Chapter 1,483 Confrontation in Columbus

"...They rushed towards us, the roar of the engine was deliberately loud, even covering up the sound of gunfire, like densely packed locusts. You can't help but lower your head, and once you lower your head, you are finished , they won’t give you a chance to raise your head again. The tanks started to charge, then the infantry, we blew up the roads, blew down the buildings, just to stop them. This is the Patriotic War, no one threw away their weapons and surrendered , but entire companies of our people were captured by them..."

"The Democrats are right, this war was wrong from the beginning."

An American veteran who survived the Battle of Columbus wrote this in his memoirs twenty years after the war ended.

At the same time as the military operation against Cheyenne Mountain was launched, Star Ring Trading took the 2nd Armored Division as the vanguard and launched a fierce offensive against the twelve US divisions stationed in Columbus.

This inland city named after the navigator serves as a transportation hub for U.S. aviation, highways, and railways, and is used by many North American companies as an important material hoarding and cargo distribution center. Not only that, as the largest city in Ohio, the industry and commerce here are extremely developed. It has many heavy industrial bases such as aircraft, automobiles, missiles, electrical appliances, machinery, etc., and occupies an important position in the Great Lakes Industrial Zone.

Taking this place would be equivalent to prying open the door to the Great Lakes Industrial Zone.

Losing this place is equivalent to losing the transportation hub of the Great Lakes Industrial Zone.

This war was destined to be tragic from the beginning. Neither the US military nor Star Ring Trade will give up here easily.

More than 20,000 Star Ring Army troops were invested in this battle. Not only that, there were also three infantry divisions from the Moro Kingdom and a Marine Division from Madagascar. More than three hundred thousand people fought in the battle, and millions more were directly or indirectly involved.

Anti-aircraft sirens blared again and again, and the sky above Columbus lit up with the flames of anti-aircraft guns and missile explosions. From long-range missile exchanges to close-range hand-to-hand combat, the smoke-filled sky above Aurora 20 and Wings of Freedom F7 was as tragic as queuing up to be shot in the last century.

F7 fighter jets, air combat is not its area of ​​expertise, but after all, it is equipment from a century later. Just like using the A10 ground attack aircraft to defeat the World War II models, even if the F22 and F1 have the advantage, the balance of victory still tilts towards the Star Ring Trade.

Gunfire and smoke drifted into the city from the outskirts of Columbus.

The tanks that rushed into the city, in coordination with the infantry, cleared the streets of resistance forces.

Not just U.S. soldiers;

Columbus citizens wearing American flag turbans also participated in the battle. However, the semi-automatic rifles and shotguns in the hands of these ragtag groups could not pose a threat to the regular army of Star Circle Trade, and they were often defeated as soon as the gunshots were fired.

In addition to the twelve American divisions participating in this war, there were also two divisions from Canada, as well as the French Foreign Legion, the British 16th Marine Brigade, and the Turkish Marine Corps that landed in Canadian ports and headed for North America. 37th Infantry Brigade...

Although NATO countries ultimately did not declare war on the Star Ring trade due to fear of the deterrent of space-based weapons and the Eastern European furry bears that continued to send troops to the border, they still extended a helping hand to their bosses through volunteer troops and other means of war assistance.

But this small amount of troops can't change anything at all...

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the other side.

above the atmosphere.

A steel behemoth accelerated towards the ground under the pull of gravity.

At the moment of contact with the exosphere, dots of flames gradually outlined a red-hot arc on its body. The four arc-shaped external engines sprayed out blue flames in reverse, opening up a light blue shield in front of it.

Thick cumulonimbus clouds were penetrated directly.

Through the rain curtain lit by flares, the American soldiers looking at the sky opened their eyes wide, with shock, disbelief and a touch of panic flashing in their pupils.

"Shet...what is that?"

"Tungsten rod bullet? No, that's...a drill bit?"

"It's a drill! They must be crazy. Even a diamond drill bit cannot drill through 400 meters of granite! Not to mention that there is a protective belt made of steel inside!" The engineer of Unit 721 muttered to himself. , looked at the Star Ring Trading position on the mountain with eyes like a lunatic, "What on earth do they want to do?"

Using a simple drill bit to drill through 400-meter-deep granite is indeed a fantasy. Even if a large derrick and supporting drilling facilities are added, it will take two or three drill bits to penetrate the 400-meter-thick granite rock formation. .

As for the protective belt made of steel, that is simply not a problem that a drill can solve. The steel protective belt embedded in the granite layer of Cheyenne Mountain is not ordinary steel, but a steel alloy with high cobalt content! It is not impossible to drill directly through with a drill, but the construction period will take at least a week...

However, there was only one hour left for Star Ring Trade.

The external engine separated from the "Digger Warrior", and the huge half-track chassis slammed into the center of the radar station, smashing the cement road to pieces. As one of the few land vehicles of the Star Ring Trade that can be airdropped directly from high orbit, this Burrowing Warrior has absolutely solid armor and stability.

Although it was hit by several anti-aircraft guns when landing, except for a few shallow scratches, there was not even a single deep dent on the steel shell coated with tungsten partitions.

Although I don’t know what the people from Star Circle are planning to do, no one dares to risk the safety of the President and senior Pentagon officials. At the same time that the Diggers landed, the Mountain Brigade and Unit 721 stationed in Cheyenne Mountain were significantly more aggressive in their offensive.

Bullets were flying freely in the rain, and the offensive of American soldiers came one after another. However, the nine hundred Halo Marines obviously would not let them succeed. Under the cover of the ghost agents, a bloody killing filled the night.

Someone is falling every second.

Not just the U.S. military, but also Halo Marines.

Finally, the Digging Warrior completed the deployment. The huge drill bit was pushed out from the abdomen, and under the traction of the mechanical cantilever, it was aimed at the broken cement road directly below, and suddenly roared with a loud sound of tearing apart the rocks. Big cement fragments were flying like bullets, and the track was slowly sinking, sinking, sinking...

The soil was drilled away, and soon the drill bit made contact with the granite layer.

The officer of Unit 721 looking towards the top of the mountain held his breath and stared at the steel behemoth.

Even though he knew that the drill bit would definitely get stuck in the granite layer and the drill bit would break out of the solid rock mass, he still couldn't help but feel nervous.

After all, that is the technology of Star Ring Trading.

God knows what kind of unnatural stuff this is...