Chapter 259: Enemy at the Gate
The conversations between Gu Hang and Wang Qi, mother and son, were all about what to do after the war. No matter how many disagreements there were between them, or how much Wang Qi worried about her son's plan, there was one thing that they had never discussed, but was tacitly assumed to be the premise of everything:
Gu Ming and Ness Luhman are dead.
The reason for this tacit agreement is that neither of them regards this matter as a problem, but as an established fact.
And the reality also proves that they are not blindly arrogant.
After the Phoenix and the Air Force Regiment completed a brilliant assault and destroyed a Knight Titan, the Luman Legion that besieged the suburban town collapsed.
Fortunately, the Phoenixes were not well-informed when they attacked, and they didn't know that Gu Ming and Ness Luman were right next to the Knight Titan they killed, so they let them run away. Otherwise, with the Phoenixes' ability, they could have killed these two people on the spot.
But they can run for a while, not forever.
In the next few days, several things happened one after another, which were symbols of the collapse of the alliance between the two of them.
Also, these things happen very quickly.
First of all, the last Knight Titan in the Luman Kingdom’s army was destroyed.
After the defeat on the battlefield in Suburban Town, the Luman military was trying to gather its troops and withdraw to the city of Pinser while the main force of the alliance's reinforcements had not yet arrived.
However, at this time, an armored combined battalion of the 1st Xifeng Brigade, as the first unit of the entire army to get off the landing ship and the vanguard of the entire army, had already rushed to the battlefield.
Seeing the reorganized main force of Luhmann's army, this combined battalion was still a little scared.
Their troops were no more than a thousand, and although they had nine Lion tanks and more than fifty infantry fighting vehicles of various types, it would be difficult to attack the main force of tens of thousands of enemy troops, especially since there were hundreds of Sentinel mechas and a Knight Titan in the enemy's army. If they rushed in, they might not be able to come back.
The commander of this unit, a major battalion commander, thought it over and over again and decided to play it safe.
He commanded the troops and just followed from a distance to monitor the movements.
In fact, the major battalion commander was still very nervous.
His troops were too few in number, and they were all armored and mobile. In order to keep chasing the enemy, they could not dig any temporary positions or fortifications. If the enemy really attacked head-on, it would be a big trouble.
Especially if the Knight Titan moves, it would be even more terrifying.
However, he soon discovered that he was worrying too much.
The opponent's performance was much more panicked than his.
As soon as the armored troops he led appeared, the enemy jumped up like a frightened bird.
Through his military telescope and the reports of his scouts, he could see that the enemy army had become extremely panicked. The Knight Titan that he feared so much even sped away from them.
This made the major battalion commander feel very ridiculous.
Not to mention his combined battalion, the cost of that Knight Titan is much more than that of their entire brigade combined.
As a result, when the Titan, surrounded by a large number of other troops, 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, just give him a fuck?
The Lumanian army is too weak.
It's like having a broken spine.
However, his rationality was still online and he was not directly bewitched 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 came.
The military communication was directly transmitted to his command vehicle. After a brief communication between the two sides, he made the decision.
Oh, he didn't have to make this decision now. In the military sequence of the Alliance, the authority of the Phoenix Chapter Master Martins was quite high. According to the military regulations of the Alliance, he had to obey the orders of the Chapter Master on the battlefield, unless the orders of the Chapter Master absolutely conflicted with the mission he was currently performing, then he had to ask for instructions.
And now, Captain Martins only asked his surveillance team to launch an attack directly to divert the enemy's attention. This does not constitute a situation of contradiction or conflict.
The only thing to worry about is loss.
But this is a serious combat order. Why would we not go forward just because we are worried about losses?
The troops quickly prepared for battle and launched an attack.
They are already in a state of combat readiness at all times and do not need to make any additional preparations. They can start fighting at the command.
The result of the fight...
As expected, the Lumans had no will to fight at all. They were easily beaten and fled in panic. Under the torrent of steel, they fled in all directions like crushed sand and gravel.
This was a battle of rout, and the specific casualties were actually not great. A battalion of troops could not carry out operations such as encirclement or annihilation of an organized unit.
However, their assault did achieve real results.
The Lumans, whose morale had collapsed after the defeat in the suburban town, had only just been put back together. After this attack, they were on the verge of collapse again.
Of course, there are always reliable ones among them.
Those are the knights.
In the feudal legions, these feudal lords who serve as middle-level officers and knights who have been carefully trained since childhood have a good fighting will.
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 little too small.
The Knight Titan also reacted and stopped fleeing. Instead, it used long-range firepower to attack the alliance's army.
Casualties began to occur.
But at this moment, the phoenix appeared.
The iconic roar of the Wind Falcons arrived first. Their initial position was at least a hundred kilometers away, but after the battle began, they arrived at the battlefield in just fifteen minutes.
They had no missiles. In the previous battle in the suburban town, they had used up all their onboard missiles and were unable to replenish them for the time being.
However, the airborne laser cannon and the real single gun still produced very powerful results.
After a round of licking the ground, the Luman army became even more scattered.
And the Space Marines also dropped from the sky.
The three wind falcons performed a juggling act, lowering their altitude to about ten meters, and their flying speed also decreased slightly, while fiercely firing at the surroundings.
At the same time, the hatch opened and the Space Marines jumped down one by one.
However, isn't it said that we should never underestimate any enemy?
Some of the knights driving the Sentinel mechas had experienced the battle in the suburban town. After the iconic sound of the Wind Falcon appeared in the sky, some of the brave ones raised their guns and fired at the Wind Falcon.
Most of them failed.
A falcon flying at high speed is not so easy to be hit.
However, the three falcons carrying the phoenix ran into trouble.
The lower altitude and flight speed make the risks they face greater.
One of them was hit on the wing by continuous machine gun fire just as it was dropping its Space Marines.
The entire Wind Falcon rolled and fell down, hitting the ground hard, and smashing the Sentinel Mech that had blown up the Wind Falcon.
The morale of the surrounding Lumans briefly rose.
Take down a plane, especially one with a formidable crew of Space Marines.
However, this euphoria was short-lived as it was quickly replaced by panic.
Not to mention the ten Space Marines who landed successfully, just the slightly deformed hatch inside the crashed Wind Falcon was suddenly kicked open from the inside.
A Space Marine rushed out and fired fiercely at the surrounding area with his bolter, eliminating any threatening targets.
Of course, the so-called "threat" was not that threatening. In fact, when the Lumans saw that the Space Marines were able to get out of the crashed aircraft unscathed, all they could think about was running away.
Afterwards, several Space Marines 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 them for some time. Their battle brothers had already rushed towards the Knight Titan not far away.
There is no need to follow these five people.
They raised their weapons and began to clear out the surrounding enemies, targeting mainly those Sentinel Mechas with stronger resistance wills.
During this process, their attention did not lose sight of the main goal, and not surprisingly, they saw with their own eyes how their chapter commander quickly destroyed the Knight Titan.
The Knight Titan's most important means of defense, the shield generator it carries, is ineffective against Space Marines - unless they are stupid enough to attack with only ranged weapons.
The problem of being unable to identify slow targets allows Space Marines to walk through energy shields and attack directly with cold weapons. There is not much difference between having a shield generator and not having one.
Of course, the Knight Titan itself also has heavy armor. Unfortunately, Martins has a power sword in his hand. In front of such a weapon with decomposition capabilities, ordinary armor is like paper.
He was now doing exactly the same thing he had done in the suburban town to dismantle the Knight Titan.
When the Knight Titan fell, the already crumbling Luman army collapsed even more completely. Not to mention the ordinary Luman soldiers, even the knights driving the Sentinel mechas lost the will to continue fighting.
This also made the evacuation of the Space Marines smoother. They easily joined the synthetic battalion fusion division that had escaped from the quagmire and evacuated smoothly.
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The road from the suburban town to the city of Pinser was littered with the corpses of the Lumans.
Unfortunately, the main force that came to support was not unloading fast enough, and many of them were still behind, crushing the troops sent to block them with a torrent of steel, so that they could not take advantage of the enemy's collapse to fight a beautiful encirclement and annihilation battle outside the city of Pinser.
The Alliance troops could only use small-scale wolf pack tactics to continuously bite off pieces of meat from these scattered troops.
Although a large number of enemy manpower were killed and wounded, and a considerable number of Lumans were forced to desert, in the end, about 20,000 people were allowed to enter the city.
Although the number seems large, in fact, more than 80% of the enemies have either died or fled, and they are disorganized and no longer pose a threat.
What's more, most of those who fled back to Pinser City were miscellaneous soldiers.
Even though the main army of the Luman Kingdom still existed in name, it was actually destroyed.
This country, with a population of 40 million, supports an army of about 500,000 people, but most of them are controlled by feudal lords. The core of them is actually about 600 knights, and the top layer is the six Ranger-class Knight Titans supported by the whole country.
In the political environment of the Kingdom of Luman, 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.
The most core force that King Ness Luman can control is called the Royal Knights, which is composed of two hundred royal knights and two Ranger-class Titans; plus two earls who are directly loyal to the royal family and their vassals, which makes another two hundred knights and two Titans.
These formed the overall military strength of the Lumanian Kingdom.
From the beginning, Ness Luman had used almost all of his war force. There were not many ordinary soldiers gathered, only about 150,000, but the 400 knights and four Titans were gathered in advance by him in the name of "festival".
This is almost like taking out all the basic support of his subordinates.
And then, it was all gone.
The most painful thing, of course, is the loss of four Knight Titans.
This loss cannot be judged by the cost of 700,000 tax coins alone. The maintenance cost of these big guys is more than 100,000 tax coins each time. They need to be maintained every two or three years, otherwise their combat effectiveness will be damaged. Over the years, the Luman Kingdom has spent a lot of money on them.
Now, it's all gone.
Of the four hundred knights driving the Sentinel mechas, no more than fifty were withdrawn.
In terms of the political ecology of the Kingdom of Luman, the knights are the middle-level rulers of the country; the Titans are the high-level rulers.
After the whole thing was wiped out, not only was the military power completely lost, but the political ecology of the kingdom was also destroyed, leaving nothing behind.
In this sense, even if the alliance suddenly became kind-hearted and stopped, withdrew its troops and left without asking for any compensation, the Kingdom of Luman would most likely cease to exist.
The other six countries on the Black Arrow Star will not let go of such a weak Luman; the remaining two marquises, whose strength has not been greatly damaged, may not have any ideas.
Moreover, it is obvious that Gu Hang would not be so kind.
The enemy is at the gate.
The reorganized alliance army surrounded the city of Pinsel.
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