Chapter 418: The First Appearance of the Trap
"I know, so many fireballs don't look like mushroom clouds, I just sighed at the power of some explosions... I really don't know how the empire could detonate so many earthly nights at the same time."
"I don't know, is it because a self-detonation device is added?"
"Di Ye who can self-destruct, a good idea. Why hasn't anyone wanted to pay attention from ancient times to the present?" Ye made an expression of sudden enlightenment. Di Ye with self-destruction device was not afraid that the Earth Ye he had pre-buried in the counterattack would accidentally injure his troops.
"Sometimes, the simpler the thing, the less people think. Now I can only pray that the troops ahead will not suffer heavy casualties."
"Don't they have the opposite position of yours?"
"Haha, although they are radicals, Mrs. Ames said that no matter whether radicals are conservatives, they are all part of the resistance army. They will always be our comrades-in-arms unless they try to hurt Mrs. Ames." Joni said with a firm look on his face.
Ye shrugged helplessly in the cockpit, "It seems that the task assigned to him by Uncle Joe Ga is not very difficult. It is not difficult to win over people with pro-federal positions in the Resistance Army. The problem is that it is too difficult to join the Federation. After all, few people in the Resistance Army dare to hurt Mrs. Aimes."
Joni's prayer seemed to have played a little role. Except for their captain, none of the fire-killing mechas that the Resistance Army entered the town was seriously damaged, but most of the mechas armor surfaces were smashed into countless small pits by shrapnel and building fragments. The most severely damaged mechas, the landline of the captain of the Buos Fire-killing troops, was only damaged by the joints of the left wrist, the entire left leg was reimbursed, and the chest mechas appeared obvious depressions and needed to be replaced. The main body part was not damaged too much. The most precious combat power of the Resistance Army did not suffer a fatal blow in the spectacular fireworks.
Compared with the entire mecha unit, the infantry troops that went deep into the night zone, especially the troops attacking the Imperial Barracks, were not so lucky. The commando team composed of more than 300 people in a battalion of the forefront was knocked down by the metal storm. The remaining people also suffered heavy losses under the double blow of the opposing Vulcan cannon and the self-destruction of the buildings. In the end, less than 30 people were able to evacuate the battlefield. The three companies responsible for roundabout attacks on the flanks, about half of them were killed by the Empire's trap. After all, it was a trap composed of dozens of individual cloud bombs. This terrifying power cannot be fought against by human flesh and blood.
The engineers of the Resistance Army also lost nearly one-third of them. These people who were excluding Diye did not expect that these Diye would self-destruct. Without regular explosion-proof clothing, they were so fragile when facing Diye. But then again, even if they wore the federally-style night explosion-proof clothing, they could not resist the power of the anti-mecha Diye, because these Diyes were designed to knock down steel giants ten times larger than humans.
The fireworks caused the Resistance Army's front-line troops to be in chaos. Looking at the imperial commander of Campbeth in the distance in the sand dunes, he shook his head a little regretfully and said to himself: "I didn't expect that the Resistance Army had such strong support from Buos, and there were so many mechas. Unexpectedly."
The adjutant on the side said with a pity: "Our reservation target is just guarding the supply convoy in the rear this time. It's really disappointing. The original plan was to attract the Resistance Mecha troops into Campbeth, and then use large-scale blasting to create chaos and create opportunities for our troops' ambush. But the Resistance Mecha troops are not something we can destroy at this moment."
The lieutenant general commander also looked at a commando mecha behind him with a pity, and sighed with a little disappointed look: "We could have used the superior mecha troops to attack the enemy in chaos to achieve the minimum loss. At this moment, the mecha troops of the resistance army have almost one more squadron than ours, and they use the Burning Fire with better performance than the bear style. I would have been able to bear that level of loss. But if we attack now, we might be too imposed."
"Yeah." The adjutant took the telescope handed to him by the lieutenant general in disappointment and carefully put the package in it.
"Notify the Pru's troops and plan changes. Campbes will not go, and we do not need their assistance. Let them bypass Campbes when attacking and directly attack the other side's supply convoy and helicopter formation in the rear, and stop when they see it. There are too many mechas in the city, and the terrain is not conducive to their attack. The mechas and the Longbow troops retreat." The Lieutenant General began to issue orders, although his carefully arranged plan was miscarried due to intelligence errors, he still decided to retreat decisively.
"I understand, sir."
"Damn it, the incompetent intelligence department made me sacrifice a platoon of soldiers in vain." The lieutenant general cursed while boarding his jeep. He was full of anger. Although he had already formulated this trap-style defensive counterattack plan when he entered Campbes, the intelligence department not only did not understand the number of mechas of the resistance army when the Federation notified it that the Buos mechas troops had entered the Resistance Army, but it also did not even attack Campbes by the opponent.
If there is enough time, the lieutenant general is confident to mobilize a commando mecha as a reserve team, unlike now, and can only rely on a commando mecha in his hands. For such a long time, the hidden work done by his own troops made the deception of some resistance troops thinking that Campbes only stationed a squadron mecha was wasted. Thinking that his efforts were in vain, the lieutenant general couldn't help but punch the dashboard.
Compared to the retreat of the Imperial Army commander, Ye was in trouble. Thirty black dots appeared in the sky for Ye's monitor to capture it, which allowed the ace who had been under the cover of a powerful air force to experience the helplessness of the Empire against the Federation.
"Enemy Pru, an assault team, came for us." Joni also found the Imperial Fighter Force and shouted.
"It was for the supply team and helicopter formation." Ye was a famous fighter ace before becoming a mecha ace. Knowing that the fighter jets in the atmosphere could hardly cause any damage to the mecha, he immediately judged the opponent's real attack target.
"This is the moose force, let's retreat first. These fighter jets driven by particles are not something we can fight." The moose commander quickly issued a retreat order. The helicopters that were originally hovering over the supply team flashed cleanly in an instant, making Ye feel that they not only used a turbo engine to drive the propeller, but must also have a jet engine on the side of the helicopter to facilitate their escape at this time.
"This is a supply convoy, what should we do?" The supply convoy of the Resistance Army has never encountered such a situation. In normal combat, the infantry brought their own supplies. This time, they came to the rear of the battlefield to provide support to the main attacking mecha troops. These people who had not yet left the Gobi were also panicked when facing the Imperial Air Force troops on the vast desert.
"Try to avoid and seek mecha protection." Ye didn't know what to do. In the past, when he was in the Federation, no Imperial fighter plane dared to fly over the Federal Supply Team. Moreover, the Resistance Army Supply Team used cheap civilian trucks as transportation vehicles. You should know that the top armor of the transport vehicles used by the Federation and installed super-tension ceramic composite steel armor may not be able to completely resist the attack of the 30mm armor-piercing bombs coming here. In Ye's eyes, these civilian trucks are simply representative of being shot. If these cars without a little armor are fully protected, it is not unusually difficult.
"Bear-style, air attack, missiles set air explosion mode, launch." Wang Hui directed the bear-style troops and launched an attack towards the gradually approaching Plu. The missiles set by simple air explosion flew out of the missile clamp cabin on the bear-style legs. Then these clamp cabins were abandoned by the bear-style and smashed heavily on the sand.
"Transportation vehicles. Low-altitude smoke bombs are cast at high density. Don't let the smoke cover our mecha's monitor." Joni has experience in fighting the Imperial Air Force on the flat ground.
The missiles flew crookedly toward the fighter fleet. The remaining ones that were originally in the enemy's attack had no firepower density at all, and the air explosion parameters set casually were not very correct. These missiles exploded in front of the Plu fighter jets, forming a spark.
However, the Imperial Flight Forces are not very experienced. Some fighter jets left their flight formation like frightened birds, which immediately messed up the formation of the Imperial Fighter.
"All mechas are not careful. The other party is a rookie. This time I should practice mechas against air combat. Use the shotgun clip to replace the shotgun clip. That thing is easy to use when fighting the fighter." Ye was very smart. One move of the other party could allow Ye to get a lot of information.
The three bears began to replace their magazines, which was a bit low for Ye's prediction. But there was no way. Shotballs were only produced by the Empire, and the Federal Mechas used 30mm near-defense guns on the head of their mechas for air defense. Therefore, among the federally funded materials, only the armor-piercing shells used by the mechas, but no air-to-air shotguns. At this moment, these bears used by their soldiers were snatched from the Empire warehouse, and part of the small amount of shotguns in stock in the Resistance Army's warehouse.
At this moment, I realized the depression when the Imperial Pilot was using a 120mm machine gun to attack the Federal fighter jets. Fortunately, the mecha's machine gun's continuous firing performance was very excellent. The dense firepower net formed over the sixteen mechas and accurately tore up three Plus.
However, the three Plus were still too few for the entire Plus group that began to dive. These scattered fighter jets started attacking from different angles, seriously dispersing the mechas' air defense firepower, forcing Ye to order the mechas to defend air as commandos.
"The opponent's commander Plu is a veteran." Ye sighed. How great would it be if the opponent concentratedly dives when attacking the 209 transit base. The rookie behavior of robbing merits seems to not happen in this battle.
Compared to Ye's depression, the other side Commander Plu was also very uncomfortable. At this moment, the supply convoy of the Resistance Army hid in the smoke, which made their attack almost cover up. Although five large fireballs were raised in the smoke, they also lost three fighter jets. The loss seemed too great to him. And their other target, the Resistance Army helicopter formation, had already opened its horsepower and fled far away.
"Damn it, retreat, we can't accurately attack the vehicles in the smoke." Commander Pru decisively ordered the retreat after seeing that he could not get any advantage and that the opponent's air defense network began to form an effective organization.
"Hu." Ye and the others took a breath. You should know that three of the three enemy planes that were shot down before were shot down by shotguns, and not many of the three bear-style shotguns were left at this moment.
"It can be considered as having escaped the disaster." Wang Hui was somewhat grateful that the bullets fired by the machine gun in his hand did not even touch a Plu's side.
"Well, but it's really hard to use this thing to hit the plane. The close-defense guns came to the air. Wow, the butt of a fighter plane smoked." Ye shook the 120mm machine gun in his hand. He was the only one who had achieved fruitful results with armor-piercing bombs, but he still missed the Rangers and the weapons on Pluto's heads very much, although he had never used that thing to fight the fighter plane.
The Resistance Army successfully recaptured Campbeth, which also meant that it gave the Empire a clear target while capturing a town. The Empire fighter jets began to conduct high-density reconnaissance missions over Campbeth. Without federal fighter jets suppressed them, they felt the pleasure of air strikes in the Resistance Army.
Although the Prolu fighter jets cannot carry a large number of missiles or heavy aviation bombs, there is no problem with hanging three small thermal missiles under its wings. These kingfisher short-range air combat missiles and Pelican anti-tank missiles produced by the empire can easily capture the huge amount of heat energy emitted by the engines of the Resistance Helicopters and Tank Forces.
In the sky of Campbes, there were imperial fighter jets hovering at every moment. These Pru blocked Campbes and attacked all the resistance helicopters, tanks, jeeps, and even soldiers who dared to leave the protection range of the anti-aircraft artillery on the ground on Campbes.
"Damn, the Empire is using the Resistance Army to practice the Air Force's ability to fight against the ground." Ye, who once again escorted the transport team to Campbeth, complained, looking at the six small black dots in the sky. In order to ensure its transportation line, the Resistance Army could only use mechas to escort operations, and this kind of chore was naturally completed by the Pluto Cross where the Night was.
However, one thing is fortunate that Buos sent a large number of mechas with 120mm shotguns from their support supplies. It seems that the Buos military still has no confidence in mechas relying solely on the three near-defense guns on their head for air defense, so their mecha ammunition production line has a shotgun production line that the Federation does not have.
For the arrival of these shotguns, I have to thank the leader of the Buos pilot and Captain Batrick for his great efforts. Because the unlucky guy's mecha needs to return to the Gobi hangar of the Resistance Army for repair, the captain who made his mecha the most seriously damaged in the attack on Campbes returned with the convoy carrying his mecha. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!