Lieutenant Colonel Talion of HER led Captain Ferrari of NEU to the Duke of Aosta Square in the west of Turin. He found that his troops did not attack here as agreed upon.
"These losers were actually held back by the NEU defenders!" Talion thought to himself.
Captain Ferrari provoked: "What's wrong? Are you looking for your troops? You can't do anything without them!"
He controlled the special machine "Leonidas" and used a high-speed machine gun to shoot at Talion, who had been dodging on the ground, trying to force him out of the street. But Talion knew that NEU's humanoid weapon "Partner Cavalry" was not good at street fighting. No matter how Ferrari provoked and attacked, it would not come out.
Ferrari was so anxious that his forehead was sweating. He had been restrained like this by Talion for a long time before. Later, he got impatient and wanted to leave, but was attacked when he turned around, so he fell to the railway. Now Ferrari is afraid that Talion will repeat his old tricks and does not dare to expose his back again.
"Damn it, if this continues, there will be no end!"
Ferrari let the body automatically park on the open ground in the Piazza del Ducale of Aosta.
"Hey! Albino lion! If you weren't a coward, come out and fight me in a fair duel!"
The albino lion was talking about Talion's special machine "White Lion". Talion knew that this was the enemy's provocation, but he was still happy to accept it, so he took the initiative to show up.
"Hahaha, that's right. I thought you NEU soldiers were all weaklings who could only shoot and run away. You dare to challenge me, you have some backbone."
Ferrari said disdainfully: "You are an arrogant person. Would a normal person decorate the body with a lion's head? I am Captain Ferrari of the new EU. Tell me your name. I will not kill nameless ghosts!"
"My name is Talion, Lieutenant Colonel of the Holy Roman Empire of the Universe, Captain of the Hydra."
"Oh...I thought that the only good pilot in HER was the Red Knight, but now it turns out you're not bad at all."
Talion was a little unhappy when he mentioned the Red Knight. He considers himself to be a first-class pilot of humanoid weapons, but his reputation is completely overshadowed by the Red Knight.
But Talion is not someone who can be easily provoked. He sneered and said sarcastically: "Where is your NEU's number one ace, Billy Budd? I think if he fights me, he will definitely I won’t be as embarrassed as you.”
Hearing Billy Budd's name, Ferrari's expression became a little distorted. From the beginning of his career as a fighter pilot, he has always been inferior to Billy Budd. After they became ace pilots of humanoid weapons together, Billy still outshone him in terms of reputation, treatment and military rank, which made Ferrari very unhappy.
"...Which one is better, he or I, let you see it!"
Ferrari took out the special thermal spear placed on the back of the machine body and wanted to fight Talion hand-to-hand. Talion laughed loudly, took out his thermal battle ax, and killed him first.
Although Talion's thermal battle ax has a short handle, its blade is no smaller than Unit 2's laser axe, and it can chop with great force. Ferrari didn't dare to use the shaft of his spear to catch it, so he reluctantly used the thermal spearhead to catch the axe. He took the initiative to step back, trying to take advantage of the length of his spear, but Talion followed closely, keeping a distance that was favorable to him.
After several collisions of weapons, the thermal spear was almost cut off. Ferrari shouted: "It's time! Now the enemy doesn't have a rifle, kill him in one go!"
Two "Partner Cavalry" and several tanks suddenly appeared from all around. What Ferrari had done before, such as registering his own number, was to buy them time to arrive.
"Despicable!" Talion cursed.
"There is nothing despicable about how to deal with your HER!"
The tank and the "Buddy Troopers" opened fire together, before being hit. Talion grabbed the leg of "Leonidas" who was trying to take off, and took off with the help of the jet force of the Ferrari body to escape the disaster.
Ferrari was frightened by Talion's stress reaction. If he had been ambushed, he would never have been able to escape.
"You...are so difficult!!!"
Ferrari aimed his spear at the "White Lion" and wanted to stab Talion down, but the "White Lion" got the brute force from nowhere and actually threw "Leonidas" onto the building next to the square.
After Talion landed, he was set on fire by NEU troops. Fortunately, he was already within a stone's throw of the alley and disappeared without much injury.
But Ferrari wasn't so lucky. Talion dodged and all the attacks hit the building he was on. The building collapsed instantly, burying Ferrari and his body together.
"Damn it...what are you doing for food? There are so many people you can't hit!!"
Ferrari controlled the machine to stand up from the ruins and chased Talion alone. But he didn't expect that Talion had not gone far. At the next intersection, Ferrari saw a silver-white battle ax suddenly swing out from the blind spot of his perspective, splitting his body into two pieces.
"Honestly, you're not bad, I had a lot of fun."
Talion raised his battle ax and struck it at the cockpit of "Leonidas"...
…
Charlotte grabbed William and flew in the direction of the Osiris, contacting Captain Shepard.
"Is it the Osiris? I captured a commander of HER, but now a group of HER's humanoid weapons are going to bypass the Superga Mountain behind you to surprise the palace. Did you hear it?!"
To her surprise, Captain Shepard did not show any panic after hearing the news, but calmly said to her: "Well done, put the prisoners on the deck and I will send someone to receive them. As for the enemy's surprise attack, I have already made arrangements."
Charlotte asked in confusion: "Have you already made arrangements? Do you know that the enemy will make a surprise attack?"
"In the universe, surprise attacks by HER are commonplace." Shepard said.
…
At this time, Anton was debugging the sniper rifle sighting device in the cockpit of the "Hundred Steps". Following Shepard's orders, he ambushed at a hidden spot on the Superga Mountain and waited for the enemy to appear.
Since a long time ago, HER has liked to use surprise attacks to attack colonial satellites. They would install the frontal attack force as the main force, and then let a few Yingyangs hide behind the asteroid to launch attacks from other directions. Thanks to HER, many colonial satellites are now surrounded by floating mines. These mines will actively move out of the way when they receive signals from friendly forces, but they still cause a lot of trouble for the colonial satellite residents' external communications.
Just like how colonial satellites deal with surprise attacks, the Osiris engineering team has laid mines along the enemy's path. The power of these mines cannot destroy enemy aircraft, but they can blow them over and create opportunities for Anton to snipe.
A few minutes later, the scouts who were ambushing nearby reported to Anton that the enemy appeared as expected. Anton threw away the rag and entered a sniper stance.
