Chapter 234, Roll In
The chaotic eight-pointed star formation that connects to the real world is guarded by humans as solid as a rock.
When there were only about a hundred Space Marines and other people, they were able to hold the line and prevent the storm monsters from breaking through. However, as the battle lasted longer, they gradually became exhausted due to fatigue and ammunition reserves.
But Gu Hang's arrival eliminated these two negative problems.
At the same time, he also ordered the remaining 500 or so special elite troops guarding area C7 to step into the underground space and be pulled into the kingdom of God of the Original Angry Owl.
With these five hundred people, the blockade of the chaos formation became even more solid.
But Gu Hang was still not satisfied with this.
Let the 31st Airborne Division assemble and let Thadius lead the Northern Army to the designated location as soon as possible, all for the subsequent plans.
He planned to bring in the entire army.
Doesn’t the original Angry Owl like to pull people in?
What's the point of just pulling in the area around the cultists' formation? Let's get something bigger!
In fact, it was not that the Original Angry Owl wanted to pull humans into his territory; it was completely an accident.
After the Chaos Formation opened the barrier between the Angry Owl Evil God's domain and the real world, the connection between the two became extremely close. The breath of the abyss of hell naturally spread out, passively pulling people who got too close in, "half" pulled in here.
It is called "half" because the real body of the person being pulled in is still in the real world, and what comes here are the mind, will and soul.
But the abyss of hell, or the entire 'real world', is not a pure energy world. Here, it is a place where the laws of physics are chaotic, spiritual energy is dense, and energy, will and matter are chaotically entangled.
When people come here, they will get the same body as in the real world, and the things they carry with them will also be sent in in some way. The ammunition that is emptied here cannot be used in the real world; when people are injured here, the same injury will be reflected in the body outside, and this is even more true for death.
Previously, Gu Hang had achieved the goal of "eliminating fatigue" by purely using spiritual power to interfere with the soldiers' feelings and replenish their "physical strength" with spiritual energy. As for the ammunition, he had "carried" it from the real world and placed it on these soldiers.
Then, the matter of pulling half of the 31st Airborne Division into the kingdom of the evil god was because Gu Hang intentionally expanded the influence of the evil energy formation and expanded it to the assembly area of the 31st Airborne Division, pulling them all in.
The entire airborne division, with artillery and more than 5,000 people, were dragged in not just to seal off the chaotic formation.
If that's all we want to do, the existing manpower is enough.
In fact, the one that Gu Hang was targeting was the Angry Owl God himself.
At this moment, the human warriors have occupied a large area within the Kingdom of the Wrathful Owl. Half an infantry division has deployed multi-level defense positions in a circular front with a circumference of nearly two kilometers.
Before, the goal of the human warriors was to prevent the monsters from rushing out of the chaos formation. But now, let alone rushing out, the monsters can't even get within 300 meters of the chaos formation.
However, those ordinary monsters formed by storms were never considered by Gu Hang.
Although there were many of them, and they were endless and generated at any time, they had very few long-range attack methods. A few powerful ones could fire wind bombs, causing certain damage, but as long as such things appeared, they would be eliminated from a distance.
On the contrary, the firepower of the human side is much stronger.
The real world also has a real impact on the real world. After the artillery was transferred, the 155 howitzers fired still had terrible lethality.
And none of these attacks require Gu Hang to consume any of his strength.
On the contrary, after so many humans stably occupied the position of 300 meters deep, some special changes occurred here. The dark clouds above dissipated a little, and the solid ground became soft. The shovel could poke cracks in the rock by poking it downwards; after a few more pokes, a pit could be dug out.
This is the changing laws of the field.
Areas that have been occupied by humans for a long time are gradually breaking away from the concept of the evil god's territory and will no longer be controlled by the original angry owl.
This is exactly Gu Hang’s goal.
After he had acquired a lot of understandable knowledge, this was the solution he came up with - he wanted to completely kill this evil god, disintegrate its kingdom of God, and solve the problem of the original cult that shrouded the Angry Owl Star from the source!
After a considerable area was occupied by humans and its divine attributes were eliminated, the pace of the original angry owl moved forward even slower.
Although it was originally an angry owl belonging to the real world, over the past few hundred years, it had long embraced the abyss of hell, and was accepted by the abyss of hell, becoming a part of it.
It is extremely difficult for it to cross the curtain between the real world and the real world, and it faces great restrictions. Even if someone opens the "door" for it, it has to open the curtain little by little by itself.
Originally, this process would only take three to five hours, but the Space Marines' disruption of the cult rituals forced the high priest to hastily push the ceremony to its climax, causing the time to be greatly extended.
But despite this, it will eventually arrive in fifteen or twenty hours.
But more and more humans joined in, and even part of the area where the chaos array, which was equivalent to the gate, was separated from his kingdom of God, which made this time even longer.
The manifestation of this is that the Angry Owl God is extremely angry and tries very hard to move forward, but he walks slower and slower, and even gets farther away.
But Gu Hang was still not satisfied.
At present, it seems that it will take about thirty-two hours for this original angry owl to reach the human beings.
This was enough time for the main force led by Thadius to reach the battle site.
But he didn't want to go to such an extreme.
Now, we should prepare ourselves for the upcoming battle.
Under his will, mankind began to move forward.
Space Marines and battle sisters formed a vanguard team and suddenly rushed out of the position and expanded a part of the space. Then, the special warfare elite immediately followed to consolidate the position; then, the ordinary soldiers of the 31st Airborne Division took over the consolidated position.
At the same time, the Space Marines and Battle Sisters will continue to rush outward, and the special warfare elites will follow...
And so on.
They are further expanding the area they occupy.
On the one hand, this will delay the time for the Original Angry Owl to arrive at the gate, making subsequent plans more relaxed; on the other hand, as the occupied area expands, this will also strip away more parts of the Kingdom of God and weaken the strength of the Original Angry Owl.
However, when the position was expanded to a depth of 600 meters, they stopped.
Gu Hang also needs to save his energy.
Although, being in the real world, his psychic power has increased by several levels, it is still limited after all. Later, he will have to bring in 50,000 people, plus countless weapons and equipment.
He didn't want to consume too much before that.
Therefore, apart from "carrying" ammunition in from outside to replenish it, he did not plan to do anything to relieve the soldiers' fatigue. The cost was not huge, but if the number was more than 5,000, it was still considerable.
The soldiers began to take turns resting and fighting.
It is enough to maintain this 600-meter-deep defensive position, there is no need to do more.
But even though one-third of the soldiers were always resting, those ordinary storm monsters still had no way to break through the human defense line.
Heavy artillery can always reduce their numbers from a distance and in large numbers, making it impossible for them to concentrate their forces and rush to one place. As long as they show such an intention, there will be whistling artillery fire.
Even if they rushed over in a scattered manner, they could not withstand the machine gun blockade.
If you get any closer, you will be shot by rifles.
After the monsters died, they would dissipate into the wind and wait to regroup. Therefore, these monsters could not rush over using the accumulated corpses as cover.
Of course, the human side was not without casualties.
Within thirty-two hours, the soldiers of the 31st Airborne Division suffered nearly a thousand casualties.
The reason why they suffered a casualty rate of almost 20% was mainly because the storm monsters were too fearless and did not need to rest. During these 32 hours, the battle was real and going on all the time, not to mention that the human soldiers needed to rest.
Those monsters just rushed forward mindlessly, even if they could just rush up and release a wind bomb that would be great.
The most threatening attack method of those monsters is to charge in groups. Although most of their attempts to do so were destroyed by the bombardment of artillery fire during the charge, the ammunition of the artillery is not unlimited. Even if Gu Hang transferred all the shells sent to the Polar Industrial City to the evil god's kingdom here, there is still no way to really make dozens of artillery pieces fire continuously.
Even if there are wind falcons outside continuously transporting shells, they cannot withstand the current consumption rate.
Even if there are enough shells, the barrel will not last long.
In this situation, the storm monsters will always be able to find an opportunity to complete a large-scale cluster charge.
The artillery was unable to catch up, the machine guns could not sweep all the way, and the rifles could not kill all the monsters, so a large number of monsters still rushed towards them.
Although they will eventually be wiped out, before that, the human warriors will still suffer certain losses.
Thirty-two hours later, the loss figure reached thousands.
A casualty rate of nearly 20% would normally deal a significant blow to morale.
But on this particular battlefield, the situation is not bad.
First of all, there are Governors, Space Marines, Battle Sisters, and Political Commissars...all of these are things that provide a huge morale boost to ordinary soldiers.
The second and most fundamental goal is that they are not fighting aimlessly here. They have a clear combat goal, and according to the Governor, reinforcements will arrive in just 32 hours.
At that time, it would be time for them to launch a full-scale counterattack and completely eliminate this evil monster that was wreaking havoc on the planet.
The soldiers believed this to be true because the Governor himself had always been here and had never left.
And that is indeed the case; the Governor was not bluffing.
In other words, Thaddeus was not bluffing.
If we say thirty-two hours, then it is thirty-two hours.
In addition to the 31st Airborne Division, which had already entered and even completed the occupation of the Polar Industrial City by infiltrating in disguise and airdropping with hundreds of planes, Thadius also had five division-level units under his command, namely:
9th Guards Division, 30th, 32nd, and 33rd Infantry Divisions, and the 35th Combined Arms Brigade.
This adds up to nearly 50,000 people, and they have plenty of heavy equipment.
They, that is, the president Pierre of Polar Industries, who received the news that the army was gathering at the northern border.
Before the 31st Airborne Division and many elite Alliance troops took action, they had already entered the northern region and rushed all the way to the Polar Industrial City.
There are indeed some armed forces among them.
For example, the guard regiment of the Polar Industrial City, and the militia self-defense forces in some settlements.
However, Thadius completely ignored them.
As long as the local armed forces don't go crazy and try to stop them, Thadius won't make any trouble. His primary goal is to cooperate with the airborne troops and reach the Polar Industrial City as soon as possible.
If there are those who overestimate their own capabilities and try to stop them, Thadius will command his troops to run over them without mercy.
No one can stop their troops in a field battle.
Especially when eighteen Lion tanks were lined up and charged forward, followed by hundreds of Wanderer infantry fighting vehicles, they didn't need to stop at all, they just stepped on the accelerator and charged forward. Those who tried to stop the vehicles could not withstand the heavy artillery on the Lion tanks, nor could they withstand the bombardment of the machine guns and heavy grenade launchers on the infantry fighting vehicles behind them.
Of course, since the enemies along the way have not been cleared, there are indeed some risks.
If the subsequent war goes badly, the supply of the army will become a big problem.
However, at least in the short term, there is no need to worry. The joint logistics forces that followed the army group, thousands of baggage trucks, loaded with ammunition and supplies, followed the army.
No matter how cautious Thadius was, he didn't think anyone could hold out in the North until their ammunition ran out.
Of course, if the target is an evil god, then that might make people feel a little uneasy.
Therefore, Thadius mobilized the 8th and 25th Divisions to escort more supplies from the central province on their way as a backup.
When the Governor gave the order, the BJ Army Group was not far from the Polar Industrial City.
And thirty-two hours later, his troops had not only arrived at the designated location: the west side of the Far North Industrial City.
They even had time to blow up the city's western wall, and then the entire army advanced another kilometer into the city.
Gu Hang greatly appreciated this.
Originally, the target location assigned to them was on the western outskirts of the Polar Industrial City. At that time, it was considered that it would take too much time for a large force and heavy equipment to enter the city.
But now, it would be obviously a better approach to blast the wall and crush our way in.
The closer they were to the chaos formation, the easier it would be for Gu Hang to pull people into the evil god's kingdom.
(End of this chapter)
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