Chapter 517: The Fleet Arrives
The AT-AT Imperial Walkers carried a large number of Stormtroopers into the jungle where Stanton and the others were hiding, and each step forward caused the earth to tremble like an earthquake.
At this time, the soldiers of the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force have gradually run out of ammunition, and the nano-power armor on their bodies is becoming more and more broken due to the lack of material repair. No matter how you look at it, it is already the end of the strong crossbow, and the strength cannot wear through the Lu Min, let alone the heavy armor of the AT-AT Imperial Walker.
The dense tropical rainforest is like a patch of grass that can be easily trampled over in front of the AT-AT, and the mechanical legs more than 20 meters high allow it to condescendingly sweep the entire jungle with heavy artillery, which greatly increases the difficulty of the Wandering Earth Expeditionary Force to use the terrain to guerrilla.
Whether it is a large tree hugged by several people or a seemingly solid rock, they are as fragile as piles of sand in front of the heavy laser cannons and blaster rapid-fire cannons of the Imperial Walkers, and they fall down with a slight push, and they cannot serve as cover at all.
With the highly mobile light bipedal walking machine AT-ST outflanked from both sides, clearing out the infantry that had evaded the frontal fire of the AT-AT, making the entire encirclement network tighter, like a rope gradually tightening around the necks of soldiers of the expeditionary force such as Stanton.
In order to find a way to break out, Stanton led two expeditionary force soldiers to rush to the feet of an AT-AT Imperial walker under the cover of other people's fire.
After successfully dodging the AT-AT's stomp and avoiding being flattened into a pulp, Stanton raised his captured heavy submachine gun and fired at the armored behemoth.
“F**k you!”
With a foul, Stanton turned his anger into a dense blast of bullets that rained down on the Imperial walker's abdomen.
This is the weaker part of the AT-AT's armor, as only a handful of enemies can make themselves rush into the feet of this large, bizarre, organism-looking monster to attack its weak spot when they see the AT-AT's armored giant feet.
The fire from Statham's heavy submachine gun swept from the center of the Imperial Walker to the neck, and here was the cover door of the AT-AT, and the blast beam pierced through the underside of the cab, directly knocking the two Imperial pilots inside into a sieve.
At this time, the AT-AT Imperial Walker lost its balance and fell to the ground like a giant elephant, a dull explosion sounded inside, and a scorching wave of steam blasted Stanton and the others out.
This is another reason why very few people dare to rush at the feet of the Imperial Walker and attack it in the abdomen, even if they succeed in destroying the Imperial Walker, they may fall and crush to death, or be martyred and exploded, and in any case almost kill themselves.
Fortunately, the protection of the nano-power armor allowed Stanton to get up from the ground, but it also made the armor on his body even more badly damaged, almost as tattered as his body, and there was not enough nanomaterial to repair it.
He gasped violently, but unfortunately the Imperial Army would not give him any respite, and immediately another AT-AT caught up with him heavily and slowly, turning on the burst mode of the explosive rapid-fire cannon.
A long beam of explosive energy slammed into the ground, and the dirt that struck up was like a fence that suddenly rose and then fell quickly, and swept towards Stanton.
Despite trying to find cover as best he could, Stanton was inevitably shot in the abdomen, and the little nanoarmor he had left allowed him to avoid a splattery of blood on his entire upper body, but the guts and flesh were still scattered and splattered all over the ground.
"Colonel! Medic! An expeditionary soldier rushed up and lowered the bioforce field beside Stanton in an attempt to save his life.
However, this kind of injury is obviously beyond the level that can be treated by the first aid on the spot, no matter how he holds the wound, the blood still does not stop, and the biological force field can only be used as a life-sustaining device, so that he can barely stay awake.
The AT-AT, which had injured Stanton, was still approaching step by step, and even if the medic came, it would be too late to do emergency treatment, let alone surgery.
With the last bit of strength, Stanton pushed away the hand of the expeditionary soldier, and said in a hoarse but firm voice:
"Let's go! Do what you have to do! ”
The AT-AT artillery fire swept in again, this time completely drowning out the immobilized Stanton.
The expeditionary soldiers beside him, however, carried on his legacy, picked up the heavy submachine cannon that had fallen to the ground, and once again rushed towards the soles of the Imperial walkers.
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On the Ark outside Scarif's orbit, Zhang Zhezhong looked at his watch again, there were still two and a half minutes before the agreed time, and he couldn't help but snuff out half of the cigarette in his hand because of his anxiety.
Unable to get in touch with the ground, they had to give Jolu enough time to get the Death Star blueprints, unaware that the Death Star blueprints had already arrived.
For this reason, they can only follow the original plan, launch an attack with a time limit of twenty minutes, and then the Ark must start attacking whether or not they have the blueprints of the Death Star.
Just a second before he looked at the time that was about to expire, something changed in Scariv's orbit.
I saw a large number of X-wing fighters and Hammerhead-class corvettes of the Rebel Alliance, leaving hyperspace and coming above Scarif's orbit.
For the Rebel Alliance, which does not have much space power, this time it can be said that it has come out of the nest.
At the same time, a rallying order came from the communication channel that Qiao Lu had previously established with the Rebel Alliance:
"This is Admiral Radus of the Rebel Alliance, and the leaders of each squadron report the situation!"
Zhang Zhezhong realized that this was the Volunteer Alliance that learned of the battle situation of Scarif and rushed to reinforcements, without even having time to organize the team.
Then he looked at his watch, and it was exactly twenty minutes after the agreement with Qiao Lu, almost every second, and the fleet of the Rebel Alliance arrived on the battlefield.
"Is this also in your calculations?"
Zhang Zhezhong finally understood why Qiao Lu had to take twenty minutes as the time limit, because at this moment, the fleet of the Righteous Alliance would also join the battlefield, even if the Ark did not attack, the Righteous Alliance would start to act.
Now that the Rebel Alliance's warplanes and ships are distracting the Imperial fleet, the Ark is in a better position to attack the Ark without being targeted for lack of cover.
The rebel fleet has taken the lead in the attack, engaging in a fierce battle with the Imperial Star Destroyers tasked with guarding Scarif.
At the same time, reinforcements from the Imperial fleet were also coming, and a large number of TIE fighters poured out of the hangars of the Imperial Star Destroyers, engaged in a chaotic battle with the X-wing fighters of the Rebel Alliance above Scarif's orbit.
The Rebel Alliance's frigates fired at Scarif's planetary shield field, sending ripples across the shield like throwing stones on a calm lake.
The war has been fought from the ground to space, gradually evolving into a massive Star Wars!