"I wonder if Qiao Weiwei has reached the defending army's camp. The enemy aircraft in Xianxia City don't seem to have decreased, but rather increased."
Gu Ya murmured, gazing at the northwestern sky.
Xianxia City was narrow from east to west and long from north to south, divided into three main urban areas: East, South, and North. Each main urban area was approximately five hundred square kilometers. Including the surrounding suburbs, it reached about three thousand square kilometers.
As Gu Ya flew from the East main urban area into the North main urban area, he saw the Xianxia Supreme Ruling Building, which was blown in half, resembling the middle finger of Mount Wuzhi with a missing segment.
Around the building, sixteen heavy firepower mechs were continuously destroying surrounding structures, while over thirty medium combat mechs served as interceptor mechs, guarding the medium firepower mechs.
On the ground, defending army armaments could still be seen, stubbornly resisting.
Hundreds of heavy anti-aircraft tanks, in teams of two or three, protected by defensive mechs with thick armor, fired artillery shells at the sky.
Amidst the ruins, single-soldier anti-mech missiles occasionally flew out, fired by guerrilla soldiers resisting.
Between the buildings not yet completely destroyed, a self-propelled artillery output mech suddenly leaped out. It had strong legs, no upper limbs, and a massive cannon barrel for a head, unleashing rapid fire towards the sky.
On the ground, large numbers of troops in dark green camouflage uniforms could still be seen, moving through shattered tiles and broken buildings, making every effort to rescue surviving civilians.
The remaining enemy aircraft were dispersed towards the west of Xianxia City's northern urban area, gradually advancing south, destroying ground structures and annihilating the defending forces.
From the distant northwest, more invading enemy aircraft could be seen flying rapidly towards them.
Facing the vast Xianxia City, thousands of enemy troops couldn't be fully consumed at once.
If it were open combat on plains or Gobi deserts, Gu Ya would have let K'u Nüeh showcase its might. However, facing surviving civilians and a large number of city defenders, he couldn't do that.
Once the ammunition started to pour out, stray bullets and projectiles might hit allies.
Furthermore, with You Yin's height of over ten meters, it was difficult to achieve a single decisive blow against heavy firepower output mechs tens of meters tall.
If dozens of enemy aircraft surrounded it, the situation would become very tricky.
Just as Gu Ya was contemplating a countermeasure, the communicator crackled with static, followed by an urgent male voice: "Is this Gu Ya from Soaring Eagle Team Three, under the Strategic Bureau?"
"This is he. Please speak," Gu Ya replied calmly.
The other party was clearly anxious and chided, "What are you waiting for? Go up and kill the enemy! The enemy aircraft are increasing, and the ground forces can't hold back so many enemies!"
Gu Ya truly wanted to kill the enemy, but there was a price to pay!
"What about the civilians and your troops? I can't ignore the lives of my compatriots!" Gu Ya said, also somewhat angered.
Immediately, someone else took over, their tone even firmer and more impassioned: "Gu Ya! I am Li Bojun, the Commander-in-Chief of the Xianxia City Defense Forces, your direct superior! I now order you to annihilate the enemy aircraft at all costs! Don't mind the ground forces, we will do our best to save the civilians!"
"But..." Gu Ya was still hesitant. Once the large-scale weapon was deployed, a five-kilometer radius around him could be turned into scorched earth.
"But what! This is an order!!! Whether civilians or soldiers, Xianxians are not cowards. Even death is a sacrifice for the country! If Xianxia City falls, not only us, but all Xianxians will perish! Do not abandon the greater for the lesser! Hit them hard!!!"
"I'll say it again!! Do not abandon the greater for the lesser!!! Fight hard for Xianxia!!!"
Li Bojun's hoarse, furious roar jolted Gu Ya awake.
Previously, Gu Ya wanted to protect everything, unwilling to let any Xianxian compatriot die.
But facing cruel and indiscriminate enemies, every Xianxian, whether a soldier or a civilian, was prepared to sacrifice.
Xianxians are not cowards, indeed!
Gu Ya said firmly, "Initiating enemy annihilation operations immediately."
The colossal You Yin suddenly vanished in the air. Seconds later, a brand-new heavy mech, of a pinkish-brown hue, suddenly appeared in You Yin's previous position.
Gu Ya, straddling the pilot's seat, re-established communication: "Soaring Eagle Team Three, Gu Ya, controlling the new exclusive mech, K'u Nüeh, commencing enemy annihilation operations."
Gu Ya glanced back at the earth below, at the civilians fleeing frantically in the ruined streets. Men shielded their wives and children in front of them, women clutched their infants tightly, some carried their elderly parents, and orphaned children wailed loudly, only to be whisked away by the rescuing army.
There were also countless surviving civilians buried beneath the rubble.
Once large-scale destructive weapons were deployed, those civilians who still had a chance of survival would have no hope left.
You Yin was invincible against exceptionally powerful enemy aircraft, but against a vast number of them, it was too underpowered.
This was urban warfare; while annihilating enemies, civilian casualties were inevitable.
However, to defend Xianxia, Gu Ya had no other choice. Cowardice, mercy, and hesitation would only lead to more harm!
Gu Ya wiped away tears from the corners of his eyes, his gaze turning fierce. With single-minded focus, he forcefully pushed the control stick forward, his fingers nimbly tapping the numerous small buttons on the joystick.
The seventy-meter-tall, colossal K'u Nüeh suddenly let out a thunderous battle cry. A majestic brown aura erupted from the four main thruster exhaust ports on its back, supplemented by auxiliary thrusters on its limbs.
K'u Nüeh slowly ascended, its aura intensifying as it charged towards the enemy formation.
"Type 022 anti-mech missile cluster ready. Target acquisition system is locking on... Lock complete, ready to fire," the system voice said rapidly.
Gu Ya calmly pressed the launch button.
The giant ammunition bay protruding from K'u Nüeh's back opened on its sides, revealing a vast number of red warheads.
Continuous roaring echoed in the sky. K'u Nüeh, flying, suddenly unleashed white smoke from its rear, and missile after missile, trailing white smoke, were launched chaotically from the launch tubes, flying towards the sides of the mech.
K'u Nüeh, at this moment, was like a roc spreading its wings, leading the missile cluster towards the enemy formation.
The dozens of mechs flying near the Supreme Ruling Building were unfazed by the lone K'u Nüeh. In their eyes, it was merely a heavy firepower output mech, without any guardian mechs, just a large, mobile ammunition depot, incapable of anything other than launching a few missiles, lacking any defensive capabilities.
Twenty medium combat mechs quickly flew towards K'u Nüeh, while three heavy firepower output mechs turned their shoulder-mounted colossal cannons towards K'u Nüeh.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
With continuous loud explosions, the colossal cannons fired, and white beam cannons whistled towards K'u Nüeh.
Gu Ya smiled calmly. This mech was capable of more than just long-range firepower output!
【Active Mind】 and full concentration activated!
K'u Nüeh's numerous missiles rapidly zipped past the main body, hitting the incoming medium enemy mechs. The sky erupted in a blaze of explosions.
In the intervals of the first beam cannons, K'u Nüeh dodged the cannon fire with astonishing speed, simultaneously releasing numerous thermal interference flares and a large amount of white smoke.
Wherever it passed, white smoke enveloped the incoming enemy mechs.
"The time is ripe. Let the white smoke become your tomb."
With a deafening "Boom!", the white smoke was completely detonated, and a colossal fireball, like the sun descending, suddenly exploded.
Amidst the blinding explosion and thick smoke, countless white beam rounds shot out from all directions.
After the initial missile barrage, followed by an explosion from the ignitable white smoke, and then an indiscriminate beam round attack.
After these rounds of assault, out of the more than twenty incoming enemy mechs, only five, trailing wreckage, slowly retreated towards the enemy formation.
All the heavy firepower output mechs in the sky focused their target acquisition systems on the explosion smoke cloud, nearly a thousand meters in diameter, in the sky.
As soon as any mech that was not a Black Star flew out of the smoke, they would immediately open fire!
K'u Nüeh, enveloped in the smoke, had already locked onto the positions of the Black Star enemy mechs. A colossal sniper rifle was drawn from its back and quickly propped in front of its chest.
"Bang!" A single beam cannon shot out of the smoke.
The color of this beam cannon appeared brown at first glance, as if space had been torn and then twisted together. It seemed to absorb light, and the more one looked, the harder it was for the naked eye to track its trajectory.
The beam cannon directly hit the waist of an enemy mech. Curiously, the enemy mech was not penetrated or exploded. The hit area of the enemy mech only emitted thick white smoke, as if a giant flashlight had shone a beam of light.
The instant K'u Nüeh fired the beam cannon, the heavy firepower output enemy mechs immediately locked onto K'u Nüeh's position, and hundreds of missiles were fired in rapid succession, "boom boom boom," towards the giant smoke cloud in the sky.
But how could the missiles be faster than the beam cannon?
K'u Nüeh fired three more bizarre beam cannons from within the smoke.
To everyone's astonishment, after the beam cannons grazed the missile cluster, the missiles vanished without a trace.
The missile cluster was like a painted scroll in the sky, suddenly having three strokes erased.
Gu Ya was somewhat surprised, "What... what weapon is this?"