From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars

When the federal soldiers on the two high grounds blocking Highway 56 were attacked by 120mm self-propelled mortars from the front, they knew that Atlas's breakout had begun.

The company commanders of the two reinforced companies also looked bitter almost at the same time, silently complaining in their hearts why their luck was so bad. The positions assigned by their superiors happened to be in the direction of Atlas's breakout.

Fortunately, their mission was not to completely annihilate the enemy, but to use the advantage of "geographical advantage" to delay Atlas's breakout.

Since the medium-sized synthetic force on the opposite side was equipped with a large number of high-speed mobile wheeled vehicles, they still needed to use the road network for maneuvering when it was not necessary, and the two high grounds guarded by the two reinforced companies just included Highway 56 under their feet into their attack range.

The two overlapping attack areas will maximize the advantages of crossfire, and the high-risk environment of being attacked on both sides at the same time is enough to make the troops who intend to break through from the road regret their choice.

In this way, it seems that two reinforced companies supplemented with self-propelled mortars and heavy multi-legged tanks are more than enough to intercept a medium-sized synthetic battalion with the advantage of terrain?

The two company commanders of the federal army did think so before Atlas launched the attack.

Even after seeing the skirmish line composed of 20 "humanoid units" appearing in the distance, the two even laughed in the communication channel, "That's it? ".

But under the fire cover of the medium-sized synthetic battalion, when these 20 humanoid units that looked "ordinary" rushed over at an extremely outrageous speed, the two finally panicked.

"Fire! Fire quickly to stop them!"

The first to respond to the order was the charged particle cannon team that had already completed the attack preparations. This two-person team using low-power charged particle cannons is an important part of the federal army's company-level fire support.

When more than 20 purple-red charged particle beams crossed the open space and accurately hit these charging units, the silver-white arcs that were stirred directly made the federal soldiers on the defensive positions sweat.

"Deflection field?! How can such a small unit achieve this?"

When everyone saw these 20 unidentified humanoid units charging towards the position at a very high speed as if nothing had happened after withstanding the direct attack of the charged particle cannon, they knew that the situation might have changed a little.

At this moment, the commander did not need to issue any more orders, and the factor called "fear" made all the weapons on the position start attacking.

The firepower of the reinforced company level finally suppressed the teaching team in the charge, forcing them to slow down the speed of the charge, and after getting together in groups of four, they worked together to support a larger deflection field.

But at the same time, such an unreserved attack also made the large and small firepower points on the position known to the Fifth Medium Synthetic Battalion.

In addition to the 120 self-propelled mortar howitzer that had not stopped firing, the 105 electrothermal chemical gun of the wheeled assault gun also joined the attack, using the high-precision attack of direct-fire artillery to send shells to various firepower points.

Then, a large number of individual or vehicle-mounted cruise missiles jumped up from the height of the treetops into the attack route and fell towards the identified key targets.

The two high-energy laser air defense vehicles and six terminal air defense vehicles equipped with multi-barrel electromagnetic machine guns on the position fired frantically to try to intercept these swarming cruise missiles.

Although the air defense efficiency of high-energy lasers and multi-barrel electromagnetic machine guns is very high, the 5th Medium Composite Battalion fired 50% of its reserve cruise missiles in one go.

When the number of incoming attacks exceeded the threshold of the air defense unit, there were continuous "slippery fish" falling on the position, causing rounds of explosions.

And the 1-kilometer charge distance is just a short moment for these heavy power armors equipped with small rocket propulsion devices.

When the teaching team with full firepower was divided into two teams and rushed to two positions, the nature of the battle began to change.

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While the ground battle was in a stalemate, Amber, who was furious because Baninger forcibly hung up the communication, was not idle.

Under the guidance of Lilith and the powerful performance of ‘ATLAS’, he led the ‘two light and one heavy’ escort cruiser formation and dismantled the 10 warships of the orbital attack ship detachment in front of him before the ammunition of the aircraft was exhausted.

For this federal navy cruiser formation responsible for escort, watching the enemy sink all their escort targets while flying up and down was simply a great shame.

So the captains of these three cruisers seemed to be in a state of mindless rage in Amber’s view at this time.

They threw the so-called ‘safe navigation regulations’ behind their heads and commanded the warships to chase Amber in a dangerous low orbit at a very high combat speed, trying to swat this fly that ignored them to death.

Just when Amber was about to take these three cruisers for a ‘walk’ and wait for the fleet that had orbited a week to come to pick them up, Lilith’s somewhat panicked voice suddenly came.

"Master! We've fallen into a trap. This cruiser formation is deliberately driving us away!"

"What?!"

"The last orbital attack ship launched a tactical nuclear bomb before losing control of its posture!"

Hearing Lilith's words, Amber was stunned for a moment.

"This thing requires launch authority. Does it mean that the other fleet commander does not intend to leave a way out?"

"I don't know, but according to the deployed stealth probes, the missiles launched by the other side do have the characteristics of tactical nuclear bombs!"

When Lilith informed the situation, the information obtained by the large number of stealth probes deployed by Atlas in orbit during this period was also synchronized.

A red dotted line suddenly appeared outside the full-circle cockpit pointing directly to the ground, and a nuclear radiation sign was also marked at the landing point.

The current situation is very tricky for Amber and the Atlas fleet. The missiles landed in the day hemisphere, but the Atlas fleet has entered the night hemisphere under the pursuit of the federal fleet.

And Amber also maneuvered to the vicinity of the twilight line during the "dog walk", and the missiles launched by the orbital attack ship have been blocked by the planet.

It is definitely too late to rush back at this time, because Amber not only needs to slow down, but also needs to re-accelerate under the attack of the three federal cruisers.

What's more unfortunate is that in the last round of assault on the orbital attack ship, the last ammunition of 'ATLAS' has been used up, and now only the charged particle cannon and heavy particle cannon can be used.

But these two things obviously can't bypass the curved surface of the planet to attack the falling target.

"Bypass the curved surface. Wait, bypass?!"

Amber suddenly felt like an idea came to his mind, and under the tight time, he didn't have time to think about the success rate of this "idea".

"Lilith, where is the Ikaros support component? Can you provide support?"

"Master, 'Ikaros' is currently in optical stealth mode, and can provide support at the current location!"

Lilith immediately understood Amber's idea, and her voice couldn't help but be a little excited.

"Quick! Fire the long-range electromagnetic sniper cannon component at maximum speed. I hope there's still time!"

At Amber's command, at a certain position in the orbit around the star, a container-like device lifted the optical stealth and opened one of the several hatches at the same time.

Then, in a movement like a missile launch, a huge black shadow suddenly rushed out from the inside of the hatch after it was opened, and under the propulsion of the rocket engine, it turned into a light spot and flew towards Amber's position.