Chapter 1521 Falling From the Sky

"Unknown signal source found on Ceres."

"What do you think that might be?"

"have no idea."

The commander frowned, carefully directing the holographic image on the table, his eyes narrowed slightly.

Suddenly, he raised his right hand and slowly pushed it towards the holographic image, pushing a starship made of light blue light to the side of Ceres.

"...Go and have a look and you'll know!"

At the same time as the order was issued, a cruiser separated from the fleet and approached Ceres.

At the same time, the magazines located in the belly of the ship have all been opened, and the point defense machine guns are ready to unleash ferocious firepower on suspected or potential threats at any time.

"Gusu is 120 kilometers away from Ceres...it has reached the closest distance, and no abnormalities have been found."

"Send the drone!"

"receive!"

Two silver-white bright spots were launched from the belly of the Gusu cruiser, dragging a column of smoke and falling towards the ground. When there was only one kilometer away from the asteroid's ground, drones were released from the side of the missile like locusts, and rushed to the ground like dumplings.

Unlike carrier-based UAVs on air carriers, this kind of UAVs thrown by missiles is a dedicated ground-to-ground UAV. It is usually used to carry out intrusive strikes on space facilities such as space stations and ground targets, reducing the offensive resistance of landing troops. .

Seeing the swarm of drones getting closer and closer to the ground, the commander frowned.

However, at this moment, a sudden change occurred.

A round of electromagnetic shells suddenly ejected from the surface of Ceres, forming a dense firepower net, and rushed towards the air.

Twenty drones were torn to pieces in an instant, turned into space junk and slowly pulled towards the surface of the asteroid.

Seeing this scene, everyone in the bridge had the same expression on their faces.

"...How could there be such a strong firepower on Ceres?"

"Could it be the regular army of another country?"

"It is impossible...to deploy heavy weapons on the asteroid belt. It must be done under the framework of the United Nations, and the location must be disclosed and marked, otherwise it will be regarded as a pirate."

"Is there any point in deploying so many armed forces in such a place? This is not a strategic location."

"Maybe it's to protect something ulterior."

The commander ordered in a decisive tone.

"Let the Gusu prepare and cooperate with the 3rd Orbital Airborne Brigade to launch a surprise attack!"

"yes!"

...

Although we don't know which faction the armed force entrenched on Ceres belongs to, but in terms of its combat effectiveness, it is obviously not enough to rely on the fire support of a cruiser to send ground troops there.

In order to ensure that the operation is foolproof, the Pan-Asian First Fleet transferred a Type 05 ground attack ship from the Lagrange space base.

This starship is not designed for a space station, but a suppression ship designed for ground combat.

Its terrifying ammunition load allows it to tilt to the ground within an hour to produce a strategic strike capability comparable to 200 small nuclear warheads in destructive power. It is precisely because of this that the ship has been widely criticized by the international community since it was "launched".

Its strength is naturally beyond doubt.

On the transport ship of the 3rd Orbital Airborne Brigade, the orbital paratroopers wearing mechanical exoskeletons have boarded the heavy landing craft and are conducting the final inspection of the weapons and equipment.

Looking at the salvo of missiles fired by the Type 05 ground attack ship outside the porthole, a soldier who had completed the equipment inspection smashed his tongue and said in a low voice.

"A desolate 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 copy of the Jialan Empire...Speaking of who are we fighting? I don't have a clue until now."

"I don't know... It is said that they are a group of sky pirates, but so far we haven't even seen the shadow of sky pirates."

"You said... Could it be aliens? What we are facing is actually an alien outpost—"

"Quiet, shut your mouth!"

After scolding his subordinates, Li Gaoliang walked into the heavy landing craft with a serious expression, looked around at the soldiers present, and continued, "The landing operation will start in 10 minutes, and everyone will act according to the plan. The enemy's firepower is fierce. If you want to come back alive, remember to keep your head down and move quickly!"

"Have you heard everything!"

What responded to Li Gaoliang was a uniform shout.

"Yes, sir!"

Hearing this high-spirited voice, Li Gaoliang nodded in satisfaction, waved his hands and said.

"Set off!"

...

The opening shelling of the first and second rounds is over, and the entire surface of Ceres is printed with a layer of pitted bullet marks.

The defensive facilities painted with lunar gray camouflage were completely destroyed, and there were countless damaged sentry point defense arrays, and the dilapidated steel skeletons were all over the corner of the asteroid.

The bombing of the strategic strike has ended, and the first wave of landing craft has begun airdropping.

As the long shuttle-shaped spacecraft hit the surface of the planet, automated all-terrain attack vehicles and suspended air-powered drones rushed out of the landing craft, heading towards the base located deep in the valley.

As expected by the command tower of the First Fleet, the enemy's defense is not just the point defense array of the opening shooting. Pneumatic drones and quadruped robots burst out of the base, and the first fleet airdropped Automated weapons are at war.

The sparks of the gunfire embellished a brilliant starlight on the surface of the asteroid. Behind every orange flash, it corresponds to the scrapping of a killing armor or the death of a certain intelligent life.

Standing on the bridge and staring at the battle, the commander behind his hands suddenly spoke.

"When was the last time such a large-scale battle took place?"

Yang Wu: "About half a century ago."

"Half a century ago..." the commander sighed softly, "I didn't expect the peace to last for so long."

At the same time, on the transport ship of the third orbital airborne rate, two long-shuttle heavy landing craft slowly separated from the belly of the aircraft.

With the ignition of the plasma engine, the two heavy landing craft fell towards the ground like a bullet fired at an asteroid.

So far, the resistance on the ground has almost collapsed, and the remaining smart devices began to gather towards the fortress in the center of the enemy's defense.

There is a valley, the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even though the Type 05 ground attack ship has carried out a round of covering strikes, there is 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 is just better than nothing.

Two heavy landing craft inserted straight into the inside of the bunker, and the metal jet device at the front exploded outwards, directly freezing through the outer shell of the fortress, and quickly cooling to seal the damaged gap.

Under the cover of drones and all-terrain attack vehicles, soldiers wearing exoskeletons quickly broke into the inside of the fortress. Under the command of the team leaders, they followed the action route planned by the A.I. Resistance forces carried out a siege.

A fierce conflict broke out between the two sides in the corridor, and the burst of sparks almost turned the dark space into daylight.

The gunfire rang for two hours before fading away sporadically.

After killing the android soldier who fell to the ground with a pistol, Li Gaoliang, panting heavily, wiped the dust off his helmet visor and looked towards the door in front of him.

The battle had actually been settled half an hour ago, but when the front line advanced from the corridor outside to this door, all the resistance forces in the entire base, whether it was the bionics or the sentry machine guns ambushing in the corridor, suddenly Unprecedented tenacious determination to fight broke out, and they launched a counterattack against the orbital paratroopers like their lives.

Li Gaoliang didn't know what was behind that door, but he was very curious about what the secret was, so that the base guarded it at all costs.

With this curiosity in his heart, he gave an order through the command terminal to the all-terrain vehicle on the side, and drove forward to cut the entire door off the wall with a plasma cutter.

The thick alloy door collapsed. Under the guard of two orbital paratroopers, Li Gaoliang carefully stepped into the door with a rifle in his hand. However, when he saw everything inside the door, he was completely stunned. .

"...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 are lined up like a pair of blades inlaid on the ground, pushing outward in the shape of dominoes.

The muzzle of the gun was slightly lowered, and Li Gaoliang looked up at the spectacle made of metal in front of him. Strong shock was written in Li Gaoliang's eyes.

Although he didn't carefully count how many chassis there are, but everything in front of him has subverted his understanding of computers.

This is a quantum computer.

As for its computing power...

I'm afraid it's even scarier than the Pan-Asian cooperation—or even the world's largest supercomputing center...