Chapter 254 GATX303 ‘Holy Shield’

Chapter 254 GAT-X303 ‘Holy Shield’

“Boss, the ATT squadron has arrived.”

Amber, who was discussing the follow-up combat plan with others in the forward camp command center, paused the meeting and walked out immediately after hearing the report from her subordinates.

After the remnants of the empire retreated to Ptolemy City, the coalition forces began to advance the front line after receiving support from the remnants of the rear planet garrison.

After controlling the two satellite cities of Ptolemy City, they also obtained a lot of supplies. Although ammunition and most of the fuel still need to be transported from the space elevator to the front line by transport troops, it is much better than before.

At least the coalition’s forward camps deployed in the suburbs of the two satellite cities can be connected to the city’s water supply system, allowing the mobile bathhouse to provide unlimited supply 24 hours a day.

A hot bath may seem ordinary, but taking a comfortable hot bath at the end of the day is very effective in relieving fatigue and can also improve the quality of sleep for soldiers.

It is quite helpful for improving the overall morale of the coalition forces.

The current forward base was re-arranged according to Amber's requirements, and his camp layout ideas actually came from an army general of the Star Dragon Empire Royal Army.

This general, known as the 'Wall of Sighs of Land Warfare', has a set of things for defensive warfare and camp layout.

The current location of the two large forward camps is 65 kilometers away from Ptolemy City in a straight line. They are all behind the suburbs of the mountain forest and cannot be directly detected by visual observation.

If the Empire's infiltration team wants to conduct reconnaissance, they must climb over the high ground in front of the forward camps, which is full of observation posts and automatic sentry guns.

The air defense units of each unit were also pulled out and deployed in a dispersed manner. After setting up a large number of field radars and battlefield surveillance radars, they formed an airtight air defense network.

After seeing that the coalition forces had so many accompanying air defense and field air defense units, Amber was actually dumbfounded.

He had always thought that the coalition forces lacked these units, so the air defense was so poor that they were completely unable to react when they were bombed with tactical nuclear bombs.

Now it seems that it has nothing to do with equipment, it's just a matter of being bad.

When Amber walked to the back door of the temporary camp, she saw a huge convoy slowly driving in, and there were many friendly units around curiously watching.

The entire convoy, in addition to the batch of supplies they carried, was roughly divided into three parts.

The first part was the "Lynx" wheeled chariot responsible for opening the way and guarding, and the "Iron Cavalry" medium multi-legged chariot switched to mobile mode.

These two new vehicles were also part of the first batch of equipment made by United Power according to Atlas' needs after being acquired.

In particular, the "Iron Cavalry" medium multi-legged chariot was developed by Amber as a "high priority" project after browsing the "technology reserve" of United Power.

Whether it is the "actual combat" experience after coming to this world, or the experience summed up by players in the previous life game, one thing has been verified.

That is, light multi-legged chariots have become more and more useless after the intensity of the battle has gradually increased.

Although their lighter weight allows them to be airdropped with orbital paratroopers for fire support, and their mobility is still good.

But their protection and firepower can basically only bully infantry units.

And as the firepower of infantry units becomes stronger and stronger, even bullying infantry units has gradually become a "dangerous activity".

In the original timeline, the Federation and the Empire also stopped the production of light multi-legged tanks, and the corresponding organization in the troops also existed to consume inventory.

The second part of the convoy is 30 heavy trailers, and the trailers behind them are all large units with camouflage tarpaulins - 15 main battle tanks and 15 heavy multi-legged tanks.

Their main guns have completely abandoned the electrothermal chemical guns, and use more powerful electromagnetic reconnection guns or new plasma guns with triangular translucent barrels.

It is also a product of United Power, but it has not been completely finalized.

It was pulled to Rubion V for actual combat testing, weighing the advantages and disadvantages of main battle tanks and heavy multi-legged tanks, and evaluating the combat effectiveness of the new plasma gun.

The last part is the 5 HCPs wandering around the convoy for vigilance.

The GAT-X303 ‘Sacred Shield’, the first prototype assault HCP of the GAT-X series, proudly produced by the GIAT Group.

This model, this name, and its own jokes have been played out by players in the game.

Even Amber took the time to ask the GIAT people about the core melt operation code of this HCP.

The result was that the initial operation code was indeed ‘2887’.

However, they said that it was also randomly selected and had no special meaning, and the pilot could also modify it by himself after getting the body.

When the entire convoy slowly drove to the material and equipment distribution area, with the help of the surrounding engineering machinery, it began to unload.

Two brand-new ‘wheeled armored vehicles’ also stopped in front of Amber, and a group of United Power and GIAT engineers carrying large and small bags came down from the tailgate of the vehicle.

After seeing Amber, the ‘financial sponsor’, the leaders of the two companies immediately came up to greet him.

Amber exchanged a few words with them, arranged the tasks for these people during this period, and told them to wear combat exoskeletons like ordinary soldiers. Then these engineers went to their camp to prepare.

After they left, five "Sacred Shields" also landed in front of Amber flexibly, raising a cloud of dust while kneeling on one knee in a "standby posture".

When the cockpit was opened, five ATT team pilots also jumped down.

These people are excellent pilots in the HCP pilot team of Atlas, whose various skills are second only to Murat and Louis, and they are also the first members of the HCP team in the ATT squadron.

"Boss, we are here to report."

After seeing Amber, the five pilots stood at attention and saluted with a "bang!"

Amber returned the salute somewhat helplessly and said:

"Forget about advancing to the camp, I won't say anything. But if you still salute me when we get to the war zone, don't blame me for being rude."

The five pilots of the ATT squadron smiled embarrassedly and put their hands down immediately.

"You've worked hard on the way. Take a good rest these two days. You won't have time to rest after entering the battle."

"Yes, Boss!"

Amber waved her hand and walked to the side of one of the "Sacred Shields".

The "fingertips" of the mechanical arm were traditionally painted in the orange color of the test model, just like a manicure.

There are also many additional sensors around the body. These sensors are not used to monitor the surrounding environment, but to monitor the body's own situation in battle and collect data.

As an assault-type HCP, the "Sacred Shield" is similar to the Empire's "Fanatical" series in terms of overall height and combat weight.

However, due to the use of a more advanced core skeleton design, a subcritical reactor with higher output power, and an electromagnetic muscle bundle with greatly improved energy conversion efficiency.

Therefore, the protection capability of the same mass is higher than that of the heavy-armored fanatic.

This is only the performance data of the basic Aegis.

At the beginning of the development of the Aegis series, an important design idea was "high expandability" and "high versatility".

Therefore, the Aegis series HCP can be deeply modified with high freedom according to combat missions, pilot habits, etc.

The five Aegis pulled onto the Rubion V are all heavy-armored assault configurations.

The additional additional armor and thickened laminated armor heavy shield make their total weight exceed 110 tons, and they have also become the HCP with the best protection performance at present.

The weapon rack behind the body has also been replaced by a new weapon container.

When holding an electromagnetic rifle, a plasma rocket nest or a combat magazine is mounted on the outside of the mechanical foot, and a shield is mounted on the shoulder, the weapon container can also be stuffed with an additional four pieces of weapons.

Moreover, this weapon container not only has the function of storing weapons, but also keeps the stored weapons at a suitable maintenance temperature on weekdays.

When it comes to battle, it can also force heat dissipation of weapons such as heavy particle cannons and electromagnetic reconnection cannons to increase their attack frequency.

Plasma heavy slash sword, heavy particle cannon, electromagnetic reconnection cannon × 2, this is the configuration currently chosen by the five pilots of the ATT squadron.

Undoubtedly, these five Aegis have become the strongest HCP with full protection, firepower, and mobility on this battlefield.

But this thing is not without disadvantages.

The heavier combat weight, under the operation of the high-thrust plasma propulsion array, brings greater inertia, and the requirements for pilots will also be higher.

According to GIAT engineers, the Aegis series has a hard requirement for the physical fitness of pilots for the first time compared with other HCP models.

If other HCPs can be driven with poor physical fitness, then forcing the pilots of the Aegis series to drive will become a suicidal act if their physical fitness is not up to standard.

Although the HCP development team of GIAT has tried every means to reduce the impact in this regard, Amber estimates that a better solution is to improve the overall quality of the pilots of the Atlas HCP force.

"If it doesn't work, spend money to let them undergo some enhanced surgery or implant prostheses."

While Amber was drooling around Atlas' first HCP, "appreciating" it in all directions like a pervert, an armored vehicle of the coalition garrison also drove over.

A middle-aged man dressed in a suit and leather shoes, who looked out of place on the battlefield, came down from the car and immediately smiled and trotted over after seeing Amber.

After seeing the person coming, Amber was also stunned for a moment. He really didn't expect that the administrative adjutant of the Rubion Galaxy Autonomous Government would come to him at this point.

"Mr. Sam? Why did you come to the forward camp in person? It's still a bit dangerous here."