From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 94 Harvest and Giant Ground Effect Aircraft

Generally speaking, after the warhead for orbital strike enters the atmosphere, it is basically difficult to intercept except for the irradiation of high-power directed energy weapons.

At present, whether it is the Federation or the Empire, the terminal defense against orbital strikes basically relies on the irradiation of charged particle cannons and high-energy laser beams.

Obviously, the temporary 83rd synthetic brigade in this state cannot intercept.

In other words, they originally did not have the ability to intercept orbital strike warheads.

Although there is a relatively complete air defense battalion under the synthetic brigade, the accompanying high-energy laser air defense vehicles they are equipped with are mainly used to attack targets such as cruise missiles, drones, and HCPs that hover in the air. .

If you ask them to hit warheads that enter the atmosphere, it's still a bit over the top.

Lasers that can intercept these things are basically large, fixed road-based lasers, and the mirror size is even larger than these anti-aircraft vehicles.

So at the beginning, Amber did not consider the possibility that these orbital strike missiles could be intercepted.

His plan was simple, pray.

Praying these thermobaric bombs don't fall right on their heads.

And being able to survive on the battlefield requires more or less luck.

Under Amber's order, the troops participating in the offensive in the northeast hid in the basements of nearby buildings. Vehicles and multi-legged chariots drove underground if they could.

If there is really no way to hide like the Mammoth, we can only park outside and let the crew evade on their own.

The infantry who hid in surrounding buildings and underground, under Amber's order, turned on the fully enclosed mode of the exoskeleton and combat uniforms, and began to pressurize.

In this case, as long as it is not in the ultra-high temperature killing zone near the center of the explosion, it should be able to withstand it more or less.

After all, these exoskeletons were originally designed with the infantry having to withstand the extreme environment of orbital strikes and attacks, so some efforts have been made in terms of explosion protection and shock wave protection.

As for ordinary people in the city, they can only admit that they are unlucky and rely on their own abilities.

The warhead dropped at twenty-three times the speed of sound did not keep Amber and the others waiting for long.

Soon, hiding in the basement, they heard two dull loud noises coming from the outer city.

At the same time, the basement where he was hiding began to tremble.

A warning about 'oxygen content in the surrounding environment has dropped' began to appear on the tactical visor.

But lady luck was on Amber's side in the end.

The orbital attack ship responsible for launching these two orbital strike bombs had no time to correct the trajectory and impact point when it was attacked. It just set the target area roughly as Blue Bay City and then launched the missiles.

Therefore, these two warheads did not fall on Amber's heads, and did not even have much impact on the federal offensive forces.

One of them landed in the urban area where the attack had been completed, instantly killing a large number of civilians hiding in their homes.

The other one landed just in time near the target of Amber's attack - the backup headquarters of the Imperial Orbital Paratrooper Regiment.

The 'Werewolf' that had just retreated to this area was directly swallowed by the heart-breaking fireball, and the entire HCP was twisted into a pile of scrap metal under the overpressure and shock wave.

When everything returned to calm, Amber waited for a while longer but did not wait for the subsequent orbital strike to arrive.

He sent two motorized infantrymen out to investigate the situation, and he contacted the brigade command post in the rear.

After receiving the news that "no follow-up orbital strike has been detected", Amber actually wondered for a while. The movement of the imperial fleet's orbital strike was really strange.

Of course, he didn't know that in order to drop these two orbital strike bombs, the imperial fleet even lost ten orbital attack ships. It was really a huge loss. Soon, the mobile infantry who went out to investigate the situation also sent back the news that 'everything is normal'.

After thinking for a moment, Amber ordered the attack to continue.

After the area where the backup command headquarters was located was hit by an orbit, the Imperial troops here could be said to have suffered heavy losses.

Because they were too close to the center of the explosion, the high temperature generated instantly exceeded the upper limit of the exoskeleton's adaptive thermostatic system.

A large number of soldiers were trapped inside their exoskeletons, suffocated into cans.

The battle after that entered garbage time.

The position near the backup headquarters of the Imperial Orbital Parachute Regiment was quickly completely captured by Amber, and he led his troops to support the main attack.

As Lilith continued to carry out virus implantation and electronic warfare attacks, although many mobile infantry were sacrificed and nearly half of the light multi-legged tanks were lost, they still attacked the last position with unstoppable force and fought with friendly forces. The convergence completed the siege.

Facing the two HCPs guarding the last position, Amber reused the tactics he had just used. His units continued to attack alternately as if ammunition was free.

After receiving Amber's advice, the surrounding friendly forces quickly followed suit.

Under such a saturation attack, the shields of the two HCPs that were struggling to support themselves in the line of fire were finally shattered, and the deflection field generator was overloaded and paralyzed due to being powered on for a long time.

In the end, they were beaten into two piles of scrap metal by the salvoes of electromagnetic reconnection cannons from several Mammoths.

After the last support point of combat power fell, the defeat of the imperial forces was determined. Without any surrender, the federal offensive forces completely wiped out the defenders.

When Amber led several mobile infantrymen and rushed into the regiment headquarters that was positioned by Lilith, preparing to capture a few survivors, all he saw were destroyed equipment, instruments, and Captain Phillips who committed suicide by drinking bullets. Several other officers.

The battle to clear out the remaining enemies in the city did not take much effort. Under the double lock of the virus spread by Lilith in advance and the street surveillance, most of the remaining soldiers were quickly found their hiding places and annihilated.

The remaining small number of enemies will hide deeper and will not show up again for a while.

But neither Amber nor Lieutenant Colonel Dallas wanted to play hide and seek with these remnants at this time.

Because the nearby imperial troops who had received a request for support were already rushing here, they must seize the time to collect all available equipment and then head to the port to evacuate.

Although most of the electronic equipment was destroyed by the imperial troops themselves to prevent leaks.

But under Lilith's guidance, Amber and the others still found three small airdrop pods that had not yet been destroyed.

Based on the information obtained after the intrusion, Lilith told Amber that it contained three swarms of small attack drones called 'swarms'.

Obviously, these Imperial forces planned to release these drones before the orbital strike came, but were interrupted by Lilith's virus attack.

"Lilith, are you sure you can break the restrictions of these things?"

Looking at these three airdrop pods, Amber admitted that he was indeed a little greedy, but only if the above restrictions could be broken.

"No problem, Master! As long as you spend more time, you can definitely break it! This thing will definitely come in handy in the battle behind Master!"

Since Lilith was so confident, Amber didn't say much. She found a few mobile infantry and prepared to use large trucks to transport the three airdrop pods to the port.

The temporary 83rd synthetic brigade will assemble there and then board three giant ground-effect aircraft docked at the port with a carrying capacity of 5000 tons.

(End of this chapter)