Shameen knew that since this was a situation decided by the director's department, there was naturally no room for bargaining.
At this time, he wanted to ask the other party whether King Suliuka agreed with this opinion, but in the end he only opened his mouth slightly and said nothing.
It is impossible for the empire to stop investing tens of millions of troops in exercises just because of a disaster that "merely" encounters 500,000 people. This is a natural choice.
The young leader of the Astral Knights understood it very well, but he still felt a little uncomfortable. But as to why this was the case, even he himself could not explain clearly.
Admiral Diyong added: "Vice Admiral O'Baran's fleet has not left the Sarna system yet, and I have approved his rescue request. However, they have just returned to the Lion's Den Fortress for repairs after a great battle. On the fleet
There are not enough stormtroopers, so we have to use fighter planes to provide airborne support."
Vice Admiral O'Balan's fleet is naturally the "sinking fleet" of the red side that we encountered before. According to the empire's military tradition, even if it is an exercise, the battleships must carry a certain amount of live ammunition. But even so, the fleet has
After all, there is a lack of marines, and the only ones that can provide help are the fighter planes on the aircraft carrier.
In addition, the "Yaoguang Goddess", the flagship of our own support fleet, also has a squadron of support fighters that can be used for bombing the enemy.
In terms of the aircraft capacity of a large aircraft carrier, this is indeed too little. But there is no way. The fleet commanded by Rear Admiral Bai Ya is dedicated to providing backup support to the Knights, and the hangar space is used for the assault landing module and pattern.
The fighters prepared by Zhang Ji are not only limited in number, but most of them are reserved exclusively for space warfare.
There is no other way. You can't let your own warships bombard your own planet from orbit.
The Viscount expressed his gratitude to Admiral Jiyong. Although he couldn't really tell how much damage the weapons carried on the fighter planes would do to these virtual monsters, it was still better than nothing.
Half a minute later, the source wave signal transferred from the fleet in low-Earth orbit was sent to the heraldic machine terminal of each Astral Knight. They quickly released the limiter of the atomic light spear. In an instant, they were just watching.
The gorgeous beam of light, like holiday lanterns, turned into the deadliest energy weapon.
Although there are a large number of Yaxu beasts, and they are still appearing continuously, these virtual fragments that act on instinct are like a group of brainless beasts. Even if they rely on hard power, they are far from having handy weapons.
The opponent was an Astral Knight wearing a heraldic machine. Coupled with the support of the Panzergrenadiers of the Twelfth Division, the Imperial soldiers fought a textbook-like... close range battle in this vast wilderness.
Hand-to-hand combat.
There is no way, the Panzergrenadiers have discovered that the most useful thing against these monsters is the hammers and axes in their hands that are endowed with spiritual abilities.
Sure enough, the true warrior of the empire should be the one who faces the front line with his sword. This is the national character of our people in Great Tirero!
With the efforts of the red and blue soldiers, the battle line soon became stable. At this time, 12 support fighters from space orbit finally arrived on the battlefield. 4 of them came from Shamaine and their own support fleet.
On top, the others were sent by Obalan from the center.
This is the X15 multi-purpose Salamander fighter. Although it is "multi-purpose", it is actually an air superiority fighter that cooperates with the fleet to break through in space warfare. Eighty percent of the weight is used to fight warships and other fighters.
, ground bombing is indeed not very professional. But despite this, they still accurately dropped more than 20 electromagnetic pulse bombs on the battlefield.
This kind of bomb has no direct lethality, but it is indeed more effective than all high-explosive bombs against monsters composed of mutant energy like the Yaxu Beast.
Within the scope of Shameen's investigation, in this round of bombing alone, at least two to three thousand virtual monsters were re-decomposed into quantum states invisible to the naked eye by the violent electromagnetic waves.
Of course, there were still accidental injuries. A dozen grenadiers who stood too close to the explosion range had their armor disabled, but this was not considered a casualty at all.
This bombing was flawless.
Of course, Viscount Shameen still had a little regret. He knew that if alchemy bombs were used, all the problems here would probably be solved.
But after all, that thing is made of zero elements. It is more of a disposable "noble phantom" than a weapon. After all, it is an exercise. Who would bring such a priceless thing?
Haven't you seen that he is now reluctant to use the dragons on his own ship?
Those dragons are preparing for the attack on the Lion's Den Fortress later, so they must recharge their batteries!
Thinking of this, Shameen finally understood why he felt a little uncomfortable before. He finally realized that he was actually a typical Tirello military noble and had never changed at all.
He smiled mockingly to himself and quickly put these random thoughts behind him. Taking advantage of this rare opportunity on the battlefield, he contacted Brigadier General Kebed, the commander of the 12th Division.
Although the two were "enemies" half an hour ago, they now became comrades fighting side by side. However, both of them were professional soldiers who fought decisively, so there was no time to sigh and sigh, and they got straight to the point.
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"Brigadier General Kebede, what is the current casualty status of our army?"
"547 people died in battle, and 489 were injured. The battle line here has been stabilized, and I have already sent people to collect the remains of the soldiers." The corners of the werewolf brigadier general's mouth twitched. Even for a tough guy like him, it is really hard to accept.
Thousands of soldiers will lose their lives here.
However, as a top front-line commander, he regained his energy in an instant: "Don't worry, with the spiritual array arranged by Count Seliola, our soldiers can still stabilize the battle line for the time being. I just talked to O'Baran
The lieutenant general has completed the communication. He will airdrop some ammunition to us. In addition, our cloud transport ship is turning back after getting the news. It will send spare power skeletons and supplies in up to six hours."
This is also a long-standing tradition of the imperial military. All military ships, even transport ships, will carry some supplies and spare weapons for actual combat, no matter what mission they are performing. Of course, this will have certain safety risks.
But the empire believes that this is to allow the imperial army to enter the actual combat state in the shortest possible time, anywhere in the galaxy, and to execute any role. This is the unique national condition of our Tirello warriors. In comparison, there is no security risk at all.
It's nothing.
After hearing what the other party said, Shameen felt a little relieved. If timely ammunition supplies could be obtained, a full division of armored grenadiers, coupled with air support landing in space orbit, would be able to deal with most attacks.
The situation has changed. Even if a virtual lord comes... well, if a virtual lord really comes, one division will definitely not be able to deal with it, but it should still be able to stop the opponent and hold on until the fleet arrives.
"Should we cover the residents of Crystal City to evacuate to the coast, towards the Great Pulse City?" Shameen asked humbly. He knew that he was only a genius psyker, but not a genius tactician.
Although his grades at the military academy are good, he does not have much commanding experience. The largest unit he has ever commanded is three digits in size, and they are all comrades who have been with the Knights day and night.
In areas where you are not so good at it, you should fully listen to the opinions of others. Shameen felt that this was the biggest gain he gained from the failed God of War Festival.
Brigadier General Kebede did not expect that the recognized future leader of the Knights would be so modest. A warm current flowed through his heart, and he explained seriously: "With our current military strength, it is no problem to stabilize our defense line and defend the military warehouse behind us, but we must
It is still a bit stretched to protect more than 300,000 civilians from evacuating in the undefended wasteland. What's more, although the current situation has stabilized, we still don't know what will happen. Who can solve the problems related to occultism?
Is the judgment really accurate? In comparison, citizens should be safer staying at home."
Citizens of Crystal City are indeed safer staying in their homes.
You must know that the Tiruiro people, who are full of martial virtue, even ordinary civilians, are not unarmed lambs to be slaughtered as imagined, but they have always had a tradition of regional self-policing and community defense. In addition, all cities in the empire will bear a certain amount of national defense.
Function. If there is a real danger, an isolation wall will be stretched between each community street and the main road, turning the entire city into an isolation cabin structure on a spaceship. In addition, civilians within the community will also rely on grassroots bureaucrats and
Under the leadership of local armed citizens (most of whom have experience in military service), they opened arsenals and defended their homes.
In this way, each block will be turned into an armed stronghold with basic defense capabilities. The entire city is equivalent to a complete fortress.
Currently, Crystal City has a total of 320,000 citizens, of which 120,000 are humans. Although there are no noble military nobles, there are nearly a thousand citizen families, enough to complete the basic military organization of the city.
The brigadier general paused for a moment: "However, you have also seen the abilities of those monsters just now. We cannot transfer all the responsibilities of protecting ourselves to the citizens. We must divide our troops as soon as possible and go to the city to rescue them."
Viscount Shameen nodded, feeling that this was the right thing to do.
Although the traditional Tiruiro military nobles do not regard the people at the bottom as human beings, the sense of honor that maintains the martial tradition has always been there. In their view, since they are sheep raised by themselves, they have the obligation to protect them.
"I have sent some knights to Crystal City to support them, led by very reliable comrades. As long as Crystal City can activate the emergency warning in time, they should be able to arrive in time.
Of course, if you want to clear out the enemies there quickly and minimize the damage to civilians, the city really needs reinforcements.
The two quickly discussed it. Without affecting the stability of their own defense line, the Twelfth Division could allocate two regiments to support Crystal City. There were more than a hundred knights under Shameen's command, and he said that he could still divide his troops.
One group rushed to Crystal City to support, and some stayed to help Kebed defend.
"No, you need to divide your troops into three groups." Brigadier General Kebede explained: "After the mutation happened just now, Count Seliola began to analyze the cause. He said that he had sensed the reason why the mutation happened.
The node should be in the ruins of the coordination robot factory. After the count stabilized our spiritual weapon array, he has already set off to rush there."
The spiritual weapon array cannot be stable just by saying it is stable. This kind of field array that attaches buffs to tens of thousands of grenadier soldiers theoretically requires psykers to maintain it in real time.
This means that Count Seliola can already remotely operate a large psychic field, and can he do other things at the same time?
Shameen naturally admired the strength of His Excellency the Knight Commander, but there were more important things now. He couldn't help but frown and asked: "Coordinate the robot factory?"
"Yes, it is located in the northeast of the city. There is a natural underground cave space there, which is enough to accommodate a city. The former lord of this planet built a huge robot factory there. However, it has been abandoned for almost two hundred years."
Brigadier General Kebede pondered for a moment and then said: "Some time ago, General Griffiths, a military observer from the Iron Army Complex, and his party have been conducting archeology in that ruins."
Could this change be the work of those bugs from the Iron Army Complex? Viscount Shameen thought.
No, although the Palladium bugs are tough, they are not so willing to die, right? If it really causes a change in the world on this planet, tens of millions of people will die at most in the empire, but it has a full force to launch a war against the Iron Army Alliance.
The reason. And it was the kind of reason that was so firm that it would destroy the Pallai people's country and even their race, and neither the alliance nor other countries could say anything.
"In addition, the Earth's observers..." The Brigadier carefully observed Shameen's eyes and said, "That's Yu Lian. He has also been hanging out with the Tiejun people during this time. Moreover, the Earth's observers, and
That Tantai Jingzai. Viscount, what do you think..."
"I understand. I will immediately bring people to support Count Seliola." Viscount Shamaine interrupted.
Brigadier General Kebed shrugged and stopped talking, acting like "I'm just a porter of information." As for how the other party decided, he didn't bother to worry about it.
Viscount Charmaine forced himself to give up the urge to take people to the observation post to arrest Yu Lian on the spot, and once again completed the detachment of his men.
Some of the knights led two regiments of grenadiers to Crystal City for support, some stayed at the scene, and the last group, led by him personally, rushed to the ruins of the coordination factory as quickly as possible.
Of course, he didn't know that the old enemy he wanted to arrest on the spot and the person he rescued were already having a "historic" meeting in the ruins of the coordination factory.
Yu Lian looked at the middle-aged man ten meters away in the passage directly in front of him, showed an awkward but polite smile, quickly took back his atomic light spear that had shined with golden light, and then saluted him with a military salute.
: "Hey, what a coincidence! Earl."
After all, his military rank is Imperial General, so out of diplomatic etiquette, he should salute first.
Moreover, Yu Lian, the diplomatic attaché and member of the observation group, was theoretically invited by others, but not only did he not pay a visit to express his gratitude, he even killed his disciples and more than one of his descendants.
It was indeed too rude. Yu Lian thought, it is normal for people to have grievances.
"Yes." The count nodded expressionlessly.
Now Yu Lian is fully armed, while the opponent seems to be unarmed, but it is he who is completely at a disadvantage in terms of momentum.
Yu Lian faced the leader of the Astral Knights, Duke Sartolan, who was more powerful than Count Bigliola.
He had also had a pleasant chat with the most powerful psyker in the universe, Emperor Elithel. However, he had to admit that only now, the pressure he felt was the strongest.
There was no way, after all, this was not a sanctimonious social occasion, and as a warrior, Count Seliola had no need to hide his hostility or even murderous intent.
"It's just you and me here?" He showed a peaceful smile.