Chapter 1305: Fighting on the battlefield and retaking the center (12)
A powerful shock wave swept across the battlefield. The Red Maple Republic Army in the center of the explosion was directly vaporized along with their defenses and weapons. Those farther away were directly swept away by the shock wave, just like being swept away by a tornado. It took more than ten seconds before it fell back to the ground amid the rain of mud.
The large crater left after the explosion was nearly a hundred meters in diameter, as if a piece of the Red Maple Republic Army's battle line had been chewed away.
The Swan was also affected by the shock wave and storm. The floating engines tried their best to stabilize the attitude, but the Swan still inevitably fell into shaking.
Thanks to everyone who tied themselves to their seats with seat belts, otherwise they would have been thrown out in the violent shaking.
This is one of the reasons why Alyssa doesn't like the gravity environment. Explosions in the void are not so powerful.
She hurriedly grabbed the armrest, and the idea of 'it was an orbital bombing' came to her mind.
Almost at the same time, a communication beep echoed in the bridge.
"The automatic answering machine shows that it is a ship of the Swirling Water Federation."
"Take it."
Soon, a female officer in military uniform appeared on the screen next to the captain's seat. When she saw Alyssa, she immediately saluted:
"Long wait, Lieutenant Colonel Alyssa, our ship has been ordered to carry out an orbital bombing mission, please indicate the target."
The long-awaited orbital bombing is finally online!
"How's the situation on the track?"
"Our army has captured Stantum's low-Earth orbit, and the follow-up assault landing ship and transport ship are being lowered. You can rest assured that support will be here soon."
As if to verify the officer's words, through the portholes of the Swan, a large number of red traces, like meteors falling into the atmosphere, appeared in the sky.
Alyssa gestured to Villania:
"The coordinates have been sent. Do not attack the west side of the position. That is our forward base."
"Understood, your order is being carried out."
The drop-shaped cannonballs fell from the sky at a speed of more than Mach 10, hitting the coordinates sent by the Swan one after another.
The land battleship that used the coniferous forest as a cover to bombard the Swan just now has really become a target. Aren't you hiding in the forest?
No problem, I'll clear up the forest for you.
Under sheer firepower, you're only as funny as your bunker.
"The air radar confirmed that the enemy's aircraft in the atmosphere returned and they retreated!"
After hearing An Yun's report, Alyssa knew that the victory was decided.
"Notify the assault landing ship, order them to go to the designated target and reinforce the assault team."
Then he said to Carlos:
"The Swan's hull is rising!"
Now, it depends on whether the commandos can complete their mission.
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When the orbital bombing came online, the outside was basically stable. The armored units and air forces of the Red Maple Republic Army had retreated, not even caring about the infantry remaining in the trenches. It would only be a matter of time before they were annihilated.
As for Sophia and the others who broke into the control center, they actually went quite smoothly.
"Area cleared."
"Confirmed, the enemy has no reaction."
"Keep going, we're almost there."
Everyone stepped through the blood and corpses of enemy soldiers and walked quickly through the corridor.
The control center is a huge building. Not only are enemy troops stationed inside, but there are also a large number of automatic defense mechanisms and fire doors with isolation functions.
If you want to find the core control room here, if you are blind, you can find it easily.
Although this is a facility built by the Xianshui Federation, this thing itself is highly confidential, and the previous staff here did not know the entire facility.
But with Shadow Tiger in the team, he was as familiar with the environment here as if he were home, and it was very doubtful how much confidential information he had in his mind.
He led the commando team around inside, trying to avoid the obstruction of defense mechanisms and fire doors. When it was impossible, Sophia would take out a bomb and use her proud blasting skills to clear the way. Coupled with the humanoid Gundam Shanafia, they found the central control room twenty minutes after breaking into the control center.
The door to the central control room is very strong, and the bomb in Sophia's hand is powerless against it, but there are Shanafia and Benben.
The metal door was closed together, and even the cracks could not be touched. Shanafia punched it and made a hole on the spot. Then she grabbed the edge of the hole and pulled hard, and the door was torn open, followed by Benben reached in, opened his arms to the left and right, and the closed door tore open enough for the two of them to pass.
There were still people in the central control room, and when Benben tore open the door, he could see the sparks from the bullets hitting it.
But the remaining 80% of them were staff, and they only had small pistols for protection. For Benben, they couldn't even scratch the armor plate.
"Drop your weapons!"
Immediately, everyone rushed in from the left side of Benben. As expected, there was a group of technicians in white coats.
When they saw a group of soldiers with live ammunition rushing in, they knew that they could no longer resist with the small pistols in their hands, so they all marched to the French... I mean, they raised their hands.
Most of the central control room is occupied by various terminals. In the middle, there is a projection screen suspended in the air, which is displaying information such as the operating parameters of the star gate.
The energy to activate the star gate is very huge and requires accurate control. Otherwise, problems such as energy leakage may occur, which may lead to a star system being directly blown up.
The commandos drove these staff members to lie down against the wall on one side, and Yinghu quickly ran to a terminal.
"Hope my stop code works."
He said, pointing to the staff:
"They are from the Red Maple Republic, deal with them, otherwise they may re-modify the parameters after we leave."
Sofia shrugged and waved in the direction of the staff. After the sound of intensive bullets, the threat was over.
Shadow Tiger didn't look over there at all. He was focused on staring at the terminal screen, and sometimes ran back and forth between several different terminals.
Sofia didn't understand this, so she asked others to guard the door and not be disturbed while Shadow Tiger was working.
Shadow Tiger moves very quickly. The process of controlling the terminal to input the stop code seems to have not been prepared for one person from the beginning. It requires the cooperation of several people. Shadow Tiger can do the work of several people by himself, and there can be no mistakes in the sequence.
After working for almost three minutes, Yinghu muttered:
"The code was entered successfully, hurry up, upload it quickly."
He stared at the monitor, which showed a green bar display representing the operating status. When it turned red, it meant that the stargate was closed urgently.
"Did you succeed? I heard footsteps. Enemy soldiers are coming soon."
"Not yet, soon..."
In the middle of speaking, Yinghu suddenly widened his eyes.
The command was rejected because an error pop-up appeared on the screen.
The emergency stop code is the underlying design of the Stargate. This code cannot be changed by the Red Maple Republic, and it stands to reason that it should be able to take effect.
But the fact is that the system rejected the instruction.
Shadow Tiger opened his mask and quickly worked on the keyboard with his hands.
"Something went wrong and I need to get around the process."
"You mean, the emergency stop code doesn't work?"
"It's not that it's useless, but it's of too little use. Now it's likely that at least three control centers need to send emergency stop codes at the same time before the system can veto it."
The Stargate's control system suddenly has a veto power, which did not exist before. However, as long as the stop code is sent by multiple centers, the Stargate's control system will be forced to shut down.
The equivalent of sending a code from one hub is to open the Start menu and click the Shut Down Computer option, and to send multiple hubs together is to press and hold the power button to shut down the computer directly.
Sofia didn't understand the technical thing, but she knew that Shadow Tiger most likely made a mistake.
In this case...
Sophia touched her pocket, took out the boot disk, and while Shadow Tiger's attention was on the monitor, she casually placed it on the terminal not far from her...
(End of chapter)