Chapter Eighty-Nine: Ambush (I)
Twenty-seven skeleton mechs, on the orders of Colonel Takahashi Ryuhei, began to slowly search and advance in this large forest from the early hours of the morning.
Squadron Leader, Major Mizutani Hayabusa, has been at the front of the line.
Before the Vilia Empire's invasion of the Saitan Federation began, Mizutani Hayabusa was an associate professor of armored guerrilla warfare at the First Military Academy of the Imperial Army, and had very rich experience in mecha jungle warfare.
Originally, Mizutani Hayabusa planned to stay in the Imperial Military Academy for the rest of his life, but he didn't expect that just a week before the start of the battle on Basel, Major General Hashimoto Naoto directly found the leaders of the academy and transferred Mizutani Hayabusa to his wing as a military adviser. Not long after, Major General Naoto Hashimoto transferred Mizutani Hayabusa to the mecha squadron directly under his nephew, Colonel Takahashi Ryuhei, and has been the leader of this skeleton mecha squadron since then.
After arriving at Takahashi's brigade, although in the ground battle of the Blood Wolf Legion to occupy the planet of Base, Mizutani Hayabusa also participated in several ground battles against the Saitan Federation Army with Colonel Takahashi, but none of them were too outstanding.
Because at that time, the Vilia Imperial Army had completely occupied the air supremacy of Basel, and those battles were basically based on aerial bombardment, and the ground aircraft and infantry coordinated frontal combat, but Major Mizutani Hayabusa was an expert in mecha guerrilla warfare, so basically there was nothing to give him the opportunity to play his strengths.
However, Major Mizutani's military career, which was supposed to be uneventful, was completely shattered after last night's annihilation and siege of the Gloria guerrillas!
In the end, the encirclement and annihilation battle ended in an extremely unseemly way that Colonel Takahashi's command mecha was attacked by the enemy, which not only made Colonel Takahashi himself feel insulted, but even Major Mizutani Hayabusa felt very annoyed!
When the guerrilla mecha was climbing the hill to carry out a sneak attack, Major Mizutani's skeleton mecha was standing next to Colonel Takahashi's command mecha.
However, Major Mizutani Hayabusa's mecha piloting operation level was not an outstanding top master in the Imperial No. 1 Military Academy, so he failed to stop the guerrilla mecha from sneaking attack in the first place, and finally could only watch it smash the alloy ion light knife into Colonel Takahashi's command mecha, and then jumped off the cliff to escape.
After the guerrilla mecha succeeded in the sneak attack, Major Mizutani Hayato knew that he was seriously derelict in his duty as a guard and guard, and he would have to face the wrath of the two commanders at the same time, Major General Hashimoto Naoto and Colonel Takahashi Ryuhei, and it was very likely that they would be sent to the Imperial Military Court for accountability!
And at the root of it all is that damn guerrilla mech!
After the sneak attack, Major Mizutani Hayabusa, who was holding back the nameless ghost fire in his stomach and was in frustration, after receiving the order from Colonel Takahashi asking him to immediately lead the team to pursue, was eager to grasp this only life-saving straw, and he couldn't wait to catch the hateful sneak attacker immediately, so as to give himself a chance to atone for his crimes!
So after receiving the order, Major Mizutani Hayabusa immediately took his squadron of skeleton mechs and viciously plunged into the woods where the guerrilla mechs had fled.
Although Major Mizutani Hayabusa is not very good at mecha piloting and operation, he has an extraordinary stunt, which is also the capital that he can get the title of associate professor at the First Military Academy of the Empire before he is forty years old, that is, field tracking in armored warfare!
As a mecha guerrilla warfare expert who is also well-known in the Vilia Imperial Army, Major Mizutani Hayabusa, who has just turned thirty-nine this year, relies on his unique stunt!
When Major Mizutani confidently led his squadron of skeleton mechs into this large forest, even if it was still night and the light was not too good, he quickly discovered the traces left by the guerrilla mechs after they escaped, and then he led his squadron mechs to chase them all the way.
When the sky was just getting bright, and with the first rays of the morning sun, Major Mizutani's mecha squadron followed Tom's team and chased out of the woods.
Looking at the endless prairie in front of him, Major Mizutani Hayabusa sneered.
Now he was very sure that those guerrilla mechs had entered the prairie in front of him, because there were still a few very clear mecha footprints on the ground just under his mecha feet.
Major Mizutani recognized that these footprints were all left by the Glory Mechs of the Gloria Guerrillas, and his mech squadron had fought against these Guerrillas' Glory Mechs in the nearby interstellar cities when the Blood Wolf Legion had just begun its purging operation on the planet's surface on Basel, so he was very familiar with them.
Major Mizutani carefully inspected the traces left by the guerrilla mechs at the edge of the grassland, and then gave the order to his mechs to enter the grassland in the squadron's combat channel.
Tracking mechs on the grassland, even the visual distance of the human eye is much wider, not to mention a field mecha guerrilla warfare expert like Major Mizutani Hayabusa! It's much easier for him to spot the traces left by the mechs on the grasslands than it is to track them in the woods!
So Major Mizutani ordered his squadron of skeleton mechs to speed up their advance.
Hard work pays off!
More than an hour later, Major Mizutani Hayabusa really spotted the signal of the guerrilla mecha from his mecha radar! He thought that today should be his lucky day, and after just a few hours of tracking, he could easily catch up with those escaped guerrilla mechs, and among them must be the damn tattered mecha that attacked Colonel Takahashi!
Catch him, take him back and dedicate him to Colonel Takahashi Ryuhei, at least you can atone for yourself!
Although Major Mizutani noticed that the radar virtual screen now showed four mechs instead of the three when he escaped last night, he didn't think it would affect the overall situation. Because his squadron now has twenty-seven skeleton mechas, almost seven to one, he Mizutani Falcon is still very rich in this battle!
With the signal of the radar detector, indicating that the four guerrilla mechs were no more than five kilometers away from his squadron, Major Mizutani Hayabusa immediately ordered his mecha squadron to move at full speed towards the target!
It didn't take long for Major Mizutani to lead his team to catch up with the four guerrilla mechs. However, what made him feel strange was that these four mechs had not continued to escape in the last ten minutes, as if they had been specially parked there waiting for his mecha squadron to arrive.
The radar detector on the skeleton mech showed that the four guerrilla mechs were now less than two kilometers in front, but from the mecha's electronic telescope, there was no trace of them.
Want to fight an ambush? Major Mizutani sneered again.
In such an empty prairie, with only four mechs, they want to fight the ambush of one of their own mecha squadrons, these guerrilla rebels are simply whimsical! It seems that those four guerrilla mechs have now been chased to the point of desperation by themselves!
Major Mizutani once again observed the surrounding terrain, and it was indeed an unobstructed meadow, with no place to hide, let alone a steep pass to concentrate his fire. There were only a few small haystacks two kilometers ahead, and Major Mizutani estimated that the four guerrilla mechs might be hiding there at this time.
He immediately ordered his squadron of skeleton mechs to slowly advance forward in a fan formation, as long as the distance was shortened a little more, he would give an order, and strive for twenty-seven skeleton mechs to go up and charge down, and he could take down all four damn guerrilla mechs!
At the same time, the test machine No. 2 and the three Glory mechs hiding in the pit were also nervously staring at the twenty-seven skeleton mechs two kilometers away in front of them, and were slowly entering the ambush circle under Tom.
Bai Jie, Hank, and the others seem to have understood Tom's tactics by now. They guessed that Tom was trying to wait for the Imperial Army's skeleton mechs to fall into the hidden pits in the grass before beating the Reservoir Dogs. To be honest, this trick is vicious enough.
The radar showed that those skeleton mechs were still at a position of about two thousand meters, and the four mecha on his side just now were no more than four hundred meters away, so Bai Jie, Mike and Emma were just staring at the radar virtual display screen now, and they did not start to prepare for aiming.
"Mecha missile aiming ready, choose the target freely!" But at this time, the voice of the fat man came from the communication channel.
"Why don't you get them closer and fight them again?" Bai Jie first raised doubts.
"You know the! Obey orders! Tom scolded in the communication channel.
Bah! Bai Jie took a bite in his heart, gritted his teeth and secretly swore that when this battle was over, he would definitely repair this lawless dead fat man.
No matter what Bai Jie thought now, Emma and Mike immediately carried out Tom's order at this time. They quickly manipulated the electronic sights in their mechs to find targets for the remaining airborne missiles on their mechs.
A few minutes later, Major Mizutani's mecha squadron finally slowly appeared about a thousand meters in front of Tom and them.
Now that he knew that the opponent was going to ambush, Major Mizutani was very careful now. He didn't choose to blindly push the team forward, but cautiously and slowly approached the target.
I've been chasing for hours, and I'm not missing this last bit of time, so you must be patient! Major Mizutani said to himself secretly.
Just when Bai Jie thought that Tom would have to put those skeleton mechs closer before giving the order to fire, Tom's voice suddenly came from the communication channel, "All mecha missiles are fired!" Fast! ”
Without the slightest hesitation, Emma and Mike, who had already locked on to their targets, pressed the launch switches of all mech missiles at the same moment they heard Tom's shout.
In an instant, thirteen mecha missiles dragged a long tail light and roared towards the twenty-seven skeleton mechs in front!