Mecha and Knife

Alien Star, Battle Scar Canyon.

The Super Grand Canyon, which is more than 4,500 kilometers long and has an average depth of eight kilometers, has too many areas that the federal reconnaissance satellites cannot detect.

In this war that has lasted for more than 20 years, the empire with the leap gate technology has built multiple bases like the federation.

Just because of the convenience of the jump gate technology, their bases are not engaged in production work.

At the bottom of a dark canyon, a building like a steel sky is buried underground. At the core of this building is a huge space with a height of 3,000 meters and an area of ​​more than 80,000 square meters.

Hundreds of monkeys in protective clothing are performing complex operations around hundreds of computer-like devices in the corner operating area.

"The countdown to the opening of the leap gate."

"Thirty, twenty-nine, twenty-eight..."

Humans who understand the language of the empire can hear the meaning of what they said. If someone like Shen Mu is present, they will only feel the sound like a dog barking.

As the countdown began, the device that looked like a giant ring began to glow with a faint blue light. The giant ring with a diameter of more than two kilometers was the most conspicuous device in this building.

The faint blue light gradually fills in, making the giant ring look like a dark blue mirror. The light changes from mild to dazzling, and then to gentle again, finally forming a light blue like a mirror.

"Three, two, one."

The countdown is over, and the giant ring, the empire's fixed-coordinate jump gate device, has finally completed its activation.

Through the light blue mirror like the sky, another world can be clearly seen.

That's the Empire Star.

The blue sky looks no different from the blue star, with long white clouds and snowy mountains in the distance.

In the area near the transition gate, there are hundreds of steel buildings like bunkers, on which are mounted heavy machine guns, missile launchers and other weapons.

Around the bunker, there are thousands of armed armored vehicles, tanks, missile launch vehicles and other military vehicles.

Behind these bunkers, there are dense military camps. I don’t know how many orangutans are walking in the military camps, training in groups, or looking at the direction of the leap gate. I don’t know what they are thinking.

There are reconnaissance satellites that are always paying attention in the high sky, and there are also many reconnaissance drones. They are constantly cruising without any enemy situation.

If Ji Xinghe can see this scene, he will be very happy, because these arrangements mean: the empire is afraid.

They are afraid that the Federation will fight over.

When the jump gate was successfully constructed, the convoy that had already been prepared began to travel in an orderly manner, and those vehicles were all completely sealed.

Combined with the fact that the monkeys on the other side of the jump gate are still wearing intact protective clothing in an airy environment, it can be seen that the jump gate has lethal radiation to carbon-based life.

These transport vehicles transported new soldiers and a large amount of supplies.

Food, drinking water, oxygen, weapons and ammunition, medicine, etc., all the materials needed to survive and fight on alien planets, and empires that are not engaged in production on alien planets, have always relied on this method to complete logistics supplies.

Therefore, the Federation believes that as long as the jump gate device of the empire can be captured or destroyed, the empire will no longer be able to wage wars on alien planets.

The imperial forces that have already reached the alien star, after losing the leap gate, will end up with slow death.

But there is also a theory that if the Empire's existing two, possibly three, fixed gate devices on Alien are destroyed, then the Empire will use the 'random' gate devices that they first came to Alien .

Compared with the jump gate device with fixed coordinates, the latter is more difficult to defend.

The transport convoy drove into the alien planet after passing through the transition gate, stopped in an orderly manner and began to unload the transported supplies and troops.

The originally empty steel building became overcrowded in a blink of an eye, but these vehicles, supplies, and troops only occupied the ground.

The passage space of the six space battleships was not blocked. They passed through the transition gate from the Empire Star to the Alien Star in turn. The change of gravity made their flying posture unstable for a moment. This scene made the orangutans and monkeys on the ground They were all terrified.

It is a pity that these six space battleships did not crash, and the empire has already used the jump gate device to come to the alien planet with great experience.

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"The countdown to the closing of the transition gate."

"Ten, nine, eight..."

The transport vehicles that had already unloaded all the supplies passed through the transition gate and returned to the empire. The blue light gradually disappeared, and the transition gate finally turned into a giant metal ring that looked empty.

It was only at this time that the gate of this building began to open. The giant metal gate was extremely thick enough to pass through the space battleship. It seemed that they were also worried that there would be accidents, and the entire base would be destroyed due to the crash of the space battleship.

The first to leave this area were the six space battleships. After they left the empire base like the steel sky, they flew a long distance in the battle scar canyon before they began to climb the flight altitude.

When they had just left the dark area of ​​the Battle Scar Canyon, the Federation's reconnaissance satellites had already discovered them.

A new round of air combat begins.

The sixteen federal space warships, which were on standby at all times, started chasing and intercepting them directly from space after determining their respective targets.

The space battleships of the Federation did not drop their flight altitude. They were very sure that these space battleships would definitely enter space.

And so it is.

The six Imperial space battleships used their on-board detection devices to continuously determine the position of the Federation space battleships, and changed their flight trajectories to avoid them.

Their first combat goal is to enter space and launch reconnaissance satellites, space reconnaissance drones and other reconnaissance devices.

Air supremacy does not depend solely on who has the most space battleships. To a large extent, the view from the sky is the key to determining who has the air supremacy.

Sixteen Federation space battleships chased and intercepted six Imperial space battleships, not because they couldn't beat them. In terms of the technical level of space battleships, the Federation and the Empire were at the same level. The Federation has a certain advantage in the high-tech weapons carried by space battleships.

Using more enemies and fewer is not a waste of resources, but to destroy the reconnaissance satellites, communication satellites, space drones, etc. launched by the Imperial Space Battleship.

As the six imperial warships continued to launch, the sixteen federal warships that were chasing and intercepting were forced to disperse.

In the end, only seven federal warships pursued the six imperial space battleships, and Xinyuehu was among them.

The captain of Xinyuehu issued an order.

"Drag the knife."

The simple three words are actually very complicated to execute. It originally refers to the strategy of an ancient military general pretending to be defeated, lowering his sword, taking advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness, and suddenly turning back to attack. When used on a space battleship, it is very difficult. And the degree of danger is much greater.

To change from being chased and intercepted to being chased, one must make substantial sacrifices.

Namely, being targeted by the attacking weapons of the Imperial warships.

There is essentially no difference between the battle between space battleships and the battle between fighter jets. Both sides rely on high-tech weapons to launch attacks. Whoever can lock the opponent will have the initiative to attack.

The space battleship Xinyuehu, which poured a round of firepower, lost its active position in air combat as if it had made a mistake.

The imperial battleship that had successfully locked onto the space battleship Xinyuehu suddenly came in pursuit as if it had been injected with chicken blood.

After carrying out the task of launching reconnaissance satellites and other devices, their second mission is to cruise and fly over alien planets, and use their own reconnaissance devices to conduct reconnaissance of the Federation's forces, bases, etc. on alien planets.

The third task is the bombing mission, which is to bomb the discovered federal ground forces and the location of the barracks. Compared with medium and long-range missiles, this kind of air strike will be more difficult to defend because of the shortened attack distance.

If they were lucky, they could return to Battle Scar Gulch, where under normal circumstances, they would be destroyed by the swarming Federation space fleet in the course of carrying out these three missions.

In the sky of alien stars, the Federal Space Fleet has the final say.

Therefore, if a federal space battleship can be shot down in the process, even if they are destroyed by a subsequent attack, the meritorious service they can get is enough for their family to last for three generations.

The two space battleships were chasing in space, and then because of the active lure of the space battleship Xinyuehu, they entered the extremely thin atmosphere of the alien star.

Due to the different engine structures, the alien atmospheric environment that cannot allow fighter jets and helicopters to fly will not affect the flight of space battleships and spaceships.

In a certain area of ​​the command center of the Nantianmen Space Station, many people are paying attention to this chase.

Seeing that Xinyuehu's knife-dragging scheme put them in danger, some people couldn't help raising doubts.

"Colonel Ji Xinghe, are you really sure to guarantee your own safety in the pursuit and bombing of a space battleship?"

"If it's just because Colonel Ji Xinghe doesn't want his journey to be too boring, we have to face the risk that the Xinyuehu may be shot down, isn't it a bit inappropriate?"

"After the empire discovered Colonel Ji Xinghe, it once again dispatched duke-level mechas, or a large number of imperial noble mechas to chase and intercept. How can the safety of Colonel Ji Xinghe be guaranteed?"

In the face of these doubts, a major general, Longzhou, who was in charge of commanding the operation, responded in a decisive tone.

"The space battleship Xinyuehu belongs to our Longzhou Space Fleet, and Colonel Ji Xinghe belongs to our Longzhou Orbital Airborne Mecha Corps. Our Longzhou has the right to pass and implement such a combat plan."

"..."

The height of the problem was raised, and someone said bitterly: "We are also for the safety of Colonel Ji Xinghe."

"You also know that he is Colonel Ji Xinghe?"

The major general looked at the holographic screen in front of him blankly, noticing that the Xinyuehu had lured the Imperial spaceship to the sky above the coordinates of Ji Xinghe, and his tone was calm but full of confidence.

"Your worries are meaningless. Now, what you should worry about is the Imperial Space Battleship. Because they are going to face Colonel Ji Xinghe."