Chapter 341 Airdrop in progress
“Attention, both warring parties, this is the Atlas Humanitarian Assistance Fleet, now preparing to drop humanitarian supplies. Both warring parties are kindly requested to abide by the Trares Convention. 》Relevant content, suspend the exchange of fire to avoid accidental injuries.”
When the huge Red Cross and Atlas LOGO appeared in the sky, the public communication channel, international rescue channel and other public channels also appeared. Voice notification from Truss.
“Oh, the Trares Convention has been brought out? Do you think anyone will really abide by this thing?”
In the headquarters of a certain ground force of the federal army, the commander The officer asked his staff officer somewhat amusedly.
The "Trares Convention" he was talking about was a document signed by the Federation and the Empire during the last war. It involved a convention on the protection of basic human rights in war zones. The purpose was to prevent this war from affecting civilians too much.
Hearing his commander’s inquiry, the staff officer smiled and said:
“Aren’t we abiding by it now? I just don’t know if the imperial guys on the other side will abide by it. After all, they are now It's a 'trapped beast still fighting', I won't be surprised if it makes any crazy moves."
"Yes, but I heard that this company called Atlas also cooperates with the empire, I guess. Since they have the guts to go to the war zone to carry out such a mission, they must have received the endorsement from the empire, right?”
“That should be the case. The senior officials of the empire probably issued the same order as ours. But whether the front-line troops comply is another matter~"
"Hmm, then I wish Atlas better luck."
After the commander finished speaking, he turned to look at the communications squad on the other side of the headquarters.
"Correspondent, pass my order! Let the front-line troops strengthen surveillance of the Atlas units! If there is any abnormality, give a warning first. If the warning is invalid, then fire!"
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The troops on both sides on the ground have indeed received relevant news before.
The defenders on the empire's side are almost equivalent to "abandoned children". Although they are not very interested in the orders from the high command, they are stuck in passive defense and are not willing to take the initiative to interfere with Atlas' airdrop operation at this moment.
After all, when choosing airdrop points, the airdrop commanders deliberately avoided the areas with the most intense fighting, and also chose open areas far away from the city.
If they drag out the air defense forces, it is estimated that the federal forces on the opposite side will not mind launching a round of coverage attacks on these units that have entered the range.
As for the federal ground forces, for the highest command The orders from the Ministry are quite acceptable, especially as the number of refugees begins to increase as the war progresses.
At this time, the civil order on Para 4 has basically collapsed. Many refugees lack basic living supplies. When facing a survival crisis, some brave refugees even came to the federal army for help near the position.
But the federal forces are also in a state of "every tree and grass are under attack", because no one knows whether these sudden appearances are refugees. What if the special forces of the Empire mix among the refugees and infiltrate?
And as 'invaders', they also know very well that most intelligent creatures on the planet do not welcome their arrival. Maybe there are extremists among these refugees who are planning to come with bombs and die together. ?
So these ground forces are different from the federal navy in space.
They still hope that Atlas's "humanitarian aid team" will not do anything stupid, but can really take root as they said and attract these refugees away.
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When the 30 minutes of preparation time ended, the Atlas airdrop operation also completely kicked off.
Those large orbital landing ships converted from transport ships are not yet equipped with corresponding weapons, so they cannot carry out orbital attacks, but there is still no problem in completing the mission of orbital airdrop.
And the internal volume vacated due to the lack of armed units even allows them to carry more supplies and personnel. Not long after these large orbital landing ships entered the "airdrop operation orbit", those on the ground who were staring at the huge red cross in the sky saw groups of "meteors" trailing long tail flames. It breaks out from the logos of Red Cross and Atlas.
These ‘shooting stars’ that kicked off the airdrop were elite pilots from various HCP squadrons who actively signed up to participate in the mission.
When the HCP's special airdrop pod was lowered to the predetermined height and exploded according to the procedure, these 'Sacred Shields' that had just been installed in the elite squadrons turned on the 'down-view mode' of their respective detection units.
"No abnormalities were found in the landing area, and the units on both sides of the war have not crossed the cordon yet!"
"Stay vigilant, this is a real battlefield!"
As the height increases Descending further, the plasma propulsion arrays behind these 'sacred shields' falling from the sky and the attitude control nozzles throughout the body also began to work.
This is also the most dangerous time for HCP to perform orbital airborne landing.
The high temperatures generated by the intense friction between the outer armor and the air, coupled with the operating temperatures of the plasma propulsion arrays, make them as conspicuous to infrared sensors as fireflies in the night sky.
Not to mention the complex shape of the aircraft, which allows air reconnaissance and search radars to easily lock their positions.
Under such a double lock, if the ground anti-aircraft units fire, the hit rate will basically not be less than 95%. These HCPs can only rely on external armor and deflection force fields to resist.
However, fortunately, the two warring parties may have faced an airdrop from a third party called Atlas for the first time, so they showed unusual restraint, and there was no "accidental fire" by any of the troops. occur.
Soon, all the first batch of airborne HCPs landed safely.
Although everyone was nervous during the airborne landing, after landing, these pilots did not hesitate at all and immediately moved towards their nearby teammates, and quickly formed a small defensive formation.
"The landing area has been controlled! You can start to drop the 'hive'!"
"Understood, this is the airdrop commander. The second phase of airdrop operation is now carried out. Each ship begins to drop the 'hive' 'Slide out, the relevant atmospheric data has been updated again through the data link, please pay attention to adjusting the relevant settings."
As the airdrop commander issued new instructions, in the largest deployment bay of each orbital landing ship, more than ten A huge black object in the shape of a hexahedron was pushed out from the slide.
When the green light indicating ‘start operation’ lights up, the locking devices on the slide rails are unlocked one after another.
Attracted by the planet's gravity, these black hexahedrons detached from the rails, detached from the orbital landing ship like eggs, and quickly fell toward the atmosphere.
(End of this chapter)