The landing force suffered quite serious losses when it broke through the atmosphere. The ground orbital defense network was not seriously damaged. Although its firepower was weakened, this did not mean that it completely lost its combat capability. A1's reinforced company had two platoons

Contact was lost directly, Black Rose's reinforced company was broken up, and a key armored platoon was destroyed in the air. By the way, a squad seemed to have been hit by debris, lost contact, and was probably gone. The loss of the Rangers is as follows:

I don’t know Yi, but I guess it’s not too small.

Not long after the first batch of landing troops landed, they encountered Orlan's mobile troops, a mechanized squadron consisting mainly of Vulture vehicles and Hellfire chariots. The A1 landing troops directly landed on the ground within half an hour.

Contact was lost. The Black Rose landing force was luckier. Two squads escaped the search and successfully installed low-frequency laser guidance beacons.

But this also exposed themselves. Yang Yi immediately ordered A1 and Black Rose to drop the second batch of landing troops at the location of the beacon at the same time. The Rangers did not know the situation yet. Renault had not contacted him and he was too lazy to go.

Asked, he didn't have high hopes for that company anyway, it was enough to distract Orlan's attention a little.

But the problem is that due to the lack of heavy equipment and sufficient strength of the ground forces, it is impossible to clear the landing area. Another attack by the advance fleet against the ground orbital defense system still did not achieve good results. Yang Yi asked the advance fleet to lower its altitude to improve accuracy.

and weapon strike power, but was rejected by the commander of the advance fleet - that would be too dangerous. If we lower the altitude, we would risk entering the weapon range of the ground orbital defense facilities.

The second batch of landing troops carrying heavy equipment lost more than half of their troops due to the obstruction of the orbital defense system, and then smashed into the location of the beacon. This time, due to the guidance of low-frequency laser beacons on the ground, most of the airdrop pods were concentrated

Near the beacon.

Although this group of landing troops also suffered heavy losses, they brought much-needed heavy equipment, and even a siege tank luckily escaped the interception of the Orlan troops.

The accompanying SCV quickly began to build defenses. At the same time, Black Rose and A1 launched the third batch of landing troops.

This is what landing operations are like, killing people one after another. Especially when it is impossible to cause effective damage to the enemy's orbital defense system and our ships cannot descend into the atmosphere to support friendly forces, Marines are used in batches.

To save lives, either our side suffered too much losses and was forced to retreat, or the other side could not withstand the continuous attacks and finally the ground troops successfully stabilized the airdrop zone.

As the third batch of landing forces attempted to break through the atmosphere and enter the landing zone, Mira Han's second batch of ships arrived in the outer airspace of the asteroid. This fleet brought the assault landing force of the Marauder fleet.

However, Yang Yi completely did not expect that these landing troops did not intend to use the traditional airdrop capsule assault method. Instead, they directly used small ships converted into assault landing ships to directly carry a large number of troops into the atmosphere for landing operations.

"...Is this method feasible?"

a1 shook his head: "It's not unfeasible... After all, no matter how small the ship is, as long as it is not at the level of a shuttle, the number of troops it can carry far exceeds that of the airdrop pod. But the targets of these assault landing ships are too large. Compared with the airdrop pod,

The price/performance ratio is too low. The airdrop cabin carries few people, the target is small, the number of airdrops at one time is large, and the distance is large. Although it is difficult to gather after landing, it also ensures that the enemy will not wipe out the landing troops all at once."

"This kind of assault ship has been in service in the old federal and imperial military. However, the problem with this kind of assault ship is that the target is too large and it is too easy to be hit by the orbital defense system. Once destroyed, it may destroy the entire platoon or even the entire company.

The loss of the entire company. Moreover, this kind of assault ship is easily discovered by the enemy after landing, which is very likely to cause the landing force to be attacked by the enemy before establishing a stable position. Furthermore, the cost of this kind of assault ship is also far away.

It’s much more expensive than the airdrop pod. It’s far less cost-effective than the airdrop pod.”

God knows why the Marauder Fleet chose this landing method. Even the wealthy Imperial Army finally gave up on this unprofitable landing method. This batch of Mira's assault ships mainly carried two battlecruisers. It seemed that they should be

Behemoth-class and Leviathan-class battlecruisers are old battlecruisers that have been retired.

After exchanging information, the pirate commander who commanded this fleet agreed to provide support to the ground forces of the Black Rose Pirate Group that had formed a landing zone, and dispatched three assault landing ships converted from transport ships to be released from the three capital ships. According to

According to the information provided by the commander, these three assault ships were each equipped with a light armored squadron. The number of people was about the imperial battalion and company level. However, this squadron only had a Hellfire Chariot and a Vulture Chariot.

The squad consists of infantrymen equipped with CMC series power armor, and their firepower is worrisome.

"It's better than nothing..." After learning about the formation of these three light armored squadrons, Yang Yi didn't plan to hold out any more hope.

It's not that he looks down on these rangers and pirates, it's true that Yang Yi was spoiled by the imperial biochemical troops trained by A1... The biochemical troops trained by each ship will have different qualities and expertise based on the background of the ship. Like

A1 is such a serious ark ship that the empire put a lot of effort into building. The trained biochemical troops are the regular army of the Tyranids. From grassroots soldiers to senior officers, they all have professional military qualities and have received regular military training. You can't expect them to do anything.

A miracle comeback against the wind, but you can rest assured that they will not waste their advantage in vain.

Black Rose's troops are traditional pirates. She is a pirate capital ship, and the biochemical troops trained are also a group of pirates. When it comes to robbing homes, killing people and setting fires, these guys dare to say that no one in the fleet can say that they are second.

1. But these guys can really fight against the wind and against the waves. To be honest, Yang Yi wants to have a stable force rather than a group of pirates whose performance fluctuates up and down.

It cannot be said that the combat effectiveness of Rangers and Pirates is really inferior. On the contrary, many planetary marines in the core world may not necessarily have more combat experience than these Rangers and Pirates. But the professionalism is there, and he would rather believe that a group of people without

Professionals with much experience don’t want to trust a group of amateurs who have experience but have not received professional training...

Just when Yang Yi was thinking wildly, the third batch of landing troops broke through the ground defense network blockade and successfully arrived at the landing zone. They brought reinforcements to the ground troops. At the same time, three assault ships began to penetrate the atmosphere, trying to break through the orbital defenses.

System blockade.

(I saw someone commenting on why logic is needed...emm, how should I put it? If it wasn't logical, I think this novel, which is already out of date, would be even more unreadable. We can't follow Blizzard when it eats books, right?

...This kind of trend is not a good trend after all. In addition, we are only exploring some necessary things, and we have not delved too deeply into it. I haven't discussed with you what the essence of psychic energy is... I read an article on Zhihu before.

The article explores what psychic energy is, including entropy, a bunch of technical terms that I don’t understand (I’m a history major==), including entropy. Most of them are needed when writing, and they can be used to unify everyone.

Opinions, after all, many times the settings given by Blizzard are unclear, and many people have different opinions.)

(Today I will leave you with the simplest question, which I feel has been there since the first generation: How strong is the UED? I have read countless versions of the answer. They must all be inferred from the UED army in the first generation.

, some people say that it is a reconnaissance team, some people say that it is a scientific expedition team, and some people say that it is an expeditionary force... Some people analyze that the UED is invincible in all the star regions, and some people analyze that although the UED is stronger than the Tyranids, it is not

As for being so invincible... you can discuss the answer to this question yourself, I'll take it for granted (laughs).)


Chapter completed!