Chapter 716 Fire Rain!
Bang~bang~bang~bang~
In the dark and gloomy rain, as four RGD-4-ILLUM flares exploded in the air at an altitude of 155 meters, the entire wasteland was instantly illuminated by the burning thermite as if it were daytime.
It was also at this moment that the mutated plants surging in the darkness were finally exposed to the troops' vision!
Under the strong light of the flares, the dense vines in the wild were entangled into a mountain like tens of thousands of mating pythons, and the diameter of each main stem exceeded the waist circumference of an adult male.
The surface of the vine is covered with a large number of dense fish egg-like protrusions. Each egg sac contains immature spores. Under the translucent sac membrane, you can clearly see embryo-like objects twitching inside.
As the vines squirmed collectively, the egg sacs rubbed against each other, making a teeth-grinding squeaking sound, like countless barnacle shells rubbing against each other.
"Fuck! This is so fucking disgusting!"
"Compared to these things, zombies are simply the reincarnation of Diao Chan!"
Inside the station hall, the disgusting images transmitted in real time by the small reconnaissance drone almost made the unsuspecting staff officer in front of the screen faint.
"How can there be such a disgusting thing!"
In the picture, these mutated vines have no roots and move by relying on tens of thousands of secondary tentacles as thick as pythons.
The end of each tentacle is split into four mouthparts, the interior of which is covered with barbs and holes for secreting digestive fluids.
They slithered along the ground like real snakes, leaving winding trails of slime in the mud.
"Zoom out the screen! Zoom out! Zoom out again!" At this time, Zhu Jun, who had just come behind the staff officer, seemed to have noticed something and gave the order while suppressing his discomfort.
As the staff officer zoomed in on the screen as instructed, Zhu Jun's expression quickly changed from discomfort to solemnity.
In the picture, the vines that seem to be entangled together do not seem to be separate individuals, but a whole!
But if it were a whole, this mutant plant would probably be terrifyingly huge!
"Tell the self-propelled artillery company to head east and south and fire two more flares each way!"
"Yes!"
...
Bang~bang~bang~bang~
After a few seconds, several cannon shots were heard outside the station hall, and even Zhu Jun's hand holding the tea began to shake.
Then, the other two directions in the video screen quickly lit up, and then Zhu Jun could finally barely see the full picture of these mutated plants!
Or rather, it’s not these, but this!
This mutant plant frenzy that covers an area of nearly two standard football fields is actually just one plant! ? ?
"Sure enough, this thing is really a whole!!" Zhu Jun cursed, touching his chin.
If someone else didn't hold the truth in his hands, they would probably suffer from gigantic fear if they saw this scene!
"Xiao Li, I will make the following arrangements now!"
"Yes!"
"Order the advance team not to get too close, and keep a safe distance of 800 meters! Armored Infantry Company 1 and Tank Company 1 will establish a defense line in echelons along the highway outside the station!"
"Prevent the mutant plants from going crazy and attacking our positions after the attack is launched!"
"Yes!" The staff officer lowered his head and took notes.
"Order the self-propelled artillery company to deploy on the spot. The key areas for shelling are here! Here! Here! And here!"
As he spoke, Zhu Jun pointed his finger at the areas in the video where the roots of the mutant plants were most densely populated.
The reason for choosing these points is not random, but based on the inference of biological instinct.
For living things, the more vulnerable and important a place is, the more protection it will receive!
Just like when people are attacked, they either cover their crotch or their head, the principle is basically the same!
As for the issue of rescuing the trapped survivors, considering that this is no longer an ordinary mutated plant, elimination is ranked ahead of rescue in terms of importance.
The only thing you can do is to try to avoid the location of the survivors during the bombardment!
...
On the road outside Yuping Railway Station, the self-propelled artillery company of the 1st Combined Battalion completed calibration after firing a few flares and entered combat status.
Six PLZ-6A 05mm self-propelled howitzers were lined up on the wet asphalt road towards the field.
Not far away, the retractable satellite antenna of the PLC-181 vehicle-mounted command vehicle was unfolded at an elevation angle of 3°, and the C4ISR system with a closed-loop combat process of "full-dimensional perception-intelligent decision-making-precise distribution" also entered working status.
同时，连内的2辆PHZ-11式弹药补给车（每车载弹90发）、1辆PGZ-09式防空车（携带8枚FN-16防空导弹）、2辆猛士3代侦察车（搭载炮兵雷达和无人机操控站），也全部被发动。
For a moment, the entire temporary road was filled with the roar of diesel engines.
..
"Target calibration completed, all companies loaded with special incendiary bombs, 34 salvo!"
Soon, the company commander's voice rang out in each PLZ-05A 155mm self-propelled howitzer.
The loaders who received the order skillfully operated the semi-automatic ammunition feeder like muscle reflexes, and quickly grabbed the scarce special projectiles from the ammunition compartment: FAE-155.
This two-stage special warhead is 1.8 meters long. The front half is a gel-like fuel-air explosive storage cabin, while the back half is filled with pre-placed tungsten alloy fragments mixed with thermite.
"it is good!"
"it is good!"
...
After the loaders reported their results one after another, the C181ISR system on the PLC-4 command vehicle also completed the calculation of firing parameters for each key shelling area and the assignment of tasks to each artillery target.
"fire!"
As the company commander yelled into the intercom, the next second
Bang bang bang bang!
The air waves ejected from the six 6mm caliber gun barrels instantly tore the rain curtain within a radius of 155 meters into circular water mists.
At the moment when the 45-kilogram FAE-155 shell was fired, the asphalt road surface pressed by the tracks of the PLZ-05A 155mm self-propelled howitzer was instantly shaken into a series of spider-web-like cracks, and even the train station hall where Zhu Jun was located shook violently.
The windows and the water in the cups were shaking constantly, just like an earthquake, the shaking was very strong!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~~
The tail fins of the missile tore through the air with a series of sharp sounds, and six FAE-6 shells dragged spiral flames in the air, reaching the designated detonation points in an instant!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Above the key shelling area, 150 meters above the ground, six FAE-6 shells exploded collectively, like six suns that suddenly flashed!
Immediately, a large amount of cloud-explosive agent was like death dust sprinkled by God, and the light yellow aerosol cloud engulfed the entire war zone at a speed of eighty meters per second.
In response, the python-like mutant vines instinctively wanted to shrink and defend themselves, but the stomata on the back of the leaves violently inhaled the cloud-explosive agent that permeated the air.
0.37 seconds later, the second-stage ignition device detonated.
Six fireballs with a diameter of more than 4500 meters flashed under the clouds. The ignited fuel-air explosive agent set off a fire storm with a temperature of up to °C. The evacuated oxygen instantly formed a vacuum vortex in the center of the explosion.
In this fiery hell, the juice beneath the mutant vine's epidermis instantly vaporized and expanded in the high temperature, and the thick main stem with a diameter of two meters was blown into minced meat!
Those tube systems that accidentally inhaled the fuel-air explosives would burn the plants from the inside into translucent glass skeletons.
In just a moment, this group of mutated vines, which covers an area of nearly two football fields, is as tall as a mountain and has few natural enemies in the apocalyptic ecosystem, entered a state of dying.
At the black off-road vehicle located in the corner of the mutant vine group, which was intentionally avoided by the self-propelled artillery company, the dense vines tightly wrapped around the body of the vehicle lost their original vitality in an instant and drooped down weakly.
"Fuck! It's raining fire from the sky!!"
Just as the vine wrapping was removed, Xu Hanwen and the other three in the carriage saw a scene that they would never forget in their lives!
In the dazzling white night sky, water and fire intertwined to create a torrential rain!
However, the killing of these six FAE-155s is far from over!
As the firestorm began to subside, 60 tungsten alloy fragments heated to an incandescent state began to fall.
After the fire storm, the mutant vines are once again faced with a metal storm!
The small hexagonal killing units form a three-dimensional killing network under the control of digital fuses. Each fragment will spin and split into six blade-shaped secondary projectiles before hitting the ground.
Puff puff puff puff~~
At the moment of contact, the burning blizzard completely smashed the remaining mutant vines into pieces, and the thermite coating triggered a chain combustion at the cut!
With only 6 FAE-155 special bullets, a horrific mutant flora nearly the size of two standard football fields was reduced to ashes!
