Steel steam and flame

Since it was Larsa's smuggling team, the captain of the hunting bird group knew that there must be some people below who had been prepared and would not be affected by the sound waves. And for adult hunting birds, the intensity of sound waves is mainly to affect the opponent's movements. In conjunction with bombing and indiscriminate shooting of triple-barreled machine guns, high-frequency sound waves are not expected to cause fatal damage.

The hunting birds stopped circling under the captain's order and prepared to throw the second round of forty-two bombs for range bombing. The arc-shaped formation turned into a huge semicircle. In the communication network, the captain sent a signal to the members on both wings to suppress fire. However, within the range visible to the eyes, three more members suddenly lost their heads, and a huge piece of their bodies exploded. holes.

There are still two bullets for one member. It has only taken a few breaths since the bombing started, and six members died one after another. While the captain was still thinking, a huge explosion came from the flank and forced him out of his thoughts. Instinct raised his head, and the blast hit him with heat waves, and the water on his lips was immediately evaporated.

An irregular fireball was extinguishing. When the sight caught this scene, a hunting bird carcass that was almost exploded from the middle of the body slowly fell out of the smoke, carrying a long smoke belt, and was swallowed up by the forest below.

"Spread all out and throw all the bombs down!" the captain said, immediately turning the bird's direction and flying farther away. However, the flanks were affected by the explosion, and several hunting birds were still regaining their balance. It only takes less than three breaths, but in the eyes of the captain, this time is too long at this moment.

"Cover the flanks for evacuation, machine gun fire, and suppress the triangular area!" After hovering in a circle in mid-air, the captain had to change direction and dive towards the target range. The hunting bird spewed out two tongues of flame nearly one meter long, dark red, on both sides of its body. The projectile moved out in two thick lines, blasting green moving fountains into the forest below.

Immediately, more hunting birds followed the captain, quickly forming a formation, and a firepower network was formed instantly. The continuous sound of birdsong resumed, covering a large area. The forest below produced green waves in the strong wind, and the roaring sound had a tendency to overwhelm the roar of the machine gun.

The second round of bombing began at this time. With a "click" sound, the mounting metal brackets opened at the same time. Forty-two bombs broke away from their restraints and walked through the arc under the attraction of gravity. They did not wait until they were submerged in the green forest. Several "ding-ding" metal collision sounds were extremely harsh among the chaotic sounds. A canopy of shining sparks lit up at the tops of several bombs, and then the space below the group of hunting birds suddenly distorted.

The firelight from below gave the hunting birds a brighter color. Not all of the forty-two bombs had a chain reaction, but half of the bombs were still detonated one after another in the explosion. The spherical shock wave quickly merged into one piece, like a soft jellyfish swimming towards the water surface, and in the blink of an eye it caught up with the flock of hunting birds that were urgently raising their altitude.

The feather edges on the wings of the hunting bird were scorched the moment the impact arrived. The huge body could not withstand the power of the high-explosive bomb prepared for the enemy. The unbalanced hunting bird hovered in the air, and the communication channel was filled with the sound of "whirring" wind. There was a brief fainting buzz in the heads of the people who were closer. They were still trying to pull on the several tough control ropes in their hands, trying to regain control of the hunting birds that started to run around after being affected by the explosion.

In normal training, returning to a stable state in half a minute is a very good result. But in this state, time will only increase, and the random flight of hunting birds cannot achieve the effect of avoiding attacks. Several bullets found the most suitable angle and time and penetrated their bodies one after another.

At this time, the flankers finally returned to a stable flying state, and the smoke from the explosion was blown away by the wind in mid-air. The remaining bombs from the second round of bombing finally exploded in the forest, and thick smoke rushed straight up. Overflowing from the dense branches and leaves.

At the same time, all the hunting birds that were still under control raised their altitude to within 2,000 meters. The captain looked around and saw that less than two minutes had passed since the attack started. A group of 40 hunting birds had already lost 17 people.

The captain believed that the number of people who died in the forest would be several times the number seventeen, but the positions of the two were different from the beginning. They have the absolute advantage in information, firepower, reconnaissance and height difference. The captain's original plan was that after several rounds of bombing, he could rely on the large-scale coverage of the machine gun to clear out the opponent to about 20%, and remove the ammunition himself without losing anything. It's obviously not possible now.

"There is an error in the investigation information!" The captain could only attribute the loss to this point. According to the information he received, although there were two or three Larsa's powerful smuggling teams in this safe area, the "powerful" explanation was after all. Take Larsa as the standard. They can be regarded as a regular team in the tribe. They are not elites. They are also permanent in various regions and are used to deal with most things.

He ordered the remaining dozen bombs to be thrown at this height. Whether they could cause damage to the enemy was no longer a consideration for the captain. At a height of two thousand meters, the triple-barreled machine gun's strafing is ineffective, but at the same time, the effective range of the enemy's firearms is basically at this point. There is nothing anyone can do, the captain thought, unless the enemy carries a firearm like a sniper rifle. But the terrain where smuggling teams usually operate is mostly forests. Who would carry a sniper rifle in such an environment?

At least according to the captain's knowledge, there are such people who use sniper rifles in the forest or in the virgin forest, but most of them have mental problems. Simply put, they just don't work well with their brains. There are ancient trees hugged by several people everywhere, and special bullets can penetrate at most three ancient trees before losing all their power.

The captain took a few deep breaths, and more than a dozen bombs fell at an accelerated speed. He ordered all captains to pay attention to the movement below and provide as much useful information as possible to the ground troops who followed.

Turning on the communicator, the captain activated the auxiliary noise cancellation function. "Lord Yas..." the report began, and the explosions of the last dozen bombs also rose from below. The captain wanted to explain the situation and convey the wrong information, but The painful chirping of birds not far away from him made his whole body tremble.

A hunting bird was on the verge of losing control. A hole with a diameter of twenty centimeters appeared on its body, completely penetrating its body from bottom to top. The blood spattered from the hole formed a large blood mist in mid-air, which was quickly carried away by the high-altitude wind and melted into the air.

"How is that possible!" While muttering to himself in astonishment, another hunting bird not far away made the same cry. The sound lasted even shorter, and the operator on it was also penetrated by bullets, almost breaking in half. The two hunting birds lost the power to flap their wings amidst several whining sounds, and struggled to fall.

"Evacuate! Evacuate!" Regardless of anything else, the captain did not think about why the people below were carrying heavy sniper rifles, nor did he care about how the other party captured him at an altitude of two thousand meters. He only cares about driving the hunting birds to fly into the distance, as far away from here as possible.

"What's wrong?" Yas could hear the movement here. After the operation to find the people close to the Dragon Knight failed, Yas then received a message from Lord Osnia's correspondent. When he learned that Lord Osnia's bodyguards and a considerable number of beast cavalry would arrive at his place one after another, every bad message or sound from each team made Yas's heart beat uncontrollably. It's very similar to the feeling when you wake up from a nightmare as a child.

I'm afraid there's something bad here. Yas's intuition is also a simple judgment.

"Lord Yas..." After a few breaths, weak words finally came from the other side amid the gasps, "More than half of the damage was caused. The intelligence is wrong. There is something bad in the No. 5 safe area. I don't know what it is." Which smuggling team. We carried out the bombing according to the plan, but more than half of the people died within three minutes of going back and forth, and six hunting birds were also lost."

"Evacuate first." Yas wanted to ask about other things, but in the end he only said these three words. The captain finally let out a long breath at this time. He was afraid that Yas would ask him to go back to assist and carry out fire suppression. He felt a sense of fear. When he evacuated just now, several bullets penetrated the three hunting birds again like eyes. The captain didn't feel safe until he was three thousand meters away. It's so abnormal. He thinks that he has carried out several missions and is not a proud newcomer with excellent training results in the shooting range. He thinks that he is a person with experience and endurance. The current situation made him feel scared.

Putting down the communicator, the captain briefly looked around. After ordering the evacuation, he looked back at the smoke-filled forest. "I hope the ground troops can win by relying on their numbers."

At the same time, inside the forest, the large army was separated by bombing. The smoke of the explosion spread over a large area, and the painful groans and calls for help continued from not long after the bombing until now.

In one simple attack, the death toll was close to seventy. Half of the personnel were affected by the impact of the bombing and several rounds of machine gun fire. Internal bleeding and bone fractures were the most common injuries. If it is a battle between two parties in the forest, both Cassia and Isha and other captains think that is the best hypothesis at the moment. At that time, the wounded still had the opportunity to go to the rear field hospital for simple treatment.

But now, losing the ability to move, or having the ability to move weakened due to injuries, is nothing more than a direct death, which is more desperate. Their result can only be to wait in fear for the enemy to catch up with them, that is, to wait for death. But before dying, it also has the function of buying some time for others and hindering the enemy's footsteps.

There was no time to care about the mutilated corpses, all they could do was take away the ammunition that could still be used. The wounded were quickly gathered together, and several captains went to them and, with the assistance of other members, took away half of their ammunition, but left behind a larger number of steel-cased bombs.

Some of the wounded stood up and begged to be taken with them, but only received cold silence. Most of the wounded had their mouths pursed, and occasionally some coughed. However, most of them were mentally prepared for this when they chose to stay in the breakout team.

"We will continue to move in the original direction. If someone is unwilling to follow and wants to follow, we will not stop him." A captain said in a deep voice at this time, "I'm sorry." The people behind him joined the captain in bending toward the wounded. I bowed my head to apologize and thank you.

Isa wanted to leave with a dozen wounded people, but both the wounded themselves and Toynby and Muriel stopped her. Taking a deep breath, Isa memorized the faces of the dozen or so people, then silently turned around and led the remaining people to follow the dozens of people who had started to move forward.

The number of more than 300 people was reduced to 127. Except for the more than 30 people who were able to move in sound waves at the beginning, the reason why the others survived was mostly due to luck. Cassia walked on the flank of the team. At the tail of the team were a dozen wounded people who were struggling to keep up, but after a minute or two, their shadows were no longer visible.

Ahead, the captains began to discuss future countermeasures or sort out the information from the enemy's attack just now. Cassia was dripping blood all the way on the flank. Judging from the information about the Dragon Knight announced by the enemy not long ago, Cassia believes that blood has no effect on the enemy and that the opponent has a way to deal with it. After all, the other party is a member of the Flame Alliance, and their relationship with the second-type creatures is like the relationship between the empire and steam power.

The success rate of the breakout has dropped to one percent in Cassia's heart. There must be someone who can leave the forest alive. Will it be a dozen or a single figure? Cassia herself is not easy to judge.

When the hunting birds attacked, with the help of high-frequency sound waves and explosions, Cassia did kill half of the enemies without being discovered, but the result was exactly like this. Their quality and abilities were far inferior to those of the regular teams. Except for Isha's three teams, which suffered relatively small losses, the death toll of the other teams exceeded half.

Equipment, information, cooperation, and important team configuration, etc., are weaker than the enemy in every conceivable place, and Cassia can't think of a good way. The current understanding of the enemy is still in the conjecture stage. Cassia has also thought that even if he lifts many restrictions and creates a gap for the last group of people, with the enemy's ability to move...

"It still depends on the enemy's considerations. There is a half chance. I have caused enough deterrence to the enemies who formed the encirclement network. After the information is transmitted, it will go to the commander. At that time, there will be two choices in front of the commander. One is For the sake of a dozen people, we have lost a geometric multiple of our own team; the second is not to make this exchange, just clean up most of the people and maximize the benefits. But the initiative lies with the enemy." After the simulation results came out, Cassia's sound wave A creature with considerable speed appeared within the pulse range.

There were only two ends, and the distance and the influence of the ancient trees weakened the detection effect of the sound waves, but after a few seconds, several pulses still depicted the appearance of the two creatures.

It was a giant wolf, with both ends nearly six meters tall, and its body length was about thirteen meters. They are equipped with dozens of metal bulletproof plates and have no hair. The feedback from the sound waves tells Cassia that they are all covered with large scales that stick closely to the palms of their hands. There are two people on each giant wolf, one is responsible for control and observation, and the other is always holding a communicator. The giant wolf only carries a heavy machine gun and no other weapons. Every time a certain distance passed, Cassia found that the two giant wolves would repeat the same action - waving their claws at the nearby ancient tree.

"Mark, the main force is still behind." Cassia glanced at the time and continued to observe. The speeds of the two giant wolves were calculated at the same time.

Thirteen minutes later, Cassia expanded the maximum detection radius of the sonic pulse, and the two giant wolves were at the edge. Ten minutes later, the giant wolf had disappeared within the detection radius. At this time, we did not immediately return to the normal state of 4,000 meters. After waiting for about half a minute, two giant wolves appeared. Preparing to close the distance, a dozen other wolves whose size was one-third smaller than the giant wolf appeared next to the giant wolf.

Then the number began to increase, twenty, fifty, one hundred, one hundred and seventy, three hundred...

After a team of wolves all entered the sonic pulse, their number stopped increasing and was fixed at five hundred and fifty.

Cassia stopped as if she was tired, and looked calmly at the team beside her that quickly surpassed her.

"What's wrong, Soriatu?" Unable to breathe, the team went forty or fifty meters in front of Cassia. Toyinbi on the tail noticed something was wrong with Cassia and ran to him to ask.

"Nothing." Cassia replied, "I just suddenly felt a little tired."