Chapter 549 Edison

Not long after the drone was killed, the intelligence officer reported a bad news. The three early warning drones over the battlefield were detonated by the opponent's aerospace fighters, and the reconnaissance satellites in the space orbit facing the "Aquias" Lake area successively Lost contact, the monitoring of the frontline battlefield has almost dropped to 0 points, and only 2 reconnaissance drones have not been killed by the enemy's air defense firepower because of their position.

As soon as the intelligence agent finished speaking, another intelligence agent stood up behind him and transferred a roughly edited combat image taken by frontline soldiers to the main monitor in the command room.

Groups of spheres filled with lightning fell from the sky. They were different from the plasma spheres blasted by siege tanks. They were surrounded by silver-white arcs, like crystal spheres woven with many silver threads. They were very beautiful and charming... It's also deadly.

When they landed on the ground, they exploded into a ball of flames, the vegetation turned into ashes, the soil layer collapsed, and the billowing flames rolled like waves. The shock waves could blow away the infantry wearing the "Wind Silver Wolf" power armor, and light armored vehicles like the "Mustang" chariot. Hit by the silver ball, the high-energy lightning exploded into a dazzling grid, the middle sphere was smashed to pieces, and then a little silver shrank suddenly, and then expanded rapidly at a thunderous speed. The radiated flames were like a small sun, sweeping hundreds of meters around at once. In the area, some soldiers who are closer to the center of the explosion will be evaporated by the heat radiation to dry out the water in their bodies, and even relatively heavy vehicles like the "Porcupine" multi-purpose armored personnel carrier will be overturned by the violent airflow entrained by sand, dust and gunpowder smoke.

A reconnaissance drone flew to the front line desperately. In the picture sent back, 8 crawling robots were attached to the ground with four claws, and the central turret device rotated at a constant speed, every time the semi-closed bead core rotated once. A silver-white sphere would be extruded from the center, which would be ejected into the air, move in a parabola, and fall to the position of the armored brigade, causing casualties.

Whether it is the 75mm Gauss gun of the Manticore heavy tank. Neither the "Jackal Kai" artillery can accurately strike the enemy 10 kilometers away, not to mention that the crawling robots are not big in size and quick in action. Even if it is replaced with artillery-launched missiles, in the current situation where unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, early warning aircraft, and observation satellites are almost wiped out by the opponent, without air guidance, how can we talk about hitting the target?

Edison was stunned at the moment. Suddenly, a little silver light grew from small to large in the screen, and then the screen became completely white, and the unmanned reconnaissance drone was actually blown up by the silver-white light bullets of the crawling robot.

"Isn't the laser tactical platform in place yet?"

"Not yet." An intelligence agent replied in a trembling voice.

The sense of powerlessness is like a heavy mountain, weighing on everyone's heart. Some even wet their backs with cold sweat.

No one would have thought that the combat units airdropped by the mechanical transport team would be less than 40 at full capacity, but this number of troops, even before entering the range of the armored combat vehicles of the Guards, would kill them in the first round of kites. Let go of a ecstasy, morale is like a stock market crash and plummeting stock price,

It plummeted.

In the corner, several staff officers were debating whether to request the support of space-based weapons, or to send a rescue team composed of Sea Serpent-class fast assault craft and Sea Dog-class frigates into the atmosphere of "Arumega" for aerial bombardment. It can not only carry out sweeping attacks on the king worm army not far from the ground, but also provide fire support to the ground battlefield of the "Aquias" lake.

Only Edison? King knows, from the Second Fleet of the Night Army. From the Garrison Fleet to the Tulip Fleet of the Duke, they are too busy to take care of themselves, so how can they spare any troops to help them.

He didn't dare to share this information with his staff because it would affect morale. According to him, it was the wise and mighty Duke who let them down on purpose. To wipe out all the other party's vital forces.

He did so out of consideration for the bigger picture.

The soldiers of the armored brigade were like fierce tigers at the beginning, but now... maybe they should be described as kittens who fell into the water.

Cats are very afraid of water!

certainly. As a major general, as the supreme commander of the "Arumega" guard force. He couldn't stay in a daze forever, although Harrington Harris didn't pay much attention to him, thinking that he was indecisive by nature, more conservative than aggressive, so he was thrown into the guards with no future to fend for himself, but he eventually He is a soldier, and Harrington? Harris does not want to reuse him, but he trusts him very much. Otherwise, how could he be allowed to command the defense force of the general's mansion.

Therefore, he cannot give up just because of a temporary defeat.

"Order, the armored brigade widens the formation, widens the distance between units, and drags those crawling robots and mobile artillery for me."

"Order, the aviation brigade urgently dispatches new unmanned reconnaissance aircraft and unmanned bombers to support the frontline battlefield. In addition, dispatches a transport shuttle to carry a special service team to the designated location above the 'Aquias' lake for airdrop operations, and then uses the underwater Surprise the enemy's main formation in a sneaky way, and blow up those tanks for me."

"Order, the infantry brigade dispatches some soldiers carrying powerful weapons, detours along the east bank of the 'Aquias' Lake to the enemy's rear, cooperates with the special service team to kill the enemy's tank company, and then attacks the enemy's western front troops."

"Tell them not to be afraid. The opponent's total strength is less than 40 units. Their advantage is mainly reflected in the range of their weapons. Once they get close, they will become tigers with their teeth pulled out."

Edison lied again. He had seen the video data of the Battle of Rector. At that time, Howson drove a siege tank and wiped out a whole tank battalion of "Single Rhino" heavy tanks in the most brutal way. He also turned over a "double-headed rhinoceros" and exploded it. It turned out that only the armor was damaged, and some less important external components were destroyed.

He had no choice but to do this. Once the last ground line of defense collapsed, the General's Mansion would be directly exposed to enemy fire.

The combat units of the aviation brigade have already been engaged in the battle against the king worm army, and they are unable to take into account the "Aquias" lake battlefield. Before the tactical platform reaches the designated coordinates, he must rely on ground forces to stop the machine unloaded by the mechanical transport team. A small group of mixed troops, prevent them from attacking the hinterland of the general's mansion.

The order was quickly distributed to all combat units. Due to the bombardment of the siege tanks, the air force facilities such as the apron and runway in the southern area of ​​the General's Mansion were damaged. Smoky ruins.

The backup unmanned reconnaissance aircraft and transport shuttles can only be transferred to the northern area through the underground tunnel. Then lift off to perform the mission.

When the special service team took the transport shuttle to slide forward from the lake of "Aquias", the soldiers of the East Coast Infantry Brigade also took the "Mustang" and "Porcupine" armored vehicles to detour to the south bank.

They didn't know that 4 widow mines had been planted on the east bank at the same time as the Immortals and Dragon Knights charged the armored brigade.

When 3 "Mustang" chariots and 2 "Porcupine" multi-purpose armored personnel carriers traveled halfway along the east bank, a widow mine overloaded fusion core, and the expanding flames lit up "Aquias" "The sky is getting darker on the east bank of the lake. The mushroom cloud billowed upwards, and the flames were like a wild horse, quickly engulfing the vanguard team, and the violent shock waves set off billowing smoke dragons around them, rapidly radiating towards the surroundings.

The originally calm lake surface was violently stormy, and the tide spread from east to west. The transport shuttle raised its flight altitude a bit, and passed through the wind and waves towards the south bank.

They don't fly high and are covered by wind and waves. General early warning equipment can't detect the existence of the five transport shuttles at all.

Edison didn't know that the two engineering ships not only had the ability to repair mechanical units, but also had a super detection function comparable to the Raven. Every move on the lake, even a sturgeon jumping out of the water, cannot be fooled by Nighthawk's external sensors.

The five transport shuttles full of special forces were not harassed by the artillery fire of the siege tanks, nor were they sniped by the dragon knights. They met the high-ranking templars on a narrow road.

When the six golden armored generals, who were covered in a blue light and could fly in the air and walked gently on the rough water, appeared in the driver's field of vision, they were suddenly stunned.

The co-pilot of the front transport shuttle said in shock: "What is that? Why can they fly in the air? Why can't you see the jetpack?"

His partner's thoughts are even more bizarre: "Are they... aliens?"

"how come!"

"Is that another biological weapon?"

"possible."

Unbeknownst to the driver, his first guess was almost the right answer.

certainly. After seeing the high-ranking templar, he had no chance to guess further.

The flash of "Energy Reverse Erosion" was not very conspicuous in this battlefield that affected the entire "Aquias" lake and the general's mansion, but its price was five transport shuttles and the special forces on board. life.

The black smoke from the propeller was swept into the sky by the wind and waves. The shuttle jets plunged into the turbulent lake water one by one, splashing strong waves like a waterfall, engulfing the wreckage of the shuttle, and then, the bubbling bubbles that emerged were scattered by the waves in an instant.

It turns out. The combat capabilities of special forces in extreme environments are far beyond what ordinary soldiers can compare, after the shuttle fell into the water. There were actually a small number of elites who took off their clumsy power armor and escaped from the engine room that was gradually filling the lake with respirators. Swim to the lake with simple equipment.

Their target was the six high-ranking templars floating on the surface of the lake. Their golden armor made them particularly eye-catching.

Some people were shooting underwater, and some people had no time to reach for hot weapons when they fled the cabin, so they had to bite their knives and jump up to the water, trying to make a close-range sneak attack.

The dense bullets hit the plasma shield and were bounced away, which could not cause damage to the high-ranking templar. A special soldier jumped out of the water with a dagger in his mouth, and was about to show off his superb throwing knife skills. A high-ranking templar grabbed his throat with his left hand and raised it, and suddenly shot a light blade from the front of the other arm, and quickly sent it into the special soldier's chest.

Most of the high-ranking Templars of the Protoss were promoted by zealots after rigorous practice. Although their most powerful weapon is the psionic energy contained in themselves, this does not mean that they have lost their excellent hand-to-hand combat ability.

Challenging them with mere human physical strength is no less than a pheasant showing off its fur in front of an eagle. It is purely courting death.

The high-ranking templar in the middle was disturbed by the bullets fired underwater, and felt very upset. He inserted his right hand into the water, and the powerful psionic energy was activated, like a high-power generator, creating a lightning storm underwater .

In the next second, the six high-ranking templars continued to float to the north shore of the "Aquias" lake. Soon after, one floating corpse after another floated on the surface of the water and was pushed to the west bank by the waves.

boom! There was another shocking explosion.

The second widow mine ambushed on the east bank exploded. Before the smoke of the predecessors dissipated, the flames of the younger generation lit up the sky again. The shock wave, like a sudden revived heart, set off a second wave of wind on the gradually calm lake surface, and a large amount of gravel and debris fell on the water surface, causing dense splashes.

Dark clouds gradually enveloped the sky, and before night fell, darkness took the lead in patronizing.

There were raindrops pattering from the sky. From slow to urgent, it turned into a torrential rain in the blink of an eye, spreading a piece of mud on the scorched land, and the sound of water resounded through the sky.

The sporadic fires were extinguished, the smoke clouds were thinned by the wind, and the dust was blown to the ground. Only the various aircraft whistling in the air and the king worm army continued the game of airdrop and anti-airdrop.

Some of the injured king worms would suddenly disappear, and only the behemoths that died instantly after being hit by heavy weapons would fall from mid-air and fall into a hill-like mass of meat.

The first batch of king worms had already reached the ground, and one after another, raw puppies jumped out of the abdominal sac.

These mad dogs who have upgraded their "adrenaline" are like galloping horses in the field, with the roar of paws hitting puddles and the ground. Pulled into a long front, they rushed northward from the plain area facing the General's Mansion on the west bank of the "Aquias" Lake.

Several Hydralisks spread out on the ground, raised their bodies nearly two people tall, and quickly stretched their muscles. One after another, deep grooved needles were shot out from the subcutaneous area, hitting the combat aircraft that were bombarded by the king worm army. Tear the outer armor, or catch fire and explode, or lose balance and fall to the ground.

Muddy rainwater hit them. The moisture reflected a round shimmer.

The same scene also appeared on the defense equipment of the General's Mansion. The difference was that the rainwater was splashing on it. Wet and pitch-black paintwork, only the flames sprayed from the muzzle or jumping arcs become a colorful brilliance in the darkness.

The power of laser weapons is severely attenuated by the bad air, and some pulsed lasers can't even burn through the thick carapace of the king worm.

In the command room of the guard, intelligence agents destroyed 5 transport shuttles, and the east bank infantry brigade was attacked by a tactical nuclear bomb, and the pace of advancement was almost stagnant. And when the information about the decline in the power of laser weapons was transferred to Edison? King, the general who suffered from mild anxiety almost shaved off the hair on his head.

He was skeptical. Could it be that the opponent has calculated every move of the defenders? Why does it seem that all the tactical arrangements of our own side are being targeted as if they are exposed under the noses of others...

The opponent's commander even added the weather changes after the nuclear explosion to the tactical system. Use it to weaken the General's Palace's most powerful laser weapon.

Fortunately, after all this trouble, the unmanned platform has reached the edge of the battlefield and can start the "Bright Judgment".

"Order, the infantry brigade suspends its advance and abandons the combat plan for the south bank of Lake 'Aquias'."

"Order, the engineering company immediately fires cloud-repelling bombs into the air."

"Order, the staff in the dispatch command room of the laser defense network pay attention, once the rain clouds clear, immediately impose a 'light trial' on the enemy."

After giving a series of orders, Edison sat back on his seat as if he had collapsed, only to find that his clothes were already wet with sweat.

He had never encountered such a war before. When he watched the video of the Battle of Rector, he laughed at the "Megal" garrison for being a bunch of smugglers, and looked down on them a bit. Until today, after personally experiencing the strength of the opponent, he realized a truth, not that Duke Yadan's garrison was weak, but that their opponent was too strong.

Turning his head to the huge virtual sand table floating above the combat command platform, this action seemed to exhaust his whole body's strength, his face was as pale as snow, and he was panting heavily.

His dry lower lip was covered with a dense layer of blisters at some point, which was very eye-catching, and the cold coffee cup was placed on his right hand, and it hadn't moved halfway from beginning to end.

If the "Judgment of Light" is still unable to seriously injure the enemy, he must persuade the Duke to leave.

The mighty Evil Night Army was captured by a private armed force, and the Star Alliance Navy didn't even use any troops. It's a shame to say this kind of thing... No, it's not just a shame, it's a great shame to the Sulu Empire, but... The enemy is really too strong. People like him, Piccolo Fred, and Dupont Catalander can die in battle. As His Majesty's right-hand man, His Majesty the Duke must not die in such a place.

But what if His Excellency the Duke refuses to retreat, as he promised before His Majesty the Emperor, and vows to live and die with "Mubarak"?

Edison? Jin thinks that he should send a few confidants to the ground command center, even if he is forced, he must be sent out, just like the evaluation of the Duke, although he does not have strong commanding skills, he is better than loyalty .

At the same time, an anti-aircraft artillery system in the northern area of ​​the General's Mansion sprayed out bursts of flames, cloud-repelling bombs were lifted into the air, and began to sweep away the dark clouds gathered by the nuclear explosion effect in the surrounding area of ​​​​"Aquias Lake".

Another batch of king bugs arrived on the ground, and what came down was not Zerg troops, but 50x fanatics, 48 ​​machine gunners, and a special operations team composed of 8 and 8 ghosts. There is also a quick response team of 5 Predators, 5 Hellions, and 3 Vulture Chariots.

In fact, this is not all. There is another group of troops moving over the "Aquias" lake to the location of the general's mansion. At the front is a Protoss transport plane, followed by very strange air fluctuations, accompanied by very slight Turbo sound. (to be continued)