I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 694 - 592

Jiang Juan is a female soldier, and a relatively rare female car soldier.

Before the disaster, with the idea of improving herself, she enlisted in the army after graduating from university, and was subsequently assigned as a car soldier.

This is not very common in the military, although the military adheres to the principle of gender equality and recruits female soldiers in many branches, there is still a certain numerical gap compared to male soldiers.

This has resulted in female car soldiers being indeed very rare in the troops.

Originally, Jiang Juan could have retired and returned home after completing her service, to live an ordinary life again, but the disaster struck, and everyone’s discharge time was indefinitely postponed, resulting in her remaining in the military.

Later, the military selected Titan drivers, and although car soldiers like Jiang Juan were not the first priority for selection, they were within the selection range.

And Jiang Juan was very lucky to pass the screening, becoming a reserve Titan driver, though not in the first batch.

However, because there were always more drivers than Titans, Jiang Juan had been receiving training at the Titan Driver Training Base, and only occasionally had the opportunity for actual driving.

Originally, Jiang Juan didn’t have much opinion about this; in her view, as long as the country kept producing new Titans, she would eventually become an official driver and have a machine of her own by improving her driving skills.

However, the opportunity came much faster and more unexpectedly than Jiang Juan anticipated.

The alien invasion put all Titans on the front lines, and the factories in the rear were working overtime to produce new machines. These reserve drivers, as long as they could operate the machines, were placed into newly manufactured Titans and sent to the battlefield.

Jiang Juan got into the Titan she had been eagerly longing for under such circumstances, driving it onto the battlefield.

The intensity of the war exceeded Jiang Juan’s imagination; even Titans, which she deemed solid and reliable, could be destroyed by alien creatures.

Relying on the driving skills she had honed through hard practice, Jiang Juan’s machine sustained damage, but mostly minor damage that could be repaired without causing the precious Titan to be lost.

It’s just a pity that during the major battle centered around the Honghu Region, Jiang Juan’s Titan was still attacked by Vesicles. The frontal armor was corroded through, the Titan’s engine was damaged, and the Nuclear Battery casing was breached, causing a radiation leak.

Although Jiang Juan tried hard to navigate her machine back to the maintenance point in the rear, the excessive radiation levels led the ground technicians at the maintenance point to declare the machine unrepairable and only suitable for salvage.

Having lost her own unit, Jiang Juan was also sent to the rear, waiting to be assigned a new machine.

This made Jiang Juan very frustrated; although such things were normal in war, losing a machine she really liked after less than a month of driving felt like she had made an unpardonable mistake.

She clearly knew how precious a Titan is, otherwise, she wouldn’t have risked excessive radiation exposure to drive the machine back to the rear after the Nuclear Battery casing was breached, hoping for repairs.

But since the machine had leaked excessive radiation and the engine was damaged, her beloved unit evidently lost its value for repair or salvage, only useful parts could be disassembled, and the rest sent to the rear for re-smelting.

This plunged Jiang Juan into self-blame and regret, and she even began to doubt whether she truly qualified to drive a Titan.

However, during wartime, there was no time for self-doubt or denial. When new Titans were produced, she was once again assigned a new machine and returned to the battlefield.

But this time, her assignment was not the familiar general-purpose type, but a new model Chen Xin intended for combat testing, currently named the Gongs Model Titan.

Compared to the general-purpose type Jiang Juan was familiar with, the Gongs Model Titan was obviously much simpler in structure and operation.

But after getting familiar with the machine, Jiang Juan found that although the structure was simplified significantly, the machine’s firepower was greatly enhanced.

The entire machine had three weapon slots, all modularly designed, allowing for quick changes to different weapons at maintenance points, which Jiang Juan found very satisfying.

The previous general-purpose type used a handheld design, allowing for quick weapon swaps, but due to being handheld, it was challenging for the general-purpose to dual-wield or fire two weapons simultaneously. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

However, the Gongs Model evidently made enhancements in this area, with weapons mounted on three positions including the top that could fire simultaneously, greatly enhancing firepower output strength per unit time.

This undoubtedly pleased Jiang Juan and other pilots, as although the general-purpose weaponry was strong, it was still one tier below the Gongs Model in comparison.

What pleased Jiang Juan most was the flexibility in weapon types for the three slots, allowing pilots to choose based on different mission requirements.

Based on her previous experience where her unit was destroyed by Vesicles, Jiang Juan decided not to replace the dense array atop her Gongs Model, seeing it as an effective tool to protect the machine from Vesicle attacks.

After all, it’s designed for intercepting missiles, and even if the rate of fire is reduced, it can still effectively target incoming Vesicles. She believed it was worth carrying an extra ammunition box, increasing machine load.

As for the dual hand slots, Jiang Juan chose a six-barrel cannon for sweeping alien creatures and a new melee weapon she had never seen before—the Chainsaw Sword.

Based on Jiang Juan’s prior combat experience, the 75mm short-barrel cannon equipped on Titans didn’t perform well in terms of lethality, and machine guns were actually more effective for killing.

The Chainsaw Sword was selected to handle close combat scenarios; she previously saw a fellow pilot’s machine dismantled by combat units at close range.

So to guard against potential close encounters, Jiang Juan specifically chose the Chainsaw Sword.

Of the other four machines with her, not everyone selected the Chainsaw Sword, but the choices of other weapons were pretty much the same.

Everyone abandoned heavy firepower like the short-barrel cannon in favor of more efficient rapid-fire weapons like machine guns.

After completing weapon selection and ammunition resupply, these five brand new Gongs Model Titans were sent to the battlefield.