too late, organism

As a result, the air formations of the two sides collided immediately, and every second, there were multiple fighter planes that exploded into a ball of sparks, or dragged a cloud of black smoke and fell on the land of Reach Star.

On the ground, despite the fire support of three immobile scarabs and more wraith chariots, the advance of the swarming Covenant ground troops was extremely difficult.

The Hell paratroopers, who have rich experience in fighting the Covenant, relied on the dense wreckage in the battlefield to establish many small positions and fire support points near the crashed gunboat.

Supported by UNSC marine fireteams constantly rushing to the battlefield, the ODSTs engaged in a bloody tango with the Covenant attacking force on their way to the wreck of the Covenant gunboat.

When the Covenant approached the position, they left booby traps and other explosives in the position, and then retreated tactically. After the Covenant offensive troops entered the previous bunker, the explosion shock wave mixed with flesh and mud was Hell paratroopers. The horn of their counterattack.

Counterattack, retreat, attack, retreat...

The paratroopers around Karl disappeared into the land of Reach without a sound, and most of them disappeared without even leaving a trace.

However, this battle is not the usual desperate battle. These veterans know that they have received new reinforcements, and these reinforcements from the other side of the universe will join them to seek the Star Alliance for nearly 30 years. every blood debt.

So when Carl, who was covering the retreat of other Hell paratroopers from the bunker, was overtaken by a ghostly beast, Carl lost the MA-5 assault rifle that had already emptied its magazine, took out the pistol and emptied a magazine. After failing to break through the shield of the ghost-faced beast.

Karl threw away the pistol with a smile. When his right hand drew out the dagger, his left hand touched the grenade on his lower back. Karl knew that he would not be the opponent of the alien monster holding the sledgehammer. If he tried to fight it In hand-to-hand combat, what was waiting for him must have been smashed into a meat paste by that gorilla-like monster with a hammer.

He'd seen too many hot-blooded good boys over the past few years take on these alien gorillas and die pointlessly.

Carl had already figured out what he was going to do next.

The armor on the left arm of the alien gorilla that was roaring at him was bleeding, so it must not be as flexible as before when it swung the big hammer. All I had to do was to avoid the alien The first attack of the gorilla, after approaching the gorilla, pulls the grenade insert ring, and then hugs the gorilla tightly before the grenade explodes.

After taking a deep breath, Karl held the dagger in his backhand, ready to launch the last attack in his life.

It's a pity...before the counterattack begins...

Just as this idea flashed through Carl's mind, there was a sharp whistling sound in the air.

Karl has heard this sound too much during this period of time. It is the sound of tearing the air in the air after the aircraft of both sides are shot down in the fierce battle, before falling from the sky to the earth.

Then in the next second, a grenade that seemed to be magnified several times, something bigger than the Pelican transport plane, dragged a long trail and hit the head of the ghost-faced beast in front of him.

At the same time as the Brute was smashed into meatloaf with a sound of "Boom!", the extra-large "grenade" popped out of a hatch, and a dozen or so people in thick red power armor ran out of the grenade. The shoulder armor of the power armor is also painted with a golden double-headed eagle and a white fist emblem holding a scimitar, holding a marine with a gun the size of a machine gun in his hand.

Looking at the human faces under the spherical transparent masks of the marines, Karl let go of his left hand that was already holding the grenade ring, looked up into the sky, and saw that countless airdrop pods in the sky were falling towards the surface of Reach like a meteor shower. .

Along with those airdrop pods, there were also those aircraft that were obviously different from the UNSC specifications. At this moment, Carl noticed that these aircrafts that almost covered the sky had almost driven all the Covenant fighters out of the battlefield.

And some of the battleships, after launching missiles to destroy the Banshee fighter planes that were trying to escape, transformed into giant robots in the air and landed on the ground, vigorously sweeping around with two powerful cannons Covenant troopers who still haven't figured out what's going on.

With the sound of "bang", a tank with two heavy guns, which is completely different from the Scorpion tank, was dropped on the ground by a transport plane passing through the air, and then amidst a burst of mechanical roar, the tank's body was lowered. At the same time as the four auxiliary hoes were released, the two barrels on the turret were also separated and turned into a heavy cannon that seemed to be able to stuff Karl himself into it.

Accompanied by a buzzing sound, a blue light flashed through the tank's detached gun barrel, and in the distance, a scarab that the hell paratroopers had worked hard for a long time had no chance to destroy appeared a large and amazing gap .

Then, after finding that its attack didn't seem to be effective, the tank quickly put away the auxiliary hoe, started on the spot at a speed as if it had been kicked from behind, and threw the counterattack of the three scarabs to the ground. behind.

It's just that while the tank of an unknown model, like a rabbit running wildly in the field, avoided the scarab counterfire, Lieutenant Karl felt that he seemed to have an illusion. He felt that he seemed to be in good condition from that tank. On the tank, I saw the words "agricultural machinery company" and "rental".

With the investment of these troops, this line of defense quickly stabilized.

Those three scarabs, which were originally used as fixed fire points by the Covenant, were also attacked by more than a dozen tanks whose barrels would become huge and scary after putting down the auxiliary hoes, and turned into burning one after another. wreckage.

And the ground troops of the Covenant also began to take transport planes in a hurry to prepare to evacuate from the battlefield.

According to the rules of the Star Alliance, the elite Sangheili warriors and Jiralhanis or Brutes at the top have the priority to evacuate from the battlefield.

But when the elites and ghost-faced beasts who were officers and supervisors began to retreat, the will to fight of those gnolls and grunts fell to the freezing point in an instant just like retail investors during the stock market crash, and they began to try to evacuate from the battlefield in a panic.

Although the jackals didn't dare to snatch the transport ships that the elites and ghost-faced beasts were going to take, they were merciless when they drove the Grunts out of the withdrawal point and crowded the transport ships they used to retreat.

And when the transport ships used for retreat either evacuated or crashed under the attack of UNSC and those deformable aircraft, the remaining elite warriors and ghost beasts in the battlefield would launch a desperate counterattack, trying to find some backs for themselves of.

Gnolls and Grunts began to show their harmlessness with the French etiquette of putting down their weapons and raising their hands high.

Some jackals would even say something like "Please, don't hurt me."

It made the soldiers in red power armor laugh out loud.

And Lieutenant Karl, who was gathering the remaining paratroopers to return to the base and wait for the next order, walked over with a stinky face after hearing the English spoken by the jackal, and took out his pistol, "ping! ping! ping!" Empty the magazine on the gnoll.

"Do you think it's funny? These offal that eat corpses never stay alive when they attack human colonies."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the soldiers in red power armor to speak, he turned around and summoned the remaining Hell paratroopers to prepare to leave here.

And just behind Carl, the screams of the wolf man began to sound, as well as the clear and crisp gunshots.

Chapter 278 265 Reach Star Battle (3)

With the arrival of human reinforcements from Koprue, the Covenant's control area on the ground of Reach Star began to shrink rapidly like salted snow.

Neither the Grunts nor the Gnolls, nor even the elites could deal with the soldiers wearing red power armor. These soldiers used their seemingly loose formations to shoot dense attacks with the terrifying large-caliber cannons in their hands. The front line of fire shot all the Covenant soldiers who dared to probe back or charge to death on the road.

Even if some elites or ghost-faced beasts endured the pressure and hid in the bunker, they wanted to wait until these soldiers wearing power armor approached to launch a holy melee, but when they were close enough to burst out in a burst, they approached the melee weapon Before being able to function.

Some soldiers wearing thicker power armor and not carrying guns in their hands will spray plasma flames from their arms that can melt the armor of the tank, and burn those Covenant soldiers waiting for an opportunity to ashes.

And the armored vehicles and air force of the Covenant are not the opponents of these reinforcements from Kopruu. Although the gap in technology is not big, but after it is embodied in the combat level, they will only bully the UNSC by virtue of their technological advantages and numbers. The Covenant Armored Troops, in the same class as the terrifying Erectus War Machines, and those that have been active on the battlefield since the beginning of the Union Wars.

When the war is over, you even have to play war documentaries in your bedroom, and you can sleep peacefully amidst the roar of guns and guns. The only thing you have learned in your life is the opponent of the veterans of the war.

Even the most powerful ground vehicles of the Covenant, the Scarabs, which could easily crush the UNSC defenses simply by pushing forward, encountered enemies far superior to them.

Proudly launched by the Academy of Engineering of the Holy Roman Empire, production was discontinued after less than 100 units were built. It is equipped with super-heavy ground unit general-purpose assembly vehicles [Extensive Vehicle Assembly] commonly known as EVA.

These 18-meter-high mechanical behemoths can use their 360mm electromagnetic guns to accurately destroy scarabs that have not yet entered the range on the horizon.

He was even able to rely on the battleship-level shield he was equipped with to shoot at the Covenant gunboat that came to the rescue, and then use his rocket backpack that could only be used three times to jump high. ?His expression fell on the poor gunboat.

Then, on the gunboat, which seemed to be a bull that was suddenly jumped on its back, and was constantly swaying because it lost its balance, all the defense devices for the main gun and auxiliary battery points on its body were aimed at the gunboat under its feet, as if it was a execution. Full blast, then fire up the rocket pack again and jump off the gunboat before that poor gunboat explodes.

The gunboat landed smoothly amidst the flames of the gunboat exploding in mid-air, and then the superheated coolant and the accumulated shell casings were sprayed out from the body.

Looks like a Rambo or a Terminator that just blew up a building.

However, although they swept away the troops sent by the Covenant to occupy those areas with the Forerunner signal, the warships of the Covenant have always controlled the densely populated areas on Reach. Firmly controls most of the urban areas on Reach.

Hundreds of millions of people are still hostages directly exposed to the guns of the Covenant, and the UNSC and Shinra forces are still unable to directly attack and sink or expel those Covenant warships.

In addition to the Kopru ground troops who made an emergency airdrop after reaching the orbit of the star, those transport ships loaded with industrial production lines also began to switch to ordinary super-light speed voyages to the earth after completing their cross-world voyage.

[I'm done, I've shipped all your things, not even a single screw. 】

After deterring the Covenant warships in the atmosphere in orbit, Lao Qian prepared to take his ten war boss-class battleships to where they should go, and now they were fighting against the cloud-covered New Constantinople Fortress Group.

[Wait a little longer!I've got a little thing that's almost finished, at least to keep these Covenant ships at bay for a while. 】

The cat has been on the science ship for the past three weeks, tossing his cat car that was only "a little bit" finished, and immediately expressed the hope that Lao Qian will stay in the orbit of Reach for a while.

Even if nothing is done, a giant ship of the size of the war boss can well deter the Covenant warships in the atmosphere of Reach, so that the Covenant fleet, which has just tasted the bitter fruit of the failure of the ground battle, will not jump the wall in a hurry. Destructive lasers destroy populated areas of the UNSC.

[No, goodbye! 】

But Lao Qian rejected the cat car without hesitation. The situation of the new Constantinople fortress group is now very bad, when the scale of the void demons gathering on the opposite side of the wormhole has reached a terrifying level.

Those void demons didn't just continue to gather troops across the wormhole, but began to send out small-scale fleets to carry out high-intensity tentative attacks on the Constantinople fortress group.

In order not to expose all the configurations of the fortress group, the Iron Alliance also sent a fleet to intercept the fleet of these void demons.

If this is the case, all the pressure will be concentrated on the combined fleet of the Iron Alliance. This small-scale high-intensity battle is only a warm-up before a large-scale battle requires the Iron Alliance fleet not to lose too much in this battle. Ships, and even fleets ordered by front-line commanders, can consume a lot of ammunition, but do not cause damage to the battleship.

In this case, once the battleship is severely damaged, even if the battleship can be repaired, there is not much difference between the battleship that was out of combat organization and being sunk before the battleship was repaired.

In order to reduce the pressure on the naval officers and soldiers and avoid the loss of combat effectiveness due to distraction caused by long-term combat, the Joint Fleet Command has formulated a long shift schedule to allow the naval officers and soldiers to get enough rest.

And even if the frontline commanders try to adopt conservative tactics to reduce the loss rate of warships, it is inevitable that warships will be damaged in battle, so as the battle progresses, it is inevitable that a large number of warships will return to the dock to repair.

So now every battleship is precious, and it can increase the list of valuable sortie fleets, and try to buy time for those warships that are being repaired in the dock to complete repairs and maintenance.

But old money is hard, and so are cat cars...

In the halo world, cat cars have completed a joint agreement with UNSC, which means that cat cars can quickly upgrade their industrial system for UNSC, and then burst out a wave of production capacity to build a Holy Roman Empire like Kopru. new colony.

The goal is great, the road is tortuous... The Covenant fleet entrenched on the Reach star really disgusts the cat car.

You said that you have a good space fleet, instead of honestly fighting fleet battles in space, what kind of armed gunboats will you run into the atmosphere?Have a little pursuit?

Isn't it just a steel master who is a few sizes smaller than the battle moon?Oak dared to come forward, why are you bunch of space savages so cowardly?Are you so timid and dare to open a battleship? !You should be ashamed!Shame on you!

Even if you think you can't beat it, you can go...you don't have to go to the atmosphere to be a nail...

Looking at the little thing in front of him that was almost finished, Maoche really hoped that the old money could be left to deter the Covenant warships in the atmosphere a little bit. If these bastards couldn't think about it, it would be a tragedy that killed and injured hundreds of millions of people in an instant.

Even the cat car, which has no blood or tears physically, still feels frightened mentally.

But soon, there is no need to worry about cat cars and old money.

When Lao Qian was just about to sail to the jump point and call the wormhole station to generate a wormhole for himself to return to the world of stars, a large number of jump signals appeared in the constellation Eridanus.

[Damn!Maoche, you are a bitch and hurt the old man!Get me the commander here, I want the command authority of the battle, let the Iron Master and your invisible frigate join the battle sequence!This time, the boss wants to go back with a boat undamaged! 】

After confirming that it was the Star Alliance fleet that was about to arrive, Lao Qian also immediately made a decision to fight a wave before leaving. The more than 600 transition signals did not seem like cat cars that could be resolved by themselves.

[UNSC warships are not equipped with energy shields, a batch of brittle but the output is still so-so, you take it easy. 】

After Lao Qian said that he would stay and fight a war, Mao Che immediately began to obtain the highest command of the battlefield for Lao Qian, and reminded Lao Qian that the UNSC warships were not the energy shields of the Human Federation or the United Nations of the Earth. He was so thick that he could fight a serious battleship that could resist him, and then immediately started to toss his gadgets.

Just when Lao Qian started to take over the control of this battle, the Iron Lord, who watched the ground battle of Reach Star for a long time, also consciously popped out of the orbit of Reach Star. According to the experience of the Justice Fleet, these Covenant warships have just finished their transition state, and the force field provided by the transition engine for the ships has stopped functioning, but the surrounding space is still chaotic, releasing its huge spiritual energy.

In an instant, more than one-third of the huge fleet of 640 warships, composed of the Raging Redemption Fleet and the Rage Retribution Fleet, were torn into pieces by the suddenly changing space, and the remaining battleships were also destroyed. Almost all wounded.

The Iron Lord, who never missed an opportunity, carried out another full-bomb missile attack on the Covenant warships while those Covenant warships were still shocked by the sudden blow.

Even though the Covenant warships have a good close-in defense system, this strike also caused a blow to the remaining Covenant warships that sank more than [-] warships.

Then, those war boss-class battleships that had already completed their bombardment array began to attack those Star Alliance battleships one by one outside the range of the Star Alliance warships.

According to the Holy Roman Empire's war BOSS-class battleship gunnery code, these bombardment-type war BOSS-class battleships equipped with the main gun pods of giga-class cannons and tachyon light spears will fire on the same target first with giga-class cannons. , and then the tachyon light spear fires, and then the order in which the giga-level cannon fires fires alternately.

In the previous battles, this firing mode proved to be very good at causing brutal blows to local warships. The firepower of the giga-level cannon would first put great pressure on the shield of the unlucky battleship. If the shield If the shield did not collapse on the spot.

Then those powerful tachyon beams will deal a cruel blow to the armor and structure of that poor battleship. This kind of high-energy particle beam will not only melt the armor and hull structure of that battleship, but even after being layer upon layer After the hull tissue is weakened and unable to melt the hull tissue, this high-energy particle beam will also be like a shotgun hitting a thin wooden board, destroying the DNA chains of those unfortunate crew members, and giving those unlucky ones a painful and slow death .

The effect of this attack mode after being applied to the Star Alliance warships has also been proved to be as effective as when attacking the Star Sea Empire warships.

Several warships, which were close in size to the war boss class, disintegrated in the explosion and turned into burning fragments in the universe after bearing the blow of a round of war boss class battleships.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that some functions of those warships were damaged after being attacked by the steel lord at the end of the transition.

While the main gun pods of the war BOSS-class battleships were roaring continuously, Iron Master was also rapidly reloading the missile launch pods, preparing to return to the Star Alliance fleet that was trying to shorten the distance from the Shinra fleet. Last few salvos.

When the main fleet launched its attack, the UNSC warships without shields, like the PDF-class stealth frigates, were preparing to attack the Covenant's forces along the long distance around the positive and negative Z axes in accordance with the tradition of the Holy Roman Empire's fleet warfare. The fleet launches top and bottom attacks.

Just as the battle broke out in space, the special justice fleet led by Till Vadami also began to recall the land forces they deployed to the surface to prepare to set sail.

In fact, in addition to the large battleships that are receiving the marine troops, the light battleships have already begun to sail into space, preparing to attack the Shinra fleet from behind against the Furious Redemption Fleet and Furious Retribution Fleet.

Upon discovering that the Special Justice Fleet was about to leave the atmosphere and enter space, the UNSC and Shinra ground forces immediately launched an offensive without hesitation, trying to entangle the evacuating Covenant ground forces, or at least from the Covenant-controlled ground forces. Evacuate civilians as much as possible from densely populated areas.

After all, the Covenant, which is a fanatical religious country, has more than one record of conducting orbital attacks on its own people who are fighting bravely, burning Covenant fighters and UNSC soldiers into glass together.

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PY: "I Became a Scourge in the Magic World?" by The Imperfect Ending Theorem ! "

In short, it is a soft sci-fi story of a hulk drifting peacefully (?) mining, with elements of stars.

Chapter 279 266 The Battle of the Reach Star (4)

"Raise into the air at full speed, tell those ground troops who can't catch up with the landing ship, stay where they are, and we will come back."

When the Furious Redemption Fleet and the Furious Retribution Fleet appeared in the Eridanus galaxy, Till Vadami knew that the opportunity he had been waiting for had finally come.

Although the humans here have seized the precious forerunner creations and used those precious forerunner relics to strengthen their own technology, they have beaten the Star Alliance to shame in the ground battle.

If there were no fleets sitting in the sky, these armed forces that could easily wipe out a human colony would probably be annihilated by the human armed forces on this planet.

However, this kind of breakthrough technological progress has not taken place for a long time, so that although these heretics have created those unrivaled black demons, as well as colossi that surpass the scarab, and can destroy the CAS at a super long distance Huge warships of class aircraft carriers.

But they haven't had time to apply these technologies on battleships, and battleships are not as easy to mass-produce as these light weapons.

The vast majority of the human fleet is still their backward and scarce warships. The only one that can compete with the Covenant fleet is the Forerunner battle planet, and ten other aircraft carriers that are smaller than COS-class aircraft carriers and larger than CAS-class aircraft carriers. battleship.

As long as these humans are defeated here, before they apply these technologies to their mass-produced warships, before they gain the power of revenge, before it's too late... I still have a chance.

Till Vadami has already thought about his next tactics. When his special justice fleet escapes the atmosphere of Reach Star and enters space, he will lead his fleet to the location where the ten new human warships are located. Perform precise transitions, as long as the distance is shortened.