Chapter 520: Orbital Airborne Forces
The Ark slammed into an Imperial Star Destroyer like a truck running over a motorcycle, shattering it like a plastic toy.
In terms of the structural strength of the hull, the Imperial Star Destroyer, which mainly relies on deflection shields for protection, compared with the Ark, which gallops on the battlefield with its hull armor, is simply an egg hitting a stone, and it is a foreseeable end to shatter when touched.
At this point, the Ark's main cannon had been reloaded and re-aimed at Scarif's planetary shield field, and now there was nothing to stop it from breaking Scarif's shield.
"Launch!"
With Zhang Zhezhong's order, the eight main naval guns of the Ark let out a huge roar at the same time, and eight meteorite-like dazzling fires converged on one of Scarif's planetary shield force fields, tearing a huge gap like a devastation, and Scarif's total blockade was finally broken.
A cannonball fired from the Ark slashed across the tip of the tower like a meteor, smashing the entire upper floor of the tower into a pile of littered debris. Before Orson could react, he was reduced to ashes along with his own headquarters.
Qiao Lu and the others, who were fighting bloodily on the ground, also saw this scene, the dazzling firelight dispersed the planet's shield force field like the dawn of daylight, and the voice of the outside world came from the long-silent communication channel for a long time:
Zhang Zhezhong asked anxiously, "Qiao Lu, are you okay?" ”
"I've got the blueprints!" Qiao Lu replied, "Hurry back now!" ”
Although the Ark is equipped with an item teleportation system, given the Empire's ability to interfere with external communications and quantum teleportation, teleporting the Death Star blueprints in this way may be interfered with and cause data damage. Qiao Lu has already done this, but he can't fall short because of this.
Therefore, Qiao Lu still decided to personally escort the Death Star blueprints back, and the easiest way is often the most reliable.
"Understood, the flying device is being dropped, and the orbital airborne forces will cover your evacuation."
Two flying mechs swooped down from the Ark on autopilot, while the orbital airborne troops of the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force rushed to the battlefield to rescue their comrades trapped on the ground.
On the beach near Fort Scarifta, Yang Rui is still leading the last remaining soldiers of the expeditionary force to engage the Imperial army, as promised at the beginning, they will not only play the role of luring the enemy, but also play the role of breaking the back.
It's just that when the planet's shield force field is broken, they can finally send the seriously injured back to the Ark for treatment through the teleportation beacon first, and they don't have to stay here and wait for death.
The rest of the men were still lightly wounded and could not get out of the line of fire, even if they had run out of ammunition and food, they had to pick up the enemy's weapons and continue to fight.
The fighters of the Rebel Alliance also swooped into Scarif's atmosphere, bringing the fight in space to the ground to provide aerial firepower support for the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force.
This at least relieves a little of the pressure on the ground forces, especially the AT-AT, which is the backbone of the Reich's ground forces, can be described as a live target in front of the X-wing fighters, and there is not enough anti-aircraft firepower to deal with these highly maneuverable space fighters.
At the same time, the orbital airborne troops of the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force descended from the sky and fell straight into the crowd of Imperial troops in a deformable orbital airborne capsule.
The orbital airborne capsule of the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force immediately turned into a combat bunker and poured fire in all directions, and the nearby stormtroopers were beaten into a sieve by the oncoming rain of bullets before they could react from the dust generated by the hard landing of the airborne capsule.
A large number of Kun fighters transported other armored units to land, giving the Imperial Army a glimpse of what a real torrent of steel is.
As the representative of the Wandering Earth armored force, the Apocalypse Tank was the first to drive into the battlefield, with thick and steady hinged tracks, 16 layers of reinforced alloy armor, and a double-barreled turret that looks so big that it looks frightening to death from a distance.
Unlike the AT-AT, which crosses obstacles through four stout mechanical legs, the Apocalypse Tank passes through obstacles by running straight over, whether it is tall trees, hard sea rocks, or even Imperial tank fighting vehicles, they will be crushed into slag by the thick tracks of the Apocalypse Tank.
There was no road in the world, but the Apocalypse Tank ran over and became a road.
Although this sentence is a joke made by the soldiers of the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force when they tease each other, it seems that there is some truth now.
Only the weak need to cross obstacles, and the truly strong are those who break the obstacles and move forward!
Although it is slightly inferior to the AT-AT in height, it is only because the AT-AT has four long mechanical legs like stilts, and in terms of size and weight, the Apocalypse Tank is not inferior to these massive armored behemoths, let alone in the most important firepower.
Especially after getting Wakanda's vibranium resources, the sixteen-layer reinforced alloy armor of the Apocalypse tank uses a small amount of vibranium to enhance performance, and the AT-AT's heavy laser cannon only has a few dents on the front, which is really difficult to shake the entire tank.
Needless to say, the defense power of the Apocalypse tank is no longer too much, and now even the armor-piercing shells used by the two electromagnetic railguns are mixed with a trace amount of vibranium on the warhead, replacing the previous depleted uranium armor-piercing shells and upgrading them to vibranium armor-piercing shells, which have further become the nemesis of the enemy's armored forces, and there is almost no armor that can resist this kind of local tyrant gold coin bullets.
The only drawback is that the shells need to be recycled, otherwise it would be too extravagant.
The armor of the AT-AT Imperial Walker was easily blasted open by the main gun of the Apocalypse Tank, which was as miserable as the ancient elephant cavalry encountering the modern torrent of steel, and people couldn't help but sigh - my lord, times have changed.
In fact, the armor of the AT-AT is mainly designed to reflect energy weapons, and it does not have excellent protection against kinetic weapons, let alone encounter a frenzied opponent such as the Apocalypse Tank, which cannot be parried by depleted uranium armor-piercing shells.
On the frontal battlefield, the orbital airborne troops of the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force completely suppressed the ground forces of the Imperial Army, and there was absolutely nothing to stop the iron hooves of the Apocalypse Tank.
The originally tall and mighty AT-AT Imperial Walkers, in the face of the superior firepower of the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force, have been completely reduced to an iron coffin for the outside power, and it can be said that the higher they stand, the worse they will be beaten, and forcibly elevating themselves will only become the target of the public.
The AT-ST, a fast and agile lightweight bipedal walking machine, has also encountered a formidable opponent - the Autobots represented by Optimus Prime.
Although the AT-ST's maximum speed of 90 km/h is excellent for armored forces, it is clearly not enough to see in front of a sports car that can easily exceed 200 km/h.
Best of all, these sports cars can also transform into mechs at high speeds, allowing Autobots to easily catch up with the AT-ST in vehicle form, and then grab its legs with their bare hands and tear it in half.
This is the true strength of the armored forces of the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force, and now they can finally vent their anger on the Imperial Army!