When night fell, the sound of gunfire in the mountains southeast of Manta City slowly fell. In a valley, soldiers of the 74th Armored Division of the Federation who had fought for a whole day were temporarily resting and standing on standby. Hao Yi, who was covered in armor, was lying on a siege tank that had been bombarded with turrets, tilting his head and squinting his eyes, counting the dazzling lights that passed through the sky from time to time. The lights were not beautiful meteors across the sky, but laser cannon beams of battleships that were bombarding the rebel positions in the distance.

Next to him, Hu Erpang was holding a bag of individual soldiers' rations in his hand, his mouth was filled with food, and his head leaned against the tracks of the chariot. He could still make the snoring sounds in such a difficult posture. The rest of the armored soldiers gathered together in three or three, talking in a low voice or smoking to check each other's wounds, and some were carefully checking the guns or checking the scars on their chariot mechas.

During the daytime battle, although battle cruisers carried out fire cover at high altitudes, the casualties of the ground troops of the Expeditionary Force were still quite serious. The rebels who had prepared had used mines everywhere to connect the entire mountain almost into one, and then used thick rock layers and the second-generation steel armor used by the battleships to reinforce them to build solid underground fortifications. Some fortifications were even safe and sound under the continuous bombardment of the battlecruiser's secondary guns. Except for the fortifications exposed to the ground and the rebels who had no time to return to the underground fortifications, the carpet bombing of the battlecruiser almost did not hurt the rebel's vitality.

When the fierce artillery fire of the battlecruisers had just stopped and the ground armored cluster of the expeditionary forces was attacked again, the rebels would suddenly emerge from various underground fortifications and forcefully carried into the expeditionary forces' offensive queue, making even ghosts, banshee fighters, etc. that were hovering at high altitudes to cover could not effectively support the ground forces.

The battle once went to a point of intense heat, and even the Marines on both sides began to stage a series of tragic and bloody hand-to-hand combat. In the end, the commander of the Federal Army had to order the ghost fighters to break away from the range of the mothership force field, ventured into a low altitude, and forcibly bombarded the underground fortifications of the rebels. After losing countless ghosts and Banshee fighters, the Expeditionary Force finally occupied a little above and forced the rebels to give up their positions and retreat.

Although it achieved a small victory, the ground attacking troops of the Expeditionary Force also suffered heavy casualties. The 74th Armored Division where Haoyi was located lost nearly half of the chariot and mechas, and countless casualties were caused.

"Damn it seems that fighting is really not fun!" Counting the lights passing through the sky, Hao Yi let out a long sigh and sighed in his heart. Marines were torn to pieces by fierce artillery fire, and the mechases of the chariots and armored soldiers inside were bombarded into a ball of "magnificent" fireballs. Seeing Hao Yi, who had his own eyes dead, gradually calmed down the faint commotion of the belligerent cells in his heart. Although he was so nervous that he never knew how to write about fear, he was not the kind of extremely cold-blooded person.

"Erpang, after this battle, Brother Hao will take you home!" Turning his head and seeing Hu Erpang sleeping at his feet, Hao Yi felt a little distressed. The honest and honest Hu Erpang gave up the superior living conditions at home, followed him to the army without complaints, and was inexplicably pushed to the battlefield. If he had some shortcomings, Hao Yi really didn't know how to explain to Erpang's parents. Thinking of this, Hao Yi's heart became a little heavy.

"Haoyi, Hu Liangtao! Where are you two bastards?" While thinking about it, Haoyi suddenly heard a familiar voice from afar. "Lieutenant Mihan?" Haoyi was stunned, and then he heard the voice of the team leader Mihan. Because the soldiers were strictly forbidden to make loud noises when the troops were resting, Mihan's shouting seemed a little depressed and low.

"Lieutenant Mihan, I'm here!" In the night sky, which was shining with artillery fire from the sky, I saw Mihan's blurry figure stumbled towards this side. Haoyi quickly got up from the chariot, turned on the tactical light on his helmet, flashed three times, and whispered.

Mi Han in the distance saw the signal from Haoyi, so he jumped to Haoyi with deep and shallow feet, and punched Haoyi with a smile and said, "You kid, count the stars here?"

"Hello, sir!" Haoyi jumped out of the chariot and saluted. Suddenly, with the shining cannon fire in the distance, he saw that Mihan, who was dirty all over, had already rank captained on his left arm, and he smiled and joked: "Oh, sir, sir, have you been promoted to captain. Should you invite us to have a few drinks?"

"You bastard! If I can go back alive, I'll treat you for three days and three nights!" Mi Han smiled and patted the dust on his captain's armband. He sighed slightly, and his face became serious. He looked at the bandages wrapped around Haoyi's forehead and said with concern: "How are you two? Isn't your injuries serious?"

"Don't worry, I'm a cat, I can't die if I have nine lives!" Haoyi grinned and wanted to wake up Hu Erpang, who was still snoring on the side, but was stopped by Mihan.

"It's okay, let him sleep for a while!" Mi Han leaned over and gently examined the wound on Hu Erpang's left arm. He still stopped seeing the blood. Then he felt a little relieved, stood up and whispered to Haoyi, "Haoyi, there is another task on his head!"

"What?" Hao Yi said in surprise when he heard this, "What's wrong? You should have asked us to follow us to bomb the rebel ammunition depot again? I, I only have half my life left last time! Don't return to my position this time!"

"Little bastard, not that serious!" Mihan smiled and "beated" Haoyi again, explaining: "This mission is not that dangerous, it is to repair a abandoned air defense position by the rebels. The position has been occupied by our army, and now there is a friendly marine squad station there."

"That's good, as long as we don't let us stab the rebels' hornet's nest again!" Haoyi said with exaggerated caressing his chest.

Hearing Haoyi's words, Mi Han showed a look of guilt on his face and pondered: "The last operation was an intelligence error in the division headquarters. It may also be that our operation was detected by the rebels in advance. After hearing the news that you were in a vain, the division commander was furious and scolded a group of staff officers in the division headquarters!" As he said, Mi Han thought of something and asked curiously: "By the way, how did you blow up the rebel ammunition depot in the last operation? According to Staff Lu, who broke back from the reconnaissance company, at that time, there were only less than a platoon of mechas left in the rebel base, and the rebels had a whole regiment of troops!"

"Sir, we can't figure it out either!" Haoyi scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "When we woke up, the rebels' ammunition base had already turned into a big bullet crater!"

"Well! I won't say anything, hurry up and have a good rest. Half an hour later, come to my place to gather and prepare for the mission!" Mihan nodded and stopped asking.

An hour later, Haoyi and others dragged a lot of maintenance equipment and took advantage of the night to explore the high ground where the air defense position was located. The air defense position was built on an unknown highland main peak, equipped with a powerful anti-orbit nuclear main gun, and more than ten air defense missile towers equipped with new anti-stealth radar.

The anti-orbital nuclear gun has a diameter of three meters, and its huge and thick gun body is like a ballistic missile launcher. It relies on a powerful electromagnetic field to gather high-equivalent nuclear energy at a point and fire it out. Its power is second only to the Yamato guns of battle cruisers. This type of anti-orbital nuclear gun is mainly used to deal with large space warships in low-Earth orbit. If it is directly hit by such nuclear main guns, even a battle cruiser with a strong skin and thick flesh will die.

This anti-rail gun is located under a solid rock groove on the main peak. The gun body and the launch base are buried more than ten meters underground, revealing only a black hole of muzzle outside. There are armored steel plates of second-generation ships several meters thick above the entire main gun position. If the launch base is not directly hit by the muzzle, it will be difficult to destroy the main gun. The other air defense missile towers are also half hidden in a bunch of rock cracks, and the protection measures of the position are quite perfect.

Strangely, during the fierce battle in the sun, this air defense position, except for the more than ten air defense missile towers that once caused major casualties to various fighter jets of the Expeditionary Force, did not even shoot out a single shell. "Maybe our armored troops attacked too fast, and the rebels didn't have time to use this main gun!" When everyone entered the underground launch base of rail guns through the newly repaired passage beside the muzzle, Mihan looked at the thick cannon body and explained to Haoyi and others.

Perhaps the rebels retreated in a hurry, and they only had time to destroy the launch device and entrance passage of the main gun, and even the bombs placed in the energy bank did not have time to detonate. The commander of the federal army probably hoped to repair this main gun to deal with the remnants of the rebel space warships that might appear at any time, so he sent Haoyi and other battlefield repair soldiers to repair the main gun.

Haoyi and other maintenance soldiers took only one hour to completely repair the main gun launch device.

"Haoyi, Hu Liangtao! You two stay here to guard! Remember, don't let me move in a mess!" Captain Mihan threw down Haoyi and the other soldiers of the maintenance team to repair other air defense missile towers. Before leaving, he did not forget to give a reminder.

"Don't worry, sir! I promise to watch this foodie and not let him eat the nuclear cannon!" Haoyi agreed with a smile. Seeing Mi Han and others disappearing into the passage, he screamed excitedly, looked at the huge launcher outside the main control room, and exclaimed: "Be good, this big guy can actually beat the giant down from space. It's amazing! No, I have to take a good look!"

After saying that, Haoyi left Hu Erpang, who was only concerned about finding a comfortable guy to sleep, ran around and touched around.

"Huh! What is this?" Hao Yi, who was wandering around, suddenly noticed a square object with red light in a corner of the main control room.
Chapter completed!