"Captain, Team B encountered an ambush and was trapped in the valley. The lives of three team members are uncertain!"
"What did you say!?"
Captain Shepard couldn't believe his ears. He thought it was a small force of the New Republic of Gran Colombia (RC) that was looting the village. At most, a slight exchange of fire with them would end the conflict, but the current situation was obvious. It is the RC army who is premeditated to set a trap for themselves!
He asked Baron Humphrey: "Baron, you said you have already greeted several major RC warlords, why are we still ambushed by their troops!"
Baron Humphrey didn't expect this to happen, so he hesitated and said:
"This, this matter must be...it must be the lower-level troops of RC making their own decisions! Please allow me to contact the major warlords of RC again to avoid conflicts and misunderstandings with them!"
"We don't have that time! Jessica, let Team A defend the ship, and Anton's Team Z land to rescue Team B. Also let the fighter unit go out to conduct reconnaissance to see if there are any other enemies ambush nearby."
"yes!"
Baron Humphrey said in disbelief: "Major General, can't you see that this is a trap? You just played into the opponent's hands by staying to rescue! Why don't we go to the commercial port first and come back to rescue!"
"Mr. Baron, there are already three team members whose lives are uncertain!! And in the current situation, do you think you can leave if you want? Who knows what other methods the enemy has, I must rescue them!"
Humphrey said with a headache, "This... shouldn't be happening. Who tricked me? I have to contact you again, contact you..." After that, he exited the bridge in a panic.
…
"Old Jack's team was ambushed?"
Lin Ao ran into the hangar while pulling the zipper on his driving suit. Everyone here was extremely nervous and busy with their work. Sergeant Anton was already standing on the fuselage waiting for him, waving to him and saying: "Go and prepare to attack! Have you seen Natasha?"
Before Lin Ao could say anything, he heard the No. 4 machine, the largest in the hangar, broadcast: "I've arrived!" Emotional Natasha had already been on the machine, and it seemed she had arrived shortly after Team B's attack.
During the conversation, Edward also arrived, and everyone was in their places. Anton said to everyone through the radio in the cockpit: "The opponent is RC, and the enemy's strength is not yet clear. The mission is mainly to rescue Team B, and we must be extremely careful after landing. Be careful and don’t move separately!”
The hangar door opened. Sergeant Bart first led Team A to set up defenses on the bridge, followed by Lin Ao and others who jumped off.
To be more specific, this was the first time that all members of the Z team had performed a landing operation. Soon a problem that Anton had ignored was exposed: the landing speeds of the four airframes were different.
Lin Ao's No. 2 aircraft and Edward's "Erlang Shen" have similar weight and volume, and both have the ability to fly at low altitudes without the need for a parachute. They can basically maintain the formation when landing. However, the "Katyusha", which is also a "Ten Swords", is too heavy and needs to rely on a parachute to stabilize it when landing from such a height. Sergeant Anton's "Hundred Steps" cannot fly at low altitudes, so it naturally has to rely on a parachute. As a result, it was difficult for each aircraft to land in formation. After discovering this problem, Sergeant Anton immediately asked Lin Ao and Edward to control their speed to try to keep up with their slower landing speed, but Natasha's aircraft was still out of touch.
Anton said: "Natasha! Try to keep up with us, your parachute opened too early!"
"I have no choice. If I want Katyusha to land safely, I can only open the parachute as soon as possible. You go first!"
Sergeant Anton secretly screamed something bad. Previously, the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft was destroyed by the enemy's hidden humanoid weapons, indicating that the opponent had air-launching artillery. If the enemy takes advantage of the current situation where your team is out of touch with landing...
What he feared happened.
Just a few gunshots were heard in the woods to the west of the valley, all aimed at the gap between Natasha and Anton, who were separated. The explosion forced the separation distance to become larger, and also blew up Anton's parachute.
"Sergeant Anton!"
Anton's body, which lost its parachute, rushed to the ground at an extremely fast speed. Lin Ao and Edward wanted to catch him, but the enemy's artillery was only focused on them. The number of cannonballs was small but very accurate. The two struggled with all their strength but were still scattered and landed in different locations.
Lin Ao's landing position was closer to Anton. He was worried that Sergeant Anton would be killed by the fall, so he flew towards the place where he fell, just in time to see "Hundred Steps" narrowly enter a swamp.
"Sergeant Anton! Are you alive?"
"No! But 'Baibu''s left leg was broken. Pull me out quickly!"
Lin Ao pulled the "Baibu" out of the swamp without any effort. Sergeant Anton suddenly climbed out of the cockpit after the aircraft landed, and climbed up to the knee of the left leg of the aircraft. He didn't know what he pressed. The body's knee armor opened automatically like a cabinet door. As the armor opened, there was still a lot of smoke and dust. Sergeant Anton covered his mouth and coughed twice, looked inside twice, turned to Lin Ao and shouted: "Fortunately, the fault is not serious, just give me a few minutes and it will be done." After repairing it, you have to drag my body back to the swamp."
"What!?" Lin Ao said, "I just dragged you up!"
"I have to repair the machine, but I don't know when the enemy will come, so I can only hide in the swamp. The depth of this swamp is not a big threat to the 'Hundred Steps'. Remember to expose your left leg when you drag it. I can fix it! Hurry!"
Lin Ao felt that this was too risky, but he had to do it. Just when he had just finished this, the right shoulder of the No. 2 machine was suddenly attacked by a machine gun.
"Hit! There are enemy planes in the forest behind you!"
Hearing the AI's reminder, Lin Ao dropped the left leg of "Hundred Steps" and turned around quickly. Sergeant Anton also took the opportunity to hide inside the left leg armor.
A red light pierced the chest of Unit 2. Lin Ao recognized that it was the color of a thermal saber and subconsciously pressed the button that he had not pressed for a long time. Unit 2's mouth opened smoothly, and dazzling bright light shot out from the mouth.
"ah!!!"
Abu's flying mantis failed to make a sneak attack. Instead, he was blinded by the flash, and the knife he stabbed was naturally deflected. Lin Ao grabbed Fei Mantis's arm, pulled hard, and actually tore off the enemy plane's right forearm!
"what the hell!?"
Neither Lin Ao nor Abu expected that Fei Mantis's arm would be torn off. He seized the opportunity to draw out his laser knife and slashed it. However, the propellers on the shoulders of the enemy plane instantly opened and took off with the aircraft body. The fatal knife only cut off half of the enemy's foot.
Abu was still in shock when he was flying in the air, and said: "Are all the Osiris machines monsters?!"
"Don't try to escape!"
Dalinao fired a purple laser from his gun. Abu barely escaped and could only escape back to the jungle in embarrassment. Lin Ao did not pursue him because he still wanted to protect Sergeant Anton.
"Boss! Boss!" Abu shouted in despair.
Jacques, who was hiding in the woods, said impatiently: "Stop screaming! I saw it, it's a depressing thing! Leave the luminous machine to me, and you can take people to deal with the silver one!"
Seeing that Fei Mantis did not come back, Lin Ao breathed a sigh of relief and asked Sergeant Anton how the repairs were going. Anton is so busy here that he is sweating profusely. You must know that a few minutes ago he was in an air-conditioned spaceship, but now he is in the Mexican Valley in July, with the hot temperature and the torment of locusts in the swamp. It's so uncomfortable. When Lin Ao saw that he didn't answer, he knew that the progress was not optimistic.
"Are Natasha and Edward okay...huh?"
Lin Ao's mumbling was interrupted by the AI's alarm. He originally thought that the enemy was going to fire another black gun. He raised his shield and turned around, only to find that the machine that appeared this time was not the one he had just fought with. He saw a strange-shaped humanoid weapon coming out of the forest. He didn't flinch at all when facing his own gun, and he just walked out so generously. Lin Ao's first reaction when he saw it was to be stunned for a moment, and then he immediately thought of a way to describe its shape appropriately:
This machine looks like a blue Parasaurolophus.
