Chapter 356, I promise you
During the advance, the 35th Brigade did not suffer no losses.
Although the orbital strike created a passage for them, it did not last too long, and the firepower invested was not enough. The main reason was that the anti-orbital artillery in Fino City also increased its investment. They could not take care of the ground forces in the attack, and put more firepower on fighting against the interstellar battleships.
This caused a lot of trouble for the Pegasus Fleet. Several ships' void shields and energy shields were blown up, and they had to evacuate urgently. Even two frigates were hit by several more shells before they could escape the anti-orbital gun's attack range because their shields were broken too suddenly. Although the ship did not explode, the armor was penetrated, causing considerable damage to the hull, which could be considered a serious blow.
This is what the noble naval master is unhappy about.
When Gu Hang made the request, the Tianma Fleet was unwilling to do so. Although Gu Hang was the commander of the theater, the navy had a masterly temper, which was quite different from the "stubborn" army. When they heard a task that they thought was "unreasonable", they would curse, protest, and even complain to the higher level.
It's okay to fight a massive naval decisive battle, but it would be stupid to use precious fleets to bombard surface fortresses equipped with anti-orbital guns - just like the navy in the 2k era bombarding coastal defense artillery.
However, for the sake of a greater goal, they were eventually forced to do this job.
Now, the losses have occurred, and the two ships will probably take two to three years to repair in the shipyard, and the total cost will probably be over 200 million.
This loss made the commander of the Pegasus Fleet even more unhappy.
He communicated with the ground and Governor Gu, reporting that if the fighting continued, the losses would continue to increase.
But Governor Gu asked them to continue to act according to the plan.
After expressing his strong dissatisfaction, the rear admiral could only angrily say that he would fight according to the plan at most and would never bear more than a little; if the fleet suffered further losses, he would make his own decision on whether to retreat. Even if the military department had to review it in the end, then let it be reviewed.
Gu Hang didn't pay much attention to him.
Let’s put aside things like attitude for now; the most important thing is to get the job done.
However, the deputy commander of the Pegasus Fleet who stayed behind did not dare to give up the fight.
Although he was unwilling to take on more responsibility, he at least followed the normal battle plan and continued to fire at the void shield of Fino City to carry out suppression.
As for the enemies outside the city?
The battle plan called for only one round of orbital bombardment, so why a second round?
Moreover, the armored clusters of the ground forces have already begun to advance along the areas they have bombarded, so what are they bombarding?
As for providing covering strikes against enemies around the route... the combat plan requires two destroyers and six frigates to carry out this task. However, since the number of ships that have withdrawn from the battle sequence due to shield shattering has exceeded this number, it is normal that they are unable to provide assistance. It is definitely not the navy's problem.
And with the naval support being somewhat weak, the ground armored forces' offensive will naturally not always be smooth sailing.
If there is only one round of orbital bombardment, it is impossible to bomb every inch of land; even if it does, there will be people who are on the edge of the explosion, in fortifications, or simply lucky enough to survive.
After the bombing, the plague demon army that was not covered by orbital firepower around the bombing line also rushed to provide support.
All these have posed considerable obstacles to the path of human armored forces.
But despite all these factors, the armored group's advance was still swift. The troops that rushed forward had little support from the evil energy artillery in Fino City in the rear, and were relatively scattered and rushed.
Under the torrent of steel, these monsters blocking the way were ruthlessly crushed.
After paying a certain price, the 35th Brigade became the first army to break into the void shield of Fino City.
And when their military boots, wheels and tracks stepped into the wriggling flesh and blood, the most difficult part of the battle began.
Their troops carried enough specialized weapons.
Incendiary bombs, flamethrowers... As the troops advanced, they burned the ground as they went, incinerating and burning away the animated flesh and blood, revealing the gray-black concrete surface underneath, with exposed steel bars in some places.
They used artillery, tank guns, machine guns, and even threw bombs into the surrounding flesh and blood buildings to blow them up and collapse them. On the one hand, they were eliminating any possible enemy forces in those flesh and blood buildings. On the other hand, destroying the flesh and blood itself was also the goal.
After the 35th Brigade launched a large-scale attack on the city of Fino, the pace of this revitalized city's advance slowed down significantly.
However, at this moment, a huge number of plague demon armies poured out from all directions, besieging the human army with their own flesh and blood and sacrifice, vowing to slow down their advance; many giant flies appeared and hovered above the battlefield, and many of them began to dive and bomb themselves in the face of the attacks of anti-aircraft vehicles and infantry anti-aircraft firepower.
There was even a corrupt dragon that flew onto the battlefield. It blew a huge breath and sprayed it at a Lion tank for several seconds. During these few seconds, the armor grew granulations and became paralyzed into a half-flesh and half-iron thing. Naturally, it could no longer be driven, and even the soldiers inside died.
The casualties suffered by the 35th Brigade began to grow rapidly.
However, it did not stop their pace.
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"Brigade Commander! The battle line of the 3rd Company of the 3rd Battalion on the flank has been breached. The brothers of the artillery battalion were ambushed by a group of monsters!"
"News came from the tank battalion that they have lost 60% of their combat vehicles!"
"The air defense battalion was attacked by the dragon again. Our air defense interception capability has dropped by 70%. The vehicle that the political commissar who was supervising the battle in the air defense battalion was riding in was destroyed and we can no longer contact him."
"The 4th Battalion has completely lost contact. We can't contact any of the companies. It's possible that they encountered a disabled machine, but we can't rule out the possibility of total annihilation."
All that Colonel Tikov, the commander of the 35th Brigade, heard at this moment was bad news.
From a conventional perspective, the entire brigade has reached the end of its rope by now.
But there was no hesitation in his eyes.
He picked up the communicator, switched to the general channel, and said, "Comrades of the 35th Brigade, I am your brigade commander, Tikov. Now, it's time to prove our loyalty!"
"I order all troops to advance regardless of everything! Brigade headquarters advance at full speed, from the brigade headquarters to the guard battalion, fully support the front-line battle!"
"We must do our best, at all costs, to ensure that the line of defense we tear open is large enough!"
"For the Empire! For Humanity! For the Alliance!"
“Forward, forward, forward!”
The chief of staff stared at Tikov with wide eyes. After Tikov put down the communicator, he said bitterly: "Our 35th Brigade will be finished. We will all die here."
Tikov smiled instead: "Then let us die gloriously and magnificently!"
"Drive!" These two words were said to the driver.
The command vehicle stepped on the gas and began to push forward with the entire brigade headquarters and the guard team. Following the brigade commander's order, the two guard companies drove infantry fighting vehicles and joined the front-line battle; the guard company infantry on foot filled the excessive infantry losses of the front-line troops.
The entire 35th Brigade lost personnel rapidly, and even as its objective combat effectiveness declined, it had to maintain the offensive, and the rate of reduction in personnel was even faster than at the beginning.
However, no matter what, they are still moving forward.
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Deep inside the creeping hive city of 'Fino City', in a huge flesh and blood nest, Tomlisson was looking up at a creeping wall.
Projected on it was the scene of the 35th Brigade's attack.
His body had long lost the frailty it had when he was a human. Blessed with the power of the gods, he was now three meters tall, bloated and strong. His body, wrapped in the robe, was still twitching from time to time.
Only his eyes remained firm and penetrating.
Looking at the projected image, his body was heaving.
He, Tomlisson, is the contemporary leader of the Ascendancy Cult, the apostle of the Great Demon, the promoter of the spread of the Koroja Plague, and the current blessed one.
He had long forgotten that many, many years ago, he was a human warrior who survived hundreds of battles after being inducted into the Star Army as an imperial tax.
But today, looking at those passionate soldiers who were determined to advance despite suffering extremely heavy casualties, those glorious years that had been buried in his memory reappeared in his mind.
But these memories that came flooding back not only did not make him feel nostalgic, but made him even angrier.
Even if he put aside the anger in his heart, he knew, based on the war situation alone, that he could not allow this troop to continue charging forward like this.
The gap inside Fino City was getting bigger and bigger. The deeper this human army rushed, the more human troops would enter Fino City in an easier way.
They destroyed the body of the city of Fino, forcing the entire animated hive to use more power to repair the body, which would lead to the weakening of the power of the warp.
At this moment, the city of Fino has completely stopped moving forward.
Admittedly, given the current situation, the human army should have been destroyed long ago. But in fact, that should have been done an hour ago.
"Destroy them." Tomlisson said, "Let the dragons descend; let the loving father's dogs attack; let the blessed ones attack! They must be destroyed for me! After destroying them, we must follow this road and drive all the enemies out of our city for me!"
"At your command, Messenger."
Another voice echoed within this den of flesh and blood.
Then, not long after, the battlefield scene that Tomlinson saw changed.
Several different types of troops appeared on the battlefield.
The so-called 'father's beloved dog' refers to the 'rotten meat beast', which is a sickly and extremely ugly monster. Its lower body wriggles like a long maggot; its upper body is raised high, and there is a huge mouth in its abdomen. The lower limbs extend out from the side of the huge mouth, which can not only assist in movement, but also help catch prey for eating; its upper limbs are in the shape of arms, and are extremely powerful.
The so-called "Blessed One" is what humans call a Chaos Egg. This thing is two or three meters tall, roughly in human form, but completely distorted. This is what humans become when they receive the blessing of the gods but can no longer bear it.
Five or six giant beasts, carrying dozens of chaos eggs, appeared on the front line of the battlefield, which immediately brought about direct changes in the battle situation.
Chaos Spawns cannot withstand tank guns, but bullets have little effect on them; when they charge close, they can overturn tanks with their flesh.
The rotten flesh beast could even withstand tank cannon fire. With one shot, a piece of its body was shattered and blood and flesh flew everywhere, but it was not fatal at all. The squirming flesh would grow back quickly. The highly corrosive pus spewed out from the huge mouth in its abdomen could melt tanks.
No matter how strong the 35th Brigade's fighting spirit was, it was finally unable to advance in the face of such powerful resistance.
And the evil dragon in the sky swooped down at this moment!
It was injured by anti-aircraft fire, but it also destroyed two anti-aircraft vehicles with its dragon breath. After landing, it was not far from the command vehicle of Brigade Commander Tikov.
It has been eyeing it for a long time.
Facing the crawling dragon, Tikov's command vehicle was not afraid at all. The only firepower on it - a heavy bolter, continued to fire at the dragon.
Under the heavy bombs and without the swarms of plague flies to protect it, the dragon's rotten body was hit with rotten flesh flying everywhere.
But it still rushed to the command vehicle quickly, overturned it, and then slapped it with its sharp claws. After seven or eight attacks, it smashed the entire command vehicle into pieces.
After venting his anger, the dragon roared towards the sky, arrogant and unbridled!
But before the roar ended, a heavy artillery shell hit its head, blowing its head off.
Tomlinson could see clearly that this was by no means a simple human artillery or tank gun.
The projected image zoomed out, and he saw a giant steel beast coming from afar, with smoke still coming out of its muzzle.
It was a Lion tank.
Following the space created by the 35th Brigade, the human army’s armored cluster finally had a stronger main force arrive!
Its two secondary guns were also firing, and the main gun, which had just completed a fatal strike, was once again charging up energy.
The next shot destroyed another giant beast of rotten flesh.
Tomlisson spoke in a deep voice: "We must stop these humans and send more troops!"
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"Send more troops! We must not let the sacrifices of the 35th Brigade go to waste!"
Li Kexi shouted loudly.
He was appointed front-line commander of the armored assault and was now giving orders to the staff.
His face was extremely red, and he was very distressed by the sacrifice of the 35th Brigade. But despite his distress, he did not stop himself from seizing this opportunity with all his strength.
After giving the order, he did some calculations and dialed an encrypted communication channel.
"Governor, fifteen divisions have already entered Fino City, achieving your expected goal. After that, I am confident that within the hour, another fifteen divisions will be sent in, including some infantry divisions, with a total number of more than 300,000!"
"Okay, thank you for your hard work." Governor Gu's voice came later, "Make sure to maintain the offensive."
"I understand!" Li Kexi replied first, and then asked hesitantly: "We have made great sacrifices, and the final victory will definitely belong to us, right?"
"I promise you."
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I must update early tomorrow, I really can't stand 4 o'clock...
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