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Chapter 664: Can't Be Hard

The Titans' movements seemed quite slow from a distance, but in fact, they could take dozens of meters at a time. The Titans on both sides were still firing at each other with long-range weapons, but a moment later, the two steel behemoths collided fiercely.

Titan's close-range combat requires more control.

At the beginning of the battle, Gu Zhouhua had already destroyed three enemy armored giants.

The heavy artillery equipped on the 'Warlord-class' Titan is extremely powerful. The main gun equipped on Gu Zhouhua's Titan is a laser cannon. This laser cannon, which cost a lot of money to build, can even be regarded as a reduced version of the M-class Meltdown Light Spear in terms of power. Without such a large attack range, the Titan cannot use it; without such great destructive power, it cannot bear it. However, the concentration of the light spear is more concentrated, and while it is much thinner, the damage that can be caused to the area hit by the light spear is no less than that of the 'Meltdown'.

Under the attack of such weapons, the energy shields and void shields used by the large Titans can still withstand it, but ordinary knight mechas are really no match for them.

The target targeted by Gu Zhouhua suffered a heavy blow. For example, a small knight mecha like the squire class would be destroyed along with the shield and mecha itself with one shot.

Even a standard knight mech like the Ranger class, which is not small, can be directly overloaded by a single shot, and the overload is so severe that the shield generator explodes. After that, there is no need for the main gun to fire, and the operator in charge of the weapon system can destroy it with a single shot from the secondary gun.

That’s how we got the three victories.

But the powerful warlord-level Titan cannot always be used to fight such small creatures.

Gu Zhouhua's Titan was one of the fastest large Titans in the entire legion, and it deservedly received the enemy's concentrated fire.

In fact, not far from Gu Zhouhua, a warlord-level machine had already fallen.

It's not that the void shield is not powerful, nor that the armor is not thick enough. It's just that if you are being targeted and attacked, no matter how strong you are, you can't withstand it.

Of course, there were also Warlord-level Titans that fell on the opposite side.

Gu Zhouhua was not so unlucky that he did not become the enemy's biggest target of fire. But despite this, the fierce artillery fire also turned his void shield into the most dangerous purple-red color, and it was about to overload.

At this juncture, under his constant urging, the operator in charge of the power had already made the engine smoke. The entire Warlord-class Titan rushed into the enemy camp first, and its target was an enemy Warhound-class Titan.

After the fierce collision, both sides stopped in an instant.

At this point, Gu Zhouhua could breathe a sigh of relief. After being caught in close combat, the enemy's artillery fire could not focus on him. Even if the enemy insisted on attacking regardless of friendly casualties, there was a war dog in front of him.

However, he had to pick up the breath he had just let out again.

Is close combat easy?
Even if the opponent is just a war dog, you must not be careless.

In close combat, the Void Shield is useless!

When he was still a trainee, he knew that wielding a melee weapon, slowly passing through the void shield, and then speeding up to cut and strike the enemy. He didn't believe that the Titan operator on the opposite side didn't know.

Even though the infected drivers on the opposite side have lost their brains, they actually just lack some flexibility and execute orders rigidly. They will still think, after all, their brains have been eaten - at least not completely eaten up, so they can still do their normal work.

In some cases it is an advantage, but in the confrontation between such high-tech weapons and top-notch equipment, the lack of "humanity" is fatal.

The War Dog Titan could only try to stand up straight and smash its weapon at Gu Zhouhua's Titan.

Gu Zhouhua, however, was so smart that he issued several instructions in succession. The power group cancelled the balance control that the machine soul was responsible for, and operated the legs alone, exerting force to knock the war dog down. Taking advantage of the situation, the weapons group used a huge power fist to hit its head.

If one punch doesn't solve the problem, then hit a few more times until the entire War Dog-class Titan is smashed to pieces.

During this process, Gu Zhouhua, the commander of the Titan, no longer paid attention to the enemy in front of him, but retrieved the information of the entire battle situation in front and to the side from the observation system. What he was most worried about was being hit by other firepower when he knocked down the enemy and beat him up.

When the void shields are close to overload, they are actually quite fragile.

What reassured him was that the enemy did not aim at him. Only a small amount of firepower hit him, and the void shield on the verge of overload still blocked 30% of the firepower. The remaining 70% made the Titan shake, but the strong enough armor and the structural strength of the Titan itself still allowed them to hold on, and the damage was not even serious.

The reason for this, of course, is not that the enemy showed mercy, but that at this moment, the two sides have already come into large-scale contact.

The war machines, with their comrades on both sides, rushed forward and collided with each other.

The collision of steel and steel produced a deafening roar. These steel giants, which were tens of meters tall or even dozens of meters tall, strangled each other in a primitive and cruel way.

A gigantic chainsword that shreds steel;
With a power fist of unparalleled force, smash the body;
The barrel of the gun extended into the inner layer of the energy shield, and fired at the face;
In this area, which doesn't seem too big from a distance, the fierce fighting between hundreds of steel behemoths is truly rare.

Even Salilius, the commander of the Ortopis legion who had fought in many places throughout the empire and was well-informed, had to admit that this war was almost like the classic battles recorded in ancient records.

Looking at the entire history of the empire, there have been battles in such a narrow area with such intensive Titan warfare and both sides fighting to the death, but they are not many.

He couldn't help but ask the person next to him, "Sage Barnes, what do you think of this Titan Corps of the Alliance? Have you changed your evaluation from a few days ago?"

Barnes was silent for a long moment.

He came from Mars, from the headquarters of the Mechanicus, and came as the chief adviser to Salilius and even the entire Western Front Legion.

A few days ago, when the Alliance Titans attacked, he gave a four-word evaluation:

"That's all."

At that time, he still had a bit of arrogance, thinking, "I'm from the center of the empire, and I've seen Titan legions that are much stronger than this."

But at this moment, I couldn't say it at all.

Perhaps, the number of Titan Legions that the Martian Mechanicus could directly mobilize was much larger than this. However, how many years had it been since the Martian Titan Legion had fought a similar war? Often, it was good enough to deploy a few Titans on a battlefield and crush the enemy.

There are not many people on Mars who have experience in large-scale battles between Titans like this.

At least he himself had never seen it.

At this point, he couldn't be stubborn anymore.

He could only cough twice and said, "It's still quite good."

Salilius chuckled and said with emotion: "If it weren't for the help of the Alliance, we would not be able to defeat the situation today with only the dozens of Titans and Knights in our hands."

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There is one more chapter before dawn.

(End of this chapter)