199: Chapter 199 All-Out Attack

A laser cannon on the Orbital Defense Platform quickly pivoted its muzzle, locking onto the escort ship diving toward the planet.

Immediately afterwards, a thick beam of energy shot out, accurately hitting the escort ship's tail fin.

The propulsion system was instantly damaged, and the entire escort ship's attitude immediately went out of control. The hull began to tilt to the right, and its course deviated from the intended target by about thirty degrees.

The Lux soldiers inside the ship desperately tried to stabilize the course, but to no avail. The main engines had been completely destroyed and could not be restarted, leaving only the starboard engine continuously outputting thrust.

The only way out now was to shut down the starboard engine and let the warship fall along its current trajectory.

Even if it couldn't precisely hit the target, it could at least roughly complete the established plan.

The falling escort ship quickly moved out of the effective range of the orbital platform. Opening fire rashly again might instead mistakenly hit friendly forces on the ground.

On the ground battlefield at this moment, all the firepower of Saint Mountain City was firmly attracted to the front line, and the anti-air firepower was entirely concentrated on surrounding and annihilating the Corrosive Wyverns. No one noticed that a warship was plummeting rapidly high in the sky.

By the time the soldiers on the city wall noticed the abnormality and widened their eyes to see clearly that it was a warship falling from space, it was already too late.

Right at this moment, the Butcher laser cannon of Saint Mountain City, which had long been primed and ready, locked onto the target first.

A high-energy beam capable of tearing through heavy armor suddenly shot out from the city, directly hitting the falling warship.

The entire warship instantly split apart as if sliced open by a sharp blade.

In the end, only a heavy main keel remained, carrying a skyful of shattered metal fragments as it smashed fiercely toward the ground.

However, the first to suffer was not the city wall of Saint Mountain City, but the Lux siege forces outside the city.

The shattered hull fragments smashed into the alien array like meteors. The huge shock wave instantly blew away countless charging Lux soldiers, and even a Scarab was directly pierced by a burning, sharp hull fragment and split in half.

Looking at the scene before him, Lux VI speechlessly covered his face. He had ordered the fleet to smash the city gate, only for it to land on his own people's heads first.

After this ordeal, the casualties of the aliens outside the North Gate began to soar exponentially.

Several alien officers hurriedly looked at Lux VI and pleaded:

"Your Highness, please let the assault troops fall back first! If we consume ourselves like this, it won't be long before the entire force is lost here!"

But Lux VI flatly refused:

"Continue the attack, no one is allowed to retreat! We must wait until the city gate is smashed open, and everyone must charge in immediately. There is no room for hesitation!"

Hearing the order, the officers were filled with helplessness and could only continue to throw more troops into the meat grinder ahead.

Meanwhile, the anti-air firepower of Saint Mountain City also began to gradually shift direction, turning its target toward the falling warship wreckage.

Under the artillery coverage, the smaller pieces of wreckage were destroyed mid-air one after another, but that heavy main keel was truly difficult to destroy, smashing relentlessly onto the North City Wall.

This was precisely the characteristic of the Void Shield: it had an extremely strong interception effect against high-speed kinetic energy and energy weapons, but it was difficult for it to form an effective barrier against large objects falling at low speeds.

Borrowing the inertia of its fall, this section of the keel directly penetrated the Void Shield and slammed hard into the city wall.

A violent explosion and shock wave swept across, and a full regiment of soldiers stationed in this area was instantly swallowed by the shock wave.

Following closely behind was the secondary fall of gravel and steel fragments, triggering a chain collapse.

Before many soldiers could even react, they were shaken by the violent vibrations to bleed from their seven orifices.

This round of impact directly created a troop vacuum along the North Gate defense line under Xia Xingchen's command, instantly paralyzing the defense system of the entire area.

The Lux forces immediately seized this opportunity, taking the Scarabs as the vanguard and charging fiercely through the breach smashed open in the city wall.

The Scarabs were like living siege rams, continuously colliding with the city wall and widening the gap.

Just as the Scarabs were striving to breach the city, the Butcher heavy cannon, which had previously been damaged by the shock wave, completed its recharge cycle and operation once again.

The crosshairs firmly locked onto the nearest Scarab, and energy suddenly erupted within the barrel.

A crimson laser spewed out, plowing a trench dozens of meters deep into the ground, and all living creatures in its path were instantly and completely annihilated.

The Scarab charging at the front was also cut straight in half under this terrifying beam.

This blow instantly checked the offensive of the Lux Aliens.

All the aliens stared warily at the giant cannon, afraid that it would fire a second strike.

But unexpectedly, after firing this shot, the Butcher heavy cannon stopped in place, without a shred of energy fluctuation, as if it had exhausted all its energy.

Confirming that the heavy cannon could not fire for the time being, Lux VI immediately regrouped his forces, preparing to launch a new round of assault.

But right at this moment, a heavy vibration came from inside the city wall, like a giant treading on the ground, approaching step by step.

Had the ripper Titan stepped back onto the battlefield?

Lux VI had anticipated this and ordered a full ten Scarabs to meet it together and entangle the ripper.

But the next second, he sensed something was wrong—the vibrations coming from the ground were of two distinct sources, and their frequencies were not completely consistent.

The other vibration was even deeper and more massive.

This meant that a war machine whose bulk far exceeded the ripper was stepping out of the city wall alongside the ripper.