Chapter II
The mechs of the Gloria guerrillas are composed of three glorious light individual mechs in a platoon, but Tom and their platoon have already reimbursed one in the last battle, and now there are only two left, he and the platoon commander, but that guy is still thinking about rushing to the front.
The word Gloria means glory in an ancient language, so the guerrillas also have the slogan "I am glory!" ”
Of course, Tom is not a man who is greedy for life and afraid of death. In fact, the fat man is a guerrilla mecha warrior with a considerable sense of honor, but he thinks that there should be no direct relationship between the senseless death of a fool on the battlefield and the glory of the warrior.
Tom came to join the Glorian guerrillas and become a democratic freedom fighter against the puppet government, in fact, because of his father.
Tom's dad is the owner of a small mech repair shop and an avid mech enthusiast. But after encountering a middle-aged divorce, Tom's father's temperament changed greatly, and he hid in the store all day to knock on those mechs, and he didn't like to deal with people, and he didn't usually talk to Tom much.
But even so, his father is Tom's only relative in this world. Tom's toddler and babbling in his early childhood all started by his father's side. Growing up in childhood, there is always a father who accompanies me.
Until that night a year ago, the Saitan Federation Army captured and secretly killed all the people in the neighborhood under the pretext of arresting rebels, and only Tom secretly escaped in the store's mech.
Tom joined the army without hesitation, vowing to overthrow the tyranny of the old warlords and re-establish a peaceful and democratic Saitan Federation!
Tom has only been in the guerrillas for less than a year, and he is an out-and-out recruit, so it is inevitable to occasionally say strange things to his companions or superiors, or even complain to relieve his boredom.
But the fat man's mecha operation level is obvious to all in the whole battalion. Because he grew up in his father's mecha repair shop since he was a child, he began to climb into the cockpit of the mecha when he was a toddler at the age of three, and regarded the mecha sent by the shop for maintenance as a toy of his childhood, so few people can reach his kind of human-machine integration operation realm.
If this guy had worked a little harder in his usual training and behaved more heroically in battle, I am afraid that he would have been promoted to an officer above the platoon level a long time ago.
But when he was not an official, Tom never cared. What he cares more about is what he can eat in the camp's canteen.
After more than an hour of running with the team while nibbling on meatloaf, Tom's mech finally reached a place about three kilometers outside the Alcatraz prison. Not far away, the thirty-eight-meter-high outer wall of the prison alloy armor shrouded in a pale blue energy defense cover had already come into view.
Since there is a large open area in front of the prison gate, even if the guerrilla armored battalion is equipped with two echo electronic mechs, which can release a strong electromagnetic interference signal to shield the prison's radar detection system, if the mecha unit continues to advance, the sentries on the prison watchtower can detect the whereabouts of dozens of mechs in the open field with the naked eye.
Once the prison guards find a large number of unidentified armed mechs approaching the prison gate, the energy cannon group equipped on the outer wall of the prison alloy armor will immediately open fire, and at the same time, the 30 cm thick prison armor gate will also be automatically locked, and a special armored regiment of the Saitan Federation Army stationed ten kilometers away nearby, a total of more than 100 military mecha will also arrive in a very short time to assist the prison guards in defense.
So as soon as they reached the edge of the open field in front of the prison gate, the mecha fighters of the guerrillas hid behind a small hill under the command of the battalion commander Xiao Ke.
Tom looked at the time, 17:35.
According to information provided by the guerrilla intelligence officers, at 17:38 this afternoon, a truck carrying supplies to the prison will leave the Alcatraz prison after unloading in the prison. When the truck leaves, the prison's energy defense cover will be temporarily closed, and the alloy armor gate will be opened at the same time to allow the truck to pass through.
This was the only chance for the partisan armored battalion to storm the prison to save people.
One Tiger III heavy four-man mech had a thick barrel removed from the back of the mech, and the other two Tiger mechs had their own turret bases and a large pile of parts removed from the back of their respective mechs.
Soon, a 125mm caliber plasma howitzer was assembled, aimed at the alloy armored gate of the Alcatraz prison, waiting for the appearance of the truck.
Tom piloted the mech to find a small hill with the most dense vegetation, and squatted in it, almost so that the platoon leader Shechter did not find him.
"You're going to fucking hide!" The platoon commander, Shecht, scolded angrily.
"Cut! A soldier who doesn't save his life is not a good soldier! Tom in the cockpit of the mech pouted, and hurried to stuff the rest of the meatloaf into his mouth.
"Those who are greedy for life and afraid of death are not good soldiers!" The platoon commander, Sheckert, held the mecha energy cannon and pestled it next to the small hill.
Regarding the platoon commander's words, the fat man who was chewing with his mouth full of oil did not think so. In the past six months since he joined the guerrillas, he has participated in several battles, and many of his comrades-in-arms have fallen.
In Tom's eyes, those guys who are self-righteous on weekdays and talk about bravery all day long don't know how to strategy at all.
They all fell down on the lying board, can they still be called good soldiers? Then it should be a martyr!
Of course, Tom didn't dare to say this in front of the platoon commander Shecht, he didn't want to be sent to the guerrilla department of the interior for censorship by the commander!
At 17:38, the blue energy defense cover that shrouded the Alcatraz prison finally dimmed, and the alloy armor door of the prison slowly opened at the same time, revealing the front of a transport truck.
In order to avoid that after the explosion of the shell, the truck was blocked in the gate and became a roadblock. The commander of the guerrilla armored battalion, Schoke, patiently waited until the rear of the truck had just left the prison gate, and the gate was not completely closed, before giving the order to open fire.
After a loud bang, the armored gate, which was not protected by the energy defense cover, was suddenly damaged by the 125mm howitzer and could no longer close automatically.
"Charge the whole army!" Tom's mech communication channel came with an order from battalion commander Shawk.
"Rush! Kill! ”
More than thirty mechs roared out of the hill and rushed in a skirmish formation towards the gate of Alcatraz Prison, three kilometers away!
The platoon leader of the second platoon, Shekett, really rushed to the front of the line. Tom sighed and followed.
Two Echo electronic mechs activated electromagnetic interference, and the attack range was spread over a five-kilometer radius. Within fifteen minutes, if not directly destroyed, the Echo Electronic Mecha is the information master of this battlefield, and no wireless signal can escape its cage. Even if Alkatraz Prison has more powerful electronic countermeasures weapons, it will only be fifteen minutes later if it can break out of the disadvantage and carry out electronic jamming and counter-suppression.
A platoon of three Glory light mechs stayed behind to protect the Echo mechas, and the remaining twenty-eight Glory mechs and three Tiger Ben heavy mechs were already like galloping horses, collectively attacking forward with a thunderous momentum!
The charge of armored combat units on the battlefield has an earth-shattering momentum! With a battlefield distance of three kilometers, it only takes tens of seconds to run at full speed under the mecha.
At the same time as the prison armor gate was blown up, the prison guards immediately reactivated the energy defense cover, and the energy cannon group on the outer wall of the prison also opened fire! The muzzle of the 205mm fortress cannon installed at the top of the prison gate let out a loud roar after a flash of blue light, and the first shell fired caused a Glory mech to explode and catch fire.
The Glory II light individual combat mecha was independently developed and produced by the Gloria guerrillas. The mecha is 5.2 meters tall, weighs 18 tons, is equipped with a 20mm energy cannon and a 6.5mm light machine gun, and is loaded with 6 mecha missiles, but the maximum armor thickness on the front is only 30mm. Once this kind of light mecha, which is known for its dexterity, is directly hit by this 205mm caliber fortress-level main gun, it will naturally end up with one shot.
In the gap between the energy filling after the main cannon of the fortress was fired, the rest of the mecha fighters of the Gloria guerrillas continued to cover and advance alternately against the overwhelming artillery fire, and almost all the energy shields of the mecha were beaten crimson, and from time to time the mecha was overturned to the ground by the shock wave of the heavy artillery, or was directly blown into a fireball by multiple shells and missiles hit at the same time.
Tom desperately followed behind the platoon commander Shechter, twisted left and right, ran in an S-shaped curve, and rushed towards the prison gate in the face of the fierce artillery fire!
Suddenly, Tom saw that the fortress cannon on top of the alloy armored outer wall of the prison opposite turned its muzzle to his side, and it was estimated that the prison guards had spotted Shechter, a charging activist, and wanted to shoot him!
In the midst of lightning and fire, Tom manipulated the mecha's mechanical leg to kick the platoon leader Shecht's mecha butt fiercely, and then he also used the inertia of the mecha charge to fly forward and fall to the ground!
"Boom!" After a blue ball of light flashed through the muzzle of the fortress cannon, a huge energy cannonball exploded on the ground where Tom and Shechter had just rushed! Platoon Commander Shecht's mech was blown up by the huge blast wave of the cannonball, and only then fell heavily to the ground.
Tom's life was not easy either, and he was swept to the ground several times by the blast wave of the cannonball. At that time, the fat man really wanted to just lie on the ground and pretend to be dead, and then get up when the battle was over.
But that's when Tom saw the last thing he wanted to see. Although the platoon commander Shechter's mecha was kicked away from behind by Tom and dodged the direct hit of the fortress cannon, it was still torn in two by the shock wave of the giant cannonball, and the blood splattered from the mecha's broken mouth suddenly stained the ground red!
Tom's eyes are cracked!