Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 686: Entering the battlefield from the side
The accompanying personnel outside the car were almost going crazy, and the armed units that took on the rescue mission soon received a new mission with a higher priority: rush to the scene of the battle as quickly as possible and ensure Ke Lan's safety at all costs.
However, no matter how fast these troops are, they cannot be faster than Ke Lan's racing-class air-cushion sports car worth 160 million credit points.
The powerful push back feeling was transmitted to Ke Lan through the leather seat. With the four thrusters outputting full power, it only took one second to accelerate from zero to 450 kilometers per hour.
Of course, this kind of acceleration puts a terrible strain on the human body. If an ordinary person were to sit in this car, without the protection of anti-G equipment, it is estimated that all the blood vessels in the body would burst and the person would faint instantly.
But for Ke Lan's body that had been strengthened many times by the living armor, this G-force only made him feel a little swelling in his eye sockets. It was not even uncomfortable, and it was far from fainting.
After activating the rocket thrusters, it would be more accurate to say that this luxury hovercraft is flying close to the road rather than driving on it - the wheels at the bottom of the vehicle have retracted into the interior, and the high-pressure air cushion allows the vehicle body to float at a height of about five centimeters from the road. Apart from air resistance, the vehicle body will not have any contact or friction with the ground. Coupled with the streamlined body, wing-mounted spoilers, and air compressors on both sides for stabilizing the vehicle body... this vehicle can actually be regarded as a veritable "ground effect vehicle".
This is the boundary of the disaster-stricken area. In order to transport the rescued property and relief supplies in time, the roads in this area have been cleared. As for the cracked and damaged road surfaces, as long as there is not an exaggerated vertical height difference, they will not pose an obstacle to the suspended air cushion vehicle.
This luxury hovercraft uses a projection-type instrument panel similar to that used in new mechas. From the numbers on the instrument panel, Ke Lan can tell that her current speed has exceeded 600 kilometers per hour and is on the verge of reaching 700 kilometers per hour.
Fortunately, all the ruins here have been cleared away, so he can accelerate, accelerate, and accelerate again without restraint.
Relying on the authority of the Undead Crew, he moved all the vehicles and personnel on the road ahead in advance, and had several checkpoints between blocks open in advance - the soldiers and staff stationed at the checkpoints could basically only see a stream of black shadow flashing before their eyes, and then a strong airflow hit the glass windows of the building. By the time they turned their eyes to chase the rear of the car, Ke Lan had already rushed out hundreds of meters away.
After entering the South Fourth District, Ke Lan quickly found the "Central Highway No. 9" in the rescue message . After slowing down slightly and adjusting the direction, the thrusters at the rear of the car once again sprayed out four tail flames more than ten meters long, pushing the car towards the destination.
"This car is really a money-eating monster..." Ke Lan glanced at the "fuel meter". It had only been driven for less than three minutes, but it had already "burned" two level three energy crystals. Even the high-speed carrier-based aircraft equipped by the Air Force fleet did not consume energy at such a terrifying rate.
At this speed, he would be able to reach the battle site in another minute.
Within a few breaths, Ke Lan could already hear gunshots and explosions in the distance.
If there is still movement, it means that the battle is not over yet and the attackers have not yet wiped out all the troops escorting the convoy.
"We caught up..." Ke Lan took a deep breath and stepped on the accelerator to the bottom.
Soon, the battlefield came into his sight. He saw that the roadbed of Central Highway No. 9 had collapsed due to the explosion. An armored truck fell headfirst into the pit. Another armored truck, which was probably the first to trigger the explosion, was now only left with its shattered frame lying around the pit.
Twelve heavy trucks were parked in a row on the roadside, with thick smoke billowing from the cargo compartments of several of them. However, at this moment, no one was able to rescue these precious relief supplies.
The only infantry fighting vehicle in the escort convoy had retreated to the other side of the roadbed, and using the cover of the back slope it poured fire on the attackers who had rushed onto the road. The surviving soldiers of the escort unit tightly surrounded the infantry fighting vehicle, struggling to hold their positions.
Complete or incomplete bodies could be seen everywhere on the road. Judging from the distribution of the bodies, the attack must have happened suddenly. At least one-third of the people were killed immediately after getting off the car, while the others relied on the body of the heavy truck for cover, fighting and retreating, all the way off the road and hiding on the left side of the roadbed.
The roadbed is indeed a good cover, but the premise is that the enemy has not rushed onto the road - once the attackers cross the center line of the road and approach, the escort troops will be suppressed in an instant when facing the enemy on high ground and have no place to hide.
The attackers obviously understood this truth. Group after group of fearless militants rushed onto the road and charged forward despite the gunfire from the escort troops.
Ke Lan turned his gaze to the attackers on the left side of the roadbed. Before the attack began, these people should have been hiding in the ruins of the urban area not far from the highway. They waited until the buried explosives were detonated and then suddenly rushed out, catching the escort troops off guard.
The enemy intelligence mentioned in the escort troops' request for help was not actually particularly accurate. Ke Lan roughly estimated that the attackers were not more than a hundred people, but at least more than three hundred people... There were almost fifty or sixty bodies they left on the road alone.
There were heavy firepower and tactical mechas, but the so-called heavy firepower was nothing more than a few individual rocket launchers without locking systems and a recoilless gun with no accuracy at all. As for the tactical mecha - it was actually a four-meter-class humanoid engineering mecha. Even the yellow and black warning paint on the fuselage had not been changed. It only had a few steel plates welded on the vital parts and two Minigun machine guns mounted on its arms.
This thing looks intimidating, but its actual combat capability is not even as good as the infantry fighting vehicle that escorts the convoy... Without the assistance of a fire control system, this mecha can only serve as a deterrent, and even fire suppression is a bit of a stretch.
No wonder the attackers didn't send this mecha forward to tear open the escort troops' firepower defense line - with the thickness of this mecha's armor, the 25mm machine gun on the infantry fighting vehicle could penetrate those steel plates and kill the driver sitting inside.
But then again, if the attacker was driving a proper tactical mecha, the battle would probably have been over long ago.
Ke Lan completed his analysis of the battle situation in a time-stopped state. When the time-stop ended and the world returned to color, the hovercraft he was driving had already stuck to the slope on the side of the roadbed and directly penetrated into the attacker's formation, knocking away several attackers who were caught off guard in one breath.
Ke Lan stepped on the brakes hard, and the air cushion sports car turned sideways, drifting nearly 270 degrees, and stopped right behind the "engineering mecha".
