manynovel Chapter 1338 - 516: Contingency Plan No. 3
Chapter 1338 - 516: Contingency Plan No. 3
Woo!!!!!!Countless air raid sirens echoed one after another through the crimson fog, filling the hundred-mile-long front line of the entire train group with cries of alarm and desperate screams. Even the soldiers of the Iron Guard Brigade, who were operating the mechas on the front line, were looking up helplessly at the sky, as fear descended like a cataclysmic flood from above!
In the operations command room, Luo Shaokai’s clenched fist trembled slightly, and blood threads appeared at the corners of his eyes. At this moment, dozens of officers of all levels from the Iron Guard Brigade who were online in the command channel were all holding their breath, unable to speak.
"Chief, airborne detection distance is less than 100 kilometers behind the 13 Iron Guard Brigade’s rear formation!"
"Detected ultra-high dark energy radiation impact, broadcasting on all frequencies, dark energy frequency augmentation to maximum power!!!"
"Report, T34-T41, T65, T72-T90... T122, T198... There are abnormal changes in more than 30 marching areas, and several places have started firing autonomously!"
"Damn it, this damn thing is still not dead!!" Zeng Weiguo was the first to shout angrily in the communication channel: "How did it suddenly appear here?!"
"Is it because we stopped moving today?"
"Our travel speed is less than 100 kilometers a day, how could it be following us so closely?"
"The distance is too close, what do we do now?!"
"Everyone, stay calm!" Elder Luo’s voice was steady and calm, like a backbone, and he immediately issued bright instructions: "Each defense line, quickly set up defensive formations, Fire Stone, Dragon Kun, and Thunder, prepare to take off immediately. Prepare all nuclear launch units and other commands!"
"Roger!" General Li Sheng of the 13 Iron Guard Brigade immediately took the order: "The mecha units are to operate immediately. With its appearance, the crimson tide will surely follow. Each combat unit must quickly deploy multilayer defensive formations."
"Captains of the convoys." Elder Luo called the leaders of the train and vehicle convoys who were currently online, saying sternly
"Be ready to go into full combat. This time, without the fire support from the Dawn Center, be prepared for the line to be breached and cut off. Once the formation is broken, follow our Plan 3 for a breakthrough!"
The so-called Plan 3 was a contingency plan for total line defeat, developed by Luo Shaokai and the team leaders. Its core principle was to use the existing all-terrain locomotive groups and the large base vehicles of the Iron Guard Brigade to divide the entire train front into more than 25 super-large train groups capable of breaking out separately. If the defensive formation collapses and the train line is scattered, these 25 all-terrain capable locomotive or flying groups will abandon the tracks, pulling the rear train for a distributed breakout.
This plan is not only brutal but also the most helpless solution because once off the tracks, even the most powerful all-terrain train cannot drag hundreds of carriages over kilometers or even tens of kilometers of joint trains too far across the wilderness. The broken terrain will quickly cause the rear carriages to break apart, leaving survivors with no choice but to constantly abandon many carriages to escape, and although preparations have been made in advance with a large number of people placed at the front of the dragging carriages, the connections and some track wheels have also been modified accordingly, truly escaping in all directions through the crimson sky means facing almost certain death.
"Roger!"
"Confirmed!"
"Understood."
"There’s movement heard in the T208 section of the Black Stone Forest region already!"
"T185 section, Gale Team detected massive tremors coming from the northwest direction!"
"Not good!! T96 section, the 7th Heavy Armored Battalion has detected Hunting Bodies here, we are... boom boom boom..."
Sounds of gunfire started to explode in some areas, filling the communication channels.
General Luo at this point called out to Sean and Jian Xuwei: "What’s the situation at the factory, how far can we transfer?"
Sizzle sizzle...
In the Steel Refining Factory, Sean immediately responded: "Not very optimistic, we’ve used all our production units, and all usable war resources are in play, totaling just under 180 kilometers of prefabricated track, plus the 40 kilometers that have already been built in front of the Silver Star, that’s all we have."
In the busy Steel Refining Factory, Sean watched the mountain of steel rails piled up by drones and continued: "Furthermore, considering the geological terrain, the risk of high-speed track laying is extremely high, and the speed won’t exceed 40 kilometers per hour."
"That’s enough!"
Jian Xuwei at this point walked over from behind, her voice also coming through on Sean’s communication channel: "Once the train gets moving, at least we have a few hours of buffer time, and once we reach the Rocky Mountains, it is a completely flat area. The ground is mainly hardened granite and sedimentary rock. If we implement Plan 3 when we get there, the survival rate might be a bit higher!"
"And we can use this time to transfer a large population to the fleets and Sky Dome Trains, gradually abandoning the back sections of the train!" Chen Sixuan’s urgent voice also came through on the Sky Dome Train: "So even if the plan at the Steel Refining Factory only succeeds halfway, it has bought us a lot of time!"
Phew!
General Li Sheng said urgently, "So unlucky, if we only had one or two more days..."
The fully-operational Steel Refining Factory produced nearly 200 kilometers of prefabricated track in just over a day, doubling the previous efficiency. Everyone initially thought that after fiercely defeating the S-Class, they had secured precious time for escape. If only the train could connect to the eastern track, the main force could break out of North America into Mexico within a day.
But fate is always so cruel. At this moment, the crimson tide has yet to arrive, but the massive dark energy fluctuations released by the terrifying eye in the sky have already caused large-scale human mutations, with countless lives disappearing rapidly. Many companions who had just been chatting eagerly turned into mutated corpses the next moment. Pain and despair continued to spread, with cries and screams filling the train lines.