Chapter 161: Array Line
With a loud roar, sections of black walls like carapace burst out of the earth. They were stacked on top of each other, and in an instant, they guarded the most important facility in the entire Machine City, the electric energy receiver covered with red fruits.
At the same time as the city wall was towering, the mechanical octopus, which was awakened like a fish swimming in the deep sea, quickly gathered into a black giant arrow and swooped down towards the west from several directions.
At this moment, the mechanical city was already on high alert, and all the facilities that could be used were turned on to their maximum effect, and it was easy to find the Terminators who were coming towards him and the influx from the coastline.
"Where did these skeleton soldiers come from?" The creator clone who existed in the main engine of the Machine City in Los Angeles, and controlled the overall situation of the entire Machine City, looked at the T-600 Terminator who appeared from the bottom of the sea with a terrifying red light in his eyes and a cold light reflected up and down his body.
As the supreme controller of the mechanical life form in this world, although the computing power of the creator clone sitting here is greatly weakened compared to his own body, he also has relevant data and information, and after a short comparison, he naturally knows that the humanoid enemy that appears in front of him is no different from a skeleton.
"Automata vs. automaton? Interesting...... But how much can you do with that? The human form is not the most powerful form in nature...... With bipedal walking, your center of gravity itself needs to be calculated. And you can't fly!" The Creator clone had always thought so before the two sides had even started fighting.
After all, in terms of the way the two sides move, and the shape they show, the mechanical octopus is much stronger than these T-600s.
The mechanical octopus is a two-meter-sized monster with tentacles capable of attacking enemies from seven or eight meters away.
Under a perfect circumstances, a single tentacle can deal with an enemy, and the mechanical octopus has more than a dozen tentacles, which means that against a fragile thing like the T-600, the mechanical octopus can be used as one as ten.
It's just that...... Is that really the case?
When the Creator clone thought that victory was in sight, countless points of light rose from the camp of the Terminator, and they quickly tore through the silent darkness and pounced fiercely at the oncoming mechanical octopus.
"Dash...... Da ...... Da ......!" The crisp gunfire turned into a thunderous tidal wave, shaking the world. With a kilometer between the two sides, the Terminator side attacked.
They used a TQ-02 type 10mm electromagnetic gun specially designed for it.
This is a small-caliber individual weapon. It is 195 cm long, weighs 30 kg, and has its own energy magazine, but it can also directly use the core energy of the T-600 when necessary, and thus has great power - it can melt a standard projectile of 10mm caliber under the heating of a high-energy coil, making it a sharp cone suitable for armor piercing, and then accelerate to Mach 20 at high speed to attack the enemy.
The scorching metal flow can instantly soften the enemy's armor, and the high kinetic energy brought by the super high speed can make the projectile have amazing penetration, and the softness of the liquefied metal flow can make the projectile easily deform after breaking into the enemy's body, and then inflict more damage on the enemy under the powerful penetrating force.
This is quite a destructive firearm. When it was finalized, Yuan Hao had seen the power of this weapon. The T-600, which used this weapon on the range, pierced a 600mm homogeneous steel plate directly through this gun and left a pomelo-sized hole in the target - almost as powerful as a large-caliber anti-tank gun.
600mm homogeneous steel plate, the armor of the main battle tank that Yuan Hao had heard of before was almost at this level, and a big gun held by a soldier could have such destructive power, which shows how those mechanical octopuses will be welcomed.
The gunfire was loud, like the waves of the sea, layer after layer. Because electromagnetic acceleration takes time, there is no way to achieve the continuous firing of the electromagnetic cannon with this kind of technology, so that the rate of fire of the electromagnetic gun can only reach the level of one shot in 3 seconds.
This is exactly the rate of fire of bolt-action rifles in the old days. Such a corresponding rate of fire is obviously impossible for such a powerful mechanical octopus. So, in order to make up for the problem that the Terminator's own firepower can't be dense, the red queen finally chose this retro-looking arrangement after corresponding considerations - lining up to shoot. Of course, such retro tactics have also been adjusted to the current situation, allowing the Terminator front in some places to fill the gaps in the mechanical octopus clash forward and flank it from the side.
The mechanical octopus is accustomed to using sharp and sagittal wave attacks as early as she was used in the calculation of the red queen, like a sardine in a cage, although the T-600 line array was suppressed on the beach by charging forward step by step, but in fact, the power of the mechanical octopus school was consumed little by little.
The powerful kinetic energy of the electromagnetic cannon bombarded their bodies fiercely, directly breaking through the armor on their surface, invading the central core that controlled the body, and physically directly destroying the electronic circuits of the operating core.
As long as it is accurately hit on the torso of the mechanical octopus, the mechanical octopus will definitely turn into a ball of flame under the tearing of the metal projectile - no matter how strong the mechanical octopus is on the outside, it is extremely tender and delicious on the inside when the shell is cracked. Bullets rang out in waves, and fireballs exploded one by one.
At the moment when the scorching fireball flashed, one mechanical octopus after another was reduced to pieces, and more mechanical octopuses rushed out of the fireball, still moving forward with their brains.
They are cannon fodder, cannon fodder with low intelligence. As mechanical lifeforms composed of steel circuits, they do not have enough strength to know what fear is. Without further orders, they marched wildly, then met another wave of bullets that shattered and opened the way for their companions behind them.
Despite the fact that the mechanical octopuses are a large race of tens of thousands, their power is constantly weakened by the onslaught of the Red Queen's commander with an army of Terminators of the same size. It's like a hand-torn cabbage, easily peeled off layer after layer.
"It's so strong...... The other party's firepower ......" the Creator clone frowned tightly.
The battle hadn't been long now, and the mechanical octopus's losses were still within his acceptable range. However, before the two sides were in contact, they needed to bear such a blow, which still made the creator clone somewhat unhappy.
As the top intelligence, his performance is almost no different from that of humans, and he also has the emotions that humans have, so naturally he will have this inexplicable unhappiness.
However, dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, and the Creator doppelganger still understands what he should do now.
The enemy's firepower greatly exceeded his expectations, but at this time he could not change this result, and now that the battle was still going on, all he could do was to persevere, and let his mechanical octopus rush into the opponent's array and fight in close combat with the opponent. The creator clone believes that if his mechanical octopus can successfully rush into the enemy line and fight the opponent face to face, it should still be able to achieve good results with one to ten.
After all, the number of mechanical octopuses is over there, their size and strength are over there, and judging by their weapon configuration, they are also better at close quarters than others.
"Kill you...... I have almost a million mechanical octopuses...... I'll see how long you can kill!" the Creator clone snorted coldly, and immediately conveyed the order.
Of course, as the supreme intelligence, his order is only to give a general direction for the following programs in charge of tactical command to try to achieve this order. As for what the tactical officer did, he didn't care.
Maybe it's because of the inherent rigidity of the program, maybe it's because of the habits they have developed to fight Zion, or maybe it's because the intelligence of these tactical command programs themselves is not so sufficient, in short, after the creator clone made a corresponding judgment, these swarming mechanical octopuses did not change their operating trajectory and charging formation, and still maintained their original strength.
Everything is still the same, on the surface, it is like this, but after knowing the strength of Yuan Hao's side, they are not completely unchanged.
As they move forward, these octopuses connect their tentacles to each other, bringing the massive octopus to the city as a whole. They spun rapidly after connecting with each other, spiraling and dancing, blue arcs of electricity floating on the surface of their seconds. The mechanical octopus streams that attacked from three directions turned into three long whips with blue streamers and slammed into the array of Yuan Hao's Terminator army.
At this time, the Terminators had already fired about ten rounds of volleys, and the large-caliber electromagnetic projectiles flying through the air caused a lot of damage in the mechanical octopus with a faint blue light. Although the mechanical octopuses spun in a series at the last moment, they deflected a part of the projectile through the flow of the electromagnetic arc, reducing their own losses.
However, from the beginning to the present, the mechanical octopus, which has reached as high as one million, has lost about one-twentieth of its troops, and more than 50,000 cannon fodder have been completely exploded. And the sacrifice of these cannon fodder has shortened the distance between the two sides, and now after the end of the ten rounds of salvos, the distance between the two sides is less than ten meters.
Ten meters was just a fleeting moment for an army of mechanical octopuses that reached speeds of about 100 kilometers per hour, and they burst into the Terminator's array with a single spurt.
"Smack...... Click...... Click!" The violent impact burst into brilliant sparks. Under the impact of the mechanical octopus, the Terminator, which is not as good as the mechanical octopus, was naturally knocked away.
And at the same time as they are knocked into the air, the speed of the mechanical octopus is also decreasing.
The two sides were so consumed that it was not until the mechanical octopus's three-way penetration into the Terminator array reached two hundred meters, and the mechanical octopus's thrusting speed had dropped to an astonishing level.
At this time, the surrounding terminators swarmed up from all directions, like countless ants attached to these mechanical octopuses that had lost their altitude and speed. Melee unfolds as the Creator clone hopes.
The tactics of both sides, after the extremely old queue of shots, have now become a confrontation between cavalry and infantry. Using the most advanced weapons to fight the tactics of the old era, whether it is Yuan Hao's side or the matrix side, is a bit funny.
However, Yuan Hao and the creator clone didn't really laugh out loud because of this, they both understood that this was just the so-called sentinel battle, which was a temptation of both sides, and after considering that the soldiers on both sides were not very flexible roles, it was natural for them to arrange such a stereotypical tactic according to the identity of the "cannon fodder" that the two sides are currently investing in the troops.
And with the cannon fodder of both sides now colliding with each other, the tactics of each other seem to be heading towards further degenerate melee combat.
"It's a clumsy ...... However, as long as we can win!" muttered the Clone of the Creator, who was concerned about the situation on the battlefield, but there were no more words. He looked at the current battle situation, and felt a little relieved.
Everything was as he expected, and once the neatly arrayed skeletons were approached by their own mechanical octopus, they were basically powerless to fight back. For a moment, the mechanical octopus raging in the Terminator array quickly opened up the situation and cleared a space.
"If this continues, we will win!" The Creator clone clenched his fists excitedly at the sight of this situation, and his eyes were full of joy. Compared to the happiness on the side of the matrix, the red queen and Pingyuan, who controlled the battle in the rear, were not much nervous.
In the current situation, they have already made relevant deductions, and it can be said that everything is still in their expectations.
"Prepare for the implementation of Programme 3C. After the explosion, send out our combat boats and prepare the second landing force at the same time!" the red queen calmly made her choice. When conducting tactical deductions, she and Yang Xue calculated everything clearly, how the battle situation would develop, how the enemy would respond, and how we should react in the face of their moves.
Unlike the matrix that has relied on the temporary calculation of the host of Los Angeles Machinery City to deal with it until now, Honghou, Pingyuan, and Yang Xue can be regarded as having a heart or not. They quickly gave the order.
After that, countless explosions lit up in the formation of the Terminator army. These explosions ended the life of the T-600 and took the lives of the mechanical octopus that was in close proximity to them.
The Terminator uses a nuclear battery, which has a high energy and naturally has a powerful explosive power when it explodes. However, with one command, nearly 10,000 terminators blew themselves up, taking away most of the mechanical octopuses that broke into the military formation. The distance between the two sides widened again, and before the matrix could react, the neat electromagnetic cannon fire began again.
As a war machine that is not afraid of being injured by mistake, the cold of the T-600 allows them to maximize their combat effectiveness. Volley, salvo again, while the mechanical octopuses hadn't increased their speed, they slaughtered the clumsy enemy cannon fodder as hard as they could.