This is "War With the Robots" by indeed Harry Harrison, found in a collection of the same name.
Both armies have gone underground.
The base was attacked, not with heat, but with vibrations. Small drones burrowed until they reached the outer wall of the base, grouped themselves together in small clumps, and started vibrating the base in such a frequency that the proteins of the soldiers were broken down. The only survivor was in bed at the time and wasn't touching any solid object, so the vibrations didn't affect him.
A new attack is done with heat and again with small burrowing drones, but this time with a tiny nuclear bomb that doesn't do much by itself, but the number of drones causes the temperature in the base to rise.
The computer proposes flooding the base to keep the heat down to survivable levels — for the computer. They go up and leave the base, meeting survivors from the enemy army.
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