dognovel Chapter 260 Where the Wind Howls
Chapter 260 Where the Wind Howls
"Huff, huff... There are too many scum of the demon race."
The enormous humanoid mech stood between the shell craters and trenches, surrounded by burning steel, human bodies, scattered corpses and weapons, with columns of smoke rising into the gradually darkening sky.
The "Little Skybirds" deliver weapons and ammunition to the mechs. Tails is used to these small flying vehicles; they appear when appropriate to deliver ammunition to the "Angel Armor" and perform simple repairs on damaged parts.
She recalled the enemies she had destroyed along the way; the humans and orcs bewitched by the demons were the easiest to defeat, while the demon forces were the most difficult to deal with.
The demon forces possessed formidable firepower, excellent tactics, and high morale. Both of the forces she fought today were of this caliber. Whether she was clearing them out alone or fighting alongside another paladin colleague who also wore "angel armor," the enemy never retreated. Whether it was using tanks to provide support by cutting into the battlefield or calling in aircraft for attacks, everything was perfectly timed.
Unfortunately, the "angel armor" granted her unparalleled strength and speed, allowing her to fight from the perspective of a giant, which was incomparable to those demons crawling on the ground.
The two sides were like David and Goliath; she saw another paladin colleague joining them in "Angel Armor," and they were fighting with all their might for a victory.
"How is it, Tails?"
“Those demons are very tenacious… Commander.”
The third mech that arrived to join them was Fatelli Carmen, the leader of the Cross Rose Paladin Order.
"Cheer up, Tars. As long as we destroy the demon leader, they'll scatter. What do you want to do after the war?"
Tails thought for a moment: "Commander... I want to go back to my hometown, retire and become an ordinary, devout believer, manage a few plots of land, and maybe find a husband again, get married and have children."
"Leaving the Knights? Well, war terrifies many. My female knights come and go, and most of them eventually retire and go home."
"After the war ends, I will use the authority of the Knights to find you a manor."
"Ah."
Tails nodded. The three of them finished resupplying, activated their thrusters, and headed north. Thirty kilometers from her hometown, they would reach her.
Farollensa, her home. But now, seeing Farollensa again, she was no longer so excited. She looked around and saw ruins everywhere, and demon troops everywhere inside and outside the city.
“Damn it…”
"Hey, calm down, don't think about those things. Pray for the children of the devout goddesses who died in the demon raids, and then swing your cannons and swords."
The demons' command center was easy to find. According to intelligence, the demons set up their command center in the central church of Florence, which was the largest and tallest building in the city. She even saw those devices called "antennas," with metal frames attached to the church's spire like parasites, covering the huge cross relief.
"Destroy it."
The previous resupply equipped the mech with a powerful weapon that the Church called the "Holy Light Projector," but in fact, it was a disposable energy beam emitter.
"Aim—Concentrate—"
boom!
Something suddenly went off, and through the neural-connected monitor, she saw artillery fire constantly erupting around their formation, targeting them.
"You missed!"
"This is Bayonetta, change firing positions!"
"This is Joan of Arc, and she is moving!"
"Platinum is moving to the next designated location."
"This is Overlord. All combat units, attack according to the pre-arranged plan!"
A large number of Shermans and a small number of T-42s continued to attack the three mechs. The "Hunter Angels" plan was never a solo performance by three advanced tanks, but a hunt by an entire tank division. Moreover, there were three air tactical squadrons on standby in the sky.
"We've been ambushed!"
"The demons are heavily fortified!"
"Was the command post destroyed?"
"No! They all missed!"
Tails looked at the intact church in the distance and knew something was wrong. She drew her anti-armor automatic cannon and aimed it at the iron turtles on the ground.
One after another, 76mm depleted uranium high-velocity discarding sabot armor-piercing rounds pierced through the tank, leaving behind wreckage. Smoke plumes rose into the sky, and shells flew everywhere. The mech quickly maneuvered to one side. Tails dodged two shells, and even if she were hit, they wouldn't penetrate her defenses.
Unbeknownst to her, in the distance, three tanks powerful enough to penetrate their armor were moving, their rotary autoloaders feeding separately loaded fin-stabilized discarding sabot armor-piercing rounds into the breech.
Although its rate of fire is slower, its range, power, and accuracy completely outclass their anti-armor automatic cannons.
The anti-tank missiles launched, destroying several tanks. Flames erupted from every crevice, and the crew inside were reduced to carbon blocks by the ammunition explosion. The tanks that were lucky enough to escape being hit continued to maneuver, stop, and fire.
The Paladin Commander from the Holy Hammer Knights had just finished unleashing his anti-tank missiles and was about to stand still so that "Little Skybird" could reload its ammunition, but in that instant...
"Fire!"
boom!
The 125mm 2A46M-5 gun fired, and the armor-piercing shell emerged from the barrel, detached from the sabot, and revealed the tungsten alloy fin-stabilized discarding sabot armor-piercing shell that gleamed with a silver light. In an instant, there was no explosion of a high-explosive shell hitting the armor, only metal fragments flying from the impact of the armor-piercing shell on the armor.
"Unit B has been hit!"
The tungsten alloy armor-piercing round pierced right through the mech. Mechs designed for colonial security and defense are not adept at dealing with armor-piercing rounds, so their effectiveness was clearly diminished when hit directly by a tungsten alloy armor-piercing round specifically designed to penetrate modern composite armor.
Metal fragments flew everywhere, bouncing around like marbles in the cramped cockpit. The mech came to a stop, but the other crews didn't miss the opportunity. In that short minute, shells kept exploding on the mech until the structure broke due to fatigue, the entire torso and legs separated, and it fell straight down.
"!"
The sudden change in the battlefield situation surprised the remaining two, but the Knight Commander quickly calmed down.
"Jeanne d'Arc destroys enemy main battle mech! Repeat, enemy B main battle mech destroyed!"
"The attack group suffered losses exceeding one-fifth!"
"keep fighting!"
"Tails! Charge into the city and use the terrain to launch a counterattack!"
"Yes!"
Seeing this, the two quickly maneuvered their mechs and charged into the city of Florence.