Chapter 182 Water Volcano
The group of people walked into a combat conference room and sat around the holographic projection table.
The eldest son of the soldier, Jian, was obviously the person in charge of this base now. He called up the three-dimensional projection of the original 23rd Military Base and explained to everyone:
"Eight days ago, like everyone else, we were landed on planet ST55568 by flying troops.
The fourth platoon of our 2nd Special Operations Battalion and the 76th Marine Division formed a mixed force. The assigned task was to capture and rebuild the original 23rd Military Base.
Although we were attacked by alien creatures two days ago and suffered some casualties, we still successfully entered the interior of the original 23rd Military Base. "
"Then you found that the base was empty and there were no alien creatures at all. This was just a trap set by the alien creatures to encircle and suppress you."
The group leader interjected.
"Haha, it seems that the situations everyone encountered are similar, so I will skip this section and won't say more."
The eldest son of the soldier, Jian, laughed and continued:
"We also fought all night and finally defended this military base. At that time, we still had less than 3,000 troops left.
However, all the equipment and weapons were seriously damaged, and there were very few materials left to rebuild the base's communication tower. The platoon leader and other officers were all seriously injured. "
Liu Cheng nodded. The situation Zijian said was similar to the situation after they defended the former Second Military Base that night.
The reason why they are better than Zijian's side is because of the appearance of Augustine and others.
Otherwise, I'm afraid they will all be destroyed.
Liu Cheng asked:
"If that's the case, why do you only have about 600 troops left now? Where have the others gone?"
When Zijian and others mentioned this matter, their expressions became solemn again, and he said slowly:
“After we fought bloody battles all night, we originally thought that the alien creatures had failed to encircle and suppress us and had completely retreated.
Who would have thought that after noon the next day, they would gather their troops again and attack the original 23rd Military Base again.
Moreover, the number of alien creatures attacking this time was even greater than that on the first night.
The soldiers could only drag their exhausted bodies and return to their defensive positions to fight against the enemy.
The siege lasted another day. One day later, we once again successfully repelled the attack of the alien creature army, but we also paid a heavy price.
There are less than a thousand Marines left. The special operations platoon leader died in the battle, the Marine division commander died in the battle, and the squad leader and the Marine regiment commander took over the command.
On the third day, we found that alien creatures were still gathering here. "
Everyone was confused and asked:
“Where did so many alien creatures come from?
Why are you so determined to eliminate your army? "
Zijian knew they would have this doubt, so he explained:
“Actually, after we annihilated the army of alien creatures that attacked on the second day, we realized something was wrong.
So we started investigating inside the base and soon discovered the reason. "
As he spoke, he enlarged the structural diagram of the base on the holographic projection table and said:
"Look, everyone, this is the structure of the valley we are in."
When everyone looked around, they saw that the entire valley was a plain in the middle, with towering cliffs on three sides, showing a huge horseshoe shape.
The valley has a net height of 1,500 meters, the mountain is 1,300 meters thick, and there are several huge streams of water flowing through it.
"It's almost like a..."
The group leader was about to say that this looked like an animal urinating organ, but suddenly realized that it was indecent, so he quickly covered his mouth and thought to himself, fortunately, the car braked quickly.
The soldier's eldest son Jian nodded and said:
"What you described is correct. The streams of water in the middle are actually high-temperature underground water vapor emerging from the interior of the planet.
The high-temperature groundwater vapor is buffered and cooled by the crustal structure, and turns into cool groundwater and gushes out of the mountain.
The large waterfalls you see flowing down the mountains are only one-fiftieth of the amount of water gushing out from the groundwater.
The remaining water was squeezed and deformed in the mountain, divided into several tributaries from behind the entire Horseshoe Valley, and flowed into the surrounding forest. "
Liu Cheng and others were shocked when they heard this. They didn't expect that such a prominent river channel in Liuguang Forest was just a branch of the amount of groundwater gushing out here.
Zijian continued:
“The reason why the original 23rd Military Base was designed in the mountains was to maximize the use of the power of underground water springs and treat it as a huge hydropower station.
Provide energy supply to all surrounding military fortresses.
It is estimated that among the alien creatures, the more intelligent races have also discovered the terrain structure here.
Therefore, after the encirclement and suppression of other military bases failed, they came up with the idea of destroying this hydropower station base.
Just imagine, what would be the consequences if alien creatures destroyed the base of this hydropower station and caused the underground water springs in the mountain to gush out? "
Liu Cheng and others imagined the scene for a moment, then their expressions became a little ugly, and they tentatively said:
"When underground water springs erupt, all rivers will overflow and change their course. The alien creatures want to attack with water and flood the entire downstream forest area!"
Zijian praised:
"As expected of Captain Butcher, he got to the point right away.
Yes, we are also aware of this reason, so we understand why alien creatures continue to gather here to launch attacks.
At the same time, we also realized that the original 23rd Military Base must not be lost and must not be destroyed by alien creatures!
If other bases are lost, a troop will be wiped out, but if this base is lost, dozens of surrounding bases will all be flooded.
In that case, the entire corps' strategic plan to capture various bases and build a transportation network will fail completely!
So on the third night, a squad leader took advantage of the darkness of the night and led the remaining five special forces members of their team to climb to the top of the cliff and sent a distress signal to the regiment headquarters with personal equipment.
After that, their entire team never came back..."
"I was wondering why the troops here were commanded by a sergeant of you, a second-level superpower, when it turned out that all those higher than you were dead! "
Outside the combat meeting room, a sloppy and casually dressed strong man pushed the door open and heard the last conversation of Sergeant Zijian.
He said it half-jokingly, as if the death of thousands of soldiers was not a heavy matter for him at all.
Although Zijian was a little unhappy with the other party's attitude, he saw that the other party was not wearing a military uniform, had no military rank ornaments on his body, and was still from Liu Cheng's side, so he asked in confusion:
"Who is this?"
Liu Cheng said:
"I forgot to introduce you, this is Augustine, one of the leading figures among the garbage men.
Currently, he is a garbage man team of a first-class company, and he is acting with our troops here. "
