0784 Operation Crystal Capture (3)
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"The transport fleet broke through the black barrier and entered the stage of a smooth landing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 INFO has been in contact with the ground response forces and has set up a data exchange channel that will guide us to the coordinates of the attack. "When the three Kodiak-class battle cruisers used shipboard anti-aircraft laser cannons to shoot at the Sijing people's on-demand combat boats, shot down some of them and drove away the others, the feint landing force composed of thirty space transport planes also safely approached the ground fifty kilometers away at this time, the fire and ionosphere caused by the friction gradually disappeared, and the fleet began to enter the preparation for the landing procedure.
And because the landing site was chosen to be Huntington, which was more than 20 kilometers away from New York City, even if the Sijing people calculated the landing location of the fleet, they would not have time to block it there in advance.
Although these space transport planes do not have accompanying escort forces, there is also a space fleet with ground attack capabilities above their heads, even if they only use laser weapons to attack at fixed points in order to ensure that ground troops will not be accidentally damaged, that is not something that those patrols can resist.
What's more, the area around the landing site is not empty, Sun Dahai took a small force, through the sea transportation of Long Island Bay, and had already established a position there ten minutes in advance, which was enough to cover the landing of the airborne troops - the attention of the Sijing people was also attracted by the space fleet, and they did not have sea ships, so they did not pay enough attention to the monitoring of the bay, and Sun Dahai easily found a breakthrough from there.
So when the space transport fleet landed, the ground cover force led by Sun Dahai, a force composed entirely of Annihilator 1 super heavy tanks, had everything ready for them.
Thirty transport aircraft, all loaded with Annihilator 3 super heavy tanks, and all of them are modified with railguns and adapted equipment models, combat effectiveness compared to Type 1, much stronger, although a transport aircraft can only load two Annihilator 3 tanks, but due to the improvement of combat effectiveness, so the combat effectiveness of sixty Annihilator 3 has far exceeded the combat effectiveness of an entire Stalker tank regiment, and it is the most suitable for such a feint mission.
Although the distance was more than 20 kilometers, and the speed of a super-heavy tank like the Annihilator 3 was not very fast, it was enough for them to approach the outskirts of New York City in more than half an hour.
If you don't want to fight with the humans in New York, then the Sijing people must send troops to engage this tank force outside the city, and if the number of troops sent is too small, it will not make much difference, because the light troops of the Sijing people are not at all the opponent of the Annihilator 3, a super heavy weapon that emphasizes firepower and protection.
In fact, even if the Sijing people did not send troops to meet the battle, but defended New York in an attempt to resist the attack of the Iron Eagle with street fighting, this was also a good thing in the plan for Lin Hai, he didn't need to send the collection team into the city at all, just put the troops behind the feint troops, anyway, the direction of their attack now is Queens, New York, even if it is the edge of the city, there are traces of green crystals, collecting in the city and collecting here, in fact, it is the same.
Probably the number of troops deployed in New York City is more abundant than in other places, or there may be a production line here, in short, when Iron Eagle's heavily armored troops approached the outskirts of New York City ten kilometers away, the Sijing people also sent ground troops out of the city to intercept this force rushing straight towards the city.
There are even some combat airships, but soon after these airships were lifted off, they were hit by the fleet laser strikes in low-earth orbit, most of them were shot down or damaged, and only a few of them dodged the blow from space after reducing their altitude, but soon after, these low-flying Sijing people were attacked by missiles from the Iron Eagle armored force - the Annihilator tank series can be equipped with various types of missiles, including anti-aircraft missiles, although the performance of missiles in the electromagnetic environment will be affected somewhat, But it can't hold 60 tanks, each of which can carry 36 small missiles or heavy multi-purpose missiles, and the number of missiles is much more than that of combat boats.
On the side of the Sijing people, the troops sent out to meet the attack were all heavy combat units, and the number of Devourer suspension tanks with all the same head reached more than 200, and the number of three-legged mechs was also 30 - just ordinary models, and special models were not so common.
As soon as the two sides fought, the Devourers on the front line were destroyed in large numbers, and they may be able to overtake the Stalker tank, but they are definitely not the match for the Annihilator Super Heavy tank. They can't even beat Type 1, let alone Type 3.
So in less than five minutes of fighting, thirty tripod mechs were forced to go up and engage the Annihilator 3 tank head-on, until this time, it was considered to have slowed down the attack speed of the Annihilator 3 tank, but it could not completely contain their offensive, the number of triped mecha was only half of the Annihilator, even if there were those more Devourers from the side, the battle line continued to move in the direction of New York.
After the Annihilator Type 3 suffers relatively large damage, it can retreat and wait for automatic repair, but once the three-legged mecha is injured, there is no such automatic repair condition, and the Sijing people may never have considered the need for the mecha to be repaired automatically on the battlefield when developing them.
The attacking troops were unexpectedly constantly repulsed, and the Sijing people should have been quite surprised, probably they thought that sending several times the number of troops should be enough to repel the Iron Eagle, but the result was so, so the city continued to send more reinforcements, and it was also an elite force based on heavy equipment such as the Devourer tank.
In this way, the attacking Iron Eagle troops felt a huge pressure, and the ratio of troops between the two sides had reached seven to one, and this number continued to expand with the continuous reinforcements sent by the Sijing people.
And at this moment, there was a scream in the sky that could break the eardrums of humans, and a large number of "meteor showers" fell vertically from the sky and fell into the queue of Sijing people's positions and reinforcements!
A dense cloud of small mushrooms then rose, and a huge shock wave mixed with the soil layers that had been lifted one after another rushed to all directions, engulfing everything around, whether it was city streets, buildings, or the war weapons of the Sijing people, they were all within the coverage of the "meteor shower" and were torn to pieces!
"The fleet fired, and it was really timely." Glancing at the mushroom cloud rising in the distance, as well as the shock waves and dust that were still surging towards his position, Sun Dahai said to his subordinates, "Order the troops to stop advancing, all staff start adapting to the armor at full power, and when those things have passed, we will set off again." ”
Less than half a minute after his order was given, a cloud of dust engulfed the Iron Eagle attacking force.
After the mushroom cloud stirred up by the "meteor shower" and the dust kicked up by the shock wave gradually dissipated, and the visibility reached a little two or three hundred meters, Sun Dahai, who was hiding in the tank, got out of the turret and looked at the battlefield in the distance.
Most of the Devourer Hovertanks of the Sijing are gone, and their fragments can only be seen farther away, or in mounds of earth, or parts of their bodies that are not completely buried underground.
Most of those three-legged mecha have also disappeared, and most of the ones that can still be found have become fragmented metal garbage, and only a few lucky ones can still be seen dragging their broken mechanical feet, paralyzed on the ground and constantly twitching, and also lost the ability to fight.
"Kill them." Sun Dahai said softly, "Keep only one, dismantle its mechanical feet and weapon systems, and then let the transport plane take it away." This is a rare complete trophy, and the brothers in the technical department should be happy. ”
More than a dozen quite accurate artillery bombardments not only destroyed those three-legged mecha that still had energy reactions, but also interrupted one of the remaining mechanical feet and mechanical tentacles, and some sappers who came down from the space transport plane immediately rushed up and cut off the energy supply system of the three-legged mecha in various ways - Iron Eagle had destroyed a lot of three-legged mecha before, and also took away some of the wreckage for research, so there was still a harvest on how to cut off their energy supply.
Then, a space transport plane roared over the heads of the tank troops, hovered over the trunk of the retained three-legged mecha, lowered a few ropes on the belly, and then fixed the three-legged mecha by ground personnel, and hoisted it into the cargo ship of the transport plane - although the three-legged mecha looked large, it was not much larger than the Annihilator tank after removing the mechanical foot, and a space transport plane could carry two Annihilators, and now only one torso was installed, and the space was still more than enough.
It's just that the Sijing people don't want their important technical weapons to be taken away by Iron Eagle in such a good condition, when they see Iron Eagle in the work, they don't care about the work point and Iron Eagle's tanks on guard, and once again send more ground troops to leave the city and pounce on the work point.
But this time, the troops dispatched are not only heavy equipment such as Devourers and three-legged mechas, but also more lightly armored vehicles such as Seekers and Walking Cannons, which have lost too many main battle weapons under the orbital artillery bombardment just now, and now they can only use those lightly armed troops to make up the numbers and provide some cover.
The dispatch of troops includes lightly armed troops, which naturally proves that there is a problem with the structure of the Sijing people's troops, which means that the opportunity for action is coming for the action troops who have been waiting in space.
"Stealth unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, drop!" As soon as he received the report, Brigadier General Towin, who had been waiting for the progress of the battle in the command seat, immediately issued an order, he needed to know the distribution of the Sijing people in the mission area before he could order the airdrop, after all, New York is so big, and the Sijing people are not capable of deploying troops everywhere after fighting, and those crystals can now be seen in most parts of the city.
A spacecraft, only one-third smaller than the Eagle Claw Space Fighter, was thrown directly through the belly hatch of a starship, and quickly passed through the atmosphere, entered the inner space of the atmosphere, and quickly disappeared into the air, and began to transmit real-time images to the starship.
Looking at the top view of New York displayed on the main screen, Towin and the other officers discussed the location of the operation, this operation, Lin Hai only formulated the main action steps and objectives, and the location of the operation, let the front-line commanders make on-the-spot decisions according to the actual situation.
"You can go to this place." Pointing to a location, Targate said, "It's in Queens, what kind of forest knoll is it called?" It looks like an upscale residential area, but now most of the area has been replaced by crystals. ”
"It's not just crystals." Towin looked at the image with some confusion, "Those plants don't look like they can be found on Earth. The place where his eyes were fixed was photographed by a stealth unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, and in a cluster of crystal clusters with a relatively large range, a plant with no branches and leaves stood in the center.
This plant looks very ugly, not only has no branches and leaves, but is bare and has a strange trunk that has been peeled. And at the top of the trunk, there is a phimosis-like organ that is constantly wriggling, spraying green mist around from time to time, and each time the mist disperses and comes into contact with the surrounding crystals, the crystals seem to have been scrubbed by someone, and shine brighter.
"I've never seen a tree that moves like this." All the officers nodded, "Maybe this kind of thing should also be arranged within the collection range." ”
"Then check the deployment of the Sijing forces around the target area." Towin continued, "If not much, then we'll put it here. ”
"It's not much, at least that's what we're seeing." "There are only a handful of Shockwave Robots patrolling around, and at most there are a few searchers, and there will be no more than ten. The only trouble is that the crystal area is a bit large, and it is not convenient for us to ask the collection team to go deep into the interior to take the tree as a sample. After all, the collection work is inherently risky, and we cannot risk the possibility of being infected by the crystallizer and let them return to the ship. ”
"This is war, it is inherently risky, and the technical troops have also taken into account the existence of such situations, so they have specially prepared an unmanned armored vehicle, and the hull shell, including the tracks, can be cooled by liquid nitrogen without damage," Towin said. Besides, whether or not the plant can be collected is up to the on-site collectors to decide, and we only add that thing to the collection target, and it is not a mandatory target. ”
"Okay, I don't have a problem."
"Then, the orbital airdrop begins, and the first wave of escort troops begins to drop!" (To be continued.) )