Chapter 133: Chapter 116: Strange Front Line, Battle of Jia City
Early the next morning, united in their determination, everyone had already dressed and fallen into formation in the service area parking lot without any urging from their commander.
However, Lin Feng, the supreme Commander, was the last one out of bed, only emerging from his bedroom with a yawn after Chen Yanyan came to wake him.
By the time he was ready, it was already six in the morning.
Meanwhile, the squad members were in neat formation, ready for action.
Lin Feng ordered Li Ran and Shen Jie to pick a group of people who could drive and were agile. He sent them out onto the highway with gasoline to search for abandoned vehicles.
There were many such cars now; you could see several every hundred meters or so.
Moreover, most of them were large, gas-guzzling vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks...
In fact, as long as they had enough fuel, they were better suited for field operations than regular sedans.
Soon, Shen Jie and his team drove back with a full thirty vehicles they had found on the roadside.
With four people per vehicle, they could just barely fit everyone from Company 201. As for the fifty-some old soldiers and new recruits who had fled here, Lin Feng didn’t plan on taking them for now.
For one, the two groups hadn’t had any deep interaction yet, and he didn’t know their backgrounds. For another, as newcomers, they couldn’t just receive the same treatment as the veteran members of Company 201.
Besides, the temporary camp needed people to stay behind and guard it.
The old soldiers among the fifty outsiders naturally wanted to continue following Li Ran and participate in the Zerg-killing operations.
But some of the new recruits, who had been scared out of their wits, hadn’t been through the wringer like Company 201. No matter how much power Lin Feng displayed or how much equipment he promised, it would be difficult for them to voluntarily step onto the battlefield so soon.
Especially not a field battle with no protection.
Engaging the Zerg Race in close-quarters combat in the wild was a hundred times more dangerous than hiding in a fortress.
If just one Black Spine Zerg got close, it could easily inflict heavy injuries on a human with its pair of Giant Mandibles.
It didn’t matter if you were an Awakener or wore Red Armor.
You couldn’t block the tearing bite of those sharp Giant Mandibles.
With a bite force of several tons, they could easily destroy external Armor and then sever a human’s flesh-and-blood body at the waist.
During their escape, the new recruits had witnessed far too many comrades die horribly in the merciless onslaught of the Black Spine Zergs.
Their scattered limbs were fought over and devoured by the Red-Armored Beetles under the Swarm, leaving no complete corpse behind...
That hellish, terrifying scene was unforgettable. Even in their sleep, they would often jolt awake, plagued by endless nightmares.
Therefore, the current State of these new recruits who had luckily survived was not suitable for continued combat.
Lin Feng didn’t want to force them back onto the battlefield either, lest they desert in the face of the enemy and cause an even greater crisis.
Having them follow the old soldiers and guard the remaining eighty-plus tons of Fine Steel Plates at the camp was more appropriate than dragging them into battle.
Around eight o’clock, Lin Feng’s Land Patrol Battleship drove directly onto the muddy ground off the highway, followed by the thirty SUVs and pickup trucks.
Although these civilian vehicles weren’t as specialized as military ones, they were much more comfortable than the previous troop carriers. Moreover, with the sunroofs open, they could coordinate with their teammates to attack the Black Spine Zerg Swarm.
About ten minutes later, after they had driven only thirteen kilometers, they began to see the figures of Red-Armored Beetles popping up at the front line, along with numerous mounds and tunnel entrances.
The Zerg Race’s invasion had not stopped.
Lin Feng ordered a stop. From the rear exit of the Battleship, he took out Shotguns from his storage space and distributed one to every squad member present.
With 5,000 rounds of spare ammunition and over a hundred Shotguns, they could easily deal with an army of even ten thousand Black Spine Zergs.
After the distribution was complete, Lin Feng immediately ordered them to advance.
But as the team pushed deeper, Lin Feng used his upgraded Mind Sensing but found no Black Spine Zergs in the Zerg heartland. This included the collapsed outpost nearby and the fallen one in the distance.
Except for the Red-Armored Beetles collecting human corpses, the Black Spine Zergs responsible for daily patrols had seemingly vanished. Not only were they gone from the South of Wu City where Lin Feng was, but they were also nowhere to be seen on the main battlefield.
Faced with such a strange phenomenon, Lin Feng couldn’t help but wonder. ’Did the Mother Empress get spooked and pull back her lines to prevent me from continuing to farm her for resources?’
Although killing three Tiger Spine Zergs in an instant had been a bit extreme, he had caught them completely by surprise. They had never expected an aerial threat to come from humans.
After all, under the joint patrols of the Cyan-winged Zergs and Wind-winged Zergs, humanity’s already precious aerial weapons—like the few thousand third and fourth-generation fighter jets and the several hundred attack helicopters—had long been mostly destroyed or decommissioned.
These fearless bugs, with their unique structures, possessed extreme maneuverability. Heat-seeking missiles couldn’t lock onto them, and even Laser targeting couldn’t keep up with the speed of their erratic stops.
Early in the war, a large number of fighter jets had tragically crashed after being rammed by hundreds, even thousands, of Flying Zerg Race bodies.
This also indirectly led to a decrease in fire support for the ground forces, making it impossible to conduct large-scale bombing of the Swarm.
The army fought alone, stretched to its breaking point...
Later, they could only launch supersonic missiles from a distance, relying on pre-locking targets to break through defenses with sheer speed. But even so, the results were minimal.
After the "Decapitation Strike" with bunker-buster missiles failed, not only the Tier Two Zerg Race, but even the Mother Empress herself, had lowered their guard against aerial threats.
After all, in their consciousness, the Zerg Race had long since seized crucial air superiority.
But now, this entire situation had been completely shattered by Lin Feng’s sudden appearance.
’So naturally, she wouldn’t dare let the Black Spine Zerg Swarm show their faces now, just to get themselves blown up.’
