Chapter 34: The Battle of Rydberg (2)

At 7:15 a.m. Haydn time on November 30, 2083, the assault on the Rydberg area officially began.

More than 4,000 Sbee drones, each carrying two L-2 missiles and a machine gun, scanned every piece of the ground and killed an enemy if it spotted it.

The buzzing of bees woke the mountains, and the bewildered hedgehog woke up from its hibernation and rolled out of the crypt with a grunt; The nimble squirrel sprang out of the hollow of the tree, holding the acorn and staring blankly at the sky. What a miracle this huge fleet is for them.

"3 km, 2 km, 1 km...... Sir, enemy aircraft have entered the effective range of the laser array. A soldier reported.

"Launch drones and form a predetermined queue at an altitude of 90 meters to ensure that all teams are within range." Colonel Wayne ordered.

400 portable short-range drones soared from the bottom of the sinkhole, and then quickly divided into 16 teams to form a combat queue.

One of the operators had sweaty palms and trembling hands. In the face of such a huge fleet, it is difficult to calm down anyone. The first wave of the swarm tactics was the deterrent effect of the huge battle.

Wayne saw his nervousness, so he walked up to him and whispered, "It's okay, just do what Blake taught us."

On Olympus's side, in the fleet control hall, the operators did not expect that Blake and his party would have drones, but it didn't matter, with their numerical superiority, they were confident that they could solve the battle in three minutes.

Lawrence and Morant stood at the back of the hall overseeing the battle. It was only at this moment that Lawrence understood that this siege was carefully planned by Morant in order to eradicate the Black Division along with the resistance forces on Earth. This huge pocket has begun to tighten from the moment Black enters the inner solar system. Only then did he realize how reckless his previous behavior of repeatedly asking for an expeditionary force to form an expeditionary force and take the initiative to attack, and he couldn't help but admire Morant so much.

"Look, the last resistance army on earth has become a turtle in an urn. I've laid out all the games for you, and this last battle was designed by you personally, and I'm waiting to see what you can do. Morant said. Lawrence is his most capable subordinate, and after following him for so many years, it should be a little glory of his own.

"Report! Oh no, the enemy's UAVs have electromagnetic interference capabilities, and our radars are all out of service! One operator exclaimed.

"What?!" Lawrence's brain was dazed.

I saw that all the radar displays had become a snowflake screen, the guidance system was completely blind, and more than 4,000 drones were almost all offline in an instant, no matter how the operator sent instructions, there was no response.

There was an immediate uproar in the control hall, and a large group of electronics engineers rushed everywhere to try to reboot the system and restore the connection, but to no avail. The signal transmission is blocked, the effective information is completely covered by noise, and some signals even encounter reverse electromagnetic waves, and the entire band is completely phased out.

It turned out that since the battle took place in the area controlled by Olympus, the entire armed forces did not think about the possible electronic warfare at all, and they did not even think that Blake and his party would have a decent electromagnetic interference instrument. As a result, there is not a single electronic warfare aircraft among the 4,000 UAVs.

Morant's face sank, he gave such an important task to Lawrence, he didn't expect him to make such a low-level mistake. Morant called the staff officer and whispered a few words in his ear, and the staff officer began to relay instructions to the other armed guards.

Lawrence came to his senses, thought for a moment, and remained optimistic. The fact that they lost contact with the fleet does not mean that the fleet has lost its combat capability. Olympus's drones have automatic combat capabilities, and when they are unmanned, they will continue to attack according to the predetermined tactics calculated by artificial intelligence.

The chaotic fleet was quickly restored, the missiles were activated, the machine guns were loaded, all radars were deactivated, and optical aiming was changed; All UAVs are formed in a formation of four aircraft, one of which is used for communication and the remaining three for attack, and the neural network established can play a temporary role in the dispatch of artificial intelligence in the swarm.

At this moment, beams of lasers suddenly shot from all over the surface, and the peripheral drones were powerless to parry and were roasted into charcoal. More than two dozen laser arrays form a network of crossfire, trapping the drone swarm firmly in it.

At the same time, 400 drones located on the front also began to attack. In an instant, hundreds of missiles flew towards the swarm, turning into flames in the air, burrowing the swarm into a big hole at once. The formation that the Olympus drones had just established was disrupted again, and the artificial intelligence of the swarm lost its scheduling ability due to node destruction, and now, all drones could only fight on their own.

There is a 30-second window before the swarm can build an effective neural network again, which will be Colonel Wayne's hunting moment.

"All missiles are launched, don't skimp on ammunition!" Colonel Wayne ordered.

At the sound of the order, more than 300 missiles surged out, and Olympus's drone had not recovered from the attack just now, and it was too late to dodge, and it collided with the oncoming missile. Ground-based laser arrays are also still being fired, and countless people have been damaged and shot down in the group.

In just five minutes, more than 900 "Bee" drones were reimbursed. On the bushes, on the riverbed, on the moss...... There were scattered debris everywhere.

"It's not good, a drone broke through the fire network at 7 o'clock!" One soldier reported.

Looking in his direction, sure enough, more than a dozen four-plane formations broke through the blockade and rushed towards the laser array almost close to the ground.

"Everyone into the cave, quick!" Colonel Wayne hurriedly ordered. He is well aware that there is only one other drone swarm that can fight against the drone swarm, and humans are no match for these killing machines at all.

But it was still a step too late, more than 60 drones carpet bombed the ground, and more than 100 missiles directly bulldozed a 30-meter-high hillock. More than a dozen soldiers who did not have time to hide in the cave were blown to pieces and died with no place to be buried.

More and more "Bee" UAVs have successfully penetrated the defense, and the situation on the battlefield has gradually reversed. One by one, the laser arrays on the surface were destroyed, and 400 portable short-range drones on the front began to suffer casualties. The Olympus UAV swarm successfully stabilized the situation, they once again built a temporary neural network internally with their numerical superiority, the artificial intelligence of the swarm was back in effect, and the remaining more than 2,000 UAVs were subject to unified scheduling, and the swarm tactics finally began to exert its true power.

The attack command was generated, and more than 1,000 L-2 missiles were fired at the same time, and from the ground to the sky within a radius of tens of kilometers, they were instantly shrouded in gunsmoke. The more than 300 drones in Colonel Wayne's hands were all reduced to powder almost in a second.

Immediately afterward, a second wave of more than 1,000 missiles struck again, and the entire surface of the earth was reduced to hell. Broken tree trunks and burnt branches were everywhere, and two or three meters of soil had been turned upside down, and this place that once belonged to a paradise for flora and fauna no longer exists.

"All retreat south!" Colonel Wayne ordered. The battle here is over, and they have managed to destroy more than 1,500 Olympus drones with a 1:10 ratio of enemy and enemy forces, and they have played a 1:3 exchange ratio, which can be said to be very successful.

The rumble of armored units was heard in the distance.

"Now, it's Anna's turn." Colonel Wayne muttered.