Chapter 3: An Unexpected Attack

"Boom!" A "Little Bird" crashed and exploded not far away, it was shot down. The huge shockwave overturned the two nearest mechs, and the two iron guys flashed their three big eyes and stood up again, it seemed that it was okay, the protective shield was still working. The team members and other mechs also stood up, one by one, and everyone started the ultrasound to dust the body surface. I was still a little uneasy, and ordered the two mechs to check the parameters.

"Report to the captain, everything is in order, and the fight can continue." The mecha's humanized voice came.

"Report energy"?

"Shield energy cost 25%."

I was stunned, just such a shockwave shield protection energy consumes 25%, of course, if it weren't for the shield, these two mecha would basically be damaged in battle, and it is still very cost-effective to preserve the mecha with 25% of the energy, but if the energy is all consumed, the mecha will have no combat effectiveness, and the war is really energy.

"No. 12 and No. 13 each exchange a full amount of white crystal (1) to No. 6 and No. 8." The four mechs immediately swapped up. Mechs 6 and 8, which will be replenished later, report: "The shield energy is 83%, and the energy supply is good. "It's been a habit of mine to keep the energy level of the whole squad as consistent as possible through energy adjustment between mechs.

Under the attack of the bird for many days, the enemy still has such strong firepower, I don't know whether to say that the bird is incompetent or the enemy is hiding too well, I cursed in my heart. At the same time, a message was sent to the team members: "Pay attention to concealment and observe the enemy's fire points." ”

I hid behind a small hill, and the enemy's fire was coming from the side, not the expected target of our attack directly in front of me. It's because my squad is running a little slower, basically in the rear of the large army, and for the large army, the sudden attack fire comes from the left rear.

I saw a few kilometers on the left side of the entire cliff in the whole cliff stretched out of the part of the mountain, this part of the mountain like a small hand stretched out from the cliff, leaving a few kilometers of handwriting on the vast plain, as if to catch the Mo Sheng invaders on the plain. In terms of layout, it has formed a horn trend for its main base. There is a mountain about thirty or forty meters high below it that is indented by tens of meters, judging from the texture of the rock, it is naturally formed, several kilometers long, and at this time there are more than 100 firepower points spraying firepower outward.

The enemy's attack was very sudden, and it was also very effective, and hundreds of missiles were concentrated and flew towards the squad that was still flying in the air, and the flight speed and maneuverability of the missiles should be similar to the AT missiles carried by the team members and a class of mechas, but its performance in terms of speed and power should be much better than that of the AT, and of course the cost should be much higher. It's really a big deal, this missile is almost enough to destroy a small heavy machine.

The flying team was in a hurry, and some team members opened their backpacks in a panic and wanted to speed up their mecha to escape, but the speed of the backpack flew past the missile, and the hit mecha and team members all exploded in the air, and the sky was full of tragic fireworks, and the attack shield was not used at all in the face of the attack shield that was stronger than the AT missile. There are also team members who attack missiles while landing and want to shoot them down, but they hit somewhere. Although a laser gun that shoots directly at it can indeed destroy a missile if it hits it, the sighting system on the mech's headset cannot capture a missile flying at high speed at close range. It occurred to me that I wondered how far my father could hit a high-speed missile.

A few more drones were hit by laser cannons and landed, and many jet flight teams fell to the ground after finding that the situation was wrong, and finally there was no more team members or mecha in the sky, and the casualties were getting bigger and bigger, and the casualty rate data on the headset had reached 5%, although most of them were mechas, and the repair rate of battle-damaged mechas was quite high, but the recyclable parts of mechas that were directly exploded by missiles like this are probably basically zero.

The enemy's missiles are constantly coming, but the number is much smaller than the first wave, and the number of missiles that come to the other side is also limited. I kept shaking my right arm to aim the laser gun at it, trying to catch the missile in the air and destroy it, but like everyone else, I couldn't catch it, the missile was too fast. Some team members and mecha blindly hit their own AT missiles, wanting to have an air-to-air duel. I shook my head, trying to use an AT to hit a high-speed maneuvering missile against a low-speed target, wondering if his head had been short-circuited. But there were still a few missiles that were shot down before they could hit the target. Suddenly, somehow I found out that I had caught a missile, and I immediately opened fire.

The "Boom" missile exploded in the air. I'm still a little blind when I look at the fireworks in the air that I hit, how did I hit them? I thought about it and then came to my senses, shouting and at the same time sending a message from the headset to the troops:

"Pay attention to the missiles attacking the dive phase, pay attention to the missiles attacking the dive phase. Concentrate your fire! Concentrate your fire! ”

After the target in the air disappears, the enemy missile will turn to the ground target, and after the missile is in the dive stage, its angle of movement to the ground target is much smaller, and the firing follow-up system of the headset is relatively easy to capture the target. I don't know if other troops don't understand this truth after being reminded by me, most of the mechs are still shooting blindly, and only a few mechs form a unified firepower network under the command of their team members to shoot in the air. The intensive and effective attack had some effect, and finally several more missiles were destroyed.

After losing more than a dozen mechs, the missiles in the sky finally disappeared. The people who survived the catastrophe were terrified, and the vast plain seemed to be turned into a mecha graveyard in an instant. Looking at the team members who were still in high spirits in the morning, many of them are now like frosted eggplants, and only the mecha is walking around procedurally. It took a while for people to recover.

I don't know who sent the message: "Brothers, fight over and avenge the fallen soldiers." ”

"We are the warriors of the league, we are the elite Marines. Brothers, rush! Kill those wretches! ”

"Kill those wretches and avenge the fallen warriors!" Many team members echoed one after another, and launched a brave charge to the prominent enemy position with their mechas, and did not even consider using the terrain to provide necessary cover for themselves, and suddenly hundreds of mecha rushed towards the enemy position at full speed, and the scene was very spectacular. Xiao Chen and Xiao Zhang looked at me, both waiting for my instructions.

"Keep up with the big troops."

Although I do not agree with this blind and impulsive method of warfare, it is impossible to leave the battlefield. I'm not the commander of the Marine Corps, and I can't control others, so I can only command my own squad. I've always treated those mechs as members, and I hope they don't have major damage in this battle. I led the squad at my own pace towards the enemy position, stopping at a distance of 3 km. This distance is still a little far away from attacking the opponent's mech, but the distance is still ideal for the enemy's medium and large weapon stations.

"Little R's, each find cover, protect yourself, and concentrate your firepower to attack." The mechs found some stone piles of suitable height to hide behind, and each raised his big eyes to observe.

I finally had time to take a good look at the enemy's position. The peaks here are all red upright sandstone, which is very conducive to the excavation of tunnels, and it is very labor-saving and efficient to dig along the rock joints. The enemy's position is built at a height of 20 meters, and there will be a hole every few tens of meters, like a window open on the cliff, if you stand on the hole and look out, I believe it is a good viewing platform.

The mechs of the other squads also found cover to shoot, and only a group of eight or nine individual mechs rushed forward and shot together without shelter. I secretly scolded the team members who commanded these mechas, they hid very well, so I let the mecha rush, and I really used the mecha as a meat shield.

The beams of the laser guns flashed back and forth, and the shards of rock flew all over the sky. The vertical joints on the surface of the mountain are often hit by wind and rain, and large chunks are often knocked down with a single shot. Several large enemy weapons stations had been destroyed, and the burning flames seemed to light a light in the tunnels. Our unobstructed mecha became the target of the enemy's priority attack, Rao was protected by a shield, and after three or four shots, the yellow light of the shield was extinguished, and finally all of them were exploded. Seeing that the loss was too great, the remaining mecha finally retreated under the command of the team members who had reduced their fever, and they found cover to protect themselves, but the number of fifteen planes in the entire squad was only seven or eight or even five or six.

There are no more reckless mechas, and the shouting and scolding of some team members is constantly coming from the transmitter, and I want to turn off the global system when I am noisy. There is a stalemate between the two sides, and the global system shows that our mechs have finally stopped decreasing, but at the same time, I think the situation of the enemy army is probably the same as ours. Looking at the team members who had suffered heavy losses nearby, they looked at the few mechs left with sad faces, if the meat shield was gone, it would be his turn next time. Looking at the mechs around mechs, I suddenly thought if we, the Marines, could be someone's meat shields!

The battle was stalemate, with each side hiding in cover and firing at each other, the shadows of the mountain peaks approaching to the east like a precise hour hand, reminding us of the passage of time. Finally, the command came from the global system:

"All the Marines retreated to rest, retreated to rest!"

The retreat was still very orderly, and there were no further injuries. When we arrived at the designated place, the little R's began to set up simple logistics facilities, which will be our forward base tomorrow.

"I also said that it will end in a few days and a week at most, and I think it will be at least a month." There was constant whining.

"yes, it's up to us Marines to fight like this for as long as we want."

"Why don't you send Thor over, if you have Thor, you won't fight like this!"

War is far more cruel than people think, victory is never so easy to achieve, it requires the wisdom and courage of all commanders and fighters, and even the life. The first day of my fighting career passed like that.

Note (1): White Crystal is a high-energy light pool used by mechas, and Citrine is a high-energy light pool used by laser guns.