As they dispersed, the rain gradually stopped.

The four mechs moved with them, the engines roaring, and they didn't rush into the city, but waited for the engines to heat up.

The middle-aged man piloted his mech and waved his giant hand to signal them to follow, and then walked out the door himself.

Dane stepped on the pedal, and the mech took a step forward.

Basically, the operating system of all mecha is designed based on the data given by Tesla.

So no matter what kind of mecha it is, the operation template is the same.

So even if Dane had never controlled the mech, he could still know how the mech acted.

Nauda gripped the armrest of the command chair, feeling sick to his stomach every time he sat on this bumpy back and forth machine.

"You said that the control room of the mecha can't be made more comfortable, and before the fight started, people were stunned."

"It's war, Mother." Dane said helplessly, "It's not a spring outing." ”

"No, it's really a design flaw." Tesla said.

"One of the most important criteria for a mecha is the protection of the pilot.

A good shock absorption system can better protect the driver from enemy attacks, and can also make some more difficult maneuvers. ”

Dane pursed his lips and didn't refute, he knew he must not be able to refute his father.

"The cockpit of Professor Stark's mech is much more comfortable." "It's like being in your mother's arms." ”

"The teacher's mecha, even if I spend a lifetime of energy, I may not be able to catch up." Tesla muttered softly.

Hearing this, Dane looked up at him with a slight stunned look.

"You still have a teacher?"

"Of course I have teachers." Tesla rightly said, "There is no one in this world who is born to know." ”

"Does he build mechs too?" Dane said.

"That's what he taught me." Tesla said.

"But......" Dane couldn't help but say, "everyone says you're the father of mechas." ”

"I guess in the eyes of the teacher, these things I made can't be considered mecha at all." Tesla muttered softly.

"And where is he now?" He asked.

Tesla slowly raised his head to look at the night sky without stars and moons, his eyes flashing.

"Perhaps, he's watching us from somewhere up there."

In paradise......

Dane understood what Tesla meant, and didn't ask any further.

His father is not young, and his teacher is no longer a normal thing in the world.

Nauda took out a map at the moment, and she was tasked with observing the hand, but also navigating it.

She's very good at ranging, so it's not too hard for her.

The map showed four routes to the port, and the road they were going to take was marked in red.

Four mechs walked ahead of them, moving separately to avoid unnecessary suspicion.

But they must reach their destination at the same time.

The map also marked the location of the remaining dozens of mechs, which should have entered combat positions an hour ago.

Nauda didn't know if there were any spies on these people, and maybe someone had already exchanged their plan for gold bars from the Tsar.

However, she was certain that the plan to attack the warship must have been unknown to anyone, because she didn't know what they were going to do until just now.

They quickly walked through the empty streets of St. Petersburg, their mechs spray-painted with the insignia of the Russian patrol.

At night, the patrol often patrols with mechs, so the residents around it are not surprised.

The buildings in the suburbs were thinning out, and as they passed by a dark inn, they saw curious glances from the windows.

It won't be long before someone wonders how the mechs came to the outskirts.

But they're so close to their goal that they can't think about it anymore.

The horizon gradually rises, and as the cliffs approach, the rocks gradually increase.

The night view of the city appears in the rear observation window of the mecha, and it is very gorgeous under the dark night sky.

Hundreds of masts and chimneys stood in the dark waters, and their Zeus ships were hidden beneath these civilian ships.

When there were still a few hundred meters from the warship, a searchlight suddenly swept through the darkness.

Nauda narrowed his eyes slightly, and they saw the metal torso and the silhouette of the muzzle.

It's a mecha of Tsarist Russia.

"Distance?" Tesla asked calmly.

"About a thousand yards. Well, nine hundred meters. Nauda said.

Tesla nodded and pulled down the lever. They heard a click, and some massive metal creature slipped into a designated place.

The metal object was so heavy that even they in the cockpit could feel the weight.

"You do choose mechs." Tesla said,

"The German-made 88mm gun, dual-wielded, was originally built for air defense, but later found to be especially useful for attacking heavily armored units.

The reason why this mecha was not mass-produced should also be because of this cannon. ”

Dane also increased the engine to allow the mech to react quickly.

The man on the mech on the other side was shouting at them with a megaphone. There was more curiosity than anger in the tone.

They clearly did not expect the enemy to enter St. Petersburg either, and they were sprayed with their emblems.

"Reloaded, ready to fire!" Tesla Road.

"Wait a minute." Nauda looked at the range meter on this mecha, this mecha has not experienced much actual combat, so the range indicated above is the product of calculation and estimation.

Until the first shell hits the ground, no one can say exactly how far the real range will be.

The hands finally pointed to 900 meters......

"Fire!" Nauda shouted.

"Hold on, the recoil may be great!"

With that, Tesla pulled the trigger, and a cannonball blasted out of the Iron Golem's palm.

"Boom!"

The Iron Golem's leg structure is prepared for these two cannons, so there are many supports in the rear.

With a loud bang, dust flew from beneath the Iron Golem, ripples spread in all directions, and the huge recoil made the entire mecha tremble.

Nauda, Tesla, and the others only felt their stomachs turn upside down, but they quickly got used to it.

The shell landed about forty meters away from the mech, and the stone on one side was shattered.

"It's not a big difference." "I'm going to shoot next time." ”

Tesla proceeded to lift the loading ammunition lever.

"Watch out for evasive moves, they'll probably hit back right away."

"I'm pretty good at evasive maneuvers." Dane said.

"This one shot is enough to destroy this mecha." Tesla muttered softly.

But the next moment, the main cannon of the opposite mecha also made a loud noise, and a cannonball flew over their heads. The explosion came a few seconds later, shaking the soles of the Iron Golem's feet.

"They missed!" Dane shouted, "But this time they're going to calibrate too." Can we fire? ”

"Wait!" Nauda watched the rising pointer. The hand scale is more than 900 meters, but a margin of 40 meters is needed.

"Fire!" She finally shouted.

Smoke erupted from the palm of the giant arm again, and the entire cabin leaned back, dusty. As the cannonball fired, he steered the mech in stride.

Through the violently shaking observation window, Nauda saw a mech cut through the front of a cannonball, and then lost its balance and fell to the ground.

"Hit!" Nauda shouted.

However, the pilot of the other mech pulled the trigger - the main turret opened fire again, and the dust around the mech was swirled into a swirl by the shells. With a loud bang, the shells flew almost over their heads.

The mechs swayed back and forth in the explosion—the shells landed roughly where they had been standing.

If it weren't for Dane moving the mech forward at full speed, they would have lost their combat ability by now.

Dane controlled the mech to move forward at full speed, and the machine gun on the opposite mech also fired, and the road ahead kicked up puffs of dust, and then there was the sound of bullets hitting metal, which was very harsh.

"What should I do?" Dane shouted.

Tesla's eyes searched the panel, and suddenly, he seemed to have found something, raised his hand and pressed a button.

With his movements, the joints on the Iron Golem's body erupted with surging steam, which directly enveloped the entire mecha, and even covered all sides, obscuring the sight of those mechs.

The mechs still didn't stop firing, but instead poured bullets into the thick fog of steam. But apparently, it was simply difficult to hit the target after being obscured by a dense fog.

After a round of shooting, they stopped, in order to save bullets.

But suddenly, with a heavy sound, the Iron Golem rushed out of the thick fog, and before they could react, the Iron Golem rushed directly in front of them.

The exhaust vent at the end of the Iron Golem spewed a thick black fog, indicating that the mech's engine was running at an overloaded high speed.

The upper body of these mechs on the opposite side is similar to that of a tank, but the lower body is like a spider's foot, and the balance is far less than that of a tracked tank.

When the Iron Golem rushed to them, it directly opened its big hands that seemed to be wearing boxing gloves and slammed into the two mechs.

The mechs lost their balance for a moment and fell to the ground, apparently trying to struggle, and the Iron Golem apparently wouldn't give them time to react.

As they fell to the ground, steam gushed from the joints of the giant hands, slowly lifted them back, and then burst out.

"Boom!"

With the sound of heavy metal tearing, several mechanical clans under the mecha were deformed by their smashing and directly lost their mobility.

Tesla, Dane and others in the cab breathed a sigh of relief, and then Tesla complained.

"In recent years, those scientists have become a bit superstitious about multi-legged mechas."

"And that's not because of you." Dane said.

"I originally set up the farm machine to be multi-footed because it was convenient for multi-terrain cultivation and increased the area of arable land.

The Hercules frigate was designed to be multi-legged because of its long size and stable center of gravity. And there are enough technical advantages to compensate for the disadvantage of multi-legged, so as to gain more terrain combat advantages and flexibility.

But it's stupid that they also designed this kind of mecha to be multi-legged and top-heavy. ”

"Beichen doesn't have this type of mecha."

"You'll know if you've been to Beichen, their terrain is much more complicated. But most of the country is plain, and the crawler is not better than Duozu? ”

Dane nodded, then continued, "What about the others?" ”

Nauda leaned out of the observation window and quickly noticed three smoke marks under the stars.

"It's all there! Almost two kilometers or so. ”

But then, she saw the armored ship from Germany in the dark sea, which was a strategic cruiser weighing 24,000 tons and about 186.5 meters long.

At the beginning of the war, the ship was presented to Nicholas II by Kaiser Wilhelm II as a gift for an alliance, and it was loaded with gyrocopters and many combat weapons, with a range sufficient to cover St. Petersburg.

At the same time, she also saw the red dot shining in the night sky—it was a flying machine, and through the binoculars, she could barely see that it was an airship.

It was also the German Zeppelin, which had the advantage of being in the air longer and higher than the fighter.

At most, the fighters of this era were equipped with machine guns, and there were no cannons. The skeleton of the airboat ensures that it can maintain the stability of the structure even if a bullet pierces multiple airbags.

Moreover, the performance of underground anti-aircraft artillery of this era was average, and it was very difficult to shoot down airships. It also carries a much higher number of bombs than ordinary warplanes, and as long as it is placed there, it is a ruthless bomb throwing machine. It is the main combat weapon of this era.

Therefore, even if the warship is destroyed and the airship is still alive, it will be difficult for these mechs to achieve real success.

The battle has just begun. (End of chapter)