From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 243 A new version of Orbital Strike

Rubian No. 5, the right wing of the coalition's first battle group.

This is a suburban area near the city, with a small processing plant and a small population settlement that has grown out of it.

But now, thick smoke and fire are rising everywhere, whether in settlements or factories.

There are still huge scorch marks on the huge farmland of the surrounding automated farms and on the nearby hills, and there are scattered fires.

That is the 'channel' blasted by the heavy particle cannon.

The black-smoking wreckage of main battle tanks and armored vehicles, as well as corpses on the ground nearby, were scattered in the open area near the factory.

If the camera is zoomed up, it can even be seen that these wreckage still maintain the impact formation.

In the atmosphere, heavy particle cannons that use a dual-kill mechanism of thermal energy + kinetic energy cause shock waves and instantaneous vacuum phenomena when firing, which greatly increases the collateral damage of heavy particle cannons.

Because in the previous decades, whether it was the Federation or the Empire, few of the enemies they faced could be organized HCP units.

When the Imperial Army launched a full-line offensive in the early morning, according to the order issued by the brigade headquarters, the Second Heavy Combined Battalion, which moved into a defensive posture in advance, deployed its position on a high ground in and around the factory area.

A ground combat control team that crossed the front line and guided an orbital strike at close range allowed the tactical ground-to-surface missile to land accurately on the head of a mechanized infantry company.

The basic idea still continued what Amber did on the Robert IV at that time. The firepower strikes were distributed in echelons, so that the target had to keep the deflection field turned on.

For the remaining units that lost HCP fire cover, it became extremely difficult to withdraw from the battle, let alone continue the attack.

But this behavior of increasingly dispersed firepower was quickly eliminated after paying a lot of blood.
This messy fighting area is the defense area responsible for the Atlas Mixed Brigade and the Second Heavy Combined Battalion.

An HCP platoon (4 units) that coordinated the attack had to withdraw from the battlefield first after leaving behind the wreckage of two units.

The attack of three thermobaric warheads directly caused the company to lose the ability to continue fighting.
The Imperial Armored Battalion opposite was responsible for this exploratory attack. After the attack was blocked and suffered an orbital strike, they quickly realized that they were facing a tough nut.

Moreover, the opponent also conducted a very professional close-range orbital strike guidance.

Charged particle cannons and heavy particle cannons that require the deployment of weapon "cannons" are basically difficult to use.

Even if most rebels can obtain HCP, the number is not large.

And you can only use electromagnetic rifles or close-range defense lasers, which are faster-response weapons.

Although as time goes by, both sides will "spread out" their offensive formations.

Atlas's ground forces now have experience in dealing with 'high-risk units' like HCP.

It even included two destroyed HCPs.

Amber often takes Murat, Lewis, and other skilled HCP pilots to conduct simulated battles as the Blue Army.

Therefore, for a long time, the enemies of the regular armies and civilian armed forces of the two countries were more conventional combinations of mechanized infantry and a small number of heavy armored units.

At the same time, these HCPs must remain constantly mobile in order to find opportunities to counterattack.

The intruding Imperial troops quickly left behind a large number of vehicle wreckage and corpses of infantry units after crashing into the 'kill zone'.

This has also resulted in their offensive method not changing for many years.

Therefore, in the current war, when the ground forces of both sides are attacking, an offensive column often collapses under the cross-blow of the defender's two heavy particle cannons.

Although this consumes a lot of ammunition and energy, it did catch the Imperial Army HCP pilots off guard.

Therefore, the commander of this armored battalion very wisely did not choose to continue the attack. Instead, after reporting the intelligence, he started a confrontation with the Second Heavy Combined Battalion.

According to the news from the headquarters, another armored battalion attacking in other directions was also blocked and also suffered an orbital attack.

However, what suffered this time was part of the firepower battalion under the entire brigade combat team. Nearly half of the direct-fire suppression artillery was wiped out.
The final order issued by the headquarters was similar to what the imperial battalion commander had expected, which was to stop attacking and shift to defense.

Anyway, the current attacks in other directions are going smoothly. Even if the enemies here are unable to attack them for a while, they will eventually be surrounded by friendly forces in other directions, waiting to be killed.

The battalion headquarters of the Atlas 2nd Combined Battalion, Lieutenant Memphis from the Atlas 'teaching team', was looking at the two 'hairballs' arguing in the command car with a smile.

"Tailaq, why did you go to Qianzhi for a meeting? You couldn't even get the 'Assault Spearhead' mission!"

Menton, who was huddled in the widened command vehicle, complained angrily to his chief of staff.

Because they had excellent results in the comprehensive assessment, and they were also the group of people with the most combat experience in the entire Roma Marine Corps.

Menton and Telak have been promoted to the chief and deputy battalion commanders of the 2nd Heavy Combined Battalion during this troop reorganization.

Lieutenant Memphis and several other members of the training team temporarily filled other positions in the battalion headquarters. "You can't change your bad temper, right? If you have something to say, it's useless to get angry at me! The brigade commander and others must have considered this arrangement."

Talak, who was sitting on the other side, frowned and said.

Menton's temper is actually known to everyone in the Roma team as "stinky". In addition, his fighting style is to dare to fight and charge, and never to be cowardly, so he is "somewhat famous" in the brigade headquarters.

Although Amber was very satisfied with the bloody spirit of the military commander of the battalion-level unit, she privately warned Telak to put the brakes on Menton.

"Then tell me, why is our second battalion inferior to their first battalion? Why is it that when the entire brigade attacks, their first battalion will be the 'assault spearhead'?"
Let me tell you, it's because you, the deputy battalion commander, were too docile when you went to the front to hold a combat meeting! Why the hell don't you dare to fight with the brigade commander? ! "

"Hahahahahaha!"

As soon as Mengton said this, before Telak could say anything, Memphis, who was sitting eating melon and watching the show, started to laugh.

"Mengton, you have the guts! I want to see how you fight with the brigade commander next time!"

Lieutenant Memphis' words instantly evoked some bad memories for Menton.

That was the experience of being carried out of the building by Amber like a chicken in a simulated attack.
Mengton immediately became honest when he thought of Amber, his brigade commander and boss, and his terrifying individual combat effectiveness.

However, it is easy to see from his expression that he is still very upset about not receiving the main attack mission.

In fact, Memphis could see the same look even on Telak's face.

Like Baninger, this veteran who has been with Amber for a long time looked at the two fur balls and said with a smile:

"Don't be unwilling to give in. After all, you have spent too little time under Boss and don't understand his style."

Lieutenant Memphis opened the enemy-friendly situation map on the vehicle-mounted command terminal and continued:

"Since the brigade commander personally led the team to participate in this combat mission, the real 'assault spearhead' must be the HCP company led by him.

It doesn't matter who takes the lead in the first and second heavy-duty combined battalions. The protagonist of this battle is not on you.

Even if you are able to fight, how can you still have an HCP driven by a brigade commander? "

Lieutenant Memphis' words made the two Roma people gradually come to their senses, and they quickly thought of the 'inhuman' combat power of the HCP driven by Amber.

The time chosen by the Atlas mixed brigade to attack was at midnight.

As 'D time' approaches, each combat force has entered into final preparations before the assault after a short alternating rest.

At D-30, the brigade headquarters has completed the transfer, entered maneuver mode and moved to the rear of the attacking unit. The firepower battalion is also one-quarter of the firing range from the attacking unit and has completed preparations for fire support.

Because after the assault begins, the troops keep moving forward. If they stay at the maximum support distance for safety reasons, they will have to start moving forward in a few rounds.

At D-20, the four battalions forming the attack formation have moved to the 'offensive preparation line' position. The RQ220 'Observer', which has survived from the morning until now, has also completed the reconnaissance of the enemy position overhead.

At D-10, the st Heavy Combined Battalion crossed the 'offensive launch line'. At the same time, the three supplemented Imperial Armored Battalions also sounded the battle alarm.

At D, the artillery group of the combined brigade fire battalion covered the area and fired, firing the first shot of the counterattack.

In the night, the beams of lasers and charged particle cannons flashed over the enemy positions. This was a sign that the HCP used its excellent reconnaissance and observation equipment to intercept the 155 shells that had just passed the top of the parabola.

The two heavy-duty synthetic battalions in front also launched an attack under cover of fire.

However, the imperial troops guarding the position discovered that although the firepower of the two battalion-level units on the opposite side was very fierce, the attack had been launched for a while, but they had not yet launched an attack, but had been shooting at each other.

At D+10, on the orbit of Lubion , warships from several defense companies were surprised to find that the Atlas light cruiser with 'Hermes' printed on its side had descended into low orbit. .

It also presents a strange and dangerous posture of 'head down'.

Just when they were wondering in the communication channel whether there was something wrong with the light cruiser's power system, they discovered that the muzzle of the quadruple heavy particle cannon on the bow of the battleship was flashing with blue-white light.

At this time, in the captain's seat of the Hermes, Cliffs was facing a 'Checklist' on the virtual screen on the right, nervously commanding.

"The main gun is ready for salvo firing, the mass of the bismuth alloy is increased to 2000 grams, and the initial velocity of the heavy metal particle flow is reduced to 500 kilometers per second!"

"The high-energy laser at the front of the battleship adjusts the wavelength to 8MM and begins atmospheric interference! Target, the enemy's armored coalition battalion is deployed in the direction of the combined brigade's attack!"

Several invisible lasers began to 'evenly heat' the attack channel, reducing the diffraction value of the atmosphere as much as possible.

Immediately afterwards, four blue-white 'beams' swept along this channel with uniform atmospheric density, temperature and humidity values, and quickly disappeared into the atmosphere.

(End of this chapter)