Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 429 Nine Deaths
Forty-two kilometers east of Chimera 605, there is the " Artillery Position".

"Report! The combat command center just received news that target zero was attacked, and the feint attack operation was temporarily suspended!"

"Report! Command has issued the latest order! The feint attack continues!"

"The first batch of special ammunition will arrive at the position in seven minutes. No need to wait, load it immediately! The troops responsible for transportation will continue to deliver the subsequent ammunition!"

The troops stationed at the 605 artillery position are a loose artillery division composed of four artillery regiments, temporarily designated as the 605 Division. Their mission is to use saturation firepower to carpet bombard the restricted area before the PFDA begins its advance during the final combat operation of Chimera XVII, in order to clear as many obstacles as possible on the PFDA's advance path.

Two hundred and seventy-five artillery pieces of different calibers have been deployed on a position covering an area of ​​126 acres according to their range - only the front half of this position is on flat ground, and the back half goes all the way up along the foot of the mountain. At the top of this nameless hill, a 970mm caliber super cannon is deployed.

"Super heavy siege cannon - Jiu Li".

Before the "Nine Strike" was created, the largest caliber artillery in the history of human civilization was the 800mm Gustav railway gun.

The appearance of Jiuqi was completely an accident - under normal circumstances, with advanced technological standards, the destructive power caused by a nuclear warhead the size of a fist is more terrifying than that of ten Gustav railway guns combined. Coupled with the extremely mature rocket and missile technology today, it stands to reason that the only meaning of the existence of super-large-caliber artillery like the Gustav railway gun is to satisfy men's romantic fantasies about giant ships and cannons, and there is no need to create a monster like "Jiuqi" that requires a lot of resources.

It was an extremely difficult siege... A city in Alaska that originally belonged to the United States was invaded by monsters. Except for the dead, almost all the residents and defenders in the city were transformed into corpses and monsters. Even the city buildings began to show obvious signs of becoming weird.

The best way to deal with a haunted city like this is to launch a direct nuclear strike to wipe the entire city and the monsters in it off the map - but this city happens to be located on the life supply line of the Alaska region, and less than 40 kilometers away from the city is a large refugee camp that houses more than one million people.

Twenty kilometers northeast of the refugee camp is the coastline of Alaska, where a new large port has just begun construction. As long as this port is built, more than one million people will be able to cross the Bering Strait and reach the relatively safe East and West Siberia.

In order to ensure the smooth evacuation, the coalition forces were required to completely destroy the completely distorted city within three days.

Tactical nuclear warheads, napalm bombs, heavy thermobaric bombs… all kinds of humane or inhumane weapons were brought out by the coalition forces… However, under the influence of the weird meme, the city almost became an impregnable fortress. Not only did all kinds of bombardment have little effect, but the hunters who were directly airdropped into the weird city as assault troops suffered heavy losses… With such a high mortality rate, the hunter department within the coalition forces even experienced more than one defection.

These hunters had already prepared themselves to die in battle before setting foot on the battlefield. They were not afraid of death, but what they feared more was meaningless death.

To them, those airdrop operation instructions were like suicide.

In the first 24 hours of fighting, more than 300 armored vehicles, nearly 500 tactical mechas, more than 100 hunters and nearly 3,000 airborne troops were dropped into the city, but only less than 1% of them finally escaped from the city.

To be precise, they did not fight their way out, but escaped.

Song Lin, then head of the Alaska branch of the Allied Forces Weapons Research Institute, was asked to develop a weapon that could reverse the situation of the war. However, what puzzled everyone in the Alaska branch was that after receiving the task, Song Lin canceled all meetings, locked himself in the office, and sternly warned others not to enter his office.

Twenty-seven hours after the siege began, two military bosses came to the door. The two men, who were almost dying of anxiety over the fighting situation on the front line, ignored Song Lin's request and kicked open the door of the office. But after kicking the door open, they were shocked to find that Song Lin, who was sitting behind the desk, had stopped breathing.

Just when everyone thought that Song Lin committed suicide in despair because he could not complete the mission, Song Lin's secretary found a brand new design drawing in his computer.

Design drawings of a heavy artillery named "Jiuzhi".

At that time, no one would think that this blueprint could change the situation of the war - all kinds of cutting-edge weapons could not conquer the fortified city, not to mention this design that looked like a tribute to war relics... But for some reason, the two military bosses who broke into Song Lin's office seemed to be possessed, demanding that all military factories in Alaska... and even all production lines with metal smelting and lathe processing capabilities, stop all work and start to rush to produce the various parts of "Jiuzhi".

They tried to save the dying horse as much as possible, but apart from the two of them, even Song Lin's secretary felt that there was no way the horse could be saved.

After concentrating all the industrial productivity in the Alaska region and adding a portion of high-precision parts airlifted overnight from the Xiazhou Federation and the Siberian Federation, this super heavy artillery "Nine Strike" was actually built within eighteen hours.

And at the acceptance ceremony of "Jiuqi", the most unexpected scene happened.

The two military leaders who were determined to build the Jiuzhi actually shot themselves in front of the heavy artillery at the same time. The bright red blood mixed with grayish-white brain matter splattered directly on the four-story-high gun mount.

Fifteen minutes later, the body of "Jiuzhi" was detected to have the reaction of the weird meme.

Forty-five minutes later, the Allied Forces Headquarters decided to allow the "Nine Strike" to be deployed on the battlefield.

Seven hours and fifteen minutes later, the strange city was captured.

"Jiuzhi" is not only an ultra-heavy artillery, but also a piece of strange equipment with a legendary experience.

No one knows what happened to Song Lin, who designed it, and the two military leaders who committed suicide. People only know that the lethality of any shell fired from the muzzle of the Jiujiu cannon to monsters will increase exponentially.

The Xiazhou Federation tried to copy the Jiu Li based on the design drawings left by Song Lin, but what they copied was really just an enlarged version of the Gustav railway gun... Some people said that the federal high-ranking officials even completely replicated the steps of the "blood sacrifice", but none of the replicas of the "Jiu Li" that were made later became strange weapons.

At this moment, the "Jiuqi" at the 605 artillery position was not the real Jiuqi - the Jiuqi giant cannon with special attack effects against monsters was buried deep underground in Chunming City and would only be unsealed when the safety of Chunming City was threatened. The heavy cannon transported to Shuzhou was one of the replicas that were later made.

Although it is not a strange weapon, the extra-large caliber of Jiuqi still gives it an extremely exaggerated destructive power - each of these replicas consumes a large amount of resources. Although the plan to copy Jiuqi failed, in line with the principle of not wasting, they were incorporated into the military sequence of the Xiazhou Federation and used as a heavy conventional weapon.

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"The first batch of ammunition has arrived at the position, and each artillery group has begun loading!"

"Position No. 1 has been loaded!"

"Position No. 2 has been loaded!"

"Position number three has been loaded!"

"Position No. 4 is fully loaded!"

"Nine Killings, reloading completed!"

Hundreds of black gun muzzles were raised towards the sky. On the tablet screen in the hands of the technical officer, countless white dotted lines rose from every corner of the position, drew a huge arc in the air, and then gathered at one point.

The central location of the restricted area - the giant cocoon of Chimera No. 17.

"Ready... fire!" Dense thunders resounded throughout the battlefield, and countless shells and artillery shells whistled through the night sky, flying towards the same target.

"Fire! Fire! Fire!"

The high-speed flying shells penetrated the rain curtain and hit the surface of the giant cocoon accurately. The expected huge fire did not appear. After hitting the target, these shells did not explode, but turned into balls of white mist.

The minions on the surface of the giant cocoon were immediately covered with a thick layer of white frost after coming into contact with the white mist. As more and more white mist spread, the frozen area on the surface of the giant cocoon was expanding rapidly.

"The effect is good." A group of officers stood on the top of the artillery position. They were gathered around a military computer, which displayed the latest images transmitted back from the observation point of Bunker No. 1.

The minions facing the artillery position were almost all frozen. Even before the incendiary bombs were fired, cracks had already appeared on the surface of many minions. Optical temperature measuring devices could determine that the surface temperature of these minions had dropped to more than minus seventy degrees Celsius... Although it was unclear whether the minions were made of flesh and blood or something else, for most materials in this world, a temperature of minus seventy degrees Celsius was enough to make them brittle.

"Tell the troops to fire two more rounds of liquid nitrogen shells before switching to our own shells," an officer said. "I can't wait to see these monster faces explode!"

"Wait, look... what's that on top of Chimera 17?"

"Did it just grow out? I remember it wasn't there just now..."

"It looks a bit like... a flower bud?"

"Are you trying to tell me that there are a few flowers growing on top of Chimera 17?"

"This flower is not small... Just compare it with the body of Chimera 17 and you will know... The diameter of the flower stem is probably five or six meters thick."

"Who cares! It doesn't matter if it's a flower or something else! Just bombard them all at once! I don't believe that these flowers can still bloom after being bombarded with such dense barrage of bullets!"

"makes sense……"

But the next second, the smiles on these officers' faces froze.

A new wave of artillery shells had flown over Chimera 17, but these shells did not successfully land on Chimera 17 like the previous two waves.

The flower buds on top of Chimera No. 17 suddenly blossomed, and countless things like steel needles shot out from the inside of the buds, detonating all the shells in the air in the blink of an eye.

"It's a mutant organ similar to an anti-aircraft weapon!" An officer finally realized, "This structure... and the thing it launches... are a bit like the 'Porcupine Formation' composite close-in defense cannon that the United States once developed!"

"The number of buds is still increasing!"

"If we don't destroy these things, I'm afraid none of our shells will hit Chimera 17!"

"How to do?"

……

……

Over the restricted area, a formation of fighter jets had just completed a bombing mission and was preparing to return.

"Attention, all aircraft. Attention, all aircraft. This is Fighting Falcon 01. We have just received a message from the 605th artillery position... Chimera seems to have undergone a mutation and intercepted all subsequent artillery shells."

"Mutation? Don't turn back yet, go around from the west and take a look."

"agree."

The fighter jet at the front of the formation suddenly lowered its altitude and turned its nose to fly towards the west side of Chimera 17.

"I see... The mutation they're talking about should be the 'flowers' growing on the top of the giant cocoon, right?"

"I think it is……"

"Look, another round of artillery fire is coming!"

"Oh my goodness, they were all intercepted! This thing is definitely a close-in weapon system!"

"Aren't all our artillery positions ruined now?"

"But I think the range of this close-in weapon system isn't that far... So, brothers, do you have any ideas?"

"You want... us to eliminate these mutant organs?"

"Are you crazy?"

"I'm not crazy. I still have a lot of fuel left, enough to fight another good battle."

"This thing can be intercepted by missiles and artillery shells, but if it is a large-caliber machine gun on a fighter jet, it should be able to pass through the gaps in the steel needles."

"I think... we can give it a try. Anyway, the headquarters probably won't be able to come up with a solution for a while, so we can just help them solve the problem. This will give them a good chance to see what we can do!"

The flight formation was carrying out a bombing mission, and the fighter pilots responsible for the escort were itching to do something. When they heard that there was an opportunity to show themselves, they almost accepted it without hesitation.

"I just talked to the headquarters, and they have agreed to our temporary plan." Falcon 01 said, "Now the bombers will return first, and the remaining fighters will change to the No. 3 ground attack formation. Raise the altitude to 2400, and when we are directly above the target, dive through the clouds and attack the mutant organs on the target!"

"Remember, prioritize attacking those 'buds' that haven't bloomed yet!"

(End of this chapter)