Chapter 505: Storming the Bridge
Ten minutes or even half an hour may sound like a short time, but for the expedition team, which is gradually gaining an advantage in firepower and numbers, it is enough time for them to take down all the main parts of this class of aircraft carriers and stir up the rest.
"Sit down, second lieutenant, our schedule is just getting a little tighter, but the target is still waiting for us in the bridge!" Shen sat on the roof of a hammerhead chariot and invited No. 1E6 to sit with him.
"Aren't you worried that the Covenant's fleet will rush over to board 6 for support?" How many machines do you have at your disposal? How long will that door last? NOB1E6 asked as he looked at his surroundings, his heart beating a little when he heard the Covenant fleet arrive.
The situation on the outside had become very complicated in his opinion, so complicated that anyone could have predicted the consequences. The safest thing to do is to quickly withdraw as originally planned and destroy the aircraft carrier with weaponized jump engines.
In this way, it can safely weaken the Covenant's fleet strength in this galaxy, and although the original plan to capture the captain of the aircraft carrier still seems to have a chance of success, he is not sure how much power his "allies" can muster from that mysterious door.
"Don't be so pessimistic, second lieutenant. You haven't seen us do our best! Shen said that he let the armored car he was sitting in start, and Nob1E6 also decided to jump on it and follow before the armored car drove away.
Once seated, the armored car they were riding in joined a long convoy that had just formed and rushed to the main passage to the bridge. The armored vehicle they were sitting in was certainly not the first to open the road, and in front of them there were at least 2o hammerhead tanks advancing in two rows in the wide passage.
Almost all of the carriers were huge, and the main passages were several times as wide and tall as the Covenant light cruiser they had been flying in. The chariot they rode in was as smooth as a private car on a wide avenue of bridges.
Of course, unlike a private car trip, all of them are fully armed and have a team of spherical drones flying overhead. Rushed to the front of the convoy to provide air fire support. Most of them are uncontrolled, and a few are controlled.
Except for the front row of chariots that occupied the road, the convoy that followed behind was on the right side of the road. On the left, a large group of Atlas mechs with weapons and engineering tools are running to follow.
"I'll admit, I didn't expect the army you brought with me to be so big. But why wait until now to choose to help us? We've been fighting the Covenant for 2o years! Nob1E6 asked before the battle began, still thinking that Shen and the others should be from some former colony that had made a technological breakthrough.
"I never said we were from the colonies......" Shen was about to divulge more information when a battle began in front of their convoy.
Almost all of the expedition members involved in attacking the bridge sat on top of the chariot rather than on the inside, knowing that they would encounter a lot of Covenant resistance along the way, and that sitting inside the chariot would make them lose room to maneuver at critical moments in the battle.
It's like a battle for the city, where firepower and protection are of course important attributes. However, being able to avoid the enemy's heavy fire at the beginning is the best survival strategy. To assault cannon fodder, they have a machine that can be driven.
In this battle, the task of fighting was mainly contracted to the troops, and the most important job of the expedition members was to direct these men to test the enemy's fire and bombard the enemy to the slag with heavy weapons.
Their strategy worked well, and it wasn't long before they encountered the first sturdy line of defense set up by the Covenant forces that needed to stop the convoy. On this line of defense were assumed a lot of obstacles and energy shield walls.
Hundreds of boar beasts are guarded here with at least 3o high-level elites, as well as a few jackalmon, ghost-faced beasts, and a few hunters. The total number of men is close to 1,000, and there are several fixed turrets to help them guard the intersection.
The firepower network formed by these forces temporarily blocked the offensive rhythm ahead. The spherical drone battle group competed with several fixed batteries, and the convoy also stopped to fire at the Covenant defense line in front.
Under the command of the expedition, a group of military planes dismounted and fought on foot to cooperate with the attack of the hammerhead chariots in the convoy. However, after being set on fire for more than ten seconds. The hammerhead chariot that was leading the way was finally blown up by the Covenant's dense firepower.
Although it is an upgraded version of the other hammerhead vehicles, equipped with a powerful kinetic barrier and energy shield, it is not invincible. Of course. Except for a few nearby military aircraft that would not dodge, none of the other members of the expedition were affected by the explosion.
The hammerhead chariots driven by the next few machines were still pushing the wreckage of the front car forward steadily under the command of the expedition team. Several fixed turrets mounted on the ceiling in the distance are also being cleared by the expedition one by one.
The plasma firepower network on the Covenant's side is certainly very strong, but the mass effect plus weapons used by the Hammerhead Chariot and those military planes who disembark and fight on foot are even more effective in destroying their energy shields.
After all, the Covenant's shields are designed to defend against the attacks of energy weapons, and most of the unmanned troops equipped by the expedition team are high-kinetic weapons and various fragmentation explosion weapons.
Just as the kinetic energy barrier generated by the mass effect generator protects the attack of the energy weapon is very weak, the effect of the energy shield against the kinetic weapon is just as disappointing, even the shield on the body of a white armor elite can only withstand the attack of a dozen mass effect weapons at most, and it will be broken.
After a heavy firefight, both sides suffered heavy casualties. Of course, the Covenant line suffered heavy casualties. On the expedition team's side, there are only the machine qì people who have been blown up, and they only need to let the machine qì people in the back make up for the vacant position in front. Ultimately. It took two minutes later. The Covenant's line of defense was still breached.
The battle loss ratio between the two sides once again proves that the machine is more suitable for this kind of pure hard-to-go attrition war. Although it seems that the military aircraft in one place have been lost, only about 1oo have actually fallen. And the Covenant defense infantry they eliminated was more than 4oo.
While they were attacking the bridge along the main road, the other forces of the Arrival class aircraft carriers that they had previously set up in the air harbor were also in the rest of the attacking class carriers, with the engine room and weapons depot being the focus of their attacks.
The commander of the Covenant-class aircraft carrier is a high-ranking elite who wears special armor in golden yellow. At this time, this high-ranking elite is confused about what exactly happened. He knew that the earliest chaos had come in the main airport a few minutes earlier.
At that time, there happened to be a light cruiser that needed to be resupplied on board 6. However, after the cruiser boarded the 6, there was no news of the entire airport area, and although the shipboard AI prompted that humans had attacked with a large number of armed aircraft of unknown origin, the elite captain still didn't believe this statement.
He had been fighting humans for decades, and had never heard of a case where humans could quietly send large numbers of troops onto Covenant ships for a ship-grabbing battle. Combined with the existing information provided by the ship's AI, after analyzing the situation, he certainly saw that the humans were attacking his bridge.
However, he was not usually worried about deploying protective forces, but at this time, he was unable to dispatch the Covenant troops from other parts of the hull to come to support. First, because many communication lines were disrupted, and more importantly, the enemy's advance was too fast, and it was too late to mobilize forces from other parts to return.
This elite captain had the intention of setting up a self-destruct program for the ship in order to avoid the fall of the entire ship if the bridge was captured. However, since the class aircraft carrier is also the largest combat ship within the Star Alliance, it is extremely expensive to build, and it is considered a strategic asset, so there is no preset option for self-destruction.
Even as the captain of the ship with the highest authority, he and the shipboard AI that coordinates the operation of the major systems of the whole ship can only use the major systems, and there is no way to preset the ship's self-destruction in the bridge. As a result, he could only gather nearby troops and prepare for defense at several important nodes outside the bridge.
There is a three-way gap outside the bridge, which is where the final line of defense is located, and if the enemy breaches this place, the bridge will definitely not be protected. Therefore, this elite captain concentrated the main forces here, and at the same time, he sent a distress signal to all the Star Alliance ships that had just arrived at the Zhiyuan Star Battlefield, and asked the brother troops to hurry up and board the ship to help.
This method of gathering forces and building a final line of defense was very sensible, but it was humiliating in the culture of the elite, and even if he did, it would only delay time. Although the Covenant infantry, which had finally assembled in a few passages outside the bridge to form the final line of defense, had passed 5ooo, they were unable to effectively resist the expedition's attack.
It's not that these Covenant forces are all scum, but because the invading forces that attack them at this time have already taken advantage of numbers. Along the way, Shen constantly set up new space-time gates at important nodes, along with the action center in the rear.
From these newly opened space-time gates, more and more drone troops and new expedition detachments rushed over to participate in the attack. At this time, the number of military aircraft attacking the outside of the bridge has been close to 12ooo units, and the spherical drones have exceeded 14oo, which is only attacking the direction of the bridge, and other directions have also been divided into a huge total number of troops. (Want to know more about Time Traveler's Expedition?) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner, select Add Friends to add an official account, search for "ang", follow the official account, and never miss every update again! qdread) (To be continued)
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