Chapter 32: The Battle of Pandora Begins
The short one-week preparation time passed quickly, and both the Wandering Earth and the RDA had assembled their own troops and prepared for a big battle on the planet Pandora.
Under Qiao Lu's training, the Na'vi people have finally mastered some formations and tactics against modern weapons, and they are no longer only suicidal death charges like before.
The day of the Great War finally came, and Jolu gathered all the Na'vi tribes and prepared to set off from the Homestead Tree and go straight to the RDA's Hell's Gate military base.
At the suggestion of Qiao Lu, Su Tai, the first warrior of the tribe, gave a final speech as a representative:
"The RDA has invaded our homeland, and my noble people have become refugees. However, they cannot destroy our will! Because the Divine Eva connects the minds of each of us and unites us in the midst of despair! Today, we will take back our homeland and reclaim our glory! ”
"For Aiwa!"
With the last shout from all the Na'vi, Jolu took the lead in riding the Phantom Wyvern into the air, followed by countless Na'vi riding Icaran pterosaurs, covering the sky of Pandora like a dark cloud.
The day of judgment for the RDA is coming.
On the other hand, the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force, which successfully landed, also cooperated with Qiao Lu's attack, and they acted as the main offensive force on land, with a number of armed mining vehicles opening the way in front, and slowly advancing towards the Hell's Gate military base in an evacuation formation.
They also each shoulder the lives of the 3.5 billion people who wander the earth, and each one who can be selected to land in Pandora is the elite of the elite.
Despite the lack of long-range fire support and the dependence on the Na'vi Pterodactyl troops, they were still fearless and methodically carried out the tasks assigned by their superiors.
"For the sake of our children, we have nothing that we cannot lose!"
This sentence is not only Liu Peiqiang's personal mantra, but also the belief of every soldier on the wandering earth.
On the other hand, the RDA still stubbornly believes that this is just a simple riot, and even Colonel Quark said at the mobilization meeting:
"The mob numbered about 40,000 people, but they were still a poorly equipped mob. They didn't even have airplane cannons, just poor minecarts with rifles. And do you know what you eat? Dried earthworms! They must have been poor and crazy on Earth to come up to Pandora. Dried earthworms, they almost make me laugh off my big teeth, hahaha······"
For these RDA mercenaries who can enjoy steak juice in a restaurant and occasionally drink a little wine, it's hard to imagine how an army can fight on dried earthworms for food.
This further reinforces their impression of the refugees of the Wandering Earth Army, and even on their home planet, which has a population of 20 billion, people have not been reduced to the point where they need to feed on earthworms.
It is strange that such an army can be combat-effective.
But the truth is, there are some things that cannot be considered in the light of common sense.
Immediately after the start of the war, the RDA set up a steel defense line in the base, and a large number of bipedal manned mechs and mercenary soldiers formed another wall to protect the industrial equipment that was still emitting black smoke from the base.
The bipedal manned mech, called the AMP Land Mech, is a single-man, medium-sized mobile exoskeleton device that is figuratively referred to by the soldiers of the RDA as the "Apache with arms".
The AMP mech is over 4 meters tall, so even the Na'vi look like dwarfs in front of it, and its standard armament is a 30mm rapid-fire cannon that fires depleted uranium armor-piercing shells, barely holding up a second under its muzzle.
At the same time, it can also be equipped with a flamethrower, and when there are no bullets, it can also wield a high-carbon steel alloy combat knife for hand-to-hand combat, which can be said to be the RDA's biggest reliance on ground combat.
Once the dense AMP mechs had formed a battle line on the ground, Colonel Quart was certain that nothing would be able to enter the base from this direction.
This thing can't be defeated with a bow or assault rifle, and a crowd charge will only cost you your life in vain.
At the same time, a large number of biplane gunboat helicopters began to take off, which were the mainstay of the RDA Air Force - the Scorpion armed attack aircraft.
This biplane helicopter is more maneuverable than a traditional monoplane, and the two propellers can be tilted in different directions, allowing the helicopter to perform a variety of fancy flight maneuvers.
In terms of firepower, the poisonous scorpion is even more frenzied, two 30 mm chain guns, as many as 16 150 mm missile launchers, and 8 grenade launchers are installed above the nose.
On the basis of these two major killing weapons, Colonel Quark also personally led a huge Wyvern attack ship as the flagship.
With a length of 41.5 meters, a width of 31.7 meters, and a height of 9.22 meters, this massive four-turbine vertical take-off and landing hull is like a fortress in the sky across the battlefield, full of terrifying oppressive forces.
On this Wyvern attack ship, there are two 203 mm smoothbore cannons, four 30 mm aircraft guns, one 105 mm high-pressure rapid-fire gun, 12 grenade launchers, 16 pylons, a total of 96 hardpoints, which can mount 448 missile or rocket launchers for different purposes, and also has 36 MG62 heavy machine gun positions, on which soldiers can be directly stationed, which can be called armed to the teeth.
With so many powerful war machines lined up, every RDA soldier couldn't help but feel reassured, how could the flesh and blood of this mob break through such a terrifying steel defense? This will only be their burial place.
In the distance, the Na'vi Pterodactyl Knight troops led by Qiao Lu had already appeared in the sky, and in the dense jungle in front of the military base, the figure wearing a powered exoskeleton also flashed among the trees from time to time.
All the signs were that the other side was still intending to attack, and Colonel Quart was not going to be polite.
"Blow up the woods in front of them, I'm going to give them nowhere to hide!"
At his command, countless poisonous scorpion attack planes flew towards the temporary position established by the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force in the jungle. This is the closest position to the Hell's Gate military base, and it is only natural that it will bear the brunt of the fire.
In an instant, countless air-to-surface missiles tilted down from the scorpion attack plane, and each scorpion could launch six missiles in one second, forming an overwhelming artillery fire that swept the entire jungle position.
They burned down the entire forest in just half an hour, turning the already dense jungle into a sea of fire, and not a single tree was still intact.
When Colonel Quart returned to the base triumphantly to replenish his ammunition, he was pretty sure that there could be no more creatures on that position.
This is a disadvantage he has given to the Na'vi and the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force, and if you have the confidence to rush up against such artillery fire, you should give it a try.
But Qiao Lu just watched from a distance with the Pterodactyl Knight troops, and didn't seem to have the intention of coming up to support the position.
When the scorpion attack planes finished shooting their missiles and were about to go back for replenishment, he smiled slightly:
"Good, we can get on."
He then took the lead, riding the Phantom Wyvern to the RDA's air force.