Chapter 333, Titans are all finished
The Phoenix Regiment has been part of this battle from the very beginning.
Of course, Perbov could not ignore such a reliable force.
On the contrary, it is his trump card.
He was able to realize that the Alliance had a complete crushing advantage over the enemy in all aspects, except for the Knight Titan.
Let these Knight Titans fight freely. One Knight Titan can easily destroy a hundred Lion tanks.
On the contrary, the conventional forces of the Alliance could hardly threaten these terrible war machines. If they really wanted to fight head-on, they could only deploy enough armored troops as "sandbags" to be hit by others and act as human shields, and then use the armor-piercing guns of the tanks and the heavy artillery fired from the rear to wear down the energy shields on the Knight Titans until they were broken and then destroyed.
The losses in this process are simply immeasurable.
From the very beginning, Perbov didn't want the war to turn out like that.
It's too passive.
If you have the Space Marine card in your hand, you would be a fool not to use it.
However, after discussing with Captain Martins, he did not put the Phoenixes on the table right away.
On the one hand, good steel should be used on the blade, and they are not needed in ordinary battles; on the other hand, they have to keep a secret to prevent the enemy from noticing them from the beginning and being on guard.
Of course, those Knight Titans were on guard.
When a Space Marine appears among the opponents, who can ignore it?
However, maintaining attention has a cost. When the battle is so intense that they have no time to pay attention to other things, how can they maintain attention on the Space Marines who have never appeared on the battlefield?
So, the first victim appeared.
The Phoenixes rushed out quickly from under the cover of a Lion tank. As they were less than a hundred meters away from the target, they could reach it in a few seconds with a full sprint.
Some were responsible for fire suppression and destroying the sentinel mechas that blocked the way, while others quickly broke through. He dodged the Knight Titan's subconscious kick, jumped high, lay on the Titan's body, attached the hot melt, and then quickly left.
The power of the melta bomb is still sufficient. More importantly, the melta placed close to the body is completely unaffected by the energy shield, so destroying a Knight Titan is no problem.
After the first one, the second one follows.
The two Knight Titans who dared to break into the battle were eventually destroyed in just eight minutes.
There were still four machines left, and we were really panicking.
In front of them was a surging group of tanks, and behind them were a large number of self-propelled artillery. Under the combined firepower, the four remaining Titans were not in danger for the time being, but the accompanying troops were gradually unable to hold on.
If the strength of both sides was at the same level, it would be fine; however, in the previous evacuation process, some troops had already disappeared while retreating; some troops were simply caught up in the extremely urgent pursuit of the Allied Forces, and were either destroyed or dispersed, or were still engaged in fierce exchanges of fire.
There were not many regular troops around them at the moment, and they were even more shaky under the fierce attack.
Once the regular troops collapsed, these four Titans would be lambs to be slaughtered.
Without the assistance and protection of conventional troops, the tall Titans could easily be attacked by someone without anyone noticing, bypassing the protection of the shield and then being destroyed.
This was not easy at first, after all, the Knight Titan was not completely without any close range self-protection capabilities. For conventional means, the Knight Titan's punches, kicks, and melee weapons were all deadly threats.
However, isn’t there a Space Marine figure before our eyes?
Having witnessed with their own eyes how the two Knight Titans were destroyed, how could they not know how powerful they were?
The risk was too high, so they felt they should not continue fighting and considered retreating.
Before retreating, they aimed at the red figure of the Phoenix and fired several heavy artillery rounds at it.
It’s true that the Knight Titan’s firepower is so strong that it is a threat even to Space Marines.
Within their field of vision, three Phoenixes fell to the ground after being bombarded by heavy artillery from the Titan.
They didn't have time to confirm the target's casualties and just kept bombarding the target while retreating.
The Knight Titan wanted to retreat, and there was indeed nothing that could stop him for a while. However, he could not resist the Alliance army that was chasing him closely.
What's worse is that this will trigger a series of chain reactions.
The regular troops of the Kingdom Army began to show signs of even more serious instability.
Before, there were six Titans as the core of the entire front. Even in the face of the impact of the steel torrent, they watched the tanks in front of them being destroyed one by one, and more or less they still retained the courage to fight. But now, even two Knight Titans were broken, and the remaining four were about to run away. What can they do?
The conventional troops collapsed.
The four Titans were helpless.
They had tried hard and called on the team to maintain resistance, but it was still of little use.
Only a very small number of people stayed with them and retreated with them.
However, the increasingly powerful heavy artillery and increasingly fierce attacks caused the number of these troops to decrease rapidly.
When the number of these troops was reduced to a certain extent, the final general offensive began.
They saw that not far away from them, the space was distorted and dozens of red-armored warriors, whose height was only slightly above their knees, appeared out of thin air.
The small number of conventional troops accompanying them were no longer able to stop these Space Marines who suddenly approached using psychic teleportation.
The Titans launched firepower almost immediately, and some brave ones wielded huge gravity fists or giant chainsaw swords and attacked the Space Marines.
However, this cannot change their ultimate fate.
Of the four Titans, three were damaged in battle and the remaining one surrendered.
The allied army, with the power of a great victory, swept towards the main force of the kingdom army with the defeated troops!
On the contrary, the kingdom's army on the other side felt as if someone had poured a bucket of cold water over their heads in the midst of the excitement!
A few days ago, they were still advancing with great momentum; although they learned that their retreat had been cut off, they were not panicked at all.
However, the whole incident had not happened for long when they suddenly heard the news that six Knight Titans were all killed in a battle!
The whole army was shocked!
They didn't even have a way to control the news, because the sound of the Alliance's artillery fire was getting closer and closer, and everyone could hear it; standing on a slightly higher hill, they could see the Alliance's armored group in the distance, and as they marched through the wilderness, they raised clouds of yellow smoke that covered the earth, and in the smoke, they could faintly see red flags fluttering in the wind.
Before the allied army's advance, the kingdom's army was like a stray dog, being chased and beaten.
What’s even more frightening is that you’re about to become one of the lost dogs.
The entire encirclement is only 60 kilometers wide and 80 kilometers deep. Today they won a big victory, but tomorrow they won't be able to reach us, and at the latest the day after tomorrow the barrel of the gun will be stuck in our throats. In this situation, no one can say anything stubborn.
what to do?
This problem was plaguing the entire kingdom's army.
The commander-in-chief of the Kingdom Army has made a decision, which is the only way to go: gather all forces and fight a decisive battle with the Alliance Army.
What else can I do?
As elated as they were in the previous eight days, they were now as anxious and worried as ever.
The attack ahead was too smooth. In this area, there was no time to build positions, and the various supplies in stock were not sufficient. There was no condition to hold on and wait for help.
What's more, even if they could hold on, who would come to provide reinforcements?
All twelve Knight Titans are here!
Only by fighting to the death and winning can they break out of the encirclement.
The commander-in-chief of the Kingdom Alliance has been trying hard to cheer up the generals of the army, especially the drivers of the six Knight Titans. He imagined the future. As long as this war is won, the backbone of the Alliance army will be broken. They simply cannot organize an armored cluster with thousands of tanks in a short period of time, and after such an extremely tragic defeat, it will greatly shake the Alliance's rule over the entire Black Arrow Star. In the rear, those countries that have been occupied by the Alliance will also be encouraged and resolutely resist...
All in all, the future is bright! As long as they win this final battle, they will all be heroes of the whole world!
However, just listen to it.
These words, at best, can only superficially make morale look better.
To be honest, this old marshal who came from the royal family of the Kingdom of Pampas had no idea what those generals and noble drivers of the Knight Titan were thinking in private.
Even, not to mention others, even he himself, while struggling, whispered a few words to a younger Titan pilot who was also from the royal family.
According to him, when fighting, of course you have to be brave; but if, by any chance, you really encounter an overwhelming force that you cannot defeat, then don't be stupid, choosing to surrender is not completely unacceptable.
As long as the people are still there and surrender with the mecha, there may be a chance to leave some hope for the royal bloodline as much as possible.
This is already preparing for the worst.
Even the top commanders and the core Knight Titans of the entire army have this mentality. How can they win the decisive battle?
On the third day after the alliance's encirclement was formed, the climax of the second phase of the battle arrived.
The result of this battle was that one of the six Knight Titans escaped - they could not be stopped - three were destroyed, and two surrendered.
The royal army undoubtedly suffered a great defeat.
Moreover, it was a much bigger defeat than the league’s first two active attacks.
Earlier, Perbov carefully selected and arranged tactics, launched a beautiful pincer attack, and repeated the same trick again, making full use of the armor and firepower advantages of the Alliance Army. In total, he only defeated 500,000 Kingdom Army troops, most of which were miscellaneous soldiers, and at most there were a certain number of Sentinel Mechas among them. For the Kingdom Army, it was only painful, but not a serious blow.
However, in the past half month, the result of this decisive battle was far more than just "pain".
This is an extinction loss.
Eleven Knight Titans, more than nine hundred Sentinel mechas, and a total of five hundred thousand troops, either dispersed, destroyed, or captured...
The Kingdom’s army gathered together to carry out this all-out attack, and was completely annihilated!
This was like the collapse of the sky for the political situation of the King's Parliament in the rear.
Did they anticipate failure?
Of course there is.
When you go to war, you always think about the things you lost and how to make up for it after you lost.
However, none of the ways of losing they had thought of before were as tragic as this one.
It was nothing more than that when attacking the alliance's defense, they were unable to break through and their efforts were in vain;
The worst case scenario was that they would be defeated and defeated entirely by the Alliance's armored forces and the Space Marines' counterattack.
There is a possibility of losing some Knight Titans, and there may be some serious damage.
But now? It's far from being a serious injury, it's already finished.
In the past four months of fighting, they have lost a full million troops and almost all of their Knight Titans.
What's more serious is that they lost confidence in defeating the alliance.
They knew this war would be difficult.
However, their mentality has changed now.
Now most of them are thinking that this war cannot be won.
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Eureka Pampos, who was squatting in a prisoner-of-war camp, still clearly remembered the situation of the battle a few days ago.
He is the youngest son of the current King of Panpos, a knight known as a 'genius', the youngest Knight Titan driver in the kingdom in the past hundred years, and ranks sixth in the succession sequence established by the King of Panpos.
But now, he could only squat here, just like everyone else - including the most ordinary low-level soldiers whom he had never even looked at, eating hard-to-swallow blocks of synthetic starch with cold water, but he had to swallow them firmly, otherwise he would really starve to death.
He felt the stuff become a lump in his throat.
It's not that he has never suffered, nor is he the kind of dandy prince. Since he was a child, he knew that he could not inherit the throne under normal circumstances, so he was determined to join the army and was recognized by his father. He was hardworking and worked hard in the army, received the most rigorous training, and finally achieved his current performance.
But in his life experience, he had never felt what hunger was.
Since he was young, he has always enjoyed a rich supply of nutrition for training. No matter how hard or tiring the training is, a hearty meal is always necessary afterward.
But in the Alliance prisoner-of-war camp, he felt it.
It’s not that the Alliance was intentionally abusing the prisoners, but that the Alliance received too many prisoners at once and there were some problems with food supply.
The league's approach to this was something he hadn't even expected.
The so-called "political commissars" in the alliance would actually come to the prisoner-of-war camps and do ideological work with the prisoners, saying that the current difficulties were only temporary and that the problems would be solved soon, and asking everyone not to panic. They would also shoot several prisoner-of-war camp management officers who distributed food unfairly and withheld rations from the prisoners - usually, these were officers from the vassal army of the Kingdom of Luman or the Kingdom of Stefano.
These measures made the alliance's political commissar popular among the prisoners.
The captives listened to the political commissars talk about how people live on the distant Wrathful Owl Star, the Alliance's policies, and some changes that the soldiers had heard about in the Kingdom of Luman in the past year...
Prince Eureka discovered that the captives, who were originally restless and frightened, miraculously became calm due to the food shortage!
In the past, he would never have believed this. But now, after it happened right before his eyes, he was thinking about it.
After being defeated and captured, he always wondered why the Kingdom Army looked so powerful but still lost in the end.
Up to now, he has not figured out the reason, but at least he has figured out part of it.
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