Chapter 323: All resistance has since collapsed
This was the second time Therese saw the Phoenix angels, armed with guns and sharp blades, marching towards them in formation.
But the shock I felt was no different from the first time.
The Phoenixes in heavy armor really looked like red giants. Their tall and majestic figures conveyed their iron will to the people around them. Their uniform movements combined the majestic postures of the individual warriors together, revealing their murderous intent in an even more surging manner.
Therese even held her breath involuntarily as she watched, until she was almost suffocating, and then she suddenly took big gulps of air.
This feeling of oppression is really too shocking.
"Focus more." A gentle voice sounded beside him.
Therese turned around and saw another red-armored warrior.
Although he did not take off his helmet, Therese could still feel that Henrik Larsen, the psychic among the Space Marines, was smiling at her.
She nodded slightly: "Sorry."
"No need to apologize, just wait for the news of our victory."
As the two were talking, the last sound of footsteps was heard, and all the Space Marines stopped.
Martins walked in front and said to her, "We have made all the preparations."
"Okay." Therese nodded slightly, and the power of psychic energy began to surge from her body.
Soon after, all the other psychics, including Henrik Larsen, did the same.
A huge amount of spiritual energy gathered on Therese's body, and then through her, it was channeled into the spiritual energy formation in front of them.
Every azure thread on the formation began to light up. A moment later, the space above the formation began to shake violently.
“You can enter now!”
Henrik Larsen sent out the message, and Captain Martins was the first to step into the formation, and all the other warriors quickly followed.
The same went for Larson. He stood beside Martins, and the surging psychic power connected every fighting brother together.
A moment later, all the Space Marines disappeared in an instant, leaving behind more than 20 psychics who seemed to have been drained of energy, lying on the ground, gasping for breath.
According to what they learned in the Mage Academy, this is a state of psychic overdraft, which is certainly not good for the body and mind. But as long as it does not happen too frequently, only occasionally, and as long as they can get enough rest to recover afterwards, it will not leave any problems or hidden dangers.
Therese was in a relatively good condition among all the people. Although she was the host of this psychic transmission, she also had the highest psychic strength among all the people. In the Psychic Order's "Grade Test", her psychic strength was rated C-level, which was the same level as the current president of the Pegasus Star Region Psychic Order, Wang Yuyang.
Her face was pale and she was breathing slightly, but her eyes were looking far away outside the fortress palace.
It was too far away and she couldn't see clearly, but she knew that the Space Marines had arrived at the outer city area that was used as a military camp and position.
If nothing unexpected happens, they will face the enemy's most powerful armed force - the Knight Titan.
Therese was not too worried. She felt that the Space Marines could not lose.
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At the moment of completing the teleportation, the Space Marines will indeed have to face the enemy's most powerful armed force, the Knight Titan. This is absolutely true and is actually happening.
But this kind of confrontation is definitely something that the Knight Titan does not want to see.
It was too sudden and too unexpected.
Knight Titans need drivers, and in the social environment of Black Arrow Star, Knight Titans are all nobles, and they will not stay in the uncomfortable and closed cockpit all the time. When they don't need to fight, they will of course rest in the outside world.
For example, now.
Of course, as the most powerful weapon and an extremely expensive war asset, the Stefanos paid great attention to the protection of their Knight Titans. There were a large number of soldiers stationed around them, and more than ten mecha sentinels were on guard. In the place where the Knight Titans were usually placed, they were also placed in permanent semi-underground fortifications, which could not only prevent sudden artillery and air strikes, but also strictly prevent lurking in.
However, what the Stefanos could never have imagined was that right under their noses, in the air where there was nothing just a moment ago, forty red-armored giants suddenly appeared!
Stunned, the guards even forgot to shoot.
Of course, even if they opened fire, it would be meaningless.
After the Space Marines landed, they had a very clear division of labor. They formed groups of ten and began charging towards the only two Knight Titans of the Stefano Kingdom Army.
The other twenty people began to clear the surrounding enemies in an orderly manner. The primary target was the sentinel mechas. Only the machine guns equipped on these sentinel mechas could cause damage to the power armor at the current combat distance.
But it's really not difficult.
There were only ten Sentinel Mechas, and they were attacked by surprise. The other soldiers could hardly help. In this case, what else can be said about the result?
They hadn't even reacted yet, and in an instant, each of them was "sprayed" with more than twenty armor-piercing bombs.
completely annihilated.
Immediately afterwards, the sound of melta bombs exploding was heard from two fortifications that stored the Knight Titans.
There is no doubt that the Knight Titan, which had no driver and no activated energy shield, was completely destroyed after four or five melta bombs were installed all over it and detonated at the same time. There was no possibility of repair.
The Phoenix Regiment's mission has been successfully accomplished.
The whole process took no more than six minutes.
There was no trace of complacency or anything like that in Martins' expression.
Just basic operations.
How difficult is it to teleport directly to the enemy's face and then kill them all with a knife?
Not at all.
What is a little difficult is how to withdraw safely and unscathed.
After all, they are now trapped in enemy territory.
Surrounding it are hundreds of thousands of royal troops.
Don't say they are Space Marines, they are truly invincible when wearing power armor.
That's not the case.
According to Martins' past experience, if they make mistakes or are careless in their next actions, they may still pay a price.
Heavy artillery, excessive gunfire, bombs... these things could threaten them.
But the good news is that the enemy's deployment here was completely destroyed.
In the surprise attack, there was a sudden huge loss, even the Knight Titan was destroyed, and those ordinary warriors had no will to fight in the chaos.
They withdrew with almost no hindrance and followed the previously planned route all the way to the defense line of the palace fortress.
After walking for more than 20 kilometers and passing through the outer city area, they successfully escaped.
They had made sufficient plans before this, and the roads they chose along the way were all narrow and unfavorable for the deployment of heavy firepower.
Their enemies were obviously unprepared for attacks from behind. They were not prepared to set up checkpoints, nor did they have the will to fight, so they were easily defeated with just one stab.
The Space Marines were strolling in the outer city area as if they were in a garden, and they encountered almost no effective obstruction.
And they had an added bonus.
During the retreat, a team discovered an unusual deployment of troops around a building, and it seemed that there was an important figure among them.
That building was on the troops' evacuation route.
Since it was on the way, they tried to attack the place.
The attack was of course successful, and the result was that they found the enemy's headquarters inside. An old general led the way, along with many generals of the Stefano Kingdom Army, who were blocked inside.
Several sentry mechas were closely guarding them, protecting them as they boarded several military vehicles and tried to leave.
However, the grenade launchers blew up all the military vehicles.
The enemy suddenly became panicked, and the Space Marines did not want to fight and just left.
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The Space Marines do not act alone.
Two hours before they performed the psychic teleportation, the alliance army occupying the central palace, under the instruction of Martins, launched a multi-point, comprehensive, and high-firepower attack outward.
The purpose is not to capture any important target, the most important thing is to attract the enemy's attention and create opportunities for the Space Marines.
At the same time, an entire special operations battalion directly attacked outward along the evacuation route of the Space Marines, with the goal of supporting the Phoenixes.
Even without these preparations, the Phoenixes would certainly be able to evacuate successfully, but when making plans, they must still take precautions against any eventuality.
For the Space Marines who successfully evacuated, the results of this raid were extremely brilliant.
The 200,000 Stefano troops stationed in the outer city were paralyzed and even out of control in an instant.
The main weapons of war were gone, and the command brain that had just shown some signs of recovery was removed. Many soldiers witnessed with their own eyes the Emperor's angels, killing through the entire city in an invincible manner. Everyone in front of them was like an ant, and was easily killed. This made them lose the belief in victory.
The top-down organization collapsed, the morale of ordinary soldiers collapsed, and the chain reaction caused by all this made it impossible for middle and lower-level officers to control their subordinates - a considerable number of them did not want to control them, and they themselves collapsed.
The army seemed to be there, but also seemed to be gone.
A large number of soldiers began to desert, and those who did not desert were also panicked and at a loss. In fact, many vicious incidents occurred in the city, and some soldiers began to rob residents, kill people and burn them.
But all this came to an end the next day.
The main force of the alliance is here.
The 13th Armored Brigade and the 60th Armored Brigade, both of which were part of the Alliance's Central Army Group, arrived in coordination.
Although there were only about 20,000 people, when 200 self-propelled truck guns blasted the main gate of Stefano, and then thousands of armored vehicles and more than 100 Lion tanks drove into the city; when the special warfare elites and soldiers of the 31st Airborne Division in the central palace area began to rush out of the palace and cooperate with the armored forces outside to attack Stefano's soldiers from both sides...
All resistance collapsed.
The alliance's army gained undisputed control of the entire city.
After a brief discussion, the political commissars of the two armored brigades formulated a series of follow-up policies.
The entire city was first placed under martial law, but a number of points for collecting daily necessities were opened to ensure basic humanitarian relief, and even some surrendered officials in Stefano's royal city were temporarily mobilized to assist in this matter.
Almost 200,000 people became prisoners of war. The Alliance quickly screened them, and most of them were fine. A few who committed crimes before the Alliance took control of the entire city were picked out, publicly tried, and executed on the spot.
Everything should be handled strictly and severely.
These strategies were quick and effective, and this feudal city with a population of two million people was finally peaceful.
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"I want to see Governor Gu." said Espsi.
Standing opposite him was Martins.
The chapter leader didn't say much, just nodded slightly.
Then, the 'Iron Curtain Queen' Ispsi boarded the Wind Falcon fighter jet bound for Pinser City.
On the plane, Ispsi, who is no longer young, seemed to have regained the feeling she had when she was seventeen years old and had just ascended the throne.
Tension, panic, helplessness... these things are the biggest, even bigger than they were back then.
In comparison, the firmness, persistence, forbearance and decisiveness when necessary that she once had in her heart are now very weak.
She didn't think that she had become weak, but the two situations were completely inconsistent.
If the battle back then was for her throne, now it is a battle for the destruction of her country.
And it was a battle of national destruction that had already been lost.
During the time she was held captive, she was not under too strict supervision, and so, in the little freedom she had, she saw with her own eyes how her brave knights and soldiers died one after another but in vain. She also saw with her own eyes how the 200,000-strong army outside the city, which she had placed great hopes on and which she had imagined could at least rely on the solid royal city to resist the alliance army for more than a month, completely collapsed in just two or three days.
Although the Kingdom of Stefano still has a million troops in the remaining territory, what is the point?
She had fully realized that they had actually lost the war that would determine the fate of the kingdom.
Stefano, the country has been destroyed.
But she is Stefano's king, and she has to make one final effort for the survival of Stefano's kingdom.
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