Ves and many other observers couldn't help but admire the performance of the Garlener expert chs.
He had to admit that Vicious Mountain had turned expert ch combat into an artform. While he looked down on their warrior culture, only such a circumstance was capable of pushing the developnt of expert chs to a higher level!
The expert chs fielded by the rest of the enemy strike force looked like toys in comparison to the Vicious Mountain expert chs!
Of course, Ves knew that much of that had to do with the relative strength and treatnt of the individual expert pilots.
Venerable Brutus Wodin was not only a boy, but also a relatively young expert pilot who had only co into power for a few years.
Venerable Ghanso Larkinson and the other 7 expert pilots deployed by his side weren't truly Fridayn. As foreigners who were half-conscripted to fight on behalf of the Coalition, they didn't receive the best treatnt. They weren't as skilled as true second-class expert pilots so they wouldn't be able to make good use of more powerful expert chs anyway.
All of this resulted in an obvious disparity between the two enemy forces.
The Fridayn brought powerful elite ch troops but only paired them up with a bunch of diocre expert chs.
The Praetor and Planat Clan were led by a small number of powerful expert pilots but only managed to bring several thousand ordinary military chs.
The expeditionary fleet did not have to worry too much about the weaker components of the two enemy forces. While that didn't an that they could be ignored at will, they obviously weren't expected to achieve victory on their own rits as long as they were contained.
Right now, thousands of chs on both sides have beco locked in battle!
Due to the fact the enemy dispatched its forces in two pincers, the Larkinsons, Glory Seekers and Crossers had to split up their forces as well.
As previously agreed upon, the defending chs on the right side of the expeditionary fleet largely consisted of units that were more suited to slower-paced battles of attrition. While that didn't necessarily an that the individual officers couldn't employ unexpected stratagems or pull off clever maneuvers, the overall tone of the battle was relatively subdued compared to what took place on the opposite side.
The exchange of blows was a lot more intensive at the left side of the battlefield!
A flood of laser and positron beams lit up the surrounding space as rifleman chs from both sides had beco locked in battle!
The initial weight of fire clearly favored the elite Fridayn due to their stronger chs. The Larkinsons only managed to compensate for the weakness of their Vima Suns by relying on their greater numbers and allowing the Transcendent Punishers to provide so much-needed assistance.
The artillery chs played a crucial role in suppressing the enemy! The Ylvainan ch pilots had all received orders to concentrate their firepower on the grenade-carrying chs of the Holvein Grenadiers.
It couldn't be helped! The elite ch regint founded by the Gauge Dynasty was just too difficult to fight against at close range! A series of powerful grenades could easily tear apart a formation or blow upon a hole in a battle line.
The grenades also induced a lot of fear in any ch pilot that attempted to take down a Holvein Grenadier ch. The elite ch pilots had a habit of holding back at least one grenade until their ch was about to be defeated. The damaged ch would whip out and throw the grenade at its opponent at the final mont before taking advantage of the mont to disengage.
If the nearly-defeated Holvein Grenadier ch was unable to withdraw, then its ch pilot would not hesitate to blow up the grenade at point blank range!
Therefore, the 300 or so Transcendent Punishers that still remained operational all unleashed death and destruction on all 6 ch companies of the Holvein Grenadiers!
While the Grenadiers brought forth plenty of space knights to withstand the barrage, their defenses weren't as perverse as that of the Corundian Giants.
With up to 1200 heavy positron and gauss cannons trained onto the brave space knights of the Holvein Grenadiers, their thick shields lted and fractured into pieces as soon as they were subject to focused fire. The energy shields that ford along the way quickly popped within seconds after blocking over twenty successive beams and rounds at once!
Once the space knights beca exposed, not even their thick frontal armor availed them for long. Positron beams vaporized the upper layers while softening up what remained with an excess of heat. Solid gauss rounds fired by the Transcendent Punisher's potent Xcordon cannons slamd into the already-weakened plates and shattered several of them at the sa ti!
While a single Transcendent Punisher likely needed a fair amount of ti to chew through the defensive layers of a Holvein Grenadier space knight, what about an entire squad? What about an entire ch company?
No single ch could withstand so much firepower at once, especially when they advanced closer!
Dozens of space knights shattered into pieces. Others turned into empty husks as their ch pilots hastily ejected from their machines. Without any significant counter battery fire to worry about, the Transcendent Punishers were performing their jobs in splendid fashion as their heavy firepower literally forced the Holvein Grenadiers to a standstill!
Other defensive chs hastily reinforced the Holvein Grenadiers, allowing their more fragile chs to escape the brunt of the bombardnt for a while longer.
Of course, the fact that the Transcendent Punishers employed all of their firepower on just one single enemy ch unit ant that the others were able to advance under much less pressure!
The Larkinson rifleman chs only inflicted light damage onto the enemy chs. The modified laser rifles of the Vima Suns might be a tad more powerful than the norm, but the powerful armor of their opposition were more than capable of resisting the beams.
It couldn't be helped! The comrcial second-class rifleman chs piloted by the Avatars, Battle Criers, Vandals and so on were only optimized for laser weapons in order to lower costs.
While laser weapons boasted stellar accuracy, their damage potential was disappointing compared to positron weapons. Even when squads of Vima Suns focused their fire onto a single target, it took a lot of effort just to dig into the internals of a tough military ch.
The enemy rifleman chs did not suffer from the sa problem. Many relatively fragile Larkinson chs lost limbs or suffered severe damage after getting hit a couple tis by power positron beams.
The enemy rifleman chs had no equals on this side of the battlefield! Only the rifleman chs fielded by the Glory Seekers and the Cross Clan were able to match their Fridayman counterparts blow for blow, but the latter had numbers by their side.
This was because the Glory Seekers and the Crossers had tasked the majority of their ranged chs with the vital mission of suppressing the Fridayman expert chs!
Colonel Ariadne Wodin chose to rely heavily on ranged firepower to suppress and constrain the Fridayn expert chs. Thousands of rifleman chs all concentrated their energy beams at the powerful machines. Most of the beams actually went wide because their targets accelerated in unexpected directions, allowing them to evade most incoming fire.
What scattered beams managed to hit the expert chs were actually scattered by their resonance shields.
The combined firepower of a ch regint's worth of rifleman chs weren't even capable of getting past the resonance shields of the enemy chs!
While the expert chs did not sustain any significant damage at the mont, it was quite exhausting to maintain their resonance shields. The expert pilots had to invest so much attention to avoiding so much damage that they weren't able to close in on their opponents!
Whenever an expert ch shot forward, the rifleman chs flew backwards while at the sa ti directing much more firepower at the closing enemy.
The Glory Seekers and the Crossers also dispatched many lee chs because ranged suppression was not enough to hold back the enemy expert chs. These chs ford into squads and advanced whenever the rifleman chs halted their fire on a target.
These brief clashes did not end well. In one instance, the Glory Seeker and Crosser chs that approached an enemy lee ch abruptly lost half their number as a blade extended by resonance slashed across a wide area, thereby slicing the attacking lee chs without encountering any significant resistance!
This wasn't even the worst that the Fridayman expert chs could unleash. The Charlemagne and its Scarra calmly took aim before firing 40 resonance-empowered beams at the sa ti.
40 Glory Seeker rifleman chs exploded at the sa ti as they were fatally struck by Venerable Ghanso Larkinson's amazing feat of marksmanship!
Just as the Unit L was about to fire a second ti, two different enemy chs sniped three Scarra chs at once!
The Star Dancer piloted by Venerable Brutus Wodin managed to fire a powerful beam that instantly tore through a quasi-expert ch. As the rifleman ch flew forward, its multi-rifle fired a steady staccato of gauss rounds that heavily damaged another Scarra ch.
Approaching from the other side was the Leskin piloted by Venerable Banner Cross. The experienced Crosser expert pilot quickly deed Venerable Ghanso's abnormal entourage to be the most threatening presence on the battlefield.
If Unit L was about to repeat its earlier feat a few tis, then the losses to the Glory Seeker and the Crosser chs would quickly render them unable to hold back the other expert chs!
Under this desperate circumstance, the thousands of standard chs were basically trading their own fras in order to consu the energy levels of the enemy expert chs.
The chances of taking down expert chs were too low under normal circumstances. They beca a lot more vulnerable once they exhausted their reserves, and one of the ways to do that was to force them to expend their energy to fight back against a flood of regular chs!
Naturally, the Fridayman expert ch pilots weren't blind. As soon as their opponents brought so many chs to bear against them, they tried their best to link up with each other and combine their powers together.
When an expert lee ch paired up with an expert ranged ch, the combination proved a lot deadlier than if they were separate!
The forr perfectly took care of the advancing waves of lee chs while the latter steadily shot down ranged ch after ranged ch without worrying about interference!
Unit L already established this combination by pairing up the Charlemagne with the Jaenne D'Arc. As soon as Scarra chs started blowing up one after another, the Jeanne D'Arc instantly propelled forward and chased after the Leskin, which Venerable Foster regarded as the more threatening of the two opposing expert rifleman chs!
"You take care of that Hexer expert ch yourself!" She told her teammate.
"Who do you think I am?" Venerable Ghanso growled as the Charlemagne along with all of his Scarra aid at the swift and elusive Star Dancer. "I've demolished a lot more Hexer expert chs than you!"
Venerable Brutus Wodin felt a fatal threat as soon as over 35 rifles simultaneously aid in the direction of his ch.
No matter where the Star Dancer attempted to dodge, it could not avoid getting hit! This was because Venerable Ghanso always fired the guns under his control in a box pattern around his target.
Perhaps getting hit a few tis was no big deal, but as long as the Star Dancer received damage that impaired its mobility, then the expert rifleman ch was definitely dood!
Fortunately for him, the Glory Seekers already anticipated this situation. A dozen or so regular chs darted forth and put themselves in between the two expert chs just in ti!
"For the Superior Mother!"
"Glory to the Seekers of Truth!
Every ch that had moved to help the Star Dancer blew up or turned into wrecks without fail!
In so cases, the cockpits of the damaged chs managed to eject without a problem, but over half of the Glory Seeker ch pilots sacrificed their lives for a montary advantage!
Venerable Brutus regretted his inability to prevent the Hexer ch pilots from dying.
"Your slaughter ends here!"
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