Chapter 222 HCP's New Fighting Style (6000 Words, Don't Say I'm Short)

Chapter 222 HCP's new fighting style (6000 words, don't say I'm short~)

"Attention, attack squadron, deploy the formation 'Groove Along' and start the offensive barrel roll maneuver!"

"If you don't want to be hit by lasers and charged particle beams, don't fly straight stupidly!"

"Believe me, after this period of training, your technical and tactical level has far surpassed these pilots on the opposite side!"

Amber's calm voice sounded in the communication channels of the two HCP squadrons.

With Lilith in charge, the Atlas troops don't have to worry about electronic warfare issues when facing these civilian armed forces.

Therefore, the communication between combat units does not need to use the less efficient quantum encryption communication.

When Amber's order was issued, all pilots also obeyed his instructions and began to control the body with a virtual relative coordinate as the center of the circle, drawing a huge 'concentric circle'.

The pilots who fought against the G-force through abdominal breathing and hydraulic anti-gravity suits looked at the boss and instructor who had gradually distanced himself from them, performed various irregular inhuman sharp-angle maneuvers, and started the "kick-the-door operation" one step ahead.

They all sighed that this guy was really a pervert.

There was also the HCP melee in the asteroid belt.

On the HCP side, there were ten squadrons of mixed dragon knights and fanatics, a total of 100 HCPs.

Instead, under the leadership of Amber, they drove the machine bodies in the asteroid belt for real.

Because this was already the battlefield that Amber had set up in advance.

At this time, not only the United Fleet and the Timler Family Fleet had fallen into a brutal hand-to-hand fight.

The stranglehold lasted less than half an hour, and 5 of the 15 warships of the Timler Family Fleet had been completely sunk, and 3 warships had lost their combat effectiveness.

As long as you don't die from training, you will train to death.

There were also a lot of training subjects that didn't look very safe.

At this point, none of these pilots raised any opinions, after all, in the HCP battle, "being bad is the original sin".

Among them, there are many HCPs who have lost their combat effectiveness, but the pilots are lucky enough to survive.

Several pilots who were "cut" were still in a daze for a period of time after the battle.

But in the test simulation battle for the squadron reorganization, they were all defeated by Murat and Louis who were "trained" by Amber.

These training subjects were not even conducted in the simulation cabin.

So the two reorganized squadrons let Murat and Louis serve as squadron leaders respectively.

For example, under full thrust, high-speed maneuvers were carried out in the asteroid belt, and in the process, the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower was avoided.

The mentality of these mercenaries finally changed.

And they used various tricks to annihilate all 16 HCPs on the defensive side.

Amber's simple and crude method did work.

And ‘Red Devil’ has become the nickname these pilots use to call Amber in private.

And the manpower of both sides is rapidly consumed in the battle.

After all, they are not soldiers, but mercenaries fighting for money. It’s okay to risk their lives in battle, but now they are also required to risk their lives in training?

The timing of the Atlas fleet’s attack was very clever.

So when a tough guy whose driving skills have surpassed their cognition appeared in front of them, and this tough guy also planned to train them personally.

Accidentally brushing against an asteroid during maneuvers, causing the body to lose attitude control, can only be regarded as a minor accident.

However, with the full support of the maintenance team and the medical team, these pilots have also grown quickly under Amber’s training.

However, when they saw the training content tailored to them by Amber, they couldn’t hold it anymore.

Faced with this situation, Amber’s approach was also simple and rough.

The result of this battle was that Amber, who drove the modified special aircraft to conduct combat tests, easily blew up the target ship.

In terms of technical and tactical levels, the strength of these pilots can be said to be uneven.

Currently, only 38 pilots can detect their vital signs.

Immediately, many newly recruited pilots backed out.

Another example is to break through the enemy HCP interception and attack the target warship at a relative speed of 50-80 kilometers per second.

Especially those HCPs who guarded the rear hemisphere of their respective warships and protected the main propulsion array at the rear of the warship by forming a formation, basically only one in ten survived.

Because in addition to the regular HCP pilot training content, Amber has added extra content.

He directly conducted a shocking simulation battle.

The only warships that can fight are two light cruisers, four scarred destroyers and a frigate with full luck.

After recruiting the "captives" of Mary Bay Industries and Yaoguang Defense last time, Atlas also gained 15 HCP pilots.

In line with the principle of "shed more blood in peacetime, save life in wartime", when Amber led the HCP pilots of Atlas to train, both the intensity and the degree of danger were at their highest level in this world.

In this era, those who are willing to fly HCP in space, no matter how skilled and courageous they are, still have a "big robot complex" in their hearts.

When the combat operation was officially carried out today, they finally understood why Amber had to lead them to train in the dangerous asteroid belt during this period.

Many pilots only felt a red HCP flashing past with a long wake, and then their own aircraft was judged to be shot down.

Two squadrons with a total of 16 HCPs, as the defenders, covered an inflatable target ship. (The brother who drove the reconnaissance HCP, was independent of the two squadrons)

And the attacker was only Amber.

After flexible connection, three or five HCPs can use their respective deflection field generators together to form a stronger deflection field.

Although this can allow them to withstand the attack of frigates, or even a main gun shot from a destroyer, in a fierce fleet battle, this is just a drop in the bucket.

But anyway, these eye-catching HCPs completed their mission at the cost of almost being completely destroyed.

Except for a few warships that were hit by the main propulsion array, most of the warships entered the strangulation stage.

On the other side of the battle, the joint fleet of Mary Bay Industry and Yaoguang Defense actually suffered greater combat losses.

As mentioned earlier, the Federation warships often rely on their numerical advantage to gain the upper hand in fleet battles.

But if the scale of the battle is reduced to more than 30 ships, then this numerical advantage cannot turn them into a winning position.

On the contrary, the Empire warships, which are "slow and steady", can show greater advantages in such small-scale battles with their stronger comprehensive performance.

This also led to the fact that even if the United Fleet was divided into two and adopted a pincer attack tactic, some warships could freely attack the enemy fleet in the rear hemisphere.

But the battle loss ratio is still not very good.

Up to now, the only ships that can still fight in the United Fleet are the flagship Financial Freedom light cruiser, 4 destroyers and 2 frigates.

If we use the simple perspective of fighting power in the game of fighting beasts, the Timler family fleet with two light cruisers may still have the upper hand at this time.

However, there are more HCPs left on the United Fleet side, and these locust-like "cuties" can already pose a threat to the warships at close range.

At the same time, several heavy assault cabins broke through the enemy's interception and hit the target ships, especially the two light cruisers that were given special attention.

The marines who completed the boarding were spreading from the cabin they broke into to other areas like cancer.

Although the marines on these ships have begun to block, the news that the warships were boarded by the enemy will still have a certain impact on the morale of the crew.

So when the Atlas fleet that launched the attack from the zenith was discovered, the first reaction of the fleet commanders on both sides of the battlefield was: "What? The other side has a backhand?!"

But no matter which side it is, it is impossible to adjust the axis to face the newly appeared enemy.

So they can only watch this fleet rushing from the zenith direction, getting closer and closer to them.

The Atlas pilot who was alone in the "VIP viewing seat" of this battlefield, driving the "reconnaissance type" fanatic, has discovered the Amber plane approaching at high speed.

At this time, the relative speed between the two sides was close to 90 kilometers per second. Even the upgraded optical sensor could not completely and stably capture this eye-catching red machine.

However, just a slightly blurred freeze-frame image captured by the sensor has already shown the characteristics of this special machine in the eyes of the pilot.

Heavy armor, heavy firepower, high thrust.

If the Zealot as the main body is the kind of noble and classical walking knight style machine in the impression of most HCP pilots.

Then now this "Zealot Modified" has completely lost the so-called noble and classical style characteristics.

The thickened laminated armor at each key position of the machine does not have much beauty due to the temporary modification, and it has lost the original distinctive arc style of the Zealot.

The completely modified head main monitor, due to the integration of more sensor components, is not only larger in size, but also no longer the previous "knight helmet" shape.

But the most conspicuous thing is the "leg" modification of this machine.

The maintenance team leader boldly abandoned the original walking components and replaced the two mechanical feet in the lower body with two sets of additional propulsion units.

Since the electromagnetic joints in the ‘hip’ still exist, these two additional propulsion units are not completely fixed like the propulsion array on the back.

Instead, they can be adjusted in a certain angle in the front, back and side directions.

This modification directly greatly improves the maneuverability of this heavy HCP.

Since there is no need to consider aerodynamics and gravity in space, a large number of vector nozzles + high-power propulsion arrays have become the optimal solution to improve maneuverability.

At present, this modified machine does not need to adjust the direction of the body when it needs to slow down, but can directly use these two sets of additional propulsion units for ‘reverse thrust’.

The only thing that will limit its maneuverability may be how far the pilot in the cockpit can hold on.

Finally, the armament of this body.

Because the photos taken were a bit blurry, the pilot of the reconnaissance fanatic could not see all the weapons carried by the body.

However, there was one weapon that he caught at a glance.

That is the large heavy particle cannon that is deployed on the weapon rack behind the shoulder. Its overall length has completely exceeded the body of the machine, and it looks like a lance.

This huge cannon makes this modified machine look like a grassland heavy cavalry charging.

Heavy cavalry accompanying the fleet charge.

This is also one of the responsibilities of the increasingly heavy-duty HCP and the upcoming new units in space in the future.

Seeing the HCP streaking across the battlefield like a comet, and the other aircraft that had formed a battle formation behind it and were rowing in huge concentric circles, the long-buried fighting passion in the pilot's heart was completely ignited.

The moment Amber's huge red landline flew past him, the pilot finally couldn't help but scream.

"Come on! Red Devil!!!"

"The auxiliary propulsion unit is operating normally, the energy output of the subcritical reactor is normal, and the temperature of the dual superconducting battery stack is within a controllable range."

In the cockpit of Amber's special aircraft, temporarily codenamed 'Experimental MK1', Lilith, who transformed into a combat auxiliary AI, was simultaneously reporting various parameters of the aircraft.

Although these key data are also displayed on the multi-function display on the lower right side of Amber's sight.

But in the midst of a high-speed advance, he focused more on the battlefield in front of him.

Especially when the various parameters of this special machine have not yet been adjusted to the optimal state, Lilith is needed to assist in monitoring the body's condition.

These data were also synchronized to the gnaku screen of the rear battleship through the neutrino transmitter installed on the aircraft body.

At this time, the atmosphere inside the Gnaku, which had sent away all the airframes, was the same as that of the P rooms of various teams during F1 competitions.

The maintenance team leader responsible for the modification of this machine, together with Eugene, Oens and others, were staring at the data on the screen nervously, and praying that this machine that they had 'hand-made' would not fail at this juncture. what is the problem.

"Boss, isn't this a little too aggressive? Each of these data is dancing on the edge of the safety threshold."

Eugene's face looked a little nervous, especially when a certain data went straight to the red line, and his fists clenched nervously.

"You forgot what the boss said before he attacked. This battle is to test the limits of this machine."

Oens opened his mouth to answer, and at the same time glanced at the maintenance team leader who had been silent.

The maintenance team leader, whose spacesuit in the cabin was stained with oil and had a lot of tools strapped to his waist, was probably the most nervous person in Gnakuli right now.

After all, Amber's special machine is his work.

At first, Oens was not very enthusiastic about the preparation team leader.

In his opinion, this person is just a ground crew leader.

It was only during later exchanges that he discovered that this maintenance team leader, who had served in the federation, had really studied HCP very deeply.

After the other party proposed such a radical transformation idea that "the HCP's walking device is of little use in space battles and can be replaced with an additional propulsion array more suitable for use in space."

Oens began to look at him differently.

"to be honest"

The maintenance team leader, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke.

"I always thought that Boss might not be able to drive this modified machine to its limit."

"What about now?" Oens, who was holding his arms, asked with interest.

"I think I underestimated the Boss. What we see now is obviously the limit of the body, not the limit of the Boss."

The preparation team leader's answer made Gnakuli suddenly quiet down.

Because of his words, Amber's image in these people's minds gradually surged in the direction of 'dehumanization'.

It was at this moment that the lights in Gnaku suddenly dimmed, changing from bright white light to dark red light that instantly made the atmosphere tense.

"It seems that we are about to enter the attack range." The preparation team leader whispered.

Then, he turned around and kicked hard on the ground, and his whole body floated in the other direction of Gnaku.

At the same time, his rough voice echoed throughout Gnakuli.

"Stop looking! Get back to the fighting position! Be prepared to accept the damaged aircraft and prepare for wartime repairs!

Then notify the medical team to prepare for rescue. The lives of these pilots are very precious now! "

When Atlas's fleet had just entered the attack range and was preparing to use its main guns to target the enemy ships 'below' one by one.

Amber has already begun her attack.

With a calm expression, he stared at the densely packed pile of enemy units locked by red frames on the screen all over the sky.

These enemy targets identified by reconnaissance enthusiasts during long-term surveillance of the battlefield have been transmitted through the data link.

The large number of red frames and the red light emitted by the adaptive warning system dyed the glass of his helmet visor red.

Amber's eyes were fixed on a frigate of the Timler family.

The experimental MK1's fire control system also quickly locked onto the warship, which was maneuvering toward the flank of a Combined Fleet destroyer.

"Heavy airborne heavy particle cannon, ready to fire at full power!"

The moment Lilith's announcement rang in her ears, Amber opened fire without hesitation.

On the target frigate, the air defense commander who was already paying attention to the direction of the zenith saw only a tiny light spot in front of him, like the reflection of cosmic dust, which suddenly turned into a dazzling white light and rushed up.

"HCP's long-distance bombardment?!"

As soon as this idea came to the air defense commander's mind, he felt the entire battleship shake violently.

On the top of the battleship, which was not protected by a deflection force field, the heavy metal particle jet blasted from a nearly vertical angle easily tore through the outermost armor.

And the multi-layer composite armor structure inside the warship was unable to divert too many of these heavy metal particles.

This heavy-duty aircraft-mounted heavy particle cannon did not disappoint Amber, who was staring at the frigate's superconducting battery stack.

As a dazzling plasma fireball exploded out of thin air in the distance, the locking frame that originally symbolized the frigate also disappeared.

"Very good, this thing is at least not bad in terms of power."

Amber was quite satisfied with this heavy particle cannon, which had reached the level of the frigate's main gun in terms of firepower.

"Master, the superconducting battery stack is recharging, and it is expected that a second shot can be fired in 20 seconds."

"Received, just in time to use this gap to cool the acceleration track."

Amber continued to maintain his charging posture and switched the weapon control from the heavy particle cannon temporarily named 'Test-1' to the laser-guided melee bomb.

When the body's fire control system, under his guidance, locked the two HCPs that took the initiative to meet him and began to guide the attack through laser irradiation.

The disposable missile pod mounted on the outside of the aircraft also threw out six melee missiles.

The harsh beeping sound of the laser warning device also sounded in the cockpits of the two HCPs that were locked as targets.

Without thinking, the two pilots switched the fire control mode of the aircraft to "close defense mode" according to the standard operating regulations.

The two HCPs also raised the electromagnetic rifles in their hands, together with the close defense lasers on both sides of the main monitor on the head, to intercept the incoming melee missiles.

"The pilots of these private military companies are indeed much worse than the regular army."

Looking at the two aircrafts moving in a straight line at a constant speed, Amber sighed at this battle like "hunting turkeys" and handed the guidance of the melee missiles to the fire control system.

He switched the weapon control to the charged particle cannon and the electromagnetic machine gun for HCP.

After a few breaths, a blue beam and a series of orange-red fire lines tore through the dark universe.

At the end of the trajectory, a dazzling white light flashed.

This is the performance of the deflection field carried by the HCP starting to work.

But soon, one of the shining white lights was replaced by a huge plasma fireball.

The experimental MK1 with upgraded energy supply unit can support the charged particle cannon for more than three seconds of long-term irradiation.

And such an attack has obviously exceeded the defense threshold of the deflection field carried by the HCP.

The wailing of the companion when he was destroyed still echoed in the cockpit of another HCP. The driver had not had time to open the vector nozzle on the front of the body to pull away.

He saw a group of red bodies with long tail flames, which had already killed in front of him.

When the two sides crossed each other, the last thought of his life flashed through the driver's mind.

"Fuck, what a long knife"

"Lilith, I'll leave the electronic warfare to you!"

Amber controlled the body to pass through the dense fire line, and the white light of the deflection field operation flashed from time to time on the full-circle screen.

In addition to the constant lock-on alarm, the cockpit also constantly heard the crisp sound of "ding-ding-dang-dang", which was the sound of gravel or kinetic warhead fragments decomposed by the arc of the deflection force field being bounced off the armor plate.

However, the extremely high relative speed and angular velocity made the interception of enemy units several orders of magnitude more difficult.

The strange maneuvering trajectory made the combat unit responsible for interception feel like seeing a ghost.

"Understood, Master! But you need to keep maneuvering in the enemy formation and don't get too far away."

"Huhu. I know I will find a way to maintain this."

After entering the battle area between the two enemy fleets, the density of firepower attacking Amber also reached a new level, and the maneuvering frequency and amplitude required for the body to evade also increased rapidly.

Even a psychic like Amber, who has undergone physical transformation, feels like dough, being kneaded by G-forces from different directions in the face of physical laws that cannot be ignored.

At the same time, in the Bawa Ku’ asteroid base (under construction) near the battlefield, a space of several thousand square meters opened up by miners.

The large server array, which had filled nearly half of the space, lit up the blue light to end the sleep state and enter the running state, and made a series of "buzzing" sounds.

A proud female voice also sounded in the virtual space.

"Hey, it's time for Lilith to show her skills~"