Chapter 171: A Hard Battle
The flame of the soul was as restless and fluttering as a flame in the wind, and Ai Li was quite uneasy at this time. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
It's not because she's timid, but she's very mentally keen, and she faintly feels a bad premonition. Even though the base is now strong and guarded by the ultimate defensive armament, it still can't make her feel stable.
Ai Li didn't like this feeling, especially when she could only fight with Chen You alone, which made her even more confused.
She tried to take a few deep breaths, but her heart was pounding uneasily.
She was instructed to hold on to the city until the enemy approached within 800 meters of the minefield, which meant that her troops would not be of any use in the early stages of the war.
Before the enemy approached, Ai Li could only "watch" the battle in front of the holographic platform.
The Allies were moving faster than she had imagined, and before long, a red patch of hostility had emerged in the northern mountains. Seeing the number of allies, Ai Li's mouth opened wide in surprise.
Soon, most of the Beholder Scorpes scattered at the far end of the base were shot down by enemy reconnaissance units, and only a few of them were still relaying images of the enemy's march.
At a distance of about 8 kilometers from Chenyou's base, the Allied forces began to split into two forces of similar numbers.
It can be seen through the remnants of the Eye Demon that among these two troops, occupying the high ground of the ridge and overlooking Chen Youding's star pillar from a distance are the artillery units that carry out long-range bombing, and most of the mechs are equipped with heavy artillery equipment.
The other unit is the assault force, which will carry out the task of breaking into the base and capturing the star pillar during the artillery bombardment.
Although she had a wide-area defensive force field above her head, in the face of such an overwhelming number of allies, Ai Li's hands were still so nervous that her hands were cold......
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Just two minutes after the Allied assault forces set off from the ridge, the shelling began.
Nineteen mechs mounted with "Thundering" electromagnetic cannons were scattered behind the ridge, all half kneeling, foot fixtures dug into the ground.
Due to the terrain advantage of the Allied artillery troops, although within the firing range, the Huang Zhong electromagnetic battery at the top of the Dingxing pillar was difficult to hit. Three cannons in a row smashed down the hillside or flew over the hill.
The 19 thunderous roars of the Allied forces rang out, and almost every shot slammed into the wide-area defense force field of Chen You's base, and the explosion caused the blue force field to continue to twist and tremble.
After a salvo, the strength index of the wide-area defense field in Ai Li's field of vision dropped to 96%.
The strength of the force field was beyond imagination, and Ai Li couldn't help but feel a little more at ease. But the feeling of relief didn't last long, as a beam of light shining along the path came straight through, the trees and dust were scorched, and the violent thunder exploded overhead.
It was the "Aurora" beam cannon that fired, although the charge was longer, but the power was a little amazing, just one shot, the force field dropped to 92%!
The assault troops marched at full speed, and the artillery units fired uninterrupted volleys round after round. Chen You's base was as silent as death, Ai Li could only defend the dangerous city, but Chen You was nowhere to be found at this time.
The Allied assault force consisted of 60 infantry, 20 mechs; The artillery unit has 40 infantry and 5 mechs to protect 20 mechs that specialize in shelling.
There is a reason why the shelling was chosen at a distance of eight kilometers. The tactical goal of the Allies was to destroy the defenses of Chen You's base with the lowest casualties on their side, and it was this ridge eight kilometers away that could put the artillery troops in a relatively safe position, Chen Youfang's howitzer array could only attack within four kilometers, and the only electromagnetic battery, although it was within the range of returning fire, did not have terrain advantages, and the hit rate was low. As a result, the Allied artillery forces were able to wear down Chen You's wide-area defensive force field without any danger.
Whether it is a mortar array, an iron guard mecha, or a wide-area defense force field, although the strategic direction of the Allied forces has not yet allowed them to obtain these top-notch city defense facilities, this does not prevent the Allied forces from investigating Chen You's details and arranging tactics in a targeted manner.
For Chen You, the overwhelming difference in strength is forever. Even if Chen You dispatched all his troops to shock the artillery bombardment force, he would have few chances of winning in the face of the artillery attack department with enough troops to defend him, and the Dingxing Pillar would inevitably be lost. If Chen You didn't surprise him, according to the convention, he would face a tough battle with the assault troops and unbridled Allied artillery bombardment, which would only make him lose even more.
No matter how you calculate it, Chen You will definitely lose this battle.
Assault troops, mainly composed of mechs, are responsible for trekking, and infantry are attached to or mounted on mechs. They had already rushed into range of the mortar array, and it seemed that Chen You's fist was finally able to reach the faces of the allies.
Like a drumbeat, the small grenade swooped through the force field of one-way defense and swooped down on the enemy four kilometers away.
Some of the Pangu mechas, Typhon mechs, and defender warshells in the Allied Formation, as if they had been rehearsed, suddenly raised their heavy shields, or opened a small defensive force field, and formed a defensive phalanx towards the sky, while the warshells quickly dodged within the defensive range, reacted extremely quickly, and were extremely well-trained.
Most of the grenades were either detonated on the giant shield or landed on the ground by the defensive force field, and almost all of them failed to effectively kill the assault troops.
Ai Li saw this scene on the holographic platform, looking at the assault troops of the Allied army with a grenade in this issue, he never thought that the Allied army would have such a hand, and he was even more anxious for a while, and he clenched his fists unconsciously.
The Allied assault forces continued to move forward in an orderly manner, and after Huang Zhong received the order, he no longer went in vain to attack the artillery troops eight kilometers away, but lowered the barrels of the guns and bombarded the attacking assault troops directly!
The power of the electromagnetic cannon is not something that a shield or defensive field can resist, and the powerful explosion directly disperses a Pangu and causes the assault force to begin to disperse in full force. In this way, the scattered grenades were finally able to cause damage to the Allies.
The electromagnetic cannon and howitzer array finally made the Allies suffer. The assault troops had no choice but to spread out their formation even more, as if they were rapidly gathering towards the high ground in an encirclement manner.
As the Allied artillery forces continued to accumulate, the strength of the wide-area defense force field finally dropped below 50%.
After a ten-minute trek of artillery fire, the Allied assault troops finally rushed within 1 kilometer of the base at the cost of 20% of the loss.
Fearful of artillery fire, the assault troops spread out into a fan-shape, like a half-moon surrounding the base, attacking simultaneously from all angles.
For a while, in Chen You's base, the Iron Guard Mecha, Gargoyle Heavy Machine, and Cross Monument Rockets that had entered the shooting jam were noisy, and they opened fire violently at the outcropping Allied assault troops, and the hardest and most difficult part of the siege battle was about to begin.