Chapter 808： Battle of Phoenix (1)

Needless to say, in fact, the people in the hall have sent back to the base through the frontline reconnaissance unit, knowing what level of firepower the 2013 Mechanized Infantry Regiment is facing.

Archimonde is a thin old man with long and narrow eyes. He is used to squinting his eyes to think about problems and examine the situation, giving people a very shrewd feeling.

He is one of His Majesty's most trusted courtiers and the cousin of Queen Elizabeth.

Of course, this kind of nepotism does not conceal his military talents. Just like now, many senior officers have more or less panic in their eyes, but he still holds the goblet firmly, not much. The pieces of red wine slipped into the mouth several times.

Most of the people present know what the scene outside the city represents. That means that Tang Fang knew about the existence of Phoenix and the natural disaster system, deliberately concealing important siege-level combat units, and using local small forces to attract the military. Attention, induce the natural disaster system to trigger a lightning storm, and then use the charging gap to reveal the steel knife that has been ambushed under Phoenix's eyelids, giving a fatal blow.

In other words, the pursuit of Haar Palace itself was a conspiracy.

After understanding these circumstances, combined with the frontline battle images sent back by the investigation unit, panic is almost the most normal psychological reaction of ordinary people.

Only Archimonde, very calm, very calm...The right thumb and index finger pinched the goblet, the little finger was slightly tilted up, gently placed in the female assistant's hand, and then stood up from the sofa, a faint figure behind him Cover up.

"Order the special operations battalion to reinforce the city's defense line, and the robot troops will attack across the board to ensure that every inch of land in the city is under our absolute control, so as to prevent the enemy's special forces from entering the city for sabotage activities."

"Order the 2013 Brigade to shrink the line of defense, rely on the superior terrain, to delay the attack speed of the enemy's mechanized forces to the maximum, and to cooperate with the reinforcements to outflank the enemy's back lane."

"Order the anti-aircraft firepower fully to weaken the enemy's air force to the greatest extent."

"Order laser weapons to give priority to the enemy's long-range firepower."

"Order the Combat Engineering Department to activate the modular defense system to assist ground units in the defense of important areas."

"Order the 340th Fire Brigade. The 765th Artillery Brigade will cut the enemy's assault formation with firepower. Distribute the opponent's forces to the maximum and break the attack combination."

"Order the 2014 and 2015 Mechanized Infantry Brigade, 1375 Armored Brigade, and Black Beret Ranger Regiment to return to Phoenix as quickly as possible."

"Tell Professor Airal and his team to immediately activate the auxiliary reactor to speed up the recharging of the natural disaster system."

"..."

Archimonde's voice was low and deep, but his words were very clear, and he couldn't hear any tremors, so calm that he felt everything was under his control.

no doubt. This helps stabilize the emotions of subordinates, so that those staff members can relax and concentrate on the next battle. Although they do not have to go to the battlefield, they are the link between the command system and the frontline combat forces. Once there is a problem here, it is more likely to cause a defeat on the whole line than a failure in some details.

The communication team methodically issued the above orders to all levels of combat units, and the data processing team stepped up to process the data collected by the frontline reconnaissance network to the command center, and pushed them to the virtual sand table, display array, resource management system, and urban modular control team. And other units to form a linkage mechanism. To deal with the changing situation on the battlefield. Under the leadership of the chief of staff, staff members also conduct more detailed tactical exercises and determine new combat plans.

Archimonde was like a towering sacred tree, propped up the bird's nest. Propped up the tree nest, propped up the high-rise building. Even the entire sky, let the staff of the command center find their way, no longer confused, no longer panicked, and devoted themselves to this battle that is related to the life and death of Phoenix.

The female assistant wearing gold wire glasses drew a cigarette and lit it by his mouth, and walked down holding the tray, walking very lightly and slowly, in sharp contrast with the fierce battle on the big screen.

She is Archimonde's assistant. In a sense, it is also his symbol.

The so-called leader. Sometimes he doesn't say anything or do nothing. As long as he is there, so that people can see and hear, he can play the role of mainstay.

When the atmosphere of the command center has undergone a subtle change, the confrontation on the Eastern Front battlefield has intensified.

The cannonballs flying out of Phoenix bloomed into black clouds in the sky, almost filling the entire sky, like drops of ink falling on the water surface and spreading rapidly.

The artillery fire on the ground was more intensive, the howling of grenades and the sound of bullets were connected together, and black shadow raindrops were generally sprinkled on the ground, bursting out of sandstorms and flames like fountains, almost burying the entire battlefield.

The rockets from the city defense system and armed aircraft swish past, turning into a wave of firepower, and under the cover of ground anti-aircraft guns, they went straight to the airspace where the king insect was located.

The 2 teams of Viking fighters were separated to the left and right. When the wings were vertical to the ground, the Gatling cannon spewed out rapidly expanding tongues of flame. The warhead pierced the air and made a sharp sound. A rain of light swept across the sky and several rockets The shell pierced through, and a ray of flame flowed out, and then burst into a dazzling flame.

Not every rocket will be fired by the guns of the Viking fighters. There are still several rockets that break through the firepower net. Under the adjustment of the tail wing, the flying height changes from time to time, and it rushes straight to the huge but very slow ones. Meatball.

At the same time, the flames in Phoenix rose, and some powerful surface-to-air missiles were lifted from the silo, carrying clouds of smoke like a dragon, speeding from fast to slow, approaching the location of the flying dragon and explosive mosquitoes.

The flame of the missile almost ignited the sky east of Phoenix.

Five ravens were wiped from a high altitude, and the fixed-point defense drone and sighting drone were pushed to the battlefield, covering the entire Phoenix city in the field of vision.

The crimson light beams passed through the sand and gunpowder smoke, hitting the missiles flying like a group of demons very accurately, directly turning them into large firecrackers, forming a series of explosions in the sky, and the rapidly spreading shock waves formed waves of air, colliding with each other, and causing the smoke. Torn into countless pieces with Tianfeng.

On the ground, the impact tank lifted up like a waterfall of yellow sand, and approached in the gap of the fragmented fountain splashed by the explosion. Four 75mm-caliber plasma guns continuously ejected flames, pouring one high-explosive bomb into the position outside the city wall. Above, a vortex-like flame was stirred, and countless fragments swirled around. Form a large range of splash damage.

The soldiers in the bunkers and trenches were suppressed and unable to raise their heads even if they were wearing power armor. That kind of fast tank is too cruel, and the speed of fire is amazing. It is completely different from ordinary main battle tanks. The artillery shells do not fall on the position one by one, but on the top of the head. Many delusions rely on The fighters who fought back with the protection of the power armor were all pierced into hornet's nest by the flying shrapnel. Even the bunkers became riddled with holes and were abandoned by the soldiers. They could only serve as temporary shields for some tanks and armored vehicles to resist raindrops of fragments and jets.

The soldiers equipped with 12.7mm caliber machine gun-25mm caliber machine guns were unable to break through the armor of the impact tank. Even the 120mm armor-piercing shells of the Leit tank and the Getter tank only left a lot of dents on its armor. Cause fatal injuries.

Only the upper-middle orbital turret of the city wall that is more than 30 meters high can threaten the impact of the tank. However, the plasma ball splashed by the siege tank exploded at the top of the wall, and the high-temperature jet splashed around like fireworks. Numerous bullet craters were ablated on the wall, and the smoke of gunpowder almost covered the important area, and the city wall was not visible from a distance. There are only stray black smoke and colorful lines of fire.

Of course, this does not completely hinder the functioning of urban defense facilities. In the inner area, the bunkers raised from the ground divide the building into defensive modules, and rows of laser cannons stand between the bunkers and the bunkers, emitting red rays to the sky and the ground respectively.

Their existence has brought a lot of trouble to the three groups of troops. Because of the heavy armor, the impact tank can carry high-energy laser shots, continue to advance, and give firepower suppression. The Viking fighters in the sky cannot ignore these killing beams.

A Viking fighter was affected by air turbulence. The fuselage was slightly out of balance and did not make evasive actions in time. A laser beam swept across the left side of the fuselage, directly punching through the flying wings, destroying the stability of the fuselage, and spinning down from the sky.

The driver of the Viking fighter reacted quickly. When approaching the ground, he used the method of weakening the thrust of the relevant engine to temporarily stabilize the fuselage and initiate the deformation process at that moment.

At the forefront of the battlefield, a small soldier nestled in a pile of dead people and gasping for breath, was fortunate to witness the scene of it transforming from a fighter plane to a robot.

He could even see the face of the man in the cockpit that was so calm as if it were frozen, even if the Viking fighter almost crashed and almost turned into metal trash smoking on the ground.

The Gatling gun with a caliber of 40mm supported the ground like a human hand, and its huge inertia carried the body of the Viking fighter to shovel a long mark on the ground. The yellow sand was like rain, crackling and falling in the trenches, and would die for a long time. Buried by soldiers.

The surviving soldier was shrunk in the dead pile, afraid to move a minute, through the gap of the sand group spread on the surface of the mask, with a horrified look, he raised two Gatling cannons and moved a Leiter towards the rear trench. The light tank shot fire like a storm.

The muzzle spun quickly, the tongue of flames burst, and a sharp sound was made. The heavy bullet chain danced up and down behind the barrel, and the bullet shells popped out like a spring, densely falling to the ground, and then a steel foot stepped into the ground.

There was a ping-pong-pong-pong sound from the rear, followed by a roar. You don't need to think about the ending of the Leiter tank.

At this moment, a rocket hit the Viking fighter's chest, but it only ruptured the baffle and did not cause fatal injuries. Then the soldiers saw the big guy’s shoulders spouting fire from the missile bay, and 8 missiles were dancing. The flying dragon shot out in a bend, poured into the depths of the position, stretched out a line of fire, wounded and killed countless individual soldiers.

Two soldiers drilled out of the dead pile, dragged sticky explosives in their hands, and slowly moved to the feet of the fighters, preparing to take advantage of the mecha's difficulty in attacking close targets, and kill this big guy who was deep in their positions.

At this moment, a shadow flashed in the sky, with whining wind and harsh insect sounds, and 4 ugly crawlers with gliding wings landed in the crater behind the mecha.

The two soldiers froze for a moment, and then two pairs of sharp and long bone spurs appeared at the edge of the crater, followed by a chilling face.

They wanted to take out the guns behind them, but the bugs were too fast. They jumped directly from the crater and used a gliding posture to rush to the two of them. The bone spurs were sent forward, and the screams easily pierced the pilgrim-level power. The armored defense pierced the driver's body.

Shoo, hoo...

The scream of bullets broke through the air, and the bullet shot from the large-caliber sniper rifle hit the body of the brood, exploding a cloud of blood. But this still cannot save the lives of the two soldiers, because the feet of the Viking fighter have fallen from the sky. Step on the power armor directly, turning the soldiers inside into a pool of flesh.

Blood gushes from the breach in the power armor, stains the ground red, and brings some moisture to the long-dried sandbar, but it is not fresh and tastes heavy.

boom! boom! boom!

Several missiles were launched by mobile missile vehicles near the cannon post and hit the Viking fighters in succession. Finally, the two 40mm Gatling cannons were destroyed, and the mecha that was in the limelight lost its attack ability.

At this moment, several groups of black shadows fell from the sky, and more than 20 nest insects scattered into the trenches on the front line, like an undulating dark tide, spreading towards the battlefield.

Fragmentation grenades exploded in the trenches, and the rear sentry firepower spouted out dazzling tongues of fire, venting bullets on the road where the nest insects passed, but this did not stop their offensive. The second wave of broodworms followed and fell to the front line, killing the soldiers in the trenches and quickly eroding the defense line built by the 2013 mechanized infantry brigade.

Above the outer wall of Phoenix is ​​a large railgun. The second gear is for the missile launching system, and the third gear is for small and medium caliber fast turrets and some laser weapons. Further down is the site of machine guns and large-caliber sniper rifles. The 30-meter-high circular outer wall is like a hedgehog covered with spikes, with daunting makeup.

This is Phoenix, Cabrreto's largest land fortress. Since it is a fortress, it should look like a fortress. In fact, apart from the dense defense facilities between the outer wall and the core pyramid, there is also a quantum teleporter in the deepest part of the underground building complex, which is used to save life at critical moments, but to remove the praises. No one knows except for Er and Archimonde.

Unfortunately, His Majesty the King died simply. There is no chance to hide here.

The front city wall is like a fire monster, puffing out fire and smoke. It was also swallowed by the firepower network constructed by siege tanks, impact tanks, Thor, Viking fighters, and immortals. At a higher point, the Guardian ascends to tens of thousands of feet in the sky under the protection of the flying dragon, and uses its position advantage to spray clusters of highly corrosive spores into Phoenix, and implements the heavy rail gun and the more dexterous laser cannon. Long-range bombing.

The position under the city wall became the place where the Brood Lord and the 2013 Brigade mechanized infantry and armed vehicles saw the saw. The soldiers gradually stabilized their positions relying on the cover of the machine guns and the rapid turrets of the city wall.

However, just as the 340th Fire Brigade and the 765 Artillery Brigade arrived in the Near Eastern Theater, they had to attack the Thor squad, which moved relatively slowly behind the impact tanks but had extremely powerful firepower, and split the attack formation of Tang Fang’s tribal coalition forces. At that time, the war situation outside the city wall suddenly changed.

The flat soft sand outside the trenches suddenly raised one bulge after another, the sandstorm raised, and a huge worm-like mouth was drilled underground, and a deafening roar was heard from the sky. The sound waves and breath directly blew the falling gravel and gunpowder. .

The soldiers of the nearby 2013 Brigade stared at the giant hill-like beast blankly. Several of them were scared to urinate in their pants, and there was no time to pick up their guns. They turned around and ran to the back.

The neck muscles of the tunnel worm stretched upwards, and after shaking it for a few times, it slowly retracted to the ground. Poisonous explosive worms and puppies gush out from it, carrying bad winds and stench, and rushing to the core of the position. Armored vehicles and tanks Steel positions constructed.

This is not the first tunnel worm, nor the last tunnel worm. A total of 5 tunnel worms sprang up from the area near the 2013 brigade position on the eastern battlefield, and a large number of puppies kept coming out of it, converging into a wave of worms. Together with the clusters of nest insects that fell from the sky, they flocked to the deep area behind the position.

The screams of the insect swarm suppressed the sound of guns for a while and the alien form that could not be killed almost destroyed the confidence of the guards.

When the front line was in chaos, as Archimonde expected, large-scale riots also occurred in Phoenix. The enemy also came from the underground, but unlike the outside, it was not transported by tunnel bugs, but by devourers comparable in size to armored vehicles with cockroaches, specifically targeting defense facilities and missile vehicles of the 340 fire brigade and 765 artillery brigade, artillery vehicles, and mobile. Long-range firepower units such as microwave weapons and electronic bomb ejection systems conduct surprise attacks.

Although Archimonde had arranged the battle plan in advance and made arrangements for the defense affairs of the city, facing the tricky puppies, ghosts, fanatics, and even high-level templars, they were in the street fighting environment. It can only retreat steadily, losing several firepower positions one after another, weakening the suppression of the front line.

This situation was alleviated after the secondary towers joined the battle sequence. A huge electric arc was shot from the spire amplifier, meandering out a flash of lightning, roasting the cockroaches into smoking dead beetles.

Although they can only accurately strike medium-sized units such as Devourers and Cockroaches, and cannot pose too much threat to small and robust enthusiasts, puppies, and ghosts, they still greatly delay the defeat of the fire suppression force. speed. (To be continued.)