From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars

Chapter 90 The mantis stalks the cicada, but the oriole follows behind

"What?! The captain's plane was destroyed?!"

After hearing the news, both 'Brimstone' and 'Saber' couldn't believe it.

But when the battlefield information was updated and they saw that the captain's aircraft icon in the squad list had turned gray, they had to accept this reality.

"What happened to the 'Werewolf'? What happened to Captain?"

"We met a fourth-level psyker, who should be a federal psionic agent!"

Even across the communication channel, Saber and Brimstone heard a hint of panic from the pilot who was the captain's wingman.

"This psionic agent is a little different. He seems to be very familiar with the tactics of fighting HCP. He is even stronger than the imaginary enemy we encountered during anti-psionic combat training!"

The words of his teammates made the Saber a little unbelievable.

"How could there be such people on such a frontier agricultural planet?"

"I don't know, but when the captain faced him, he didn't even have the strength to fight back."

Ten minutes ago, northeast of Lanwan City.

When Amber reunited with part of the combined battalion that invaded the city and completed the tactical network, he led his soldiers to accompany the troop on the left side of the street.

Then, the friendly forces walking on the main road soon encountered a temporary defense line composed of infantry and "Holy Spirit" light multi-legged combat vehicles.

These orbital paratroopers hid in street corners and buildings on both sides of the street, while the multi-legged tanks maintained a 'low-lying ambush' mode, with rear turrets poking out from behind some obstacles.

Facing the cross fire they formed, the mobile infantry who originally advanced along both sides of the street quickly retreated after leaving several corpses behind.

Instead, there were two MH4-A4 ‘Mammoth’ heavy-duty multi-legged tanks coming up from the top.

These eight-legged monsters weighing more than 80 tons rushed directly to the front of the advancing formation with their bionic mechanical feet firmly on their feet.

Several anti-vehicle missiles were almost stuck to the ground, flying out from the street with a curved trail, and then immediately flew high towards the head of the Mammoth.

The two electromagnetic close-in defense cannons above the turret of the heavy multi-legged tank opened fire quickly, destroying two of them in a flash of lightning.

However, the remaining anti-vehicle missiles still broke through the interception and flew towards the more fragile top armor.

Unfortunately, the electromagnetic arc light that lit up around the heavy multi-legged chariot made this attack destined to be a useless effort. The electromagnetic vortex formed by the deflection force field directly pushed away the few fish that slipped through the net and detonated them.

Like the main battle tanks, these heavy multi-legged tanks have enough space, allowing federal designers to stuff deflection field generators inside.

Facing the 'Mammoth' advancing like a fortress, several 'Holy Spirit' light multi-legged tanks did not retreat directly. Instead, they raised the rear turret from behind the obstacle and aimed the 120mm electrothermal chemical cannon. past.

"Boom boom boom!"

The sound of continuous firing came, but it failed to stop the advancement of the 'Mammoth'.

Compared with charged particle attacks, the fin-stabilized armor-piercing projectiles fired by the 120mm electrothermal chemical cannon are actually not easy to use deflection fields for defense.

Because these armor-piercing rounds are purely kinetic attacks, deflection fields can only be defended by twisting them away.

But the deflection field generators of these two Mammoths were powerful enough to be almost immune to direct fire from kinetic energy artillery with a caliber of 120 mm and below.

After being attacked for several rounds in a row, the crew of the ‘Mammoth’ was no longer passively beaten.

One of the 'Mammoth' heavy-duty multi-legged tanks, amidst the buzzing sound of charging, a blue light glowed between the rectangular barrels on the turret that was divided into two parts.

Directly in front of it, in the cockpits of the Empire's light multi-legged tanks, the words 'High magnetic field response detected! ’ warning, but it was still a step too late. When the Mammoth gunner pressed the fire button, the next moment, thunder came.

Everyone only felt an orange-red line of fire flash past, and the bodies of the three Holy Spirits that were originally attached to the wall and started to retreat disappeared.

What followed was a shock wave comparable to a super hurricane, which directly blew away the remaining mechanical legs of the three multi-legged tanks, and also swept away several surrounding orbital paratroopers.

After that, there was a sonic boom that caused all the windows of the buildings on both sides of the street to burst, and even the outer walls to crack.

This is the 'Mammoth' series of heavy multi-legged combat vehicles. After upgrading the main gun to a 15-meter electromagnetic reconnection gun, it can shoot at full power.

After it finished firing, another Mammoth, which had not been upgraded or modified, turned its turret and pointed its 152mm main gun at the window of a building.

Its sensors had just discovered many Imperial soldiers hiding inside.

With the roar of the 'Mammoth', a 152mm programmed high-explosive anti-personnel bomb was accurately sent into the target window.

When the artillery shell explodes in a closed environment such as indoors, it doesn't even need to rely on fragments to kill.

The instant overpressure caused by the explosion of the large-caliber shell directly killed the Imperial soldiers hiding in the building and several civilians who had not had time to escape.

After two shots, the temporary defense line of the Imperial troops was instantly torn apart, and the surviving Imperial soldiers began to retreat.

The federal motorized infantry, which was originally hidden, passed by both sides of the two Mammoths and rushed forward.

But at this moment, there was a loud sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.

At the street intersection that had been cleared, an Imperial Zealot landed after a short sprint and glided in carrying the deployed heavy particle cannon under the influence of inertia.

The moment this silver-white steel giant appeared at the intersection, the several mobile infantrymen rushing at the front were burned through their visors by the close-range laser gun turrets on both sides of its head monitor.

The two 'Mammoth' heavy-duty multi-legged tanks that had just finished shooting were being reloaded at the moment.

The captains of the two vehicles knew that it was too late to reload when they saw the fanatic's first reaction.

So they immediately turned on the power of the deflection field generator to the highest level and asked the driver to lower the body.

However, their actions were only half done, and the next second the entire cockpit was covered with sharp warnings.

As the Zealot's heavy particle cannon's muzzle flashed with a white light, the jet of heavy metal particles spurted out hit one of the Mammoths almost as soon as it fired.

The turret of the heavy multi-legged chariot was instantly covered in dazzling white light, but these crazy twisting arcs did not last even for one second.

The heavy metal particle jet penetrated the deflection force field and easily melted the 'Mammoth' turret, and also destroyed a house behind it.

The jets of heavy metal particles that were deflected by the deflection force field also splashed around the Mammoth, causing additional damage to nearby buildings and the mobile infantry on both sides.

In this showdown between spear and shield, power and power, the heavy particle cannon that can be used to attack battleships outside the atmosphere easily won the victory.

But the destroyed ‘Mammoth’ gave its teammates a chance to attack.

The upgraded 'Mammoth' took the opportunity to complete the heat dissipation of the reconnection cannon and the reloading of the special alloy rod.

The superconducting battery pack also completed the re-energization of the reconnection gun almost within the limit of time.

(End of this chapter)