Chapter 93 Orbital Strike

On the bridge of the Federal Equality, looking at the Imperial Fleet near Robert IV in the distance, it did not stop the orbital strike operation because of their arrival.

A staff officer on the bridge could not help but look at Commodore Duwell on the captain's seat.

"General, the Imperial Fleet still shows no signs of stopping the orbital strike operation."

Hearing his words, and looking at the image of the orbital attack ship captured by the optical equipment at the extreme distance, Commodore Duwell snorted coldly.

"Humph! This just shows that our ground forces are putting pressure on them, otherwise why didn't they recall those orbital attack ships after discovering us?"

"Then do we still have to continue the attack?"

"Aren't you talking nonsense? Of course we have to continue the attack!"

Commodore Duwell frowned and said loudly:

"I don't care who these Imperial orbital attack ships are going to support or attack, even if they are going to smash holes on the Great Plains, we can't fulfill their wishes!"

With neither side intending to take a step back, the two fleets launched the first decent battle in so many days.

The Federation Task Force no longer thought about harassing and running away, but rushed to a position 30,000 kilometers away from the orbital attack ship in one breath, deployed an artillery formation and began to fire volleys.

Under the command of Raphael, the Imperial Fleet directly inserted itself between the Federation Task Force and the orbital attack ship, forming a defensive formation with more than ten main battleships as the core, and regarded itself as a meat shield for the orbital attack ship.

However, under the attack of directed energy weapons, especially charged particle cannons and high-energy lasers, which are light-speed weapons, this idea of ​​being a meat shield is actually difficult to achieve.

The Federation Fleet only needs to complete the aiming and firing, and it can complete the shooting before the Imperial main battleship blocks the ray.

When the orbital attack ship is conducting an orbital strike operation, it is impossible to turn on the deflection force field. Basically, as long as it hits, it will be sunk.

Although the Imperial Fleet relied on its numerical advantage to cause considerable casualties to the Federation Task Force in the exchange of fire.

But their orbital attack ships were not much better.

Of the 10 orbital attack ships in operation, only one successfully survived to the stage of conducting orbital strikes.

And this only one, just after launching two ‘David’ tactical orbital strike missiles, was hit by two heavy metal particle jets that attacked at 1% of the speed of light, and the entire ship was immediately broken into three pieces.

Despite this, the last two missiles successfully launched by this orbital attack ship still roared towards the ground at a speed of 23 Mach.

Robert IV surface, Blue Bay.

The battle in the city has entered a white-hot stage under the continuous attack of the federal forces.

As the encirclement continued to shrink, the battle between the two sides has become more and more intense, and Amber, who led the team to destroy an Imperial HCP, made Lieutenant Colonel Dallas see more of his value, and directly granted Amber temporary command authority for the northeastern attack force.

As a result, Amber's troops suddenly increased several times.

224 mobile infantrymen carrying various individual weapons.

25 ‘Mongoose 4’ wheeled armored vehicles and their variants of support vehicles.

18 ‘Wolf Spider Modified’ light multi-legged tanks.

2 ‘Mammoth’ heavy multi-legged tanks upgraded with electromagnetic reconnection guns.

But more troop command authority also means heavier offensive tasks.

Originally, Amber’s reinforced mechanized infantry platoon was only responsible for supporting the main force’s offensive.

But now, he himself has become the main force, so the pressure of the offensive is directly on his shoulders.

Fortunately, the electronic virus released by Lilith is powerful enough.

Although the command terminal of the regiment headquarters of the Imperial Forces has prevented the spread of the virus along the communication network through various technical means.

But there is no way for the units that have been infected with the virus.

Their communications and fire control systems were affected by coincidence, and many orbital paratroopers even had to turn off the auxiliary aiming function of the tactical visor and return to the original aiming method.

In this case, the troops led by Amber became the fastest in several offensive directions.

Even through Lilith’s analysis of the information transmission channel of the Imperial Forces, a target suspected to be the headquarters of this Imperial Force was found.

And what they found was the backup headquarters of this orbital paratrooper regiment.

Therefore, Amber and his men's fierce attack immediately attracted the support of an Imperial HCP to the front line.

This HCP was the wingman of the already dead 'Flytrap' - 'Werewolf'.

When 'Werewolf' arrived at this front line in the zealot, he immediately felt the pressure that he had never felt on other fronts.

"Damn, where did these guys come from! And that psychic agent"

The anti-vehicle missiles of the mobile infantry that appeared and disappeared, the ejection of the 120 dual-purpose electrothermal chemical gun in the curved mode, and the two 15-meter-class electromagnetic reconnection guns that were extremely threatening.

The firepower strikes distributed in stages made the deflection field generator of the HCP never stop running.

The close defense laser gun turrets on both sides of the main monitor never stopped intercepting anti-vehicle missiles and projectile grenades, so that the energy recharge system issued a warning of "overtemperature".

After discovering that the ammunition fired by the federal forces' 120mm electrothermal chemical artillery was actually self-forged warheads, the "Werewolves" gave up the idea of ​​relying on armor to resist and instead intercepted and evaded the enemy honestly.

The streets on the screen of the full-circle cockpit are constantly forming trajectory prediction lines and simulated explosion ranges of landing points.

These red translucent hemispherical danger zones are constantly compressing the activity space of the "werewolf".

For a while, he didn't even have the opportunity to launch heavy particle cannons or charged particle cannons to counterattack.

After all, when the deflection force field is activated, it is impossible to use such high-power directed energy weapons to attack.

And the plan to jump up and rush out of the city was dispelled by the warning sound of "strong electric field detected" and a bright orange-red trajectory passing through the air.

The several "mammoths" deployed by the federal army on the outer positions are now just waiting for him to rush into the sky so that they can be used as targets.

This is the anti-HCP hunting tactic arranged by Amber, and it is also the most commonly used tactic for non-HCP units to fight against HCP.

Although the single-machine combat power of these steel giants is very strong, as long as they keep alternating shooting to form suppression, they cannot put down their shields and have no chance to turn off the deflection force field.

Then it is only a matter of time before they are destroyed.

Of course, if you ask Amber, what should we do if a group of HCP launches an attack?

Then he will only tell you, "On the ground, there is always only another group of HCP that can defeat a group of HCP."

As time goes by, the northeastern attack force under Amber's command is getting closer and closer to the suspected command post.

The increasingly tenacious resistance of the imperial defenders also convinced Amber and his team that this is indeed a high-value target.

But at this time, an early warning from the rear brigade command post came through the communication channel.

Two ground-attack missiles have entered the atmosphere and are currently smashing towards Blue Bay City at a speed of Mach 23.

"Tsk, what's coming is finally coming."

"Everyone, hide according to the predetermined plan!"