Mecha and Knife

The tenth ace mecha fighter in active service in the Federation is not Ji Xinghe.

"Colonel Han Li got his 100th gold star two days ago. He has become the tenth ace fighter in active service. By the time the news came, he had already got 104 gold stars. The 102nd and The 104th gold star comes from the mechas of the Marquis class of the Empire."

During the restoration of communication between Base No. 6 and the outside world, a lot of news came over.

Therefore, before people had time to rejoice at the appearance of the tenth ace mecha fighter in active service in the Federation, they received news that silenced everyone.

"A day and a half ago, Colonel Stan Eugene, the ace fighter in active service, died in a battle. He got thirty-six gold stars in the last battle, and the total number of gold stars he got was 288..."

"At five thirty-five in the morning today, Colonel Konstantino, the ace fighter in active service, died in a battle. He got twenty-nine gold stars in the last battle, and the cumulative number of gold stars he got was two hundred and thirty. A..."

Ji Xinghe, who heard the news, and many mecha fighters, didn't need to watch the relevant battle recording videos to imagine the brutality of the final battle.

Han Li, Jackson, and Ji Xinghe before, and many super mech fighters with powerful strength, never aimed to win gold stars during the battle.

In a large-scale mecha group battle, a few gold stars for them is already considered a lot. Those who are crazy about taking gold stars are far less valuable in battle than less gold stars.

But these two ace mecha fighters, in the final battle, they chose to fight in a crazy way as if they knew they would sacrifice themselves.

Is it really?

Not really.

Everyone can imagine the scene of their last battle.

These two ace mecha fighters wanted to help their teammates, and wanted to fight with more powerful imperial noble mechas, but their teammates couldn't keep up with them, and they couldn't compete with the imperial duke-level nobles. Mecha heads-up.

Being blocked and besieged, you can only pick the stars with your own hands. Until there is no retreat in the war, there is no pick to pick, and the fall is like the stars.

"Really, is it a curse?"

Because of the emotional conflict brought about by one piece of good news and two pieces of bad news, some people began to discuss anxiously: "Can our Federation never have ten active ace mecha fighters at the same time?"

It is impossible for people who come to alien stars in spaceships to be superstitious, but it does seem like a curse.

And the most frightening thing about this curse is that it looks like it has been mastered by the empire.

Whenever the tenth ace mecha fighter appears, or someone is about to become an ace mecha fighter, the empire will send a duke-level mech to use the war to force the federation's ace mecha fighter to participate in the battle, and then let the ace mecha fighter join the battle. The ace mecha warrior fell.

The Federation will always have only nine active-duty ace fighters, and it seems that the Empire believes that the Federation can only have nine.

So what if one day, the empire thinks that the federation should not have nine, but only five, three, or even one ace mecha fighter?

No one refuted this unsettling question, but someone started to act on it.

After receiving the news of the death of the ace mech fighter Colonel Condino, Jackson sent a message to Ji Xinghe, who was fighting like a lone wolf, through the base and the detection eye.

"Master, I can't wait for you anymore, because there are many people waiting for me."

"good."

An hour later, the second hour and seven minutes after the death of the Federation's ace mech fighter, Colonel Condino, Base No. 6 issued a military report.

"Lieutenant Colonel Jackson received his 101st gold star."

The content is very simple, only one sentence, but the excitement brought by this news is unprecedented.

Those panic-stricken people had a new idea: We actually have many super fighters who are comparable to aces, but they have always chosen a selfless way of fighting because of their responsibilities and obligations. As long as they want, they can become fighters at any time. The new ace mech warrior.

But this idea is not firm at the moment, because as of now, the Federation still only has nine active-duty ace mecha fighters.

Two new promotions, two sacrifices, still seems like a curse.

Tenth place, when will it appear?

When he appears, will another ace mecha fighter, or even two ace mecha fighters fall?

Or after he appears, will he fall like a meteor?

In this round of all-out attack launched by the empire, the most intense battle is still the periphery of the Federation's No. 3 base. Those missiles that traveled an unknown number of kilometers could not completely destroy the No. 3 base, whose main body was built underground and almost made of all metal.

If the empire wanted to completely destroy Base No. 3, it had to let the ground troops continue to advance until they could truly enter Base No. 3, and then they could cause irreparable damage.

It was in the battle to support the No. 3 base that Han Li successfully obtained the gold star who was promoted to the ace mecha fighter.

The second fiercest battle was not the outskirts of the No. 6 base, but the traffic arteries leading from the suspected location of the Empire's leap gate to No. 3 and No. 6 bases.

The empire, which chose to let the ground troops push forward in the dust storm, encountered many obstacles on these roads.

But because of the dust storm, the federation's blocking war can actually be described as guerrilla warfare.

The Federation's rocket mine vehicles played an important role in this battle.

Long before humans could drive mechs to fight, laying mines on the battlefield was no longer just for engineers to dig and bury.

The long-range rocket mining vehicle from Xiongzhou looks like a heavy-duty off-road truck with four fronts and eight rears that is common on the blue star. hours (speed on the surface of the alien planet), the maximum range is 1100 kilometers.

Four modular launch boxes for rocket storage and transportation are installed at the rear of it. Each launch box has 25 140mm rockets, and can launch 100 rockets equipped with mines at one time. The filling time after the launch is completed , because of the modular construction it takes only ten minutes.

Its control system is equipped with satellite navigation and a digital fire control system, which can program the rocket before launching, set the parameters of the mine, lay the coordinates, self-destruct conditions, etc. Even if the satellite navigation support cannot be obtained due to the dust storm, the launch of the preset coordinates has little impact.

A range of five to twenty kilometers is relatively safe. The influence of the dust storm made it difficult for the empire's ground troops to find the landmines that appeared on the path. It is also possible that the mines had just been cleared, and within ten minutes of the vanguard troops walking by, a new round of landmines had already been densely covered.

The three Xiongzhou engineering brigades drove a total of 60 rocket mine-laying vehicles and related logistics vehicles, and continuously placed mines on several roads, causing a large number of casualties to the empire's ground troops.

Also participating in this sniper battle that lasted for a long time, there were four engineering brigades from Longzhou. They mainly used the GBL156 crawler mine throwing vehicle, code-named "Spring Plowing".

Compared with the rocket mine vehicle in Xiongzhou, this throwing mine vehicle has a great advantage.

The rocket mine vehicle can only launch mines in one direction at a time, and it is easy to calculate the approximate location of the mines.

However, Longzhou's mine-throwing vehicle has 8 launch boxes, and each launch box has 36 launch tubes, with a total of 288 launch tubes, and a maximum of 1440 mines can be laid at one time (each launch tube can hold 5 mines) , the density and range of mine laying are very strong.

Because it was a throwing launch, it was even more difficult to guess the location and range of the mines, which greatly increased the difficulty of demining and the speed of marching for the empire's ground troops, and also caused a large number of casualties.

Who said engineers can't kill the enemy?

The total amount of damage they caused was actually far more than the Federation's mech fighters. And from a certain point of view, their combat value is greater. Slowing down the marching speed of the empire can reduce the pressure on other combat units, and at the same time increase the logistics supply pressure of the empire and so on.

In addition to the mine-laying vehicles of the engineers, other combat units also participated in the guerrilla warfare. The main force came from Longzhou, followed by Xiongzhou.

In such a battle, it is very difficult for mechas to fight in groups, so it is very difficult for mecha fighters to be promoted to trump cards during the battle.

If you want to see the tenth Mecha Warrior appear in the Federation, the focus is still on Base No. 6.

If the Empire wants to obtain the precise location of Base No. 6 in the dust storm, it can only send a large number of mechas to explore and investigate in the dust storm, because their military power is difficult to appear in the outer warning area of ​​No. 6 Base except for the mechas. .

Not counting the destroyed Imperial Mechas, on the seventh day after that meeting, the number of confirmed Imperial Mechas in the alert area of ​​No. 6 Base exceeded 1,200.

The Xinghe team that arrived earlier today didn't have time to join the captain, Ji Xinghe, and threw themselves directly into the battle.

Ji Xinghe will not want to join them for the time being.

Because this is his seventh day.

He is not the tenth active federal ace mecha fighter, Han Li is, but he can still become the tenth active federal ace mecha fighter.

With the help of the communication connection provided by the No. 6 base and the detection eye, Su Chuanyun, code-named Niu Ma in the Xinghe team, asked Ji Xinghe a question he had asked before, but now it is a little different.

"Old Ji, when will you become an ace mecha fighter?"

When I heard this question for the first time, Ji Xinghe had Venus Nineteen, he was charging, and there were three imperial mechas in the direction of his charging.

When I heard this question again, Ji Xinghe had Jinxing Ninety-seven, he was charging, and in the direction of his charging, there were three imperial mechs preparing to destroy the detection eye.

Their speed of destruction is very slow, their number is very small, and they did not escape when they saw Ji Xinghe, so this must be another trap.

But Ji Xinghe answered with a firm tone.

"Just today."

This is his last answer, but Su Chuanyun's question has changed a bit, and the situation is very different today, so he made a supplement.

"three minutes."

The three imperial mechas that used the destruction detection eyes as bait did not run away. They gave up the destruction detection eyes and faced Ji Xinghe, trying to use their corpses to block Ji Xinghe's footsteps.

Therefore, the communication has not been destroyed, and all the images recorded by the Ji Xinghe combat recorder were transmitted back to the command center of the No. 6 base as soon as possible.

Therefore, the Xinghe team on another battlefield heard the army's announcement from the No. 6 base two minutes and thirty-six seconds after hearing Ji Xinghe's answer.

"Major Ji Xinghe won the 100th gold star."

It was as brief as Jackson's military briefing, but it was more exciting, because he was Ji Xinghe, he was sixty-six years old this year, and he was originally just a car repairman.

But he became the tenth ace mecha fighter in active service in the federation.

Su Chuanyun yelled in the communication channel like a cow and a horse: "Old Ji is lying, it will take three minutes to make a deal?"

There was no celebration, as the fighting continued, there was cheering, but it was suddenly subdued and turned into consternation.

"All mecha fighters within six kilometers of the No. 193 detection eye, immediately go to the No. 193 area for support, and immediately go to support."

Area 193?

That is the battle area where Ji Xinghe became an ace mecha fighter, and that is where Ji Xinghe is now. He walks alone.

More detailed information sounded from the communication channel when the mecha fighters such as Galaxy Squad and Jackson reacted.

"Major Ji Xinghe encountered an ambush. It can be confirmed that there are thirty-one imperial mechas, including a Duke-level imperial mecha."

Does the curse really exist?

When people panicked, Ji Xinghe's voice sounded in the communication channels of many mechs, and in the command center of the No. 6 base.

he asks.

"Do you trust me?"