Chapter 249, Death of Titan
The residents of Black Arrow Star, Pinser City, the capital of the Luman Kingdom, and the suburbs were terrified and confused.
The horror lies in war, even if neither side deliberately kills civilians, and even deliberately protects them. The alliance army from another planet is the same. After occupying the suburban town, they only occupied the necessary areas and imposed military control on the entire town, but did not harm civilians.
However, war itself is the most destructive thing, no matter from which angle. Guns have no eyes, and no one can do anything about the civilians who died in collateral damage.
Civilians are right to be afraid.
As for the inexplicable, it is also easy to understand: everyone was still preparing to celebrate the festival with lights and decorations two days ago. Every year when the so-called Gu family came to hold a meeting, it was a happy day. The last time I came to the Luman Kingdom was more than 30 years ago. In the memories of some old people, it was very beautiful.
How come a war suddenly broke out in the blink of an eye?
No matter how much they couldn't understand, the war always broke out in a way that people's will could not change.
They could only face all this with horror and helplessness.
The farmers halfway up the mountain looked at the battlefield in the wilderness below the mountain from afar.
Two armies faced each other in the open field, and the terrifying war machines crushed their farmland.
One of them was the traditional army of the Luman Kingdom. Two Knight Titans led more than 80 Sentinel Mechs and 20,000 infantrymen to advance in a group.
The Luhmann infantry, who were only wearing cloth uniforms and had almost no protection, were the ones who rushed to the front.
They are poorly equipped, but there are a lot of them. To put it bluntly, they are cannon fodder.
Of course, even if you are cannon fodder, you are still valuable. Even if you die, it should not be in vain.
They maintained a relatively loose formation, and according to their training experience, they were able to form a skirmisher combat group. This was mainly to avoid being wiped out by a single cannon or machine gun fire.
The rifles they were given did not have too many bullets, mainly because the cannon fodder infantry did not survive long on the battlefield, and too many bullets would be a waste. Their mission was to charge, attract fire, and by the way, try to fire as many ammunition as possible before they died, which would be considered a mission accomplished.
The Sentinel mechas accompanying them were the main force. This thing, which was just over three meters tall, had a double-barreled machine gun, which was powerful enough. They couldn't penetrate the Lion tanks, but the armor of the Wanderer armored vehicles couldn't withstand the fierce fire of the machine guns. Often, three or five mechas could blow up an armored vehicle with a round of intensive fire.
The two more powerful Knight Titans were the real killers. At the beginning of the battle, they destroyed three Lion tanks.
However, despite having dealt a heavy blow to the Alliance army, Count Drex, who was driving the Knight Titan, still had a tense expression.
With his many years of war experience, the enemy encountered his superior firepower in the face of the battle, suffered such huge casualties, and even lost nearly 20% of its strongest combat weapon, the Lion tank. Logically speaking, the morale should have been hit.
But why do these alien armies show no signs of wavering?
Let alone tanks and armored vehicles. In Count Drex's concept, those who drive powerful weapons are generally elites. They have high morale and are not easily shaken. This is understandable; but those infantrymen who were originally transported by troop transport trucks or infantry fighting vehicles and now all get off the vehicles and fight on foot, shouldn't they also be cannon fodder?
How come even they haven't wavered?
On the contrary, compared to the armored vehicles and tanks, what surprised Drex the most was the performance of the infantry in the alliance army.
Obviously, there were only about 2,000 people, but they were not afraid at all when facing an enemy that was ten times their number; they would not cower and hide behind armored vehicles or tanks, but would bravely move forward and use rifles, using shooting skills that were far more accurate than those of the Luhmann infantry, to destroy the invading enemies; they clearly acted in teams, and the modified machine guns they carried strongly suppressed the advance of the Luhmann infantry.
Wherever the machine guns swept, Luhmann's infantry had to stop. They were either shot directly or had to lie down and find cover, then wait for an opportunity to counterattack - but they often didn't find any opportunities.
The only thing that can temporarily stop the firepower of these alliance soldiers is the Sentinel Mech.
The 'Knights' were not so easily destroyed by bullets. On the contrary, after they detected the firing points of the Alliance soldiers, they would often fire their double-barreled machine guns at them.
The soldiers of the Alliance were extremely brave, but they were still mortal after all. When machine guns fired at them, a string of shots would wipe out half a squad.
But... there are only eighty Sentinel mechas.
What's more, these infantrymen are not completely without means to counter the Sentinel mechas.
On the contrary, after realizing that the Luhman infantry was quite fragile and had a low threat level, the infantry aimed their main target at the Knights. The squad-level firepower, using machine guns to shoot at them, clanged and struck the surface armor of the Sentinel mecha.
Even though it cannot be penetrated, the Sentinel Mech will still falter and its forward speed will be suppressed when being fired at by several machine guns.
And often at this time, individual rocket launchers will be aimed at them.
But the single-person rocket launcher was still not enough to destroy a Sentinel mecha. Drex saw that a Sentinel had been hit by at least four single-person rockets, and was burned black, with its left arm blown off and its power system malfunctioning, but it still had one arm that could be raised up, and it used the remaining machine gun to try to fight back and eliminate the several infantry squads that attacked it.
However, after the sentry had shot and killed less than ten people, it was met with the final blow from the Alliance infantry: company-level mortar bombardment.
In a short while, at least four mortar shells hit him.
At the same time, there was a heavy-bolt machine gun fixed on the ground, which seemed to be a company-level support firepower of the enemy army, and it also fired dense heavy-bolt bombs.
There are also machine guns on infantry fighting vehicles...
After enduring such a severe attack, the Sentinel Mech could no longer withstand it and was destroyed.
Drex had already reacted. He raised his left hand and fired several heavy grenades mounted under the mechanical arm, destroying the firepower position consisting of the company's mortars and fixed heavy bolters. In the meantime, he fired another laser cannon, blowing up an infantry fighting vehicle next to it.
However, Delux was still confused.
As he did this, he glanced around and saw two more Sentinel mechas destroyed in a similar way.
Even faster.
After all, the opposing army is not just infantry.
The Lion tank is also showing its power. The rail gun mounted on it can destroy the Sentinel mecha with one shot.
On the contrary, the Sentinel Mech had no way to deal with the lion.
By this time, he realized that the difference between the Sentinel Mech and the Lion Tank was too great.
The two may have similar costs, with the Sentinel mecha being cheaper, but they should be of the same order of magnitude; however, their positioning on the battlefield is very different.
The Sentinel Mech is at most an infantry companion equipment and an anti-infantry unit. It is flexible and can accompany the infantry into bunkers and buildings to fight; its humanoid leg structure allows it to enter complex environments.
This is its advantage.
However, it would be foolish to confront the Lion tank on the plains. It is big, has thick armor and heavy artillery.
The machine guns that can penetrate armored vehicles only leave craters on the lion. Unless you concentrate your fire for a minute to make the craters bigger and cause metal fatigue, you can penetrate the armor.
But that's too difficult, because when the gun barrels are turned around, whether it's the laser secondary gun or the rail gun main gun, they can all hit the target with one shot.
Twenty minutes into the battle, fifteen Sentinel mechas have already been destroyed.
This is a big loss.
These 'knights' are also his people.
They were his vassals, and were considered his direct line of strength. All these losses would be counted on him.
I was gradually getting angry in Drex.
After quickly destroying the main firepower of an infantry company, he turned around and attacked the Lion tank.
He no longer hesitated and sent a message to his companion on the communication channel to ask him to provide fire cover. He activated the automatic reload and reloaded the grenade launcher on his left arm while striding forward.
He set his sights on a team of three Lion tanks that were forming a V-shaped formation and were charging the fastest.
He has been unhappy with these three channels for a long time.
The railguns and laser cannons on it were constantly bombarding him.
The shield generator had never been fully restored to its full state, and although it could still faithfully block one attack after another, if left alone and allowed to continue like this, the shield would be at risk of being broken.
And those three lions were indeed a little too close to him.
The distance was less than two kilometers, and with the Knight Titan striding towards them, the two sides were heading towards each other, and he arrived in three minutes.
The three lions had sensed the danger, split up, and tried to bypass it, but how could their mobility compare to that of the Knight Titan?
Drex caught up with one of the tanks and faced a round of running shots from it. He raised his right arm with a power fist and pierced through the tank from top to bottom.
The height of the Lion tank is about three and a half meters, which is a little more than half of the Knight Titan.
After destroying one tank, he quickly turned around, ran to the second one, and knocked it over from the side with his power fist.
Then it’s the third channel.
The whole process only took a few minutes in total.
Delux felt quite refreshed!
At this time, the grenade launcher on his left arm had been loaded. He looked up and searched for a new target through the visual information transmitted by the observation sight on the Knight Titan's head.
However, at this time, two things happened.
First, his comrade, the driver of another Knight Titan, sent him a rather anxious voice message.
"Prepare to evacuate. Another group of people guarding the town rushed out. Our rear troops were unable to stop them and have been dispersed."
Drex was quite dissatisfied: "So what? With the two of us working together, as long as we don't encounter dense artillery, what is there to be afraid of? His Majesty has given us an order to win at all costs. Are you..."
Before he could finish his words, he suddenly felt a violent shock!
This is the consequence of the second thing that happened before.
It turned out to be an infantry fighting vehicle, which drove very close to him and dropped off a team of infantry.
He did notice it, but while communicating with his comrades, he was distracted and made a judgment that he did not realize beforehand but turned out to be wrong afterwards: he regarded the armored vehicle as the main target.
A howitzer blasted it to pieces.
However, the infantrymen who rushed in approached him in scattered groups.
The gravity punch hit down, and the infantry squad on the left was almost destroyed instantly.
The gravity punch did not only cause damage to the parts that were hit. When it hit the ground, the scattered gravity waves and gravel could kill the infantry, and the alloy plastic steel armor plate would be useless.
However, a group of infantrymen approached his feet.
He realized something was wrong, so he raised his legs and stomped and kicked those people to death one by one.
However, what they were going to do has already been done.
The Knight Titan is equipped with a shield generator, which has the same feature as the void shield: it cannot identify or block slow targets.
The infantry that approached, of course.
The bombs they posted, too.
Although it was just ordinary explosives, it still caused very bad effects when it exploded at the Knight Titan's knee-like joint.
He wanted to step back and get closer to his other comrade, but found that he was moving with a limp.
He didn't completely lose mobility, but there were some problems with the power system of his left leg, causing an imbalance between the two sides.
This made him very alert.
Then he saw three armored vehicles approaching.
Having suffered a loss before, he raised his hand and fired the howitzer, ready to blow up the three vehicles from a distance.
However, a blue light suddenly appeared.
A shot from a plasma energy gun hit his already problematic left knee.
His body suddenly tilted and his left leg knelt on the ground. The howitzer that was originally capable of hitting the target was also shot away.
Lacrosha, who was clinging to the infantry fighting vehicle, put the plasma gun that was recharging energy back into the gun bag on his thigh, and then jumped down from the roof of the vehicle.
After landing, he rolled twice and stood up again, running at full speed. With his strong physical strength and the support of the exoskeleton, his short-distance burst speed was even faster than that of an armored vehicle.
In order to protect him, an armored vehicle was blown up by the Knight Titan's gravity punch.
But this also put Lacroxia within attack range.
Reaching back, he pulled out the chainsword on his back. At the same time, he also approached the Knight Titan from the side.
He dodged the second punch and withstood the push of the gravity wave. He grabbed the upper edge of the Knight Titan's knee with one hand, climbed a few steps with force, and jumped nimbly to the side of his back.
He originally wanted to attack the cockpit of the Knight Titan, but it was impossible. The cockpit was the most important part of the Knight Titan and had heavy protection. Not to mention the chainsaw sword in his hand, even if it was a hot melt bomb, the miniature one he was equipped with might not be able to burn through the cockpit and kill the pilot inside.
So he changed his target to the shield generator next to him.
He first attached the melta bomb to the back of the Knight Titan's head and activated it. Then he used the chainsaw sword to slash at the structural weak point of the shield generator.
Bang!
The shield generator exploded first, and the impact force directly blew Lacrosse away; then, the hot melt exploded, burning half of the Knight Titan's head from the back.
Lacroxia rolled in the air and fell more than 20 meters away. He stood up with difficulty and looked at the results of the battle.
The energy shield surrounding the Knight Titan has been extinguished; the Titan's head, which integrated observation and calculation functions and was assisted by a servo skull, has been destroyed.
Although this terrible weapon of war has not yet been destroyed, it has undoubtedly become a lamb to be slaughtered!
Oh, maybe an elephant waiting to be slaughtered would be a more appropriate description.
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