Chapter 355, Meritorious Forces
"Isn't it time yet?"
Lieutenant General Hans was a little angry.
"How long do we have to wait? One million casualties a day, twenty army groups need to be withdrawn from the front line for rotation. My Lord Governor, my Lord Theater Commander, do you know what this means?"
"I have been in the army for forty years, and I have never fought such a brutal battle! Even when I fought those greenskins in the Jinguan Star Region, the scale was larger, but I have never lost so many soldiers in such a narrow front in one day and one night!"
"How long do you think our army can hold out if the situation continues like this?"
"When the Legion collapses and Mingyan City is swallowed up, no matter how many and how ingenious your plans are, they will be meaningless!"
Lieutenant General Hans launched a fierce attack on Gu Hang.
Gu Hang, on the other hand, only comforted them a little: "I know the great sacrifices made by the Legion. I fully understand. They are also my people and my army. How can I not be sad and painful for their sacrifice?"
"But these are all for a greater victory."
"Don't even I have the right to know about your so-called greater victory?"
"You know, it doesn't make any sense for this matter." Gu Hang said, but instead made more requests, "I still need the troops under your command to do one more thing."
"What?"
"The next phase of the war mission is to attack the city of Fino."
Lieutenant General Hans was so angry that he laughed: "Do you know what you are talking about?"
"Of course I do."
"I can't do it!" Lieutenant General Hans refused decisively, "This is an impossible goal."
"Lieutenant General Hans, please pay attention." Gu Hang's tone became serious. "I am not discussing a battle plan with you. This is the most clear military order."
Gu Hang's tone became more serious and grim: "You and your troops must complete the mission of attacking Fino City within the next eight days. There must be no delay! Do you understand?"
Hans took a deep breath.
He held his breath, feeling like he had to let it out.
But in the end, he still held his breath.
He is a soldier and it is his duty to obey orders.
Gu Hang was now his clear superior. He could not make any concessions in carrying out Gu Hang's orders.
No matter how much he doesn't understand or agree with it.
He gritted his teeth and replied, "Yes, Commander."
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After the communication ended, Gu Hang stood on the edge of the cliff and stared at the battlefield below.
The distance is very far, and it stretches for hundreds of kilometers wide and hundreds of kilometers deep, so you can't see the end at a glance.
However, despite this, what one sees is an incomparably magnificent scene.
All the cruelty and brutality of war, the deaths and broken limbs, the sacrifices and wailing, are not seen or heard here. All that can be seen is the splendor and magnificence.
The explosion is the most beautiful firework. The battle line stretches as far as the eye can see, winding and twisting, changing all the time.
But Gu Hang would not feel heroic because of this.
He knew that what Hans said was true. Countless human warriors had made great sacrifices on the battlefield below.
But, not ready is not ready.
At times like this, Gu Hang must be able to harden his heart.
It's not him who is unprepared.
Over the past four months, the elite team that was ready to set off has been gearing up for the journey.
At the same time, he and his group of mages had already calculated the specific method of psychic transmission. Gu Hang himself would immerse himself in his Storm Kingdom from time to time, thinking about how to use the Kingdom to sneak into the subspace and go to the core of Fino City.
But he did not forget what the ultimate goal of their adventure was: to destroy the anti-orbital guns and void shields in the center of Fino.
To accomplish this goal, one needs to reach the target location as soon as possible, which requires accurate transmission; at the same time, one also hopes that the enemy's defensive forces around the target are as few as possible, which requires external pressure, causing those evil spirits to withdraw the defensive forces in the target area to fight the enemy.
Of course, having Lieutenant General Hans' army attack Fino City fiercely to attract the enemy's attention is only a secondary goal. The more important point is that when Fino City is directly attacked, especially when more human warriors enter the activated city, the connection between Fino City and the subspace, as the node where the subspace and the real world overlap, will be weakened accordingly.
And this will directly affect the extent to which certain powerful demons from the abyss of hell exert influence on the real world.
What Gu Hang was most worried about was the big demon, Gawagaben.
Obviously, the plague disaster on the planet Koroja was a major action of Govaga. It had been looking forward to it for a long time, and it was already full of fat intestines, and it was not satisfied at all. Its greedy eyes had already looked at the tens of billions of people in the world, and it would never give up.
In fact, it was indeed very close to success. As long as Mingyan City was swallowed up, the entire planet would be powerless to resist it.
Once it finds that its plan is at risk of failure, there is no doubt that it will do everything it can to stop it.
Back then, on the Wrathful Owl, Govaga could not pass through the reality veil with his true body, but it was not the case in Fino City. This place was too severely corrupted by the warp, and the reality veil had long been fragile. If it was willing to pay enough, it could pass through.
We are currently at this critical point.
Gu Hang needed the human army to set foot in Fino City. They didn't need to complete the task of capturing Fino City. As long as enough people stepped on it, the reality curtain would be strengthened; as long as the body of Fino City was burned and the pressure on this revitalized city was great enough, the erosion of the subspace could be reduced.
This will also directly reduce the possibility of the Great Unclean One Gawaja personally intervening in the battle at that time.
Even if it cannot be completely stopped, the greater the price Gowaga pays and the longer it takes when crossing the reality veil, will directly affect the success rate of the special operations force's mission.
This is a crucial operation to save the 40 billion people on the entire planet, so even though we know that letting Hans carry out the attack order will result in huge losses, no one can be soft-hearted at this moment.
Of course, in addition to the sacrifices that the ground troops have to make, Gu Hang will not forget the difficulty involved.
It doesn't mean that we can let the troops advance at the cost of sacrifice.
Gu Hang also needs to find some additional help for the troops on the ground.
He actually doesn't have many choices.
He dialed the line to Special Envoy Neil Laois.
"I need more support from the space fleet..."
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This was destined to be a sleepless night. No one could sleep that night, whether it was the combat soldiers on the front line who were fighting against the plague demon army, the second-line troops in the rear who were responsible for delivering logistical supplies, or the combat staff who were taking stimulants and working all night long.
The ground forces, the staff group of the central command, made a comprehensive offensive operation plan and divided the tasks among the subordinate army groups. The army group staff was also working, and the corresponding tasks were divided into division-level units, and then further divided...
On the first day after Governor Gu issued the death order, which was also the second day after the battle began, the entire line of defense remained motionless and continued to focus on defense.
The test faced by the human army on this day was not too great - at least compared to the first day of the battle. The casualties along the entire defense line were about 200,000.
This is still a terrifying number, but compared with the situation on the first day, with 400,000 casualties in six hours, one million casualties in one day, and a dozen army groups being completely defeated, it is much better.
By the third day, the entire line of defense was even retreating.
But unlike the first day, this retreat was relatively orderly, and they voluntarily gave up this position.
In addition, a group of troops stationed on the defense line were replaced.
The main reason for doing so is that the city of Fino has advanced nearly 60 kilometers in the past two days. If they do not retreat, the human army's defense line will once again enter the range of many evil energy cannons deployed in the living city.
This is also to prevent the plague demon army from once again launching an offensive at a cost of manpower and casualties after having more sufficient heavy firepower support, which would put too much pressure on the defense line.
This is exchanging space for time.
Lieutenant General Hans also explained his strategy to Governor Gu: To break into the city of Fino, in addition to taking the initiative to attack, another way is to wait for the city of Fino to come over.
After all, the living city moves.
It advanced sixty kilometers in two days, while the human army retreated fifty kilometers.
The same thing happened for several days afterwards.
The city of Fino advanced thirty kilometers a day, and the human army's front line retreated twenty kilometers a day.
The reason for doing this, instead of holding on to one line of defense, is that as the city of Fino gets closer, the pressure on the human army will increase. The front position was severely damaged after many battles. The position dug out in the rear is relatively intact, which helps to reduce casualties.
At the same time, it will take some time for all troops, especially those local defense forces, to adapt to such a tragic battlefield environment.
Of course, this could also cause a collapse in morale among local troops.
But there is no other way, so we have to do this. We can't just rely on the Dragon Eagle Legion's own troops to fight this battle. These local troops have more than 50 million people, and how much role they can play will have a decisive impact.
One can only hope that they will adapt to the battlefield and not completely collapse.
As it stands now, the situation has not developed in the worst direction.
As the distance between the human position and Fino City approached 10 kilometers every day, by the early morning of the seventh day, the distance between the front line of the human army and Fino City was less than 30 kilometers. At this time, a large number of evil energy cannons had entered the range, and the pressure on the defense line increased a lot.
But apart from being badly beaten by fel energy artillery and air strikes, the enemy's ground attack was not too crazy.
So far, the total casualties of the human army have reached nearly 4 million. In general, the exchange ratio between the human army and the plague demon army in the battle is still maintained at 1:7 or more. This means that the plague demon army has also lost 30 million people.
Although the vast majority of them are plague zombies and living dead armed with the most rudimentary weapons, the consumables needed to transform them are not small. What's more, many powerful flesh and blood monsters were consumed in the battle, and many plague wizards and immortal believers who were responsible for manufacturing, controlling, strengthening and commanding ordinary troops died in the battle.
This also makes it difficult for the enemy to move forward.
And at this moment, Lieutenant General Hans' fatal counterattack began.
All the Lion tanks were deployed to the battlefield at once; several armored divisions formed a fist, and even several armored brigades of the Angry Bear Legion participated in it, launching an armored cluster charge in the center of the battle line. A large number of elite infantry followed closely behind, ready to provide support at any time.
And at this moment, the fire from heaven descended.
The starships of the Pegasus Fleet were all dispatched at almost the same time and arrived directly above the battlefield, including some of the remaining ships of the taxation fleet brought by Neil Laois.
Most of the tax fleet had already left the Pegasus region, after all, they still had the important task of collecting taxes from the empire. But the few frigates and destroyers that stayed behind also supplemented the firepower of the Pegasus fleet.
This time, their goal was not just to suppress the city of Fino. The starships, running at full power, were not afraid of the anti-orbital guns and began to exert greater pressure on the city of Fino, forcing them to turn more evil energy guns to the sky for counterattacks and orbital interception.
In this way, the human armored clusters on the ground would be much less susceptible to evil firepower.
At the same time, a large number of orbital strikes were carried out along the defense line where the armored cluster was advancing, and a round of intensive orbital bombardment was carried out along the line.
Especially the several shots fired by L-class heavy artillery created an earth-shaking effect.
The results of the battle and the number of enemies eliminated were secondary. The main thing was that the enemies in the direction of the armored group's attack were blown to pieces and dizzy.
For a moment, the ground forces' attack was incredibly smooth!
The total distance was less than 30 kilometers, and by dusk, the void shield of Fino City was already in sight. The spearhead troops could even see the artillery fire from the starships in the sky, which was intercepted by the evil energy cannons, or directly hit the void shield without being intercepted, causing a large wave.
"Charge, charge, charge! Long live the 35th Brigade!"
The troop running in the front was a combined battalion from the 35th Brigade of the Angry Bear Corps.
The 35th Brigade can be regarded as a meritorious force of the alliance. It was established early, and during the unification war of the Angry Owl Star, they made great contributions in the war to recover the northern border. Later, most of them followed Gu Hang into the evil god's domain which was still occupied by the original Angry Owl at that time, fought against storm monsters, and finally killed the gods.
Later, they participated in the war against Blackbird Heavy Industries, which violated the ban on intelligent machines. At the same time, they were also the first batch of troops transferred to the Angry Bear Legion when it was just established. They came to Koroja early and fought hard, and achieved many victories. The division headquarters received many commendations from the Alliance Government, the Star Army Command, and the Military Affairs Department, which filled the wall of honor.
And now, this meritorious brigade has once again come to the fore. In the massive battle of Koroja, they took the lead and became the first troop to penetrate the void shield and attack the city of Fino!
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It was so cold in the early morning, I went to sleep...
(End of this chapter)
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