Chapter 155: Artificial Stars
Under the attack of giant cannons, sentry cannons, magnetic storm coils, and various artillery, the six sets of Void Shields of those Calamity Lord-level Titans in the Horror Force could not last long.
And once a Calamity Lord-level Void Shield generator is overloaded, some of the camouflaged and collectively deployed Prism turrets will fire instantly.
Only one Prismatic Tower attacked the Titan, and only one laser fired at the Calamity Lord. But it was this laser that directly penetrated the Calamity Lord-level Adamantite Armor.
It seems that although there is only one attack, there is no telling how many Prism Towers are gathered behind it.
Prism towers can rely on mirrors to charge each other to attack each other, and the attack power of a cluster of prism towers is much stronger than that of a single unit. Neighboring Prism Towers can assist attacking Prism Towers, and each assist beam can increase the Prism Tower's attack damage by about 1.5 times.
It is precisely because of the combined efforts of many Prism Towers that they can cut through the armor of the Calamity Lord level like slicing tofu. And with one blow, a powerful Titan was scrapped.
As a Titan second only to the Emperor Titans in terms of combat effectiveness, the Chaos Warlord Tier is a mobile fortress in its own right, and generally speaking, only those Titan units that can really pose a threat to the Warlord Tier are those who are equal or stronger.
However, the Warlord Titans also have a weakness, which is the plasma reactor located in the abdominal cavity, which is extremely vulnerable to heavy weapons if the armor layer is breached. And the destruction of the Titan's power source is like the destruction of the human heart. There is only one dead end.
The Prism Tower's attack was directed at the reactor of the Calamity Lord-class Titan. The powerful laser destroyed the reactor as soon as it pierced the armor. Turning a powerful Titan into a target, or being "cut in half" by the explosion of the reactor.
Although there is not a single Calamity Lord Titan in the Astral Army, they are well aware of the advantages and disadvantages of the Calamity Lord Titan.
An army with combat effectiveness is bound to be an army that is good at learning. At present, the Astral Army's war form, combat methods, and winning mechanism are undergoing profound changes, and it is impossible not to learn them.
And it's not good to learn slowly, and it's even worse if you learn to be crooked. Soldiers are born to win, persist in learning for the sake of fighting, aim the "crosshairs" of learning at the battlefield, focus on learning what is needed to win a war, and make up for what is lacking in a war as soon as possible, all in order to defeat the enemy and live up to the great trust of the emperor and the Holy Son.
As Chaos is the great enemy of the Empire, and the Calamity Lord is the most common Chaos Warlord-level Titan, it is impossible for the Astral Army not to learn anything from it.
On this battlefield, the Astral Army has done the best they can. But the strength of the apocalist forces in this area is far stronger than that of the Astral Army.
After a few attacks, the Apocaust also discovered the Prism Tower's threat to their Titans. Hidden Prism Towers will reveal their location even if they attack once. Then, Havoc missiles, combat cannons, Titan-class hot-melt weapons, and powerful firepower attacks from the Horror side will immediately cover the place.
Most prism towers are destroyed or incapacitated under such attacks. And after losing most of the Prism Towers, it would be difficult for the Astral Army in this defense area to quickly destroy the Chaos Calamity Lord Titans.
Those trenches and all that didn't work for these Titans at all. It is also difficult for the Astral Army to stop the progress of these terrorist forces.
The speed of the astrology forces is very astonishing, they are stubbornly blocking all the attacks of the Astral Army, advancing frantically, and destroying all the weapons and facilities and Astral Army soldiers they see at the same time.
The Astral Army of the rest of the defense zone had already sent reinforcements here, but to no avail. The Chaos side cut through one of the Astral Army's defensive lines, and was about to approach the Astral Army's artillery unit at the rear of the battle line. Once close to the battle......
Unfortunately, things didn't take a turn for the better. The Titan's footsteps are not something that can be stopped by courage and will.
Soon, the abusive forces of this battlefield rushed into the last line of defense of the Astral Army. A large number of artillery is deployed here, and the role of artillery in close combat is pitiful.
The Astral Army, which was cut through the battle line in front, quickly supported the rear battle line, wanting to aid the artillery in the rear and prevent all artillery units from being destroyed. But the abusive side did not stay here for long, but continued to move in a certain direction in a purposeful way.
"In that direction, isn't it?"
When the commander of the defense zone here saw the direction of the terrorist and abusive troops, he suddenly had a bad idea in his heart.
"Where did they get the information?" "How can I stop them?"
When the Horror Force broke through this defense area of the Astral Army, the Commander-in-Chief of the Astral Army immediately contacted the commander of this defense area.
“...... Support has arrived."
"Gotta hold them down for me!"
The commander-in-chief, Sidney, spoke quickly and concisely, like a soldier. There is no time on the battlefield for soldiers to talk like aristocrats.
"Yes, mission guaranteed!"
The commander of the defense zone said categorically. Then the Commander-in-Chief of the Astral Army cut off the communications.
Although the answer was very quick, the commander of the defense zone here frowned, looking at the three-dimensional map and thinking about a solution. However, not all wars can be won by stratagem, and the gap in strength is so large that any stratagem is futile.
Just now, Commander-in-Chief Sidney told the Sector Commander that the Thunderhawks who were transporting the evacuation of the Astral Army had completed their mission. I've reloaded and I'm about to get to this battlefield.
But the abusive forces that passed through their zone were heading towards the power generation facilities in several of the nearby zones of the Astral Army. Commander-in-Chief Sidney ordered the Commander of the Sector to stop the advance of the abusive forces at all costs.
The Astral Army has so many defensive weapons, the power is huge, and the energy consumption is also very terrifying. Ordinary power generation equipment simply cannot supply this level of energy consumption. The Astral Army didn't have that much time to build power plants on Rapur.
Therefore, the power generation equipment used by the Astral Force is an "artificial star". Only one is needed to meet the power needs of more than a dozen defense zones. It's an extremely high-end antimatter reactor.
"You just need to let the positive and negative proton beams quietly pass through the magnetic field from both ends and enter the constrained ball, and you're done!"
Its simple shape owes its theoretical elegance to the fact that it is known as the "artificial sun".
Through the study of the Dirac inverter mechanism, critical photons can be inverted into antimatter and hydrogen under the action of a supermagnetic field. When positive and antimatter meet, they annihilate each other, producing a huge amount of energy.
The Empire now has mastered the controlled annihilation reaction, installing a number of annihilation restraint spheres in artificial stars. It is a key component of an artificial star, confined to the sphere for a stable and controllable energy output.
If the Hunter destroys an artificial star, the defenses of more than a dozen zones will be paralyzed. The firepower of the Astral Military Defense Zone will drop by six or seven percent in an instant.
By that time, the forces of terror will turn from defeat to victory in many battlefields. The Astral Army may have to pay a terrible sacrifice to achieve victory.
How did the Sadistic Forces get the position of the Star Army's artificial star, but now they must immediately stop their progress.
The commander of the defense zone was eager to carry his explosive rifle and fight the enemy himself, but he knew that he could only play his best role by standing in the command room. Orders were given to the soldiers who were angry because of the loss of their defenses.
The commanders of the surrounding defense zones also knew that a terrorist force was advancing towards the artificial star, and they also understood the role of energy facilities in the war, so they sent out the greatest force they could to stop the terrorist force.
At the same time, the Thunderhawk squadrons also flew over the enemy in full gear and began to attack them. This Horror Force was positioned behind almost all the Astral Army's defense lines at this time, so there were almost no Chaos Side air units in the air, and the Empire's Thunderhawk Squadron could focus all its energy on the Horror Force on the ground.
As a versatile gunboat vehicle, one of the Thunderhawk's most distinctive features is the large and conspicuous main gun on the upper part of its fuselage.
Although there are a wide variety of variants and variants, the first and most versatile versions are equipped with the Thunderhawk main gun. This main gun is a miniaturized and highly improved design based on the defensive macro cannon often used on battleships.
Originally, this weapon was more often used as secondary or melee guns on frigates and other larger ships. This weapon makes the Thunderhawk extremely lethal against large units and heavily armored targets on the ground, and even the great gods have to guard against the terrifying firepower of this small macro cannon.
For different combat targets, the Thunderhawk can also rely on its modular design to quickly replace the Thunderhawk main gun with a destroyer-level turbolaser cannon with stronger armor-piercing ability. Very efficient in the task of countering heavy units.
And depending on the mission, the Thunderhawk can carry hell strike missiles, high-explosive incendiary bombs, heavy cluster bombs, large guided bombs (hot-melt warheads or plasma warheads) under the wings.
When carrying out transport missions in the city, Thunderhawk did not carry many weapons because he had to transport the Astral Army with a full load. And in order to safely evacuate the Astral Army, Thunderhawk's did not attack the Titans in the city.
But now, in order to ensure the energy supply of more than a dozen defense zones, dozens of Thunderhawk squadrons will block this terrorist force with the astral troops who have rushed from various defense zones.
And because this astrology force is behind many of the Astral Army's defense lines, the artillery units of many defense lines can hit them, and the fire attack they face at this time is even more fierce.
But the number of powerful demons in this force is unusually large, and many Calamity Lord Titans provide firepower. There's even an Emperor-class Titan in it!
What's going on?!
Where did this Emperor-class Titan come from?
After fighting for so long, he didn't find an Emperor-level Titan, and the commander who was broken through the defense line looked incredulous when he got the news.
But an Emperor-class Titan did indeed stand on the battlefield, using the various weapons it loaded to attack the Empire's astral forces and vehicles. It has massive, devastating, direct firepower.
Psionic obscuration? Stealth technology? Or something else? In any case, the appearance of an Emperor-class Titan has made the Astral Army's hope of stopping the Horrified Force very slim.
"Cowards will die! Heresy must be exhausted! No back-off! Never mercy! ”
The Astral Army's Thunderhawk gunboat received a communication from the Chaos Titans. Inside, the roar of the Sadistic Archdemon stuffed into the Titan was heard.
It is the product of the fusion of the Great Demon of Sadism and the Chaos Emperor Titan.
When its steps caused tremors on the earth, all the enemies of the Blood God shuddered.
The Chaos Titan wields fire and steel to destroy its foes, tongues of fire and smoke rising from every hatch, and the demon's unquenchable hatred burns in its depths.
His name was the Abomination.
The Abomination's primary weapon is similar to the Imperial Emperor's Titan, consisting of the Hellwind Cannon and Giant Plasma, but the secondary weapon is completely different in that it is equipped with a close-range fire weapon, the Scorpion Cannon, which is equipped with a brass scorpion tail, and several Crusher Claws to tear through the metal shells of local vehicles and Titans. And because it's a demon engine, the Abomination is also able to withstand certain psionic attacks.
This is a killing machine favored by the blood gods.
Countless Thunderhawk gunboats used their powerful weapons to attack the Emperor-class Titan, but the Abomination's Void Shield blocked all of them.
And if the Thunderhawk gunboat is hit by any Chaos Titan's attack, it will most likely be shot down from the sky or directly turned into wreckage.
The Thunderhawk gunboat was like a glass cannon in front of most Titans, with a high attack and a defense that couldn't keep up. This is also one of the reasons why the Thunderhawk gunboat obviously has such attack power, but it does not attack the Chaos Titans in the city.
The Thunderhawk gunboat's attacks are deadly to infantry units, and a threat to heavy vehicles and many Titans. However, Thunderhawk's defenses can only withstand most of the attacks from the infantry, and the attacks of some heavy vehicles and Titans are too deadly for Thunderhawk.
Thunderhawk has neither a Void Shield, nor does its armor be made of terracotta steel rather than pure gold. Moreover, in front of the Emperor-class Titans, the Thunderhawk Gunboat is not even a glass cannon, it can only be regarded as a glass rifle, and it takes many Thunderhawks to carry out continuous attacks that last for a long time to break through the Abomination's defenses.
But under the attack of the abusive forces, a thunder eagle fell from the sky. Although the artillery in the distance continued to bombard the terror forces here, the terror forces did not stop their pace at all, and went straight to the location of the artificial star.
Among the warships in orbit of the planet, Sidney, the commander-in-chief of the Astral Army, pondered for a long time, discussing with the commander of the Imperial Navy what orders to order.
I saw that the commander of the Imperial Navy shook his head again and again, but under Sidney's persuasion, he finally nodded.