Traveling through the infinite wasteland

Around one o'clock in the afternoon, the main mecha forces of both sides were active on the battlefield again. The resistance army still had no way to stop the empire's advance. As the occupied area became smaller and smaller, the disadvantage of the resistance army became more and more obvious.

While the battle in Pompeii was fierce, the three black stars in the desert between Cambes and Pompeii were impatient to wait.

According to Kai's estimation, it was impossible for the resistance army in Cambes to watch Pompeii fall like this, so it was impossible for the twenty high-mobility mechas in Cambes to be inactive. At least they should appear on the outside of Pompeii to help the defenders inside Pompeii share some pressure.

But until now, the horizon in the direction of Cambes was still quiet, not even a truck appeared, let alone a mecha.

"Captain, I don't think they will show up. Why don't we attack Cambes." Matthew said while chewing gum.

"At two o'clock, it's time for us to replenish the mecha's energy. If the other party doesn't show up before then, we will attack Cambes." Gaia said. In the original plan, Kai would send a supply convoy around one and a half o'clock. They replenished the mecha energy. At this time, the mechas on standby in the wild had about half of their remaining energy, and half an hour was enough to recharge their batteries.

"clear."

At 2:30 in the afternoon, the armored troops led by the Black Tristar launched an attack on Cambes. At this time, less than half of Pompeii had fallen into the hands of the empire.

"Ask the Third Brigade of the Desert Division to go to Cambes to reinforce the Black Three Stars." After Kai learned the news, he did not hesitate to dedicate his only full reserve team. The 1st Brigade of the Desert Division was currently fighting on the front lines, while the 3rd Brigade was withdrawn for repairs after losing nearly half of it.

The balance of the war is tilting more and more towards the Empire. As the area of ​​activity decreases, Night's Death Cross can no longer avoid a head-on conflict with the Empire's mecha troops. The first to be hit hard was the third commando team led by Jimmy. Four of their mechas were caught red-handed by an empire squadron. Although Jimmy gave the order to retreat in time, two Bears were still destroyed. Lelina survived because she was the commando defender and walked last. Jimmy escaped because of the flexibility of the Tiger.

"Why didn't the ground personnel discover these imperial mechas?" Jimmy slammed the mecha's control panel.

"These Imperial mechas are hiding behind the building. It makes sense that the ground personnel didn't see them." Lelina said softly.

"It's over. The instructor will definitely kill me this time."

"There is nothing we can do about this. After all, the empire deliberately set up an ambush. The instructor will not blame you."

Ye did what Lelina said. She did not blame Jimmy. She just communicated the situation with the Third Commando Group and asked them to pay attention to the empire's ambush. Then she asked Jimmy and the others to follow Dennis.

"Instructor, the situation is quite bad." He looked at the two mechas going away. Wang Hui said to Ye with a wry smile.

"It's not bad, it's pretty bad." Although the First Commando used the complex terrain and the Imperial mecha to kill two mechas in hide-and-seek near the front lines of both sides, Shi's mecha was also killed when it crossed the Imperial front line. The Empire's particle rocket launcher hit the leg joint and exited the battle. If the resistance infantry had not launched a timely offensive at that time, Shi would have been drinking tea in the Empire's temporary prisoner of war camp.

"Well, there's not the slightest movement from Cambes. It seems that the empire's seal is very tight. It's impossible for us to get even a single bullet from the outside."

"Wang Hui, what I hope right now is to postpone it until night, so that we can retreat under the cover of night. Prue of the Empire cannot follow us by throwing flares all the way." Ye planned to retreat at night. Because there is no point in holding on to Pompeii, Cambas has not sent reinforcements so far, which shows that the resistance army no longer has the ability to maintain Pompeii's supplies. If you continue to defend, it will only be a dead end with no ammunition and food. Ye will not bury Death Cross in this dead end in vain.

The commander of the Resistance Army also seemed to realize that Cambes was unable to reinforce him. In order to ease the pressure on the Cross of Death and prevent the heavy equipment that could not be easily transferred from falling into the hands of the Empire, he chose to send out artillery units. He originally planned to use These artillerymen sniped the Imperial artillery at night to relieve the pressure of the Imperial artillery on their own side. However, at this time, it was questionable whether Pompeii could survive until the night without reinforcements. These artillery pieces began to enter the temporary fortifications built by the resistance forces. Waiting for the arrival of Imperial troops.

The participation of artillery in the battle reduced the pressure on the infantry a lot, and the resistance line of defense once supported the empire's offensive. Make it impossible for the opponent to advance further. However, the Empire quickly figured out the artillery positions and tried its best to avoid some sections of the road during the attack. Use detour attacks to force the resistance to abandon their positions.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, when the sunset began to slowly sink into the earth, the resistance army had lost control of nearly three-quarters of the city. Their infantry units were physically and mentally exhausted, lacked water and medicine, and their artillery units had been exhausted. All their ammunition, and their mecha units, lit up with low energy warnings.

Ye led Death Cross to quickly retreat to the fourth underground hangar. This is the only underground hangar of the Resistance Army in the southeastern city. Although its location is close to the edge of the city, which is not ideal, Ye can only take it with him. Mecha goes there.

Only three mechas returned to the hangar at the same night, namely Wang Hui, Dennis and Lelina. Wang Hui and Dennis were the best pilots in the entire unit, while Lelina was the luckiest pilot today. , her mecha suffered the smallest damage among the four.

If Lerina is lucky, then Jimmy is the unlucky guy today. After being hit twice by the Empire, his mecha was hit in the shoulder during an encounter with the Empire after rendezvousing with the Third Commando. The armor-piercing projectile jammed after being deflected by the armor's force. In the back jetpack. When Jimmy tried to use the ion jet engine to accelerate his retreat, this hidden danger exploded, blowing the Tiger's back into a mess. Jimmy, who was unconscious, became the first Resistance pilot to be captured.

After the night jump, the original coloring of the bear pose was almost invisible. He took a glass of ice water from the ground staff and drank it. Then he looked around blankly, and found that in the past, as long as he clicked on the mecha, Johnny would appear. Now, Johnny beside him was nowhere to be seen. Somewhat worried about this straightforward black tall man, Ye pulled a ground crew member and asked, "Qiao Ni." Where is Ni?"

"The fighting on the front line is tense. Commander Johnny took his troops to the n7 theater to help, sir."

"Oh." Ye frowned. That area is the area where the guard battalion of the Resistance Army leader Zakayev is responsible for defense. It is the area where the Resistance Army has the strongest combat effectiveness.

Ye Wanwan in the hangar didn't know that when they withdrew, the empire's mecha troops did not return to their hangar. The Imperial troops, who did not need to move as frequently as Ye and the others, saved nearly a quarter of their energy during the battle. This energy was enough for them to launch an offensive and capture the strongest defense area of ​​the Resistance Army. The location of the wartime headquarters, the n7 theater.

In order to prevent possible raids from the empire, Ye took a short rest outside and then got into the narrow cockpit of the Bear. Wang Hui and Lelina on the other side also entered their own mechas and were on standby, but they were restless. Dennis was still sitting on the boxes piled on the hangar floor, dangling his feet and drinking water.

Just as the imperial troops were fighting in the N7 theater, news came from Cambes that boosted their morale. The mobile troops led by the Black Three Stars had successfully captured most of the urban areas of Cambes. It is hoped that they can capture the Resistance's town at the same time as them.

The Black Three Stars themselves did not expect to be able to capture Cambes so smoothly. This was all thanks to the mecha troops of the Resistance Army that did not appear because there was no interference from them. Only with Gaia and the others can they demolish the buildings into rubble with peace of mind.

"The resistance's mecha troops must be frightened by us." Matthew said in his cockpit.

"Who knows, anyway, the Prussian troops just called and said that they saw twenty mechas leaving Cambes at high speed, which means that they were always there before, but they just didn't fight with us. What you said is very likely, Ma Hugh." Ordiga also laughed.

"But this is really boring, demolishing buildings until you are weak. If only the pilots of the Resistance Army had one-tenth the courage of their infantry."

"That's right. That should be fun for us. But, it backfired. We can only sit in the back bored now."

"I don't know what Xiaoda and the others think, so keen on demolishing houses. Does he think that if more houses are demolished, the resistance's mecha troops will emerge from the ruins like rats?"

"Hahaha, the Resistance Army and Buos pilots are worse than mice."

Just as the two were using various mocking words to describe the resistance forces and Buos pilots who had collapsed without a fight, the imperial troops who had invaded the resistance-controlled area in the southwest of the city panicked and rushed towards the team. The horrified voice of Oda Jiro at the front came from the earphones of the three people, "Southwest of the city, we found the resistance army ****, repeat, we found the resistance army ****, all troops..."

A rocket slowly rose from the ground. Suddenly, this behemoth transformed into an extremely dazzling sun suspended above the ground, completely covering up the afterglow of the setting sun and becoming a nightmare for the emperor in Cambes.

In the tunnel leading to the fourth underground hangar in the N7 war zone, four jeeps were shuttling at high speed. Johnny in the car was driving his car crazily, trying to get to Ye as quickly as possible. A few minutes ago, his men accidentally heard the communication from Cambes, and he was frightened to death on the spot, because in the communication, members of the Zakayev Guard Battalion in Cambes mentioned four words, detonating a **** . Combined with his previous conversations with the soldiers in the guard camp, the other party revealed their confidence that they could definitely eliminate the imperial troops. This tall black man had no doubt at all that these soldiers in the guard camp must also have the weapons mentioned in the communication. ****.

"You haven't been contacted yet?" Johnny anxiously urged Nims who was sitting in his car.

"The interference is too serious, sir, and the power of our communicator is too low. Damn it." Nims was also sweating profusely. He called again and again, but what came from the communicator was always interference. The hissing sound.

"Nims, send the communication from the public channel, so maybe friendly forces can help us pass the information to the commander."

"Do it immediately, Captain."

"This is the Independent Mobile Battalion. Captain Jonny Williams, the battalion commander, is informing all resistance fighters that we have discovered a large-yield bomb in the N7 theater. Repeat, we have discovered a large-yield bomb in the N7 theater. As soon as possible, all personnel must evacuate Pompeii immediately. All personnel must evacuate Pompeii immediately." The radio waves carried frightening information and spread over Pompeii.

The resistance army fell into a brief confusion, but people soon came to their senses. Some of them chose to believe Jonny and Mrs. Ames' personal bodyguards, and quickly organized the evacuation of personnel, while the remaining people chose to believe Their new leader, because the guard battalion under him is still stationed in the n7 theater.

At the same time, in the Pompeii underground bunker, the soldiers of the Zakayev Guard Battalion were gathering around their commanders. A high-power communication device conveyed the situation in Cambes, "Comrades, our comrades in Cambes The bomb was detonated and the sacred mission entrusted to them by His Excellency Zakayev was completed. Now, in order to prevent the emperor from being prepared, and in order to prevent the blood of our soldiers from flowing, I have decided that we must also complete our mission, immediately detonate our ****."

"Roar." The surrounding soldiers roared bloodthirstyly. As Zakayev's fanatical followers, they regarded the sacrifice of the Mediterranean as an honor.

In the fourth hangar, the cables connected to the four mechas fell off one after another. After completing the energy replenishment, Ye and the others came to the ground of Pompeii again with the help of the elevator. At this moment, a flash of light flashed in Ye's heart. Ominously, following the prompts in his mind, he locked onto the unknown source, a rocket rising from the N7 war zone.

"****." Ye said unconsciously. His feeling told him that the thing that was rising was the super weapon banned from use by the Empire and the Federation in the Earth Treaty. *** *.

"What. Instructor?" Wang Hui didn't hear Qing Ye's muttering to himself, and curiously asked Ye who was suddenly stunned.

Wang Hui's words shocked Ye Yi, who withdrew from his world of perception and immediately reminded: "****, all mechas, be prepared for impact and resistance."

"****? Instructor, are you kidding me? Ah..." Wang Hui thought Ye was joking, but a fireball erupted over the N7 theater, and the dazzling flash marked it as extraordinary.

The fireball became brighter and brighter. When it reached its peak, the world, time and space seemed to be stunned. Immediately, an unparalleled shock wave spread from the N7 theater with high temperatures, and swept through the entire Pompeii at high speed.

The fireball expanded at an unimaginable speed and caught up with Prue who was trying to escape from it in the air. Before the flames engulfed these fighters, these fighters had already been hit by the EMP shock wave generated by the explosion. The electronic system short-circuited and lost control, running at full speed. The ion engines exploded one after another, tearing some unfortunate Prue to pieces. The engines of the remaining fighter jets also completely dimmed. They lost power and rolled helplessly in the violent airflow. They were then enveloped in fireballs and turned into fireworks in the sky. (To be continued)