Chapter Forty-Nine: Life and Death in Progress
After the solemn knight's inauguration oath, the audience applauded. The warriors, who were already official knights, warmly welcomed a new comrade-in-arms to become the glorious starry knights, and the warriors who were still at the level of reserve knights looked at Joestar on the stage with envious and competitive eyes, after all, not long ago, Joestar was still a reserve knight like them.
Just when everyone had not dispersed, suddenly the announcement in the conference room rang out, "Please pay attention, please pay attention, please pay attention, the radar has detected a large number of Forsyken fleets attacking, and the radar has detected a large number of Forsyken fleets attacking, please all combatants immediately return to their posts and enter the first-level combat state." ”
Everyone didn't hesitate at all, "Quick, everyone go to the hangar and take their places!" Sendaya ordered.
Everyone exited the conference room in an orderly and fast manner and ran towards the hangar.
When Joestar followed Captain Ryan to the hangar, almost all the squads were already in place, and the fast-moving squad had even boarded the mech to start warming up the mech.
"Joestar, it happened suddenly, you still go and drive your M1 melee type." Ryan ordered.
"Understood! Captain. ”
Logging into the cockpit, the familiar system voice sounded, "Welcome driver, please do biometric authentication." Drip! The certification is passed, and the local authority is confirmed by the pilot Joestar, and the system is now starting to warm up the system, and the system self-test is in progress. ”
After 30 seconds, "the system self-test is complete, and all modules are operating normally." The airframe is ready to go. ”
At this moment, Ryan's voice came from the communication channel. "According to the Fleet Staff, the reason for the Fossaken attack was to cover a ship breaking through our current blockade. The current model of this small ship is unknown, and there is no record in the database, and the staff speculates that its appearance in our star field is due to the passage through an unknown wormhole. It is expected that this ship or the enemy on board will be of great importance to the Vesakens, and the Fogsaken fleet confronting us is almost entirely deployed. The command of the fleet ordered the entire 1st Brigade of our 1st Brigade to go to capture the enemy ships. At present, the mechs of the Forsycan fleet are almost desperately rushing in the direction of this ship, some of them have already broken through our artillery blockade, and the mission of our first brigade is to meet these enemies and capture the enemy ships. Does anyone have any doubts? ”
"Nope! Sir! ”
"Very good, then according to the predetermined order, set off immediately, the coordinates of the combat airspace have been recorded on your onboard computer, everyone starts navigation, and maintains the triangular formation of the squad. Let's go! ”
The hangar door of the Doomsday Space Fortress quickly opened, and one mech after another flew out and rushed to different combat locations.
"This is the captain of the first brigade, Gemati, all the squads maintain a triangular formation, speed 100, immediately go to the target location to search and capture the target, pay attention to the situation allows, try not to damage the enemy ship, this is a new type of ship unknown to us, we must try to ensure that it is brought to the imperial researchers intact."
Streamers of light streaked across the dark depths of the sky, like a meteor shower piercing the sky. However, at this time, under the silent black curtain, there is a brilliant brilliance. It was the light of the exchange between the Imperial fleet and the Verseken fleet near the blockade line, and the fireworks that exploded from time to time were the swan song of the ships on both sides. Joestar glanced back at the fierce front line, then did not look back, maintaining formation and continuing to fly to the target airspace.
"Watch out for the enemy!!" Captain Gemati's voice sounded in the channel, "Each squad maintains formation, and the long-range mecha fires three salvos!" Then follow the tactical drill and go into battle! ”
Before reaching the target airspace, the figure of the Forsyken mecha had already appeared in front of him. "Three salvos! Put! "Laser beams cut through the sky and rushed towards the group of Forsyken mechs in front of them, and this is one of the things that the Empire is stronger than Forsyken - long-range weapons have a longer range. The development of the empire's technology tree is basically along the main direction of mechanical technology, so lasers, lasers, missiles and other technologies are very developed, which also makes the long-range weapons used by imperial soldiers take advantage of the range.
Specific to the battle at this time, the three salvos were not actually expected to cause much damage, but purely to preemptively disrupt the mecha formation on the side of Forsyken. As long as the opponent's squad is scattered, then the Imperial squad can rely on cooperation to take advantage of the opponent's advantage.
Sure enough, three rounds of volleys passed, and the original neat formation of the Forsyken cluster was completely scattered.
"The battle begins! Take the squad as a unit, carry out tactical coordination on your own, and the melee unit will step forward! Remote Support! Gomati gave the order.
Then the Imperial Mecha Group began to attack according to the drill that had been carried out for an unknown number of times.
There are 300 mechs in a mecha brigade in the empire, of course, not all of them are official knights, a full brigade contains three squadrons, and each squadron has 10 squads. In other words, a full squad has 10 mechas.
Joestar's third squad has 3 melee mechs and 7 ranged mechas, this ratio is different for each squad, after all, the proportion of pilots who control melee and long-range mechs cannot be just right, so the configuration of each squad is generally a certain type of mecha There is a minimum, and the type can be assigned at will above this.
Joestar is a melee model, and Follower Captain Ryan rushes into enemy lines. As long as the mecha is locked by the third squad, generally speaking, there will be no other squads to intervene in the battle, which relies on the battlefield information sharing network system to achieve, the purpose of which is to avoid the phenomenon of repeated targets and waste of firepower.
Joestar's follower, Ryan, locked on to a Forsyken rhino-class mech, so named after the Empire because of the horn on its head that resembles a rhinoceros. This level of mech, in terms of Forsyken, is roughly equivalent to the M1 prototype or MKII enhancement, that is, it is an official Star Knight-level enemy.
"Joestar, I'll pester him, you're waiting for an opportunity! Long-range fire, pay attention to cover and support! Aishah you do cruise. "Understood, Captain."
The so-called cruising is a kind of free position outside the formation, which can not only see the opportunity to join the battle circle to give the enemy a fatal blow, but also can cruise outside as a guard. In fact, it is more used for vigilance and support, and some of the duties are similar to those of wingmen in air combat, which are the role of auxiliary main attackers.
At this time, the mecha on the Imperial side had a large numerical advantage, and they found that the enemy had fired a salvo at the first time, disrupting the enemy's formation, so as soon as they entered the contact station, they immediately had a great upper hand. The mix of ranged and melee mechs made it difficult to mount effective tactical resistance, and with the squad setups disrupted, it was difficult to mount effective tactical resistance.
Suddenly, there was a bright light in the distance. With a roaring explosion, more than half of the ranged mechs of the First Brigade were destroyed almost immediately.
"What?"
Behind the Imperial formation, according to the information fed back by the radar, an enemy's flagship-level battleship actually appeared! The battleship appeared in the rear of the Imperial army almost instantaneously, which made most of the Imperial army who were fighting unable to react at all.
More red dots of light appeared on the radar, apparently the enemy flagship had released mechs and carrier-based aircraft, and the First Group, which had just gained the upper hand, almost immediately fell into a situation where it could be completely annihilated.