Chapter 143: Barrier
From the discovery of the Imperial Army's mecha missile locking itself and starting to launch, to Tom's brain nerve reaction, there is only a fraction of a second of lightning in between!
Tom, who didn't have time to warn the side, could only manipulate the test machine No. 2 to pounce on the four guerrilla mechs next to him at that moment!
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble...... ”
In the blink of an eye, dozens of airborne missiles launched by the Imperial Army mechs exploded the area where the guerrilla mechs were located into a sea of fire, and the scene was full of flames and thick smoke!
Looking at the large area outside the interstellar city energy defense shield that had been blown up, the corners of Colonel Iizuka's mouth finally showed a sinister smile.
Under this carpet-covered saturation attack of dozens of missiles at the same time, even the ground had to be sliced off by a violent explosion, let alone those damn guerrilla mechs. Colonel Iizuka nodded with great satisfaction, and then prepared to order his men to close the group.
But at this time, after the smoke of the explosion slowly dissipated, Colonel Iizuka and his Imperial Army mecha soldiers were very surprised to see that in the thick black smoke and dust, there seemed to be a shadow of a mecha!
Colonel Iizuka rubbed his eyes vigorously, widened his eyes and looked at them carefully for a long time, and finally confirmed that he was not dazzled, and indeed a mecha stood up! Immediately after, behind the somewhat dwarf-looking mecha, one guerrilla mecha after another also climbed up from the dusty ground. After the smoke and dust cleared a little more, Colonel Iizuka found dozens of figures next to the mechs.
That's impossible!
It's absolutely impossible!
Under the carpet-covered saturation attack just now, there should never be any mechs that can stand up, they should all be blown into a pile of scrap metal! What's more, there are still living people next to those mechas who are completely unprotected!
Colonel Iizuka couldn't believe his eyes! Beside him, the Imperial Army soldiers in dozens of Imperial Army mechs also opened their mouths wide, staring blankly at the strange scene in front of them!
Theoretically speaking, Colonel Iizuka's judgment just now is not at all problematic, and it should indeed be completely correct. Under the concentrated fire of dozens of Imperial Army mecha missiles, not to mention living people in that area, even military mechs equipped with super strong alloy armor could not survive! They should have been blown up into a pile of scrap iron and rotten meat in no man's land!
But a theory can only be a theory, and there is a contingency in everything. It's just that the probability of this kind of occurrence is very, very small!
Just now, at the most tense and dangerous moment of life and death, when Tom was manipulating the test machine No. 2 towards the four guerrilla mechs beside him, he saw that there was a huge pit in the middle of a large pile of rocks right next to them!
At that time, Tom didn't have time to think about it, so he pushed the four guerrilla mechs next to him, along with the logistics personnel and family members on the two dead tree trunks, into the pit, and then he himself manipulated the test machine No. 2 to lie on top of them, resisting most of the shock wave damage caused by the explosion of the missile for them!
In fact, there was another factor at the scene, which also reduced the power of the missile cluster when the guerrillas exploded, so that they had the possibility of survival.
That is, outside the interstellar city energy defense shield in Auckrantis City, in the no-man's land known as the Absolute Forbidden Land of Death, there is no oxygen at all! As we all know, in the composition of the atmosphere of the Basel star, the content of oxygen is very scarce, which greatly reduces the effectiveness of solid fuels that rely entirely on oxygen to combust, and at the same time, it also makes the missile cluster that completely relies on solid explosives to detonate to physically attack, and does not completely release the power of explosion! This is very disadvantageous for the attacking side!
The thin oxygen not only had a huge impact on the combustion of the missile's solid fuel, but also greatly reduced their attack speed, giving the test plane No. 2 a chance to fly up and save people. And the thin oxygen also greatly limits the power of the missile explosion! If the same mecha missile explodes inside the interstellar city energy defense cover, and if it explodes in the uninhabited area outside, the lethality caused by it is completely different!
It was these two natural factors, coupled with Tom's swift reaction and bravery, that allowed the four guerrilla mechs and dozens of logistics personnel and their families to escape!
Of course, not everyone is unharmed. After this violent explosion, the four guerrilla mechs were all damaged to varying degrees, and the back armor of Tom's test plane No. 2 was even more shattered by the shock wave of the missile explosion, but fortunately it did not cause fundamental damage! The thickness of the armor of the Tester 2 has always been a mystery, and although it doesn't look as heavy as those heavy mechs, every time a powerful attack hits its fuselage, it never deals fatal damage!
In addition, more than a dozen guerrilla logisticians and their families died in the violent explosion of the missile swarm. Some of them were directly shocked to death by the shock wave of the explosion! Some of them were killed by the flying stones when they fell into the pit! There are a few more unlucky ones, whose protective suits were torn by the shock wave in the explosion, causing a serious leakage of oxygen and suffocating to death!
In any case, the five mechs of the guerrillas were retained, and most of the unarmed logistics personnel and their families survived, which is also the best result that everyone can accept!
At this time, all the guerrillas stood in place, staring fiercely at the Imperial Army inside the energy defense shield of the interstellar city in the distance.
The big guys secretly swore in their hearts that one day, the Gloria guerrillas would definitely fight back!
Every guerrilla fighter who sacrifices himself on this steppe today must not die in vain, and the blood debt must be paid in blood!
Enduring their grief, the guerrillas, with the assistance of five mechs, hastily buried the bodies of their comrades, and set out again on their journey to the secret base in Doha.
Behind them, the Iizuka Mecha Brigade, which was still in the interstellar city energy defense cover in Oakland City, watched as the guerrillas climbed onto the mechs one after another after burying the corpses, and gradually moved away from them.
Now that all the airborne missiles on the Imperial mechs have been emptied, they have no weapons left to inflict damage on the fleeing guerrillas.
Seeing the damned partisans swaggering away like that, Colonel Iizuka's eyes were about to burst into flames. But no matter how much he wanted to rush forward and kill people now, it was impossible for him to kill again, and this time the energy shield of the interstellar city completely separated them from the guerrillas.
In the end, Colonel Iizuka could only choose to retreat very helplessly.
Waiting for him back is probably the harshest punishment from the military tribunal of the Vilia Empire!
Because of the entire fully staffed mecha brigade, there are more than 100 light and heavy armed mechas, and now there are less than 50 left, and the combat power of the entire mecha brigade has lost more than half!
The most important thing is that His Royal Highness Tokugawa Saori was seriously injured by the guerrillas in this pursuit battle, and now his life and death are unknown!