Chapter 891: A Rain and a Rain
Imperial Star, King's Landing.
In some gloomy skies, one hundred and twenty Imperial Aerospace Fighters flew in an arrogant queue over the Federation Jump Base, again and again, back and forth, and flew at an altitude within the visual range of humans on the surface, as if performing aerial aerobatics.
Isolated and helpless, the Federation Jump Base, which had destroyed a large number of defensive fortifications during the previous fierce attacks of the Empire, was completely helpless against them.
No less arrogant was the ground forces of the Reich.
When they have the 'God Perspective' brought by air supremacy, they are like conducting military exercises, recklessly marching towards the Federation's jump base, building layer after layer of fortifications step by step, laying the foundation for the arrival of more troops that also makes the Federation helpless.
This style of play is abnormal and unreasonable.
But knowing that there are only about 3,000 human beings in the isolated Federation Jump Base, and more than one-fifth of them are technicians, their unreasonableness becomes very reasonable - risks and benefits coexist, such a way of playing may cause great casualties, but it can maximize the consumption of weapons and ammunition in the Federation Jump Base, as well as human lives.
Ten for one, a hundred for one, for an empire with more than three billion orangutans and the ability to fight all of them, are all sure-fire decisions.
"Six days, Your Majesty only gave us six days, but I only gave you three days."
Tougica didn't care at all about the lives of the soldiers at the bottom, and for it, those sacrifices were just numbers it didn't need to look at.
The large number of troops against the rebels was mobilized without hesitation, and the resources paid for this were also not worth mentioning to it, because this was its only chance in a desperate situation. If it fails, it will have to choose between Emperor Wu III and Idakang, and whichever it chooses, it will not end well with the current situation of the Empire.
Just like the brothers Emperor Wu III and Idakang, in order to recover the power they had previously held in the hands of a large number of nobles, they chose to play a bad role in the war with the Federation, and borrowed Ji Xinghe, the sharpest knife of the Federation. The pressure that the brothers are now exerting on Tao Ucha and his family for the sake of the Holy Crystal can be interpreted as a desire to withdraw the relevant authority on the Holy Crystal Mine.
Tao Wucha chose to use his military exploits to renew his life, and the brothers who controlled the fate of the empire would not lose face at all, right?
"Report, the Federation's mechs have been dispatched."
Tao Wucha became serious, located in the command center of King's Landing, and the battle situation more than 2,000 kilometers away was displayed almost without delay. Three gold-painted mechs charged out from the gradually encircled Federation Jump Base, because of the ruin-like surface buildings, so the Empire did not know exactly where they came from the jump base to the surface entrance.
But it doesn't matter, it's these three Federation mechs that Tao Utza wants.
"There are only three of them, so I'm really confident." Tao Wucha smiled with a relaxed expression, which was very different from the appearance of being worried half a month ago and panicking because of Ji Rong Xinyue's sudden appearance.
"General, we have marked the mecha piloted by Ji Rong Xinyue and formulated a ......"
"Innocent!" Tao Wucha suddenly said coldly: "Won't Ji Rong Xinyue change his armor?" Also, if that artificial intelligence life called Xingyue is really in our Imperial Star, then it is impossible for all three mecha to be piloted by Xingyue? ”
"But ......"
"I want them all!"
"Yes!"
The battle plan was revised slightly, but overall there were not many changes. The commanders under Tao Utcha knew very well that Tao Utcha did not want three Prince Armor, or two Prince Armor and one Emperor Armor. What it wants is a human piloting three mechs.
Fighting in a habitable environment like the Imperial Star, the role of the mecha has been greatly weakened for various reasons, even if the mecha of the level of Prince A and Emperor Armor is basically undamaged, but under this principle of eliminating the other's strengths, the significance of whether it is captured or not is far less than that in the alien battlefield.
Not to mention more, just one point: whether it is a human or an orangutan, the most critical thing when participating in a battle on an alien planet is not weapons and equipment, but survival equipment - oxygen.
The long-lasting oxygen supply device can only last for two or three hours in a fierce battle, and if you really carry a huge oxygen cylinder, how much physical energy and carrying space can you carry other weapons and equipment?
Moreover, it is necessary to wear protective clothing when fighting alien battles, even if it is a simple protective suit used by the Empire, if it is damaged, it will pose a rapid and deadly threat. Although the average physical fitness of the imperial orangutan exceeds that of humans, it cannot survive in an alien environment without protective gear.
If you don't have oxygen, you're going to die, your protective suit is torn, and you're going to die after a minute at most.
It is necessary to replenish oxygen while fighting, and the logistics supply on the front line is easy to have problems due to the war, how to fight? The reason why the mecha can become the strongest surface combat power in alien planets is not only because the mecha can carry ultra-long endurance energy and oxygen supplies, but also because the mecha with strong breakthrough ability can destroy the enemy's logistics supply.
There are other environmental problems, but in Imperial, none of them are a problem.
In this situation, the Federation, which has only sent three mechs, looks like it is going to be a useless struggle, trying to completely burn itself when its life is about to end.
Even if it can shine, there is only a moment of light and shadow, how much meaning does it have?
The Imperial Army, which only wanted to kill the three Federation mech soldiers, did not hesitate to use a covering fire strike when facing three Federation mechs that were charging at extremely high speeds. Air-to-surface missiles, surface-to-surface missiles, artillery, anti-aircraft guns, and other weapons, whether or not they are behind the times, when they are launched and explode, produce enough power to kill and injure all known intelligent life.
It doesn't matter if you can't accurately hit a high-speed moving Federation mecha, if you are poor, you will strike accurately, and if you are rich, you will be covered by firepower. Compared to when they were on another planet, the opening of the interstellar jump gate consumed a lot of Saint Crystals, and there were too many materials to transport and transmit, and they didn't need to worry about logistics at all when they were on the Imperial Star.
The Empire is in the Imperial Star, just like the Federation is in the Azure Star, and has already entered the stage of energy surplus, and earlier than the Federation. The surplus of conventional energy, as well as the development of intelligent machinery, means that there is a surplus of transportation capacity.
Before, Tao Ucha was in urgent need of support, just because the Federation's jump base could be opened normally at that time, and there would be a steady stream of support from the Azure Star to the Alien Star, and then from the Alien Star to the Imperial Star. And now that the Federation's jump base has been destroyed by Emperor Wu III using means that Tao Wucha didn't even know, what else is there to say?
The firepower strikes like a torrential rain made the battlefield like a ruin full of dazzling firelight and gunpowder smoke like a thick fog. The constant roar was like thunder, and the surging shock waves were like ripples on the surface of the water under heavy rain. However, unlike the water surface, which can restore its original horizontal surface in the process of ripple spreading, the deformation caused by the covered ground cannot be naturally restored in a short period of time.
And all of these can have an impact on the three charging Federation mechs. The shock wave and the high-speed sputtering shrapnel, wreckage, etc., really could not hurt the tungsten steel gold forged body, but like the smoke of gunpowder like haze, the shape continued to change, like the scene of clouds and clouds was accelerated by 10,000 times, and continued to interfere with the normal vision of the three federal mechas.
The constant appearance of craters, the continuous disintegration of various debris, and the continuous deformation of the battlefield environment made it impossible for the three Federation mechs, which could easily soar to a speed of 300 kilometers per hour in the environment of the Imperial Star, to even half of their speed.
It's like an ordinary person running on an irregular road with potholes, running at the deepest time of the night, how can he run?
If you can't run, it means you have to endure more ferocious firepower.
The Imperial Army, which has a complete detection system, can relatively accurately determine the location and direction of movement of the three Federation mechs in the worst environment for the three Federation mechs. One hundred and twenty Imperial Aerospace Fighters that had cruised through the sky many times cruised through again, dropping all kinds of lethal weapons they carried.
If it weren't for the limited payload capacity, these Imperial Aerospace Fighters, powered by nuclear power, could have repeated the same attack hundreds of times.
But it doesn't matter, the Empire has much more than these air and space fighters, and when the first round of one hundred and twenty air and space fighters has dropped all their firepower and began to return to the nearest Imperial air base, the second round of one hundred and twenty air and space fighters has already reached the sky over the battlefield, and the two sides have staggered, and a new round of attacks has begun.
Not only aerospace fighters, but also strategic-class aerospace bombers, the empire has long completed the replacement of the air force, and most of the spacecraft have been replaced by aircraft. If it weren't for the fact that the empire had been peaceful for nearly three hundred years and there was no pressure of war at all, the empire's military strength would have increased by at least three times.
The air strikes launched by Taouta are not all of the Empire's air power, and it cannot mobilize the Empire's space fleet and military forces that are not part of the Empire's counterinsurgency forces. If it can be mobilized, it will certainly continue to increase the intensity of the fire strike.
"General, are we a little ...... Too wasteful? ”
Some staff members looked at the battlefield that had been cleaned by artillery fire over and over again, thinking that the real target that needed to be attacked was only three Federation mechs, and they really couldn't bear to ask questions.
"You know a." Tao Wucha shouted angrily: "That's Ji Rong Xinyue, that's fucking Ji Rong Xinyue!" It's Ji Xinghe's granddaughter! ”
“……”
If you really want to talk about it, there are not many of the Empire's counterinsurgency troops who have participated in the alien war, especially these staff and commanders around Tao Wucha, when it went to the alien planet, it didn't bring much of its own ape, and when it came back, it was intercepted by the then imperial prince, and the result was that all of them were wiped out with the empire's three jump bases on the alien planet.
Ji Xinghe, Ji Rong Xinyue, and the legends of the Federation are just legends for them. So it's hard to understand the extravagance and extravagance of Touka at this time, as well as the recent panic and the extreme excitement of the sudden turnaround.
Because of the strict hierarchy of the Empire, no one could influence the decision-making of the Peach Orchard until it was relieved of command of the counterinsurgency, so their attacks on the three Federation mechs continued to be in a state of serious waste.
But the effect is not obvious.
The area of the battlefield that can be attacked with impunity is limited, and when the three Federation mechs finally break through the Imperial army's defenses, they must limit their long-range fire attacks to prevent them from accidentally injuring themselves.
The golden livery of the three Federation mechs has disappeared, revealing the original tungsten gold of the mech, but this change has not made the three Federation mechs feel down, but more majestic than before, and the cold metallic texture makes them look like they have restored the essence of the killing machine.
And that's exactly what happened. The defense line built by the Imperial battalion did not have the weapons and equipment that could stop the three killing machines, and the metal mesh used to capture the mechs had already been cut into several pieces by the tungsten steel gold weapons used by the three killing machines at the time of hit. A flamethrower that spews high-temperature flames makes it difficult to heat up three killing machines in a short period of time to the point where it affects maneuverability, and it is difficult to lock onto and continue to burn.
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The weapon that can really have a certain impact is still a firepower output platform similar to a close defense gun, but it can only affect the mobility of the mecha to a certain extent.
Ji Rong Xinyue, who was at the forefront, withstood the various firepower outputs on the Imperial Defense Line and completed the forced advance, but the body did not appear damaged except for the paint.
With a bang, Ji Rong Xinyue, who successfully broke through the position of the imperial defense line, found the area where the shells were stored with great precision, and completed the detonation that could produce a chain effect.
Boom Boom Boom ......
Compared to the lethal effects that can be inflicted using mechs' mechs and melee weapons, this attack is simply a complete victory.
In addition to the two normal mechanical arms in anthropomorphic form, his mecha also has a number of mechanical arms that are much smaller than the mecha, which looks like the overclocking form of the Xingyue Armor, but it is very different.
After successfully seizing the firepower output platform on the Imperial defense line, those small mechanical arms on Lin Shu's mecha completely controlled the firepower output platform with great precision, and then fired directly.
In just two seconds, the auxiliary shooting program built into the intelligent core of Lin Shu's mecha had already completed the calculation of the ballistic, rate of fire, effective firing distance and other information about this weapon that he had never used.
Then, the rate of fire of the heavy machine gun is higher, and the bullet power is like a grenade's fire output platform, which achieves the same precision strike effect as a sniper rifle. Relying on the height of the mecha and the ability to maneuver at high speed, Lin Shu has become a mobile design platform, with a high hit rate and fast rate of fire, as if there were fifteen Chen Xun hidden in his mecha.
This kind of attack consumes bullets extremely quickly, and Lin Shu, who was in full firepower, only lasted for three minutes, and the fire output platform he captured had already been consumed. But it doesn't matter, there are many similar weapons on the battlefield, even if there is no such firepower with the most ferocious firepower, even if it is just an ordinary firearm, those small robotic arms of his mecha can be controlled as usual.
However, the problem of the limited bomb load of the mecha has not been solved. Only mecha that uses at least superalloy as the body material can ensure the integrity of those mechanical arms under the suppression of enemy firepower, and under today's fire attack, except for mecha made of tungsten steel gold, it is difficult to ensure the function of mechanical arms.
In the three-person team, Ji Rong Xinyue is responsible for the breakthrough, Lin Shu is responsible for fire support, and only Ma Ergou is always guarding the side of the two mechas, looking like they can't do anything.
When one after another of the Imperial defensive positions were successfully breached, and the three-person team continued to charge towards the Imperial defensive positions, getting farther and farther away from the Federation Jump Base, Tao Ucha, who had never sent mecha troops and tank equipment, finally waited for the change it had been preparing for a long time.
Dark clouds converged over the battlefield, and they were unusually fast.
"Hahaha......" Tao Wucha suddenly laughed, looking at the three unstoppable federal mecha on the screen, extremely proud: "It's so fun to fight in the alien planet, have you forgotten that it is possible for it to rain on the battlefield?" Moreover, it's a torrential rain! ”
With an empire of weather satellites and orangutan rainfall technology, it's not hard to turn a rain that is going to happen into a torrential rain.
On the battlefield without any paved surface, the mud caused by the heavy rain is one of the most effective restrictions on the mech: the mech is too heavy, and the mech using human form is relatively small in terms of the area to which the ground can be used.
Under normal circumstances, there is no need to worry. But this is not a normal environment, the Empire's fire attack can cover three Federation mechs at any time, and they are already far away from the Federation base.
"At all costs, stop those three mechas, I want to let them come out, and they can't go back!"
Tao Wucha confidently gave the order, it prepared two rains for Ji Rong Xinyue, and now, the second one began.