Chapter 173: Boarding, Fierce Fighting, Giant Hammer (Two-in-One)

In the medium-sized airdrop chamber;

"Attention all combatants, this ship is about to adjust its angle and launch an airdrop when the signal light comes on. Please prepare for the raid.

In addition, once the airdrop chamber you are on leaves the ship, the bridge personnel will assist in the control to ensure that you can complete the landing according to the established plan. However, if you encounter an emergency, please manually adjust the flight angle of the airdrop chamber.

Finally.

Let those alien bastards realize what the consequences of provoking us humans will be. Good luck to everyone. Over."

Hearing the reminder and words from the bridge communications officer on the general channel, Lieutenant Jaynes Thompson, who was in the airdrop chamber, and a group of special elites who were responding to the emergency, their already tense emotions instantly reached their peak.

The high heart rate on the helmet screen confirmed their current state.

The hometown of this group of elite soldiers is Earth 04 (the Netherworld). They have faced ghost-like living condensed bodies and fought against the so-called evil god believers. They are indeed experienced in many battles, but this is their first time to perform a "boarding" mission similar to traditional naval battles in space. They inevitably feel fear and tension about the unknown.

Boom. Boom.!

Feeling the Dawn's high-speed rotation and the violent vibrations from the enemy's artillery attacks, they even breathed quickly.

"Huh!"

After easing up a bit, Janes encouraged on the internal communication of their combat platoon:

"Guys! Don't forget that our mission goal this time is to create as much chaos as possible inside the enemy mothership and cover the technical engineers of the scientific research department to take over the enemy mothership.

But before that, we will face tens of thousands of scumbags, and the difficulty of the mission is far beyond imagination.

But we all know how the boss treats us! If it weren't for the boss, our lives would never see the light of day, so if not for anything else, we must do our best to teach those aliens a lesson for the boss! Huhu?"

"Huhu!!"

"Hahaha! This is the spirit that our AECS should have!"

As Janes said this, he saw the slightly reduced radar on the helmet screen showing that the Dawn had completed its turn and was about to arrive at the designated drop area. He took a deep breath and continued to remind:

"Be prepared!"

Not long after the voice fell-

"Clang~!" With a sound, the airdrop cabin they were riding on was disconnected from the airdrop preparation dock.

Then, there was a very obvious sense of frustration, indicating that their airdrop pod was gliding in the airdrop track inside the Dawn at a very fast speed.

During this period, there were also harsh metal friction sounds such as "hiss!" and "crack!".

In just a moment, the friction disappeared, replaced by a stronger "push back" feeling, which meant that the propulsion device placed on the top of the airdrop pod had been activated.

Through the shared vision of the helmet screen, Jaynes could clearly see that the airdrop pod they were riding was sprinting towards the giant gap blasted by the electromagnetic railgun and the plasma main gun.

And not only them, but the entire Atlas fleet launched all the single, medium and large airdrop pods, and forty folded-wing seagull assault boats, speeding towards the Reaper mothership.

The shared vision showed that the Atlas fleet, as well as the white-legged falcon and the unmanned fighter formation attracted all the enemy's attention for them, and also endured the concentrated fire of the emerald green energy artillery group and the swarm-like attackers.

The interception barrage composed of close-in defense guns, the explosion of armor outside the hull, and the successive losses of the carrier-based aircraft formation lit up this dark space.

The fleet suffered heavy losses.

Seeing the scene before their eyes, Jaynes and others understood that if the fleet had not risked getting closer to the Reaper mothership, they would have had no chance to board

What tension and fear, now Jaynes and others only thought about how to kill all the aliens within their sight, otherwise they would be sorry for the sacrifice of the fleet!

At this time, the interior of the Reaper mothership;

The space here is extremely spacious. It can even be described as vast.

The tower building with a height of more than ten kilometers is equivalent to a large load-bearing column on this floor.

The deck is full of soil, lakes and plants suitable for the survival of the Reapers, with a complete circulation system, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a movable home.

Huh-~ Huh!

But the damage to the hull and the pressure difference intensified the air flow here.

And in the open space at the edge of the swamp, a group of "soldier ants" wearing biological protection suits gathered urgently, holding energy guns that looked like bone-like substances.

It seems that the queen mother, who was in charge of all affairs of the mothership, did not expect that the human fleet would be able to break through the shield and send assault troops to board. She had no intention of mobilizing the soldier ants at the beginning.

After all, according to the established plan, the soldier ants should have carried out the work of sweeping, occupying and enslaving humans after the city destroyers disintegrated the human air force.

But the actual situation exceeded its expectations, so the soldier ants' behavior and thinking logic also seemed quite chaotic.

At this time.

Shua-Shua-! !

A large number of airdrop pods broke into the area above.

! !

Before the gathered soldier ants had time to raise their guns and shoot, the airdrop pods adjusted their angles and quickly smashed towards the ground.

Boom-Boom-! !

In an instant, there was the sound of heavy metal pounding the ground.

Puff! Puff! !

There was also the sound of flesh being crushed and cracked.

The unreasonable landing method of the airdrop pods first eliminated many soldier ants that gathered in piles.

Bang~bang~!

Then, the hatch of the airdrop chamber popped open, releasing.

"Die! Die! Disgusting things!"

"Your thing can be called a gun! Machine gunner, suppress fire!"

"Team one advances! Team two, team three, take care of the flanks!"

A group of Atlas elites who vented their anger by pulling the trigger were released.

The ODST (Orbital Assault Team) and AECS who were released from the airdrop chamber and participated in the boarding, with the help of the vision and shooting assistance provided by the individual equipment, directly let the Gauss, plasma and various caliber guns in their hands spit out dazzling flames.

Faced with the desperate attack, the newly gathered soldier ants retreated step by step, allowing the assault troops to successfully clear the surroundings of the airdrop chamber and gain a firm foothold.

The AECS special combat platoon led by Jaynes continued to charge towards the high tower building on the right as soon as the nearby threats were resolved.

Inside the helmet;

The terrain details and dynamic detection reminders outlined on the screen provided Jaynes with detailed information to avoid any traps or ambushes as much as possible.

After arriving at the foot of the tower-like building and using it as a cover, he chose to half-squat on the ground, remain alert, and ask:

"Report from all departments."

"All members of Team One are fine."

"All members of Team Two are fine."

"No. 2 and No. 4 of Team Three are injured. Emergency foam has been used to repair the rupture of the combat uniform. It will not affect subsequent actions and operations for the time being."

During the conversation, 35 Sea Sparrow assault boats "lately arrived", lowered their altitude, and headed for the landing area dug out by the ODST and AECS in the airdrop cabin to prepare for landing.

But the other five were nowhere to be seen. They may have activated optical camouflage during the raid and disappeared from everyone's visual field.

Seeing this, Jaynes enlarged the map to more intuitively understand the current situation of friendly units.

At present, there are about 3,000 elite Atlas troops deployed near the landing zone, as well as more than 100 heavily armored Tyrants and combat mechas.

In addition, the Primarchs Fulgrim, Riemann, Angron, and 40 Thunder Warriors also came to the landing zone with the Auk assault boats.

Their mission is just as Jaynes said before, to create as much chaos as possible, to cover the technical engineers going to the control room, and to occupy this giant ship with a length and width of more than 100 kilometers by invading the operating system.

In addition, the intelligence department also stated that only if the engineers complete the invasion and let the Reapers see their powerful firepower, can they force the Queen Mother to lead the Guards Ants to leave the fortress and escape on the City Destroyer warship.

If the Queen Mother survives, even if she successfully occupies the mothership, hundreds of millions of soldiers will still fight with them to the end.

This is definitely not the result the company expected.

Although it is not clear where the intelligence department got these specific information, Jaynes judged based on previous wars that the intelligence department almost... no, it should be said that there has been no mistakes at all.

Therefore, Jaynes put all his worries aside.

After browsing the friendly forces' deployment, he adjusted the thumbnail back to its original size, then looked up and looked forward, and ordered:

"Each team of demolitionists should find the best position and prepare to cooperate with the main force to carry out the first round of firepower strikes, so that the bastards can see the company's new individual tactical weapons."

"Yes."

After receiving the instructions, three demolitionists carrying a large number of grenades and hand grenades walked to the front with the support of their comrades.

Then, the three hung the modular rifles (AMWS) beside them, took off the rocket launchers they were carrying one by one, and carried them on their shoulders, and aimed at the large-scale soldier ant colony that had regrouped several kilometers away.

Complete the lock and wait patiently.

When the helmet screen showed the words "Each unit will carry out the first round of firepower strikes", they pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Swish! Swish!

Nearly a hundred micro-missiles flew forward with white tail flames, and then dispersed and reached the sky above the soldier ant colony.

Ri~咻————! ! !

"Nuclear explosion" suddenly appeared.

Boom! ！ ！

The deafening explosion and the air flow impact that swept around affected Jaynes and others who were in the safe area.

But these had little impact on Jaynes and others. On the contrary, the soldier ants in the center of the "nuclear explosion" were either evaporated by the extremely high temperature or "blown apart" by the explosion impact.

In the blink of an eye, the elites who boarded here broke up the first encirclement of the Reaper.

As for the new individual tactical weapon mentioned by Jaynes, it is an individual missile equipped with metal hydrogen and metal deuterium. The moment of detonation is equivalent to a micro-nuclear fusion reaction, and each missile releases 200-300 tons of TNT equivalent.

In fact, it is consistent with the principle of the air-to-air missile used by the white-legged falcon and the unmanned fighter, but Atlas and the armed personnel habitually call it a metal hydrogen missile or bomb.

The air force of the Reapers had long been tied up by the Atlas Fleet, and the ground forces had no decent armored units due to time constraints and over-underestimation of the enemy.

According to this trend, unless the elites who boarded here consumed all the single-soldier metal hydrogen missiles, it would be difficult for the Reapers to exert their numerical advantage.

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…

While the main force of the assault force was "making a big fuss" to attract the attention of the Reapers, the five Auk assault boats that maintained their stealth were shuttling between the towers and heading straight for the control room in the core area of ​​the mothership.

Inside the cabin of one of the Puffins;

“…”

The holographic screen presented in front of him allowed Sanguinius to browse all real-time battle situations, knowing that the main force that was confusing the audience had an advantage due to the metallic hydrogen missiles, and there were not too many reports of casualties for the time being.

But the original body, who had to kneel half-kneeling to barely enter the cabin due to his huge size, kept his brows furrowed and his expression solemn.

As his father's heir and confidant, Sanguinius understood that the intelligence department's ability to provide such detailed and accurate information was directly related to his father's [Reset].

However, they can only use "hard" means to force out the mother-empress who is bullying and afraid of hard work and extremely cherishes her life...

Damn alien bastard.

Sanguinius couldn't help but curse inwardly.

At this time, the communication came from the Puffin pilot's report: "Sir, the mothership control room has been discovered."

Hearing this, Sanguinius saw the main control room that looked like a hornet's nest through the pilot's shared vision.

Seeing this, Sanguinius ordered: "No. 2 to No. 5 will proceed as planned and carry ground troops and technical engineers to break into it."

"receive."

As a group of pilots responded in unison, the holographic screen showed that four Puffin assault boats began to lower their altitude and quickly headed towards the take-off and landing platform of the main control room.

Number One, where Sanguinius was located, maintained its flight altitude and did not participate in the upcoming raid.

Because he wanted to personally take care of the mother who cared about her life.

His father once warned him that the Queen Mother and Queen sounded like "weak" leadership units that needed to be protected, but the real situation was that the individual qualities of the Mother Queen and Queen were completely superior to ordinary soldier ants and worker ants.

Comparing the company's bioweapons is like the gap between a heavy-armed Tyrant and a Cerberus.

Moreover, the biological protection suits of the Mother and Queen are equipped with a hull-level energy shield generator, which can withstand close-range strikes from tactical nuclear bombs.

So to be on the safe side, Sanguinius dispatched Vulkan along with elite members of the Rapid Reaction Force (ARS) to protect the technical engineers responsible for invading the system.

And he was ready to wait for the queen mother to leave the fortress and carry out a fatal blow.

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This side of the landing platform outside the main control room.

Dozens of worker ants "conscientiously" inspect the parked transport body.

If you abandon the stereotypes, these harvester worker ants who accept unified thinking and command are no less efficient than the Hex robots of the Atlas Engineering Department, and are excellent construction "tools".

suddenly.

The worker ants noticed an unusual air movement, then stopped their work one after another and turned to face the empty machine seats.

Boom, boom.

Just as they completed their turn, they heard the sound of the landing gear touching the metal deck again, and saw someone who came from nowhere...

A giant holding a giant hammer.