The plunder of the heavens begins with the Spirit Cage.

With intelligence and equipment provided from the West, even if they lose, they don't need to intervene personally.

If we win, we can take over the city of Sako and acquire advanced technologies such as Titan mechs and electromagnetic weapons.

Even if they can't win, they can test the true strength of the Eastern Army, deplete Saco City's reserves, and force them to make further concessions.

No matter what they do, they won't suffer a loss.

On a certain day, at three o'clock in the morning, under the cover of darkness, 21,000 members of the Restoration Army completed their assembly in Linton.

They launched a full-scale attack along the 120-kilometer border north of Sako, divided into three routes.

The central route was the main force of the Restoration Army, personally led by the warlord leader Qazala.

There were a total of 12,000 infantrymen and 180 tanks.

They advanced south along the open valley road, planning to capture the strategic pass in the middle of the valley and then head straight for Sako, a city 100 kilometers away, catching the Dongbang army off guard.

The left wing was led by the deputy warlord Arif.

Three thousand five hundred elite infantrymen, using the terrain of the mountains on the east side as cover, planned to take a detour and launch a surprise attack on the ammunition depot and small airfield behind the city of Sako.

Disrupt the Dongbang Army's deployment and coordinate with the main force in the central route to launch a pincer attack.

The right wing, led by another warlord, Cannon, consisted of 5,000 infantrymen and 40 tanks, advancing along the coastal dunes with the plan to seize the beachhead north of Saco Harbor, to support the landing of the European and American fleets, and to capture the entire port from both inside and outside.

At this time, the total strength of the Eastern Army in Saco City, including the robots, was only 6,500.

On paper, their military strength was less than one-third of that of the Restoration Army.

However, in terms of technological sophistication, the people of Saco City had long since seen through satellites their assembly location and attack plan.

Playing his cards openly, Lu Qianwei showed no panic whatsoever, directly moving the frontline command post to the river valley pass and calmly deploying troops.

Leave one Titan mech to defend the air defenses of Sako Port, and send another Titan with a company to circle around to the eastern mountains to outflank Arif's forces.

The remaining six Titans, four battalions, and two drone companies were all deployed in the central valley, to show the world how they would crush the enemy.

At 5:20 a.m., the first wave of 24 F-5 fighter jets from the Restoration Army took off and headed towards the border positions and airport in Sako City, aiming to destroy the East Confederation Army's air defense facilities and seize air superiority.

As a result, the twenty-four fighter jets had only entered ten kilometers of Sako's airspace when...

The Dongbang Army's electromagnetic interference system directly covered the entire airspace, instantly turning fighter jets into blind flies, forcing them to fly only by visual means.

Just as they were running around like headless flies, the massive muzzle of Polaris Titan sniped them from somewhere in the mountain.

Forget about mechs; they can't hit high-speed fighter jets.

That's an attack that can only be predicted by sight and feeling.

The Polaris is different. Even when fighter jets are maneuvering wildly in the night sky, making sharp turns, changing speeds and weaving through the air, trying to evade potential ground fire by using high speeds.

The Titan, armed with a sniper rifle, is sharing data streams in real time with unmanned reconnaissance nodes at the front lines via optical sensor arrays and millimeter-wave radar.

The onboard core computing power completed the prediction and calculation of the motion trajectory of multiple high-speed targets in milliseconds.

Polaris didn't need to aim at all; it simply pulled the trigger on the pre-calculated trajectory.

The next second, a thin, dazzling plasma beam tore through the night and precisely pierced a fighter jet.

The fuel tank exploded instantly under the high temperature of the plasma. The driver didn't even have a chance to jump out of the plane. He and his vehicle turned into a falling fireball and crashed into the wasteland.

The other pilots were shocked and immediately scattered and broke up their formation, flying up and down and weaving erratically, using all the evasive maneuvers in the textbook.

No matter how they changed direction, accelerated, decelerated, or changed altitude, Polaris's sensing modules still kept a tight grip on them.

With AI constantly iterating and updating its trajectory predictions, the plasma railguns fired one shot after another, each streak of blue light like a death knell waiting in advance on the flight path.

Some fighter jets attempted to climb and escape, but Polaris immediately activated its hovering mechanism, its fuselage slightly lifted into the air, and its cannons raised to continue tracking and firing.

Seeing that the railgun's single-shot fire was not enough to deal with the remaining targets, the Titan's shoulder compartments suddenly burst open, and cluster missiles were launched in succession.

The missile flew into the middle of the aircraft and exploded, with dozens of small explosive bullets spreading out a large kill zone and blocking the entire escape route.

One F-5 after another exploded in mid-air, with debris and burning parts raining down on the ground.

In just one minute and forty seconds.

Of the twenty-four attacking fighter jets, not one was able to reach its destination and complete its mission; they were all shot down!

The world was deeply shocked by the battle footage broadcast live globally from the city of Sarko.

Although these fighter jets were not the most advanced, they were all destroyed without any difference in such a short time by a single mech.

Those with military knowledge were already feeling suffocated.

Because this is a huge chasm caused by a technological gap!

The European and American advisors, standing in the back, watched this scene with pale faces, sweating profusely, and cursing loudly.

Despite this, they still gritted their teeth and urged the Restoration Army to attack!

Since we're not one of their people, our purpose in coming here is quite simple.

One task is to collect combat data on the technology and military equipment that suddenly and inexplicably appeared in the city of Sako.

Secondly, it's purely about disgusting and weakening Sako City, in order to prepare for achieving certain goals later.

They don't care how many people died during this period.

Therefore, without the knowledge of the Restoration Army, a massive ground armored formation was already rapidly advancing towards the pass below the valley, according to the original plan.

The tank group in the middle was the first to rush to within three kilometers of the pass.

The dust kicked up by hundreds of tanks blotted out the sky, and the wedge-shaped assault formation stretched as far as the eye could see.

As they advanced, tank artillery fire continuously rained down on the Dongbang Army's forward positions, providing cover and suppression while also covering the entire pass in smoke and dust.

Kazara, inside the armored command vehicle at the rear, looked through binoculars at the roaring artillery positions before him and sneered triumphantly.

In his view, owning hundreds of tanks would allow him to roam freely across any part of the Eurasia continent.

As long as he captures the oil-producing city of Sako, his path to domination will be smooth sailing!

However, while the idea was appealing, reality was stark. The army that still used the old methods and tactics was immediately and mercilessly crushed by the information war.

The command vehicle radio suddenly emitted a piercing electrical crackle, and all frequencies were flooded with noise.

The Dongbang Army's electromagnetic interference extended to the entire frontal battlefield.

The Restoration Army's communications, from the battalion level down to individual vehicles, were instantly cut off. The massive armored formation was reduced to a headless fly, forced to continue its advance according to the original plan.

Right on the opposite slope of the pass, where smoke and dust filled the air, six Titans, each over ten meters tall, suddenly rose up with a roar.

The deep roar of the supercharged engine instantly drowned out the engine noise of hundreds of tanks. Blue energy halos lit up on the shoulder armor and shield generators, and the tanks charged straight down the sloping terrain, stepping on the gravel.

The energy spray gun on the right arm of the leading ion titan glowed with a blinding blue light.

The first few T-72s had just fired their armor-piercing rounds when the warheads struck the deployed physical energy shield, only creating a useless cloud of smoke.

What retaliated against them was the Ion Titan's core ability, "Laser Web".

The half-kilometer-wide front was instantly filled with dozens of intersecting cutting laser beams.

The first eight T-72 tanks didn't even have time to react before their turrets and hulls were sliced ​​to pieces. Fireballs from the explosions erupted one after another, and scalding shrapnel of armor clattered and rattled as it hit the tanks that followed.

The Legion Titans following behind looked even more ferocious, their chest-mounted rotary machine guns spinning at full speed, unleashing a torrential downpour of large-caliber, orange-red armor-piercing rounds.

The T-72's homogeneous steel armor is no different from cardboard under this kind of firepower; it can be riddled with holes from the outside in just three seconds.

Shell casings rained down on the ground, each burst taking down a tank. In less than ten minutes, the valley road was littered with burning tank wreckage, and black smoke billowed into the sky.

Scattered tanks can take cover on the side and fire cannons. The shells can only leave a white mark when they graz the Titan's armor. Even if they hit it head-on, they can't penetrate the energy shield and Titan alloy defense. A single shot from the Titan can flip the tank over.

The infantry following the advancing tanks huddled behind armored vehicles and abandoned wreckage, trembling with fear, and launched only half-hearted attacks.

But before they could even finish their pitiful beating with firewood, two of Dongbang's drones flew overhead, spraying a shower of steel rain across the entire trench.

Lu Qianwei sat in the cockpit of the BT Titan, his optical sensors scanning the entire battlefield, with the coordinates of all targets displayed on the HUD in real time.

He wasn't interested in your massacre; his eyes were fixed on the enemy leader.

"Got you!"

The moment he finished speaking, he pushed the turbocharger to its maximum, his metal feet leaping over the burning wreckage as he charged straight at Qazala's armored command vehicle.

Kazara was still slapping himself in the face, completely dumbfounded.

The entire formation completely collapsed; the infantry were running faster than him.

He frantically yelled at the communications officer to contact the left and right flanks and call for air support, but all he heard on the radio was crackling static.

Before he could react, a massive metal cannon was already pointed at him.

"Hit...hit it!"

Despite his fear, the driver, with a gun pointed at his head, had no choice but to slam on the gas and crash into the Titan blocking his way.

Unfortunately, the impact of the U-23 was no match for the crisp sound of BT's foot stomping on the hood of the command vehicle.

"no, do not want!"

"I...I surrender!"

As the last words were spoken, the entire armored command vehicle was trampled into the soft roadbed, and Kazara, along with the vehicle, was crushed into a bloody pulp by the deformed vehicle.

With their leader gone, the main force in the middle lane collapsed instantly. The remaining tanks either surrendered or were picked off one by one, and the battle ended in less than an hour.

At the same time, battle reports from the other two routes also arrived.

As Arif, leading 3,500 men, sneaked into the eastern mountains, Titan, who had been lying in ambush, blocked the mountain pass.

Drones and satellites had clearly marked all the targets hidden behind the rocks long ago, and missiles and machine guns cleared the entire valley in half an hour.

Arif had just turned to run when the Titan mechanical arm yanked him out of his hiding place and captured him alive.

The right-wing Cannons stormed the beach along the coastline, and the Titans guarding the port of Saco blew up all forty tanks into the dunes with a few shoulder-fired heavy artillery shots.

Cannon led less than a hundred survivors back to escape, but they were chased and bombed by drones. In the end, only a dozen or so men were captured by the regular troops of the Dongbang Army on their way back.

The entire battle had only lasted three hours and fourteen minutes.

Of the 21,000-strong restoration army, 5,000 were killed or wounded, 8,000 were captured, and the rest scattered like birds and beasts.

The more than 300 tanks and 70 warplanes that the great powers provided with their money all became scrap metal in the valleys and ravines.

In Sako City, only the drones and combat robots were destroyed.

The countries watching this battle, which was broadcast live in its entirety, were all in an uproar.