Chapter 43 "We Are Sitting Ducks, Kid"

"Bang-! Bang-!"

"Boom-! Boom-!"

Not only the 20mm cannon, but also the 40mm cannon and 105mm howitzer, and even the sound of larger-caliber artillery, also echoed throughout the theater.

Among the wild animals in Pandora, there are indeed many giant beasts or beasts with hard skin that can defend against rifle and machine gun bullets.

But as long as it is in the category of carbon-based organisms, there is nothing that thermal weapons cannot solve. Even the motherland and soldier boys who can withstand nuclear bombs and hydrogen bombs cannot avoid this law. It is just a question of whether the yield is large or not. They will always have problems. own limits.

Only the people of the motherland are difficult to deal with. After all, that "pirate Superman" has the ability to fly at supersonic speeds, which is a bit tricky. There is currently no plan to quickly defeat him without causing large-scale urban destruction or large-scale casualties of innocent people. wipe out.

But Pandora’s behemoths and ferocious beasts are obviously not in the “troublesome” category.

Just look at the beast that originally posed a serious threat to the RDA ground troops, and was blown to pieces by artillery of various calibers.

Such intensive artillery strikes indicate that there are ground artillery positions deployed in advance outside this place.

Swish-! Swish-!

There were also dozens of air-to-ground missiles with white tail flames, passing over the RDA flight formation at extremely fast speeds, and then scattered directly among the army of beasts and Na'vi.

Boom! ! !

In an instant, the "lotus" composed of soil and various types of debris was actually the "petals" caused by the shock wave generated by the violent explosion and the overpressure effect, rising together in the rain forest.

The situation reversed instantly.

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The Na'vi people who were still encouraging and cheering, including Jack Sally, who was voluntarily expelled, were dumbfounded and sluggish, not knowing what to do.

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"Fakye!"

"It's great! It's great!"

"Woohoo! Counterattack! Brothers!"

On the other hand, the RDA ground troops, whose morale was almost collapsing, immediately ignited their emotions after seeing the threat of the beast being eliminated instantly, reorganized their firepower network, and continued to suppress them in the direction of the spiritual tree and the sanctuary.

And at this time.

In the cockpit of the Dragon assault boat.

The sudden questions, as well as the bombing support from long-range artillery and missiles, made the pilots and gunners a little stunned. They did not expect that they had reinforcements.

Seeing this, Quaritch quickly ran to the pilot's side and looked up through the porthole.

Sure enough, he found two "black spots" hovering thousands of meters above the sky. At the same time, he happened to witness several fighter planes passing by from high altitude.

"Sir." At this time, the observer who was still working reported: "Unknown forces have sent an invitation for video communication. Do we want to respond?"

Hearing this, Quaritch came to the observer at the back of the cockpit, his left hand still resting on the chair, then possessed him, looked at the holographic screen at close range and said:

"Of course, it's a bit rude to act on airs."

"Okay sir."

The observer who received the instructions completed the video communication link with a few operations.

Immediately afterwards, the communication initiator, who appeared on the holographic screen, was also standing in the cabin of a certain type of air transport vehicle, wearing a black combat uniform, with a beard and a cigar in his mouth.

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Although he was surprised by the other party's attire, Quaritch restrained his previous arrogant attitude and introduced himself first: "Colonel Miles Quaritch, former Marine Corps and current security commander of RDA Hell's Gate Base, thank you very much. The firepower assistance provided prevented our formation from collapsing.

But with all due respect, Major Morgan, could you please explain where you came from? As far as I know, we, RDA, are the only ones carrying out mining activities on Pandora. "

"You're welcome, we're all human beings." Arthur Morgan in the communication section first responded to the other party's words of thanks, then raised his hand to clamp his cigar and answered the question inappropriately:

"Where our Atlas came from is a long story, so I suggest we work together to eliminate the threat of the Na'vi first, and then sit down and have a good chat. What do you think, Colonel Quaritch? ? And our ground troops are arriving soon."

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Quaritch frowned when he heard the other party's words. He knew there was a trap, but he was helpless. Who gave the other party the support of high-altitude and ground artillery, so he could only nod in agreement:

"Major, you are right. The primary threat right now is the Na'vi."

With that said, Quaritch opened the internal communication and gave the RDA order in front of Arthur: "Attention all personnel, this is Father Feilong. Friendly troops are about to arrive. Be careful of accidental injuries. Be careful of accidental injuries."

"Team A understands."

"Team B understands."

As the order was issued, the commanders of various ministries also responded one after another.

"Thank you for your understanding. I'll see you later, Colonel." Arthur smiled and took the initiative to end the video communication.

"Sir, the other party is obviously hiding something. Shouldn't we prepare in advance?" The observers who were watching the negotiation were a little confused.

"Prepare? Boy, the oxygen content of Pandora is about the same as that of Earth, but there are a lot of gases that are toxic to humans." After Quaritch said this, he pointed upward and continued:

"This means that they only need simple adjustments to use fighters and attack aircraft adapted to Pandora's atmospheric environment, and the other party did send these military units.

We also noticed the magnetic interference in the war zone and adopted the strategy of conducting artillery strikes from a distance to avoid the failure of the fire control system. So what do you think we are in the eyes of the enemy? "

"Living targets... sir."

"We are in a bad situation, kid, so we can only act as the enemy expects. "

After saying these words, Quaritch, who looked extremely serious, also saw another wave of helicopter formations through the porthole.

Leaving the Dragon assault boat.

Coming to the top of the war zone, another flight formation consisting mainly of large transport helicopters was approaching rapidly from the northeast.

And the appearance of the transport helicopter is similar to that of the V-22 Osprey, but it is about three times larger than the Osprey, and has an additional pair of tilt-rotating wings and engines.

RDA fighters don't know, but Atlas is very familiar with it, because the transport aircraft is the standard model of the United Defense Force (UDF) - the BBQT-V-44 four-tilt-rotor transport aircraft, also known as the "Red Eagle".

In the Zero-One universe, the UDF is using Red Eagle is used to transport the mechanical skeleton corps.

In addition, there are armed helicopters such as the combination of Comanche and Apache, numbered and named BBRH-66-"Falcon", to escort the entire flight formation.

However, the striking red "Λ" logo is printed on the fuselage, indicating that these original UDF military vehicles are already the property of Atlas.

In the blink of an eye, the flight formation arrived at the location of the RDA ground forces, and then lowered its altitude and hovered.

After the Red Eagle opened the bottom hatch, nearly a thousand ARS infantrymen equipped with UDF models, that is, seemingly heavy mechanical skeletons, quickly completed the airdrop through steel cables, and completed it in one go.

At the same time, the RDA Valkyries also began to launch an air strike on the Na'vi Sanctuary.