Cairo is located at the southern end of the Nile Delta, and the entire city is divided into two parts by the Nile River.
In Cairo in 2154, two urban areas that were originally separated by a wide river were occupied by rebels and government forces respectively. The two sides were engaged in a protracted tug of war with the river as the boundary.
More than a dozen bridges on the river connecting the east and west urban areas have been blown up by the rebels, leaving only an underwater tunnel controlled by government forces.
In order to protect this tunnel that can reach the other side of the river, the government forces paid the price of thousands of casualties. Even the colonel, who was used to seeing strong winds and waves, could not help but tremble slightly when talking about the heavy casualties.
After the group arrived at the frontline headquarters, Lieutenant General Shahbut, the top commander of the government forces, warmly received the Star Clusters who came to support them. He affirmed and praised the extremely high efficiency of the Star Clusters and bluntly stated the severe situation of the government forces. Will get great relief with their help.
Due to its excellent location and good environment, the frontline headquarters was transformed from a requisitioned luxury hotel. With everyone's feet on the soft red carpet and surrounding the huge electronic sand table, the lieutenant general briefly introduced the current battlefield situation to the officers of the Star Cluster.
Just a few hours ago, a fierce battle broke out between government forces and rebels on an artificial island in the middle of the river. Because they were not sure whether all civilians in the war zone had been evacuated, both sides refrained from using heavy weapons. .
Even though it's already 2154, and weapon technology is much more advanced than it was a hundred or two hundred years ago, humans still can't give a high-scoring answer to street fighting.
Gaining control of a building or even a floor would cost hundreds of casualties. In Lieutenant General Shahbut's plan, the island should have been included in his occupation during the attack hours ago. area, and cooperated with the underwater tunnel to launch a fierce attack on the city of Imbabai, which is directly opposite the headquarters.
Worried about the rebels' undiscovered explosives in the tunnel, Lieutenant General Shahbut did not dare to send precious armored troops through the tunnel to the other side of the river, and had to take the safer route of artificial islands.
The delay on the island has made the lieutenant general hesitant to give up the search and rescue of civilians, and first launch a carpet bombing of the rebel-controlled areas on the island before launching a second attack.
However, the cluster of stars with high-tech equipment gave him hope of winning.
"So, you want my troops to launch a feint attack in the October Bridge area to attract the attention of the rebels on the island?"
Lieutenant Colonel Ramsay, the leader of the Star Cluster, squinted his eyes and studied the symbols on the electronic sand table carefully, refusing to miss any detail.
He must be careful for the safety of his soldiers and his own life.
Lieutenant General Shahbut's plan is very simple. As long as the rebels on the island cannot withstand the pressure and send more troops to the October Bridge, he will immediately send an armored brigade to penetrate the rebels' weak defense line and attack the rebels on the island. The army carried out division and encirclement, thus cooperating with the Star Cluster to completely seize control of the island.
After checking the possible deployment of the rebel forces on the map, Lieutenant Colonel Ramsay exhaled.
Because there are still a large number of civilians in the city on the other side of the river, for the government forces who are unable to use their hands and feet, there is currently no more effective and practical method than Shahbut's plan.
After receiving this order, Ramsay quickly returned to the Star Cluster's station. There were still two hours before sunset when the planned attack was launched. He could also add details of the operation with the staff of the Star Cluster.
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"咻咻咻......"
The overwhelming rockets trailed orange-red tail flames and flew towards the rebel positions in the air. This was the fire preparation of the rocket artillery troops in the rear before the attack.
More than a dozen long-range self-propelled rocket launchers imported from the Pan-Asian Alliance can launch more than two hundred large-caliber rockets with a range of more than 300 kilometers in a few minutes. Even if some of the charges were reduced to allow troops to better take over the position, the breathtaking fireballs of the explosions were still clearly visible on the rebel positions.
Under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Ramsey, the Star Cluster launched a fierce feint attack on time amid the scream of rockets.
The five-man combat team composed of four humans and one Z-1 robot quickly broke into pieces according to the established tactics, and divided into hundreds of combat teams. Under the last ray of sunset, they entered the densely built area on the island.
Twenty exoskeleton warriors are responsible for guarding Lieutenant Colonel Ramsay's forward headquarters from being beheaded by an elite squad of rebels.
Such small team penetration tactics are far from sophisticated in Lieutenant Colonel Ramsay's opinion, but this is already the best tactic he can use to deal with such tricky situations as urban street fighting.
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Under the gradually darkening sky, a five-person combat team from the Star Cluster carefully walked to the second floor of a supermarket.
The pitch-black Z-1 robot quickly rotates its head detector, quickly scanning and analyzing threats that may be hidden in the dim environment. The team leader can check the robot's analysis results at any time through the arm computer and issue commands that suit the situation.
Even in the castrated version, the Z-1 robot of the Star Group can still carry hundreds of kilograms of weight. On the ever-changing battlefield, this means that the soldiers of the Star Group can carry more supplies and weapons and equipment.
Just like this five-person team, in addition to hundreds of kilograms of bulletproof armor welded to the body of the Z-1 robot, the storage bags on the chest and limbs also carry hundreds of energy magazines and sufficient first aid medicine, ensuring that the four people Soldiers can fight until the end.
The robot also carries a device that looks like an enlarged version of a compass on its back, which is the latest research result of the Star Group - the red laser active defense system.
After confirming that there were no enemy soldiers or civilians in the supermarket, the leader of the combat team walked to a broken window and raised his binoculars to look at the rebel positions, hoping to find a few exposed rebels.
Unfortunately, the high temperature escaping from the rocket explosion made the telescope's thermal imaging function almost useless, and only vaguely visible raging fires were still burning in the buildings and positions.
After communicating with the leaders of several surrounding groups, a platoon-level combat unit consisting of twenty human soldiers and five Z-1 robots began to move toward a suspected rebel outpost.
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"Hey Sharaf, did you hear anything!?"
A soldier with a beard in the rebel outpost seemed to hear the sound of metal colliding, and nervously asked his companions if they were the same as him.
It's a pity that not everyone has as sharp hearing as him. His companion who suffered hearing loss due to long-term shooting shook his head and said that the bearded man must have heard wrongly.
Although the rocket attack by the government forces came out of nowhere, Sharaf believes that the government forces with weak fighting will cannot risk a second attack just a few hours after the attack was frustrated, risking military morale turmoil.
Just when Sharaf and Bearded were about to go back and replace others on guard, several black high-explosive grenades drew graceful parabolas in the air and landed at their feet.
"day!"
There was no time to think about where the grenade was thrown from. Sharaf pushed Beard to the ground who had not yet reacted, and he hid himself next to Beard's body and prayed to his Lord. Don't make the grenades too powerful.
It's a pity that this heavy-duty grenade specially prepared for the Z-1 robot has a terrifying charge, and it also has thousands of steel balls of different sizes stuffed inside in an extremely insidious manner.
The killing radius of these grenades is as high as twenty meters. With the distance between the two of them and the grenades less than five meters, it is useless even with the body of their companions as a shield.
So under the double blow of shock waves and steel balls, Sharaf and Beard went to see their master simply, using broken limbs and flesh and blood fragments to coat the fortifications with a thin film of flesh and blood.
The rebels who heard the huge explosion had no time to shake off the dust on their bodies. Under the order of their superiors, they hurriedly picked up their lagging firearms and ran out of the underground bunker into a fighting position. They just happened to collide with the fighting team that came up.
"They're coming, fire, fire!"
"Enemy infantry is found, Z-1 presses on, install APS (active defense system)!"
Following the orders of the commanders on both sides, countless dazzling red lights and tracer bullets trailing green trails came and went, and the aura of destruction filled the flat open space no more than fifty meters long.
The Z-1 robot, covered in bulletproof armor, walked steadily among the bullets that came like a torrential rain. The 20 mm thick smooth alloy armor on the chest bounced all the bullets away.
Except for the scattered sparks and scratched black paint, the rebel attack did not cause any damage to the Z-1. Even the heavy machine gun could only rely on the impact of the bullet to slightly slow down the Z-1's advancement speed.
"We can't beat those damned Zoeys at all!"
The rebel heavy machine gunner had completely forgotten that his weapon should fire bursts rather than bursts. The trail of tracer bullets in a line seemed to turn his machine gun into a laser gun that fired green lasers.
When the machine gunner was at a loss, a rebel raised his anti-tank rocket launcher, pointed it at the spark-splattered chest of the Z-1 robot, and pulled the trigger.
"RPG! RPG!"
The combat team reacted quickly when they saw the rocket attack, but they knew what was behind them and were not worried about the safety of Z-1.
Just as the Star Soldiers expected, a thumb-thick red laser instantly illuminated the rocket. The rocket, which was difficult for ordinary people to see with the naked eye, was unable to escape under the target lock of the active defense system. It took only half a second to The red laser melted through the shell and detonated halfway.
Seeing that several of their own rockets were intercepted in an unprecedented way, the rebel officers were stunned and contacted the rear headquarters, leaving sensational last words that they would stick to the outpost until the last moment.
As a high-explosive grenade was casually thrown into the basement by Z-1, several rebel outposts in the October Bridge area were declared to have fallen.
At this time, the casualties of the rebels had reached hundreds, but no one in the Star Cluster had been injured, and only a few Z-1 robots were slightly damaged.
After the mechanics replaced their damaged armor plates, Lieutenant Colonel Ramsay, who was well versed in asymmetric warfare, ordered the troops that were already gathering to disperse again, like hundreds of sharp daggers in the October Bridge area Back and forth.
