Chapter 379: Battle Against the Autobots Again 12

The fighting below grew increasingly intense, yet no one noticed that at an altitude of 13,000 meters above the battlefield, a drone in optical stealth mode was circling and constantly adjusting its angle, attempting to transmit everything happening on the battlefield below, in real-time, to Severodvinsk, tens of kilometers away.

"Yo, the Russians are fighting pretty well, aren't they?"

With his right hand lightly pressed against the side of his eye socket, blue light flickered incessantly in Sun Cheng's eyes as first-hand battlefield information from tens of kilometers away was being transmitted to him continuously.

Sun Cheng was surprised, yet not entirely puzzled, that the Russians had not followed his advice and used the Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb he provided.

The price he sold this thing to the Russians for was 3.5 million USD per unit, almost equivalent to the cost of three of the Yankees' Tomahawk Cruise Missiles.

Yet the Russians still had to hold their noses and accept his extortion, agreeing to let him use the Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb to offset the expenses of purchasing arms from the Russians.

The reason was simple: this type of Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb could be called the terminator of modern civilization.

It caused minimal harm to humans themselves, but once detonated, it could radiate hundreds of millions of watts of microwave power in a billionth of a second—a power almost equivalent to the electromagnetic waves released by a nuclear explosion—capable of penetrating dozens of meters of underground fortifications and destroying all power supplies, telephone communications, television broadcasts, and computer systems within a radius of six or seven kilometers.

Just think about it: an Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb of this power, even just one, would be enough to cause heavy losses to international metropolises like New York, Tokyo, or Lundun.

Furthermore, it was not constrained by international law and was a very "clean" weapon.

Moreover, Sun Cheng had told the Russians that this was one of the few weapons capable of causing heavy damage to the Cybertronians.

The concept of an Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb was not exactly advanced; at the very least, some countries on Earth had noticed this weapon since the end of the last century, and since entering the new century, the United States and China in particular had the deepest involvement in this field.

The former Soviet Union was once a member of the first tier in researching Electromagnetic Pulse Bombs, but after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Russians, who had undergone shock therapy for a period, almost drove themselves to death and were once nearly bankrupt as a nation, so where would they have money to squander?

Russia fell behind from that time on and only just restarted related research in the last two years, but the total research investment was less than three million USD, likely still in the theoretical verification stage, with no telling when a physical product would emerge.

Therefore, let alone building the highly mature and more powerful Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb that Sun Cheng provided, they could only watch helplessly even at the first or second-generation products that the United States and China were developing.

Even though Lieutenant General Vadronov had received Sun Cheng's promise, he did not easily deploy this expensive super-weapon.

He might have been worried about collateral damage to his own side; after all, this was within Russia, where infrastructure was visible everywhere, especially power and heating systems.

Besides that, Vadronov had likely received instructions from Moscow; last time they were caught off guard by the Excavator quartet that snuck in at night, and this time they wanted to test the damage Russian equipment could inflict on these Mechanical Life forms, perhaps even with the idea of killing the chicken to warn the monkey.

The Excavator stood quietly by his side; he seemed somewhat curious about what exactly Sun Cheng was seeing and asked aloud: "Lord Frenzy, have the Autobots really come?"

Transaction assessments and the like had stopped after the invading Autobots were discovered.

Yijinsai and the others had not left and remained within the naval port.

The Lieutenant General and his men were also there; a Russian military command vehicle had been seen entering the naval port not long ago—this was a Russian military command vehicle that had been modified by the Workers, otherwise, it would have been impossible to work normally in such an environment with extremely strong electromagnetic interference.

Of course, Sun Cheng and his group were not working for free.

The Workers had left behind quite a few backdoors while helping the Russian military upgrade and modify their equipment, so even without his deployed drones, Sun Cheng could still obtain first-hand battlefield data.

"See for yourself!"

Projections were nothing rare for the Excavator, who was also a Decepticon.

Thus, two azure beams of light shot out from his eyes, projecting the scene from the front-line battlefield tens of kilometers away around the two of them; the Excavator was not surprised at all, but instead watched intently.

On the battlefield, after the Russian Su-25 fighter jets dropped over a dozen Incendiary Bombs at low altitude, a ferocious steel Warrior soon launched a counterattack amidst the sea of fire, subsequently blowing up a Russian military aircraft.

After the Excavator saw this scene, his eyes paused slightly, and a chilling, cold voice rang out immediately: "Autobot... Ironhide!"

Sun Cheng looked at him with surprise, "You know him?"

During this time, through his repeated probing, he had basically determined that the Excavator, like the three unlucky Decepticons who had already perished at his own hands, should be a Decepticon newly manufactured by Starscream.

He never expected that he would actually recognize Ironhide!

"No... never seen him... but..."

The Excavator's face crumpled into a ball; he seemed to have remembered something, but it was as if he were confused—in short, he looked clear-headed one moment... struggling the next... and ferocious the moment after.

After a long while, he was seen reaching out to pat his own head, looking somewhat puzzled.

"I don't know... but it seems like this name suddenly popped into my head!"

Sun Cheng narrowed his eyes and took a deep look at him without saying anything.

On the front line, there were soon new developments.

The Autobots were acting somewhat timid; except for the hot-tempered Ironhide, who, after the Russian military fired Incendiary Bombs at them, unceremoniously raised his hand to counterattack and shot down a military aircraft.

Afterward, they were mostly dodging and evading the strikes from the Russian military, appearing to have some reservations.

Unfortunately, while they were being timid, the Russians had no intention of going easy on them at all.

Accompanied by the back-and-forth bombardment of the Su-25's ten multi-barrel rocket launchers, various air-to-ground Missiles from the Su-27 and MiG-29 began to show their power, firing crazily at the Autobots below.

Sun Cheng even saw the Russians insanely firing the kind of Anti-ship missiles equipped on their naval aviation fighters, which were intended for dealing with 7,000 to 10,000-ton warships.

Accompanied by the back-and-forth bombardment of the Su-25's ten multi-barrel rocket launchers, various air-to-ground Missiles from the Su-27 and MiG-29 began to show their power, firing crazily at the Autobots below.

Sun Cheng even saw the Russians insanely firing the kind of Anti-ship missiles equipped on their naval aviation fighters, which were intended for dealing with 7,000 to 10,000-ton warships.