"Ha, is this all they can do?" The airborne dwarf guards, who were confident of their sophisticated weapons, did not change to the weapons of Hell because of Fang Qingyun's warning. They still held the things they were most familiar with, completely ignoring the strange expressions of the other dwarves. Now that they had defeated a wave of infected cat-bugs, they were even more confident.
Fang Qingyun understood the principle that the higher you climb, the harder you fall. If these airborne dwarf guards held such a careless mentality, they would sooner or later be defeated by a wave of attacks by rockpox infected bodies, and then Fang Qingyun and others in the car would be the ones who would suffer.
Fang Qingyun gave Carl a look. Carl himself was also a character resurrected by the hell spell, so he was naturally connected to the hell network. This allowed Fang Qingyun to communicate with Carl without using his mouth, only a thought would do.
Carl understood Fang Qingyun's meaning and nodded slightly. He patted the shell of Dorela, attracting the attention of the dwarf miners sitting on Dorela and marching around him: "Okay, it's time for us to get down, guys, leave the top area with good visibility to the heavy firepower team, the gunners stay up there, and everyone else follow me."
The miners jumped from the body of Dorela's vehicle to both sides in an orderly manner, being very careful to prevent themselves from being rolled into the road wheels of Dorela. Then these miners naturally mixed in with the dwarves who served as accompanying infantry, filling the defense gaps with the experience of veterans.
The dwarves from the engineering department placed turrets on Dorela's fenders. Although the light machine gun turrets installed near the fenders are easily damaged, they can ensure sufficient firepower coverage and no blind spots in firepower. In this way, even if the dwarves are entangled by the enemy, Dorela, who is advancing alone, will not be completely unable to fight back.
To be honest, it was the first time that Fang Qingyun knew that engineers could place turrets on Dorela, and there was also a dedicated interface that could completely fix the turret and put it under Dorela's control. This gave Dorela some extra small guns for self-defense. You should know that it is forbidden to install turrets on Dorela in the game, otherwise the engineer players would not have to jump up and down to find shooting angles for the light machine gun turret in annihilation mode.
After the dwarves from the engineering department installed the turrets, there was no place where they were needed. Keeping these important talents on Hawks Star would only bring danger to the entire team, so Fang Qingyun casually pulled a portal leading directly to hell and let these engineers take refuge in it, just to let them familiarize themselves with the working environment in advance.
After doing all this, Fang Qingyun carried the Penguin Squad to the turret of Dorela. Now the Penguin Squad can fully play the role of the turret, and with the help of high-powered grenades, it is equivalent to deploying a mortar squad on Dorela.
After doing all this, Fang Qingyun breathed a sigh of relief. He now felt that this world was a bit funny. He was usually the one who was worried about at home, but now that he was outside, he actually became the one who worried about others... Things are unpredictable, and this world is indeed a worse world.
Fang Qingyun had just breathed a sigh of relief when he felt the ground seemed to be shaking abnormally. He quickly covered his eyes with the energy of hell and looked underground. Within the fifty-meter perspective range, life fluctuations were increasing rapidly in an exponential manner, which meant that a large number of creatures were approaching at high speed from below and were about to break out of the ground.
"The enemy is coming from under your feet, be prepared!" Carl, who received the message from Fang Qingyun, immediately gave orders. Fang Qingyun's prestige had not yet been established among the second batch of airborne dwarves. Whenever he said this, the dwarves might raise objections to his orders. At this critical juncture, any hesitation would lead to possible casualties, so the order naturally fell on Carl's head.
The miners who received the order did not hesitate. Having heard of Carl's legend, they immediately obeyed Carl's order and rolled backwards on the spot, turning away from Dorela. The first batch of dwarf guards who landed were already on high alert, knowing that their on-the-spot reaction was not as good as the miners', so they rolled and crawled away from their original place.
Then the mouthparts popped out from where they left and closed like bamboo shoots after rain. The futile clicking sound when the mouthparts bit the air made everyone's scalp tighten.
Chapter 398: Casualties
The second group of airborne dwarves who hesitated to follow Carl's order missed the best chance to escape. Almost all of them were bitten on the legs at the first encounter. Before they could resist in the pain, the mud under their feet surged like a swamp, and countless mouthparts and limbs locked them up like traps and quagmires that had been prepared long ago.
Along with the dwarves' screams, more mouthparts clamped their limbs, and their personal shields dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye. If they waited just two more seconds, these airborne dwarves would be pulled into the ground in agony and torn into pieces by those sharp mouthparts.
Fang Qingyun is not the kind of person who would be stunned when seeing something beyond his imagination. He often has wild thoughts, and sometimes his wild thoughts even bother the people around him, making people even suspect that he has paranoia. However, these seemingly unrealistic and insecure behaviors give him a reaction speed that far exceeds that of others.
Although the other dwarves also reacted, they were also at a loss in the face of such a situation. There were their own people who needed to be rescued everywhere, and the cunning infected cat-worms had most of their bodies hidden in the mud. With the violent shaking of the mud, it was impossible to judge where the lower bodies of the dwarves who were covered in mud up to their necks were. Firing randomly would only kill their own people. The dwarf guards who had never seen this thing in training were dumbfounded.
The inexperienced dwarf guards were dumbfounded, and so were the miners. It was not uncommon for the miners to have seen similar ambushes, but most of them were about the same size as a trip pit. If they slipped and got stuck in a leg, they would be amputated for free by the tricky insects hiding inside. The only way to deal with it was to not fall in. Naturally, it was difficult for the miners to make a decision as it was the first time they had seen such a big pit.
Carl was also dumbfounded. When Carl was still there, the cat bugs had not evolved to this point. Carl, who had never seen such a situation, was hesitant but still fired a shot based on his own feelings. It was better to execute immediately than to regret it now. The bullet penetrated the carapace of the infected cat bug with a crisp sound, but the bolt-action rifle had a low firing rate after all, and Carl could only fire this one shot in such a short time.
The person who reacted the fastest at this moment was Fang Qingyun, who did not have much combat experience. When Kikuchiyo just put her hand on the scabbard, Fang Qingyun had already pointed the muzzle of his pistol at the infected cat-and-cat bugs that were trying to use the dwarves' arms and legs as teething sticks, and pulled the trigger several times in succession. Fang Qingyun, who was not a good marksman, shot these shots as if he had eyes, and the bullets shattered the infected cat-and-cat bugs' shells and tore their flesh, giving the bitten dwarves a chance to struggle out of the soil.
The person holding the gun at this moment seemed to be Alice, the firearms genius, rather than Fang Qingyun who was not very good at shooting.
Bullets from a large-caliber pistol passed by the trapped dwarf, bringing with them the whistles of death. Yellow thick juice, shell fragments, and pulp splattered out. The dwarf, who had just been calling for help, was stunned by these quick, accurate, and fierce shots. He did not struggle out of the phantom pain of being bitten until he was pulled up by the collar by the bony hand summoned by Simi.
Kikuchiyo put her hand on the scabbard. She had originally planned to go down and save people like Ximi and Juer, but she did not have the ability to control the situation like Ximi and Juer. It was difficult to do anything with just a knife. Therefore, Kikuchiyo put her hand on the scabbard and did not take any further action. Instead, she stayed quietly beside Fang Qingyun.
Even though Juer and Ximi reacted quickly enough, those dwarves who did not obey the orders immediately still had some injuries on their bodies after being rescued. Countless of them had dislocations and fractures. Some dwarves even had cracks in their armor due to being torn, and the flesh on their shoulders were torn. If they had been rescued a little later, their arms would probably have been separated from their bodies.
There were more than one or two unlucky people who lost their legs. Blood gushed out from the cross-section of their bodies after being cut by the pliers-like mouthparts. Fang Qingyun couldn't help but frowned when he saw the bright red arterial blood. It wasn't because of fear, but simply because of the phantom pain of excessive empathy.
Although Fang Qingyun still wanted to reflect on whether he had not done something well enough, after thinking it over, he felt that he had fulfilled his obligation to remind them. Moreover, in order to convince those dwarves, Fang Qingyun deliberately asked the most famous Carl to remind them. No one could do better.
But this second batch of dwarves was still a beat slow. Being a beat slow on the battlefield means being permanently eliminated. Now Fang Qingyun even doubts whether it is a good choice to bring them along. What if they fail again at the critical moment? Then Fang Qingyun and his men will naturally use force to overcome cleverness and stay safe, but these dwarves will have to rely on their luck to survive.
Fang Qingyun stretched out his hand with a sigh. He only hoped that these dwarves could learn something after this lesson. Now was not the time to make sarcastic remarks. Fang Qingyun commanded Ximi to line up the wounded on top of Dorila's turret. He did not hesitate to use the hell energy gathered in his palms, and threw the energy into the pile of wounded with one hand as if throwing something.
The orange ball of light filled with hell energy was like a gust of healing wind, spreading like a spherical vortex and instantly covering all the wounded around. The groaning wounded began to stop bleeding, and their limbs began to regenerate. Even the dwarves who were close to it felt as if they were several years younger. The healing effect of hell energy was so good that even the frightened dwarves gradually calmed down.
Looking at the wounded who were getting better, Fang Qingyun raised his arm to the side calmly and aimed his pistol at an infected cat-cat worm that was crawling out of the surging soil. Without even glancing in that direction, he simply shot the infected cat-cat worm all over the ground like an execution. There was something indescribably free and easy about this action, and it even gave the other dwarves the illusion that the infected cat-cat worm had bumped into the muzzle of the gun itself.
Seeing all the wounded dwarves waking up and crying with joy as they touched their lost arms and legs, Fang Qingyun knew that this must have shocked them enough. Now these dwarves should have learned their lesson and would not disobey orders and suffer heavy casualties again. But this kind of thing cannot be rushed...
"Okay, let's count the number of people within the team and continue on our way." Fang Qingyun raised his chin and led Kikuchiyo to sit on Doruela. He watched the second group of dwarves who had airdropped put away their original arrogant attitude, and after doing everything obediently like children who had been scolded, they walked obediently on both sides of Doruela with guns in hand.
It can be said that it went from one extreme to another. The second batch of dwarves who came to support still had a kind of arrogance that could easily cost them their lives, as if they thought that they had seen everything on the battlefield during training. What danger could there be after rehearsing it thousands of times?
Now that they have suffered a loss, they have fallen into another extreme state of inferiority. Not only have they imitated the miners in putting on hellish weapons and equipment, they even want to learn how to walk from the miners. It seems that they believe that the miners can be so agile and no one was injured in the crisis just now, and that there must be some incredible secret hidden in their walking posture. Now it is the miners' turn to be in tears and laugh.
Originally, the first person that the airborne dwarves wanted to learn from was Carl, but Carl was a well-known legend after all. The fact that Carl was able to survive on Hawks Star with simple equipment showed that he was quite capable. Carl's seemingly neurotic movements of keeping his eyes and ears open in all directions were clearly not something that these dwarves could learn, so they could only settle for the next best thing and learn from other miners.
The miners originally thought that the supporting dwarves were deliberately imitating them to laugh at them, but after watching them for a while, they found that it was not that simple. The airborne dwarves carefully copied every move of the miners, even some subtle movements. When the miners approached them, they would consciously make way for fear of blocking the miners' way...
Until a bad-tempered miner couldn't stand it anymore. He was a notorious bad-tempered miner when he was still disabled and drowning his sorrows in alcohol in the bar. He was known as Hawks Star Humanoid Self-Propelled 875. When he was recognized by the airborne dwarves for his tough temperament, four or five dwarves regarded him as a teacher. He couldn't stand this kind of imitating others because of his bad temper, especially because he was not familiar with his newly grown legs and still retained the little movements he had before without legs, and those little movements were also learned by the airborne dwarves.
Perhaps because Fang Qingyun, who gave them a second life, was nearby, the hot-tempered miner held back his anger and tried his best to save face for Fang Qingyun. For the first time, he used a more tactful way to ridicule the dwarves who were imitating his movements: "What? You can't even walk, and you want to learn from us old cripples?"
The ridiculed dwarf looked puzzled. His stunned look made the hot-tempered miner realize that there might be something hidden, so he suppressed his anger and asked: "Is it so fun to imitate an old dwarf's lameness?"
Ximi was about to try to stop the fight, but Fang Qingyun grabbed Ximi. It was not appropriate for them to get involved at this time. It would be better for everyone if the two dwarves talked it out. Forcing the conflict down was like setting a time bomb that might explode at any time. There was a small problem in the coordination between the two, which led to a chain collapse of the entire front.
"No, no, no, why do you think so?" The airborne dwarf was so anxious that he even used honorifics: "We just thought that you have experience in surviving on the battlefield, so we want to learn from you. If we offend you... we're sorry."
The hot-tempered miner was embarrassed at this time. It was his misunderstanding that led to this result. He admitted his mistake and patted the airborne dwarf on the shoulder: "...If you encounter danger later, just follow me."
Chapter 399: When the enemy comes, we will stop him; when the water comes, we will block it with earth.
Perhaps it was because the dwarves united automatically after feeling threatened. When they were escorting Dorela's drill vehicle forward, the infected cat-bugs launched several sieges from all directions, but the effect was not good. The miners and dwarves of the Dwarf Guard who were well prepared treated them to a good meal with bullets.
Even though these infected cat-and-cat bugs chose to lurk close enough and then launch a surprise attack from the ground during the next few attacks, the dwarves, who had suffered losses, threw out the shield generator without hesitation to isolate the infected cat-and-cat bugs outside.
"We're almost there." Fang Qingyun made a awning with his left hand and glanced at the rockpox mother body that looked like a cluster of ore in the distance. With the other hand, he held the "Dead Skull" machine gun and fired like a storm. The dense rain of bullets tore the infected cat-and-cat bugs that tried to burrow into the soil into pieces. The hot shells ejected from the ejection port and fell on the car with a clang, causing Dorela's dissatisfied buzzing sound.
Fang Qingyun ignored Dorela's protest and continued to shoot at the infected cat-bugs that were still lowering their bodies and trying to escape in the distance with his machine gun, until the bullets in a chain were used up and the temperature of the barrel caused the surrounding air to distort.
After confirming that nothing was moving in the distance, Fang Qingyun loaded a new bullet belt into the "Dead Skull" and blew a breath of cold air near the barrel. The cold frost and snow came into contact with the hot barrel, and a hissing sound was heard in an instant. At the same time, mist came out, as if the saliva was evaporating after kissing the weapon.
Fang Qingyun repeated this action five or six times, and the "Dead Skull" machine gun still maintained a high level of accuracy. Even after several rounds of alternating high and low temperature destruction, the barrel made of Hell Steel did not show any twisting or breakage. The durability of this thing made Fang Qingyun want to change the caliber and directly add it to the squad machine gun.
But after thinking about it carefully, Fang Qingyun felt that his idea was too impulsive. The famous gun Shaosha in World War II was just famous for being bad. It was a product that the United States imitated and changed the caliber. The original Gaul-produced one was said to be of good quality, at least better than the bolt-action one. And the Death Skull, a squad machine gun, could be considered one, but its bullets were not compatible with the "Hail" equipped by conventional infantry. But so what?
There are only nine types of bullet lengths and sizes in Hell itself. Excluding pure toys and obsolete small-caliber short bullets, long bullets, and heavy bullets, there are only six types of ammunition left.
Medium-caliber short bullets and large-caliber short bullets are now the bullets used by submachine guns, while medium-caliber long bullets are the bullets used by assault rifles, medium-caliber heavy bullets are the bullets used by "Hunter", and large-caliber long bullets are machine gun bullets. After all the calculations, there are only five types that are actually used.
It is not worthwhile to reduce the number of pure weapons for the sake of fewer. What if the medium-caliber weapon cannot be penetrated and can be defended against large-caliber weapons? Will the whole squad be left to die?
Fang Qingyun was calculating in his mind while he kept practicing with his hands. He fired another chain of bullets amid the buzzing sound of Dorela, and then fired two "Mushroom Man" smoke bombs to the side where the infected cat-and-cat worms might rush up. The pink smoke was like a deadly temptation. When those infected cat-and-cat worms tried to sneak into that area, they would be poisoned to death on the spot by the pervasive pink spores, and the infected worms inside would not even have a chance to escape.
With the support of two smoke bombs, the dwarves got a chance to catch their breath, but this breathing time was not long. The dwarves' weakness was that in order to prevent the infected cat-worms from destroying Dorela, they had to disperse and guard the surroundings. This kind of constant vigilance would turn the sentinels into consumables. In order to weaken the dwarves' vigilance as much as possible, the rockpox infected bodies adopted another way of infiltration.
Their target is the dwarf farthest from Dorela. The dwarves here were airdropped and their experience is not as rich as that of the miners. If they really encounter a life-threatening situation, they will often hesitate to die. Therefore, this is the most suitable position for surgery. What's more, this place is far away from Dorela and far away from the high-risk individuals sensed by the rockpox. If this dwarf can't handle it, the rockpox mother will be powerless to do anything about Dorela's drill.
When the dwarf who was chosen as the unlucky guy was moving forward unaware, several infected catworms had quietly dug holes and buried themselves in the front, just like infantrymen hiding in a foxhole. When Dora moved to the side, they swarmed over and peeled off the dwarf guards beside Dora's car like peeling an onion. It would be much easier to deal with this big guy then.
Although the Rockpox Matrix's plan was flawless, it ignored Fang Qingyun and other non-dwarf guards. Ximi, the necromancer who could sense the living, was not included in the discussion for the time being. Fang Qingyun's ability to sense life alone allowed him to see through the Rockpox Matrix's plan. He just pointed in a direction to Koloski, who turned around and shot a small grenade into the ambush cave infected with catworms with the sound of a string being pulled...
There was a loud bang, and the infected cat-and-cat worms that were lying in ambush flew into the sky along with the foxholes. The grenades trapped in the holes concentrated almost all the explosive force on the infected cat-and-cat worms. The huge explosion was accompanied by flying mud and cat-and-cat worm body parts that fell on the dwarves' helmets, causing the dwarves who suddenly heard the loud noise to lie down subconsciously.
"Keep going, don't worry." Juer pulled out his dragonfire sword. The high-temperature green flame sword just slashed casually, and a green fire ignited on the ground, forming a high-temperature fire wall that the infected catworms could not cross, preventing the dwarves from being besieged on all sides.
After confirming that everything was fine, the dwarves got up from the ground, checked each other's chemical protective suits, and continued to move forward with guns after confirming that there were no gaps.
When the first plan failed, the rockpox mother came up with another one. A large number of infected cat-worms came out of their shelters on their own initiative, producing a large amount of excrement on the path of Dorela, and then launched a suicidal charge towards Dorela under the firepower of the dwarves.
This reckless charge was naturally suppressed by a hail of bullets from the dwarves. The bullets fired by the gunner's double-barreled machine gun, the engineer's submachine gun, and the scout's GK2 assault rifle were like a terrifying cloud filled with the smell of gunpowder. The infected cats and bugs that stepped into this terrifying cloud were beaten into pieces all over the ground. Although the Rockpox Matrix was heartbroken at the loss of its manpower, their charge successfully concealed its strategic purpose. As long as they could stop Dorela's advance, all the losses would be worth it.
Although Fang Qingyun didn't understand why these infected cat-worms didn't hide in the good cover, but ran to the front of Dorila's path to defecate and then launched a futile charge, he would never underestimate any enemy. Behind the abnormal command of the rockpox mother, there must be some interests that Fang Qingyun could not see.
It seemed that Fang Qingyun's suspicion was conveyed to Ximi's mind. Ximi clasped his hands together, and countless skeletons crawled up from the ground with empty hands, consciously walked in front of Dorela, and walked towards the batch of excrement first.
Realizing that its trick was about to be discovered, the Rockpox mother immediately organized a counterattack, trying to let the fully armed infected cats and cats break the skeletons into bone frames. Fang Qingyun, who believed in fighting the opponent head-on in everything, gave an order, and countless ammunition and bombs were poured over without hesitation, sending the skeletons and infected cats and cats into the sky.
The unarmed skeletons only need to consume a small amount of magic power, while the losses to the opponents infected with catworms are real. Seeing the rockpox mother's behavior of protecting the "excrement" at all costs, no matter how stupid Fang Qingyun is, he should know that there is something fishy in the so-called "excrement". He patted the head of Koloski next to him, and Koloski understood what he meant and shot a high-explosive grenade into the pile of excrement.
When the mother rockpox saw a smoking thing fall into the "excrement", it knew its plan had failed. There was a loud bang like an ammunition depot exploding, and the surrounding ground seemed to tremble. The dwarves were caught off guard and fell all over the place on the shaking ground. One unlucky guy almost got himself under Dorela's tracks. Fortunately, the dwarf next to him pulled him up, otherwise having his head crushed by the tracks would not be a pleasant experience.
Fang Qingyun looked in the direction where the excrement was originally located. The place where the excrement was located had turned into a deep pit. That was not excrement at all, but deadly high explosives. The rockpox mother planned to paralyze a wave of Dorela, and then wait until Dorela crushed the excrement and sent herself into the sky, and then attack with all the troops to wipe out the dwarves who were seriously injured or killed in the explosion.
Although the conspiracy was thwarted, the Rockpox mother quickly seized the opportunity when the dwarf was knocked down, and a large number of infected cat-worms crawled out from the ground forty or fifty meters away, launching a fearless charge like ambushed infantry.
At this time, the only ones who could react on Dora were Fang Qingyun and his group. The dwarves were staggering like gourds. It was a little difficult for them to put up some decent resistance. The only dwarves who reacted were the experienced Carl, Fettig and Old Vulture.
Seeing the infected cat-and-cat bugs rushing up in a swarm, Carl made the most suitable response without hesitation. He threw out two freezing grenades, which landed at the hole where the infected cat-and-cat bugs gathered. As long as they froze the infected cat-and-cat bugs crawling out, they would be able to cut off their reinforcements. After throwing the grenades, Carl started to pull the bolt without even looking, calling out the infected cat-and-cat bugs that were charging at full speed one by one.
On the other side, Fettig took out his pump-action shotgun without hesitation, and fired two shots at the infected cat-and-cat bugs approaching the dwarf group, causing blood and flesh to splatter everywhere. While holding the shotgun handle with his right hand and reloading the bullet by inertia, he took out the power pickaxe used by dwarves for mining from his waist with the other hand, and activated the overload attack without hesitation, smashing the cat-and-cat bug that pounced on him, causing its brains to splatter everywhere.
The old vulture's response was not as quick as the previous two dwarf legends. He only had time to pull up his teammate next to him, and then smashed a pickaxe at the infected cat-bug that was flying towards him like a runaway car.
At this moment, Thorn, who had been silent before, opened his eyes.
Chapter 400: Defend! What? Give it a go?
It was as if the world had stopped. The old vulture who had just swung his pickaxe did not feel the pickaxe penetrating flesh. Instead, he almost lost his balance because he missed the target. He turned his head and saw that the infected cat-and-cat worm that had just swooped over was fixed in mid-air, with its limbs and claws covered in glue and unable to move, as if someone had released a large-scale stasis field, and the infected cat-and-cat worms that entered the field were fixed in mid-air in all kinds of ridiculous postures.
The dwarves who had recovered from the ground shaking just now climbed up. Although they were shocked by the ridiculous appearance of the infected cat-bugs suspended in mid-air, they were able to distinguish the primary and secondary contradictions and still raised their guns, shooting the cat-bugs into pieces with a volley of bullets.
Fang Qingyun fired two shots in response. Based on the situation just now, he was sure of one thing: these miners and the dwarves who airdropped later were not outstanding in terms of military quality. It might be because they were all miners after all. They paid too much unnecessary attention to "watching the fun", even those old miners were the same.
You know, the relationship between the miners and Dorela is like the relationship between infantry and tanks. If Dorela was facing those biting bugs at the beginning, she could definitely hold on until the dwarves were repelled and regrouped. But now, these rockpox excrement has turned Dorela into a truck that must be protected. The dwarves cannot retreat a single step, otherwise Dorela will be blown into scrap metal by the excrement.
The experienced miners were not suitable for such transportation activities. They were still dealing with rockpox infected bodies in the same way they had dealt with the gnats in the past. For example, they subconsciously believed that the explosion was caused by other dwarves. When faced with the explosion, they not only had no awareness that they were being ambushed, but even planned to join in the fun.
If it weren't for Fang Qingyun and his group's help, these dwarves would have been wiped out at least twice. Only Fetig, Carl and Old Vulture were able to escape. All the other dwarves would have died here.
"Keep moving forward, we are not far from the rockpox matrix!" Fang Qingyun sat on Dorila and felt like a tank captain at this moment. He felt that he urgently needed a commander's telescope and a wide-brimmed hat to observe the situation. Although the scene was thrilling for the dwarf, it was far from the point where he needed to be serious.
"Keep moving forward, observe your surroundings, shoot first and then ask questions, and don't focus your attention on things that shouldn't be focused on." Carl gave orders loudly like a synchronized infantry officer. His voice was like a sedative for the other dwarves. Although he said things that the dwarves knew, it still gave courage to the dwarves who had not yet come out of the shadow of the group being wiped out.
"Alas, the situation looks unlikely to improve..." The old vulture followed beside Dorela and sighed sadly as he watched the dwarves stumbling along the rockpox carpet.
Fettig said nothing. He understood what the old vulture meant. The firepower of the dwarves in their team was seriously over the limit, and they were all elites with high hopes. Even with someone to back them up, they were almost wiped out twice. What about the other dwarf teams that attacked with four people? Not to mention that they had no one to back them up, their firepower and experience were all inferior. How many sacrifices would it take to expect them to destroy the rockpox mothers one by one?
"It's okay. They will be protected by the worms." Carl comforted the old vulture. "Dorila is not a fool. She will naturally retreat when she encounters a cluster attack. Moreover, there are special septic worms among the worms who are responsible for establishing isolation zones. Dorila will lead the way, and the septic worms will establish acid isolation zones in the back. Even if the infected want to launch a surprise attack, it will be difficult for them to use an underground raid unless they dig out the entire surface."
"That's right..." The old vulture was slightly relieved, but he was still worried in his heart: "What if the maggots are infected? It's so difficult to deal with the cat maggots that are just pets, so how should we deal with the maggots?"
As soon as these words were spoken, both Fettig and Carl turned their gazes towards the Thorn who was resting with his eyes closed. If a single worm was infected, the problem would not be serious. However, if the master who controlled all the worms was infected, then the problem would be huge. The worms that had originally become allies would betray and start attacking the dwarves around them in an instant, and might even allow the rockpox infection to spread. By then, Hawks Star would really be hopeless.
The buzzing sound of Dorela interrupted the conversation of several people. It had already driven to the designated position, and the huge drill head almost hit the body of the Rockpox mother. At the last distance, the Rockpox mother did not send out more cats and cats to die. It seemed that it planned to launch an attack together when Dorela's drill was working. In this way, the dwarves who could not abandon Dorela's drill would have to fight head-on.
"Establish a warning circle and throw out all the induction mines!" Fettig, as a living fossil among engineers, called out to the engineers. The engineers scattered and began to transform the terrain with platform guns. The quick-drying foam boards they produced flattened the surrounding land. This quick-drying foam is not only light and resistant to chewing, it even has an insect repellent effect. Of course, the insect repellent effect is similar to that of humans and feces. Although it will go around, if the target really climbs onto the insect repellent foam, it will pounce on it even if it is disgusting.
After laying the platform, the engineers placed a light machine gun turret on Dorela, filled the turret with bullets, and then laid out induction mines in a circle along the quick-drying foam board. This way, no matter where the enemy came from, they would step on the induction mines that could be triggered multiple times, and then be blown into the sky by the induction mines.
But a new problem arose. There were too many airborne dwarves and miners, and the wide back of Dorela could not accommodate so many of them. This would inevitably lead to the firepower of some dwarves being greatly reduced or even stopped due to lack of output space. After Fang Qingyun stared at the platform gun and thought for a while, he came up with a good idea.
He divided the dwarves into three groups, ensuring that each group had a relatively experienced gunner. After all, only the gunners were equipped with shield generators. In case of any emergency, only the gunners could rely on the shield to help everyone get through the difficulties.
Then, one group of the three groups of dwarves stood on Dorela's back, responsible for repairing Dorela and killing the infected bodies approaching Dorela; the other two groups relied on platform guns to build high-rise buildings on the spot, building T-shaped towers like sentry towers, and the two groups of dwarves stood on the top of the T-shaped tower to output firepower.
Fang Qingyun also took into account the possible problem of blind spots in firepower, so he fine-tuned the distance between the dwarves so that the dwarves were connected to each other to form an equilateral triangle, minimizing the shooting blind spots.
"Then the question is, what should we do if bugs crawl up from under the sentry tower and attack?" One of the dwarves who were listening raised his hand, and many dwarves next to him nodded. The T-shaped tower did have the advantages of standing high and seeing far, and had fierce firepower, but they had no way to deal with the infected bodies under their feet. No one could lean out of the cliff and shoot at the enemy in the blind spot and maintain balance, unless they didn't want to die.
"This is a simple tactical question," Fang Qingyun was prepared: "Why do you want to deal with the bugs under your feet? You can shoot the bugs under your teammates' feet!"
This sentence was like a warning bell in the minds of the dwarves. The dwarves realized the excellence of this tactic. It didn't matter if they couldn't deal with the ones under the sentry tower. Wouldn't it be enough to shoot the ones under the opposite sentry tower? Covering each other could completely ensure that no infected bodies could climb up. Although there were still some blind spots due to the angles between them, as long as the surrounding platforms were expanded a little more, the infected bodies that wanted to enter the blind spots would first be blocked by fire from two or three directions.
In this case, even if there are really some fish that have escaped the net and reached the blind spot of the sentry tower, they can remind each other and then use plasma explosive grenades that will not destroy the foam platform to deal with it. This thing sprays out high-temperature plasma flames, which are unlikely to cause damage to fortifications, but can roast the surrounding creatures into a cooked state.
"Let's do it, start the construction." Carl nodded. This was the most suitable way for them to fight now. If they couldn't do this simple coordination among each other, they would have turned into excrement for the insects long ago.
After the dwarves went about their own business, Fang Qingyun discovered that the leader who had been carrying a gun just now walked up to him and said, "As a commander, you are qualified... But I have to ask, have you forgotten something?"
"What did you forget?" Fang Qingyun touched his chin: "If you mean that the excrement of the infected body has high explosive power, I have considered it."
"Then why don't you remind those dwarves that the infected may have placed explosives at the bottom of the sentry tower, directly blowing up the sentry tower and causing them heavy losses?" The boss didn't mean to question him, he just simply couldn't understand why Fang Qingyun didn't remind them.
"There are two considerations." Fang Qingyun held up two fingers. At this time, the dwarves were still raising the sentry tower, so Fang Qingyun still had time to explain: "On the one hand, if the infected bodies have enough explosives, do you think they will choose to bury themselves under Dorela to end this threat once and for all, or risk causing more damage to Dorela by blowing up the sentry tower first?"
The boss was stunned. Koloski beside him put Rui Ge down like he was putting down a gun. Rui Ge hit Dorela's body and made a hollow sound like a bowling pin falling to the ground. "Boss, according to my calculations, the probability that the infected body will choose Dorela as the target first is 56.14%. In mathematics, we call this 100%."
...Okay, although Koloski's mathematics is beyond reproach, Fang Qingyun is still relatively confident in Koloski's fortune-telling-like predictive ability.
"On the other hand, these miners have too many things to consider. If they are told things that will never happen, they will most likely be unable to deal with the crisis themselves." In fact, Fang Qingyun supports letting soldiers exercise their subjective initiative, but there is no need for him to let an army worry about things that will never happen to them, as that will reduce their chances of survival.
"Okay, what you said makes sense." The boss nodded, agreeing with Fang Qingyun's statement.
Chapter 401: Berlin Air Defense Tower
Generally speaking, Fang Qingyun did not tell the dwarves anything, which allowed them to be in a relatively relaxed state. Naturally, good ideas popped up like mushrooms after a rain. Some engineers moved the light machine gun turrets to the watchtowers.
The fire control of this type of turret is quite good. It will never be like the machine gun turret in helldiver, where it keeps firing, turns, and kills its own people. Therefore, this is equivalent to providing the light machine gun turret with a perfect output environment without having to worry about being destroyed by infected catworms with insufficient range.
On the other hand, in order to increase the coordination and support capabilities of the dwarves between the sentry towers, the gunners use the rope guns they are equipped to connect each other. When support is needed, they can directly hang on the rope through the magnetic device on the back to maneuver. Whether it is carrying ammunition from the roof of Dorela to the sentry tower or the dwarves on the sentry tower actively coming down to support, the maneuvering speed is much faster.
The drillers and scouts have nothing to do at this time. The drillers are usually responsible for digging holes. They can do a lot when destruction is needed, but they have no way to do anything when construction is needed. Both 875 and small drills are used to destroy rock walls. The scouts are similar. On weekdays, scouts are responsible for reconnaissance, lighting, and occasionally dealing with high-risk units. Most of the time they act as miners. Now that there is no need to mine on the surface, all they can do is prepare some small traps and trip mines to delay the enemy's attack as much as possible.
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