A fierce battle is taking place over the Danube River in Europe. The Macedonian Legion of the New EU and the European Legion of HER are competing for control of this area. Because it is close to the New Muscovy Principality, the New EU side only needs to hold off the enemy and wait for the reinforcements from the New Muscovite Principality to arrive and attack the HER troops to win. Before the establishment of the new League of Nations, it was almost unthinkable for the new EU to join forces with the new Muscovy.
"Paul, don't leave the formation! Luke, slow down, you are almost out of the formation. What happened! You are not new recruits!"
Major Billy Budd, the new EU's ace pilot, led his team to engage the air forces on the southern defense line of HER. In this battle, HER invested in the "Wing Cavalry", a humanoid weapon that was comparable to the New EU's humanoid weapon "Partner Cavalry" in terms of air combat capabilities. This limited the New EU's original flexible tactics of using the high maneuverability of the aircraft body, and had to Switch to more conservative tactics. The enemy force that Billy had to deal with happened to have three "wing cavalry", and they needed to maintain a formation in the air to fight with the enemy, which made the pilots who were used to previous tactics very uncomfortable.
"boom!!"
Not far away, a friendly aircraft was destroyed and the wreckage fell towards the Eastern European plains. Billy sighed, he didn't want his team to suffer casualties.
The formation that Billy arranged was with three robots in the front, Luke's "Phoenix" in the middle, and two robots at the end. Because the laser rifle equipped by Luke's "Phoenix" can destroy enemy aircraft with one shot, this formation not only protects Luke, but also allows him to attack the enemy during the gap between other teammates and the enemy. At the same time, it prevents the enemy from focusing their fire on Luke. . When the enemy and ours have equal firepower, protecting one's strongest output is undoubtedly the best solution.
A ray of purple light pierced the sky. This was the laser beam shot by Luke. Although not a single shot destroyed the enemy aircraft, it also shot through the right arm of an Eagle equipped with a flying device.
"That's right Luke, be a little more steady."
"Oh!"
Seeing that the Yingyan type providing fire cover behind the three hussars was hit hard, the enemy began to shrink back in formation.
"Follow me!"
Billy led the team to catch up, but heard several familiar cannon shots.
"It's an anti-aircraft gun! Avoid it!!"
Unexpectedly, the enemy actually took advantage of the early dogfight between the air forces to deploy three anti-aircraft cannons on the ground that were designed to target humanoid weapons. They shrunk their formation just to allow Billy's team to enter the best range of the anti-aircraft cannons.
"Paul, Gian, you fire missiles at the ground and cover Luke."
Just when all of Billy's attention was drawn away from the ground, as a long-time war veteran, he suddenly felt a chill. He glanced at the monitor behind the machine body out of the corner of his eye and saw the three winged cavalry attacking him at the same time.
"not good!!"
It turns out that the enemy's target is not Luke, but Billy! The enemy saw that Billy's team was not adaptable to the new tactics. As long as he killed Billy who was driving the command plane, his team could be easily broken down like loose sand.
Because the other team members' attention was drawn to Luke, no one noticed Billy Fabric's crisis. The three hussars cooperated tacitly. One fired smoke grenades below Billy to isolate him, one used shooting to restrain Billy and prevent him from escaping, and the last one rushed towards Billy at the fastest speed. , while shooting, he drew out his thermal knife and stabbed Billy.
"Well!!"
Billy wanted to use the smoke bombs fired by the enemy to escape, but since the enemy dared to use this trick, he would not let him take advantage of it easily, so he could only dodge the enemy's shots in embarrassment. In just a few dozen seconds, he had to retreat far away from his teammates.
"Major!"
The other team members finally discovered that their captain was being targeted, but now they were unable to help. The hussar with the sword had already reached Billy.
"Don't underestimate me!"
Billy quickly controlled the machine body and took out the thermal sword to block, and then kicked the enemy plane away. The other two wing cavalry have already foreseen this outcome. One of them also drew out a thermal knife and cooperated with his teammates to suppress Billy with wave-like combos. The one in the distance has been using shooting to contain Billy's movement.
"Hmm... As expected, those who can pilot the Hussars are HER's aces."
Billy struggled to parry for dozens of rounds, and finally showed his weakness. A wing cavalry seized this opportunity and stabbed the vital part of the "Brutus" he was driving.
"Major!!"
Just when the team members thought Billy's machine was about to be destroyed, suddenly both Billy's and the enemy's machines stopped. No, they stalled. The four machines fell toward the ground together.
"Eh?? How..."
Before they could ask what happened, they found that their body had also "short-circuited". The cockpit became dark, and there was no response no matter how the joystick was moved. They could only hear the exclamations of other team members on the radio.
"Help!! What's going on??"
"Move! My fellow cavalrymen are moving! Why aren't we moving?"
"what happened…"
Luke was confused about what was happening now, because only his "Phoenix" did not experience any abnormality. He just saw that for some reason the bodies of all his teammates and enemies were falling towards the ground.
"There is no time to think about things now, we must save people!"
Luke flew the "Phoenix" towards his teammates and caught two "Partner Cavalry" one after another. This was the limit of him and the machine.
"What did you do?"
"We still want to ask! How come your body is fine?"
"I...how do I know."
Only now did Luke realize that on both sides, only his own body was safe. At this time, Billy ordered: "Everyone abandon the plane and get out!!"
"Captain! I pressed the escape button, but it didn't work!"
"Jian is about to fall to the ground!"
"Damn it...the cabin door should be able to be opened manually, parachute!"
Just when Billy was about to unbuckle the seat belt, his "Brutus" operating system was restored. Billy hurriedly pulled up the control stick and used all his strength to restore the balance of the aircraft and fly again.
"Bang!!!"
Along with the loud noise on the ground, the icon representing the Gian body on the "Brutus" display disappeared at the same time.
"Jian!!"
I don't know if it was only his own body that regained control, but Ji'an's body still fell to the ground.
"Jian!! Talk back! Talk back!"
Billy didn't hear Ji'an's voice. At this time, Luke had already led two teammates to the ground. He put down his teammates' aircraft and then controlled the "Phoenix" to fly to the site of Ji'an's crash.
"Captain, infrared rays show that Ji'an still has vital signs, but he is motionless. He may have fainted."
"Phew...are the others okay?"
"Paul and Misha were rescued by me. Mustafa abandoned the plane and parachuted before landing."
Billy breathed a sigh of relief. Although he still didn't know the extent of Ji'an's injuries, at least no one died.
"What exactly is going on…"
"Beep beep... notify all units that a cyber attack from unknown sources has attacked both the enemy and ourselves. Please immediately turn off the network connection of the machine and report the casualties. Repeat it again..."
"Network attack? Attacked me and HER as well? What on earth could it be done with such great power..."
Billy murmured to himself suspiciously. He didn't know yet that this kind of attack would become a norm in the future, and the initiator of the attack was "H" far away in the universe.
