When the assault boat stopped shaking and fell into silence, Hayes first heard the sound of coughing and quiet prayers, and then everyone seemed to have taken a collective breath under some invisible command order. Despite some initial doubts, they were still alive.
Soon after the assault boat's emergency lighting system was activated, the darkness suddenly gave way to the dim shadowy light, and then, he heard a familiar harsh sound and began to growl.
"Come! Gather and prepare to get off the boat, lift your butt, and act like soldiers. We have a war to fight. Squatting in this iron coffin is seeking death!"
Olanios' voice seemed like a powerful whip that sucked everyone out of the chair.
Releasing the seat constraints, Hays staggered and stood up. Winter beside him was like this, imitating Hays to poke his body carefully with his hands to check if there were any fractures in his bones.
What made Hays relieved was that he had no injuries on his body. Although his shoulders were sore and he had a little bruise from the strap, he could survive. Then he turned around and retrieved his laser gun. Winter's legs were still weak at this time.
"Sir Hayes, you you... look."
Hearing Winter's trembling voice, Hays looked in the direction he pointed, which was the chair behind Winter.
A young soldier sat on the chair, his head tilted to a disgusting angle, his eyes glared blankly, his chin was loose and he was motionless.
Hayes knew this man, Telles of the Second Company, but now he is dead, a stream of blood flowing out of his nostrils and mouth, dyeing his chin red.
Then he stretched his head to look at the seat restraints around Telles. Combined with the posture of the opponent's head, Hays realized that Telles' restraints were not properly fixed, causing him to break his neck during the violent bumps of landing, and he might have bitten his tongue, which is also one of the most common non-combat deaths for recruits.
"May the Emperor take you home."
Hayes stretched out his hand and closed Telles' eyes. Winter sobbed after his initial fear, because Telles and he were his fellow countrymen, and the only fellow countrymen in this strange group.
"Haes, what are you rushing around!? Let's go!"
Hearing Hashet's urging, Hayes turned his head and responded.
"Here's here!"
Then he looked at Winter.
"Telles' nameplate, the God Emperor may be very busy, so you have to take him home."
Winter wiped his tears, took the nameplate of Teres, then grabbed his laser gun and joined the rest of the company with Hayes, who lined up in an aisle between the seats on the upper deck.
During this process, Hayes could even hear the sound of bullets and shells exploded from the outside of the hull, and they were being fired by the enemy, but the assault boat was indeed solid.
The soldiers rushed down the lower deck quickly, assaulted the ramp, and rushed to the exit.
As the bolts were stimulated, the ramp slowly opened. Under the maintenance of the officers, the soldiers walked out of the four exits in an orderly manner.
Hayes saw this new world, first of all, a gray sky above his head, followed by a biting chill.
And on the ground, there is only a desolate and barren landscape, a flat landscape without trees, composed of frozen gray-black dirt, full of craters and rusty silhouettes of burnt vehicles.
To the east of him, he saw the landscape in the distance, which seemed to be a small city, with buildings as gray as the surrounding landscape, ominous and abandoned, and looked like a ghost town, which made Hayes shudder-
A ghost town, longing for more ghosts.
Moreover, he did not see other assault boats around, which means that their battalion is likely to be out of the team.
"A mineral world is so bad."
Hashet looked at the world and muttered to himself. Hayes asked immediately:
"Uncle Hashett, is there a lot of ore in the mineral world?"
Hashet shook his head.
"Not all, it has many holes, many holes that swallow flesh and blood... What's more damn, we have to get into the hole, but now we have to gather with the big army first."
Olanios had already finished the communication with Arni, and then immediately waved to everyone.
"Leave the landing ground, leave the landing ground! Our landing coordinates are wrong! There are enemies nearby-"
After saying that, he stopped and looked at the sky with anxious eyes, and everyone heard the sound of shells getting closer and closer.
"Avoid guns!!"
Someone screamed as the entire battalion ran frantically to the side of the lander for asylum.
A few seconds later, an explosion raised the frozen mud.
"Mortar!"
Alni immediately judged the type of weapon from the sound of cannons, and then around them, more gunfire and explosions rang out.
As the sound of bullets and shells hitting the hull on the other side of the lander became so loud that they had to shout to be heard in the roar, the fire seemed to increase ominously every moment.
Olanios immediately attracted Hashet.
"We are lucky. Whoever is shooting is on the other side of the lander, but we can't stay here forever. We need to find better cover, otherwise it's only a matter of time before their artillery finds range and lands over our heads bypassing the assault boat."
At this time, the turret on the assault boat also began to fight back, but it could not stay on the ground for too long and needed to return to the track to transport other troops.
Only five minutes left for Olanios.
Fortunately, the main force of the regiment was not far from them, less than ten kilometers. Alni ordered them to gather at the mining station that had been bombed by the Empire, which was also the target they needed to occupy.
"Hashet, I estimate that the number of enemies in this group is no more than five hundred. You take your company to sit around Chimera from the left, and we attract firepower in the front, and we can only leave if we solve them."
"OK!"
In five minutes, the assault boats outputted their full strength, and the soldiers also began to suppress and shoot in the direction the enemy was about, and the two sides fought fiercely.
At the same time, the Second Battalion carried several Chimeras and began to circle a large detour from the left. There was a dry ditch on one side of the landing point, and the enemy was in a relatively low position, which could just cover up the huge size of the Chimera armored vehicle, while the soldiers followed the armored vehicle and ran at the fastest speed.
Hayes ran with everyone, and Winter was running hard, and ruthless gunfire continued to sound not far away. The enemy did not notice them for the time being, but it did not mean that they would never find them. After all, Chimera was still very disturbing.
Soon, Hashett asked Hayes to look at a Chimera and took his squad to establish a machine gun position.
Hayes finally saw the enemy, lying on the ground, wearing a dirty cloak, wrinkled and patched work clothes, some even wore work helmets, they used all kinds of original guns to shoot at the assault boats, and two mortars.
"beat!"
The gunshot suddenly rang out, and the attackers were shocked. Hayes replaced the "Hairy Man" Cabrey and personally fired the woodcutter. When the bullets hit them, red blood spurted out from the chest, arms and head.
Chapter completed!