When the screams of his comrades rang out, Hayes immediately turned around instinctively and wanted to lie down, but he tripped over the corpse on the ground and fell directly to the ground.
Then the improvised grenade explosion ripped through the air behind him, and he felt a sudden pressure in his ears.
Then, everything went black.
He didn't know how long it took before he realized that his ears were ringing and his face was pressed against the cold, hard soil underground.
In the haze of regaining consciousness, he heard the screams and shouts of men, the sound of laser guns being fired, and the roars and roars of others.
"Hayes!"
Hearing what seemed like someone calling him, he raised his head from the mud and looked around, trying to figure out his location.
This is a mine tunnel about five meters wide and three meters high. The only illumination is the flares thrown on the ground in the distance and the fire of laser guns. He lies face down on the ground, and the pain in his shoulders has been reduced to only slight
in pain, while people he knew and people he didn't know around him were in brutal battles.
A week ago, they all thought this was an easy "sweep", but the intricate mine tunnels underground in Xingfu City became everyone's nightmare.
Those resisters have primitive weapons and backward equipment, but they are familiar with the terrain, they are elusive, they are tenacious, and they would rather die than surrender——
Over the years as a soldier, Hayes has developed a certain inherent concept, that is, as long as it is well-equipped and has many weapons, the army will be strong. In fact, he also feels that the "mob" who only have light weapons, and even many of them are homemade weapons, will not
What ability do they have to resist, even if they are huddled in the tunnel?
But reality slapped him and everyone in the face.
The tactics of these people are very flexible and cunning. Most of the time, they will not confront them head-on. When they advance in groups from the wide area, they will hide. Once the group disperses into those narrow mine tunnels, they will move around.
They attacked, constantly harassing the tired imperial army in small groups, and when the imperial army was about to retreat, they followed in pursuit.
And as a mineral world, the most indispensable thing here is explosives. The Red Pirates left behind hundreds of millions of tons of explosives. These explosives can be easily made into simple grenades and landmines. After suffering several losses in a row,
They don't even dare move without metal detectors clearing the way.
But what is even more frightening is the spirit of these people. Hayes has been in a tense and dark environment for a long time, and he feels like he is going crazy, but those people are like supermen.
He has seen enemies who took off all their clothes and hid in the mud with only a gun to hide in the waste minerals to avoid being detected by thermal scanners.
I have also seen enemies hang themselves on a shaft with a rope for several days and nights.
There are even enemies who have sealed themselves in underground bunkers that cannot be opened again——
Everything they did seemed to be just to take away one or two imperial soldiers. Although it seemed that these blackmailers could not cause many casualties, as time went by, the number of casualties far exceeded their imagination.
After capturing an underground rail transit hub, after an inventory, their group lost more than 400 people in less than a week, and this was only 50 meters deep underground. There were still more than 200 meters deep below them.
Mine tunnel.
Almost every step needs to be watered with blood.
In the long-term darkness and fear, the soldiers became highly nervous and suspicious, as if enemies might jump out of the shadows at any time, making accidental injuries and violence more and more frequent. At the same time, some people continued to suffer mental breakdowns, so
Soldiers also called this kind of fighting a rat war.
Soon after the battle began, some people questioned why they wanted to fight in a place where such large troops and heavy firepower could not be deployed, when they could just seal the mine tunnel and leave it alone.
However, Hayes heard some inside information from Hashet, which probably meant that the superiors wanted to quickly restore production here, so they could only use the flesh and blood of soldiers to clean up the mines full of thugs.
Some people have also proposed using poison gas to kill traitors in the mines. However, troops have tried this method for a long time, but it has basically no effect. As a mining world led by the Forge World, most of the underground in Blood Diamond Planet
Mine tunnels have built extremely complete ventilation and filtration systems, and in order to allow underground workers and mining people to work with maximum efficiency, underground mine tunnels are often built with deep wells, medical facilities, warehouses, geothermal power generation and other equipment, and even
There is a fungus plantation with extremely complete planning.
Trying to trap or poison the people inside is basically a dream, and after years of excavation by the Red Pirates, the network of underground mines on the planet has become very different from the original. Even the sages of the Mechanicus can't say anything about it.
Come.
Then, the only way is to let the soldiers go down to this cold, narrow and dark hell, and fight face to face with those who are forced to the dead end.
Hayes once picked up a small, bright rose-red crystal in the ground, as big as the nail of his little finger.
Hashet said, that thing is called Lantai blood crystal rock salt, also called blood diamond——
It is also something that must be obtained 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 downwards and clear out all the traitors in the area. However, the mine tunnels below were more scattered and narrower. Hayes even accidentally and his own
The squad was separated, and they could only follow the rest of the company to fight in the dark and closed mine tunnels.
Then they encountered an ambush. There were many vents and hidden maintenance passages in the deep mine tunnels. They still suffered the disadvantage of being unfamiliar with the environment. Not long after leaving, they were attacked from both sides.
Hayes struggled to stand up. He had already seen the enemies, wearing miners' uniforms and rags.
One of the guys wielding a mining pickaxe was shot directly in the face, and his facial features were burned off by the full blast of the laser gun in the blink of an eye, but then the guard screamed and was attacked by another traitor from the side.
Knocked down from behind with a homemade shotgun.
Men fought in the darkness and flash, their feet slipping and stumbling over the bodies of their fallen comrades beneath them, the details of who won and who lost blurred in the muzzlefire and haze.
Hayes saw blood, saw killings, and saw the same brutality and despair from both sides. It seemed that this was the reality of war after all the noble slogans were stripped away.
Then, as the horrifying sight continued to unfold around him, Hayes' heart began to pound in his chest, and a terrifying thought suddenly appeared in his mind.
Where is his laser gun?
He looked around in horror and realized that he had lost his gun when he fell, but it should be nearby, but the dim light prevented him from finding it.