Planet of Sand and Oasis of Iron

Chapter 457 456. It’s like swimming freely in a fish pond!

A mobile outpost can be thought of as a building sailing on the sea of sand, or a fortress, or a fire fortress... Generally speaking, different main guns are arranged according to their size.

For example, small strongholds could only install a main gun of about 150mm at most to avoid tipping over when firing, while large strongholds could be equipped with the legendary guns with a caliber of 500mm or more...

Due to the special conditions of the desert, people have to use advanced weapons and equipment to fight within visual range - this also makes mobile strongholds with main guns popular.

After all, beyond visual range, the range can't be much greater, so if the gun is thicker, the armor must be thicker. If the armor is thicker, the barrel must be thicker. If the load can't be carried, a larger engine and a more stable chassis must be built...

Add more water to noodles and more noodles to water. This is the truth everywhere.

Of course, many people cannot even afford to add more water, so they can only drive the cars they have pieced together, trying to find work in the desert or clean up the battlefield.

...I'm getting off topic. When the whistling sound came from overhead, the mercenary with a keen sense of smell had already started his car engine and ran away quickly.

It’s easy to imagine what would happen to the ambush team if they were discovered...but they were still a little slow.

Huge shells whizzed down from the sky, and the moment they hit the ground, they exploded with flames that made people's eardrums vibrate and even dizzy. The spreading flames lifted up the azure sand and rushed towards the ambush team that was trying to avoid it like a sandstorm.

Some of the crew members were closer to the point where the shells landed, and these people suffered the most. They were no different from sand in the shock wave, and were lifted up and rolled helplessly in the sky.

The lucky ones fainted before hitting the ground, dying painlessly. The unlucky ones tried to grab onto something, but the vehicles moving through the desert weighed tens or even hundreds of tons, instantly making them realize the despair of living.

After a round of shelling, people kept struggling to climb out of the overturned vehicles. The blue glow that bloomed in the dark desert was like bright indicators at night.

But these people were smart enough, they knew that the intervals between bombardments of this magnitude were extremely long - even with an automatic loader, this huge cannon with a caliber of nearly 300 mm would take forty... no, at least one minute to reload!
Some people made a prompt decision and chose to run away, while others had already evaded the situation in advance and successfully avoided the mobile outposts covering the bombardment and headed in the direction of the bombardment.

It doesn't matter if your ambush is discovered or you even get attacked first! Go find the guy's reconnaissance unit first. After destroying it, everyone will be back on the same starting line again.

Track, calculate the enemy's position and then open fire... that's the theory.

But in fact, the guys who came to snipe at Cypher had no idea that most of the technology used by the opponent came from the top companies in the desert, and its body structure and even all the equipment were experimental top-level configurations.

Even a medium-sized mobile base can almost match the speed of a small mobile base, although it is still a bit dangerous...

Lin Shenxue said angrily over the comms, "Don't ask me to increase the engine output anymore. Do you know how much load is being used in combat? If I increase it any further, it'll be at 110%. What if it explodes?"

"It won't blow up. I'm sure you can handle the engine."

Seifer's soothing words were useless. Lin Shenxue wasn't buying it at all. "This is my first time using this, how can you believe it... 130% is the maximum. No more, understand?"

She didn't seem to have considered that if Cypher didn't let her manage the engine output load, she would have to help transport the automatic loading spare ammunition to the two main gun wells in the front and rear of the vehicle.

Those who are busy inside now are the younger generations who plan to use their thin arms and legs to carry the shells in groups of two. On the observation tower, the two-person team who are adjusting the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft also sent back news.

The enemies at the ambush point have moved. Although we haven't figured out the location of the vehicle yet, they are indeed advancing towards this side!

Considering they couldn't linger here for too long, or else they might attract more mercenaries, Cypher turned the side of his vehicle toward the group heading their way after the ambush was broken. A faint roar came from the main gun turret as a spiral staircase-like mechanism loaded the shells into the barrel, locking the breech block, and a metallic chime followed.

But Sefer did not calibrate the gun and fire immediately, but waited for a while.

The automatic loader is still operating, and the second round of spare ammunition is still being transported into the specially structured turret and sent into a special standby structure.

The principle isn't complicated, but implementing it without affecting the turrets, which clearly don't belong in a medium-sized stronghold, requires some design...

Obviously, the designers of Huanwu Group are very smart and have created reasonable products based on the requirements of their superiors.

When the second bell rang, Seifer made slight adjustments, calculated the windage and trajectory, and ordered to open fire when the vehicle passed directly through a sand dune and flattened the ground.

The deafening roar of the main gun and the blast made the two people on the watchtower stagger. If they hadn't put on earmuffs in advance, they would probably have been dizzy by now.

Even so, they all squatted in the high-altitude observation tower with their heads in their hands, waiting for the shock that even their internal organs could feel to pass, and then they carefully raised their heads and looked outside.

Four shells, each emitting a continuous azure glow due to friction with the sand in the air, whizzed out, drawing a brilliant path in the air, and were fired in a direction that was difficult to see with the naked eye at night.

The distance between the two sides was nearly twenty kilometers. The huge chamber pressure and rifling gave these shells extremely high accuracy and wind resistance. If the field of view was sufficient, this main gun could even bombard the enemy at a maximum distance of nearly thirty kilometers.

——To put it simply, it’s like using a level nine gold ship to fight a level six silver ship climbing the line in the maritime hypertension simulator. It’s a pure crushing defeat.

Especially here, there are people who have activated the full map cheat.

In the windy and sandy area, these people originally planned to take advantage of the dusty environment to launch a sneak attack, but the moment they saw the azure arc coming straight towards them, they chose to retreat.

The shells landed again, another covering bombardment that could easily shock exposed personnel to death or overturn small armored units.

The artillery bombardment that terrified these people and even made the driver tremble fell on the desert. In addition to creating huge blue sand pits, it also really hit an unlucky guy.

The car swayed left and right, trying to avoid the upcoming artillery fire with irregular movement lines. As a result, while swaying, it moved just under the landing point of a shell.

The huge shell hit the seemingly thick armor in a parabolic trajectory, and its front end easily tore it into pieces like a piece of paper, and then retreated into it completely.

The powerful kinetic energy of the shell was like hitting a toy car, finally coming to a stop when it hit the solid chassis pillar of the car... and then exploded.

There was an explosion in the tank, and then hot flames gushed out from all the weak points and even the breaches in the armor. The whole vehicle was torn into pieces in the explosion, and the red light instantly dyed the desert.

Even the sand rolled up and turned red, and the activated sand around it gradually began to transform.

The group of people who were still able to move were terrified. After discussing it, they unanimously decided that they could not just sit there and wait for death, but had to use faster units to find the other side.

Otherwise, it would be a laughing stock if they were eliminated without even seeing each other!

(End of this chapter)