"Oh my god! These bandits are running so fast!"
Pulling the bayonet from the body of the looters, the big-eyed debtor standing on the trench glanced at the bottom of the slope in front.
On the hillside below the high ground, dozens of bodies were lying crookedly, as well as rifles and shovels thrown by the fleeing looters.
This is the high ground on the north side of Songlinyu, and it is also the position of the Bear Tooth Thousand Man Team.
Just ten minutes ago, the Death Corps fired a round of mortars at the looters hiding here digging pits as usual.
Having been harassed by the mortars of the New Alliance for a whole day, the looters hiding on the high ground have long been accustomed to it. They lay calmly in the half-dug trenches and waited for the gunfire to stop before continuing to dig.
However, what they didn't expect was that this time when they raised their heads, they were facing a bunch of shining bayonets.
Those looters who were digging fortifications never dreamed that the New Alliance, with only so few people, would dare to charge back at their positions!
What they didn't expect was that as soon as the mortars on the opposite side stopped, these people rushed up to kill them.
In short, when they came to their senses, it was too late.
The whistle and shouts of the charge almost rushed to their faces while stepping on the smoking craters.
At this time, many looters even had shovels in their hands, and the rifles thrown on the ground were not even loaded. .
The construction site boy and Brick jumped into the trench first, and the automatic rifles in their hands fired a burst of gunfire, instantly setting off a bloody storm in the narrow tunnel.
The looters who were sent to dig pits were the third-line combat power in the tribe.
Although they also followed Xiongya from the north of the Valley Province to the south, they usually chased others and fought.
Where have you seen such a fierce fighting style!
Especially when they saw the awakened centurion being stabbed into a sieve by several bayonets, the morale of the remaining two hundred people collapsed instantly. They had no courage to resist at all. They just wished their parents had given them two less legs and fled to the forest at the foot of the mountain in panic.
In less than ten minutes, the battle was over.
Kakarot looked to the north with a telescope. The fleeing soldiers of the plunderers had already fled into the woods north of the highlands.
"…The reinforcements will probably arrive soon. According to the intelligence from the air force, Xiong Ya and his men seem to be stationed in a mountain valley about five kilometers to the north."
Debt Big Eyes said with a grin.
"Do they still have a thousand people now?"
"I don't know. The organization of these plunderers is weird. A team of ten may have twenty people, and a team of a thousand may not have exactly a thousand people."
The construction site boy and the brick looked at the edge paddling on the side.
"Captain, what do you say?"
The edge paddling said with a smile.
"What else do you need to say? Bury the explosives!"
"Didn't the brothers of the Burning Corps say that they would blow up the toilets of these beasts? We can't let down the high hopes of our allies."
At this point, he suddenly remembered something and added another sentence.
"By the way, take back the rifles, shovels, earth-moving carts, and sacks of earth they left behind. We will confiscate them!"
Hearing this, everyone's faces showed an evil smile at the same time.
"Okay!"
After burying T-En-T in the Predator's trench, Brother Edge quickly led his men back to the southern hilltop before the enemy reinforcements arrived, and without saying a word, he got into the anti-artillery cave.
After waiting for a full hour, the artillery on the opposite side finally arrived and fired several rounds of 100mm artillery at their positions.
When the shells landed on the players' positions, except for a few who were still on duty, the other players had already gone offline.
Even dinner was eaten in reality.
The looters who had previously abandoned their positions and fled returned to the high ground under the encouragement of the artillery and the threat of Bear Fang.
However, what shocked them was that the people of the New Alliance not only picked up the weapons and ammunition they had dropped, but also dragged away the shovels, carts, and even the bags for soil.
The entire position was plundered bare, and even the corpses were dragged together and poured with fuel and burned, leaving them with nothing.
Who is the looter? !
Due to the lack of tools, they could only wait for supplies to be delivered from behind while gritting their teeth and using local materials, or simply digging with their hands.
When the looters returned to the trenches, their nightmare really began with a series of explosions...
...
North of Dawn City.
In the weapons testing field.
A scrapped Conqueror No. 10 tank was parked in the middle of the open space.
The twisted steel had been deformed, only three pairs of road wheels were left, and a big hole was opened in the chassis, and the whole body was black.
Previously, the Black Snake Thousand Team drove this tank to the northern suburbs to collect money, and the ammunition rack and fuel tank were blown up on the spot by the "Crawler" quadruped robot carrying bombs.
After that, the tank was dragged into the industrial zone for repeated disassembly and research. After the last bit of value was squeezed out, it was thrown into the weapons test site as a target.
At this moment, Chu Guang was standing at the edge of the shooting range with Vanus, reviewing the latest anti-armor weapons developed by Goblin Technology.
According to the battle report sent from the front line, the plunderers have begun to learn to be smart and are thinking about converting light trucks into anti-aircraft trucks.
Although the Goblin Corps' air force has already raised the plunderer's factory with the cooperation of the Burning Corps, Chu Guang does not think they will put all their eggs in one basket.
Those predators will definitely be more careful in the future.
They may even move the factory from the surface to the underground.
The predators have obviously realized that without reliable anti-aircraft weapons, their tanks can only be live targets on the front line.
And without the protection of armored units, they must pay multiple casualties to take Qingshi County back from the hands of the New Alliance.
Before the tanks of the Ya clan go to the front line, the New Alliance needs more and more effective anti-armor means to cope with the ever-changing battlefield.
"Start testing equipment No. 1."
"Received!"
Hearing the manager's order, Mosquito waved his hand, and the player with the ID called Killing God immediately trotted to the edge of the shooting range.
Half-crouching behind the shooting bunker made of sandbags, Killing God skillfully took out the recoilless gun barrel in the box, unfolded the folding bracket and completed the installation.
Loading, aiming, opening the safety...
The whole set of actions is smooth and seamless.
With a bang, thick smoke and armor-piercing shells rushed out of the launch tube, dragging a column of smoke towards the tank a hundred meters away.
The moment the missile hit, the left armor of the tank exploded with sparks and thick smoke.
"The hit is valid!"
Seeing this, the soul chaser who was waiting on the side first shouted, then immediately ran forward to check, and then shouted excitedly.
"It's penetrated! It's penetrated!"
The other life professional players standing by and watching couldn't help but shout excitedly.
"Awesome!!"
"666!"
"This is too cruel!"
Many of these players are newcomers who came in during the Beta version, and were recruited into Goblin Technology by Brother Mosquito because of their "special skills".
I have always heard Mosquito bragging on the forum, and now I finally saw it with my own eyes.
Of course, there are also big players who disagree.
"What's so great about blowing up a piece of junk?"
"This tank looks like it's only at the level of a T72."
"That's exaggerated. It's at the peak of World War II at best. I don't even see any reactive armor. An RPG can penetrate it in minutes."
"That's nonsense. The Tiger has this kind of defense? It's obviously composite armor, okay!"
The two little players started arguing about the performance of the tank.
But this was just a small episode.
Chu Guang, standing aside, looked at the wreckage of the Conqueror No. 10 not far away with a satisfied smile on his face.
But because of his majestic personality, his smile was not very obvious when there were many people around.
There was only one person with a heavy expression in the entire shooting range.
That was Vanus.
He used to be a centurion of the legion and knew better than anyone the true strength of the Conqueror No. 10 tank.
He just shook his head and poured a basin of cold water on it.
"It's useless."
"This is the twelfth experiment."
"Even if it penetrates, it doesn't mean anything."
Although he couldn't understand what those people were shouting, he didn't need to understand their excited expressions. He could guess with his toes what those people were happy about.
A scrapped tank.
It took twelve rounds to penetrate, and it was the side armor.
As long as the infantry and vehicle-mounted machine guns around the tank were not decorations, they would never have so many opportunities to fire on the battlefield.
Mosquito obviously realized this problem.
After the excitement passed, he scratched his head in confusion.
"It's unscientific..."
"This armor is too tough!"
Benchmarked against T72?
T72 is not that tough.
Before the improved model came out, the side armor was only 80mm.
What's more, they used hollow charge armor-piercing shells.
Without N shield, ERA, or grille on the side, let alone the old Russian T72, even the M1 and Leopard II would be scared. Especially for the Leopard II, where the ammunition rack is placed inside the vehicle body, if there is a pencil-sized hole in the left front, the head will be blown off if you are unlucky.
In order to improve the armor-piercing ability, the Mosquito even sacrificed the effective range. While maintaining the propellant unchanged, the weight of the III warhead warhead was increased by 1.5 times.
At present, this model is named tandem armor-piercing projectile by him. Although the range is quite touching, only 150m, the maximum penetration depth on the vertical plane has reached an astonishing 400mm!
The side armor of this Conqueror No. 10 tank does not look so thick, and there is no reactive armor on the outside.
Mosquito thought about it and could only think of two possibilities.
There must be a bug!
It's definitely not his problem anyway!
Listening to Mosquito's mumbling, Chu Guang relayed his confusion to Vanus who was standing next to him.
After listening to Mosquito's confusion, the latter gave a very concise answer.
"...The main tank of the Legion is the Conqueror No. 5 light tank. It is generally not very armored against mutant creatures or survivor settlements. The Conqueror No. 10 heavy tank was designed with forces with certain industrial capabilities such as the Great Rift Valley and Enterprise as its imaginary enemy."
"Composite armor, positive pressure three-defense system, low dependence on electronic devices, sustained combat performance... these are all key points in the design."
"Especially armor, the Conqueror No. 10's body armor has a special ceramic and fiber interlayer between two layers of homogeneous steel. The surface of the interlayer is The surface is also protected by a lightweight, high-temperature resistant porous material. After the metal jet of a general armor-piercing projectile penetrates the first layer of homogeneous steel, it will spread along the surface of the second layer along the interlayer, causing the jet to quickly lose focus. "
"It is meaningless to simply discuss the thickness of the armor. The metal jet of the armor-piercing projectile cannot penetrate the second layer at all. If it is an original, intact Conqueror No. 10, you may not be able to use ten rounds of armor-piercing projectiles. It is better to use hard core armor-piercing directly, which may be easier to penetrate."
As we all know, once the metal jet loses focus, it is like a water gun with a shower connected to the muzzle, and the armor-piercing ability is directly reduced to zero.
It is the consistent strategic thinking of the Legion to defeat the opponent with sufficient quantity and relatively cheap cost. The purpose of the Conqueror No. 10 tank is not to surpass the armor of the Great Rift Valley in performance, but to increase the cost of destroying the opponent.
If any infantryman carrying a recoilless gun can destroy the tank, the armor torrent will lose its meaning.
The reason why it was able to penetrate the tank at the twelfth round was largely because the tank had been used as a target countless times.
Maybe the metal jet of the armor-piercing projectile would fill up the "flow-guiding gap" on the surface of the interlayer!
Chu Guang was not discouraged by Vanus's answer, but just smiled faintly.
"It's okay. If we can't deal with Conqueror No. 10, it's no problem to bully light and medium vehicles. What's more, if the armor-piercing projectile doesn't work, we have other ways."
Vanus asked curiously.
"Oh? For example?"
Chu Guang looked at Mosquito.
"Let's start testing equipment No. 2."
Seeing the manager talking to him, Mosquito nodded quickly.
"Okay!"
It's reasonable that the customer is not satisfied with the power of equipment No. 1, and he himself is not very satisfied with the power of that thing.
But it doesn't matter.
He designed two countermeasures for Conqueror No. 10, and using tandem armor-piercing projectiles with greater penetration is just one of them.
If you can't get through, then blow it up!
The wreckage of the tank at the shooting range could not withstand the second tossing, and Mosquito took Chu Guang and Vanus to the test site of the No. 2 weapon.
A reinforced concrete fortification was built on the bare land. The entire fortification imitated the shape of a tank and simulated the structure of the vehicle body and road wheels.
Vanus didn't say anything after seeing this thing.
However, when his eyes fell on the aluminum alloy bracket behind the shooting bunker and the six-rotor drone on the bracket, he was stunned.
"This is..."
Before Chu Guang spoke, Mosquito, who was standing beside him, had already introduced it with great excitement.
"This is the No. 2 equipment built by our Goblin Technology for the Conquest Tank - the 'Switchblade' suicide drone! Of course, I prefer to call it the 'flying anti-everything IED'!"
Vanus looked confused.
Even after reading the simultaneous translation on the VM, he didn't understand what this guy was saying.
But Mosquito himself didn't say it to him.
There is only one person who has the power to make the final decision and place the order for the purchase of arms, and that is the manager standing next to him.
He only needs to make this person feel comfortable!
"…The six-rotor structure ensures maneuverability! The solid-state hydrogen battery ensures endurance! Due to the aerodynamic design of the casing, it can fold the rotors after locking the target and glide without power! We have improved the motor output power of the drone, and its maximum load capacity can even reach 15 kg!"
"15 kg load! Hehe, if all of it is used to carry mixed explosives, its explosive power can even be comparable to two 155mm series!"
"We designed two warheads for the switchblade, which can be installed on the top of the drone or hung under the drone to dive and attack the top. Because the rotor is foldable, our switchblade can not only take off and land on the ground, but also be ejected or airdropped."
"In a word, this thing can be anti-armor and anti-infantry, very useful!"
The entire drone is roughly equivalent to an enlarged version of the Y-1 Firefly. The motor is produced by the Lister factory, the carbon nanometer design is completed by the scientific expedition team, and the control program is Xiaoqi's masterpiece.
As for the completion of Goblin Technology, it is mainly aerodynamic design and warhead design.
Compared to the portable drone that can be stuffed into a backpack, the shape of this "switchblade" is more like the plant protection drone commonly seen in the agricultural field.
After finally reading the translation on the VM, Vanus looked at Chu Guang with a strange look on his face.
"So... this thing is equivalent to a drone with a remote-controlled bomb tied to it?"
Chu Guang was quite satisfied with the shape of this thing and said with a smile.
"Is it not possible?"
Vanus was silent for a while and gave an uncertain answer.
"It's not impossible, but the conditions are extremely harsh."
"How harsh are they?"
Vanus answered carefully.
"Only under certain circumstances can the kinetic energy of the explosive be concentrated on the armor surface. If you just throw the bomb on it... a ten-kilogram warhead may not be enough."
Generally, the shock wave of explosives spreads in all directions, and in order to achieve the effect of armor penetration, the kinetic energy generated by the explosion must be transmitted to the armor surface as much as possible.
And the contact surface needs to be as small as possible.
If you just throw the bomb up, ten kilograms of explosives will probably only scrape off a little paint, unless it's a monster like metallic hydrogen with a detonation speed of 24,000.
As for the "solid hydrogen" produced independently by the New Alliance?
The power is far worse.
Chu Guang didn't care about Vanus's doubts, but just smiled happily.
"... So as long as certain conditions are met, a ten-kilogram warhead can also paralyze Conqueror No. 10, right?"
Vanus nodded.
"The only weakness of Conqueror No. 10 is the chassis, which is the weakest part of the vehicle armor. But you can't expect to be so lucky every time, taking advantage of the surrounding infantry not paying attention to break the track and stuff the explosives under the chassis to detonate."
Chu Guang didn't say anything, but waved his hand, indicating that Mosquito could start.
Seeing the manager's actions, Mosquito immediately trotted excitedly to the side of the launcher and drove away the God of Killer who was about to operate it for him.
This opportunity to show off in front of the camp leader NPC, how could he let others come?
"Get out of here, let me do it!"
The God of Killing was immediately unhappy.
"Damn! Didn't we agree that I would test it?"
Mosquito continued without blushing.
"I told you to test the armor-piercing shells, not the switchblade. Listen to me, this equipment is difficult to operate, I'm afraid you can't control it, let me do it!"
"@#%￥!"
This is not a fixed-wing aircraft, how difficult is it to operate!
The God of Killing walked away cursing.
After driving away the younger brother standing next to the launch pad, Mosquito directly connected the drone with VM and synchronized the drone camera image on the screen.
Target locked!
Route setting completed!
Launch!
As the button was pressed, the drone lying on the launch pad bounced out from the launch pad like an arrow.
The propellers roared, and everyone watched the drone speeding along the ground. In a flash, it flew hundreds of meters away and plunged directly into the crotch of the concrete tank.
With a loud bang, the flames of the explosion shot up into the sky, and the thick smoke instantly rose twenty or thirty meters, actually lifting the concrete tank from the ground and blowing it into pieces!
The dust cleared.
Only a bomb crater more than ten meters wide and concrete debris scattered around were left on the ground.
Even the steel bars in the cement were blown into pieces, and there was not a single intact one.
The crowd watching on the side dodged the falling dirt and stone chips.
Vanus, who was standing next to Chu Guang, did not move, and everyone was stunned.
A drone carrying a remote-controlled bomb drilled into the crotch of a tank?
Can it be played like this?
No matter how you think about it, the cost of drones and remote-controlled bombs is much cheaper than those anti-tank missiles.
"Beautiful!"
Chu Guang, clenching his fists, could not help but shout "good".
Although it was a concrete target, it was so powerful that even a real tank would not be able to drive out of the explosion smoke intact.
Looking at Mosquito who was walking towards him, Chu Guang coughed lightly and said with a serious expression.
"I am very satisfied with Plan No. 2. It would be better if the mobility was a little stronger!"
"I plan to purchase 100 aircraft and require them to be completed within a month. Can you do it?"
When Mosquito heard this, he immediately patted his chest and promised, vowing.
"Don't worry, respected manager, Goblin Technology never disappoints his customers!"
Chu Guang looked at Vanus, with a hint of boasting in his smile.
"How is it? Is this powerful enough?"
Vanus's Adam's apple moved, and he nodded with his eyes wide open.
"...Maybe? If your drone can fly over without being shot down."
This thing is powerful, but its speed is not as fast as missiles and artillery shells, and the noise of the propeller is also a big problem.
But in terms of power alone, even he can't find fault with it.
Anyway, if he were to drive a tank, he would definitely not want to be hit by such a bullet under his butt.
After all, even if the tank can withstand it, the people inside can't!
Chu Guang looked at the concrete wreckage not far away, with a happy smile on his face.
"Don't worry about this problem. By the end of the month, we can have at least 100 switchblades, and our enemies have at most 20 to 30 tanks."
"Even if 10 drones are exchanged for one of their tanks."
"It will definitely be more profitable for us!"