Chapter 1302: A colonel?
But at that moment...
The shuttle slowly opened a small opening in its belly, just big enough for one person to enter.
Song Chen glanced around, then flipped and leaped a few times, as swift as a rabbit.
Without anyone noticing, they entered the shuttle.
Song Chen stood in the cabin, and he could smell the blood.
There were several corpses in the cabin, their blood still wet.
They each had only one wound on their bodies, and almost all of them were fatal from a single blow.
Song Chen looked towards the cockpit.
There was a figure there.
"As planned, I've already sent out the actual coordinates." Zhao Chen turned to look at Song Chen beside him.
Song Chen sat in the seat next to Zhao Chen.
"Are you really just a starfighter pilot?"
Faced with this question from Song Chen.
Zhao Chen smiled slightly and said calmly, "At this point, is this kind of question still important?"
Song Chen glanced at Zhao Chen but didn't ask any further questions.
So far, it's just Zhao Chen making some modifications to Song Chen's plan.
Using a handheld terminal to send messages to inform Covenant survivors of certain information already carries the risk of exposure.
Zhao Chen decided to use a feint attack.
It appears they are using a handheld terminal to contact Covenant survivors.
In reality, that was just an illusion.
The real plan was for Zhao Chen to secretly ambush an enemy shuttle during this time, and then use the communication channel inside the enemy shuttle to send out an encrypted message.
However, this may significantly reduce the number of Covenant survivors who receive this message.
However, for the sake of mission secrecy, this is the safest method.
"In order to gather more people, I have arranged rendezvous points at three locations on the surface of this planet." A task box popped up in front of Zhao Chen.
The task box contains very simple information.
A suspected enemy communication channel was discovered at a coordinate location outside a valley. All shuttles in the vicinity were immediately dispatched to investigate!
This is where Song Chen left the handheld terminal earlier.
"Shall we go straight there?" Song Chen had unknowingly begun to ask Zhao Chen for his opinion.
"There's no rush."
If we rush to leave the group now, it will only arouse the enemy's suspicion.
"Let's carry out this mission first, then look for an opportunity." Following the enemy's orders, Zhao Chen piloted the shuttle towards the coordinates.
Several shuttles were already hovering above the coordinates.
Furthermore, soldiers landed and found no one except for a handheld terminal.
As a result, the superior's order was changed to expand the search area outward from this location.
Zhao Chen received a search direction, which was exactly one of the three gathering points.
Let's go.
"Next, it's time to proceed with our second phase," Zhao Chen said, piloting the shuttle slowly through the air.
A short while later, the shuttle hovered above a dense forest.
Because the dense forest has a lot of green vegetation, it's hard to see clearly whether there are people below.
At that moment, an enemy soldier in military uniform jumped off the shuttle and landed directly in the dense forest.
The soldier looked around.
"Come out."
He began to speak.
There was still no movement around.
At this moment, the soldier finally took off his helmet, revealing his true face as he had been spying on Song Chen.
Then, sounds came from all around.
Then, one by one, Covenant survivor soldiers appeared in Song Chen's field of vision.
"It's the Leader!"
"That's great, the leader is safe."
Song Chen glanced around and spotted a familiar face—a bridge commander.
"Your Excellency, Leader!" The man stepped forward and bowed to Song Chen with great excitement.
"Colonel Luo."
Wait a minute, the shuttle will hover above a tree.
You need to conceal yourselves as much as possible and quickly get into the shuttle.
"Do you understand?" Song Chen reminded him.
"Yes!" Colonel Luo and the surrounding Covenant soldiers replied in unison.
At that moment, they realized that the shuttle actually belonged to them.
Soon, these people entered the shuttle.
Zhao Chen turned around and glanced back.
There were about thirteen or fifteen people.
This made the originally spacious shuttle a bit crowded.
Fortunately, this shuttle can carry up to thirty people at full capacity, and with a little squeeze, forty people shouldn't be a problem.
"Colonel Luo, you are responsible for taking stock of everyone present, as well as their weapons and equipment."
"And you will be temporarily formed into a combat squad," Song Chen said.
"Yes, sir!" Colonel Luo immediately began to work.
“Report to the leader.”
The group consisted of fifteen people, except for one person who suffered a comminuted fracture of his left arm and could only be calmed with medication as there was no cure.
Other people do not affect the battle.
Weapon status.
The main weapons were light weapons, including lightsabers, laser guns, and some high-explosive grenades.
Hearing this, Song Chen frowned slightly.
There are no heavy weapons.
Heavy weapons will be what they urgently need next.
But there are still two more groups of people to pick up.
Hopefully they have some heavy weapons on them.
However, this possibility is very small, since they can only be considered survivors, how could they possibly be carrying any heavy weapons?
A dozen minutes later.
The shuttle was even more crowded; almost no one was sitting anymore, everyone was standing.
The passageway was so narrow that only one person could barely squeeze through.
"Three combat squads, we have a total of thirty-eight people."
Although they all had weapons, they were all light weapons. Song Chen frowned.
He raised his hand and brought up the next task objective.
A communications station within a city on this planet.
There are nearly a thousand marines in this city, as well as some armored marine units.
Judging from this data alone...
From controlling the communication station to sending communication information, and then the subsequent retreat.
It is extremely difficult.
After all, there was an enemy T3-class interstellar warship overhead, and it would only take a few minutes for that guy to arrive and fire a shot.
"Your Excellency, leader."
You can't stay on this planet forever.
I suggest that we carry out this task, and you hide in a safe place first.
"Wait for the Covenant reinforcements to arrive after receiving our message!" Colonel Luo suggested.
The other two squad leaders agreed.
"Do you want me to live a life of ignominy?" Song Chen looked at them coldly.
Now, all of them were silenced.
Song Chen looked at the blueprints of this planet.
Especially the blueprint of this city.
A plan unconsciously popped into his mind...
However, this plan is too risky.
High-risk plans...
This reminded Song Chen of Zhao Chen, who was piloting the shuttle.
"Zhao Chen, I have a plan..."
Song Chen sat down next to Zhao Chen.
Under the astonished gazes of the three squad leaders behind them, they discussed the battle plan with this man who was only a colonel!