Planet of Sand and Oasis of Iron

Chapter 64 64. This is also a case of a big cart crushing a small one...

The other party was a vehicle much smaller than Saifu, which was what Saifu had thought was a large vehicle, but in essence it was just a fire support base.

Their lookouts probably sensed something, and the vehicles started up quickly, preparing for a desperate artillery battle with Sefer on the sea of sand.

The issue is……

It would be fine if the enemy was sneaking all the time. As long as they stayed still and the sand was not crushed and activated, it would be almost impossible to detect them.

But the firing exposed a vehicle, and judging by its panicked appearance, it was most likely just a mobile outpost.

And it's only seven kilometers away. They're practically firing at face value. How desperate is that?

The omnidirectional single-barrel gun rotated for aim. In the sight in front of Seifer's eyes, the opponent tried to avoid being hit by swaying and slowly increasing the distance.

Sefer wasn't used to that sort of thing.

Could the main gun developed and specially assembled by Huanwu Group be the common single-barreled gun on the market?

The answer is no. This main gun is equipped with many advanced technologies, the most important of which is the use of a single-barrel gun mount to realize the magazine main gun technology.

'boom! ’

The main gun opened fire, and as the first shot hurtled towards its impact point—

'boom! ’

The second shot was fired immediately after the first shot. All Seifer could hear was the continuous creaking sounds inside the vehicle and the recoil caused by the powerful artillery fire. The two shells tore through the strong wind and yellow sand, and fell down with a whistling sound.

The shells drew long trajectories in the air, and it only took a few seconds for them to travel a distance of several kilometers.

The first shell grazed the side of the enemy vehicle, and the explosives in the shell roared, stirring up shiny sand all over the ground and slightly damaging the vehicle's tracks.

The second shot hit the lower turret of the main gun at the rear side of the vehicle - the bullet penetrated the thin armor and easily sent itself into the vehicle.

Under the gun mount is the ammunition depot.

The car stopped suddenly, but before the people in the car could evacuate, the whole car made a shocking explosion.

A blazing fireball exploded from inside the armor, and tongues of fire gushed out from the gaps in the armor, twisting the vehicle's body and distorting its posture from front to back, left to right.

The heads of the two main guns rose into the air, and the entire vehicle and the surrounding air were shaken, causing the sand centered on it to vibrate and form a spoke-like halo.

Beautiful, but hopeless.

All the people in the car died without even a chance to escape, and a notification that the reward had arrived suddenly popped up on the side of Sefer's UI.

Destroy light armor: +1000
Confirmed kill: +2000
The reward for killing is just this little...?
Maybe not many people were killed, because the car only fired two shots in a hurry when it was running away, and no one knew where it went - at this time, the body of the car suddenly increased from half speed to full speed.

The objects in the car shook, and Lin Shenxue, who was playing with building blocks, fell to the ground, holding his head and bending for a long time. When asked what happened, he asked him what happened.

"Bad news, we were ambushed."

As Seifer maneuvered the vehicle in a swaying pattern, making all the artillery shells that were falling from the sky with a beeping sound as warnings were issued, he said:
"The good news is that we haven't entered the frontal battlefield yet, so we can still hold on for a while."

Several small vehicles were starting up, seemingly shocked that a mobile base could actually exist outside the signal isolation zone. They didn't even dare get too close, and could only flee in all directions across the sand dunes. The battlefield at the edge had become particularly bizarre. A relatively large vehicle, relying solely on its main gun, was able to intimidate several smaller armored units. These "sentinels" fired shells from a distance, and once they sensed the main gun's aim, they let go of their tracks and ran away.

In the pitch-black desert, on the other side of the smooth, slightly curved, glowing track of the huge track, is a series of messy and sloppy ruts full of crisscrossing and collisions.

The craters from the shells flying all over the sky and hitting the ground continued to extend like a painted canvas.

Instead of continuing to wastefully reload the magazine, Seifer directed the vehicle while distractedly operating the main gun, ignoring the armor-piercing shells that clanged against the armor, and the high-explosive shells that exploded in a ball of flame.

At most they could scrape off the paint, but were completely unable to penetrate the thick armor plates. Instead, the automatic fire control system on Sefer's side began to fire after entering the range.

It was like a huge monster chasing its prey. Those unlucky guys never thought they would encounter such an enemy - but it didn't matter, it was too big and couldn't outrun a high-speed vehicle!
In the main control cabin, Cypher asked on the intercom, "Can the engine output be increased?"

"Of course, it's designed to have the effect of overloading the engine, but it can't last too long."

Lin Shenxue answered confidently - even though the light and hum flowing through the engine unit beside her almost made her cry, this was the confidence of a senior mechanic!
"Can you pull the engine to full power and then shut it off after reaching the limit?"

'Simple.'

As Lin Shenxue adjusted the engine, a faint red glow suddenly blended into the blue-white light flowing through the engine. Like a drop of ink in clear water, it instantly ignited the entire engine compartment with a blazing red glow.

Lin Shenxue crouched in the corner of the engine compartment, shivering. Holding a tablet in her hands, she fiercely wrote on the three-minute countdown: "Only three minutes! One more second and it will explode!"

She didn't know if it would really explode, but what was certain was that if the engine overloaded and the energy got out of control, the best outcome for her would be that she would be stuck to the wall and couldn't be removed even with a shovel.

So I can only take one step at a time with trepidation.

Sefer naturally didn't know about this little trick. He just felt that the speed of the base increased by ten knots instantly - which can be understood as an increase of twenty kilometers per hour.

The main gun rotated and the secondary guns on the vehicle body continued to fire. The firepower was just that for this vehicle, but it was a fatal attack for the vehicle being chased.

Their armor cannot compete with a real mainstream combat base, not to mention that this is a machine equipped with... a main gun that is clearly not its proper weapon!
Whose small (about 100 meters long axis) stronghold would carry a main gun that has a chance of penetrating a large stronghold! What a psycho!
He cursed him as a lunatic in his heart, but his hands were quite skilled. It didn't matter that any of these 'perimeter defense and reconnaissance vehicles' could not outrun this behemoth with strange paint.

Just outrun your teammates!
Driven by this motivation, the vehicles that were forced to expose and escape because of Cypher began to trip up their own 'teammates' in the wind and sand under the pursuit of artillery fire.

Anyway, they are not from the same mercenary group, and there is no such thing as a sense of comradery... People who have not been targeted by that kind of main gun have no idea where this fear comes from.

Cypher chased after these fleeing men, the main gun's powerful fire control aimed at the enemy within range - even the moving enemies, no matter how hard he tried to adjust the angle, were easily hit like fixed targets.

Then it exploded like a tin can with firecrackers inside, leaving behind a burning flame and a large pit with a blue glow.

Seeing this, the others ran even faster, almost overloading their engines to the point of explosion.

Like a giant shark chasing a small fish, at the moment when the time that made others sweat profusely ended, the speed of this huge car with a strange paint job and not much paint scraped off until now suddenly dropped a little.

In the engine compartment, Lin Shenxue wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, watched the engine return to normal, and slowly sat down... This job was much more exciting than maintaining the power components on the Doomsday Train.

And Seifer, sitting in the main control cabin, was not chasing such a small target for the sake of bloodthirsty hunting - what he had to do was to follow these guys into the siege war zone, cut in from the rear and provide supporting firepower.

There's no need to be the first to stick your neck out. Even if it's a new model, it can't resist the possibility that the other party may take out a medium or even large base.

(End of this chapter)