Blue plumes cut through the silent night sky, and two huge transport planes appeared over Shazhou Island.
This island is the second largest natural island in the southern seas and is famous for its vast golden sandy beaches. It has 70,000 people living on an area of about 400 square kilometers, which is equivalent to half of Singapore's actual population and a little more than 1% of the population.
Unlike the narrow and crowded artificial islands like the Ring Island, this island is somewhat similar to the North Island and Anle Island. The island still retains many tropical natural landscapes.
Most of the residents on the island live on the relatively high south side, and modern buildings of two or three floors are scattered on both sides of the road around the island.
Since there is no airport on the island, the Burning Corps can only land on the sea outside the island.
The plasma plume ejected from the engine was close to the sea surface, and the scorched waves emitted a wisp of white mist.
The cabin door of the cabin opened downwards, and a steel landing craft slid along the track to the door of the cabin. Twelve players wearing exoskeletons were waiting on the landing craft. A 12 mm caliber machine gun and
A coaxial 60mm grenade launcher.
The former is mainly used to deal with light targets above the sea, while the latter is specially designed for underwater soft targets such as "frogmen".
The 60mm underwater grenade equipped with a pressure sensor uses metallic hydrogen charging. After approaching the target, it will explode at a very high explosive speed and rely on shock waves to kill nearby targets.
This landing craft is mainly designed for landing operations in the North Island and Haiya Province. Therefore, in addition to launching underwater grenades, the 60mm grenade launcher can also launch general-purpose fragmentation grenades to suppress fire on ground targets.
Although the chairman, CEO and factory director of Goblin Technology is addicted to selling junk on the northern line, it is obvious that the main business of Goblin Technology has not been abandoned because of this.
As the target area gradually approached, the player sitting in the cockpit shouted loudly on the communication channel.
"...The target is close, you have one minute to prepare!"
"Thirty seconds."
"Ten seconds!"
"……Set off!"
With a clear "click" sound, the rope pulling the landing craft was released, and the two Overlord transport aircraft dropped the landing craft hanging at the hatch at the same time.
Immediately afterwards, the landing craft were like dumplings, being lowered one after another. In the blink of an eye, there were twenty armed speedboats on the rough sea.
The speedboats divided into two teams and sailed towards the north and south sides of Shazhou Island respectively.
At the same time, on the north side of the island, disarmed Shazhou Island soldiers and a group of guards wearing exoskeletons were digging a beachhead.
Half an hour ago, they had received an early warning from Anle Island.
A destroyer and a landing ship were coming from the direction of the North Island. Judging from the menacing posture of those guys, it was obvious that they were not here to negotiate with them. The people sitting on the landing ship were probably not mutants.
I heard that in the distant southern Jinchuan Province, being caught by mutants is no joke. Both men and women will be eaten.
And it’s eaten in different ways.
Therefore, even though they were on opposite sides not long ago, they now have to stand on the same front for their relatives, friends and family.
Looking at the row of landing craft approaching in the distance, everyone's eyes subconsciously showed a trace of panic, but soon someone noticed the flashing signal lights on the landing craft.
"It's reinforcements from the Alliance!" A soldier had a hint of surprise written on his face.
The guards standing next to him and not far away also showed signs of being saved after confirming the frequency of the signal light.
Ten landing craft rushed directly to the beach. Players wearing exoskeletons jumped off the landing craft one after another. Two power players stayed behind and pulled the landing craft that was stranded on the shore directly to the shore.
The thickness of the steel plates on both sides of the landing craft is more than 15 mm, and the two layers stacked together are 30 mm, and can even block the bullets of some large-caliber machine guns.
Coupled with the fixed weapons on the landing craft, removing the battery provides an excellent bunker.
In addition, the landing craft also contained ammunition supplies and some folding bags containing sand, gravel and earthwork.
Fang Chang, who walked to the shore, walked directly in front of a group of armed men, looked around at them, and briefly introduced himself.
"Chang Fang, Burning Corps, who is in charge here?"
"I."
A man wearing a military exoskeleton came out. He had a federal assault rifle slung around his waist, but the body armor inside the exoskeleton was police style.
"Dumen, the director of the Shazhou Island Security Bureau, and the army... er, commander of the new Shazhou Island administration."
Probably because he had just obtained this equipment not long ago, it was obvious that he was not fully accustomed to the use of the military exoskeleton on his body.
Although it was a serious occasion, when Fang Chang heard the word "commander", the corners of his mouth twitched in laughter.
There are only about 200 people standing here, and the estimated number of people who are not here is only 400 or 500 people. If you put it on the northern line, you can make up half a thousand-man team, and I'm afraid it won't even be able to fill two caves.
But then again, this thing still depends on who you compare it to.
If these four to five hundred people fight against the company's mountain camp or the legion's thousand-man team, it will probably be difficult. But if they fight against the Xilan Empire's expeditionary force, it should be no problem to drive away the latter's ten thousand-man team.
of.
Of course, if it were the Gray Wolf Army or the two warlords on the border of Golden Gallen Port, it would be another story.
Dumen himself seemed to feel a little embarrassed, so he coughed dryly and took the initiative to hand over the command.
"Let me just say it straight, we don't have much chance to fight here, and the exercises are just a formality. Defense is mainly the navy's job... The command may have to trouble you veterans. If you need any cooperation, just tell us.
alright."
"Wise choice." Fang Chang didn't talk nonsense to him, he took out a tablet and threw it into his hand.
On the tablet is the battle plan.
In response to the two possible courses of action Charas may take, the Alliance's Army Staff has already made prepared response plans.
After Dumen took it, he took a look, and an expression of surprise suddenly appeared on his face.
"Is this... a battle plan? Have you already foreseen what will happen today?"
What is displayed on the tablet is not only the map of Shazhou Island, but also the positions deployed in various areas and the accompanying troops, etc.
This is not like a job that can be completed in two hours. The details of the content require at least two or three days to prepare.
Looking at his surprised allies, Fang Changdan smiled and said.
"We are used to rehearsing situations that have not happened, and then make a plan and submit it to the staff department, and then finalize it into an action plan and hand it to the manager for signature. Once the situation we envisioned occurs, the action plan will take effect immediately, and our
Troops will take action immediately during routine reporting, rather than waiting for a response from managers before making next plans."
This is actually a relatively routine operation.
As for unexpected situations, such as the loss of soldiers from the Xilan Empire, he will respond according to the relevant provisions in the "Player's Handbook" and the "Alliance Constitution", and decide whether to fight back and to what extent.
Hands up.
The swaying Shazhou Island has been a potential tinderbox since the beginning of the split of the Federation. Apart from the residents of Shazhou Island who cannot see it themselves, I am afraid that even the keyboard master on the Ideal City endpoint cloud can see it.
I'm afraid that not only have they made defensive preparations, Charas has also considered the situation that the alliance will take action and has already made two preparations.
Currently, two Thunder fighter jets are searching northward, testing the firepower of enemy destroyers and at the same time investigating possible ambush judged by the South China Sea Alliance Navy.
After seeing the entire combat plan from beginning to end, Dumen immediately took his men into action.
At the same time, on the south side of Shazhou Island, the company led by Lao Bai also landed on the island.
However, because there are a large number of residential buildings on the south side of the island, they did not rush the landing craft directly to the beach, but landed directly from the pier to the shore.
Lao Bai, who came ashore like Fang Chang, informed the guards who were consolidating defenses on the south bank of the battle plan.
Looking at the alliance soldiers taking over the defense task, the guards on the south bank looked at each other.
"...It seems like nothing has been done without us?"
A guard with a beard stubbed out his cigarette butt and stuffed it into a garbage bag in his pocket, looking blankly at the soldiers who were busy consolidating their positions.
He always has an illusion.
Compared with these guys, the well-equipped myself is more like a civilian.
Lao Bai, who was directing the work, happened to hear what he said, and then looked at him with a smile and said.
"What are you talking about? There are still many things you need to do. Don't think about leaving everything to us."
After a pause, Lao Bai continued.
"Now take your family to seek refuge, and remember to stay away from the coastline. In two hours we will airdrop a batch of supplies to the center of the island to help you set up a temporary camp. We will notify you to go home when everything is safe."
The guard who received the mission immediately straightened his back and performed a less than standard Alliance military salute.
"yes!"
Seeing his funny look, Lao Bai smiled and patted him on the shoulder.
"That's right, cheer up! Now that you've mustered up the courage to get here, don't give up halfway and finish what you need to do."
The guard took a deep breath and nodded vigorously, but there was still a trace of confusion in his eyes.
Seeing that the commander from the alliance was about to turn around and leave, he couldn't help but call him out.
"Wait, can I ask a question? I don't understand... Since you are so well prepared, you can actually blast Chalas away from here before we start the uprising. Why do you have to wait until today?"
Lao Bai grinned.
Other players may not know, but he does know that Fang Chang has indeed made similar preparations——
That is, before Charas consolidates the defense of Shazhou Island, the airport on the ring island is used as a springboard to occupy Shazhou Island with armed force, thus increasing the number of islands controlled by the South China Sea Alliance from 4 to 5.
Compared with the circular island of only 30 square kilometers, the Shazhou Island has a flatter terrain, lower population density, and is located closer to the middle of the southern sea. It is obviously more suitable to serve as the alliance's air force base in the southern sea.
In fact, the South China Sea Alliance authorities also expected this, and Commander Li even proposed to take the risk of sending a fleet to provide cover for the troops landing on the islands.
This plan has been submitted to the alliance staff, which has even prepared a combat plan and execution plan, but unfortunately it has not been approved by the managers.
"... Equality given by force is not equality. It doesn't matter if you don't understand. I don't understand everything either, but I believe that our administrator can lead us to end the wasteland, just like we believe that he can lead us to stop the bone-chewing tribe.
Like a wave."
Lao Bai shook his shoulder and let go.
"Go do your job, just like us."
While he was talking, there was a thunder-like explosion on the quiet sea surface, and a string of dense tracers formed a curve in the air, waving towards the sky like a long whip, and then two balls of fire exploded.
After a while, the voice of the pilot of the Goblin Corps came from the communication channel.
"...This is Fengqing, the enemy destroyer's fire network is too dense! Our missiles cannot break through their point defense system..."
The Federation Navy was established with the legion as the imaginary enemy, so naturally it would not be so stupid as to not even have an air defense system.
What's more, the main uses of destroyers are anti-submarine and aviation. The reason why Charas sent destroyers to escort the landing ships was because he took into account the alliance's "air superiority" and General Li Minghui's submarine.
But I didn’t expect these guys to even have an air defense phalanx...
Lao Bai frowned slightly.
At this moment, new news came from the Southern Alliance headquarters.
"...The enemy landing ship and escorting destroyer have approached 20 nautical miles south of you. We have searched for sonar and radar signals of 27 ship activities within a radius of 150 nautical miles near Shazhou Island... We are unable to determine which coordinates are valid coordinates.
Can you trouble your air force to come over and take a look?"
27 coordinates!
Spanning 150 nautical miles!
Lao Bai looked slightly solemn and said in a low voice.
"...I have told our air force to ask your submarines to continue searching in nearby waters!"
The South China Sea Alliance operator responded immediately.
"OK!"
Due to the special conditions of low-Earth orbit, there are no strategic satellites in the wasteland, and even if there are strategic satellites, it is not easy to lock the precise position of a fleet on the vast sea.
After contacting the Goblin Corps, Lao Bai immediately switched to the team voice channel and informed all his teammates of the situation on the battlefield.
"The enemy plans to attack our southern position! Everyone is ready to fight!"
A majestic response came from the communication channel.
"yes!"
The company of one hundred and twenty men was divided into three platoons and established a triangular defensive fulcrum along the buildings on the south side of the island.
And at the same time, returning to the silent sea, two huge ships emerged.
According to the information provided by the South China Sea Alliance, that is the destroyer Reef of the North Island Navy!
The point defense system at the bow and stern of the battleship can pour out a phalanx of mass bombs weighing up to 100g at an ultimate rate of fire of tens of thousands of rounds per minute, which is equivalent to delivering an entire missile into the air in just one minute.
A ton of working fluid!
The firepower network composed of this thing, not to mention missiles, drones, and even a sufficient number of artillery shells can intercept it!
In addition to the anti-air point defense system, the Reef is also equipped with torpedoes, missile launchers, and a 150mm naval gun.
If you let this thing get close to the shore, the consequences will be disastrous!
However, the "asymmetry" in the wasteland is mutual, which is also the biggest difference between the wasteland and the real world.
The federal navy, which has been developed for more than 150 years, is indeed powerful, but the alliance's land-based weapons are not vegetarian.
The "Dragon" missile developed by Jushi Military Industry has been improved by researchers from Shelter 70 and has evolved into a land-based "ultra-long range anti-ship version" - "Sea Dragon"!
Shortly after the "Thunder" fighter plane failed to break through the fire network, at the end of the floating airport outside the circular island, a square missile launcher raised its huge forehead.
As the launch order was issued, a column of white smoke broke through the dust cover and jumped into the sky, pushing a silver-white missile through the dense dark clouds.
The missile was like a sharp dagger. After drawing a parabolic trajectory, it stabbed the "Reef" that was actively exposed to the radars of the Alliance and the South China Sea Alliance as a "bait".
The point defense system of the Reef worked without any suspense. A dense rain of bullets poured out from the raised gun barrel, pounced on the "Sea Dragon" falling from the sky like a dense swarm of bees!
A dazzling light exploded in the air, but that was not the light from Hai Long's death, but the detonation triggered by the mother warhead after detecting the approach of a high-speed object!
In the bridge behind the reef, the man wearing an epaulette cap shrank violently. He had a premonition that something was wrong when the missile exploded.
Their radar did not detect any enemy ships in the nearby waters!
This is a land-launched missile!
At the same time, there was only a burst of exclamations and curses coming from the row of terminals not far in front of him.
"Radar component overloaded! Transmitter not functioning properly!"
"Unable to lock the enemy plane's position!"
"Sonar system malfunctioned! Damn it!"
"It's EMP! Notify the repair team to troubleshoot immediately!"
"how long it takes?!"
"The damage is not serious... it should be done within five minutes!"
"five minutes?!"
The USS Reef destroyer is equipped with an "anti-strong electromagnetic pulse device", but it needs to turn off the active phased array radar and sonar systems and enter a radio silent state before it can be turned on.
However, their previous attention was entirely on the two planes that were about to take off and the submarine that was lurking somewhere, and they did not expect that the Alliance would use this trick.
Relying solely on passive anti-electromagnetic pulse components is obviously not enough to completely shield the direct strike of this strategic EMP weapon.
Spear and shield are always relative concepts, and there is no absolutely impenetrable defense.
The failure of sonar and radar is undoubtedly equivalent to losing two eyes for the destroyer Reef.
Although the point defense system on the destroyer has two sets of identification equipment, which can use optical lenses to complete visual identification and locking of flying objects without relying on radar, the interception efficiency is definitely not as good as that of radar.
And the most critical thing is the sonar system...
The three attack submarines are the South China Sea Alliance’s biggest trump card!
Realizing the seriousness of the situation, the captain broke out in a cold sweat on his forehead and hurriedly looked at the operator in the main gun area and asked.
"Where's the fire control system?"
"For the time being... no fault has been found!" The operator in the main battery area who was sitting in front of the terminal swallowed and replied nervously.
Hearing this answer, the captain did not get any comfort in his heart, and at this moment, the correspondent sitting in front of the radio suddenly shouted.
"Sir! The command has sent us a request to bombard the coastline! The forward landing ship will lower the landing craft in thirty seconds!"
The captain was shocked when he heard this and his eyes widened.
"Are they crazy?! There are residents of Sandbank Island!"
The combat plan did mention that it would cover the landing troops arriving at Shazhou Island, and even mentioned in detail that they would use it as a bait to lure out the "rebel fleet" from Anle Island, and cooperate with the main fleet ambushing in the nearby waters to sink it, but that plan
There was nothing in the plan that told him to bomb his own people!
Although what happened on Shazhou Island made him furious, it was the guards who caused the trouble, and the survivors living on Shazhou Island were innocent.
At least in his opinion, those people are all his compatriots!
The correspondent reported the situation to the command post. After receiving the reply, he looked at the captain hesitantly.
"The headquarters said... they are traitors and they want us to fire immediately."
There is no time to hesitate.
The captain gritted his teeth and looked at the artillery operator sitting beside him.
"...Aim at the coastline! Avoid urban areas and fire!"
The artillery operator was stunned for a moment, but still took the order.
"yes!"
As the order was issued, the 150mm naval gun on the destroyer Reef slowly raised its barrel, first fired a test-fired correction bomb towards the south shore of Shazhou Island, and then began to continuously release ferocious bombs.
gunfire.
Hearing the deafening sound of artillery, Lao Bai, who was squatting in a building in the city, took a deep breath, holding a telescope in his hand and staring closely at the heavy landing craft getting closer and closer on the sea, and issued a battle order on the communication channel
The command.
"All teammates, get ready! Release the insurance! Put our enemies on the shore first, and then beat me hard!"
After a moment of pause, he switched the communication channel to Brother Chicken and said in a deep voice.
"The EMP detonated successfully... The enemy ship did not respond to our fighter planes flying over the clouds. The radar system was suspected to be paralyzed. If the analysis of the engineers of Shelter 70 is reliable, their sonar system is probably also very troubled. Next, it's time to
You took action."
A hearty reply came from the communication channel.
"receive!"
At this moment, on the rough sea, more than thirty landing craft had already approached the shoal on the south side of Shazhou Island under the cover of artillery fire, and rushed straight onto the beach.
As a cabin door opened, a group of green-skinned mutants roared to the shore, with a penetrating green light coming from pairs of amber holes.
They hold large-caliber rifles or even machine guns in their hands, wear modified exoskeletons on their bodies, and have thick bulletproof steel plates hanging on their chests. There are even vomit remains hanging on the steel plates.
Obviously this was their first time on a boat, and it was probably the only time in their lives.
After seeing that their opponents were mutants, and most likely mutants transferred from the northern front, the players squatting in the city no longer had a trace of kindness in their eyes, and they became fierce.
“Fire—!”
As that roar sounded, the dark windows were suddenly lit up by the flames sprayed from the heavy machine guns.
Tracers of light rushed to the beach like raindrops, colliding with the mutant who rushed to the beach.
The spilled blood dyed the beach red, but these mutants had the upper hand in numbers. There were nearly a thousand people crammed into more than thirty heavy landing craft, and the heads scattered on the beach looked like
Cockroaches crawling all over the floor.
Not only that, Charas apparently used North Island's industrial equipment to make some improvements to these mutants, and even made fully protective exoskeletons and mutant-specific assault rifles for them.
The mutants who landed on the island were divided into ten teams, and they were like a big bowl smashed towards the streets scattered along the coastline. The boiling flames of war were burning along the outline of the city!
At the same time, the Reef, which was bombing the coastline, also stopped firing, and was on alert for the possible appearance of the main fleet or submarines of the South China Sea Alliance as planned.
Then, to Charas's surprise, the South China Sea Alliance fleet did not appear.
After the alliance dispatched ground troops to Shazhou Island, it seemed that they only used aircraft to conduct a round of testing on the Reef, and then launched a land-based missile, ending all maritime offensives. Even the Reef sent them to Shazhou Island.
The ground troops on the island launched an artillery bombardment and ignored it.
Honestly, this is unusual!
North Island Command.
Overlooking the fierce battlefield through the drone, Charas cursed.
"...What the hell is that guy Zhang Ruowen doing! Not a single shell has landed in the city!"
Zhang Ruowen is the captain of the Reef.
The landing battle had been going on for more than ten minutes, and more than half of the more than a thousand mutants who had landed on the island had been killed or injured. Only then did he realize that the round of shelling just now had destroyed Lonely.
The defense troops stationed in the city suffered almost no losses. At most, artillery shells damaged a few roads.
Now that the landing force is blocked, the main fleet of the South China Sea Alliance has not been drawn out, and his fleet ambushed in the nearby waters is also lying in wait.
The staff officer standing next to Charas lowered his voice and said.
"The current military strength on Shazhou Island may not be enough to occupy the entire island. The alliance has also deployed a defense force on the northern beach... If the decoy operation fails, I suggest that the Reef be withdrawn first."
Charas said with a dark face.
"Our battle has not been lost."
The staff officer nodded and said.
"Indeed, but continuing to wait will not lead to better results, especially since Anle Island already knows that our main fleet is not in Beidao..."
After hearing the second half of the sentence, Charas quickly calmed down.
really.
The biggest risk of the entire plan is actually not the possible loss of a destroyer, but the risk of a defense vacuum on the North Island.
He folded his arms in front of his chest, tapped his index finger twice on his arms, immediately looked at the correspondent and gave the order.
"Let the Reef withdraw...forget it, let their captain listen to the phone and give me the earphone! I will talk to that idiot in person!"
As he spoke, he snatched the correspondent's headset and put it on his head.
"What are you doing! I asked you to bomb the city of Shazhou Island, and why did you drop the cannonball on a place where birds don't shit?"
There is no response in the communication channel.
The guy seemed to know that he was in the wrong and was so ashamed that he could not speak.
After scolding his men, Charas took a few breaths, calmed his breathing and continued.
"...I don't care what thoughts and excuses you have, because of your malfeasance, we missed a good opportunity to defeat our opponent in one fell swoop! Get back here immediately!"
However, what he didn't expect was that a strange voice suddenly came from the communication channel that had been silent for a long time.
"They can't come back."
Charas blurted out reflexively with a thrill all over his body.
"Who the hell are you?!"
The person on the other side of the communication channel laughed happily and announced his home address.
"Captain of the Midnight Killing Jungle Corps! Anyway, thank you for this ship."