Chapter 312: Fierce Battle "One Step Away"

Inside the large equipment warehouse of the New Era aircraft carrier;

"Shift three, shift four! Hangar No. 1 is short of manpower, hurry over to help!"

"Free personnel also go over, damn, the group of ghost-faced beasts below are like crazy."

The logistics personnel wearing engineering mechanical skeletons and gray and yellow protective clothing are busy handling various affairs.

In addition, in the maintenance area, some logistics personnel can be seen repairing a large number of blood-stained McP power armors, as well as ODST's individual weapons and equipment.

Combined with the words of the logistics personnel, it is not difficult to guess that the battle for the surface of the planet below the low-Earth orbit where the New Era aircraft carrier is located is extremely fierce.

After all, McP power armor is the iconic equipment of the AECS elite, and ODST is also one of the elites of Atlas.

But when even these two units with veterans began to suffer many casualties, it meant that the joint fleet of Atlas and the elite was blocked in the current galaxy.

Of course, the weapons and equipment of the clone soldiers who are responsible for the main force on the front battlefield will most likely be directly discarded into the recycling cabin after being damaged.

Because the clones are still using traditional mechanical skeletons and AMWS guns, the repair cost is more cost-effective than the recycling and remanufacturing cost, and the option of reproducing with waste materials is more cost-effective.

At this moment.

The Thunder Warriors, who relied on logistics personnel and mechanical arms to complete the Titanium Tank Armor and took the customized bolt guns, also stood in the right corner of the equipment library.

These thirty giants of the Astartes prototype have a taller and stronger physique than the Flame Lizard.

And their power armor is painted black and gold, and the helmets and shoulder armor are even decorated with white tassels and oriental dragon claws.

Overall, these thirty Thunder Warriors seem to be similar to the "Imperial Guard".

They have no self-awareness and need to be driven by exclusive psychic energy. After completing the dress and weapons, they silently wait for their "masters".

That is Sui Yang, who also completed the wearing of power armor.

Because Sui Yang's height has reached more than five meters, more than ten logistics personnel and more mechanical arms are needed to assist in the operation.

Fortunately, Atlas pays attention to efficiency and quickly completes the preparation.

Dong, Dong.

At this time, Sui Yang stepped off the platform, took the Emperor's Sword and Emperor's Claw handed by the mechanical arm, and hung them around his waist and on his left hand.

Then, Sui Yang led thirty Thunder Warriors through the equipment warehouse and walked towards the nearest airdrop dock.

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The originally noisy equipment warehouse fell into a brief silence because of Sui Yang and other "people".

Mainly because Sui Yang at this stage, after wearing the exclusive power armor with the same black and gold paint, is a visually impactful five meters and four.

Even the engineering mecha driven by the logistics personnel seemed "fragile" in front of Sui Yang.

Of course, more importantly, Sui Yang has not "moved his tibia" for too long.

The last time their boss visited the battlefield was when they were on the way to Universe 07, when he led the company's elite to join forces with the elves and dwarves to encircle and suppress Moyido.

In other words, their boss seemed to have quickly faded out of the front-line battles after that time.

However, that was because Sui Yang wanted to give the Primarchs and more newcomers opportunities. Moreover, he was the "boss" of a multi-universe enterprise, so there was no need to do everything himself.

But the current battle situation made Sui Yang want to reduce his own losses, so he chose to take the initiative.

Moreover, after a brief shock, the employees in the equipment warehouse returned their attention to the work at hand, and at the same time, the equipment warehouse returned to the noise.

The episode was fleeting.

Sui Yang and thirty Thunder Warriors came to the airdrop dock and boarded the airdrop cabin dedicated to Astartes one by one.

However, because Sui Yang's physique was too large, he could only take an airdrop cabin alone.

Beep-beep-!

Soon, the airdrop dock flashed a yellow warning light and a harsh warning sound.

The ground crew responsible for maintaining the area held the nearby railings and handles to avoid unnecessary safety accidents.

Even though the ground crew wore fully enclosed protective clothing and tied safety ropes.

Then, the prompt sound gradually weakened until it completely "disappeared".

This indicated that the airdrop dock had completed the pressurization step.

Then, the gate under the airdrop dock opened.

Swish—Swish——!

The six airdrop pods rushed along the track together, quickly ejected the airdrop dock and the gate, and came to the outer space full of radiation and low pressure.

Sitting in the center of the airdrop pod, Sui Yang could see through the observation window with excellent airtightness and heat insulation that Atlas and the elite fleet were engaging in a bombardment with the Star Alliance ships, which were nearly ten times their own and totaled more than 2,000.

The most important thing is that in order to deal with the beam matrix of the Sojourner class, the Star Alliance ships maintained a gap of at least 200 kilometers, or even more, to avoid being "swept away by one shot".

In addition, due to the characteristics of space naval warfare, the ships of both sides are in a "full-dimensional" three-dimensional position, which requires the Sojourner-class to spend extra time to lock and release beams.

Under Sui Yang's "feet" is a habitable planet on the sunward side with a blue atmosphere.

This galaxy is actually the shipbuilding base of the Star Alliance Empire and one of the natural mines, which makes the defense force at sea and on the ground increase exponentially.

If the galaxy is captured, the control of the Prophet and the Jiralhanae over the Star Alliance Empire will be directly weakened to the lowest point.

It is only one step away from the complete disintegration of the Star Alliance.

However, there are as many as 400 million Covenant troops deployed on the third orbital planet, which is also the capital planet of the system.

More than half of them are Jiralhanae with an average height of 2.8 meters.

After all, as the Covenant Empire's battle lines continue to shrink, they are gradually able to concentrate their forces to fight against the Human Elite Alliance, which is stronger than them in battleship technology and individual strength.

On the ground battlefield, although the adult Astartes were absolutely crushing any Covenant race, they could not withstand the "True Human Sea Tactics" offensive.

Under normal circumstances, a six-man Astartes team would have two to four AECS combat platoons to coordinate operations, or nearly two hundred clone troopers to support them.

Sometimes, armored battalions equipped with updated Titan and Slayer main battle tanks would also cover multiple Astartes squads.

But in the final analysis, the company fleet led by Sui Yang personally has a total of more than 700 adult Astartes.

Even though these seven hundred adult "giants" around the age of 20 are elites selected from the original student groups such as the Ultramarines and Dark Angels, they face nearly 200 million Jiralhanae beasts.

Most Jiralhanae beasts with individual energy shields are also a bit "stretched".

What's more, the company's fleet of hundreds of ships only carried about two million ground troops in total.

As for the elite fleet, which also has a hundred ships, it has six million ground troops, and the elites account for 1/3.

It is precisely the disparity in numbers, coupled with the obstruction of the Astartes raid, and the need to seize key Covenant facilities, such as shipyards,

arsenal,

Equipment and fuel storage depots, etc., therefore suspended the arrangements for orbital bombing.

Therefore, Sui Yang prepared to assist the frontline troops to defeat the various defense lines of the Covenant ground forces.

Especially the psychological defense.

Boom. Boom——!

After a while, the airdrop compartment began to shake violently, and the observation window was filled with flames caused by friction.

This meant that he and thirty Thunder Warriors were about to enter the black barrier area when they broke through the atmosphere.

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The sunny side of the earth at this moment.

In the city on the east side of the Covenant Shipyard;

嘡嘡嘡——!

Whoosh-whoosh-!

All kinds of gunshots and gunfire resounded inside and outside the city.

The architectural styles of the Covenant are mostly elliptical and cylindrical, and the walls are painted in silver and purple, but the overall layout is similar to that of human cities.

Plasma bombs and fuel cannons flashing blue, green and other lights are interspersed among the streets and alleys.

Purple-painted fighters and transport aircraft representing the Covenant Alliance, as well as black-painted aerial units representing the Human Elite Alliance, started a fierce battle over the city.

However, the aerial units of the Human Elite Alliance suppressed the Covenant's fighter planes and transport aircraft throughout the entire process.

Although the current progress does not allow us to completely control low-Earth orbit, the human elite's various carrier-based aircraft formations have already passed through the chaotic naval battle zone and entered the atmosphere to provide firepower for our own personnel. assistance.

Moreover, after Atlas absorbed confidential research and development projects from the UNSC and ONI, as well as some technologies from the Forerunners, the carrier-based aircraft was completely renovated in just two years.

For example, the agility, speed and range of the White-legged Falcon, Puffin Assault Boat and Phantom Fighter all have qualitative changes.

After all, the heart engine and micro-nuclear fusion engine are no longer the "antiques" of a few years ago.

The cannons of the new mass-produced models have also been replaced with more lethal hard-light series.

As for air-to-ground and air-to-air missiles, they still remain metallic hydrogen and plasma.

However, the Weapons Research and Development Center under the Ministry of Scientific Research has entrusted the Accra Park to manufacture a large number of "anti-matter missiles" containing antimatter and delivered them to a small number of carrier-based aircraft units.

If the actual combat data of anti-matter missiles are ideal, it won't be long before Atlas will be mass-produced.

We must know that when positive matter and antimatter meet in the annihilation reaction, their mass will be converted into pure energy. The mass-to-energy conversion rate reaches the ultimate 100%, which is much higher than nuclear fission and nuclear fusion.

When 1 gram of positive matter and 1 gram of antimatter are annihilated, the energy released is equivalent to 42,800 tons of TNT, which is three times that of the little boy's atomic bomb.

Moreover, anti-matter missiles are truly natural and pollution-free.

Therefore, from the moment the carrier-based aircraft fleet is officially equipped with anti-matter missiles, the meaning of Atlas's "tactical weapon" will also change.

In addition, Atlas also serves an interceptor aircraft named "Long Sword".

This type of interceptor is 65 meters long, 75 meters wide, and about 13 meters high. It uses battleship-grade alloy armor.

It is equipped with a 110mm three-barreled rotating hard light cannon, a 120mm plasma cannon on the belly of the fuselage, and two 65mm Gauss cannons on both sides of the wings.

Not to mention the "bomb truck"-like bomb load, and the agility and speed that are only inferior to the Phantom fighter jets, allowing the Long Sword interceptor to perform a variety of missions.

Such as now

Phew—whoosh—! !

Several air-to-ground metallic hydrogen missiles projected by the sword roared across the sky and hit the defenses set up at the western end of the city one after another.

Boom—boom—!

After the metallic hydrogen detonated, the deafening sound was followed by a shock wave that swept through the streets and alleys.

call--!

The air moved violently, and smoke and debris shot out in all directions.

Ding, ding!

The fragments hit the Titanium Armor with a crisp sound.

Dong. Dong.

Six Ultramarines painted in blue and gold were seen walking quickly through the alley and arrived at the fortifications that had just been illuminated by the "miniature sun".

At the same time, two double-barreled Titan main battle tanks, both of which were equipped with magnetic levitation chassis, and four Cyclops mechas, coordinated by more than 200 fully armed clone soldiers, followed the Ultramarines to this place from the main road around the columnar building.

The surface of the area bombed by the metal hydrogen missiles had a large amount of crystalline material.

The giant fortifications that looked like fortresses also directly "vaporized" and "evaporated" a large area, and the remaining parts of the fortifications were also covered with melted metal.

And the straight-line distance from this place to the Star Alliance shipyard was only about twelve kilometers.

But——

"Roar! Can't give in!!"

"Ham these monkeys to death!!"

"For my God, for glory!!"

The Jiralhanae entrenched here are still tens of thousands.

They hold all kinds of plasma, live ammunition weapons, as well as exaggerated and rough war hammers and spears, and either roar out of the air-raid shelters of the fortifications, or rush here from other areas to help.

In addition, there are tens of thousands of weak populations such as jackals, grunts, and soldier bees, and heavy armored infantry like hunters.

There is no need to mention jackals and hunters, and since the elites left the Star Alliance, the grunts have seized the opportunity to flee everywhere, wanting to join the elites they regard as "saviors".

However, very few grunts have successfully escaped, and the vast majority continue to be enslaved and forced to fight against the joint forces of humans and elites.

The soldier bees are a race with stronger population and reproduction ability than the grunts.

They are an insect species with wisdom and flying ability.

The growth cycle needs to go through the egg → larva → pupa → adult form, and it is a group of hive society, subject to the will of the queen.

Of course, they were just "flying cannon fodder" used by the Covenant, using lightweight individual weapons and equipment to fill the line and harass the enemy.

As for the various beetle and insect-like armored units of the Covenant, they also gathered like a purple torrent.

Facing such a large force, the Ultramarines who first arrived outside the range of the exchange of fire naturally could not directly confront them.

Swish—Swish——!!

Boom. Boom——!!

Therefore, a carrier-based aircraft squadron that received the news in advance immediately launched another round of air-to-ground missiles at the Covenant's ground forces.

However, the TNT equivalent was far less than that of the Long Sword, after all, the carrier-based aircraft squadron needed to consider the safe distance.

A flash of light appeared, and small mushroom clouds and shock waves spread across the positions of the Covenant's ground forces.

Clang clang clang!

At this time, the Ultramarines officially launched an offensive against the Covenant positions wrapped in thick smoke.