"An unknown signal source has been detected on Ceres."
"What do you think it might be?"
"I don't know."
The commander frowned. He looked at the holographic image on the delicate command table and narrowed his eyes slightly.
Suddenly, he raised his right hand and slowly pushed toward the holographic image, pushing a starship composed of light blue light to the side of Ceres.
"… Let's go and take a look!"
At the same time the order was issued, a cruiser separated from the fleet and approached Ceres.
At the same time, the magazines in the belly of the ship were all opened, and the point defense cannons were on standby, ready to pour fierce firepower at suspected or potential threats at any time.
"Gusu is 120 kilometers away from Ceres … It has reached the closest distance, and no abnormalities were found."
"Send out drones!"
"Roger!"
Two silver-white bright spots were launched from the belly of the Gusu cruiser, dragging a plume of smoke as it fell to the ground. When it was only one kilometer away from the surface of the asteroid, drones were released from the side of the missile like locusts and rushed to the ground like dumplings.
Unlike the carrier-based drones on the mothership, this kind of drone dropped by missiles was a ground-based drone. It was usually used to carry out intrusive strikes on space facilities such as space stations and ground targets to reduce the offensive resistance of landing troops.
The commander frowned as he watched the drone group getting closer and closer to the ground.
However, at this moment, an unexpected change suddenly occurred.
Electromagnetic cannons suddenly ejected from the surface of Ceres into the air, forming a dense firepower net that pounced into the air.
Twenty drones were torn into pieces in an instant, turned into space garbage, and were slowly pulled to the surface of the asteroid.
Seeing this scene, everyone in the bridge had a stern look on their faces.
"… How can there be such strong firepower on Ceres?"
"Is it the regular army of another country?"
"Impossible … The deployment of heavy weapons on the asteroid belt must be carried out under the framework of the United Nations, and the location must be made public and marked. Otherwise, they will be regarded as pirates."
"What's the point of deploying so many armed forces in this place? This is not a strategic place. "
"Maybe it's to protect something unspeakable."
The commander ordered in a decisive tone.
"Get Gusu ready to cooperate with the Third Orbital Airborne Brigade to launch a surprise attack!"
"Roger!"
…
Although they did not know which force the armed forces entrenched on Ceres belonged to, based on the combat power they displayed, it was obviously not enough to rely on the firepower support of a cruiser to send the ground troops there.
In order to ensure that the operation was foolproof, the Pan-Asian First Fleet transferred a Type 05 ground-attack ship from the Lagrange Space Base.
This starship was not designed for the space station, but for ground combat.
Its terrifying ammunition capacity allowed it to launch a strategic strike with a destructive power comparable to 200 small nuclear warheads on the ground within an hour. Because of this, the ship had been widely criticized by the international community since it was "launched."
There was no need to doubt his strength.
On the transport ship of the Third Orbital Airborne Brigade, the orbital airborne soldiers in kinetic skeletons had boarded the heavy landing craft and were conducting the final inspection of the weapons and equipment.
Looking at the scene of the Type-05 ground-attack ship launching missiles outside the porthole, a soldier who completed the equipment inspection smacked his tongue and whispered.
"An uninhabited asteroid, and a point defense array deployed on the asteroid … I feel like I'm living in a science fiction blockbuster."
"It's more like a Calan Empire dungeon … Speaking of which, who are we fighting? So far, I have no clue. "
"I don't know … It's said to be a group of space pirates, but so far we haven't even seen the shadow of space pirates."
"Do you think … it's aliens? We are actually facing an alien outpost — "
"Quiet! Shut your mouths!"
Li Gaoliang walked into the heavy landing craft with a serious expression. He glanced around at the soldiers present and continued, "The landing operation will begin in 10 minutes. Everyone act according to plan. The enemy's firepower is very fierce. If you want to come back alive, remember to lower your head and move quickly! "
"Did you hear that?!"
The response to Li Gaoliang was a uniform shout.
"Yes, sir!"
Hearing this high-spirited voice, Li Gaoliang nodded with satisfaction and waved his hand.
"Let's go!"
…
The first and second rounds of artillery bombardment were over, and the entire surface of Ceres was marked with a layer of potholes.
Defense facilities painted with moon gray camouflage were destroyed, and countless sentry point defense arrays were destroyed. Broken steel skeletons were scattered all over the asteroid.
The bombardment of the strategic strike was over, and the first wave of landing craft began to be airdropped.
As long shuttle-shaped spacecraft hit the surface of the planet, automated all-terrain attack vehicles and suspended pneumatic drones rushed out of the landing craft, heading toward the base deep in the valley.
Just as the command tower of the First Fleet had expected, the enemy's defense was not just limited to the point defense array that they had fired at the beginning of the battle. Pneumatic drones and quadruped robots charged out of the base and clashed with the automatic weapons dropped by the First Fleet.
The sparks of gunfire dotted the surface of the asteroid with brilliant starlight. Behind every orange flash, there was a corresponding destruction of a Slaughter Armor or the death of a certain intelligent life.
The commander stood in the bridge and stared at the battle. He suddenly spoke with his hands behind his back.
"When was the last time there was such a large-scale battle?"
Yang Wu: "About half a century ago."
"Half a century ago …" The commander sighed softly. "I didn't expect peace to last for so long."
At the same time, on the transport ship of the Third Orbital Airborne Brigade, two long-shuttle-shaped heavy landing craft slowly separated from the belly of the craft.
With the ignition of the plasma engine, the two heavy landing craft fell toward the ground like a bullet shot toward an asteroid.
At this point, the resistance on the ground had almost collapsed, and the remaining intelligent equipment began to gather toward the fortress in the center of the enemy's defense.
It was a valley, and the terrain was easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even though the 05 ground-attack ship had carried out a round of attacks, there was still a small amount of resistance inside the fortress.
However, for the elite of the Pan-Asian Cooperation, the Third Orbital Airborne Brigade, this last line of defense was only better than nothing.
The two heavy landing craft were inserted straight into the inside of the bunker. The metal jet device at the front exploded outward, directly freezing through the outer shell of the fortress, and quickly cooling the damaged gap.
Under the cover of drones and all-terrain attack vehicles, soldiers in kinetic skeletons quickly broke into the fortress. Under the command of the team leaders, they followed the action route planned by the battlefield analysis system and encircled the resistance inside the fortress.
A fierce conflict broke out between the two sides in the corridor, and the bursting sparks almost lit up the dark space.
The sound of gunfire continued for two hours before it died down sporadically.
After killing the robot soldier on the ground with a pistol, Li Gaoliang, who was panting, wiped the dust on his helmet mask and looked at the door in front of him.
The battle had actually been settled half an hour ago. However, when the front line advanced from the outside corridor to the door, all the resistance forces of the entire base, whether it was the robots or the sentry machine guns ambushed in the corridor, suddenly burst out with unprecedented tenacious fighting determination. They launched a counterattack against the orbital airborne soldiers.
Li Gaoliang didn't know what was behind the door, but he was very curious about what secret it was that the base would protect it at all costs.
With this curiosity in his heart, he issued an order to the all-terrain vehicle next to him through the command terminal. He drove forward and used a plasma cutter to cut the entire door from the wall.
The thick alloy door collapsed. Under the escort of two orbital airborne soldiers, Li Gaoliang carefully stepped into the door with a rifle. However, when he saw everything inside the door, he was stunned.
"What … What is this?"
It was a fan-shaped space like an ancient Roman theater. The spacious space formed a sharp contrast with the previous narrow battlefield. The stacked chassis were like blades embedded in the ground, pushing outwards in a domino-like fashion.
The muzzle of the rifle was lowered slightly. Li Gaoliang looked up at the metal-made wonder in front of him. His eyes were full of strong shock.
Although he did not carefully count how many chassis there were here, everything in front of him had subverted his understanding of computers.
This was a quantum computer.
As for its computing power …
It was probably more terrifying than the Pan-Asian Cooperation, or even the world's largest supercomputing center …
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