The Plane War Begins from Wandering Earth

Chapter 271 270. We are like new recruits

Leaning against the sturdy alloy gate, Rui Ge and the surviving "Tough Guy Group" soldiers were breathing heavily.

They have paid a heavy price for their recklessness.

The bugs were still as ferocious as ever. Even though the size of the swarm besieging them had been greatly reduced, it did not prevent the "Tough Guys" from being beaten and fleeing in disgrace once again.

Looking around, Rui Ge found that there were less than forty people who could still hold weapons.

From time to time, the desperate cries of comrades could be heard from outside the metal door behind him, followed by a series of "chi chi chi" piercing sounds.

The wailing finally died down, and was followed by a head-scratching chewing sound.

From time to time, there would be the roars and struggles of war bugs fighting over the corpses of the "Tough Guy Regiment" soldiers.

Rui Ge knew that his comrades had become food for insects and there was no possibility of survival.

Soon, the insects finished eating, and bursts of teeth-grinding, piercing noises came from the metal door again.

That was the sound of the war bugs' sharp biomass gastropods scratching on the metal door.

Indescribable fear, confusion, and collapse permeated the surviving members of the "Tough Guy Group".

Rui Ge didn't know how to encourage everyone, and even he himself began to waver.

Are there really humans who can fight against those insects in a field combat?
The only thing to be thankful for is that most of the bugs surrounding Whiskey Outpost have been moved away.

Including the Zerg air force that is the most feared by the "Tough Guys" soldiers.

This also left them with a precious opportunity to catch their breath, allowing these elite federal infantrymen, who had already lost all their courage, to continue to hide in the outpost fortifications, praying for the coming of a miracle.

Not until the unique human sounds of gunfire became clearer did the survivors of the "Tough Guy Group" look at each other and look outside the outpost in disbelief.

“They really did it?”

“Damn God, these guys really managed to withstand the insect tide and push the front line into the valley?!”

"Oh my god, we are finally saved!"

"For God's sake, shouldn't we coordinate our counterattack against these bugs?
It always feels like we are a bunch of useless people who can only hide in the fortifications and wait for rescue."

"Forget about it! Do you think we haven't had enough deaths?

Going out now would be suicide!"

……

Friendly troops coming to support from afar can be clearly observed with the naked eye.

The morale of the "Tough Guy Group", which had already collapsed, finally recovered.

But it is only limited to making them resume the desire to communicate.

More than twenty minutes later, the vanguard troops of the "Atonement Army", which had crushed the entire Zerg army head-on, finally arrived near the Whiskey Outpost.

The survivors of the "Tough Guy Group" who bravely peeked out witnessed with their own eyes the "superhuman" fighting style of these friendly forces.

One by one, the "tin can" armored warriors rushed to the front of the battle line, and all the war insects that blocked their way would be chopped to death by the various cold weapons in their hands.

Rui Ge even saw with his own eyes that the chainsaw sword of one of the "cans" malfunctioned due to the high-intensity combat. He threw away the "can" of weapon and actually gave a war bug that rushed in front of him a shoulder throw.

Before the fallen warrior insect could get up, "Can" used only his bare hands to forcibly break the biomass on the warrior insect's back through the gap.

The suppressed war insect roared madly and tried to resist.

The next moment, the thick ceramic steel armor punched hard into the body of the war insect that had no shell protection.

The yellow-green insect pulp splashed in all directions like fireworks.

After dealing with the war bug with his bare hands, "Can" wiped the sticky bug paste off his helmet as if nothing had happened.

Then he simply took off his helmet, revealing a standard North American white man's head and face.

He turned around and took the loaded grenade launcher handed to him by the servant warrior.

Without changing his expression, he pointed at the two war bugs around him that were trying to launch a sneak attack.

"Boom boom boom~"

Along with a "jumper" that was charging at high speed from low altitude, it was easily dealt with by this "canned" knight with three explosive shells at close range.

More war bugs discovered this tricky enemy and tried to overwhelm the "canned" knights with greater numbers.

But the vassal soldiers in the rear will not just sit there and watch.

Heavy rifle grenades, miniature guided rockets, and various long-range miniature nuclear grenades and heavy machine gun fire continued to roar.

Further behind the front line, the weapons and equipment on the armored vehicles were also roaring frequently.

In addition to the United Government Army's drone swarms that clearly surpass the Earth Federation's military technology, the "Leviathan" class dreadnought mechas, and various medium and large strategic weapons.

The weapons and equipment configuration of the "Atonement Army" is actually not bad.

A large number of "Predator" patrol robots can also make up for the problem of insufficient battlefield firepower configuration of the "Atonement Army".

It was not until they saw with their own eyes that the contents of these "cans" were real human beings that the survivors of the "Tough Guy Group" became even more dazed.

As far as they knew, within the Earth Federation, they had never heard of such ferocious Marine infantry performances on the battlefield.

Compared with these "cans", these elite mobile infantry regiments officially recognized by the Earth Federation Government are as fragile as rookies.

The speed at which the war bugs around the outpost were cleared out was much faster than the survivors of the "Tough Guy Group" had imagined.

The elite troops of this Arazi Zerg army, including the "Jumpers", "Rippers", Fire Tank Bugs, etc., had long been wiped out in previous battles.

There were only one or two thousand pure war insect troops left. The vanguard troops of the "Atonement Army" could easily kill them all even if they only used cold weapons.

He witnessed with his own eyes the insects that slaughtered his comrades not long ago, but now they are being slaughtered like toys by friendly forces.

The survivors of the "Tough Guy Group" all looked as if they had seen a ghost.

They struggled for a long time between "the friendly forces are stronger" and "they are too useless", and finally they could only choose to believe the former.

After the last batch of war bugs were hacked to death by the "cans" using cold weapons.

Rui Ge quickly asked his subordinates to open the metal door.

Soon, the Canned Knights took off their helmets one by one and stepped into the Whiskey Outpost, surrounded by their vassal troops.

The fully armed canned knights, who were an average of 2.7-3 meters tall, rushed and fought on the battlefield for several kilometers.

At this moment, the surface of their heavy ceramic steel power armor was covered with all kinds of sticky and dried insect pulp.

Although the strong acidic corrosive liquid in the insect pulp could not do anything to the ceramic steel material, the paint on the surface of the power armor was still corroded and mottled.

Together with the scratches caused by countless insect limbs, they were like medals of honor hung on the battlefield, making all the survivors of the "Tough Guy Group" feel respect.

The knights of the Iron Knights Interstellar Legion received the genes of two human chosen warriors of the United Government, and integrated them with the perfect human gene template carefully selected by the Biological Department.

Coupled with some of the blessings of God's choosing, he can be regarded as the most perfect human model under the United Government.

The average naked height is 2.3-2.5 meters, and their size alone is enough to shock the natives of the Earth Federation. Not to mention the murderous aura tempered by countless bloody battles and battlefields, which makes these so-called "elite of the Earth Federation Army" who have only served for a few years feel shocked from the bottom of their hearts.

"Is the commander of the Tough Guys still alive?"

“I’m Johnny Rico, acting leader of the Hard Knocks.

Our leader died not long ago..."

Rui Ge held his head high as much as possible, trying to maintain the dignity of the "Tough Guy Group".

But even so, in front of the Can Knight who was an average of 2.7-3 meters tall, he still had to look up at the other party.

"I'm Thomas, captain of the 'Hard Bones' Company of the Redemption Army's Vanguard Corps.

I have come to rescue you on the orders of Knight Commander Sigel, commander of the Redemption Army.

Have your men pack up their gear and prepare to evacuate."

After Thomas Elite Knight finished reading it expressionlessly, he turned around and prepared to leave.

His attitude could definitely be described as cold, but there was a reason for it.

The Redemption Army's combat power is undoubtedly overwhelmingly powerful in front of the federal army.

But even so, the melee with the insect swarm in the wild without any defensive fortifications still caused huge casualties to the Redemption Army.

Thomas, who was in the vanguard of the Redemption Army, had more than half of his men killed or wounded.

The Redemption Army came from a long distance, but what they rescued was a group of "weaklings" who could only guard the outpost. This would definitely be despised by the United Government Army who advocated the use of force and the strong.

It is understandable that Thomas looks down on the rescue targets in front of him.

The survivors of the "Tough Guy Group" also felt the other side's indifference.

In the past, which colonial cannon fodder troops would dare to show disrespect to these elite regular troops?
Not to mention the colonial cannon fodder troops, even the mobile infantry regiment did not dare to do this to the strictly hierarchical federal forces.

But at this moment, the survivors of the "Tough Guy Group", including Rui Ge, had no thought of resistance at all.

The scene of the Can Knight tearing the war bugs apart with his bare hands still lingered in Rico's mind.

The soldiers of the Redemption Army used their actual combat performance to leave an indelible shock in the hearts of these "tough guy regiment" soldiers.

Soldiers have always been people who respect the use of force and admire the strong.

This is true for both the United Government Army and the Earth Federation Army.

Just as the soldiers of the Tough Guy Regiment were obediently packing up their equipment as required and preparing to evacuate.

Acting team leader Rigo remembered something and reported the bad news to Thomas.

It turned out that Marshal Lip from the Federal Propaganda and Art Department, who had been hiding inside the outpost and in a freezer, disappeared shortly after the Tough Guy Regiment arrived at the Whiskey Outpost and exchanged fire with the Zerg that surrounded them.

According to the recap of the Tough Guys soldiers, it was most likely that the fire tank worm burrowed into the ground and entered the outpost.

The accompanying war bugs kidnapped Marshal Lip.

There is a consensus among the expeditionary force that there are "intelligent bugs" behind the insect tide who are controlling them.

Despite this, the expeditionary force has never captured a bug with "advanced intelligence" on the battlefield around the Clandaf galaxy.

The swarm of insects ambushing around the Whiskey Outpost this time is most likely controlled by a highly intelligent brain worm.

Upon hearing the news, Knight Commander Siegel frowned.

The rescue mission has been completed for now, but there are only about forty people left alive in the rescue target: Tough Guy Group.

Most importantly, the fate of the high-value target, the Marshal of the Federal Ministry of Arts and Literature, is unknown.

This greatly reduced the quality of the Redemption Army's rescue mission.

The entire Redemption Army and even the federal government took this "debut" very seriously.

Knight Commander Siegel was unwilling to end this military operation in such a whimper.

A word from Rui Ge, the acting leader of the Tough Guys Group, caught his attention.

"You mean, this is probably a trap set by some highly intelligent bug?"

Knight Commander Siegel checked on the former soldiers in the outpost whose brains had been sucked out by the Arachi brain worms.

"That's right, those highly intelligent bugs should be able to obtain the intelligence and knowledge they need by sucking human brains.

They set a trap here to ensnare more human troops..."

'But they didn't expect to be killed by the Redemption Army.'

As Rui Ge explained, he complained in his heart. Not to mention him, those highly intelligent bugs must have been shocked by the fighting power of the Redemption Army.

"So, this Zerg passage under the outpost is likely to lead to the command system of this Zerg army?"

Knight Commander Siegel looked towards the hole in the center of the outpost.

That was caused by an attack launched by the Fire Tank Beetles from underground.

Marshal Lip couldn't have disappeared out of thin air. The only possibility was that he was abducted underground by the accompanying insects.

"I need a team of volunteers."

As soon as Knight Commander Siegel finished speaking, a group of "cans" quickly swarmed around him.

"Thomas, Edward, Arthur..."

The knights that Captain Siegel selected were the most elite knights in the Redemption Army.

The elite knights who were selected took the helmets, fully loaded grenade launchers, and repaired cold weapons handed over by the servant soldiers with solemn expressions.

Then they saluted their legion commander and jumped into the deep and dark Zerg cave without hesitation.

"Wait! Are you crazy?!

What if this is the Zerg's nest?
So many bugs, such a narrow terrain..."

Rui Ge stared in amazement at the nearly suicidal actions of his friendly forces, and the surrounding tough guys were also shocked.

Even the most valiant elite members of the Mobile Infantry Regiment would not dare to go deep into the underground caves of the Arazi Zerg alone.

"what to do?
It's very simple, just kill all the bugs that appear in front of you."

Knight Commander Siegel ignored Rui Ge's questioning. Instead, an elite knight who was not selected responded to Rui Ge.

From their faces, Rui Ge inexplicably felt a hint of regret and loneliness.

'Are these guys disappointed that they weren't chosen for this suicide mission?!'

When Rico and the survivors of the Tough Guy Group began to think about what kind of perverted army this "Atonement Army" was.

From deep within the Zerg cave underground, there was a faint sound of gunfire.

(End of this chapter)