Last Totem Novel - Chapter 590
Chapter 590 Attack
After the aircraft landed, the cabin doors quickly opened and people and vehicles flew down.
Tie Zha dragged the simple refueling device and was about to reach the cabin door when a strong sense of danger suddenly arose in his heart. He was immediately shocked and patted his helmet. He turned around and shouted, “Get down!” The Black Pig King was still in a daze. The iron slag had already thrown him to the ground. With a series of crashes, it rolled towards the corner.
The light above his head dimmed first, and then violently shook. The round glass windows exploded one after another, and blue flames sprayed in. In an instant, the cabin was filled with a sea of flames, and cries of alarm, sorrow, and miserable cries could be heard continuously.
Tie Zha hugged his head and curled up in a corner. He could only feel the earth shaking heaven and earth, his body sometimes heavy and sometimes light, throwing him back and forth. His ears buzzed and he could not hear anything.
“Zzz zz …”
After an unknown amount of time, the shock finally stopped. His hearing gradually recovered, and the sound of electric currents entered his ears. Looking left and right, electric arcs flashed everywhere, and a large number of sparks were falling from the metal cracks above, like a waterfall of flowing fire.
“Kuang!”
A loud noise came from the side. Turning around, the Black Pig King kicked open a metal plate and drilled out from a pile of messy objects. Although the two of them didn’t seem to have suffered any injuries, their appearances were somewhat awkward. They lay on the ground and looked at the two toads. The surface of the Black Pig King’s power armor was uneven. Clearly, the collision wasn’t light. However, due to the different materials, Tie Zha’s power armor didn’t change much, apart from adding a lot of new scratches.
With the sudden lightning, one could see a large number of corpses and debris piled up in the surroundings. Scarlet blood oozed out like a trickle of water, flowing everywhere.
The cabin was quiet. Occasionally, there would be one or two arcs. After observing for a while, Tie Zha and the Black Pig King confirmed the approximate position of the cabin door, knocked over the debris and corpses, and drilled out.
Looking back, the flying machine was stuck backwards in the snow, leaving only the first half, and the second half landed a hundred meters away. The surroundings were in a mess. Bullet craters were everywhere. The wreckage of people and vehicles was everywhere. Black smoke was emitting from the flying tires. The broken limbs were scattered on the snow. It was shocking.
From the scene in front of him, it wasn’t hard to tell that the nearby demon tribes had launched a lightning spear attack between the landing of the aircraft.
Half of the human corpse was lying on its back at the edge of the crater. Its eyes were wide open, and its ears were bleeding. The fear on its face was still at the moment before its death. The Black Pig King sighed, squatted down, and closed his eyes for him. This corpse was the little mercenary he was talking to just now. Holding onto his dreams and hopes, the journey ended at the very beginning …
Gradually, the survivors gathered towards Tie Zha and the Black Boar King. There were three power-armored warriors and six engineers. The power-armored warriors crawled out from the back half of the aircraft, and the engineers got off the aircraft at the beginning. They were in an open area, so not all of them died.
A medium-sized aircraft, including the crew, had a total of more than 500 people, and only a few of them had died.
Everyone searched for a while and found a survivor. They dragged him out. Then, the fuel leaked from the aircraft and began to burn. In just a few seconds, flames soared into the sky. From time to time, miserable screams could be heard from the wreckage. It was frightening and frightening, but it also caused one’s wrist to sigh.
“Damn it, I want to kill all these bastards!” One of the power-armored warriors pounded his palms and said with extreme sorrow. All of his companions were killed. In just a few seconds, the group of good brothers who had died together and drank wine and ate meat together were separated from each other forever.
“Let’s go, kill them all!” Another power-armored warrior loudly echoed.
“Heroes” A middle-aged engineer wearing an incomplete helmet with blood on his face pleaded with Tie Zha and the others, “We need to set up a communication station and inform the headquarters of the situation here. Please help us.”
Tie Zha and the Black Pig King exchanged glances and nodded at the middle-aged engineer. The other three power-armored warriors hesitated for a moment before nodding in agreement. On the one hand, the lightning spear consumed a lot of energy. Unless the target was worth it, it would not be easily used. He had just attacked, so there shouldn’t be a next round. On the other hand, the lack of communication coverage is not conducive to follow-up and reporting of merits.
In the absence of a communication signal, killing Elda requires photographs and cutting off the left ear as proof. On the contrary, the coordinates and videos could be transmitted back to the scene for battle achievement accounting.
Next, everyone searched everywhere, gathering all the equipment that was scattered in the snow and could still be used.
Using the remaining items, the engineers quickly set up a communication station and immediately contacted the headquarters to report the situation.
“Brothers, I feel deeply regretful and sad for what happened to you.” The voice of Theater Head Hildebrand Sujia came from the walkie-talkie.
“There are three other landing sites that were also killed. Our losses are extremely heavy.”
“In the short term, we don’t have any more aircraft to send out.”
“Even though you’ve just suffered a calamity, I still …”
“I would like to request that you continue to set up a communication station if possible to ensure the safety of your subsequent landing.”
“I am Hildebrand Sujia, a Knight Templar. I swear on the honor of my family that everything you have done will not be buried.”
After pondering for a moment, the middle-aged engineer straightened his body and replied firmly, “I will do my best to complete the task!”
Tie Zha originally wanted to leave, but after hearing Hildebrand’s words, he took a deep breath and activated his voice transducer, saying, “Commander, our Black Wolf Mercenary Group will assist them with all their might.”
“Count me in.” “And me.” “I’ll go too.” Seeing that Tie Zha had expressed his stance, the other three Motor Armor Warriors also expressed their willingness to support him. Anyway, the situation wasn’t right. They could fly away at any time.
“Then, friend of the Black Wolf Mercenary Corps, I appoint you as the commander of this operation.” Hildebrand said.
“Yes, sir.” Tie Zha nodded.
After the communication ended, the six engineers quickly tidied up their equipment and made two simple sleds, heading towards the target location 15 kilometres away. The survivor left on his own, searching along the river for other mercenaries to gather.
Apart from Tie Zha and the Black Pig King, there was also an insect-shaped warrior wearing mechanical armor. The remaining two were psionic warriors. According to their self-introduction, they came from the northern part of the central continent and were both Second Grade.
Every time they walked out, two Psionic Adepts would fly into the sky to scout and continue forward. Although the psionic power armor’s endurance was higher than the mechanical power armor’s, the two psionic power practitioners complained that they were only Second Grade. If they used up too much psionic power, they would suffer damage if they drank gatecrystal supplementation. Furthermore, they could only drink it once in 20 hours.
In response, Tie Zha, as the interim commander, could only promise that he would take into account their scouting losses when distributing the battle merits. Only then would the two psionic powers be satisfied.
“Hmph, it’s really useless.” The bug-armored warrior said with disdain.
“Then you’re in charge of investigating.” When one of the Psionic Adepts heard this, he immediately retorted, “Let’s see who’s more useless.”
“I can beat both of you up by myself. What’s wrong? Do you want to give it a try?” The insecticide provoked.
“Kuang!” Before he could finish speaking, he was pushed by the Black Pig King to the point of staggering and almost plunging into the snow.
“Shut up, rookies!” The Black Pig King crossed his chest and said fiercely. With this move, he decided to surpass the opponent by more than one level.
Ordinary Tier 2 Psionic Adepts wore standard Psionic Power Armor, and their combat strength was assessed to be at the Golden Beginner Tier. Normal bug warriors wore standard mechanical power armor, and their combat strength was assessed to be at the Golden Intermediate Rank. However, psionic weapons possessed the ability to pierce through ultra-dense alloys, so when fighting, it depended on both personal experience and luck. Moreover, combat strength assessment was always just a reference data. Unless the difference in strength was too great, such as black iron versus diamonds, they would definitely be beaten up.
After putting on his power armor, the Black Pig King could reach one diamond star, while Tie Zha was at least two diamond stars. This advantage came from his brilliant ancient martial arts, super customized power armor, and Origin Energy Sensing. However, in terms of physical fitness, strength, and endurance, Tie Zha was still much weaker than the Black Pig King.
After being scolded, the three of them became much more honest. The world of mercenaries relied on their fists to speak.
After struggling through the snow for about ten kilometers, everyone stopped at the back of a snow hill and began to eat. Although it was nighttime on the Aurora Plane, the visibility was still very far under the illumination of the aurora.
In order to cover their bodies, everyone was lying on the snow and eating. The food was a self-heated military meal, but with the task at hand, everyone’s appetite was not good. Only the Black Pig King ate it loudly.
Twenty minutes later, everyone continued on their journey. A psionic cultivator flew into the sky to scout as usual. However, this time, he quickly descended and whispered, “I found that there are a total of six members of the Demon Race patrol.”
Anyone who had come into contact with the demon army would know that this was a standard patrol consisting of a captain and five members.
The Temple Legion adopted the twelve-ary system, commonly known as the “one-dozen army”. It consisted of thirty-seven men in a small squad, twelve squadrons in a squadron, twelve squadrons in a large squadron, and a number of squadrons in a large squadron. The smallest tactical unit is the squad, and the smallest strategic unit is the squadron.
The ground garrison adopts the ternary system, commonly known as the “three armies,” with three men in a group, three groups in a team, three teams in a row, three platoons in a company, three companies in a battalion, three battalions in a regiment, three regiments in a division, and several divisions in a theatre corps. The smallest tactical unit is the group, and the smallest strategic unit is the division.
The demons used a five-point system. Six people per team, five teams per hunt, five hunts per village, five strongholds per brigade, five brigades per town, five towns per flag. The smallest tactical unit is the team, and the smallest strategic unit is the town.
“Conceal and kill them.” Said Tie Zha.
Upon receiving the order, the engineers immediately climbed to the bottom of the snow hill and buried the equipment with snow while hiding themselves in the snow.
Tie Zha took off the enhanced version of Barrett and set it up in the direction of the patrol. Another psionic man also took off his psionic sniper rifle and set it up a few meters away from Tie Zha. The others were prepared with assault rifles, ready to charge at any time, killing them off guard.
A few minutes later, six tall figures appeared on the distant snowy peak. Iron residue opened the magazine at his waist and took out a 20 cm long red silk armor piercing bullet, pressing it into the gun.
“Five hundred meters.” Tie Zha ordered in a low voice.
“Roger that.” The Psionic Adept looked over and nodded slightly at him.