Chapter 259, Soldiers approaching the city
The conversation between mother and son, Gu Hang and Wang Qi, was all about what to do after the war.No matter how many differences there were between the two of them and how worried Wang Qi was about her son's plan, there was one thing that they had not discussed at all, but it was tacitly accepted as the premise for everything:
Gu Ming and Nes Luhmann are dead.
The reason for this acquiescence was that neither of them regarded this matter as a problem, but as a definite fact.
The reality also proved that the two of them were not arrogant.
After the Phoenix and Sky Corps completed a beautiful assault and destroyed a Knight Titan, the Luman Corps that besieged the suburban town collapsed.
It was also a credit to the Phoenixes that they had insufficient intelligence during the assault. They didn't know that Gu Ming and Ness Luman were right next to the Knight Titan that they killed, so the two of them escaped.Otherwise, with the ability of the Phoenix Birds, they could kill these two people on the spot.
But they can run for a while, but they cannot run for a lifetime.
In the next few days, several things happened in succession, which was a symbol of the disintegration and collapse of the alliance between the two of them.
And, these things happen quickly.
First of all, the last Knight Titan in the Luman Kingdom army was destroyed.
After the defeat on the battlefield in Suburban Town, before the main reinforcements from the alliance arrived, the Luman army worked hard to gather the troops and withdraw to Pinser City.
However, at this time, an armored combined battalion of the 1st Quenching Brigade, as the first unit to disembark from the landing ship and the vanguard of the entire army, had already raced to the battlefield.
Seeing the reorganized main force of the Luman Army, this combined battalion was still a little scared.
Their strength is less than a thousand. Although they have nine Lion tanks and more than fifty infantry fighting vehicles of various types, they have to attack the enemy's main force of tens of thousands, especially when the opponent's army has hundreds of Sentinel mechas. There is, and there is a Knight Titan, it is indeed difficult to deal with. If you rush in, you may not be able to come back.
The commander of this unit, a major battalion commander, after thinking twice, decided to play it safe.
He commanded the troops, but followed from a distance to monitor the movements.
In fact, the major battalion commander was still very nervous.
The number of his troops is too small, and they are all armored troops and mobile troops. In order to pursue the enemy, it is impossible to dig out any temporary positions or fortifications.If the enemy really hits us head-on, it will be really troublesome.
Especially if the Knight Titan moves, it will be even more nerve-wracking.
However, he soon discovered that he was worrying too much.
The opponent's performance was much more panicked than him.
When the armored troops led by him appeared, the enemy jumped up like a frightened bird.
From his military binoculars and from the reports of his scouts, he could see that the enemy army had become extremely panicked.The Knight Titan, which he was so afraid of, even accelerated away from them.
This made the major and battalion commander feel very ridiculous.
Not to mention his combined battalion, the cost of building that Knight Titan was much more than their entire brigade combined.
As a result, when the Titan was accompanied by a large number of other troops in the surrounding area, when it discovered that its own battalion of troops appeared nearby, its first reaction was to speed up and flee?
While he thought this was absurd, he suddenly had a different idea:
Otherwise, give him a fucking vote?
The Luman army is too stretched.
It felt like his spine had been broken.
However, his reason was still online and he was not directly beguiled by this tempting idea.
But soon, another thing catalyzed his thoughts and made him make a decision: the Space Marines and the Alliance Air Force were coming.
Military communications reached his command vehicle directly, and after a brief communication between the two parties, he made a decision.
Oh, he doesn't need to make this decision now.Within the alliance's military hierarchy, the authority of Phoenix Chapter Leader Martins is quite high.According to the alliance's military regulations, he is required to obey the Chapter Master's orders on the battlefield. He only needs to ask for instructions unless the Chapter Master's orders are in absolute conflict with the mission he is currently performing.
Now, Chapter Commander Martins just asked his surveillance team to directly launch attacks to divert the enemy's attention. This does not constitute a conflict.
The only thing worth worrying about is the loss.
But this is a serious battle order. Why not worry about losses?
The troops quickly prepared themselves for battle and launched an attack.
They are already in a state of readiness for war at any time. They don't need to prepare anything extra. They can start fighting with just an order.
And the result of the fight...
As expected, the Luman people had no will to fight at all, and were beaten casually, running away like crushed sand and gravel under the torrent of steel.
This was a rout battle, and the specific casualties were actually very small. A battalion of troops could not carry out operations such as outflanking or organized annihilation.
However, their assault was indeed effective.
The Luman people, whose morale had collapsed after losing the battle in the suburban town, were just barely being reintegrated, and were on the verge of collapse again after being pushed away like this.
Of course, there are always reliable ones among them.
That's the knights.
Among the feudal legions, these feudal lords, who serve as mid-level officers, are knights who have been carefully trained since childhood, and their fighting will is still good.
Under the command and persistence of these knights, the assault of this combined battalion inevitably began to slow down and gradually tended to fall into a quagmire.
After all, their military strength is still a bit too small.
The Knight Titan also reacted and did not continue to flee. Instead, it used long-range firepower to attack the alliance's army.
Casualties began to appear.
But at this moment, the Phoenix appeared.
The iconic roar of the wind falcon arrived first. Their initial position was at least a hundred kilometers away, but after the battle began, they arrived on the battlefield in just 15 minutes.
There were no missiles. In the previous battle in the suburban town, they had used up all their airborne missiles, and for a while they had no conditions to replenish them.
However, the airborne laser cannon and real single cannon still exerted a very powerful effect.
After a round of licking, the Luman army became more scattered.
And the space warriors also fell from the sky.
What they are doing is repeating the same old tricks.The three wind falcons performed a juggle. They lowered their altitude to about ten meters and their flying speed also slightly decreased. At the same time, they fired fiercely at the surrounding areas.At the same time, the hatch opened and the Space Marines jumped down one by one.
However, what if we should not underestimate any enemy no matter what?
Some of the knights driving the Sentinel mecha have experienced battles in suburban towns.After the iconic sound of the Wind Falcon appeared in the sky, some brave ones among them raised their guns and fired at the Wind Falcon.
Most of them failed.
The wind falcon passing by at high speed is not so easy to hit.
However, the three wind falcons carrying the Phoenix were in trouble.
The lower altitude and lower flight speed put them at greater risk.
One of them was hit in the wing by a series of machine guns just as the Space Marines were being dropped.
The entire Wind Falcon rolled and fell, hitting the ground hard and smashing the Sentinel mecha that exploded the Wind Falcon.
The morale of the surrounding Luman people temporarily increased.
Take down a plane, especially one loaded with fearsome Space Marines.
However, this high was short-lived because it was quickly replaced by panic again.
Not to mention the ten Space Marines who successfully landed, the slightly deformed hatch inside the crashed Falcon was suddenly kicked open from the inside.
A Space Marine jumped out and fired violently at the surrounding area with his bolter, clearing out threatening targets.
Of course, the so-called 'threat' is not that threatening.In fact, when they saw that the Space Marines could emerge from the crashed aircraft unscathed, all those Lumans could think about was running away.
Afterwards, multiple space warriors came out and the five-man team gathered.
When the Wind Falcon crashed, none of the five Space Marines were seriously injured, and all of them retained their combat effectiveness.
However, the crash still delayed some time.Their battle brothers have all rushed towards the Knight Titan not far away.
There is no need to follow these five people.
They raised their weapons and began to clean up the surrounding enemies, focusing mainly on those sentinel mechas that had a strong will to resist.
During this process, their attention did not ignore the most important target, and they were not surprised to see with their own eyes the process of their Chapter Leader quickly annihilating the Knight Titan.
The Knight Titan's most important defense, the shield generator mounted on it, is ineffective against the Space Marines - unless they are foolish enough to only use ranged weapons to attack.
The inability to recognize slow targets allows Space Marines to walk, pass through energy shields, and attack directly with cold weapons.There is not much difference whether there is a shield generator or not.
Of course, the Knight Titan itself also has heavy armor.Unfortunately, Martins had a power sword in his hand.In front of this kind of decomposable weapon, ordinary armor is just like paper.
How he dismantled the Knight Titan in Suburban Town, he was doing exactly the same thing now.
And when the Knight Titan collapsed, the Luman Legion, which was already on the verge of collapse, collapsed even more completely.Not to mention the ordinary Luman soldiers, even the knights driving the Sentinel mechas had lost the will to continue fighting.
This also made the evacuation of the Space Marines smoother. They could easily join up with the synthetic battalion that had broken out of the quagmire and evacuate smoothly.
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The road evacuating from the suburban town to Pinser City was covered with Luman corpses.
It's a pity that the main force that came to support was not unloaded fast enough. Many of them were still behind to crush the troops sent to intercept them with a torrent of steel, so that they could not take advantage of the enemy's collapse. A beautiful siege and annihilation battle was fought outside Pinser.
The alliance's troops could only use small-scale wolf pack tactics to bite off piece after piece of meat from these scattered troops.
Although a large number of the enemy's effective forces were killed and a considerable number of Luman people were forced to become deserters.But in the end, about 2 people were released into the city.
It looks like a large number, but in fact, more than 80.00% of the enemies are either dead or fleeing, and are no longer organized and no longer a threat.
What's more, most of those who fled back to Pinser City were miscellaneous soldiers.
The main army of the Luman Kingdom, even if it still exists in name, is actually finished.
In this country, a population of 4000 million supports an army of about 50 people, but most of them are under the control of feudal lords.The core of it is actually about 600 knights, and the top level is six ranger-level knight titans supported by the whole country.
In the political ecology of the Luman Kingdom, there are two great marquises, each of whom owns a Knight Titan and has more than 200 knights loyal to them.Although they are vassals of the kingdom, they are relatively independent.
Ness Luman, the core force at the king's command, is called the Royal Knights, consisting of two hundred royal knights plus two Ranger-class Titans; plus two counts who are directly loyal to the royal family and their vassals , that was another two hundred knights and two Titans.
These constituted the overall military strength of the Luman Kingdom.
From the very beginning, Nes Luhmann used almost all his war power.There were not many ordinary soldiers gathered, only about 15, but four hundred knights and four Titans were gathered in advance by him in the name of the 'festival'.
This is almost taking away all of his base.
Then, it was all gone.
The most painful thing is of course the loss of the four Knight Titans.
This loss cannot be viewed solely in terms of the cost of 70 tax coins.The maintenance cost of these big guys is more than [-] tax coins each time. They must be maintained every two or three years, otherwise their combat effectiveness will be damaged.Over the years, the Luman Kingdom has spent an unknown amount of money on them.
Now, all gone.
Of the four hundred knights driving the Sentinel mecha, no more than 50 were withdrawn.
In terms of the political ecology of the Luman Kingdom, those knights are the middle-level rulers of the country; Titans are the high-level rulers.
After catching them all, not only the military power was completely lost, but the political ecology of the kingdom was also destroyed until nothing was left.
In this sense, even if the alliance suddenly becomes benevolent and stops here, withdraws its troops and leaves without even paying a dime in compensation, the Luman Kingdom will most likely cease to exist.
The other six nations on the Black Arrow Star will not let go of such a weak Luman; the remaining two marquis whose strength is not much damaged may not necessarily have any ideas.
Moreover, it was obvious that Gu Hang would not be so kind.
Soldiers approach the city.
The Union army, which had completed its reorganization, surrounded Pinser City.
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