Xiao Yuan said loudly: "Captain, I am Xiao Yuan, we are rushing to the underground lake, please give instructions!"
"Great, how many people did you bring here?"
"Four combat groups and a batch of heavy weapons."
Ye Han's smile was a little stiff. The number of reinforcements was not small, but it was smaller than he expected: "Xiao Yuan, what did you bring?"
"Ten sets of automatic machine guns, three bases of incendiary bombs, most suitable for dealing with insects...and three large artillery pieces."
Ye Han raised his arms and pumped his fists: "Xiao Yuan, rush to the underground lake as quickly as possible. Leave a combat team at the bottom of the cliff to set up a blocking position. The others... I asked Bi Min to pick you up. He knows how to get there."
There are only two ways to return to the ground. One is to take the hole above the underground lake, and the other is to take the path Xue Ju found. No matter which way you go, the underground lake is the only way.
Although we still don’t know what situation Liu Bin encountered, judging from the clues we have already grasped, it is probably the wolf that found the underground lake.
Ye Han not only had to find the missing people, but also ensured the smooth path back, so he had to set up a blocking position just in case.
"Understood!" Xiao Yuan agreed simply.
Ye Han did not stop because of Xiao Yuan's arrival, but led the troops to move forward, walking through passages and cave halls of different sizes, not knowing how far they had gone.
When walking into a small cave hall, Ye Han accidentally discovered the scorch marks left by incendiary bombs, and found dozens of shell casings in the corner. It seemed that the team had stopped here briefly.
Ye Han felt that he was not far from the missing person, so he immediately ordered the troops to speed up. He didn't expect that as soon as he ran out of the cave hall, he saw a person leaning against the wall.
To be precise, it's not a person, but a set of powered armor with a broken shell. The visor is lifted and the mask is broken. There are scratches and bite marks everywhere on the surface of the broken armor. The person inside is gone, and there are only patches of blood solidified on the armor.
inside and outside.
Ye Han's pupils shrank.
There is no one who will die in a war, and he has been mentally prepared for it, but when the incident comes, his heart is still very blocked.
"Who is it?" Ye Han asked, standing in front of the armor.
Ouyang Ping came over and took a look: "The number is scratched."
Ye Han picked up the armored gun thrown aside, removed the magazine and saw that there was not a single empty bullet left.
"Ouyang Ping, take down the recording equipment and take it with you, others continue to move forward!" Ye Han's footsteps were heavy, and the emotions of the soldiers were also very depressed.
Countless people have lost their lives due to giant insects in this war, but people are close and distant, and no matter how many strangers they don’t know die, they are just a group of numbers on paper. Unless you witness it with your own eyes, it will feel real.
Very limited.
However, it is a completely different feeling to have a comrade who has been with him day and night die before his eyes. Many people will have a thought in their minds: Will it be my turn next?
Even Ye Han himself is not immune to the issue of life and death, let alone these young warriors?
Moving forward, there were fewer and fewer shell casings and more and more traces of grenade explosions. Ye Han could imagine what the soldiers were going through. He called the survivors on the radio over and over again, but never received any response.
Did everyone die?
This idea broke into his mind inadvertently, took root, and could no longer be erased.
After traveling for more than a hundred meters, the team entered a large cave hall with an area of no less than several hundred square meters. Between the stalagmites, a stream more than two people wide divided the cave hall into two parts. The shallow water was only a palm deep.
Another set of armor was found with only an empty shell left.
Ye Han decisively ordered the troops to stop advancing.
The distance from the underground lake to the cave hall is no less than a thousand meters, and the road is always going downhill.
Before entering the cave, Ye Han deliberately took a look at the environmental data. The altitude on the ground was about over 500 meters, while the current altitude was only over 100 meters.
The team is already four hundred meters deep underground, and the ambient temperature is already close to 20 degrees above zero, which is much lower than the location of the underground lake. However, they still cannot find the end of the cave. The scale of the cave group can be imagined.
He vaguely felt that the naturally formed cave group should not be so big, or that there should be so many caves, but they should not be so connected to each other. It is possible that after the wolves settled in the cave, they opened up the unrelated caves and finally formed
Such a huge cave system.
Ye Han turned on the radio again: "601 call, who is on this channel, please answer if you hear it!"
Everything on the radio was as before, there was still no reply.
Ye Han gritted his teeth and squeezed out one word from between his teeth: "Withdraw!"
Soldiers, you look at me and I look at you, we don’t know what to do.
"What are you doing standing still? Get out!" Ye Han's voice was a bit stern.
"Chief of Staff, we have chased you all the way here, why don't you chase us away?"
"What are you chasing? Do you think I don't want to chase you? Look, this place is so large. There are more than a dozen caves at the entrance. One has no bullet casings and the other has no marks. How can we chase down so many?
The holes are numbered and you go one by one? Even if you don't encounter any insects, it will be too late by the time you finish all the holes."
After saying that, Ye Han sighed again: "I also want to rescue everyone, but in this situation, it is too dangerous to continue chasing."
The soldiers were silent and had all kinds of thoughts in their minds, but the deeper they went into the cave, the higher the chance of getting trapped and lost. If the people were not rescued by then, they might have to leave themselves here too.
Therefore, most people have the same idea as Ye Han, hoping to withdraw as soon as possible instead of going in without limit. It's just that if you think about it, it's impossible to say it out anyway.
Suddenly there was a buzzing sound from the radio, and then Xiao Yuan's vague voice came out: "Captain, I'm looking for Liu Bin."
"Really?" Ye Han was overjoyed, "Liu Bin, can you hear me?"
"Chief of Staff, I can hear you!"
"Where the hell did you go!" Ye Han was furious, "Don't you know you're guarding the underground lake?"
"I……"
"Don't tell me it's useless. Tell me right away how many people are here when we divide the troops!"
"Four... how are they?"
"Two sacrificed their lives, and the other two are in danger...Liu Bin, have you replaced the batteries for your armor?"
"not yet."
"How much power is left?"
"You can still use it for seventeen or eighteen minutes."
"Where are the others? Don't tell me you're the only one left."
"Of course not." Liu Bin immediately asked other soldiers, and replied after a moment, "Chief of Staff, you can only use about twenty minutes at most to shut down all unnecessary systems, about half an hour."
"Got it, retreat to the underground lake as soon as possible." After saying this, he raised his heart and uttered one word, "Retreat!"
