Chapter 862: Total War 16

No one had expected that a battle occurring within the desolate Arctic Circle of Great Canada would eventually evolve into the first clash involving almost all the major powers on Earth.

The Decepticons certainly had not expected it; they had misjudged the strength of humanity.

The Americans could not have anticipated it in advance either; they always believed they were capable, and for over a year, they had been preparing for a battle against aliens at every moment, believing themselves fully prepared.

The Autobots perhaps had not expected it either; at the very least, the vast majority of Autobots did not want to fight this battle.

As for Sun Cheng, he had only acted on a whim, wanting to eliminate as many Decepticons as possible before the main force of the Decepticon Legion led by Shockwave arrived.

But regardless, a full-scale conflict that involved almost all the major powers on Earth had erupted.

Four Golden Eagle Type I Interceptors, after simple calibration and ammunition loading, quickly entered outer space after activating their Optical Stealth Devices from a location in South America.

If operating within Earth's atmosphere, each Golden Eagle Type I Interceptor only required one Normal Mode Decepticon Warrior to pilot it well.

However, the environment of outer space is more complex than inside Earth, and the amount of information that needs to be processed is far greater, so in the case of flight in outer space, it would require two Decepticon Warriors to operate simultaneously.

The situation now was exactly like this: eight Decepticon Warriors who had piloted Golden Eagle Type I Interceptors multiple times and had conducted flight training both inside Earth and in outer space.

Upon receiving the order, they skillfully piloted the four Golden Eagle Type I Interceptors loaded with ammunition, quickly entered outer space, and soon entered a cruising state in the designated orbit.

"Command Center, we have entered the predetermined orbit and can strike the target area at any time!"

Launching missiles from outer space toward Earth is harder to intercept than launching from within Earth; they can gain gravitational acceleration upon entering Earth, thus easily breaking through speeds of over Mach 20.

Moreover, with the Golden Eagle Type I Interceptors parked in outer space, they are not only harder to expose but can also avoid many strikes.

"Wait for the next order!"

"Yes!"

Although the Golden Eagle Type I Interceptors were in position, Sun Cheng and his team were in no hurry to issue the attack order.

There was no other reason: in the Sewei'er region of Niusheng in Great Canada, the U. S. military was already locked in a fierce battle with the Decepticons.

From a thousand meters to nearly ten thousand meters in the sky, over three hundred various fighter jets were struggling to maintain formation, using absolute scale to desperately encircle seven or eight fighter jets that looked no different from them.

The firelight from the constant explosions of various Combat Missiles and air-to-air missiles made the sky in this area, which was gradually entering night, look as if festive fireworks had been lit.

However, despite occupying an absolute numerical advantage, the various advanced fighter jets that the U. S. military prided itself on were being harvested rapidly when facing the main air force of the Decepticon Legion, even if it was just the fighter jets transformed by a few of them.

The aerial engagement had only just begun for over forty minutes, and already more than one hundred and thirty U. S. military fighter jets had been shot down.

Of course, their losses were not entirely meaningless.

Currently, one Advanced Warrior of the Decepticons had already been shot down by U. S. military fighter jets during a reload interval, and at the same time, the number of wounded main Decepticon air force members began to increase.

Therefore, the Americans clearly steeled their hearts; not only did they fight to the death without retreating, but more and more fighter jets, and even air force fighter jets from Great Canada, joined the ranks of encircling the Decepticons.

In the end, the number of Decepticons was still too small.

Although the fighter jets they transformed into had performance far exceeding that of U. S. military fighter jets, they still had to follow the most basic laws of conservation of matter.

The missiles created by Decepticons in fighter jet form required consuming energy within their Spark, as well as some metallic substances stored in their bodies in advance, and also required a certain amount of time to be automatically generated by an ammunition manufacturing device within their bodies.

Manufacturing missiles takes time, and also requires constant consumption of energy and metal stored in the body.

These things have quantity limits; once used up, even the F-22 Fighter Jet transformed by the most powerful Blitzwing could only use two machine guns to engage in dogfights with U. S. military fighter jets.

Although the U. S. military suffered heavy losses, the foreign wars that had almost never ceased since World War II had accumulated a large group of ace pilots and officers with rich combat command experience for them.

During the battle, U. S. military officers soon discovered that the casualties the Decepticons were inflicting on their side were becoming fewer and fewer.

Through continuous study of the combat footage fed back from the front line in real-time, they soon realized the shortcomings of the Decepticons.

"The number of aliens is too small; once we form a scale, their individual advantages will be offset bit by bit!"

After obtaining this encouraging intelligence, the U. S. military also put in their full effort, continuously committing more combat power to fight the Decepticons to the death.

They had already lost too much, and even Great Canada had suffered heavy losses because of them; if they could not completely annihilate the invading Decepticons this time and obtain their corpses to make up for the losses, then the subsequent compensation issues alone would be enough for the interior of the Pentagon to be purged once.

The battle was continuing to heat up, compared to the sky where the situation was gradually turning from a disadvantage to a stalemate, and even having a certain advantage.

The Tombstone forces deployed on the ground, however, were mired in a bitter struggle.

Despite the Decepticons losing quite a few clone warriors under the previous saturation strikes of Tomahawk Cruise Missiles.

However, those who could survive were mostly Advanced Warriors.

The Cybertronians were not robots as humans understood them; they were intelligent beings possessing extremely high intelligence.

Previously, it was also because they had not experienced that kind of human military strike for a long time that the Decepticons lost quite a few clone warriors when subjected to the human's dense cruise missile carpet bombing.

However, with previous experience, when several U. S. military warships cruising in the outer seas began to launch Tomahawk missiles from the sea again, preparing to continue the previous strikes, the Decepticons found hiding positions almost immediately and avoided the attacks from the missiles.

When transport planes delivered the Tombstone forces, preparing to conduct ground combat with them, the missile carpet bombing from the sea also ended.

The army aviation's armed helicopters were not immediately committed to the battle because the Decepticons' aerial combat power still existed.

Because of this wrong decision, although the Tombstone forces were equipped with quite a bit of heavy firepower, they were soon met with a head-on blow when facing dozens of Decepticons who were holding back a belly full of anger.