Doomsday: I Build a Space Fleet

Chapter 278 First Encounter with a Large War Beast

"Xu Ling, the assault ship descends to a lower altitude and deploys the mechs on the spot. Using the hills on the southern peninsula as cover, we will maneuver southward at extremely low altitude until we reach the long, narrow island west of the port. Speed ​​is important, and maneuvering is crucial."

"Yes."

Upon receiving the order, Xu Ling decisively reduced the output of the shipborne anti-gravity unit, causing the assault ship to fall from a height of one thousand meters like a giant rock.

With the aid of attitude-stabilizing nozzles distributed throughout the ship's hull, the entire ship descended rapidly and smoothly.

At an altitude of 550 meters above the ground, the thrusters at the bottom of the ship were activated to slow down the rapidly falling hull. At the same time, Xu Ling began to gradually increase the output of the anti-gravity unit.

The assault ship hovered steadily in place 15 meters above the ground.

The seven mechs mounted at the rear of the ship were unlocked and landed lightly on the ground.

At this time, the seven mechs were located at the railway distribution center on the outskirts of Karaman City, 12 kilometers away from the city government and 32.4 kilometers away from the port on the east side of the city.

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"Di Ting will act as the vanguard, advancing 300 meters ahead of the squad. Luo Yi, Xuan Tie, and Tian Gou will be in the center of the squad, coordinating the operation. Qie Xue and Maomao will be at the rear of the squad, responsible for covering the rear."

"go ahead."

Once the mech squad had moved a certain distance away from the assault ship, Xu Ling immediately pushed the control stick, causing the assault ship to lower its altitude again and head towards the sea.

As the assault ship flew past the east side of the city and entered the sea, Xu Ling pushed the throttle lever, increasing the speed of the assault ship to 450 kilometers per hour.

The route provided by Platinum is 126 kilometers long. Even if the flight speed is maintained at 450 kilometers per hour, it will take the assault ship nearly 20 minutes to reach the designated location. Meanwhile, the mech squad traveling at full speed can reach the first pre-set position in just 15 minutes.

In order to maximize the efficiency of the operation and ensure the safety of the mech squad, Xu Ling pushed the throttle lever again when they reached the rear of the last island on the outskirts of the peninsula, briefly increasing the speed of the assault ship to 540 kilometers per hour.

After losing the cover of the island, the assault ship quickly reduced its speed to 400 kilometers per hour, maintaining a stable distance of 35 kilometers from the port.

Three minutes and 42 seconds later, the assault ship left the open sea and was once again covered by the island.

Xu Ling pulled the control stick, directing the assault ship toward the port.

As the distance between the target location and the assault ship gradually decreased, Xu Ling also reduced the assault ship's flight speed in sync, successfully hovering the assault ship steadily above the target point without using the thrust reversers.

The previously dispatched unmanned reconnaissance aircraft attacked, thus confirming the status of the enemy's large war machine.

Platinum led the mech squad along the coast, following the depressions in the mountains, and successfully reached the first pre-arranged position without attracting the enemy's attention.

This is a depression, still on the mountainside, but surrounded by huge red rocks, with a height difference of 5.2 meters between the highest and lowest points.

With just a little groundwork, the Xuan Tie in its deployed mode can hide here and provide fire support to the mech squad from a distance.

With Roy and Platinum Mech working together, the earthmoving was quickly completed, and an artillery position was set up. Afterwards, Cat left the team and headed towards the mountain in the northwest.

The terrain here is extremely undulating, with plenty of natural cover and firing windows. Cats can use the terrain to move around flexibly and use the sniper cannon on their backs to carry out long-range precision strikes.

At this time, the Di Ting, who had gone ahead to scout, also sent back a message that there were no silicon-based organisms in the mine located at the foot of the mountain, and it was safe to pass through.

Upon receiving the message, Platinum, along with Roy, Tengu, and Kheshig, continued their journey, descending the mountain via a northern path and traveling along the coastline.

After the assault ship arrived at the target location, the four mechs had already traveled south along the river that flows into the sea, reaching a lowland 3 kilometers from the center of the mine.

Just as Platinum's mech was using its external acoustic radar to detect enemy activity, the flagship above Aion City had completed its preparations.

The flagship, fully loaded with weapons and equipment designed to target large individuals, took off and flew at top speed toward the port 2500 kilometers away.

The flagship with the updated propulsion system has reached a maximum speed of 1592 kilometers per hour, or Mach 1.3.

The pilot of the flagship at this moment was Xu Yun, Xu Ling's older sister, who was among the pilots brought out from the large biological resource repository.

Since the weaponry of the large war behemoth is still unknown, it has been climbing at a small angle, and is expected to climb to an altitude of 35000 meters at a distance of 230 kilometers from the port.

Along with the flagship, two newly produced next-generation fighter jets and a squadron of bombers also set off.

With the restoration of the navigation satellite network in the Red Earth Federation region, various types of long-range anti-ship missiles that were previously unusable can now be put back into service.

The 20 bombers that took off at this time were loaded with stockpiled Changkong-26 hypersonic missiles. However, in order to strike this large war behemoth, all the thermobaric/high-explosive warheads were replaced with armor-piercing warheads, and the internal explosives were changed from the original high-energy explosives to mass-produced metallic hydrogen.

These supersonic bombers, all with maximum speeds exceeding Mach 2, are expected to arrive an hour before the flagship.

After learning the number of reinforcements, Platinum was relieved and continued to observe the enemy's movements.

Time passed slowly, and even when the bomber squadron arrived and circled at an altitude of 2 meters, the large war behemoths in the mine did not change their behavior and continued to lie on the mine to feed.

However, 20 minutes before the flagship reached its attack position, the war behemoth suddenly stood up and looked at the cat on the distant hillside.

Then, a bright blue light flashed across its back, and a huge kinetic armor-piercing projectile flew out.

Fortunately, the cat noticed the enemy's unusual movements and took evasive action the moment it did. The huge iron ball only punched a large hole in its body and did not affect any of the mechs controlled by the cat.

Seeing that the enemy had launched the first attack, Platinum quickly pointed out the attack direction to the bomber squadron, and then led the mech squadron to launch a counterattack.

The first to fire was Xuan Tie in the ravine. He briefly overloaded the plasma emitter that was charging the plasma cannon, and within 5 seconds, he had already launched two huge and scorching plasma spheres.

He then deactivated the fixed mode and ran along the pre-set route to the back of the mountain, heading towards the second attack position located on the side of the mountain.

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The moment the first plasma burst was fired, Tengu and Diting burst out from the low ground, using two pulse laser cannons mounted on their shoulders to intercept the silicon-based creatures pouring out of the mine.

Bai Jin, carrying Xuan Tie, ran to the side and, after firing a round of smoke grenades, quickly moved towards the south of the mine.

At the same time, Platinum also launched two small electronic warfare drones, generating two extremely strong electromagnetic signals, which flew through the smoke toward the last valley near the mine.

As expected, the massive war machine on the other side was attracted by the electromagnetic signals and turned its cannons to attack the two moving electromagnetic signals.

Two kinetic energy projectiles streaked across the ground at extremely high speeds, and the shockwaves generated by their high-speed flight completely dispersed the entire cloud of smoke.

But the silicon-based creatures that rushed to the smoke only saw two small drones that had crashed to the ground; the rest were projectiles flying by, leaving two trails on the ground from the shockwaves.

Upon seeing the enemy briefly pause, Roy, carrying a heavier laser cannon with denser heat dissipation vents, burst out of the cover, launching rapid-condensation shield rounds while attacking from the side of the silicon-based biological cluster.

With a buzzing sound, a thin, red laser shot out from the extremely thick laser cannon on its back.

Although the scene was bizarre, it caused considerable damage. Roy then spun around, causing the laser to slash across the tops of these silicon-based creatures.

Five seconds later, the silicon-based creatures that rushed out of the mine lost their ability to attack, and almost all of the quick-condensing bunkers that Roy had temporarily built were destroyed by the secondary cannons of the large war behemoth.

Before the last cover collapsed, Roy threw four smoke grenades and the laser weapon on his back, then ran toward another cover.

Sensing the high-heat signal remaining stationary, the large war behemoth in the mine did not attack it. Having been fooled once before, it did not choose to attack this extremely obvious "bait," but instead aimed at the Tengu leaping forward and the mech controlled by the Kheshig.

Just moments before it launched its attack, a crimson laser shot from the distant hillside, its target the main cannon on the back of this war behemoth.

Thanks to the combination of various advanced technologies, the laser cannon accurately hit the main gun barrel, and the high temperature generated in the local area successfully affected the main gun.

The high-speed projectile created a slight arc as it flew past the left side of the two mechanical dogs, grazing the first swarm of silicon-based organisms emerging from the mine.

Immediately afterwards, the mech controlled by Platinum charged out carrying a massive rocket launcher and launched an attack on the top of this war behemoth.

Just as this war behemoth opened fire again, a thick armor-piercing steel needle struck its back at an angle, once again affecting its shooting accuracy.

The kinetic projectile struck the Tengu's right front, creating a huge crater in the ground diagonally in front of it.

The two shots enraged the war behemoth, which quickly mobilized the silicon-based creatures in the mine to attack the mechs controlled by Tengu and Keshige.

He then turned his cannon around, aimed at the location where the humanoid mech had appeared, and prepared to use the energy storage mode to blow up the cover in that area.

[Target identified; attack permitted for T-26 cluster.]

Immediately afterwards, 12 bombers launched four ChangKong-26 hypersonic missiles carried under their fuselages in batches at a dive speed of Mach 2.7.

Because the target was close, the rocket engine started at full power, and with the initial velocity provided by the carrier aircraft, these missiles falling from the sky quickly reached the terminal attack speed of Mach 12.

Meanwhile, the silicon-based creatures in the mine also noticed the missiles falling from the sky. Just as they were trying to turn their guns around to carry out an air interception mission, a dense barrage of rockets flew out from behind the bunkers, covering the entire sky.

Then, several scorching plasma clusters descended from the sky, their target the large war behemoth that was gathering its strength in place.

Faced with intense firepower, this massive war machine had no choice but to stop charging up, eject the shells from the breech, and begin evasive maneuvers to intercept the missiles falling from the sky.

Using the terrain of the mine, this massive war machine successfully aimed its cannons at the sky, and then a shell with fine cracks flew out of the muzzle.

At the same time, the missile's radar scanning components detected air-to-air fire, and the main control computer then began to control these missiles to perform lateral maneuvers.

Because the shells fired by the large war behemoth were too fast, they arrived first at these missiles, which were at an altitude of around 1 meters.

With the help of strong air resistance, the shell broke apart before reaching the missile's altitude, spreading into a huge and dense iron net that blocked two missiles with smaller evasive angles.

The fine wire instantly shattered the two missiles into fragments, followed by a violent explosion at an altitude of 10,000 meters, sending several silvery-white metallic jets flying in all directions.

The two batches of missiles behind them made emergency maneuvers to avoid the blast zone. Subsequently, the missile's main control computer received command signals transmitted from the ground.

Upon receiving the signal, the last batch of missiles began to turn, targeting the several conspicuous large silicon-based creatures.

Because a large number of silicon-based organisms had gathered in the mine, they were quickly intercepted and wiped out. The plasma clusters that flew in from the sky again were also forcibly dispersed by several large silicon-based organisms.

"Xu Ling, fire!"

A highly directional electromagnetic wave swept across the battlefield, and the war behemoth that was firing at the air turned its head to look at the empty sky.

However, its fighting instincts caused it to take evasive action.

"Buzz"

A deep, resonant hum echoed through the sky, and a thick, scarlet laser shot out, pointing directly at the massive war beast that was attempting to evade it.

[T-160, attack permitted.]

Eight super-large variable-sweep wing bombers also dropped 32 missiles at top speed.

At the same time, as the assault ship launched its attack, seven mechs simultaneously leaped out of their bunkers and charged towards the hesitant silicon-based creatures.

The laser cannons that Roy had previously abandoned were restarted, with a pair of supports extending from the left and right sides, pointing the cannons at the large war behemoth that was evading the assault ship's movements.

Under intense artillery fire, the 32 missiles of two types raining down from the sky were completely ignored by the silicon-based biological mother cluster.

Meanwhile, the flagship is about to arrive on the battlefield.