Chapter 94 Harvest and Giant Ground Effect Vehicle

Generally speaking, after the warheads for orbital strikes enter the atmosphere, they are basically difficult to intercept except for the irradiation of high-power directed energy weapons.

At present, whether it is the Federation or the Empire, the terminal defense against orbital strikes basically relies on the irradiation of charged particle cannons and high-energy laser beams.

Obviously, the temporary 83rd Composite Brigade in this state cannot intercept.

In other words, they do not have the ability to intercept orbital strike warheads.

Although there is a relatively complete air defense battalion under the composite brigade, the accompanying high-energy laser air defense vehicles they are equipped with are mainly used to attack cruise missiles, drones, and targets such as HCPs that are stupidly hovering in the air.

It is still a bit beyond the scope to ask them to hit the warheads entering the atmosphere.

The lasers that can intercept these things are basically large fixed road-based lasers, and the mirror size is even larger than these air defense vehicles.

So at the beginning, Amber did not consider the possibility that these orbital strike bombs could be intercepted.

His plan is very simple, just pray.

Pray that these thermobaric bombs will not fall on their heads.

Those who can survive on the battlefield need a bit of luck.

Under Amber's order, the troops participating in the attack in the northeast hid in the basements of nearby buildings, and the vehicles and multi-legged chariots that could be driven underground drove into the basements.

For those that really couldn't hide, like the 'Mammoth', they could only park outside and let the crew hide on their own.

The infantry who hid in the surrounding buildings and underground, under Amber's order, turned on the full-closed mode of the exoskeleton and combat uniforms and began to pressurize.

In this case, as long as they were not in the ultra-high temperature killing zone near the explosion center, they should be able to survive more or less.

After all, these exoskeletons were designed at the beginning to take into account that the infantry needed to withstand the extreme environment of orbital strikes and attacks, so some efforts were made in explosion and shock wave protection.

As for ordinary people in the city, they can only admit that they are unlucky and rely on their own abilities.

The warhead falling at 23 times the speed of sound did not make Amber and his men wait too long.

Soon, they heard two dull loud noises from the city area of ​​the outer city while hiding in the basement.

At the same time, the basement where they were hiding began to tremble.

The tactical visor also began to show a warning of "decreased oxygen content in the surrounding environment".

However, the goddess of luck finally stood on Amber's side.

The orbital attack ship responsible for launching the two orbital strike missiles had no time to correct the trajectory and landing point when it was attacked. It just set the target area roughly as the Blue Bay urban area and launched the missiles.

So the two warheads did not fall on Amber and his team, and did not even have much impact on the federal offensive forces.

One of them fell in the urban area where the attack had been completed, instantly killing a large number of civilians hiding at home.

The other one happened to fall near the target of Amber's attack - the backup headquarters of the Imperial Orbital Paratroopers.

The "werewolf" who had just retreated to this area was directly swallowed by the fireball of the explosion, and the entire HCP was twisted into a pile of scrap metal under the overpressure and shock wave.

When everything returned to calm, Amber waited for a long time but did not wait for the subsequent orbital strike to arrive.

He sent two mobile infantrymen out to investigate the situation, and he contacted the brigade headquarters in the rear.

After receiving the news that "no subsequent orbital strikes have been detected", Amber was actually puzzled for a while. The Imperial Fleet's orbital strike was indeed a bit strange.

He naturally didn't know that in order to drop these two orbital strike bombs, the Imperial Fleet even lost ten orbital attack ships, which was really a big loss.

Soon, the mobile infantrymen who went out to investigate the situation also sent back the news that "everything is normal".

After thinking for a while, Amber ordered to continue the attack.

After the area where the backup command was located was hit by the orbit, the Imperial troops here suffered heavy losses.

Because they were too close to the explosion center, the high temperature generated instantly exceeded the processing limit of the exoskeleton adaptive constant temperature system.

A large number of soldiers were suffocated in their exoskeletons.

The subsequent battle entered garbage time.

The position near the backup command of the Imperial Orbital Paratrooper Regiment was quickly completely taken by Amber, and he led the troops to support the direction of the main attack.

Under the situation of Lilith's continuous virus implantation and electronic warfare attacks, although a lot of mobile infantry were sacrificed and almost half of the light multi-legged vehicles were lost, they still attacked all the way to the last position with great momentum and joined the friendly forces to complete the encirclement.

Facing the two HCPs guarding the last position, Amber used the tactics he had just used again, and his units continued to attack alternately as if the ammunition was free.

After receiving Amber's advice, the surrounding friendly forces quickly followed suit.

Under such a saturation attack, the shields of the two HCPs that were struggling to support in the line of fire were finally broken, and the deflection field generator was overloaded and paralyzed due to long-term operation.

In the end, they were turned into two piles of scrap metal by the electromagnetic reconnection guns of several "Mammoths".

After the fall of this last support point of combat power, the defeat of the imperial forces was determined. Without the surrender of personnel, the federal offensive forces wiped out the defenders.

When Amber led several mobile infantrymen and rushed into the regiment headquarters located by Lilith to capture a few people alive, they saw only destroyed equipment and instruments, as well as Captain Phillips and several other officers who committed suicide.

The battle to clear the remaining enemies in the city did not take too much effort. Under the dual lock of the virus spread by Lilith in advance and street surveillance, most of the remaining soldiers were quickly found and annihilated.

The remaining small number of enemies hid deeper and would not show up for a while.

But neither Amber nor Lieutenant Colonel Dallas wanted to play hide-and-seek with these remaining soldiers at this time.

Because the nearby imperial troops who received a request for support were already rushing here, they had to hurry up to collect all the equipment they could use and then evacuate to the port.

Although most of the electronic equipment was destroyed by the imperial troops themselves to prevent leaks.

But under the guidance of Lilith, Amber and his team still found three small airdrop pods that had not been destroyed in time.

According to the information obtained after the invasion, Lilith told Amber that there were three small attack drone groups called "bee swarms" inside.

It was obvious that before the orbital strike, these imperial forces intended to release these drones, but they were interrupted by Lilith's virus attack.

"Lilith, are you sure you can break the restrictions of these things?"

Looking at the three airdrop pods, Amber admitted that he was indeed a little envious, but the premise was that he could break the restrictions above.

"No problem, Master! As long as you spend more time, you will definitely be able to break it! This thing will definitely come in handy in the Master's future battles!"

Since Lilith was so confident, Amber didn't say much, and found a few mobile infantrymen to prepare to use large trucks to transport the three airdrop pods to the port.

The temporary 83rd Composite Brigade will assemble there and then board the three giant ground effect vehicles with a carrying capacity of up to 5,000 tons docked at the port.