Chapter 1481 Crimson Galaxy Suppression Operation (8)
Duy is a professional soldier. Three generations of his family have also been in the military. It can be said that he comes from a military family.
The fact that he became a lieutenant at a young age has something to do with the family composition. After all, when the superiors see that your family is full of loyal people, they will naturally be more willing to promote you.
As a professional soldier, Duy did not really want to point his gun at civilians. Soldiers should behave like soldiers and fight on the battlefield to serve their country, rather than carry out massacres.
But this is not something that he, a little lieutenant, can control.
In contrast, Cao Wei was originally a civilian lieutenant in the Stantom Planetary Defense Force. Although she also participated in military training, most of the time she just sat in the office and dealt with documents.
However, with the fall of the Stargate, Stantum was occupied by the Red Maple Republic. This civilian lieutenant had seen too many dead people.
There are friendly forces and civilians who pose no threat.
Walling in the smoke and blood, this civilian lieutenant now completely abandoned the pen in his hand.
So Lieutenant Cao Wei has no objection to attacking the space port. She only thinks that the invaders deserve it!
There are many people with similar thoughts, whether they are new recruits or veterans. Even Lieutenant General Ken, the commander-in-chief of the Third and Fifth Fleets, if he were present, would only watch silently and would not order to stop it at all.
Yes, this does not comply with the rules of engagement, but there are many things that do not comply with the rules of engagement on the battlefield. Officers basically just turn a blind eye and do not take it seriously.
Duy felt a little frustrated. He felt that he might be too naive. After all, the soldier he served as was a young soldier in the literal sense for a long time and had never suffered much.
When Stantume was captured, he and his comrades were hiding in a secret base, completely unaware of the tragedy outside.
He felt that he might not be able to empathize with his vengeful comrades because of this. He even felt that he was naive and ugly. His idea was to stand on the moral high ground and act as the Virgin Bitch.
So he was depressed.
Cao Wei became obviously excited and did not notice Du Yi's emotional changes, and Du Yi's depression did not last long.
After all, the Swan has begun its descent.
A large number of assault landing ships flew directly from the rear along the open channel, dispersed according to their landing points, and quickly entered the atmosphere.
The Swan followed the assault landing ship, quickly determined its position, and carried out the lowering procedure.
The spaceport burning in the atmosphere was still on the other side of the field of view, and the Swan also encountered the outermost exosphere of the atmosphere.
The gun emplacement was automatically retracted under the armor plate, and Duy could no longer see the tragic scene outside for the time being. Instead, there was a loud rumbling sound and a series of fine and violent vibrations.
He held on to the seat belt tightly. Although the Swan had been lowered many times, the crew would be nervous every time.
After all, anything can happen during the descent. It will be hit by anti-aircraft fire on the ground, high temperature will be exerted by air friction, mechanical failure will be caused by vibration, etc.
This tension left Dui with no time to think.
"Yo ho!"
Cao Wei from the gun position next to her screamed excitedly. She was very happy every time it was lowered.
Compared to Alyssa who prefers to be in the void, Cao Wei actually prefers to be in a gravity environment.
But she still boarded the Swan with Dui, because her preferences could be temporarily ignored. Cao Wei wanted to strangle the invaders to death with her own hands, to avenge the civilians of Stantumo and her comrades. It doesn't take long to break through the atmosphere, but the vibrations and loud noises will make it feel like a year.
When the vibration gradually decreased, Duy felt that his brain was shaken to pieces.
Shaking his head, trying to wake himself up, another shock came, but this time it was not the air friction during descent.
"The ground anti-aircraft artillery hit a place not far from us, right?"
Since the artillery positions are still inside the armor plate, Cao Wei cannot see the situation outside, so she can only guess.
After all, I have descended several times, so I have experience.
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard the loud noise of the explosion mixed with subtle vibrations coming one after another. It was obvious that the Swan was under the focus of ground defense and control artillery.
That’s for sure. Other assault landing ships are more than 100 meters long, but the Swan is more than 300 meters long. From the ground, the size of the target is two different things. If it is conspicuous, it will naturally be shot. many.
However, Duy is not worried about the Swan. With the firepower of ground anti-aircraft guns, it is almost impossible to break through the shield of the Swan unless large-caliber anti-aircraft guns attack continuously.
At this time, the two of them heard an extremely harsh scream, which was like tearing the sky apart.
That was orbital bombing. The Spinwater Federation was accustomed to using orbital bombing ships to attack ground troops when the landing ships began to descend.
Because the ground forces will camouflage weapons such as anti-aircraft guns and ship ion beams, before they open fire, it will be difficult for the orbital bombing ship to find where these heavy weapons are hidden from above.
Using teammates as bait, the heavy weapons of the Red Maple Republic will fire one or two shots, but before the assault landing ship reaches the ground, they will definitely be blown away by orbital bombardment.
Listening to the movement outside, after a while, the armor plate was reopened and the gun emplacement was pushed out. Du Yi and Cao Wei finally saw clearly the situation outside the Swan.
Huge black smoke exploded around us, shrapnel flew around, and occasionally we saw friendly forces attacking landing ships not far away being destroyed and turning into fireballs falling freely.
Farther away and more conspicuous was the huge orange-red flash, which almost dyed the sky at the end of the field of vision red.
"Unfortunately, the place where the space port fell is too far away from us, and we can't see where it hit."
The current height of the Swan should be more than 10,000 meters, and it has not yet reached the maximum working limit of the floating engine. The optimal height, and although the space port is nearby when descending, the space port is in free fall, and a slight deviation will cause a difference of hundreds of thousands of miles when it lands on the ground.
So Cao Wei regretted not being able to see the deaths of people in the Red Maple Republic.
But now is not the time to talk about this. The gun emplacement was pushed out for the two of them to enjoy the scenery.
They immediately received orders from the bridge that the Maple Republic's atmospheric aircraft was approaching.
Even flexible space fighters cannot get close to battleships. Due to the influence of air resistance, aircraft in the atmosphere are far less maneuverable than space fighters, and they are even less likely to get close to battleships.
The main goal of these intra-atmospheric aircraft is to attack the assault landing ship. The firepower of this kind of ship is mainly arranged below. Although there are anti-aircraft guns, the number cannot be as high as that of an out-and-out battleship like the Swan. compared to.
The anti-air weapons they carry are heavy air-launched rockets. Similarly, they cannot penetrate the shield of the battleship, but consecutive hits will also weaken the shield of the assault landing ship.
The radar showed dense red dots approaching, and Duy also visually saw a black dot appearing in the sky through the transparent gun emplacement, which looked like a dense swarm of flies.
The two of them held the joysticks at the same time and quickly reached out to delimit the air defense area for the anti-aircraft guns they controlled on the screen. War does not give people time to think. If you have this free time, you might as well fight more gun.
(End of this chapter)