at all.
Although they were severely short of ammunition and relied almost entirely on melee weapons to kill insects in the later stages, the three of them were still too outstanding in combat. As long as Qi An was not killed or injured, they seemed to be invincible!
When only a few dozen insects remained, the last singer was also half-dead from Feng Xu's electric shock. The fallen insects, who had completely disregarded them, scattered and fled in a sorry state.
The four of them were exhausted. Qi An maintained her resonance with the other three, but the pollution from the killing was too intense. She purified them one by one and almost fell into Feng Xu's arms, the last one to be purified.
Feng Xu had just pulled himself out of his reverie when he helped her up, looked down at her, and loosened and tightened his grip on her hand, seemingly torn between politely letting go and instinctively embracing her.
However, after only a few seconds of tug-of-war, Qi An was pulled back by Chen Xi.
Then Qi An leaned against Chen Xi's arm and stood up to sleep for two minutes.
Two minutes later, she opened her eyes and found herself still leaning against Chen Xi, almost in his arms.
They are resting where they are.
Qi An struggled for a moment, but she was too sleepy. Although Chen Xi's embrace was full of the stench of the fallen insects, it was inexplicably reassuring, and she fell asleep again.
......
The reinforcements that the underground worms were hoping for, the reinforcements that could infiltrate the back of the main force, did not arrive.
The first major problem that Chen Yuezhou, Yu Shuang, and Zhao Bohan were worried about did not materialize.
Yu Shuang and Zhao Bohan were issuing orders one after another, as was Chen Yuezhou.
In fact, Chen Yuezhou's new round of orders was just a continuation of the previous round of orders, because the convoy was attacked 10 minutes earlier, so Chen Yuezhou did not have the vehicles gather together, but instead arranged them into roughly three columns.
"The assault squads advance, the first column's vehicles ram into the left flank of the Fallen Insects, driving them to the right; the second column surrounds the Fallen Insects on the east side, driving them to the left!"
Gunner, change shells!
The commander behind the Fallen Insects has a "no-gathering" mentality, ordering the Fallen Insects to split up and surround the area, but this encirclement has not yet been formed, and they can never outrun a vehicle!
The entire action team was of exceptionally high quality, obeying orders without question, and all the squad leaders understood the strategic intent behind the command.
Machine gunners and other heavy firepower were all loaded onto the vehicles, which started in an orderly manner, like a dark sheep pen fence closing in, pressing the "sheep" that had been diverted to the very edge back!
The snipers remained in their original positions, using the unmoved row of vehicles in the middle as cover to shoot down any infant worms and wisdom worms that broke into their positions.
The assault team was the last gate of the "sheepfold," and with the cover of the rear artillery, it was connected to two vehicle fences!
The long, thin tentacles of the worm swayed restlessly underground, seemingly agitated, and the cyst kept flashing.
The remaining Wisps among the fallen insect army on the ground are giving orders to disperse the fallen insects!
Although they were scattered, their screams could not be dispersed. The screams of all the fallen insects gradually converged, becoming a song that felt like a knife scraping one's scalp!
Extremely polluting! The purifiers in the area were all feeling anxious and nauseous.
But this song only lasted for two minutes, and all the soldiers were able to grit their teeth and endure it!
The sheepfold was completely closed.
"Release the poison gas bombs," Chen Yuezhou said.
Three large-caliber poison gas shells were fired from the muzzle of the vehicle-mounted artillery.
The poisonous fog filled the air, and death was silent.
This flower of smoke and dust is more dazzling and magnificent than the one on the front lines at dawn!
This time, the group purchase finally went smoothly!
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