Chapter 324 Expand Central Experiment Assault

"Huha!"

After listening to Soap's words, the communication channel was filled with the uniform battle cries of various units.

David, who was already somewhat emotional, was naturally among them.

18:00.

After Soap issued the pre-war declaration, it was also the time node for the official launch of the plan.

Then, the pilot in charge of driving the Luna II transport boat reminded Xiaoqiang, David and others through the broadcast in the cabin:

"Everyone, we will arrive at Skynet's headquarters in the former northern United States in 20 minutes, please be prepared."

As soon as the voice fell.

Everyone felt a shaking of the fuselage, which indicated that the Luna II transport boat was retracting its landing gear and heading towards the low-Earth orbit 100 kilometers above the ground.

And David turned his head and looked outside through the sealed porthole-

He saw hundreds of Pelicans, Silver Gulls and Luna transport boats, which also left the vertical take-off and landing apron one after another.

At the same time, there are more than a dozen aerial gunboats such as the Vulture and the Swift Shadow, as well as attack aircraft such as the Ghost, the Long Sword and the Dagger, to escort.

Although the armed units that Soap can dispatch are "only" more than 10,000 people, what Atlas lacks the least at this stage is all kinds of vehicles.

Vehicles such as transport boats and attack aircraft can be mass-produced in the shortest time whenever they are needed.

For example, after obtaining the drawings of the Dagger fighter from the UNSC and improving and perfecting them by the Research Department, the Accra Park has achieved mass production.

It is true that vehicles such as fighters are expensive, but the most valuable are still pilots.

Fortunately, Atlas has been focusing on the research and development of artificial intelligence in recent years, and has applied dumb AI to every corner of the company.

Therefore, with the assistance of dumb AI, the time, money and other costs of Atlas training pilots have also been greatly reduced.

Even the crew members responsible for operating space ships such as frigates and destroyers have the assistance of dumb AI.

This makes the total number of pilots, gunners and other related personnel involved in the mission to destroy Skynet exceed more than 3,000.

And the total number of employees and soldiers in the entire "Terminator" front-line base, added together, has reached more than 60,000.

It's just that the armed units responsible for the attack are "only" more than 10,000.

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Looking at the various scenes outside the porthole, David couldn't hide his excitement.

This is the first time he has participated in a real battle since joining the company.

When he was still in Night City, he still dreamed of making a name for himself and becoming a living legend.

Now think about it, he was too naive at that time.

What can be more worthy of "showing off" than fighting together with comrades and colleagues to liberate the persecuted human compatriots?

Moreover, with this goal, David always feels that his life is meaningful.

At least it is much more fulfilling than the previous ideals of making a lot of money, gaining a higher status, and climbing to the top of Night City.

Soon.

The Luna II that carried them arrived at a low orbit of about 100 kilometers above the ground and accelerated to the north.

During this period, David used the slightly reduced radar presented by his electronic eyes to see that more than 400 vehicles of various types began to disperse and sprint to different areas.

Not long after, the Luna II transport boat they were riding formed a formation with four other Luna IIs, more than 20 Pelicans, two Vultures and one Swift Shadow.

In addition.

When David felt that they began to lower their altitude and prepare to re-enter the atmosphere, sporadic "meteor showers" suddenly appeared not far ahead.

?

David was stunned at first.

But he immediately realized that this was the flames produced by the individual airdrop pods of ODST and SAT (Sangheili Commando) and the medium-sized airdrop pods carrying Tyrants or Cyclops when they broke through the atmosphere.

Although the total number of ODSTs and SATs carried by the four Paris-class ships is only more than 500, and their presence may not be as strong as that of the smaller advance team, their ability to open up the situation and seize the initiative is second only to the Astartes.

Moreover, the mission briefing also clearly mentioned that the responsibility of leading the main force to gain a foothold first will be performed by the Orbital Commando.

So David no longer looked out the window, but learned to close his eyes and rest like Lucy, waiting for the battle in the near future.

At the same time.

The surface of the earth has become dim and flickering with stars.

Looking down from above, the city and nearby villages and towns have all turned into ruins, and there are almost no green forests.

There are only a few weeds, "tenaciously" living in this arid land.

However, in the ruined city, there are lights and the sound of engines roaring, which does not seem to be lifeless at all.

Countless "people" holding rotating machine guns wandered among the messy streets.

And "they" seemed to be performing guard duties, patrolling or guarding to ensure that large construction machines could work unimpeded.

As for the construction machines that were like forklifts and excavators, but were very large in size, they were digging deep pits far away from the city center.

In addition, there were many unmanned trucks coming to the edge of the deep pits that had been dug.

When the trucks stopped and raised the rear bucket, a large number of human corpses were poured into the deep pit.

There was no clothing to cover the private parts, and some corpses lacked skin, limbs and eyes, which showed that these humans must have suffered inhumane experiments and torture when they were alive.

Some of the dead bodies whose faces were preserved even revealed expressions of anger and unwillingness.

After the trucks finished dumping and moved away from the edge of the deep pit, the unmanned bulldozers began to bury the piled corpses.

And those guys responsible for patrolling and guarding were not human at all, but T-600 Terminators with metal skeletons.

Although most T-600s still use old-fashioned rotary machine guns and carry large ammunition boxes behind them, 1/3 of them have begun to be equipped with "rifles" that look more advanced in appearance -

that is, plasma rifles.

Because this is the location of the Skynet center, the T-600s who serve as "security" here are naturally the first to be equipped with new weapons.

If you look towards the core of the city, you can see a giant pyramid-like building.

The top of the pyramid is at least 500 meters high.

A large number of searchlights and lighting equipment make the core area of ​​the city as bright as day.

It is simply not feasible to rely on ordinary smearing and stealth, and rely on cover to advance slowly.

Moreover, the pyramid is surrounded by high walls, and there are turret-type hunters every thirty meters to deal with any enemy who dares to break in here.

Even if the Terminator and Hunter in the same camp are not approved by Skynet, they will be ruthlessly bombarded by the turret.

This directly prevents the human resistance from using reprogrammed Terminators and Hunters to sneak into Skynet's central building.

At this stage, Skynet's overall strength is almost completely crushing the human resistance.

But as John Connor provided more and more skills on how to fight against Terminators and Hunters, as well as various cutting-edge weapons obtained by the resistance through Skynet, the decline has changed.

When humans launched a full-scale counterattack, Skynet's rigid mechanical army could no longer pose a major threat to humans.

So Skynet's defeat was inevitable.

As long as humans are still alive, even without a "cheating" savior like John Connor, humans will still seize the opportunity and fight back.

But at this moment, the Skynet Center has not yet "fallen" to the point of decline.

So the defense force is not as "fragile" and few as in the "Terminator" series of movies.

Putting aside the defense facilities inside and outside the pyramid building, there are 60,000 T-600s and mass-produced T-800s wandering in the ruins of the city.

Adding various non-human hunters, the size of the mechanical army gathered here exceeds 100,000.

If the human resistance army chooses the current time node to launch a strong attack, then no matter how many come, it is no different from sending death.

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Suddenly.

The turret-type hunter responsible for guarding the Skynet Center seemed to have noticed something and quickly opened the missile launch bay on its back.

Whoosh-whoosh-! !

But before the turret-type terminator cooperated with the fixed air defense facilities to launch interceptor missiles.

A large number of plasma cannons have fallen from the sky, instantly destroying 1/3 of the air defense forces near the Skynet center.

Ri~咻——! !

At this time, another blue light trajectory representing the electromagnetic main gun pierced the night sky and hit the nuclear fusion power plant here.

Boom——boom——！ ！ ！ ！

The violent explosion directly illuminated the entire ruined city.

The glare was fleeting.

Fortunately, the explosion of the nuclear fusion power plant was not as devastating as a hydrogen bomb, otherwise Atlas's "plunder" action.

No, it should be that Atlas's "commercial war" means have not been implemented yet, and Skynet's important assets have been physically cleared.

But the earthquake caused by the electromagnetic main gun, as well as the shock wave mixed with rubble and steel bars, began to sweep everything.

Many T-600s, T-800s and various types of hunters were unable to fight against this aftermath.

The airdrop pods carrying ODST, SAT, Tyrant and Cyclops also merged into the darkness like a meteor, and continued to advance rapidly towards the surface.

However.

Swish-swish-!!

Hundreds of interceptor missiles rose quickly, and after reaching a certain height, they accelerated several times.

It is true that the nuclear fusion power plant was destroyed, and it is also true that Skynet's defense force suffered heavy damage after being bombarded by the Paris-class.

But there is still a backup energy supply here.

So at the moment when the aftermath dissipated, the remaining turret-type hunters and air defense facilities locked the airdrop pods again, and without any hesitation, they prepared to intercept missiles.

On the other hand, the ODST and SAT released small decoy aircraft that were a hundred times larger than themselves the moment they realized they were locked.

Boom. Boom!

The sky suddenly staged a "fireworks show", which showed that the interceptor missiles successfully completed their mission and hit the target.

But it was a pity that the airdrop pods broke out of the explosion range and rushed to the ground at a faster speed.

There were not many interceptor missiles, but there were thousands of small decoy aircraft. How could Skynet intercept them?

Then, the airdrop pods fell on the eastern edge of the pyramid building one by one.

Bang~ Bang!

"ODST! Clear the mechanical lumps in the north!"

"Elites are responsible for the south! Biological weapons and mechas provide support!"

"The main force will arrive in two minutes. I don't want them to say that our clearing service is not good enough!"

"Huha!"

"Ah~!"

With the sound of the airdrop pods popping open one after another, the communication channel of the Orbital Commandos also rang out with the roar of the team leader, as well as the battle cries of the ODST and SAT.

despair! Ta-ta!

call out! Phew!

In a short moment, the red light trajectory representing hard light technology and the blue light cannon of the plasma rifle began to flash in the landing area of ​​the airdrop pod.

More than a hundred elite veterans of ODST and SAT, after setting foot on the surface, began to suppress the remaining T-600, T-800, and Hunters with firepower.

Four heavily armored Tyrants armed with rotating Gauss cannons and small-caliber plasma cannons, coupled with a Cyclops mecha, were at the forefront of the formation.

The Terminators and Hunters around them can easily kill the human resistance forces who still use live ammunition.

However, faced with combat maniacs, orbital commandos composed of combat races, as well as hard light, gauss and plasma firearms and artillery

The mechanical army, which had already been bombarded by orbit, was really unable to stop them.

After a while.

The scope of the landing zone was expanded more than six times by hundreds of orbital commandos.

That is to say, Terminators and Hunters have no fear. Otherwise, facing the lunatic-like ODSTs and the elite veterans who are comparable to super soldiers and scream "Ouch" from time to time, wielding double-edged energy swords, theoretically, their morale should have collapsed. .

And the mechanical army is not useless.

They are not afraid of death at all, so after gradually adapting to the battle rhythm of ODST and elite veterans, they began to counterattack.

Buzz~buzz. Bang!

At this time, the energy shields of several ODST's left arms failed due to overload, and their bodies were directly exposed to the fire from the rotating machine guns.

Fortunately, the titanium alloy armor helped most ODSTs block fatal attacks and allowed them to find bunkers and dodge in time.

But there were also unlucky ODSTs whose helmet screens were shot directly through.

Even though they were all injected with the Inquisi serum and had healing abilities far beyond those of ordinary people, they were unable to withstand severe brain damage and fell to the ground one after another and died.

The elite veterans were also completely blocked by the more advanced T-800.

Skynet's latest mass-produced plasma rifle was no less powerful than their usual standard weapons, and the energy shield shattered in a short time.

Therefore, the elite veterans also began to suffer casualties.

Only the heavily armored Tyrant and the Cyclops still stood firm.

However, as tanks, air types, and more hunters arrived on the scene and joined the battle, the pressure on the assault troops increased dramatically.

However, they have completed all combat objectives.

That is to say, the landing area was forcibly dug out and attracted the attention of Skynet's mechanical army, creating a "green" landing environment for the follow-up troops.

When the pressure on the assault force increased, the ghost, dagger, and long sword formations began to "unscrupulously" bombard the mechanical army.

Aerial gunships such as the Vulture and Swift Shadow launched artillery strikes from a safe distance away from the assault troops.

Then, the Luna II transport boat and the Pelican also arrived in the nearby airspace one after another, preparing to land at the landing zone.