Zhang Xiaoqiang had no idea what the convoy had encountered. He brought three military vehicles with him and chased after the convoy. More than two hundred vehicles drove away the accumulated dust on the road, making the road appear cleaner. On the other hand, both sides of the road were stained with dust.
Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, it was already eight in the morning. Zhang Xiaoqiang pulled Huang Quan over and asked him about it. After learning that they had entered the Great Blackbird's territory, he ordered the vehicles to stop and eat. Zhang Xiaoqiang and the girls sat around and ate a simple breakfast while Huang Quan sent out a paratrooper assault vehicle to scout ahead.
While everyone was chatting after breakfast, the faint sound of gunshots and explosions came from afar. At this time, the reconnaissance paratrooper assault vehicle drove back.
The assault vehicle quickly rushed to the front and came to an abrupt stop. Before the vehicle could come to a complete stop, a strong man jumped out of the vehicle and saluted Zhang Xiaoqiang and Huang Quan.
"Reporting, Zhang Xiaoqiang. The convoy in front of us is not far from us. They are currently exchanging fire with the Great Blackbird. Before we came back, we have lost more than ten vehicles. Please advise us on our next move."
Zhang Xiaoqiang and Huang Quan looked at each other and smiled at the same time. Now was not the time for them to show up. They only needed to slowly move forward and find a place to watch the show. As for their next move, they could only play it by ear.
Liu Zhenghua and the other leaders were not as relaxed as Zhang Xiaoqiang. They were so anxious that they were about to burst into flames. They did not know where the attack was coming from. They did not have enough heavy machine guns to suppress the sky. The thick clouds in the sky had become the Great Blackbird's cover, and it had succeeded in its first attempt.
The giant python on the road was twisted into a fried dough twist because of the attack. Countless vehicles were parked in the middle of the road, waiting to be destroyed by the Great Blackbird. More than ten vehicles had crashed into each other, causing thick smoke to rise. In the thick black smoke, there was a raging fire. Dozens of people were crying and running around the vehicles. From time to time, someone would fall to the ground and never make a sound until they were burnt to a crisp.
After all, only a small number of people were ignited by the flames. More people jumped down from their respective vehicles like ants and spread out on both sides of the road. The dense crowd ran wildly on the bumpy ground. From time to time, someone would fall and be stepped on by the people behind, screaming. When the crowd dispersed, there were a few soft corpses on the ground, their faces could not be seen clearly.
Not everyone was running away. In the convoy, there were seven or eight off-road military vehicles equipped with heavy machine guns that were running wildly in the fields by the roadside, chasing the soaring Great Blackbird in the sky. The people driving the military vehicles were all armed police. At this moment, they exploded with the bloodthirst and cruelty of China's soldiers. They did not care about their own lives, nor did they care about the lives of others.
The military vehicles ran on the bumpy fields. Streaks of bullets shot from the muzzles into the sky. The road was uneven, and the vehicles shook violently. It was impossible for every bullet to be shot into the sky. Most of the bullets were shot at the panicking crowd ahead because of the shaking of the vehicles.
The crowd was densely packed and panicked. They did not know where the safest place to hide was. They ran in the fields in a daze and saw a long canal in front of them. As long as they jumped into the canal, they would be able to escape the raptor in the sky. Many people rushed up and jumped down, letting out cries of pain. More people saw hope and flocked to the canal.
The bullets came and set off a storm of flesh and blood in the crowd. Those who were hit by the large-caliber bullets did not even have time to scream. Their cries of pain were still stuck in their throats when they were turned into dismembered corpses. The chains of light moved horizontally, and more people were hit. Countless people were hit. They either flew into the air and scattered into pieces, or flipped to the ground and rolled down into the low-lying areas.
The people who had just jumped into the canal, still in a state of shock, felt rain falling from the sky. When they looked up, the blood-colored rain had dyed their retinas red. Everything was red. Feeling the burning temperature of the blood on their faces, the mutilated corpses fell from the sky one after another. Following that, countless corpses that looked like wooden stumps rolled down the canal, turning the canal into a living hell.
The armed police who were operating the heavy machine guns in the military vehicles did not take another look. There was no time. Their target was the Great Blackbird that was diving down. The Great Blackbird dove down from the sky like a Stuka dive-bomber. It did not have the shrill wail of a Stuka, but it carried a different kind of ruthlessness in its silence.
One after another, the bullets blew off feathers on the body of the Great Blackbird. The Great Blackbird seemed to find the bullets fired from the military vehicles very annoying. The tips of its wings tilted slightly, and its entire body followed the airflow as it charged toward the seven or eight military vehicles that were spraying flames. Faced with the Great Blackbird's attack, most of the military vehicles were dodging, but there were still two military vehicles that charged toward the Great Blackbird.
Regardless of whether they were dodging or charging, none of the military vehicles stopped firing. Tongues of flame flickered incessantly on the faces of the machine gunners. Amidst the flashes, their hands moved along with the jolting of the vehicles, and the bullets continued to fall in all directions.
Seven or eight chains of light weaved into a net of firepower in the air. At the center of the net of firepower was the stealthily diving Great Blackbird. The net of firepower was very uneven and unpredictable. As the vehicles jolted and adjusted, a military vehicle suddenly flew high into the air. Behind it, a slope that was half a meter above the ground was rapidly pulled away.
Bang … The military vehicle landed heavily on the ground. The machine gunner's body tilted to one side, his hands still on the trigger. The muzzle turned, and the long chain of light struck the military vehicle in front of him. The machine gunner on the military vehicle had no idea what had happened. Behind him, a grim reaper's scythe slashed horizontally at his upper body.
The machine gunner's entire body exploded. The 12.7mm bullet was a body-shattering bullet. Amidst the splattering of flesh and blood, the heavy machine gun on the military vehicle stopped firing. Not long after it stopped firing, a bloody person crawled out from under the vehicle and grabbed the lower half of the machine gunner's body. With a loud yell, he threw the body out of the vehicle. The two thighs and waist of the body rolled on the ground, spraying blood everywhere.
The heavy machine gun began to spit out tongues of flame again. The machine gunner who had mistakenly killed his comrade had tears in his eyes, but his hands did not stop. The muzzle of his gun chased after the Great Blackbird's body, and his chest roared with anger and regret.
The Great Blackbird was like a fish playing in the water in the sky. Its huge wings nimbly shifted its body, sometimes flipping to the side, sometimes rising up, sometimes landing straight on the ground, and then flipping back up. This was not the first time the Great Blackbird had faced heavy machine gun fire. The leather on its body was bulletproof, and the experienced Great Blackbird was giving the onlookers a real lesson in aerial tactics.
The Great Blackbird flew straight towards the oncoming military vehicle. The military vehicle shot a stream of light at the Great Blackbird, and the Great Blackbird rolled up and down in the stream of light. As the Great Blackbird was about to fly over the top of the vehicle, the Great Blackbird suddenly folded its wings and crashed towards the military vehicle like a meteor.
Amidst the sound of gunfire and fire, the Great Blackbird sank to the front of the vehicle, its huge body covering the entire vehicle. In the eyes of the onlookers, the Great Blackbird seemed to have submerged the military vehicle.