Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 249

249. Chapter 249, Death of Titan

Black Arrow Star, the capital of Luman Kingdom, Pinser City, and the residents outside the city were terrified and puzzled.

The fear was because of the war, even if neither side deliberately killed civilians, and even deliberately protected them. The alliance army from another planet was the same. After occupying the suburban town, they only occupied the necessary areas and put the entire town under military control, but did not harm civilians.

However, war itself is the most destructive, no matter from which angle. Guns and cannons have no eyes, and no one can do anything about the civilians who died in collateral damage.

The fear of civilians is justified.

As for the inexplicable, it is also easy to understand: everyone was still preparing to celebrate the festival with lights and decorations two days ago. In the past years, the so-called Gu family came to hold a meeting, and it was a happy day. The last time I came to the Luman Kingdom was more than 30 years ago. In the memories of some old people, it was very beautiful.

How come there was a war in the blink of an eye?

No matter how much they could not understand, the war always broke out in a way that people’s will could not change.

They could only face all this in fear and at a loss.

The farmers on the hillside looked at the battlefield in the wilderness below the mountain from afar.

Two armies were facing each other in the wilderness. The terrifying war machines rolled over their farmland.

One of them was the traditional army of the Kingdom of Luman. Two Knight Titans led more than 80 sentinel mechas and 20,000 infantrymen to advance in groups. The

Luman infantry, who were only wearing cloth uniforms and had almost no protection, rushed to the front.

They were poorly equipped, but there were many of them. To put it bluntly, they were positioned as cannon fodder.

Of course, even cannon fodder is valuable, and even if they die, they can’t die in vain.

They maintained a relatively loose formation. According to the experience of training, they can barely form a skirmisher combat group. This is mainly to avoid being wiped out by a cannon or a machine gun.

The rifles they were given did not have too many bullets, mainly because the cannon fodder infantry did not survive long on the battlefield, and too many bullets would be a waste. Their mission was to charge, attract firepower, and by the way, try to fire as many ammunition as possible before they died, which would be considered a mission accomplished.

The sentinel mechas accompanying them were the main force. This thing, which was just over three meters tall, had a double-barreled machine gun, which was already powerful enough. They could not penetrate the Lion tanks, but the armor of those Wanderer armored vehicles could not withstand the fierce shooting of the machine guns. Often, there were three or five mechas, and a round of intensive shooting could blow up an armored vehicle.

The two more powerful Knight Titans were the killers. At the beginning of the battle, they destroyed three Lion tanks.

However, despite the heavy blow to the Alliance Army, Count Drex, who was driving the Knight Titan, still had a tense expression.

With his many years of war experience, the enemy encountered his superior firepower at the front of the battle, suffered such huge casualties, and even lost nearly 20% of its strongest combat weapon, the Lion tank. Logically speaking, the morale should have been hit.

But why, these alien armies have no signs of wavering at all?

Not to mention those tanks and armored vehicles. In the concept of Count Drex, people who drive powerful weapons are generally elites. They have high morale and are not easily shaken. This is understandable; but those infantrymen who were originally transported by troop transport trucks or infantry fighting vehicles and now all get off the vehicles to fight on foot, shouldn’t they also be cannon fodder?

Why haven’t they been shaken?

On the contrary, compared with armored vehicles and tanks, what surprised Drex the most was the performance of these infantrymen in the alliance army.

There were only about 2,000 people, but they were not afraid of the enemy, which was ten times their number. They would not hide behind armored vehicles or tanks, but would bravely come forward and destroy the invading enemies with rifles, using shooting skills far more accurate than those of the Luhmann infantry. They clearly acted in squads, and the modified machine guns they carried strongly suppressed the advance of the Luhmann infantry.

Wherever the machine guns swept, the Luhmann infantry had to stop. They were either shot directly or had to lie down and find shelter on the spot, and then wait for an opportunity to counterattack – but they often couldn’t find any opportunities.

The only thing that could make the firepower of these alliance soldiers stop for a while was the sentinel mecha.

The “knights” were not so easily destroyed by bullets. On the contrary, after they noticed the firepower points of the alliance soldiers, they would often use double-barreled machine guns to attack.

The soldiers of the alliance were very brave, but they were flesh and blood after all. When the machine guns fired, a string of shots would make half of the squad disappear directly.

But… there were only 80 sentinel mechas.

Moreover, these infantrymen were not completely without countermeasures against the Sentinel Mechs.

On the contrary, after realizing that the Luhman infantrymen were quite fragile and had a low threat level, those infantrymen aimed their main targets at the “Knights”. The squad-level firepower, using machine guns to shoot at the surface armor of the Sentinel Mechs, clanged and clanged.

Even if they could not penetrate, the Sentinel Mechs would still stagger and their forward speed would be suppressed when they were shot at by several machine guns.

And often at this time, individual rocket launchers would be aimed at them.

But individual rocket launchers were still not enough to destroy a Sentinel Mech. Drex saw that a Sentinel had been hit by at least four individual rockets, and was burned black, its left arm was blown off, and its power system was also faulty, but it still had one hand that could be raised, and used the remaining machine gun to try to fight back and eliminate the several infantry squads that attacked him in person.

However, after killing less than ten people, the Sentinel was met with the Alliance infantry’s final means: company-level mortars bombarded it.

In a short while, at least four mortars exploded on it.

At the same time, there was a heavy bolter machine gun fixed on the ground, which seemed to be a company-level support firepower of the enemy army, and it also fired dense heavy bolters.

There was also a machine gun on the infantry fighting vehicle…

After such a level of attack, the Sentinel mecha could no longer withstand it and was destroyed.

Drex had already reacted. He raised his left hand and fired several heavy grenades mounted under the mechanical arm, destroying the firepower position composed of the company’s mortars and fixed heavy bolters. By the way, another laser cannon blew up an infantry fighting vehicle next to it.

However, Drex was still at a loss.

While he was doing this, he glanced and saw two more Sentinel mechas destroyed in a similar way.

Even faster.

After all, the enemy’s army was not just infantry.

The Lion tank was also showing its power. The rail gun mounted on it could blow up the Sentinel mecha with one shot.

On the contrary, the Sentinel mecha had no way to deal with the Lion.

At this time, he realized that the difference between the Sentinel and the Lion tank was too big.

The two may have similar costs, the Sentinel is cheaper, but it should be of the same order of magnitude; however, the positioning of the two on the battlefield is too different.

The Sentinel is at most an infantry companion equipment, an anti-infantry unit, flexible, and can accompany infantry into bunkers and buildings to fight; the humanoid double-leg structure can enter complex environments.

This is its advantage.

However, it is too stupid to confront the Lion tank on the plain. They are big, have thick armor, and heavy artillery.

The machine guns that can penetrate armored vehicles will only make craters on the Lion. Unless you concentrate fire for one minute to make the craters bigger and cause metal fatigue, you can penetrate the armor.

But that is too difficult. The gun barrels are turned around, whether it is the laser secondary gun or the magnetic rail gun, they are all things that can hit the soul with one shot.

Twenty minutes into the war, fifteen Sentinel mechas have been blown up.

This is a huge loss.

These “knights” were also his people.

They were his vassals and his direct line of strength. All these losses were to be blamed on him.

Drex gradually became furious.

After quickly destroying the main firepower of an infantry company, he turned around and attacked the Lion tank.

He no longer hesitated. After sending a message to his companions on the communication channel to ask them to provide fire cover, he activated the automatic reload and loaded the grenade launcher on his left arm while striding forward.

He set his sights on the three lion tanks that were rushing the fastest in a V-shaped formation.

He had been annoyed with these three tanks for a long time.

The railguns and laser cannons on them were always bombarding him.

The shield generator, which had not been fully restored to full status, could still faithfully block one attack after another, but if it was left alone and allowed to continue like this, the shield would also be at risk of being broken.

And the three lions were indeed a little too close to him.

Less than two kilometers away, with the Knight Titan striding over, the two sides were heading towards each other, and he arrived in three minutes.

The three lions had already sensed the danger, split up, and tried to bypass it. But how could their mobility be compared with that of the Knight Titan?

Drex caught up with one tank, and faced a round of running shots from it. He raised his right arm’s power fist and pierced the tank from top to bottom.

The height of the Lion tank was about three and a half meters, which was a little more than half of the Knight Titan.

After destroying one tank, he quickly turned around and ran to the second tank, and blasted it from the side with his power fist.

Then he moved on to the third tank.

The whole process only took a few minutes.

Drex felt very refreshed!

At this time, the grenade launcher on his left arm had been loaded. He raised his head and looked for a new target through the visual information transmitted by the observation sight on the head of the Knight Titan.

However, two things happened at this time.

First, his comrade, the driver of another Knight Titan, sent him a rather anxious voice message.

“Prepare to evacuate. Another group of people guarding the town rushed out. Our rear army failed to stop them and they have already collapsed.”

Drex was quite dissatisfied: “So what? With the two of us working together, as long as we don’t encounter dense heavy artillery, what is there to be afraid of? His Majesty has ordered us to win at all costs. Are you…”

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a shock!

This was the consequence of the second thing that happened before.

It turned out to be an infantry fighting vehicle that drove very close to him and dropped a team of infantry.

He noticed it, but in the process of communicating with his comrades, he made a judgment that he didn’t think of beforehand but proved to be wrong afterwards: he regarded the armored vehicle as the main target.

A howitzer blasted it to pieces.

However, the infantry that rushed in approached him in a scattered manner.

The gravity fist smashed down, and the infantry squad on the left was almost instantly written off.

The gravity fist is not only the part that is actually hit that is damaged. The gravity waves and rubble that fell on the ground could kill the infantry, and the alloy plastic steel armor plates were useless.

However, a group of infantry still approached his feet.

He realized something was wrong, raised his legs, and stepped on and kicked those people to death one by one.

However, what they wanted to do was already done.

The Knight Titan was equipped with a shield generator. This thing has the same feature as the void shield: it cannot identify and block slow targets.

The approaching infantry, of course, counted.

The bombs they attached to it, too.

Although it was an ordinary explosive, it exploded at the joint similar to the knee of the Knight Titan, still causing a very bad effect.

He wanted to retreat and get closer to another comrade, but found that he was limping a little when he moved.

He did not completely lose his mobility, but there was some problem with the power system of his left leg, causing imbalance on both sides.

This made him very alert.

Then, he saw three armored vehicles approaching.

Having suffered a loss before, he raised his hand and fired the howitzer, preparing to blow up the three vehicles from a distance.

However, a blue light flashed.

A plasma energy gun shot at his left knee, which was already problematic.

His body suddenly tilted, and his left leg knelt on the ground. The howitzer that was originally able to hit the target was also shot away.

Lacrosse, who was clinging to the infantry fighting vehicle, put the plasma gun that was recharging energy back into the gun bag on his thigh, and then jumped off the roof of the vehicle.

After landing, he rolled twice and stood up again, running at full speed. With the strong physical strength and the blessing provided by the exoskeleton, his short-distance burst speed was even faster than that of an armored vehicle.

In order to cover him, an armored vehicle was blown up by the gravity fist of the Knight Titan.

But this also put Lacrosse into the attack range.

Reaching back, he pulled out the chainsaw sword on his back. At the same time, he also approached the Knight Titan from the side.

After dodging the second punch, he resisted the gravity wave and grabbed the upper edge of the Knight Titan’s knee with one hand. He climbed a few steps and flexibly jumped to the side of the Knight Titan’s back.

He wanted to attack the Knight Titan’s cockpit, but it was impossible. The cockpit was the most important part of the Knight Titan and had heavy protection. Not to mention the chainsaw sword in his hand, even if it was a hot melt bomb, the miniature one in his hand might not be able to burn through the cockpit and kill the driver inside.

So he changed his target to the shield generator next to it.

He first attached the hot melt bomb to the back of the Knight Titan’s head and started it, and then he used the chainsaw sword to slash the weak point of the shield generator.

Bang!

The shield generator exploded first, and the impact force directly blew Lacrossa away; then, the hot melt exploded, burning half of the Knight Titan’s head from the back.

Lacrossa rolled in the air and fell more than 20 meters away. He barely stood up and looked at the results of the battle.

The energy shield surrounding the Knight Titan has been extinguished; the Titan head, which integrates observation, calculation, and servo skull assistance, has been destroyed.

Although this terrible war weapon has not been destroyed, it has undoubtedly become a lamb to be slaughtered!

Oh, maybe it is more appropriate to describe it as an elephant to be slaughtered.

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(End of this chapter)