Chapter 290 Outpost Battle (Part 2)

He led the team to perform CSP (combat air patrol) mission, and encountered the enemy in the asteroid rubble belt in deep space.

There was no support from the rear, and the specific information of the enemy was unclear.

If they wanted to escape and return to the mothership, they had to rely on the team members to deal with the threat of the rubble belt before they could leave safely.

One of his two team members was a rookie with little combat experience.

As for the other one?

He was nearly 50 years old and was only a second lieutenant, which made it difficult for Larry to believe in his ability.

In other words, the next battle would most likely rely on his own judgment.

In the eyes of Lieutenant Larry, there was no worse situation than this.

"Damn it, why did I have to encounter this."

Larry Scott took a few deep breaths to calm himself down, and then began to analyze the current situation of their team.

When the flare was fired just now, two electromagnetic rifle trajectories were swept out in the asteroid rubble belt, indicating that the opponent was at least a two-plane formation.

At the previous enemy intelligence sharing meeting, the fleet intelligence department also shared with each HCP squadron the enemy unit identification features summarized by the troops that had previously fought.

Larry remembered that in the reconnaissance detachment of the federal fleet, there was a forward reconnaissance team configuration of a two-machine formation.

One was a conventional model, and the other was a specialized type for electronic reconnaissance and electronic warfare.

The task of this two-machine formation was to conduct forward reconnaissance outside the local warning area, especially in the asteroid rubble area, which was suitable for the deployment of fixed probes or enemy HCPs.

The enemy features currently discovered by the Morning Star team, including the shooting of heavy particle cannons, electronic interference, and the trajectory of two electromagnetic rifles,

were all leaning towards this two-machine reconnaissance team.

Lieutenant Larry glanced at the team channel, and the blue-green laser communication that was just connected was interrupted at this moment.

Because the three HCPs are now hiding behind different asteroid rubbles and are invisible to each other, this point-to-point communication method naturally cannot continue.

The complex environment of the asteroid belt also affected other means of communication.

Although the shortwave communication was still connected, the signal was not good. Larry tried several voice calls, but the intermittent sound made it impossible to communicate, and finally he could only switch to the most primitive shortwave text communication.

In order to prevent being cracked by the opponent's electronic reconnaissance model, Larry directly adopted the encrypted text communication with the lowest transmission efficiency.

"The opponent should be a reconnaissance team of a two-plane formation. The probe we deployed was probably destroyed by them."

"Then what should we do now?"

"We can't waste time here. The opponent's support troops will appear at any time. I will pull the 'gun line' and you will take the opportunity to attack!"

"Received!" ×2

Looking at the reply in the team's communication channel, Lieutenant Larry sighed and added a sentence.

"If I am shot down, you will quickly use the time I have gained to withdraw!"

Then, regardless of the reactions of the other two, he directly put the shield in front of him, released the hook fixed on the ice crystal, and rushed out with full thrust.

"Warning! You've been locked!"

As soon as the machine left the cover of the giant ice crystal, the combat support AI issued an alarm that it was locked by the enemy's fire control.

The threat perception unit also marked two red inverted triangles in the full-circle cockpit, and the straight-line distance was less than 2,000 kilometers.

The next second, a beam of charged particles shone on the deflection field, and a series of high-speed piercing rods also swept over. The dancing electric snakes on the front of the machine made Lieutenant Larry lose his frontal vision directly, and he could only fire blindly for the time being.

"It's really a two-machine formation"

Lieutenant Larry did not panic under the enemy's concentrated fire, because he knew that among the two HCPs, only the conventionally configured machine would be equipped with a heavy particle cannon.

The electronic reconnaissance and electronic warfare specialized types, in order to ensure that the reconnaissance and electronic warfare units have sufficient energy supply, generally only carry one HCP electromagnetic machine gun for self-defense.

If that was the case, the Clergyman's improved subcritical reactor and energy recharge unit could withstand the intermittent shooting of a single heavy particle cannon.

Thinking of this, he calmly controlled the machine to maintain a frontal posture, and then continued to maneuver to the upper left with the help of the inertia just rushed out and the vector nozzles on the right side of the machine.

The opponent's charged particle beam irradiation path and trajectory, as he expected, followed.

The other two members of the Morning Star team also reacted quickly. Lieutenant Larry lowered his head slightly and looked down, and the two green inverted triangles representing his teammates also began to move.

While his leader machine pulled the "gun line", the two of them also took advantage of the cover of the asteroid debris to flank.

Lieutenant Larry took advantage of the huge debris that floated in front of him from time to time, and kept approaching the position of the federal reconnaissance team in front.

Then he soon found something wrong.

Because the opponent's heavy particle cannon was misfired after firing once, and the irradiation frequency of the charged particle cannon was completely lower than the normal level.

During the advance, the most interference was caused by the firing of two electromagnetic machine guns.

But after Lieutenant Larry maneuvered to evade these high-speed penetrating rods with an initial velocity of several hundred kilometers per second, the hit rate became very low.

"What's going on? Is the opponent's energy insufficient?"

As soon as this thought flashed through Lieutenant Larry's mind, he immediately overturned it by himself.

The other party was also carrying out a long-distance cruise mission away from the mothership, and would definitely carry additional superconducting battery packs, so theoretically there would be no shortage of energy supply.

"Something is wrong"

Lieutenant Larry immediately decided to speed up the advance, so that he could slowly rush over under cover, and he didn't know how much effort it would take.

So, when the next round of charged particle beams and high-speed penetrating rods swept over, he deliberately slowed down his movements a little, and then suddenly took a picture of the volume light representing "abandoning the external battery pack".

Several conformal superconducting battery packs near the mechanical foot and the main propulsion array were immediately thrown away from the body.

The charged particle beam also swept one of the battery packs.

The detonated battery pack quickly formed a plasma fireball, and continued to expand after engulfing several surrounding battery packs.

Lieutenant Larry, under the cover of the plasma fireball, suddenly sank downwards, almost sticking to the outside of a huge piece of rubble, and went around to the front.

A distance of more than 1,000 kilometers is only a dozen seconds for the full-powered priest.

When Lieutenant Larry drove the priest out of the shadow of a giant rubble on the side of the federal double-plane formation, he was surprised to find that there was only the electronic reconnaissance specialized type here.

The other target that just attacked him with an electromagnetic machine gun was just an autonomous weapon station deployed on the rubble.

The charged particle cannon that should be loaded on the weapon rack behind the HCP is now in the hands of the electronic reconnaissance type HCP.

This is also the reason why the frequency of irradiation of this thing is so low. After losing the active energy supply of the body, the charged particle cannon has to wait for the recharge unit to recharge every time it irradiates.

"Fuck! It's calculated!"

Lieutenant Larry's heart suddenly sank.

It is obvious that the other federal HCP is also going to outflank, and it is impossible for a rookie to make such a tactical plan in an instant.

The electronic reconnaissance HCP that stayed here had already discovered the priest on the side, and it immediately turned its gun towards this side.

Lieutenant Larry reacted faster. He first blew up the autonomous weapon station with a burst of fire, and then rushed towards the electronic reconnaissance HCP that looked like it was carrying a "turtle shell".

Unexpectedly, the reconnaissance HCP in crisis did not panic, and even took the initiative to meet him and fired at Larry with an electromagnetic machine gun.

As a pilot with a certain talent in driving skills, Larry kept controlling the roll of the body, avoiding the dangerous high-speed penetration, and rushed to the front of the federal HCP.

Unexpectedly, the federal HCP did not dodge, but drew a one-handed dagger-style plasma slashing sword from the waist and stabbed it straight towards the priest's cockpit.

Larry immediately turned the shield horizontally to block the vitals, but the other pilot's reaction was also very fast, and he changed the stab to the slash, and the sharp plasma blade immediately cut off a section of the shield.

But this one-handed short sword, which can only be used for self-defense at the last moment, is obviously inferior to a serious heavy sword in terms of output power and structural strength.

So the continuous attacks of this Federation HCP were all resolved by Lieutenant Larry with his shield.

The HCP pilot of the Imperial Royal Navy was also glad that the opponent did not have a standard heavy sword in his hand.

Otherwise, with the smooth movements and skilled body control technology shown by the opponent, his shield would have been useless long ago, and the body might have been finished.

In just a few seconds of the two sides' fighting, the priest's heavy sword was also held in his hand and powered on.

When Larry barely avoided the opponent's slash again, the heavy sword in his hand quickly slashed out, like a crescent-shaped slashing trajectory, directly cutting off the opponent's sword-holding mechanical arm.

Larry thought the other party would surrender, but before he could shout for the other party to surrender, he saw the scarred Federal HCP in front of him, shining the close defense lasers on both sides of the main monitor on the head, and at the same time a mechanical leg kicked him fiercely.

"Buzz!"

Seeing this scene, Lieutenant Larry, who already knew the other party's determination, no longer hesitated. After avoiding the opponent's final counterattack, he directly cut off the opponent's cockpit with a sword.

Then he flew towards the location of his teammates without looking back.

Even this under-armed electronic reconnaissance HCP was so difficult to deal with. He didn't dare to imagine what would happen to another Federal HCP that was outflanking after "catching" his teammates.

"Hold on!"

Lieutenant Larry roared in his heart and pushed the throttle to the highest. The silver-white steel giant rushed forward and instantly disappeared behind a huge rubble.

Only the severed Federal HCP was left floating here quietly, surrounded by the cold universe forever.