The plunder of the heavens begins with the Spirit Cage.

Chapter 250 Halo 2

The sudden attack threw the Covenant forces into disarray.

I never expected such a well-organized heavy armored unit to suddenly appear.

Carter was stunned for less than a second before he reacted, "Counterattack!"

Upon realizing they were allies, several Spartans decisively charged out after them.

Lu Qianwei led his armored forces to press down from both sides and launch a pincer attack. In less than half an hour, the entire Covenant battle group that was blocking Noble's team was wiped out.

Green blood stained the grass in the mountain valley, and the air was filled with thick gunpowder smoke and the smell of burning plasma.

Lu Qianwei threw away the ion sword in his hand and picked up two more from the corpses on the ground.

Hehe, when playing games, his favorite weapons are these Covenant weapons.

Live-action CS, I have to give it a try.

Carter put away his sniper rifle and led the entire Noble team toward Lu Qianwei.

"I am Carter, the leader of UNSCNoble Team. Thank you for your support."

Lu Qianwei reached out and shook hands with him, glancing at the six people out of the corner of his eye. "It is our duty to resist foreign enemies."

He told a little white lie, giving advance notice of the order to evacuate to the Autumn Wind's Pillar.

Given his human identity, Carter chose to believe without a doubt.

He took out a map and pointed out their destination: the Aszod launch site.

The UNSC cruiser Autumn Peak is already on standby in orbit; once they get there, they can safely carry out the evacuation.

But in fact, Lu Qianwei knew that he would be ambushed even after boarding the spaceship.

"The original route has now been blocked by the Covenant. If we want to get through, we can only go south through these hills."

"Let me state beforehand that we went there on a special mission."

"Following us will subject you to even stronger targeting from the Star Covenant."

"With your current military strength, it would be much easier for you to go on your own than to come with us."

Lu Qianwei said with righteous indignation, "Then we must not let you be put in danger."

We can still distinguish which is more important and which is less important.

After saying that, he ordered his men to take out their medical kits and treat the wounds of several injured men.

The healing gel he brought was three times more effective than the medical gel currently in service with the UNSC.

The bleeding stopped within minutes of applying the ointment. Kat's severed limb was disinfected and bandaged, and she was sweating profusely from the pain, but she still nodded to Lu Qianwei: "Thanks."

"There's no problem saving this arm. It can be reattached after boarding the ship."

Lu Qianwei treated Carter's shoulder injury and then stitched up Jun's thigh wound, his technique clean and efficient throughout.

Carter, seeing this, became even more certain that this was a secret special forces unit hidden by the UNSC leadership. He no longer had any doubts and immediately agreed to merge the teams.

The reorganized team consisted of 23 people: six members of Noble's squad, five UNSC remnants led by a sergeant, twelve powered armored infantrymen under Lu Qianwei, and three tracked armored vehicles carrying 120mm heavy cannons and anti-aircraft missiles. They headed towards Aszod along the path marked on the map.

Less than ten kilometers from the start, the vehicle's radar detected three aerial targets patrolling along the highway.

They are three Covenant Lesbian fighters.

There was no way to hide now, so Lu Qianwei immediately ordered the air defense troops to set up the missiles.

Once the Enchantress flew into range, the two missiles were launched simultaneously, exploding into two fireballs in mid-air.

The remaining Enchanted Squad reacted, lowering its fuselage in an attempt to dive and straf the enemy.

Jun, crouching atop a tree, steadily pulled the trigger. The armor-piercing round pierced the cockpit window and accurately blew the pilot's head off. Yao Ji lost control and crashed headfirst into the hillside, exploding into pieces.

"Keep going. The fighter jet has lost contact, but the Covenant will be here to reinforce us soon."

The convoy restarted and entered the Blue Lion Valley, a necessary passage to Aszod.

Suddenly, a barrage of plasma bombs rained down from both sides of the mountainside, and rubble cascaded down the rock face. Two ghost vehicles blocked the valley exit.

Four high-ranking elites, along with three hunters and more than sixty Grunts, rushed down the hillside. They had clearly received advance warning and were setting up an ambush to intercept Noble's team.

"Armored vehicles will blast the Ghost Tanks at the exit from the front, while infantry will suppress the Gollums from both flanks!"

As soon as Lu Qianwei finished speaking, three armored vehicles were already parked against the rocky cliffs of the valley, and heavy artillery opened fire in succession.

Two armor-piercing rounds hit the Ghost Rider's fuel tanks directly, and the blue plasma exploded into a sea of ​​fire, completely blocking the exit and cutting off the Covenant's retreat.

Carter led Emile and Noble6 down the left flank, while Jun led Kat down the right flank, shooting up the hillside.

Lu Qianwei, carrying two energy swords he had picked up, used the rock wall as cover to circle around to the crevice where several elites were hiding.

The four high-level elite monsters were focused on the middle lane and never expected someone to flank them from behind. They were ambushed and killed on the spot by Lu Qianwei.

The second elite didn't even last one round before being pierced through the chest.

The remaining two were shot in the head by Carter from behind, and the other was about to raise his hand to shoot Kat when Kat raised her hand and shot him between the eyebrows, sending him rolling straight down the hillside.

Three hunters carried fuel cannons and kept firing forward, blasting the rock wall into craters.

Using the smoke as cover, Emile circled around to the Hunter's side and fired a shotgun at close range into the gap in the Hunter's fuel tank, blasting through the armor and spraying green fluid all over the ground.

The remaining two hunters were hit by the armored vehicle's heavy artillery and blown to pieces, and the last one had his leg blown off by a grenade thrown by Noble6, who then finished him off with a burst of bullets.

In less than forty minutes, the entire ambush force was wiped out. The team cleaned up the battlefield, replenished their ammunition, and continued their march.

They did not encounter any more organized Covenant forces along the way and arrived at the Aszod Bridge smoothly in the evening.

This is the only access to the launch site, and half of the bridge has been destroyed by the Covenant.

On the other side, the Covenant had built strong fortifications, with two heavy plasma cannons aimed at the bridgehead. A general-level elite led more than two hundred Covenant soldiers to guard the area, sealing off the entire bridge surface with firepower.

A direct assault would certainly result in significant casualties, so after discussing it, Lu Qianwei and Carter decided to split their forces.

Lu Qianwei led the armored forces and the remaining infantry to deploy at the front of the bridge, opening fire to draw Covenant fire.

Carter led Noble's team, along with two demolition experts, to wade across from the shallows two kilometers upstream to the opposite side of the mountain, where they launched a surprise attack and destroyed the two plasma cannons. After succeeding, they launched a pincer attack from both sides.

Carter led his men off quietly, and half an hour later, two loud explosions suddenly came from the opposite bank. The two plasma cannons exploded into fireballs one after the other, and smoke billowed into the sky.

Lu Qianwei immediately ordered an assault to seize the bridge!

Three armored vehicles charged forward along the bridge, while heavy artillery continuously bombarded the firing positions on the opposite bank.

The Covenant lost its heavy artillery and could only rely on light firepower for suppression.

They couldn't withstand the charge of fully armored infantry, and the bridgehead was quickly lost.

Seeing this, the alien general could only bitterly grab his lightsaber and lead five personal guards out to fight Lu Qianwei to the death.

With no outsiders present, Lu Qianwei stopped pretending and directly displayed his strength. With a few spatial teleportations, they were instantly killed by Lu Qianwei before they even had a chance to hide.

With the commander dead, the remaining Covenant forces were thrown into disarray. Within half an hour, some fled, some died, and there were almost no more threats in the vicinity.

After the team tallied the casualties, Lu Qianwei's side only had two soldiers with minor injuries.

Noble's team only suffered minor scrapes; not a single member was killed.

Carter was surprised by the weapons his allies were equipped with, but also relieved.

Without Lu Qianwei's troops, they would probably have had to go through a lot more trouble to get through.

The group found a secluded place to rest, and the next morning arrived.

The team arrived at the perimeter of the Aszod launch site with exceptionally smooth progress.

After some reconnaissance, it was discovered that the Covenant had already occupied the landing pad.

They even secretly deployed two companies of troops and two heavy tanks.

A Covenant cruiser in orbit was watching the docking port of the launch pad. As soon as the docking module of the Autumn Pier landed, it would blow up the entire landing pad.

In the original storyline, Carter was driving towards the helipad when he was hit by a cruiser's cannon, resulting in his death and Cortana's near capture by the Covenant.

Lu Qianwei contacted the remaining UNSC fleet in orbit in advance through the Noble Squad's communication channel.

Let them hold off the Covenant cruisers. He brought three anti-ship missiles that can destroy the cruisers' fire control radar, preventing them from firing accurately.

After everything was arranged, the three armored vehicles rammed open the base gate, and the heavy artillery opened fire first.

The first wave destroyed two Covenant tanks, followed by infantry rushing in to clear the fortifications.

Lu Qianwei led two gunners to the top of the base command building, and an anti-radiation missile accurately hit the fire control radar of the Covenant cruiser in orbit.

The cruiser instantly lost its ability to fire accurately and could only fire blindly at the airfield. All the shells missed and landed on the open ground outside the base, without harming the troops at all.

In less than an hour, all the Covenant forces on the ground were wiped out.

The entire launch site apron is firmly under human control.

As Carter signaled for docking, the Autumn Pier's connecting Pelican transport plane finally landed on the tarmac.

Captain Case stepped off the plane himself and saw Carter leading the Noble Squad unharmed as they approached, finally putting his mind at ease.

Carter handed the data chip to Case and then explained the details of the support provided by Lu Qianwei's forces.

Case didn't understand where this tough force came from, but the help was real, so he quickly gave Lu Qianwei a military salute.

"Thank you all for your help!"

Lu Qianwei shook hands with him, and a few righteous words quickly moved Case.

Having gained initial trust, and knowing that the ground was not a place for idle talk, everyone quickly boarded the spaceship.

The Pelican transport plane, trailing a pale blue plume of flame, broke through the atmosphere of Reach and successfully docked with the Autumn Wind Pier in orbit half an hour later.

The moment the hatch slid open, Captain Case was already waiting at the docking port with his duty officers.

He first arranged for the sergeant's remaining soldiers and Noble's squad to go down and rest.

He then specially invited Lu Qianwei to the captain's cabin for a private talk.

Having provided crucial assistance at every turn and possessing combat capabilities far exceeding those of the UNSC's regular special forces, this mysteriously formed armed force compelled the experienced Case to exercise caution.

After all, he had never heard of such a force on Reach.

The technical officer just saw it, and their power armor is completely different from the UNSC's system.

Spartan warriors still wore exoskeletons, and their mechanical joints were not even as responsive as the Spartans'.