However, the aliens who had been quiet all day clearly did not want to let the fleet go. After nightfall, a group of giant ants on the shore suddenly came together to climb on each other, and after a while they turned into several huge ant balls!
The vegetation on the shore was pretty good, but no matter how dense the vegetation was, it couldn't cover the conspicuous ant balls. The sentry on the ship immediately noticed that something was wrong and immediately reported the abnormal situation.
Ye Han leaned toward the porthole and took a look, immediately calling the fleet's communications and requesting air support.
A few seconds later, the space fleet in low-Earth orbit opened fire, and dozens of shells fell from the sky, smashing all the ant balls that were about to gather.
The bombardment lasted for half a minute, which was not long, but the artillery fire was very intensive and swept the entire river bank. Countless giant ants were scurrying about. After the bombardment was over, not a single intact giant ant could be seen in sight.
The giant ant's raid ended in an anticlimactic manner, and the fleet continued northward along the river.
The visibility at night was not very good, but every soldier had a night vision device, and the speed of the fleet did not decrease, and it was still moving at a high speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour.
I don’t know whether the aliens were too late to mobilize their troops, or they realized that the ant colony could not cause trouble under the nose of the space fleet. The night trip was particularly smooth. By the next morning, the fleet had entered the semi-desert area of Sudan.
The banks of the river are no longer covered with tropical vegetation as far as the eye can see, but have been replaced by withered yellow.
There is no vegetation, but it is very little, and it is concentrated on both sides of the White Nile. A little further away, there is desolation.
Ye Han lay on the porthole and looked at it for a long time. He didn't even notice a single ant. He then contacted the space fleet to obtain real-time satellite images, but he didn't see any giant ants near the fleet.
He searched relentlessly along the river, and finally discovered that the giant ant closest to the fleet was more than 300 kilometers upstream of the fleet!
Ye Han blinked and suddenly raised his head: "Aren't we just coming out now?"
This was said so nonsense that everyone was a little stunned. Ye Han quickly explained a few words, and then everyone understood what he meant. The originally quiet cabin suddenly became lively.
Liu Bin hugged his helmet and grinned widely, smiling brightly: "When I got on the boat yesterday, I was thinking that I wouldn't be able to get out without fighting a few bugs along the way. I didn't expect to get out so easily.
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"Who says it's not the case!" Ouyang Ping agreed repeatedly, "There was an accident last night, and we didn't need to take action yet."
Luo Qi looked at Ye Han: "Captain, can we call a plane if there are no bugs?"
"I think so too." Ye Han smiled and asked for the Djibouti base's communication: "Call the base. Please answer when you receive it!"
"Received at the base, please speak."
"Base, our unit has entered the semi-desert area. No bugs were found here. Repeat, no bugs were found here. Please request air support!"
"The base has received it. The plane is ready to take off, but you are still within the threat range of the flying ants. You must continue to go north!" The base sent a coordinate to Ye Han. "This is the rendezvous coordinate. The plane will take two hours."
We will arrive later, you must hurry up!"
"Understood, what's going on with Americans?"
"Which aspect?"
"airplane."
"This is a joint operation."
"Understood."
After the communication ended, Ye Han clapped his hands and said: "Attention everyone!"
The soldiers immediately turned their attention to Ye Han.
Ye Han said: "There is good news. The base will send a plane over immediately. The rendezvous coordinate is about 160 kilometers due north. Our plane will come together with the American plane. If we persist for a while, we can go back."
The soldiers were obviously relieved, but no one cheered... It was not the time now, it would not be too late to vent their emotions after returning to the base.
Later, the United States received an order from Djibouti, and the fleet immediately increased its speed to the highest speed. Eighty minutes later, the fleet rushed to a desolate river beach, which was less than five kilometers away from the meeting point.
The hovercraft is extremely adaptable. Since these boats couldn't be recovered anyway, we simply drove the hovercraft directly on the shore and arrived at the end of the field in just a short time.
There is a well-preserved desert road at the meeting point, which is the basic condition for the plane to land.
Some soldiers talked a lot after seeing the road. They all thought it was surprising that the road was so well preserved.
In fact, it is not surprising at all. The reason why the road in the tropical rain forest is dilapidated is the result of wind and rain erosion and vegetation growth. In the desert, there is drought and little rain all year round. Unless it is buried by sandstorms, this desert road will not be damaged in another ten or eight years.
Not much worse.
What followed was a long and torturous wait. At 8:28, the familiar roar of engines appeared in the sky, and several transport planes appeared in sight, and soon landed on the road.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The soldiers boarded the plane as quickly as possible, and then the fleet took off and returned.
The moment the plane took off, Ye Han looked up to the south. Although he couldn't see Morobeda, which was thousands of miles away, he still had many thoughts lingering in his mind.
However, in just a few days, more than half of the four combat groups participating in the war were lost. Although the losses were not as great as those in Siberia, they were not much stronger.
There is also the situation in Africa. Just a few days ago, it seemed to be very good. But a few days later, Central Africa has turned into a giant ant... no, it has become a world dominated by aliens. Nearly two thousand countries
Troop officers and soldiers lost their lives, and the losses were huge.
These are nearly two thousand motorized infantry, not two thousand ordinary soldiers!
The key is not the past, but what the participating countries should do next!
Regardless of whether China is a base group, it will not sit back and watch aliens occupy Africa, let alone ignore aliens and become powerful. It just doesn't know what the next step is for each country to plan.
While Ye Han and others withdrew to Djibouti, various countries were also conducting a new round of consultations.
The space fleet is already in place, but countries have different views on how to act next. The focus of the debate is whether to use nuclear weapons, the scope and consequences of using nuclear weapons, etc.
In short, aliens must be eliminated, but there is no need to use nuclear weapons.
Many countries are very optimistic about infrasonic cannons and believe that it is best to continue the previous action plan in Africa, use infrasonic cannons to eliminate giant ants in large numbers, and then hunt out the aliens and kill them.
It has to be said that this plan is really a bit lacking. Although it protects the tropical rainforest to the maximum extent, the implementation of this plan requires sufficient ground forces, and the tropical rainforest environment is special, and the manpower and material resources invested are comparable to a world war.
It would be easy to flatten Africa with nuclear bombs, but the problem goes back again. Without tropical rainforests, the climate of the entire earth will undergo unpredictable changes!
