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Chapter 1223: Chapter 663, Can’t Keep a Stiff Mouth

The Titans’ movements may seem slow from a distance, but in reality, each step covers dozens of meters. The Titan Legions of both sides appear to be at a distance, still exchanging fire with long-range weapons. Yet, moments later, both groups of steel giants fiercely collide.

Close-quarters combat with Titans emphasizes maneuverability even more.

At the beginning of the engagement, Gu Zhouhua had already destroyed three enemy Armored Giants.

The ’Warlord Level’ Titans are equipped with powerful heavy artillery. The main gun on Gu Zhouhua’s Titan is a Laser Cannon. This laser cannon, which cost a fortune to build, can even be considered a downgraded version of an M-level Extinction Light Spear in terms of power. It doesn’t have such a wide attack range, and Titans don’t need it; nor does it have such destructive power because it can’t bear it. However, the concentration of the Light Spear is more focused, and even though it narrows significantly, the area hit by the Light Spear doesn’t destruct any less than ’Extinction.’

Under the strike of such weapons, the energy shields and Void Shields used by those large Titans could still withstand, but ordinary Knight Mechas can’t.

Targets that Gu Zhouhua set his sights on suffered significant blows. Small Knight Mechas like the Squire level get wiped out along with their shields and the mechas themselves in a single shot.

Even with Ranger level standard Knight Mechas, which are not small anymore, a single shot causes the energy shield to overload which can’t be repaired, even blowing up the Shield Generator. Afterwards, there’s no need for the main gun to bombard; the weapon system operator uses the secondary cannon to bring about their destruction.

These three achievements were obtained like this.

But the mighty Warlord Level Titans cannot always be used to fight these small targets.

Gu Zhouhua’s Titan is one of the few large Titans in the legion to charge fastest, so it’s naturally targeted by enemy concentrated fire.

In fact, not far from Gu Zhouhua, a Warlord Level Titan had already fallen.

It wasn’t the Void Shield being ineffective or the armor being too thin; it’s just that being focused attacks made it hard to withstand, no matter how strong it was.

Of course, there were Warlord Level Titans falling on the enemy’s side too.

Gu Zhouhua wasn’t unlucky enough to become the enemy’s top focus target. Nonetheless, the fierce artillery turned his Void Shield into a dangerous purple-red color, on the verge of an overload.

At this critical moment, with his constant urging, the operator responsible for power had already made the engine smoke. The entire Warlord Level Titan rushed first into the enemy formation, its target being an enemy Warhound-class Titan.

In the intense collision, both sides halted abruptly.

At this moment, Gu Zhouhua could slightly breathe out with relief. After engaging in close combat, enemy artillery fire couldn’t concentrate on him. Even if the enemy disregarded their own allies’ casualties and wanted to fire, there was a Warhound Titan blocking his front.

However, the breath he had just exhaled had to be held again.

Close combat can’t be considered easy!

Even if the opponent is merely a Warhound, Gu Zhouhua cannot afford to be careless.

In close combat, the Void Shield is useless!

Back in his training days, he knew to wield close-quarters weaponry, slowly passing through the Void Shield to accelerate and attack the enemy. Gu Zhouhua doubted the Titan operator opposite him didn’t know this.

Even if the infected driver on the other side had lost their mind, substantively they only lacked some flexibility and executed orders stiffly; they still thought, their brain being consumed—not entirely eaten up at least—and could still function normally.

In certain situations, this is an advantage, but when it comes to handling high-precision weaponry and upholding top-tier equipment, lacking ’humanity’ is fatal.

That Warhound Titan would just stiffly attempt to stand upright, just stiffly smash its weapon towards Gu Zhouhua’s Titan.

But Gu Zhouhua, as if guided by divine insight, issued several consecutive commands. The power team canceled the balance control handled by the Machine Soul and operated the legs independently, making a powerful move to topple the Warhound. Then, the weapons team launched a massive power fist onto its head.

If one punch doesn’t solve it, then hit several more times until the entire Warhound-class Titan is smashed into pieces.

During this process, as the Titan Commander, Gu Zhouhua didn’t focus on the enemy ahead but rather accessed the observation system for information on the entire battle situation at the front and sides.

His greatest worry was being concentrated fire upon by other firepower when flipping and pressing the enemy down for a beating.

Being close to Void Shield overload means they are actually quite vulnerable.

It’s reassuring for him that the enemy didn’t aim at him for bombardment. Only a few fire powers hit him, and the near-overload Void Shield still blocked three-tenths of the fire, allowing the remaining seven-tenths to shake the Titan significantly. Nonetheless, the sturdy enough armor and the structural strength of the Titan allowed them to hold firm, with the damage not even considerable.

The reason for this, of course, isn’t the enemy showing mercy, but by this time both sides had already engaged on a large scale.

War Machines of allies on both sides came forward and collided with the opposing force.

As steel clashed with steel, it produced ear-splitting thunder. These steel giants, standing over ten meters tall and even tens of meters high, slaughtered each other in a primitive and cruel manner.

Massive chainsaw swords, ripping steel to shreds;

Power fists with unparalleled strength, crushing armor shells;

The barrel penetrating into the inner layer of the energy shield, firing up close face-to-face;

In this area, not actually very large from afar, the fierce battle among hundreds of steel giants is truly rare.

Even Barnes Sage, the Otaubis Battle Group Leader of the Western Front Army who fought wars in many places across the Imperial Territory and is considered well-experienced, had to admit this war resembled the classic battles described in ancient records.

From the standpoint of the entire Empire’s history, such intense close-range Titan engagement is not unheard of but never frequent.

He couldn’t help but ask the person beside him, “Barnes Sage, by your judgment, what do you think of this Alliance Titan Legion? Have you changed your assessment from a few days ago?”

Barnes was silent for a while.

He hails from Mars, representing the Sect of Mechanics’ headquarters, serving as the chief advisor for both Salius and the Western Front Army.

A few days ago when the Alliance Titans attacked, he gave a short evaluation:

“Nothing special.”

Back then, he carried a bit of ’I come from the Central Empire, and have seen much stronger Titan Legions’ arrogance.

But now he couldn’t manage to verbalize it.

Perhaps, the number of Titan Legions Mars Mechanism Sect could directly mobilize is far larger than this. However, how many years has it been since Mars’s Titan Legions fought a similar war? It’s enough to deploy a few Titans on a single battlefield to crush the enemy.

Like this large-scale Titan army battle, Mars has little similar experience.

At least he personally hasn’t witnessed it.

Until this moment, he couldn’t stay stubborn.

He could only lightly cough twice and say, “Still competent.”

Salius laughed lightly, sighing, “If not for the Alliance’s assistance, relying only on the dozens of Titans and Knights we’ve got ourselves, we could never have managed today’s battle array.”

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