From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars

Chapter 245 Atlas pulls out the knife for cancer

Rubian 5, these imperial soldiers on the outskirts of the satellite city of Ptolemaic City, the survivors among them may never forget the battle that took place that night in their lives.

First, there was a beam of light coming from above like a divine punishment.

It was like a blow that penetrated the stars, directly and organically annihilating a battalion of their friendly units.

Immediately afterwards, those HCPs in the coalition forces that launched the attack, like demons returning from hell, rushed directly into their direction under the illumination of the huge plasma fireball and started a hand-to-hand battle with their own HCP troops.

These nearly ten-meter-tall steel giants kept flashing and moving around on the battlefield, and from time to time they would launch a dazzling charge amidst the screams of sonic booms.

The harsh collision between steel and steel hit the hearts of these imperial soldiers.

But among them, the dark red HCP leading the enemy is even more terrifying.

It was the first to break into the defensive position, and directly hit the Zealot that came up to block it with its shield and flew backwards.

This fanatic's combat auxiliary AI quickly took over the attitude control of the body and activated the main propulsion array on the back to try to restore the balance of the body.

But the attack of the dark red HCP did not stop at that step. After completing the impact with the shield, the propulsion array on its back also burst out with a round of blue light.

The entire machine body seemed to be attached to the target, and it immediately rushed forward.

The huge plasma heavy sword was held in his right hand without knowing when, and the edge of the heavy sword quickly lit up with plasma blue light after being powered on.

Just like a 'blue crescent' that suddenly appeared in the night, driven by the electromagnetic muscles of the mechanical arm, the heavy sword slashed in an arc from the lower right to diagonally upward.

The high-temperature and high-speed plasma constrained by the pointing magnetic field at the 'sword edge' position dissipated the surface silicon carbide armor plate the moment it came into contact with the chopping site.

Immediately afterwards, the laminated armor, whose heat energy release efficiency had reached the upper limit, and the third layer of memory metal armor, which had no time to repair itself, were also violently torn apart.

Finally, the titanium alloy skeleton of the body structure was built. Under the huge kinetic energy of the heavy sword, it was cut off like the spine of a swordsman inspecting a knife.

The Imperial HCP pilot, who was so close, could only sigh, "What a quick kill!" ', and was reduced to ashes under the high-temperature plasma sword that passed through the cockpit.

But this is not over yet. Under the mapping of the on-board control operating system, this dark red HCP used the final inertia of sprinting like a human to jump up and then performed an extremely standard 'Rider Kick'.

The main structure of the Imperial HCP was basically damaged. Under this flying kick, the entire upper body flew directly out and was completely scrapped.

This is a hand-to-hand battle between HCPs. When both sides hold heavy swords with excessive cutting power, a precise attack is enough to end the battle.

This is why at present, whether they are federal or imperial pilots, even if they are like killing gods in simulated battles, they can use heavy swords to kill seven in and seven out.

But when they actually go to the battlefield, they will never draw their swords in hand-to-hand combat unless absolutely necessary.

Because the fault tolerance rate in such a battle is too low, it is very likely that due to one of your own low-level mistakes, you will be "sent away with a sword" by your opponent.

But these Atlas pilots are different.

Under the influence of Amber, the chief instructor of the HCP unit, the situation of 'drawing knife cancer' is very serious, and all of them are in the late stage.

In Atlas, any pilot who can be selected into the HCP unit and successfully complete all training subjects and be assigned to the corresponding unit will have no poor hand-to-hand combat skills.

Because the last item in the all-subject assessment is to turn on the training machine and use a training sword that feels the same as a plasma heavy sword to survive 5 minutes in a 1V1 duel with Amber.

Although this training subject has become increasingly difficult for Amber to find time to participate in, the 'training syllabus revision team' is looking for other subjects to replace it.

For example, surviving for 5 minutes in a 1V2 or 1V3 duel with a graduate pilot - this is to simulate being attacked by a numerically superior enemy on the battlefield.

After all, you can't expect more enemies on the battlefield to play a 1V1 'just duel' with you.

All in all, at least on this planet right now, you would be hard-pressed to find another team that is better than Atlas HCP pilots in the subject of 'HCP hand-to-hand combat'.

"No one knows hand-to-hand combat better than us!"

These are the words posted by many Atlas HCP pilots on the multi-function screens in the cockpits of their aircraft.

So when this group of wolf-like pilots controlled the aircraft and broke into the range of hand-to-hand combat, the HCP unit of the Imperial Armored Battalion in front was almost instantly wiped out.

When the HCPs on both sides were mixed together, the supporting firepower such as main battle tanks and multi-legged tanks in the rear were dumbfounded.

It was originally a night battle with extremely low visibility, and the sound of firing from various energy weapons had been interfering with the optical equipment. Now the units of both sides were still mixed together, and they were constantly maneuvering.

This makes it impossible for these units to provide effective direct fire support.

Moreover, relying on the advantages of driving skills and the tacit understanding cultivated through extensive cooperation training, Atlas pilots can often achieve a 'many-to-one' advantage in a small area.

The Empire's HCPs often managed to block an attack with their shields, but before they could stabilize their posture, they would find that another HCP had suddenly appeared in the shadow of the opponent in front of them.

Then, there was a simple horizontal slash.

Seeing the friendly units marked with "red crosses" on the multi-function display in the cockpit, the commander of the Empire's HCP troops felt disappointed.

Those enemies who killed their own units in a few seconds had already crossed the interception line formed by the HCP company and rushed towards the rear line.

But there were only main battle tanks and multi-legged vehicles left.

Although their main weapons could also pose a threat to HCP units, especially the electromagnetic reconnection guns equipped on some main battle tanks and heavy multi-legged vehicles, if they were fired well, they could also blow HCP into pieces with one shot.

However, in terms of flexibility, these units could not compare with HCP at all. Once they were approached, they would be killed alive.

This is why, whether it is an armored combined battalion or a heavy combined battalion, they all use HCPs to cooperate with main battle tanks and multi-legged vehicles.

However, the imperial HCP commander could not worry about the friendly forces in the rear at this time.

Because on the full-circle display, the opponent's dark red HCP has already stared at him, and the distance between the two sides is constantly shrinking under the opponent's supersonic sprint.

And he also knows that he is definitely not the opponent of the killer in hand-to-hand combat.

"Hound No. 1, we come to support you!"

Just when the commander was about to drive the Zealot Command Type to fight to the death, the voices of other people came from the communication channel.

He turned his head and saw that on a small slope more than 150 meters to the right, a team of anti-HCP teams were nervously completing the installation of portable anti-vehicle electromagnetic guns.

At the same time, remaining friendly units appeared in several other directions and sent out signals of "prepare to cover the attack".

The commander immediately activated the heavy particle cannon behind his shoulder while blocking the heavy shield in front of him.

Soon, just as the dark red HCP in front of him rushed across a certain line, an orange-red line of fire flashed from the right without warning.

At the same time, there were two other orange-red lines of fire and a stream of charged particles flying towards the target HCP from other directions.

Then, the commander saw a scene that was beyond his cognition.

It seemed that this HCP had foreseen the future. At the moment when the charged particle cannon opened fire, it leaned down and dodged the charged particle beam.

Then, the huge shield was buckled in front of it, and with the frenzied silver-white electric snakes when the deflection force field was fully turned on, it twisted away two high-speed piercing rods that were red from the friction of the air.

Finally, it tilted its head a little bit, dodging the last high-speed piercing rod that was attacking, and the close-defense laser cannons on both sides of the main monitor on the head irradiated along the trajectory of the electromagnetic cannon.

A ball of fire that exploded in the night announced the fate of this anti-HCP team.

And this dark red HCP did not know when it switched the heavy sword in its hand to an electromagnetic rifle.

While the muzzle of the 50mm electromagnetic rifle flashed with lightning, several friendly units that cooperated in the attack also lost signals one after another.

But these imperial soldiers still used their lives to give the imperial HCP commander a chance to attack.

The muzzle of the heavy particle cannon that had been deployed lit up with white light. On the full-circle screen in front of the commander, the target locked by the purple frame was finally engulfed by the surging heavy metal particle jet.

Unfortunately, when the white light dissipated, another HCP carrying a heavy laminated armor shield appeared in front of the dark red HCP.

Obviously, the fatal shot just now had been blocked by this uninvited guest.

"No!"

The imperial commander shouted an unwilling roar.

But this roar only echoed in the cockpit for a moment before it was interrupted by the heavy sword that tore through the main propulsion array and armor plate from the back and finally stabbed into the cockpit.

"The target HCP has stopped its activity, and it has been confirmed that it has not caused the superconducting battery stack to quench."

Mura pulled out the heavy sword from the back of the HCP, and then waved to Amber and Louis who was holding the shield.

Just now, the two of them rushed up with their HCP companies, and the other combat units of the two heavy synthetic battalions also broke through along the gap torn by Amber and his men.

Amber looked at the enemy situation map on the multi-function display. At this time, the Atlas mixed synthetic brigade had already pierced into the imperial army's defense line like a sharp arrow.

And the 30 HCPs in assault configuration assembled at the front were the sharpest arrowheads of this sharp arrow.

"Continue the assault, and continue to expand the results while the other side has not reacted yet!

Send a message to other coalition forces, telling them that we have launched a counterattack, those who are capable will follow us, and those who are not capable will roll aside and don't block the way!"

"Yes! Sir!"