Volume 15 Gray Fog Forest Chapter 772: Heruni's Crazy Plan
Compared to ordinary humans, the Ghost-Faced Giant Owl has overwhelming combat power. If it is in a normal battle, a Ghost-Faced Giant Owl can easily wipe out a human reinforced platoon that is not equipped with heavy equipment.
However, the space inside the battleship is small, and the movement space for the huge ghost-faced giant owls is severely limited. In addition, this batch of ghost-faced giant owls still belong to the category of flying creatures, and are not the mutated "land combat type" that Ke Lan and his friends encountered on the ground. When they cannot fly, their strength will be greatly reduced.
Due to various unfavorable factors, these ghost-faced giants were unable to start a killing spree on the warship. Instead, they were temporarily suppressed by the firepower of the officers and soldiers of the "Shaojiang Modified".
It must be said that the deformed and stuck hatch played a big role - because the gap was too small, the ghost-faced giant owls could only enter the corridor one by one from the cabin at the other end, which gave Heruni and his team the opportunity to defeat them one by one. Two marines wearing heavy power armor were at the front, and the 25mm caliber rapid-fire machine guns issued a deafening roar, beating the ghost-faced giant owls that entered the corridor into a bloody mess.
The bodies of the killed Ghost-Faced Giant Owls would quickly decompose and fester, so there was no possibility of corpses blocking the road. With these two rapid-fire machine guns as the vanguard, Heruni led this mixed force composed of Marines, guards, civilian officers and logistics personnel, and steadily advanced forward.
"Pay attention to the temperature of the gun barrel, be careful of overheating and explosion! Once the temperature approaches the warning threshold, report in advance and I will have people change positions!" The person who shouted was Dean, the deputy captain of the "Shaojiang Modified" Marine Corps. The captain of the Marine Corps had previously died in the explosion of the ammunition depot of the No. 6 anti-aircraft turret. Now he is the highest-ranking officer in the Marine Corps.
There are still five heavy power armors equipped with large-caliber rapid-fire machine guns remaining in the Marine Corps, but Dean did not put these five power armors and five machine guns into battle at once - the space inside the battleship is small, and the corridor width is no more than ten meters. Two machine guns plus the light weapons in the hands of other soldiers are enough to complete fire suppression. As for the extra three armors and three machine guns, they are used as substitutes when the first two machine guns overheat and replace ammunition, so as to maintain the continuity of firepower.
Soon, everyone pushed the battle line to the damaged hatch. The muzzles of two rapid-fire machine guns were pointed directly at the crack in the door, pouring ammunition at the large number of biological weapons gathered on the other side of the hatch.
Although they were short of manpower, the "Shaojiang Modified" frigate had no shortage of ammunition at all - a warship carrying such long-distance missions had to carry ammunition, fuel, and various military supplies to ensure that it could continue medium-intensity combat for more than a week without receiving supplies. Although two of the eight ammunition depots had exploded, and four were occupied or blocked by biological weapons, the remaining two were enough for this mixed force of less than a hundred people to fight to their heart's content.
"Captain! The advance is blocked!" Dean roared loudly. The roar of the rapid-fire machine gun almost completely covered his voice. He could only walk quickly to the side of Heruni and repeat it again into the latter's ear.
"Can't we find a way to get rid of the monsters blocking the door?" After hearing what the deputy captain said clearly, Heruni responded loudly in the same way.
"We can't clear them all! The monsters keep coming. The soldiers in power armor have been rotated through three batches, and the barrels of the rapid-fire machine guns have been replaced by more than a dozen. But looking through the crack in the door, the number of monsters doesn't seem to have decreased at all..."
Hruni raised his head and looked forward, only to see that the ground beside the door was already piled with brass shell casings as thick . Several soldiers wearing powered exoskeletons were carrying boxes of heavy ammunition belts from the back of the team to the front. The feet of the two powered armored suits that were raising their cannons and firing into the hatch were almost buried by the shell casings.
Like Ke Lan who was watching the video, Heruni 's heart sank.
Although they had gained an advantage in the first close combat with the biological weapons, this advantage was not obvious to be honest... There were about two hundred biological weapons that invaded the interior of the "Shaojiang Modified" battleship, and the number of biological weapons they had just killed was less than ten in total.
This level of victory can help boost morale, but its impact on the overall battle situation is actually minimal.
"Use that thing." Heruni thought for a moment and said.
"What?!" Dean was stunned for a moment. He almost thought he had misheard. "Captain, the 'thing' you mentioned is... a small tactical nuclear bomb? Used... inside a battleship?"
For the Marines on warships, individual small tactical nuclear bombs are standard weapons on the equipment list. Although there are few occasions when they can be used, each Marine will still be equipped with 3-4 small tactical nuclear warheads with a TNT equivalent of 2.5 tons.
The Marines' main heavy firepower support comes from the weapons on the warships, but sometimes the Marines are also needed to rely on ground vehicles or travel long distances on foot beyond the attack range of the warships. These small tactical nuclear bombs are designed to meet the Marines' urgent need for offensive weapons in such situations.
Even if many Marines work on this kind of mission until they retire, they may not encounter it once.
But to use that classic saying, "I can do without it, but you can't live without it."
"Apart from that thing, these rapid-fire machine guns should be the most powerful weapons in your hands, right?" Heruni looked at Dean and asked in a deep voice.
"No, no, no...there should be a few non-locking rocket launchers and a few individual anti-aircraft missiles, as well as a few high-powered defensive grenades with a TNT equivalent of 40 kilograms..." Dean said.
"Then can you guarantee that you can use these things to destroy the indigenous creatures that invaded the warship?"
Dean fell silent.
Admittedly, relying on these weapons, they can indeed clear the biological weapons within the distance of the hatch, but once they break through the hatch, they will soon be surrounded by more biological weapons... By that time, even if there are enough explosives, they cannot be used in close combat, unless they can be ruthless enough to blow up their own people.
This battle was not a positional war or a tug-of-war, but a war of annihilation with a time limit - if they could not clear all the biological weapons of the invading warship and repair the damaged thrusters before the energy shield was broken, the "Shaojiang Modified" would soon fall into a deeper desperate situation, and it would only be a matter of time before it crashed.
"But even a small tactical nuclear bomb has a power equivalent to 2.5 tons of TNT. Although this is nothing compared to the main gun of a battleship, but in a small space, and detonated inside a battleship, this is probably..."
Dean didn't say anything else, but both Heruni and Ke Lan, who was watching the video, could understand what he didn't say directly .
A small tactical nuclear bomb with a TNT equivalent of 2.5 tons is not very powerful, compared to the weapons on the battleship. A small tactical nuclear bomb of this specification can blow up a large pit with a diameter of 50 meters and a depth of 10 meters in an open wasteland with hard soil and rock layers about three meters below. With the explosion point as the center, people within a diameter of 300 meters will die because their internal organs will be shattered by the shock wave even if they hide behind a bunker.
And if it were detonated inside the confined space of a warship, its power would be magnified several times.
Even Ke Lan felt that Heruni's idea was a little too crazy.
If they can't control it well, they might not even need the help of those biological weapons outside, they can sink the "Shaojiang Modified" frigate by themselves.
"We don't have much time left. This plan is a gamble. Since it's a gamble, we might as well bet all our chips on it!" Heruni said grimly, "I don't like the feeling of slow death at all!"
"Damn it, Captain... You must be crazy! Damn it, I must be crazy too!" Dean slapped his cheeks twice, then yelled to a Marine next to him: "Bring the No. 9 equipment over here!"
"Deputy Captain, Captain, do you really want to use this thing?" The soldier was standing nearby and heard everything Dean and Heruni said.
"What else? If you were asked to choose, one way to die is to perish together with these monsters with a nuclear bomb, and the other way to die is to be dragged here by them and then buried with the crashed warship. Which one would you choose? What's more, we may not die in the former way!" Dean slapped the soldier's helmet hard, "Don't waste time, follow the order quickly!"
"Yes!" the soldier shouted with a stern face, took the key handed to him by Dean, turned and ran towards the equipment storehouse.
"Bridge! Are the surveillance cameras in the occupied cabins still usable?" Heruni looked up at the camera in the corner of the ceiling and asked.
"Report to the captain, except for the severely damaged cabins 11 and 13, the surveillance cameras in other cabins are still functioning normally!" The voice of the officer staying on the bridge sounded through the loudspeaker.
"Project the surveillance footage in front of me!" Hruni ordered.
At the same time, the soldier who was ordered to get the small tactical nuclear bomb also ran over quickly, carrying a metal box with several combination locks on it.
Dean used his fingerprint to open the metal box and took out a launch tube that looked similar to a single-person missile. In fact, this thing was modified by using the launch tube and rocket thruster of a single-person missile, except that the warhead was replaced with a nuclear warhead.
Heruni glanced at the surveillance footage and found that the most biological weapons were gathered in the seventh to eleventh compartments. He immediately ordered: "Set the fuse of the tactical nuclear bomb to detonate ten seconds after launch. I need you to launch this nuclear bomb to this location. Can you do it?"
Heruni pointed to the area between the seventh and eleventh cabins.
"Sure." Dean nodded, "Just adjust the parameters of the thrusters."
"Okay then, get ready to launch."
Dean dragged his finger a few times on the control surface of the launch tube. After locking the setting parameters, he carried the launch tube on his shoulder and faced the gap of the hatch.
"Open all the rear hatches." Heruni said to the bridge.
Although not all the hatches of the cabins are in the same straight line, this small tactical nuclear bomb is different from those non-locking rockets. As long as the parameters are set correctly, it can turn, stop at a preset position and height, and even hover in the air for a short period of time.
"Fire!" Seeing that Dean was ready, Heruni did not hesitate at all.
After the individual missile carrying a nuclear warhead reached the seventh compartment, he immediately shouted: "Except for the seventh to eleventh compartments, all fireproof walls and doors are closed! The third, fourth and sixth anti-aircraft turrets and ammunition depot modules are directly separated from the hull! Everyone, prepare for impact resistance!!"
The third, fourth and sixth anti-aircraft turrets are located just above the section of the hull from the seventh to the eleventh compartments. Below the anti-aircraft turrets is the ammunition depot where a large amount of ammunition is stored. In order to prevent the detonation of these ammunition and further damage to the hull, Hruni had no choice but to make drastic measures and abandon these modules.
Fortunately, the armament of the "Shaojiang-class" frigate uses a modular structure, otherwise he would not be able to cut it off even if he wanted to.
Five heavy power armors were half-kneeling at the front of the team, pushing the power of the small energy shield generator to the limit. The fixed hooks on the legs and feet of the power armors were nailed firmly into the metal floor of the warship. Originally, in the rules for the use of power armors, soldiers wearing power armors were strictly prohibited from using fixed anchor hooks in the warship to prevent damage to the hull. However, at this time, no one would say anything to them.
Behind these five power armors are eight expanded folding mobile shields. The soldiers equipped with exoskeletons use their bodies to hold the eight mobile shields tightly, building a buffer layer with their flesh and blood.
Further back, the others locked the safety buckles on their uniforms with the safety rings on the wall, held their heads with their hands, slightly bent their bodies, and waited for the coming shock wave.
