From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 397: Super Heavy Bombs Falling from the Sky

During the communication with Oans, time soon came to the time to launch the attack. The 24 vehicle-mounted self-propelled electromagnetic guns had put down all their auxiliary hoes, raised the long "【】"-shaped tracks, and loaded with super-heavy bombs specially used to deal with fortifications.

"Can this thing destroy the permanent fortifications on the periphery?" Looking at the self-propelled electromagnetic gun battalion preparing to launch an attack, Amber turned her head to look at Ornes.

The deputy director of the equipment research and development center had already put up his tactical visor and looked a little nervous.

"It's not a big problem, Boss. When we tested it, the terminal velocity of the shell was close to Mach 5.5. Taking into account the special heavy earth-penetrating warhead and warhead, the semi-buried permanent fortifications commonly seen in the Federation and the Empire can basically not withstand it."

Owens swallowed and added:
"Of course, if the enemy adds more fuel to the fire, we may need to adjust the type of ammunition or output voltage based on the damage."

"Attention, all gun positions. The attack coordinates have been shared via the data link. Please check if there are any errors in the binding of the data!"

The voice of the fire commander of the self-propelled electromagnetic gun battalion was heard in the communication channel. Amber and Ornes fell silent at the same time, because it meant that the attack had entered the countdown.

After an unknown amount of time, the fire commander's voice sounded again:
"Prepare for the first round of calibration shooting!"

Oans clenched his fists silently. Whether the team could get the bonus and whether he could get a promotion and a raise depended on this.

"321 release!"

"buzz"

At this moment, Amber felt that the entire launch site was covered by a strong magnetic field, arcs began to flash on the launch track, and the superconducting battery packs of 24 vehicle-mounted self-propelled electromagnetic guns also began to emit and discharge.

Immediately afterwards, there was a flash of white lightning, followed by a deafening roar.

"Boom boom boom!"

After 24 700-kilogram super-heavy bombs broke away from the launch track in the electric light, they quickly disappeared into the sky. Only the momentary images remaining on the retina proved their existence.

When the shells could no longer be detected, Amber quickly called up the real-time footage of the frontline reconnaissance force on the command terminal.

After opening his arms to feel the air waves generated by the firing of the heavy electromagnetic cannon, Ohns closed his tactical visor with satisfaction and called up the relevant images.

A 'Sacred Shield Reconnaissance Type' of the frontier reconnaissance force, now with optical camouflage on and in the low-power operation mode of the subcritical reactor, reached a high ground 1.2 kilometers away from the permanent fortifications outside the food processing city.

When quantum entanglement communication is turned on, it will not generate any conventional electromagnetic signals when transmitting images, so the imperial defenders on the position did not notice this uninvited guest.
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"Shrike, do you think that Atlas will attack here?"

Inside the permanent fortifications outside the food processing city registered as 'Garipol' in the official roster of the Empire, a soldier leaning against the armored wall of the fortifications and smoking a cigarette asked his comrades beside him.

"How would I know? I'm not their commander. But didn't the commander say that Atlas's troops have surrounded us? They will probably launch an attack."

"Hey, they are really stubborn. So many federal pigs can't take this place, and he, a private enterprise army, wants to attack us."

"Hmm~"

The soldier named Shrike curled his lips and looked at the exit gate of this permanent fortification with some uneasiness.

"Damn it, are you just waiting for your shift change so you can go to the 'comfort station' and have some fun?"

The companion who had fought alongside Shrike for a while soon realized that this guy's mind was not here, and immediately kicked him with his prosthetic right leg.

Wearing the combat exoskeleton, Shrike came to his senses and nimbly avoided the mechanical prosthesis kicked by his companion, then smiled with a somewhat obscene expression:

"I have to stay in this place every day and I don't know when it will end. I might die here tomorrow. I have to enjoy myself while I can."

"You just fucking enjoy yourself on a woman's belly, right?"

"Then tell me what else there is to do in this damn place?" Shrike said unhappily, then suddenly looked up and down at his comrade in front of him and said jokingly:

"As for you. After the shift change today, do you want me to take you to the 'Comfort Center' to pick out a good one? You don't want to die as a 'virgin', do you?"

"Fuck off!"

This young imperial soldier was about to say something after being teased by Shrike when he heard a shrill alarm from the permanent fortifications.

At the same time, an emergency broadcast sounded:

"Attention all positions, enemy attack detected"

"boom!"

With a 700-kilogram super-heavy assault warhead, made of special alloy and with extremely high kinetic energy, it smashed through the top armor plate of the permanent fortification, and its built-in delay fuse also detonated the warhead.

Shrike and the young imperial soldier disappeared instantly along with their equipment in the explosion equivalent to 200 kilograms of TNT, and the entire permanent fortification was completely blown apart by the overpressure generated by the explosion.

Amber and Ornes, as well as Hogg and others who were commanding the attack at the front, all saw this spectacular scene. A large number of armor plates used to increase protection were directly blown to a height of dozens of meters in the explosion. A series of explosions made the position look as if a grand fireworks display had suddenly begun.

"The first round of calibration has ended, with a hit rate of 97.44%! The relevant data and information have been transmitted back, and each gun position has corrected the firing parameters based on the landing point information!

After reloading, prepare for the next round of attack according to the command! "

"Oh, that's good! At this distance, we can achieve this hit rate in the first round of calibration."

Amber nudged Ornes with her shoulder, and the latter also showed a smile of "an old father's satisfaction" on his face.

As the saying goes, some are happy while others are sad.

While everyone on the Atlas side, from the command level to the front-line soldiers, was immersed in joy and rising morale because of the precise hits of long-range firepower strikes, the Imperial defenders of Gallipol were not very happy at this time.

"Hasn't the anti-artillery radar sent back the results yet?!"

The sudden bombardment plunged the "base camp" here into chaos. After the Federation had not launched an attack here for a long time, both officers and soldiers had actually begun to become lax.

"Report! This is beyond the detection range of the anti-artillery radar. We can only roughly determine that the attack was launched from a distance of 120 kilometers!"

"120 kilometers?"

The commander of the imperial garrison, a kind of nominal 'Emperor of Garibal', was stunned when he heard this distance.

Then he quickly realized that this might just be the upper limit of the anti-artillery radar's detection range, not the enemy's actual attack range.
Because whether it is the Empire or the Federation, the self-propelled artillery currently in service can only fire at this distance at most after using extended-range ammunition.

"Pass my orders."

"Boom boom boom!"

Before the local emperor could finish his words, he was interrupted by a new explosion.

At the same time, at Atlas's forward offensive position, the HCP assault force led by Murat was also ready for the attack.

However, this young man, who is already a 'senior' HCP pilot, still looked at a rear-view window on the full-circle screen from time to time.

In the picture in the window, more than a dozen new main battle tanks that had been deployed in an attack formation were slowly floating up from the ground with a buzzing sound.

(End of this chapter)