Chapter 371 05.0370: "Tactical Shift"

Fasha locked the camera through the eyepiece and pressed the red fire button.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! Three laser-guided honeycomb air-blast missiles flew straight towards the death helicopter.

These clever little gadgets are only clever for ground units that are still bound by gravity. To the Imperial Navy's aviation force, their existence is no different from that of targets.

Just like Blue Star’s armed helicopters in the 3K era facing fixed-wing fighter jets, they were at the mercy of others.

In addition to the Fury, a squadron of Valkyries also arrived to carry out low-altitude attacks.

They flew over the treetops and launched a surprise attack on the helicopter in an extremely fast and level flight.

Laser honeycomb missiles flew in a plane towards these annoying fly-like creatures. When they got close to the target, they exploded in mid-air, tearing apart and shooting down the green-skinned, flesh-clad, iron creatures.

There was another one-sided massacre on the battlefield, but this time the roles were reversed.

Most of the dead helicopters were destroyed by the Imperial Navy Air Force, which had air superiority. The remaining ones wanted to escape, but the three Hydra self-propelled anti-aircraft guns that had just been transferred over would not give them a chance.

Many expensive and rare self-propelled anti-aircraft guns simultaneously unleashed fierce firepower on those guys who wanted to run away after the fight.

Moreover, it is not so easy to turn a fixed helicopter around. It is good enough that this non-aerodynamic thing can fly. Many flying boys took a long time to turn the nose of the helicopter slowly backwards, and the direction of each nose was different.

This speed is as easy as shooting a Frisbee for a quad-mounted anti-aircraft gun.

boom!
The last helicopter was shot down by Fasha who made a spun maneuver. The wreckage after the explosion fell in front of the position with a bang. The leaked promethium burned fiercely and incinerated the broken boy, saving the Astra Militarum a step in subsequent processing measures.

But just as they could catch their breath, the huge and chaotic greenskin army had already arrived in front of the position under the bombardment of artillery fire.

"Waaaaagh!"

They shouted and charged forward, firing their large cannons.

The British soldiers had to immediately grab their weapons and open fire at the waves of greenskins that came into range.

Relying on preset positioning objects, each unit carried out cross-fire counterattacks in an orderly manner.

The anti-armor ambush team located at the combat alert position used a laser cannon protruding from the bunker and suddenly fired at the approaching green armor, instantly knocking down three killing cans.

A large burnt hole appeared on the face of the fallen Killing Can. It fell backwards and smashed into the attacking orcs. Then its own unstable power source exploded again, killing and injuring many greenskins around it.

When the greenskins reach the 3000-meter shooting point, missile launchers, mortars, quad launchers and other weapons with longer ranges will open fire first.

Small artillery shells rained down on the greenskin vanguard.

The missile launcher aimed at the kill can marked by Horatio and fired the missile.

Just one shot can cripple the arm or leg of the Killing Can.

The former can weaken its combat effectiveness, and the latter can make the can fall directly to the ground.

If the shot is accurate enough, hitting the middle of the can, preferably just glancing at the top, instead of hitting the adamantium ghost face directly, then the shock wave of the explosion will directly kill the weak fart spirit driver inside, completely eliminating the greenskin's magical skill of dominating the battlefield by connecting legs.

When the green tide entered 1500 meters, the Chimera tank cannon opened fire. Although single shots had limited effect on the killing tank, as long as the strange face could be hit multiple times, the continuous damage could sometimes really destroy this weird thing by chance.

"Combat alert position, retreat immediately." As the greenskins continued to approach, the forward combat command post conveyed Horatio's order to the soldiers.

Two Avirus landing craft landed on the ground under the cover of the hovering Valkyrie fighters. The Valkyrie fighters did not hesitate to pour their fully loaded rockets into the green tide, and the multi-barrel lasers on the nose of the aircraft continuously swept forward and fired.

The British soldiers on the combat alert position immediately retreated with the laser cannons, and the engineers buried detonators that could be detonated at both ends.

As the greenskins rushed into the guard position, eager to plunder and loot, the engineers on the first line pressed the detonator.

The series of explosions instantly blew the greenskins who rushed into the combat alert position into ashes, and the flying dust and debris of fortifications covered up all the screams of ghosts and wolves.

Just like that, the Imperial Army watched helplessly as they took away all the good guys, both small and powerful, right in front of the greenskin army, and acted like they were bullying fools. It would be hard to compare these brain-dead guys with Ogryn, who was a better alien.

These greenskins were so angry that they were furious, but they could do nothing about these flying shrimps.

"Great Skill Master! Think of a solution quickly!" shouted a big guy with obviously better equipment.

"Don't worry! My brother's King Kong is almost done! Once that thing starts moving, we'll take care of these flying shrimps. Hehehe, let's give these shrimps a 'big surprise'!"

Horatio did not dare to be careless for a moment. His spirit and thoughts were highly tense, and he kept his eyes on the direction of the battle line.

The staff officers nearby gave a lot of advice on the various situations on the front line, and Horatio also asked them to participate in the command of the war sand table. As the greenskins rushed into the pre-laid minefield, the orc overseers drove a group of snot monsters and forcibly waded out a safe route. The subsequent barbed wire was also thickly hung with their green corpses, and the weight almost crushed the barbed wire.

The ferocious beasts stepped on the dead greenskins in front of them and began to rush towards the trenches.

"The heavy equipment at the forefront is preparing to retreat, and the mechanized infantry will rely on support points to hold the front line." Horatio issued the order to retreat.

Nearly half of the heavy firepower weapon groups began to retreat one after another. Without the fire support of these equipment, and the artillery fire could not provide direct close-range support, under such a sudden increase in defensive pressure, if the Astra Militarum wanted to retreat unscathed, they had to rely on their naval colleagues.

The nimble Valkyrie fighters came in groups one after another, providing aerial fire cover from a distance.

Fury interceptors drop bombs precisely on high-threat targets such as kill cans with an accuracy far exceeding that of artillery fire.

As more and more firepower points retreated, they were shattered by the concentrated main force of the greenskins, and the first line of defense had been abandoned.

But they managed to hold out for an hour and a half until the reserve arrived, relieving the pressure on the other fronts on the right.

——More and more greenskins discovered that there was a big battle to be fought here, and rushed over to join in, clamoring.

They found what they had always dreamed of: "Battle, cool!"

Before the flank was about to be breached, the mechanized infantrymen hurriedly boarded the vehicles, and the Chimera vehicles retreated towards the second front line.

However, not everyone was so lucky. Three unfortunate Chimeras were caught up by the greenskins, and the crew members were brutally disemboweled. The remaining corpses were hung on the captured Chimeras by the greenskins as decorations.

Just as they were figuring out how to drive these huge trucks, Horatio ordered the Imperial Navy Air Force to mercilessly drop bombs on these trucks, creating mushroom clouds and destroying the greenskins' blasphemy.

With a grim expression, he looked from above at the flames rising from the front line.

"The fighting on the front line is really fierce. God-Emperor, I really don't know how many aliens there are and how long it will take for them to reach us." A young private who rolled up his sleeves and carried sandbags sighed to the old soldier next to him.

The veteran blinked his wrinkled eyelids, and the two bars and two distinguished service stripes on his arm indicated that he was a sergeant with 16 years of service.

"It's not far. Stack these sandbags thicker. Our lives will depend on them. Remember, kid, there is no chance to retreat on the second front. This is our battlefield and our graveyard."

"All right, Sergeant."

Faced with the retreating Imperial troops, the Storm Boys could no longer sit still.

A string of rockets rose into the air from the greenskin wave, and the powerful force made them fly high above Lao Gala, so high that the other guys on the ground could not see their figures clearly.

Then it turned into a series of continuous jet arcs, just like a Space Marine's jet jump pack, and flew hundreds of meters away in a short period of time relying on a parabola.

The landing points of these things are random and almost a matter of luck, but they are still deadly to transportation lines.

The anti-airborne troops responded immediately, and the Hydra anti-aircraft guns began firing at the Mosquitoes in the sky.

The main reason why the Astra Militarum battalion-level anti-aircraft firepower chooses to be widely equipped with Hydra anti-aircraft guns rather than anti-aircraft missiles is that the aerial targets they need to deal with are often a large number of small, high-speed targets.

The ferocious quad-barreled anti-aircraft firepower unit is the most suitable unit for the Astra Militarum frontline combat needs.

Soon, black clouds exploded in the sky one after another.

Those huge jet packs behind the greenskins are actually modified from cannon-launched rockets. The warheads inside them have not been dismantled by the greenskins. When necessary, they themselves can become a greenskin guided rocket.

Some out-of-control alien rockets smashed into the retreating convoy, and the violent explosion overturned two vehicles.

Horatio had to send two Valkyries from the increasingly strained air reserve to pick up the wounded.

Other vehicles bypassed the accident scene and retreated without stopping.

The patrol team that was hunting the enemy's aerial assault also engaged the Storm Boys who had landed, and a web of crisscrossing lasers lit up everywhere near the traffic lines.

But just as Horatio had expected, these Storm Boys were only good at shooting with one hand and slashing with the other, and they had no decent anti-armor weapons except grenades.

The wheeled tanks easily turned these conspicuous targets that were jumping and running on the ground with rockets on their backs into a green mess.

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