ccnovels #846 - Chapter 846: The decisive battle, a comprehensive siege! What you think is the end is just th
#846 - Chapter 846: The decisive battle, a comprehensive siege! What you think is the end is just th
Currently, only a portion of the J-40s are engaged in combat.
The medium-sized particle cannons mounted on the J-40s pose a significant threat to individual mechs.
The particle beam intensity is constantly increasing!
When nearly a hundred J-40s joined the battle and individual mechs began to sustain too much damage, the alien civilization realized it was no longer feasible.
Thus,
giant mechs had to enter the fray.
Stronger defense!
Stronger repair capabilities!
The J-40 is equipped with one medium-sized particle cannon, the H-40 with four, but particle cannons of this caliber… are completely ineffective against giant mechs.
In the next moment,
the giant mech raised its arms, and the unknown alloy suddenly deformed, forming a massive round shield.
The shield was over fifty meters in diameter!
A large number of individual mechs rushed from all directions, taking cover under the shield.
Subsequently,
the giant mech moved towards the water rats.
Once close, individual mechs would quickly jump out from under the round shield, grab a rat, and then retreat back under the shield.
That's right!
Using the giant mech's protective capabilities to withstand the bombardment of medium-sized particle cannons.
However…
the number of giant mechs was limited, with only two heading in one direction, capable of catching only one rat—slow speed, but aimed at safety.
Was it really safe?
No!
The J-40s immediately changed their tactics.
There were both high-altitude, top-down attacks and attacks parallel to the ground.
From all directions!
Where would the giant mechs find so many shields?
The alien civilization's strategy, which they believed to be slow but safe, was instantly and easily cracked.
First, they did manage to catch some rats, though not many.
Second,
in the alien civilization's perception, they were launching a surprise attack.
If this attempt failed, the surface civilization would discover their intentions and either eliminate all the water rats or deploy heavy forces in this area, making it even more difficult to catch rats next time… in the face of countless attacks!
Chen Hao fabricated stories, deployed heavy forces, and created a series of illusions, all to lure out as much of the alien civilization's army as possible.
As the opposing commander realized that this was their only chance…
how could they not commit everything they had?
Sure enough!
There were far more than just two giant mechs.
It could be said that, up until this point, the confrontation had been exploratory on the part of the alien civilization.
But when the giant mechs' shields proved unable to withstand the J-40s' attacks, they knew that if they continued like this, the surface civilization would mobilize more and more equipment from other areas, and the battle would become increasingly difficult.
Finally…
more mechs emerged from the bottom of the lake!
Tens of thousands!
Obscuring the sky!
Among them, there were as many as a hundred giant mechs!
After emerging from the bottom of the lake, they disregarded everything and dispersed in all directions, beginning to capture water rats with all their might.
…
300 kilometers away.
The wartime command center.
“Is that all that was in the lake bottom?” Chen Hao asked.
“The probes confirm that no new mechs are emerging, and there are no lurking mechs at the bottom of the lake—these are all of them!” General Wang was very excited.
“First, let’s make sure they can’t go back.”
That's right!
The ultimate goal of Chen Hao's series of operations was to ensure that after all the mechs left the bottom of the lake, they would have no way to return.
The edge of Lake Vinnaine.
An unmanned boat shook off the mud from its hull and sailed towards the large hole in the bottom of the lake.
“Detonate!”
Boom…
A deafening roar!
The explosion of a multi-megaton hydrogen bomb sent a sky-covering waterspout soaring into the clouds.
The entire lake bottom was instantly shattered.
The large hole leading to the underground was completely buried.
“General offensive!”
Chen Hao shouted into the communicator.
Finally, it had begun!
Prior to this, most of the deployed weapons had not been put into combat.
At this moment,
all firepower was unleashed!
Thousands of ghostly blue beams descended.
There were not only arm-thick beams from the medium-sized particle cannons mounted on the fighters, but also thigh-thick beams—those were heavy particle cannons.
Boom!
A giant mech was hit by a heavy particle cannon.
A large hole was blasted into the armor of its head.
Even a heavy particle cannon could only wound a giant mech; it couldn't kill it with a single shot.
But…
who said there was only one shot?
A speed of 200,000 kilometers per second meant that the mechs were almost stationary relative to the particle beams.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
More than a dozen heavy particle cannon beams struck the same point in quick succession.
Bang!
The giant mech's head was blasted into vapor.
Its massive torso toppled over.
Space.
Heavy orbital particle cannons delivered top-down attacks!
Air.
The J-40s and H-40s could both deliver top-down attacks and flank.
Not only that,
the army's constructed defense line also had land-based heavy particle cannons, as well as medium and small-caliber particle cannons and particle guns mounted on war armor—when all the equipment opened fire, tens of thousands of mechs were immediately trapped in an inescapable encirclement.
The lake bottom had been destroyed by the hydrogen bomb; there was no turning back!
…
Ten thousand miles away.
Shanghai.
The underground level of the Comprehensive Research Center.
A room with no windows, the ventilation duct was about ten centimeters in diameter, impossible for even an infant to pass through, let alone a normal adult.
The only connection to the outside world was a door.
Dragon Flame elites guarded the door.
There were only two people in the room.
“In fact, we don’t really need to understand your civilization through you anymore.”
Shi Dali stared at the blue-blooded woman.
His gaze was complex.
After living together day and night for half a year, he didn't know why he had developed such strange feelings for this alien woman.
The woman didn't speak.
She just looked at him.
She seemed to want to say something, but in the end, she didn't.
“Your civilization will be completely destroyed!”
Seeing that she remained silent, Shi Dali suddenly became very angry: “If you confess voluntarily, I can plead for leniency!”
He didn't want this woman to die.
But!
Even putting aside his personal feelings and his overwhelming gratitude to Director Chen, simply standing on the side of his race, he had a basic responsibility!
“You can’t win.”
The woman sighed.
She spoke in Chinese, which she had learned from Shi Dali: “Also! You keep saying that we attacked you first, but in reality, we… were forced to attack, we are the victims!”
Huh?!
Shi Dali was stunned at first.
Then he became extremely angry: “You released a virus that killed billions of our people, and you’re still blaming us?”
The alien civilization was the victim, forced to attack?
Ridiculous!
Everyone was on Earth, but living in two different worlds, minding their own business, right?
The alien civilization released the virus first.
And then almost detonated the Yellowstone volcano.
And now they were biting back?
“I don’t know.”
The woman shook her head: “But our leader would never lie to us, but… it doesn’t matter anymore.”
“How can it not matter who is right and who is wrong?!” Shi Dali roared.
“Because, you will be destroyed.”
“You…”
Shi Dali laughed in anger: “Destroyed? I’m not afraid to tell you, we are launching a devastating attack against you…”
“You don’t understand.” The woman shook her head.
“What don’t I understand?!”
“What you think is the end, already set in stone, is only the beginning of the real war.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about!”
“Because.”
The blue-blooded woman stared at him, with a hesitant expression.
But in the end, she still said it: “Our ancestors left behind some technology that you cannot imagine, which can only be activated when our civilization faces a cataclysmic crisis.”
Shi Dali was stunned.
He stared at her intently.
After more than half a year of living together, he believed he understood her fairly well.
She was a warrior, not a highly skilled agent with a strong control over her emotions.
It was impossible for her to lie without changing her expression or revealing a single clue.
Could it be that she…
Shi Dali ran outside, heading straight for the surface of the research center.