Chapter 65 Desperate Situation and Breakthrough (4000 Words Combined Chapter)

The battle in the forest suddenly became fierce.

On one side was the Imperial HCP, who only needed to hold back the enemy and wait for the friendly forces to close the net.

On the other side were the remnants of the Federation who suffered heavy losses from the sneak attack and were now looking for an opportunity to break out.

When Rudolph, driving the ‘Zealot’, started to fight seriously again, he found that the Federation soldiers who had been beaten and fled suddenly became organized and began to make some effective counterattacks.

The HCP's warning device began to frequently detect a large number of attacks from the rear of the machine.

This forced Rudolph to give up his plan to stand there with his sword and pretend to be cool, but to keep moving and adjust the direction of his machine.

Although the armor plate of the ‘Zealot’ is strong and equipped with a deflection field generator, it is almost invincible against the attacks of infantry and light armored units.

Even facing the charged particle cannons or electromagnetic reconnection cannons equipped by some heavy units, it has the power to parry and fight back.

But there is no invincible equipment in this world, and even the strong HCP has their weaknesses.

That is the plasma propulsion array on the back that emits a faint blue light.

This part cannot be equipped with armor plates, and the deflection force field cannot cover this position when it is activated - after all, this force field cannot be used for one-way defense.

Even when the warship is firing, the deflection force field will be temporarily closed to ensure that its own attack will not be blocked by the force field.

Although it is said that on the latest battleship, after the installation of a new deflection force field generator, a separate fire channel can be opened near the main gun or missile silo by changing the magnetic field constraint.

In this way, there is no need to completely close the deflection force field when attacking, which greatly improves the survivability of the warship.

But it is obvious that such technology will not appear on HCP for the time being.

So no matter what model of HCP, the propulsion unit behind is their biggest life.

"It seems that the commander of this team has a lot of experience in fighting HCP."

"But how can the defenders on this border planet have such experience?"

Although Rudolph was a little confused, the movements of his hands and feet did not stop.

Under his control, the bulky "Fanatic" maneuvered flexibly in the mountains and forests, avoiding all anti-vehicle missiles that attacked from the rear blind spot.

Although the detection unit of the "Fanatic" and the fire control system were affected to a certain extent by the electronic attack of the ultra-short wave reconnaissance jammer.

But the close-range laser gun turret and the Gauss rifle in the hands of the HCP were still firing rhythmically, harvesting lives.

Then, the "Fanatic" raised his left arm and turned on the multi-functional electromagnetic throwing device mounted under his left arm.

Then, like scattering sugar beans, he "scattered" a large number of plasma bombs distributed in a fan shape.

A moment later, a group of dazzling fireballs rose in the forest.

In this season, the trees on Robert IV are in the season of secreting a large amount of natural resin, so it didn't take long for the explosion of the plasma bomb to form a wildfire that began to spread.

For HCP, even if they are in the fire, they will not suffer too much damage. At worst, they can escape from the fire with a leap through their powerful mobility.

But for mobile infantry and armored vehicles, they must be careful. Although there is an adaptive thermostat, it can't stand being roasted in the fire.

In the cockpit of the 'Fanatic', Rudolph, whose face was reddened by the surrounding fire, showed a cruel smile at the corner of his mouth.

"If I come to set fire to the mountain, how will you deal with it?"

"What a madman"

Seeing the fire gradually rising in the surrounding woods, and then looking at the fire area that is expanding on the tactical map.

Amber couldn't help but curse.

The pilot of this 'Fanatic' seemed to have lost his patience, so he took this extreme action.

But Amber had to admit that this approach was indeed effective.

The increasingly large fire began to gradually compress the mobile infantry's activity space, and the 'Fanatic' only needed to turn its back to the direction of the fire to avoid most of the attacks on its back.

Just when Amber was in a dilemma, the long-awaited voice finally sounded in the headset.

"Sir, fire group B is in place at the preset position, and the portable electromagnetic gun has been set up!"

The direct fire support he had been waiting for for a long time was finally ready.

"Received, we only have one chance to attack, the motor outputs overload voltage, wait for my instructions and be ready to attack at any time."

Amber climbed up from the ground in his hiding place, looking at the 'fanatic' in the distance, his body began to tense and entered a state of readiness.

"Lilith, all exoskeleton permissions are open, access the system to assist me in the battle."

"Understood, Master!"

"Master?"

Amber didn't care about Lilith's strange name, and his mind was full of how to defeat the Imperial HCP in front of him.

"Combat stimulant, psychic amplification potion, maximum dose injection!"

Feeling two streams of cold liquid injected into his body through the muscles of his arms.

Amber immediately realized that his physical and mental fatigue was swept away, and the whole person instantly woke up and entered a state of excitement.

A mysterious area deep in the brain also began to become active, and the "psychic energy" that had been running low was rising again as if the floodgates were opened.

At the same time, various parts of the exoskeleton were also making slight mechanical transmission sounds. That was the sound of Lilith performing a quick self-check and modifying the restriction parameters after being connected.

With a voice of "Restriction lifted!" coming from the headset, Amber rushed out almost like a shadow and reactivated the optical stealth.

From the beginning of the "transporter soul penetration" to now, Amber has begun to fully exert the strength of a level 3 psychic for the first time.

In previous battles, he was more often in control of the overall situation as a commander.

Even when he raided the core communication room and attacked two heavy power armors, he had spare energy.

But this time, facing an enemy with too high a threat, he had to go all out and act as the "main C".

"Everyone, find cover and start fire cover."

The next moment the order was issued, the forest became boiling.

All the soldiers who could attack fired at the 'zealots' rampaging in the forest as if they were risking their lives.

The dense rain of bullets mixed with the 40mm armor-piercing grenade attack made the red light of 'threat warning' flash continuously in the full-circle cockpit where Rudolph was.

Just as he was thinking whether these federal remnants could not help but come out to die, a bold warning message flashed on the screen.

[Attention, level 3 psychic fluctuations detected. ]

"Level 3 psychic?!"

Rudolph immediately thought of the top target in the combat mission, a federal psychic agent whose real identity was an imperial traitor.

"Haha, I won the first prize!"

Rudolph turned his head slightly to look in the direction of the psychic fluctuation warning, and the main monitor on the head of the 'zealot' also turned synchronously.

The composite optical lens under the 'knight's helmet' scaled the magnification while switching between optical, infrared and other modes with the 'sizzling' sound of the stepper motor.

Finally, in the infrared mode, a rapidly approaching humanoid unit was identified.

"This rat is finally willing to come out."

Rudolf turned on the 'Pupil Following' aiming, and the Gauss rifle in HCP's hand and the laser gun towers on both sides of the head main monitor immediately followed.

But the next moment, two individual anti-vehicle missiles attacked from the side, forcing him to turn his head and use close-in weapons to detonate the incoming missiles first.

During this delay, Amber rushed directly in front of HCP.

When Rudolf wanted to lock Amber again, he found that this guy moved so fast that he couldn't even keep up with his eyes.

"Spikulus, the fire control unit switches to automatic locking mode!"

That is, at the moment when Rudolf gave instructions to the combat assistance AI, under the guidance of Amber, the back weakness of the 'Fanatical' was finally exposed in the preset direction.

"Team B! Now, fire!"

Amber's voice lost its calmness for the first time, but the two mobile infantrymen in the preset position were more nervous than him.

Almost at the same time as Amber's order was heard, before he had finished speaking, the firer "impatiently" pressed the button to fire the portable electromagnetic gun.

As the motor of the portable electromagnetic gun began to increase the voltage at super-power, the alarm in the cockpit of the "Fanatic" suddenly sounded!

[Warning! Strong magnetic field reaction detected! ]

Rudolph finally realized that this was a trap for him, and he twisted his body desperately to avoid the rays from his back weakness.

"Gan, it's too late!"

Since the attack distance was only a hundred meters, the tungsten alloy rod it fired had already hit the target at the moment the electromagnetic gun fired.

At this moment, the exterior of the "Fanatic" was like countless electric snakes wandering around, and the entire body was wrapped in a layer of strong electric field, and even the weeds on the surrounding ground were scorched by the electromagnetic vortex.

But compared with the charged particle attacks such as the lifting particle cannon and the charged particle cannon, the kinetic energy attack of the electromagnetic cannon requires the deflection force field generator to output more power to deflect it.

Amber near the "Fanatic" felt as if time had slowed down.

He watched the high-speed tungsten alloy rod break one arc after another, but it was still twisted by the magnetic field, and finally scratched a bullet mark on the shoulder armor of the "Fanatical Man" that almost wore it through.

It was bounced off.

The "survivor" HCP, almost at the same time as the tungsten alloy rod was bounced off, followed the attack path of the electromagnetic gun, swept it with a Gauss rifle, and added a short-range missile.

In Amber's command interface, the avatars representing the two mobile infantrymen of Firepower Group B also turned gray with no vital signs.

"Fuck, I'm so unwilling"

The result of the attack almost made Amber die in one breath.

The speed of time passing also returned to normal, and HCP, who was like a steel demon to ordinary people, had turned around again.

The optical lens component under the "knight's helmet" was staring at him, and the red light emitted from it looked so hideous at this time.

"Game over, little mouse."

A rough male voice came from the HCP's external loudspeaker.

Amber threw out two anti-infrared smoke bombs without thinking, and at the same time, she lowered her body and rolled into the rapidly released smoke.

The pilot of the ‘Fanatic’ seemed to have lost his temper at this time, and the HCP weapon was switched back to a physical heavy sword at some point.

Under Rudolph’s control, the mechanical arm held the heavy sword and slashed towards the smoke where Amber disappeared, and at the last moment, it changed the slash to a slap.

The sudden increase in the attack range made Amber subconsciously slide and bend down, almost avoiding the edge of the heavy sword.

At this time, Amber also found that although the HCP pilot in front of her was a pervert, he had excellent driving skills and was definitely not a fool.

"A bit arrogant"

Amber kept moving around the ‘Fanatic’ and dodged the physical heavy sword's attacks again and again.

Although the opponent's intention to kill him gave him opportunities, they were not many.

The existence of the deflection field made his weapons become scrap metal.

Even the aerogel grenade that was originally intended to blur the opponent's sensors was useless for a while.

Just when Amber was about to release a psychic shock to the ‘Fanatic’ and take a gamble.

A series of attacks hit the outer armor plate of the "Fanatical" with a clang.

This was the shooting from the 40mm chain gun.

With the roar of the engine, a "Mongoose 4" armored vehicle broke through the smoke and crashed into the steel giant with the accelerator pressed to the bottom.

The "Fanatical", who had just completed a vertical chop, had no time to put away his sword and was directly hit on the right foot by the front of the armored vehicle.

The deflection force field was activated again at this time, and the violent electromagnetic vortex burned the front half of the armored vehicle beyond recognition.

When the giant waved his left arm and punched the armored vehicle away.

Amber saw two figures appear in the woods in the distance.

He recognized one of them as Randall, and the other was the wounded who escaped to the surface of the planet with him.

It seems to be called Tom.

Two federal navy soldiers who had never experienced land warfare were operating a single-soldier anti-vehicle missile launcher at this moment, locking the target in a fire behind them.

"Amber!!!"

Amid the roar of Major Randall, a single-soldier anti-vehicle missile flew out of the forest with a trail and finally hit the plasma propulsion array of the 'Fanatical'.

The armor-piercing warhead even hit the energy circuit behind it after penetrating the propulsion array.

[Warning! The plasma propulsion array is under attack! ]

[Damage assessment in progress. Array bad points 40%-65%]

[Energy circuit damaged, subcritical reactor output power decreased! ]

A series of warning messages made Rudolph fall into extreme anger. He didn't expect that this group of hiding rats would actually make him capsize in the gutter.

With some difficulty, he aimed his right arm holding the sword in the direction of the attack and threw another set of plasma bombs.

Amber, who had no time to stop all this, watched the plasma bomb arcing and falling near Randall and his men, and then a ball of fire rose up and swallowed their figures.

A complex emotion suddenly surged up, and then rushed uncontrollably into the mysterious area deep in Amber's brain, breaking through some kind of shackles.

When Rudolph pulled his eyes back and looked at the psychic agent who had just survived under his sword.

A deep red message appeared on the main screen of the Quan Zhoutian cockpit.

[Warning! Level 5 psychic fluctuations detected! ]

Today, I combined the two chapters together to make it look more coherent~