Chapter 540 Impact

When the Infinity passed through the external light signal array, hung the "Z flag" and played the flag signal "Atlas hopes every soldier will do his best" to start the charge, the morale of the Atlas Third Task Force reached a new climax.

If Randall simply led the entire fleet to charge, the morale of the fleet might not reach this high.

But the order he just issued clearly showed that only the flagship "Infinity" would charge, and the other warships in the fleet would provide the maximum firepower support, which also meant that the risk was basically concentrated on the "Infinity".

Both the "chief asked the brothers to charge" and the "chief led the brothers to charge" were very common, but the "chief charged for the brothers". Even those "old hands" in the fleet who came from the "Zhaoan" of the Federal Navy had never seen it.

It was at this moment that most people suddenly realized that in Atlas' combat forces, the concept of "leading by example" might be more radical than they thought.

Not only the warships of the Third Task Force, but also the HCPs and heavy armored combat boats that had been launched to attack, saw the translated flags in the global communication channel.

The Renaissance Alliance trainees, including Johnny Laiding and Manfred, were even more in awe at this moment. They never thought that the Atlas Group, the "ally" and "Party B", would be so iron-blooded.

If the actual combat drills of Murat and Johnny Laiding before were an enlightenment education for this "newcomer in mecha warfare", then this fleet battle can be said to be a good lesson for all Renaissance Alliance trainees by the Atlas Fleet.

However, "True Red Lightning" and "Red Baron" did not have so much time to digest the "class content" at this time, because they were already in a fierce and anxious battle.

The gaps torn by the two of them with their respective teams began to grow larger and larger after the surrounding HCPs and heavy armored combat boats came to support them.

The first to arrive was Johnny Riding's "old friend", the "Avengers" squadron, which had fought against each other in actual combat exercises before.

In Johnny Riding's opinion, the opponent's state in actual combat was much higher than the previous simulation battle.

The coordination between the four squadrons under the squadron and the cooperation between the aircraft within the squadron was synchronized and exquisite like shadows, and a large number of "combination skills" were performed smoothly.

Even though there were two destroyers' anti-aircraft fire threats nearby, the "Avengers" squadron ejected two HCP squadrons from the destroyer to "destroy the team" without any damage, and also took a bath for a large number of anti-aircraft weapon groups and sensor arrays on the side of the destroyer.

When the squadron leader Stark and other aircraft passed by Johnny Riding at high speed, this "genius pilot" even received a message from the other party.

"Boy, don't be dazed on the battlefield, and watch and learn well~"

Although Johnny Riding felt very unhappy about this message, he couldn't refute it. After all, among the HCP pilots, "being bad is the original sin".

When Murat, Jacob and their "ACE Squadron" arrived, the garrison fleet's plan to plug the gap in the air defense network was completely shattered, and the air defense network, which was originally arranged in an orderly manner, was directly thrown into chaos.

If Johnny Riding and Manfred only knew that these Atlas trump cards were very strong in the previous actual combat exercises, now they have a more intuitive and profound understanding.

Personal skills, teamwork, on-the-spot command. With all these aspects fully played out, Johnny Riding and his team finally knew how strong the attack power of these "ACE Squadrons" was.

Just like a group of "comets" passing through the battlefield, the advancing troops are the "comet core", and the flames formed by the enemies that were blown up on their way are the "comet tail".

Even the heavy cruiser, whose firepower and armor are second only to the battleship, was quickly swept away by the external anti-aircraft weapon array after being penetrated to a very close distance and lost the escort of the HCP.

Finally, Jacob, who was drifting and dropping bombs, hit the plasma propulsion array of the battleship directly with a plasma torpedo.

"Major Murat is so strong, but he can't last more than ten moves under the hands of "that man". How strong is "that man"? Is he a monster?"

This untimely question flashed through Johnny Riding's mind, but he was interrupted by Manfred's shouting in the communication channel in the next second.

"True Red Lightning, prepare to finish off!"

"Got it!"

Johnny Riding came to his senses and quickly looked forward, only to see Manfred and three other heavy armored combat boats attacking at high speed near a squadron of HCPs.

At the same time, a large area of ​​laser-guided melee bombs equipped with plasma warheads was fired, forming a "barrage".

The densely packed laser-guided melee bombs were quickly intercepted by the opponent's close-range defense laser, but because Manfred and his team almost emptied the remaining melee bomb magazines in this round of attack, this huge amount of melee bombs could not be intercepted at all.

Soon, when the plasma warheads of these melee bombs exploded on the deflection field of the HCP, they immediately caused the electric field of the deflection field generator to become disordered, and a burst of fireworks was released.

The moment when the enemy HCP needed to power off and restart the deflection field generator was the time for Manfred to "finish off".

The long-term cooperation in training, including the coordinated operations just now, has already established a tacit understanding between 'True Red Lightning' and 'Red Baron'.

Therefore, Johnny Redding did not hesitate at all and led the team to rush over, while letting the combat assistant AI quickly complete the target assignment.

"Fire with all your strength! Fire with all your strength! The plasma heavy sword is electrified! After this round of attacks, draw your sword and follow me into hand-to-hand combat!"

"Yes, Captain!"×3

Johnny Leiting quickly set up the pre-powering of the plasma heavy sword in the weapon box behind his back, and then set up all the long-range weapons at the same time to lock on the four targets assigned to him - the remaining six HCPs were controlled by the team's The other three were responsible for the attack.

Although the remaining three members of the team he commanded were following his instructions at the moment, they were actually a little uneasy about suddenly starting to prepare for hand-to-hand combat.

After all, although the three of them formed an elite team with Johnny Redding, the 'Renaissance Alliance's number one pilot', because of their good skills in all aspects, they, like other training aviators of the Renaissance Alliance, were all doing it for the first time. Experience actual combat in space.

During their previous training at the A. Bava Ku asteroid fortress, Murat indeed assigned them a high proportion of HCP hand-to-hand combat training subjects.

But drawing a sword to kill someone in training and drawing a sword to kill someone in actual combat are completely different things.

This is not a problem with these trainees, but almost all new mobile phone masters will go through this process.

There is no pressure to die during training, and it is really cool to draw the plasma heavy sword and fight the enemy in close combat, so it is very common for pilots to be keen on using the heavy sword to complete the 'finish' during training.

But in actual combat, drawing the sword often becomes the lowest priority option.

Because HCP's hand-to-hand combat is completely uncontrollable, no one knows what will happen after entering the fight.

Moreover, the Plasma Heavy Sword is one of the few weapons that can ignore the existence of a deflection force field, and its damage effect is among the best, so even the most elite pilots may overturn in hand-to-hand combat.

But now the three members of Johnny's team don't have time to think so much. The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. No matter how much you think about it, you can't predict what will happen in the next second, so sometimes you can only do it first and then talk about it.

They also dutifully followed Johnny Redding's orders and energized the plasma sword in the weapon container on HCP's back so that it could be used directly after being pulled out.

At this time, Johnny Redding was already firing on his target.

The direct hit of the first heavy particle cannon directly melted the cockpit of the first target. Although the last deflection field was still working hard, it was still basically unable to provide any protection against the heavy metal particle jet bombardment at close range. effect.

Immediately afterwards, there was a second round of charged particle cannon irradiation, which directly exploded the plasma rocket launcher nest on the weapon rack behind the second target, and then damaged the plasma propulsion array below the weapon rack.

Before the pilot of the HCP could readjust its posture, Johnny Letting's rapidly deployed electromagnetic reconnection cannon fired a round of double shots, completely reducing the opponent's cockpit and subcritical reactor to parts. .

Although the superconducting battery stack did not explode, Johnny Letting knew that the enemy would definitely die.

After quickly dealing with these two targets, Johnny Redding did not hesitate at all. He directly placed the heavy shield attached to his left shoulder armor in front of him, then pushed the throttle to the bottom and headed directly towards the third target in the distance. Rushed over.

Although the fully equipped 'Sacred Shield' still has plasma rocket launching nests and combat bomb bays installed on the HCP's calves, one on the left and one on the right, but in previous battles, Johnny Letting had already used these at close range. All the weapons were used, and the launch nest and bomb bay were abandoned in order to reduce the weight of the aircraft.

As for the remaining long-range weapons, because most of the power stored in the superconducting battery stack of the body has been consumed, they will be in a state of "recharging while firing", so they cannot fire continuously as before.

Amid the sudden acceleration, Johnny Letting pulled out the plasma heavy sword that had been pre-powered, then kept the deflection field generator running at maximum power and hit it.

The opponent's pilot had just recovered from the 'plasma fireworks' just now, and was operating the power-off and restart deflection field generator. As a result, he saw the logos of two nearby friendly forces disappear from the screen all over the sky—— In combat, this often means they have been destroyed.

"What's going on."

The pilot subconsciously turned the front of the aircraft in the direction of the friendly attack. Just as he was about to turn his shield sideways to protect the cockpit, the next second he was directly hit by Johnny Redding who rushed towards the zenith. Full of heart'.

The omnidirectional viewfinder on the body's head was shattered on the spot, and the various external sensors on the upper body of the body were all scrapped due to the arc pulled out by the deflection force field and the impact of the heavy shield.

This directly caused the entire cockpit of the aircraft to lose most of the out-of-vehicle images, and the pilot did not know how to deal with it at this moment.

However, the kind-hearted Johnny Redding helped him solve this problem very efficiently. After flexibly adjusting the posture of the machine to become parallel to the target, the heavy sword in the hand of the red 'Sacred Shield' was completed neatly. A horizontal cut.

Without even needing to confirm, Johnny Redding knew that the opponent's pilot was dead.

But the words of the Atlas instructors and Murat during the training had already been imprinted in his mind, so he used the high-energy lasers on both sides of the head viewfinder to sweep the gap in the opponent's cockpit.

When he completed the destruction of three aircraft in a very short time, the rest of the team just entered the state of full firepower.

But he couldn't care so much now, because he found that the last target also drew out the heavy sword and rushed towards him. Judging from the opponent's position and actions, it was most likely the wingman of the "Sword of the Dead" just now.

"Come on!"

Johnny Riding's fighting spirit was immediately aroused. He lightly controlled the body to roll. Just when he was about to go forward and have a "man-to-man encounter" with the opponent's pilot, Manfred's team, which had completed a big loop in the distance, came back again.

"I'll help you!"

Several charged particle beams shot at the opponent's face in an instant, and finally shot directly through the superconducting battery stack, turning the last enemy into a ball of fire.

"You kid" was interrupted halfway through the charge, and Johnny Riding could only readjust his course to the enemy that his teammates were responsible for.

It was at this time that all eyes, including his on the inner battlefield, were focused on the super flagship that was moving at full speed.

Under Randall's command, the "Infinity" rushed out of the formation of its own fleet with an unstoppable momentum, and rushed towards the direction of the garrison fleet flagship "Balkan" in full view of the public.

Everyone had guessed what the "Infinity" was going to do, and on the "Balkan" that was used as a collision target, Major General Kimmel yelled like crazy:

"Quick, quick, quick! All warships concentrate their firepower on the opponent's flagship, sink it for me! The helmsman is ready to evade urgently, don't let the opponent hit it!"

Although Kimmel didn't know what would happen to Atlas's super flagship after the collision, he knew that the battleship under his feet would definitely not be able to withstand it.

Even if they were hit by a battleship of the same tonnage, they would all perish together, not to mention being hit in the face by such a larger super flagship.

But even if he gave the order to focus on the ‘Infinity’ at this time, only the nearby warships could really respond to the order for a while.

Not to mention that the warships a little further away were besieged by Atlas's HCP and combat boats, even adjusting the axial aiming at the ‘Infinity’ would take time.

And the Infinity, whose main propulsion array was running at super power, had reached a very high relative speed at this time, leaving the garrison fleet with insufficient time to focus its fire.

Looking at the ‘Infinity’ getting closer and closer in front of them, Kimmel and everyone on the bridge were in their throats.

Just when everyone thought it was too late to evade and began to pray in a low voice, a battleship forced to ‘overtake’ from the left, squeezed between the ‘Balkan’ and the ‘Infinity’, and continued to rush in the direction of the former.

"It's the 'Rock'! They've restarted the main propulsion array!"

In a flash, Rear Admiral Kimmel had no time to say anything. He could only watch the battleship, which was wounded in many places and still billowing smoke and flames, like a shield in front of the 'Balkan'.

At the same time, the communications officer also completed the translation of the light signal from the other side.

"Our ship will cover the flagship's breakout at all costs."

On the other side, looking at the 'Rock' that suddenly came out, Randall couldn't help but frown, but at this time the 'Infinity' was too late to evade.

Because even if the 'Rock' was avoided urgently, it would not be possible to readjust the course in time to hit the other flagship.

"Tsk, don't care so much, just hit it! All ships are ready to meet the impact!"

"Understood, all ships pay attention, prepare to meet the impact! Repeat all ships pay attention, prepare to meet the impact!"

The extremely high relative speed between the two ships made the last distance of more than 2,000 kilometers return to zero after more than ten seconds.

The size difference between the battleship and the super flagship made the Rock look like Don Quixote rushing towards the Windmill Monster, but it still did not hesitate at all.

The moment the two ships collided, time seemed to freeze.

The huge impact force made the space between the two battleships seem to be distorted in an instant.

Then, all the crew members on the Rock heard a deafening sound of metal tearing - the battleship's hull could not withstand such a strong force and began to fall apart.

The deflection force field concentrated at the bow of the Infinity was no longer just a defensive measure at this moment, but like Thor's hammer shining with arcs, it completely smashed the battleship in front of it.

The Rock did not last even a second in the collision, and the huge hull of the battleship quickly broke into several sections, and the external armor fragments scattered like fireworks.

Each piece of debris was spinning away from the center of the battlefield in the vacuum, leaving silvery white tracks in the light of the Great Rubion, like a meteor streaking across the night sky.

In contrast, the Infinity, which took the initiative to launch the collision, passed through the chaos almost unscathed.

Her extremely solid hull and the deflection force field generator that concentrated the force field on the bow and operated at super power allowed the warship to resist the damage caused by the collision.

Although there were a few minor scratches on the surface of the hull, this was not worth mentioning for this super flagship that took the initiative to take on the task of attracting firepower.

The moment the impact ended, damage control teams from all over the ship were quickly dispatched to check all modules that might have hidden damage and confirm that all systems were operating normally.

Randall and other personnel on the bridge finally took a breath after pausing for several seconds.

But everyone suppressed the idea of ​​cheering, because they all knew that the battle was not over yet, and the opponent's flagship had not been sunk yet.

However, due to the impact just now, the 'Infinity' suffered a serious yaw. The helmsman tried his best but found that he could not readjust the course before crossing with the 'Balkans', which also meant that the 'Infinity' could no longer steer. Launch a ramming attack on the enemy's flagship.

"Colonel, it's too late!"

The tone of the officer on duty was a little anxious. He knew the reason why Randall wanted to launch a collision, and naturally also knew the consequences of failing to sink the opponent's flagship.

"No, there's still time." Randall suddenly showed a smile,

"Don't forget, we are a battleship, and we don't just have two attack methods: main gun and ramming.

Send me the order! All weapon groups except the axis cannon are activated, allowing them to experience the firepower delivery capabilities of the 'Infinity'! "