Chapter 248 Nuclear Bomb Capture Plan

To be honest, after finishing the speech to the whole army, Amber was embarrassed.

He has never been a good speaker, but in the situation just now, as the military commander, he must say something to stabilize the morale of the army.

But speeches and slogans are not as effective as "leading by example".

Especially for the large number of Roma under his command.

Although their ethnic group has not experienced war for a long time, it can even be said that war is just a term in their dictionary.

Many Roma people's understanding of war may be a larger-scale collective fight?

But after the Roma Marines were formed and participated in several battles, Amber found that these "half-orcs" actually have blood in their bones.

It just needs some methods to stimulate it.

And now, Amber found that the most effective way is to "lead by example".

He found that when he fought with these Roma and rushed to the front, the fighting spirit of these "hairy balls" would become extremely high.

So after finishing his speech, Amber commanded the synthetic brigade, which had paused for a short time, to enter the offensive rhythm again.

At the same time, he also rushed to the front with 10 machines of the brigade's HCP company.

For Amber, he never wanted to see the second mushroom cloud rising on the battlefield.

Because this means that both the imperial remnants and the coalition forces will definitely enter the worst situation of dropping nuclear bombs on the surface of the planet.

The imperial remnants should still have 11 nuclear bombs with a yield of 200,000 tons.

On the coalition side, even if the troops of private military companies and defense contractors have nuclear bombs, they dare not use them openly.

So the focus is still on Major General Benjamin, the commander of the coalition forces. The planetary garrison he commands is likely to have this thing.

Theoretically, it is difficult for the planetary garrison to use this thing, and the launch silos and TIE vehicles have indeed been withdrawn.

But according to the organization of the garrison, there are definitely a few small-yield tactical nuclear bombs carried by special HCPs, which are generally used for nuclear counterattacks.

Although the number is not large, having and not having are two different concepts.

In Amber's view, the coalition forces and the imperial army are enough to "fight a little bit", and nuclear bombs should not be thrown out casually for the time being.

It is better to give it to Atlas for temporary custody.

The large-scale use of nuclear bombs will cause a large number of casualties on both sides, which is secondary. The most important thing is that it will have a certain impact on the ecology of the planet Rubion V.

This is absolutely not cost-effective for Amber and the next plan of the Atlas Group.

The transportation location of Rubion V and the entire Rubion galaxy, as well as the political location of the dominant galaxy of the federal opposition "Federal Republican Party", are actually very suitable for Atlas to develop here.

And the opportunity for the Rubion galaxy autonomous government to "invite" Atlas to intervene in an official name can also be said to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

So no matter what, Amber will not let the coalition forces and the imperial army continue to destroy this planet.

The intensity of this war must be controlled.

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"Cliffs, can the Hermes continue to provide ground support now?"

While leading the assault, Amber contacted the light cruiser still overhead.

"If the attack starts immediately, we can still carry out a ground support attack, but it is expected that the shooting angle will be lost in 10 minutes."

Cliffs' image appeared in a small window on the full-circle screen.

While he was on the ship, watching the blurred images around Amber due to the high-speed movement of the machine, he couldn't help but sigh that his boss was indeed a ruthless man, who could communicate with him while fighting.

"No, I don't need immediate support. Huh. Huh."

When the 'high energy warning' sounded in the cockpit, Amber made a tactical lateral move. After dodging a heavy particle cannon, he continued:

"I need you to stand by in orbit as a deterrent. Let's do this. You command the Hermes to re-orbit at the fastest speed, and wait for my instructions after entering the orbital strike range again."

"Yes, Boss!"

Amber nodded, and then looked at Isabel in another small window. She had been online when Cleves was connected just now.

"Isa, contact the Rubion Galaxy Autonomous Government and tell them that the consequences of both sides dropping nuclear bombs on each other on the planet are to find a way to dissuade them from launching a nuclear counterattack, even if it is just to delay time until the Hermes re-enters the orbital strike range!"

"Got it, I'll do it now!"

Isabel knew that the situation was urgent at this time, so she ended the communication without saying anything more.

The Rubion Galaxy Autonomous Government has several ships staying in orbit to "supervise the battle", so they can be contacted immediately.

Cleves also saluted Amber, then ended the communication and began to command the warship to perform an emergency orbiting maneuver.

"Helmsman, it's up to you now. Complete the orbit as quickly as possible, and after re-entering the orbital strike range, stay as long as possible!"

"Yes! Sir!"

The helmsman with the integrated head display immediately began to operate. With the help of the ship-borne control personality, he quickly calculated an orbit that could complete a circle as quickly as possible.

The warships of other companies in outer space also detected the nuclear explosion on the surface of the planet at this time.

Just as they were urgently contacting their own company's ground forces, they also noticed that the Hermes was dragging a long wake at the rear, which was obviously starting to accelerate.

"What's going on? Are Atlas' warships going to retreat?"

"Impossible, their company's troops are still on the ground, how can they retreat now?"

"Maybe the nuclear explosion just now fell on the ground forces of this Atlas company and wiped them out?"

"No, the nuclear explosion occurred on the left wing of the coalition forces, and Atlas' company is on the right wing of the front line."

"Look, this light cruiser is not going to retreat, it is still in orbit!"

"Wait. It doesn't want to orbit for a week before entering the attack position, and then launch another round of ground attack?"

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When Cleves and Isabel started to act separately, Atlas's mixed synthetic brigade also bit the Imperial Armored Brigade Combat Team in front of them at a speed that no one expected.

In the previous battle, the 49th Armored Brigade Combat Team mentioned by the Imperial commander had actually been killed by two battalion-level combat units by Atlas' combat troops.

And according to the rough statistics of enemy wreckage on the battlefield, it should have directly killed the two most powerful armored combined battalions.

According to the organization of the 49th Brigade, in addition to the firepower battalion, support battalion, and guarantee battalion, the combat battalion of this brigade should have an infantry combined battalion and an armored cavalry battalion left.

They are all lightly armed troops. Although they have good mobility, they are extremely lacking in the ability to fight head-on.

So Amber did not hesitate at all and directly issued an order for an all-out attack.

At the same time, the second RQ220 'Observer' stealth drone that took off urgently also flew over the war zone, and drew a huge circle in the air with the other RQ220 that had not been shot down.

Amber's order to the drone operation team was very simple. While investigating the movements of enemy troops and sharing relevant data and information with ground units, search for traces of possible tactical nuclear attack HCPs on the battlefield.

Although these specially modified aircraft have better concealment than ordinary HCP, it does not mean that they can be invisible in front of advanced integrated detection equipment.

Even if these aircraft have been turning on optical camouflage, maintaining radio silence, and reducing their electromagnetic signals to a minimum.

At the same time, they do not activate subcritical reactors, but rely on additional conformal superconducting battery packs for the most basic drive.

But in front of the "observers" with high-level infrared detection units, the HCPs that are sneaking on the ground are still very conspicuous.

After all, HCPs are not like warships, which can be equipped with absolute black body layers that completely isolate all radiation characteristics.

Moreover, when these tactical nuclear strike HCPs enter the attack operation, they are either single-person covert operations or have a small number of vehicle escorts.

So as long as a single HCP or a HCP with a small number of vehicle escorts is found, it can be marked as a suspected target.

As long as a suspected target is found, the two stealth drones will immediately synchronize the relevant information to the ground troops to facilitate them to carry out the "nuclear bomb capture operation".

Yes, it is the "nuclear bomb capture operation".

Atlas does not have the ability to produce nuclear bombs for the time being. If it can get some nuclear bombs, it will be of great help for ground combat.

Although the entire set of manufacturing processes for thermonuclear weapons can be obtained as long as one is willing.

If you have connections and channels in the black market, you can also buy the equipment needed to make nuclear bombs.

However, that is a relatively long process after all, and it can only be done secretly.

But if it is captured from the enemy, it will be different.

The tactical nuclear bombs carried by special HCPs are somewhat different from those in silos and TIE vehicles.

The latter basically have fixed targets set, and use hardware intervention, two-person operation and other measures to prevent accidental launches.

The tactical nuclear bombs carried by HCPs, in order to be more "tactical" when used, naturally cannot be controlled in traditional ways.

Generally speaking, these tactical nuclear bombs are usually sealed separately from the warhead and the carrier, and are specially protected.

After entering the combat state, the nuclear bomb and the carrier will be placed in the launch box together.

When the nuclear strike team receives the attack order, the HCP who launches the nuclear bomb will carry the launch box on his back, and the HCP can also perform "hardware intervention" on the launch box at this time.

The authority released by the imperial commander is actually the authority of the HCP to perform hardware intervention. At this time, the HCP can activate the launch box and set the attack target for nuclear strikes.

So Amber's idea is very simple, that is, to find the HCP carrying the nuclear bomb, defeat it as quickly as possible, and then take away the launch box and perform electromagnetic shielding.

After that, even if the program cannot be cracked, the carrier can be dismantled and the warhead can be taken away for personal use.

This operation was very common during the division of the empire and the civil unrest in the federation. In that dark and chaotic period, both sides did not know how many nuclear bombs flowed into the civilian population.

Of course, at that time, various private armed forces in the civilian population had long ceased to hide after losing government control, and there were many companies that built factories and rubbed nuclear bombs.