Ten thousand I am across the heavens

Chapter 2143 Fighting as a Conditioned Reflex

The outbreak of war is often very sudden. Ma Hongyun was on duty on the city wall that day. The underground base now has a circle of outer walls, which was built after the last attack. The composite wall is stronger than pure reinforced concrete. The structure is similar to carbon fiber, so most physical attacks cannot break through the heavy wall. Although the wall is not a shield, it can still be crossed if you can fly. But there are only a few people who can fly. Without the flying poisonous insect, even a fifth-level strongman may not be able to fly.

The partitions formed by the city walls could shelter a large number of weapons. Many weapons were buried inside the city walls, like armed tanks, relying on the thick outer shell to be immune to all attacks.

With such a wall as a guard, at least psychologically, it can bring a great sense of security to the people in the underground base. Ma Hongyun patrols on this wall. The main purpose is not to patrol whether there is an enemy invasion. He is not a scout. He does not have relevant reconnaissance skills, and the probability of discovering the enemy is actually very small. His patrol is mainly to check whether the turret is normal and whether the machinery on the wall is operating normally.

He carried more wrenches than guns, and he knocked on the pipes, judging whether the pipes were normal by the echo of the sound.

This kind of thing that old workers can do through experience, now through the construction of killer moves, new mechanics can also do it. Light bars appeared in Ma Hongyun's pupils, showing sounds of different frequencies. The shape of the light bars meets a certain threshold. It means that the pipeline is operating normally.

The facilities on the city wall were still quite new, so we didn't find any mechanical failures during our patrol. We just did routine maintenance on the steam pipes and sprayed paint on places where steam was ejected for a long time.

Under normal circumstances, after a round of patrol, he should go back. But before going back this time, he happened to meet a sentry who had just been replaced on duty. The sentry had a pair of binoculars hanging on his chest. High-precision optical glass is not common in daily life. Such a binoculars is definitely a rare item. Ma Hongyun somehow struck up a conversation with the sentry who had just been replaced. The sentries on duty could not be casually talked to, otherwise they would be shot directly. But they were just ordinary people who had just been replaced. When they saw someone coming to talk to them, they stopped. When they heard that the other party wanted to borrow his binoculars to take a look, they thought about it and nodded. He was not worried that a spy was going to take this opportunity to tamper with his binoculars. According to the regulations, every time he returned to the dormitory after a shift change, he had to check his binoculars to make sure that the parameters on the table were normal. Now, even if an ordinary person touched it and made any small movements, they would be discovered later.

Ma Hongyun was not a spy, he was just curious. After all, telescopes of this size were not common. He didn't have many opportunities to play with them on weekdays.

After getting started, I immediately felt the novelty of it, looking here and there. Then I was a little disappointed, because the optical telescope has a poor effect in capturing places with weak light. The brightly lit industrial area can be seen very clearly. I can even see the safety helmets on the workers' heads on the construction site. The dark wasteland outside is not clear, and only the places illuminated by the searchlight can be vaguely seen. And the endless grassland is like an ocean in the dark night. It is so deep that it gives people a feeling of no end, as if falling into an abyss.

He stared at the grassland for a while. Without the searchlight, he could hardly see anything. But as he concentrated, he didn't notice that his pupils began to dilate. They quickly grew larger, like a cat, until they were almost the same size as his own. The huge amount of light finally allowed him to barely see what was hidden in the darkness in the distance.

He did not have the ability to adjust the amount of light entering his pupils before. It was only after he observed the darkness through the telescope this time that the Dao Mark on his body awakened and helped him to realize this ability.

On the plain in the distance, he vaguely saw dark shadows moving forward on the grass, forming a zigzag team and slowly surrounding the city.

This scene scared him, and at first he thought it was an illusion. But soon he realized that his power in the dark was probably different from that of others. The dark night would cover him, but it would not hinder his perception.

Not only was he not discovered, but he also sensed the enemy's continuous gathering of troops from a very long distance. A reconnaissance plane had previously captured the enemy's tracks, and at that time the enemy was still quite far away from the underground base. These people were besieging the underground base from different directions. The strategic goal was obvious on the aerial map, which was to occupy the area where the underground base was located.

However, according to the aerial footage, it would take at least three days for them to reach the underground base. Therefore, the underground base was also preparing for the general attack three days later.

But I didn't expect to find the enemy right under the city wall today. Estimating from the scale on the telescope, the distance from there to the city wall is probably only a little over 1km.

If they were not so close, it would be difficult to spot them even with a telescope. These people seemed to know the pattern of searchlight patrols, and they would pause every time they advanced a certain distance, just avoiding the searchlight scan, so that they were not discovered even when they were so close.

Ma Hongyun's hair stood on end when he saw this scene, but he still cautiously suspected that he had seen it wrong. He stared carefully at the place where the enemy had sneaked in for a long time.

At this moment, the elite soldiers who were lurking all held peach pits in their mouths to ensure that they would not make any sound. But although they could not talk to each other, they still admired Dongfang Yuliang who made this plan.

"You are worthy of being the wisest man in Beiyuan. There are so many opponents, and the big iron bird flying in the sky has seen our movements clearly. If we really attack at the speed of marching, even if we can win in the end, I am afraid we will suffer heavy losses.

But the military situation made us slow down our march, and the birds in the sky had indeed misjudged the date of the army's arrival.

Now our small force is the strongest sword to break through the enemy's defense line. We have infiltrated this position and have not been discovered. It seems that victory is in sight. As long as we continue to move forward, we can directly attack the city wall. Set fire to the city while the situation is chaotic. Even if our mission is extremely risky, the probability of survival is still very high. "

Many people in the team had the same idea. Their commander had really planned everything out. Not only did he mislead the air force of the underground base by using a false army's marching speed, he also calculated the patrol pattern of searchlights at night. The calculated pattern successfully allowed the infiltrating troops to reach the city wall without being exposed.

But just when they thought victory was in sight, Ma Hongyun finally confirmed that he was not mistaken and quickly handed the telescope to the sergeant: "Sir, I just saw the enemy approaching our city wall. According to the ruler, they are probably only 800 meters away from the city wall."

The sentry on duty who had just been relieved suddenly looked serious when he heard this: "Don't say that. Where did you see the enemy? Point out the general direction for me."

According to the direction pointed out by Ma Hongyun, the sentry quickly observed the area through the telescope. But in the sentry's field of vision, it was blurry, with only traces of wind blowing the grass leaves, and the human figures on the ground were not clear at all. In such a dark environment, he could not even see the grassland clearly, let alone the sesame-sized person hiding in it.

"Haven't you seen them yet? I can see their position. If you don't believe me, please use a searchlight to illuminate them. I can determine their position. As long as the searchlight illuminates them, we can naturally confirm it." The sentry nodded at this thought. Although he had just changed his shift, he still regarded guarding the underground base as his responsibility, and he had the authority to mobilize the searchlight.

As a searchlight changed its rotation pattern, it shone in a direction it shouldn't have shone in.

Suddenly, the dense human figures in the grass appeared in the observation of the telescope.

The elite soldiers who were sneaking in were suddenly covered by the light of the searchlight and stood up one by one. A few even fled in panic. But more of them showed cruelty in their eyes. They had reached this distance. Even if they were exposed, it was worth it.

The next moment, a rapid alarm sounded. Under normal circumstances, even if the searchlight was shone on a person, it was not necessarily possible for a sentry to recognize that it was a person at the first time, but at this moment, someone was specifically watching that area. The searchlight just swept over it. The army hidden inside was exposed.

As the urgent alarm sounded, the artillery inside the city wall opened fire before the soldiers stationed on the city wall.

The artillery inside the city wall was also guarded by soldiers. The soldiers in charge of this side of the artillery were from the 7th Artillery Battalion of the 2nd Army. They had just started their shifts, and in order to ensure that they would not feel sleepy during the night shift, the battalion commander allowed them to chat during their shifts. Except for the few people who took turns to guard and receive orders, others were even allowed to play cards to relieve boredom, but one thing must be guaranteed, that is, the artillery must be ready to fire at any time.

This is city defense artillery, not anti-aircraft guns used for long-range shooting. These are heavy artillery that fire directly with the muzzle leveled, which means that their targets are usually within three thousand meters.

At this distance, they had to fight quickly and decisively. They usually practiced aiming at the target and firing at the first opportunity. At night, their targets were very clear and they had to figure out where the enemy was. They would fire at the area where the searchlight was shining and the area where the searchlight was shaking at a high frequency or marked with a special color.

They had repeated the same movements countless times during the drills, but never used them once during the actual shifts. They even doubted whether their practice was meaningful.

But when they really came to the chaotic battlefield, it turned out that the previous exercises were meaningful. Without the high-intensity exercises, they would not have been able to react and adjust the artillery parameters immediately after the searchlight turned red.

The moment the alarm sounded, the entire artillery battalion was mobilized. In their panic, they had no time to think too much, thinking that the enemy had already reached them. After all, as a general rule, the range of their city defense artillery was limited. When it was their turn to shoot, the enemy was probably very close to the city wall, and they were already in an extremely dangerous situation.

In the panic, the only thing that could help them was conditioned reflex and muscle memory.

Everyone was like a part of a machine. They subconsciously did what they had trained countless times. With their brains unable to think rationally, they instinctively pulled out the safety of the shells, closed the bubbler and aimed at the red area, turned the muzzle, put the gun mirror on the correct position, and then everyone moved away from the cannon. The gunner pulled the long rope, and the violent roar and strong muzzle storm made the soldiers almost unable to stand, but they reflexively began the second round of reloading.

The soldiers on the wall who were responsible for adjusting the searchlights also reflexively adjusted the direction of the searchlights according to the reports from the scouts' telescopes, shining the red light towards the enemy's location.

Although the enemy sent a small group of elite troops to infiltrate, their number was already quite large, and they were besieging from all sides at the same time, without choosing a single breakthrough point. Their purpose was to rush into the city and set it on fire, not to destroy a section of the city wall.

The scouts in the city were now busy. They used the Eagle Eye technique to enhance their vision, and at the same time, they used electromagnetic perception and ultrasonic perception to conduct reconnaissance through all-round senses to find the enemy's location.

Under the all-round high-power electromagnetic radiation, the detected echo finally exposed the enemy's position.

The red beam of the searchlight is like the King of Hell calling your name.

Wherever the red beam of light hit, there would be a violent explosion. The elite troops gathered on the battlefield were frightened by the red light, and most of them could not even distinguish whether the attack came from the light source or something else.

Several people who were good at long-range attacks launched their attacks randomly, hitting the searchlights on the top of the city wall, instantly smashing several searchlights, but the artillery fire continued to cover them.

In this way, the underground base fired the first shot of the second Beiyuan anti-encirclement and suppression campaign in Beiyuan.

[To be continued]

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