Chapter 176: Turning from defense to offense
Under the night, a large number of alien creatures attacked Liu Cheng and his team.
After receiving instructions from the reconnaissance psychic, the commander of the Marine Corps immediately ordered in the direction of their fingers:
"Flash bombs, fire!"
"Hiss, hiss, hiss!"
More than a dozen flash bombs were instantly fired from the under-hung launcher under the barrel of the kinetic rifle, like a stream of fire slowly falling in the night sky, illuminating the entire ground in front of the marching team.
Everyone saw that the ground in front of them was the entrance to a high mountain valley, with the mountain walls on both sides of the entrance about hundreds of meters high.
Countless alien creatures were constantly pouring out of the mountain pass and quickly attacking them.
The commander was shocked when he saw this, and quickly commanded the Marine Corps to change its formation to meet the enemy.
Thirty suspended troop carriers were deployed in a row, with their own small-caliber artillery acting as fixed-position firepower points, and the troop carriers themselves acting as cover for the defense line.
More than 400 marines all picked up their weapons, squatted on both sides of the suspended troop carriers, aimed and fired.
Faced with such a large number of alien creatures, even the 20 suspended armored vehicles that had been pulling Augustine's medium-sized spacecraft had to untie the steel ropes and quickly turn around to join the battle in front of the front line.
The combat method is the same as that of conventional ground mixed combat forces. The marines are still responsible for large-scale firepower coverage, and the special forces who lack long-range attack means temporarily stay inside the front line.
After waiting for the alien army to rush into the front line, they will fight in close combat and eliminate the powerful individuals with stronger strength.
"Da Da Da Da! Boom Boom Boom Boom!"
The firepower of the marines continued, and a series of flames continued to shoot straight in the direction of the alien creatures, knocking down low-level alien creatures one by one.
Flares were also fired continuously. When the dozen flares shot into the sky in front were about to land, a dozen new flares were fired into the sky.
The streams of fire that illuminated the entire valley entrance continued one after another, never stopping.
The number of alien creatures was too large, and soon the alien creatures at the front rushed to the front of the defense line.
Liu Cheng, Fu Yan, and Tian Tiantian took the lead and rushed out of the defense line with weapons, blocking the pressure of most of the alien creatures attacking from the front.
John William and other seven recruits also took action immediately. They stayed in the defense position to assist the marines in defense.
At the same time as John and the other seven recruits, there were also 20 garbage man employees who had just accepted Liu Cheng's quarterly reward of a high-quality star core fragment.
Although they fought on their own and lacked combat and cooperation experience.
However, they were all second-level psychics, and their role was no worse than that of John William and other seven recruits of the Wolf Squad who had good tactical coordination.
Arnold and other strengthening psychics punched repeatedly, and with one punch, they repelled an alien creature that pounced on the marines beside them.
The alien creature that was hit flew backwards, and its body hit the alien creature that rushed from behind, knocking down a large number of alien creatures in an instant.
The rescued marine soldier subconsciously thanked Arnold and the others, and then both sides were stunned.
The soldier who thanked found that the person he was thanking was not a special operations member of the special operations force, but a garbage man that he had always despised.
It was an unimaginable feeling.
And Arnold and his companions also felt a sense of unrealistic floating in their hearts after being thanked by the marines they hated.
"Damn it? The military soldiers actually took the initiative to thank me, a garbage man?
Is it true?"
Arnold was muttering in his mind, and suddenly he realized that a sharp blade suddenly appeared in front of him, and cut the alien creature that rushed towards him into two with one knife.
The psychic who saved Arnold threw a weapon transformed by his psychic power and said unhappily:
"Arnold, what are you thinking! You dare to be dazed on the battlefield, don't want to live!"
After being scolded, Arnold quickly came to his senses, took the psychedelic weapon, and continued to fight with the alien creatures.
After fighting with the alien creatures for half a day, Liu Cheng and his team always suppressed the alien army to the extent that they could only reach the front of the defense line.
However, the number of alien creatures rushing out of the valley entrance is still too large, and sooner or later they will all be drowned.
Although Augustine can drive the spaceship to lead Liu Cheng and his team to escape, the number of people that can be carried by the medium-sized spaceship is limited after all, and it is impossible to take more than 500 people away for retreat.
Liu Cheng swung his lightsaber vigorously, and after sweeping and killing dozens of alien creatures around him, he jumped into the air, quickly came to the captain, and said to him:
"Captain, this is not a solution. The terrain here is too open and not conducive to our defense.
The psychics who help defend both sides will sooner or later run out of energy, and then the alien creatures can take the opportunity to surround us from both sides and annihilate us all!"
The captain also realized this problem and asked solemnly:
"Captain Butcher, what do you mean?"
Liu Cheng pointed to the narrow valley entrance where the alien creatures rushed out and said:
"I found out when I looked at the map before that the location of the distress signal was in that valley.
It is definitely not advisable to blow up the valley entrance. Although it can prevent the subsequent alien creatures from coming, we will also completely block the road to the rescue troops.
Therefore, I suggest taking a risk and rushing directly into the valley entrance."
After hearing Liu Cheng's bold idea, the team leader asked with a serious expression:
"Captain Butcher, have you thought about the consequences of this?"
Liu Cheng nodded:
"I have thought about it, there are only two consequences.
First, the number of alien creatures in the valley is less than 10,000. We can use the terrain advantage of the valley entrance to defend to the end and kill all these alien creatures.
Second, the number of alien creatures in the valley far exceeds the number we can deal with. We will be surrounded and killed, and fight until we bleed to the last drop of blood!"
The team leader thought silently, but the battle situation would not give him too much time to hesitate.
He made a prompt decision, nodded and said:
"Okay, I can't give up this support mission without even trying.
Let's do as Captain Butcher suggested. We will fight to the entrance of the valley to defend. The worst that can happen is death.
I can destroy so many alien creatures before I die, which is worthy of my identity as a soldier of the Milky Way Human Union Government!"
After making the decision, the captain immediately gave orders to all the marines through the communication and loudspeaker equipment:
"Everyone narrow the formation, switch from defense to offense, and get ready. We are going to fight to the entrance of the valley!"
Hearing this, thirty hovering troop carriers and twenty hovering armored vehicles started their engines again and drove forward at full speed.
