Chapter 45 Attack!
After losing the ambush team deployed on the southeast side of the village, Lieutenant Andrew, the commander of the Imperial Orbital Paratroopers, knew that there was a serious problem.
Now this is no longer a question of how to attack the village. Whether the remaining people can safely withdraw from the battle is a question mark.
The rapid attack commanded by Amber caused the lieutenant to misjudge the strength of both the enemy and ourselves.
Lieutenant Andrew believes that the federal mechanized force that came to support is definitely not small in size and has a large number of armored vehicles.
He only had one Holy Spirit and less than forty orbital paratroopers under his command, and he had lost the qualification to compete head-on with the opponent.
Thinking of this, the lieutenant immediately decided to stop attacking the village, and everyone retreated towards the ambush position to the west.
Under his command, the communications troops fired two flares, one green and one blue.
This was agreed before the war that the people in the ambush position to the west would cover it, and the large force would stop attacking and retreat towards the west.
Immediately afterwards, the lieutenant ran to the 'Holy Spirit' who was warning in the direction of the smoke. Regardless of the danger of being stepped on by the mechanical feet, he directly put his palm on one of the mechanical feet.
"Command: Enable contact emergency communications."
"The channel has been established and is being connected."
A gentle prompt sounded.
After a while, the ‘Holy Spirit’ temporarily stopped moving, and then lowered its body slightly.
In Lieutenant Andrew's communication channel, in the interface that was originally all 'no signal', the icon representing the 'Holy Spirit' light multi-legged chariot lit up.
The driver's voice also came to my ears.
"Lieutenant! Can you hear me clearly?!"
"It's clear, no problem! I need you to fire a deterrent shot in the direction of the smoke now! Covering troops retreat to the west!"
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"I understand, Lieutenant! Let the others leave the muzzle overpressure area. You retreat first! I will cover you!"
"Boom! Boom!"
Before they could finish speaking, two explosions occurred between the smoke and them.
After the explosion, Andrew lay down on the ground subconsciously.
The driver of the 'Holy Spirit' multi-legged chariot also moved the chariot two steps forward, protecting Andrew behind him.
"Boom! Boom!"
There were two more explosions, but this time the distance moved a lot towards the attacking troops.
Andrew immediately realized that this was the opponent's direct firepower starting to attack.
Judging from the explosion, he estimated that the federal direct firepower should be two 100 or 120 mm mortars.
Although I don’t know whether it was the school artillery or the two mortars doing the ‘Xu Jin Barrage’.
But no matter what the situation is, it is not good news for the imperial offensive forces.
While lying on the ground, the contact communication between Andrew and the multi-legged chariot was disconnected. After finally getting up from the ground again, the lieutenant gave up the plan to continue the contact communication.
He raised his head and looked at the Holy Spirit. The spherical main camera at the front of this light multi-legged chariot was also turning to look at him.
Lieutenant Colonel Andrew raised his visor and shouted "Fire!" while gesturing in the direction of the smoke.
The main camera of the 'Holy Spirit' flashed a red light, as if in response to Andrew's order.
Immediately afterwards, this light multi-legged chariot started moving.
When other orbital paratroopers began to retreat towards the west, it moved its eight mechanical legs and came to the back of the team.
"Boom!"
The 120mm electrothermal chemical cannon fired directly after the automatic loader completed loading the programmed high-explosive bomb.
At the same time, the Gauss machine gun mounted on the robotic arm under the front body also began to fire long bursts in the direction of the smoke.
But Andrew, who was commanding the troops to retreat to the west, did not know that his head had been set on the crosshairs of the scope by Amber, who was hiding behind a field ridge several hundred meters away.
Amber, who was constantly roaming the battlefield with his optical stealth, in addition to always paying attention to the offensive situation of the troops, he focused more on finding the opponent's commander. According to his understanding of the imperial infantry battle formation, in this kind of battle where infantry and armored units are mixed, the commander either stays in the armored unit or takes command near the armored unit.
So when Lieutenant Andrew and the signal trooper were 'talking', Amber focused on him.
After all, the communication component carried on the exoskeleton of the communication soldier has a long antenna that is easy to identify.
According to the imperial establishment, whether it is a mechanized infantry platoon or an orbital paratrooper platoon, the platoon headquarters is composed of three people: the platoon leader, the platoon sergeant, and the communications soldier.
Amber estimated that the platoon sergeant should be in the mortar position that he had removed earlier, or in the ambush positions on the left and right sides of the village.
Therefore, the other person who was 'talking' to this communications soldier was most likely the platoon leader.
After seeing this person, he put his hand on the mechanical foot of the 'Holy Spirit' and seemed to be performing 'contact communication'.
And after that, he waved his arms to guide the multi-legged chariot to shoot.
Amber also finally confirmed his identity.
The ranging number in the scope finally stopped at 562 meters.
For a Gauss sniper rifle with a muzzle velocity of 2,800 meters per second, this distance does not need to consider factors such as ballistic descent and flight time.
Amber slowed down his breathing, and after turning on the 'sniper mode', the exoskeleton he wore began to help him stabilize himself and reduce unnecessary natural shaking.
As if turning on the 'vertical stabilization' on the chariot, Amber placed the crosshair firmly on the target's head, and then patiently waited for a suitable shooting opportunity.
Finally, this man and other Imperial orbital paratroopers were retreating towards the westward target. When they looked back to observe the situation, there was a moment of stillness.
At this moment, Amber pulled the trigger of the Gauss sniper rifle without hesitation.
More than 560 meters away, the retreating communications troops were just about to approach Lieutenant Andrew and report the situation to him.
As a result, a bright line of fire was seen across the battlefield in an instant, hitting Lieutenant Andrew's head directly.
Like a burst balloon, the lieutenant’s head tissue disappeared into thin air in an instant.
“Bang!”
A moment later, the sound of gunfire came belatedly.
Seeing the corpse with its head blown out in the scope slowly falling down, Amber immediately put away the gun and rolled to the left, then ran away as fast as she could.
A few seconds later, the location where he had just sniped was turned into a sea of fire in the explosion.
The ballistic detection system of the 'Holy Spirit' multi-legged chariot issued a warning the moment Amber fired, and marked a rough coordinate on the driver's tactical map.
After seeing his platoon leader killed in action, the driver couldn't believe it at first, and then a surge of anger surged in his chest.
He rotated the body and turret as if he had lost his mind, then controlled the loader to load a high-explosive incendiary bomb specifically designed for anti-personnel use, and burned the high-explosive incendiary bomb toward the roughly marked coordinates. Bounced out.
The 120mm high-explosive incendiary bomb not only turned Amber's sniper position into a sea of fire, but the shock wave generated by the explosion also staggered Amber.
The counterattack speed of the multi-legged chariot was beyond Amber's expectation. If he hadn't run so fast, this might have been a complete success.
Isabel's slightly anxious voice also came from the earphones:
"Hurry up and move! These orbital paratroopers are coming towards your location!"
"Ah? Aren't they retreating?"
"How do I know?! Anyway, the drone captured the picture very clearly. The remaining multi-legged tanks and infantry are all charging towards your position!"
Amber, who was lying in the field again, Suddenly I realized this was the perfect time.
Without caring about his own safety or a moment of respite, he directly issued the last order.
"All attack! All attack!"
"Attention armored vehicles, focus your fire first and kill this multi-legged tank for me!"
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