Chapter 434: Attack and Defense of Abawaku Fortress (Part 1)
Chapter 434 Attack and Defense of A. Bawa Ku Fortress (Part 1)
The two fully-manned federal navy fleets are indeed a troublesome existence for Atlas's outer space defense force at this moment.
Although the quality and comprehensive combat effectiveness of Atlas' defense forces are much higher than those of the combined fleet of the military-industrial complex, there are still too many ships that cannot hold up against the opponent's ships.
Just like the classic "more than 50,000 pigs", such a large number of enemy troops cannot be defeated in a short time even if they are used as targets.
Therefore, this directly led to the fact that after the two fleets of the Federation entered the field, Atlas could not spare any extra force for a while to fight. The small number of fortress garrison fleets could only maintain maneuvers near the fortress, relying on the fortress's own Defensive weapons to intercept Federation naval fleet assaults.
But this level of defense could not stop the assault of the two fleets, and they quickly broke through the 3,000-kilometer red line zone.
Immediately, the 23rd and 24th fleets released a large number of shipborne HCPs and swooped towards the fortress, followed by more than 600 assault boats full of marines, Dr. Mephisto and special The task team was also on board one of the landing craft.
Guterres in the core command room saw this scene and immediately realized that he might not be able to stop it. He immediately asked other Atlas employees around him: "Where is the 'decomposition ray' just now? Can it be fired again?" ?!"
"The Mining Operations Department responded that not long after the self-inspection was completed, the machine was restarting charging. The full-power irradiation just now used up all the energy reserved by the device, so it is expected to take at least another hour and a half."
"No, it's too late"
Guterres firmly grasped the railing in front of him. On the battlefield monitoring screens on several large screens in front of him, the fortress defense firepower and garrison fleet were already switching fire according to his previous instructions.
However, the morale, organization and fighting will of the ship-borne HCP released by the federal fleet are obviously not comparable to the "private soldiers" of the military-industrial complex.
Moreover, the opponent's HCP combat commander obviously knew the goals of this mission and the positioning of the HCP combat troops in this mission.
Therefore, most shipborne HCPs carry heavy laminated armor shields to attack, and form a large number of 'human shields' in dense formations of multiple people, which can withstand a large number of attacks, allowing the assault boats behind to hide behind They approach the fortress safely behind them.
"Van Fleet, I may not be able to stop the federal assault force from forcing a landing. You need to be prepared."
"Hmph, I knew your side was unreliable. The internal defense forces of the fortress have been prepared, but the problem now is that the defense area we need to deal with is too large, and there may be some shortage of manpower."
Under Osana's guidance, Van Fleet, who put on the 'Crocodile A3-C' command-specific heavy power armor, checked the electromagnetic machine gun in his hand and replied.
"Furthermore, there are strict limits on the intensity of the fighting inside the fortress. I don't know what the federal assault force is planning, but we certainly don't want to blow up the fortress in a hurry."
"Then what are you going to do?"
"I have just discussed it with the commander of the fortress defense force."
Van Fleet glanced at Osana, who was not far away holding a heavy shield and a plasma halberd. The latter was checking the defense equipment in the area on a terminal.
"We are preparing to drain the air from all areas of the fortress except the living area and core control area, and inject inert gases and anaerobic molecules to weaken the effectiveness of the weapon oxidizer as much as possible. At the same time, we will shut down the gravity control units in these areas and delay the federal assault force. The attack speed will last until the next attack of the fortress’ main weapon.”
Having said this, Van Fleet reacted and asked one more question: "How long will it take for the next round of attacks by the fortress's main weapon?"
“At least an hour and a half”
"Fuck, why does it take so long?!"
Van Fleet was stunned for a moment, obviously this time exceeded his previous expectation, but he quickly calmed down and finally said:
"An hour and a half, just an hour and a half. Anyway, we will do our best to stop the attack of the federal assault force. I believe that the federation cannot let these two newly formed fleets be lost here, so as long as the threat or casualties exceed the threshold, this Both fleets will definitely leave."
"I think so too"
Guterres looked at Van Fleet in the communication interface and was very emotional. Since the conflict on Para 4 ended, he never thought that he would fight side by side with Van Fleet again.
And it’s still under the ‘flag’ of Atlas
"Good luck, Lieutenant General."
"You too, but don't die."
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"We are approaching the target fortress! The distance is 1100, the whole team maintains formation!"
In the dim crew cabin of the assault boat, Dr. Mephisto, who was wearing a full combat exoskeleton like everyone around him, suppressed the fear and physical nausea in his heart as the assault boat continued to make irregular maneuvers during the penetration. .
After detecting that various indicators of his body exceeded the standard values, the combat exoskeleton automatically released some stabilizing gases through the oxygen supply unit - this is also a release method used in special circumstances. If it is stable, On the ground, this will be a more efficient and faster intramuscular injection.
Other people in the crew cabin, including the Marine Special Task Force, felt that Dr. Mephisto's personal participation in the assault was a bit "burdensome", but they still admired him for daring to do such a thing.
So after the captain discovered that Dr. Mephisto was a little nervous through the command interface, he took the initiative to comfort him:
"Doctor, don't worry! Hang on a little longer, we will reach the fortress soon! Our assault force has obviously exceeded the opponent's defensive firepower threshold, so there is no need to worry about being intercepted"
But before the captain finished his words of comfort, the assault boat suddenly made a swift evasive maneuver, and the voice of the assault boat driver also sounded on the cabin broadcast.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this flight is about to reach its destination, but unfortunately some 'guests' have come to visit us, so there will be some turbulence during the final stage of the breakthrough, please pay attention to it~"
"Fuck"
"Captain, your bad words have come true so many times, please don't say it again next time, thank you!"
"That's right, if you hadn't said it just now, we might have completed the breakthrough now."
The team members complained one after another, and there was no sign of nervousness in their laughter.
And Dr. Mephisto's stabilizing gas and the relaxed words of these marines also slightly reduced some of the tension and fear.
He turned his head to look at the two seats at the end of the crew cabin. The passengers in these two seats were silent from beginning to end, just like two dummies, but Dr. Mephisto knew that they were actually two psychic agents specially transferred to participate in the assault.
At the same time, the entire assault boat made a large-scale evasive maneuver. Under the violent shaking and the sudden increase in G-force, Dr. Mephisto looked at the panoramic display in front of the crew cabin with some difficulty. The screen was playing the image of the optical sensor in the front of the assault boat in real time.
At this moment, even he could clearly see a large number of light spots flying out of the A. Bawa. Ku Fortress on the screen - those were the HCP troops coming for the terminal interception.
At the same time, the voice of the captain of the HCP squadron responsible for covering them sounded in the headset of the assault boat driver.
"I will lead people to find a way to delay these enemies, and you will rush over when you find an opportunity."
As soon as the captain's voice fell, everyone in the assault boat saw the HCPs in front of them as "meat shields" fired a round of volleys at the same time, and then they used almost all their long-range weapons.
While opening a channel for the assault boats through long-range attacks, these HCPs quickly dispersed and then took off the heavy swords mounted on their backs.
"321! Now! Go ahead!"
As the squadron leader roared, he, as the leader of the entire squadron, rushed forward in the blue light of the back propulsion array.
The other HCPs in the squadron also accelerated forward and quickly fought with the Atlas HCPs that came to intercept.
The remaining assault boats did not dare to neglect it at this time. Under the exquisite control of the assault boat driver, they broke through the area where the melee broke out quickly and made a final sprint towards the A·Bava·Ku asteroid fortress in front of them.
"Break into the target in ten seconds! All personnel are ready for impact!"
While reminding the marines, the assault boat driver also simultaneously turned on the assault boat's reverse thrust unit to start slowing down, and activated the twin-mounted hot melt ray component at the front of the assault boat.
Nine seconds later, two fiery dark red rays shot out from the front of the assault boat, and after hitting the external hatch of a deployment bay that was targeted, they quickly melted and penetrated it, and then successfully crashed the assault boat carrying the ‘VIP’ into the deployment bay.
The Marine Corps Special Task Force escorting Dr. Mephisto and other technicians had a total of about one company of troops, including Dr. Mephisto and others, a total of 120 people, scattered on 6 assault boats.
In the end, only four assault boats crashed into the deployment bay. The other two were attacked by the automatic defense weapons outside the A. Bawa Ku Fortress at the last moment. After losing balance, they rolled and directly hit the external rock wall, and all the members were killed.
The four assault boats that successfully broke into the deployment bay, and the explosive shotguns arranged in a circle around the bow of the boat exploded, turning everything around, including the wall, into a sieve.
Then, a large number of anti-infrared thermal smoke bombs were fired, and soon a smoke wall formed in front of the assault boat, and finally connected into one.
After completing these steps, the perception unit continuously sent out several pulse waves for detection, and quickly synchronized the results to the combat terminal of the Marines.
At the same time, several carbon fiber cables were also fired and the rocket-assisted drill was driven into the surrounding bulkheads, fixing the assault boat in a zero-gravity environment.
"Remember the intrusion process, find a good cover, determine the enemy's position, and then fire. Move quickly. Our Marines are not doctors who charge by time. Just follow us and hide your body better."
The team leader was still making the final arrangements, but the sudden attack interrupted him again.
"Bang, bang, bang!"
A large number of high-speed piercing rods hit the solid front structure of the assault boat. These parts that are specially used as "hammers" are naturally not so easy to be penetrated by electromagnetic rifles, so the commandos were not in a hurry to get out.
The assault boat ejected several tire-sized disposable deflection field generators again, and fixed them on the ground of the deployment bay under the action of the electromagnetic adsorption device, and then quickly propped up several deflection force fields in front of the assault boat.
At this time, the Marine Corps Special Task Group activated the electromagnetic adsorption device on the soles of their feet, and rushed out of the open hatch one after another.
"Each team is deployed in a 'V' formation, and keeps moving along the axis 664!
Technical sergeant! Turn on the motion detector and mark the approximate position of the enemy!
The firepower group is ready to counter-suppress according to the azimuth feedback!
Everyone pays attention to setting the communication gain filter radio frequency environment, and the electronic warfare team begins to try electronic interference!"
Deep in the deployment bay, in the smoke-covered position, orange-red fire lines continued to sweep out through the smoke, but the propped-up deflection field twisted most of the electromagnetic rifle launch rods, and several charged particle beams were also intercepted and divided.
However, this disposable equipment without continuous power supply obviously cannot last too long. After only 1 minute, these disposable deflection field generators stopped working one after another.
However, the commandos who entered the deployment bay also found their own shelters and started to fight back in the direction marked by the technical sergeant.
The members of the commando's firepower group were all equipped with heavy power armor. They all leaned out from behind the shelters, and then controlled the 25mm chain guns and cruise missile launchers mounted on their shoulders to start fire suppression in the direction of the enemy.
In a zero-gravity environment where mortars and other indirect firepower cannot be used, ballistic, directed energy and self-propelled weapons have become the only options left.
Using 25mm programmed high-explosive bombs, "fireworks" were quickly set off in the direction of the shooting, and several cruise missiles also hit the target after barely adjusting the angle - in a zero-gravity environment, the individual cruise missiles lacked vector nozzles and mainly relied on pneumatic control surfaces to control their posture, which made them a bit clumsy in control.
However, the several members who carried out fire suppression soon discovered that whether it was a high-explosive warhead or a cruise missile, the final attack effect seemed a bit "not powerful enough", just like a punch that ran out of power halfway through.
"Captain, the enemy has filled this area with a lot of inert gas and anaerobic molecules, and the explosion effect is a bit limited. We may only rely on pure kinetic energy attacks."
The leader of the firepower team said as he directed his team members to replace the chain gun's ammunition chain with PELE bullets (lateral effect enhanced bullets), and then started shooting again.
But this time, the Atlas defense force also responded with a counterattack. As the anti-infrared thermal smoke slowly dispersed in the zero-gravity environment, several high-energy lasers immediately swept in the direction of the commandos.
No matter it was different team members or firepower groups equipped with heavy power armor, after seeing the color of these high-energy lasers, they knew that this thing could not be resisted, and immediately gave up the attack and hid in the bunker.
But there were still a few unlucky guys and slow-reacting team members who were swept into two pieces by the high-energy lasers.
Seeing that the commandos were suppressed here, the captain looked anxiously at the rear of the assault boat and shouted in the communication channel:
"TMD! Isn't the 'Wolfhound' ready yet?! If you don't come over, you'll be waiting for us to collect your bodies!"
"Here we come! Prepare for a coordinated attack!"