The overview of the world gained through Byron made Robert frown as he looked at the three-dimensional sand table.
There are no electromagnetic guns, no "green and pollution-free" nuclear bombs or plasma bombs, and there is no godly body like him and his brothers. Facing the beast tide, humans can only retreat steadily.
Even though they were in different worlds, when he thought of the tragic deaths of billions of human compatriots, the anger in Robert's eyes became more obvious.
But he is no longer the "child" who needed Sui Bian's patient guidance more than ten years ago, but the original body who commands an army of more than 100,000 people, and his emotions will not affect his judgment.
"Everyone."
Robert relaxed his frown and said: "According to Captain Thies Byron's account, France was the first country to be attacked, and the latest images sent back by the satellite also confirmed this.
And the race behind the scenes we want to find out..." Robert said, reaching out his left hand and pointing to the center of Paris: "It is very likely to hide here."
"Yes." The Army Major General standing aside nodded in agreement: "Paris is indeed a good choice to capture a colonial creature alive. It seems that heavy troops need to be mobilized to encircle and suppress it."
"Soldiers are valuable and quick." Robert retracted his hand, turned to the group of civilian soldiers on the left, and raised his voice to ask:
"Which is the closest reconnaissance force to Paris?"
Hearing this, a correspondent belonging to Umbrella looked at the content displayed on the screen in front of him and reported loudly:
"The 3rd Battalion of the 02nd Krieg Regiment, and the 1st Assault Regiment of the UNSC 9th Airborne Division."
"Ask how many plasma bombs they carry."
"Yes." The correspondent who received the instructions immediately contacted Krieger's 3rd Battalion, and soon turned to look at Robert and others:
"Four, sir."
"Very good." Robert ordered to everyone in succession:
"Inform the 3rd Battalion and the 1st Assault Regiment to rush to Paris immediately. Also, I give the 3rd Battalion the authority to use plasma bombs.
Adjust the yield of three of them to the minimum, drop them at three points away from the city center, deal with the obstructing monsters, and then raid the city center to look for and try to capture any possible colonizers alive.
The goals of the remaining reconnaissance forces remain unchanged. Finally, the location of the behemoth captured by the satellite will be passed to the original body Sanguinius, who will be responsible for clearing the behemoth on the surface."
"Yes, sir."
All correspondents and civilian soldiers immediately conveyed Robert's order to all ministries.
"One battalion and one regiment, less than three thousand people in total... um..."
At this time, a UNSC colonel looked at the current situation of Paris displayed on the sand table and whispered to himself.
Although he knew that Krieger's past performance in exercises was to completely crush the UNSC elite, as the commander of the armored division, the colonel always felt that the number of people involved in the assault on Paris seemed a bit small.
After all, exercises are not actual combat.
Robert, who heard the colonel talking to himself, didn't pay attention at all, and continued to say to the officers:
"The current transport aircraft formation has left Rabat and returned to the base. When Captain Thies Byron arrives at the base, I think Paris will also have results.
By then, what we have to consider is no longer the construction and defense of frontline bases, but the liberation of all fortress cities."
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We are now in Paris in the early morning.
The blue and blood-colored light emanating from the city reflected the night sky shrouded in thick clouds.
If you ignore those giant "embryos" that are thick, smooth, and close together, like insect egg sheaths, a hundred meters long...
Well, the night view of Paris is still very "beautiful".
Observe these blood-red "embryos" carefully.
Under the translucent bubble-like outer wall, there are dense vascular tissues, as well as giant beasts curled up in the embryo, which are still not yet mature.
And the surface around the giant embryo is filled with countless small embryos used to incubate different animal bodies.
It seems that the colonist race has established a "monster army" production line in Paris to improve the efficiency of invading and assimilating the earth.
In the city center, there is a tall tower building like an African anthill.
On the spiral passage outside the tower, there is a beast body that seems to be undergoing maintenance.
Surrounding the tower, and even in the sky over the entire city, there are a large number of flying beasts that look like mosquitoes and are responsible for warning.
suddenly.
The beasts who were performing their respective duties stopped working and turned their attention to the south.
Look south of Paris in the direction they are looking.
Less than 20 kilometers away from the city center, an aerial gunboat painted black with an eye-catching red and white umbrella logo printed on the right side of the nose was approaching the center of Paris at a constant speed.
The aerial gunship has a similar appearance to the Vulture installed by the UNSC, but is much larger than the Vulture and has more exposed cannons and artillery pieces.
This is Umbrella's improved derivative model, the Vulture, based on the Vulture.
!!
Seeing the Vulture gradually approaching, the flying beasts responsible for alerting and defending became agitated and rushed towards the Vulture like an army.
"Ho~!"
Even the giant beasts that were resting on their nests raised their heads and roared, but did not choose to get up. With their higher intelligence, they probably judged that the flying beasts were enough to deal with a mere "small" gunboat.
At this time, the Condor unfolded the protective covers of two rows of vertical launch systems and stretched out three long-range missiles equipped with special warheads.
Inside the cabin.
The two pilots wearing obviously Krieger-style helmets completely ignored the flying beasts attacking them and continued to control the Condor to move forward at a constant speed.
Behind the pilots.
Sitting diagonally on the left side of the cabin, the gunner responsible for the missile system made some operations. Three marked red dots appeared on the Paris floor plan displayed on the fixed screen in front of him. He then opened a button on the right side of the console.
Remove the protective case and press the three buttons in sequence without hesitation.
"Boom~..." There was obvious shaking in the cabin.
Three missiles trailing white mist-like tail flames appeared in the sight of all pilots and gunners, flying towards Paris at extremely fast speeds.
I saw three missiles carrying plasma bullets heading straight for "their" respective targets, and in order to increase the killing effect, they were detonated in the air less than 200 meters above the ground...
Ri——~!
The detonation of the missile first produced three very small, but extremely dazzling blue dots, followed by a "silent" bright explosion, making the whole world seem to be only blue.
Blue light also spilled into the cabin through the sealed windows, reflecting on the pilots and gunners who seemed to have no emotions.
His calm performance seemed like he was just doing a trivial thing.
"boom---!!!"
At this time, a deafening explosion entered the cabin from the direction of Paris.
"call----!"
What swept over simultaneously was a shock wave that was enough to shake the fuselage violently.
"Pah~!!"
Suddenly, a small piece of flying animal body fragments stuck to the sealed window of the Condor like a flying insect killed by a vehicle traveling at high speed.
But the impact that didn't stop soon blew away the stump and the dark blue blood stuck to the window.
Then, the noise caused by the detonating plasma bombs finally began to subside.
The blue light dissipated, allowing the crew of the Condor to clearly see three mushroom clouds rising over the city of Paris.
The centers of the three explosion sites have been completely crystallized, and the visual radius within a radius of no more than two kilometers has completely reduced to scorched earth scattered with fine crystals.
The disgusting embryos and tentacle-like plants, as well as the few behemoths that didn't bother to deal with the Vulture and lay on the ground, all "evaporated" and disappeared.
Things outside the scope were not spared. Large areas of remaining buildings and tentacle plants responsible for assimilating the atmospheric environment were all destroyed by the shock wave.
Until now, there are still many areas that consume air with extremely low oxygen content and burn with flames.
As for the tall tower building far away from the center of the explosion and the absolute destruction range, although it was seriously damaged and crumbling, it at least survived.
After all, it was not the target of the Condor.
The crew followed Robert's order and adjusted the explosion yield of the three plasma bombs to the minimum. If it were the maximum, one would be enough to wipe out Paris.
After completing the detonation order, the two pilots controlled the Condor and accelerated towards Paris, preparing to provide conventional fire support for the troops that were to land next.
…
Over the south, further away from the city.
A flying formation composed of the Yugull, the Pelican, large transport boats and assault boats, carried the 600-man Krieger 02 Regiment's 3rd Battalion, and more than 2,000 people of the 9th Airborne Division.
An assault group quickly approached the high tower.
An assault boat located on the left side of the formation.
The corporal, who was still sitting with his legs outside the cabin, was adjusting the pulse rifle in his hand and loading a fragmentation round into the 30mm grenade launcher hanging underneath.
Then adjust the electronic components of the firearm, hold it with both hands, and aim the muzzle of the gun diagonally ahead at a scrapped vehicle wrapped in tentacle plants on the ground.
The helmet screen was locked, and the mechanical skeleton also assisted him in calibration, indicating that everything in the individual soldier system was normal.
"Huh~——."
“Boom~….”
As soon as he lowered his gun, the corporal felt that the assault boat encountered a strong airflow and heard an obvious explosion.
He grabbed the bulkhead with his right hand, leaned forward slightly and leaned out of the cabin to look north, and saw three mushroom clouds rising over Paris.
"All three platoons are listening." The second lieutenant in charge of commanding their third platoon said on the communication:
"The flight formation is expected to arrive at the designated landing area in six minutes. The mission details have already been sent to each of your screens, so I won't repeat them again.
Moreover, the latest news from superiors stated that Umbrella's Astartes completed the task in only twenty minutes. I don't force you to be as efficient as the Astartes, but I only ask for one thing, and that is that all of you can be as efficient as the Astartes.
Stay alive for me, do you hear me clearly?"
"Sir! Yes! Sir!"
Everyone in the third platoon, including the corporal who liked to remain silent, replied loudly on the communication line.
The voice fell.
The corporal retracted his upper body from the cabin, held the rifle in both hands, and looked at the dilapidated scene on the ground to adjust his breathing.
The estimated six minutes flew by.
All the assault boats broke away from the formation and passed over the ruins outside Paris at low altitude, as well as the scorched earth shimmering with crystal light, until they reached an open area south of the tower.
The flexible and light assault boat quickly dropped in altitude. When it was less than five meters above the ground, the corporal and his comrades jumped out of the cabin.
"Tap!" Both feet landed smoothly.
Holding the rifle in hand, and using the clear field of vision provided by the helmet screen, the corporal observed the tower thousands of meters away from them.
As if they had recovered from the plasma explosion, densely packed beast bodies poured out of the tower, forming a considerable beast army.
"Ta! Ta-ta!" Suddenly there was a loud sound of gunfire.
The corporal and his three teammates formed a team and moved forward alternately with other teams belonging to the third platoon.
The assault boat that unloaded the airborne troops quickly rose to high altitude and hovered.
The crew members located in the cabin controlled the pulse machine guns installed on both sides and cooperated with the Condor to provide fire support to the airborne troops in the landing area.
Thanks to the clearance of the plasma explosion and the fire support from above, the corporal and the four hundred airborne troops did not have to worry about being attacked by the flying beasts.
Then arriving at the landing area were various types of transport aircraft and transport boats.
After unfolding the tail hatch and unloading the main force of the 3rd Battalion and the 1st Assault Regiment, nearly 3,000 people spread out their formation and easily suppressed the beast tide that was dozens of times their size.
"Ta! Ta!"
And the dense gunfire was mixed with the same crisp laser gun system.
Shining red light projectiles filled the space between humans and beasts.
Shortly after.
The corporal was squatting beside a broken low wall.
He took off the empty magazine and put it into the recovery bag hanging on his back, then took out another magazine and put it away.
When he stood up and was higher than the low wall, the tall tower building seemed very close at hand, only a hundred meters away from him and his comrades, and the number of beasts blocking their entry into the tower was no longer the same as before.
The corporal returned to the team and prepared to cooperate again to launch an offensive.
"Beep-!Beep-!" But a unique whistle came from not far behind him.
!
Hearing this whistle, the corporal, who was originally calm, and his three platoons of comrades suddenly felt a chill running down their spines.
After several joint drills, they knew what this whistle meant.
The corporal turned his head and looked back.
The source of the whistle was a Krieg platoon leader wearing exclusive TPS power armor and a red helmet.
This Krieg raised the chain sword in his right hand and swung it forward fiercely. Dozens of Krieg strapped their laser rifles on their backs, took off the chain sword hanging from their waists, and launched a relentless attack on the tower.
The charge of words.
At the same time, there were five Kriegers holding Gauss machine guns and equipped with CMC heavy power armor squatting on the ground.
The small missile launch tube placed on the back of the CMC is controlled and adjusted by two mechanical arms, and its elevation is aimed at the beasts gathered near the tower.
"Whoa! Whoa!"
Dozens of small missiles trailed slender white tail flames, jumped over the corporals and Kriegs, dispersed, and landed directly in the group of beasts.
"Boom! Boom!" The fire and smoke generated by the explosion quickly enveloped them.
Before the thick fog had cleared, the platoon leader and the Kriegers had already approached and rushed into it without fear.
"Buzz~!!"
"Bah——! Stab!"
The rapid rotation of chains and the sound of flesh being cut continued to come from the thick fog.
"..." This change shocked the corporal and his comrades.
"What are you doing standing still!" The second lieutenant yelled on the communication: "Follow Krige and rush into the target building. Don't embarrass the Ninth Division!"
After roaring, the second lieutenant and the five heavily armed Kriegs equipped with CMC power armor rushed towards the tower together.
"Yes, sir!"
The corporal and his comrades in the third platoon also imitated Krieger and the second lieutenant in charging.
Please remember the first domain name of this book: ._