Chapter 469 Fatal Accident
A nuclear bomb scheduled to be thrown to the right of Kerrigan's position was not thrown out as planned. If possible, Lehman did not want to start the backup plan, that is, to send a warship for orbital bombing, which would waste precious ammunition, so he gestured to Zeppelin to start the backup plan while grabbing the caller:
"Catch me the pilot in charge of throwing!"
He wanted to ask himself if there was any possibility of repair. The communication was immediately connected. A man wearing a space suit appeared on the screen immediately. Lehman recognized the man, Brandon Naidingal, a man who made some reputation in the Battle of Tasanis. Seeing this man, Lehman immediately said:
"Report."
"The nuclear bomb is stuck on the electromagnetic track for ejection and cannot be projected, and the track is malfunctioning!"
Brandon answered Lehman while looking at the image on the monitor at hand. On it, three dazzling red warnings were displayed on the edge of the electromagnetic catapult's icon: [launch rail malfunction], [launch failure] and the terrifying [warhead armed].
Seeing that the scheduled time error of the combat had reached 15 seconds, Lehman tried to calm down his voice and asked:
"Is there a possibility of immediate repair?"
"No!"
"Receive the unlocking password, immediately release the nuclear bomb start state, leave the front line, and immediately leave the front line!"
After giving a direct order to Brandon, Lehman immediately turned his head and looked at Zeppelin:
"The warship Nelson immediately came forward, Belfast provided escort and carried out the backup strike plan. I wanted the nest to be erased from the map as planned!"
After saying that, Lehman made a neck-wiping action at Nelson's avatar on the screen. Nelson nodded his head and took the order. With the movement of the mental model, Nelson, who was close to the tail of the left wing in the cone battle formation, immediately moved, accompanied by the artillery fire of the cruiser Belfast, aside. Nelson fought a bloody path in the siege of the flying dragon and the self-destructive mosquitoes, and drove towards the bombardment site.
"There are 3,2,1 left to the synchronous tactical nuclear strike!"
Zeppelin's revenge sounded a little high, and in the next moment, hundreds of light balls lit up on the surface of the planet, and hundreds of tactical nuclear bombs were detonated together.
In less than one second, hundreds of large fireballs with rapid expansion to hundreds of meters in diameter rose into the air, and the Zerg nests within these hundreds of meters were burned to an extreme instantly. Next, light radiation covered the entire main nest area, and all Zergs who looked directly at the fireball fell into a brief state of blindness.
The brief blindness made the swarm crazily instantly, but the thermal radiation waves of the nuclear explosion had spread. Within a certain range of each nuclear explosion point, everything that could burn began to burn, including the skin of some Zergs. After the thermal radiation storm ignited all the combustible substances that could be radiated, the heat of the nuclear explosion created a large number of high-temperature and high-pressure shock waves. These shock waves expanded outward at a speed that exceeded the speed of sound. A few small Zerg warriors who were unstable were blown directly into the sky, and the Zerg standing was also shaking under the blow of the shock wave.
Looking at the real-time image below the planet, Jim Renault couldn't help but worry about Carrigan below, but Carrigan was fine at this time--the moment before the nuclear explosion came, she took measures. The device she had placed in front of her was instantly unfolding, forming a fan-shaped covert blocking her.
The device fires a spike and a fixing bolt to the ground, firmly fixing itself, and then connects with Kerigan's combat suit to fix Kerigan, and finally becomes a water droplet-like bunker to protect Kerigan's whole body. At the moment of flash bursting, a large amount of white smoke ejected from the surface of the shield-like device, which is the coolant it carries itself. When the heat radiation arrives, these coolants turn into a film of gas, offsetting the shock wave of the heat radiation.
During the flash and thermal storm, Kerrigan hid in a single bunker and withstood the initial killing of the nuclear explosion--all of this was the contribution of Dr. Zelinsky. As a former major nuclear bomb user, the USBR that Zelinsky initially devoted to actually developed many devices that can protect soldiers and weapons in nuclear explosions. Now Zelinsky took out the design in his mind, and Kerrigan became the first user of this single-soldier nuclear explosion bunker.
Just as hundreds of fuzzy clouds raised by tactical nuclear strikes gradually rose to high altitude and the initial hard killing of the nuclear explosion gradually subsided, the orbital bombing dropped by Nelson from orbit also arrived. These antimatter warheads covered the killing area that the last nuclear bomb should have covered, and directly blew up the Zerg troops and buildings within the coverage area.
Lehman felt a pain in his heart when he saw this scene. The ammunition of the warship was quite precious. This bombing meant that Nelson would have a fewer batches of antimatter missiles to be available later. However, it was not the time to worry about that thing. He waved his hand and ordered the Sigma radiation wave device to be dropped.
The second batch of transport ship pilots who flew into the near-earth orbit as bombers saw the green light that had been waiting on, and immediately pressed the drop button at the same time. Hundreds of devices that seemed to be returning the track were thrown from their cargo holds. Once these devices were projected, they were quickly captured by gravity and began to descend.
"How is the ghost?" Taking advantage of the whereabouts of the radiation wave device, Lehman cared about Kerrigan's dynamics.
"We are tracking her positioning device because the nuclear explosion has not resumed direct contact, but her positioning device is still operating, and the ghost has left her original position and is retreating as planned."
"What's her direction?"
"According to the current route, we are rushing to the first recycling point."
"Very good, I'll order the commando to set off and recycle ghosts," After giving the order to recycle Kerrigan, Lehman turned his head and looked at the image of Lehman, the brother who had just been connected to the command link and said, "Now you can go down and kill insects with confidence, ok?"
Jim Renault said nothing, but spat out the cigar in his mouth with a spit, then closed the mask, revealing the large skull on it. One of the heads of the Marine Force raised the electromagnetic rifle in his hand. With a sizzling sound, the words [Residual Ammunition 500] were displayed on the screen on the side of the battery rifle.
Seeing his brother like this, Lehman nodded to Zeppelin, and the temporary flagship who received the order immediately conveyed the order:
"Very good, the Marine Force is ready to drop, the engineering forces and the Marine Force coordinate time, and start dropping! Escort the fleet, maximize air defense fire density, don't save ammunition now, phalanx-fire, phalanx-fire!!! (Note 1)"
The escort fleet, which received the order, lifted the ammunition restrictions in a short time, and all air defense firepower in the middle and far began to spray ammunition at the highest rate of fire, and forced the surrounding Zerg Air Force back. In the air defense channel created by the warships, the third and fourth wave transport fleets quickly approached their respective dropout points.
On a transport ship, as the leader of the first tank troops dropped, Sergeant Heavy Hammer stuffed a cigar to celebrate victory into the ravine on his chest, closed the mask, and shouted excitedly:
"yeeha, young people, get ready!"
The transport ship drivers who arrived at the drop point pressed the drop button. Minsk's newly developed airdrop bunkers, siege tanks and Goliath armed robots were ejected one after another in the airdrop compartment. These airdrop compartments quickly ignited their attitude and adjusted their rockets to adjust their incident angle and orbit, and plunged towards the earth.
The Zerg troops on the ground looked up at the sky. The spore cannons on the ground that had not been destroyed by the nuclear explosion opened fire at the sky with all their might. However, before landing, the Sigma radiation wave device arrived first. After the prototype core devices of these psychic interference devices arrived over the insect swarm, they immediately began to spread the deadly Sigma radiation for the Zerg. Under the cover of the radiation, the Zerg's movements and reaction times were as if they were subjected to a dull spell, and they suddenly became chaotic.
The logged-in troops followed, and a large number of pre-installed bunkers unbuttoned the speed of the slow-down parachutes. The one-time retro rocket ejected flames, further reducing the drop speed of the bunkers, allowing these metal behemoths to fall safely on the ground. After the bunkers landed, they immediately started a fixed procedure, firmly rooting themselves on the ground, and surrounded an arc line of defense against a cliff and a mining area.
Behind these arc-shaped defense lines, hundreds of siege tanks and Goliath robots landed one after another. The 80mm tank gun and 13mm automatic gun aimed at the remaining insect swarms that were washed by nuclear bombs and suppressed by Sigma radiation and opened fire violently. After the golden shells like raindrops danced wildly, the insect swarms near the landing site were almost wiped out.
The Marines led by Jim Renault, Diade Santo and others followed suit. The airborne cabins that these soldiers were riding steadily landed in the defense line. The Marines flocked out, either rushing to the bunkers, starting to sort out the ammunition carried in the airborne cabin, or starting to assist the SV in recycling the airborne cabin plates.
"Hurry up those missile towers for me, and those carrying mines will bury the mines for me. Our long-range mine laying and supporting firepower have not yet arrived. Now is the most dangerous time, gogogo!!!"
The first Renault who stepped out of the landing cabin roared and commanded. When he finished his order, he found that a sergeant next to him was not moving. He couldn't help but feel angry and punched the sergeant:
"What are you stupid?! Want to die?! Go to work!"
"Sorry, sir," the sergeant disagreed and said to Lehman with a smile, "I'm just sighing. This is the first time I've seen so few deaths in our Marines during the landing process..."
Jim Renault was stunned when he heard this-----Indeed, the Marines' lives are the least valuable. Whenever they land, they are not full of corpses. Unlike now, only those unlucky guys gathered in scattered spore cannons lost their lives, and the rest were all jumping around. Thinking of this, Jim's mouth was in a happy arc:
"Otherwise, who do you think is the commander? Go to work!"
Hearing the silly laughter from the nail brother in the loop, Lehman rolled his eyes and focused his attention on the situation:
"How is the commando? Have you recovered ghosts?"
"There are 67 seconds left before the commando and the ghost meet, and everything is going well at the moment."
"Very good, very good..." Lehman muttered.
At this moment, in front of the transport ship carrying a small team of elite marines to pick up Kerrigan, suddenly, a small piece of air seemed to blur!
"What the…" The driver of the transport plane narrowed his eyes and felt like he was dazzled.
Chapter completed!