Chapter 243 A New Version of Orbital Strike

Rubyon V, the right wing of the first battle group of the coalition.

This is a suburban area near the city, with a small processing plant and a small population settlement derived from it.

But now, whether it is the settlement or the factory, there are rising smoke and flames everywhere.

There are huge scorch marks on the huge farmland of the surrounding automated farms and the nearby hills, and there are scattered flames.

That is the "channel" blasted by the heavy particle cannon.

The smoky wreckage of the main battle tanks and armored vehicles, as well as the bodies on the ground nearby, are scattered in the open area near the factory.

If the camera is raised, it can even be seen that these wreckages are still in the attack formation.

In the atmosphere, the heavy particle cannon, which uses the dual killing mechanism of thermal energy + kinetic energy, causes shock waves and instantaneous vacuum phenomena when firing, which greatly increases the collateral damage of the heavy particle cannon.

Because in the previous decades, whether it is the Federation or the Empire, the enemies they faced rarely have HCP units in an organized manner.

Even if most of the rebels can get HCP, the number is not large.

So for a long time, the regular army and civilian armed forces of the two countries, their enemies are more of a conventional combination of mechanized infantry and a small number of heavy armored units.

This also led to their offensive methods, which have not changed for many years.

So in the war that has broken out now, when the ground forces of both sides attack, there is often a situation where an offensive column is directly broken by the cross-strike of the two heavy particle cannons of the defender.

Although as time goes by, both sides will appear to "spread out" the offensive formation.

But this behavior of increasingly dispersed firepower was quickly eliminated after paying a lot of blood.

This messy battle area is the defense area of ​​the Atlas Mixed Synthetic Brigade and the Second Heavy Synthetic Battalion.

When the Imperial Army launched a full-line attack in the early morning, according to the order issued by the brigade headquarters, the Second Heavy Synthetic Battalion, which switched to a defensive posture in advance, arranged its position on a high ground inside and around the factory area.

After the reckless Imperial forces crashed into the ‘kill zone’, they soon left behind a large number of vehicle wreckage and corpses of infantry units.

Even two destroyed HCPs.

When Amber often took Murat, Louis and other skilled HCP pilots to conduct simulated battles as the Blue Army.

Atlas’ ground forces now have experience in dealing with ‘high-risk units’ such as HCP.

The basic idea is still to continue Amber’s approach on Robert IV at the time. The firepower strikes distributed in stages forced the target to keep the deflection field turned on.

At the same time, these HCPs must keep moving constantly to find opportunities to counterattack.

And they can only use electromagnetic rifles or close defense lasers, which are weapons with faster response speeds.

Charged particle cannons and heavy particle cannons that need to deploy weapons ‘mounting guns’ basically have little chance to be used.

Although this consumes a lot of ammunition and energy, it did catch the Imperial Army HCP pilots off guard.

A platoon of HCP (4 units) that coordinated the attack had to withdraw from the battlefield first after leaving behind two wreckages.

The remaining units that lost the fire cover of HCP, not to mention continuing the attack, even withdrawing from the battle became a very difficult matter.

Moreover, the opponent also conducted a very professional close-range orbital strike guidance.

A ground combat control team that crossed the front line, guided the orbital strike at close range, allowing the tactical ground-to-ground missile to accurately land on the head of a mechanized infantry company.

The attack of three thermobaric warheads directly made this company lose the ability to continue fighting.

The Imperial Armored Combined Battalion responsible for this exploratory attack on the opposite side soon realized that they had a hard bone in front of them after the attack was blocked and suffered an orbital strike.

Therefore, the commander of this armored combined battalion very wisely did not choose to continue the attack, but after reporting the intelligence, he confronted the second heavy synthetic battalion.

According to the news from the headquarters, another armored combined battalion attacking in other directions was also blocked and also suffered an orbital strike.

However, the victims this time were part of the firepower battalion under the entire brigade-level combat team, and nearly half of the indirect fire suppression artillery was completely destroyed.

The final order issued by the command was similar to what the imperial battalion commander expected, that is, to stop the attack and switch to defense.

Anyway, the attacks in other directions are going smoothly at present. Even if the enemy here cannot be bitten down for a while, they will eventually be surrounded by friendly forces in other directions and wait for death.

At the battalion headquarters of the Atlas Second Combined Battalion, Lieutenant Memphis from the Atlas "Teaching Team" was smiling at the two "hairballs" arguing in the command vehicle.

"Terak, how did you hold a meeting at the front command? You couldn't even get the task of "assault spearhead"! "

Monton, curled up in the widened command vehicle, complained to his chief of staff in a bad mood.

Because they performed well in the comprehensive assessment and were also the most experienced group of people in the entire Roma Marine Corps.

Monton and Terak have been promoted to the commander and deputy commander of the second heavy combined battalion in this troop reorganization.

Lieutenant Memphis and several other members of the training team temporarily filled other positions in the battalion headquarters.

"You can't change your temper, right? If you have something to say, you should talk to me nicely. What's the point of getting angry at me? The brigade commander and his team must have their considerations for making such an arrangement."

Terak, who was sitting on the other side, frowned and said.

In fact, everyone in the Roma team knew that Monton's temper was "bad", and his fighting style was to dare to fight and rush, and never be a coward, so he was "well-known" in the brigade.

Although Amber was very satisfied with the military chief of the battalion-level unit having such blood, she also warned Terak privately to pay attention to putting the brakes on Monton.

"Then tell me, how can our second battalion be inferior to their first battalion? Why is their first battalion the "assault spearhead" when the whole brigade attacks?

If I were to say, it's because you, the deputy battalion commander, were too docile when you went to the front command to hold a combat meeting! Why the hell don't you dare to fight with the brigade commander?!"

"Hahahahahaha!"

As soon as Monton said this, Terak hadn't said anything yet, but Memphis, who was sitting on the side eating melons and watching the show, laughed first.

"Monton, you have guts! Next time I want to see how you fight the brigade commander!"

Lieutenant Memphis' words instantly evoked some bad memories for Monton.

That was the experience of being carried out of the building by Amber like a "chicken" in the simulated siege battle

Thinking of Amber, his brigade commander and boss, and his terrible individual combat power, Monton immediately became honest.

However, it is not difficult to see from his expression that he is still upset about not receiving the main attack mission.

In fact, even Telak's face was seen by Memphis with the same look.

Like Baninger, this veteran who had been with Amber for a long time looked at the two fur balls and said with a smile:

"Don't be unwilling, you have not been under the boss for too long and don't understand his style."

Lieutenant Memphis opened the enemy situation map on the vehicle command terminal and continued:

"Since the brigade commander personally led the team to participate in this combat mission, the real 'assault spearhead' must be the HCP company led by him.

It doesn't matter who is the main attacker in the first and second heavy composite battalions. The protagonist of this battle is not you.

Even if you are good at fighting, can you fight as well as the HCP driven by the brigade commander?"

Lieutenant Memphis' words gradually made the two Roma people come back to their senses, and they soon thought of the 'inhuman' combat effectiveness of the HCP driven by Amber.

The time chosen by the Atlas Mixed Composite Brigade to attack was midnight.

As 'D time' got closer and closer, the combat units, after a short alternating rest, also entered the final preparations before the assault.

At D-30, the brigade headquarters had completed the transfer and entered the mobile mode to move to the rear of the attacking unit. The firepower battalion was also at a position one-quarter of the range of the attacking unit, and completed the preparation for firepower support.

Because after the assault began, the troops kept moving forward. If they stayed at the maximum support distance for safety, they would have to start moving forward in a few rounds.

At D-20, the four battalions that formed the attack formation had moved to the position of the "attack preparation line". The RQ220 "Observer" that had survived from the morning to the present also completed the reconnaissance of the enemy positions overhead.

At D-10, the first heavy composite battalion crossed the "attack launch line". At the same time, the three imperial armored combined battalions that had been supplemented also sounded the combat alarm.

At D, the artillery group of the firepower battalion of the composite brigade covered the fire and fired the first shot of the counterattack.

In the night, laser and charged particle cannon beams flashed over the enemy positions. That was a sign that the HCP used its excellent reconnaissance and sighting equipment to intercept the 155 shells that had just passed the top of the parabola.

The two heavy composite battalions in the front also launched an attack under the cover of firepower.

But the imperial troops guarding the position found that although the firepower of the two battalion-level units on the opposite side was very strong, they had been attacking for a while, but they had not launched an attack, but had been firing at each other.

D+10 points, in the orbit of Rubion V, several warships of defense companies were surprised to find that the Atlas light cruiser with "Hermes" printed on the side had actually descended to a low orbit.

And it also showed a strange and dangerous posture of "head down".

Just as they were guessing in the communication channel whether there was something wrong with the power system of this light cruiser, they found that the muzzle of the quadruple heavy particle cannon on the bow of the warship flashed blue and white light.

At this time, in the captain's seat of the Hermes, Cliffs was facing a "Checklist" on the virtual screen on the right, and nervously commanding.

"Main guns are ready to fire at all gun ports. The mass of bismuth alloy is increased to 2000 grams, and the initial velocity of heavy metal particle flow is reduced to 500 kilometers per second!"

"The high-energy laser at the front of the warship adjusts the wavelength to 8MM and begins atmospheric interference! Target, the attack direction of the combined brigade, the deployment position of the enemy armored combined battalion!"

Several invisible lasers began to "evenly heat" the attack channel to minimize the diffraction value of the atmosphere.

Immediately afterwards, four blue-white "beams" swept along this channel with uniform atmospheric density, temperature and humidity, and quickly disappeared into the atmosphere.