stonecrandall Chapter 315 Board Jump
Chapter 315 Board Jump
When the assault team and the fire support team left the core area, they installed a quantum locator they were carrying in a dark corner around the core area.
After installation, the two teams met up with the support team that had set up the traps.
Afterwards, the three groups tallied up the remaining explosives and determined their next course of action.
Judging from the last boarding operation, the enemy ships did not use many intelligent auxiliary equipment and were still mainly operated by humans. Only a portion of rigid programs were retained on the ships for responding to some emergency equipment.
A muffled explosion came from the passageway. The three teams continued forward, searching for a suitable blasting location based on the previously recorded high-energy signals.
In order to delay the enemy's pursuit as much as possible, the support group at the rear of the team kept laying various booby traps in the road, making full use of all the skills that mankind had accumulated in warfare over thousands of years.
The guards and marines pursuing the squadron were usually used as security personnel, porters, and boarding party members in this pirate fleet. They did not have much land combat experience and were extremely reliant on space artillery support.
Therefore, they are completely unable to mount an effective countermeasure when faced with these culminations of human tactics.
During the pursuit, they also attempted to clear mines, but their inexperienced methods only increased casualties when faced with the open and straightforward methods of laying mines such as chain mines and mine-under-mines.
After two failed mine-clearing attempts and enduring three rounds of landmines, the pursuing troops behind had no choice but to use the most rudimentary method to clear the mines—pushing several large, heavy steel rollers in front of the column and notifying the rest of the troops to surround and intercept them.
However, in order to adjust the mine-laying tactics in time, the support team left two fiber optic robots in the rear to avoid interference.
Every move the enemy made fell into the support team's view. Seeing such a clumsy mine-clearing method, the task force stopped the intensive mine-clearing tactic and instead used psychology to lay mines flexibly in the road. Single small mines and minefields were interspersed, and the distance and arrangement of the two were completely unpredictable.
Due to the numerous roads within the core area, the enemy had no choice but to break their squadron of over 40 men into several smaller squads to conduct a thorough search of the core area.
However, the most disheveled were the enemy marines who were clearing mines and advancing from the rear.
As fourth-class citizens, they were unfamiliar with the roads in the core area of the ship and could only follow the tracks left by the squad.
However, the mines laid by the support team without following any pattern, under the Marines' urgent mentality, successfully achieved maximum killing efficiency.
Whenever the enemy has not encountered a landmine for a long time or has encountered a low-powered warning landmine, they will often put down heavy steel rollers that affect their marching speed in order to speed up their march. Naturally, they will easily step into the minefield carefully set up by the support team.
In this way, the support group not only gave the assault group and the fire support group enough time to plant the bombs, but also made it impossible for the small groups of troops that came to surround and intercept them to break through the dense firepower of the assault group and the fire support group, which greatly improved the safety of the entire team during the operation.
The dense deployment of landmines quickly exhausted all the mines carried by the support team. Fortunately, the assault team and the fire support team completed the deployment of all explosives almost simultaneously.
Faced with relentless pursuers, all the robots in the squad knew that they were highly likely to be unable to escape the warship.
In order to pass on their accumulated experience, they uploaded their data to a NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) protected data storage system, and then placed this database and the positioning device in a safe and concealed location on the enemy ship, away from the power lines.
After completing all this, the squad re-entered stealth mode, emerged from another path, and headed straight for the front of the enemy ship to locate the enemy's command center and main gun power system.
As expected, the Marines in the rear abandoned the steel roller after failing to find any mines for a long time, quickly rejoined the surrounding guards, and accelerated their pursuit of the squad.
Seeing the enemy relentlessly pursuing them and getting closer and closer, the support team's robots stopped and asked the firepower team and assault team for 4 conventional robots and 6 different types of landmines.
The support team's robots placed the least powerful landmine in the middle and arranged the other five landmines diagonally behind it, forming a simple minefield.
Subsequently, the support team retreated to an intersection where a wide passage and a narrow passage intersected, where they set up a five-layer defensive position, using a combination of direct and indirect fire.
While the support group set up fire positions, the remaining robots in the assault group and firepower group were reorganized. This reorganization evenly distributed firepower between the two groups, with each group consisting of seven special models and three conventional models.
Two assault teams moved through the passageway one after the other, searching for a route to the target area.
On the other side, the robots that had advanced to support the special operations team had also found the marks they had left behind.
Following the markings, the squad soon encountered the pursuing enemy guards.
Instead of alerting the enemy, the squad chose to follow behind and advance stealthily.
During the tracking process, the team discovered more and more clues.
After analysis, the team determined the possible location of the special operations team.
After confirming the target's location, the 20-man squad quickly turned around, leaving only two members equipped with high-powered salvo rounds to continue tracking the enemy ahead.
The remaining 18 robots split into two groups of nine and continued their advance, searching for the special operations team's trail in parallel.
Shortly after the support squad dispersed, the support squad operating at the bow of the enemy ship learned of the "intelligence" that the enemy guards had arrived.
The enemy marines, who had given up resistance and were advancing rapidly, unsurprisingly stepped on a minefield laid by the support team.
Faced with the sudden explosion of the warning mine, the enemy squad immediately lay down and took cover.
However, what greeted them was not anti-personnel bounding mines, but two new types of directional anti-personnel mines staggered at the junction of the ceiling and the wall.
A thousand jets of metallic hydrogen roared downwards, evenly covering the entire passageway.
Immediately afterwards, an anti-personnel bounding mine fell from the ceiling, and more than a thousand steel balls poured out instantly. The steel balls that missed their target bounced wildly in the passageway, causing a large number of casualties.
As these remaining soldiers emerged from the passage, they were met with a dense and precise barrage of fire, and the two leading soldiers fell instantly.
After several attempts, the Marines had to call for backup, requesting larger individuals to clear the way.
As these large beings passed through the passageway and inspected the ceiling, two anti-tank mines mounted on the wall exploded, detonating a total of 140 kilograms of metallic hydrogen explosive, destroying three silicon-based creatures along with them.