Chapter 246: What you said makes sense!
"General, is there any news about my aunt?"
The person who said this was Wang Jiarong.
The person who was called the general was Pobov.
Generally speaking, the rank of Brigadier General is not recognized as a proper general rank, but rather a transitional rank from colonel to general. Moreover, Perbov's rank of Brigadier General came from the Planetary Defense Force's own system, so it was even less recognized.
But who can blame Wang Jiarong for having to rely on this brigadier general under her cousin's command?
Pobov was also a little helpless.
The war was raging, and he had to answer calls from the starship every now and then, being asked the same question over and over again, which did annoy him a bit.
But I have to accept it.
He fully understood the anxious mood of Wang Jiarong, who was on the starship and preparing to come down tomorrow to attend the Gu family meeting.
And at this moment, he did have some news to tell Wang Jiarong.
"There's news about Ms. Wang Qi."
"Did you pick up my aunt?"
"Yes, but... there is good news and bad news."
"Say it together!"
"We did successfully pick up Ms. Wang Qi who had evacuated the city. She is now under the protection of the army and is heading towards our main position."
"Great! So what's the bad news?"
"The bad news is... they were intercepted on their way back. They ran into the two Ranger-class Knight Titans that attacked us before and posed a great threat to our main position."
"Hiss...then...this..." Wang Jiarong was suddenly panicked.
The Ranger-class Knight Titan was not a true Titan, but a combat mecha in essence. Its size had not yet reached seven meters, and it was still far behind the true Titan mechas of the Mechanicus, which were called "God's Machines".
In the order of the Mechanicus, Titan mechas have always been the top force.
Small-sized combat soldiers, usually made by combining human body modification and mechanical modification;
For medium-sized ones, the Sentinel Mech is the entry-level one, and the Overlord Knight Mech is the pinnacle.
Only large ones can be called Titan Mecha.
At present, there should be no real Titan mecha in the Luman Kingdom, or in the entire Black Arrow Star. The highest is the Knight mecha.
But even a Ranger-class Knight Mech has a height of 6.2 meters. For ordinary people, it is absolutely huge, and it is no wonder that many people usually call it a "Knight Titan".
The normal price of a Ranger-class Knight Titan is 700,000 tax coins, and Wang Jiarong, who does business, knows this very well.
Similarly, she had seen the army of Angry Owl Star. The so-called mechanized synthetic brigade had good equipment. But she could also estimate that such a brigade, with more than 8,000 soldiers, including soldiers and various weapons and equipment, would cost less than 350,000 tax coins.
This means that the price of a Ranger-class Knight Titan is equivalent to that of two synthetic brigades.
Not to mention, those two Ranger Knight Titans certainly couldn't fight alone. They would be accompanied by a large number of troops, and there would definitely be a large number of Sentinel Mechas.
Such a troop blocked my aunt's way back...
Wang Jiarong's current mood is not to the point of despair, but it is inevitable that she is nervous.
"General Perbov, please rescue my aunt!"
Perbov said quickly: "Don't worry about this. She is the Governor's mother. How dare we not take care of her? I will report back to you as soon as I have any news."
“Please.”
After ending the call with Wang Jiarong, who was actually very far away and floating in the galaxy space, Perbov hung up the phone and found his old partner.
Like him, Colonel Jordan Leroy, who was from the 1st Wind-Extinguishing Brigade and formerly served as the political commissar of the 1st Wind-Extinguishing Brigade, was transferred to the Expeditionary Force together with Perbov and served as the political commissar of the Expeditionary Force.
After finding his old friend, Perbov said, "Now you can always agree to attack again! If Ms. Wang Qi has any problems on the way back, all of us will die here!"
Leroy sighed.
Other political commissars spend their days thinking about how to boost morale and make soldiers and officers fight fearlessly, preferably without retreating a single step in the battle and fighting to the death.
And what he had to do all day was to hold their former brigade commander, now the army commander, and tell him not to be so reckless and to think twice before doing anything...
This difference sometimes always makes Leroy sigh.
Facing his old partner, Colonel Leroy said: "Let me correct you. I never stopped you from taking the initiative. You are the army commander, and you are the supreme commander of the battle. What I stopped was your rash actions. You did not collect enough intelligence and did not think clearly before making a decision..."
"Alright, alright..." said Perbov, who had a headache when he heard her mumbling. "I have thought it through clearly now. I must take the initiative!"
Leroy nodded, "Okay, I agree."
"The remaining troops of the 37th and 38th Divisions must all be deployed this time. Our armored forces must be assembled and used in a unified manner."
Leroy nodded again, "Okay, I agree."
"I will personally lead the team and launch the main assault!"
"Okay, I...wait?!" Colonel Leroy, who had almost said it fluently, quickly stopped talking and almost bit his tongue. "You want to lead the team yourself? Why? As a commander, why don't you stay at the main position and guard the pass? Why are you following the assault troops to charge?"
"Come on, the 37th and 38th Armored Divisions have all been deployed, leaving only the 34th Division at the main position. Where do you think the main force is? As the army commander, I must put the main force where the troops are!"
After a pause, he continued, "What's more, the mission to rescue the Governor's mother is more important. If I'm here, we can make decisions immediately without having to pass messages back and forth. If I'm here, I can also boost the morale of the entire army at any time and let them know that the generals of the alliance are never lacking in blood and will fight on the same front line with the frontline officers!"
Leroy's brows knitted together tightly.
He actually felt that what Perbov said... made sense?
He hesitated and said, "Then we will go to command the assault team. What about the main position here? The 34th Division will have to face the enemy's main attack independently, and the pressure will be great."
"So," Perbov stared at his old partner, "you have to stay."
"ah?"
"Only if you stay and guard the main position can I fight with confidence!"
"What you said makes a lot of sense!"
…
That's how it was settled. Perbov was very decisive in his actions.
The troops that needed to assemble completed their assembly quickly.
It's not easy.
At this moment, their so-called main base is just a small town.
A few days ago, when they just got off the starship, they were hiding in a large number of concentrated boxes and came to the local area as "cargo".
When the 'time' was ripe, they broke out of the door and went to a residential area that had been arranged by the Gu family's local forces.
The people here were cleared out, and the 30,000 people used this place as their residence.
At that time, they could only carry some light weapons with them. The rest of the heavy firepower, whether artillery, armored vehicles or tanks, were still piled up in containers as cargo.
It's still there, where the weapons and equipment are piled up, not far from their "barracks".
Under such circumstances, Perbov and Leroy never dared to regard this operation as a trip. They replaced all the guards at the container storage area and warehouse managers with their own people.
In addition, they did not really stay in the residential area. All the reconnaissance squads and reconnaissance companies of various units were released.
Whether you are hiding in the town or even letting it 'wander' outside the town, the controlled area must be large.
Anyway, for this operation, they also had clear communication with the Gu family: Are you afraid of being exposed?
They clearly said, don't be afraid, anyway, 30,000 people with heavy firepower can't hide. The reason why they have to hide is to save face for everyone.
In that case, safety must be the top priority, even if it may be conspicuous.
The caution of the two military commanders, Perboeuf and Leroy, achieved miraculous results in subsequent events.
As soon as they sensed that a strange army was approaching, even if the enemy had not shown any hostility, they had already sounded the first-level mobilization. The soldiers, who were already on high alert, quickly deployed to their combat positions.
The sentinels ahead also stopped the strange army 10 kilometers away from the town. No matter what reasons or arguments the other party used, they would not let the people go.
The strange army had no good intentions. After being unable to enter the town, they opened fire first.
The expeditionary force from the Angry Owl Star will not be tolerated.
The reconnaissance squad and platoon were the first to engage in fire with the enemy. Even though they only had light weapons at the moment and there were many flexible and powerful armored forces such as sentinel mechas among the enemy, they were not afraid.
Under their layers of obstruction, the army of the Kingdom of Luman made slow progress.
What was even more terrifying to the people of the Luman Kingdom was that they were the ones who took the initiative to attack, but when the battle started, it was the artillery of the Alliance Expeditionary Force that opened fire first.
The power of the 155mm howitzer was enough to destroy a sentinel mecha with one shot. The three divisions of the alliance, with nearly 350 heavy artillery pieces, fired three rounds of rapid fire, and the Kingdom army, which was actively attacking and had no bunkers or fortifications, was immediately hit hard.
The first wave of failed raids left the Luman Kingdom’s army in disarray.
Afterwards, 30,000 members of the Alliance Expeditionary Force quickly occupied the entire town and began to set up battle lines at all entrances and exits and in all directions of the town.
When the army of the Luman Kingdom organized the second round of attack and approached cautiously, the target they were attacking did not look like a guest army at all!
——Where the hell are the foreign troops that can turn an entire ordinary suburban town into a military fortress in just half a day?
Barricades, high points of occupied houses, windows of houses... all these things became advantageous terrain for the defenders. Moreover, within the city, the Union artillery dispersed its positions, but was able to ensure that the firepower was concentrated at any point outside.
What’s even more embarrassing is that the Kingdom Legion’s artillery...is not as powerful as that of the Alliance.
Not only was their power inferior, their range was also inferior. When they urged cattle, horses and other livestock to pull the artillery up, they had just fired two rounds when the artillery of the Alliance Expeditionary Force quickly calculated their position and almost wiped out their artillery with one round of counterattack artillery.
As for the Kingdom Army’s artillery… their level was far inferior. The second wave of artillery took a long time to calculate the location of the Alliance’s artillery positions, and then found out that they were so far away that they could only quietly push their artillery positions forward. However, they were inexplicably discovered on the way, and another round of artillery attacks came down, and they were finished without firing a single shot…
Lacking the support of heavy firepower, even if the Luman Kingdom's army had sentry mechas to support them, they could not attack the hedgehog-like town.
Not to mention the threat posed by the Alliance artillery, once they got closer, the mortars and individual rocket launchers on the Alliance defense positions would also pose a threat to the Sentinel mechas.
The second and third rounds of attacks were all defeated.
The situation on the battlefield did not change until the Luman Kingdom took out its ultimate weapon, the Knight Titan.
This thing is really cruel.
The two Knight Titans had a long range. They fired dozens of rockets into the town from a distance of dozens of kilometers, out of the reach of artillery.
The effect is good.
After they fired three rounds in a row, they reloaded their ammunition and began to advance on foot.
The Sentinel mecha followed closely behind, and the Infantry Cannon Fodder was a little further ahead. The two Knight Titans fired suppressive rockets into the town, and when they were about 15 kilometers away, the rapid-fire cannons and laser cannons they were equipped with began to show their power.
House after house was blown away and destroyed, and the Alliance Expeditionary Force did suffer considerable casualties.
The Knight Titan, which costs 700,000 tax coins per unit and has a construction cost equivalent to that of two synthesizer divisions, lives up to its reputation.
But this attack by the Kingdom of Luman was still repelled.
At a distance of fifteen kilometers, the Alliance artillery, which had been somewhat silent before, once again showed its power.
This greatly surprised the great nobles of the Luman Kingdom who were controlling the two Knight Titans: the several rounds of long-range rockets they had fired earlier were aimed at the artillery positions of the expeditionary force that had been calculated previously.
They had covered the previous five kilometers smoothly and had not encountered any counterattacks from the Alliance's artillery. They thought that the Alliance's artillery had been destroyed.
But at this time, the expeditionary force told them clearly: the artillery unit was not only not destroyed, but also maintained a very strong combat effectiveness!
In half a minute, the expeditionary force's 300 artillery pieces fired four rounds of rapid fire and threw down thousands of 155 heavy howitzers.
The Luman Kingdom army was repelled again.
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It was sent out at noon at an irregular time.
(End of this chapter)
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