Chapter 581: Metal Torrent
The Imperial Occupation of Warscar Canyon is located in the terrain of three canyons, and the mountains in the two canyons divide the canyon, making the area easy to defend and difficult to attack.
The Empire has occupied this area for many years, and there is an unknown amount of reconnaissance equipment, defensive or offensive weapons, and a large number of troops that can be concentrated and defended in the two mountains.
These are all the reasons why after Xiao Yin Wan was detonated in the Battle Scar Canyon, it took three years for the Federation to fail to capture here.
"General Ji, are you sure you want to do this?"
After the independent regiment was assembled and Ji Xinghe determined a new battle plan, Tang Qiao asked for a voice on behalf of the ground command of the Western Theater.
"Yes."
"Which canyon to take?"
"The one in the middle."
"But in this case, you and your independent regiment will be attacked from both sides at the same time, which is more than an order of magnitude more difficult than the previous battle plan. So we recommend ......"
"I don't accept the suggestion." Ji Xinghe interrupted Tang Qiao's words and said in a commanding tone: "Major General Tang Qiao, do what you should do and what you can do. ”
"Yes!"
Don Qiao accepted the order.
Although he is the commander of the ground command of the Western Theater of Operations, he is lower than Ji Xinghe in terms of military rank, and his influence and so on are not half a point worse.
People were not surprised by his obedience.
There was actually nothing to do in preparation, because there was not a single combat unit in the Western Theater that could keep up with the independent regiments that were preparing to rush forward.
The only thing that can keep up is long-range fire support from the Western Theater and federal units.
So the assembled independent regiment soon began to charge.
Ji Xinghe drove the overclocked Xingyue Armor, and the first one took the lead, and the seven squads of the independent regiment followed him neatly, and when the orange dust flew up, Dongdong's loud noise gradually disappeared.
Along with their figures, they also disappeared from the sight of the naked eye.
The charging speed of the three hundred and one mecha is really fast, even if it is based on the barrel principle, the marching speed of the independent regiment at this time should depend on those formation-breaking mechas, but even if they are formation-breaking mechas, they are two levels higher than the conventional-level mecha of the Federation.
A long time ago, the sixteenth-generation standard mecha piloted by Ji Xinghe was a conventional-level, and after the transformation, it reached the standard of the Wangshan level, and he drove that mecha to win a lot of gold stars.
The formation-breaking mecha, although it is also transformed from a conventional-level standard mecha, has a higher degree of transformation, and the all-round performance improvement is also greater.
For example, the formation-breaking mecha piloted by Liu'er is also a transformation of the sixteenth-generation standard mecha, but its comprehensive performance surpasses the one used by Ji Xinghe when he participated in the operation of the orbital airborne mecha corps after he became a special mecha warrior.
It can reach speeds of up to 120 km/h in the cruising state and close to 150 km/h in full charge.
Therefore, the speed of the independent regiment's rapid advance at this time has reached 120 kilometers per hour, and it can continue to improve at the critical moment.
And the length of the east-west direction of the Imperial occupation area in the Battle Scar Canyon is only one hundred and ten kilometers from the position of the independent regiment's charge to the position of the receiving troops that have been prepared in the eastern theater.
Theoretically, it doesn't even take an hour for them to be able to cross the canyon.
But the empire will not make this theory a reality.
When the direction of maneuver of the Independent Regiment was clarified, although it was not yet possible to determine the true intentions of the Independent Regiment, the Empire had already launched an attack.
Countless artillery fire fell from the sky, trying to disrupt the cluster charging formation of the independent regiment while inflicting a certain degree of damage on the independent regiment.
The distance of five kilometers is fleeting, and considering the receiving forces deployed in the Eastern Theater of Operations, it can affect the distance of five kilometers.
At this time, the independent regiment was only a hundred kilometers away from their combat goal of killing through the canyon.
And all of them were unharmed.
Because they were so fast, the Empire's long-range fire attacks had already changed positions by the time they locked onto them and fired.
Three hundred and one mechs, the number seems to be a lot, but the cluster charging formation of the independent regiment is not dense, leaving enough space to help them share the pressure caused by the imperial artillery fire.
Their speed is also not fixed, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, always between one hundred and twenty kilometers per hour and one hundred and fifty kilometers per hour.
The path of the charge, even less likely, is a straight line.
Ji Xinghe, who was at the forefront, was like a fluttering flag, leading the captains of the seven squads following him, all of whom were ace mecha warriors.
Wang Kang, who took over the blind squad, successfully captured his one hundred and third gold star after the last battle, but at this time, only one red star was sprayed on the mecha.
To be able to become trump cards, all of them are the pride of the sky, they can comprehend Ji Xinghe's intentions in the shortest possible time, and convey corresponding instructions to their team.
The entire independent regiment, under the leadership of Ji Xinghe, is like a giant dragon flying close to the ground, and its body winds its way to maintain a high-speed rush mode.
"Ninety-five kilometers!"
In the communication channel, Qin Tong used the mode of all the staff shouting to say the straight-line distance from their destination.
Let the Mechfighters of the Independent Regiment who are under artillery cover know that they are getting closer and closer to their targets.
"Prepare for battle."
Another reminder that the independent regiment that had entered the land of nowhere in the occupied area of the empire had finally encountered interception from the imperial mecha.
At this time, the Imperial Command still could not determine the true combat intentions of the Independent Regiment, but the Independent Regiment had already relied on its high mobility to pass through the most advanced positions of the Imperial Theater facing the Western Theater.
If it is not blocked, whether the independent regiment continues to move forward or turns to the rear of the front positions of the Empire, it will be able to inflict great losses on the Empire.
The five hundred Imperial mechs that had been hastily assembled appeared in front of the Independent Regiment like a car, and their combat goal was only to contain the suddenly furious Independent Regiment and give the Empire more time to prepare.
According to the comparison of the strength of the two sides, the Imperial Command believes that with 500 mecha as the main force, supplemented by various combat units, the mecha corps can hold the independent regiment for at least half an hour.
What the Imperial Command didn't expect was that the independent regiment capable of completely annihilating this Imperial Mecha Corps actually gave up annihilation, and continued to charge towards their location without looking back.
Yes, the Empire's jump base in the Canyon of the Scars is located on the side of the canyon that the Independent Regiment chose to kill.
The three canyons, and the other two of them, are all the boundaries of the Warscar Canyon, and it is simply impossible to be where the Empire's jump base is located.
From the very beginning, the Federation was able to determine that the Empire's jump base in Warscar Canyon was in the middle of two mountain ranges that split this section of Warscar Canyon into three canyons.
But the left and right cannot be determined, and the specific location cannot be determined.
And Ji Xinghe chose to charge from this canyon in the middle, risking being attacked simultaneously by the weapons arranged by the empire on the mountains on both sides, just to accurately locate the empire's jump base.
He knew that there would definitely be a lot of sacrifices in the Independent Regiment today, but he was used to sacrifices.
Whether it was the first two years of coming to the alien planet, or the last three years since he left the alien, he has been accustomed to sacrifice.
And what he is doing, and what he will do in the future, is to reduce this sacrifice.
The weapons used by all the mechs of the Independent Regiment were made of tungsten steel, which allowed them to directly penetrate the first imperial mecha defense line in just a few minutes.
Speaking of which, if Ji Xinghe hadn't come back, the Independent Regiment would not have 300 slashing armors, and 300 weapons made of tungsten steel and gold would not be enough.
Along with the caravals that were captured by the Empire, there must have been tungsten gold weapons used by the caravals.
But Ji Xinghe is back.
In the last battle, he alone captured two and a half red stars, one of which was composed of the earl armor of the anti-galaxy legion, and the captured tungsten steel gold weapons naturally exceeded a hundred, and in terms of weapons, it had already made up for the family base of the independent regiment's previous battle losses.
And the more than 1,000 imperial mechs captured by the Western Theater were also exchanged for the resources needed by the independent regiment at the first time according to the recovery value of forty percent.
Because the Federation now has five independent regiments, the Mountain Slayer has become the Federation's most powerful mass-produced mecha, so the conversion speed of these resources is much faster than before.
Before Ji Xinghe returned, there were only seventy-eight independent regiments left, and now there are two hundred and thirty mountain slashers.
There are more than 1,000 Imperial mechas, including more than 100 Earl Mecha Armor equivalent to Formation-Breaking Mecha, but only 32 Formation-Breaking Mecha have been replaced, and the replaced 32 Formation-Breaking Mecha will be handed over to the Western Theater, which sounds like a blood loss.
But Tang Qiao really didn't miscalculate, chopping the mountain armor is so expensive, and expensive has the benefits of being expensive.
The speed of the charge of the Separate Regiment, under the constant coverage of the Empire's artillery fire, was not affected. When he broke through the first line of defense of the Imperial mecha, he was also unaffected.
Indomitable.
Three hundred and one mechs continued to advance towards their combat goal with a desperate momentum.
"Eighty-five kilometers."
Qin Tong's tone changed slightly, because when he arrived at this position, he had really entered the area that the empire had always occupied.
Previously, the Western Theater and the Eastern Theater fought simultaneously, with the help of the independent regiment at the peak state at that time, and the lethality brought by Xiao Yin Wan, the empire's occupation area in the Battle Scar Canyon was compressed to a length of only sixty kilometers from east to west.
Therefore, today's killing and penetrating operation did not encounter too strong resistance before, because the troops of the Western Theater of Operations, or the Independent Regiment, had once killed in this position.
And now, with every step forward, it can be said that history has been created.
The pressure is not the same, and the Empire should have analyzed their objectives for today's battle by now, and completed the heavy mobilization of forces.
And that's exactly what happened.
"Prepare for battle, numbering has been completed, all squads pay attention to ......"
As the deputy head of the regiment, Qin Tong is doing what the corps commander should do, which is really heartbreaking, but fortunately, the air supremacy of the Federation and the staff composed of Chen Xun and others can bring him a lot of help.
Moreover, he really didn't have any pressure today, because Ji Xinghe was in his sight, leading them to charge forward.
The second line of defense with mecha as the main force arranged by the empire, the number of mecha has not increased much compared to before, but the level of mecha has increased significantly.
Most of the noble mechas, referring to the existing mecha performance level of the Federation, these mecha are mostly composed of Wangshan-level mechas. Although it is only one standard level higher than the regular-level standard mecha, the overall combat power of group combat has been improved by more than one standard level.
Independent regiments that can avoid the main defense line of the Empire cannot avoid the defense line composed of mechcorps that are also highly mobile.
The first attack was from the various weapons that cooperated with the Imperial Mecha Corps, and there was no need to mention the weapons such as artillery shells, among which the greatest threat to the Independent Regiment was an armor-piercing cannon that appeared specifically to deal with mechas.
It is said that it is a cannon, but it is actually a weapon similar to a close defense gun and a machine gun, and the bullets used have a very high armor-piercing effect and an amazing rate of fire.
A 1,000-millimeter-thick conventional armor can be completely penetrated in only six seconds, and it will be replaced by a conventional-level mecha with armor defense equivalent to 600 millimeters of conventional armor.
The alloy armor used by the Wangshan-level mecha is difficult to withstand even though its defensive power is equivalent to 1,200 mm thick conventional armor. In the face of such firepower, if the formation-breaking mecha can't complete the evasion as soon as possible, the end will be equally miserable.
The real point is that this weapon can cause significant damage to the armor of the mech, and if you're unlucky, the internal parts can be damaged as a result.
Whether it's good luck or bad luck, it can also affect the battle after the mecha.
Therefore, the slasher cannot completely ignore this weapon.
When the second line of defense of the empire's mecha was ready to attack the independent regiment at a cost of tens of millions per second (the cost of using weapons of the same specification in the Federation), one of the only two mechs of the independent regiment that could ignore this weapon began to accelerate.
Ji Xinghe, who had been suppressing his own charging speed, suddenly broke out, drove the Xingyue Armor to complete the steering maneuver, and rushed straight to the side of the imperial defense line.
Because of the attack distance and terrain, the thirty armor-piercing cannons could not attack the charging independent regiment, so their muzzles were all pointed at Ji Xinghe.
However, Ji Xinghe's speed was too fast, and all the armor-piercing shells fell behind him, causing orange dust to rise in the sky, obscuring the charging figure of the independent regiment in the rear.
Seeing this, the muzzles of the multiple guns continued to move forward without hesitation, locking the charging path of Ji Xinghe as if they were predicted, and firing the cannons in advance without hesitation, and the armor-piercing shells attacked with saturated coverage, like raindrops dense in the air during a rainstorm, enough to drown everything.
And those armor-piercing cannons that have always been chasing behind Ji Xinghe, their firepower has not weakened in the slightest, and they continue to have a peak rate of fire, making those armor-piercing bullets pouring out like a tornado, and like a metal storm that is enough to devour everything.
The only good news is that because of the angle of attack, the number of armor-piercing cannons that can attack Ji Xinghe at this time has been sharply reduced to twenty-three.
There was rain in front and wind in the back.
Ji Xinghe, who seemed to have no way out, did not choose to leap, because Xingyue could clearly 'see' that many weapons in the second line of defense had locked the sky above the location and path of her and Ji Xinghe.
Once you jump, the end is to be directly blown away.
The defense of the Xingyue Armor can ensure that Ji Xinghe is not dead, and even be able to maintain balance in the process of being blown away, but if it loses the opportunity to break the formation because of this.
Then the wind and rain will fall on the independent regiment.
Ji Xinghe chose to resist hard, shielded the camera position of the mecha with double knives, and turned on the full power mode of the overclocked form Xingyue.
With the wind and the rain, they successfully went around to the flank of the defensive line.
This is actually very difficult, the kinetic energy attached to those armor-piercing bullets makes Ji Xinghe unable to perfectly manipulate the Xingyue Armor.
But he succeeded.
Many Imperial mechs came to kill him, not to kill him, but just to delay time and let the wind and rain fall on the independent regiment.
As long as the Independent Regiment is disabled, it no matter what the Independence Regiment's combat intentions are today, it no longer matters.
But how could Ji Xinghe allow such a thing to happen?
Break through the armor in one step, until the front of the battle.
With a wave of his hand, the wind and rain dissipated.
The independent regiments that charged in clusters were unstoppable and once again penetrated the enemy formation.
It's like an all-metal torrent!