Chapter 110 Red Wolf
For the Empire, which pays attention to the aesthetics of weapons and the consistency of paint, it is generally difficult to personalize the appearance of HCPs driven by noble children.
At most, they can add some gold edges to the external armor and spray their family emblems.
Therefore, the pilots of HCPs with personalized paint in the army will only be ACEs.
Although it is said that in the years of peaceful coexistence between the Federation and the Empire, the Empire's pilots have few opportunities to encounter enemy HCPs in battle.
Most of the time, they are dealing with main battle tanks, armored vehicles, or multi-legged tanks.
Therefore, in the current stage of the Imperial Army, many pilots have been given the title of ACE and ace just because of the record of "unbeaten in 2,000 simulated battles".
The situation on the Federation side is basically similar.
But no matter what, these people will be more difficult to deal with than ordinary pilots.
The two rookie pilots of our side have been sent by Amber to support the troops attacking the core area.
Let them participate in the passionate HCP melee, even if they are fighting against these "human-machine kings", they will probably lose one or two bloods at the beginning.
But if they only use the firepower, defense and excellent mobility of HCP to support other troops to attack an enemy army without heavy units.
These two can still show off.
After all, they are novices, so it is more appropriate to start from the novice field.
So Amber is temporarily fighting alone.
"Lilith, how is the virus spreading?"
Amber unfolded the charged particle cannon behind her shoulder, and her eyes were firmly locked on the red HCP that was approaching in a zigzag route.
"Master, I'm sorry! The spread of the virus has been discovered by the Imperial Army. They have begun to carry out targeted defense against the virus. The spread rate is currently only 34.8%, and most of them are single-soldier terminals and small vehicle terminals, and a small number of HCPs."
"It's okay. The Empire's response is faster than I expected. The virus spread rate of nearly 35% is already very good. At least the battle of other friendly units will be easier."
While Amber and Lilith were talking, the charged particle cannon on the weapon rack behind her shoulder also opened fire.
The charged particle beam hit the moving red HCP without any accident.
Under Lilith's auxiliary aiming, even if the target has been performing irregular evasive maneuvers, it cannot avoid the light-speed-level weapon attack.
However, after the charged particle beam hit, the front hemisphere of the red HCP also lit up the white light of the deflection force field without any accident.
In the long-range shooting phase, the battle between HCPs is so plain and unpretentious.
You shoot, I shoot, to see whose weapon overheats first, or whose deflection field generator overloads first.
If the long-range shooting phase cannot determine the winner, and the pilots of both sides do not intend to stop.
Then the battle will immediately change from a slightly boring shooting to a tense and exciting close combat.
At this stage, the basic driving skills and courage of the pilots of both sides are tested.
As the distance between Amber and the red HCP gets closer and closer, he also raised the mechanical arm of the Steppenwolf, extended the gun body of the Gauss rifle out of the range of the deflection field, and then started to shoot at the target.
Amber's supernatural reaction ability, coupled with Lilith's auxiliary locking ability, allows the muzzle of the Gauss rifle to always aim at the chest of the red HCP.
This position is the dot of the deflection field in the front hemisphere of the HCP. After hitting this area, the piercing rod is not as easy to twist away as hitting the edge area.
The deflection field generator often needs to use higher power to twist these high-speed piercing rods that are shot almost perpendicular to the deflection field to one side.
At the same time, Lilith didn't know where she got the information of the specially painted HCP on the other side.
"Red Wolf? It's a call sign I haven't heard of. It's not famous. It seems that the pilot on the other side is not a powerful one."
After confirming this news, Amber's mentality relaxed all of a sudden, and the whole state of driving the HCP became very relaxed.
Since he didn't meet those masters who were really good at it, there was no need to panic at all.
In this state, Amber's shooting accuracy also increased significantly, and the high-speed piercing rod fired by the Gauss rifle almost hit the center of the circle.
After being suppressed by Amber's precise bursts, Red Wolf, who took the initiative to attack, began to sweat profusely while sitting in the cockpit.
It was the first time that he was hit by a Gauss rifle and doubted his life.
No matter how he dodged or maneuvered, the charged high-speed piercing rod would hit as expected.
There were even several times when he hit the piercing rod straight after completing the dodge maneuver.
"What the hell is this monster?"
Although the automatic constant temperature unit of the cockpit and heavy hydraulic anti-gravity suit has been in effect, Red Wolf is still sweating profusely.
After receiving the signal from Rudolph and others requesting support, their HCPs, under the cover of friendly forces, risked the collapse of the defense line and rushed over.
As a result, when they arrived at the area where the signal was sent, they only saw two fanatics whose cockpits had been pierced.
On the other side, Amber was constantly maneuvering to the rear to slow down the rate of approach between the two sides, when Lilith's slightly hurried voice suddenly came from the cockpit.
"Warning, you have been locked!"
"Warning, strong electric field reaction detected!"
When broadcasting the emergency warning, Lilith honestly followed the preset warning and did not add any strange names.
But these two warnings still made Amber's heart beat faster.
He subconsciously increased the output power of the deflection field generator, then raised his left mechanical arm and used the electromagnetic projection device mounted below to shoot a series of anti-infrared smoke bombs in the direction of the Red Wolf.
Almost at the same time as he finished this series of actions, a blue-white beam of heavy particle cannon attacked from the high altitude of the base area.
The panoramic screen in the cockpit first burst into light, and then Lilith quickly reduced the light volume.
Although the deflection field blocked the attack of this airborne heavy particle cannon, the outer armor of the Steppe Wolf, especially the position near the hit area, still showed signs of redness under the high temperature.
After the opponent's attack ended, Amber immediately pushed the plasma propulsion array to the full power operation position, and then rushed in the direction of the heavy particle cannon.
Red Wolf, whose optical and infrared sensors were blocked by the high-temperature smoke, could not see Amber's movements, but the sudden sonic boom in front of him made him feel uneasy.
He drove his own special machine through the smoke and saw Amber, who had already rushed to the base, suddenly leap up, and the propulsion array behind the body sprayed out a long blue tail.
This Steppenwolf had changed the weapon held by the mechanical arm from the Gauss rifle to the plasma heavy sword.
Red Wolf had no time to stop it, and watched Steppenwolf rushing up to the height and chopping the cockpit of the cold-shooting fanatic in two.