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Shion hid behind a rock about a hundred meters away from the river bank, raised his anti-mech rifle and aimed at the opposite bank.

The enemy over there doesn't seem to have a lot of troops, probably only one or two mecha companies. They also hide behind shelter like Shion, occasionally poking their heads out to observe the situation on the surface of the river.

But Shi Ang aimed for a long time, but he didn't even shoot an armor-piercing bullet.

The distance between him and the target was too far, almost 3000 meters. At such a long distance, even high-speed armor-piercing bullets take nearly two seconds to fly to the location of the target, and now even the oldest and slowest mech warriors will definitely not be exposed for more than one second each time.

That is, even if he shoots, by the time the bullets fly over, the enemy will already be hiding. What's more, after the armor-piercing projectile flies over this distance of 3,000 meters, the remaining energy is simply not enough to penetrate the opponent's armor, and it is in vain.

So after looking at it for a while, Shi Ang finally put the gun down stupidly. He saw Aurora, not far behind him, holding a telescope to look at the other side, so he asked, "Your Highness the Goddess, how is it?" What do you see? ”

Aurora put down the binoculars, shook her head, and said, "Strange! Shi Ang, there don't seem to be many enemies on the other side! ”

"Your Highness the Goddess, what's so strange about this?" Shion asked.

"I thought they were going to have a heavy force on the other side of the river to stop us," Aurora said. You should know that the D River is an excellent natural defense line, once we cross this river, the next few hundred kilometers will be a plain area without danger to defend, if those R people really want to stop us, they should make good use of this moat! ”

"Maybe it's because their troop losses are too great, and they know that they can't stop us here, so they just give up?" Shi Ang guessed.

Aurora thought for a moment, shook her head, and said, "I don't know, maybe...... But if I were the commander of the R-nationals, I wouldn't give up this line of defense easily! ”

"And what do you think we should do?" Shion asked.

"Nonsense," Aurora said, "what else can I do?" Hurry up and find a way to hit it! ”

Shi Ang asked, "Forced crossing?" ”

Aurora shook her head and said, "No need! Why should we run to the surface of the river to be a live target for them? In this case, you can continue to confront them here with a large army, and I will lead the Dawning team to find a place to smuggle them all downstream, kill them all, and then take you across the river!" ”

Shi Ang thought about it, nodded and said, "Okay! ”

With the meager strength of the enemy forces on the other side, if Aurora smuggled them over with the Dawning team, it would be a matter of minutes to deal with them.

The two had decided and were about to start their separate actions when they suddenly received an urgent message at the same time.

The message was sent from a "harp" alert radar in charge of battlefield air surveillance, using the method of battlefield electromagnetic broadcasting: "Attention, enemy missiles are detected!" ”

"What missiles? Model? Quantity? Azimuth? Velocity? Aurora asked.

The "Harp" was silent for a few moments, as if analyzing the enemy's missile data, but soon it had an answer:

"Model: Northern Light strategic nuclear missile;

Quantity: 1;

Bearing: 279;

Speed: 4200. ”

Shi Ang hurriedly looked up the information of the "Northern Light" strategic nuclear missile in the database, and then gasped in his heart.

"Your sister! These madmen dare to use nuclear weapons of such a large yield! ”

Aurora couldn't help but exclaim, and then ordered: "Mark the point of impact, everyone starts to evade!" ”

The Harp quickly measured the trajectory of the enemy missile, and then fired a locator flash grenade at the predetermined detonation point.

The flashbang was firmly embedded in the ground, and then began to glow with a dazzling white light at a fixed frequency, and all the mechfighters quickly evacuated in the direction of the light source. At the same time, they could already see the trail of the incoming missile from the bearing provided by the Harp, and there was less than a minute left before the estimated time of detonation.

Obviously, in order to increase the suddenness of this attack, the enemy adopted the mode of low-altitude approach projection, which greatly shortened their reaction time.

"How? Shion, can you hide? Aurora asked.

"Try to ......," said Shion.

"Well, take care and see you later!"

After saying this, Aurora immediately unleashed her devilish steps and sped away behind her, and soon disappeared without a trace.

Shi Ang didn't dare to slack off, turned the engine power to the maximum, and began to run for his life at full speed.

Because they use electromagnetic wave communication, although they just said so much nonsense, it actually took less than a second. Over the next 50 seconds or so, Shiang ran more than 4,000 meters along the riverbank.

Then, suddenly a flash of light appeared behind him.

It was an indescribably strong light that caused Sion's visual system to shut down for self-protection in an instant. However, the flash of light only lasted for a short time, and when Shion's eyes regained function, he found that everything around him that could be burned was burning most violently, and those that could not burn were all kinds of strange colors on the surface, including his own body.

The camouflage paint on the side of his body facing the heart burst was vaporized in an instant, and the surface of the solid metal armor was melted by the powerful light and heat, forming pieces of red scar-like things. Around him, the waters of the wide D River were boiling and vaporizing dramatically, revealing a large dry riverbed.

Shi Ang knew that this was the light radiation released at the moment of the nuclear explosion. Although this intensity of light and heat is enough to bake a fragile human into charcoal or even vaporize it directly, it is not so terrifying for a robot with steel and iron bones, unless it is too close to the explosion center, most of them will only cause some skin trauma.

What really killed them the most was the shock wave of the nuclear explosion that followed.

Shion had already found a place for himself to take refuge, a small cliff below the river's edge. Two or three seconds after the light arrived, Shion rushed to the bottom of the cliff at a flying speed.

"Boom!"

The powerful shock wave rushed over like a tsunami, accompanied by a loud sound like the sky cracking down, so that Shion's hearing system also automatically turned off in an instant.

All he saw was that everything around him turned black in an instant, as if the world had suddenly disintegrated. Although he hid in the dead corner below the cliff, he was still sucked out by the super storm brought by the shock wave, and countless large and small stones swept up by the storm fell on his body like bullets, and the earth and dust rose up to cover everything, and he couldn't see his fingers. At his feet, the bed of River D felt like it was experiencing a magnitude 12 earthquake, and the violent ups and downs caused his body to be constantly thrown up and down as if he were surfing.

Fire, smoke, dust. For a long time after the nuclear explosion, Shion could see nothing but that.

When the smoke and dust gradually cleared and his vision finally widened, Shi Ang climbed up to the riverside and looked in the direction of the explosion just now.

What he saw was a desolate landscape like the surface of the moon, and the assembly area on the banks of the river had been completely razed to the ground. The proximity to the center of the explosion was like a crater that had just erupted, the rocks and sand on the surface had melted, and on the periphery of that crater were the remains of some destroyed robots scattered everywhere, all of them so burned that they were completely unrecognizable, and many of them were scattered into parts. Pieces of molten metal and rock kept falling from the sky, like a rain of fire.

This is a 10-million-ton nuclear explosion, and the power is indeed big enough!

Shi Ang couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and then began to count the damage.

His storage system holds a database of his entire army, and each mechfighter has its own number. Shion began the roll call in the order of numbers, and soon completed the inventory of the entire army.

129 were completely damaged, 185 were seriously damaged, and the rest were minor injuries that did not affect combat effectiveness.

This statistic was a bit unexpected, as he had expected them to lose at least 500 jihadist fighters in the earth-shattering explosion just now. Now it seems that not only is the actual amount of damage much lower than he estimated, but most of those killed are low-end robots with slow movement speed and fragile body structure, on the contrary, the faster and higher the level of the mecha warrior, the lower the casualty rate in the nuclear explosion.

In particular, the most elite Dawn Squad and the Little Demon Squad in the whole army, although their positions were very close to the explosion center at that time, almost all of them escaped the nuclear attack safely.

"Shion, are you alright?"

Shi Ang had just finished his statistical work and was about to do further analysis and sorting when he suddenly heard a voice behind him. He looked back and saw that it was Aurora walking towards him from a distance.

The goddess of dawn looked unscathed, with not even a single scar on her body, not even the combat uniform she was wearing, which was very different from Shi Ang, who had a gray face and a scar on his back.

"Your Highness the Goddess, I'm fine." "Are you alright?" ”

"Do you think I'm in trouble?" Aurora spread her hands.

When the nuclear bomb exploded, Aurora was undoubtedly the farthest of them all.

"You're fine!" Shi Ang nodded, and then sighed, "These R people are really crazy! A bunch of maniacs! ”

"What about the casualties? Have you counted it? Aurora asked.

"It's counted." Shi Ang replied, "We've lost a total of 314 MechWarriors!" ”

"Damn, these bastards!" Aurora said hatefully, "Wait and see, we can't spare them!" ”

"Your Highness the Goddess, are we going to take a nuclear revenge?" Shion asked.

"Nonsense! How can they beat us, we can't beat them? "It's impatient for these stupid humans to dare to take the initiative to provoke a nuclear war against us!" ”

"yes, I think it's incredible!" "They are far less capable of withstanding nuclear war than we are, don't they even understand this?" ”

"How else to say they're stupid humans?" Aurora Road.

"Your Highness the Goddess, what should we do next?" Shion asked.

Aurora said, "Let's retreat first, and if we continue to stay in this kind of place, we may be able to use them as live targets." Don't worry, I've already reported what just happened to Queen Medusa, and the Empire's nuclear forces will soon let these stupid humans know what it means to play with fire and set themselves on fire! ”

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