“SH*T! What are those things?” Han Yue, with widened eyes, stared at the sky outside the window. He muttered to himself with a dull expression on his face while he was still holding a bento box in his hand.
He had lived in the land ruled by NAC for a long time and this was the first time he had seen a formidable opponent. For some reason, the black dots that broke through the barrage made him feel a sense of anxiety from the bottom of his heart.
Not far from him, Gerrard glanced out the window, and lips holding his cigar moved slightly.
“Earth Warrior, NS-90, we also call it the ‘Battlefield Cleaner’. Sh*t, they even took out this bad boy. It seems that Congress and Mr. President are serious.”
“NS-90?” Han Yue asked in a daze.
“A kind of intelligent combat robot controlled by AI. All identifiable living creatures are within its attack range. Just like the literal meaning, they will generally not leave anything alive when they appear.” Gerrard waved his hand impatiently, looked at the lunch box in his hand, and said indifferently, “So can you give me the bento box? If possible, I want to have a good meal before I die.”
With the dense air wall, the countless black iron coffins broke through the shells interception and slammed into the colony’s fortress.
In the beginning, everyone thought that they were USN missiles, or something similar.
However, the expected explosion did not occur. In the next second, their cognition was completely subverted by the action of this thing.
A series of white mist-like air columns sprayed out, and the iron coffins started to move as if they had come to life. The cracked armor surface started to move around. It formed into steel legs and arms and a black automatic rifle in its hands!
In the center of the rectangular shape, the eyepiece on its head flashed with a daunting red light.
The air battle had yet to be decided, and the bloody ground battle kicked off.
“Enemy units have landed! EVERYONE FOLLOW ME.”
At the moment when Zhang Wei saw the team of mechanical soldiers wake up, he pressed the communication button on his helmet and swung his steel-covered fist to the entrance of the air defense shelter. Without any hesitation, the one hundred and twenty kinetic skeleton soldiers behind him stood up from their seats, followed him, and ran out of the air defense bunker.
Ground combat began the moment the NS-90s landed, and the first wave to engage in combat were NAC-hired mercenaries. When Zhang Wei brought his comrades to the battlefield, the front court of the fortress was already in complete chaos.
“PROTECT OUR AIR DEFENSE! FOLLOW ME!”
Zhang Wei, equipped with a power armor and a Gauss rifle, shouted at the top of his lung. He took the lead and started the vortex engine behind him, then jumped to the top of the fortress. After two trots, he leaned heavily behind a concrete cover.
Except for those intercepted by the shells, a total of 470 robots landed throughout the fortress. From the beginning, these iron machines were directed at the NAC’s air defense system, so after they landed, they completely disregarded the soldiers that attempted to stop them. Instead, they rushed to the electromagnetic rapid-fire guns and laser defense weapons.
However, these Americans obviously underestimated the combat effectiveness of the NAC ground forces, or the earlier invasion of Outpost Town made them overestimate their combat effectiveness. Those mechanical soldiers controlled by AI quickly paid the price for their hasty behavior.
Normal rifle bullets could hardly hurt them. However, after several rounds of upgrades, at least half of the soldiers in the NAC Army were now equipped with advanced Gauss rifles, as well as the second-generation anti-armor rocket launcher produced by the 27th Research Institute – Poisonous Python!
The first few robots that rushed out were turned into scrap by the bullets. Dragging its white tail flames, a rocket burst out from behind cover. When it smashed into a robot soldier, the metal sparks directly appeared from its back and turned its body full of mechanical beauty into a pile of scrap iron gushing with sparks.
However, AI was AI after all. After the AI realized the fierce firepower of the NAC soldiers, they immediately adjusted their original offensive strategy and returned behind cover. They changed their aggressive tactics into a conservative pushing strategy.
As these robot soldiers took cover, the battle that favored NAC once again turned into a stalemate.
Bullets flew in the open space of the fortress, and the flames of the explosion dotted the battlefield from time to time.
Robot soldiers were constantly being turned into scrap metals, NAC soldiers, North America mercenaries were also shot down in the fray. NAC’s drone attack group had plowed the battlefield countless times, but the small-caliber ammunition with insufficient penetration power did not cause damage to too many robot soldiers. Instead, countless drones were smashed down.
“FU*K! WHAT THE HE*L ARE THESE IRON THINGS!” The soldier who was crouching behind cover pulled down the trigger with all his strength, he stared in disbelief at the robot that was dodging bullet while firing back.
Even when he compared it to the cyborg army that he encountered in Wanghai, it was the first time he saw just agile robots. If it weren’t for the unusual shape of its head, he would almost treat it as a living human soldier.
The battle was in a precarious state. Just as the NAC soldiers were forced to shrink their defensive position, a team of power armors suddenly entered the battlefield from the flank.
Many silver-white N-100 power armors stood on the top of the building, and the long and thick type-57 electromagnetic pulse cannons in their hands were shining with dazzling white light. After an immeasurable amount of mass shells blasted into the battlefield, with the help of the shooting assistance program, they all hit their target without exception. Each shot blasted the side armor of the robot soldiers into fragments.
The robot soldiers were caught off guard. They were about to enter the fortress, but because of this sudden flank attack, they were forced to abandon the grounds they gained and retreated to their original landing spots.
“It’s our power armor brigade!”
“Fu*k, I was wondering where these damn things went, they were waiting there! HAHAHAHA!”
The original depressed morale of the frontline troops instantly rose to its peak again.
The addition of the power armor brigade immediately reversed their losing momentum. Under the cover of infantry firepower, they launched a final assault on the USN position from the side. Although only a dozen robot soldiers were still holding on, there was no suspense to the outcome of the ground battle.
For NAC, victory would only be a matter of time.
The victory and defeat of the battle on the ground had been determined, and the air battle in the distance had also come to an end.
The generation gap in equipment was difficult to overcome with just quantity. NAC’s flight squadron fulfilled their final mission and fought until the last fighter had fallen. They spared no effort to preserve the air supremacy until the end of the ground battle.
The ground air defense firepower returned to normal, and the laser defense and shells once again closed the airspace off.
The nine remaining “Wings of Freedom” slowly arrived. They circled the air defense zone for a while and coveted the massive figure of AS Order. After some trade-off assessments, they finally gave up. With engine output set to maximum, they retreated in the direction they came from.
This sudden encounter finally ended with NAC’s victory.
However, this victory was not easy for the Expeditionary Force.
