Standard Terra Calendar 968.M41
The Great Whirlpool Area, Bloody Skeleton Galaxy, Blood Diamond Star, The Nineteenth Mining Area
"Grenade!"
When the screams of his comrades sounded, Hays immediately turned around instinctively and wanted to lie down, but he tripped by the corpse on the ground and fell directly to the ground.
Then the explosion of the simple grenade tore the air behind him, and he felt a sudden pressure coming from his ears.
Then, everything went dark.
I don't know how long it took, but he realized that his ears were buzzing, and his face followed by the cold and hard mud underground.
In the fog of consciousness recovery, he heard the screams and shouts of men, the sound of laser guns firing, and the roars and roars from others.
"Hays!"
Hearing that someone seemed to call him, he raised his head out of the mud, looked around, trying to figure out his direction.
This is a mine tunnel about five meters wide and three meters high. The only lighting is the flares thrown on the ground in the distance and the fire of laser guns firing. He lay on the ground face down, and the pain on his shoulders had been relieved to only a slight pain, while the people he knew and those he didn't know were in a cruel battle.
A week ago, they all thought it was an easy "sweep", but the intricate mine tunnel underground in Happy City became everyone's nightmare.
The resisters had primitive weapons and lagging equipment, but they were familiar with the terrain, they were elusive, they were tenacious, they would rather die than surrender—
In the years since he was in the army, Hayes has developed an inherent concept that as long as he is well equipped and has many weapons, the troops will definitely be strong. In fact, he also feels that those "mobs" who only have light weapons and even many of them are homemade weapons will not have any resistance, even if they are huddled in the tunnel.
But reality slapped him and everyone in the face.
These people have very flexible and cunning tactics, and most of the time they don’t fight them head-on. When they advance from the wide area in groups, they hide. Once the team disperses into the narrow mines, they attack everywhere, constantly raiding the army of the tired empire on a small scale. When the imperial army is about to retreat, they follow and pursue.
Moreover, as a mineral world, the most inexplosive thing here is explosives. The Red Pirates left hundreds of millions of tons of explosives, which can be easily made into simple grenades and landmines. After suffering several losses in a row, they did not even dare to act without metal detectors opening the circuit.
But what is even more terrifying is the spirit of these people. Hays has been in a tense and dark environment for a long time and feels like he is going crazy, but those people are like Superman.
He had seen enemies who took off all his clothes and sludge in order to attack the black gun and not be sensed by thermal scanning. He had only brought a gun to ambush the waste minerals.
I have also seen enemies who hang themselves on a shaft with ropes for several days and nights.
There are even enemies who seal themselves in an underground bunker that can't be opened any more -
Everything they did seemed to be just to be able to take away one or two imperial soldiers. Although it seemed that these black guns would not cause much casualties, as time went by, the number of casualties far exceeded their imagination.
After capturing an underground orbit transit hub, after counting, their regiment lost more than 400 people in less than a week. This was only a 50-meter-deep underground, and there was also a mine channel with a depth of more than 200 meters below them.
Almost every step requires blood to be watered.
In the long-term darkness and fear, the soldiers' spirits became highly nervous and suspicious, as if enemies could jump out of the shadow at any time, causing accidental injuries and violence to become more and more frequent. At the same time, people continued to mentally collapse. Therefore, the soldiers also called this kind of battle a rat war.
Shortly after the battle began, some people questioned why they wanted to fight in such a place where large troops and heavy firepower could not be launched, and they could just block the mine channel and ignore it.
However, Hayes heard some inside story from Haschet, which roughly means that the superiors wanted to quickly restore production here, so they could only use the flesh and blood of soldiers to clear the mines full of thugs.
Some people also propose to use poison gas to kill traitors in the mine tunnel. However, some troops have tried this method long ago, but it has basically no effect. As a mining world dominated by the casting world, most of the underground mine tunnels of Blood Diamond Star have built extremely complete ventilation and filtration systems. In order to allow underground workers to work at the maximum efficiency, underground mines often have deep wells, medical facilities, warehouses, geothermal power generation and other equipment, and even fungal plantations, with extremely complete plans.
Those who want to trap or poison them are basically dreaming. Moreover, after years of excavation by the Red Pirates, the underground mine channel network of the planet is very different from the beginning, and even the sages of the Mechanical Sect can't say one or two or three.
Then, the only way is to let the soldiers go to this cold, narrow and dark hell, and fight face to face with those who are forced into a desperate situation.
Hayes once picked up a small piece of crystals underground, with bright rose-red colored roses, as big as his fingernail.
Hashett said that the thing is called Lantai Blood Crystal Rock Salt, also called Blood Diamonds—
It is also something that the above needs to obtain even if it consumes countless lives.
The superiors seemed to be still dissatisfied with their progress. After they occupied the key nodes, they urged them to continue to move downwards and clean up all the traitors in the area. However, the mines below were more scattered and narrower. Hayes even accidentally got separated from his squad and could only follow the rest of the company to fight in the dark and closed mines.
Then they encountered an ambush. There were many vents and hidden repair passages in the mine tunnel deep in the depths. They still suffered from the loss of being unfamiliar with the environment. Not long after they left, they were attacked from the front and back.
Hayes struggled to stand up, and he had seen the enemies, dressed in miners' uniforms and rags.
One of the guys waving the mine pickaxe was shot directly in the face, and his facial features were burned by the laser gun in the blink of an eye, but then the guard screamed and was knocked down from behind by another traitor who was attacking from the side with a homemade shotgun.
Humans fought in darkness and flashes, their feet slipped and stumbled on the bodies of fallen comrades under them, and the details of who won and who lost became blurred in the muzzle fire and haze.
Hayes saw blood and murder, and he saw the same barbarity and despair from both sides, as if this was the reality of the war after all noble slogans were stripped away.
Then, as the horrific sight continued to unfold around him, Hays's heart began to pound in his chest, and a terrible thought suddenly appeared in his mind.
Where is his laser gun?
Chapter completed!