Jubian pressed the firing button.
Instantly, photons carrying immense energy surged from the barrel lens assembly. They traveled at the speed of light, and no matter how agile the fighter jet was or how experienced the pilot was, dodging was impossible.
Because it used the infrared band, the laser cannon did not leave a "beam" trajectory in the air, offering excellent concealment and not revealing the shooter's position.
But when the "shell" hit the enemy aircraft, it reflected extremely bright red visible light on the metal surface of the fuselage.
At this moment, the entire night sky, as well as the Desert for several kilometers around, was illuminated by a crimson light.
The whole process lasted less than a second, as if the world had a BUG, flashing by in an instant.
The running Raiders were dazzled by the intense light, their brains unable to comprehend what had happened in such a short time. They instinctively raised their hands to shield their eyes and stopped in their tracks.
Ill... illusion?
No! Not an illusion! The fighter jet that the Stormwind Gang was so proud of suddenly burst into flames, trailing thick smoke, and plummeted from the sky like a meteor!
Li Ya's mouth hung half open, staring blankly, his mind completely frozen.
What's going on...
What happened!?
His nightmare had just begun.
Because aircraft are relatively fragile, the laser cannon only needed to charge for two seconds to shoot one down. Thus, two seconds later, the red light illuminated the sky again, followed by the third, fourth, and fifth times.
In less than ten seconds, the Stormwind Gang's air force was completely wiped out. At this point, the first aircraft hit was still in the process of falling.
The five falling fighter jets trailed long streaks of fire, like the giant claw marks of a devil tearing through the night sky.
The Stormwind Gang's Raiders stood dumbfounded in extreme shock, the infantry forgot to charge, and the artillerymen forgot to fire.
Li Ya's first reaction was that Hart had subordinates rebelling, and we were betrayed!
Someone had installed time bombs on the fighter jets in advance! The air force was sabotaged by villains, which is why they fell one after another in such a short time!
It must be like this!
There can only be this one explanation!
............
"Oh ho~~~"
Looking at his achievements, Jubian raised his arms and cheered on the mountaintop.
This is the victory of science, the victory of knowledge, the victory of engineers!
Beside him, Nan Guo de Xue shook her head and sighed.
Compared to the Executive Officer, he's just like a child.
"Stop celebrating, keep firing."
"Got it, got it!"
Jubian operated the fully charged pulse laser cannon, aiming at Major Li Ya within the Raider army. This laser cannon's capacitor had been expanded, increasing its maximum power to 2.5 times what it was when it was captured.
You like to shout, huh?
You like to crawl out of the car, give orders at the front, and you like to slap the roof of the car, right?
You're very domineering, afraid that the enemy won't recognize you as the commander. Who else would they hit first but you!
The Stormwind Gang had just recovered from the shock of their air force being annihilated and were about to regroup when the pulse laser cannon fired again.
This time, because the target of the bombardment was on the ground, the red light was even more dazzling than before. Many Raiders, having already adapted to the darkness, were temporarily blinded by this flash.
When their vision returned, the front of the wheeled assault vehicle Li Ya was riding in was glowing red, and the turret was in a semi-molten state of orange-red.
Blazing fire shot out from the crew hatch, and a charred human stump was vaguely stuck inside. That was what was left of Major Li Ya after being burned.
A few seconds later, the ammunition inside the vehicle ignited, causing a violent sympathetic detonation.
The Raiders watched this scene unfold helplessly. Jubian immediately aimed at another high-value target, a moving tank.
Unlike traditional gunpowder weapons, the infrared pulse laser cannon is a standard directed energy weapon. All energy is concentrated at one point and largely converted into heat, producing much greater destructive effects.
Jubian aimed at the tank's gun shield area, directly melting the base of the main gun, causing the barrel to droop and rendering it combat-ineffective.
"Ahhhh!!"
This time, the people inside learned their lesson. They scrambled out of the tank, crying out, before the ammunition sympathetically detonated and the turret was blown off.
But they were already engulfed in flames, merely alive for the moment. They might as well have died quickly.
"It's a Celestial!"
Finally, someone shouted.
"That's a Celestial's energy weapon! We're being attacked by Celestials!!"
"What!?"
Their commander being burned into a carbon rod at the start of the battle, coupled with the fear of "Celestials," caused the Raider army to panic.
But this was not enough to make them flee. Since both vehicles were hit from the front, the well-trained Stormwind Gang determined the attack came from the mountaintop and wildly returned fire in that direction.
Tanks and wheeled assault guns raised their muzzles. If these heavy weapons fired high-explosive shells, even if they weren't aimed precisely, the area-of-effect damage was not to be underestimated.
"Don't panic, support is here!"
At the critical moment, Black Smoke's voice came through the channel.
He and Salty Fish's support group had already advanced to 1.5 kilometers behind the Stormwind Gang's flank. Militia drone pilots operated FPV drones, taking off one by one from the heavy trucks.
At this moment, it was a "land carrier" on the Desert!
"Black Smoke! We're almost over the battlefield, some light would be better!"
Chang Kong, who was leading this drone team, shouted.
"Okay! Caoyuan, did you hear that?"
"Received!"
In the town, Caoyuan hoisted a rocket launcher and fired a large flare into the sky.
It illuminated almost the entire battlefield, leaving the combat vehicles in the open with nowhere to hide.
"Thanks, now we can see clearly!"
The drones swooped down.
Having undergone targeted training beforehand, the pilots aimed at the truck-mounted artillery, which posed the greatest threat to the town and was the most cumbersome, and crashed into the external ammunition racks.
For these explosive ammunitions, the 1 kg warhead carried by the drones was clearly overkill in terms of power.
In the huge explosion, scorching metal fragments sprayed out evenly in all directions, blooming into a golden "cluster amaryllis" with a diameter of dozens of meters.
There were a total of six such "cluster amaryllises" on the battlefield.
The heavy artillery was completely destroyed.
"Behind! The attack is coming from behind! We're surrounded, turn around quickly! Return fire! Hurry!"
The Stormwind Gang had not given up.
Under the command of the mid-level officers, their few infantry fighting vehicles quickly turned around and activated their active infrared searchlights. This equipment could detect distant targets in the dark, but Black Smoke and Salty Fish's support group were 1.5 kilometers away. The 25mm autocannons on the Raider vehicles could not hit accurately.
At this distance, solid armor-piercing rounds would suffer significant kinetic energy decay, and high-explosive fragmentation would be blocked by the added armor plates on the all-terrain vehicles. Caoyuan and Jubian had explained all this to everyone before the battle.
The infantry fighting vehicles opened fire, but the players in the support group were fearless, engaging head-on from a long distance. Coffee Cat and Hammer Girl climbed into the makeshift turrets of the all-terrain vehicles and pulled the triggers of their grenade launchers.
In fact, at 1500 meters, even with heavy grenade launchers, the accuracy during rapid fire was quite poor. But according to the tactics planned beforehand, accuracy was only relatively important in this phase of the battle. The key was to project momentum!
Meanwhile, the second wave of FPV drones took off and would reach the battlefield in 15 seconds.