From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 365 Atlas Combat Forces VS Federal Regular Army

The Atlas soldiers only saw the main battle tank of the Federal Army. The rectangular muzzle flashed violently, and then a dazzling white light burst out from the front of a medium-sized multi-legged tank within their own cordon.

That's the arc created by the deflection field being activated.

Soldiers who were a little further away could even see a thin orange-red line of fire that paused for a moment after hitting the deflection field, and then flew diagonally upwards as if it was slid away.

Then, there came the sound of cannons that came from far away, like the wrath of Thor.

"Fire! The federal army has opened fire! Defend and counterattack according to the established procedures!"

Om waved his hands and shouted into his platoon command channel:

"Beat the cigarette! Beat the cigarette! Beat the cigarette!"

Soon, with the sound of a series of electromagnetic projectiles operating, a large number of smoke bombs exploded in the open space between the Atlas soldiers and the federal forces.

In this round, both vehicles and infantry launched quick-fire smoke bombs. Although their duration was not as long as that of conventional thermal smoke bombs, their special chemical formula was able to quickly produce large amounts of smoke for tactical concealment in an emergency.

Watching the smoke wall rising, Om continued to command on the communication channel:

"Squads one, two, and four, cover the refugees' retreat to the camp. Squad three and the firepower group quickly enter the designated positions and try to counterattack! The multi-legged tank platoon will be responsible for the rear guard. Don't fight to the end!"

Under his command, the Atlas soldiers, who were originally a little nervous due to the sudden situation, quickly calmed down and began to act according to his instructions.

The last multi-legged tank platoon was not a unit under his command, but came from his company, which was just temporarily reinforced for this mission.

At this moment, Om had to be thankful that his company commander had given him these three medium-sized multi-legged tanks.

Otherwise, the vehicles of the conventional mechanized infantry platoon would have already set off fireworks in the shooting of the federal main battle tank just now.

"This thing is so tough. How tough are the heavy multi-legged vehicles and main battle tanks in the battalion?"

As this inappropriate thought flashed through his mind, Om and the soldiers around him began to retreat to the preset positions under the cover of infantry fighting vehicles.

The vehicles used by the companies and platoons under the heavy combined battalion are armored infantry fighting vehicles with better protection than wheeled armored vehicles.

This time, under Om's command, they also maintained a posture of facing the enemy head-on, retreating while suppressing the federal soldiers who were like headless flies in the smoke with 50mm chain guns.

Compared with the 25, 30, and 35 mm machine guns and chain guns on the federal infantry vehicles, the 50 mm chain gun equipped on the Atlas's newly equipped "Bull" armored infantry fighting vehicle, although slightly inferior in ammunition capacity, is obviously more "military" in firepower.

Moreover, only a wealthy company like Atlas would be willing to use programmed bullets on the chain guns of these infantry fighting vehicles when equipping their not-so-large ground forces.

The mixed ammunition chain of high-explosive and armor-piercing explosive bombs, amid the "bang bang bang bang" sounds of the chain gun, turned into a "death scythe" that swept through the smoke at the location where the federal soldiers had just gathered.

Although the commanders of each infantry fighting vehicle were unable to figure out the killing effect for the time being, as they watched the counterattacks become increasingly sparse in the smoke, they knew that the federal infantry must have suffered a great loss.

Not long after Om and the company reported the situation, a sharp scream from the sky made him look up.

He saw more than a dozen bullets with shallow tails passing over his head, and after exploding at the landing point in the distance, a thicker wall of smoke was formed. This was the covering fire from the company's firepower platoon's 120mm mortar.

According to the predetermined plan, after a conflict occurs, the 120 mortar group will first fire a round of smoke bombs at the designated area to cover the retreat of the frontline troops and refugees, and then fire six rapid-fire 120mm intelligent air-burst grenades.

Since the area near Refugee Camp No. 5 had already been clearly mapped out in multiple previous test firings, all indirect fire, including that of this company's fire platoon, could skip the calibration phase and open fire directly when launching a counterattack.

Even if there is an error in the landing point, it can be corrected by the calibration drone while maintaining the suppressive shooting.
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If the combat units on the Atlas side were able to retreat and counterattack in an orderly manner when faced with emergencies.

Then the more numerous federal troops facing them seemed somewhat embarrassed when facing the counterattack of a mechanized infantry platoon + a multi-legged tank platoon and more than ten 120-gun guns.

Looking at the leading mechanized infantry company whose heads were blown off and fleeing in the smoke, Norris, the battalion commander of the Federal 162nd Heavy Combined Battalion, was a little confused.

He suddenly found himself confused about who was plotting against whom?

How come the opponent's counterattack was so fast and the firepower counterattack plan was so thorough, as if they had been prepared for it and were waiting for them to come to their doorstep.

What's even more outrageous is that the moment the two sides started fighting, his troops were subjected to extremely severe electronic suppression.

Not only did the drones in the sky lose their ground signals and start entering automatic cruise mode, they were also being shot down one by one by the opponent's high-energy lasers like mosquitoes.

Even the communications between his battalion and friendly forces in the rear and other directions were severely disrupted.

In order to prevent possible electronic warfare viruses, Norris had to suspend conventional communications and began to use less efficient blue-green lasers and quantum encryption communications.
"Fuck! What the hell is this medium-sized multi-legged chariot on the opposite side? Why is it equipped with a deflection force field?"

The cursing voice in the communication channel brought Norris back to his senses. It was the voice of the commander of his armored company.

The radio discipline of the Federal Army has been in a state of "steady decline", and the chaotic communication channels have made commanders at all levels miserable during battles.

But they themselves often fail to follow radio discipline, not to mention the soldiers under them.
"Are you sure it's a medium-sized polypod, not a heavy-duty polypod that's holding its body down?"

Norris replied subconsciously in the communication channel, not noticing that he had not promptly stopped the armored company commander from violating radio discipline, and had even participated in it.

"Captain, I'm sure it's a medium-sized multi-legged creature. The combat support AI also inferred it to be a medium-sized multi-legged creature based on its size. But it's really strange. Although I lowered the voltage to fire faster, it shouldn't be so bad that I can't even knock down a medium-sized multi-legged creature."

"Don't think too much. The troops in other directions have probably realized something is wrong by now. They have probably already started attacking according to the plan. You lead the armored company to attack first. I'll let the HCP company cover you. They don't have much defensive depth!"

"Understood! Battalion Commander!"

The armored company commander replied in a rather imposing manner, and then deployed his 14 Grizzly main battle tanks into battle formation, while raising the deflection field and starting to advance.

When the armored company commander's vehicle No. 1 rushed out of the thermal smoke wall, the last thing he saw was a large number of armored walls and fixed turrets that appeared like magic on the assault position that was originally a "smooth road" in front of him.

The next second, a thick blue-white "beam" unreasonably tore apart the deflection field of the Grizzly Main Battle Tank, and then swallowed up the entire body of the tank.

(End of this chapter)