Chapter 130 03.0129: "Hunting and Encirclement"

The third force was quickly divided into 56 twelve-man killing teams according to the squad form. They held their weapons and advanced into the cabin cautiously.

The firefight was not far away, and everyone had to be extremely alert. Any slackness would result in the death of the entire team, and there was not much room for error in close combat.

The shield guards covered the heavy boarding team as they advanced forward, followed closely by the demolition axemen, and two armed soldiers followed in a staggered pattern.

The reconnaissance soldiers in the Breakout team released CAT units and servo skulls to conduct reconnaissance forward. These dexterous technological creations can help them provide early warning to a certain extent.

The armed sailor squad is mixed with sailors, the former holding shining bayonets, and the latter following on the side, holding sharp sailor knives. Once they encounter the enemy, they will rush forward fanatically for close combat after the sailors fire a round of volleys.

Horatio used the hand of command to perform micro-management and reconnaissance at a distance of 150 meters behind the annihilation team, while following the pace of the front team.

A twelve-man elite breakthrough team served as his personal guard. In the nearby cabin, there were five armed sailor teams responsible for peripheral security and as a reserve force.

His position at the back did not mean he was safe, he could be attacked at any time by intruders who appeared out of nowhere. The clearing team at the front could not guarantee that they would not let anyone in, who knew which bulkhead the enemy's axemen would cut open to rush in.

"Contact the enemy!"

The breakthrough team in front encountered the cultists. Those guys with messy paintings on their faces rushed towards the boarding team.

[Have we reached this point?] Horatio frowned.

He was located on the outer side of the No. 4 macro gun compartment on the port side, and behind him was directly below the command platform. The enemy's attack here meant that the situation inside was indeed not optimistic.

The shield guard opened fire with the double-barreled heavy shotgun in his hand, and the shotgun shells smashed the first guy who rushed in and the person closely behind him into pieces.

Other enemies rushed over, and the navy's heavy axeman chopped the leading Blood Pact soldier on the head with an axe. The sharp demolition axe directly split the man into two pieces along with the spiked helmet. Under the huge impact, his eyeballs rolled out of their sockets, dragging a string of tissue.

The armed sailor squad advancing in the front also began to fight with the invading Blood Pact soldiers relying on the cabin structure.

In one of the main cabins that is the only way to pass, eight sailors were clinging to the bulkhead, forming a cross pattern and preparing to break through. Another two were in a cabin farther away and reporting the real-time situation to their teammates.

Two more sailors had already died. Before they died, they rushed in as a reconnaissance team to investigate the enemy's firepower deployment, briefly dispelling the "fog of war" for Horatio. In those precious few seconds, Horatio completed the calibration.

"Sailor Squadron 17, I have marked the enemy's position for you. Prepare the stun grenades."

"Yes, sir." The sailor squad leader immediately used sign language to signal the sailor standing opposite him to take out the stun grenade from his waist.

Then he hid behind the cabin and peeked out slightly, and was soon surprised to find a big red arrow shadow on the enemy's head.

The officer actually marked out all the locations of the invaders, and his men's sacrifice was not in vain.

"Can you see that red arrow?" he asked the sailor opposite.

The other person nodded.

The captain of the sailors roughly understood the strength of the officer, and whispered to the surrounding soldiers: "Kylo, ​​you go left. Fili, you go right. Just shoot at the places with red arrows."

The sailors nodded, and everyone stood close together, laser guns in their hands ready.

The team leader held up three fingers and began counting down.

He gave a thumbs up, and the sailor on the opposite side stretched out his arm and threw a stun grenade inside.

Boom! !——

Amid an explosion of bright light and piercing noise, the team leader walked in first.

He quickly fired at the enemies in front of him marked by red arrows. His men on the left and right sides followed him alternately, skillfully cooperating to provide left and right cover and quickly killing all the marked enemies.

The Blood Pact soldiers, blinded by stun grenades, either fired indiscriminately or retreated into cover, thinking that the sailors didn't know they were hiding there.

A Blood Pact soldier who had retreated behind the wall still had blurry eyes. He heard the footsteps and was ready to wait until his eyes recovered before catching the sailors off guard.

As a result, the sailor who came over stabbed the blood pact soldier in the abdomen with a bayonet.

The traitor had a look of astonishment on his face. He tried in vain to grasp the bayonet that had pierced his abdomen, and slid down the cabin wall powerlessly, leaving a streak of bright red blood on the gray steel plate.

The exchange of fire was brief, with only one sailor injured in the shoulder by a stray laser, and eight intruders killed.

Seeing that all the people in front were killed, the Blood Pact soldiers who were left behind for support began to run backwards, trying to block the enemy in the next cabin.

The sailors immediately knew their movements from Horatio's orders, and rushed towards the shadow marked by Horatio. They stuck to the bulkhead and stretched out their guns to fire at the backs of the retreating Blood Pact soldiers, killing the remaining five who had escaped.

The team leader raised his hand to signal his men to continue moving forward and clear out the next cabin.

They were only a small part of the entire battle. Throughout the entire area, there were fifty or sixty teams like theirs advancing in an orderly manner under Horatio's command.

Even though he couldn't take care of all the places where firefights were happening at the same time, Horatio could always use his command to mark various phantoms and warnings for the soldiers as much as possible in those more important battle zones.

In the cabin near the corridor on the other side, "Team 16! Enemy in front, Team 17 provide support from the flank!" Horatio used the sound array system to coordinate with the commander's hand to mobilize.

He could clearly see the situation of all the teams within his command radius from a bird's-eye view, and this feeling of being in control of the situation made the soldiers feel at ease.

They found that this commander was always able to mobilize the nearest units to attack from the flank after a squad engaged the enemy, giving them peace of mind.

The armed sailors, who had complete information advantage, rushed towards the enemy from the side where they did not expect it, catching them off guard.

They rushed to 5 meters in front of the enemy and fired a deadly volley, followed by a bayonet charge on the enemy.

The sailors roared and stabbed their sharp monolayer bayonets into the invaders' chests like cutting cheese.

They were so powerful that many enemies were knocked down by them.

While the people in front were still charging, the people behind kicked the enemies who were trying to get up, knocked them to the ground, stepped on their bodies, stabbed their bayonets into them, and rolled the blades with anger and hatred.

Although the Imperial Navy is the branch of the military with the largest caliber artillery in the entire empire, its officers and soldiers attach great importance to the use of cold weapons.

This was completely different from the Imperial Guard who would first plow the ground with artillery for a dozen rounds before charging.

There is no artillery support in the cabin, and cold weapons are sometimes more useful than hot weapons in close combat. If you calculate carefully, the sailors may be the mortal troops with the highest frequency of hand-to-hand combat.

Compared with the laser gun itself, the sailors trusted the shining bayonets and sailor knives more. Launching a bayonet charge in a narrow corridor would be a huge blow to the morale of the attacked party, and many enemies would be forced to give up defense and start to retreat.

At the same time, the Imperial Navy has sufficient supplies, and the food for the sailors and crew is much better than that for the Imperial Guards. Under normal circumstances, there is no shortage of food. In addition, they also maintain and upkeep the ship equipment on a daily basis, so they are all strong and sturdy.

This is even more true for the Breakthroughers who are full-time soldiers. The Void Boarding Armor on them is heavier than the Carapace Armor. Without a good physique, they will be exhausted and out of breath just by running, let alone fighting.

"Team 22, there are enemies in your 10:24 direction! Team , maintain your current route, and wait for the enemy soldiers in front to rush past, then you rush to the front, turn right and cut in from behind them!"

"Understood! Sir!"

Almost all the teams at the frontline came into contact with invaders, including crazy cultists and cold and terrifying Blood Pact soldiers.

Horatio used a bird's-eye view to overlook the bloody battle, and continuously sent reserve troops forward to reinforce the troops.

The scale of the battle gradually grew larger, from a single team engaging the enemy to multiple teams fighting against a group of enemies.

This brutal fight is thrilling and requires great courage.

Horatio saw three squads of armed sailors on the right turn a corner and come face to face with a large group of Blood Pact soldiers.

The distance was so close that there was not even time to fire a volley before the two sides engaged in a round of bayonet clashes. The two rows of bloody blades stabbed into the bodies of each other's soldiers, and blood flowed out like a spring dug in the ground.

Several people fell as a result, and the injured sailors who were not dead howled, but the other sailors could not help them for the time being because they had to fill the gap and fight the enemy, otherwise once the human wall was torn apart, everyone would die.

The sailors in the back row threw impact grenades forward. This special grenade has a large number of fragments but a small charge. It is specifically used to reduce damage to the ship's hull and increase casualties to personnel.

It adopts a collision explosion mode, so sailors can throw it onto the deck above their heads to cause an air explosion.

The Blood Pact soldiers on the opposite side fell down in large numbers, but soon they also threw grenades at the naval armed forces.

However, the Imperial Guards' grenades had delayed fuses, and after they were thrown out, some of them were thrown back by the brave sailors like balls.

However, some rebellious veterans of the Imperial Guard held the grenades in their hands for a while before throwing them, causing casualties to the sailors with the instantaneous explosion.

The sailors in the rear filled the battle positions. Some short Void sailors and naturally short Lightling crewmen crouched like loaches, squeezing into the front line of the fight between the legs of the soldiers firing light rifles from both sides, wielding broad-bladed sailor knives and boarding axes to chop the enemy's lower body and abdomen, while shooting with pistols in the other hand.

The naval dagger and boarding axe are of moderate length and light, very suitable for narrow terrain. Combined with a pistol, they are even more powerful. In a short while, the first row of enemies were chopped down.

The Blood Pact soldier whose leg was chopped off screamed in agony, and was then trampled under the feet of the armed sailors who were advancing in an orderly manner, and was stabbed by the spearmen behind him.

The sailor holding the naval lance stood behind the sailor engaged in the bayonet fight, and when the opportunity arose, he suddenly stabbed the enemy with the sharp tip of the spear.

Enemy soldiers kept covering the bloody holes in their bodies and fell down with blood spitting out of their mouths.

After repelling the enemy, the sailors knelt in one row and stood in two rows and fired another round of volleys, killing several people.

But the cultists holding blood-stained machetes and the Blood Pact heavy axemen in the Blood Pact army also rushed up. Wearing heavy armor, they relied on their sturdy shells and crashed into the sailors under the lasers. Both sides howled and fought each other, and broken limbs and chopped heads kept flying.

This made it difficult for the sailors to fight back with bayonets, and they had to send more sailors forward to engage them in hand-to-hand combat.

Horatio promptly dispatched two breakthrough teams to cut into the right rear flank of the Blood Pact Army, and asked three nearby mixed teams of sailors to provide support to the sailors who were engaging in close combat.

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