Chapter 543: Battle and Temptation
This situation made a Star Covenant veteran like him puzzled, and to this day, both sides already know their opponents very well, and with the UNSC's transportation capacity, it is impossible to transport tens of millions of people in two days.
Although they later discovered new traces of human activity during surface reconnaissance and rescued some friendly forces that were previously trapped on the surface, some of them, whether it was the human captivity's narrative or the rescued friendly forces, said that they had encountered a third party other than the UNSC.
The space-time fleet has not stayed in the periphery of Zhiyuan Star for a long time, and has been operating in the name of UNSC in various external communications, but their warships, various weapons and equipment, and even their mode of action are very different from UNSC.
Clear-eyed people know that they are not from UNSC at a close look, but the refugees see that it is human beings who rescue them, so they naturally do not pick and choose, and they all leave this war zone first.
Although the Star Covenant has seen it from afar, they usually don't dare to challenge the force of a warship without backup, and the Star Alliance troops with this courage are not nothing, but they are all overwhelmed by the endless sea of drones and the mecha troops guarding the battleship's defense line.
Under such circumstances, the Star Alliance was not able to understand the origin of the space-time fleet and the expedition team, but a few such reconnaissance units knew first-hand that there was such a mysterious human force stirring up the situation.
At the moment, judging from the reports sent back by the various teams, the mission guided by artillery fire was carried out relatively smoothly, but the number of humans found along the way was relatively small. They also learned through monitoring civilian communications that there was a strange "UNSC rescue team" still active on the surface.
The rescue team blatantly used the clear code communication broadcast to find the survivors, but the people of the Star Alliance have not been able to find the source of the broadcast, so they can only try to ambush the mysterious rescue team at the rescue site. But the other party seems to be able to detect them, either they don't run to the ambush circle that has been arranged, or the person who set up the ambush has mysteriously disappeared again!
This has been done several times in a row, and even he, the leader of the reconnaissance unit, has some heart palpitations, what if, the next one will be his turn? He couldn't help but think so. Thinking of this, he felt that the place he was staying in was not very safe now. Prepare to call in the transport ship and transfer the position of the team you are leading again.
However, he was still a little late in his alertness, and just as he was about to leave this place, Team 102 was ready for battle, and several other tall buildings nearby had already set up firing positions and aimed at the building where the Star Covenant reconnaissance team was located.
More than a dozen Atlas mechs and dozens of spherical drones have also been ambushed at the intersection in three directions, the nearest of which is only 2 blocks away. All of them will be there within a minute of the start of the battle.
On the ground, Fred, the guide of Team 102, had already killed the two stealth elites who had been patrolling downstairs at close range with a knife, and was following Team 102 to climb the stairs to search.
The enemy's defense work was very good, the tallest building in the vicinity was selected, and sentry posts of different proportions were set up in layers on the floors, and the current status of the sentry posts was checked by regular communication. Halfway through their cleanup, the command department on the top floor noticed the anomaly and became alert.
However, at this time, it was already a fool's dream that they wanted to run, and the fireteam that had set up a position nearby immediately opened fire. The enemy on the floor exchanged fire, and the fireteam responsible for the main attack in the floor also stepped up.
Most importantly. The previously standby mech squad and spherical drone squadron joined the battle. Blocked the escape space on the ground. The Covenant's scout team had to risk escaping from the air, and the soldiers with the supporting equipment began to fly into the air with their rocket backpacks.
However, before they could escape a block, they were hit by a joint attack by the anti-aircraft batteries that had been erected on the roofs of nearby buildings and the drone formations that had arrived. Under this three-dimensional attack, there are still a small number of people who quickly reduce their flight altitude and convert potential energy into higher flight speed. Rushed out of the encirclement that the drone had just formed.
However, before they could catch their breath, they were hit by the cannons of several mechs on the ground that suddenly rushed out of the corner, and as they made a desperate detour to escape, the elite commander of the reconnaissance team was chased by an Atlas mecha and was firmly captured by its big hands.
The battle was over in less than four minutes, and everything was planned, except for the appearance of a few hunters, which took them some time. After successfully seizing the opponent's communications equipment and capturing the commander alive. They have used each other's biometric information, such as pupils, to verify their devices, and then send the Covenant's standard advanced encrypted messages.
Fred did as he said, using his fluent Covenant lingua franca to bomb the Covenant's fleet into no-man's land in the encrypted channel. Although it remains to be seen how long this deception effect will last, there is no doubt that the combat skills shown by the opponent have met expectations.
While clearing the enemy in the building, Lu Feng saw with his own eyes that the other party used hand-to-hand combat to take down a hunter. This is not easy, because the strength and speed of the hunter are very strong, although they can't catch up with the level of the Atlas mecha, but it is not something that people can directly compete with by their physical strength.
Even an elite warrior on an expedition like him would not choose hand-to-hand combat when he had a gun. After the battle was over, they immediately sent the mecha and drone units back to the rear through the space-time gate that they had erected, along with a new batch of prisoners they had captured.
Although these mechs and drones are highly effective in frontal combat on a given battlefield, they are not as flexible as an expedition team in terms of long-range maneuverability and concealment. While cleaning up the battlefield, Team 102 was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, and after sitting down, Lu Feng chatted with Fred, who was nearly a head taller than him opposite.
At this time, the sun had just set, and although there was still a glimmer of light in the skyline, the sky of the city had fallen into darkness, and some of the stars could already be seen. They sat on the rooftop and guarded the half-human Star Covenant high-power command information transmitter, as if they were camping, drinking drinks and chatting.
"Ahem, ahem, what is this?" Fred asked as he took a sip of the stimulant drink he had handed him over, and coughed as he choked.
"I'm not sure what I can tell you about this, we have strict confidentiality rules. All you need to know is that this is a juice made from the fruit of a plant that is the same age as the dinosaurs! Lu Feng took the flask that Fred handed back, thought about it and didn't open it, and immediately replied.
The secrecy rules of the expedition are very strict, but it does not mean that even the name and origin of the drink must be strictly kept secret. He just did this to remind himself to keep his distance, not to treat the other party as a friend because of a smooth cooperative battle, so as not to inadvertently leak any confidential information.
After all, Fred, a Spartan warrior, and they are only temporarily cooperative, although the more the other party knows, the greater the chance of choosing to join the expedition, but referring to the previous example of Master Chief, this kind of person obviously still has a stronger sense of belonging to the UNSC, and it is difficult to run back to the UNSC directly after getting enough information. With the precedent of the Master Chief tearing up the cooperation agreement without saying a word, they had to be more careful to deal with other Spartan soldiers who were still in the cooperation period.
"Well, I understand, we also have a strict confidentiality agreement, but it seems that your understanding of Spartan warriors is much higher than that of the Star Alliance, and it may be higher than our fleet command!" And I just wanted to know what I had just drunk! ”。
Fred heard the other party prevaricate with secrecy, of course, he understood that this was guarding himself, so he smiled self-deprecatingly, and said such humorous words, trying to ease the atmosphere of the scene.
Like the Master Chief when he first met the expedition on the belt, he knew very little about the Space-Time Expedition at this time, and he knew very little about these mysterious creatures other than to be sure that these humans were not his enemies.
He knew that these people must have a huge organization, otherwise it would be impossible to mobilize a large amount of materials and rich combat equipment so smoothly. He naturally didn't know how much energy this organization had, but it could be seen from the fact that they dared to continue the rescue operation at this time, and the other party must be quite confident in the comprehensive ability of his organization.
Combined with what he had heard from other wounded in the Pegasos's medical quarters, it was clear that the expedition also had a fleet capable of fighting the Covenant's fleet, and he himself had seen a large number of unmanned troops and expedition members who were on par with the Spartan warriors.
All this shows that these people can become strong allies of the UNSC, but, just like the Master Chief, he is also worried that the allies in front of him are only temporary, and the forces like the rebels are enough to give the UNSC a headache, and if these people become similar enemies when they become bigger, God knows what forces can stop them.
Inspired by this typical sense of ownership under the UNSC, he, like the Master Chief before him, wanted to use the strength of the expedition to save as many people as possible, but he was always on guard against the signs of the opponent's "rebellion", and was ready to turn against the other side and flee back to the UNSC's control area.
Of course, even if he is ready to turn around in the future, he must first obtain enough information before leaving, otherwise he will not be able to help UNSC deepen his understanding of the organization after returning. Seeing that he couldn't get a clear answer to ask about the origin of weapons and equipment or even a small bottle of drink, he changed to another topic and continued to ask. (To be continued......)
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