Night combat, no matter what period or country, is probably one of the important issues of their army!

If you have a choice, I'm afraid not many people are willing to fight at night, even if they have advanced technology, good radar or enemy-enemies identification system, or excellent night combat equipment.

After all, no matter how good the weapons and equipment are used, they are used by people. At night, when there is insufficient light, especially in melee, the technology and tactical performance of the weapons are not easy to fully utilize, which has a certain impact on the psychological state of the combatants. It is also easy to cause accidental attacks or chaos when the enemy is unknown. Sometimes, they may even be timid in shooting, right?

At this time, the humans of Hope are about to usher in their first large-scale night battle mode. Their opponents are the indigenous insects who had attacked them on a large scale when they landed on the first day!

Due to the early warning from Little Annie, most of the Marines at the base of the base have gathered in Area C, where the open space is still left at the JNO.3 planetary ground base.

In addition to the more than a hundred Marines who are still in charge of the accident around the base, hundreds of others, including Garen's Cobra Elite Squad and the squad that Dryus was on duty, at this time, they have been dispatched to this area and conduct front-line command.

Now, after occupying the favorable terrain, they have surrounded the entire area C in their encirclement.

In the two encircling lines, various types of shotguns, electromagnetic rifles, and sniper rifles weapons and ammunition boxes were transported by the SCVs and piled up randomly in various places on the line of defense.

They even got a lot of large-caliber automatic sentry cannons, which have been installed after being roughly welded and installed.

In the rear of the defense line, in the open space in front of the main base, the ten... were no, there should be nine freshly released tank troops, now they are lined up in neat rows on the open space, and have launched siege mode, aiming the muzzles of their 120mm caliber shock guns at the area C where the bugs are about to appear.

In fact, in the original design of this siege tank, it was determined as a defensive cannon of the "final line of defense", so they finally used two forms to combine them into the final version: one is the assault mode of movable attack, and the other is the unfolded siege mode.

Now that the preparations have been made, in addition to switching the siege mode, they have also adjusted the shooting elements in all locations in Area C. As long as the commander of the base command center orders, they can carry out a cover shelling of insect swarms that appear in Area C at any time, which will definitely allow those native insects to taste the horror of the large-caliber artillery created by human technology!

Now, they, whether they are SCV engineers or Marines, are on high alert. They are almost all gathered here because of the early warning of ghost agent Major Anne, and the guns are loaded and the muzzles are warmed up, and they are ready to deal with the upcoming insect swarm at any time.

At this time, in the base, almost most of the high-power searchlights concentrated their beams here, and illuminated them like daytime.

"Engineering Corps Prospecting Team, please answer when you hear it! How are you investigating now? Are you finding any special situations under the ground in Area C?"

In the command center of the base, as the commander-in-chief, after all the troops were allocated the defense, she arranged several SCV engineering vehicles as soon as possible to let them closely monitor the geological conditions under the ground in Area C.

So, after finishing the defense, Doug was in the small command hall on the second floor of the command center, looking at the busy scene in Area C in the holographic screen, while asking about the SCV engineers who had been working for a while.

Because now, in Area C, in addition to a large number of marines surrounding the central area, in this large gravel flat, there are several SCV engineering vehicles operating some strange instruments, floating and dragging their equipment in the target area, constantly patrolling back and forth.

"Report to Commander Doug! After preliminary inspection by our instruments, a huge oblique cavity appeared at a distance of about 120 meters underground! Moreover, this cavity spreads to Area C at a speed of almost five meters per minute. After about fifteen minutes, this area of ​​Area C will collapse due to underground load bearing problems!"

Soon, with the efforts of several SCV engineering vehicles, they easily detected the geological conditions under the ground with their own prospecting equipment.

So, after exchanging opinions with each other, they quickly reported to Commander Doug of the base.

At the same time, they also represented a small red area on the map of Area C, and also uploaded the detected geological map to the command center of the base.

"Your Excellency Commander, this is an area that may collapse loudly. Do you have any instructions?"

After uploading the map, the group of engineers driving SCVs asked.

It is now obvious that under the C area, there must be that strange bug that is making trouble! In more than ten minutes, this place will become a battlefield, and without any weapons, they do not want to stay in the dangerous battlefield. If they are not careful, it will be fatal!

"Now there is nothing you have to do with you, but you must continue to monitor the situation underground on the periphery and closely monitor the movements of the insects, and do not make any mistakes!"

Doug couldn't help frowning when he saw the huge hole that the bug might have made on the map.

Then, Doug thought for a while, and then she began to analyze the 3D geological graphics uploaded by SCV engineers.

She looked at the huge collapse area on the map, marked with red figures, and then thought about it again, and began to reach out to operate it on the holographic map. She suddenly dialed the entire map in half and began to carefully observe the sectional view of the collapse area.

Is this...digged up from a distance?

So, in this case, did the insects dig here from the sea? Or did they dig directly into the ground?

If it is the former, it would be fine; but if it is the latter, it would be a bit scary to think about it carefully...

If they were originally living underground and digging up from below directly, it proves that their insects must have a huge underground world underground?!

In that case, how many of them are on this planet?

Moreover, from their ability to accurately know that there is enough open space in Area C in their base for them to dig up, which proves that the other party is an organized and premeditated behavior?!

Their bugs are not only observing the human base, but also being led by a certain leader bug to carry out an organized sneak attack on their human base?

“…”

Although the previous preliminary study of Hope's bugs also explained this, they have always been lucky enough to resist the attacks of indigenous creatures on these planets while trying to gain a foothold on this planet until Hope gets enough energy.

But now it seems... it seems that those bugs won't give them this time and opportunity? Not long after, the second attack came again? And, in this hidden way?

If the little girl had not had the early warning, their bugs would have succeeded, right? She Doug could imagine: If humans were not prepared for any defense, once the insects rushed out of the collapsed tunnel, the base would have been completely destroyed, right?

Tsk! Forget it, it’s time to see what happened! No matter what happens in the future, today, the humans on their ground base will never let those cunning and evil bugs break through the half step in Area C!

After thinking about it, Commander Doug quickly clicked on a message board. She planned to contact the two second lieutenants of the Marine Corps and let them coordinate and command the hundreds of Marine Corps members in the two defense lines in Area C.

"Lieutenant Garen and Lieutenant Dryus! You two must be responsible for commanding the front line troops, and the tank troops are in the rear. When necessary, they will support you with all their strength!"

After looking at the number and arrangement of soldiers, Doug shook his head helplessly. Time was too tight and the insects were too urgent. The heavy firepower of their base was still too small...

Now, in the ground base, except for a large group of marines, the entire base has only those ten tanks with heavy firepower! I hope that the insects that emerge from the ground this time will no longer have that huge monster, right?

If there were really such huge monsters, I wonder if the ten arc tanks that had just stepped down from the production line could deal with those huge monsters with heavy horny armor? Have they formed effective combat power?

I hope...they are reliable?

"As for orders! Sir!"

"Yes, received, sir!"

After hearing the order from Commander Doug of the ground base, Garen and Dryus responded immediately.

"Hurry up, hurry up! Everyone, be cheer up and be alert!"

Garen walked to the left while shouting and urging the helpless recruits.

"Check your weapons and equipment! Don't worry, those bugs do not have the means of long-range attacks. As long as you maintain continuous firepower output, don't let them pounce in front of you!"

Drayus went to the right, and the two of them had quickly assigned the areas they were responsible for.

"Please pay attention to the topographic map posted on your panel, but don't stand in the area that is about to collapse! Otherwise, if you fall down and get scattered by insects, no one can save you!"

After receiving the order, Garen and Dryus began shouting loudly on the Marines' public channel.

While checking the team's situation, they carefully arranged attack positions in various directions and adjusted the first encirclement so that the opposite side of the attack formation between them would not have their own people, as well as those high and low levels of combinations, as well as the arrangements of the reserve team, etc.

Fortunately, Area C is close to the periphery of the base, so they do not need to arrange troops in the direction of the fence. If the insects attack outward, those densely packed large-caliber machine gun bunkers will definitely teach them how to be insects!

"Everyone has noticed, pay attention to the ammunition and weapon boxes next to you, and remember to replace weapons or replenish ammunition if necessary!"

Garen was still shouting loudly on the channel.

He had experience in fighting with bugs but knew that since the other party dared to attack again, their number would not be smaller than last time! So he had a premonition that those weapons and ammunition boxes prepared in advance would definitely come in handy.

Looking at the collapsed area that was illuminated by a searchlight as if it was daylight, Galen knew that a big battle was coming soon!

I don’t know how many monster bugs will appear this time? I hope not to have too many, right?

"By the way, Garen? Where is Little Anne? Why don't I see her place?"

After the arrangement was made, Drayus began to ask curiously.

Just now, after he arranged the positions of various Marines in the encirclement and the things he needed to pay attention to when firing, he suddenly discovered that he did not seem to have found the orange figure of Little Anne on the map recognized by the enemy and us?

This made Dryus feel a little strange. After all, when they were standing guard before, Little Anne reminded all the soldiers who were resting to get up and prepare for battle. But now, where is the real master who found all this?

Could it be that she is invisible again?

But... he had never heard of an invisible ghost that would disappear from the enemy and enemy identification device of friendly forces, right? This made him feel very curious.

"Little Anne? How can I know again? Okay, stop talking nonsense! Did you see, Dryus? The ground over there is starting to loosen!"

Garen, who was about to say something, was about to call Anne, but he suddenly looked shaking!

Because, he saw the collapse area marked on the map in the distance, and the ground at that location began to loosen.

"Everyone pay attention! The weapons are loaded and ready for battle!"

Click!

After saying that, Galen took the lead in loading the C-15 spike electromagnetic rifle in his hand, lifted the muzzle of the weapon, aiming at the flat ground in the area C which was illuminated by various searchlights as daytime and was about to be dug by insects.

Fortunately, the base was originally planned to build engineering stations, scientific research stations and more heavy factories here, so the other side was basically slightly flattened by the SCV engineers, and there were basically no obstacles that blocked their sight. It was very suitable for the cover strafing strikes that their Marines would carry out later.

With defense, Galen believed that they would let the bugs know the power of humans!

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Under Garen's leadership, the sound of loading weapons suddenly sounded on the various Marine positions. They either squatted, stood upright, or lay behind various rock obstacles, allowing their electromagnetic rifles to point the muzzles at the places where the bugs were about to appear.

Click...click...click...

In Area C of the ground base, the noisy sounds of all the Marines suddenly calmed down.

They clamped the various types of electromagnetic weapons in their hands one by one and aimed at the huge open space in front.

Where, the rocky ground, which was corroded by strong acid, had cracks of all sizes, just like glass shattered.

They knew that it was because the bottom of the ground had been hollowed out by the bug monsters, and now, the ground surface case that had lost its lower load-bearing weight was beginning to fail to bear its huge weight and was about to start to collapse?

Then... those terrifying insects, big and small, are going to rush out from the ground crazy?

Fortunately! A powerful ghost agent in their base power gave them a warning. Otherwise, if these bugs really attacked successfully and suddenly appeared in the base, they might have been killed by the bugs in their dreams?

Kakka... Kakka...

The cracks and diffusion range of cracks on the ground are getting bigger and bigger...

"Everyone, pay attention..."

Seeing the cracks on the ground gradually widening, Garen couldn't help swallowing, and then began to rush the other Marines who were still recruits on the channel with great duty.

"Prepare……"

Seeing the ground gradually sinking as the cracks grew, all the Marines subconsciously stopped their nerves.

Roar! Roar! Roar!

Three hoarse roars sounded, and then the monsters that stunned everyone appeared: three monsters, like giant earthworms, suddenly emerged from the rock shells on the ground, revealing their mouths with multiple hideous fangs.

What kind of monster is this...?

At this time, no one took the lead in firing, and even the two front commanders Garen and Dryus were stunned. They opened their mouths so wide, looking at the three huge earthworms that suddenly emerged from the ground. The new unit of the insects appeared again? They originally thought that the huge mammoth-shaped monster was already the limit they imagined...

Could it be that this time they are going to fight with such a monster that looks terrifying?

However, what everyone is fortunate is that after these three insects drilled out for a short while, they quickly shrank their heads back.

It seems that they are just responsible for drilling holes and opening the way, and have no intention of participating in today's battle?

boom!!!

A huge roar sounded. After the huge earthworms shrank back, the ground could not bear its own huge weight. After the insects hollowed out all the mud and sand under it, it finally collapsed directly in a burst of roars...

After the ground collapsed, a huge inclined hole finally appeared, and inside were the dense four-legged bugs!

"Everyone, open fire!!!"

Dada dada...

Seeing this, Garen's pupils shrank suddenly, and then he quickly realized that while ordering all the staff to open fire, he also immediately pulled the 8mm caliber electromagnetic rifle in his hand and fired the first shot of the night fight of the human insects in the ground base tonight.

Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da!!!

After hearing the order, all the Marines instantly pulled the trigger of the weapons in their hands. In an instant, countless violent metal storms, like pouring rain, rubbed violently against the barrel and air at an extremely high Mach speed, and poured out to the cave that collapsed in the distance, like a huge mouth of a beast.

"Quick! Everyone, strengthen the firepower!"

In the Marines' public communications and combat command channel, the rapid voice of Lieutenant Garen, the front line commander, came again.

In fact, it doesn’t take him, the front-line commander, that other Marines have already seen the bugs.

Behind the dust formed by the collapse, under the searchlight column, a large number of insects, dense insects, and layered insects. They were like tides, pushing against the mud and sand that were still breaking and falling, just as they were desperate, rushing towards the ground through the huge inclined hole...

Then, they first crashed into the attacks of the Marines who were pouring a large number of Tottenham nail bullets into the huge hole.

In an instant, they rushed to the front of the insects and were torn into countless wounds of all sizes. The corrosive blood of red and green suddenly shot out, directly dyeing the ground at the entrance of the hole with a thick layer of red and green color...

Da da da da da!!!

"Don't stop! Keep the continuous firepower output and be careful to replace the magazine at any time!"

At the same time, Garen and Dryus, the two front commanders, also opened fire, and began to shout loudly in the channel again.

These monsters and bugs are actually much more than they expected? Do they not do population planning? What do they usually eat? Can they survive by chewing mud? Or are they drinking strong acid sea water? Or photosynthesis?

Da da da da da!!!

The gunshots were still ringing.

Through the slanted entrance of the tunnel, they all saw those dense seas of insects like tides. Just by watching, their eyelids kept pounding.

This is at least in units of tens of thousands, right? There are so many bugs?

Da da da da da!!!

Countless metal bullets, under the super-high acceleration of electromagnetic weapons, kept pouring out towards the tilted hole. The number of those insects is so large that sometimes, even one bullet can penetrate the bodies of several insects at the same time, and then they will roll and barely lose their kinetic energy.

Boom! Boom!

In addition to the dense rifle strafing sounds of the Marines, one or two explosions came from near the entrance of the cave from time to time.

That was before, the anti-infantry guard spider thunders were laid by the Marines near the collapsed area. The number was estimated to be as many as thousands.

At the beginning, they complained that there were too many mines buried, and it would be too troublesome to clean up after the battle?

But now they want to wish that they didn’t lay out tens of thousands of landmines at that time? In that case, at least they can defend slightly more easily now, right?

Dada dada...

The dense gunfire was still continuing, and of course, it was accompanied by the roar of those landmines from time to time.

Countless insects were either torn apart by bullets, or they were blown away by the anti-infantry mines they stepped on and cleared out a small area. Then, that area would soon be filled with the sea of ​​insects...

At this moment, a thick layer of insect corpses had accumulated inside and outside the entrance of the cave. Then, the insects were still as endless, pushing open or jumping onto the corpses of their companions without any mind, and continuing to charge forward regardless of the fate.

They try to rush and break through the Marines' encirclement firepower network by relying on their numerical advantage.

In fact, these invaders were able to predict their attack and prepare for it in advance. This really surprised the bug leader who was responsible for commanding this operation in the rear. However, even though the losses of their insects are already quite large, they cannot shake their determination to destroy all the invaders at all!

"Call the tank troops! Call the tank troops! When will you wait? We need artillery support now! We need it now!!!"

Less than two minutes after the fire started, Drius and Garen felt that they could no longer withstand it.

After all, after a long period of high-intensity fire, the magazines were replaced with one bullet after another, and countless bullets were poured out as if they were not worth money. Whether it was Garen or Dryus, in such a short period of time, they had fired thousands of bullets respectively!

The ones they have are electromagnetic rifles designed for individual shooting, rather than machine guns or warning cannons designed for continuous shooting!

Under the high temperature generated by the bullets frantically rubbing against the barrel and the planet's air, the electromagnetic tracks of the rifle were ablated and heated extremely severely. It won't take long before the weapons in their hands would be the first to be overloaded!

Under normal circumstances, when UPL broke out between the civil wars between humans, there were very few such situations that there were high-intensity uninterrupted shooting of individual weapons.

Sometimes, after a large-scale battle, an ordinary Marine soldier could not even finish hundreds of bullets in several days?

After all, the individual confrontation between humans often focuses on short-term point shots, or hidden tactics when scattering for a while. Very few people now have the situation of just hitting a magazine without paying attention to pressing the trigger! And those who do that are usually quickly killed by the enemy?

Therefore, in the past, the heat dissipation of the rifle was not a problem. The performance of this rifle, in the eyes of the designers of their UPL, was quite excellent and very in line with the needs of the human battlefield!

But now, the situation is a little different. After so many of the bugs were killed, they did not intend to reduce the intensity of the attack at all. They were still facing the crazy strafing of the landing team members and continuously rushed out of the huge sloping cave?

So, how many such insects are there in their underground bug world?

Could it be that they are really like ants, endless, a group of people, billions?!

"Where is the tank force? We need artillery support! Damn it, fire the gun quickly!"

Dada dada...

Dryus also roared loudly in the channel while shooting desperately in the direction of the insect swarm.

Those bullshit tank troops actually lost their chains at critical moments? He knew that those bastards must be unreliable!

Da da da da da!!!

The Marines were still firing continuously, and their muzzles were spraying with the flames generated by the friction between the planet's atmosphere, causing the red pointed cone bullets to rotate and shoot towards the insects.

In just less than a minute, the insects broke through the thousands of anti-infantry spider mines buried in the collapsed area. At this time, except for the large number of broken bodies being fired by rifles and warning cannons, no other mine sounded.

And after thousands of heavy group casualties, they finally successfully advanced their front line forward by dozens of meters.

Now, they are about to make a close handover with the Marines. They believe that with their fangs and claws, they will immediately enjoy the sweet and warm blood of the humans who invaded their planet...
Chapter completed!